Blazing neon lights splash the room, turning your vision into a multicolored frenzy. Bella grips your hand, pulls you into the fray where music thumps through the air and everyone is an ecstatic entity of flashing light.

Bella laughs, spinning you around. For a second everything is just a dizzy rainbow, flooding in and out of sight, unlike the howl of the crowd around you; they are neverending. The sound of joy lives on forever in this room. You feel yourself loosen up, feel the rhythm of music and the clamor of lights fill you with freedom.

You want to dance. You reach for Bella and bounce on the dance floor. She's glowing, spinning and twirling with you with such glee and elegance.

"There you go!" she cries. "I knew you had moves!"

Another hand on your forearm takes you by surprise. You twist, catching a brief glimpse of Lopunny before Bella whirls you away. The two of you spin and spin and dance freely. Bella laughs wholeheartedly. Meanwhile Lopunny is only trying to get close to you.

You see the tall bunny pressing through the crowd, hand outstretched for you. She craves you. You almost feel bad but the blasting music clouds your head with only the desire to enjoy Bella's company.

"Isn't this great?" Bella says, a shout. You nod.

"They went all out for this graduation thing!"

Lopunny's hand grasps you once more, only this time it's a clawed grab. Sharp, pointy nails penetrate your flesh, drawing a cold sensation out of your skin that you assume to be blood. You cringe at the sting on your arm and turn again to face her.

"Stop that!" you say over the loud music. Bella pulls you away from Lopunny, but Lopunny still has her eyes glued to you. A fire rages on behind her red orbs.

"Bella, we need to stop!" you shout. Bella looks at you, confused.

"Why?"

You turn around but Lopunny is no longer there. She's left nothing but a harsh sense of danger on your mind.

"Where'd she go?" you whisper, causing Bella to ask what you had said because the music is just too loud. You don't feel like screaming over it anymore though.

You start to break away from Bella when a furry hand takes a hold of your arm. Lopunny appears like a ghost and immediately begins dancing around you. Somehow you feel like hopeless prey being circled by the predator. This "predator" sways and spins.

You smile. That's all she wanted. Lopunny smiles too.

"You didn't have to scratch me to get me to dance, y'know!" you say. Lopunny yips in approval, spinning you around the same way Bella had done.

"She's kind of clingy," Bella's voice erupts from behind you. You face her and shrug.

"She just wants to dance, too."

Lopunny gets in between the two of you, immediately shutting down any connection you began to have. She takes you and twirls you around like a toy, dancing around you gleefully.

When you see Bella, she has her arms crossed, totally confused. How could a Pokémon, an animal, be so attached to its trainer that it shuns everyone else but them? So persistent that their trainer is no longer allowed to have other relationships? It was uncanny.

But maybe you don't mind. Maybe this is just Lopunny's way of repaying you for saving her life...

What if she thinks she's protecting you now?

It didn't matter. All you could think about was how happy she was on that dance floor, how the night turned from a stark grey to a million rainbows with Lopunny at your side. The two of you dance on and on, never ceasing, until the night grows old and the celebration soon comes to an end.