Preface: The story is written from Raikou's point of view and takes place all the time in a cave, in a rocky outcrop. Of course it happens that areas are told, but these are only memories. It may be that the area is changed at the end, but that is then described in detail. Comments are welcome.
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Slowly I step into this cave, it had always struck me as wondrous and strange and yet it was more familiar to me than anything else. I have often lain here, thinking about what will happen when I'm older. If I wouldn't see someone else of my kind, maybe a life partner forever, but the only ones I met who were like me were Suicune and Entei. We never really fought each other, never was there hatred and yet…. and yet we attacked each other, often with serious consequences, but we didn't care, we didn't even care about the wounds as long as we were free.Now I'm lying at the entrance to this cave, watching how slowly the sun leaves the sky and gives the moon new space, as always in this cycle. I feel that something is going to happen tonight, something that matters and is not easy to make up for the balance.
I lay my head down, take a close look at the sky, I don't know why, but I have the feeling that I may never see it again. I suspect it subconsciously, but I don't want to admit it, I'm old. I have been roaming around for many decades and in the last ten years it has been much more difficult for me despite my strength. I hardly saw Entei and Suicune either, I wonder what happened to them. My breathing is difficult because I'm afraid I might never see her again, but this fear disappears when I hear a noise. Slowly I lift my head and turn it in the direction from which the noise came, it's Entei. I look at him in amazement and want to say something, but he just shakes his head.Slowly he lies down next to me, whereby I notice that he also looks older, his strong brown fur, which I often admired, now seemed a bit lifeless and the strong color had disappeared from it.
Shortly after he lay down next to me he got up again, an icy breeze came up and he indicated that he would go into the cave. I just nod silently and get up, my legs shaking a little, old age again, this fear rises again, but I follow him. When he lies down, I lie down close to him near the wall, he just smiles at me silently until his serious gaze falls outside again. I can still remember exactly how our first fight was:

I stood on a rock, just let the bright sun pound on my back until I heard a roar and then he was there, Entei, I had often seen him but I had never approached him. He came right up to me, said nothing, but I saw that something was wrong with him. I knew that I had never been here, but then I had learned that Entei defended its territory well as long as it was in the area.He stared at me briefly, but I just stared back, he must have seen this as an invitation, because he pushed himself off the soft ground, which was covered with moss, and stormed towards me, wanted to kick me, even burn me. In the latter case he caught my rod and I didn't defend myself. Until he burned them, I quickly started thunder wave and to my astonishment it hit him, I had used this opportunity to flee. I often ran into him afterwards, but the fighting was worse and more brutal, but no one regretted it.

While I was remembering it, I looked at Entei intensely, a scar on me, but I didn't put it on him. He looked at me with his golden eyes, he felt like an older brother. I snuggled up against him for a moment and purred, it was in my nature to purr, but I interrupted it when an icy breath penetrated the cave. Immediately I looked at the cave entrance, slightly surprised I nodded when Suicune looked at me pleadingly if she could not enter the cave.She was the only female from our trio. She moved slowly and smoothly towards us, but it didn't look as elegant as the first time, nor as mysterious, her deep purple mane didn't waft with as much passion as it used to, no, she had aged too. I smiled at her as she lay down next to us, snuggling up to her as we did. I looked out again, saw the stars one more time, while I felt Suicune's fur nestle against mine. The moment I met her, where our first fight took place, burned into my memory, much more so than Entei's:

We were standing in a clearing, I had come to quench my thirst and there she was. In the middle of the grass that was blowing gently, her mane radiated such a life, I had never seen it like this. Or rather, I had never seen it up close. She looked at me in silence with her red eyes. They were deep, deeper than the blood and the lake put together.I slowly circled the lake that lay between us, but she kept an eye on me. When I stood in front of her she looked at me, but then something happened, a storm came with a lot of lightning. Apparently she blamed me, I don't know, because suddenly she growled at me from her delicate throat. Shortly afterwards I already knew what an aqua gun was. Out of reflex I let loose a thunderbolt on her, but the storm didn't mean it well and a thunderbolt intensified my attack. She stayed there, I was afraid that she would not get up anymore, but she was still breathing and so I ran away one more time.

