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Happy Pride 2024!!!

So I decided to make Fanart for Pride Month after all. After all I'm a part of the Comunity myself.

You might have noticed that there are a few Lgbtq+ Characters in Ages of Ruin already but these two might have slipped under your radar, which is why I wanted to showcase them here.

Kiara is easy to miss since Aroace is not the most noticeble orientation to begin with, unlike Maxwells and Shooting Stars homosexuality. Now of course with the way Reproduction works for Pokemon in my Au (see this post) sex isn't really a thing for them, but I decided to lable Kiara as aroace anyway since it's also my orientation and not many people know it even exists.

Now Dune might be the bigger surprise here and that could be because it wasn't originally planed this way. But some might have noticed that before she evolved I had used a male Eevee as her character art (as seen here). This was a mistake on my part as I didn't know that eevees had a male and female form. But when I noticed I decided to just roll with it. I will make a post detailing how gender works in my Au at a later point for now know that Dune is infact Trans female.

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Here’s the full list of kitty crew as pokemon for the pokemon tournament RP-get ready to read-

Shelby: eevee

Nala: lucario

Casper: ghastly

Midnight: lunala

Pinkie: sylveon

Temp: houndoor

Sunny: meowth

Simba: pidgeot

Herb: shayin

Seasalt: primarina

Lavender: espeon

Blaze: bewear

Snow:lapras

Nightfall: slowbro

Galaxy: vicitini

Penny: xerneas

Sweetie: lickatung

Coral: seel

Shade: umbreon

Kiara: furret

Thunder: shinx

Oreo: cresslia

Cloud: Altria

Snowball: sandshrew alohah form

Flambé: ponyta

Ella: gardevior

Leo: zigzagoon

Elly:spritzee

Lapis: ponyta galarian form

Zack: falinks

Emerald: quagspire

Xavier: manectric

Cocoa: trapinch

S’mores: wooper paladean form

Moon: chendulure

Scott: chiccino

Vress: vaporeon

Cooper: riolu

Screwball: sneasel hisuden form

rattle: sandslash

Wallace: mewtwo

Willow: sprigatito

Gallace: gallade

Bow:yamask

Goldie: pikachu

Cookie: Vulpix alohah form

Rascal: teddiursa

Biscuit: persisan

marshmallow: togekiss

Cheeto: zamanthza

Buck: swinub

Pixie: lillipup

Sadie: florges

Janko: sandile

Taffy: emolga

Jewel: mew

Brutas: west sea gastroan

Crunchie: Stoutland

Charles: lycanrock midday form

Spot: wobbuffet

Everest: chiein-pao

Toasty:rockruff

Lollipop:weavile

Derpy: ducklett

Bloom: bellossom

Inkie: lycanroc midnight form

Blinkie: rampardos

Minkie: golem

Muad: onix

Kiki: minor core

Onyx: sableye

Babs: sceptile

Thomas: nidoran

Monty:glameow

Sugar: jigglypuff

Moldo: muk

Stella: lugia

Cascade: swellow

Cupcake: scream tail

Lily: meganium

Blossom: steenee

Rouge: arbok

Diane: mightyena

Hazel: dartrix

Starry: rapidash galaian form

Izzy: ninetails alohan form

Minty: beautifly

Swirl: hoopa

Misty: stufful

Poochi: deerling spring form

Aqua: absol

Sharp: jirachi

Skye: wooloo

Cosmo: misdrevas

Nimona: orthworm

Lightning: luxray

Amber: cyndaquill

Celeste: sandslash alohah form

Gloopy: grimmer

Sunshine: raichu alohah form

Petal: maractus

Shaya: zoroark

Dory: mantine

Smolder: latios

Breezy: ribombee

Alice: winggull

Frost: froslass

Pollen: butterfree

Quartz: ariados

Flour: celebi

Clover: meowscara

Susie: corvinight

Glimmer: slugma

Ray: kyogre

Nothing: keldo

Feather: zorua

Hover: zamazenta

Eda: skitty

Ghost: phantump

Cali: growlithe

Mars: mudbray

Sammy: starly

Rosie: meloetta aria form

Dumbo: bunnelby

Eve: clodspire

Molly: fennikin

Extra:

Lamina: dragonair

Crest: volcanora

Timothy: wynaut

Gavin: goodra

Periwinkle: espurr

Seafoam: milotic

HS: darkrai

-mod shelby

(Psst- Brainstorm time-)

(I think Beta will either be an Arcanine, a Lycanroc (midnight form) or a Zoroark- Or if I want him match Shelby, he'll probably be an Eevee too or an Eeveelution like an Umbreon or a Sylveon (hehe trans colors go brrr >:3))

(If MB would be a bird Pokémon he would be a Talonflame, a Blaziken or a Moltres for a fire type or a Kilowatterl or a Zapdos for an electeic type- Or if we're keeping him as a bat Pokémon, it's a Noivern or a Lunala like Midnight)

(Blue could be a Riolu or its evolved form, Lucario cuz doggy-)

(Pico will obviously be some kind of reptile Pokémon- I'm in a dilemma of making him a Scrafty, a Krookodile or a Drizzile :/)

(I'm not too sure on what Girlfriend would be, but she could be a Gardevoir or a Ninetails)

(Since HS is added into this, I'll add the rest of the corruptions lol- Both CB and HCB will be two twin Umbreons (shiny form), Noise will be a Banette or a Gengar, Funsie will be a Houndoom and Hunter will be a Sceptile)

(Big brain :3 👍)

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pokerogue is a chaotic surreal hellscape and yet i love it dearly. team hcs below (in order of capture iirc)

AVE THE DELPHOX - A quiet and hardy type. He chooses not to bother himself with bonding with his teammates in favor of honing his strength.

MATSU THE AURORUS - He tries his best to pull the team together despite their hardships. Part of him always hopes that things'll go to plan.

RYLE THE SWAMPERT - The group motivator. Despite his countless searches for a Swampertite, he proves to be bested by it time and time again.

VIVIAN THE GARDEVOIR - Often anxious and held back by said worries consuming her. At the end of everything, she was terrified to find her anxieties proven right.

KIARA THE RAICHU - A playful powerhouse. She prides herself on her 'Zippy Zap' - striking hard, fast and raising her Evasiveness in a blink.

NINA THE PALOSSAND - Distant at heart with an innate curiosity for the world. No matter how she's beaten down, she greets it all with a gentle heart.

[kokinu09]

Ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags game!

