Navy
He/Him
32
October 13th
Slateport
Heterosexual
E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"
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Michael Navidson
Autumn Winds of Distant Days
POSTED ON Dec 25, 2023 4:37:13 GMT
[nospaces] [attr="class","Navypog3"] [attr="class","Navypog3-big-img"] [attr="class","Navypog3-1"] [attr="class","Navypog3-title"] MORE HUMAN[break]THAN HUMAN MORE HUMAN[break]THAN HUMAN [attr="class","Navypog3-tagged"] @tag
[attr="class","Navypog3-subtitle"] I HOPE YOU KNOW WE HAD EVERYTHING. WHEN YOU BROKE ME AND LEFT THESE PIECES. [attr="class","Navypog3-pkmn"] [attr="class","Navypog3-post"] [attr="class","Navypog3-icon"] He stands, at last, on the mountaintop. Across from him stands the burning one-eyed star. The All-Father looks on in contempt.[break][break] “ Congratulations are in order, Michael.” Gabriel says, looking down at the path up the mountain. It is a path carved in blood. Shuwen’s hands drip with the stuff raw, red stuff of fallen warriors.[break][break] “ Don’t want congratulations.” He paces back and forth, looking past the star. He looks for a way out. More than anything, he wants to wake from this dream. Melody will be there. They’ll have a nice meal. He’ll forget all about this. It will be his own private misery, like all of the others that will follow. Another secret, just for him. Just like the woman he saved, years ago. Just like the lives he took.[break][break] “ Let me out.”[break][break] “ If you wanted to leave that easily, you would just wake up.” Some would call that an unfair observation. Navy sees the wisdom in the words. He sighs, stumbles. Shuwen catches him, steadies the sheriff.[break][break] “ It will be hard, what comes. It would be easier if you had the great emerald dragon’s blessing, if only for a short while.”[break][break] “ Not like it counts in a dream anyway.” The elder brother observes. “ You can tell yourself anything when your eyes are closed. Make up any kind of story you want. Reality’s what counts. Green snake didn’t help us out. Nobody did. Nobody except me. Only words I can find to believe in are mine.”[break][break] “ Would that this was not a dream.” The younger brother smiles. “ Pick your Pokemon then, Michael.”[break][break] “ You even gotta ask?” Ironsides flies from the sky, landing before his trainer. Screeching, he readies for battle. Gabriel, the All-Father, draws a burning pokeball. Tossing it out, Kohryu roars, coiling through the air like a great serpent.[break][break] “ Looks like a mirror of the first match we ever had.” Navy’s smile is pensive, remembering the battle on the beach. “ Nobody likes a crybaby, Gabe.”[break][break] “ Then come claim victory or get cast down in defeat. Whatever you want. It’s all for y-”[break][break] He’s cut off as he sees his brother do something mad. Crossing the mountaintop summit, walking past Kohryu, he stands before the burning star that was Gabriel Navidson. His arms open wide. He embraces the younger brother. Even as it burns him, scorches him, scalds his flesh, he hugs his brother.[break][break] “ I miss you, you little idiot. You don’t gotta be so extra. Even if you’re just a dream…you’re plenty real to me. Valhalla. Fighting. Losing. Winning. Just wish I had you. You can say this is what I want, this is what would make me happy. Maybe you’re right…” His own skin is on fire when he lets go. Turning, he looks at the sun breaking at last through crimson clouds.[break][break] “ …what makes me happy is other people being happy.”[break][break] Ironsides, Kohryu, and Shuwen look between the brothers. None of the Pokemon move to interfere. The one-eyed star cries.[break][break] “ You’re the dumb one, Navy.” He says in a younger voice.[break][break] “ Yeah.” Navy agrees. “ A man’s gotta be a little stupid.”[break][break] And then, he wakes up. [attr="class","Navypog3-bot-1"] notes about this postNotes go here
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