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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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POSTED ON Feb 9, 2020 3:00:51 GMT
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barking from the front door was incessant for a moment before it suddenly stops. the door swings open and kyle's attention is suddenly taken from his current business.

he comes down the stairs wearing a hoodie and dark jeans, an outfit different from the one he wore during the new year's festival. a backpack rests from his shoulders and the duty rig from his days from the slateport pd on his waist. his hand remains on his cheek, affixing a gauze from the bruising that the punch brought to him.

"noah?" he calls, expecting him. "oh."

he sees someone else he's familiar with, escorted by his mightyena from the defensiveness of his other dogs to his door. the mightyena all disperse as soon as stormy's inside, each of them yawning and stretching before taking a corner and napping.

"did someone tell you to come check on me after that? that's not really unexpected."

he comes down to meet stormy in the living room, glancing at her direction as he heads to his kitchen. "thomas is supposed to get the commissioner later," he says, pointing to the unconscious on his couch. "so, do you need anything?"

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stormy, bronwen
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twenty-five
july 25
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It takes Stormy too long to get to Kyle's. She'd left not that long after he and Noah had, and yet by the time she presses her forehead against his front door she feels like she's run a marathon and been walking for hours.[break][break]

Maybe she had.[break][break]

Stormy breathes a sigh, loudly, and it's immediately reciprocated by barking dogs before she even has a chance to bang on the door. She calls out to be let in but her voice is drowned out by the excited and territorial puppies on the other side.[break][break]

So, by natural instinct, she simply tries the door and it opens. [break][break]

She's swarmed by warm, furry bodies but no teeth graze her skin. Bodies bump uncomfortably against her bruises open wounds but she sucks in her breath sharply between her teeth and makes her way inside.[break][break]

It's unclear and she can't remember if she closed the door behind her, the Mightyena are too keen on guiding her towards the person she's looking for.[break][break]

Kyle calls out for Noah and she instinctively looks over her shoulder, not realising he's mistaking her for the boy she'd met at the festival.[break][break]

As quickly as the Mightyena surround her they disappear, and with them their comforting lean and warmth. She very suddenly feels colder and heavier, like she might collapse at any moment.[break][break]

"Well yes, of course they did. But I was coming anyway. No way I'm leaving you alone to dwell on this shit alone."[break][break]

She sighs because the way she's worded it comes across more harshly than she intended. Or maybe she's delirious.[break][break]

The woman's belly growls loudly as she watches Kyle walk towards the kitchen. Her hand grasps at her stomach, wrinkling the fabric of her dirty shirt. [break][break]

"Uh. Food. I'm starving."[break][break]

Her attention skips right over sleeping on the couch. There are more pressing matters at hand.[break][break]

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his stare last for a moment before he turns back to the kitchen and goes straight to the fridge. he winces at its contents as he opens it, unsure on what to offer stormy.

"did you not eat anything at the festival?" he asks as he makes small talk while he decides.

or maybe all the running and jumping from the encounter with the ultra beast tire her out. kyle's still running on adrenaline, raring to go, despite the calmer facade he's showing off. his blood boils, and every second of waiting only makes him more restless.

he picks out a cup of pudding for his guest. it really shows that he needs to buy groceries soon. maybe he'll just tell noah to buy some later.

"well, i'm leaving soon anyways," to balder's for another negotiation, but he doesn't say it explicitly. "so, can you watch the commissioner for me until thomas gets here? oh, and if you see this small, purple pokemon, can you grab him for me? i kinda need him."

kyle walks over to stormy and places her the pudding in a cup with a spoon on the coffee table by the living room before heading for his basement. he has one last item to take before he makes his trip to sootopolis.

as kyle walks out of the scene, the cosmog teleports on top of dahlia.

