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Post by fattymccatcat on Dec 19, 2018 12:04:41 GMT
I wake up and have breakfast with everyone, the pokemon seem to really enjoy Sasha’s tweaked recipe
Then we prepare to leave and Ruche stops us
“Please be careful! And text me every so often!” Ruche says
“We will” Sasha says
“I’m sure it’ll be fine” I say trying to convince us both
We leave the pokemon center and walk to the edge of town and back into the forest
I pull out my pokenav and we start our trek through the woods
We walk for about five hours before we stop for lunch by a river
We make a simple meal and then we rest our feet for a bit
Sasha rests by the water and let’s mantyke out to slash around for a bit much to his delight
The rest of the pokemon play a little off the side in the grass
I rest against the trunk of a tree and try to make this pit in my stomach go away
Scarlett wanders over and places a hand on my arm and looks up at me with a worried expression
“I’m fine” I say with a smile but apparently my face betrays me as Scarlett scowls up at me
I sigh and look over at Sasha
“Okay. I’m a little bit… Worried. I guess? Like I’ve been trying to play it cool but… I’m scared of dragging Sasha into another dangerous situation. The last time we went into the woods together we were almost crushed by a steelix. I don’t know why these stupid things keep happening but they have been happening a bit more frequently lately, I thought… That I’d test it. Test if I can go somewhere and not have the world crash down around me, but now Sasha’s here and she might get dragged into it, I don’t care what happens to me but-” I explain but get cut off by Scarlett punching me in the side as hard as she can
I double over and after I catch my breath I look up at her standing over me
She looks hurt, tears welling up in the corner of her eyes and she’s biting her lip
“Scarl-” I start to say but she storms off and sits down next to Sasha beside the river
Sasha looks over and I shrug and prop myself back against the tree and rub my side until the pain goes away
After about five more minutes we grab our packs and get ready to set off
Scarlett and Sasha walk over
“Scarlett listen-” I start to say but she doesn’t even look at me
She walks over and presses the button on her pokeball and goes inside
“She is really upset, what happened?” Sasha asks
“I don’t know. We were talking and she lost it.” I say
“What did you say?” Sasha asks
“I don’t even know! I was kind of rambling” I say with a sigh
We start walking along the river looking for a shallow part to cross
“I thought she disliked being in her pokeball” Sasha says
“Yeah, but she’s actually done this a few times before, we have a fight and she shut herself away in her ball. She usually stays inside for a few hours to calm down. She just needs some space. I’ll apologize when she comes out” I say
“Good, it is a bit lonely without her smiling up at me” Sasha says
“I know what you mean” I mutter
We walk for a few more hours and as the sun begins to set I notice its getting a little foggy and that pit in my stomach comes back
“Weird, the weather forecast said it would be clear…” I mutter to myself
“Are we close to the ruins?” Sasha asks
I take out my pokenav and pull up the GPS and I see were almost there when suddenly Scarlett pokeball opens and she appears and I scream and drop my pokenav
“You scared me scar” I say grabbing my chest
“…maw” Scarlett says sulking
I crouch down and look her in the eyes
“I’m sorry. I don’t know what I said that upset you but I’m sorry I said it” I say
Scarlett looks a bit displeased with the apology but sighs and picks up my pokenav and hands it to me
“Thanks, and if I ever say what I said again. Give me another sucker punch to set me straight” I say with a smirk
Scarlett makes a fist and some black smoke rises from it and she grins a menacing grin and I laugh nervously
“Something… Seems wrong” Sasha says
I turn and look at her and my heart drops
The light fog that had surrounded us had suddenly turned thick while we were distracted, its so thick we can’t even see any of the trees that were surrounding us and its an almost blinding white
“Oh no, this isn’t normal fog!” I say
Then I hear something odd, like someone chanting, its faint but getting louder
“What is that? Don’t get separated!” I say and we huddle together back to back
“Scarlett try blowing the fog away with fairy wind!” I say
Scarlett tries but the fog doesn’t budge and the chanting is so loud it starts giving me a headache
Then I hear a thud from behind me
I turn and see Sasha face down on the ground unconscious
“Sasha!” I yell
Then another thud, this time its Scarlett that goes down
“No!” I yell
The chanting is so loud, its like its reverberating through my entire body
I start to feel dizzy and drop to one knee
“God…damn… It…” I stutter before falling to the ground
As I’m fading out I think I see something move in the mist
Then everything goes black
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Post by fattymccatcat on Dec 21, 2018 11:45:00 GMT
I wake up with a start and jump to my feet
My head hurts and I’m very disoriented and looking around I don’t know where I am
Then I hear something like a low hum but I can’t tell where its coming from
my head starts to feel foggy and then It fades and I calm down
I laugh remembering that I’m in my room at a boarding school in Eterna Forest
I shake my head and walk over to the window and open it to get some fresh air
The suns shining brightly and the trees sway gently in the breeze like a rolling sea of pine needles
“I’ll never tire of this view” I say looking out over the trees of from the fourth floor of our boarding house
Then i see our teacher strolling through the garden humming to herself heading towards the school building
I look over at the clock
“Oh no! I’m late for class again!” I shout
I start running around changing out of my pajamas into our uniform and i scramble together my supplies and rush out of the room
I rush down the stairs and out the entryway into the garden
The school grounds consist of three buildings and a garden, the main building is the four story tall boarding house where everyone sleeps, and two smaller one story buildings on the left and right of the garden creating a sort of courtyard
The garden is filled with flowers and square bushes that create intricate paths ways
The small building on the left is the cafeteria and the one on the right is the classroom which is the one I’m currently sprinting towards
I reach the door and walk inside and everyone turns to look at me
The teacher turns to look at me with with a mix of disappointment and frustration showing on her elderly face, she walks over and flicks my forehead really hard
“now take your seat” the teacher says
“Yes, Mrs. Maggie” I say quickly rushing to my seat
As Mrs. Maggie starts the lecture I look around the room
For some reason everything feels new
“Man that dream really messed me up” I mutter to myself
The feeling doesn’t go away but when I try and focus on it my headache intensifies so I stop trying
I check out everyone else as they pay attention to the lecture hoping to make this weird feeling go away
There’s Sasha, a beautiful and stoic girl with purple hair and eyes like a galaxy. we arrived here on the same day so we are fairly close
Then there’s Cory, a slender boy with blonde hair and crystal blue eyes, he’s been here for quite awhile, but he’s shy so we haven’t really talked all that much
Rebecca is always smiling and super friendly with everyone. She has brown shoulder length curls and is very knowledgeable about all things pokemon, shes also known to get flustered from time to time, Josie has hinted that's its usually only when I'm around
Josie is the tallest kid in class, and she has beautiful dark skin and really fluffy hair. She’s laid back and fun to hang out with and an amazing musician, her singing voice is amazing and she can play a bunch of different instrument's
Then there’s Mrs. Maggie, she’s quite old and mean looking, if I didn’t know how nice she is to her students I might be afraid of her. She has long dark purple hair and a bright red necklace
And of course i cant forget sweet little Reavus, he’s a child that Mrs. Maggie is looking after. He’s got short light purple hair and is sitting in the corner reading a book. He’s always been quiet, we’ve never actually heard him speak but that’s okay, he’s like the little brother of everyone in the school.
He’s been getting along great with Sasha recently, were hoping that them getting closer will help him open up and talk to us.
As I continue looking around Mrs. Maggie shoots me a “pay attention” look so I straighten up and listen to the rest of Mrs. Maggie’s lecture which goes on for about two hours before we stop and have a break
My headache hasn’t gotten any better so I rest my head on my desk
“You look awful” Sasha says walking over
I look up at her and smile weakly
“Yeah, my heads killing me” I say
“You should go to the infirmary” Sasha says
“…yeah, okay” I say standing up and walking over to Mrs. Maggie
“I’m going to the infirmary for some medicine” I say
“Okay, hurry back” Mrs. Maggie says
I turn and start walking away
“You should just give in already” Mrs. Maggie says
“What?” I ask not sure what she meant
“Huh? I said hurry back. You must be worse than I thought, take a rest in the infirmary’s bed” Mrs. Maggie says with a worried expression
“Huh… Yeah, alright. Come on Scarlett” I say without thinking as I head for the door
I stop walking
“…who?” I ask myself
Suddenly im overcome by the feeling that ive forgotten something important, then there’s a sharp pain in my head and the world spins and warps, I see everyone in the class except Reavus and Mrs Maggie collapse and then shortly after I collapse as well
I wake up in bed in the infirmary, the orange light that’s streaming through the window tells me I’ve been out for awhile
Mrs. Maggie is sitting in a chair beside my bed backlit by the setting sun making her look a bit scary
I try and get up and find I can’t move or even speak
Mrs. Maggie glares down at me
“There’s something weird about you child. First it took an exorbitant amount of energy to bring you down, and then you still refuse to fully integrate, so its using up even more energy to keep you calm, and then you have the nerve to almost shatter the illusion, I don’t even know how you did that…” Mrs. Maggie says with a sigh
I’m anything but calm at this point, I don’t understand what she’s saying but its freaking me out and I struggle harder against my invisible bonds
“Is it because I didn’t bring in that pokemon you had with you? Is that it? Should I expend even more energy to bring it in?” She mutters to herself standing and walking toward the window
“Time is running out. This "sasha” shows promise, but if you break the illusion it will all be for nothing" she says looking out the window at something that makes her expression soften and she just looks sad but unfortunately I can’t see what it is from the bed
My headache intensifies and the world kind of wobbles and for a split second the room looks decrepit and overgrown but quickly snaps back to the clean version
“…It would take too much time to safely remove you and forcing you out could bring it all crashing down, its quite the house of cards honestly… so I guess we will have to try bringing in the pokemon to calm you down, however…” Mrs Maggie says
Suddenly she disappears and reappears floating above me face to face
“If it doesn’t work I’ll have to take more… Drastic measures, not that you’ll remember this little warning” Mrs. Maggie says with a wicked grin and a shiver runs down my spine
Then she leans in close and starts chanting in my ear and the world blurs as I pass out
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Post by fattymccatcat on Dec 22, 2018 13:30:07 GMT
I sit up in bed and stretch, I think I slept weird because my wrists hurt
I look around my room and see that Scarlett’s still asleep in her bed on the other side of the room and I smile, for some reason I’m really happy to see her, then she starts snoring and the moment ends
I go to the window and open it, and see everyone in the garden heading for the cafeteria
“Scarlett, wake up, its time for breakfast” I say walking over and nudging her a little
She sits up and yawns and looks around the room, she looks confused for a second but her eyes glaze over as she looks around and then she smiles up and me
“Wile!” Scarlett says hopping out of bed
“You head down first, for some reason my body’s really sore so I’m gonna take a hot shower” I say heading to the bathroom
“Maw!” Scarlett says with a nod and leaves the room
I walk into the bathroom and take off my shirt and catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror
I see the multicolored scar on my chest
“…how did I get this again?” I say gently running my finger across it
Suddenly it pulses violently and I lose my balance barely managing to catch myself on the sink
I try and catch my breath but there isn’t time because my scar pulses again sending a shockwave of electricity through my body and I drop to the ground as my body spasm violently
My eyes start to burn as I curl into a ball from the pain
After a few minutes the pain dissipates and I’m drenched in sweat
I stagger up onto my feet and look in the mirror
my eyes start to glow and my head feels like it splits as all my memories come flooding back
As I sift through my memories I look around at the illusory world we’ve been trapped in, I remember everything from before and after getting kidnapped, even the fake memories but they don’t feel real anymore, more like a daydream I was having.
Then my thoughts shift to what Mr. Maggie said in the infirmary yesterday
I find it weird that me remembering didn’t shatter the illusion like yesterday
“Is… Is this part of the illusion?” I say a bit disoriented
I look in the mirror again, my eyes aren’t glowing anymore but I still remember everything
“Does this have to do with the statue?” I mutter to myself
My eyes start to glow again and the room I’m in changes
It becomes decrepit and overgrown like the infirmary yesterday, everything’s broken and covered in moss, the mirror I’m using is just a broken shard of a dirty old mirror
I figure this is reality, probably the ruined mansion we were heading to, and I see that my eyes are still glowing in the mirror shard
In the reflection I see my pokeballs on my belt and reach for them but the illusion snaps back and they disappear
I try and make my eyes glow again but it doesn’t work
“Okay, lets organize my thoughts. We’re trapped in an illusion world that Mrs. Maggie is creating. Something weirds going on with my eyes but it seems to help me see through the illusions, ill put a pin in that and freak out later” I say to myself
I start to leave when I realize something
“Wait. If Mrs. Maggie had realized I remembered everything she would have shown up and made good on yesterdays threat, which means she’s not omnipotent about everything that happens here! I shouldn’t just rush in…” I mutter to myself as I start thinking of a plan
I get myself cleaned up and get dressed in the schools uniform and head down to the cafeteria
As soon as I walk in Mrs. Maggie walks over
“Good morning Dakota” She says with a smile
“Good morning Mrs. Maggie” I say smiling back at her
I go and take my seat with the others at the table
I try activating my eyes again but it doesn’t seem to work so I look around the room
Sasha is playing with Reavus in the corner of the room and Scarlett’s stuffing her face with the many food options on the table
I look at Cory, Rebecca, and Josie
“Are they real? or part of the illusion?” I think to myself
Suddenly the illusion fades away, and I assume my eyes turned on
I cover my face to try and hide the glow as I see the scene before me as it truly is
The dinning room we are in an even worse state that the other rooms I’ve seen, there is a huge hole in the ceiling and the dining table is covered in dust and mold and there’s a pile of berries in the middle that I assume Mrs. Maggie gathered for us
I look at Mrs. Maggie and its as I though, she’s a ghost type pokemon.
She looks like a floating purple witch with a big hat and a wispy robe and pale red gemstones around her neck
Josie, Cory, and Rebecca are in fact real, they look awful though, covered in dirt and mud, and malnourished, they have clearly been here for awhile
Then I see Sasha playing in the corner with another pokemon, smaller than Mrs. Maggie but similar enough that they could be the same species, maybe it evolves into whatever Mrs. Maggie is
Everyone’s eyes are cloudy and they move around like zombies
My eyes start to sting causing me to blink and the illusion comes back
“Dakota, you feeling okay? you’ve been holding hour head for awhile” Josie asks
“Yeah I’m fine, Scarlett just kept me up with her snoring again last night” I say faking a yawn
“Alright then” Josie says
We leave the cafeteria and we get some free time in the garden
Sasha and Reavus walk over
“Hey, want to play with us” Sasha asks in her monotone voice
Reavus looks up at me expectantly with a smile
“Sorry, I have something to do with Rebecca” I say loud enough for Rebecca to hear
She looks over at me inquisitively
Reavus looks a bit down
“Okay, we will be playing in his room if you change your mind” Sasha says and they wander off toward the boarding house
Rebecca and Scarlett walk over
“Did we have something to do today?” She asks
“No sorry. I just have some stuff to ask you, you know a lot about pokemon right?” I ask
“Yep! I’ve been studying for years…” Rebecca says and she kind of stares off like she’s trying to remember something
“Nope. No time for that, let’s go somewhere more private” I say grabbing her hand and dragging her off
I lead her to a fairly secluded part of the boarding house and turn to face her
“Okay no one should hear us here” I say
“U-um” she says in a sheepish voice
Her face is really red and I realize I’m still holding her hand
I drop it a bit flustered
“No! Sorry! Uh that’s not why we’re here, I need your advice about a Pokemon!” I say hurriedly trying to diffuse the situation
“O-okay” she says but she won’t look me in the eyes
“This is gonna sound weird but just answer if you know. Do you know about a purple pokemon with a big hat and red jewels on its neck?” I ask
She considers something for a moment
“Hmm, I think your talking about a mismagius” Rebecca says
“I see, now let’s say hypothetically, a bunch of people got trapped in a mismagius’ illusion. What would you do?” I ask
Rebecca looks at me curiously
“Well, you would just have to wait, creating an illusion takes a lot of energy, eventually the power source will deplete and it would start to feed off the pokemon's own life force at that point they would just end the illusion otherwise they would hurt themselves or worse” Rebecca says
“Is there a way to force an illusion to end?” I ask
“Hmmm. I mean. Hypothetically if you knock out the mismagius or cause her to lose focus the illusion would end, but if you were to be trapped in the illusion finding its actual body would be impossible” Rebecca says
“I see…” I mutter
“Why do you need to know this anyway?” Rebecca asks
I grab her hands again
“Please listen, this is important. Don’t mention this conversation to anyone else. Please” I say
Rebecca’s face goes red again
“S-sure. No problem!” Rebecca stutters out
I walk away and as soon as I step outside the sun shoots across the sky and its suddenly dusk
“Whoa. Guess time moves a bit differently in a dream” I mutter
I see Scarlett playing in the garden and I walk over to her
“Maw!” She says smiling up at me
I crouch down and grab her shoulder and put on a serious face
“Scar, you trust me right?” I ask
Without hesitation she nods
“Great, I need you to beat up an old lady” I say
This seems to make her hesitate a little
I explain the situation as best I can and after some convincing I get her to agree but she looks a bit reluctant
I see everyone heading to the cafeteria for dinner and I ready myself to confront Mrs. Maggie
After coming up with a plan Scarlett and I walk in and sit down at the dinner table across from Mrs. Maggie
After a few minutes Mrs. Maggie suddenly stands
“I have an announcement, Sasha and I have come to an agreement, so tonight will be your final night here” She announces
Everyone’s a bit taken aback but after a moment they all start clapping and cheering
“Running too low on energy to keep us all trapped here huh” I yell
everyone turns to look at me and Mrs. Maggie’s eyes go wide
“What did you say child” Mrs. Maggie says
“You heard me, "mismagius”“ I say standing from the table
A look of confusion spreads across her elderly face
"How!?” She yells shaking the whole room
“Don’t know!” I say with a laugh
“But there’s one thing I do know. I’m not letting you take Sasha for whatever you tricked her into agreeing to” I say
“you’ve misunderstood!” she says banging her hands on the table
“So you haven’t kidnapped five children and trapped them in an illusion?” I yell
Mismagius looks confused for a second like she’s just realized what she’s done
“w-what are you guys talking about?” Cory says
“Dakota, I think you should calm down, I know it looks bad but you shouldn’t do anything rash” Sasha says comforting Reavus who ran over to Sasha when I started yelling
“Yeah you’re not making any sense” Josie says
“Sasha, get away from Reavus, he’s part of it” I say
“No!” Mrs. Maggie and the whole room quakes again
“scar, now!” I yell and Scarlett leaps up from below the table on her side and uppercuts Mrs. Maggie with a feint attack
She reels back and time seems to freeze
Then everything cracks like glass shattering and the illusion crumbles away
Everyone collapses onto the table except for Scarlett, Sasha, and me
Moonlight floods through a hole in the roof as mismagius rises angrily into the air and lets loose a bloodcurdling scream
She summons a swirling ball of black energy
“Scarlett dodge and use faint attack!” I yell and Scarlett charges forward
“All of you stop!” Sasha yells so loud its echo’s through the building
I’ve never heard her yell before, usually her voice is the same tone and volume, never wavering, so I’m taken aback
Mismagius and I turn toward Sasha who is cradling Reavus in his true form
“You’re upsetting misdreavus” Sasha says, her voice returning to normal
He’s shaking in her arms
Mismagius' attack dissipates and she looks distraught
Mismagius drifts over and gently pats him on the head and smiles
then mismagius’ face contorts in pain and she collapses onto the floor
Misdreavus shakes free of Sasha’s arms and floats down to mismagius
“What’s Happening?” I ask
Sasha sighs
“Mismagius was just looking for someone to look after Reavus after she passed on. You see how light the red color in her gems are, that means she’s almost reached the end of her lifespan. She gave my memories back yesterday after you almost broke the illusion and she asked me to take Reavus with me” Sasha explains
“Then why didn’t she just explain that?!” I say exasperated
“she wanted him to pick his own trainer, so she brought him some, but the school illusion made Reavus so happy that she got a bit carried away, even using up what little life force she had left to keep it going” Sasha says
Sasha takes a pokeball from her belt and presents it to misdreavus
“Reavus, want to come with me?” Sasha asks
He shakes his head and nestles deeper in mismagius’ robe, tears streaming down his face
Mismagius says something and nudges him toward the pokeball
Reavus nods and presses the button and gets sucked inside
It shakes a few times and chimes
Then Sasha let’s him out and he snuggles back up against mismagius
Mismagius looks thankfully up at Sasha
“I’m sorry” I say
Mismagius reaches up and flicks my forehead
“Magius” she says in a “me too” kind of tone
The gem on the chest suddenly drains of color and cracks, she spasms and starts fading away
“Mis!” Misdreavus yells
She places a hand on his head one last time and smiles, then fades away completely
He flies into Sasha’s arms and starts sobbing
I leave them alone before I start crying too, even though the memories are fake they are still memories I have and I’m feeling a bit sad and angry and a bunch of other conflicting emotions
So I go and check on the other three who are still passed out on the table to tale my mind off of it
I wake them up and they are very disoriented
“What happened?” Cory asks holding his head
“It’ll come back to you” I say
“Wait. Weren’t we in a… School?” Rebecca asks
“Oh man, were filthy, how long have we been here?” Josie asks
Then Rebecca’s stomach growls really loud
I give them all the food in my pack and they scarf it all down
I explain what happened leaving out the magic eyes stuff and they slowly start to remember, they are surprised about the date which I read out when I check my pokenav
“I’ve been here for 9 days!?” Cory yells
“I’ve been here for six…” Rebecca says
“Three days for me” Josie says
“30 hours for Sasha and I” I say
We decide to let them regain some of their energy before we set out for Eterna
I find a secluded place and pull out my pokenav and sigh
“Maw?” Scarlett asks
“Yeah, I have some calls to make. First of all Ruche, he’s left ten messages and called twenty times” I say with a laugh
I stare at my pokenav
I turn it onto camera mode, and prepare to take a picture of myself
I focus on the feeling I had when my eyes lit up before and take the picture
My eyes are glowing brightly in the picture and I sigh
“What did that statue do to me…” I mutter to myself deleting the picture
I call Ruche, it rings a few times before he picks up
“What!? Dakota!? Are you okay?!” Ruche yells
“Yes! Stop yelling! My head is killing me” I say
“Where have you been?! I haven’t been able to get in touch with either of you” Ruche says
“Yeah, some stuff happened, BUT, no ones hurt! Well, physically anyway” I say
I hear Ruche breath a relieved sigh
“That’s good to hear” Ruche says
“Yeah, we will be back by morning” I say
“Alright, be careful on your way back” he says
“I will” I say with a smile
I hang up and sigh fiddling with my pokenav
I debate about either calling conifer, just texting him, or waiting to tell him in person when we get to Oreburgh in a few days
I decide showing would be better and put my pokenav away
I walk back into the dinning room and everyone has gathered around a makeshift grave they cobbled together
They are kneeling in a sort of moment of silence and misdreavus floats above the grave sobbing
The moonlight is streaming through the hole in the ceiling illuminating the scene
I take my camera and get a few shots and put my camera away
I go and join them
“She was a nice old lady” Josie says
“Yeah, even though most of the memory’s are fake I still kind of miss her” Cory says
Rebecca is just softly crying
While we gather all of our things the other three check on their pokemon
Then we set out for Eterna
It takes about seven hours and we reach the city about an hour after the sun rises, we traveled mostly in silence as everyone took the time to sort through their jumbled memories
I urge them to get checked out at the hospital just in case and they agree
I show them the way while Sasha goes to get misdreavus a check up at the pokemon center
We arrive and I’m just glad I’m not getting checked in this time
Josie and Cory walk into the hospital while Rebecca kind of hangs back
Rebecca rushes me and gives me a peck on the cheek
“Thanks for saving us” She says rushing off embarrassed
I’m a bit flustered as well and Scarlett’s just grinning up at me which irritates me for some reason
“Shut up! Lets go get some breakfast, I’m starving” I say storming off
Scarlett snickers and follows behind me
We head to the pokemon center and meet up with Ruche and Sasha in the lobby
She’s petting misdreavus as he takes a nap in her lap and Ruche is sketching him
“I thought you didn’t like ghost types” I ask sitting down next to him
“No, I’m fine with ghost types, I just know how dangerous they can be” Ruche says without looking up from the sketchbook
“I kind of get that now” I say
“Yeah, Sasha filled me in on what happened” Ruche says
“She meant well” I say
“Uh huh” Ruche says a bit distracted by sketching misdreavus’ hair
I take out my pokedex
Misdreavus - The Screech Pokemon - Ghost - It gets energy from absorbing fear into the red orbs on its body. In the daytime it sleeps in darkness. It likes playing tricks on people like suddenly screaming or popping out of nowhere. They say if you hold your ear up to its Red orb you can hear the fearful screams its collected.
