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POSTED ON Nov 7, 2023 5:25:14 GMT

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SURVIVING AGAINST TWO WAVES OF ATTACK IS AN ADMIRABLE FEAT. fernando barely gets to recall his GLALIE before he’s washed away by a power he once wielded. razor sharp winds tear at skin that has already been sliced open. the only warmth that bathes him is his own life essence. slick with a thick wetness.

the whimper of his ZYGARDE grows closer as the pokemon nears to check in on him. it limps under the weight of its own injuries, durable but far from indestructible. with a pained groan, he returns it as well, running his hand against the pain in his abdomen for a more suitable solution.

they can still come back from this. he just needs time. which means a pokemon that can stall out until he can reclaim the battlefield.

a chance he will never get.

for the GUARDIAN OF ALOLA was only meant to trumpet the arrival of TAPU FINI. once the power begins to dissipate, it must manifest in other forms. mediums.

the fae powers they have in common represent the mysticism in life. a pillar for them to stand on. but the other side of the coin is entrusted by hoenn’s very nature. TAPU FINI remains among the strongest, an embodiment of hoenn’s vast and wide seas.

it does not need to be by the shore to summon up a SURF. harsh waves that spread out in all directions, swallowing the heat they dare turn their way. washing away the sins of their past.

as for the IRON HEAD that can easily dart past? the pokemon needs to show no fear. to strike at it physically means to enter their domain. with every splash of water or surging tide is the coastal fog that comes with it. a hazy that entraps and enthralls. even the most resilient fall to their inner turmoil.

elisabeth can also expel a fog that causes affected targets to enter a BERSERK TRANCE. this can be used to tunnel their aggression onto a particular target.

to lash out against her is to earn her ire. to reject the world is to be damned by it.

anyone who attacks tapu fini or elisabeth while in the MISTY TERRAIN becomes CURSED.

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The water cleansed her, waves crashing down in a violent baptism as Tapu Fini reigned over nature's beckoning call. FERNANDO SILPH and his Pokemon drowned in the downpour, heat evaporating to form a fog that filled their surroundings with precipitation.[break][break]

If she'd ever doubted the Guardian's loyalty to her over its former Avatar, all such doubts vanished in an instant.[break][break]

Waves of MISTY TERRAIN surged out in pink foam cresting the Guardian's SURF, and not for the first time, Elisabeth found herself strangely comforted by its presence. What had once spun the fabric of her nightmares so many sleepless nights now served as her saving grace, and in its roseate haze, she could see the silhouettes of her Tsareena and her Nihilego stagger upright.[break][break]

They stood and waited for her to act, soldiers awaiting orders.[break][break]

Elisabeth looked up at the Salamence towering above, and wordlessly she gestured towards the woman whose arrow still pierced her chest with its hateful poison. A DRAINING KISS from her Tsareena sought to distract it, while her Nihilego attempted to ensnare it with a GRASS KNOT.[break][break]

Tapu Fini had their other opponent well in hand.[break][break]

"Do what you will," she whispered to the deity that now enfolded her in its cursed terrain, feeling alive as her hair spiraled out in the wild, storm-tossed winds. Shimmers of gold danced in a cascade of black tresses behind her, like flashes of lightning in a starless sky.

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the tides of battle are turning and they are not in freya's favor. her gaze rakes over broken rubble, but the scene before her is not of a darkened, bloodied cave; she is back in the water, bobbing uselessly in a sea of red kelp and looking upon outstretched spindly black fingers. she is seeing the manacles and she is thinking, i am enough as i am and for all her love, tapu fini is scorning her. burning her. turning her dragons' fangs and claws against their own flesh until they've obliterated themselves in an unholy ritual of needless slaughter.[break][break]

"then you should have said yes. it's called de-escalation."

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are they doomed forever to be the playthings of higher beings?[break][break]

blood still rims her lower lashes. capillaries have exploded in the whites of her eyes. her quiver has been dented in. the circuitry sparks, but with a thump, it spits out a pink-tipped arrow. she stabs it into lyune's saddle and soft healing pulses waft outward. they close up scratches. they sharpen her mind, scattering the echoing memories.[break][break]

the guardian fades into a billowing mist, a rising surf, and it rolls over the ground in waves. any hope she had of finding fernando's body is gone.[break][break]

she hisses and lyune claws upward in the air, nearing the broken-open tunnel ceiling. her sygna suit still hums with energy, but in the face of their fae opponent, they'll need a new edge.[break][break]

ribbons of infinity energy spin out from the z-crystal twined in her braid. the kiss that seeks to steal the rest of lyune's life force meets resistance against steel-sheened scales. at first, she thinks the grassy growth above them is nature's response to the blossoming energy, but the knotted flora wraps calculatedly around her lyune's tail and foreleg, swiping hungrily down for more. [break][break]

freya flips her wrist and her bow snicks into a blade. she shears through the greenery and lyune roars, spurting frustrated flame. below them, vhagar is swallowed by the mist. and she knows what comes next. his screeches of pain crash, off-kilter, and stutter into a bellow of rage.[break][break]

