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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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POSTED ON Oct 7, 2018 7:58:41 GMT
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this girl just shows up and thinks she can start bossing her around. not only that, but she goes so far as to tell him what to do too. in the face of what they've just gone through it's too much disrespect for lillian to stomach. getting lectured by someone who sat idly by is wrong. she remembers the shout that was cut short and takes that as a target.

"i don't need your help to know where i am or what to do! go back to hiding in the bushes or whatever, we're not leaving."

with that she marches over to the pokeball she threw earlier. the change in position brings her closer to him again, and as she picks it up from the ground she doesn't let his shape leave her sight. she doesn't care what this newcomer thinks but she cherishes his thoughts more than anything. at least anything she can name here on this mountain. so when he tells her to leave she can't help but take a more passive tone.

"please nando, i can help. really."

her voice is soft. she doesn't try to overrule him like she does the stranger. it's not what she wants to do, and she hopes it's not what she needs to do either.

"i, i freaked out for a second but i'm okay now. i'll be okay."

the pokeball is tucked into her hands as she speaks. her fingers intertwine and fidget on its surface as she tries to make her case. they tighten and her palms press flush against the orb even as pain begins to slip its way past her failing adrenaline.

"it's scary up here but it's worse by myself."

for fear of what they'll find otherwise her eyes don't meet his, locking onto his chest instead. the angle lets her bangs hide her eyes, which are already misty again despite her claims of newfound strength.





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POSTED ON Oct 7, 2018 21:21:53 GMT
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POSTED ON Oct 7, 2018 23:25:22 GMT
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annoying.

they're loud. stupidly so. fernando doesn't waste his breath on quarreling. he'll need that energy for the climb above. it'll only get harder the higher they rise. tempers and attitude are best left behind. it's unnecessary weight.

"i can't help you."

ralts finds shelter inside her ball. he can't afford to expend her stamina any further. not after that beating. unfortunately, lillian lays claim to the dolphan. while fernando doesn't explicitly berate her for poaching, he could absolutely use the extra man power. a party of three seems foolishly understaffed. using a skeleton crew is a hazardous gamble. he'll need others. her plea to accompany him garners a second thought. maybe he could allow it, just this once.

once would become a life time-- today births the unspoken pact between them.

"do what you will."

freedom is fleeting. from here on out it's only downhill. his governance will only expand as they age, until they're both putty in his hands. but, in the spring time of youth, they're allowed the naivety of their hopes and dreams.

"let's go ditty."

the newcomer finds herself like lillian, improper of his regard. it'll fester into a need, an obsession, but remains unaddressed. today, the mountain has his interest and so he sets off. leaving them in his dust. his enthusiasm comes from adolescence, unfazed by the trails yet to come.

and oh do they come.

a path carved out by the footsteps of those before them warps into many twists and turns. out in the wild, they're adventures are fraught with peril, the wildlife holding no regards for their liveliness. out here, they play their part in the food chain, prey for the strong, predators of the weak. undoubtedly, they come across the laws of mother nature in action. the expansive barrenness in front of them is the home to a brawl between two gravelers and a lone onix. if possible, fernando would prefer to avoid the confrontation entirely. unfortunately, they're impeding his progress.

patience proves invaluable. the sound of stone collisions bear down with an incredible thundering. from the cover of a misplaced boulder, fernando spectates the onix coming blow to blow against two opponents. the sheer impact of a well place IRON TAIL sends one of them barreling down the mountain. it makes the other one desperate, unable to hold on any longer. cornering it only makes it radiate brighter-- a gleam of what's to come.

fernando recognizes the move and immediately makes a run for it back the way they came. they're in deep shit now. that gravelers about to blow its load!






