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POSTED ON Feb 25, 2021 14:21:18 GMT

  Heatran advanced, mouth open as she roared her challenge.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!"
    Magma dripped from her mouth in spits and globs, and waves of heat roasted Tapu Bulu. Her skin, like the skin of a magma-pool, flowed and split. Thin, brittle flames stabbed at the air, and heat poured off her body in shimmering waves.
Tapu Bulu wasn't about to wait for the magma toad to approach, and he brought his tree-trunk bat down right on Zagrea's head. The wood cracked as it ignited, half of the tree instantly consumed by Zagrea's molten body.
Zac cheered and took a step back from the blistering heat. "I knew you could stand up to a hit! Now counter-attack!" he shouted.
Zagrea shot a wide spray of magma at Tapu Bulu. Some of the magma hit Tapu Bulu, blistering his skin and blackening his horns. Whatever his head was made of, it wasn't wood.
    Greenery sprung up around Tapu Bulu. Vines and flowers that wilted in an instant as his siphoned their energy away, healing the minor damage that Zagrea had inflicted.
    Zagrea made a grinding, primal noise. She wasn't frustrated, she was furious. She wasn't just 'untrained', as Zac had so generously put it, she was one step from being wild. And she wasn't done. Not by a long shot.
She was here because she allowed Zac to move her around. She fought because she wanted to, and she knew what the problem was.
    It wasn't that her fire wasn't enough, it's that there wasn't enough fire.

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POSTED ON Feb 26, 2021 1:05:20 GMT

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  Zac was starting to get worried. He took another few steps back as great fountains of magma ruptured from Zagrea. Holy crap! I wasn't expecting so much! He thought, wide eyed as the jets of magma sprayed into the air. "Lucretia! Davenport!" Zac called, shouting over the tectonic rumbling of the building Magma Storm. "Set up some screens! This is gonna get messy!" He turned to Kev, who was coiled nearby, conscious and watching, but not moving. "Clear this area, buddy. The fire is spreading." With a prolonged groan, Kev lifted himself up and ground forward, his Terrain Roller turning the burning stall heaps into long smears of steaming ash.
"Need some help handling a package?" angelo vestri asked. Probably. Zac had difficulty hearing him over Zagrea's bellowing. Either way, this male was no snail, and a Decidueye swooped in from the tree line. It flew silently through the magma rain. Decidueye swirled with dark energy, and fired a volley of ghostly arrows at Tapu Bulu. Many of the arrows hit their target, and shackles burst from the wounds, winding around the bull.
"Thanks man! Abrazon Prime sure has some great perks!" Zac called. Angelo's Salamance set up a shimmering wall of force, protecting Zac's back from the rampaging Tauros.
The Spirit Shackles that wound around Tapu Bulu began to crack.     Zagrea wasted no time, and with a shuddering roar, she erupted in a towering, searing geyser of magma. Globs of the burning rock fell into orbit around Zagrea, forming a thick, whirling cloud of magma.     The molten volcanic rock splattering Tapu Bulu in viscous, orange globs. The legendary lowed in pain, clanging his bell furiously as he healed against the raging Magma Storm.

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POSTED ON Feb 26, 2021 6:03:17 GMT

Outside the storm, chaos reigned. Air and land were splattered with falling magma. It melted great chunks of Steelix's outer coating. It ignited the trees and torched the grass. It broke against the layers of light screen and protect, but they did not break.
Even magma storms have a silver lining.

Inside the storm, well, it was hard to tell. Zac squinted, vision blocked by the magma splattered screens and by the maelsteom itself. He caught glimpses of the two figures, Heatran and Tapu Bulu, so close that they were almost one. There was a roar in Zac's ears. Zagrea? The storm? His own rushing blood?

Lucretia and Davenport floated beside him, cameras trained on the clash between the legendaries.