I put my pokedex away
Ruche finishes his sketch and Sasha put Reavus back into his pokeball and we go for breakfast
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Post by fattymccatcat on Dec 23, 2018 12:07:39 GMT
After breakfast I catch my reflection in the window of one of the shops as we walk past
I have bags under my eyes and my hairs kind of a mess
“Wow, I look awful” I say
“Yeah, I wasn’t gonna say anything but…” Ruche says
“Please say something!” I say straightening my hair in the shop window
I look at my eyes and sigh
“Guys there’s something I have to show you” I say a bit reluctantly
“What?” Sasha says
“Not here, let’s go to the pokemon center” I say
We head back to the pokemon center and go into our room and I lock the door
“What’s wrong?” Sasha asks sitting on the bed next to Ruche
“Don’t tell me you actually did get hurt!?” Ruche shouts
“No! Its… Its about the statue thing…” I say sitting on the bed opposite them
They both quiet down
“When we were trapped in the illusion my memory’s were overwritten like everyone else’s, but for some reason reality started… Bleeding through, then… Well.. This happened” I say focusing on my eyes
I can tell they lit up by their reactions, everyone’s eyes go wide, Scarlett however looks super excited about it
I’m worried that’s its getting easier to turn it on and off on command
“Anyway, when they started doing this I remembered everything, and I could l see through the illusions? I don’t know” I say
There’s a crushing silence that seems to go on forever when Ruche breaks it
“Did you call conifer?” Ruche asks
“No. I decided it was something he should see in person” I say
“Yeah, it does sound like something that would be a bit hard to believe over the phone” Ruche says with a sigh
“Do they do anything else?” Sasha asks
“Not that I’ve seen” I say with a smirk
Ruche frowns at my pun and I just start laughing
“Sorry. Anyway, I have a feeling this is only going to get weirder, so I figured I should warn you” I say
I swallow hard not wanting to say this next part
“Also… It seems that… I really can’t go anywhere without triggering some sort of event, It’ll probably keep happening… If you don’t want to travel with me I’d understand” I say
“What? You think we would leave you just because you have magical glowing eyes and are constantly bumbling into danger? Yeah right! I’d be worried sick!” Ruche says shaking his head
“Idiot” Sasha says
I smile
“Yeah, I really am an idiot” I say with a laugh
“Is that all? You’re not hiding something right? Because I will smack you” Ruche says sternly
“Yeah, that’s all for now” I say
“Good! Sasha hit the lights! I wanna see these things in the dark” Ruche says drawing the curtains
Sasha gets up and hits the lights while Scarlett bounces excitedly
The room goes dark and the only light left is from my eyes, its not strong, I’m not shooting beams or anything like that its just a faint ambient light
Its a mix of light blue and white that have a sort of flicker, it almost looks like were underwater
“Wow” Ruche mutters
“Beautiful” Sasha says
“Yeah… It is” I say looking around causing the light to shoot around following my line of sight
My eyes start to sting so I blink a few times and it stops so Ruche turns the lights back on
“I kind of can’t wait to see conifers face when I show him” I say
“Ha ha, oh my god, please let me be there when you do” Ruche says
Ruche considers something for a moment
“Maybe you should go back to the statue” Ruche says
“W-what? Why?” I ask
“You are helping conifer with his investigation right? Maybe you should try out your eyes on the statue” Ruche says
“… I hate that that makes sense” I say putting my head in my hands
“Do you not want to go back there?” Sasha asks
“Not really… But you’re right I have to” I say
“you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to" Sasha says
“No, its fine… But can you guys come with me?” I ask
“Of course” Ruche and Sasha say simultaneously
We leave the pokemon center and head over to monument park
We break through the circle of trees surrounding the statue and just like last time there’s no one here and the air is heavy and stagnant
“Oh, this place does feel weird” Ruche says grabbing onto my arm
“Don’t… Don’t touch it” I say as we approach the statue and Sasha grabs onto my other arm
As we get close enough I notice that its a little different this time, the crystals aren’t glowing and I can read the writing on the front that was completely illegible before
As I’m about to mention this Ruche speaks up
“What language is that?” Ruche says looking at the face plate
My stomach drops
“You… You can’t read it?” I ask hesitantly
Ruche looks at me and just as hesitantly says
“You can?”
“… Ruche. Pull up a bunch of different languages on your pokenav real quick” I ask
Ruche seems to understand what I’m thinking and fumbles with his pokenav
“My eyes aren’t glowing right?” I ask
“No” Sasha says
“Weird but its clearly…” I say scanning the wall of text but trail off as I notice some key words
“Dakota, I got some-” Ruche says but I put my hand up to stop him as I read the stone
As I read I get angrier and angrier until I get up and just start kicking the statue
Ruche and Scarlett pull me back
“Calm down!” Ruche yells
I take a few deep breaths and after a few minutes I calm down
“Sorry, its been a long day” I say rubbing my eyes
“What does it say that made you so mad?” Ruche asks
I sigh
“Turns out I am, quite literally, cursed” I say with a spiteful chuckle
“What does it say?” Sasha asks placing a comforting hand on my shoulder
“To the child who has survived that monsters curse and made it here, rejoice, by placing your hands upon this stone we shall grant you the power to combat the curse and the coming darkness. Oh newly blessed child, go forth and wander the world and surely fate will lead you to us and our trials” I read aloud
No one says anything
I take Ruche’s pokenav and scroll through the various languages he pulled up, some are current some are ancient, but I can read all of them
I read something from the page aloud thinking about saying it in the language I’m reading and then look at Ruche
“did you understand that?” I ask
Ruche just slowly shakes his head
I hand the pokenav back to Ruche and pull out mine to text conifer
“I can read/speak/understand every language now. I even translated the statue. Don’t call. I need some time. We will be in Oreburgh in about a week we can talk then” I text him
Then I send him a transcript of the statue and stand up and stretch
“Are you okay?” Sasha asks
I laugh
“Nope” I say with a smile
“Uh” Ruche says confused
“Let’s just get out of here” I say helping Sasha up
We leave the park and head to a different one, we walk past the one with the large oak tree but its too crowded because it seems that tomorrows festival takes place there so everyone is setting up stalls or hanging decorations so we go to a different park, we make our way to the one with all the flowers and apparently I was walking rather fast as it takes a bit for everyone to catch up
I plop myself down on the ground
“Dakota, do you want to talk about it?” Ruche asks sitting down next to me
“Not really. Hey, let’s introduce everyone to Reavus, uh misdreavus, is he keeping the nickname?” I ask trying to change the subject
“Yes, I think so” Sasha says
I release all my pokemon and everyone follows suit then Sasha releases Reavus who quickly hides behind Sasha
“Everyone, this is Reavus” Sasha says
I see all the pokemon wave as he comes out from behind Sasha and sheepishly greets everyone
“Why don’t you all go and play” Ruche says and most of the pokemon start to walk off
Everyone except riolu, who’s been staring at me since he was released
His ear things are twitching and he looks confused and hurt
“Riolu what’s-” Ruche starts to say but riolu charges me and tackles me to the ground and hugs me tightly
“Riolu!?” Ruche yells
“What’s happening!?” I shout trying to squirm away but riolu refuses to let go
“Can’t riolu see emotions?” Sasha says
“I see, so you ARE freaking out” Ruche says squatting down next to me
“No! I don’t know! Everything’s kinda fuzzy right now and my minds racing while also completely blank and my hearts kinda pounding in my ears” I stutter out as I notice my arms are shaking
“That’s called a panic attack dummy” Ruche says with a sigh
Then suddenly he hugs me too
Sasha joins in, then Scarlett, then everyone else
Tears start streaming down my face and we just sit like this for awhile
After I calm down everyone but riolu let’s go
I pet his head
“Thanks riolu. Everyone. I’m feeling a little better” I say
“Riolu?” Riolu asks
“Yes, really” I say with a laugh
“… Did… You just understand him?” Ruche asks hesitantly
I laugh
“No more than usual” I say
“Oh. That would have been cool though” Ruche says
“Yeah. Dang. understanding pokemon would be way more useful than magic eyes” I say with a laugh
Riolu ear things twitch again and he smiles and slides off my chest onto the ground
“Sorry for all the trouble” I say
“That is what friends are for” Sasha says
“Yeah, when one of us starts to crumble we support each other” Ruche says
I smile
“So corny” I say with a smirk
“What!?” Ruche says with a laugh
We spend a few hours resting in the park as the pokemon play and get to know Reavus
I try and stay awake until nightfall so I don’t mess up my sleep schedule as most of tomorrows festival is at night
As the sun finally begins to set on what feels like the longest day ever we head back for an early dinner
As soon as we enter the pokemon center I see some familiar faces
Its Cory, Josie, and Rebecca checking into the pokemon center
“Hey you three, how did the check up go?” I ask
“All clear!” Josie says
“Good” Sasha says
“Oh right, this is our friend Ruche” I say gesturing at him
“And Ruche these are the three we were trapped with, Cory, Rebecca, and Josie. We have a bunch of fake memories about each other so now we feel rather close despite only knowing each other for about a day” I say
“I-I see its nice to meet you” Ruche says
“Likewise” Cory says shaking his head
“Do you have to phrase it like that…” Rebecca says
“Hey I know! Why don’t we make some real memories and get to know each other again, what do you all say about going to the festival tomorrow as a group” I suggest
“Yes!” Rebecca shouts suddenly and then gets embarrassed and Josie stifles a laugh
“Yeah, that sound fun” Josie says
“Sure” Cory says
“I’m sure Reavus would like that” Sasha says
“Yeah! The more the merrier” Ruche says with a big smile
We agree on a meeting time and place and say our goodbyes
We have dinner and after a shower i crash down onto my bed exhausted
Scarlett snuggles up next to me and I drift off to sleep
For the first night since the incident I don’t dream about the lake and get a good nights sleep
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Post by fattymccatcat on Jan 29, 2019 16:56:48 GMT
I wake up and get ready for the day
Scarlett and I walk into the kitchen area
Ruche is cooking while Sasha is sitting at the table reading
Sasha puts her book down
“How are you feeling?” Sasha asks
“Better. Turns out spending fifty hours awake makes you emotionally unstable, who knew?” I say with a laugh and sit down
“Yes, yesterday was quite tiring” Sasha says
“So are you feeling better about the whole… Situation” Ruche asks setting a plate of food down in front if me
“Oh god no. My fears about being cursed turned out to actually be real. I’m going to need a bit to sort through all of my thoughts on that” I say shrugging
Then I smile
“…however, upon reflection, having super powers sounds pretty cool” I say with a laugh
“Well, that’s… Certainly a step forward I guess” Ruche says shaking his head
We spend the day just kind of lazing around the pokemon center waiting for the festival to start
As the time to leave approaches Ruche pulls out a bunch of little boxes and smiles
“What’s this?” I ask
“Well, apparently you’re supposed to wear flowers somewhere on your person for this festival, so while you were gone I went out and got ones I thought would suit everyone, I even modified a few” Ruche says motioning to a powder blue flower bracelet around his wrist
“Oh! Thank you!” I say
I open my box and its a bowtie made out of white and black flower petals
“Whoa! I love it!” I say taking off my pink tie and putting it on
Sasha opens her box and pulls out a deep purple flower crown that look good against the light purple of her hair
“Thank you Ruche” Sasha says while Ruche helps her fasten it to her head with a few bobby pins
Scarlett excitedly tears open her box and pulls out a flower that looks like a black daisy that Ruche pins onto her vest
“Maw!” Scarlett says beaming up at Ruche
“You’re welcome!” Ruche says with a laugh
We help Ruche adorn the rest of the pokemon with their flowers and then have them line up
“Now everyone! Tonight we are all going to a festival. We need to watch out for each other and make sure no one gets lost, flight risks are cherubi and combee, we need to keep a really close eye on these two and if anyone does get separated, head to the giant tree at the center of the park and wait for us to find you, got it?” I say
All the pokemon agree and start chatting amongst themselves and showing off their flowers
the festival starts after some big announcement at five so we all head to the meeting place in plaza park to find the others
We find them waiting for us under a tree in plaza park with their pokemon
Josie seems to have a Chatot, a little bigger than mine, and obviously not covered in scars
Cory and Rebecca have pokemon I haven’t recorded in my pokedex yet
I take it out and check Rebecca’s first
Its a small white squirrel with yellow cheeks and a pink stripe running from its head to the tip of its tail
Pachirisu - The Elesquirrel Pokemon - Electric - It lives atop trees and it makes electricity with its cheek pouches. A pair may be seen rubbing cheek pouches together in an effort to share stored electricity.
I notice that the one in the pokedex has a blue stripe instead of a pink stripe so that means its another shiny pokemon
Next up is Cory’s pokemon
Its a grey cat pokemon with a long tail
Glameow - The Catty Pokemon - Normal - It claws if displeased and purrs when affectionate. Its fickleness is very popular among some. When its really happy it demonstrates the beautiful movements of its tail said to resemble a dancing ribbon
I put my pokedex away as we walk up and greet everyone
We get all hellos and greeting out of the way
the other three are happy to see Reavus doing well and Reavus is happy to see the other three too
We sit down under the tree on a blanket that Rebecca put down and get comfortable while the pokemon start chatting with each other
“Hey, How about we go around and do introductions since we don’t actually know that much about each other” Cory says
“Good idea, I’ll go first!” Josie says jumping up
She whistles and her Chatot flies out of the group of pokemon and twirls around Josie’s body at a high speed landing on her shoulder with a flourish
“I’m Josie, and this is my partner Chatot! We are from Eterna and together were going to conquer the contest scene this coming season!” Josie yells pointing to the sky dramatically
Everyone claps and she bows and sits down and Cory stands and walks forward and I see that he’s smirking
Cory bows deeply and then stands up perfectly straight
He takes his hat off and flicks it up and it rolls down his arm towards his head, as it passes behind his head suddenly Glameow walks out onto his other shoulder flicking its tail happily
He snaps his fingers and with a flourish his hat reappears in his hand and he put it back on with a smirk
We all clap again
“As you just saw I’m an aspiring magician from Floaroma, and will also be tackling the contests this season with my partner Glameow” Cory says and then he takes a seat
Ruche decides to go next
“Hi, I’m Ruche, from Canalave, and this is my partner riolu, and this is cherubi. My dream is to be a fashion designer. I love making clothes and accessory’s for people and pokemon, examples are Scarlett’s vest and the flower petal tie Dakota is wearing, I’m always open for a commission” Ruche says with a smile and then sits down
Rebecca goes next
“I’m Rebecca, and this is my partner Pachirisu, as you can see he’s shiny. I want to research shiny pokemon, so I’m studying to be an intern or an assistant in a lab someday” Rebecca says and then sits down
Sasha goes next
“My name is Sasha, I’m from Sandgem, this is my partner buneary, and my other pokemon mantyke and you know Reavus, I like taking care of pokemon” Sasha says like she’s reading off a list and then sits down
I jump up
“I’m Dakota from twinleaf, this is my partner Scarlett, and my other pokemon Chatot, Chimchar, and combee, I like photography, and recently got an assistant position under a Professor Conifer, I’m also doing the whole gym thing, so if anyone wants to battle I’m always ready to throw down" I say with a smile and go to sit down but two hands shoot up
Its Josie and Rebecca and they look super excited for some reason
I point to Josie and she looks happy that I’m playing along
“What’s up with your Chatot? Those scars are super cool!” Josie asks
Chatot jumps up onto my shoulder and I pet him
“He got these scars protecting a bunch of people from a sadistic Honchkrow and its flock of Murkrow, he’s a hero” I say proudly and Chatot puffs out his chest
“So cool!” Josie says grinning ear to ear
I point at Rebecca
“I know about a lot of professors but I’ve never heard of this Professor Conifer, what’s his field of study?” Rebecca asks super excited
“Uh…” I stutter
“Legendary pokemon” Ruche says suddenly
“Right! That.” I say
“Why-” Rebecca starts to ask something but I cut her off
“Oh, look at the time, we should get going” I say
Cory looks at his watch
“Yeah you’re right, we should get moving toward the stage if we want good seats for this "big announcement”“ Cory says
We put our pokemon back in their balls and head toward plaza park
We head toward the stage and there’s quite a crowd of people gathered around the stage, the front rows seem to be all reporters and off to the side there’s a black tent separated by some fences to keep the crowd away with a path that leads to the stage
In the middle if the stage is a huge metal tower with huge monitors pointed in every direction so the people in the back can see the stage
There aren’t chairs or anything so everyone just stands around the stage
the crowd grows bigger and bigger until its basically a sea of people
suddenly music starts playing and everyone quiets down
Then gardenia walks out of the tent and onto the stage and the crowd goes wild
Gardenia reaches center stage and grabs the microphone with a big smile on her face
“Hello Eterna city! I’m the gym leader gardenia and I will be your host for this event! Now I am sure you all are eager to head over to the festival area, but trust me, you don’t want to miss this!” Gardenia says and the crowd roars with anticipation
“Now I’m happy to introduce the lady of the hour… Professor Andrena!” Gardenia says gesturing to the tent and out steps Andrena
“Ah” Ruche, Sasha and I say simultaneously figuring out what they are announcing
As andrena is walking to the stage Rebecca grabs my arm
I look over and her face shows pure joy
“Oh my goodness, its Professor Andrena! She’s the most prominent bug type pokemon researcher on the planet! I can’t believe I’m seeing her here, what’s she doing in Sinnoh!?” She mutters to herself gripping my arm tighter
Andrena reaches center stage and smiles at the camera
“Hello! I’m Professor Andrena, and my specialty is bug type pokemon, I’ve come to Eterna city with wondrous news! I have found the fabled amber palace in Eterna forest!” Andrena announces happily and the crowd loses it
It takes a while for things to calm down but once they do andrena starts talking again
“With the help of the local pokemon rangers, the national landmark preservation society, and most importantly the permission of the vespiquen and combee who live there, we have now classified it as a new national landmark and will be protected from this point on!” Andrena announces happily and everyone claps
Gardenia steps forward
“So this means that foot traffic will be increasing to the city soon as people will be coming from all over to see the amber palace but we will talk about that later, Let’s get to what we all want to see! The first ever photos of the amber palace!” Gardenia says and the crowd goes crazy again
Andrena steps forward again grabbing the microphone
“These photos were taken by a young photographer I met on the way to Eterna Forest, he even helped with getting me an audience with the queen of the hive. He was a big help so I cant possibly imagine not mentioning him, his name was Dakota, here’s his picture!” andrena says happily and my jaw drops as my face appears on all the monitors above the stage
I see Rebecca, Cory, and Josie slowly turn in my direction and I just smile and shrug
Gardenia laughs and grabs the mic
“Hey! I know him! He just won a badge at my gym!” gardenia says with another laugh
Then my face disappears as pictures of the amber palace slowly fade onto the screens and the crowd is silent as they look at the beauty of the amber palace
After about ten minutes the pictures fade and gardenias face appears again as she’s standing center stage
“And so ends the announcement, you can see all those pictures and more on professor Andrenas website, now its time for us to enjoy the festival!” Gardenia yells and the crowd starts to disperse
As soon as we are away from the crowd we release all the pokemon
Then Rebecca rushes me and grabs my shoulders and starts shaking me
“You know professor andrena!?” Rebecca says happily still shaking me
“Y-yeah” I stutter out as I’m tossed back and forth
Josie walks over and chops Rebecca’s arms off me
“Sorry about her, she’s sort of a professor fangirl. She knows and worships all the famous professors and loses control when the topic changes to them” Josie explains
“Excuse you, its not just famous professors! Its all professors!” Rebecca shouts
“Dang, then how low on the totem pole is professor conifer if you’ve never even heard of him” I say with a laugh
“He probably just hasn’t posted any new finding recently, which is understandable considering his… Chosen field” Rebecca says awkwardly
There’s a pause in the conversation when I see Rebecca’s shiny Pachirisu playing with the other pokemon
“Hey mind if I ask you something? Your Pachirisu is like the third or fourth shiny pokemon I’ve seen, aren’t they supposed to be rare?” I ask and Rebecca’s eyes go wide and Josie sighs
“Well now you’ve done it, the one topic I told her to avoid tonight unless asked” Josie says shaking her head
I turn back to Rebecca who is so excited she’s shaking violently
“I’m so glad you asked!” Rebecca says beaming
“Recently the number of shiny pokemon have skyrocketed! In the last seventy years the odds of a shiny pokemon being born have dropped from one in ten thousand to one in five hundred, people are finding them everywhere and no one knows why!” Rebecca says taking a deep breath
“Here we go!” Josie says with a smirk
“My hero Professor Euca Mindanao is the leading shiny pokemon researcher and she has made so many discovery’s since the shiny boom started! Like for instance it was thought that every pokemon species only had one specific shiny coloring but since the subject pool has grown so large we now know that’s not the case! Its more of a rarity spectrum! Take my Pachirisu for example, he’s a light pink, and considered a common colored shiny, other shiny Pachirisu are more likely to have this coloring, while an uncommon shiny coloring would be like a hot pink, then there is the rare shiny coloring where it could a red or crimson color! Basically its a variation in coloring, it would never be green or yellow, the coloring will always stay similar to the common rarities color scheme!” Rebecca says taking a few deep breathes
“That’s so cool!” I say with a smile
“And then there’s-” Rebecca starts to say but Josie cuts her off
‘Nope, that’s enough of that, if I don’t stop you we will miss the festival" Josie says with a laugh
“Oh right, sorry” Rebecca says
“No, that was interesting! Thanks for telling me” I say with a smile
We make our way over to the festival grounds
Its a sea of people, pokemon, and stalls
“Whoa, it looks like all of Eterna is here!” Ruche says
“Yeah, this city loves its festivals” Rebecca says and Josie nods along
“Oh right, you two are from here, where should we go first?” Cory asks
“Well, this festival usually has three sections, the food section, the merchandise section and the game section, Id recommend the latter first” Rebecca says
We all agree and head over to the games section
this place is crazy there’s people and pokemon playing various games and everyone’s cheering for each other
Scarlett’s eyes go wide as she sees a huge inflatable slide shaped like a lickitung where you climb up its back and slide down its tongue
“That’s looks fun!” Ruche says
“Oh yeah, that old thing has been here since I was a kid, that things like a hundred feet tall, I loved going down it as a kid” Josie says with a laugh
“First time I climb up I got scared and walked back down, but I’ve been down it a few times” Rebecca says
We line up and as we slowly climb the stairs the pokemon get more and more excited
After about ten minutes we enter the lickitung head and a guy hold out his arm as the group in front of up goes
He sends us down one group at a time consisting of a human and their pokemon
Everyone slowly disappears over the edge and I walk up to the guy as its about to be my turn
“Is this thing fire proof? My Chimchar wants to go down” I ask
“This thing is everything proof, you could send a wailord down and it wouldn’t break” the man says with a grin
“Okay, thanks” I say
The guy gestures for me to go and we step up to the edge of the slide and we get a great view of the whole festival grounds and I quickly snap a shot with my camera
I grab hold of combee and Chatot as its no fun if they just fly down and we all jump and begin sliding down towards the ground
I see Scarlett laughing uncontrollably as she careens down the plastic
Chimchar is screaming as he somehow wound up going down head first on his stomach
Combee is buzzing happily in my arms and chatots thrown his wings up and is smiling happily
We reach the end of the slide and bounce to a stop against the end of the tongue
We crawl off and join the rest of the group
“That was cool!” Ruche says with a big grin
“Yeah!” I say fixing my hat
“Bun bun!” Buneary says jumping around happily
“Yes that was fun” Sasha says
“Maw!” Scarlett says pointing back to the top
“You want to go again?” I ask and she nods and buneary joins in
Josie laughs
“I remember the first time I went down it, I went like ten times, so I understand their excitement, I’m up for one more go” Josie says
Everyone agrees so we get back in line and go down one more time then head to find some other game stalls
We get in line for a game called ducklett picking where you pick three little plastic ducklett from a pool and there’s numbers written on the bottom, depending on your final total you get a certain prize
Ruche gets 12 and gets a piece of candy
Sasha gets a 78 and gets a set of floral pokeball skins for her pokeballs
Cory and Josie don’t want to play
Rebecca gets a 46 and gets a hair clip with a flower on it that lights up
