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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Children believe nothing can kill them in their own home. Children believe they'll be passed over by the sword and the flame, that monsters will look in their eyes and sheathe their claws. These are the stories we tell children, and the world kills them anyway, in the bloodiest of ways.
Thalia wasn't a child, and she didn't believe in stories. But there was no other excuse for why she was walking in Bacchus Gym alone, other than she thought she was safe, for whatever reason. Either that, or she didn't particularly care about the twist of claws in her stomach, shredding flesh and gut.
bedtime stories were a thing of the past. merci used to love them-- tales of princesses and dragonites and knights in shining armor. it was cliché and cheesy, but she loved them. she loved them because she knew that such things could never be real. such happiness was impossible. survival was impossible.
thalia ought to know that too. yves boomed out from a distant place in the theatre: "welcome to the circus." 2tsunz
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"It was never a circus," she said lightly to the mysterious voice. "Even if it wasn't shut for business now. Irene staged plays. They were elegant. I remember--"
Thalia broke off.
Irene had been all grace, ethereal and draped in white on the stage, that hair too pink to be natural but too assured of itself to be anything else as well. Those had been plays to make you believe in something, make your heart clench in your chest: the world was a right and good place. People would always want to better themselves, to do well by others. Plays to make you believe there was a meaning to the way the light slanted across the floor.
"Anyway," she finished. "The point is it's not a circus."
plays are boring, she thinks, staring at the tech equipment. yves had never seen a play. merci hadn't either. so she revised her thought. plays are fine, she readies herself for battle. circuses are better. and she lets go of her rail, plummeting down towards the ground of the theatre at a blistering speed. about to touch the mezzanine when--she stops.
the circus was whimsical and happy and expressive, moving your own body against the will of arceus. displaying something no one had ever seen before. yves sighed, mid-air. she swung herself forward and started to pick up momentum. "it's a circus now." and she starts drawing, mid-swing. yves drew the fairy sign, and then reluctantly unlatched herself from the harness.
she started twirling while the magician and his assistants arrived.
"so are you." she flew higher and drew another sign.
sableye uses feint attack on meowstic sableye uses psych up (copies +accuracy) sableye uses confuse ray on meowstic (+acc) sableye uses zen headbutt on chansey
florges uses safeguard florges uses aromatherapy florges uses disarming voice on meowstic florges uses magical leaf on meowstic
swanna is hit by everything swanna's sleep status is restored by aromatherapy! swanna uses tailwind swanna uses defog on opposing team swanna uses air slash on chansey swanna uses water pulse on chansey Tn2iVMca <30 air slash causes flinch <20 water pulse causes confusion
sableye uses feint attack on meowstic sableye uses taunt on chansey sableye uses zen headbutt on chansey sableye uses detect sableye uses power gem on meowstic (tailwind 1/3)
florges is hit by egg bomb, psychic, and future sight florges dodges sing florges uses wish florges uses petal blizzard on meowstic florges uses moonblast on meowstic florges uses flash on meowstic (tailwind 1/3)
swanna uses aqua ring swanna uses defog swanna uses air slash on meowstic swanna uses water pulse on meowstic swanna flops around (tailwind 1/3)
yves draws VICTINI SIGN-v-create on chansey scourge sableye. male. lvl 55(110). keen eye. feint attack, detect, shadow claw, zen headbutt, confuse ray, power gem, recover, magic coat, psych up, taunt
"I am," she said. "I was alone last time as well. Neo and I merely ran into each other on separate ventures."
chansey and meowstic both fainted. she recalled them without fuss, and sent out the next pair.
vaporeon and tyranitar came out.
vaporeon used hydro pump on florges vaporeon used haze focus badge mimicked x-acc vaporeon used acc-muddy water on florges and swanna qJGD3Bch < 30 lowers acc
tyranitar used giga impact on florges tyranitar used hone claws focus badge mimicked x-acc tyranitar used acc-thunder on swanna < 30 paralyzes
yves looks at thalia, flips, and then brings her gaze right back to the pink haired young woman. "by that logic," she begins, scratching her head, "i was alone as well."
"and i always will be, it seems." she winks.
florges faints swanna faints
sableye uses feint attack on vaporeon sableye uses taunt on vaporeon sableye uses zen headbutt on vaporeon sableye uses confuse ray on vaporeon
yves draws DIALGA SIGN-roar of time on tyranitar
and she roars, her body shaking madly. it's chaos, a release-- and then the exhaustion takes over and she slumps, falling to the ground in the back of the theatre. she rests. scourge sableye. male. lvl 55(110). keen eye. feint attack, detect, shadow claw, zen headbutt, confuse ray, power gem, recover, magic coat, psych up, taunt 2tsunz
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"I fought the woman you were with last time again," Thalia said, seemingly offhand. "She had a new partner. Don't worry. She still lost, even with him."
vaporeon hit by everything vaporeon was recalled.
rufflet came out. rufflet used leer on sableye
tyranitar is recharging tyranitar used crunch (atk bonus tyranitar used acc-stone edge (acc bonus)
"She had a mamoswine, yes. Can you only have one pokemon at a time?" Thalia hadn't known that. Interesting. "I meant that she was with another person though. A boy I knew. Alex."
"a mamoswine," she repeats, lost in thought. hope wakes up and returns to her side, staring at thalia and growling at her. yves snaps out of her thought and gives the sableye a dirty look.
"only one?" yves tilts her head again. "yes." she says, nodding. "we have one styler. one pokemon." it's fine to give her this info-- yves actually thought all of the eos members had guessed that by now. she's silent for a moment, just looking at thalia. she'd make a good agent.
Children believe nothing can kill them in their own home. Children believe they'll be passed over by the sword and the flame, that monsters will look in their eyes and sheathe their claws. These are the stories we tell children, and the world kills them anyway, in the bloodiest of ways.
