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mistaeq · 4 years

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Caught in his fangs, freed in his claws.

Chapter 1.

TW // blood will be implied, kinda non-con relationship, vampires, werewolves, spooky things.

DISCLAIMER! EVERY IMAGE IN THIS FIC IS EDITED BY ME AND MATCHES THE DESCRIPTIONS IN THE FANFIC.♡

So. This is Dora's interactive halloween fic. What do I mean with "interactive". You choose your ending! Yay! At the end of every chapter, I'll give the reader a choice to make. You don't have to necessarily tell me your choices, you'll just have to keep them to yourselves and remember them as you go. Both endings will be posted - four, counting the not nsfw ones -, since the choice will be based on how many answer "A"s and "B"s you personally gave. But still, if you want to, you can share with me your choices! It'll be funny to know how would you behave!

Lord Higashikata x neutral!reader / Butler Nijimura x neutral!reader [depends on your choices <3]

WORD COUNT: 2.3k

Once upon a time, in a kingdom... a young creature who was nothing more than a duchess/duke, was sitting in a carriage, waiting for their destiny to come. This is not about a princess/prince, no knights galloping on a noble steed, but the story of a pure, untouched creature who was sold to save their family. This was deeply illegal. This is why from the day they were born, their parents never declared their birth at the government. They were noble people, god dammit. They would have never let such a shame fall on their surname's fame, on their dynasty, on their family's reputation. So they waited, living their misery in secret. They waited until their eighteenth birthday to sell them to someone who they knew would have never aged and would have never died, in the meantime.

You had heard of this person. He was a Count, mercilessly buying people to gain pleasure from them. To be satisfied. Almost like a tribute, almost like the Minotaur myth. It sounded just like this man could never be without someone beside him, pleasuring him. But you spent eighteen years of your life with your parents by your side, reassuring you about the fact that this person would have treated you well and properly, and he would have given money to your family after every year of your life spent with him. He had never had the chance to ask for something like that before... but since your family had promised you to him since the very start, since the day you were born, he asked for them to make sure you made it to him as a virgin.

Did this mean... he wanted you to have your first time with him...? He wanted you sexually, someway? Maybe making sure you were untouched just for him? These were the questions that were bugging you all the way towards his castle. The carriage felt always colder, and you stared at the coachman, hoping he would someway reassure you. "Excuse me...? Do you know anything about the man I'm being brought to...?" as you asked, the carriage stopped, and the man turned towards you, clearing his voice. His cyan eyes looked so deep, they were cutting through you as the sharpest sword ever.

"You mean my uncle, Lord Higashikata, I figure." what a deep voice, you felt the goosebumps it caused creeping up behind your spine. Lord Higashikata? At least now you knew about his surname. The surname you maybe would have taken.

"Y/n Higashikata..." you murmured, just to hear how your name would have sounded with his surname, slightly whispering and fighting hard against the tears that were forming in your eyes. Your parents had made you use to this thought. But all you would have wanted, watching all the lovebirds flirting and kissing in the streets, you realized you would have rather chosen to slowly fall in love with someone, rather than being forcibly paired with that Count. Meet someone, make friends, spend time together... passing time making you fall in love. This is what you craved. But you would have never found it now. It was too late. Maybe.

It took waking up from your daydreaming, to notice that the coachman who was talking to you, had no body at all. Or better, he did have a body... but it was driving the carriage, while the thing that was talking to you was his head only, held up by a single hand of his instead of being on his neck. "What the heck?" you almost shouted, terrified, as you curled up against the carriage's seat. "What... what are you..." your voice broke, as the man put his head back on his driving body with a sarcastic laughter. Your eye fell on a notebook, which was right beside the coachman. It had a name on it. Probably his. "Are you possibly... Kujo Jotaro?"

"Why even bother asking. Does my head scare you, young creature?" Kujo's deep voice answered in a melancholic way, as his back relaxed against his seat. "You'll see way better shit than this, in that castle. My uncle did this to me. He's the only one who can fix me, so that I have to be loyal, if I want my reward." what? You didn't know why. But your instinct told you to investigate. The more you knew about your future husband, the better it would have been.

"Lord Higashikata did this to you...?" your soft voice asked, even if you already knew the answer. "Is he evil? Possessive?"

"Are you asking to know whether you have a choice without dying or not?" your breath hitched. Dying? What kinda man was he? And if you parents promised you to him as soon as you were born, how can he be as young as they said he looks like? Now that you thought about it... you had heard of this man wanting young boys and girls for his own pleasure during a time which was located way before your birth.

"Why hasn't he been killed yet?" when this question left your lips, you thought you were nuts. How could you let yourself ask such a thing to the Count's coachman? "How old is he...?" you immediately tried to cover up your last question with a new one, which anyways bugged you a lot as well. Jotaro shrugged.

"Nobody really remembers it precisely apart from him and his advisor. I think he's around two hundred..." No way you heard what you just heard. Were you gonna marry... an elderly man? But no, come on, two hundred years isn't even considered elderly, it's basically... dead? "You know..." Kujo continued. "...Vampire stuff." Oh. OH. So that's what it is. Vampire. Great, good to know your family had been planning to sell you to an edgy bat for eighteen years so far. Now, if possible, you were twice as terrified as before. You didn't dare to ask any more questions to the coachman, considering he sometimes even sounded pretty pissed at the thought of solving your doubts himself.