Apparently she had been looking at me the whole time, because I can feel her gaze on me. I looked at her and smiled again, the crystal too, that beautiful crystal on her head had lost its luster. I rub my face against hers briefly, she seems to like it.
Only now do I notice that my two visitors also seem lonely.Didn't they find one of their kind either, no life partner?

I am very worried what will happen when we are no longer here, but I didn't want to ask this question, because I didn't want to conjure up anything that might come true.
The sun had long since disappeared and the moon should have risen. Would have? I forgot today is the new moon, the moon was here, but nobody would see it today. Should this bring us bad luck?
But before I could answer the question, I turned to Entei. His breathing was much hard and slow and I noticed his life draining from him. I looked at him worried, rubbed my head against his, wanted to calm him down, but he just looked at me good-naturedly. Was he also looking for closeness ... closeness so as not to leave this world alone? Slowly he put his head down, looked at us both apologetically and closed his eyes. Did he apologize for going first? He couldn't help it. Suicune and I exchanged worried looks, but when we looked back at him, he couldn't breathe.I nudged him a little, but the warmth from his body was gone. He left us. The wonderful cloud on his back was no longer blowing, it had dissolved. I often wondered if his fur looked normal underneath, but I didn't want to know.
This sight made my breathing heavier, but I didn't want to leave this world, not leave Suicune alone. What would be seen if I went too? Would the three bird brothers represent us? Or would they ignore it? But that didn't matter because I looked at Suicune sadly. I was close to tears and she ... she was crying. She snuggled up to me to comfort herself, but it didn't help. Our friend ... no, our brother had left us ... forever.

We sat there for a long time and slipped into our grief, for a long time I looked at the body, no the lifeless body of Enteis and did not want to accept that he had passed away.
But a cough got me out of my thoughts, and I looked at Suicune with concern.She also raised her eyes and looked at me. Quietly she snuggled closer to me, out of fear, out of grief I don't know. She didn't hide her fear, she cried again, she didn't want to go either, follow her brother, no matter how painful it was. Still, she seemed ashamed because she put her head over my shoulders and kept crying. I didn’t know what to do, I lay still, but when she seemed to have calmed down I turned my head to her as best I could. But what I saw frightened me, life also left her and her lips only formed a "forgive me" soft and faint it was to be heard, and then her breathing stopped. Her mane, which was still blowing slightly, now stopped blowing, it sank down like lifeless hair. The crystal in his heart was now dark and her eyes were closed. Now I let my tears run free, she was gone, both were gone. Left me here, I cursed her for it, but I couldn't hate her, I needed her after all.I huddled against the lifeless body of Suicune and yet he gave me nothing. He was cold, lifeless, and didn't huddle back. Why did they have to go now that we had finally found each other. Entei my mighty brother, lord of fire, and Suicune tender sister, lord of ice.

I looked out, slowly it began to get dark and then I put my head down. I closed my eyes and heard my heart, it cried and it broke and yet it kept beating, but it slowed down. But I hear screams, screams from Lugia, Ho-oh, as well as Lavados, Zapdos and Arktos joined in. They cried, they knew what was happening and yet they couldn't stop it and I was grateful to them for it and yet deeply sad about it. They started too late. Suicune and Entei would never hear their complaints, their lives were forfeited, their ears deaf and their eyes blind. Her strength would never return, it would never astonish anyone. And for that I despised the others, why did they only start now?Why was only I allowed to hear it? Just because I was the youngest? Just because I was lucky and didn't want to leave the others first? But I was sure I would tell them, I would tell Entei and Suicune what they had missed. How I would have loved to go outside, would have started the new day with a roar, would have let the sun shine on my fur, but I didn't want to disturb Entei and Suicune in their eternal sleep. I would follow soon too, so I stayed where I was. I would never see the sun again, never feel it again and yet it would be there and shine. Would warm my fur when she got into the cave and yet, I wouldn't feel it, neither