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Stormy follows after him, peering around his arm to see the meager contents of Kyle's fridge. There's a pout on her lips at the bleakness of the situation.[break][break]

He poses a question and she can taste the remainder of bile on her tongue.[break][break]

"Sure, but I sorta lost it all after Wadjet went down and all of the explosions made my ears bleed. The tank's empty."[break][break]

Kyle's calm demeanor is relieving considering their last encounter had ended with him getting punched and whatnot. The heat of his words seemed to have dwindled, which helped to calm Stormy's nerves.[break][break]

Her eyes do, however, linger a little bit too long on the bruise across his cheek. How could she not notice it, after all?[break][break]

But then he walks away with the pudding to set it on the coffee table next to Dahlia. He mentions that he's leaving and her eyes dart back up to read between the lines, to try and detect where he's going. She has her suspicions but she doesn't want to fuel his fire.[break][break]

She's reaching for the cup and she finds herself crushing the plastic a bit as she searches for her words.[break][break]

"Wait, hold up. Hold on, Kyle."[break][break]

But he's already leaving for the basement and asking her to look for some sort of purple Pokemon. [break][break]

The woman slowly peels back the plastic cover of her cup and holds the spoon in her other hand, her own hunger outmatching her desire to call Kyle back.[break][break]

Just as she plunges the tool into the pudding to retrieve a mouthful of the deliciousness, she turns around to find exactly what Kyle was looking for. It's hovering or sitting on top of Dahlia's sleeping form and staring at her with wide-eyed curiosity. Too much curiosity.[break][break]

"What the fuck are you?"[break][break]

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A WITHERING INFERNO




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[attr="class","ihead"]BURN BRIGHT BURN UP BURN OUT
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Wide-eye curiosity makes up the only emotion the Cosmog can muster at the sight of another human. With a bright chirp, it brings one of its feelers out to brush against her skin, probing to see if she's safe to embrace. But the Pokemon lets its gluttony get ahead of itself and lunges into a wild tackle moments later, looking to embrace Stormy with adoration and affection. The only warmth Stormy will feel from the loving touch is a lack thereof. [break][break]

It's cold. Inescapably cold. The Cosmog feels like an endless void, freezing like the space it represents, ripping the heat straight out of Stormy. She may be hot, she may be fire, but she is not endless. It feeds on her and like a freshly punctured wound she bleeds out as the Pokemon leeches onto her for nourishment. [break][break]

Until her defense mechanism triggers. Balder had missed out due to his Solgaleo being sapped as well. Cait's Celebi had tapped into their bond but their power transcends anything physical. Stormy's power is juvenile in age and becomes a wild outburst of uncontrolled aggression. Her capacity to summon flames engulfs her and starts to devour her alive. Moltres screeches from within her heart and she feels her heart palpitate, her chest tightening as her skin lights aflame. Flickering flames spill off onto Kyle's carpet and starts to lick at nearby furniture, threatening to spread as Stormy eats his house alive. [break][break][break]

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But the manifestation of her powers only mean a bigger meal for the Cosmog. It enters her flames without fail, creating a vacuum that treats the conflagration as nothing more than raw energy, feasting, putting out the fire before it can cause any real damage to Kyle's house. Dahlia will feel the heat tickle her skin but even with this intensity, the Cosmog eats it up before it can harm even the slightest hair on her. [break][break]

There is a power struggle at hand and with one more push, Stormy can feel a chance to pull away from the Cosmog's hold. [break][break]


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GIVE COSMOG YOUR ENERGY OR RESIST THE INVADER!
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's status as an avatar is under attack. if the cosmog is allowed to absorb all of his energy it will reach the 1/3 quota but stormy will no longer have her avatar abilities. stormy can resist this attempt to steal her energy but must state so through his in-character actions and oocly. [break][break][break]


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POSTED ON Feb 11, 2020 13:12:11 GMT
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For a moment, but only the briefest moment, Stormy and the Cosmog stand at an impass, neither one brave enough to reach for the other. [break][break]

That is, until the Cosmog realises her potential or feels the power burning inside of her and reaches for it.[break][break]

And then doesn't stop reaching for it.[break][break]

Cold emptiness burns, like really burns, when Cosmog wraps itself around her arm. It sucks at her core, pulling out all of the fire and energy she has left. [break][break]

And then she screams.[break][break]

Flames burst from her skin as her fight or flight instinct kicks in. Panic seizes her as she struggles to break free from the Cosmog that has begun leeching off of her. It hurts, it hurt so fucking bad.[break][break]

