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POSTED ON May 17, 2021 13:56:25 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]her foot catches his leg, causing him to lose balance. he falls, but panic never sets in, and immediately shifts on his back and swings his legs up in an attempt to tie them around hers.

his wrist reaches for her ankle, pulling, while his legs push.

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POSTED ON May 17, 2021 3:40:37 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]he watches her close the distance, expects it, and slides a foot back, ready to counter. he falls for the feint, moves to avoid it, only to have a punch coming straight for his throat. thankfully, he raises a hand in time.

his hand pushes hers out of the way, sends it grazing past his neck, and he immediately swivels on the ball of his foot, moving sideways. he doesn't throw a punch.

"you're fast."

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POSTED ON May 15, 2021 8:45:51 GMT
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[attr="class","petrov"]"but i'm here, aren't i?"

darkness lingers and spreads despite the bare smirk that appears. he stretches, shifts into a stance, and waits.

"you have the first move, darling."

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revival . [ private ]
POSTED ON Jun 11, 2019 13:43:23 GMT
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inklings of tears start to build in his eyes at her words. to hear that she had come this far, to be assigned as mauville's protector, it makes him emotional and makes him feel something he hasn't felt in a long time.

proud.

"you've really grown, cait." no darlings, no sweet talk. she's brought him back from the dead and now he bares himself to her: genuine.

at her words, his eyes turn to the sea of pokemon, watching in anticipation. at the sight of the metang, his eyes widen, and he slowly shifts on the ground, first planting one foot on the ground as the other knee supports his weight.

"metang." 

he extends a hand out and twists so his palm faces up, gesturing for the steel-type to approach. and it does, slowly, hovering until its cold surface brushes against nikolai's fingers. it makes a buzzing sound as its red eyes glow slightly brighter.

"we're partners now. i have your back and you have mine. i swear by the gods i will do right by you." 

metang nods, then shifts even closer to gently nudge against nikolai's body. he exhales a chuckle and allows his arm to fall against the metang. he turns to cait.

"thank you, cait. for everything."





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POSTED ON Jun 8, 2019 2:30:01 GMT
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it's okay. two words are enough to fill him with a sense of relief, no longer regretting his choice of words. he sighs and allows his hands to fall off her face, too weak to keep them up for longer.

"until i'm healed and don't smell like a burned corpse. no, i don't mind." 

groaning, he shifts on his ass as he remains sitting. only now does he take a moment to gauge his surroundings and more specifically at the various pokemon that surround him.

he looks to cait. "you've grown a lot since the last time we spoke. i'm guessing they're yours." he gestures to the myriad of grass-pokemon around them. then he asks another question that has been on his mind; one of many.

"where are you hiding me, darling? this doesn't look like your home. nor does it look like sootopolis. so where am i?" 

a favor. he purses his lips and nods, listening. her words are true. "i doubt the universe is happy with it. you've defied nature, defied death and brought me back. i do appreciate it but like you said, i'm not sure if people will." 

he takes a moment to think before speaking again.

"which is why no one must know."





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POSTED ON Jun 6, 2019 15:04:58 GMT
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he chuckles once in obvious disbelief. a part of him refuses to believe her words because they seem too good to be true. "lovely." the only one to have died. he shakes his head and does the slightest of eye rolls but soon meets her gaze again.

"what if i don't want to be here?" 

his words are damning. he has more to say but he holds his tongue, remembering that she essentially brought him back from the dead. she defied the gods and did it. for him. for him. it is still difficult to wrap his head around that realization and he doubts he ever will.

he feels a sudden but temporary increase in pressure on his body. it's only then does he see how weak she looks; she almost nearly slumps over and it's clear now that it's because of him. to mean that much to someone; to be needed in that regard; it makes him reconsider his stance.

it makes him compromise.

"you did it." slowly rising to sit upright once more, he reaches a hand to her face and wipes stray tears that have escaped. "i'm sorry for what i said. thank you for doing what you did, cait. i might not fully understand why but still, thank you." 





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POSTED ON Jun 5, 2019 14:52:43 GMT
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fell asleep. he would laugh if it didn't hurt so much. instead he narrows his eyes and shakes his head once in disbelief, clicking his tongue as he slowly lies back down. "and you woke me up." a statement more so for himself than her as he searches for comfort through any means.

but it doesn't come. he looks to his left, then his right, and he feels nothing but an absence. it's as if he's lost and all alone despite the woman with her hands on his face. he doesn't even notice her hands until he looks back at her.

"why did you do it?" 

why did you save me? he was content with dying; he practically accepted it as he fell. to have that ripped away from him makes him feel like he's been denied in some weird and twisted way. perhaps death is something he once longed for. but does he still?

he looks into her eyes, pleading. "you didn't answer me, darling." a hint of his old persona returns and glimmers for a moment. he reaches for her hand, grasping as he holds on. 

"did they all die?"





