[attr="class","star2tsu"]You stare at the solemn eyes of the guardian til you are sure you see through them to the world within, the world this creature once inhabited, a world whispered of only in legend. Though it must have taken its last breath ages ago, it seems as if it is still alive. And in that murky past, you lose yourself, til you are sure history has seen through you the destruction wrought by this pokemon's unfortunate sleep. [break][break]
It is only then, when you feel you understand the emptiness in a hero who has lost, a thread of fate that has been severed, that the statue blinks. It stares back at you. And all you can do is stand there, as the opening of the end unhinges its jaws and swallows you both. [break][break]
You are a witness to history after all. Not just in spirit nor empathy, but a full on participant. And she, she is the hero born again who shall turn history itself along its axis, a pokemon who embodies hope for a world that has lost it, a pokemon that embodies the spirit to cut the future in twain amid a world that has abandoned progress. [break][break]
It is the light that beckons you. The heartbeat of the end. The same beating heart you hear in your dreams, in the depths of your psyche, summoning tremors that split you apart. It was that same heartbeat that you heard beneath the ancient tomb going on two decades ago, a sound you shall never forget. [break][break]
"It's here..."[break][break]
The end. The skeleton. Whether speaking of an event or that dreaded corpse, the result is the same, for it is both. It is the darkest day, it is the apocalypse manifest, it is the poison that seeps through the earth and burns away all it touches, the very thing that this hero so proudly defended against. And you, it is in you as well. The sea has made its mark on you, forever changed. [break][break]
You, who seek eternity, turn your head to the heavens and partake of this deep wine, how it tastes so bold and fresh, of the innocent and the guilty alike, of those who have nothing and those who have everything, of lovers, of the lonely, of children and parents. All succumb to eternity, all fall within it, toward the ever-onward march of time. [break][break]
But you, you're different, aren't you? [break][break]
Two decades, and not a single blemish on your skin. Though some might merely call it a genetic lottery, you think otherwise. There's a reason in everything, and mere random chance, mere mutation, cannot explain away all that has happened. The kiss of the sea, perhaps...[break][break]
You smirk as you turn toward the sky to face the skeletal embodiment of your dreams. [break][break]
The sight is haunting, it burns the eyes to look upon it. Even the smallest glimmer in that pillar of light is evident enough that you, small and powerless as you are, have yet to fall to the depths of eternity like so many before you. To glimpse upon it is proof that you still live, in sheer defiance. [break][break]
"The promise of the end, come at last."[break][break]
You raise the band attached to your wrist, and Ayame roars from the orb at your hip. Bathed in white light, the form of the venerable tree is dwarfed by the pillar of light she screeches at. And yet she grows larger in that very light, grows vast and towering, a tree to reach the heavens themselves. [break][break]
She pauses, admiration of her new form. [break][break]
And though you have never witnessed her so large before, you place your palm on her forehead to assure her, glancing toward the south at other giants just like those that appear on mountainsides. [break][break]
"Do everything in your power—Ayame, tear it apart!!"[break][break]
Vines thicker than buildings crawl from beneath the flower at her back, lashing out at the closest target, the Inteleon. [break][break]
As they do, you don't waste time. You turn your bow toward the heavens, searching for the skeleton hidden in the pillar of light. Source of your madness, source of your affliction, the cause of all your worries and sorrows the meaning of all your hopes and dreams. If you might bring its attention in your direction, if it might turn its singular eye upon you, that sole glowing core, that beating heart... [break][break]
You know not what would happen next. [break][break]
You stare straight into a glowing star and loose your notched arrow. The explosive growth of your Venusaur below your feet, your honed expertise in archery, and the bow's propensity to pull its shots toward large source of light... it all combines, to lend itself toward that single shot in its direction.[break][break]
A single, meaningless shot.[break][break]
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+Tsubaki's bow, crafted with
Black Fragments and tipped with
venom, is shot in Eternatu's direction. A pitiful attempt to hit the source of the heartbeat that's tortured her for years. [break]
+Tsubaki's Venusaur uses G-Max Vine Lash on Inteleon, as it's the closest enemy target. [break]
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The longer his sword danced, the sharper it became.