I step up to the pool with Scarlett and combee
“Okay we each pick one” I say and they nod
I pull first and get a 26
“Yes!” I say
Scarlett reaches for one in the middle and almost falls into the water so I pick her up and help her reach
She snatches the ducklett in the middle and its a 14
“Maw!?” Scarlett says falling to her knees and I laugh
Combee floats over and gently bites one and tosses it to me an its a 50 written in gold
“Comb!” Combee says with a big smile on each of her faces
The woman running the game smiles
“Its been awhile since someone drew the fifty” she says with a laugh and pulls out a list to see what I won
“You won… A mask! You get to choose between budew, Roselia, or Roserade?” She asks
“Roserade please” I say remembering the cool mask gardenias Roserade had
She hands me a nice looking mask that looks exactly like Roserade, the top of the mask even has some large fake white rose pedals
I put it on
“How do I look?” I ask
Scarlett just shakes her head
“Yeah, not really my style” I say moving it over so it on the side of my head
The sun sets but we spend about two more hours wandering around playing games and having fun until we reach this one game on the very edge of the festival space and there’s no one around
Its a cork shooter where you shoot a bow and arrow with a corked tip at prizes on a shelf, if you knock a prize off the shelf you get to keep it
“I’ve never seen this booth before” Josie says
“Looks sketchy” Cory says
“Well, ill give it a go I guess” I say
I walk up to the counter and the old man smirks
“Wanna give it a shot?” He asks
“Yeah” I say paying him and picking up the bow
“You get five shots” the man says handing me five arrows
There’s some pretty cool prizes on the shelf and some pretty bad one too
I decide to go for a piplup figurine
I take the arrow and draw back and it sails and smacks the box dead center but it only moves a little
“Nice shot!” Ruche says
“Ha ha, I’ve always had good aim” I say picking up another arrow
I hit the figurine again and it moves a little more
“how heavy is that thing?” Rebecca says
I draw and hit it a third time but this time it doesn’t move
Same with the fourth shot
“Hey something’s fishy here!” Ruche says
“Not my fault he’s not putting enough power into it” the old man grumbles
As I draw the final arrow I focus on the figurine and get that thing in my eye that I felt the first time my eyes lit up
I drop the arrow and quickly cover my eyes with the Roserade mask
“Dakota?” Ruche asks but I put up a hand saying I’m fine
I pick up the arrow and I can feel that my eyes are glowing, I look around and I’m surprised to see that some of the items on the shelf are glowing red
I focus a bit and I see a red outline of what looks like a nail pinning the piplup statue to the shelf
Irritated I shoot the arrow wildly and slam the bow down and walk away with everyone
“That sucked” Josie says
“Yeah it was clearly rigged” Cory says
I pull Sasha and Ruche back a bit
“Hey, can you check if my eyes are still glowing?” I whisper and remove my mask
“They are not” Sasha says
“Wait, what happened, was he using illusions?” Ruche asks in a whisper
“No… No I don’t think so, he was using nails.” I say
“Wait… I thought you… Uh… See through illusions” Ruche says
“I thought so too. Looks like there’s more to it.” I say with a sigh
“Hey! We were thinking of heading to the food area next what do you guys think?” Josie yells
“Sounds good!” I yell back and we decide to postpone this conversation and catch up with the others
We walk through the crowd towards the source of the smells that have been wafting through the area since the festival started
We buy everything we want as we walk through the stalls, some of my favorites being chili fries and an ice cold sparkling apple cider that I wanted to keep drinking forever
Scarlett and combee had like four sticks of cotton candy while Chimchar and Chatot preferred the candy apples, chatots with nuts and Chimchar without
After our group was finished stuffing our self’s Josie and Rebecca dragged us off to a small hill outside of the festival area and they lay down a blanket and we all sit down
“So what’s up?” I ask
“This is the best spot for watching the finale” Rebecca says with a smile
“Should start in about ten minutes” Josie says
“I see, being friends with some locals has its benefits” Cory says with a smile
We talk for a few minutes and suddenly gardenias voice booms through the festival ground
“I hope you all enjoyed this years festival! I look forward to another great year everyone! Now let’s end it like usual!” Gardenia says and then there’s a pause
Josie points to the top of the huge oak tree in the middle of the park
Suddenly there’s a bunch of flashes and with a boom flower petals of every color rain down over the whole area and everyone cheers
I take a few pictures but they don’t turn out very well
“that’s the end of the festival” Josie says
“That was great” I say
“Maw!” Scarlett says with a nod
“The flower petal rain was quite breathtaking” Sasha says
“Yeah! So what are you guys doing tomorrow” Cory asks
“We’re actually leaving town first thing tomorrow” Ruche says
“What!? Really?” Rebecca says
“Yep! I have to see professor conifer in Oreburgh asap” I say
“Oh…” Rebecca says
“Well, I’m sure we will see you guys again. We are going to be traveling around soon for the contest season” Josie says with a smile
“What about you Cory?” I ask
“I-” Cory starts to say but Josie cuts him off
“He gonna be traveling with us right?” Josie says
“What? Really?” Cory says confused as this is the first time he’s heard about this
Rebecca pushes Josie out of the way
“If you want to, we were going to ASK you later, but Josie seems to have jumped the gun” Rebecca says
Cory smiles
“Yeah sure, I wouldn’t mind the company” Cory says
The people at the festival start to disperse so we decide to try and get ahead of the foot traffic
“Goodbye, I hope to see you all again someday” Sasha says and Reavus nudges up against the three of them
“Same here!” Josie says
“Good luck with the contests!” Ruche says
I take a group picture of all of us and our pokemon then send it to everyone’s pokenav whole adding their numbers to my list of friends
We part ways and make our way back to the pokemon center
Exhausted we all collapse onto our beds and fall asleep
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Post by fattymccatcat on Feb 22, 2019 1:14:13 GMT
We have breakfast then pack up our stuff and check out of the pokemon center and head south out of town
We step onto route 206 and start following the path away from the city
After a few hours we stop for lunch in a clearing
The pokemon go and play with Sasha while I set up the table and plates
After I’m done I help Ruche with various things until lunch is served
After we finish eating I remember our arrangement
“Oh right, Ruche, you mind looking up stuff about the next gym for me?” I ask
“Oh right! Yeah hold on” Ruche says pulling out his pokenav
Ruche types some stuff into his pokenav and starts reading something that puts a wicked grin on his face
“The Hearthome city gym uses fairy types” Ruche says still smiling and putting away his pokenav
“That’s it?” I ask
“It will be more fun for both of us if you know as little as possible going in” Ruche says
“Great! Sounds like fun” I say with a laugh
“How long until we get to Oreburgh?” Sasha asks
“Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to talk about that, route 206 has two paths to Oreburgh, the low path that will take two weeks or the bike path that will take one week, I think we should take the bike path” Ruche says
“I’m up for a leisurely bike ride” I say
“That does sound nice” Sasha says
“Great! Bike path it is” Ruche says happily
“How does that work though, we just like, ride for a week?” I ask
“Nah, the path is littered with rest stops, there will be plenty of places to train and stuff” Ruche says
We clean up and start walking again
We walk until the sun sets then have dinner and go to bed
I wake up floating above the lake again, suspended in the air unable to move
“Oh great. This again.” I say with a sigh
Looking around I see that nothings changed, I’m still thousands of feet above the water held in place by something I can’t see, the forest surrounding the lake extends on forever in the directions I can see
The overwhelming feeling of needing to touch the water below is gnawing at me
Then I remember my eyes
Nervously I activate them and they blink on without much effort
The scene changes drastically
My bonds are no longer hidden
I see red and black chains woven through my entire body which is an unpleasant sight
I cant see the source but the chains end at cuffs on my wrists, ankles, waist, and neck
They are solid pieces with no visible way of opening them
As I inspect the chains my chest lights up
The light gives off the same feeling as the light that went inside me after touching the statue in Eterna city
The chains explode and I plummet towards the water
“Yes!” I shout as the water approaches
But the chains swirl around me and constrict and I’m stopped about a hundred feet above the water
“No!” I say struggling against the chains that secure me in place once more, phasing through my body putting the cuffs back where they were before
Then I wake up
I’m sweating buckets and Im incredibly thirsty again so I get some water and try to calm down
I just sit there and listen to Scarlett’s snoring until I eventually fall back asleep
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Post by fattymccatcat on Feb 24, 2019 5:09:14 GMT
I wake up early and summon all my pokemon and we spend a few minutes stretching and getting ready for today’s training
“Alright everyone, to be honest we don’t have much info on the next gym, so its going to basic training for awhile, except for combee” I say
“Comb?” Combee asks
“I was thinking of picking up where we left off with the bug bite training” I say pulling out a few dried Oran berries from my pocket
“Bee!” Combee buzzes happily
I place one in each of her three mouths and she starts chewing away
“Scarlett, your training is going to be agility training, you are still a bit stiff compared to Chimchar, so I thought maybe some juggling would help” I say
I find a few small rocks and pull out some balloons
I inflate three balloons with the rocks inside
Your job is to keep these in the air for as long as you can, you fail if one hits the ground and have to start over
Scarlett nods and I toss one into the air
Scarlett gets under it and slaps it with her jaws popping the balloon and sending the rocks flying
“Maw!?” Scarlett says
“Yeah your gonna need more finesse than that” I say with a laugh
She nods
I toss the second balloon and she gets under it again
this time she gently flicks it back into the air
after she does this about ten times I toss in the second balloon
She struggles for a bit but manages to find a rhythm between the two balloons
I leave her to sort out the other two
“Chimchar! Your all about punching, so… Push ups to build muscle?” I say with a shrug
He shrugs as well and starts doing push ups
I turn to Chatot
“Your training for today is similar to Scarlett’s, except you are trying to pop the balloon with air cutter” I say getting some smaller balloons out
I blow about seven up and put some rocks in them again to add some weight
I take one and hurl it as high as I can
I’m surprised by how high it goes
Chatot fires off an air cutter at the balloon but misses
He fires another as the balloon is falling an hits it
The balloon pops and a rain of pebbles hit the ground
As I toss the next balloon I check on the others
Chimchar going steady with the push ups, he seems bored at first but seems to be enjoying it now
Scarlett is running around juggling the balloons, when she drops one she tosses both of them up and uses fairy wind to get them into the air by herself
Combee is dribbling blue honey down her faces as she happily gnaws through the berries
Chatot pops another one
We continue like this for awhile until breakfast is ready
I see Reavus kind of staring at me
“What’s up with him?” I ask
“He was watching you train” Sasha says
“Oh, does he want to start training too?” I ask and Reavus shakes his head no
He looks at me with a determined look
“Wait, do… You want to have a battle?” I ask
“Misdrea!” Reavus shouts
“Well, I’m up for it, Sasha you in?” I ask
“After lunch” Sasha says
“Yeah, we should get going” Ruche says
We walk for a few hours and eventually find a small pond surrounded by flowers
As Ruche makes lunch Sasha and I find a place to battle
Reavus excitedly floats out onto the open field
I summon combee who is still stained a little blue
The stage is set!
3
2
1
Battle start!
“Astonish” Sasha says and Reavus disappears
“Blast the area with gust” I say
Combee beats her wings whipping up a fierce gust that covers the area but nothing happens
Suddenly Reavus appears and screams in combee face freaking her out and she takes off
“No, don’t run!” I shout bringing her back to her senses
“Psywave” Sasha says
“Use bug buzz to counter it!” I say
Reavus’ necklace glows and fires a colorful beam of energy shooting towards combee who beats her wings faster and barely manages to fire off a bug buzz and the two attacks meet and explode
Combee is a little too close to the explosion and gets sent tumbling backwards through the air
“Bug buzz again!” I say
“Psywave” Sasha says
Combee fires off another bug buzz before Reavus can react
He takes the attack head on and gets blasted back
Reavus staggers a little in the air
“Enough” Sasha says walking over taking Reavus in her arms
Combee floats over with a smile so I pat her head
“Good job” I say with a smile
“You too Reavus, nice first battle” Sasha says stroking his hair tendrils
We have lunch and continue walking for a few more hours
We set up camp near a small stream and take turns bathing with our pokemon
Then after dinner we head to bed
I dream of the lake again
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Post by fattymccatcat on Feb 25, 2019 6:09:08 GMT
We have breakfast and pack up camp
After about three hours a tall building comes into view through the trees but quickly disappears as the canopy thickens
We reach the building and its quiet, the top is obscured by the tightly packed trees
“Looks like were here” ruche says looking at his pokenav
“Huh, I was expecting it to be a little more busy?” I say
“Let’s head up, there’s a bike rental shop at the top, there’s probably a few people there” ruche says
We enter the building and climb a few flights of stairs
We walk through the the door at the top and are surprised by the hectic scene in front of us
The room is packed with people, pokemon, and bikes all seemingly getting ready to leave
The room is so loud that we just sort of close the door
The second the door closes the sound dissapears
“Well, thats… Uh…” Ruche mutters
“Good soundproofing” I say with a laugh
“Lets wait until they leave” Sasha says
“Maw” Scarlett says with a nod
We wait on the stairs for about ten minutes
“Ah” I say realizing something
“What?” Ruche asks
“You don’t think they could run out of bikes right?” I ask
There’s a moment of silent realization and we scramble to our feet and into the room
About half the people are gone out the set of large glass doors that lead outside
We rush up to the counter
“Three bikes please!” Ruche accidentally shouts
The man behind the counter laughs
“Sure thing, lets pick the ones you want out from the section in the back” he says leading us to a huge room filled with bikes
We each pick out bike models that are easy to ride
I get a white one with a basket on the front for Scarlett to ride in
Then he takes us back to the front and goes over the rules of the road
After his explanation Sasha disappears for a bit and comes back wearing a new outfit, black pants and a light purple sleeveless blouse
“Ooh, good idea, our clothes aren’t really bike friendly huh, I should go change into my workout clothes” I say getting up and going to the bathroom to change
After we check everything I lift Scarlett into the basket and we wheel our bikes over to the large glass doors leading outside and they slide open automatically
We set off and I’m liking the view
The road is above the trees and on the side of a mountain, so to the left is a sheer cliff face and on our right a sea of treetops
We ride down the road at a leisurely pace for about three hours until we reach the first rest stop
This ones just a small area carved into the mountainside, it has a few fire pits, some tables, and a place to put our bikes
We have lunch here and then continue biking for a few hours
As the sun begins to set we flick on the lights on the handle bars
“Hey look!” Ruche says pointing to an off ramp
“That guy said there’s a pokemon center at the bottom of every off ramp right?” I ask
“Yeah!” Ruche says happily
We turn off and head to the pokemon center
We lock up our bikes with the locks we were given and head inside
Luckily there are some open beds, but in separate rooms
After we get our pokemon checked out we have dinner then we go to bed
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Post by fattymccatcat on Mar 4, 2019 9:45:56 GMT
We wake up and have breakfast and get ready to leave
As we leave the pokemon center I notice the clouds are looking pretty dark
“Is it gonna rain today?” I ask
“Hmm. Maybe?” Ruche says with a shrug
Its actually a little cold so we throw on a few more layers
We get our bikes and walk back up to cycling road and start riding again
after about two hours its starts lightly raining
We ride for another hour before the rain starts really pouring
“Where’s the next off ramp!” I shout over the rain
“There should be a tunnel coming up!” Ruche yells
After about half an hour we round a corner and the tunnel comes into view
We rush into the tunnel and stop
We are drenched, cold, and exhausted
I summon Chimchar and we huddle around his tail
“W-what now? Do we wait it out here?” I ask
“No, there should be a rest stop in the tunnel, there’s even a cafe there that’s famous for being really good” Ruche says
After we get a bit warmer we continue biking down the tunnel until we come to an opening in the Cliffside
“Is this is?” Sasha asks
“I think” Ruche says
We get off our bikes and walk them into the cave
We follow the string of lights on the wall for about ten minutes before we enter a large room
There are tons of different colored strings of lights strung around the cave hanging above the two buildings at the back of the cave
One seems to be a cafe called “The Chatot Box” and the other is a pokemon center
It seems that there are a few paths that seem to lead deeper into the cave system as well
There’s a large hole in the ceiling that the rain is falling through but we just walk around that and head for the pokemon center
We lock up our bikes and head inside, its a little busy but not as bad as I was expecting
We check in and head to our room to get warmed up in the shower
“I am getting in first” Sasha says
“Okay, after this want to check out the cafe?” I ask
“Sure, I’m kinda hungry” Ruche says
After we’re all warmed up and changed we toss our clothes in one of the dryers that the pokemon center has for trainers to use and head over to the café
We walk in and the whole cafe is Chatot themed
Everything is the same color scheme as a Chatot and there are pictures of chatots everywhere
As we’re looking around a Chatot wearing an apron hops up onto the counter and smiles sweetly at us
It waves for us to follow and hops down off the counter and leads us to a booth
We sit down and the Chatot hops away and comes back with menus for us tucked under its wing
“Thank you!” Ruche says taking the menus
Chatot motions to a bell at the end of the table and hops off
“Oh I see, we ring the bell when were ready to order” Ruche says
“This place is cool, never had a pokemon wait on me before” I say
“I like the little apron” Sasha says
“Me too! Maybe I should make one for buneary? I bet she would look adorable” Ruche says happily
“I think she would love that” Sasha says
As were deciding what to eat I notice a little note at the bottom of the menu
“Party’s that have a Chatot with them get a discount, ring the bell three times in a row to call the owner and present your Chatot”
I hit the bell three times and after a few moments a man comes out from the back wearing a chefs outfit and walks over to the table
“Hello, I’m the chef and owner of this place, people seem to have taken to calling me the Chatot Maniac but my actual name is-” he says but gets interrupted by the Chatot in the apron yelling
“Chat chat tot!” The Chatot yells in a sort of “hurry up” tone as the man was speaking rather slowly
The man sighs
“So, you have a Chatot right?” He says in his meandering tone
“Yeah!” I say grabbing chatots ball and releasing him
He appears on the table and I see the mans eyes widen a little and then he regains his composure and smiles
“Oh. What a strong looking Chatot” the man says
I return Chatot to his ball and the man returns to the kitchen
We figure out what we want to order then ring the bell and the Chatot in the apron comes and takes our orders
Each of the meals has a number so we tell it those and it hops away into the kitchen
After about twenty minutes the chef brings out our food and drinks
It tastes great and after we finish eating we feed our pokemon
We pay and leave the cafe and are happy to see that its actually stopped raining
“Are we staying the night or leaving?” Sasha asks
“Hmm, I’m fine with either. Can we reach the next pokemon center before the sun sets?” I ask
Ruche looks at his pokenav and shakes his head
“I don’t think so, and it might start raining again, let’s just stay here for today” Ruche says
As we head back to the pokemon center I notice a big board with a map of the cave on it and some information about the cave
Its mostly a man made cave with the only entrance being hidden on cycling road, it has four large rooms connected by paths that form a sort of ring
The main room has a cafe and a pokemon center, if you go through the opening on the left you will reach an area designated for training, if you continue you will reach a room with a battlefield and after that is actually a room that they found by accident while they were building the cave, its a large room that many bird pokemon have made their home over the years called feather fall cave and then if you follow the path again you will arrive back in the main hall
“What are you two gonna do? I feel like doing this loop and checking out the rest of the cave” I say pointing at the map
“I’m still a bit cold so I’m just gonna head back to the room” Ruche says
“I am going to see what books this pokemon center has” Sasha says
“Alright, I’ll be back soon. The map says its like a half an hour walk” I say
They walk off toward the pokemon center while Scarlett and I head towards one of the rooms exits
We enter the tunnel and after about ten minutes of following the string of lights we exit into another big room that seems completely empty and its illuminated by a hole leading to the outside in the roof like the other room
This one has a bunch of stone and wooden pillars of varying heights and widths that seem to be used for training
The outer walls and floor are covered in those spiky rock growths that I can’t recall the name of
I have something more important to worry about at the moment
I take out my pokenav and take a seat on a patch of ground that’s not damp and work up my nerve
I call conifer
It rings a few times and goes to voice mail
“Oh, uh, well a message is fine I guess. Its Dakota… I’m sorry about that last text. I’ve been thinking about it and telling you not to call was kind of childish. I was kind of freaked out and acted poorly, so I’m sorry… I met someone in Eterna who… Her dream is to be a professors assistant, and that sort of made me realize I’ve been sort of thinking of this arrangement as nothing big but I guess it is? I’m your assistant, even though we haven’t made that official yet, I acted unprofessionally and again, I’m sorry about that. Some… Weird stuff is happening, im… My eyes…” I say and without thinking about it I activate my eyes
My eyes are immediately drawn to a big red patch on the back wall hidden amongst the stalactites
“Uh…. A-anyway, we will be in Oreburgh in a few days, we’re taking cycling road to get there as fast as possible, but it will still be a while so I just wanted to call and let you know I’m doing better and to apologize, so ill see you in a few days… Professor Conifer” I say and hang up
I get up and with my eyes still activated and carefully approach the red patch on the wall
“Maw?” Scarlett says confused
“There’s… Something weird with that wall” I say
Then I notice that some of the rocks curve weird
I move into a spot where none of the rocks cross over the red patch
Which incidentally is on top of one of the stone training pillars
There’s actually a weird mark on the top where im standing
“What is this…” I mutter to myself
I look back at the wall and I notice that the weird curved rocks actually for a picture but only when viewed from this exact spot
It resembles a bird pokemon with its wings spread wide
I snap a picture then hop off the pillar and walk up to the wall
The red patch is about three feet wide
My eyes start to burn so I blink a few times and the power turns off
“Hmm. Might as well just press it” I say getting excited
I press on the rocky surface, and to my surprise its not actually stone, its just painted to look like it
It presses in and then when I pull my hand back it flips up to reveal a small box
I take the box and open it
There’s a note and a CD in a protective case
The second I see it my heart soars because I know exactly what it is
Its a tm, a disc that contains the training method for a specific move
they are hidden all over the world and are extremely hard to find and not just because they are hidden in the most ridiculous of places
Its an unspoken rule that you should not tell anyone where you found a tm, you can let the people your traveling with know you found it, but you can’t just run around telling everyone you found one and after watching it you have to put it back where you found it
“No way, no way, no way!” I say jumping up and down
“Maw!?” Scarlett asks even more confused than before
“Its a tm!” I accidentally shout then cover my mouth
After looking around and making sure no one heard I read the note
“Congratulations” is all it says on an old worn out piece of paper
I put everything back in the box and put it in my bag and close the hatch
“Oh man! I wonder what move it is. I hope its something one of you guys can actually learn” I say with a laugh
“Maw!” Scarlett shouts excited
We continue through the cave reaching the next room which has a nice rocky battlefield
We continue through and as were walking down this tunnel a sudden blast of air comes from behind us and blast us forward which was cool but unpleasant as the air was freezing
After a few minutes we finally reach the last room
Its the largest room by far
There are hundreds of indents scattered across the walls, each housing a nest and various bird pokemon bundled up to keep warm
As with all the other rooms there is a large hole in the ceiling letting in light
The floor is littered with a ridiculous amount of feathers of all shapes, colors, and sizes and in the center of the room are small stools that seem to be fixed in place