"yth slathalin," she seethes and lyune folds his wings.[break][break]

he snarls and growls and gnashes teeth, spurting fire, amplifying the thrumming of freya's raw and bloodied throat for the rest of her horde to hear.[break][break]

feathered wings lift them in unison above the surf. cailleach's mouth burns and expels another blast of fire. orange glitters over the summoned water like the last rays of sunset, burning its way through the pink veil. rapid winds follow the explosion, fueling the insatiable flame.[break][break]

her heel clicks. metal shudders. lyune's wings flare and he rides the last tendrils of kirimu's hurricane. pale gold looks upon a sun-kissed crown and the realization is heartbreaking. lathliss is at her side. gathered wind makes her surge forward as she cleaves a final path, giving freya and lyune a clear shot. [break][break]

a thin silver stream races from lyune's maw towards tapu fini's marionette.[break][break]

distantly, freya realizes her skin is burning.

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POSTED ON Nov 10, 2023 22:21:59 GMT

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SMOG

SUN OR MOON?

it matters not.

for what is the moon if not a reflection of the sun? one pierces the veil of night. the other prevents it outright. these beast think that they can whittle away her majesty under the dawn of a new day? then they are solely mistaken.

the solace above may dilute the power of the sea but in only emboldens what makes TAPUs island deities. it is not an escape. nor a vantage point. it is the entrance of their reckoning.

but now is not the time to strike.

these humans are mortal: selfish, young, and all the more foolish for it. beings that explode so loudly in the minute time they exist. creatures that do not understand just how much they do not know. but, that does not mean there is nothing to learn from them.

what stays TAPU FINI’s hand is a lesson it has learned from elisabeth’s predecessor.

you do not have to be alone.

a PROTECT shrouds the legendary. an eminence from the SLATEPORT GYM. a technique to stall freya out much to her chagrin.

for what purpose?

a sudden eruptions bursts from underneath the water’s surface. a STEELIX manifests against the cresting ripples, crashing into the cavern’s limited space with a searing raw. like the serpents freya has come to known, she will recognizes the hostility behind the way its head coils back. the pause before it strikes.

and when its head snaps forward, mouth agape, they will know the sun’s power. for it is not the heat that proves most impressive. it’s the endless light. the sun that burns a million world. a dragon’s fatal weakness.

the LIGHT OF RUIN.

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To be in Wo-chien's thrall had been like wandering through a swampy murk, wading through a chokehold of emotions that dictated her every action. Her survivor's mentality had manifested in thorns and vines that lashed out in a barrier that hurt anyone who might draw near, transforming her defensive instincts into offensive measures.[break][break]

With Tapu Fini, the PROTECT that shimmered into existence felt calming in its negation. It was a cancellation of aggression, rather than meeting pain with more pain.[break][break]

FERNANDO SILPH had gotten lost somewhere in the waters that washed over them all, but Elisabeth had stopped caring about that man who had so preoccupied her since the start of her mission. He felt small and insignificant, like an afterthought in a story that suddenly felt so much larger than any of them were.[break][break]

Gods like Wo-chien ruled in the small corners of the mind, torturing the psyche with demonic intent. Gods like Tapu Fini were a manifestation of the earth itself; they did not wield Nature, but were Nature.[break][break]

In this instant, as she achieved harmony with a deity that had been content to let her succumb to another influence for so long, Elisabeth felt her world expand beyond the petty mortal emotions that had drawn her here.[break][break]

She felt herself embrace the destiny of something larger than herself, blindly.[break][break]

And unlike the night in the Petalburg Woods that had taken advantage of her trust by blighting all that had ever given her joy, Tapu Fini returned her trust with gentle reassurance. Inexplicably, another Pokemon rose up from the waters to aid them both -- a Steelix, one that Elisabeth did not recognize, but that struck out towards their mutual visible foe with LIGHT OF RUIN.[break][break]

Her Tsareena and Nihilego joined their ally in its pursuit of the dragoness overhead, a POWER WHIP snaking out to hold Lyune in place to weather the full onslaught of the blow. A ROCK TOMB from the Ultra Beast sought to trap them for good measure, lest they escape the former's hold.[break][break]

They would purge this arrogant creature who would dare to defy Nature herself.

