You're shivering. Are you afraid?
Neo-Flare Base, outside
Mezzo: What are yours like? You're from around Kanjoh, right?
Siren: <You know, why are you guys asking each other and not the actual legendary here?>
Do not fear power... fear those who wield it.
Lover of Birds
Sootopolis - last night
Fletcha: -waving- <Good luck with your gym battle, and thanks again.>
-turning to Brandon- <Ok, we need to alert the team of this development and I need to find a tree or somewhere to sleep for the night. Do you mind carrying my bag for now?>
Brandon: <Nope, don't mind...this is exciting!>
Fletcha: <I know, right! Can't wait to start training tomorrow.>
-They wander off-
Eclipse the Moon
The Labs
Salvador: It was in Kalos. In the new and improved Neo-Flare HQ.
Future!Shaka: It started off as another typical J-team raid. Go in, blow stuff up.
Salvador: Of course, things went awry.
Future!Shaka: Today my former trainer only used up to two gates against you, correct?
Salvador: In our time, he managed all four.
Future!Shaka: In addition to the burning down building which set stage and the Pokemon he had out. Yer remaining mons were either too injured to fight or too occupied with us to assist you.
Salvador: It overwhelmed you and Solana.
Salvador looks over to Shaka.
Salvador: It wasn't just his enemies he decimated. As you can see even those he cherished most closely got the brunt of it.
Future!Shaka: That's where I lost the half of me, see?
He flexes his robo arm.
Future!Shaka: Not fun.
Salvador: Though I don't understand. Your body is supposed to burn away into ash by that point, and father was never the most sturdy individual...
Future!Shaka: True. He was always a sickly lad, even as a child. Whether it was to genetics or to neglect, that's all conjecture by this point.
Salvador: How did he survive for another 13 years?
Future!Shaka: ...'e had a strange assistant at the time. Some blue skinned maiden in a dress and hat like the night sky. I was in a haze at the time, but I remember as the flesh started melting away she world step in and fix it from afar.
"It would be terrible if all my research went up in flames" She used to say...
Solana: Hold up. Describe her again?
Future!Shaka: Blue Maiden. Dresses in attire like the night sky. Had an interest in our bloodline to the point where she would prevent the almost certain death of a homicidal lunatic in order to guarantee it's continuance.
Solana's lip twitches as she turns around and storms out.
Salvador: ...
Future!Shaka: ...Curious.
Salvador: Regardless, as he was brought to his senses, he realised his hard work was ash, and everyone he cared about was dead or dying.
Future!Shaka: That's when he scrambled to your bodies. Carin' about you too much to let you go to waste.
Both Shaka and Salvador makes head slicing motions.
Salvador: Father's study always did smell of Formaldehyde, you know. His methodology is one of the reasons I was one of the better embalmers at the morgue.
Future!Shaka: He would go up there and just ramble for hours.
He gives a humourless chuckle.
Future!Shaka: You really were there till death do ya part.
edited 6th Sep '15 5:17:11 AM by PippingFool
I'm having to learn to pay the price
The Wanderer
NFB, past
-Recognizes who Salvador is likely talking about, but keeps my mouth shut for the moment-
I'll need to talk to Sol later.
Well that's pleasant. Do you know of any future kids running around besides you and Lex? And who did teach you how to use the Orb anyway? Obviously I couldn't by virtue of being dead.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Eclipse the Moon
The Labs
Salvador looks away
Salvador: There is Lillianna from our time... Phosphora from another,
Future!Shaka: We wish to keep their identities confidential though, if you don't mind.
Salvador: You mentioned a journal of yours, correct?
edited 6th Sep '15 2:12:50 AM by PippingFool
I'm having to learn to pay the price
Bona-Fide Mastah
Sootopolis
-People exist-
Mauville-Twins' Room
-The twins are just waking up-
Anyways Here's Darude Sandstorm
Sootopolis
'Buki and Tesse exist.
"SuchacuteZoruaOMGI'mgonnedie"
-camera flash-
<Heehee~>
GIVE ME YOUR FACE
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
-Sarah is sitting in the lobby, staring into space absentmindedly-
edited 6th Sep '15 8:50:18 AM by BittersweetNSour
feeling blue
Sootopolis City
Duke then comes down and notices Sarah and decides to approach her
"Lost in thought?" he asked.
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
-Sarah blinks back to reality and looks up at Duke, acting like things are completely normal-
Sarah: Oh, um. Yeah. Just have stuff on my mind.
feeling blue
Sootopolis Center
Duke takes a seat next to her
"It's been a while since we last saw each other. What's up?"
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
Sarah: Oh, not... not much. We went to Neo Flare's base, then stuff happened there, then we came back... I think there might have been something with Jacob that I got excited over? I dunno, things have just been blurring together the last few days.
Dunsparce Cloud
Outside Neo-Flare, past
Brie: Our legendaries are all birds. It's terrifying.
Sootopolis, today
-Ever has entered the Sootopolis Gym-
Ever: I forgot how much I hated this puzzle. It's so counterintuitive.
Salamence: <Lollern2flyn008>
edited 6th Sep '15 9:17:15 AM by memyselfandI2
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
feeling blue
Sootopolis Center
"Oh yeah, the thing with Jacob was pretty great." he chuckled, but soon got serious "Neo-Flare, though?"
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
Sarah: Yeah. guy kidnapped a Kyurem, guy took control of Kyurem, we all fought them off, control broke, guy got eaten by Kyurem. I dunno, it was all kinda hectic.
-She says this all with an unusually straight face-
feeling blue
Sootopolis Center
Duke grimaces "Eaten? Did you see the guy get eaten alive?"
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
Sarah: Yep. It sucked.
feeling blue
Sootopolis Center
"That sounds like an understatement. I can't imagine you took it very well."
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
Sarah: I probably didn't, but I've been thinking I've been way too down in the dumps recently. So I'm trying to be positive! So don't worry, I'm perfectly okay.
-The slightest Aura reading would show that, no, she is not okay in the slightest.-
edited 6th Sep '15 9:25:00 AM by BittersweetNSour
feeling blue
Sootopolis Center
"It's not going to do you any good to bottle up your feelings, Sarah. Trying to lie against me won't get you many results either." Duke sighs and just give her a concerned look.
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
-Sarah pauses, then slumps.-
Sarah: ...Right... still, moping like I've been doing so much isn't fun at all. If anything, it just tends to make me feel worse.
feeling blue
Sootopolis City
"Going out could be a good idea. If you want I could make you company for the day to help you feel better."
Sootopolis Center
-A certain Clefable and her trusty [strike:sidekick]minder Ralts show up through various teleportation shenanigans.-
Selene: <I told you that they'd be closed on Sunday!>
Satele: <How the heck was I supposed to know what day of the week it is?>
Selene: <You have an Intelligence Quotient of over 140! How did you not figure out that me mentioning that they're closed on Sunday not trigger something that made you wonder why that was be pertinent?>
Satele: <I... Uh...>
-Satele pauses.-
Satele: <... Damn.>
Flying Colors
Sootopolis Center
-Sarah smiles-
Sarah: Sounds nice to me.
Outside Neo-Flare, past
Brie: ...Huh. Neat.
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.