The jacket you had taken off while you were in the carriage, returned on your shoulders as it stopped in front of the scariest view ever. A castle, a giant, castle, where the only light available to make it clearer to your sight, was the moon. It wasn't even full, that night, so that there wasn't a great light to dispose of. Great. You waited for some seconds, as the coachman opened your door out, interrupting the whistle lingering in everyone's ears, when it all suddenly gets too silent. Only then, you had the occasion to notice two things. The first one, was that Kujo was ridiculously tall and muscular. The second one, way more scary, was that the carriage, since the beginning of your road, had been carried by... nothing. You swallowed, as your gaze decided not to stare at that too much. This counted for both Jotaro's muscles and the lack of horses. "Just get to the main door. Someone will be waiting for you."

His deep voice then left you, all alone, as he took his place back in the carriage, and you could swear you heard him murmur something on his way back, on the line of "This is the nth youngster that I bring for him... I feel like Charon." Seriously? Charon? Was he implying he had just brought you - and many others - to basic hell? You huffed and held back your tears, a true miracle. No need to cry now, this won't bring you back home, not that you're this much eager to see the two people who sold you to a vampire murderer. And probably an old man, too. Your feet moved, shyly, to the main, giant, iron made door. A short, smiling, reliable-looking guy, and a tall, muscular, serious-looking sentry, were waiting for you. You decided to talk to the short one first, as you noticed the white part of his right eye was black, instead. Plus, the iris of that eye was red, whereas the left one was blue.

"Uhm... hello?" you murmured, trying to smile the best you could, as your breath suddenly hitched at the feeling of the cold tip of something sharp against your neck. You didn't dare to move your face, or the blade would have wounded you. But you turned your eyes toward the taller sentry, the golden wolf decoration attached to his double-breasted jacket almost blinded you, as it reflected the moonbeams. You swallowed. The blonde, braided haired sentry didn't even think about backing off. Until...

"Keicho." the shorter guy talked, putting his hand on the sentry's. "You don't wanna slice our Lord's betrothed, do you?" he giggled. The man, Keicho, was it, backed off, and retracted the weapon from your neck. Now that you had a good sight of it, it looked like a long, heavy arrow.

"No, I don't." the sentry hid the arrow behind his back, right where it probably was before, since you didn't even notice it until he attacked. "I apologize, Koichi." wait. For real? Koichi? Keicho and Koichi? Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Keicho and Koichi? You avoided giggling about this. The last thing you wanted was getting your head threatened to be cut off again. The little guy just nodded, and gestured you into entering the door. He would have followed and guided you. To keep on following Kujo's reference, Koichi would have been your Virgil in that hell. Keicho remained at the entrance of the castle. As a sentry, he was required there. He was, anyway, the most normal one you had met so far. Almost. ALMOST.

"So... Y/n, if I'm not mistaken?" the short one asked, his smile not abandoning him. He looked like a pacific person. You nodded. "Good, good. You're talking to Lord Higashikata's advisor. I stay by his side when he needs so, and he requested me to welcome you myself, since..." he smiled, to probably reassure you. The corridor looked neverending. "...you might have noticed Keicho isn't the most graceful man on Earth." Lord Higashikata's advisor... you're sure Kujo spent some positive words about him, previously, but you remembered none of them. You could just think you probably agreed, so far. "You're a special guest. Not like all the other people I've witnessed disappearing during my career." disappearing? Oh dear God. "You're a virgin, he mentioned that to me. Such a fresh creature never happened to him before. Higashikata Josuke wants to marry you." oh... Josuke. You now had found out his name, too.

"Do I have any hope of escap-" as you pronounced it, Koichi grabbed your arm.

"Don't say it. Just don't." his voice didn't sound menacing or threatening. Just... scared. Scared or hopeless. As if his smile was just a way to hide a deep, stressful story. "Accept it the way it is. Just fall in love with him or... force yourself to do so. Or else, you'll die." the way he switched from this sentence, to a toothy smile, totally hurt your heart. Koichi was broken inside, yet you could just watch this happening and vaguely imagine your destiny beside that vampire. Old vampire. Probably. "Anyways..." he huffed. "It's all straight through this corridor, you're almost at the end. Just get the last door in the middle, at the end. The only door." Koichi bit his lip. "I'm sorry I'm leaving you like this... but I just heard some sounds... I'm afraid Keicho's fighting with the Lord's snake." oh great. Higashikata has a snake, you thought to yourself as the small guy left you alone in the corridor.

Great. Charon brought you to hell. Virgil brought you here, a step closer to Lucifer, who you saw in Josuke. What's next, a Beatrice? You almost chuckled, thinking it was so absurd you could have woken up right now back in your bed at home and be unimpressed. You felt a sudden goosebump, all of it in a single instant, but couldn't even have time to process what you felt, that you heard a loud sound of a door being angrily closed. "Guh! Shit..." what? Was there someone at the end of the corridor, now? You thought, processing the sight of someone lying on the ground, quickening your steps to get closer enough to see who it was without being suspected of something or attacked. There was, in fact, someone. It looked like a young guy, a long - almost waist long - grey braid coming from his hair, which were black on the top, was now squished to the ground, the double-breasted jacket was similar to Keicho's, as you noticed it had the same golden wolf shaped decoration on his chest. His skin, though, was much different from the usual. Flesh colored, yes, but grayer. Way grayer, as if it had no saturation at all. You saw him trying to stand up, planting a hand on the ground to lift his chest up, but he fell back down. You could notice that his right hand, the one he used to help himself, was covered by a crimson glove.

As you looked at him struggling, you knew there was only a thing to do. You would have...

a) ...helped him to stand up. You couldn't look at someone struggling without helping.

b) ...been careful and waited for him to stand up, to see if he was really harmless.