The woman stands up abruptly, pushing herself off the floor and away from Dahlia for fear her spontaneous combust might harm her. But it seems the Cosmog is faster than she is, eating up and absorbing every ounce of energy that she pours.[break][break]

Flames eat at the carpet and stain it black, travel dangerously up the legs of the coffee table and across before being snuffed out. Stormy, meanwhile, is on fire head to toe.[break][break]

Moltres screams in her chest and she can feel that panic turn into strength for just a moment. [break][break]

"Help me!"[break][break]

She throws her shoulder, and with it, the Cosmog, across the room. The moment the Cosmog hopefully breaks from its hold and she's freed, the flames take a moment to die away as she catches her breath.[break][break]

Hopefully, the carpet isn't too damaged.[break][break]

"Wh-what the fuck.. what the actual fuck just happened to me."[break][break]

What a wake-up call, Stormy. You can conjure your own flames.[break][break]

Unfortunately, it seems along with the fire and brimstone, Stormy's burned up everything that attached itself to her, including her clothing and the one strap of her backpack she carried around. In the confusion, she had managed to toss it aside, but it still smolders.[break][break]

resisted cosmog!

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[attr="class","ihead"]REVENGE OF THE FLAME
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Stormy throws more than just her shoulder. Like an unwanted puppy, the Cosmog is thrown across the room and into a far off wall. It lands with a solid thud and the drywall behind it cracks underneath the impact. The Pokemon is left in a crater of its own dizziness, suffering from a post meal itis as well as the pain of being used as a projectile.[break][break][break]

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[attr="class","ihead"]PITY RATE BROKEN: WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
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Cosmog is unable to absorb the entirety of Stormy's power but what it does manage to siphon off pools in conjunction with its previous energy. The collective energy between the three avatars it has encountered finally comes to fruition when the Cosmog comes to. It wails with an ear-shattering yawn and the stars align. An awaken Ultra Beast radiates with a strobe-light of the galaxy and the expansive star system that's yet to be discovered. The room becomes a canvas for the night sky and when it all settles what both trainers will find is an ULTRA WORMHOLE big enough for the Cosmog to escape to. [break][break][break]

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The portal lasts for moments before it closes in on itself. Kyle's Cosmog falls asleep not long after. The way the star pattern gas floats seem reminiscent of the milky way, constantly in motion as a visual representation of the power within. The next time it'll awaken it'll be able to harness its power into something productive. Who know how long it'll last though? [break][break]




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EMBARK ON YOUR ULTRA SPACE ADVENTURE!
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Enjoy the fruits of your labor! You may not have succeeded feeding your Cosmog enough to unlock its secrets but your effort does not go unnoticed. The exposure to different avatars is enough for your Cosmog to tap into a fraction of its powers. It may now open a wormhole into ULTRA SPACE (1) to explore the great unknown. Let a staff member know when you would like to use this ability.
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"what?!"

kyle rushes back up to the ground floor, swinging the door that lead to the basement stairs wide open. the image in front of him was surreal that he wasn't sure if alpha set her into flames or if she just combusted on her own. too shocked to process what he just witnessed, he stops for a moment before moving.

"hang on! let me just-"

before he could even go to his kitchen and grab a fire extinguisher, he finds stormy relatively unscathed besides her clothing. the flames subside and controlled for some unexplained reason, and he stares dumbfounded at his conclusion. it lasts for a few moments before he can force himself to move again.

"matthew!" he calls. from his back door enters a lucario, rattled from being woken up at the dead of the night. "first aid," he orders his pokemon, pointing a thumb backwards towards stormy and the cosmog.

the lucario releases an energetic ruff before rushing across the room and firing a heal pulse.

"l-l-let me just get you a c-change of clothes!" kyle stammers, unsure of how he should address stormy's... situation. "can i ask questions later?" even before she could respond, kyle rushes to the stairs and to the second floor of his house.

from the basement door, kyle's type:null peeks through, sinking back to the shadows should stormy take notice of it.



