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Chapter 52 - Bruises That Won't Heal Impetus Town was silent. The moon was just nearly full, shining bright moonlight over the frontier town. The streets should have been alive, buzzing with Ghost and Dark types happy to see the night, Water-types basking in the draw of the moon, perhaps even...

ACT TWO -o- Chapter 51: Through a Glass Darkly There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And Swellows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Pidgeys will wear their feathery fire Whistling their...

Author's Note: Trigger warning for child abuse. Proceed with caution or skip this one if you're prone to that. Special Episode 1: Slope to an Apex Serperior River Valley, Gray Proper 17th of Palkia's Moon, 1525 Post-Ruinam The situation of Eldwood Town had not particularly good these past...

The leaves rustled as a soft, pleasant wind blew through the sprawling maple forest, one of many covering this part of Gray Orient. Under the starlit sky and shining full moon above, a serene calm hung over the still lake holding the entrance to the Caverns of Being. At the shoreline, a sudden...

The hallway before us seemed to stretch on forever, its downward slope only leading us into more darkness ahead. Silence hung in the air as we walked on, no feral noises or background scraping there to join the echoes of our footsteps. Though a welcome change from what we'd seen previously, the...

Caves of Being B6F Pain still wracked Arden's body as he approached the stairs, his fellow explorers none the wiser of his mood. The Pecha had stopped anything worse from happening, but it was no Oran. Yet as his chest burned from the past poisoning, the Quilava continued on, getting only a...

"Well, uh, everyone say 'bye, Westgrove'," May said, sitting curled up on the floor of our wagon as it rocked along. "Good fucking riddance," Arden scoffed. Rye seemed to agree with the Quilava for the first time in a while as I watched Westgrove-on-Sea shrink into the distance, gulping down...

Perfect, puffy clouds hung in the sky, though just enough that they didn't block the warm orange glow of the coming sunrise. River water lapped gently against the shoreline. A pleasant buzz seemed to hang over Impetus Town as Pokémon gave parting farewells. All in all, it seemed like an...

"Look to the skies, Pokemon! The planets speak, and what has happened of late answers! On this day, the second of Zygarde's Moon, I tell you the end times are upon us! Repent!" That was the first thing I heard as Rye and Mavy led me out of the infirmary and into the clear afternoon. How...

It'd happened so fast and so suddenly. One moment, I was hunched over on the floor looking for any lingering signs of Team Assail's bullshittery. The next, there'd been a rush of wind from outside, followed by a hard, painful strike to my back. Though the sudden attack had missed my head...

"Please, sir, we need to go in, he-" "No, Treecko. The Guildmaster demanded privacy. Whatever he wants with your... ahem, friend, he doesn't want to be disturbed." "But-" The Bisharp guards at the entrance to Arcanine's quarters wordlessly stepped to block the doorway, the wicked glint of...

42 - Dawning As the old saying claimed, a simple life was a happy life. For the first time since he learned the concept of free will, Maverick was beginning to understand that sentiment. The past two weeks had been interesting for the Zigzagoon, to say the least. At long last, he had finally...

41 - Cursed With Knowledge Despite how much I'd like to say I came out of that subway tunnel confident and celebrating, I'll go ahead and admit it. I had no idea what was happening anymore. From the moment Rye pulled me up out of that hole and into the desert moonlight, an air of tension had...

40 - A Game Long Called A deathly silence hung within the ancient tunnel below, one that was only broken as a dull thud sounded out from inside. Our rope went taut, and as the Hitmonchan in the group gave our end a tug to test the knot, we all stared down at the rope leading into the dark hole...

39 - Long Way Aways "Why, good morning, Treecko!" Kecleon piped from his store window. "What might I do for you today?" As the sun peeked out over Impetus Town, the three of us stood in front of the Kecleons' humble shop. With our schedule going along swimmingly so far, we'd decided to go...

38 - Call to Arms "Yeah, from what I've been told, they did get all that for sure. Magnezone and Bassa Village police said so themselves. Why you asking?" Bert asked. Pike took a quick look around the mess hall behind him, making sure no unwanted ears were listening in. "...just makin' sure,"...

37 - A Strange Game You ever hear that old saying, ignorance is bliss? Well, to be honest, I never quite got it before as far as I can remember. Well, now as I looked around at the townsfolk as we strolled through Impetus Town, I was getting a pretty good idea of what exactly it meant. It...

36 - Loose Ends Mount Twist Path 3F There appeared to be nothing in Zangoose's eyes as he stared down the party and snarled in warning; only pure animalistic rage. With his fur matted and blood from a fight with some other feral dripping from his mouth, Rye and Mavy could only stare in...

35 - Twin Flames Burning Cold mountain air brushed past Rye and Mavy as they walked down the empty dirt roads of Twistfoot Town. The sun had set by this point, so lanterns now lit the path ahead, the stone houses around them, and the rest of the small town as it seemed to loom above the...

34 - The Division Bell "We're goin' to where now?" Mavy asked as we walked away from our quarters, the noon sun beating down on us. "Uh, w-we're gonna try and get a job in Arid Riverbed. Something we need to do," Rye shakily explained. Mavy gave an incredulous look towards the Treecko as he...