"Tsk." Instinctively, the admin took a step backward, cursing himself for stepping back and balking in the eyes of a predator. Yet there's no shame in quavering before Lugia. She was the queen of an entire walk of life. Her rule over Cillian's menagerie was unchallenged. "Damn."

Another step back. The admin was not a craven, to hide under a rock until the storm blew over. He had grown beyond that.

It was not cowardice to step backward. It was bravery to step forward after stepping back.

Step. So he did.

Though it ended up being wholly unnecessary. Hitoshi Inoue had sided with him, and even Lugia herself had decried the Harbinger's decision as nothing more than the folly of someone unequivocally guided by love. She, more than any other Legendary Pokemon, knew the weight of love. As poisoned and noxious as it might have been.

"Thanks, Lugia. I'd rather not fight you. Crushing an ant is hardly worth the time. Crushing two, less so."

Despite the Pressure holding him down, the admin closed the distance between himself and the underboss. He had no need to balk from the cold. Ten months of exposure from Regice was enough for the admin to consider this Blizzard nothing more than a modest breeze. After sneezing, though, the admin made a note to bring better attire next time.

"I'm sorry, Cillian. You don't deserve this, but..." The admin shouldered the underboss, before stepping away. "...we can't lose you too. We've lost one Quinn today."

He trudged off.

"We're done." The admin shouted. "We're falling back, Hitoshi!"

Good riddance. Yet as they trudged off, the admin made a note of the tears freezing to his face.

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Cillian Quinn Tempest Quinn Hitoshi Inoue

YOU CAN'T KILL ME

TEMPEST X CILLIAN X HOWARD X HITOSHI

TEMPEST QUINN DOES NOT WANT TO DIE. He had always thought that he had to. He had always been on borrowed time: extra spool cruelly granted by a karmic fisherman's scarred hands. When death crawls up from his feet and around his neck as sepulchral stone, the future dies too.

But Temp's entombed epiphany is a ringing bell.

Yveltal does not kill needlessly, and Temp's death, determined by the overseer of finality, is undeserved, for the Destruction Pokemon begins to reverse the lapidification of his life—and in the process of returning life grants some of its own to him to take forevermore—

[attr="class","chosen"]YOU ARE WORTHY

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yveltal has chosen Tempest Quinn, the sanguivore, as their avatar.[break]

Tempest Quinn receives the following perks:

• temp survival within yveltal's cocoon leaves his body irrevocably changed. yams may decide upon temp's newfound appearance.



• temp can pick a target he sees to mark for death. the target will feel the dread of death, rendering them vulnerable to increased harm. this target can be more easily tracked by temp and yveltal.



• temp can drain infinity energy (lifeforce) out of living things in a small radius around him. this vampiric ability is amplified by touch. any infinity energy that is drained will heal him and/or strengthen him. while BARNABY FINCH's abilities burn the "spirit or soul" of a being, Tempest Quinn's petrifies and slowly turns organic material into stone.
  
  temp must drain infinity energy periodically or else he may feel weak.



• temp will automatically enter an unconscious purgatorial state when gravely wounded. instead of the dying, temp will start to siphon the infinity energy (lifeforce) out of anything nearby to heal himself. the time needed to completely heal depends on his injuries and how much infinity energy was and is present around him.



• temp possesses a petrifying gaze that is similar but unlike mint frost's ability. if a pokemon or person meets temp's eyes, he can prevent them from moving by slowly turning them into stone. with collaboration, this gaze may periodically petrify a target completely into stone for a brief second before the target is freed (e.g. a temporary stun).



• temp can 'execute' (e.g. knock unconscious or in certain cases, kill) a pokemon or person that has little health left by touching them.



• temp may place yveltal in his personal computer and choose its moveset like a gachapon pokemon.

When Temp reemerges from the cocoon with Yveltal, at least a week and a half have passed.

A shard of the Yveltal remains in The Border to maintain order.

Tempest Quinn Cillian Quinn howard slayte Hitoshi Inoue