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"RUN", the word echoed in his head. So he ran, ran hard and fast with his mienfoo in tow, toward the mouth of Granite Cave. The Martial Arts Pokemon was vocalizing loudly and lightly smacking his trainer’s arms, as if to voice his displeasure at being forced to flee from a fight. If that mienfoo could talk, it would probably talk about honor and the noble pursuit of combat, the path of the warrior.[break][break]

The path of a warrior was a fool’s errand. Honor would not be the shield that kept from dying.[break][break]

Kaname ignored the fidgeting mienfoo as he entered the mouth of the cave, he had no time to admire the damp air or the refreshing coolness. No, he had to keep running; and he did. He darted through the cave and took a left. He had no time to stop and ponder his choices, he just made them on the fly. He feared that the beast would be right behind them; in fact it likely was, the chances of him outrunning a garchomp were slim to none. But he had to try, his screaming brain refused to let him slow down for fear of being eaten.[break][break]

This would not be how Kaname Fujihara died. Not today; he refused to die like this.[break][break]

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+Postdormitum Mission: Cave[break]

+Currently: Wearing a mask and his hair is dyed black[break]

+Pokemon in use: Mienfoo[break].

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POSTED ON Apr 12, 2023 1:22:29 GMT

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Something is coming for you. Your battle has stirred a sleeping dragon. Its circumstances are irrelevant. Where it came from or why such a beast came to be slung to a seemingly normal trainer’s belt is a matter for later. In the here and now, there are rumbles. Footsteps. Louder and louder with every step.[break][break]
This is a beast that ruled the world when it was young. When humans like you huddled around campfires for warmth and told tales about the monsters at the mountaintop to scare the children to bed. Man in their avarice and folly claimed that they could tame such monsters. Armed with technology and technique, man claims he can tame the monster.[break][break]
It’s a fairy tale. Just as much as true love’s first kiss turning a Politoad into a prince. That dragon is precisely where it wants to be. It always has, and it always will.[break][break]
And what it wants, more than anything at this moment, is to kill. It wants to taste your flesh. You have committed the cardinal sin of running from him. You have made him work for his meal. You have angered the dragon. Your death would not have been swift to begin with, but now it promises to be agony.[break][break]
It is right behind you. Swift. Swifter than any creature so large has a right to be. Soon it will be close enough for you to feel its hot breath on the nape of your neck. Its coarse tongue will tear the skin apart like sandpaper against smooth grain.[break][break]
“Vortigern, NO!” His trainer yells.[break][break]
Useless words.

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POSTED ON Apr 14, 2023 0:29:17 GMT

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The sound of footsteps came from behind him. The sound of those rumbling footsteps made his heart beat faster, like it was slamming against his sternum in an attempt to free itself. It was there, the beast was keeping in time with him. There was nothing he could do, except run until his legs gave out. He sucked in breath after breath in a desperate attempt to keep oxygen flowing into his panicked body. His legs were starting to ache from the running, his arms starting to ache from holding tightly onto his mienfoo. The Martial Arts Pokemon had since ceased protesting and fell silent, silent with fear as he had also seen the dragon that hungered for them both.[break][break]

Desperation and fear were funny things, they could push you to new heights or drive you into the depths of the earth. Kaname was more desperate than afraid at this moment; desperately clinging to a life that did not fulfill him because he was afraid of what lies beyond the jaws of that dragon. In spite of every primal instinct in his body urging him forward, it was the desperation to cling to what is known that pushed him to keep running.[break][break]

He makes a sudden left turn, panting as sweat drips down his face and gets into his eye. His vision blurs some as the droplet stings his eye. He considers, for a moment, the point of his life. Was it worth it to run? To avoid the jaws of death? Or was it better to great oblivion head on? The odds of him saving himself were low, and his mienfoo would only serve to piss the beast off.[break][break]

As he ran through the tunnels of Granite Cave, he stumbled ever so slightly on a protruding rock. It wasn't much, but it was enough to cause his pace to slow.[break][break]

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Navy

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+Postdormitum Mission: Cave[break]

+Currently: Wearing a mask and his hair is dyed black[break]

+Pokemon in use: Mienfoo[break].

