The terrifying Froslass that had an equally-terrifying aura was about to throw another barrage of icicles when he heard a familiar voice, before seeing—

“Is… is that you?!” he exclaimed, quickly rolling over and pressing a hand to his cheek, hoping that the blood flow would stem… however, there was a shadow that was looming behind her…

“Get down!” he yelped, finally managing to get to his feet and literally facing the shadow that had dive-bombed them head-on, before making to grab one of the icicles that had fallen and chucking it at said shadow that was screaming bloody murder right at them.

“What the—T-Terra?!” he exclaimed, blinking. Since when did his Aerodactyl’s coloration turn… oh, no.

Oh, fucking hell to the no!

The Aerodactyl let out another resounding scream, before he raised both his arms in a defensive position, blocking her from the incoming ‘apex predator’ and then getting a rather… morbid idea.

“…it’s me you’re after, aren’t you?” he mused quietly, smearing his right hand with the sticky blood that was bleeding from his cheek; before flicking the blood in the Aerodactyl’s direction, who roared in their direction—but made no further violent… moves, for now, their way.

“You have got to be fucking kidding me.”

Without blinking, and while said Aerodactyl was distracted, he then threw the Dream Ball at said ‘apex predator’, watching as it was sucked into the beam of red light.

“I would deign to call you ‘Miss Elise’, but we know that… things… work differently here. Let me guess. You picked a name related to the supernatural,” he continued with a thin smile, before following it up with,

“Hecate. I guess… that’s what we should call each other for the moment, while we’re here.”

And he trusted her to know what his nickname was.

The moment the Dream Ball confirmed the capture, though, he was torn—why were there two prompt windows flashing in front of him? And what was up with the…

He felt his blood run cold at the option. But then again… he’d had enough of always being protected. Wasn’t he supposed to be doing the protecting, too?

Swiping away the option to ‘purify your Pokémon’s heart’, he hesitated for a few moments on the second window, before locking his answer in.

‘Keep your Pokémon’s strength’

(Of course, there would be a very belated realization down the road, but now was not the time for that.)

Eventually the world would return to normal after he made his choice; being frozen in time for what felt like an eternity.

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Elise Calcifet

ability; alyosha: your blood will lure Pokémon to you—however, it only works for one particular prehistoric creature; raised from a minuscule sample found from a single fosillized piece of amber.

Originally, Guillermo Marceliño thought he had lost his mind, because of the notification.

So, rather than press the issue further, he decided to ask around; to whoever may have gotten the same notification he did. Initially he had no luck…

However, fate would reward him in the strangest of ways.

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Wait, wait, wait, hold the fuck up, he recognized this place! Only it wasn’t as beat-down as the last time he’d seen it…

Surely this was some kind of sick-ass joke.

Before he could take another look around, he thought he saw something flickering from the corner of his eye…

“Holy shit, what are you—doing?!” he yelped as he dived out of the way; being very careful not to injure himself just in case… wait, this was a dream, right? Or… his perception of reality was getting blurred between what was real and what was not.

Holy shit, what had he done to deserve this anger, from this Pokémon, this… was it a Froslass (it looked so terrifyingly angry with that miasmic cloud swirling around their form) but it looked ready to ice him…

Ice him… yikes!

A burst of power surged forth from said Froslass, and boy did this one look ready to ice him… kill him and permanently erase him from here—

Shards of ice then flew towards him, and he was a split-second too late to duck before some of the shards nicked him past the cheek, and he saw the splash of red almost right after—

“Are…you…kidding me?!” he all but screamed, reaching up to wipe the hot, sticky liquid from his cheek.

Little did he know, though, that the ‘blood’ would actually attract the one that was meant to find him…

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Elise Calcifet

ability; alyosha: your blood will lure Pokémon to you—however, it only works for one particular prehistoric creature; raised from a minuscule sample found from a single fosillized piece of amber.