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a child is churlishly protective of his toys. he will wrench them brutishly from the fumbling fingers of another. he will go red in the face and scream and cry and he will be heartlessly inconsolable at his loss.[break][break]

but he will use and abuse his playthings. he will make them commit atrocities. he will admire the actions of their ruthless fervor, absolved himself of their villainies. and he will string them to his fantasy until the body has been broken down, its plastic shell furrowed with scars.[break][break]

and then, when his toy is falling apart, he will kiss its head and say, you were so well-loved, and he will discard them for another.[break][break]

lyune's tera blast explodes against a protective wall. lyune claws at the air. the wind tunnel blooms around him from heavy wingbeats. he leaves an ashen cloud in his wake, cursed flesh simmering under steel scales.[break][break]

it is not elisabeth's steelix that rises from the water. freya does not have time to think about the implications as a pink nova screeches to life in its silver throat. a cry of warning rips from her throat and her roaring moons join her bloody chorus with a call for battle.[break][break]

elisabeth's pokemon have not been brutalized by war. they have not been broken down and rebuilt. the true threat of her nihilego lay in its trainer's mastery of poison first, and its raw power second. so its power whip goes wide, finding purchase against rock and sending out a spray of debris at a calculated, nonchalant turn of lyune's shoulder.[break][break]

freya's teeth clack. the truth catchings up to her as this fae-touched serpent stares with hungry intent. it was all a ruse - freya, i have you![break][break]

he has guided her to her death, fulfilling a promise she thought she'd buried a lifetime ago.[break][break]

true ruination blinds her.[break][break]

the light comes down and freya rises in a tornado of green fire. rayquaza's first gift, flaring to life in lyune's veins, drives them through the rock that aims to entomb them, carrying them up above the fae magic (though still cauterized at claw and lashing tail), but escaping it with a momentous, neck-breaking climb.[break][break]

kirimu is swallowed entirely by the light and when it fades, his body lies in the surf. lathliss is his mirror, side rising and falling in quick, unconscious succession. cailleach and vhagar fly clumsily upward; the curse is a ghastly smog. reddish holes simmer in place of sloughed-off scales, spreading with their each and every attack.[break][break]

and it has her too. each strike against elisabeth ignites another patch of searing pain. smoke curdles and wisps away from her in pink and ashen grey. she bellows and lyune's heavy breaths hitch as he gathers more flame to sweep over the silver serpent. her grip on his reins loosens, shoulder slumping to dig through the pouch tied to his saddle.[break][break]

silhouettes are birthed by flame and when lyune sputters, half a dozen salamence are left in the wake of the inferno. there is a heartbeat of mercy and then hellfire pours from their mouths as their mistress' screams rip through her cursed body and her blood and her sweat and her tears.[break][break]

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FIRE MELTS HEARTY STEEL. the constant hiss of evaporating sea water undercoats the constant shriek of a pokemon being cooked alive. it may lash out, under its trainer’s orders, but it is still a living being. without purpose, or a clear sight of victory, it does what fernando has trained it to do: survive and reassess.

it is okay to die for victory but there is no honor in mindless brutality.

which is why it braves the receding water in a tactical retreat. its red, molten coat, cools back to a traditional steel silver. the last sight any of them will see as the snake burrows with its DIG.

which leaves its origin point. fernando silph.

the body freya never finds is now standing before her. hunched over, yet still. unfazed as the heat of her attack cauterizes his open wounds. dried blood and open gashes don’t so much as faze him. the way his body moves, fluid and efficient, is numb to his exposed flesh. it is no longer a concern.

she has seen this before. when her dragons were pushed to limits thought unheard of. why? because the body has natural limiters on what they will allow. push too hard and the body will break? muscles tear. the subconscious control of the brain prevents this. but when it’s rewired?

he says nothing his single eye stares back at her. hollow and void. an sense of absence that seems unbecoming for even him.

it is not cold.

it is empty.

a mute raise of his arm reflects her visit to his gym. but this time there is no catch phrase. no comfort words to steel his nerves.

no battle routine.

no set.

just silent execution.

the WIGGLYTUFF that appears in front of him looks lost at first, wadding both feet in belly deep water. but it doesn’t take much for the pokemon to realize the presence of fliers warrants its use of GRAVITY.

which aligns perfectly with TAPU FINI’s intent. for when their PROTECTION is gone, it is time to attack. concentrated MOON BLAST rain down from above. from the very sun they thought to set against them.