I take a seat and get my camera ready when I notice a weird whistling sound coming from the path we just came in from
Suddenly another gust of air blasts into the room and sends all the feathers swirling upward towards the skylight
“Maw!” Scarlett says amazed
I snap a few shots and as the wind dies down the feathers start to gently float back down onto the stone floor like rainbow snow and I snap a few more shots
Its actually quite beautiful and I make a note of bringing Sasha and Ruche here later
I wait for the next blast as it seems to happen every ten minutes or so
after the next round of pictures we shake off all the feathers that have stuck to us and continue back into the main room
We enter the pokemon center and make our way to our room
“Hey guys! Guess what I found!” I say taking out the box and flashing the tm at them
“No freaking way!” Ruche says
“Nice” Sasha says putting her book down
“What move is it?” Ruche asks
“Don’t know yet, I’m about to go watch it” I say tossing my stuff onto my bed
“That’s crazy, I honestly started thinking tms were just a joke veteran trainers made up” Ruche says with a laugh
“Yeah, the hiding spot was just as ridiculous as the rumors say” I say with a laugh
I leave the room and head to the computer room and go into one of the private rooms
I pop the disk out of the case and into the player and sit back as an input screen appears asking for my name
I type my name in and it gets added to a list along with the date, it looks like this is a list of people who have found this tm
The last time it was found seems to be three years ago
I hit next and a video starts to play
The words “steel wing” appear on the screen along with a list of various pokemon who can learn the move, I see Chatot on the list and get excited
I grab chatots pokeball and release him
“Hey, so I found a disc that’s going to teach us how to train for a new move for you! Its called steel wing” I explain
Chatot flaps his wings excitedly
“Chat!” He yells happily
I hit play and we watch a short instructional video on how to train the move, then it shows a video of the move being used in a battle
The pokemon’s wings in the video turn to steel and smashes into its opponent with devastating force
“Cool!” I shout
I look over at Chatot who’s gaze is transfixed on the screen
Then the video goes into after care for the move, like massaging and icing the pokemon’s wings after each training session so it doesn’t hurt itself
The video ends and he’s still staring off so I replay the video to make sure I have the training method down
“Okay, so we slowly raise your wings strength by having you break through increasingly harder things with both wings at the same time, we will start with balloons, then twigs, then sticks, then stone, then maybe metal if you haven’t learned the move by the end of the stone phase” I mutter to myself
The video ends again and I eject the disc and put it back in the case and then I put it back in the box and pick up Chatot
“You ready for some specialized training?” I ask
“Chat!” Chatot yells happily and headbutts be in the stomach
“G-great” I say patting his head
I walk back into our room
“So what tm was it?” Ruche asks
“Steel wing!” I say
“Oh, that’s a good one!” Ruche says
“So Chatot is in for some tough training then” Sasha says
“Yep yep! Were both excited” I say patting chatots head again
“I’m gonna go put this back, oh hey, I want to show you guys something in feather fall cave! Its really pretty” I say with a big grin
“Alright” Ruche says standing up and stretching and Sasha grabs a book mark and sets the book down
We head to the feather room first and Ruche notices a plaque I missed my first time through
Its gotten reasonably brighter in here now that the cloud cover has passed
The plaque reads “feather fall cave - 10 min. Bursts - you may take two feathers maximum per person”
“Oh cool!” I say as we head to the ring of stone chairs in the middle of the room
“I have heard of Feather Fall Cave, its supposedly good luck if you catch the feathers you want before they hit the ground” Sasha explains
“That’s neat! Whatever you two catch I’ll turn into an accessory” Ruche says happily
After a few minutes the whistling noise starts getting closer until the wind blasts into the room and the feathers get blown high into the air
As they start gently falling to the ground I start looking for ones I want
I spot a small white one that’s nice so a grab for it, after a few attempts I get it
Then I notice this cool red orange one that a little bit bigger than the white one and grab that one
The feathers stop falling
Ruche got a light blue feather and a bright yellow feather
Sasha managed to get two huge black feathers
“That was fun!” I say
“Maw!” Scarlett says tossing some of the feathers from the ground into the air
“Can you make one of these into a bookmark” Sasha asks
“Absolutely!” Ruche says with a smile
“I’ll leave what to do with these tiny ones I got up to you” I say handing Ruche my feathers
Sasha hands Ruche her feathers as well and then they head back to the pokemon center as I go and put the tm back into its hiding spot
After I get back to the pokemon center we just kind of laze around until dinner and then go to bed
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Post by fattymccatcat on Mar 23, 2019 12:08:47 GMT
I wake up early and prepare my supplies for today’s training
After everything’s ready I wake Scarlett up and we step out of the pokemon center
The cave is a bit chilly and barely lit by the faint blue light streaming in through the skylight as the sun hasn’t quite risen yet
“You ready scar?” I ask and she just yawns and nods groggily
“Hmm, let’s run to the training area, you know, to get our blood pumping!” I say with a smile
We stretch a little and set off
We run past the diner and into the narrow path leading to the next area
After a few minutes we enter the training room and take a second to catch our breath
Then I let everyone else of their pokeballs
“Alright! I’m super excited for everyone’s training today! Combee! You are really close to learning bug bite, I can feel it. You’re getting through those Oran berries really fast now, so were going to keep at it” I say setting down some dried Oran berries for her and she happily pops one into each of her mouths and starts chewing
I turn to Chimchar and Scarlett
“Your training will also be the same, with one exception” I say gesturing to the stone and wood pillars clustered together around the room
“You’re going to be doing it while balancing on these!” I say happily
“Maw!” Scarlett says with a nod
“Chim!” Chimchar says hopping onto the tallest pillar in the room
I blow up one balloon for Scarlett and help her up onto a cluster of pillars that are fairly close together
“Chimchar, do some push ups on that pillar, there’s not really enough room for proper form so try doing handstand pushups, Scarlett, you just need to toss and catch this balloon, but you can’t catch it on the same pillar you tossed it from” I explain and they both nod
Chimchar starts doing the handstand pushups with a big smile on his face but quickly loses balance and falls off the pillar and slams into the ground
“Ouch! You okay?” I say helping him up
“Chim!” Chimchar says with a big grin and hops back up onto the pillar and starts again
I turn and see that Scarlett has started her training as well and I’m happy to see she’s starting to move a little better, her movements are more fluid and less clunky than before, it looks like she has a good rhythm going so I decide not to interrupt
I turn to Chatot
“You ready to start the steel wing training?” I say getting excited
“Tot!” Chatot says happily flapping his wings
“Great! The goal is to learn it before the next gym battle” I say and he nods
I blow up two balloons and stick them to the top of a pillar
“So the first step is popping these balloons with your wings, you need to have enough force to pop both balloons at the same time” I say and Chatot takes off
He gains some speed and dives towards the balloons and dives through them, his wings hitting both but they just wobble in place as he flies past
“Chat…” Chatot mutters
“Nice! Not enough force though, try again” I yell up to him
He tries a few more times but the same thing happens
As he’s flapping his wings in place starring at the balloons with a frustrated look it suddenly looks like he gets an idea and flies up really high, up and out through the skylight then dives down
He picks up a lot of speed and then swoops toward the balloons at an obtuse angle with his wings still a bit folded back
As he reaches the balloons he flicks his wings forward, slicing through the air with his wings, smacking the balloons with all his might popping the balloons but now his wings are crossed and he’s barreling towards the ground because of the angle of his decent
“Chat!?” Chatot yells and I jump forward and catch him in my arms and we both tumble to the ground
“Maw!?” Scarlett screams
Everyone rushes over to see if we are okay
I sit up
“You okay?” I ask
Chatot checks himself over and then nods
“Good, me too” I say with a laugh
I stand up and dust myself off
“well, you popped them, but I’ve got a few notes. I liked how you flicked your wings forward but it needs a bit of work. First you need to stop it after the impact or your wings will cross and you will fall. Second, that angle was awful, maybe try a sharper upward angle? I was thinking that once we make the shift to sturdier stuff, such as other pokemon, attacking with steel wing with an upward angle would be more useful since the momentum would carry them up into the air limiting their mobility” I explain
“…tot” he says nodding along
“Ah, sorry. We should save stuff like that for when you actually know the move huh” I say with a laugh
I clap my hands together
“Okay everyone, let’s get back to it!” I say and they all cheer and move back to their spots
I see Chimchar doing push ups and get an idea
“Oh! Why don’t you do push ups for awhile as well, it looks like your wings strength isn’t quite there yet. They need to be sturdy enough to handle the training or you might hurt yourself” I say and Chatot nods and drops to the ground and starts doing push ups
After about forty minutes we end the training session and head back to the pokemon center
We rest in the lounge and watch some tv while wait for Sasha and Ruche to wake up
After about half an hour they wander out and we go get breakfast at the diner
Then we pack up and grab our bikes and leave featherfall cave
We ride slowly down cycling road for about six hours until we see an off ramp and decide to stop for lunch
We let out our pokemon to play but Chatot surprising asks Chimchar something and they start doing push ups
I see Chimchar giving Chatot pointers and then riolu wanders over and starts helping
Eventually it catches on and all the pokemon are doing push ups
Sasha and Ruche wander over confused
“What happened, why are they all doing that?” Ruche asks
“It just sort of… Happened” I say
“Pfft, Look at cherubi!” Ruche says stifling a laugh
Everyone’s doing their best but there are a few who are having some trouble
Cherubi and combee for example are just laying face down in the grass
Cherubi is wiggling her leaves in vain
combee is doing slightly better, by fluttering her wings and floating up and falling back down with a thud onto her face
Every time she hits the ground I can hear a stifled giggle so I guess she’s having fun
Speaking of having fun there’s Reavus and mantyke
Mantyke is just flapping in the air as slow as they can while Reavus is phasing in and out of the ground
“You are all doing amazing” Sasha says
“Yeah! Keep it up” I say
Ruche is just laughing
After most of the pokemon get bored and wander off were left with just Chimchar, Chatot, and riolu
They are really working up a sweat and its sort of turned into a competition
Chatots struggling while the other two are blasting through the reps
Chatot collapses so I pick him up and give him my water bottle
“Good job!” I say petting him
“Chat!” He says weakly with a smile
“Hey! Lunch is ready!” Ruche calls out and everyone heads over to the table
As were eating my pokenav starts ringing and I check and its professor conifer
“Sorry, I gotta take this” I say excusing myself away from the table
“Hello” I say
“Ah, hello, just got your message! There’s something wrong with your eyes?!” Conifer asks
“Well, yes and no. My actual eyesight is fine” I say and I hear him breath a sigh of relief
“Good. We will do an eye exam when you get here just to be safe” conifer says
“Alright” I say
“So what’s wrong with your eyes then?” Conifer asks
“Sorry, but its really something you should see in person, Ruche says we will reach town in three or four days” I say
“Well alright then, uh, how are you feeling in general?” Conifer asks
“Physically I’m fine, better than fine actually… But mentally… The lake dreams haven’t stopped, they have… changed recently and they are more tiring for some reason, and the whole curse thing has me worried” I say
“Oh right! I’ve been itching to ask about that! You translated the statue? And your text said you can read every language!?” Conifer asks
“Yep! Its pretty cool! Haven’t really messed around with that since the statue, but Ruche pulled up a bunch of different languages and I could understand all them. I could even speak it! That was weird” I say with a laugh
“…Amazing…” Conifer mumbles to himself
“So yeah, that’s pretty much everything so far” I say
“I see. Thanks for checking in… And, look. I’m also new to this whole “assistant” thing. We’ll figure it out over time” conifer says
“I see. Alright, once again im glad to be working with you” I say
“Ha ha, likewise” conifer says
“Okay, see you in a few days” I say
“Wait wait! One more thing, how’s Ruche?” Conifer asks
“He’s doing fantastic, why?” I ask
“His mother keeps calling, apparently Ruche blocked her number” conifer says with a sigh
“ yeah, that sounds about right” I say
“Well, I guess I’ll tell her he’s doing fine I don’t think she will like that though… Anyway see you in a few days… Oh wait! You said three or four days right?” conifer asks
“Yeah” I say
“Well the museum will be closed to the public in four days for cleaning and maintenance so you will have to come in the back way, the code for the door is 49913” conifer says
“Is that okay?” I ask
“Sure, you are my assistant, so it should be fine, just don’t tell anyone the code” conifer says
“Sure thing! Alright bye!” I say and hang up
I take out my note book and write down the code
“49913 museum…” Then I erase that and write “apple museum” just in case I lose my notebook
I go and finish lunch then help clean up
We rest for about half an hour then spend the rest of the day biking
As night falls we stop at a pokemon center for the night
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Post by fattymccatcat on Mar 25, 2019 6:24:14 GMT
I wake up and head outside to start today’s training
The area around the pokemon center is a grassy field with a few steep hills and its a bit foggy and cold which is making the grass a bit slippery
I summon everyone and we stretch for a few minute’s
“I have an idea. Today’s training will be… up to you! I should let you guys do what you want occasionally right? So just let me know what you want to do today and I’ll help” I say
They seem excited and start thinking about what to do
Combee comes up to me and makes a chomping motion with her mouth
“Oran berries huh, okay!” I say placing a dried Oran berry in each of her mouths
While I’m doing that I notice that her fangs have become a lot larger than when I first caught her and the rest of her teeth are quite sharp looking as well
She immediately starts chewing and makes it half way through the berry in one bite
“Whoa!” I say
She takes one more bite and cuts clean through
“Good job!” I say patting her head but she doesn’t move and her eyes are closed
“Uh, combee?” I say
Her eyes shoot open and then her mouths and her fangs are glowing white and her fangs have grown even longer
Then I hear my pokedex ding
“You learned bug bite! Congratulations!” I say hugging her
“Bee bee comb!” She buzzes happily
“Great, let’s try it out” I say grabbing another dried out Oran berry, im about to pop it in her mouth when I get an idea and toss it high in the air
“Comb!?” Combee shrieks
“Combee, bug bite!” I yell
Combee shoots into the air and catches the berry between her glowing fangs, chomps down, and the berry explodes into blue juice
“Brutal! Good job! Take a break!” I yell up to her who’s chewing happily
I turn to the others and it seems they have been busy
Chimchar and Scarlett have taken a bunch of sticks and driven them into the ground on a steep incline
They are sliding down the hill using the slick grass and dodging between the stick
“Cool!” I say rushing over
Scarlett has a few near misses but they are both doing well
I get an idea and take out my almost empty pack of balloons
“Hmm, running low on these…” I mutter to myself
I blow up a few and fasten them to the tops of a few of the sticks about halfway down the hill
“Pop the balloon on the way down!” I yell
“Chim!” “Maw!” They say in unison and start sliding down the hill
They dodge the sticks with different methods
Chimchar uses swift kicks to the ground to slide from side to side while Scarlett swings her jaws around shift her momentum giving her more of a spinning motion
As the balloons get closer Chimchar gets there first and kicks off the ground doing a somersault and swipes the balloon with his claws popping it
As he’s spinning through the air I think I see his tails flame get stronger as it leaves a longer trail of flame than usual
Chimchar lands and slides to a stop and his tail looks the same as usual so I just chalk it up to a trick of the fog
As Scarlett passes the balloon she swings her jaws around and chomps down on the balloon with bite popping it
She slides to a stop at the bottom of the hill and spits out the popped balloon
I blow up the rest of the balloons and tie them to some more of the sticks then go to find Chatot
I find him a few feet away with a stick placed on two rocks
He brings his wing down snapping the twig like a karate master
“Whoa! Careful, you might… Hurt…” I start to say but get distracted by the pile of broken sticks
“Hmm” I say crouching down
I start gently prodding chatots wings
“Does this hurt?” I say lightly pinching his wings in various places and he shakes his head
“Huh… Maybe the balloon was the problem yesterday, let’s stick with this training method for now and slowly raise the thickness. Good job!” I say petting him
“Tot tot!” Chatots says happily head butting me in the stomach
We continue like this for awhile and then head back to the pokemon center
As we walk back up I see Ruche and riolu walking in covered in sweat
“Hey, were you guys training!?” I say with a big smile
“Yep!” Ruche says
“That’s awesome, you should have joined us!” I say
“Well. There’s a reason we didn’t” Ruche says coyly
“Oh? Why?” I ask
Ruche smirks
“How about I show you later with a battle” Ruche says staring my straight in the eyes
Big smile crawls across my face
“Oh? A challenge? I accept” I say
we stare each other down but Ruche breaks first and starts laughing and I follow suit
We head inside and have breakfast and then grab our bikes and head back up to cycling road
We ride for a few hours and eventually come to an off ramp and decide to stop for lunch
Once we finish eating we find a spot to battle
“I can’t wait to see what you’ve got up your sleeve” I say stretching alongside Scarlett
“Don’t worry, this should be fun” Ruche says with a smirk
Riolu walks out onto the field and Scarlett does as well
The stage is set!
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2
1
Battle start!
“Agility!” Ruche yells and riolu hops once and disappears and reappears beside Scarlett and kicks her in the side sending her tumbling to the side
She quickly recomposes herself and starts glowing a metallic white and rushes riolu with an iron head
“Counter!” Ruche yells an riolu starts to faintly glow blue as he ready’s to take the attack but Scarlett stop short and smirks
“do it!” I yell
She spins around and spins her jaws rapidly creating a pink glittery twister at point blank range blowing riolu into the air
I see the blue light fade as riolu is thrown about in the twister
Eventually he gets tossed out and lands on his feet
“You good?” Ruche asks
Riolu shoots him a thumbs up
“Good, agility and low kick!” Ruche yells and riolu disappears and reappears in front of Scarlett
She goes to block but riolu is too fast and he kicks her right in the stomach sending her flying backwards landing in a heap clutching her stomach
“Now! Aura sphere!” Ruche yells
“Get up and dodge it!” I yell
Riolu clasps his paws together and when he pulls them apart a shining blue sphere of energy forms
Riolu grabs hold of it like a baseball and pitches it at Scarlett before she can recover
It hits and creates a huge explosion
When the dust settles Scarlett is unconscious
I rush over and pick her up and take her over to Sasha who looks her over
“She’s fine” Sasha says after a quick check up
“Good” I say
I turn to Ruche and riolu
“That move was awesome! What was it called, aura sphere?” I ask
“Yeah! For some reason he learned it after sensing your panic attack” Ruche says
“Cool!” I say with a laugh
Scarlett wakes up and runs over to riolu excited
Riolu makes another aura sphere and pitches it at a nearby tree as Scarlett looks on amazed
“What type is that? Psychic?” I ask
“No, its actually a fighting type move” Ruche says
“What? Really?” I say
"Yep!" Ruche says with a smile
We pack up camp and walk back up to cycling road and ride until nightfall
We stop at a pokemon center for the night and after dinner head to bed
As usual I dream I’m floating above the lake again bound by those red and black chains
I’ve stopped struggling lately, it just makes me feel tired when I wake up
I now spend my time staring at the water below
The ripples in the water are interesting, I couldn’t see them when I was up higher but now that I’ve dropped lower I can see a bit better
The ripples seem to emanate from where ever I’m looking but the weirdest thing is that the ripples are going in reverse towards the point my eyes land on
I tried making a whirlpool by sort of spinning my eyes but it just made me dizzy
I decide to focus on a singe point for awhile to see what happens
The ripples do seem to get stronger after a bit
I feel myself waking up so I break my focus
Then I hear it
A loud splash from below me
I look back and there’s a bunch of ripples going outward from the point I was string at
“I’m-” I start to yell but wake up
I sit up in bed
“I’m pulling the water towards me?!” I accidentally shout
Then I cover my mouth
“What?” I hear a sleepy Ruche ask
“Sorry! Go back to sleep” I whisper
“Mhmm” he mutters as he falls back asleep
I lay back down and eventually manage to fall back asleep
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Post by fattymccatcat on Mar 29, 2019 13:37:31 GMT
I wake up and get ready for the day
As I’m getting ready to leave Sasha comes up to me
“Mind if we join you today?” Sasha asks petting buneary
“Not at all!” I say happily
We all head outside and do our stretches and then find a big open area to train in
I summon everyone and so does Sasha
I turn to combee
“Now that you have learned both the moves andrena taught us its time for some more difficult training!” I say
“Comb!” Combee buzzes excitedly
I smile as I pull out the metal Frisbee
“Today’s training is going to be for bug buzz, you just need to blast the middle of the Frisbee to send it high into the air and juggle it” I explain
Combee nods and I lob the disc into the air
Her wings start beating faster and as the sound reaches its peak her wings glow white and shoots a ring of white energy at the Frisbee
The attacks a little off center though and the Frisbee starts flipping wildly in the air and falls to the ground
“Comb!?” Combee says shocked
“Yep! This is accuracy training, if you don’t hit it dead center it will flip out of control” I say with a smirk
She takes the Frisbee in her mouth and tosses it high into the air and blasts it again causing it to flip out of control again
She looks determined so I leave her be
I turn to Chatot and he’s already gathered some sticks and is chopping through them
“Good job” I say patting his head
I turn to Chimchar next
“I’m feeling like its time for some flamethrower training today” I say
I take some more sticks and plant them in the ground forming three rows of differing lengths
“Light them with flamethrower” I say and Chimchar nods
He launches a flamethrower lighting the end of each stick on fire
“Nice!” I say and then I get an idea
“Oh, Scarlett, use fairy wind to put out the fires!” I say and Scarlett rushes to Chimchar side and starts spinning her jaws
“No no, use the regular move, the spinning one will blow the sticks away and doesn’t have enough reach” I say
“Maw!” Scarlett says with a nod
She blows a steady stream of pink glittery wind over the sticks and the flames eventually go out
“Good, maybe this will increase its power” I say
They alternate lighting and extinguishing the sticks and once I’m sure everyone’s set I turn to see how Sasha’s training is going
“Again” Sasha says
Mantyke starts spinning while using bubble beam spitting bubbles in every direction
Buneary is jumping and attacking the bubbles with her feet and ears with great precision and speed
Meanwhile Reavus is hitting the bubbles with psywave
The colorful beams he’s firing from his necklace are a little faster than when we battled a few days ago
After all the bubbles have been popped they repeat the possess again
I turn back to my pokemon and watch over them until breakfast
After we finish eating we clean up and get back onto cycling road
After about an hour the wind starts picking up and unfortunately its against us which slows our pace considerably
We ride for a few hours at a snails pace and eventually spot an off ramp and stop for lunch Its my turn to make lunch today and I decide to try making stew, I’ve helped Ruche before so it shouldn’t be too difficult
After awhile I call Scarlett over and take a spoonful and offer it to her
She takes a bite and the look on her face slowly turns into one of confusion
“W-what’s wrong?” I say hesitantly
After a long time she looks me dead in the eyes and shrugs slowly
I take a bite
Its tastes neither good or bad, its kind of just… there
“Huh” I say chewing the piece in my mouth
I look down at Scarlett and shrug
“Hey Ruche! Can you come here?” I yell over to him
He walks over
“Yeah?” He asks
“Can you taste this?” I ask
He takes a bite and chews it and his expression becomes just as confused as Scarlett’s was
“Huh” Ruche says after awhile
“Yeah, weird right?” I say with a laugh
“Its… Not bad I guess? Like if ten was the best stew ever and negative ten was the worst, this is a solid zero” he says
“Yeah, I don’t know what’s wrong and didn’t want to just start dumping seasoning into the pot” I say
Ruche and I work together to salvage the stew and I try and take notes as Ruche explains how to make a good stew
We get it to a more edible state and after lunch I walk up to Sasha
“Hey wanna have a battle?” I ask
“Sorry, Ruche wants to battle” Sasha says
“Oh cool” I say
We move to a more open location and Ruche and Sasha get ready
Ruche sends out cherubi while Sasha sends out mantyke
The stage is set!
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2
1
Battle start!