I got tagged by @unusual-ly! My sweet Ly how I have missed you 😘😘😘

Unsure if I can complete this properly but LETS GIVE IT A GO! (side note I reserve the right to select ships instead of individual characters cuz I won’t be able to pick one of the pair)

1. Zed & Addison (ZOMBIES)

2. Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe) specifically Thor: The Dark World!Loki

3. Jake & Devin (Chucky series)

4. Zero (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

5. Inuyasha & Kagome (Inuyasha)

6. Natsu & Lucy (Fairy Tail)

7. Kovu & Kiara (The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride)

8. Rini and Helios (Sailor Moon Super S)

9. Trunks (Dragon Ball Z)

10. Raichu (Pokémon)

come at me I do what I want

Tagging : @keepswingin @zombiedadjokes @gayce-ventura @rainfallingfromthesky @vicapuleti @sayorseee @g3ae anddddddd anyone else who wants to play cuz I’ve exhausted all my recent mutuals… 😅 if I didn’t tag you, I didn’t wanna bug you please don’t hate me!

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Comisión para el príncipe Ricardo

Te voy a comprar la computadora que quieres pero vas a Follate solo porque si a todas ellas. Cruz ramires, sally carrera, holley Shiftwell, Natalie certain, candice chicks, star butterfly, eclipsa, moon butterfly, jayjay, mangle, toriel, goldie pheasant, minerva mink, fifi la fume, bimbete skunk, lola bunny, babs bunny, patricia bunny, viola bunny, monroe bunny, britney bunny, binkye bunny, lexi bunny, mis kitty mouse, rouge the bath, amy rose, zoey the fox, fiona the fox, la hermana de tails, sasha the cat, blaze the cat sawyer, kitty softpaws, dulcinea, renamon, gatomon, guilmon, flamedramon, exveemon, dobermon, tigresa, mei ling, song, lían, la maestra leopardo, las hermanas wu, la antílope que le gustaba a mono y quería con po, mei ling rouge, kiara, vitany, nala, zira, zuri, tifu, fuli, lilly, kate, daría, princesa, jena, aleu timantha, trixie, vicky, hada de los dientes, mis doombring, gwen tennyson, charm caster, mujer maravilla, gween tdi, cortney, sky, lidsey, heather, sierra, ella, dakota, cadace flynn, isabella, jazz phantom, paulina, danielle, zoe tent, gail trent, sue patterson, younme song, dixie, georget, Rita, scooby dee, sasha, anabelle, belladona, lugia, charizard, nidoqueen, tiranitar, braixen, lucario, lycanrock, zoruak, raichu, gardevor, vulpix, dragonite, ryhorn, rydon, serperior, latias, reshiram, eeveelutions, arcanine, houndoom, luxray, deerling, foufru, zangoze, may, dawn, iris, bonnie, serena, xana, mallow, cinthia, clair, diantha, bianca, talking Ángela, talking renata, (su hermana) angelina mouseling, matilda mouseling, miss mimi, grace, alice, vicky, la ratona morena y la alvina que salen de fondo, anna mousikova, princesa sofia, minnie mouse, tabitha wildcat, darma, maid marian, carmelita fox, foxy roxy, y cada puta yegua en equestria incluidas tus hijas, y también en el universo humano y anthro

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AoR, Echoes from the Past, 1

Dune laid next to Kuro and watched him worried. After the battle her Mom had brought them all to this grove deep in the forest. She said it was save and something about magical barriers. Dune was worried. With the exception of her and Flake none of her friends had woken up since the battle. She knew they were hurt badly, but still they has to recover sometime right.

Dune put her head on her partner side and listened, his heartbeat and breath were so weak. She called out, “Mom, he doesn’t seem to get better at all. What if he’s dying?” she said. Her mom, who was currently checking on Shooting Star turned to her. She smiled, “Don’t worry sweety, he’s still weak but he’ll get better.”

Dune was to scared to leave it at that, “How can you know? To me he doesn’t look like hes recovering.” Her moms eyes drifted to the far and she suddenly looked incredibly sad, “I know because I’m a reaper. It’s my job to guide lost souls to the after life, if he was dying I could tell in a glance, that way I could stay to make sure his soul passes on after the fact.”

Dune thought about that for a while. “What is a ‘reaper’. The hollow mentioned that two, but I never heard of such a Pokemon.” for a moment her mom seemed lost in thought again, then she answered, “That’s because Reaper isn’t a Pokemon but more of a job description. We are the champions of Anima, goddess of death and rebirth. And we help her with her job of keeping the cycle stable, by guiding souls that can’t reach the afterlife on their own.”

A thought popped into Dunes head, “But if that’s true, what about Ghost-type Pokemon. I thought those came from souls that couldn’t move on” Her mom nodded, “Well yes, that is true. However not every lost soul turns into a ghost, but sometimes we don’t get to them in time. And additionally Ghost-types don’t go against the cycle. They��re a natural way of reintegrating lost soul into the cycle.”

“You’re a Ghost-type now right,” Dune asked, “does that mean you died at some point?” Now her mom smiled again, “No, I simply evolved. You see after the attack on the clan, I stumbled into a Void breach, which made me de-evolve back into an Eevee. Then later I evolve again, but this time into the Ethereon I am now.”

At this point Flake entered the grove. He looked around, then fixated the Ethereon, “Lilly? Have Dad and aunty Kiara still not woken up?.” he asked shyly. Lilly smiled back at him, “Oh, Flake. I told you you can call me grandma if you like.” she paused, “But no, unfortunately they are still asleep.” Flake looked away, “Oh, ok.” then he looked embarrassed, “And you don’t look that old to me, it doesn’t feel right to call you grama.” he whispered.

Dune smiled at her son, he was so cute sometimes. Honestly, if it weren’t for him she might have gone mad with worry a while ago. Which reminded her of Kuro, she wasn’t quite convinced of what her mom had said. After all, she had been hurt probably just as bad, but she was back on her feet already. She said as much to Lilly, but she froze up as she said that and tear welled up in her eyes.

Dune was shocked at that reaction, “Mom?” she asked, “Did I say something wrong?” Lilly shock her head, “You just reminded me of something unpleasant.” she caught her gaze, “You’re fine, because short of destroying you body or killing Shooting Star, there isn’t much that could kill you right now.” She paused, the continued, “After all, you can’t really kill what’s already dead, right?”

Now it was Dunes time to freeze. Flake as well looked shocked, “But, … Mom is alive right?” Lilly shook her head, “Only in the spiritual sence.” she looked Dune directly in the eye, “You probably haven’t noticed, since you were so worried for Kuro. But since the battle with the hollows, your heart hasn’t beaten even once and you only breath when you want to speak.”

Dune didn’t know what to say, she caught Flakes gaze, he wispered, “I thought it was just to weak to hear.” He looked at his Grandma, “But the how can she …?” he clearly didn’t know how to finish that sentence. But apparently Lilly had understood him anyways. “It’ impossible to bring a Pokemon back to life. Only Anima could pull of such a feat. What Seraphore did was bringing back her soul and then binding it with their own life force. Later that was replaced by Stars. She isn’t living on her own Energy right now, if she were she would have succumbed to her wound a long time ago. She lives because of Stars energy and if he were to die, so would she.”

