Midnight and I just kept walking north, the moon hidden by the trees. We 
were in a forest filled with sounds of hiding pokemon watching us carefully. I 
could feel their presence. As we were walking, mixed feelings swarmed through my 
head like a mad mob of buzzing Beedril. Everything I had went through… it all 
happened so quickly. The experiment, running off into the night with Midnight, 
being attacked by his friends, turning into a poke’ morph, being kidnapped, and 
then being rescued. I didn’t think I would make it in less things stopped 
randomly attacking me. And then there was Midnight... first he hated me. Thought 
I was just another annoying and loud human. Then he started warming up to me. 
And just now he had rescued me from that evil man. What would happen next? 
      “Why did that man want my jewel anyways?” I asked. I started twiddling 
with my jewel. I always seem to do that when there’s something on my mind. 
      Midnight gave me the same annoyed look from when we first talked to each 
other.
      “Isn’t it obvious? He wanted it to rule the world. You can make ANY 
pokemon you want come to you, right? That includes powerful legendaries like Mew 
and Mewtwo.” Midnight answered. “With pokemon like that in your possession, you 
can do anything.”
      “Oh.” Was all I said. I stared at the ground, my face turning red. How 
could I be so stupid? Why hadn’t I thought about making legendary pokemon appear 
before? 
      That’s when we walked out of the forest. We stood on a tall hill 
overlooking a large open field. Daylight had just barely begun to inch its way 
over the horizon in the east. 
      “Wow...” I said, staring at all of it in awe. For some reason this field 
looked strangely familiar. Off into the distance a small village was in site. 
“Doesn’t it look wonderful?” I asked. But when I looked to the right, Midnight 
wasn’t there. Looking down, I realized Midnight was already running down the 
hill. “Hey, wait up!” I cried. I started running down the hill after him, wind 
running through my hair. I was only half way down when Midnight had reached the 
bottom. Right before I got to the bottom, I lost my balance and fell...
      Right into Midnight’s arms.
      Looking into his fire-red eyes, I stood up.
      “Er... thanks...” I said, blushing horribly. We continued walking on. 
Suddenly, Midnight stopped.
      “This is going to be a long journey.” Midnight said, sighing. “Do you know 
which pokemon is the fastest on land?” 
      I stopped walking and turned to Midnight. The fastest pokemon was 
Dragonite when it came to flying, and the fastest pokemon was Gyarados when it 
came to swimming. But I had to admit that I had no idea which pokemon was the 
fastest on land.
      “I... I don’t know.” I muttered. 
      “Well then, maybe the darkness will help you. You must hurry though... 
daytime is drawing nearer.” Midnight said, smiling.
      How in the world would the “darkness help me”? I stared at Midnight, 
confused. That’s when his words came back to me.
   “...And if you stand under a full moon and keep very quiet, you can hear the 
darkness whispering in your ear.”
      Those were the words Midnight had said to me before. I looked up at the 
sky. A full moon shown above me, slowly fading away as daylight crept closer. I 
closed my eyes and stood still. I could feel the soft breeze prickling my face, 
whistling into my ear... almost whispering. A cold chill raced up my spine, but 
was immediately replaced by a feeling of warmness. Almost hot.
      Hot... hot like fire. Fire. That was it! My eyes flashed open.
      “Rapidash.” I said. Midnight grinned.
      “You caught on quickly,” he said. “Now, do you think you could get two 
Rapidash over here?” I nodded. And so that was what I did. I held my jewel 
firmly in my hand and closed my eyes, concentrating deeply on two Rapidash. Only 
when I heard the sound of neighing in the distance did I stop. Their hooves 
trampling through the grass, the Rapidash stopped galloping and neighed once 
again. Midnight helped me get on the back of one of them, and then climbed on to 
the other. 
      “Hiya!” Midnight shouted. His Rapidash started galloping away to the 
north. Immediately the Rapidash I was on followed. I was scared at first. Never 
before had I ridden on a Ponyta, nor a Rapidash. It was a bumpy ride, and I felt 
like I was going to fall off any second. But Midnight was riding on his Rapidash 
(with great ease too) directly at my side, so I felt safe enough. Soon the 
Rapidash I was on started galloping away from Midnight’s, off towards the 
village.
       “No, Rapidash! Stop! Stop!” I said. I was starting to panic. But the 
Rapidash ignored me and continued galloping towards the village. Soon we were in 
the village, and Midnight was out of site. I couldn’t let anybody see me like 
this though... I was still in my poke’ morph form. A man looked me as I rode by, 
his mouth wide open in shock. 
       “Everybody, wake up! Wake up! There’s a mutant on a Rapidash out here! 
Hurry!” The man shouted. Oh no... someone had seen me. 
        I couldn’t let any more people see me. I quickly morphed into an 
Umbreon. But being an Umbreon, it wasn’t easy to hang on to the Rapidash. I dug 
my sharp claws into the Rapidash’s skin to get a better grip. I was so high 
above the ground and moving so fast... what would happen to me if I fell? 
Midnight wouldn’t be there to catch me. 
       The Rapidash neighed in pain and then jumped up into the air, sending me 
flying. As I hit the ground, people ran out of their houses. I could hear 
murmurs of confusion as I tried to stand up, my vision starting to get blurry.
       “Don’t faint, Starlight... don’t faint... please...” I whispered to 
myself. But then everything started spinning, and everything went black as I 
fell to the ground.
       Up on a hill, Midnight was watching carefully, an angry look on his face.
       “It’s time to rescue her... again.”