“Razor leaf!” Ruche yells
“Bubble beam” Sasha says
Mantyke starts rapidly spitting bubbles at cherubi who waves her leaf materializing a bunch of spinning leaves
The attacks meet in the middle and clash, the leaves pop the bubbles and lose momentum and fall to the ground and disappear
“Get close and use leech seed!” Ruche yells and cherubi starts charging at mantyke
“Supersonic” Sasha says
Mantyke starts singing a really high pitch wavering note that makes me feel off balance despite my distance from the field
Cherubi seems to stagger a bit and trips
She tries to get up but keep falling
“Tackle” Sasha says
Mantyke stops singing and shoots through the air and slams into cherubi sending her skidding across the grass
“Bubble beam” Sasha says with a wave of her hand
As cherubi is staggering to her feet mantyke let’s loose a flurry of bubbles that hit cherubi and she screams out and falls back
She’s panting heavily
“Finish it with tackle” Sasha says
As mantyke charges through the air the clouds overhead shift and the field is bathed in sunlight
“Yes! Use morning sun then jump!” Ruche yells
Cherubi’s body starts glowing a bright white and it stands up
Its body stops glowing and cherubi doesn’t look as hurt as before
Cherubi seems to start sparkling in the sunlight and suddenly speeds up
She jumps right as mantykes tackle reaches her and jumps onto mantykes back
“Leech seed!” Ruche yells
“Spin” Sasha says
Mantyke spins in the air to try and shake cherubi off but is a beat to slow as cherubi spits a seed onto mantykes back
The seed glows and vines burst forth and envelope mantykes body and cherubi jumps off
The vines constrict and turn red as they seem to shock mantyke causing him to crash into the ground
“Razor leaf” Ruche yells
Cherubi launches a flurry of spinning leaves at mantyke cutting him
The vines shock him one more time and he goes limp and the vines dissipate
Sasha rushes to mantyke and cherubi and starts patching then up
“That was awesome!” I say
“Yeah that was a good battle” Ruche says
“I agree” Sasha says while tending to mantyke
“I wasn’t expecting cherubi to heal like that” I say
“Yeah, Morning Sun need sunlight or it doesn’t really work so its very situational, just like her ability” Ruche says
“What’s her ability?” I ask
“Chlorophyll, it means she gets a massive speed boost in direct sunlight” Ruche explains
“Oh! That’s what happened, well good job” I say with a smile
“Ha ha, thanks” Ruche says
The pokemon get patched up and we all head back up to cycling road an ride for a few more hours
As we round a curve a building comes into view
“There it is! The end of cycling road” Ruche says
“Awesome!” I say
As we approach the building we slow down and get off our bikes and walk them into the building
We check them back in at the counter and descend the stairs and emerge into a large grassy plain with many little hills
“How close are we to Oreburgh?” I ask
Ruche pulls out his pokenav
“Hmm. If we cross the bridge today we should arrive early in the morning tomorrow” Ruche says
We set off and walk through the fields for a few hours and eventually we see a large bridge come into view
The bridge stretches over a deep trench with a river at the bottom
We reach it right as the sun begins to set bathing the bridge in golden light
As we cross the bridge I start noticing a bunch of weird signs placed every so often
“Hold on” I say
I walk over to the edge and read one aloud
“Warning, drifloon crossing 5pm - 9pm - do not grab hold of a drifloons arms - proceed with caution”
“Huh, drifloon are those pokemon that looks like balloons right?” I ask
“Yes, they are ghost types” Sasha says
“That’s weird I don’t see any around” I say looking around
“Yeah… Let’s get going” Ruche says
We continue across the bridge and right as we reach the middle of the bridge a cold wind blows against us and we instinctively shield our eyes
When I open my eyes again we are surrounded by hundreds of purple balloon shaped pokemon, they each have a tuft of white fur on their heads and a yellow x on their face and each have two string like arms that hang down
I take out my pokedex
“Drifloon - The Balloon Pokemon - Ghost/Flying - Known as the "signpost for wandering spirits” its rumored that if a child mistakenly grabs hold of a drifloons string like hands the child may very well vanish never to be seen again"
“T-there’s so many” Ruche stutters
“Cool!” I say grabbing my camera
I start taking pictures as we walk
The drifloon pay no attention to us as we proceed across the bridge
“Dakota look” Sasha says pointing high off into the distance
There amongst the other drifloon is a shiny one, with a yellow body and cyan x
I start taking pictures, unfortunately its hard to see the shiny against the orange sky
We reach the end of the bridge and look back and all the drifloon are gone
Ruche breaths a sigh of relief
I go through and start deleting bad or blurry pictures from my camera
We continue walking and eventually Oreburgh comes into view but we decide to set up camp instead of heading into the city
After dinner Scarlett and I crawl into our tent and fall asleep
I dream of the lake again this time I immediately start trying to pull the water towards me
Staying focused on a single point is very difficult and if my concentration wavers even slightly I can see the water start to fall
I make a little more progress tonight but the water is still no where close to reaching me
I feel my energy start to fade and I know I’m going to wake up soon so I let go and I hear the water splash down below me
I wake up and immediately go back to bed so that I’m not tired when meeting with conifer tomorrow since he’s going to be running some tests
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Post by fattymccatcat on Apr 3, 2019 17:44:14 GMT
Scarlett and I are woken up by the sound of an explosion in the distance
“What was that-” I say but get cut off by the sound of another explosion
We rush out of the tent and Sasha and Ruche are looking towards Oreburgh
A good portion of the left half of the second tier and a few spots in the lower tier are ablaze and the smell of the fire is starting to reach us
“Oh no!” I yell
“what happened? An accident in the mines?” Ruche says
As were staring at the fire I get that twitch in my left eye
I try and fight it but my eyes turn on and I quickly clasp my hands over my eyes
“No!” I yell in anger
“What’s wrong?!” Ruche shouts
“No no no!” I yell trying to turn my eyes off but they refuse
I feel someone lay a hand on my shoulder
“Dakota, tell us what’s wrong” I hear Sasha say
I turn from the city and fall to my knees then take my hands off my eyes and Scarlett looks at me worried
“My stupid magic eyes turned on” I say with a sigh
“What does that mean?’ Ruche asks
”… I think I’ve figured out what these eyes do. They see through tricks. Traps. Lies. Deceptions. Illusions. Things like that" I say
“O-okay” Ruche says
“And it seems if the falsehood is big enough, like with mismagius, they activate by themselves, and they are doing that now” I say with a sigh
“So…” Sasha says
“If I look at Oreburgh right now and see whatever these eyes want me to see… I might very well have to rush over there” I say
I hear Ruche sigh
Sasha puts her hand on my shoulder and Ruche follows suit and they lift my to my feet
“Well… If your eyes turned on they must be telling you to go help” Ruche says reluctantly
“What? But you said to avoid putting myself in danger like that” I say shocked
“Well its clear that that’s going to be impossible, Mr. Magic!” Ruche says sarcastically
“I will be accompanying you into town” Sasha says
“What no! Its too dangerous!” I shout
“There are people and pokemon that may need my help there. Nurse joy may very well need all the helping hands she can get, you are not the only trainer who wishes to help others Dakota” Sasha says
“sorry, youre right.” I say
“…let’s see what we are dealing with then” I say resolving myself
I slowly turn towards Oreburgh
The fire is still burning strong with black smoke raising high into the sky
The left half of the second tier and the smaller fires in the lower tier glows red meaning its a trick of some sort
I scan the rest of the city and my eyes land on the museum which is one of the bigger buildings in Oreburgh, its a bit secluded from town so it should be safe from the fires but what catches my eye is that its glowing blue which is a color I haven’t seen with the eyes before, so I dot know what it means
I focus my eyes on the colors but start getting dizzy for some reason
Then I hear a loud ding and everything goes black
I’m standing in a void and can’t move and it feels very similar to the void space I was in after I touched the statue
Then I hear a something like a computer synthesized voice
[Unauthorized attempt to access legend legacy system early by chosen child - Dakota - in the middle of their fusion period, contacting admin and child’s patron legendry’s… Temporary restricted access granted by both admin and patrons for the duration of five hours, Executing changes…]
I snap back to reality
“What do you see? Dakota? Hello?” Ruche says shaking me
“What the hell was that!?” I say
“What?” Sasha asks
“… ill tell you later, we have more important stuff to worry about” I say
I look back at the city and for some reason the colors my eyes are showing me make more sense
“I think something’s happening at the museum! I think the fires are just a distraction” I say
“The museum? Oh no, conifer!” Ruche says pulling out his pokenav and tries calling him but he doesn’t pick up
My eyes finally turn off and as I start to pack up to leave I hear a chime and a little screen appears in my field of view
“Uhhhhhhhhh” I say staring at this little floating text box
Its like something out of a video game, a black box with a white border with writing in it
“Sasha do you see this?” I ask
“See what?” She says looking around
“Just me then. Figures” I say turning back to the screen
The text reads
[Urgent mission!
Title : “Disaster in Oreburgh! Prism Grunts desperation move!”
Clear conditions : Stop the theft of the fossil pokemon at the museum!
Reward: one skill point]
Its only been about five minutes since I woke up and this is a lot to take in first thing in the morning
I try to hold it together but I can feel myself starting to lose it, but when I see the words “skill point” all the confusion and anger seem to melt away and all I can do is laugh
I laugh until it hurts and fall to the ground still laughing clutching my stomach
Ruche, Sasha, and Scarlett look at me with worried expressions but that just makes me laugh harder
I do eventually calm down and when I stand back up I wipe away my tears and look towards Oreburgh and smile
“Fine… If that stupid statue wants to turn my life into a game I’ll play along.” I say with a big smile on my face
“Sasha, you focus on helping the injured” I say
“Yes” Sasha says
“Ruche… I need a favor, I need you to find Mayce, Cobb, or Roark and tell them that the fossil pokemon are in danger” I say
“That’s what this is about!?” Ruche says
“Yep, I’m going to head over there and stall, and check on conifer” I say
“…fine. Give me Mayce’s number, I doubt she will pick up right now but I’ll keep calling while I look” Ruche says
I give him the number and he tries a few times as we run towards Oreburgh but she doesn’t pick up
It takes us fifteen minutes to reach the outskirts of town where a bunch have people have evacuated too
A lot of breeders, trainers, and doctors have set up little Healing areas along the outer wall of the city and are healing any people or pokemon who may have been injured but each area has pretty long lines
“I am going to go help” Sasha says rushing off with her bag
“I guess I’m heading towards the fire? They have to be around there right?” Ruche says with a sigh
“Yeah probably, please be careful!” I say
“Ha ha, look who’s talking! Don’t worry, my mother drilled safety into me, I’d love to see the look on her face if she ever finds out this is what I’m using her awful “lessons” for” Ruche says with a wicked grin
We enter town and the smoke starts to get to me and I start coughing and Ruche tosses me two blue bandanas that I tie around Scarlett and my faces
Ruche puts one on as well
We rush through town towards the second tier
We pass many people on the way, some of which try to stop us from heading towards the fire but we dodge them and eventually we reach second tier
The smoke is even worse here than the rest of the town
Ruche runs off towards the fire while I head off towards the museum
“You ready scar?” I ask
“Maw!” She says
Sasha lays down a sheet to keep the area at least relatively clean just like the rest of the people helping out
She takes her firsts aid kits out and gets set up
After she’s ready she looks around and notices that no one is coming over
She makes eye contacts with a man covered in scratches but he turns away
She looks around at the other people treating patient’s and they are all a fair bit older than her and have a more professional air about them
“Hmm, it would seem I am too inexperienced looking” Sasha says to buneary who pats her arm reassuringly
Sasha decides to wait until someone comes over to her first
Trying to drag people over here would be childish not to mention ineffective because of her off-putting demeanor
A few minutes pass
Suddenly a man bursts through the crowd of incoming evacuees and runs over to the area with the first aid stations cradling a pokemon in his arms and as he looks around he looks disheartened by the long lines
Then he sees Sasha’s area has no line and runs over, he stops short when he notices Sasha but the pokemon in his arms shifts and he rushes onto to Sasha’s sheet
“Please help!” The man shouts gently placing a very injured starly down in front of Sasha
—–
Ruche rushes through the town towards the fire
The heat and smoke are starting to get worse and the people he passes that are evacuating look at him with confusion and worry
“Gotta find someone!” Ruche mutters to himself
He tries calling Mayce again but she doesn’t pick up
“Come on!” Ruche yells
He reaches the edge of the fire
Any farther and he will be in danger
all the things his mother told him flash through his mind and his body starts to shake
Then he hears the sound of a pokeball opening and riolu appears next to him and smiles
He grabs Ruche’s hand and he stops shaking and takes a deep breath
“Let’s go” Ruche says running forward into the burning section of the town hand in hand with riolu
The museum finally comes into view
There’s no one around and its oddly quiet
“Well, let’s go” I say and Scarlett nods
She gets excited and runs toward the building but she doesn’t even get five feet
Scarlett hits something invisible and is repelled backwards violently landing at my feet
“What!? Are you okay?” I ask helping her up
“Maw…” She says with a nod
I try turning on my eyes
I’m greeted by an enormous bubble surrounding the museum
The bubble gives off a familiar feeling
“I… I think this bubbles made of magic…” I mutter to myself
I press my hand against the bubble
It has a gooey texture for some reason and I can feel the magic running through it
The magic gives off a similar feeling to when I use my eyes but this magic feels… Gross. Like it has a muddy gritty feeling that sends a shiver down my spine and my instincts are telling me I should run
I ignore that feeling and push against it as hard as I can with Scarlett and the wall seems to have some give and I sort of feel my hands start to sink in but it seems our strength is lacking as we get repelled backwards and skid across the ground
“Ow… I think if we push hard enough we can slip though whatever this is” I say
“Maw!” Scarlett says in agreement
I summon everyone to help and we start pressing against the wall as hard as we can
We slowly progress forward one step at a time
The bubble stretches and we start to sink into it
We slip through and crash into a heap on the other side
The first thing I notice is there is a very loud alarm going off
“Guess the bubbles soundproof, at least this should make sneaking around easier” I say
I put combee and Chatot back in their pokeballs but Chimchar dodges when I try and return him to his ball
“Chim!” Chimchar says shaking his head
“You want to stay out and help?” I ask and he nods
“Fine. Both of you stay close” I say and they nod
We sneak around to the back of the museum and come to a door with a security pad where you have to enter a code
“I think it was… Apple… 49913” I mutter as I enter the code and the door chimes and unlocks and we sneak inside
—–
Sasha stares down at the starly as she puts on some gloves, the wing is clearly broken and there’s cuts all over starlys body
“I found it under some rubble, I took it to the pokemon center but the line was out the door so I figured id take him to the evacuation zone” the man mutters with a shaking voice
He’s covered in starlys blood
Sasha takes a syringe from her first aid kid and numbs starlys wing
She cleans the cuts with water bottles and removes any rubble she can see
Then she stitches the bigger gashes closed and turns her attention to the wing
She feels around the wing for the break
After she finds where the break is and setting it back in place she fastens a splint along the wings and then carefully secures the wing to Starly’s body with gauze
“He should be stable, take him to a pokemon center once things calm down just to be safe” Sasha says
“W-whoa” the man mutters clearly shocked that someone of Sasha’s age could do all that so well
A few people in the other lines who saw Sasha working move over and line up in front of her section
She puts on a new pair of gloves
“Next” she says as the man carries starly off and as her next patient steps onto the sheet everyone hears another explosion go off in the distance
——
Ruche runs down the middle of the road, the buildings around him are all on fire, and he’s calling out Mayce, Cobbs, and Roark’s names
Unfortunately the smoke is starting to get to him so he stops doing that and grabs his pokenav and calls Mayce one more time but she doesn’t pick up
“Damn it!” Ruche shouts in frustration
Then he feels someone grab his shoulder
He turns and sees a bunch of firemen and their water pokemon
“Evacuate!” The fireman shouts as the other ones start trying to put out fires with their pokemon
“Do you know where any of the pokemon rangers are!? Or Roark the gym leader!? Please its important!” Ruche says
“Evacuate! Now!” The fireman yells
“Your useless!” Ruche says and he turns to run but slams into a portly mans stomach and falls to the ground
He looks up and its cobb
“Finally! Please you have to help Dakota!” Ruche says standing but has a coughing fit before he can say any more
The fireman gives Ruche his respirator for a second so he can catch his breath
“Dakota? What’s wrong?” Cobb says
“Ugh, of course Dakotas in the middle of this somewhere” Mayce says stepping out from behind cobb
Ruche gets a bit mad when he sees Mayce
“Pick up your damn phone! I’ve been calling nonstop!” Ruche yells
“We’ve been a bit busy!” Mayce says gesturing over her shoulder
There’s rows of water pokemon trailing behind them who are carefully putting out fires
“Enough! What’s wrong with Dakota!” Cobb says
“The guy who’s blowing up your city is at the museum its a distraction so he can steel the fossil pokemon!” Ruche says
“What!?” Cobb and Mayce say simultaneously
“Are you sure? The museum has a pretty hefty alarm, if something was wrong I’m sure we would hear it. Where did you get this info” Cobb says
“There isn’t time! Dakota went to stall them so they wouldn’t get away with the pokemon!” Ruche shouts
“That idiot!” Mayce says
“No… Well yes… But that was actually a good call, none of us were even thinking of the museum since the fires on this side of town…” Cobb says clearly pissed off
“Mayce! Take meditite and go to the museum! Your mission is to secure the fossil pokemon and confirm the safety of the people who work there” Cobb says
“But Cobb, what about my other mission?” Mayce says
“Its cancelled! Go!” Cobb shouts
Mayce whistles and meditite runs over from a group of firemen and they take off towards the museum
Ruche breathes a sigh of relief when another explosion rocks the area almost knocking Ruche off his feet
Ruche turns to go but Cobb stops him
“That riolu, it can sense emotions right?” Cobb asks
“Yeah” Ruche says
“Good I need to borrow him, Mayce's meditite was supposed to look for trapped survivors with psychic but that’s not an option now” Cobb says in a frustrated tone
“Fine, we’re here anyway, might as well help” Ruche says
“No you should evacuate” Cobb says
“I’m not leaving riolu's side!” Ruche says adamantly
“I promise on my pride as sinnohs leading pokemon ranger no harm will come to riolu” Cobb says
“I don’t care if you’re the champion, I’m staying with riolu!” Ruche says
Cobb pinches the bridge of his nose in frustration
“…Fine! But you are not to leave my side and do everything I say or you are gone!” Cobb says
“Yes sir!” Ruche says
—–
Scarlett, Chimchar, and I make our way through the corridors carefully making sure not to get caught
We round a corner and come to a hallway of offices
A little plaque with conifers name on it catch’s my eye so we sneak into his office
There’s papers and trash everywhere and the whole office reeks
“Okay, objectives. Make sure the fossil pokemon are safe, make sure the people are safe, find out who or what is making this barrier and stop it so whoever Ruche sends can get in faster" I say and they nod
We continue searching for awhile with no luck
As we are rounding a corner I see something in my peripheral vision and quickly push everyone back around the corner
I carefully look around the corner and see the prism association grunt from the caves dragging off a young man in a lab coat
He looks terrified
Chimchar steps forward to help but I stop him and shake my head
They round a corner disappear and Chimchar looks up at me
“Sorry, we have to find the rest of the hostages. Then we go after him” I say and Chimchar nods a bit reluctantly
We quickly go over to the room he dragged the other guy from and open the door a crack and look through
Its some sort of storage room but sitting in the middle of the room are about eight people bound and gagged with wurmple thread
I say that because there’s seemingly two wurmple guarding the hostages
I remember he has six wurmple so I remember to be cautious
I gesture to Scarlett and Chimchar to take them out quickly and they nod I swing open the door and they rush in
The wurmple are caught off guard as they are both punched across the room with a brick break and feint attack
I scan the room and make sure there aren’t any more hiding on the ceiling
Scarlett and Chimchar pin them down and they seem to give up so we shove them into a cardboard box an put something heavy on it
Chimchar uses scratch to poke some air holes
The hostages are wide eyed so I smile reassuringly
“Hey, I’m here to help!” I whisper at them
Three of the hostages are beat up pretty bad including conifer who seems to be the hurt the most
He’s clearly shocked to see me
I use Chimchars flames to set everyone free of the threads
“Okay there’s a barrier around this place so escaping will be a pain, so you guys need to go hide somewhere he can’t find you” I say and a few of them nod
“If there’s a barrier how did you get through?” A lady in a red dress asks
“Its sort of gooey. You can press through but it takes time and if he catch’s you while your trying…” I say
“I-I see” the lady says
“How about we barricade our self’s in the directors office?” A man says
“Good idea” another man says
The other five help carry the two injured people away
Everyone but conifer leaves but we relocate so were not here when the prism guy comes back
“This isn’t the reason I gave you the back door code” he says with a sigh as we walk
“Ha ha, yeah but I’m betting you’re glad you did” I say with a smile
Conifer smiles weakly
“So what happened?” I ask
“that man broke into the museum and captured all of us with his wurmple while we were distracted by the sound of an explosion in the distance, then he pulled out some weird device” conifer says but stops as we round a corner
“Device?” I ask
“Yeah, when he turned it on that something invisible and slimy passed over us, I guess it was that gooey barrier you talked about? I’ve never heard of tech like this before… Anyway while he was distracted I jumped up and destroyed a display setting off the alarm hoping Roark or Cobb would come and help” conifer explains
“Yeah this things soundproofed. It’s not even letting the smoke in” I say
“…Smoke?” Conifer says
“Oooh right… The city’s… Sorta burning down at the moment” I say and
“I see… when he realized setting the alarm off locked down the fossil exhibit he beat me for awhile. Then he started dragging people off to try and get the code to turn off the alarm” conifer says
Suddenly the alarm stops going off
“Oh no… Carl gave up the code!” conifer shouts
“Lead the way to the fossil exhibit! We have to save the pokemon!” I yell
—–
With the help of the water pokemon Cobb and Mayce brought and the directions of the firefighters most of the fire has been suppressed
Riolu’s ears start flapping like crazy as he search’s the remains of a burnt out house
“Got another one!” Ruche yells and a firefighter Rush’s over and starts moving rubble
After a bit he pulls a pokemon out and cradles it in his arms and runs off
“That’s seven” Ruche mutters wiping the sweat off his brow
After riolu confirms there’s no more in this area he goes to move onto the next area and Ruche follows behind
Cobb rushes over and stops them and gives riolu and Ruche some water
“It’s time for you two to take a break” Cobb says
“No its okay we can still keep going” Ruche says and riolu nods along enthusiastically
“No. You two are clearly breathing harder and wearing yourselves out. You’re not used to these conditions, if you keep going like this you will collapse and then no one will benefit from riolu’s ability’s” Cobb explains sternly
“…yeah alright. My dad always said one of the most important things is to know your limits” Ruche says
Riolu gives in and they all rest for a few minutes
Riolu and Ruche return to scouring the area for survivors
Riolu ears perk up and he rushes off to a particularly large pile of rubble
Its a large piece of wood on top of what seems to be a rather sturdy cabinet
“Hey, someone help!” Ruche calls out and a fireman runs over
The three of them push the wood off the thing and Ruche opens the door
Inside is a child of about four years of age curled into a ball and crying
The fireman checks her out and deems her safe to move and carries her away
Riolu’s ears start twitching again and Ruche and him rush off to find the next one
—–
Sasha’s pulled her hair back into a pony tail and is working frantically to heal as many people as possible as fast as possible
Buneary collapsed long ago and is resting in her pokeball
Most of the patients only have small cuts or burns nothing as serious as the starly because those cases would go to the pokemon center or hospital first
With each patient Sasha gets faster at treating the patient
As she’s dealing with a rather nasty gash on someone’s arm she notices she’s running low on supplies but the amount of patients lined up hasn’t decreased at all
Then she hears someone yell from the crowd
“The nurse joys have arrived!”