#dora is back #jojo's bizarre adventure #jojo no kimyou na bouken #diamond is unbreakable #jojo part four #jojo x reader #higashikata josuke #josuke x reader #nijimura okuyasu #okuyasu x reader #kujo jotaro #hirose koichi #nijimura keicho #halloween #halloween fic #interactive fanfic

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alldempretties · 7 years

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VKM 12 Rough Translation

DISCLAIMER: Please do NOT use my translations for scanlating purposes. You may use them as reference for image manips or meta or other artistic purposes, but not scanlations. Thank you for your understanding!

Vampire Knight Memories chapter 12′s rough translation is now available! Thanks for your patience! Any and all mistakes are mine. As usual, please take my translations with a healthy grain of salt until more official translations are available. ^_^

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Marking Legend:

[] = Character is thinking

** = sfx

() = Character side comment

{} = Translator note

P01:

Tagline: The eyes’ expression (feelings) conveyed through the fingertips.

P02:

Unnamed Narrator: [Aidou Hanabusa. Wakaba Sayori. Cross Kaien. Stories of other people. Stories of Kiryuu Zero. .....Stories of Yuuki.]

P03:

Unnamed Narrator: [The old stories he and her children discussed little by little somehow faintly nostalgic although he shouldn’t have any recollection of them. They were nothing but slightly bittersweet...and also tender stories.]

Ai: “Hurry up already! We’ll show you around town today!”

P04:

Unnamed Narrator: [That was surely thanks to considerate natures of these children.]

Ai: “Mother always liked this town.”

Unnamed Narrator: [For surely it must have been a harsh age as well...]

P05:

Ai: “Long time no see, Uncle!” {TL Note: Ai is just being polite to an older man she knows; he’s not really her uncle.}

Fishmonger Fellow: “Well hello, there, Ai-ojousan ! How many years has it been? You’re as pretty as ever!”

Ai: “It’s great to see you’re looking well too, Uncle!”

Apple Seller Lady: “Bless my stars, if it isn’t Ai-ojousan!”

P06:

Ai: “That apple looks delicious.”

Apple Seller Lady: “It’s a fine batch! It’s from the seedling your mother gave me. It’s now impressively bountiful; please take a bunch for yourself! As expected, you all didn’t live long in Date, eh? (It’s a treasure house of knowledge!)”

Ai: “I’ll let the founder who made it in the old days know your thoughts; I’m sure they’ll be pleased.”

Ren: “...This is one of the few ‘coexistence-capable countries.’”

Ren: “Since every person has their own unique sense of justice, a lot happened, and a few countries and territories were reorganized.”

P07:

sfx: *clatter clatter*

sfx: *topple*

Clerk: “Ah!”

Kaname: “---Whoa there.”

Clerk: “How kind of you to help!”

Clerk: “Heheh!”

P08:

Kaname: “I’ll lift it for you. Is over here all right?”

Clerk: “Yes! Thank you!”

Ai: “Yoo-hoo, you two! Let’s go!”

Ai: “I got apples dirt cheap!”

P09:

Ai: “Thank you, Auntie!” {TL Note: Same deal with the Uncle above; this is just a respectful term.}

Apple Seller Lady: “Come back soon!”

P10:

Kaname: [Without countless sacrifices and struggle, it shouldn’t be possible for this scenery here before me to exist.]

Kaname: [Don’t you think I ought to know about that, Yuuki.......?]

P11:

Aidou: “....at last....”

P12:

Aidou: “We’ve done it at last-------!!! It’s here-----!!!”

sfx: *clap x7*

Scientists: (”Ooooooo!!”)

Aidou: “The first iteration of the human turning drug is complete----!!!!”

Aidou: “I sensed the experiment to alter the base cells would go well! All that’s left is to test it out on ‘someone’ in a live experiment... Now, then...”

Researcher Muraki: “Chief Aidou....! Please leave that duty to this old vampire...!”

Aidou: “Muraki...?!”

P13:

Aidou: “You can’t, Muraki! We should test it out on a vampire imprisoned for a crime...”

Muraki: “Not at all! *cough* *cough*”

Muraki: “Please allow this old soldier who’s merely waiting around until he dries up completely and turns to dust to do the honors...!”

Aidou: “...Damnit...”

P14:

Memory Yori: “Oh my, are you slacking off?”

Memory Aidou: “How rude, Madame. Even though the time has come at last for you to monopolize me, how could I possibly think of doing anything else?”

P15:

Memory Aidou: “----Sayori-san.”

Memory Yori: “What is it, Aidou-kun?”

Memory Aidou: “Truthfully, I can’t seem to find a breakthrough. I can’t move forward with my research at all...”

Memory Yori: “...I thought as much.”

Memory Aidou: “(Ah) My work’s progress and your monopoly of me have nothing to do with each other!”

Memory Yori: “Sure.”

Memory Yori: “After such a long time, I wonder if you might answer a question for me...”

Memory Yori: “Why...did you begin your research in the first place?”

P16:

Memory Aidou: “...Good point...”

Memory Aidou: “...Heavily armed and highly durable biological weapons... They cause people to act on emotion and make mistakes .”

Memory Aidou: “I thought that someday even I myself might do something... I became afraid.”

Memory Aidou: “I thought there might be a way to peacefully agree to a disarmament. At least, I thought it would be good to increase the amount of choices available to humans and vampires------”

Memory Aidou: “Kaname-sama also surely felt that way. I also believe it.”

P17:

Memory Yori: “...That may be true, but... In the end, there are humans who seek to wield ‘power’ as well...”

Memory Aidou: “That’s true, Sayori-san...”

Memory Yori: “By the way, I’ve never once thought you were scary as a vampire, Hanabusa-kun.”

