Difference and Acceptance

Luna: Luna is a five year old Albino Riolu. She's shy but kind. She was accepted in her pack despite being albino. she also has wings, which is unusual for a riolu along with being albino, which has never happened before. Her parents were killed by a Houndoom pack.

Emerald: Luna's foster mother after her parents were killed by a Houndoom Pack. Emerald is a shiny Lucario with green eyes. She's very kind and caring and understands how Luna feels like she is different.

Roxas: A red and black Lucario and Luna's foster father. Roxas is the brother of Dimitrius, one of the advisors of Russell. He acts like he's tough but when he is alone with Luna or Emerald he shows his softer side.

Dimitrius: A Lucario who wears glasses and is one of the Russell's advisors. Also the brother of Roxas. He tends to push his glasses back up his nose since they keep trying to slide off. Luna calls him her Uncle Dimitrius, which he has to admit is cute.

Russell: The brave leader of the Lucario pack. He is Lucas's father and keeps the houndoom from attacking. When Luna appears one day he allows her to stay with him and his family until he finds a new family for her.

Maria: Russell's mate and Lucas's mother. Occasionally helps Russel but mostly keeps an eye on Lucas. Looks after Luna while she is staying with them until Luna goes with Emerald and Roxas.

Shadowflame: Leader of the houndoom pack. strong, fearless, and dangerous. He and his pack attack and kill Luna's parents.

Lucas: A shiny riolu and the son of Russell and Maria. Lucas is kind and brave. When Luna is being picked on by some of the other riolu when she first arrives in the pack, he makes them leave and helps her up. He eventually becomes Luna's friend.

Warning: some violence in the beginning

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"Run Luna!" Luna's father yelled for her to keep up as she and her parents ran from a houndoom pack. They had been traveling with their own pack when the houndoom had separated them. "I'm trying daddy!" yelped Luna as she struggled to run. She jumped and flapped her little wings trying to gain distance, but fell because her wings were so small, causing her to land on her stomach. Her mother scooped her up and they got a little farther, but soon the houndoom had them at a dead end.

The lead houndoom, Shadowflame, smirked and chuckled as he looked at the 2 lucario and the riolu cowering with no way to escape. Luna's mother put Luna down. "go and hide Luna, we'll try to fight them off". Luna ran and hid behind a large tree, peeking out at the large number of houndoom. They had houndour pups to feed and were on the hunt when they found Luna's pack and separated her and her parents because they were lagging behind.

Luna watched as her parents and the houndoom stared each other down. Then, her father fired off an aura sphere which hit one of the houndoom. Luna ducked back behind the tree then looked again to see what would happen next. The houndoom was on the ground. Shadowflame snarled and leapt at her father only for her mother to whack him upside the head with a bone rush. He shook his head and howled, signaling the others to attack. Soon there were houndoom everywhere, firing off flamethrowers, or using fire fang or bite. Some were on the ground, too exhausted from attacking or in too much pain to move. Her Parents used Aura sphere, bone rush, and force palm, knocking several more down.

But sadly, all too soon Shadowflame and another houndoom had her father pinned down and Luna could only watch as he was attacked and killed. Luna gasped. "DADDY!" she screamed. Her mother yelled too. At first in sadness but then in rage as she formed a bone rush attack and ran at the remaining houndoom, managing to knock a few more down. Then, facing Shadowflame she snarled and prepared to attack him with a bone rush but he dodged and struck her down with a flamethrower.

"MOMMA!" screamed Luna, looking in horror at her mother now lying on the ground.

Shadowflame howled in victory and then he and the remaining houndoom headed off to find the rest of her pack while some of the others took the injured back to their own pack. Her eyes filled with tears, she went over to her parents lifeless bodies. She looked at her mother, then her father. "Momma...Daddy..." then, she burst into tears, sitting in between her mother and father. Luna continued crying for several minutes, not hearing the footsteps coming towards her.