She paused and looked at Dune with a deep sadness in her eyes and said, “Unlike Ghost-types, you are outside of the cycle right now. That’s the only reason I found you.”

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I'M BACK. Finally, how can one move take this long?

Then again, I would have posted last week, but unfortunatlymy sceen broke right after the move and the only replacement was on the other side of the contry with my parents.

Well now it's with me and I can finally work on this series again. Oh how I missed that.

Now we should mostly return to schedule, with a short break between christmas and new years.

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Anyway, Chapter 4 now beginns for real and as the Title suggests this one will dwell a lot on past event's. There will be a few big lore drops, probably and we shall learn what happend to Lilly the now Ethereon, between this Chapter and the prolouge.

So stay tuned.

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AoR, Forgotten Paths, 10

Did I die?, This was the first thought that came to Dunes mind as she came to. It was closely followed by pain all throughout her body. When she had died last time there hadn’t been any pain, so she was likely still alive. Next she tried to move her body, but the pain was to intense so she stopped. She listened it was quiet around, Did the fight end? she asked herself.

She tried opening her eyes next. It was difficult as she felt so tired, but in the end she managed. What she saw let the remaining blood in her body freeze up. Directly in front of her stood Flake shielding her from the hollow Absol that stood only a few meters further away. All the fur on his tiny body stood on end and all muscles seemed tense to the point of bursting. From his throat rumbled a surprisingly deep growl.

“Not a step forward!” he probably wanted to sound intimidating, but Dune could hear the fear in his voice and likely so did the Absol. The hollow grinned and stepped closer, Dune tried to get up but her legs refused to work. Only now did she notice the rather big puddle of blood she was laying in. That would explain why she was so cold, she thought, but at least she was conscious.

“Flake.” she whispered, her voice was almost non existent but he had heard her. He spun around and looked at her with wide eyes. “Mom,” he whispered back and Dune could hear his relive, “You’re okay.” She responded with a weak chuckle, “I wouldn’t go that far, but I think I’ll live” she replied. Her son pressed his head against her side and she could hear him purr.

But it seemed the Absol wasn’t willing to just be ignored, because now it rushed forward to give Dune and Flake the finishing blow. Dune tried to yell a warning but her voice was still to weak and when she tried to get up the pain rushed through her body again, so that she collapsed back to the ground. But being right next to her, Flake had noticed his Mothers movements and spun back around.

Dune could hear another growl leave her sons throat, but the Absol was already so close what could a Level 25 Eevee possibly hope to achieve against a hollow. But Flake was not about to die without a fight, as he blocked the Absols charge with protect. Dune could feel the Energy rush throughout his body as he readied his next attack. “Stay. Back!” he yelled, as a bunch of Stars formed in a Swarm around him.

Dune hadn’t known that he knew Swift, but as the attack triggered something seemed weird about it. She knew swift and the Stars launched by it normally had an almost pure white hue, but these Stars had unsettling black spots and they also jerked around their launch path instead of flying straight. They reminded Dune of the discoloration on Flakes head and they felt wrong somehow.

The Hollow tried to dodge, but as Swift never misses the attack just followed it’s movement and made contact regardless. And to Dunes and the Hollows surprise it had a massive Effect, she could see the shock in its eyes as the attack ripped right through it. Flake seemed just as surprised as the Absol was knocked back and before its body had time to hit the ground it faded into nothingness.

The attack flew onward to hit the remaining two Hollows as well, but as they had just seen their ally be one shot they blocked it with protect. The Ninetales growled and words came to Dunes mind again as it ‘spoke’, “What… How did you do that.” Dune watched carefully, she could see Flake shivering, but his voice sounded firm as he said, “And I’ll do it again, back off.”

Now Dune finally managed to get to her feet. She assessed the situation. Kuro and Kiara lay motionless only a few meters from her, Shooting Star lay a bit further in a small crater. The Ninetales had stood above him before it had shifted its attention to Flake. Dune still felt weak and her body was shaking all over, but she was determined to protect Flake from all further harm.

The Hollows got ready to strike, but before any of them could move an attack came down from the sky and cleaved the Machamp in half. Its body faded away in an instant and then an unknown Eevee-like Pokemon landed between Dune and Flake and the last Hollow. The newcomer fixated the Ninetales without saying a word and got ready to fight.

The strange shadow tendrils that seemed to indicate speech for the hollows formed on the Ninetales again and Dune received the following Words, “What in the shadows name is a Reaper doing here?!”

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Good news guys, Dune isn't dead. And Flake killed a Hollow, how did he manage that? Well that will remain a mistery for now, after all Flake himself doesn't know ho whe did that.

Well the fight draws to an end and so does this chapter. The next page will probably be the last for chapter 3, then we'll go on to chapter 4.

Stay tuned for that.

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AoR, Forgotten Paths, 9

Kuro was on high alert as the dust settled. He needed to locate the Hollows before they could use the dust to get the jump on them. It was the unfortunate truth after all, that the only way they could win this fight was by not getting hit at all. He could feel Kiara behind him, he knew she too was scanning the surroundings. But as the dust cleared completely, he saw that the hollows were distracted by something else.

Kuro followed their stare and what he saw stunned him as well. There was a crater in the ground and at it’s bottom lay the Hollow Jirachi, it wasn’t moving and started to fade away as they were watching. Shooting Star hovered above it, wounded but victorious. His mouth lifted to a smile, but Kuro could still see the rage in his eyes. He said something, but Kuro couldn’t make out the words.

He flinched as a black blur sped past him. The Ninetales had charged past him and now jumped towards Shooting Star, Kuro identified it’s attack as Flare Blitz, as it burst into flames mid air. Shooting Star had only enough time to brace for impact. Kuro wanted to pursue the Hollows but the other one, the Absol, cut him off.

Kuro dodged the Absols attack and spun around to face it. He growled in frustration, he knew Shooting Star was probably exhausted from his previous fight and on top of that the Ninetales had the Type advantage against him. But if he wanted to help he would need to get past the Absol first.

Luckily Kiara was still in fighting form as well and joined the fight. “Watch for an opening then go help Star.” she whispered when she passed him to hit the Absol with a Draining Kiss. He nodded, but then he looked past the Absol and froze. He saw Dune how she just rammed into her opponent a big Machamp, but the Hollow didn’t move and countered her attack immediately with a Hyper Beam. She had no chance of dodging in time.

