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ACT 2 - DUST OF DREAMS Chapter 4 - Crossroads of Twilight Existence has a purpose. Always. Anger cannot exist without cause or recipient. Sorrow cannot be comprehended without joy, nor can apathy be appreciated without attachment. Emotion has meaning— both cause and effect. Anger...

ACT 2 - DUST OF DREAMS Chapter 3 - A Prison Without Locks "MAWAWAA!" "Mawile!" Red screamed in excitement, bodily pushing himself up, only to hiss out in harrowing pain, as the stitches near his calves strained in protest. Oak shot up from his chair and pulled the agonized teen down to a...

ACT TWO - DUST OF DREAMS Chapter 2 - Operation: Get to Red! Mawile was terribly confused. If you asked her a summer ago, this would be no problem. Who cared if some human from wherever was injured? Not even Mabel could have elicited such a response from her. Sure, her mother would have...

ACT TWO - DUST OF DREAMS Chapter 1 - A Bunch of People Talk to Each Other The ghastly winds passed through him, filling his bones with a morbid winter. The surrounding imagery of green leaves mixed with crimson flames painting the landscape a vivid crimson. He felt something cold and dark and...

Interlude 2 - Mia Silent watchful eyes stared at the newcomer, as she stepped past the cherry blossom trees, a little blinking device in the human's hand. The intruder—a female, young by human standards —stepped into her little garden, peeping around as if trying to spot something there. She...

Interlude 1 - Ritchie e Please… please just… survive. As someone who had grown up with his grandfather, Ritchie didn't exactly associate positive emotions with hospitals. Every time he had entered one, he was met with loss. Half-forgotten memories of sitting on his grandfather's lap, waiting...

16,000 words (approx) Chapter 14 - Broken Wings "From tomorrow onwards, you get Clément's job. Any questions?" "Why? I mean, why me?" Travers asked. Proton looked at him, his lips twisted into something that was almost but not quite a smirk, "Unsure of yourself? At this stage?" "Hardly,"...

12,000 Words (approx) Chapter 13 - The Heart of a Coward "Long day?" Red answered the professor's question with an exhausted scowl, dropping everything unceremoniously on the grass lawn. "Seriously old man, how did you even manage them back when you were in the business?" Oak laughed. "Back in...

13,000 words (approx) Chapter 12 - A Grunt's Life Two days later "Are you sure that is safe?" Misty asked in apparent calmness, though it was obvious that she was trying hard to not to freak out. After the disastrous turn of events post the interrogation, scyther had been a giant bruise all...

12,500 Words (approx) Chapter 11 - The Price of Freedom According to 'Types and Classification - Know Your Pokémon!', the official textbook mandated by the Pokémon Trainer Certification Authority, pokémon are classified into two main categories— those that can be sorted according to...

13,000 words (approx) Chapter 10 - How To Train Your Shellder He should have seen it coming. Mawile's irritation with Misty and her pokémon, or more particularly, her somewhat bossy nature, had been getting on her nerves. The orangette could be extremely stubborn at times, and it took...

12,000 words (approx) Chapter 9 - Mawile, the Kidnapper Somewhere in Viridian Forest Growlithe crouched down on the floor, his deep crimson eyes staring past the shackles of his cage. Just like every other time in the past, the procedure incited an uncomfortable feeling of vertigo in him. The...

11,000 words (approx) Chapter 8 - Red and Misty's Bug-Catching Adventure "You're doing it wrong. If you keep waving that pen around like that, you'll probably gouge someone's eye out." Red felt his left eye twitch. It was a rather familiar feeling, considering the number of times he had felt...

There is an actual reason for this.

10,500 words (approx) Chapter 7 - Miss Tea Misty Waterflower had always been different. That much was certain, and her brash nature and tendency to act before thinking only served to emphasize that fact. The Waterflower family was by no means ancient, having existed for little under a hundred...

14,000 words (approx) Chapter 6 - Shellder's Showdown "Come on, Mawile. Don't be so bitter. Just eat it. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day after all." Mawile huffed, pushing the bowl of pokémon food away. Seriously, she was beginning to hate this city. Back when they were in...

13,000 words (approx) Chapter 5 - The Pokémon Master "Day six. Trial forty-seven." Red noted, the pokédex in his hand recording his voice. "Mawile will attempt to produce and maintain Mist while using a second move. Shellder, look alive. Perhaps you can pick up a hint or two from this?"...

13,000 words (approx) Chapter 4 - Trainer Square Viridian City, despite all its grandeur, was fairly isolated in terms of location. With the Viridian Forest directly above it and Pallet Forest gating it from further south-east, Viridian City had three major entry points. The first was usually...

12,000 words (approx) Chapter 3 - Shel-fishness Two months ago "I can't understand this ridiculous obsession of yours, Mawile. What is it about this mountain that disappoints you so much?" Mawile grit her teeth. Ever since her birth, the Pomace Mountain had been her world. Her childhood had...

12,000 words (approx) Chapter 2 - First Blood The grassy path had finally ended. On crossing the main valley, he found himself at a crossroads of sorts. From there onwards, there were two choices ahead —the longer, windier, albeit neater route, and the shorter, but infinitely more dangerous...