"are you ok?" she looked up to see a large ursaring looking at her with a concerned look on his face. "m-momma and d-d-daddy.." she tried to continue but started crying again. The ursaring looked at the little riolu and then said: "hey, dont cry, I can help you". Luna whiped the tears from her face as she said "y-you can?". He nodded, "sure, lets work together and make a proper burial for your parents". Together they dug two holes and gently placed Luna's mother in one and her father in the other. Patting the dirt on the graves, she stood there and looked at them. "momma, daddy, I'll miss you...". Trying not to cry again, she thanked the ursaring and walked into the forest.

As she walked through the forest, she heard various pokemon moving around her. A mankey hung from a tree branch and watched her, a paras skittered away from her, a murkrow landed on a branch and cawed, causing her to jump. Soon she heard a howl in the distance, probably Shadowflame's pack having another victory. She ran, not bothering to look where she was going, and tripped on a tree root. Landing on her stomach for the second time that day, she knew she probably had a bruise there now.

Looking up, she saw a large meadow with flowers dotting the grass and Lucarios everywhere. On a hill in the middle of the meadow she saw a Brave looking lucario standing there. He reminded her of her father. Next to him was a female lucario, probably his mate. Luna got up and brushed dirt off her knees. "Woah its so pretty here!" she said as she looked around and watched some riolu chase each other.

She walked along looking around until someone said: "hey kid, what are you doing here?" She looked around until she saw another riolu. "Huh?" she said. "I said, what are you doing here?" the other riolu looked at her. "huh, your white, never seen an albino riolu before, hey guys!" he called to his friends, "check this out!". They came over to where the riolu was standing with Luna.

"Found this kid wandering around, what should we do with her?" "I dont know." said one riolu. she looks kinda weird." The riolu that said that tugged at one of her wings. "hmm, never seen a riolu with wings before." "yeah," said another riolu. "she doesn't belong here."

"Hey!" said Luna as she was pushed. "leave me alone!" but the the others didn't listen, they just tugged her wings or pushed her and if she tried to get back up they pushed her back down. Finally, the first riolu said: "why dont you go back to where you came from?" Luna looked down, "I can't. my parents are dead and I dont know where my pack is." "oh boo hoo, who cares." said the lead riolu.

"Leave her alone!" a shiny riolu came over. "she didnt do anything to you." One of the riolu rolled their eyes. "Oh go mind your own beeswax, Lucas." one of the female riolu said. "yeah we don't need you bothering us" one of the riolu near Luna said, kicking her. "Just go away, leave her alone" said Lucas. "Oh, all right, come on guys" the riolu left.

The shiny riolu helped her up, "are you ok?" he asked.

"yeah, I'll be ok" Luna said. "I'm Lucas, whats your name?" the shiny riolu asked. Luna smiled. "I'm Luna" Lucas smiled too and took her paw. "let's go see my dad, he'll help you." They started walking toward the hill where the two lucario were, as they walked up the hill, the male lucario looked over. "hello son, who's that you've got with you?" "this is Luna, dad. She wanderd into the meadow and some of the other riolu were picking on her." The female lucario came over, and looked at Luna "I'm Maria, where are your parents?" Luna looked at her feet, then said "they were killed by the houndoom pack while trying to protect me"

The male lucario nodded in sympathy, "and I'm Russell, the leader of this pack, you can stay with us until we find someone to take care of you." Luna smiled and said "thank you!" Lucas took her paw again, "lets go play, I know where we can go that the other riolu won't bother us" they ran down the hill, and started a game of tag. Luna's wings fluttered slightly in the wind as she ran, laughing as she went. She tagged Lucas, "your it!" she laughed as she ran from him. Lucas laughed and chased her, "oh your so gonna get it!" he teased. Soon, they got tired and flopped down on the grass, laughing and worn out, they laid there for awhile.