Kuro screamed, “DUNE!!” and rushed past the Absol and towards the Machamp. A million thoughts rushed through his head, disbelieve, self blame, fear and hope all ran in circles in his brain, but above all else he felt rage. This Machamp would pay for hurting Dune, he would kill this monster. He was so angry that he forgot about the Type matchup and barely noticed that the hollow had already seen him.

The Machamp jumped into the air to dodge his Foul play and then blocked the Insect plague that he fired directly after with a protect. Then while Kuro was still turning around and without even landing the Hollow extended two of his arms to punch the ground bellow itself. The hit send shock waves through the ground and Kuros eyes widened as he realized what the enemy just did.

The Earthquake spread fast and Kuro didn’t have time to react, as he had already begun to charge his next attack. In his rage he hadn’t anticipated a counter attack and only now he realized his mistake. But it was to late and the attack hit him and threw him into the cliff wall behind him. He could feel the attack bypass his HP and break several bones, but he managed to stay contious.

As he opened his eyes again, the Machamp towered over him, with a terrifying grin. He looked past it and saw that the earthquake had pretty much hit every one in the valley. Only Flake had been spared somehow and now stood between Dune and the Absol, which had shifted it’s attention to her. Kiara lay on the ground motionless, he couldn’t tell it she was still breathing. Shooting Star was somehow still standing, but he didn’t look like he could take much more.

Kuro focused back on the Machamp. The Hollows just stood there. “Not going to finish me of?” he asked in a sarcastic tone. The Machamp smiled, “I wont have to.” it ‘said’, “plus, we were only after the Jirachi in the first place.” Kuro let his head sink back to the ground, he knew the Hollow was right. He had felt his bones break in the earthquake and as a surgeon he knew of internal bleeding. It wasn’t likely he would ever get back up, unless someone used a healing move on him real soon.

He closed his eyes to try and tune out the pain. Was this how dying felt like, had Dune felt like this back when, he thought. If only he had the strength left to get up, he wanted to check on her so badly, make sure she was okay. He send a silent prayer to Gaia, as he felt his body go numb.

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If I say "it'll be fine" again, does that make it more, or less belivable?

Anyway, yeah our heros are losing, so I thought I'll end this page on a cliffhanger. Read what happens next time on AoR. What kind of miracle will save our precious Mcs, or maybe the next page will just be the last.

How knows? Well, me but I won't tell you yet.

Stay tuned and I hope you enjoyed so far.

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AoR, Forgotten Paths, 8

Kuro wanted to help Dune in her fight so bad, but he knew that he had his own troubles to deal with. He looked at the remaining Hollows up on the cliff. There were three of them and only Kiara and himself left to deal with them. He had to convince himself that Dune could handle herself, she was used to fight against enemies that were way stronger then she was. Arguably he was in the worse spot.

He felt Kiara standing next to him. He turned his head to face her, she smiled, “I’ll fight with you till the end.” she reassured him. He smiled back, "Let's hope it doesen't come to that." He scanned the remaining Hollows. An Absol, a Ninetales and a Masquerain, Dark-, Fire- and Bug-/Flying-Type. Not many favorable Type match ups, but at least that was true for both sides.

Kiara put a hand on his shoulder. “I think we should force the Absol and Ninetales into a 2v2,” she suggested, “The Masquerain has a really bad Type match up against Sammy, so it would be best if it was the one that pursued Maxwell’s Group” Kuro nodded, "Good plan, plus the Masquerain is the only Hollow we have a bad match up against, so not fighting it would be preferable." he replied.

Kuro scanned the surroundings. The valley restricted their movements and made it easy to cut of escape routs. There was also a lot of debris laying around providing cover, but also further restricting movement and visibility. To state it frankly it was an awful place to battle, but they didn’t have much of a choice. So he tried to recall everything he knew about Hollows.

Other then their ability to bypass the HP-barrier he only knew that Psychic didn’t affect them for whatever reason. But since they were likely a much higher level his Foul Play would be rather effective. Between Kiara and him only he could use Protect and since the HP barrier didn’t protect them reliably their only other chance was to dodge. He scoffed, could their chances be any worse?

“I’ll take the Ninetales, you focus on the Absol.” He informed Kiara, “But stick close so we can assist each other if necessary.” Kiara nodded. He grinned, “But to start,…” he said and charged up Enigmas move Insect Plague. He aimed for the Absol since it stood in the center of the group and was also weak to Bug-Moves. Plus this way he could hit the other two as well.

To Kuros surprise the Hollows didn’t even attempt to dodge and the move connected and knocked the Absol back a few meters. Both the Ninetales and the Masquerain were also hit by the infestation effect the move caused, so now all three opponents were compromised. Maybe he had caught them off guard, he thought. However the Ninetales didn’t hesitate to retaliate.

Infinity energy concentrated around it’s body and it released a Heat wave at Kuro and Kiara. Kuro shouted, “Watch out!” and managed to push Kiara and himself behind a boulder just in time. He started to appreciate these boulders lying around. But before he could think the Absol jumped back into the fight and hit him with a full force X-Scissor. Luckily he could block it with Protect.

The Ninetales jumped down from it’s place on top the cliff and took position beside the Absol. It seemed the enemy also wanted to fight 2v2. “Great,” Kiara said next to him, “looks like they had the same idea.” Kuro nodded, “That does invalidate our strategy a bit. You still in?” Kiara grinned, “Of course, let’s give them hell!”

At this exact moment Shooting Star threw his opponent into one of the cliff faces lining the valley and interrupted all other fights in the progress. Kuro gazed over, “Look’s like your friend is having some trouble.” he mocked the Hollows. The Ninetales growled and responded with a Flamethrower in his general direction. Both he and Kiara jumped out of the way, but now the flames separated them.

The Absol had apparently waited for this, as it rushed forward to hit Kiara with an Iron tail while she was regaining her footing. Kuro knew he wouldn’t be able to reach her in time, but it seemed Kiara had anticipated an attack against her. She continued her movement to avoid this move too and then in one flow brushed the Absol with her Nuzzle to paralyze it. The Hollow stumbled and crashed into the ground.

Kuro seized the opportunity and followed up with a Foul play into the Absol, which threw it into the wall. It tried to get up, but the paralysis rendered it unable to move. As Kuro turned to face the Ninetales again, Kiara launched a Shadow ball right past his head. He flinched and turned just in time to see the attack hit the Ninetales that had approached from behind, to hit him while he was distracted.

“Basdard!” he hissed, as the Ninetales got back up and Kiara took position beside him to guard his back. Now the Absol had also managed to get back up and they all glared at each other for a while. They all had managed to get a few bruises. Then out of nowhere something hit the cliff at full force again and raised a dust cloud that covered the whole valley.

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And now we have Kuros side of the battle. Don't worry, this fight should come to an end next page.

