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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He had called Magikarp up on her c-gear. She wanted to meet his mother right? Well his mother was vacationing at a small apartment they owned in Sol City. The Collins were beach people, sun people, warm people. Mother had often said it was based on their genetics.
Well, actually his father could stand the cold pretty well.
His mother was cooking, she nearly looked like a female copy of Ariel, just with darker skin, black hair,, and much shorter and a few wrinkles indictacating that she was in her late-forties, actually she was forty-seven. She looked a bit younger though, maybe her late-thirties, she paid careful attention and a ton of money to keep herself looking young.
There was a ring at the doorbell. "Is that her Magikarp, Ariel?" She said in her accented English..
"Her name's Thalia, mom. I'll get the door." He went to the door. "Did you find this place alright, Magikarp?" Ariel's mother pushed herself through, giving herself enough space so Ariel was pushed up against the doorframe.
"Hello hello Thalia, I'm Ariel's mother, but don't call me Mrs. Collins, Adela."
red is my favorite color, red like your mother's eyes
She'd made her way to the apartment quite easily, in fact, although she didn't get the chance to inform Ariel. Thalia had spent some time in the residential area of Sol City lately, apartment-shopping, and the street where Ariel's family was staying was one she'd been walking down the previous day.
She didn't even have a chance to groan at the Magikarp nickname before Ariel was being smushed up comically against the door by his mother. At the sight of her culinary hero, Thalia promptly forgot about Ariel's entire existence, much less his immediate presence less than a foot away.
"Of course, Adela! It's an honor to finally meet you! Ariel brought me some of your cooking while I was in the hospital and it was so good--it saved my life, you have no idea. I've been wanting to meet you for ages."
..Ariel hadn't mentioned his mother was smoking hot, either, but Thalia guessed maybe it wasn't the sort of thing he'd notice, probably. Would be weird if he did.
Adela blushed. "Were you the girl Ariel was going to visit in Cura? Ariel told me you enjoyed my cooking. Thank you. I actually am preparing supper, care to stay?" She was glad someone was appreciative, Phil - Ariel's father, and her husband of twenty odd years - didn't thank her enough, neither did Ariel now that she thought about it.
"Ah, come in, come in! The kitchen is to the left. You didn't tell me your girlfriend was so cute Ariel."
"Mom, she's not my-"
"Hush. You know, I support your preferences and lifestyle. But I want grandkids, not you settling down with some boy you brought home from a bar." Ariel rolled his eyes. "Besides, she's adorable."
If only you knew her, he wanted to say. "Sorry about my mom, Magikarp." He walked in, and when Thalia came in he shut the door.
He followed behind his mother to the kitchen and took a seat at the round table.
"So what has Ariel told you about me? I'm sure its all bad, yes?"
"Did he now? Ariel is an awfully sweet boy." Maybe she's just saying that because she has no other child to compare him to, or he is the sweetest boy in her eyes.
"Magikarp you don't have-"
"Hush Ariel, if your friend wants to help, let her help. I would love some help Thalia, how kind of you. While you're helping me, why not tell me a bit about yourself?" She stirred a pot, pulled a few spices out of the cabinet.
"There's some celery in the fridge, mind chopping it for me? So how old are you? Are you married?" She looked young, she hoped her son hadn't picked an illegal girl. She didn't want him to be called a cradle robber.
red is my favorite color, red like your mother's eyes
The celery was wedged toward the back of the fridge, and Thalia pulled it out onto the counter.
She wilted only slightly under the barrage of questions from Adela, trying to answer and not slice herself open at the same time.
"I'm nineteen," she said, cubing a stalk. "...I'm not married. I, uh, I'm not even dating. I'm an EOS trainer. The lifestyle tends to kill romance in the bud."
"She's around your age, Ariel." She breathed a sigh of relief, and Ariel just covered his face in his hands. He never got embarrassed except by his mother.
"Ah, I'm sure if you had someone who was willing to try romance could bloom. Ah, I remember the days when Phil, Ariel's father, was actually romantic. Now's he's just... not."
He tried his best to attempt to telepathically communicate with his mother not to talk about her, or his love life. It wouldn't work though. He didn't wanna voice it though, she had a metal spoon in hand.
red is my favorite color, red like your mother's eyes
Thalia tried to think of everyone she knew and interacted with semi-regularly who was hypothetically an eligible romantic possibility. Neo. J. Delilah. Ismael. Karimi. Ariel himself. Elias. A handful of hades agents.
...none of them struck her as very romantic, except for maybe that blonde girl who'd ended up being a hades agent. And Thalia really didn't want to date her.
"Maybe," she said doubtfully. "I'll probably just die alone on the battlefront with my pokemon though, more likely."
That just made Adela sad. She pulled the spoon out of the soup, put in down on the stove. She placed her hand on top of the one that she was using to cut, so she didn't get shocked and cut her when Adela wrapped her up in a hug. "Don't say such things, you seem like a darling girl, Thalia."
Ariel got up and dumped the celery into the soup. "How long ma?"
red is my favorite color, red like your mother's eyes
Thalia really like Ariel, but she had quite a few reservations about ending up in some weird dual-marriage to both him and his mother if she moved in next door. She coughed.
"You know, I've met the whole family except for your father, Ariel? Is he going to be joining us?"
He had called Magikarp up on her c-gear. She wanted to meet his mother right? Well his mother was vacationing at a small apartment they owned in Sol City. The Collins were beach people, sun people, warm people. Mother had often said it was based on their genetics. 