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POSTED ON Feb 26, 2021 14:48:16 GMT

Zac watched the Magma Storm rage. Around him, the light screens shuddered, thick with solidifying magma. Zac felt calm. Ready. Not for battle -there was no way he could command Zagrea from this far away- but for the show to start.
Lucretia and Davenport had recorded everything up until now already, but this clash was only just beginning. Zac had always heavily curated his footage, editing it down to bit-sized chunks of 8-12 minutes for maximum viewability. But this event wasn't wasn't about education or engagement metrics, it was about the spectacle.
      "Lucretia. Drop and remake the outer screens, we can't see anything." Zac said, his voice loud and measured. "Davenport, activate D.E.V.I.N."
The Minior floated closer. It dimmed slightly, and a pair of indigo lights attached to its shell flicked on. And we're live.
  "Howzit goin' rippers!" Zac boomed, "It's Zac comin at ya live from what's left of the Oldale Spirit Festival!" Zac pointed off to the side, and Davenport followed his gesture, catching the roaring inferno in its full glory. "To all you folks at home, this may look like a terrifying, life-threatening scene, and don't worry. It is."
Eltanin, Angelo's Salamance, stomped forward into the storm, unharried by the heat and falling magma. He shot a gout of flame at the battling legendaries, feeding the flames of the already blistering battle.     "Thanks mate!" Zac called, facing offscreen to give angelo vestri a big thumbs up. Eltanin took to the air, swooping down to take another flaming pass at Tapu Bulu.
    Between the swirling magma, burning scenery, and the fire breathing dragon, the whole world seemed to be on fire.
    "As you can see, the situation is well under control."

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POSTED ON Feb 27, 2021 18:50:31 GMT

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      They were live.
Zac felt his phone buzz in his pocket. Devin? chryssa glasgow ? Either way, someone was watching and was probably messaging to ask what the hell he was thinking. "Behind me you can see a clash between two legendaries!" Zac said. He gestured behind him to the swirling magma storm. "The one responsible for this shi-...fting swarm of fire is Zagrea, my pride and joy Heatran. It's been about 20 seconds, and she's still holding her own against an as yet unidentified legendary." Zac swelled with pride.
“Zac, we’re off. Good luck, man. Don’t wait around for me.” angelo vestri said, holding his phone. Was he just taking a picture?
"No worries mate, thanks for the help!" Zac replied. He turned back to the camera. "Lots of brave trainers out here working as one to keep this guy contained."
Despite the constant fire hazard, the magma storm was a powerful defensive tool. Tapu Bulu was too busy regenerating to launch a proper counter-attack, or to continue his rampage. Now if they could just-
    It started to rain. Zac saw the sheet of rain drop across the remains of the festival. The squall swept towards the fight, dousing the flames and weakening the magma storm. Someone is putting out the fires, he realized, eyes going wide. Behind him, Zagrea roared, a ragged sound of pain and frustration. Shit.

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POSTED ON Feb 27, 2021 23:43:16 GMT

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The magma hardened, falling on the festival like stone rain. It clattered off of Tapu Bulu, cold and inert. The whirling magma storm fell from the sky, revealing a weakened Zagrea. Her skin hissed as she was splattered by the heavy rain.
Tapu Bulu's bell clanged. Loud, verdant, sonorous, like the deep chimes of a forest temple. Tropical plants sprung from gaps in the concrete and patches of scorched earth. They waved and wriggled in the pounding rain. He's callin' up more plants! And now that the fire's out there just gonna heal him straight back up!
Kazimir bumped into Zac, giving him a friendly elbowing as the duo looked over at the unrestrained Tapu Bulu. "Hope yer getting a lot of footage here man. Hope this one's for the books, not a lot of times we get something like that guardian running around. Might wanna wrap up that camera though, I got an idea thanks to this rain."
Kazimir's Pokemon attacked, Incineroar leading the charge with a thunderous, pummeling assault. "Good call mate, gonna need to change up the strategy here. But you're mad if you think I'm turning the cameras off now!"
Zac still had one trick left.
Lucretia floated over to him, her violet light shifting towards pink. Her flowing form solidified, a little, and with a wet plop she fell to the ground in a blob of pink goo. "Nice work Dina!"
The little Ditto wriggled happily, enjoying the rain. "One more job. See that big guy over there?" Zac asked, pointing at Tapu Bulu. "Transform."
Dina shuddered. She stretched and swelled, taking on the limited form of Tapu Bulu's head. "Ah damn! Just like with Zagrea!."
Zac picked up the portion of the legendary. It was just the top of the head too. Little more than a broad chunk of wood and a pair of powerful horns. "That's fine buddy, if all you're missing is legs then I've got you covered." Zac lowered the replia of Tapu Bulu's horns, and with a battlecry he charged at the real thing.
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POSTED ON Feb 28, 2021 0:43:26 GMT