I'm still not that comfortable writing battle scenes, but I think I'm improoving.

I'm also starting to get the hang of the prose format. It has some unique strength when telling a story, that so far I havent untillized to their fullest.

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AoR, Forgotten Paths, 7

Dune could see the frustration in her enemies eyes. She smiled her tactic had worked, still she was probably just one mistake away from dying again and this time she wouldn’t be able to come back. Plus if her enemy knew a single special attack she was screwed, after all Deserts Rush only protected her from physical attacks.

As she waited for her opponents next move, the Hollow Jirachi crashed into the wall next to them closely followed by Shooting Star. The Hollow Machamps view followed the two mythicals and Dune used it’s distraction to charge at it with another Desert Rush. “You should keep your eyes on the fight big guy.” she hissed. The Hollow grimaced and tried hitting Dune with close combat again, but it had about as much effect as before.

Dune quickly jumped back to dodge an eventual followup attack, but the Machamp instead changed it’s battle stance and the weird tendrils formed on it’s shoulders again. It smirked, “I think I’m starting to understand how that move of yours works, but how about I test that theory further.” and with these words in Dunes Mind, it rushed forwards it’s four fists glowing with power.

Dune had barely time to raise her protect, to block the attack and a second swiftly followed. She managed to dodge but now she was thoroughly on the defensive. The Hollow seemed to know that very well and it was fast. She managed to block another attack with protect, but the barrage didn’t let off. This way she wouldn’t be able to get another hit in.

So she focused. If she could keep dodging there might come another opening, she just needed to be patient. The others had started to fight as well, but Dune couldn’t pay much attention to that. From the brief glimpses she got she managed to see that Kuro and Kiara fought together as they so often did, while Shooting Star and the Hollow Jirachi just wailed on each other. It was quiet frankly a miracle that they were both still standing.

As Dune blocked another attack, the fight between the two mythicals once again disrupted her opponent. This time the Hollow Jirachi had managed to throw Shooting Star to the ground where he promptly collided with the Machamp and knocked it down. Star got back up quickly and dodged a follow up attack by the Hollow, which in turn ended up hitting the Machamp instead.

Both Hollows got up and glared at their opponent, but both Dune was not about to let this opening go to waste and from what it looked like neither was Shooting Star. He glowed with infinity Energy, then he waited for his opponent to move. As the Hollows charged him he smirked and Dune understood that this had been his plan. The Hollow Jirachi hit him full force which rammed him into one of the valleys walls. This knocked up a lot dust and debris which momentarily covered the entire battlefield.

As she couldn’t see her opponent any longer Dune stopped the attack she had been charging and braced herself for when the dust would settle. When it did, Shooting Star hovered above the ravine bruised but still in fighting shape, while his opponent was laying in a hole in to ground, not moving. Dune saw him smile and he said, “Forgot about my Doom Desire did you now. Should have protected yourself insead.”

As he spoke the Hollows Jirachi began to dissipate like Hollows did when they where killed. The remaining Hollows stared at this in disbelieve and an “Impossible” echoed through Dunes mind as one of them ‘spoke’. As the fighting had momentarily stopped she took the time to take in the battlefield. Kiara and Kuro had apparently fought with the Hollow Ninetales and Absol in a 2v2. They were bruised but still standing.

Flake was hiding as Dune had told him to, he seemed fine. She sighed in relieve, but there was a problem. The fifth Hollow, the Masquerain, was nowhere to be seen. But before she could communicate any of that the Ninatales that had been fighting with Kuro and Kiara up until this point let out a deep growl and vaulted itself into the air towards Shooting Star.

It’s body got engulfed in fire mid jump and Shooting Star had just enough time to brace himself before the enemy hit him with a full force Flare Blitz. Dune saw that Kuro wanted to purse the Ninetales but the Absol blocked his path. The she noticed movement in the side of her eyes and turned just in time to block a full power close combat from the Machamp with a protect, who had used her lack of focus to come way to close for comfort.

“Nice try,” she mocked, “how many close combats were that now. Your Defenses should be almost zero at this point.” She jumped back, dodged a followup attack and charged up her desert Rush. “It’s about time we end this.” she said, as the infinity energy swelled up within her. She charged at her opponent at full force, but as she approached she saw as smirk creep up on it’s face.

It raised a protect and let her run into it at full force. Then it followed it up immediately with a Hyper Beam. Dune was still on the wrong foot from her charge so she couldn’t dodge and since Hyper Beam was a special attack Desert Rush couldn’t protect her from it.

She closed her eyes and braced for impact.

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Well I'm sure she'll be fine.

Next time I'll bring you Kuro and Kiaras fight, so you'll unfortunatly have to wait for page 9 before we learn what happens to Dune.

Though of couse, I already know.

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AoR, Forgotten Paths, 6

The Hollow Jirachi was launched back and crashed into the forest behind it. Shooting Star grimaced, “If you take the form of the strongest thing you killed, I guess your Masquerain buddy over there sucks at fighting.” That remark changed the look on the Hollows faces. The Masquerain looked very angry, while the others smiled.

Kuro turned to Maxwell and Dune heard him say, “Max, take the Eevees and get out of here. We’ll support Star against the hollows.” Maxwell nodded and turned to Sammy and Torrent, “Come you two, let’s get them out of here.” At first it looked like Sammy and Torrent wanted to protest, but Maxwell said, “The others will have an easier time fighting if they don’t have to protect anymon. And I can’t get them to safety on my own.”

This argument seemed to convince them and they gathered the Eevees to make a retreat to safety. The three hollows still up on the cliff watched this procedure but didn’t interfere, but the one that had jumped down, a big Machamp blocked the way and was getting ready to fight. Maxwell stepped forward to face it, but Dune cut in front of him. She looked back and gathered her courage, “Focus on getting the Eevees out, I’ll handle this one.”

Maxwell hesitated, “You sure?” he asked. Dune nodded, “I’m used to fight enemies stronger than myself and that could kill me in one hit. I’ve got this.” “What about Flake? Maxwell asked, the young Eevee was still clinging to his mothers back. She sighed, “Flake stays with me.” she replied. “But,” Maxwell interjected, but Dune stopped him there, “This isn’t negotiable. Last time I left someone important out of my sight it didn’t go well. I’m not making that mistake again.”

Maxwell didn’t seem convinced but nodded, Dune smiled, “You worry about getting to safety. Trust me on this.” Then she turned to face the Hollow. It smiled back, the wired smoke tendrils formed again and Dune received the words, “So you want to face me all alone? Do I look that weak to you?” Dune didn’t listen and got ready.

Dune took a deep breath. This fight was different them her last one. She hadn’t fought since the confrontation with that Nidoking all these months ago, because she had been scared, but she wasn’t the same Eevee she had been back then. Since that day she had gained six Levels and learned a new move. It was about time she got over her fear and faced battle again.