And sure enough across the field surrounding Oreburgh a fleet of ambulances from the nearby pokemon centers are driving towards the evacuation zone
They pull up and back into a row and the back doors swing open and out of each van comes two chansey and a nurse joy
The expertly set up tables and the crowd disperses and lines up for the nurse joys leaving all the breeders and trainers who were patching people up against the wall
Sasha falls back exhausted
“Ha ha, you did good for your first time” she hears someone say
She musters her strength and looks to the left at an old man
He was one of the people healing people beside her but she didn’t pay much attention to the others
She doesn’t even have the strength to talk not that she’s much inclined too
She just looks back to the sky and watches as the clouds roll by
—–
Mayce and meditite rush through the city and finally reach the museum
As they are running they slam into something invisible and get thrown backwards to the ground
“What the hell!?” Mayce says
She and meditite stand back up and prod the air
“Its… Some sort of barrier… It feels disgusting” Mayce says pressing her hand against it
“Well if Dakota of all people got through this then we should get through no problem!” Mayce says
“Meditite psychic!” Mayce says
“Medi!” Meditite yells
—-
We rush down the corridor to the fossil exhibit and the door is open
Laying in the hall is the lab assistant that got dragged away
All of his fingers are broken and he’s Sobbing
“I’m sorry…I’m sorry…” He keeps repeating
Conifer Reach’s down and places a hand on him
“Its fine, you tried your best” conifer says in a reassuring tone
“Yeah, and he doesn’t have the pokemon yet” I say pissed
“Maw!” Scarlett says
“Conifer, take him and go join the others” I say
Conifer considers something for a moment and then sighs
“Fine, but do me a favor and don’t die” conifer says
“Don’t worry! I’m unstoppable!” I say with a smile
Conifer shakes his head and picks up the lab assistant
“How can I not worry when you’re shaking like leaf” conifer says under his breath as he passes me and they shuffle down the hallway
I take a deep breath and steady myself
“…ready?” I ask
“Maw!” “Chim” they say in unison
We charge through the door and through the foliage until the clearing in the middle comes into view
The man is standing in the middle of the field, his wurmple and the fossil pokemon are no where to be seen
Luckily I remember that the fossil pokemon like to play hide and seek so I’m hoping they won’t be found that easily
He looks impatient and kinda twitchy, and a lot more disheveled than last time we met, but he’s still wearing the same weird outfit and glasses
“Something feels off about him…” I whisper
“Scarlett you sneak around the back and we will attack him from both sides, let’s go in sixty seconds” I say and she nods and runs off
I count to sixty and we rush out and charge him
He turns toward me and smiles
Then a bunch of white string shoots from the trees and wraps around Scarlett completely encasing her in a cocoon and she falls to the ground
Two thick strands wrap around Chimchar wrists and he’s hoisted into the air with his arms being pulled apart
“No!” I yell and go for chatots ball
“Stop! You go for any other pokemon and I’ll give the order for them to rip this Chimchar arms off” the prism grunt says smugly
I raise my hands to the sky
“Flamethrower!” I yell but before Chimchar can fire it a glob of string shot seals Chimchar mouth shut
“Nice try? I guess? … Wait… You look… Familiar…” He says as he slowly starts walking towards me
“Oh yeah! Your the brat from that golem incident! Playing hero again?! What did you think-” he says but cuts himself off
His expression goes cold and his body kinda slumps down
“Nice camera you got there” he says through clenched teeth
“Ha ha… So it was you… It was you who ruined everything! I thought for sure it was that ranger bitch!” He yells
He walks over to me and plants a fist in my stomach and I double over and I hear Chimchar and Scarlett freak out
He grabs my hair and takes off his glasses
He has dark bags under his eyes and his eyes are super bloodshot, its like he hasn’t slept in weeks
“I’ve been through hell because of you” he says with a laugh
He Reach’s into his pocket and takes out his cattle prod
It sparks to life and he sinks it into my shoulder and I scream out in pain
It doesn’t hurt as much as last time but it still hurts pretty bad
Suddenly the light in the room shifts
I look over and Chimchars tail flame is huge and his eyes are filled with fury
The fire from his tail swirls around his body burning the threads and he drops to the ground
He screams in anger and his whole body starts glowing and the fire intensifies, swirling around him faster and faster as his glowing body grows bigger
The light fades and Chimchar has evolved into monferno
He is now quite a bit bigger, with blue facial marking and a fluffy white collar, his tail is now a long tail with fire on the tip instead of being just fire
I take to opportunity while the prism grunt is distracted and snatch the cattle prod and run
“Damn it! Wurmple catch it again!” He says and a bunch of thread shoots of from the trees
Monferno tucks into a ball and becomes wreathed in flames and begins spinning rapidly rolling around the room becoming a wheel of flames
Any threads the wurmple shoot burn up instantly
“Free scar!” I yell and the flame wheel changes course and runs over Scarlett burning her threads
Scarlett jumps into the trees with monferno and quickly knock out the four remaining wurmple and tossing them out into the field
“Whelp. That’s the end of that” I say snapping his cattle prod in half
“Ha… Ha ha…” The man let’s out a weak laugh
He reach’s into his pocket and pulls out a knife and my heart sinks
“All I wanted was to steal some stupid red pokemon to offer the boss as an apology. Even stole some weird device from one of my seniors when she was drunk. I’m not letting some shitty brat playing hero stop me!” I yells and charges me
Monferno and Scarlett chase after him but he Reach’s me before they can stop him
He goes to stab me in the stomach and I catch his arm by the wrist as a weird calm wash’s over me
He tries to pull his arm back but cant
“W-what the hell” he says pulling back as hard as he can
“I hate knifes” I say
And without much thought I bring my a fist down on his caught arm and his arm snaps and he screams out and drops the knife and I let go as he pulls back and trips falling to the ground
A peculiar device falls from his pocket and just the sight of it snaps me out of my trance
Just looking at this thing disgusts me for reason
Its a rectangle covered in buttons with a hole in the middle with two metal spikes with a vial of goo positioned between them
It seems like the metal spikes are running a current through the vial of goo
He smiles deviously through the tears streaming down his face
“Stop him!” I yell and they charge towards him
“Too late!” He yells pressing some buttons with his non broken hand
The device seems to surge with energy
“Ha ha! If I’m gonna go down I might as well take you little shits with me!” He yells
“What did you do!” I yell
“The more electricity you put through the vial the harder the barrier gets! I’ve also set it to shrink so any minute now we will be crushed to death as the barrier destroys this building around us!” He yells leftwing the device up into the air
Suddenly a white top flies out of the trees and smacks the device from his hand and it lands in front of me
“What!?” He yells
I smile
“Took you long enough!” I yell as I bring my foot down on the device smashing it to pieces
The grunts body convulses and he drops to the ground unconscious
Another one of those black video game text box’s shows up
[Mission complete!]
I swipe at it until it disappears
Mayce and meditite walk out from the trees followed by the fossil pokemon and ties the mans hands together and gathers the four wurmple together
“Hey! Long time no see!” I say with a smile
Mayce walks over and punches me
“You idiot! You could have been killed!” Mayce shouts
“Yeah sorry, but I was kind of forced into the situation” I say
“No excuses!” She yells
She spends the next few minutes scolding me as we wait for meditite to go collect the other wurmple and let the people know they can leave
Eventually conifer wanders in with meditite who is carrying the wurmple with psychic
“The others have left for the hospital and officer jenny is on the way” conifer says
“Good” Mayce says with a sigh
“You should head over to the hospital too, he beat you pretty bad” I say a bit worried
“I’m fine, I’ll go later” conifer says
I shake my head and walk over to Scarlett and monferno and pat them both on the head
“Good job you two” I say with a smile
I take out my pokedex and point it at monferno
Monferno - The Playful Pokemon - Fire/Fighting - It skillfully controls the fire on its tail to keep foes at an ideal distance. Its adept at launching aerial attacks from anywhere it can find footing like ceilings, walls, and tree branch’s.
“Awesome! Congratulates on the evolution chim- monferno!” I say giving him a hug
“Mon Mon fer!” He says happily
“Oh, and also it says you learned flame wheel! We would have been in trouble if you didn’t” I say with a smile
“Exactly!’ Mayce yells from the background
A few officer jenny walk up
Two start taking the prism grunt away while one walks over to me and conifer
"Mind giving your statement?” She asks
“Sure!” I say and I tell her the lie I’ve spent the last few minutes thinking up
The story goes that I saw that the city was on fire and came to check on my boss, professor conifer, I got through the barrier, and got swept up in the moment and stopped the bad guy
“Alright, well thanks for your help” officer jenny says before walking off
“How much of that was the truth?” Mayce asks coldly
“A solid seventy percent ” I say with a big grin and Mayce sighs
“Yeah, the part about you being a professors assistant was what tipped me off” Mayce says taking her head
“Ha ha! That’s actually true though!” I say
“What!? You’re going to be a scientist!?” Mayce says
“Nah, Guinea pig!” I say with a smirk
“Oh, well that makes more sense” Mayce says with a smirk
“Please don’t go tell people I’m experimenting on you, I’ll get arrested” conifer says with a sigh
“Sorry sorry” I say with a laugh
Suddenly my legs give out and I fall to the ground
“Maw!?” Scarlett yells
“I’m fine, just a bit tired” I say
Mayce sighs
“Meditite use psychic to carry them out of here” Mayce says and meditite lifts us up into the air and carries us out of the museum
As we leave the area I see that the spot where the barrier was has a long scrape mark towards the museum all the way around it about ten feet thick
“He was actually going to crush us…” I say
“Maw?” Scarlett asks
“Nah, its nothing” I say enjoying the floating feeling
We eventually reach the evacuation zone and meditite places us on a nearby bench
I return monferno to his premier ball and place Scarlett on my lap
Cobb, Ruche, and riolu walk up and they look quite worn out as well
Ruche looks over at me and i flash a victory sign and a smile
He smiles and gives a thumbs up and sits down next to me after returning riolu to his ball while Cobb goes over to Mayce to get a report of what happened
Sasha appears next to us on the bench with her usual level of stealth
Mayce finish’s explaining what happened to Cobb and he sighs
“Good work Mayce, now as for you Dakota-” he says turning to us
we are all passed out on the bench against each other sleeping peacefully and Cobb sighs
“take them to your house so they can get some rest” Cobb’s says
“why not your house” Mayce asks
“my house burned down” Cobb says with a sigh
“Oh… sorry” Mayce says
She uses meditite to carry us to her house and we sleep through the night
—–
Later that night the uninjured hostages are released from the hospital and go their separate ways
The lady in the red dress walks into an alley and takes out her pokenav
“Hey, its me. Yeah…. Yeah…. The test of the device went smoothly. I’ll send you and that representative from the green sect a full report tomorrow… No, that idiot won’t be a problem, some kid broke the device and you know what that means… Yeah? I can come back? Thank god, I was getting tired of playing receptionist, I’ll see you in a few days then boss” she says and hangs up
She stretch’s and disappears into the darkness of the alley with a pleased expression of a job well done on her face
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Post by fattymccatcat on Apr 10, 2019 22:53:57 GMT
I wake up in an unfamiliar room on an unfamiliar couch with Scarlett asleep on my chest snoring loudly
I pull out my pokenav and check the time and its a little after five in the morning the day after the fire
I carefully lift Scarlett off me and tuck her back in
I look around with the light from my pokenav
I find a framed picture of Mayce when she was my age with some friends in front of what looks like a school
“Oh, Mayce’s house” I say looking around
My stomach growls and I realize I didn’t eat at all yesterday
I find my pack and pull out some snacks to carry me to breakfast
I hear someone coming down the stairs
“Sasha?” I whisper
“Medi” meditite says appearing through the doorway with a head shake
“Oh, hey meditite. Are Sasha and Ruche here?” I ask
He nods and points up
“Upstairs but probably still asleep?” I say and he nods again
“Is Mayce here?” I ask and he shakes his head no
“I see… Thanks for staying with us” I say with a smile and he smiles back
He goes back upstairs and I sit down in a rather comfy chair and dig in my pack for my headphones
I browse the internet on my pokenav for awhile
As I’m browsing aimlessly I notice some videos of this years Pokemon League semifinals going around
“Oh, that’s right that’s happening now, looks like the finals are tomorrow…” I say
I decide not to watch the videos since the plan is to go next year I and might have to fight some of these guys and I don’t want any spoilers
I decide to look up stuff about magic but obviously come up empty
There’s nothing in the news about anything weird happening either
“More stuff about the Semifinals… stuff about Kanto's reconstruction… stuff about the fire yesterday… even stuff about the amber castle, hmmm guess I’ll have to look deeper” I mutter to myself
After an hour of searching I wind up on some weird website with a blog called “A Weird and Wonderful World” or AWWW for short
It seems to be a bunch of ridiculous headlines with blurry or obviously faked photos
Its amusing so I decide to read a few of the articles and I’m surprise to find that its actually well written
The faked photos are flat out said to be artist interpretations until they can find actual photos or evidence
The writer seems to go out of there way to make sure everyone knows these are rumors and hearsay and doesn’t want to trick people into thinking these are facts, they even apparently delete articles that have been disproven
The headlines seem to be to draw people in and then actually discuss and speculate on the subject in question in a professional and serious way
One that catch’s my eye is about a huge flock of Murkrow and Honchkrow, the picture is of it circling over a city in the distance with the headline “Sinnohs Murkrow population acting in ways that have scientists worried”
The article goes on to say that a few towns have been attacked by this massive flock of birds that completely decimates the towns food supplies and takes some valuables then completely disappears
And then they go into speculation that maybe in the center of the flock is a new evolution past Honchkrow that’s united all the flocks under it as well as a few other ideas that seem to be going around
The comment section is full of people discussing possible reasons and reported sightings
I look up from my pokenav to find that the sun has risen
I bookmark the page and put my pokenav away and stand and stretch
As I’m waking Scarlett up I hear someone coming downstairs
I turn and see Sasha and buneary
“Morning” I say
“Good morning” Sasha says
“Bun” buneary says with a big yawn
“Is Ruche up?” I ask
“I think I heard him in the shower” Sasha says
“Oooh, a shower sounds great” I say
“I have already called next” Sasha says
“When?” I ask
“Now. Next.” Sasha says
“Dang” I say with a laugh
Scarlett sits up and yawns and looks around groggily then her stomachs grumbles really loud
“Ha ha, let’s go get breakfast after everyone’s cleaned up” I say
“Okay” Sasha says
Ruche comes downstairs and Sasha leaves
“Morning” Ruche says
“Morning” I say
“What should we do for breakfast” Ruche says
“Let’s just head to a cafe. Oh. Do you think there will be any open? It was pretty bad yesterday in the second tier where all the cafes and shops are” I ask
“Hmm, I guess well just have to go and check, if there aren’t any open then we can just find somewhere to make our own breakfast” Ruche says
“Yeah alright” I say
Sasha comes downstairs and I head up and shower and when I come back down meditite is waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs
He has a note
“Hey idiot, come to the ranger base around noon”
We walk into the living room and join the others
We grab all our stuff and leave the house
Meditite uses psychic to lock the door from the outside and the waves goodbye
You can hear a lot of construction noises echoing though town
We head through the first tier to the stairs leading to the second and start climbing
As we reach the top we start looking for a place to eat, luckily it seems like there are places still open, but a lot of the places are packed with people
But the closer we head to the burnt area the less people we find
We find a cafe within eyeshot of the edge of the fire and surprisingly its still open and completely empty
We head inside and sit down and order our food
“Can we feed our pokemon in here?” Ruche asks
“as long as you don’t have a wailord, sure” the waiter says with a laugh and walks off
We summon our pokemon and feed them while we wait for our food
“Guys! Check this out!” I say releasing monferno
“Oh! Cool! I’ve never seen a monferno before!” Ruche says taking out his sketch book
“Congratulations on your evolution” Sasha says patting monfernos head
“Mon!” Monferno says with a big grin
We feed the pokemon and our food arrives a few minutes later
After we finish eating we tell each other about what happened yesterday
“Wait, you broke his arm!?” Ruche says
“Yeah, I just wanted him to drop the knife, I didn’t expect his arm to just shatter like that” I say
“So you are still bad with knifes” Sasha says
“Yeah” I say with a sigh
“Wait, you’re afraid of knifes? But I’ve seen you use them when we cook” Ruche says confused
“Well, that’s different. Its only… When their pointed at me. My stomachs drops and my mind goes blank and I kind of lose it” I say sheepishly
“… Do you mind if I ask why?” Ruche says
“Nah. Apparently when I was three my mom and I were in the pokemart when this guy started robbing the place with a knife, officer jenny showed up, he took me hostage and held the knife to my throat, mom said I didn’t cry or anything I just stared him down which freaked him out, and then apparently when he wasn’t looking I bit him and escaped and officer jenny rushed him and cuffed him, since then I get a bit… Defensive when a knife is pointed at me or my friends” I explain
“I see” Ruche says
“One of the kids in my neighborhood was hitting me with a toy sword once and Dakota swooped in and broke the kids nose” Sasha says
“Aww don’t bring that up” I say embarrassed
“Why not? I like that story. It was the first time we met” Sasha says
“Ha ha, that’s quite the first meeting” Ruche says
“Yeah, it still took six months for her to talk to me though, I thought she was scared of me, but I wanted to be friends no matter what, I learned later that it just takes her awhile to open up, now we’re best friends” I say with a big grin
“Didn’t you say you guys just met up again after a few years in Jubilife though?” Ruche asks
“Yeah, we were a bit too busy for those two years to meet up, I was learning how to be a trainer and getting ready for my journey” I say
“And I was learning about taking care of pokemon” Sasha says patting buneary head
“I see, it kinda reminds me how I met Nia, one day she just, climbs through my bedroom window and yells "hide me!”. Apparently she had broken into the shipyard and broken one of the machines. We spent the day hiding in a fort she made from stuff around my room. She left when it got dark, and then every so often she’d show up out of nowhere and drag me off to play" Ruche says with a soft smile
“She sounds like fun, I hope we run into her someday” I say
“Me too” Ruche says
We put everyone back into their pokeball and leave the café
“What should we do now?” I ask
“Well, were only here to see conifer, maybe we should do that?” Ruche says
“Yeah, let’s check on him, he was pretty beat up” I says and we start heading to the hospital
When we get there the lady at the front desk says he’s already been released so I call him and he picks up
“Oh hey, I was just about to call you” conifer says
“Oh, why?” I say
“The museums closed today for clean up and the investigation but we will be able to do those tests tomorrow so come to my office first thing tomorrow okay?” Conifer says
“Okay, but how are you feeling?” I ask
“Fine, just a bit bruised, I’m not so old that a few hits from some punk could keep me down” conifer says with a laugh
“I see, well, take it easy, and see you tomorrow” I say and hang up
“He’s fine, the tests and stuff are tomorrow” I say
“Let’s just take it easy today then” Ruche says “I’m going to head over to see Mayce and get that out of the way” I say with a sigh
“I’ll go find us a place to stay tonight” Ruche says
“I will go and replenish our supplies for the trip, assuming we are leaving tomorrow evening” Sasha says
“Sounds about right” I say
We all split up and Scarlett and I head over to the ranger base
I sneak in a peek through the door to make sure Cobb isn’t around and head inside when I see its only Mayce and meditite in the lobby
Mayce is behind the counter working on something
She looks up and sees me and sighs
“Hey” she says
“Hey” I say
“So what did you want to talk about?” I ask
“…Its not me who wants to talk” Mayce says pointing behind me
I turn and see a slender man with black hair and yellow eyes, he has a huge smile on his face and is rushing towards me and Scarlett hides behind me
He grabs me in a very enthusiastic hug lifting me off the ground
“So this is Dakota! This is Dakota right?” He says looking over at Mayce
“Yes” Mayce says with a sigh
He finally puts me down
“Hey, nice to meet you. My names King and I’m from Interpol” he says flashing his badge
“Uhh, okay” I say
“I’ve got some questions for you, if you don’t mind” he says still smiling
“Sure I guess” I say
“Great! So according to the statement you gave officer jenny you went into town to check on your boss, Professor Conifer, correct?” He asks
“Yep” I say
“Well we can’t find any record of your employment, can you explain?” He asks
“Well actually its being finalized tomorrow, we met in Eterna city and hit it off and he offered me the job” I explain not technically lying
“I see, I see! Well then onto the next issue” he says
The word issue sets off an alarm in my head, his happy demeanor completely made me lower my guard but the truth is I’m being interrogated
His smile suddenly seems less genuine now
“So you reach the museum and run into a… Slimy invisible wall? And your first instinct is to, press against an invisible force until you slipped through?” He asks
“…Yep! That’s when I realized something was up. I figured I’d at least try it” I say
“Hmm. I see! Well then, my next question, Mayce tells my this isn’t the first time you’ve run into that particular prism member, was your actions against him revenge for what happened in the Oreburgh depths?” He asks
“What? No! I only broke his arm because he came at me with a knife” I say
“… I see. His arm huh…” He says
“So, last question. Why did you break the device he had with him?” He asks and his smile finally breaks and he looks at me with a serious expression
“I uh he said it controlled the barrier, I wanted to let Mayce in and the hostages out” I say a little caught off guard
“… I see” he says with a sigh and his smiles comes back
“alright then, were done here! Thanks for your help!” He says
“No… No problem?” I say
He leaves through the front door and I let out a long breath
“Yo, what the hell! That guys creepy!” I say walking over to Mayce
“Maw!” Scarlett says agreeing with me
“I know right!” Mayce says slamming her hands down on the table
Then I hear something behind me
“Ah sorry sorry, one last thing” king says causing Mayce and I to jump
He’s even stealthier than Sasha
He crouches down face to face with me and I back against the counter
He Reach’s into his pocket and pulls out a slip of paper and flash’s it at me
Its a crude drawing of three slashes, one blue, one yellow, and one pink
My heart drops but I try to hide any responses of recognition I might be showing
Apparently I fail because a soft smile spreads across his face
A genuine smile unlike the clearly forced smiles from before
“I see, I see, I’m sure we will be seeing each other again someday Dakota” he says and walks off for good this time clearly pleased with himself
I make sure he’s actually gone this time
“Damn, that might be a problem later…” I say
“What was that about?” Mayce asks
I mull it over a bit and triple check that he’s gone then undo my tie
“You can keep a secret right?” I ask
“I guess? I’m not gonna lie to Interpol or my superiors if they press me though” Mayce says
“That’s fair. I’m pretty sure that guy has it figure out anyway.” I say pulling my shirt to the side revealing the colored scars over my heart
‘What the hell?“ Mayce says
"Yeah. I had a hell of a time in Eterna, I was only half kidding when I said I was gonna be a Guinea pig yesterday” I say
