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"I--I hope I'm not," Owen said quickly. "We're definitely not," Altowen said right after. "We aren't the ones going around and, er... You know, causing death and destruction and all that chaos stuff." "Imagine... someone kind of like you," Owen said, "who is full of despair and doesn't really...

"So... Say you have a friend, or, like, someone you used to work really closely with," Owen began. "Someone you wanted to help out of trouble, but it involved, you know, some questionable things. And say, maybe while you were once helping out, things changed and... um..." He trailed off. "What...

"B-bitter?" Owen chirped. "You do seem gloomier," Altowen commented. "I mean, I guess I was possessed by an Eternatus parasite thing... and also there's the whole Wishkeeper thing..." "Wishkeeper!" Altowen leaned forward. "Wow! I haven't heard that name in... a long time!" "Yeah, er, well...

"Hope is just a concept where we're from, too," Owen said. "We need to take action if we want anything to be done. Which, I guess, you know, it's what you're doing back home, too, in a way." "Oh, he's trying to save the world?" Altowen asked. "...Yeah," Owen said, mercifully letting Bahamut...

Owen and Altowen seemed unconvinced. There was a missing piece. "You were happy before," Altowen said. "Why can't you be happy again?" "Mmm, say you destroyed Eternatus and freed everyone trapped," Owen said. "You'd move on to another place. But, your wife... What led you to meeting her, made...

The spear haft hit the ground, and Salem's ears flattened back against her skull, her hands flying up in a useless defensive posture. As the chains began to emerge, tears welled up in her eyes. "N-no, it's too early! I was going to help figure it out! I'm clever, I promise, I'd help make a...

"Hmm..." Altowen and Owen both hummed, thoughtful. "And that whole realm is huge. You'd have to search for a while..." "Then again, you also have a while," Altowen added. Owen nodded. "Reminds me of someone I know back home. He also has trouble with the... happy thing. He usually moved things...

They both seemed to understand on a basic level, nodding. "And you can find something else later, too," Altowen said. "If he can't feel joy, though, he needs to find a way to get it back. Cal said it might be something... external that did it." "Maybe his first goal should be finding a way to...

"I should've died a long time ago, too," Altowen said. "And I've lost some people that I'm never going to... be the same with ever again. To them, and to me, we're alive to each other, but gone. I don't really... know if that's better, but it's still a loss... forever. And--trying to fight to...

Altowen frowned. "It's not like you're the only person in the world who has to lose someone. Even in my world, dying means you can be away from them for too long... to the point where you aren't the same people when you'd met... But people can still move on and find new things to be happy...

"Well," Altowen said, "I guess if you keep thinking like that, you'll fulfil your own prophecy..." "He said he's not able to," Owen replied, frowning. "I think Bahamut's best hope is if someone from his world can force something to knock him out of his current path, somehow."

The two exchanged a look, then somberly nodded at Bahamut. "I guess Diyem is kind of the same way, before he found Eien," Altowen said. "Is yours the same?" Owen nodded. "Cal told me about what you're talking about, Bahamut. I can't really imagine what it's like to lose something that...

Soda smiled wryly. "Maybe some worlds are different, but in the Overworld, what happened, happened. The reason I was so... hopeful that I could get Adne back, even if maybe she died and got reincarnated, is that the old life is still there, etched forever into the spirit, y'know? Sealed away...

"He's doing better than before," Owen pointed out. "To think, the Soda of our world could have followed the same path if..." Altowen shook his head. "I just can't believe it happened that way." "I think you did good, Bahamut," Owen said. "And bringing Dave along definitely also helped. You...

Altowen nodded solemnly. "I'm sorry it turned out that way, even if you saved most of the world." Owen folded his wings back. "Apparently, their Water Continent had a lot of missing Pokemon, which might have had something similar happen, but... Arceus of their world helped things there...

Through one way or another, Owen had convinced, or at least made Bahamut impassive to, having a guest for their next meditation together. Thankfully, it was not that hard of a sell, because while he was brighter and more upbeat in general than the Owen Bahamut knew, it was still Owen--and...

"...Yeah..." Soda didn't seem to agree. There were probably a thousand reasons, likely more, individual names, that he wondered were reasons why he shouldn't have made it. "...At least you get to move on," Soda finally murmured. "I'm... gonna be stuck with these memories. That's how memories...

Hi Espy! This is a reward for your Blacklight participation, and it'll be a review for chapter 1 and the prologue! The first thing I want to get out of the way is that I think the premise of this "alternate universe" canon is very unique despite being reminiscent of the original material. Yes...

"Yeah. Yeah, I have." Soda looked down. "They're all... being cordial and everything. Potluck says he still wants me on the team. Truffle is making all these fancy teas. Leg made a doll." He dug through his mane and pulled out a little Zoroark plush, which he placed gingerly down. "And Maple..."...

"...How many do you think are gonna see that?" Soda asked in a small whisper. "All the people I killed, all the spirits I twisted. How many lives were just... changed forever from what I did." He laughed, suppressed and low. "I can practically hear their spirits, y'know. Death isn't gonna help...