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POSTED ON Apr 14, 2023 3:21:51 GMT

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Footsteps behind you seem to stop as you turn the corner. You’re well and truly in the thick of it, now. Having consigned yourself to these caves, you have cut off retreat. You may only move forward through whatever this place has to offer. The dreams of freedom offered by the blue skies above are closed off to you.[break][break]
Now there is only darkness. It’s like the preview for a film you might get to see soon. The darkness of the cave stretches on far beyond when you can see. It’s uncaring, like the void that awaits beyond the dragon’s sharp fangs.[break][break]
Perhaps there’s hope when the footsteps fade. Maybe it took a wrong turn. Already, the cave system sprawls. This is where most of the big dogs are. People like your handler and all the Beasts on his side. Here doing the hard work. Fighting all the big, important battles. You’re just a bit player in all this that’s caught the attention of something beyond your pay grade.[break][break]
When you stumble, there is a rumbling. A quake. It builds under you. Spreads through the cavern. It’s like the very walls of this place are moving in around you. This environment itself is hostile. It wants to see you die. It would be too much to say that it is uncaring from the way it shakes and makes its opinion on you and your life known.[break][break]
No. It’s not the cave shaking.[break][break]
It’s what’s under your feet.[break][break]
A monster roars as it dives up out of the solid stone. Its claws and fangs tear through the stone like they’re water. A perfect apex predator of the ground bellows a cry that shakes the walls and breaks loose rock. He launches himself at you in a perfect attack vector, meaning to sink his teeth into you, tear a chunk, and fall back into the stone. A passing blow.[break][break]
He’s playing with his food.

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POSTED ON Apr 18, 2023 3:23:14 GMT

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Whatever spark of hope that existed in Kaname Fujihara’s heart died as he felt the very stone around him tremble. The rock below him shifted and shook; threatening him with an earthquake. He swallowed hard; an earthquake in this cavern would mean certain death, crushed beneath a coffin of stone. [break][break]

Was the entire world now out to get him, a bit player- a pawn? Why was this happening now, of all times? [break][break]

There is a roar that rattles Kaname’s very bones as stone churns and erupts forth; that great dragon of the land dove from beneath the rock as though it were the surface of a pond. He can hear its snapping jaws threatening to devour his soft flesh, he can feel the beast’s hot breath mere inches away from his flesh as it dives through the air and back into the earth below. [break][break]

Kaname had narrowly avoided the jaws of death.[break][break]

It was there, beneath the earth, waiting, waiting for him to stumble again. It may be playing with him now, but if he faltered again he would die. [break][break]

Kaname took off sprinting once more, his mienfoo clinging to his shoulder. The image of that wretched dragon bursting from beneath the stone to swallow him whole played in his mind on repeat. The thought of being crushed in those gnashing jaws pushed him to run harder than before. Despite his lungs burning and legs aching, Kaname raced against death itself in search of a Primal Rift to escape into. The Ultra Sea may be full of dangers, but he may have a fighting chance there. Inside this cave, however, he was sure to die. [break][break]

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Navy

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+Postdormitum Mission: Cave[break]

+Currently: Wearing a mask and his hair is dyed black[break]

+Pokemon in use: Mienfoo[break].

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POSTED ON Apr 18, 2023 5:45:58 GMT

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The world shifts around you. It is not all the doing of the great dragon. You’re no one important. They didn’t tell you what you’re signing up for. Like the old poet said, the real war’s never in the papers. Neither is it in the orders given to lowly men like you. You’re told to go. Fight. Smuggle. Steal. Never anything approaching the whole truth.[break][break]
You run through the caves and the world seems to turn blue. You should be drowning. Pokemon hum and float in the distance. Strange carrion calls not of this world echo in your ear. And beyond even them…[break][break]
The sound of a heartbeat. A maddening lub-dub. Churning blood like some you’re in the heart of some supermassive beast. Like this is some living thing. This isn’t the world you know. Espionage and Pokemon Battling are matters for the world above.[break][break]
Here, there be monsters. Monsters like the one that flies out of nowhere. What might have been mistaken for open blue sea was actually a rock cave. The land-dragon shatters that rock. He chases you. Swims down at you. Roars. His jaws extend. He means to sink them into your shoulder. He moves swiftly. Something must die as a result of this bite.[break][break]
Something must die.[break][break]
Will it be you or something else?