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"never thought i'd outlive him."[break][break]

“really? i thought it was obvious that the order would be him, you, and then me.”

[break][break]

he emerges from the water in glorious baptism, waves trembling as his molten steelix burrows into the earth from whence it came, a white froth of waves in its wake. fernando is burning and malignant and ruined and freya waits an eternity on held breath - would it be her hand, after all of this, that would end him?[break][break]

a hand raises. the white of his eye is turned on her - not on elisabeth, not on the mist, but on her. this far above him, she cannot read his face for any signs of infuriated savagery at her treachery. but from singed hands comes a pokemon she recognizes and the last of her hope evaporates. [break][break]

the proclomation of their demise is a self-fulfilling prophecy. he has chosen here as her grave. he has chosen now to become her mark of cain.[break][break]

[break][break]

he planned this from the start.[break][break]

she has mere seconds before her advantage is ripped from her. more blood flies from her mouth as she snarls, throat scraping against draconic words. "wielg," is her guttural command and cailleach and meru and inari and balex all fold, heads turning in unison. they rush to the ground like comets, multi-colored lights streaking behind them.[break][break]

pneumatized bones become leaden and lyune's metal crutch groans, silver exoskeletal wires snapping from the pressure. freya pitches and slams her heel down to tuck his wing, sparing themselves the worst of the damage. they spin out, leveled only by a sacrificial tailwind from the smallest of her salamence. ori falls, tumbling through the air on his back, and a spray of water marks his disappearance into the rising tide.[break][break]

freya rights herself, neck twingeing from the whiplash. they are still dropping, still falling, but too late does freya realize ori's attempt at saving them has put them at the mercy of their enemy.[break][break]

and gold eyes widen at the oncoming blast of raw power summoned by the goddess of the tides and their moon.[break][break]

in her final breaths, she does not ask forgiveness for her path reshaped. she will not apologize for each stone lain with calloused, bleeding hands. she will not apologize for every day, an exercise of self-control to continue onward so that she may no longer tread on fractured dreams and once-wases and the never-could-be. she will not cry that she gave herself a chance. that she hoped, for the first time, for her own happiness.[break][break]

she will die loved, and that is enough.[break][break]

do you hear our prayers? no! we shall not abandon the dream![break][break]

a dark shape falls before her and as it does, it contorts. ghastly wings sprout from a bulbous head, limbs elongate to deadly points, and a stinger shurks through rough hide, greeting the fae blast with a spray of poison.[break][break]

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ribbons of pink light cut around them, searing lyune's sides, and freya sees stars. but she is whole. and she is alive. and through the blinding light is her ultra beast, a poipole no longer - micolash shrieks a horrifying, alien cry and releases another noxious shock of poison. this time his target is the rabbit shackling his mistress' dragons to the earth.[break][break]

lyune hits the earth, legs crumpling, and then struggling with malevolent defiance, a foreleg stretching to haul himself up to standing. his breaths are as rapid and as bloody as freya's.[break][break]

"don't - " she starts and hacks a wet cough into the air. the last of lyune's silver scales fade and the crown runs in muddy streaks over the crest of his snout, dripping from cracked maw and exposed teeth.[break][break]

"don't make me do this, fernando."[BREAK][BREAK]

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The specter of FERNANDO SILPH rose up like a ghost from the sea, pale and foreboding as its single eye fixed itself on the woman who deserved his ire.[break][break]

A disappointment. A being that had let him down, over and over, despite all the trust he'd placed in her. A woman who believed so little in her own self-worth that she was quick to abandon any argument that expressed otherwise.[break][break]

How cruel fate was, to place this mirror of Elisabeth Fiorelli opposite her, and punish her for the other's sins.[break][break]

In this cosmic play they'd been cast in, Elisabeth distantly recalled the promise she'd made Tapu Fini, and the possessiveness with which that being had exuded ownership over her former Avatar. A sliver of lucidity cut through the pink haze, a treacherous thought echoing in her mind: Do they think we belong to them, these gods that play with mortal vessels? Are we but toys they can wield and discard at will?[break][break]

Hadn't Wo-chien discarded her for less than the abandonment that Tapu Fini had felt, severed from its former Avatar?[break][break]

She could almost see the pink shackles that bound him to the Guardian's will -- ironic given how vehemently he'd denied the manipulative power that god possessed at his command.[break][break]

