<Ages before Modern Kalos; Ancient Geosenge Town; The Great Kalos War>

Smile; please smile for me, Lunette. I will never see your lovely smile again, and I need it. I need something - something to drag my sorrows down into depths so low they'll be buried; something important to make the scale the way it should be, with the optimist standing higher than pessimist; I just need something to make me feel the way I should be feeling. Please. Please, I beg you.

"Don't say that, Crescent! Don't say that!"

With each growing minute, the blood gushing from the left side of my body grew heavier, thicker, redder. My own heart did a double flip in my ribcage; I understood my time had come, but even if I did, getting past the fact was still accumulating in my throat like a lump, and my nerves were all over the place; they were like a thousand lines interconnected to one flickering bulb, each line already splaying and fizzing with open electricity. I felt like a clock, a gear with one chunk gone. A whole with one part cut off. I felt complete, but yet I felt so empty. Was the glass half empty, or was it half full?

My end was near. Very near.

Lunette, you must accept it. Fate has its reasons. My time has come. I must leave this world.

Her sobs only grew denser, uglier. She buried her beautiful face in my soft, bloody dark fur, her face coated in grotesque red splotches. She was ruining herself. Ruining her ravishing self for the trivial me. That I couldn't allow. I had vowed to protect her, keep her safe with everything a little umbreon had in its passionate heart, during this war that introduced the Kalos region to a new shade of horror, blood, death. My end wouldn't change that.

Lunette, you must get up. Otherwise you'll never live the day. You won't survive! I existed to protect you! If you don't live for me, I am a failure! Even the words I spoke began to lose strength as the power drained from my body. If my precious trainer didn't survive, I was a truly a mistake in this world. My purpose in life was to protect her. I must fulfill.. m-m-my m-m-mission..

It's coming closer, Lunette. Hurry!

This was a war. People wanted us dead. I had been stabbed by the enemies, shot brutally with an arrow. Who was to say she wasn't next? This fight for the freedom of pokemon and trainers alike.. the fight to have them united.. the other humans didn't want that. There was only a rare few who would nobly fight alongside us...

She shakily brought herself up from my fur, her clothes soaked with my spilled blood, her face contorted, different than it had been just a few hours ago, lovely and perfect in every way. She met my eyes for a second, and I painfully twisted my lips into a grim smile. The biggest my muscles would allow.

She quickly rummaged in her bag for something.

An oran berry.

She needed to know I was helpless.

Lunette, with her usually gracious hands trembling, brought the berry to my mouth, attempting through her sobs and tension to force it in my mouth. I turned my head away, not accepting. I was nearly dead. You can't bring someone back from the dead. You can't heal a huge wound with an oran berry.

She tried some more, each time my mouth refusing to open for the blue treat. My trainer begged me, pleaded with me, her dark hair flapping in the wind, her charming face pale and drained, her eyes strictly rejecting my pleas to stop crying, but I couldn't accept the berry. It would do neither of us no good.

The dark blue rings on my body faintly glowed, signaling my close end. That was when I had an idea. The idea to end it all. To give the one person I trusted and loved more than a single person could love my best wishes, a memory of me. Strength to make sure she didn't quit because I was gone.

Lunette, listen to me. I have to speak with you. And I know you'll love this. I smiled through my eyes, not wanting to waste body power. The moon illuminated the battlefield around us.

But Lunette didn't turn around to face me directly. Instead, she slowly took one look at my frail body and lost it. Her eyes were just ghostly slits now, as she collapsed almost lifelessly to the ground.

Now I began to lose it. Tears escaped my eyes, shrieks emitting from my lips, I called out to my trainer for what would be the last time.

Lunette! Listen to me! I-I-I need to speak with you one last time! We need to be together for one last moment!

She weakly turned around, but didn't meet my eyes. She still had some life, thank God, but she was far from vivacious. I still smiled and continued to communicate with her the way I could, telepathically. I took a single breath.

Remember that time we went to the lake? Where we saw all those dancing Woopers and leaping Finneons? We were laughing our heads off, and right then we saw a Milotic! It was so beautiful. We sat there watching it in the sunset! I loved that day.

Lunette stopped whimpering, but she still cried, as loud as ever. I got her to meet my eyes and smiled again.

Do you still recall that day we had ice cream at the park? That time where I dropped my scoop, so we shared yours? That day, the ice cream seemed to be more delicious than normal. It's because I shared it with you.

And that time we went to the amusement park? I loved that waterslide! I landed right on top of you, remember? We sat there giggling for so long the officials asked us if we had a mental problem! Imagine that!

Oh, and that day they were taking trainer portraits? We looked terrible! Yet we were so much closer together; both incredibly unsightly! I love that picture more than our entire collection!

Oh Lunette! You're the reason I have hope everyday, the reason my heart has someone to love. The answer to all my problems. You couldn't ever leave my heart. Ever.

Slowly, Lunette began to calm down. Her tears slowed, and she even smiled once. But my job wasn't finished yet. It was never done until I died. Which was coming very close. You could barely see the previously fluorescent blue rings on my dark skin.

How about that day where we skipped our training and went exploring around Lumiose City? Boss Ordan was so mad! But it was so worth it! Oh, I remember all these days. I remember them as I remember the color of my rings. The laughing, the smiling- all of it! They were beautiful moments, those ones..

But perhaps, best of all, was the day I met you. Remember when I was lying half dead in the park? Funny thing is, that's awfully like today, isn't it? The blood, the tears, our painful faces. Yet that day was the beginning of my true life. It gave me hope. It was a new beginning during a painful time. So why can't that happen again? What makes today so different?

The planned end. The beautiful, planned end. Although the wonderful part was the wide smile stretched across my lovely trainer's face, the smile burned in my memory, that grin I could never forget. And when I see those tears that fall ever so gracefully on Lunette's face, I know they're tears of joy. I have succeeded.

A bright light began to glow, blocking everything else but Lunette from view. A grand ending, another shared moment between the two of us, a memory for me to treasure even after I'm gone, an additional photo to add to my dear collection. A warm story I could hope to tell.

We will always be together, Lunette. My heart is yours.

"Crescent..." She paused.

"I love you."

Forever.

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And whenever the young girl looked up towards the stars, she smiled. Why? Because she knew someone was always there.

For her.

The End.

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Dedicated to obsidianix!

Thank you for all the support on this one-shot! I can not express my immense gratitude. Thank you for everything, especially all those beautiful fanmade covers <3.