“… Actually you know what? I don’t want to hear it. I feel like its one of those things you can’t un-hear” Mayce says with a sigh
“Fair enough” I say putting my tie back on
“Hey, I need your help with this report. Its about that weird device. Can you draw it? I didn’t get a good look at it before you smashed it” Mayce asks
“Yeah sure” I say taking a pencil and paper and I start drawing it
“Also describe stuff like how it looked when he used it, and stuff like that so we can use that info if these things start showing up everywhere” Mayce says
“Can’t you get the prism guy to tell you about it?” I ask and Mayce goes quiet
“Oh, or is he still not awake yet?” I ask and she kind of turns away
“… What?” I ask
Mayce sighs
“He’s dead” Mayce says
“What!?” I say
“After he was brought in his condition rapidly deteriorated, doctors tried everything but eventually his heart just… Stopped” Mayce says
“Dang… His arm did just shatter when I hit it. Maybe he was already sick?” I say
“Yeah that’s what I was thinking too” Mayce says
I finish my drawing and description of the device and give it to Mayce
“Alright I just have to finish this report then I can go help Cobb oversee the cleanup of the second tier” Mayce says
“I’m gonna go then” I say
“Yeah okay, see you” Mayce says typing away on the computer
We leave and meet up with Ruche and Sasha at the inn Ruche found
We spend the rest of the day resting in our room
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Post by fattymccatcat on Apr 20, 2019 9:35:35 GMT
After getting ready for the day Scarlett and I leave the inn and head over to the museum
The front would still be locked so we head to the back and use the code to get in
As were walking through the hallway trying to remember the way to conifers office I see someone walking towards us carrying some boxes
As we pass him I smile and wave and his eyes light up
“Hey! Its the little hero!” The man says putting the boxes down
“Oh, you were one of the hostages” I say kinda remembering him from amongst the people wrapped in wurmple thread
“Yeah! Thanks for the save! What are you doing here?” He asks
“Oh, I’m going to be working as professor conifers assistant starting today” I explain with a smile
“That’s great! Conifer keeps to himself for the most part but I’m glad he’s finally opening up enough to get an assistant!” The man says happily
“Can you tell me how to get to his office? The layout of this place is confusing” I ask
“Sure! Continue down this hallway, take two lefts and a right and its right there!” He explains
“Great, thanks!” I say
I follow the directions to conifers office and knock on the door
“Just a second!” I hear conifer yell
As I’m waiting I notice a bunch of garbage bags sitting outside the office lined up against the opposite side of the hallway
“Come in!” Conifer yells
I walk in and the first thing I notice is that the room is considerably cleaner than the last time I was here
There’s a desk and a chair in the corner covered in paperwork, in the middle of the room are two couches facing each other with a coffee table in between them
the walls are covered in charts, pictures, and drawing
conifer is sitting on one of the couches
“Good morning” I say sitting down across from him
“Good morning… Uh… Would you like some tea or something?” Conifer asks awkwardly
“I’m good, maybe later” I say
“Alright, let’s just get into it then” he says taking out a bunch of papers and handing them to me
“First let’s get the assistant position paperwork out of the way” he says
I look over the paperwork while he talks
“I’m going to have you classified as a field agent, as you will be traveling a lot on my behalf, the pay is decent, and most of your travel and food expenses will be covered as well” conifer says
“Nice, so I’ll be traveling where you tell me too” I ask
“Not exactly. Most of this is just a formality remember? You are free to travel as you see fit” conifer says
“Won’t the people paying my travel expenses not like that? I plan on going everywhere and seeing all I can before moving to a new region” I explain
“No, that’s actually perfect. Remember the official topic of my research?” He asks
“Uh legendary pokemon and the disappearances right?” I say
“Yep. The legendary pokemon’s dens were elusive and scattered across the world, there are a few that had definitive dens but a lot moved around, and no one knows for sure where the legendary pokemon were when they disappeared. So naturally someone looking into them would have to travel everywhere” conifer says
“Okay but what am I supposed to do exactly? Just travel around?” I ask
“Now that I’m not sure about, obviously the statue did something to you, I’m hoping that will be the key to solving this” conifer says
“Ah” I say remembering I haven’t told him about the magic stuff yet
“Scarlett, get ready with the lights” I say
It takes her a moment but she catch’s on to what’s happening and excitedly jumps off the couch and runs over to the light switch
“So, about my eyes…” I say
“Oh yeah! What’s up?” He says
I focus on them and turn my eyes on
They start glowing and conifers brow wrinkles
I snap my fingers and Scarlett hits the lights and the light gets cast across conifer and the couch he’s sitting on making it look like the rooms underwater
“Yeah, so, magic eyes” I say and I snap my fingers and Scarlett turns the lights back on
Conifer is just kind of staring off into space, his eyes darting back and forth like he’s trying to figure something out
“Oh. And they tell me when people are lying” I say
His eyes stop and he looks at me
“…really?” He says with a child-like curiosity
“Yep!” I say with a smile
“Tell me everything” he says in a serious tone
I tell him everything, about the run in with mismagius, how the eyes see through deceptions, the lake dreams, the weird announcement saying stuff like “legend legacy system”, that I’m apparently “ in the middle of my fusion period”, the video game like screens, missions, and skill points, and the fact that the prism grunts barrier was using magic
He takes notes on everything listening intently
I finish speaking and he seemingly rereads the notes over and over occasionally writing something down while Scarlett and I sit on the couch waiting for him to say something
After about half an hour he look up from his note book and seemingly remembers that I’m here and looks a bit embarrassed that he got so engrossed in his work
he stands and walks over to his desk and grabs a file and hands it to me
“Let’s start with your dream, those are the aerial shots of all the lakes in Sinnoh that you asked me to prepare, flip through them and tell me if you recognize any of them as the lake from your dream” he says
I open the folder and go through them one by one, about halfway through the stack I find it
The lake from my dream
There’s a city on the shore that isn’t there in the dream but its definitely the lake
My scars pulses as I look at it
“This is it!” I say
He takes the file and looks it over
“Lake Valor huh. Alright, you should make going there your next priority, its next to a town called Majolica, I hear its a rather nice resort town” he says
“I’ll head there while getting the gym badges that are on the way” I say
“That’s fine, I’m more interested in what happens after your ” fusion period" ends" conifer says scratching his beard
“Me too, I think its that light that went into me? Its like… Changing my body in some way?” I say
“The light that came from the statues right? You said two statues eyes were glowing right? Can you describe them?” Conifer asks
“No, they were rather small compared to the rest and kinda far, I think they looked pretty similar though, like the same shape, but one was like, slightly different” I say
“I see… You saw some of the bigger statues more clearly right?” He asks
“Yeah” I say
“The words ” legend legacy" have me thinking that those statues were of the legendary pokemon, and that the light was like them…choosing you, giving you power and becoming… What did you call it? Your patron legendary? Anyway look at the pictures on the walls and tell me if you recognize any" conifer says gesturing to the pictures and drawings adorning the walls
I get up and look around and after a bit I see one I recognize
“I think I saw this one! It was one of the bigger ones” I say pointing at a picture of a cave drawing of a big green pokemon
“Rayquaza! So they were statues of the legendary pokemon! Any more?” He says
I continue looking and point out a few more I might recognize much to conifers delight
Then I find this one picture
“…wait… We got off topic. We were supposed to sort out the assistant application first” conifer says shaking his head
We sit back down and I fill out all the paperwork and hand it to conifer
“Great, I’ll get you your license when we meet up again in Majolica” conifer says
“Alright” I say
“Oh, I’m sure you’ve already told your friends but let’s try and keep the whole… Magic thing under wraps for now” conifer says
“You got it. Oh… Interpol knows” I say
“You told Interpol!?” Conifer shouts
“No! They already knew! I think!” I say then explain what happened with King
Conifer looks a little pissed
“I’ve asked Interpol time and time again to assist in helping me find the Bivlets… They’ve been holding out on me. Well two can play at that game” he says
“Oh yeah, do you mind telling me about the Bivlets now? Because I have a few questions” I say
Conifer kind of freezes
“I guess its about time huh” he says
He gets up and makes some tea
Scarlett fills her cup with sugar as usual, and I toss in a few sugar cubes as well
Its actually pretty good
“What brand of tea is this?” I ask
“Um, Torterra Tea I think?” he says
“Hmm. I might have to buy some of this later” I say with a laugh
“I’m glad you like it” he says with a smile
He takes a deep breath and calms himself
“I guess I’ll start… At the beginning” conifer says with sad eyes
“When I was about four a family moved into this huge mansion on the outskirts of town that was abandoned for a long time. It was the Bivlet family. They were quite famous and very wealthy. Like the insane kind of wealthy. Anyway let’s skip forward a few years, I became rather close with their eldest daughter, jade, as well as the seven other Bivlet children. They all had names like gemstones that matched their eye colors. It was some family tradition, a few of them wound up with some very unique names” conifer says with a laugh
He catch’s himself and looks a bit down
“But the youngest… Dia. She was born blind, and one day when she was three she wandered outside and got lost, people looked for her for a very long time, but she just walks back into the house a few hours later lead by a small green pokemon. The mythical pokemon Celebi lead her home for some reason.” Conifer says
“Whoa, that’s lucky” I say
“…yeah… Occasionally Celebi would come and play with Dia, it was weird because we lived in Kanto and usually Celebi hangs around Johto” conifer says
I flinch at the mention of Kanto
Even I know a bit about what happened to Kanto and its not good
Conifer notices and smiles weakly
“Then the day the legends disappeared came. Celebi happened to visit that day, it was a few days after Dia’s fifth birthday I think, anyway after awhile her mom, Opal, went to check on them and they were just… Gone. That was the last time anyone saw Dia. Later we learned that it wasn’t just Celebi and Dia that disappeared but all the other legendary as well, people were uneasy but hopeful that they would come back and sort of shrugged it off” conifer says
“Then Kanto… Got the news… A huge meteor was heading for them. Usually, Rayquaza. The green pokemon you pointed out earlier would take care of it… but he was gone. People started to panic, and it wasn’t just Kanto in trouble, weather all over the world was acting up, the legends were keeping a balance and that balance was broken” conifer says
“The Bivlets used their money and connections to aid in the evacuation, it went well considering. About 60% of the humans were successfully evacuated. The pokemon fled on there own into Johto but there were still a lot of casualty’s on both sides. The meteor broke apart and struck down destroying about 80% of the region. The mountain range separating Johto and Kanto protected Johto from the blast, after that… It was a chaotic time. There were many kantonian refugees that had to get split amongst the other regions until Kanto stopped burning, and funds were a problem, luckily the Bivlets stepped up again. They said they would pay for everything in exchange for help looking for their daughter and the legendary pokemon, the people who were saved with the evacuation efforts joined the hunt immediately and a lot of other people followed suit. Eventually things calmed down but the search turned up nothing. They basically scoured the entire planet and found absolutely nothing, and about three years of searching wore everyone down and a lot of people left to return to their lives, and the prism association disbanded. A year later… Opal died mysteriously and the Bivlet children disappeared. People thought they were still looking for their sister or went into hiding, but eventually a rumor spread that if you go looking for the legendary pokemon or the Bivlets you will go missing as well, so even the few people who were still looking stopped, eventually, I was the only one left looking” conifer says and then he goes quiet
“Well, now there two of us” I say and he smiles weakly again
“Yeah” he says
“So! What are the odds they are involved with the statue and the magic and all the stupid stuff I’m dealing with?” I ask
“I’m not sure but they were looking for the legends and the statue is clearly involved with them somehow” conifer says
“Any idea why its like a video game?” I ask
“No idea!” Conifer says with a clearly frustrated expression
He looks at the clock
“Oh wow, has it really been two hours since you got here?” Conifer says
“I guess” I say with a shrug
“Let’s move on then, follow me” conifer says
We leave his office and walk across the museum to a door pretty close to the fossil exhibit
We go inside and its basically like an exam room at the hospital except everything’s a bit larger than normal
it smells clean and there’s one of those foam tables and a bunch of equipment
“We use this room to do health checks on the fossil pokemon” conifer says looking around as he closes the door
“… Were not supposed to be in here are we?” I say
“Quick on the uptake aren’t you. Let’s hurry” conifer says
He checks my reflex’s, my eyes, my heartbeat things like that
Then he does it all again while I’m using my eyes
Then he pulls out a syringe and takes three small vials of blood from my arm, two normal vials and one where I’m using my eyes
“Alright, let’s go back to my office” conifer says and we do
Next we test my eyes again
This time he starts saying statements and I have to say whether its a lie or not
I get it right every time
“Amazing…” Conifer says
“Yeah, there’s other functions like seeing through illusions but that’s a bit harder to test” I say with a laugh
“Alright, I think were done for now, I’ll let you know if there’s anything up with your blood” conifer says
“Please do!” I say standing and stretching
“Oh shoot! I almost forgot! Conifer says reaching into one of his drawers and pulling out four neatly wrapped gifts
"What’s this?” I ask
“Ruche's family sent me gifts to give him for his birthday” conifer says
“Oh no! Is that today!?” I ask
“No no! Its on June thirteenth” conifer says
“So… In eleven days then? I need to get him a gift while I’m in town” I say
“His dad sent them to me hoping I could pass them along” conifer says
“Oh, if you want I can hold onto them and give them to him on his birthday” I say
“That would be great” conifer says with a smile
I put them carefully in my pack
“Alright I guess I’ll see you Majolica?” I say
“Yep. Have a safe trip” conifer says
“I’ll try” I say with a laugh
As soon as I’m outside I call Sasha and she picks up immediately
“Hey, you with Ruche?” I ask
“No” Sasha says
“Good, I just found out his birthdays on the thirteenth, we probably won’t reach Hearthome by then so I’m going to go get him a gift, you want to come with” I ask
“Yes” Sasha says
Sasha and I meet up and we spend a few hours looking for gifts we think Ruche would like
We eventually each find something we think is good and have them wrapped
We meet up with Ruche and check out of the inn and leave Oreburgh
It gets late so we set up camp and have dinner and go to bed
As usual I dream of the lake
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Post by fattymccatcat on Apr 23, 2019 11:00:56 GMT
I wake up Scarlett and we head outside for today’s training
I summon everyone and we do our stretches and then I have them all spread out and collect some sticks for chatots training
They bring back a few and dump them in a pile and we organize them by thickness
He starts snapping them with his wings and I turn to combee
“Combee, you are going to be teamed up with Scarlett today” I say and they both nod
I draw a circle about five feet wide in the dirt and place combee in it then I draw a bigger circle around that about ten feet from the first one and place Scarlett on the outside of that one
“Scarlett’s going to fire off some fairywinds of varying intensity to try and knock you out of your circle” I explain
They both ready themselves
“Go” I say
Scarlett fires off a basic fairy wind and combee easily withstands it with her wing strength
Scarlett leans forward and switch’s to the more powerful version of spinning her jaws and combee starts fighting against the wind but manages to stay in the circle
I turn to monferno and smile
“Let’s check out flame wheel!” I say and we walk a bit away from the others but close enough that I can keep an eye on them
“Mon!” Monferno says happily
Monferno curls into a ball and bursts into flames and starts rolling around
I watch him for a bit so I can get a feel for the move and then have him do various tests like rolling up hill or hitting a tree
Monferno uncurls panting heavily after about fifteen minutes
“I see… So it uses a lot of energy so short bursts would be better… turning also seems difficult, and going up a hill slows you to a crawl leaving you defenseless, and finally when your body hits something the move ends, but if just your fire hits something it burns it and you keep going… Alright! This is a good move, let’s practice it a bit more after your break” I say and monferno gives a thumbs up while still panting on the grass
I hand monferno my water bottle and go to check on the others
It seems Scarlett and combee are also taking a break at the moment
“Hey, did you get pushed out?” I ask combee
Combee nods
“Well, that’s fine. Keep at it and your wings will get stronger and then you will be able to fly no matter how windy it gets!” I say
“Comb!” Combee says with a smile
They get up and head back to their spots and are about to start again
“Oh wait, Scarlett, for this round you have to walk the outer rim of the circle without stopping, we need you to be able to move and use the stronger fairywind at the same time” I say
Scarlett nods and starts walking sideways and spinning her jaws in front of her
It seems to take a lot of concentration as she’s not able to aim properly at combee this time who is dropping and raising out of the way of the wind with ease
I go to check on Chatot next
He’s chopped through all the thin ones and it seems he’s moved onto the slightly thicker sticks we found
These seem to take five or six chops to get through but every time he breaks through one his eyes light up with excitement
I go back to monferno who’s rested up
I check his other moves and it seems like they got a slight power boost which is nice
However some of his movements seem a bit off, I believe its from the sudden growth spurt
We continue training until breakfast
We spend the rest of the day walking towards Mt. coronet without much happening and the day eventually ends and we set up camp, have dinner, and go to sleep
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the next five days proceed just as peacefully
The training progresses smoothly, monferno is getting used to flame wheel and his bigger body while Chatot is getting through the sturdier sticks faster and faster
Scarlett and combee are doing good as well
I even see Sasha and Ruche go off to train a few times
As we climb higher towards the entrance into Mt. Coronet the terrain gets a bit more rough making it harder to climb slowing our pace a bit
I have monferno walk with us to help him get used to his larger body
eventually a small hut and the caves entrance comes into view a bit up the mountain as the sun is about to set
we set up camp and prepare to head into Mt. Coronet tomorrow
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Post by fattymccatcat on May 3, 2019 2:33:49 GMT
Scarlett and I wake up to the smell of breakfast cooking
I get changed and head outside
“Good morning” Sasha says while brushing buneary’s fur
“Morning” I say stretching a bit
I walk over to Ruche
“That smells great, you need any help?” I ask
“can you set up the table?” Ruche says
“Sure” I say
I take out the foldable table from Ruche’s pack and unfold it
It sits low enough that we can just sit on the ground and eat off of it
I lock it all into place and start setting out the plates
Ruche starts plating the food while I help Sasha get the Pokemon’s breakfast sorted out
After a very nice breakfast we let the pokemon play for a bit before we set off
My eyes fall onto the shack beside the caves entrance
It looks like it has a bulletin board out front but I can’t see what it says from here
“Either of you know what that little house is about?” I ask
“No” Sasha says
“I think its for hiring a mountain guide. Mt. Coronet is known for having a confusing and winding path, so you can hire someone to guide you through it” Ruche says
“Are we gonna do that?” I ask
“Honestly I think we should” Ruche says
“What do you think” I ask Sasha
“I do not care either way” Sasha says
“I see… Let’s hire one then. We’ve had some bad luck with caves” I say with a laugh
“That’s just you actually” Ruche says with a laugh
We pack up and gather our pokemon and make our way over to the shack
The sign on the door says its open so we head inside
A rather burly man stands from behind his desk to greet us with a big smile
“Welcome! Are you here to hire a guide through the mountains?” He asks
“Yep!” I say
“Is this your first time using a mountain guide?” He asks
“Yeah” Ruche says
“Then let me explain how it works first” he says pointing to a map of the mountain ranges splitting Sinnoh as well as a bunch of differently colored lines going through the mountains
“These are the paths through Mt. Coronet, from here there are five places you can go. Hearthome, Celestic, Alamos, Squallville, and Snowpoint, so where are you going?” he asks
“Hearthome” I say
“Okay, there are two routes, the quick route and the scenic route? Which one are you interested in?” He asks
“Which one will let us avoid any large or poison type pokemon?” I ask
“That would be the quick route, the scenic route goes straight through a zubat den” he says
“Then yeah, we want the quick route, also do you have a guide that doesn’t use any pokemon with the same restrictions?” I ask
“Hmm… Ah! We do! I’ll go get her” he says and disappears into the back
“That was close, I’m glad I remembered to ask otherwise I would have wanted to go with the scenic route” I say with a laugh
“Yeah, thanks, but its inevitable that I’m going to run into poison types” Ruche says
“Hmm. That’s true…” I say
“Maybe… Its time I start working on this” Ruche mumbles to himself
“Hmm?” I ask
“Nothing” Ruche says when he sees the man coming back
Behind him is a girl a few years older than us with very short light brown hair and hazel eyes
She wearing one of those helmets with a light in it
The rest of her outfit is rather light consisting of gloves, a sleeveless top, a jacket, shorts, sneakers, and her backpack
She smiles at us
“Hi, I’m Ronni, and it looks like I’ll be your mountain guide for this trip” she says enthusiastically shaking each of our hands
“I’m Dakota, that’s Ruche, Sasha, and my partner Scarlett” I say gesturing to everyone
The man smiles
“I’ll leave it to you, safe travels!” He says disappearing into the back
“So I was told there’s some special restrictions for this trip and my partner would be best suited for it but he didn’t mention why, so what’s up?” Ronni asks
“we need to avoid large pokemon like onix and poison types like zubat as much as possible, for personal reasons” I say
“I see! The other two available guides had a crobat and a golbat as their partners so I see why I was chosen. Avoiding them completely will be a bit difficult, but if any show up I can drive them away with my partner so it should be fine” Ronni says with a smile
“Great!” I say
“So, I’m guessing you guys haven’t spent much times in caves then” Ronni says
“I’ve been down in the cave system near Oreburgh” I say
“Oh, I did some of my training there” Ronni says
“I’ve spent a week in the caves on iron island” Ruche says
“Oh, wow really?” Ronni says
“Yeah, really?” I ask
“There’s no poison types on iron island, its where I met riolu” Ruche explains
“That’s awesome! You’ll need to tell us about that at some point” I say
“Sure” Ruche says with a smile
“And what about you” Ronni asks Sasha
Sasha shakes her head
“I don’t think she’s spent much time in caves” I say
“Alright, well I’ll go over the basic safety procedures and information and then we will get going” Ronni says
The explanation takes about fifteen minutes and when she’s done we grab our stuff and head over to the caves entrance
Ronni takes a pokeball from her pocket and tosses it
A small blue disk like pokemon appears
I take out my pokedex
Bronzor - The Bronze Pokemon - Steel/Psychic - implements shaped like it were discovered in ancient tombs. It is unknown if they are related. There are researchers who believe this pokemon reflected like a mirror in the distant past. Ancient people believed the pattern on its back held a mysterious power.