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stormy, bronwen
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Stormy watches the Cosmog fly off her arm. It bounces off the wall and leaves a sizeable dent, but the Pokemon doesn't return. Instead, Stormy finds herself curling into a more fetal-position, hugging her bare skin tightly and trembling with fear and pain.[break][break]

When Kyle arrives, fueling the fire with his own panic, Stormy can feel tears stream down her face as her better judgment takes over. Despite the quiet sobs wracking her body, it's obvious that this whole situation has taken a toll on her.[break][break]

He calls for another Pokemon, and the Lucario points a

heal pulse

in her direction and the Cosmog's. The warm, rejuvinating energy seems to lessen her bruises and the burns that, while didn't harm her physically, reminded her that she had, in fact, been on fire.[break][break]

She's at a loss for words even when Kyle asks a question, or intends to ask it later. He runs upstairs and she's left bare in the livingroom. It seem Dahlia hasn't stirred from her sleep, and Cosmog is just recovering.[break][break]

The feeling of something watching her makes the woman's skin crawl, and as she takes a cautious look around, she's almost certain she felt some kind of malevolent and yet.. familiar presence slink back into the basement.[break][break]

For the moment she thinks nothing of it, instead watching with horror as the Cosmog reawakens just in time for Kyle and her both to witness it open a tiny wormhole. It holds only for a moment before snapping closed, but it's enough to send a shiver down Stormy's spine.[break][break]

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kyle comes back to stormy, rushing down the stairs with a plain gray hoodie, cargo shorts, and a belt -- all of which probably did not fit stormy on hindsight.

"y-y-you can use this," he tells her, rushing, almost tripping, and then placing the set of clothes on the table. "i won't look!" he turns around and then crouches on the ground. he'd leave her, but he wonders if that's the right idea considering what he just saw of her expression.

he knows the experience probably was jarring from the reactions he got from both cait and balder, and adding up from the events of the night, it was clear that stormy needs to be calmed down this time.

regardless, a question manages to escape him. "are you okay?" he asks abruptly. "i'm not sure what happened, but did my cosmog do that?"


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stormy, bronwen
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Stormy remains where Kyle's left her, knees tucked to her chest in an attempt to regain her warmth. She seems to be fighting the urge to shiver and tremble, but the chatter of her teeth and her panic seems to prevent her from maintaining control.[break][break]

She startles when he does return, offering her a gray hoodie, some shorts, and a belt. For a moment that stretches forever but only lasts a second, Stormy merely stares up at him. [break][break]

But with one shaky breath, she reaches up to grasp his offer and she tugs the sweater over her head clumsily, as if she's only just learning how to use her arms. The softness and immediate warmth of clothing against her skin is relieving.[break][break]

His vow to not look falls on deaf ears - at this point she doesn't care if he sees her or not. He witnessed her stark naked and engulfed in flames - what's done was done.[break][break]

Besides, she'd never find herself ashamed anyway, she trusted him.[break][break]

While he turns around, however, she does manage to pull the cargo shorts over her legs and tie them as tight as she could with the belt. She looks ridiculously mismatched and small in Kyle's clothes, but she also looks comfy.[break][break]

He beckons to her with a question and she manages to find her words. Her voice trembles a little as she speaks.[break][break]

"I-I-I.. I don't know. I d-don't know what just happened. I'm so cold."[break][break]

She feels that lump of panic crawl back up her throat and she hesitates, choking on it.[break][break]

"It, that thing. It grabbed hold of my arm and I felt like - it tried to swallow me whole. Something happened, it triggered something. Everything was on fire. I was on fire. And yet.. I'm unhurt."[break][break]

Confidence fills her voice as she struggles to make sense of the situation. The woman turns her hands over, gazing down at the slenderness of her fingers. They're cold, absent of the heat she normally carried. She had been impossibly warm ever since meeting Moltres, but she hadn't really a clue why.[break][break]

Until now, that is.[break][break]

"I'm so cold."[break][break]

She pulls her hands back into the long sleeves of the sweater and she shivers into the neck of Kyle's sweater. She looks pale as she glances at Kyle.[break][break]

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hearing the fastening of the belt tells kyle that stormy was done changing.

his hands hold hers, sharing what little warmth his weary hands could share. he moves his thumbs over her hands, creating friction to generate heat, however subtle it was. he stares at her, giving her the explanation he feels he owes her.