Luna picked some flowers and started making a necklace with them, Lucas took a nap, worn out from tag. Once she was finished she slipped the necklace on and waited for Lucas to wake up. he yawned and stretched, then rubbed his eyes. "hey Luna, nice necklace." "thanks Lucas" Lucas looked at her wings. "so can you fly?" Luna shook her head, "no, I've tried, but my wings are too small, they can't support me." Lucas shrugged, "oh well, maybe someday you'll be able to fly" Luna nodded and looked at the sky "well, we have some time before sunset, how about some hide-and-seek? I'll let you hide first"

Lucas ran off to hide as Luna started counting "1...2...3" he went and found a bush to hide in "7...8...9" he hoped she wouldnt find him right away. "10! ready or not, here I come!" Luna looked around, checking behind trees and in patches of flowers. Lucas giggled as he watched her search, not knowing his tail was sticking out of the bush. Luna saw the bush move, and noticed Lucas's tail. Chuckling, she crept over to the bush, and jumped on Lucas. "Found you!" she yelled as she landed on him "ahhh! aw you found me!" Lucas pushed her off.

Then Lucas's mother called to them "Luna, Lucas, time to come back its almost bedtime" Lucas got up and helped Luna up, then they walked to the hill, and sat down. "we can have more fun tomorrow" said Luna. Lucas nodded and got up and hugged his mom "goodnight mom," Maria hugged him back "goodnight Lucas" then he hugged his dad "goodnight dad," Russell did the same and said "goodnight son". Luna said goodnight to them too and Luna and Lucas went and laid down and went to sleep.

The next morning Luna and Lucas watched the other riolu as they played and Luna sighed. "whats wrong?" asked Lucas. Luna looked at him and said, "I dont know why they were picking on me, just because I'm albino, doesn't mean I'm any different." Maria said "they dont like it when others who are different come here, they don't even like Lucas, because he's shiny. They'll forget soon and will leave you alone" Luna sighed again. "I hope so."

Luna stayed on the hill that day, and watched Lucas play. Then she saw the other riolu as they played together and sighed again. Russell gathered his advisors and they discussed who would be best to look after Luna. "If Luna is going to stay here," Russell said, "We need someone to take care of her." He listened to a few suggestions and thought each one over. Then, Dimitrius pushed his glasses back up his nose and said "Russell, I believe my brother Roxas and his mate Emerald would be a good choice." Russell thought for a minute. "hmmm, well, you can ask them and let me know what they say." Dimitrius nodded, pushed his glasses back up again, and went to go find his brother. Russell had the others leave and resumed watching the pack.

When Lucas came back from playing, Luna was napping, and his mother was gone, probably off talking with one of her friends. Russell saw his son and said "we may have found someone who will take Luna in, Dimitrius went to ask his brother Roxas if he and his mate Emerald would look after her. "That would be nice, dad, I think Emerald will like that." Russell nodded, and noticed that Dimitrius was approaching, with Roxas and his mate Emerald, as well as Maria returning. Luna turned over in her sleep, then woke up. Lucas laughed and said "morning sleepy head!" Luna just punched him in the shoulder and got up, trying to wake herself up. She saw some lucario approaching and wondered what was going on.

One of the lucario had glasses, and he walked up to Russell and said something, then pushed his glasses up again. Russel had Luna come over. "Luna, I want you to meet Dimitrius, Emerald, and Roxas." Dimitrius nodded and said "I'm one of Russell's advisors. Roxas is my brother, and this is his mate Emerald." Luna looked at the two lucario with wide eyes. The first lucario was female. She was shiny and had pretty green eyes, she smiled at Luna.

The other lucario was male. With red fur and normal black lucario markings, and purple eyes. He had his arms crossed. "Emerald, Roxas, this is Luna." Emerald waved, Roxas just stood there. Russell looked at Luna, "they are going to be your new mom and dad." Luna looked at Emerald, then Roxas. Then went up to Roxas. "...daddy...?" she said. Then, she hugged Roxas. Roxas looked surprised, then looked down at Luna, and smiled. He picked her up and hugged her. Luna laughed and said "daddy!"

Emerald smiled at Roxas, and Luna reached for Emerald to hold her. Luna hugged Emerald and snuggled into her arms, chin on emeralds shoulder. "...momma..." she said, feeling safe in her new mother's arms. Luna got down and went to Russell, and hugged him. "thank you," she said and Russell nodded, then she hugged Maria and Lucas. Taking Emerald's paw, she, Emerald and Roxas walked down the hill to Luna's new home.