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POSTED ON Oct 8, 2018 3:43:35 GMT
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POSTED ON Oct 9, 2018 10:06:08 GMT
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immediately, thalia knew that she hated this girl. what she didn't know was that she was going to hate her for a very, very long time.

the urge to yell was strong, but the blonde was quick to turn her attention, and thalia managed to bite her tongue. even then, she had a smug sense of superiority about the situation. she was being mature. she was showing restraint. yelling would only further attract the attention of the surrounding wild. she'd been responsible, and now she was being smart.

she tagged along. that was her responsibility, whether they liked it or not.

their interaction made her uncomfortable, though. she didn't know what it was about it. it didn't feel like other kids her age. her confusion created more frustration... it was like they had no regard for her at all, and now they were being weird, and they were still being so obstinate and wayward and stupid, but so—

restraint never paid off. though she kept her distance, she was close enough to witness the same scene as anyone else. it was as she had observed earlier: on mt silver, sometimes there was commotion, but it rarely had anything to do with her. this didn't have to be a problem. that was what she thought, anyway. on that day, things continued to go south in the most unexpected ways.

as that graveler bloomed with light, thalia's mind went blank. the onix would likely absorb most of the damage, but she wasn't thinking about that. she wasn't thinking about anything. the drive to run — to survive — was nothing but a primitive urge. she couldn't even speak.

of course, it would never be that easy. the explosion was enough to knock her to the ground from sheer disorientation. dazed, she could only remain sprawled on the ground, face in the dirt, ears ringing so loudly she couldn't hear anything else. she was scared. she was scared. she was scared. and she would only get more scared.

with her senses inhibited, she thought the tremors that followed were simply the earth settling in response to the shock, until she caught sight of the steelix in her peripheral vision.



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POSTED ON Oct 10, 2018 4:34:38 GMT
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'do what you will' may as well be an enthusiastic blessing based on how well lillian takes it. the anxiety that had begun to take hold of her body language dissipates and her eyes for a moment reflect his brilliance. a part of her wants to hug him, tell him he isn't making the wrong call, but in the end she settles for stupid grinning in his direction. she all but forgets the dried tears on her face, alongside the blood and dirt that already stain her clothing so early in their climb, as she hurries to follow after him.

and yet this time she is more cautious than when they started. she doesn't follow at his heels or watch his back every moment of the hike. instead she makes herself alert in the way a kid who thinks they should be alert is. she lets the leftover energy from their brush with death lead her body towards hyperactive awareness -- her head darts at the sound of every noise and the pokeball housing the sleeping donphan is kept clutched in her right hand.

the only exception to her vigilance is the girl behind them. the stranger who only stopped pissing herself in the bushes to come boss them around. lillian ignores her out of spite. any sound she makes, or gesture, is left unnoticed as a matter of principle. this other girl doesn't belong here. while she's quick to give herself a second chance lillian refuses the same courtesy to her; convinces herself that it's because she just watched them fight and not because she feels some special experience has been irreparably changed by her coming.

ironically it's her thoughts dedicated to ignoring the girl that breaks her focus. as her angry preoccupations become stronger and stronger, the energy dedicated to surveying her surroundings slowly wanes until she finds herself almost running into fernando's back. she doesn't even realize it's because he's trying to run away until he's past her. she finds herself in the front of the pack as a bright light begins to dominate the wall of the mountain.

the SELF-DESTRUCT doesn't hit her directly but the shock waves it creates and the rocks it throws do. her ears ring as she's thrown to the ground, and she feels her right arm and leg burn as chunks of their skin are scraped away by the uneven ground. a scream -- of shock or pain she doesn't know -- rips through her throat but she can't hear it. everything but physical sensation fails her in the moments after the blast.

her vision comes back first, blotchy and made blurry by tears she didn't realize she was crying. at her side tulip, her dratini, stands tall making faces at something over her. when lillian turns again her hearing returns; this time when she screams she hears it. the onix, the one she hadn't seen get blown away by graveller, looks haggard but angry as it moves towards her. the targets of its rage have been vanquished but its new injuries make it hostile still. like before she panics, and like before that panic leads her to plucking out an empty pokeball. when it lunges she throws and they meet in the middle.

as the ball shakes she collapses in on herself, a wave of pain from her fresh injuries making her grit her teeth to choke back another screech.