This was not the same man she'd fought in the Ultra Deep Sea alongside Zev Harcourt. He'd transformed into someone unknown to her.[break][break]

Suddenly Elisabeth was back in her old bedroom, staring down at the screen of a tiny phone in her hands¹. Tears had blurred her vision as she angrily fought a man who she wasn't brave enough to confront in person, typing words she had yearned to say aloud in a hospital, and then in a ballroom, and then on the field of battle -- only to retreat from him, every time, instead.[break][break]

"The best manipulators know how to make the puppets think they are holding their own strings."
[break]

The ownership of the Steelix now revealed, a Wigglypuff soon joins it in the field of battle. They seemed to operate of their own accord, even if answering to a master whose mind did not seem fully his own. Moonlight cascaded towards the dragons that swarmed overhead, outshining sunlight in its blinding power.[break][break]

"'Brainwashing' is semantics. 'Free will' is in itself a debatable concept, as determinism suggests we are all shaped by the circumstances around us."
[break]

A rosy TERA BLAST burst forth from her glittering Tsareena to join in the Wigglytuff's attack, her FAIRY-TYPE TERASTALLIZATION still in effect. Joining her was the Nihilego's THUNDER as it moved to strike down these airborne foes from the sky.[break][break]

Sensing the way all these attacks sought to converge on the deity that defended her now, Elisabeth's fingers curled around another Pokeball, confident as she summoned a VENUSAUR, one that quickly MEGA-EVOLVED to weather as many of the blows as its size could allow. The massive Grass-type let out a low groan of dismay as it shook itself back and forth, dizzy with the impact.[break][break]

"I believe the change you gave her favored your wants over hers, whether or not she realized it at the time. But she knows you wronged her, now."
[break]

She didn't focus on defending Fernando. The power of this mist, she'd learned, was short-lived. She'd seen it firsthand with Zev Harcourt, the first day she'd breathed it out to discover what its purpose was.[break][break]

She'd seen it with annalise henderson, her little pet rat in the dungeons of the Rocket submarine. She'd seen it with ALEXANDER STONE, tempting him to assist her in taking down the man he'd considered both his greatest friend and enemy. She'd seen it with the girl that KING WAYLAND had foolishly brought into her presence. She'd seen it with kyle lopez and MATIAS SILPH on this very island, watching them each succumb to madness and ruin.[break][break]

"You cannot beg a puppet to think for itself," she said to freya morningstar, eyes still shining that bright and startling green. "You should know better."[break][break]

"When the puppeteer releases his hold, the puppets can see and feel where the strings bound them."
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Whatever miracle she'd earned was on borrowed time, or so Elisabeth presently believed.

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POISON LATCHES ONTO THE WIGGLYTUFF’S PRISTINE FUR. everywhere it touches, it burns. like her fire. but, this pokemon has no chance to flee. nowhere to run. the most it can do is retaliate. so it cries out in great pain, screeching with its DISARMING VOICE.

an echo that drowns out the words spoken to him.

the effects of the BERSERKER MIST do not last forever. the redirection is temporary, depending on the circumstance. for it to wear off this early, is unusual, but so is the would be victim. how can he be subjected to a power he once held?

the bleeding fingers of his dominant arm reach for his head. prominent veins bulge from his forearm, tracing against the spot where the WISH TAG was once held. he picks and claws at his temple, as if trying to rip TAPU FINI’s influence right out of him.

an effort that doesn’t trouble the pokemon whatsoever.

it is more than happy to release another deluge, slowly flooding the cave with a rising sea level.

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her blade is so heavy in her hand. as the last of the tera energy bleeds away, the skirt cape around her hips floods once again with gold. one hand strays to the wound at her side. the placid water around her ankles is red.[break][break]

thunder claps and electricity skitters over the surf, humming off her dragons' scales. a crystalline beam of energy sweeps over her ranks and two of them buckle. the alien in front of freya writhes in anticipation, blood-scent awakening a primal hunger.[break][break]

the warbling fae is a nuisance, nothing more, even as more precious blood trickles from freya's nose. micolash jerks to the right, lurching from the common enemy to a felled salamence. and then it stops, turns its head, neon eyes so unfamiliar and yet in them is a hunger so intimate to her that she parts her lips and she tastes the fresh spurt of copper in her mouth with reverance. her grip tightens on the hilt and micolash plunges his stinger into balefire's side.[break][break]