She readied an attack and could feel the infinity energy flow throughout her body. It was so much more powerful then last time. She smiled at the Hollow, “If you underestimate me it’s going to be your downfall.” A quick look back confirmed that Kuro and Kiara were ready to fight too, but they were outnumbered. This would be an insane fight. She looked at Flake who still clung to her back.

“What is your level right now?” she asked him. “25” he replied. She knew she couldn’t use her new move while she carried him. “Stay close and use protect if you have to. Mommy has to take care of this.” she said, he nodded and got of her back. She turned back, the Hollows were still watching them. It seemed like they didn’t want to make the first move and were waiting for Dune to make the first move.

Great, thought Dune. This was a less then ideal Situation. But she had a plan, she charged up Desert Rush, the energy flowed trough her body and she could feel how it turned to sand. The feeling was weird but not in a bad way, then once her body had turned entirely into a cloud of sand, she rushed forwards to ram into the Machamp at full force.

But the Hollow had awaited her and blocked her with protect. It smiled as Dune was now within it range and wouldn’t be able to dodge in time. It’s fists glowed with power and it unleashed a powerful close combat. The attack crashed into her and dispersed her body into sand, hit after hit then crashed into the sand cloud.

But despite the power of this move it didn’t seem to effect Dune at all. When the attack was over, the sand cloud reformed and she stood in front of the Hollow completely unharmed. She smiled, "Didn't expect this did you now?"

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Small heads up. The next few pages will take place more or less simutaniously in universe as I focus on the individual fights one by one, so don't be confused why the charakters don't help eachother, they're busy with their own fight.

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AoR, Forgotten Paths, 5

The journey through the caves back to the surface was long and winding. Dune really hoped that Maxwell and Shooting Star knew where they were going, because it was a right labyrinth down here. If she were on her own, she get lost in a heartbeat and never see the surface again. The two guides however seemed confident and so the rest of the group followed them.

It took two more days to reach the exit, but finally Dune could see a bit of Sunlight in the tunnel ahead. The exit. They rushed out into the open, to long had they been underground and now they yearned for the sun. The cave exit was located in a small valley, steep walls flanked it left and right narrowing in the approaching path. Dune looked around, it was early evening the Sun was low but still visible. Somehow she felt very uneasy.

The out of nowhere Dune saw a flash of light in her peripheral. She had just enough time to realize it as an attack, before Kuro yelled, “Watch out everyone!!” The others jolted up and the attack was released and speed towards the group. Thanks to Kuros warning many managed to dodge, but a small Eevee in the center wasn’t fast enough and got hit full force.

The small Mon was knocked back and thrown into a cliff face. It didn’t get back up. Dune wanted to check on them, but there was no time. She spun around to face the direction the attack had come from. On top of the cliff to the right of the cave stood five Pokemon, they were pitch black, had ominous glowing eyes and black smoke seemed to emanate from their bodies. Hollows.

The one in the middle, a big Ninetales, grinned it’s eyes glowing a deep scarlet in the evening sun. The black smoke around it’s body formed into weird tendrils and Dune suddenly had strange images in her head. There was no voice to this unsettling sensation and yet Dune could have sworn to have heard the following, “Well look who finally decided to come out of their hole. We waited for almost three days, ya know.”

Dunes eyes widened and she made an involuntary step back. Then the sensation was back, “Confused? Scared? Feels weird doesn’t it.” it seemed to say, but again there was no voice. This threw her of so much, how could she perceive these words with no voice to transfer them. She looked around, the others faced the Hollows with a similar mix of horror and fear in their eyes. The Eevees were cowering behind the bigger Pokemon may had covered their eyes and some even cried.

The only exception was Shooting Star, he faced the attackers with raw unfiltered rage. The hollows on the left of the group jumped down into the valley, it two formed these smoke tentacles. And again the sensation washed over Dune, “It’s a shame that this cave system has so many exits, we needed to spread our numbers quit thin to have a chance of intercepting you.” were the words that reached Dune.

Kiara stepped next to Dune, she was visibly shivering, “How can there be words, but no voice.” she whispered. Dune couldn’t answer, she looked at the Hollows. Beside the Ninetales, there was a Machamp, a Masquerain, an Absol and surprisingly a Jirachi. Shooting Star was eyeing that one down. “Since when were there Hollows in the shape of Mythicals” he asked, his voice was almost a growl.

The Hollows grinned and it too formed these shadow tendrils, the words that now manifested in Dunes mind made her freeze with fear. “Well, we usually take the form of the strongest Pokemon we killed.” The Hollow Jirachi grinned wide. Dune looked over to Shooting Star, his face was almost emotionless, but she could feel the rage underneath. The hollows seemed to laugh, but still there was no voice connected to this feeling.

Weirdly when the feeling of this laugh washed over Dune, her fear disappeared and was immediately replaced with anger. Was killing really just a sick game for these Monsters. Shooting Star began to glow and suddenly a surge of energy flowed through Dune, then before anyone could move he charged forward and crashed into the Hollow Jirachi with a full force Meteor Mash, the infinity energy from the move radiating from his small body.

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AoR, Forgotten Paths, 3

A deep silence seemed to fill the cave after that announcement, Shooting Star seemed surprised by that suggestion. “But, …,” he finally spoke up, “I can’t just leave you, you can’t possibly protect the Eevees on your own.”. “I won't be alone.” Maxwell replied, he looked over to Sammy, “Sammy will accompany us right?” Sammy nodded.

Dune looked at Shooting Star, it seemed like he wanted to protest further, but Kuro interjected. “Look, Maxwell and I talked this trough and there is no doubt that you are by far the strongest here.” he explained, “We have a pretty good idea of how to get to Kanto city from here, as well as challenges that might await us, but we have almost no idea what will await us on the search for this Last Human. We’ll need your strength and experience.”

Dune had to agree with Kuro, but she kept quiet, Shooting Star tried protesting once more, “But even then, …”. Maxwell interrupted him, “I know what you want to say, but we thought it all through,” he looked at Sammy again, “for once we hope, that with Sammy’s help, we’ll be able to get some of the other Eevees to evolve and on top of that Torrent wants to help me with the Eevees.”

Kiara looked about as surprised as Dune was feeling, “But why, …?” she asked, Torrent fixated her, “Because I’m by far the lowest Level of all the adult Pokemon here. I know that all of you are above level 50 at this point, yet I’m still under 40.” he paused briefly, “I’m just not a fighter.” he added.

Dune thought back to their journey, they had run into a bunch of roamers on the way and had fought quite a lot of them. She was almost at level 60 at this point and she knew that Kuro and Kiara probably got a huge boost from defeating that one hollow. But when she thought back, Torrent had almost never participated in any of the battles they had faced. Even when they had fled the horde of hollows back after she had been revived, he had focused on getting away.