“Bronz” Bronzor says bowing to us as it floats in the air
“Cool! A Bronzor! Those are pretty rare!” Ruche says
“Yeah, Bronzor is the best partner I could I have asked for” Ronni says happily
We enter the cave and after walking for a few minutes we enter an enormous room
There’s pillars of stone and sharp rocks everywhere
They casts long shadows because of the strong light from Ronni’s helmet light
There’s a small area where a few pathways seem to branch off from
The paths are lined with little brick walls, short enough that you can step over them, on top of the walls are little dim lights spaced a few feet apart and stretching the entire path and into the distance until the paths are obscured by the terrain
The lights are colored slightly as well, basically labeling which path leads where like on the map we saw earlier
“We are taking the blue path” Ronni says pointing at the path lined with the blue lights
“Bronzor you can start” Ronni says and Bronzor starts slowly spinning in the air and starts emitting a wavering humming sound that echo’s through the cave
“What’s that?” I ask
“Its a little trick we came up with! He uses the move metal sound like this and it should scare off any pokemon that approach” Ronni says proudly
“Cool” Ruche says
We start walking down the path which winds and twists in odd ways around the natural terrain and landmarks
“You’re probably wondering why the path is like this” Ronni says suddenly
“Yeah! Its weird” I say
“The paths were made in a way that wouldn’t be obtrusive and made sure not to disturb the cave in any way, they could of just burrowed straight through but that would have destroyed the landscape, so they slowly and carefully built the paths as to not destroy anything” Ronni explains
“That’s pretty cool actually” I say
“Yeah! My great grandfather helped build it actually” Ronni says with a big smile, beaming with pride
after a few hours we find a large flat area and decide to stop for lunch
As Ruche cooks and Sasha tends to the pokemon Ronni has Bronzor stop spinning and tells him to take a break
“Doesn’t that make Bronzor dizzy?” I ask
“Ha ha, sometimes, if he goes too fast, but the spinning is usually slow enough that its not a problem” Ronni says
“Bronz” Bronzor says in agreement
We spend a few minutes making small talk when she looks over at the pokemon who are playing with Bronzor or doing there own thing
“So I saw that your chatots covered in scars, you mind if I ask what’s up with that?” Ronni asks looking over at Chatot who’s doing push ups
“not at all!” I say and then I tell her how we met
“Geez! That’s quite the story!” Ronni says
“Yeah, now he’s training to learn steel wing, but the trainings on hold right now since there’s no sticks in the cave for him to train with” I say
“Hmm… I might be able to help with that” Ronni says with a smile and whispers her idea my ear
“Wait, really? You think that would help?” I ask
“I don’t see why not!” Ronni says
We call Chatot and Bronzor over
“Chatot, want to kick your training up a notch?” I ask and he nods enthusiastically
“Great. All you have to do is keep doing push ups” I say with a grin
He gets into position and starts doing push ups
“Bronzor, skill swap” Ronni says
Bronzor taps Chatot and they both light up and suddenly chatots body is slammed to the floor
“Chat!?” Chatot says struggling to get up
“Bronzor’s ability makes it so his weight is doubled, and skill swap gave that ability to you” Ronnie explains happily
“So now that your weight is doubled that should help with your push up training, making your wings stronger, well, in theory” I say
Chatot pushes himself off the ground and starts slowly pumping out push ups
It looks exhausting
“It should last about five minutes” Ronnie says
“Cool, I’ll make sure he doesn’t hurt himself” I say sitting down next to him
“What was chatots ability?” Ronni asks
“Keen eye” I say
“Ooh, that’s good, it should help with the look out” Ronni says
“Oh, I guess it would huh, I couldn’t really think of a way to make it useful in battle” I say
“Yeah, I was taught there’s no such thing as a useless ability, look at bronzor’s ability, on the surface it looks bad, but pair it with the right moves or wait for the best situation and its one of his strongest attributes” Ronni says with a smile
“I guess your right, looks like I need to think a bit harder about my battle style” I say
Ronni walks away to check the parameter with Bronzor
I look over at the pokemon and my eyes focus on combee
“…no, useless abilities huh…” I mutter to myself
“Chat!” Chatot says as he pushes off the ground one last time before collapsing to the ground in a pool of sweat suddenly he glows again and it looks like skill swap has worn off
“Good job!” I say giving him some water
Ruche calls everyone over and we have lunch and I notice Sasha staring at Bronzor who isn’t eating
“Is Bronzor not hungry” I ask
“Oh no, Bronzor doesn’t eat food, it eats light” Ronni says
I see Sasha shift a little and I figure she wants to know more
“Light? How does that work?” I ask
“Bronzor , show em” Ronni says
Bronzor turns around and shows us its back which has a odd tree design on it
Suddenly the leaves on the trees start to glow
“When Bronzor sits in direct sunlight the marking on its back seem to gather some sort of energy from the light and stores it inside the tree symbol and it gives him enough energy to last him for awhile, When he runs out of energy he gets a bit sleepy and can’t really do much, think of it like photosynthesis mixed with a rechargeable battery” Ronni explains
Sasha is taking note while Ruche sketches Bronzor and the mark on its back
“That’s cool, thank you for explaining” I say
“No problem” Ronni says with a smile
We finish lunch and stand to start packing up
Sasha walks up to me
“Thank you” Sasha says
“No problem, I know its hard for you to talk to people you don’t know” I say with a smile
“Yeah” Sasha says before walking away
We gather our stuff and continue walking through the cave until Ronni says we should set up camp for the night
Ronni helps us find a suitable place to set up camp and after dinner we turn in for the night
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Post by fattymccatcat on May 7, 2019 23:35:08 GMT
I wake up a bit early and decide to just get up for the day
I scoot Scarlett off of me and try to sneak out and let her sleep a bit more
I step out of our tent and Ronni smiles up at me from next to the fire
“Hey, good morning” Ronni says
“Oh, hey, I wasn’t expecting anyone else to be up” I say sitting down next to the fire
“I’m an early bird, plus I had to make sure no pokemon had gathered around our camp site, some of the zubat around here come along asking for food” Ronni says
“Thanks for that” I say
“No problem” Ronni says with a smile
“Oh right, while I have you alone there’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you, its Ruche’s birthday in a few days, are there nice looking areas on the way that we can stop by for a small celebration? I figured you would know some cool spots since you have been through here so many times” I ask
Ronni pulls out a map
“When’s his birthday?” She asks
“The day after tomorrow” I say
“Hmm, so we should be about this far along… Ah! I know just the place! Its a bit out of the way but we might just be able to make it!” She says excitedly clasping her hands together
“So what is it?” I ask
“Its a cleffa habitat, I haven’t visited in awhile so I’m kinda looking forward to it” Ronni says with an excited grin
“Sounds good, let’s tell Ruche we need to take a detour to go around a zubat hoard or something” I say
“Alright, I’m not the best actor, but I think I can pull that off” Ronni says with a laugh then stops and seems to remember something
“Ah, I guess I should mention the detour will be added to the bill” Ronni says
“No problem, my travel expenses are covered by the Pokemon Researchers Foundation” I say
“Really? Why?” Ronni asks
“I’m an Field Agent for a professor in Oreburgh” I say
“Wow, really?” Ronni says a bit taken aback
“Yeah, I know, I don’t look the part right?” I say with a laugh
“well, yeah, its just… You’re a bit young for that kind of work, I could understand you being an assistant, but a field agent? I’ve led a few into the deeper parts of the mountains for surveys and stuff before but the youngest I saw was someone in their early twenty’s and I heard it can be a very dangerous job” Ronni says
“Ah, yeah, its a… special situation, and the job is fairly new, actually I’m not even sure if they are covering my expenses yet… but, yeah, let’s just say I have a skill set or two needed for the job?“ I say
“Sounds.. complicated?” Ronni says with a laugh
“That sums it up perfectly” I say
We talk for awhile until eventually everyone else wakes up and we have breakfast
We spend a few hours walking along the path until we stop for lunch and I step away and call conifer
“Professor Conifer? Its Dakota” I say
“oh, hey, is something wrong?” Conifer asks
“No I just had some questions about the field agent stuff” I say
“Oh, alright, what’s up?” He says
“Are my travel expenses being covered yet?” I ask
“Hmm. The paperwork’s still being processed so technically no, but if you get receipts I’m sure they will reimburse you when the time comes” conifer says
“Awesome, thanks, and sorry for bugging you” I say
“No problem, feel free to call if you have any other questions” conifer says
“Okay” I say and then hang up
I go back and join the others
“Hey, you mind doing the skill swap thing again?” I ask Ronni
“Not at all, its a pretty hard move to train unless you are in battle so we are happy for the chance to use it” Ronni says calling Bronzor over
Chatot and Bronzor swap skills and he does the double weight push ups for the five minutes until the move wears off
Monferno and Scarlett seem to want to give it a try as well so they take a turn
I have Scarlett use iron head during her turn and run back and forth in a straight line
Her speed a lot slower than usual and she gets tired a lot faster
After the times up she drops to the ground covered in sweat
Monferno on the other hand seems to have a great time
He also decides to do push ups and does so with a big smile on his face as he struggles to push himself up
"Good job you guys” I say giving them some water
Buneary hops over and seems to want to give it a try as well
They swap skills and buneary starts Hopping in place getting higher and higher each time with a big smile on her face
Sasha sees this and walks over
“Do not get carried away and go too high” Sasha says
“bun bun” buneary says in an agreeable tone
I see Ronni’s eyes go a bit wide for a split second before going back to normal
Buneary gets tired so Sasha picks her up and carries her away to get her some water
Ronni sidles up to me
“She can talk?” Ronni whispers
“Huh? Oh, yeah. She can” I say
“Huh, I thought she might have been a mute like my sister since she hadn’t said anything” Ronni says inching closer
“No. She just… Needs time to get used to people I guess?” I say
“Huh, so she’s gotten used to me then?” Ronni asks still whispering
“I guess? but like, wait for her to talk to you directly?” I say with a shrug
“Alright, I won’t push it” Ronni says with a smile
Ronni walks away and I turn and see Ruche grinning ear to ear staring at me with a shit-eating grin
I decide to ignore him and go check on my pokemon
After that we eat lunch and set off again along the path through the cave
We walk until Ronni tells us to stop for the night and we set up camp, have dinner, and go to bed
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Post by fattymccatcat on May 13, 2019 2:31:57 GMT
I wake up and we have breakfast and we set out along the path as usual
After a few hours or walking I notice that we are walking towards a cliff
As we reach the edge and peer over I see that its a huge perfectly square pit and the bottom has a large flat area
There are paths leading down on all four sides of the almost sheer cliff face
In each of the corners of the pit, near the top, there are floodlights making this the brightest area we’ve seen since we entered the cave
“Whoa, what’s up with this?” I ask
“Looks like a pit to me” Ronni says with a laugh
“Yeah, I can see that! Why is there just a huge square pit here?” I say
“there’s a lot of theory’s but no one knows for sure, I’m in the "a boss pokemon did it” camp" Ronni says
“Huh, maybe it was building a place to train? Or was the actual act of digging its training? Was it building something? Where did it put the rubble? ” I kinda mumble starring into the pit
“… Maybe you do work for a professor” Ronni says with a laugh
“Huh? Oh. OH. Did I just do a question dump!?” I say in horror
“A what?” Ruche asks
“His father does that when he comes across a mystery when he is working” Sasha says
Scarlett is laughing uncontrollably and clutching her stomach
“Its seems I picked up some of his work habits” I say with a sigh
Ruche looks down into the pit
“So what are we doing, going down there or going around?” Ruche asks
Ronni secretly motions to me to go down into the pit
“Are you kidding? This is the flattest most open place we’ve seen in days! I’m itchin for a battle” I say with a smirk
“Good idea, riolu has been getting a bit antsy” Ruche says
“Okay, down it is, please be extra careful as we decent though, its steeper than it looks” Ronni says
We spend the next ten minutes carefully making our way to the bottom of the pit
“So how are we deciding who fights?” I ask
“Why not let the pokemon choose?” Sasha says
“That sounds fun let’s do that” Ruche says
We release all the pokemon
“Anyone who’s up for a battle step forward” I say
Chatot, monferno, riolu, buneary, Scarlett, and Reavus step forward
“you want to battle Reavus?” Sasha asks
“Mis!” He says happily bouncing in the air
“Okay” Sasha says
“Hmm, Chatot, Reavus, and… Riolu. You get to pick your opponent from the people who want to battle” I say
“Oh, good idea” Ruche says
Riolu walks up to buneary and seems to challenge her
Buneary grins ear to ear and makes a fist with one of her ears and punches it into the other ear like a tough guy on tv
I turn and see that Reavus has picked monferno which is surprising to everyone
I look at Chatot and Scarlett
“Uh oh, what should we do about you two?” I ask
Chatot slowly points his wing at Bronzor who’s floating beside Ronni
“You want to fight Bronzor? He didn’t step forward so he’s not participating” I say
“Hmm. Bronzor, you up for a fight?” Ronni asks suddenly
“Bron!” Bronzor says in a determined voice
“Okay, we accept the challenge, but I should warn you, we’re strong” Ronni says with a big grin
I grin back
“Perfect, so are we” I say
“Maw?” Scarlett asks tugging on my pants
“Oh, sorry, I guess your gonna have to sit this one out” I say
“Maw” she says with a sigh
We have the three that didn’t pick opponents decide the battle order and it seems buneary and riolu are up first
Ronni, the other pokemon, and I clear off the field and sit a little ways up one of the ramps leading into the pit
Riolu takes off his scarf, folds it neatly, and hands it to Ruche
both s buneary and riolu start walking towards each other
The stage is set!
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Battle start!
“Agility” both Ruche and Sasha say simultaneously
They both hop once and disappear only to reappear in the center of the field with a fist planted on each others cheek and a loud smacking sound that echo’s through the pit
“Low kick!” Ruche yells
“Quick attack” Sasha says
Before riolu can do anything buneary sinks one of her ears into riolu’s stomach sending him tumbling backwards
“Bounce” Sasha says
Buneary coils her ears and does a back hand spring
When her ears are parallel with the ground they strike down sending her flying high into the air and almost out of the pit
She tucks into a ball and plummets toward riolu like a comet
“Use counter!” Ruche yells
riolu scrambles to his feet and starts to glow right as buneary crashes down knocking riolu down to the ground again
Buneary bounces a few feet away and uncurls and charges at riolu in one clean motion
“Quick attack” Sasha says and buneary speeds up and charges towards riolu
“Put it into your feet and use agility!” Ruche yells
The energy he got from counter flows down into his feet and he hops once and disappears and reappears with blinding speed beside buneary
“Low kick!” Ruche yells
“Jump” Sasha says
Buneary goes to jump but riolu’s kick manages to clip buneary’s feet sending her flipping through the air landing with a thud on the stone floor
Buneary tries to get up but riolu pins her down
She struggles for a bit but riolu’s grip is too tight
“Bun” buneary says with a sigh and tapping out
“Looks like its our win” Ruche says
Riolu helps buneary up off the floor and Ruche walks over and hands riolu his scarf
Sasha picks up buneary and pats her head
“Good job” Sasha says and buneary smiles
“When did she learn quick attack? That surprised me” Ruche says
“A few days ago” Sasha says
“Well it definitely suits her” Ruche says
“I agree” Sasha says
Ruche heads over to where we are and I hop down off the ramp
Monferno and I walk over to Sasha and Reavus appears next to her with an excited grin
“So, do you know why Reavus picked monferno?” I ask
“No, however, I have noticed that Reavus has been watching monferno train ever since he evolved” Sasha says
Monferno shoots me a slightly scared look
“Ha ha, we didn’t notice… Maybe its a tactical thing? Scratch and brick break won’t effect Reavus so we can only use our fire type moves” I say
“Maybe” Sasha says
I noticed Reavus perk up a little when I mention fire but I decide to ignore it
We all move into our proper places and Ruche makes the call to start from the ramp
The stage is set!
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Battle start!
“Flamethrower!” I say
Monferno shoots a jet of flames towards Reavus who floats upwards dodging the attack
I notice that Reavus is focused on the flames instead of monferno like he should be
He’s just gazing at the fire
“Its like… he’s studying it?” I mumble to myself
“Psybeam” Sasha says
Reavus’s necklace lights up and he shoots a colorful beam at monferno who easily dodges it
The attack was slow and had no feeling behind it, like it was just done to appease Sasha order
I look at Sasha who is starring at Reavus with a slightly worried look
“Uh, flamethrower?” I say again
Monferno let’s loose another torrent of flame at Reavus who again fixates on the fire with a serious expression, like he’s thinking about something
Then it hits me and a smile spreads across my face
“Monferno! turn up the heat! Fill this pit with fire if you have to!” I shout and start booking it to safety
Monferno is surprised but a big smile spreads across his face and he turns towards Reavus
Sasha follows suit and evacuates to one of the ramps
Monferno reels back and let’s forth an enormous jet of flames putting his all into this one attack
The fire spreads and swirls around the pit creating a blazing inferno that engulfs the entire floor of the cave
The heat is intense and hits everyone, like a wave crashing over us
Monferno stops the attack and looks a bit woozy and stumbles backwards falling onto his butt with a pleased expression on his face
Reavus is grinning ear to ear and dives straight into the fire disappearing from view
“What!?” I yell
I turn to look at Sasha and she’s one pale
The fire starts to subside and after a few seconds I see a small black speck appear in the flame near where Reavus dove in
Suddenly that patch of fire turns from a bright orange and red to an ominous black color and dissipates along with the rest of the fire
Reavus is floating there bouncing happily to himself albeit a bit singed
With a wave of his hair tendrils a bunch of tiny black fire balls appear and he fires them at the wall to test his new move
“So that is why…” Sasha says
I go over and help monferno up
“Good job! That was awesome!” I say grinning down at him
He gives a weak thumbs up
I see Sasha walking towards Reavus and as she passes us I take the chance to apologize
“Sorry, I figured out what he was doing but I didn’t think he’d dive into the fire” I say apologetically lowering my head
“It is fine, you are not at fault” Sasha says as she walks past us towards Reavus
Reavus turns and smiles up at Sasha triumphantly
“I have many things to say” Sasha says looking down at Reavus, her tone just a touch colder than usual
“First, it is considered bad manners to go into a battle with no intention of taking it seriously” Sasha says
Reavus’ smile fades as he realizes he’s in trouble
“Second, if you had just asked monferno for help he would have gladly helped you and we could have gone about it in a safer way” Sasha says
“Third, hurting yourself is not how you learn a move, just because you are a ghost doesn’t mean you are immortal, its quite the opposite, your existence is actually quite fragile, when other pokemon injure themselves their body’s slowly heal over time by turning food into energy, but ghost types are different, they have a finite amount of energy within themselves that they use to heal and attack, and when that’s used up… You end up like mismagius” Sasha says
Reavus tears up
“It is my fault, I didn’t train you properly, I noticed you taking an interest in monferno and should have asked you about it, I’m sorry” Sasha says
Reavus shakes his head and floats into Sasha’s arms
“Mis dre” Reavus says in an apologetic tone
Sasha hugs him
“Finally, Congratulations on learning will-o-wisp” Sasha says patting his head and brushing his hair tendrils back
Sasha carries Reavus back to the ramp and sits next to Ruche
Monferno seems to have recovered but I help him back to the ramp anyway
I look over at Chatot
“Your challenge wasn’t for similar reasons right?” I ask
Chatot shakes his head no and smiles
he points his wing at Bronzor then makes a thumbs down motion
I smile
“Yeah, let’s take em down” I say
Ronni smirks
“You boys sure know how to make a challenge” Ronni says with a laugh
She leaps off the ramp and heads over to the battle area and Chatot and I do the same
The stage is set
3
2
1
Battle start!
“Get close and use chatter!” I say
Chatot shoots towards Bronzor
“Counter with metal sound” Ronni says right as Chatot reaches Bronzor
Both pokemon let loose an ear splitting scream
The sound reverberates off the walls of the pit making it seem even louder causing everyone to reflectively shield their ears
the sound is so loud the air feels like its shaking and making everyone feel dizzy making it feel like an earthquake is happening
The point blank sound waves of both attacks blast Chatot and Bronzor backwards into opposite walls of the pit knocking them unconscious
The sound eventually dissipates and Ronni walks over and picks Bronzor up and I do the same with Chatot
“We should postpone this until we are outside” Ronni yells
“What?” I yell barely able to hear her over the ringing in my ears
Ronni shakes her head
Sasha rushes over and examines Chatot and Bronzor
After a few minutes the ringing is gone and Sasha’s check up is done
“They will be fine, they just woke up” Sasha says
“Thanks” Ronni says
“You are welcome” Sasha says and walks away
Ronni smiles at me
“She talked to me” Ronni says happily
“Congratulations” I say with a laugh
We walk over to Chatot and Bronzor who seem more confused than hurt
“Chat?” Chatot asks looking up at me
“It was a double KO” I say
“This was my bad, I didn’t expect you to also have a sound based move, and I REALLY shouldn’t have countered with mine” Ronni says with a laugh
“We decided to have a rematch when we get outside” I say and Chatot smiles
Ronni claps her hands together
“Okay, I think we’ve dilly dallied for long enough, let’s get going” Ronni says
We gather our stuff and head up one of the ramps and back onto the path
However instead of blue lights now we are on a path with pink lights
I see Ruche notice we are on a new path but luckily he doesn’t say anything
We spend the rest of the day walking until we set up camp and go to sleep
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Post by fattymccatcat on May 17, 2019 12:23:55 GMT
I wake up a bit early again
I’ve made no progress in my lake dreams and its starting to irritate me
I sigh and scoot Scarlett over and head outside to find Sasha and Ronni sitting by the fire
Ronni sees me and waves me over
I sit by the fire and she leans in
“I just checked the weather, the cleffa habitat plan is good to go” Ronni says
“What does the weather have to do with it?” I ask
Ronni just smiles
We spend a few minutes planning out the rest of the day and get ready for when Ruche wakes up
Soon I hear something move in Ruche’s tent and we get into position
Ruche steps out of his tent with riolu
“Happy Birthday!’ We all yell and Ruche’s eyes go wide and riolu clutch’s his heart in surprise
"What!? How did you know?” Ruche says with a big smile
“Conifer” I say
“Ah” Ruche says
“We got a whole day planned so just sit back and relax” I say
We make whatever Ruche wants for breakfast and then set off along the path as usual
We walk for a few hour until we stop for lunch in a slightly open area
After lunch Sasha and I grab our bags
“Time for gifts” Sasha says
“Oh, you guys got me something?” Ruche asks grinning happily
I start taking all the gifts out of my pack
“W-whoa, this seems like a lot you guys” Ruche says
“Oh, most of these are from your family in Canalave” I say
Ruche’s eyes go wide
“Really!?” Ruche says
“Yeah, they sent them to conifer and he handed them off to me” I say
“That’s fantastic! Thank you!” Ruche says
Ruche grabs the smallest one first
Its covered in bight red wrapping and fits in the palm of his hand
He unwraps it and opens the box and pulls out a plastic card and a note
He reads the note with a soft smile spreading across his face
“Its from my dad, he says he’s proud I finally worked up the courage to head out on an adventure” Ruche says tearing up a little
“That’s great. What’s the card?” I ask
“Its a gift card to a popular fabric and crafts store, he said since all my materials are at home I will need to buy stuff as I go if I want to keep making stuff, there’s like $2000 on it” Ruche says with a laugh
“Whoa, that’s a lot” Ronni says
“Yeah, my dad always does everything in extremes” Ruche says with a laugh
He grabs the big gift with silver wrapping next
He unwraps it and its an ornate wooden case and his jaw drops
He opens it an he just kind of freezes, likes he’s doubting what he’s seeing
Inside is the most amazing sewing kit I’ve ever seen, beautifully crafted needles, pins, hooks, scissors, and other sewing things I don’t know the names or uses for, each set in a black foam making the silver of the metal shine beautifully in the light from our flashlights
“Jeez Nia! How long did this take to make!?” Ruche says shaking his head with a big smile
“Wait what? Nia made these!?” I ask
“Yeah, she’s a metalsmithing prodigy, the things she makes are ridiculous and sell for crazy amounts” Ruche says
“That’s awesome, I still can’t wait to meet her” I say
“Likewise” Sasha says
Ruche smiles and carefully puts the box away
He grabs the next gift which is wrapped in white and is from me
“Ah ha ha, kinda wish I wasn’t after the prodigy” I say
Ruche laughs
“Don’t worry about it” Ruche says tearing off the wrapping
Its a box of yarn in varying colors
“I figured since we are always on the move you couldn’t carry a lot of materials with you, but yarns pretty light so you can make stuff like riolu scarf if you want” I say
“That’s great! I love it, thank you” Ruche says with a smile
He grabs the next gift and its yellow
He takes the wrapping off and its a heavy duty plastic case
He opens it and his smile immediately fades
I peak around the lid
Its a bunch of vials and syringes set in foam
“Whoa. Are those anti venoms!?” Ronni says
“Yes. They are from my mother” Ruche says coldly
He gently closes the lid
“Sasha. Would you mind holding onto these? They might come in handy when you’re healing someone someday” Ruche says
“If that is what you want” Sasha says taking the anti venoms and putting them in her pack next to her first aid kits
Ruche takes the next gift
Its wrapped in grey and very clearly a book
Ruche unwraps it and its a book and a note
“Looks like its from conifer, its a book about what the legendary pokemon looked like, says it might help if I want to design something based on a legendary, that’s pretty cool” Ruche says flipping through it before setting it aside
He grabs the last gift, its wrapped in black and purple and is clearly Sasha's
He opens it and takes out another book and a small case
“It is a hard cover sketchbook, and a set of really good colored pencils” Sasha says
“Thank you! My journal was actually getting pretty full so this is great” Ruche says happily
“That’s all the gifts, now all that’s left is Ronni’s surprise” I say
“Surprise?” Ruche asks
“I’m taking us somewhere cool later, we should be able to make it in time, we are gonna be up a bit late today though” Ronni says
We continue walking through the cave for a few more hours, eventually stopping for dinner, and then continuing our trek through the cave
As the day drags on the path gets more and more rough eventually reaching the point where we have to help each other over some of the more rocky terrain
we eventually reach a dead end with a large vertical crack at the end of the path
“We’re here” Ronni says happily
“Finally” I say collapsing to the floor with everyone else
Ronni laughs and checks the time
“We made good time, let’s set up camp here and then head in” Ronni says
“Head in to where, you still haven’t explained what it is exactly” I say
“Right on the other side of this wall is the largest cleffa habitat in Sinnoh, also known as the Mt. Coronet Star Pools” Ronni says with a grin
We quickly set up camp and put our stuff away and head inside
We squeeze through the large crack in the wall and when we come out on the other side my jaw drops
Its a very large room with an open ceiling and a view of the sky
On the ground are many pools of perfectly still water reflecting the night sky like mirrors and in the center is a very large pool also reflecting the sky
Surrounding these pools are a bunch of tiny pink pokemon
I take out my pokedex
Cleffa - The Star shape Pokemon - Fairy - Because of its silhouette, its believed to be a star reborn. In late nights illuminated by shooting stars, it gazes intently skyward as if thinking of home. They appear in places where meteorites have struck in the past
I put my pokedex away as Ronni leads us closer
Ronni looks at me and suddenly looks worried
“You okay? You’re shaking, and a little bit pale” Ronni says
“H-huh? Oh, so I am” I say looking down at my trembling hands
“Oh right, you said you were afraid of mirrors or something right?” Ruche says
“I’m fine, I’ve just never seen mirrors this big or this many, Ill be fine in a minute” I say as Scarlett grabs my leg reassuringly
“Shoot, I’m sorry, I didn’t know” Ronni says
“Its fine, I didn’t either” I say with a smile
I take a minute to catch my breath and calm down and catch up with the others who are hiding behind a rock fairly close to the Star Pools
I’m still a bit freaked out but my urge to take a picture of this beautiful scenery soon overcomes the pit in my stomach
The cleffa are singing and dancing around the pools basking in the moonlight
I even notice a few shiny cleffa in the mix, two with green horns and one with dark green horns and remember what Rebecca told me about shiny variants and assume the dark green one is an uncommon shiny
I take out my camera and start taking pictures as the others sit and listen to the cleffa sing
I focus on the shinys for a bit then switch to the cleffa dancing around the star pools
After about an hour the moon moves into view directly over the huge star pool making the pictures a lot cooler
I turn to show Scarlett but everyone’s asleep except Ronni who’s still just listening to the music with a soft smile
Eventually Ronni wakes Sasha and Ruche up and they head back through the crack to our camp
I decide to stay and take a few more pictures
After about another hour the moon has moved again and the pictures aren’t really worth it any more so I head back to camp with Scarlett in my arms
Ronni and Bronzor are still up sitting by the fire
“Sorry, were you waiting for me?” I ask sitting down next to her
“Nah, its fine, I’m usually still up anyway” Ronni says with a smile
“Do you even sleep?” I say with a laugh
“I’m used to running on five hours of sleep when I’m on the job” Ronni says
“That’s sounds awful” I say
Ronni laughs
“Its just how I like to do it, and after I finish a trip I usually take a week off to rest” Ronni says
“It still sounds pretty bad for you, but I guess you’ve got your own rhythm” I say
Scarlett shifts in my arms
“Alright, I’m gonna turn in, see you tomorrow” I say standing up
“Goodnight” Ronni says with a smile
“Goodnight” I say heading into my tent
I tuck Scarlett in and lay down next to her and eventually fall asleep
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