Memory Yori: “Even when you bit me, you did so with the utmost gentleness...”

P18:

Memory Aidou: “That’s because it was you, Sayori-san...”

P19:

Aidou: [You were the one who brought my good traits into the light, after all.]

Aidou: “.......Wouldn’t it be faster to turn all of humanity into vampires instead...?”

Aidou: “No no no no no!”

sfx: *jolt*

P20:

Aidou: “Sayori!! Sayori-san!! My comment just now was wrong!! (Uwaaaah!)”

Random Vampires Offscreen: “Eeeek! Uwaaah!”

Aidou: “? ?”

Random Vampires Offscreen: “Are you hunters trying to say that someday we’ll all become like that?!”

Random Vampires: “You mongrels! You came here expressly to put one of our brethren on display like a slab of bacon!! You beasts!!”

sfx: *intimidation x3*

Bacon Body Bag Vampire: (”Ughhhh.”)

Random Vampires: “You’re our enemies after alllllllll!!!!”

Random Vampires: (”Yaaaaah! Don’t look!”)

Random Vampires: “Those eyes look like you intend to murder us all!! You’re no human!! Demon!!”

P21:

sfx: *loom*

Aidou: “Kiryuu...!!”

Zero: “Escaped prisoner captured alive. Brought to you on special order for your experiment.”

Aidou: “Ah! That’s right!”

Aidou: “...Shucks, sorry, Kiryuu... Our guy Muraki offered to be the test subject... Speaking of, it was a failure...”

Zero: “...Then please sign here that you no longer need this.”

sfx: *indifferent*

Aidou: “Eh! Ah! Sure!”

P22:

Zero: “Later.”

sfx: *indifferent*

Aidou: “Eh! Wait a sec! I’m sorry! I feel like I asked for something troublesome!”

Zero: “Are you worried about the blood splatter? It’s fine; lately it’s always like this. Later.”

Aidou: “Huh?”

Aidou: “Hold on just one minute there---!!!”

Zero: (”What do you want already?”)

Zero: “...You said it was a failure... Did he lose his life?”

Aidou: “No... all it did was heal Muraki’s arthritis...”

Zero: “Arthritis...”

Aidou: “No, no, nevermind all that! Let’s talk about you! About you---!! You said lately you’ve been getting bloodstained more often; have you been running into more dangerous perpetrators lately?!”

P23:

Zero: “Not really... There’s actually fewer of them. Basically we’ve started capturing them alive so they can stand trial by the law.”

Zero: “Well, going easier on them gets them all riled up, so...”

Aidou: “....”

Aidou: “.......”

Zero: “..... What’s your deal?”

Aidou: “You know, you...”

P24:

Aidou: “Are you properly taking care of your own life...?”

Aidou: “Wha! Why do you have goosebumps over there?! I’m talking about the fact that if you died there are people who would be sad!”

Aidou: (”How rude!! Yuuki-chan would be sad and so would Sayori-san!!”)

Aidou: “If something happened, you’d disappear sooner than Yuuki-chan would. Please live a long life by her side.”

P25:

Zero: “...I can’t believe I’m being taught by the senpai in front of me......”

Zero: “I was completely blind to such an obvious thing...”

P26:

Zero: “Thank you very much.”

P27:

Rima: “----Hey, are you listening? Miss Prefect?”

sfx: *gasp*

Ruka: “Rima, I told you already, Yuuki-san is no longer a Prefect, remember...?”

Yuuki: (”Sorry about that.”)

Rima: “Eh--- Then, how about Former Prefect?”

Ruka: “Rima...”

Rima: “Then, Yuuki?”

Yuuki: (”Yes?”)

Rima: “You’ve been all secretive over there; has there been any progress?”

Yuuki: “My adopted father who’s been given a life sentence...left me a message that was a bit difficult to understand...”

Kaien: (”I’ll be going to take care of something I forgot that I feel was whispered to me by the phantom of my first love. --From Papa.”)

P28:

Yuuki: “----That’s about it I think...”

Yuuki: “Ah! After that, Ai went back to bed...”

Rima: “Wait just a minute. What about what happened with the other Prefect now that you’re starting over from the beginning?”

Yuuki: “Actually, lately we’ve returned to our lifestyle of returning to our separate houses.”

Rima: “And?”

Yuuki: “And? Zero’s apparently weaker to alcohol than I am (and such).”

Rima: “That’s not what I mean!”

Ruka: “Hold on, Rima. Stop it.”

Ruka: “And so, do you two have any intention of coming together officially?”

Yuuki: “Well... That’ll happen someday maybe... But I feel like whether it happens or not, it won’t be much different from now.”

Ruka: “That’s the way it is, huh... If you’ve been together a long time, it becomes like that, doesn’t it... I’m the same way.”

Yuuki: “Seems so.”

P29:

Yuuki: “He’s already my family and my irreplaceable partner. It’s so natural for us to be together that no one can change it...”

Ruka: “That’s true...”

sfx: *pat*

P30:

Ruka: “Then, I’ll be going to meet up with Akatsuki!”

Rima: “See ya!”

P31:

sfx: *boom*

sfx: *clatter x3*

Ruka: “Akatsuki!”

P32:

Ruka: “Akatsuki!”

Kain: “I’m all right, Ruka.......”

Ruka: “You’re an absolute idiot...! How could you protect me...! What if you had died?”

Kain: “Nah... I only protected you...”

Kain: “I’m glad none of the soot got on you...”

P33:

Kain: “Hey, the blood--”

Ruka: “Swear it!”

Ruka: “Right now, swear you’ll become my husband.”

