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Serena frowned as she glanced at the seal. "We're just here to scout after all. The rest can be handled by those more equipped and prepped for things like this." she spoke to Genesis who had questioned how they were supposed to examine the seal if they couldn't touch it. "The fact that we found something notable is good enough for now. We wouldn't want to jeopardize the mission by fucking around with unknown shit unprepared."[break][break]

As she was speaking something caught the corner of her eye. The former Rocket Beast turned to face the movement she caught in her peripherals only to be floored by what she saw. She'd recognize that pattern of fur anywhere. Off in the distance a spectral version of her partner pokémon Caspurr, her Liepard, was looking at her. [break][break]

Serena blinked back clearly confused if this was an illusion or reality. Then she was quickly reminded of where she was and what Adrian and Yveltal had told her about this place. All of a sudden Cas turned on his heels to leave and Serena reached out for him. "W-Wait!" She lurched forward before freezing. [break][break]

She still had a job to do but she couldn't just let Cas wander off alone. "I'll catch up with you two. I just need to check something." And that was all she said before she took off running after the ghost she'd just seen. Serena quickly bolted her way through the mountainous terrain as it seemed Cas was leading her somewhere. [break][break]

There was a misty trail that lead further up the mountain. As she continued to follow after Cas, who would wait for her to catch up sometimes before quickly darting off again, the path became more and more obscured by mist. Just when she could barely see in front of her the wind blew fiercely to reveal them suddenly at the mountain's peak overlooking the vastness of this spiritual plane. [break][break]

Serena stopped to catch her breath while Cas sat on the edge of a cliff looking out at the horizon. "Why'd you lead me here?" Serena managed to ask after a moments rest. Cas glanced at her before turning and making his way to her. He nuzzled against her just like he used to when he was still alive. [break][break]

Serena felt her heart pierce and ache before dropping down to embrace him. It was odd, even though Cas was no more, this spectral version of him still managed to hold substance. She would've thought she wouldn't be able to hold him, she was even more appreciative of this fact. She hadn't been aware just how much she missed holding him till she was here. [break][break]

"I'm sorry." she breathed with a shaky voice. "If I was stronger you wouldn't have--" she began to apologize but Cas stopped her by poking his nose against her lips. Just like before, even without speech Serena knew well what it was that Cas was saying to her. Her eyes began to prickle as she squeezed him. [break][break]

While she held onto him memories from Cas' time here poured into her. She could clear feel his feelings almost as if they were her own. She couldn't explain the situation but she chalked it up to some fancy business here in the spiritual realm. Cas had been worried about her after his absence. He didn't regret his choice but he couldn't help but be concerned for Serena because he knew she would blame herself. He wanted her to know he'd always make this choice if that meant he could save her. [break][break]

Meanwhile Serena realized that Cas hadn't been able to rest in peace since he'd been so concerned about her. "I'll be alright." she said as she scratched his ears, "But I'll miss you like crazy." Cas purred as he nuzzled against her hand, almost as if he was saying 'Likewise'. The soft sound of chimes sounded in the distance and Cas turned, it would seem his time was up. "Promise not to have too much fun without me?" Serena said with a small smile. [break][break]

Cas snorted, as if to say 'No promises,' before pausing and pressing his nose against her forehead one last time. "I love you big guy." Serena whispered and she could feel that he felt the same. Then the familiar gust of wind from earlier blew one more time causing Serena to shield her eyes. When she opened them again he was gone. [break][break]

Serena paused for a moment soaking in the silence and absence of her dear friend before stealing her nerves. She still had work to do. Placing her fingers to her lips she whistled for Horus to come pick her up. As they made their way back to where she left her teammates Serena caught an odd flash of light in the distance towards the east. Touching down back where she left her team she glanced at them and then nodded her head in the direction of where she noticed the flash of light. "Scouted ahead a bit. There's something going on over east of us. We should check it out if we're done here."
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[attr="class","thadmain"]As Onyx watched, Jett’s form began to flicker and twist, breaking down in spots to reveal the stretch of the landscape behind her: an endless sea of trees and smog flickering with muted colors and silence.

“No,” he said, before he even realized he was saying it, “don’t go--,”

Sorry, little brother, she cooed-- in his head, so ephemeral he could’ve imagined it-- but I’ll see you again soon, ‘kay? Promise.

He shot out a hand to grab her but she turned to wisps of fog in his grip. In that moment, reality seemed to set in again; he wasn’t alone. He was standing at the base of the mountain with Serena Malcolm and genesis aria fox , the former seeming to go through her own come-to-Arceus moment. Behind them, the seal pulsed an ominous heartbeat of the land.

Onyx’s hand dropped, and he squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head, forcing himself to be present. This whole place seemed like a bad dream.

“We shouldn’t stay,” he said, reaching a hand out to his raven for some sort of comfort and trying to fight off the innate helplessness that came from showing emotions in front of strangers. “I don’t think this place is good for us. We found the seal. We can find it again, next time.”

He pulled himself up onto his bird and pushed her toward the sky.



+ my bad i 10,000% thought i had already done my last post and rolled LMFAO
+ seeing his sister's ghost fucks him up a lil! so he says we should go, and bounces.
+ take us home kids

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Upon Genesis asking if she'd found anything Serena shook her head before bringing a finger to her lips. The rockets were hidden among the brush for a reason after all. "Shh, we have tangos on our 3'o'clock." Serena said as she nodded in the direction. "And I recognize one of them as a former elite four, so we need to be careful." she whispered.[break][break]

"But just like the area we scouted before, there's a seal here too." she said with a soft sigh. "I don't know what that could mean but if we take care to note down where these are, we can inform Rocket and return later to--" before she could finish she noticed that Genesis had only paid attention to one thing, the fact that there was another seal here. [break][break]

It would seem she was determined to make up for lost time. After all, they had prevented her from investigating the seal to the west. "Wait!" she hissed after her but it was too late. Serena didn't know what would happen if she touched the Seal. "Joker!" she called to her shadow mime jr. who used PROTECT on them before Serena focused her attention to those in front of her. [break][break]

Turning towards Genesis she hissed as she ran past her. "Figure out what you can and then we're getting out of here!" Genesis would need a distraction to get anything useful from that seal, so a distraction she would get. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Serena called out to those she assumed were league aligned. "Aren't you bunch far from home?" She was used to playing the bad guy after all, this time would be no different. "Hope you don't mind if I crash your party." she said with a point as Dimitri, her inteleon took aim and prepared a SNIPE SHOT at Kazimir Wynter and Kyrenai Black. [break][break]

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