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POSTED ON Oct 11, 2018 6:53:26 GMT
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vertigo.

the eruption only lasts a moment. they're all displaced by it, scattered like dice. the influx of raw energy create a vacuum, siphoning all sound until the entropy caves into a climatic boom. with it goes their hearing, rattling them to the bone, violently battering their brains against their skull until it manifests into a physical migraine. that doesn't stop him from picking himself, staggering to regain his footing. he doubles over several times, grasping at anything to stabilize himself with. the tremors of reinforcement is the only sense he can perceive.

time is of the essence.

metallic serpentine frames only grow larger in the distance.





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it would have been too easy for her to have minded her own business. they could have carried this burden alone. thalia wasn't helping at all. despite her bravado, her good intentions, the girl remained uselessly on the ground.

in the face of true power, resolve meant nothing.

she didn't immediately recognize the shaking at her hip. a red flash beside her and her awareness narrowed like the barrel of a gun. moments later, bug the trapinch had escaped underground.

recognition was not understanding. she may as well have been abandoned.



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POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 23:29:52 GMT
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getting upright takes more strength than lillian thought she held in her small frame. her skinned knees and scraped palms from earlier are nothing compared to the raw wounds she now sports on her right side. a mix of friction burns and torn away skin; they seem to radiate pain and quickly become much slicker with blood than any of her previous injuries. still, they're surface wounds. they sting and burn and bring tears to her eyes but they're not debilitating. she limps away from the stains she left on the stony ground and towards the others again.

behind her tulip slithers quickly to catch up, the pokeball housing the newly caught onix held tight between her teeth.

on her way to fernando she sees her. the stranger sprawled out on the ground, somehow overwhelmed despite the relatively good shape she's in. for a moment the idea strikes lillian that she can just leave her there. maybe if they push on without her she'll turn tail and run for home, leaving them to finish their journey alone. it's tempting. immature temper stokes the juvenile fantasy almost enough to make her act on it. in the end, though, she finds herself reaching for the girl with her good hand.

"get up, you're slowing us down."

there's no charity in her voice -- for she doesn't do this out of charity. lillian tells herself that if she doesn't pick the coward up fernando will have to, and with the way those tremors are growing she doesn't imagine it would be safe.




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their savior come in the form of a mamoswine. stuck between them, fernando can only hope to circle around the behemoth, ushering for the others to follow his lead. with a wave of his hand, he dives behind the loose protrusions of rock that shield them from the pokemon's sight. the steelixes are not as lucky. they trail after their prey until they come across the mamoswine the swiftly puts them in their place. if the BLIZZARD is not enough to dissuade them then the EARTHQUAKE that follows forces them to. the earth trembles as mamoswine's hooves come down, tearing the ground asunder and displacing everyone nearby. shock-waves throw everyone off their feet. luckily, none are caught slipping as stone are uprooted, tossed aside like glitter in a snow globe. fernando can barely keep to his feet as he clings to one of the larger, firmer stones.


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the voice that rings out is one she barely hears, but the hand extended to her is universally understood.

thalia is not too proud. she's a child. she's afraid. she takes that hand without a second thought and scrambles back to her feet, eyes unfocused and stinging with tears.

the earthquake that follows is enough to disturb her balance and send her stumbling directly into the girl. she doesn't topple them, but firmly braces against the blonde's shoulders for fear of collapsing again.

oddly enough, she's sorry. she recognizes she's been saved. there's sincerity in that, even if it's one sided.

she doesn't see what follows, but she feels it. in combination with the new adversary's heavy, deliberate footfalls, arena trap activates. the area surrounding their foes sinks into the ground as the system of tunnels created by bug the trapinch are provoked to fall in upon themselves.

her hand shakes as she retrieves the capsule, recalling her dear friend from underground. the cold stings her face.



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