Ruka: “And then when it’s time for you to die, die as my husband...!”

P34:

Kain: “I swear it.”

Chimney Sweep Fellow: “Terrible news-----!!! We found a proclamation at the scene of the explosion-----!!”

Chimney Sweep Fellow: “The author of the proclamation calls himself the ‘Vampire King’...!”

Bystanders: “Vampire...?!”

P35:

Unnamed Narrator: [That was from someone who wanted to direct hostility toward the vampires.]

Unnamed Narrator: [It was the opening shot.]

P36:

Yuuki: “-----Yeah, they were all right...”

Zero: “It’s a huge relief there were no casualties...”

Yuuki: “Yeah...”

Zero: “...Then, good night.”

sfx: *lean forward*

sfx: *grab*

Yuuki: “Let’s sleep together once in a while...”

P37:

Zero: “...It’s not that I particularly don’t want to or anything... Rather...”

Yuuki: “Yeah...”

P38:

Yuuki: “......Hey, Zero...?”

P39:

sfx: *bite*

sfx: *drip*

P40:

N/A

{TL Note: We will be getting a chapter in October (next issue), but there’s no preview images or text for us this time.}

#vampire knight #vampire knight memories #hino matsuri #matsuri hino #vkm translation

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mysidewriting · 7 years

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Through the Storm

Note: This is it, this is the chapter where the plot finally picks up. Small gore warning...? Also the story becomes multi-perspective from here on out. It'll be obvious, I hope haha.

From the Start --> Previous chapter

Chapter Seven

The train for Johto left at ten. I'd arrive about an hour later, likely exhausted as I normally was asleep by that time. I hated the idea of putting myself into a new, unknown region so late... but I didn't choose the tickets and I wanted as much time in Kanto as I could get before I left.

Lillie was bummed to see me leaving. She'd grown so accustomed to having me around every day that she feared going back to normal days again. I apologized for messing up her schedule but she blew it off, claiming she was thankful I'd stayed. Her mother was sad too, she muttered something about the food being better and more experimental while I was around and I struggled not to laugh when I heard it.

Green and Red had invited Lillie and me to dinner in Fuschia to celebrate the first month of my trip coming to a close. I struggled deciding what to wear as Green had specifically said it was a nicer restaurant. I could tell by the fancy name and high priced menu items that casual wear would make me feel like a sore thumb.

I saw what Lillie had picked for the night, an elegant yet professional looking white dress with one of those cross hatched backs. I panicked momentarily before realizing we were in a relatively large town and I could probably go buy a nice dress in time.

So that's what I did. I ran to town and quickly picked up a dress similar to Lillie's but in black. It didn't cost too much which I was thankful for, not that money was an issue, but it was highly probable that this piece of tight unforgiving fabric would be tossed to the back of my closet back home. Still may be nice to have just in case though.

As I was walking back, debating what else I needed to do to look like a professional, presentable twenty year old, I got a phone call. I didn't bother looking at the caller ID. Figuring it was either Lillie or one of the guys with questions or elaboration... I jumped as I heard Gladion's seemingly signature 'oy' in place of a hello.

"Oh hey?" I laughed, pausing in my path towards the house. "What's up?"

"I finished with work at a half decent time today." I checked my own time to quickly deduce that it was around nine pm in Alola. "Just wondering if you want to finish with what you had to say."

I laughed, "You’re persistent with this!"

"Well I did say we'd talk today as well." He chuckled. I continued on my way back to Lillie's house, hoping that moving would work out the sudden nervous cramp that had built up in my stomach.

"Consistency? This is nice." I smirked at myself. "I actually have some dinner plans soon that I need to get ready for. I have to be formal." I said the last word with a sound of disgust.

"Damn. What are you doing for dinner that requires formal wear?" He questioned.

I hesitated but the fact that Lillie would be with us would hopefully pacify any chance of his strange jealousy flaring up. "Lillie and I are going to some fancy place called 'The Clear Tree' with Green and Red. To like... celebrate and stuff..." I rounded the corner of Lillie's street and slowed down, not really wanting to walk into the house on the phone.

"Oh." He said flatly and I cringed. "Celebrating what?"

"Me leaving." A short laugh left my mouth, "I mean they didn't phrase it like that. It's supposed to celebrate finishing my first month of the trip?"

"Strange... you’re done in Kanto already?"

"Yeah it's been a month." I twirled the plastic bag around my finger, not wanting to cut the call so short on him but I was basically on the doorstep now.

He swore under his breath, "that went... fast."

"It did! But hey, I have to go. We should talk afterwards... if your still up that is" I paused. "You shouldn't be up, you need sleep."

"Yeah... we'll see." He muttered. "Have fun, Moon. Bye."

I sighed as the call ended, he'd sounded irritated anyway. I walked into the house and saw Lillie standing in the kitchen and checking herself against a long mirror. When she saw me a huge grin fell across her already makeup-ed face. "I'm so excited for this!"

She checked the bag I brought in and looked way to excited to see the dress. I expressed my disdain with formal ware and she dragged me into her room where she decided to doll me up for the night. While she was running a flat iron through my hair I brought up the fact that her brother had called me while walking back.

"Really? You guys just talked last night." She laughed, "like for a while, at least long enough that I fell asleep... and I was waiting for you too."

"Yeah, we've really been talking a lot." I reflected back on most of my phone use recently and realized that the only two people I really used the device for was my mother and Gladion.

"Really." Her words came out much more matter of factly this time. I watched her expression through the mirror and wished I could read her mind. "Hmm."

I focused on the feeling of the heat and steady movement of the flat iron at the back of my head. Strangely relaxing for some odd reason. I let my eyes shut. My mind is so stuck on this guy. Why?