    Ditto shifted, reforming the replica Tapu Bulu horns to sit snuggly across Zac's shoulders. Zac charged across the soarked ground, struggling to pick up speed as his feet sank into the mud.
    And then Balder Schwartz arrived in a goddamn mech. The massive robot stepped through a shimmering portal and released legendaries from its arms. Another Heatran, and one that Zac didn't recognize. Another one of those space beast?
Balder's Heatran called back the sun, drying up the muddy ground. The non-Heatran legendary flew strangely towards Tapu Bulu and slammed the rampaging bull into the ground.
"Thanks for the opening, mate!" Zac said, as he started his charge again. He kicked off against the hardened ground, storming towards the pinned legendary.

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POSTED ON Feb 28, 2021 3:34:57 GMT

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Davenport followed Zac, capturing one long, tight shot as Zac charged Tapu Bulu. Show it you're here as an equal, Zac thought. His legs pounded and his breath steamed, the reassuring weight of Ditto's transformed horn on his neck and head.
The weather had gone from volcanic storm, to torrential rain, and now back to blazing sunlight in a matter of minutes, leaving the ground full of dry puddles and sunken chunks of cooled magma.
Zac sprinted, sure-footed as he closed in on pinned Tapu Bulu. "Let me show you," he panted, hoping that Davenport's microphone was still working, "why they call me Zac Ramsay."
He crashed into Tapu Bulu, locking horns with the bull.

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POSTED ON Feb 28, 2021 4:28:03 GMT

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Zac had no time to argue with Stormy Silph about verbs. Head down, he crashed into Tapu Bulu, locking horns with the legendary. The impact shuddered through his shoulders, his neck muscles straining. The Ditto mantle across his shoulders quivered, but held.
    Head down, Zac watched the ground underneath sprout with thin flowers and creeping vines, only for the plants to wilt moments later as Tapu Bulu drained their energy.
    "You can't just come crashing in here," Zac said, as he ground his feet into the dirt, "and expect to tear the place up unchallenged."
    He set his stance, and pushed up. Zac was almost a foot taller that Tapu Bulu, and he leveraged every inch of that to rally against the Pokemon. "We are not here to be pushed around!"

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POSTED ON Feb 28, 2021 5:06:17 GMT

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Zac forced his head upwards. His wooden horns creaked as he strained against the Tapu Bulu. He needed to look this creature in the eyes. "Why are you here?" Zac shouted. He could see the creature's body now. Just black, ornamented with bells instead of hands of feet. "Why are you here now? Kazimir Wynter called you one of the guardians. That means you let the other three defend Hoenn. Where were you?"
Zac strained, he forced his head up, neck and shoulders bulging. He pushed the last few centimeters upwards, until he would just see the creature's vibrant green eyes.
"Where were you when Hoenn needed you?" he asked. Searching Tapu Bulu's eyes for answers. What was it feeling? Anger? Confusion?
Zac hoped it was feeling remorse. A searing anger built in him. Swelling to match Zagrea's burning storm.
"You've got a lot of nerve showing up now."

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POSTED ON Mar 3, 2021 3:47:32 GMT

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Zac glared into the eyes of the bull, and felt it stare back. Not just the intense, neck-prickling stare of a powerful Pokemon recognizing your presence, but a creeping feeling, like vines growing in the pit of his stomach.
Tapu Bulu snorted, and greenery surged around the pair, coiling around Zac's calves and transforming the scorched battle field into a lush winter field. And then it all wilted, just as fast, and the life that Tapu Bulu had fostered flowed back into the legendary, healing him. For him, life and death were as natural as breathing. Plants grow, wither, feed their life to others, which grow in turn. Life isn't linear, but cyclical.
The legendary snorted again, and Zac felt himself being pulled into that cycle. "So that's it, yeah? You're trying to pass the buck again?" Zac asked, never breaking eye contact with the blackened Tapu Bulu.
"Not on my watch mate. If you're binding us together, then it means you're going to be held to task for not being there. Slateport, Lilycove, Mauville, you missed out on a lot. I did too, but you being there could have really made a difference." Zac frowned at his own words. "No. It will make a difference."