"you cannot beg a puppet to think for itself. you should know better."[break][break]

the blade's point lowers towards elisabeth and a shadow crosses freya's face. "cut it down," she says lowly, voice a rasping murmur. micolash whirls, empowered by its draconic cannibalism, and its chittering call is answered with the humming of the salamence still standing. they converge as one, in a flurry of violence, on the mega-evolved venusaur.[break][break]

they burrow gnashing, furious teeth into its side, ripping meat from living bone. micolash's stinger, dripping with viscous scarlet, punctures clean through the amphibian's head, into its open, screeching mouth, and through the spongey cartilage of its tongue, and further still through its lower jaw.[break][break]

the water rises, swimming from ankles to calves, but she is not thinking about that as she springs forward. lyune's lunging steps falter as the curse exacts its toll and his thrumming cry of outrage shakes her to her core. green fire sizzles over her and the waters hiss with each step, burning away underfoot as something achingly familiar awakens within her.[break][break]

she ascends in a halo of flame and at her zenith, turns her blade down to slash elisabeth across her chest. [break][break]

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The dragons tore and clawed at her Venusaur like vicious harpies. They dove and bit and scratched at the large creature of ivy and vines, picking at its flesh to blossom like dozens of crimson flowers on its bluish, bark-like skin.[break][break]

Elisabeth's Venusaur roared valiantly, shaking to and fro as a FRENZY PLANT whipped about with hissing vines, throttling each draconic silhouette that might venture too close. No matter how many it slung to the ground, it was never enough.[break][break]

The Ultra Beast's stinger buried itself into the large rafflesia flower, pumping an unbearable amount of venom into the Venusaur's bloodstream. It would have killed -- and should have killed -- a being of such mortality, Mega-Evolution or no.[break][break]

It was only the power that Wo-chien bestowed to Elisabeth, even now, that spared her Pokemon such a grisly fate. Yet it did not stop it from falling to the violent throes of defeat, rampaging and thrashing as it withstood as much pain as it could bear in defending its mistress and her Guardian.[break][break]

But that was the point of sacrificing a pawn, wasn't it? To defend the larger pieces on the chessboard.[break][break]

"She's going to kill us," Elisabeth whispered to Tapu Fini, though that had seemed obvious from the beginning, hadn't it? No, she thought then, a knot coiling in her stomach as she watched Freya's expression darken. Something's changed.[break][break]

What Elisabeth and Tapu Fini had done to FERNANDO SILPH was a point of no return, an unforgivable reliving of freya morningstar's own pain. The councilwoman had already refused her karmic justice before the Sky Pillar; it shouldn't surprise Elisabeth that she refused it now.[break][break]

Despite herself, she let her gaze slide to the torturous cries of the man she'd once treated as her one solace in the world, and then abruptly treated as its greatest scourge. He'd always possessed tremendous willpower; that much she'd expected of him.[break][break]

As the pink mist rose up to swallow and flood them in its chokehold, what she didn't expect was the faintest stirring of pity to see him in such a state.[break][break]

Hadn't she fallen to her knees not so long ago, begging for mercy and unwilling to yield to a deity's demands?[break][break]

It was this empathy that, as ever, proved her greatest weakness.[break][break]

When freya morningstar's blade came down to strike Elisabeth Fiorelli, she was entirely unguarded. A flash of metal and a whirl of golden-flecked tresses were all she registered before the attack came, rushing towards her like divine justice from the heavens.

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NO ONE HAS A MORE DOMINANT WILL. how much had he sacrificed in his lifetime? how strongly did he tether himself to his principle of discipline? too many times. enough to chisel out his own legend. a testament of what makes fernando silph, the most infamous silph of the modern era, a true silph.

it is not his blood, nor his inheritance, that carries the legacy of his forefathers. it is his ability persevere. to disregard his immediate wants and desires under the promise of delayed gratification. the trademark ability to remain objective and reject all else for long term gain.

success is a measurement of how much someone is willing to suffer for gain.

and hoenn has known suffering. people die by their choices every day. but who heralds their pain without wincing? who stomachs it wordlessly, without so much as flinching? who is the coldest of them all?

the robot. the penetrating stare. the man no one can seem to understand.

the only they consider the most untrustworthy yet most reliable.

fernando. eliard. silph.

even here, under the duress of a power he cannot overcome, he rather whittle down his own body than betray their objective. as the BERSERKER MIST starts to unbind his synapses at a microscopic level, he would rather tear out his own brain that give up their chance to win.

eyes on the prize. mind over matter. anything for my desired outcome.

we will win.

i will overcome.

those are the only thoughts that keep him steady as nails bleed countless trails over past his headband and into his empty eye. even that night, where rocket had eagerly reclaimed their debts by punishing the one person always willing to stand in their way, he had screamed not for mercy or release. but for his victory. for the contingency he had so thoroughly laid out before.