Lillie finished with all my makeup, hair dressing, and outfit choices just in time for us to fly to Fushcia and meet up with the guys. Lillie had mega evolved her pidgeot to carry both of us and I was amazed to see how easy it was for her to balance on the back of the bird while in a dress. I struggled to not feel like a total fool in the outfit and on the back of Pokémon. Not that it mattered after we had landed. I was just so focused on how restraining this dress was to my mobility.

Red and Green had also dressed very pleasantly and for good reason. The restaurant was horrendously fancy, I didn't want to question their selection... But I kept glancing to Lillie every time we saw something even remotely posh. I couldn't imagine any reason why we had to go somewhere so over the top nice.

Both the guys planned on covering the cost of everything and I actually let my confusion burst out then, asking why they would do that. The menu was scary to look at in regards to price. That was when Red admitted that his family owned the restaurant and the price wouldn't be bad at all - if it even cost anything. I shot a glare to Green who was sneering at both of us and silently laughing.

After hearing that though, Lillie and I went crazy. Ordering anything that was far beyond the range of our social class’s cuisine. Eager to taste the food of the very rich and wealthy, a chance we'd likely never get again.

The four of us chatted about random things after finishing with the chocolate cake. Discussing future plans and the three of them begging me to come back to Kanto after I'd finished with everything so we could go look around places more. Lillie remarked about how the only one of the bird's I hadn't seen was zapdos and that we should really go see it.

I brought up my want to find mewtwo as well and Red's face paled. "No you don't." I was shocked to hear his voice, so steady... and saying much more than he normally did. "It's horrifically powerful."

I cocked my head to the side, Lillie was so shocked to hear his voice that she just sat there staring at him. "How do you know? Have you seen it before?" I inquired.

Red nodded, "Briefly, on mount silver."

I gaped, the excitement that gripped me made my skin break out in goosebumps. I would be passing through tunnels in Mt.Silver on my way to Johto. Not that I could pop off the train and look around, it was a one stop trip to Goldenrod. But I felt a sudden need to explore the area, maybe just double back through the Johto side... "What was it like?"

Red looked a little sick, "it took out my whole team."

Green sputtered out the wine he had been sipping on, "What?!" He shouted, drawing the attention of the people at the next table over. "You didn't tell me it did that!"

He nodded in response, his eyes sorrowful. "I had to get down mount silver alone."

"I need to see it." I said and Lillie's gaze landed on me, eyes wide. She shook her head back and forth quickly.

"I don't think you should. It sounds scary."

"It can speak." Red muttered, looking off out the large window we were seated by.

"Telekinesis, right?" Green prodded.

Red agreed, clearly unsettled to remember the encounter. I felt bad for him, he'd basically been scarred by it from what I could tell... but at the same time I was jealous. Out of all the legendaries I'd read about, I wanted to see mewtwo most. But the Pokémon had disappeared, basically no information existed about it. My curiosity was so extreme I was practically bouncing in my seat.

"I saw mew yesterday!" I said, recalling the little pink Pokémon that I'd found in the tower.

All three of them were startled, "okay, you know that's a bigger deal right? People weren't even totally sure it existed!" Green said, his voice rising again but Red slapped his shoulder to get him to quiet down.

"No it obviously existed, mewtwo is a clone of something." Lillie said, "But it hasn't been seen since before mewtwo was supposedly created.

She knew a lot more about the legendaries then I'd realized. It wasn't surprising, she'd been researching after I told her about all the legends. That book I'd borrowed from Oak had been resting on her bedside table every night, very thoroughly looked through by both of us.

"Where did you see it?" Green asked.

I paused before diving into the little story about Lavender Town. I'd forgotten about it after talking with Gladion last night, thankfully. I wasn't so happy to be thinking about it again though, especially considering the fact that I would for sure be alone tonight - possibly even sleeping outside somewhere. All three of them were unsettled by the story, Red saying he'd experienced something similar before becoming the champion. Just not the mew part.

Lillie hugged me, "so that's why you looked so scared yesterday! I'm sorry that happened!" She cooed.

I told her it was fine, that I was over it... even though my stomach was churning with nerves as I remembered the sensation of looming over my own grave. I shook myself of the thought and tried to focus my mind on what was currently happening.

"Why do the champions see all the cool stuff?" Green huffed, looking annoyed.

I was about to rebuttal, explain my own reasoning as to why powerful Pokémon came to powerful trainers... but before I could open my mouth there was a loud scream from the room over. The startled moment of silence following was sliced through with a loud crash that shook the room, the lights above flickering with the impact.

More screams erupted, shouts and groans of pain and fear. Both Red and I hoped to our feet and rushed into the room in question. I skidded to a halt as I saw the mess, slapping a hand over my mouth before my own scream could escape.

The window had exploded inwards, huge chunks of glass flying into the building that was bustling with people... everything is red. I struggled to stay in the room, my shaking hands quickly grasped my phone and dialed the police, reporting the situation.

Red shouted at me and I swallowed the rising bile as I turned around once again, trying to not look at the casualties of the accident. A startlingly large charizard lay in the center of the shattered glass. Its wings beating furiously hard and spewing flames angrily towards anyone who attempted to approach it. A black, metal device hung around its neck - a small red light flashing.

Red's pikachu and lapras popped out of their balls. He ordered the pikachu to paralyze the furious beast then lapras blasted it with a water jet. I let Kai out after digging in my small bag for her ball, I had her carefully approach the charizard and rip off the metal device on its neck and bring it to us. A feat that was a lot harder to accomplish than I had thought it would be... I refused to look at the large needle that had previously been dug deep into the charizard's neck. Moments later the police showed up and I handed them the collar before they even saw the room. I explained what I could before management came in and filled in what I couldn't. Red rushed Lillie and Green out of the building before they could be exposed to the mess.

