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WEAKNESS stacks in his heart, nothing but sheer
WILL keeping him alive as he falls to his knees under the brutal embrace of the
TOXIC CHAIN. What remaining energy he has is siphoned away into a boon of nightmarish energy, rippling outwards in threatening lashes of light.
[break][break] The world cascades into chaos.
[break][break] While he is no longer the
CURSED in this prison, no doubt, someone else has it's hold on him. Sinking it's claws into him, devouring everything that remains.
[break][break] As pain unfurls behind his eyes, he turns to glimpse the searing hatred in
annalise henderson's gaze. A brimming pool of loathing entwined with righteous fury shimmers, rippling like dark gems. He knows it well. It stirs something deep within his heart — like a broken songbird, it warbles a memory long since buried.
[break][break] A memory of standing in a flowered field of glimmering Crystablooms. Of her lying to him. Of her promising a future to the League that he knows does not exist.
[break][break] The lies that people like her and
MATIAS SILPH undoubtedly fed to the unsuspecting.
[break][break] He bares his teeth.
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"Don't be foolish," he growls.
"You're too weak."[break][break] She doesn't have any power here.
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He doesn't have any power here.
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CRACK![break][break] Fast as a whip, his savior appears, the flash of gorgeous teal reflecting in his crystal blue eyes.
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Fern.[break][break] Of course, it would be
fern delaney to come to his rescue. Of course, it would be
fern delaney who would soften his already hardened heart. It was the
fern delaney that he did not deserve who would be his only salvation.
[break][break] Sweetness heals the frayed tethers of his fractured heart, keeping him whole.
[break][break] His head turns. He glimpses the sight of
Grigori Sokolov,
Laurence Whateley and
howard slayte writhing violently together on the floor, tangled in an embrace of limbs.
[break][break] There's no time to question it. There's no time to
breathe. Before he can process what's happening,
fern delaney is already dragging him away towards escape. Energy floods back into him as they plunge into the darkness, slamming into the concrete so hard that his thoughts echo in his ears.
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You are weak. [break][break]
You are powerless. [break][break]
You cannot exist without me. [break][break] Perhaps it's his endurance, forged for years by Kanto's suffering, or the echoes of history guiding him to rise again after each fall. Either way, he finds it natural to get back up again. The admin rises, groggily and all, to see exactly where they have been deposited from that hole.
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"Duck," He says, turning immediately to his lover.
"Are you okay?" [break][break] For a moment, he looks down at them, his expression free of pain or hurt, as if expelling all that terror had somehow brought healing in its wake.
[break][break] His vision is clear.
[break][break] And then Azelf's tube
EXPLODES, a blaze of fluorescent green light flooding the pit, igniting the indominable
WILL within Jayden, burning for release. The energy spreads across the room in a dazzling display of light, undoubtedly touching every other prisoner with that same dormant power.
[break][break] Drawn back by this destined strand, the admin's expression contorts into agony. Pain etches across his features and gradually, his limbs grow numb. The toxic chains constricting his body crumble into frost, frozen crystals cutting into his cheekbones.
[break][break] His eyes fade from deep cobalt into chilling blue.
[break][break] All the Pokemon are released from their prisons too, their toxic chains withering away to ash. Like the others, Jayden finds himself reuniting with them, but it's not them that matter. Even far across the room, as it's paws touch concrete,
CHIEN PAO'S devastating influence is inevitable.
[break][break] Here, there is no
MATIAS SILPH, no
Ashley Shepard, no
Chu-e Choi to stoke his hatred and draw it's power. No, that damned
fern delaney's heroic efforts are too strong in this place, their loving influence too potent.
[break][break] It's deadly gaze snaps instead to the closest thing they can see. The
WILL of a child screaming, begging, for another's to stay alive.
AZELF.[break][break] The cavernous pit rumbles with the effort of the violent smashing above. Something is coming. Something is coming. Something is coming.
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THERE IS NO TIME.[break][break] But there is no need for time, because Jayden has already seen her. Her cries split through the air cleanly, cutting straight through to him, and he can feel the
HATRED and resentment of all his past memories unfold behind his eyes. It imbues him with sudden power, glimmering white frost in the palm of his hand. And before he knows what he is doing, he is aiming a beam of hateful
FROST directly towards the back of
Eris Halla' head.
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