not because he knew it would happen but because he must be ready. that is what it means to be responsible. that is what it means to be the only one willing to do right, even when the world refuses to abide by it.

who else can give up their sense of self?

no one.

therefore i must that person. i must be the one.

i am—

THEY’VE STALLED. they’ve fought. they’ve done everything within their power to maintain a dying momentum. now, they have no choice but to wash the game board clear and claim whatever win they can.

the TAPU FINI knows this, another lesson learnt from her avatar, and uses the time the VENASAUR buys to procure their escape. the otherwise prominent MISTY TERRAIN, that gets overlooked due to freya’s constant flames and the rising tide, crawls back to the source. its presence, and therefore essence, concentrates back into its shell.

sturdy carapace covers both ends of elisabeth, providing her both protection and the vehicle of their escape. a moment is given, not out of concern for her pokemon and the ability to recall them, but rather the TAPU FINI’s own machinations. just a few second before it shuts itself close and ferries them out.

the split moment needed to concentrate the MISTY TERRAIN elsewhere.

pink sprinkles and countless glitter seep through into fernando’s body. forcing him to breath it in, drink it up from open wounds and oozing through pouring blood. if he will not succumb to the BERSERKER MIST then his rejection will be treated the same as freya’s.

the VINDICTIVE will have its justice.

and, what comes forth, is a manipulation that stems from the latent powers of TAPU FINI’s avatars. a manifestation of fernando’s most dire lie and his greatest weapon. how many hearts had he torn with her help? how many had to face the trauma of what they’ve lost?

and how selfish was he to think himself to be the exception?

“open up their hearts,” he had claimed.

“and rip them to shreds!” is what his counter part finished.

INSIDE, something snaps. buried memories of being in this very water, offering an arm out of trust and companionship. a duty, he lies to himself. a business transaction snuffed by his own maligned affections and corrupt concern for someone who has earned his pity.

“say ahhhh.”¹

but freya is not the one to bite down. it is him. being spoon fed a meal he does not deserve by a person he should not see. none of this should be happening. he should be dead. discarded by the harsh reality of this world, punished for his own hubris.

he had been a child. foolishly so. but nature does not spare mercy for folly. it is a lifecycle. cylindrical. objective. constant.

it is humans, in their vast avarice, to place concepts and lens on creatures and concepts that do not and cannot abide by their values. which is why he still exists today. why his life, which by all means should be forfeit, has new meaning.

“i owe you my life.”

“i’m giving it to you.”

“i’m yours.”²

do with it as you will.

how does fernando silph do it? how does he disregard all semblance of human morality for his desired result?

the truth is he does not. he is human yet isn't. alive through another, but dead without her. and, through this, he persists on the greatest of human emotion. the concept he can never abandon despite all odds.

love.

“what you think is love, Eva Morales, is an infantile love. when the time comes, you will know love like i do.”³

you won’t. because no one can love someone as much as i love her. she is my everything. she is my life. she is—

“DON’T YOU TOUCH HER!”

a sudden clarity erupts from his person. every bottled emotion comes out like a floodgate. he is no longer granted the immunity of a numb and manipulated mind. every hallowed breath croaks under the weakness of broken ribs. he can barely stand, in a constant loop of numb muscles and tearing pain.

but, despite this, he screams with everything he has. because he cannot let harm come to her. she is his everything.

and, to answer his call, comes the rumbling sound of his STEELIX. it resurfaces between the two, a self made buffer, that looks to spear them with the serrated spikes of its STONE EDGE.

even his WIGGLYTUFF, redoubles its efforts, echoing his sentiments with a prolonged DISARMING VOICE.

these pokemon do not understand what they are fighting for. he’s trained them to live like him. to win at all cost. to navigate the battlefield with your own intention and perspective. but none of them have heard him wail with so much life.

it is the shared bond between pokemon and trainer that spurs them forward.