I was thankful to get outside and I sat on the curb for a long while, breathing in the fresh air and digesting the sights I had been exposed to. Lillie sat next to me, eagerly waiting my answer to what had happened. Green was pacing the sidewalk anxiously, waiting for Red to come back outside once again - the champion had said he needed to help the rest of the customers out.

What... just... happened.

My mind was reeling with images of the bloodied room, the people who had been sliced by the glass and burnt by the flames. There were maybe ten survivors - people that had only been injured and not killed. I wrapped my arms tight around myself and dropped my head to my knees. It came out of nowhere! For no reason! No warning!

That device... clearly someone had sent that charizard. Someone had planned this attack and I was mildly worried it had been directed towards Red and me. And if so... many people had been killed in order to get moderately close to us.

No, who would be going after the champions? Who would try to kill us?!

"Moon?" Lillie's hands dropped to my back and she rubbed hesitantly, "what happened?"

Green paused his pacing and looked between both of us. Expectant. I rubbed at my face and sighed.

"A charizard busted in through a window and... And..." I dropped my face to my knees again. "A lot of people died."

Lillie gasped and Green's face became pale. I felt my eyes well up with tears and I collapsed against Lillie. Trying to hold back sobs as my eyes leaked like faulty water sockets. She held my shoulders and cried with me, easily affected by such traumatic news. Green even took a seat next to us and provided his own comfort and way of coping with such a close encounter with death.

Something shattered behind me and I quickly span, swearing as I saw silvally staring at its feet where a shattered vase lay on the ground. Its lupine head snapped up to look at me, worried. A whimper rumbling from its chest.

"Damnit, buddy. Stop following me around." I muttered with a sigh. Patting its head to relieve any anxiety the sound has caused.

Silvally had been oddly anxious the past month, I kept telling myself it was due to memories of Aether all those years ago... but the past two years before this month it had been fine. I just couldn't understand why the Pokémon was so stressed... It'd taken to following me around during work which wouldn't be an issue if it didn't intimidate the injured and rehabilitating Pokémon... or if it weren't so large.

Silvally turned as I walked away, following after me with its head low in embarrassment. I lead it back to the conservation deck where Wicke had helped me set up an area for it to relax while I was working. Silvally reluctantly laid down in the pile of pillows and blankets that had become horribly beat up after months of use. It huffed at me and a frown creased my face.

"I'm sorry, Silv." I apologized, "I'll come back when I'm finished with research." It huffed in response once again and looked away from me. I shoved off the handrails and wandered back towards the house, mind lost in memories of our adventures. When it was always happy.

One of the employees had already tasked themselves with cleaning the shattered vase and I thanked them, apologizing for leaving them with the responsibility. They waved me off with a cheerful grin, "Don't worry about it president, you have more important tasks to attend too." My jaw clenched and I nodded, hastening my walk towards the office.

The room was dark, the only light coming from the computer screen - open to pages and pages of research findings on word. Crushed cans of energy drinks filled the trash can, a notebook full of procrastination drawings sat on the desktop. I hovered in the doorway just staring at the workspace that had sucked away my sleep schedule and hours of free time, my entire body revolted by the idea of sitting there again.

I had been planning on taking the night off from this part of work, getting actual sleep and doing anything else with the time. I guess what I'd really hoped was that I could spend that free time talking with Moon again. So after hearing that she was busy... I just gave in to work.

My phone was resting on the tabletop as well and I snagged it, avoiding that desk the best I could. I sat in the corner of the room and stared at the empty screen of the cell. Stupidly hoping she'd suddenly text and say she was finished with the Kanto champion and his snarky friend. I rubbed at my face, letting the back of my head hit the wall.

I should have texted her a week earlier, should have worked up the nerve. Things could had been different by now. If I had just been less of a shellder...

Eventually I forced myself to sit at the desk and finish up with some of the sections of the reports. All the information the foundation had dug up about the dwindling mareanie populations and the causation for it. I signed off on the report and sent it off to the specific department in charge of formatting and other things. The rest of the work was crunching numbers and test results into actual information that could be easily interpreted. I scrolled through what felt like hundreds of spread sheets until I landed on one about the tapus. Something that had been mildly looked into a few months ago. The most recent information about tapu fini credited to the girl I was still subconsciously waiting on.

Arceus I wish she hadn't left.

Heavy pounding at my door startled me and I quickly span around in the computer chair to face the entrance as the door swung open slowly. Wicke's head poked in, a sympathetic smile on her face. She'd been working just as hard and late as I had been, equally trying to keep up with my work and get ahead on her own.

"Yes, Wicke?" I questioned her, I hadn't intended my voice to sound annoyed but it came off that way anyway.

"A report came in from the Kanto region that I thought you may be interested in, sir." I waved her off, not wanting the formalities considering how late it was and the fact that most employees had went home by now. "I would like to assure Madam Lillie is well, if you could contact her." She handed me a recent police report, something that had come in only an hour ago. I tensed as I took the paper and glanced over the words.

"There were similar reports in the Kalos and Sinnoh regions the past few days." She elaborated. "I'm beginning to worry."

My feet hit the floor quick, I swallowed down the rising bile in my throat as I saw the death toll, the words describing the incident making my stomach flip inside out. "Wh-what?!" I scrambled for my phone as I read the name of the restaurant that had been attacked, I left the room dialing Lillie's number - hoping she may be faster to pick up than Moon would.