Dune could see that Kiara had the same thought as her, she said, “Heh, … well it had been my idea to go out and help others in the first place. I guess, I never asked how you felt about that, huh.” she looked sad. Maxwell looked sympathetic, he signaled to Kuro and Shooting Star, “How about Kuro and I explain our plan to you in detail.” he said then he looked at Dune, “And while we do that, could you ask Sammy about how he evolved.” Dune nodded.

“So you’re saying that you evolved after falling asleep on one of these Basalt clusters around this cave?” Dune asked Sammy to make sure she understood correctly. The young Mon nodded, “At least that’s what I think. I fell asleep an Eevee and woke up like this.” he gestured to his current appearance, “I don’t know what else could have triggered it.”

Dune agreed, that seemed pretty evident, she looked over to Kuro. He was still talking with Maxwell and Shooting Star. Dune turned back to Sammy, “So you think if any other Eevee were to sleep on these pillars as well they might evolve to.” “Most likely,” he replied, “tough we’d need to test it to be sure.” “Mhm,” Dune said, she put her paw on one of the basalt pillars, they felt warm.

She concentrated on the rocks and could feel the Infinity energy resonating inside. “Weird,” she mentioned, “this feels like it’s affiliated with fire not rock.” Sammy bowed his head, “Back when I had just evolved, Shooting Star said that these Pillars are connected to Rock- and Fire-type energy, so that is possible.” Dune thought about that, “Then, could we possibly cause an evolution into Flareon as well as well as one into Basalteon?” she asked.

Sammy seemed to think about it. “Maybe,” he replied, “if we use a Fire Stone in addition.” Dune nodded, “Do we have any Fire Stones?” Sammy shrugged, “We can ask Star once their done talking.” Dune looked over to Shooting Star. He was still in conversation with Kuro and Maxwell. “Then how about we use the remaining time to ask the Eevees here if any of them want to evolve into Flareon or Baralteon?” she suggested.

And so she and Sammy started to ask around to see if any of the Eevees were ready to assist them in their research on evolution.

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Our heros want to split the party. Usually not a good idea, but here it might be necessary.

I hope this chapter is not to slow, but it's needed to set up the upcoming story. I worry that these pages are boring, but on the other hand I can't make every page a trilling adventure. That would get old just as fast.

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AoR, A new Dawn, 15

The Seraphore hovered above the snow covered landscape. He could feel the hollows approaching. If had a mouth he would have smiled. The energy of his signature move Mask pulse flowed through his body, now was not the time to hold back. As he changed into his Wrath form the first hollows came into sight.

Dune and the others were on their way back to the cave when the fight started. Dune saw round about twenty hollows leap up from the ground towards Seraphore. As they were in the air, the Legendarys masks began to glow, then a shock wave of Energy released from them and knocked them back to the ground. The attack was directly followed by the move gravity, which knocked the flying hollows to the ground.

The effects of the move could be felt all the way over where Dune was standing and even Shooting Star got knocked out of the sky. Kuro picked him up while running. Then they took a turn towards the cave and the battle grounds were out of their sight. Dune could see a bright light above the trees. Most likely Dazzling Gleam, Seraphore seemed to focus on using multi target moves to hit all his enemies at once.

When they arrived at the cave Maxwell stood outside guarding the entrance. He saw them approach and gave a sign into the cave, after which the rest of Dunes group and the Eevees came into site. Maxwell greeted them, “Welcome back, I see you got my message. We should leave right away.” Shooting Star shook his head, “You know we can’t go out there, they’ll see us for sure.”

Just as Maxwell wanted to reply another flash of light lit up the forest around them, he looked up, “What is even going on out there?” he asked. “Seraphore’s Avatar is fighting the hollows, he’ll buy us time but even he’ll not last against such an oppressive force.” Shooting Star explained. Maxwell looked surprised, “There was an Avatar of Seraphore nearby?” Shooting Star shook his head, “No he created one from the Energy he gave to Dune.” Maxwell paused, “… but then how is she? … You used a wish didn’t you?” Shooting Star nodded.

“I couldn’t just let her die Max, you know that.” he said, Maxwell nodded, “I know Star. … So how many do you have left?” Shooting Star looked away, “Four, I can still grant four wishes. Then I need to sleep to refill them” “You can only grant four more wishes?!” she exclaimed, “Then was it really OK for me to get one?” Maxwell looked at her, he seemed to feel her guilt, “Would you have rather left you family behind?” he asked, she shook her head, “Then it’s fine, we agreed to keep the remaining wishes for emergency situation. I’d say that this was an emergency. Wouldn’t you?”

Dune could only nod, but she couldn’t help asking herself if she really deserve all these second chances she was getting. After all this was the second time the she should realistically have died. She heard Kuro explain their plan to Maxwell, “Shooting Star said we should hide deeper in these caves. He want’s to collapse the entrance behind us to be save.” Dune looked over and saw Maxwell nod, “Good idea, I had forgotten about that option.”

As the Group had already prepared to leave, it didn’t take them long to gather the rest of their stuff and head deeper into the cave. Dune was surprised she had never noticed the paths that lead deeper underground, though to be fair to herself she hadn’t spend much time in this cave. Kiara looked nervous, “If we collapse the entrance behind us then how are we going to leave again?” she asked. Maxwell answered, “The cave system is huge and there are bound to be other exits around.”

Seraphore still hovered above the forest, the hollows had closed in on them. As far as they could tell there were around 100 of them around. If Shooting Stars group had tired to sneak past them they surely would have been noticed. They let loose another Mask Pulse, but spreading the energy between this many enemies lessened the individual impact significantly. The gravity was preventing the hollows from getting to them for the time being put this wouldn’t last.

They could feel a slight disturbance in the air, then they heard the sound of a collapse. They focused on the direction the sound had come from and noticed that a cave had collapsed. This must have been the cave that Shooting Star and his friends had wanted to escape to. “So they made it.” they thought to themselves, “Good, then it’s about time we end this.”

They took of in the direction opposite to the collapsed cave and the hollows gave chase. They were really predictable. The Seraphore charged up another Mask pulse, directly followed by a dazzling Gleam. The two shock waves hit their pursuers and knocked a few of them out. As they fell to the ground they dissipated into black smoke. The Legendary smiled finally their attacks seemed to pay of.

Suddenly the flight capable hollows lifted up from the ground again. The effects of Gravity had ended and the enemies were no longer bound to the ground. The Seraphore shoot a Dazzling Gleam in their direction but they missed and a powerful Ice Beam from a Baxcalibur on the Ground. The super Effective Move knocked the Legendary out of the Sky and into the forest below. As they fell they changed their form to the Grief Mask. They would not go down alone.