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POSTED ON Apr 20, 2023 0:35:52 GMT

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The world changes, shifts. Like the tide washing over the sand, the topography is altered. The very landscape is a different place altogether. There are pokemon in the distance, the world feels lighter here. Kaname swallows hard, realizing he is where he should not be. A place not accommodating to humanity.[break][break]

The Ultra Deep Sea.[break][break]

He feels like there’s a blue film over his eyes as he runs through this alien world. Like he is viewing in a technicolor spectrum he should not be. It is unsettling for the grunt, his fear is joined by paranoia. A paranoia that whispers to him “if the beast does not kill you, this world will.” That paranoia is not wrong. This is an alien world, with its own rules and designs. If he was unsure of that fact before, the maddening sound of a heartbeat not his own would serve as proof of the fact this world would not be kind to him.[break][break]

There was no time to think more on the matter as splinters of stone were scattered over him. That Garchomp, that great land wyrm emerged from a cavern wall and swam with ferocity at him. Kaname could not run, his legs would not work; they were locked in place by fear. This was how Kaname Fujihara would die. A coward done in by his own terror and weakness.[break][break]

Or he would’ve, were it not for his Mienfoo launching himself from his shoulders and straight into the jaws of death itself. That little mustelid martial artist didn’t intend to go down without a fight; its small paw glowing with a bright blue energy that intended to discharge upon the dragon’s snout. Whether or not the Mienfoo succeeded mattered not, it had leaped into the jaws of that great dragon; death was its only reward for foolish heroics. The path of a warrior always ended in blood.

The sight of this, however, brought pain to Kaname. Loss was an unusual experience for him. This sacrifice was untoward, but like a candle flame lighting another… it sparked his will to live again. So while the dragon would feast, he would run. Run harder and faster, unburdened by the weight of his friend.

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Navy

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+Currently: Wearing a mask and his hair is dyed black[break]

+Pokemon in use: Mienfoo[break].

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POSTED ON Apr 21, 2023 8:29:44 GMT

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Boldly he goes, and well.[break][break]
Into the jaws of death, into the gates of hell. Charges the lone weasel.[break][break]
He dies for you. His last act upon this world does little accept add to this dragon’s legend. The energy cuts into his face, scarring one side of his lips. It bleeds, but the great black dragon doesn’t notice. Pain is beneath a creature such as he. Not until the candle of his life burns down to a wick will he so much as fall over. That’s the sort of monster that is chasing you.[break][break]
There’s a crunch. It sounds like the snapping of twigs. Bones break under the might of his jaw. The pressure it exerts is enough to crush the skulls of mighty Tyranitar, housed within their armor of rock. The Pokemon that loves you enough to sacrifice his life for yours is no towering creature from a bygone age. He’s just a little martial artist, perhaps raised with love, who here at the end makes the ultimate sacrifice so that you can keep running through the caves.[break][break]
He stops and he feeds. He chews curiously. All that this little creature ever was is integrated into him. The dragon savors the taste. Laps at the flesh. Chews. Tears. Consumes him, down to the marrow of his bone. It is an ultimate act of love, to take another into oneself. To take everything that such a creature has to offer and integrate it into oneself, to become stronger, to be fueled by lesser life.[break][break]
As the dragon consumes the Mienfoo, the Mienfoo is loved. He is loved so very, very deeply.[break][break]
And the dragon loves you, too.

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POSTED ON Apr 26, 2023 1:29:20 GMT

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Love, honor, duty. They’re all sick things. Those principles drive people and pokemon to do insane things, like leaping into the jaws of a great dragon. Heroism should be a sin, Kaname thought; what good did it do for Mienfoo to become nothing more than the sickening sound of crunching bones and red liquor wetting the palate of that great beast? Yes, it likely saved his life, but at what cost? Time, effort, a bond formed that will never be able to be replaced. These things he can never get back. That’s what the Mienfoo offered up to the jaws of death. Heroism is death. [break][break]

Kaname Fujihara did not have a heroic bone in his body. He wouldn’t go out of his way to sacrifice himself, not like that; he was calculating, selfish even. His survival meant everything because dead men do not accomplish their goals. Would he have survived with the heroic intervention of that brave martial arts-using pokemon? Not likely, but he knew that. The realization that you are selfish and a coward is not an easy pill to swallow, especially not when the realization comes from the fact you are running for your very life. Nonetheless, he would swallow it down, because life is funny like that. A near death experience was all it took for Kaname Fujihara to admit: “I am a coward. I am selfish. I prioritize myself.” A renewed sense of self, snatched from the jaws of death, but how much of it is the trauma of the event and how much of it is the truth? Time would be the only judge.[break][break]

Still though, he ran, ran like his thoughts raced… ran away from that beast who loved so viciously. There were lessons here, about life; not that he had the time to ponder them running for his life. The more distance he put between that beast and himself, the further most of those lessons were. Only one thing was certain to him: heroism means death.[break][break]

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Navy

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+Currently: Wearing a mask and his hair is dyed black[break]

+Pokemon in use: None[break].

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