For Tapu Bulu, life and death are a cycle. Where death comes, new life soon sprouts. The wheel turns, and the healing begins.

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A crowd had formed in the ruins of the festival. They ringed Zac and the blackened Tapu Bulu, with several people filming the pair. Davenport, Zac's Minior, floated above the crowd. There would be ample footage of Zac's unexpected ascension.
There were familiar heads among the crowd. Kazimir Wynter 's blond hair, Sénon Game 's burning red paired with cait alfric 's verdant green, and John Sullivan 's hatless head, getting closer. The youth clung to his Orbeetle as the pair floating over the heads of the crowd. "Zac! Oi, Zac!" Doug called, touching down at the edge of Zac's spreading Grassy Terrain. "That was awesome!"
Zac engulfed Doug in a hug. "I didn't know you were at the festival mate! Guess I didn't see you in all the..." he gestured at what little was left of the once glorious setup. The scorched, waterlogged remains of the stalls, the charred earth. Zac had been as much a part of the destruction as Tapu Bulu.
Zac headed for a pile of crushed wood nearby; the result of Kev's Steel Roller. With each of Zac's giant steps vegetation spread, tearing through the cracked cement and soil. Wisteria uncoiled from the eaves of Oldale houses, and Morning Glory crawled along the roads, hungry despite being out of season.
He beckoned Doug. "Time to clean up, yeah?"

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"Here," Zac said to John Sullivan . He pointed to the half-pile of crushed wood "bring all the other carts and stalls here."
Zac returned Heatran and Ditto, and set to work himself. Between the two men, their Pokemon, and Steelix's continual Steel Roller, they made short work of the wreckage. The mound of carts, stalls, and stools grew quickly. A hill of soot-smeared accidents.
Zac hurled another chunk of lumber onto the mound. Fungus and lichen had formed on the shaded edges, giving the wreckage an aged look, though it had been just a handful of minutes.
"These planks are pretty pre-burned, but keep any matches away just in case," Zac said to Doug, somewhat hypocritically. "I've got plans for this wood."

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  With the ruined stalls piled and soaked, Zac stepped back to admire their work. He nodded in satisfaction. It was amazing just how much fodder they had been able to collect.
"Step back Doug," Zac said, as he himself walked up to the pile. He placed his hands on a board that used to be part of a fruit cart. The wood was soaked and splintered, and the hard fibers bent on contact with his skin, turned away by some control that Zac now possessed.
Grow. Zac commanded, as the force of wild, untamed life hummed around him. Roots twisted underfoot, pressing against his boots as they sought outwards, outwards, and then down. Rot spread through the pile, chewing and tearing, weakening fibers into perfect mulch.
Zac dug his heels into the ground, hitting root. I need more, he thought, pressing down on the board. Give me more Bulu, or else come and do it yourself.
    A single drop of emerald dripped from Zac's thumb, and the board shuddered. The grain of the wood darkened, and the sawn knots swelled and unwound. The edges of the now living plank bristled with fresh, waving shoots, and Zac inhaled the scent of cedar.
Within the pile, growing verdure twisted together, pushing up, up, and through the layers of weakened wood. Deep in the wreckage, boards gave way, snapping with wet, spore-filled coughs.
Zac glared at the pile. The plants were growing, but it wasn't enough. Wasn't close to close to enough. Was everything going to take this long? You're slow Zac. Unbelievably slow.
    After all these months her words were still planted in his head, sprouting fresh crops of doubt. Zac shoved his hands down so hard that the cedar cracked. "Little hand here?" Zac called to Tapu Bulu. "I'm not the one who needs to make up for lost time."

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