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As freya morningstar's blade glittered like a guillotine overhead, a sobering and chilling thought crystallized in Elisabeth's mind: It would make sense for me to die here.[break][break]

She'd understood her pact with Wo-chien, warped and twisted as it had been. She'd known it desired her for her suffering, that it had understood her pain as its own. They were to ruin the world, as it had ruined them both.[break][break]

She'd always known it would be a monster that would curse her. She'd always understood herself to be the Scorned.[break][break]

But she had fulfilled her bargain with Tapu Fini, now¹. She had brought it to where it desired to be, to whom it desired to own once more. Her errand as the Vindictive had been completed.[break][break]

Her life should hold no meaning for that deity any longer.[break][break]

And yet.[break][break]

Be not afraid, for I am here.
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Why? Elisabeth found herself asking that creature desperately, unable to make sense of the shield that enfolded her like a chrysalis, protecting her with a carapace that promised it was not a prison. What use am I still to you?[break][break]

When was the last time she'd been truly cradled in another's arms?[break][break]

Not out of pity. Not out of misplaced need, or selfish affections. But out of love, something earnest and selfless and unconditional in its embrace. She'd searched for it so many times despite herself, but she could hardly remember knowing it now, save for whispers of a Kalosian lullaby and the touch of a mother's hands gently caressing her crown of golden hair.[break][break]

Elisabeth could swear she could even hear that song now, echoing softly as if murmured undersea, currents winding through long blonde curls that danced teasingly just out of sight.[break][break]

Part of her hated how easily this manipulation worked upon her. How tempting it had been to listen to Celebi², when it had lured her in with the voice of someone beloved and long-dead. How much she yearned to sink into Tapu Fini's sea of pink mist now, letting it defend her with soothing waters that purged such hateful fire.[break][break]

"Why do you fight it? Open your heart, Elisa."
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"You are her conduit. Let them in."
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And without thinking, she breathed in that sublime mist, too. Let it overwhelm her with its sweet-scented lies.[break][break]

Allowed herself to think she was something more significant to this goddess than she had any right to be.[break][break]

Metal glinted off sturdy carapace as an inhuman scream tore out from the rising sea. Blurred silhouettes moved, pieces on the gameboard acting in ways that felt inexplainable to her. Unearned devotion -- which she'd never had from him, not even when intertwined in one another's arms while protected by little white lies -- exuded from every fiber of that man's being as he threw himself in her line of fire.[break][break]

Confusion and panic flooded up inside of her, visible in the way her green eyes darted from him to the woman that looked at her with so much loathing, Elisabeth understood it immediately: You hate me, because you hate yourself.[break][break]

She opened her mouth to speak, though she wasn't sure what she intended to say, or to whom. The perplexing images vanished as Tapu Fini's shell closed around her, whirling her away for reasons she still didn't quite comprehend.[break][break]

The woman who vanished from the battlefield was not the same one who'd arrived, just as the man who had entered here was not the man who defended her now.[break][break]

The sea had made everyone a stranger to themselves.[break][break]

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Ah. So this was the sort of being that Tapu Fini was.[break][break]

Ochre eyes watched the receding form of the piscine deity, their ominous glow revealing where the Ruinous Beast lurked in the shadows. It did not see a nurturing maternal presence, nor did it see a selfless being protecting her treasured chosen.[break][break]

It saw another selfish god, determined to jealously hoard its possessions by any means necessary. Were they not the same, in that way?[break][break]

Hadn't this Guardian of the Sea brazenly stolen its own methods of manipulation, borrowing puppet strings for its own conniving ends?[break][break]

For FERNANDO SILPH was not Édouard Bortiforte, no more than Elisabeth Fiorelli was Elysia Amavi.[break][break]

But ultimately, mortals were such foolish, delusional creatures. Useless packages of flesh, blood, and bone. The only thing that differentiated them, that attracted them to beings like Wo-chien, were the vast array of complex emotions they harbored. It was their greed, their ambition, their endless wanting that made them worthy of Divine consideration.[break][break]

For a brief instant, it considered the white-haired woman before it, remembering the delectable scent of her own misery.[break][break]

"No," it decided, slithering away into the encroaching darkness. "We will bide our time. We will wait."[break][break]

It would thieve back full reign over its Avatar's psyche, just as Tapu Fini had thieved back her former Avatar's mind.[break][break]

"We will not let you have both."

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¹"Plenilune" ft. Cait Alfric[break]
²"We Who Curse the Earth" ft. Barnaby Finch[break][break]

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- 10 MP per IC post in a RT Battle/Mission. (x23)[break]
- 50 MP for participation in a RT Battle/Mission.[break]
- 100 for Mission Completion (2/2 Smog).[break]
- 10 MP use mega evolution in your thread.[break]
- 10 MP use terastallization in your thread.[break]
- 10 MP for incorporating INTERDREAM MIST or spawning PARADOX POKEMON.[break]
- 200 MP for pokemon death (does not stack with KO).[break]
- 200 MP for "winning" a RT Battle/Mission.[break]
TOTAL: 810 MP.

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