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POSTED ON Jun 4, 2019 13:30:54 GMT
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she did it.

it isn't like in the movies; he doesn't miraculously wake up to gasp for air only to feel okay moments after. he's not okay. things aren't okay. and they might never be but the thing that matters the most is that he's alive. by some miracle he's here: lying on stone surrounded by green and grey in a place unknown.

he awakens long before his eyes open. he listens to the array of sounds around him: the chirping of birds, the crinkling of grass, and for a while it feels like he's trapped in a wonderful dream. a dream he does not deserve.

but then his eyes open and as they do, bitter reality sets in. he remembers it all: remembers being burned to ash and falling from great heights. but he doesn't remember the impact. it's like he's still falling and as he looks around he's met with the realization that he's all alone. no one can stop his fall. but maybe she can catch him.

"cait--" panic and a sense of urgency soon sets in. he reaches for her, grasping at her shoulder only to pull her close. "what...what happened? the people, are they--" dead. he doesn't say it but his eyes convey his message: pleading, as if scared of her response.

he wants to sit up. wants to jump to his feet and start sprinting back home to sootopolis. but again, it isn't like in the movies. his skin is healthy but his body is not. the pressure it went through has taken a toll and he realizes it as he even struggles to sit upright. it's then that he notices how weak he is; and how his hands shake.

"i remember burning. i remember falling. i remember dying. i'm not supposed to be here. why am i here?"




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II. NAVEL ROCK TOWER RAID
POSTED ON Mar 8, 2019 6:23:46 GMT
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's voice calls out to him through the thunderous rain and the overpowering chaos that surrounds them, he hears it and almost turns, almost, but stops because he knows there's no coming back from this but then be feels her hand around his, gripping with a hold that speaks volumes and finally he turns, turns to look at her in his most vulnerable state.

once too blinded by his need to survive, he now sees the true extent of the situation that has long unfolded around him. people are in danger; innocent, guilty, it doesn't matter in the moment, he sees it now. he realizes it now. perhaps all it took was a single tough to pull him out of it.

but only for mere moments.

the floor breaks underneath them and he loses his footing, but thankfully 's PSYCHIC holds them in the air. his smile is painful, but he forces one regardless as he looks at emma, almost apologetically before slipping his hand out of hers. reaching for two pokeballs, he summons his nidoking and nidoqueen and watches them fall after the attacking ho-oh.

tears in his eyes, he says:

"goodbye."

clawing his gaze away from emma he looks to and boris as they board the hydreigon. a sudden and hidden PSYCHIC knocks both dominic and boris back, not hard enough to send them off the hydreigon, but enough to allow for the second PSYCHIC to engulf the jirachi before attempting to force it out of boris' arms to send towards nikolai.

nidoking and nidoqueen, much like their trainer, has long accepted their fates, as the falling pair lock eyes momentarily, they realize that this is their last battle together. and they will give it their all.

nidoqueen's sudden EARTH POWER causes a spike to shoot straight out from the side of the tower, hoping to damage and slow ho-oh down even temporarily, long enough for her to reach it for a SUPERPOWER punch.

nidoking's FOCUS ENERGY allows him to dive straight down, horn-first, and attempt to drill his MEGAHORN right into the body of the ho-oh.

charizard falls along with them, lifelessly.

escavalier remains by nikolai's side, utilizing 's PSYCHIC to float.


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» shares a moment with emma.
» calls his nidoking and nidoqueen after the ho-oh.
» PSYCHIC knocks back dominic and boris while another PSYCHIC tries to steal jirachi.
» nidoqueen uses EARTH POWER to try and slow down ho-oh before SUPERPOWER punching the shitty fire bird.
» nidoking uses FOCUS ENERGY and MEGAHORNS ho-oh.
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II. NAVEL ROCK TOWER RAID
POSTED ON Feb 26, 2019 14:41:36 GMT
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[attr="class","letter1"]n
ikolai sees it -- sees the boy who once was but is now nothing more than an omen of death; its harbinger that calls out to him with an eerie whisper and what frightens him is not what he sees, but what he feels: he feels himself dying. slowly. surely. bit by bit his skin flakes away with the wind, his knees buckle under the immense pain and pressure, and yet he refuses to fall.

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"please. please."

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false hope. this is the end for nikolai; he will not make it off this tower alive. he's not given much time to react to the chilling thought before 's hydreigon ROARS the nidoking and nidoqueen away. nikolai has to recall them back into their pokeballs to save them from running off the ledge like deranged preys fearing for their lives.

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hearing 's words pierce through the thick of the chaos, nikolai extends his hand out towards boris. "i can put it to sleep." he stretches. he claws. he inches every bit closer with his words and yet he feels as though he's miles away. "give it to me, boris."

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one hand outstretched, one hand at the ready.

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» nidoking and nidoqueen ROARED back into their pokeballs[break]
» tries asking boris for jirachi :pepehands:[break]
» close enough to boris + dominic


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POSTED ON Feb 23, 2019 18:29:07 GMT
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the choice to leave his partner for dead grows with every word that escapes his idiotic mouth. but nikolai is a good man. a better man than dallas, perhaps.

"too much paperwork." 

reaching behind his back, he pulls out a container full of fresh, clean water and hands it over to his partner. "this is what clean water looks like. drink." even if his partner refuses, nikolai will bring the container to dallas' mouth and feed it to him.

"your condition reminds me of an old folk's tale: a plague that claimed the lives of many villagers. my mother used to tell me it." 

the thought of his mother dampens his mood ever so slightly, but he picks it back up as he rises to his feet. "come on. we need to find grass pokemon." he extends a hand to his partner.

"can you stand?"

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