"that pokemon... it usually doesn't do this to people, besides..." he pauses and shifts his gaze to the side, considering his words. "avatars, i think. noah's been near it and it didn't do anything to him. cait and balder did, however."

his eyes return to her.

there were follow up questions that he wanted to ask: which legendary gave their blessing to you? what ability does their blessing impart? when did this happen? kyle swallows. as much as he was curious about them, there's something else entirely that needs to be addressed.

"i was going to... negotiate... with balder with him." the term negotiate is used loosely. "but i don't think that's needed anymore."

he lifts his head and yells. "marcus!" the arcanine barely squeezed from the backdoor and forced himself inside, trotting over kyle with his tail wagging. kyle temporarily lets go of stormy's hand and tips the arcanine over so it lies down on his side. he moves his hands to stormy's shoulders before kneeling as he guided her to sit on the ground, snuggled within the warmth of the fire-type.

"i saw the wormhole. i'm going in it once i wake up cosmog." he stands upright, feeling a lump on his throat as he feels unsure of his next words. "i'm sorry, but can you handle things on your own for now?"


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stormy, bronwen
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Stormy can feel him staring at her, and, despite the warmth he offers with his hands on hers, she finds herself uncomfortable in some way - like he's looking at her differently. And he is, because there's other possible explanation for her to have spontaneously combusted upon contact with the tiny cloud.[break][break]

Her breath hitches when he finally voices his thoughts and lays it all out in the open. She's an avatar. That has to be the cause of all of this. She had suspected and wondered, of course, after the events on Mt. Pyre. But she hadn't been certain. Maybe she'd been too afraid to find out.[break][break]

Kyle mentions Balder and she squeezes her hands tighter around Kyle's, unease drifting from her fingertips to his.[break][break]

The way he said 'negotiate' leaves her uncomfortable. Had he meant to sick the Cosmog on him, too?[break][break]

Stormy flinches when he yells over her shoulder, beckoning an Arcanine to appear. The giant dog immediately reminds her of her own and she allows Kyle to help her back to the ground to sit. He doesn't, however, stay with her, and instead promptly gets back on his feet.[break][break]

"Wait, what do you mean 'you're going in it'. You're jumping into the wormhole? Kyle, that's insane."[break][break]

Of course, she had suspected such an action from him. She could see the pain in his eyes and the worry. His friend was out there somewhere, trapped and alone. There had been absolutely no way Kyle wouldn't find a way to get to him.[break][break]

"You're going alone? Are you mental?"[break][break]

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he raises his arm and looks at the time.

"it's already been a while." he drops his arm and takes his phone out. "how long do you think can a person survive on the other side without pokemon?" he starts to scratch his head with his other hand, grumbling. "that three-pokemon-only rule for that festival was dumb."

he starts to type on his phone, the first message being written out for was to : 'im going on vacation hehe. go buy groceries too ty! <3'

"they're not wrong with this being suicide, you know? i'd rather not be responsible for anyone else. besides, i'm just going to try and evade all those beasts. doing that solo is easier than being in a group."

as soon as he hits send, he points the end of his phone towards stormy.

"and i'm serious. please don't try to stop me."

he doesn't want to, but he will if he has. he already showed he wasn't beyond using force to get what he wants, much like that incident with the shoe and the threat of sicking his cosmog on a friend like balder.

despite stormy being an avatar, kyle wasn't afraid of going against her if it comes to that.



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stormy, bronwen
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It's already been too long, surely. [break][break]

Stormy can hear the agitation in his voice, the fear. Because he's afraid - but not for himself. [break][break]

The colour seems to pale from her cheeks, whatever colour had begun to filter back in thanks to Arcanine. He's right. This is a suicide mission, because how could he possibly expect to come out of this alive? To bring both himself and Mateo back, alive?[break][break]

Kyle keeps talking and she's unable to find her voice. Perhaps she's afraid if she speaks up he might just bolt.[break][break]

In fact, she nearly flinches when he points the phone at her, because he's caught her before she could object, before she could voice her desperate plea to stop him.[break][break]

But does she want to stop him? Does she want to stop him from doing exactly what she would do, if it had been him that was pulled through that portal?[break][break]

"How are we getting home?"[break][break]

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