This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
swarms
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the fog coated grayson, and the ground seemed to sink and shift. the veil was still grey and heavy around him. the shrill cry echoed again; the world changed.
grayson was suspended in midair, upon an invisible bridge that led to a void.
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grayson stared. this was the freakiest mountain ever. he walked forward into the void, feeling the air change. there was a terrible pressure reigning down on where he stood.
a single, purplish-pink pupil appeared before grayson -- it was many times larger than he was, and it was quickly apparent that grayson was very, very much smaller than palkia itself. the master of space had simply chosen to warp reality to favor itself; it had chosen to minimize grayson's presence in its world while it remained superior.
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every breath echoed in grayson's head, taking deep, slow breaths. "palkia." grayson stood firm, gazing up at the eye. he'd come for a small item but encountered much more than he expected. in the back of his mind, he vaguely wondered if the pokemon had somehow been vaccinated against the scourge. the eye wasn't shadowy black, as far as he knew, so this wasn't a scourge palkia. "hello."
palkia surveyed the area around grayson, before further minimizing his size. against a legendary, the breeder was likely helpless. the creature let out another shrill cry, its eye blinking only once before reality warped again.
the world shifted in and out of focus; there was bacchus, and suddenly they were back in the mountain -- then it was sol, the sea by proserpina, juno, decima's gym -- the casino --
palkia's restlessness tossed grayson through many worlds before it settled for an alternate reality:
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familiar sights almost seemed welcoming before he eyed the bloodied battlefield that was sol city. it was cringe worthy, bodies with chunks taken out, teeth marks more plentiful than vegetation. "i know." he looked back at palkia. "for now sol is safe. but ceres isn't. the amberwell is under attack."
oh yeah, palkia gave a damn not about the amberwell, but for the fact that sol city was safe. its single eye closed tightly shut, and it disappeared from view.
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as grayson stood where he was, something hit him on the head. it was a Very Painful Moment for the breeder.
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dorotheos paulo chuckled to himself. oh, palkia was a demanding beast. it warped space and mercilessly bent reality to its will given the chance. the breeder would likely never have a day of peace as palkia would torment his sense of space -- perhaps he would have claustrophobia after a while? the man walked over to where grayson was, and gave him a graceful bow.
"my apologies and condolences," said dorotheos, "you have been chosen as a vessel for a legendary pokémon's wishes, much like i have been, and the various members of the anathemata."
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"dorotheos paulo of the anathemata," said he, "you, my boy, are cursed."
a chuckle, because he had seen many of these faces, confused, fear-stricken or ecstatic -- he had lived long, and bore the curse of regigigas for many years now.
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"you will be aware of it soon. palkia will impose its wishes upon you -- and you are to obey them. you may feel claustrophobic whenever it whispers into your ear, and should you feel particularly harassed or at a loss as to what to do, you are welcome to visit our secret society.
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"you say it's a curse." he murmured. "but i sought palkia. he answered me. perhaps it won't be as much a curse for me. is there a chance? i'm a breeder. i don't have much more purpose than to breed pokemon. i've been wandering kohaku without a purpose, mostly. i help researchers with their entries, i breed pokemon for trainers. i independently have no real purpose. palkia can be that purpose."