Elsewhere: A lone hollow investigated the rubble from a collapsed cave entrance. It didn’t seem like it had collapsed on its own. The being decided to report this to the others, so they left. Though just as they rejoined the fight a Baxcalibur gave the Legendary the finishing blow. The Hollow wanted to approach the leader to report it’s finding, but before it could move an unseen force hit it and it faded into black mist, never having passed on it’s message.

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It' done! Chapter 2 is finished. I hope you all enjoyed the Story so far.

I might take a small break before starting Chapter 3, that depends on my motivation.

Writing this Story has been really fun so far and I love to see how many people checked out the updates every week. To be honest this Story has changed a lot from when I first came up with it's concept. It wasn't even originally planed to be my main Focus.

Those that read this on tumblr might remember that I first had another Story called Birth of a Goddess, where I wanted to tell the Story of Anima the youngest of the Great old Ones. But that Story was formated as an ask-blog and ultimately didn't go anywhere.

Birth of a Goddess is now discontinued, but I might tell some of the Stories planed for it through Tales of Origin. At some point I even wanted to make a Comic. But I think Ages of Ruin is the perfect format for me.

Well enough rambling, I'll see you all in Chapter 3, so stay tuned.

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AoR, A new Dawn, 11

Shooting Star looked out of the cave entrance, he seemed deep in thought. He closed his eyes and said, “Well, you know what happened next. The day passed and the next morning the sun rose just like normal.”, his smile was full of sorrow, “Back then many believed, that it was over, that everything was back to normal again. …I wanted to believe that as well, but as we all know, things were far from over. …And that became all to apparent in the following months.”

The group fell silent and Dune knew what they were thinking. Yes, they knew what the aftermath of the second cataclysm was all to well. Kiara quietly injected, “That was a nice story, but it doesn’t really explain how you all ended up here.” Shooting Star nodded, “Yeah, I’m getting to that, but you too started your story at the very beginning and I though this was important.” He looked around and sighed, “Well after the day without sun Maxwell any I decided to check what hat happened with the other Legendaries, as we knew they went to assist the great Old Ones in their fight. But,… we couldn’t get to the battle grounds and none of the Legends answered my calls.”

Shooting Star fell silent at this point and so Maxwell picked up the Story, “After we couldn’t reach them, we decided to visit some of their lairs, but they were all abandoned. We came to Hisui in hopes of finding the Lake Trio, or to enter the Glory through Spear Pillar.” He gave a grim smile, “Well from were we are today you can probably guess how that turned out.”

At this remark the Eevees in the cave all got up and went to cuddle up to Shooting Star and Maxwell. He smiled and picked up a few, as he faced Dunes Group again, he was smiling, “But you know, sometimes when you desperately search for something, you find something else entirely that then turns out to be exactly what you needed.” Shooting Star chimed back in, “Though the story of how we met all of them is not as happy.” he remarked and looked a bit angry.

Dune could guess the next part, but it shocked her still. As she knew all to well, after the day without sun, newborn Eevees had been weaker than normal and as time progressed this got worse. Many Families saw them as liabilities, especially in this cold an unforgiving land up north, so they abandoned them. Shooting Star and Maxwell couldn’t bare the though of leaving them to die in the wild, so they took them in whenever they found them. Thus they ended up with quiet the large group of Eevees under their protection. Though they didn’t seem bitter about it.

Maxwell looked at Shooting Star and he smiled, “I’m glad we found them. As tragic as what happened to them is, they did save us. Plus we wanted to found a family again for a while now.” Torrent, who up to this point had silently listened in the back ground, lifted his head, “Again, huh. So you adopted children before? You can’t really have children of your own after all.” Shooting suppressed a laugh, “It’s not that simple, but yes we did have children before, though they’re both adults now.” he looked at Dune and Kuro, “Having a child is really a blessing, you two are very lucky to have such a healthy son.”

Dune felt happiness swell in her chest and she licked one of Flakes hears. He was sleeping curled up on her belly, “Yeah, he was the greatest blessing I ever received.” She heard Kiara snicker, “That’s not what you said back then,” she smiled deviously, “I remember it clearly. You even tried to convince us that you had just found his egg in that cave.” Dune could feel herself blush, she replied, “Well, I was embarrassed. And to be honest back then I didn’t feel ready to be a mother.” she scoffed, “Honestly. Why does Pokemon reproduction have to be that annoying. I thought there would be some physical act involved like with animals, I didn’t know that an egg could just… show up.”

The group had a good chuckle about that, but then Dune had to ask a question, she looked at Shooting Star, “You said he’s healthy. So then,… do you know what’s up with this weird marking on his head?”. He seemed to think about it for a while, but then he nodded, “Yeah, I know what that is. Was he born with it?” Dune shook her head, she didn’t like thinking back to that but she told him anyway, “He received it shortly after. The truth is that when he hatched, at first he wasn’t breathing. I though he had died and was about to break down, but then this marking appeared and he opened his eyes.”

The other Pokemon in the cave were silent at this revelation, only Kuro looked as if he was about to break down, Dune pressed her head against his side. She heard him whisper, “That was probably the scariest moment in my entire life and I had though nothing could top the moment when you died.” Shooting Star looked at them compassionately, “Well, you don’t need to worry. Your son is fine, he’s just a glitch.”

Dune looked at Kuro, confused, “A glitch?,” she asked, “Like with a computer?” Shooting Star shook his head, “This might be where the name comes from, but in this context it means a Pokemon that was touched by Blue Screen the god of chaos and corruption. It’s harmless.” Dune was still confused, “And what does that mean specifically?” she followed up. Shooting Star shrugged, “I don’t know the specifics, you’d need to ask Blue Screen himself for that. All I can tell you that glitched Pokemon carry a bit of his power in them. That’s probably also the reason why he isn’t weak like other Eevees.”

Dune let out a sigh of relieve, “That’s good to hear.” she said. Shooting Star nodded, but then his face got serious, “I do need to ask you one question. Before when you told your story, you mentioned that you were brought back to live by Seraphore.” he looked at both her and Kuro, “In that case I do have to ask. Do you know what price you payed for that?” Dune froze at that remark, “What… do you mean?” she asked.

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Here we go again. This week our Heros learn a few important things.

This page is a bit more messy, then the last. There are a bunch of concepts I need to introduce to set up the next story arcs and theres also a lot of worldbuilding I want to share and I don't know where to put it in the story.

Anyway, for those interested how gender and reproduction work for Pokemon in this Au, I will make a post about that in a few days. Don't worry it's not goind to be NSFW. (find that here)

Well sorry for rambling. I hope you enjoy and see you next Time.