Wicke followed after me, the sound of her heels clicking on the tiled floors making my nerves tighten even more. I tapped my shaking hand against my leg as the dial tone rang out far too long.

"Gladion?" Lillie answered, clearly confused to get a call from me.

"Lillie!" I shouted, stopping in my tracks and spinning to face the concerned assistant. "What the hell happened?!"

She stumbled over her words, struggling to respond for what felt like an eternity to my shocked and frazzled mind. "Y-y-you heard already?" She finally got out.

"Wicke pulled up a police report of fifteen people dead at the restaurant you and Moon went to!" Wicke gasped, her eyes going wide as she heard my words. She hadn't know they were there... "What happened?!"

"Apparently a charizard broke through a window and killed a ton of people." She explained with a shaky voice, "I didn't see any of it, we were in a different room. Uh, Red and Moon saw it though. They stopped the charizard."

My heart hit my stomach, no no no. "Is she okay?" I snapped, grabbing a handful of my hair with my free hand. I honestly thought my chest would explode.

"I-I mean she's not hurt." Lillie said. "None of us are hurt." Her voice was so uncertain. "I really don't know anything about it. Neither Red or Moon will tell us anything else."

My jaw clenched, "where is she?"

"I think she's at the police station right now, they wanted to talk to her and Red more. Either that or she's on the train to Johto already."

I swore, "why don't you know?!"

"Relax, Gladion! We're all okay, isn't that the important part?" She defended. "Tell Wicke I said hi, please."

I pressed a fist to my forehead and sighed. "Fine. Bye, Lillie."

"Bye, Bub." She sounded annoyed but I didn't have the time or patience to worry over her petty frustrations. I pulled up Moon's contact information, hesitating over hitting the call button.

"So the champion of Alola was at the restaurant?" Wicke asked, her eyebrows furrowed in concern.

I nodded, "yes, she was.... so was Lillie and the Kanto champion."

She gasped, "The reports from Sinnoh and Kalos... the attacks happened on their respective champions as well." She covered her mouth with a hand and shook her head, "this cannot mean anything good."

I stared blankly at her, nauseous from the news. Moon...don't tell me she's actually in danger. I dialed her number. "Get me all the information you can about these attacks, Wicke. As soon as possible." I said, heading back towards the computer room with my phone pressed to my ear and my heart racing faster than a rapidash.

"Will do, sir." She said, rushing in the opposite direction towards the labs.

Moon didn't answer, I called her probably three times - each twenty minutes apart. I paced the computer room, trying to make sense of the reports Wicke had found. All the attacks had been caused by Pokémon with strange devices around their necks. The only champion that had been directly affected by the attack was the Sinnoh one, a woman named Cynthia who had been struck by charizard's fire breath. She'd fought back as well and made it out without too dire of an injury... no one knew why this was happening.

It couldn't had been a fluke if it had happened in three regions now.

I couldn't focus on work whatsoever so I went up to the conservation deck and sat with silvally who was still a bit pissy with me. It wouldn't look at me and kept walking away each time I got close. "Hey, bud. I'm sorry okay?" I said. "I'm busy these days."

It huffed at me, eyes narrowing to a glare and shaking its head.

"I'll try to be better about going out, okay?" I fell into a pile near a tree and pulled out my phone. Still nothing from Moon. I felt sick. What was she doing? It'd been over an hour since I'd talked to Lillie... was there any chance she could still be talking with the police? She had to be so freaked out...

Something must have made silvally change its mind because the beast settled down next to me, shoving its muzzle against my cheek and grumbling. I placed a hand on its neck and confided in the beastly friend. "I'm worried about her, Silv. I'm so worried."

It cooed and nipped at my cell, I sighed and dialed her once again. Silvally's large head dropped to my lap and I stroked its back, finding comfort in the texture of its black fur.

The call picked up and I tensed, shocked to hear her answer. "Hey." Her voice was barely audible over the line.

I gasped, "Moon, are you okay?"

She hesitated. "I mean... I'm not physically hurt." She laughed but the sound was so obviously fake. "You heard about it already?"

"Yeah. I saw the police report." Do I tell her about the other champions? The other attacks? It'd be good for her to know, to be careful and watchful of something like this happening again. But she had just dealt with something so brutal, I didn't want to stress her out more. But the reason I'm calling is to tell her about the other attacks...

"Oh, I didn't know it got out already. Yeah, tonight was... insane." She faked a laugh again, "I don't think I'm going to sleep."

"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked hesitantly.

"Aren't you going to yell at me for getting in danger?" She questioned back, sidestepping my own inquiry.

I sighed. "You didn't put yourself in this situation, it came to you. I'm not going to yell at you for something you didn't purposefully do."

"This is the second time though." Her laughter was making me uneasy... second time...?!

"What do you mean second time?" I snapped, silvally sat up and punched me with a balled up claw when it heard the venom in my voice and I swore.

"Second time I inadvertently got into trouble." She muttered. "Yesterday I went into Pokémon Tower and ended up like possessed or something! For some reason Null ran in there so I had to get her out."

"Moon, what?!" Silvally roared at me and I shoved its muzzle out of my face, telling it to stop. She laughed over the line and said her hello to the beast that got way to excited to get attention from her as well. I couldn't help but grin at the interaction despite the darkness that hung over the night. "What do you mean possessed?"

She sighed, "I hate to keep shoving this off but I'm alone in a motel and it's my first night in Johto so I don't really want to talk about creepy stuff like this. I can actually tell you everything soon..."

So she's in Johto now. "Okay, I understand."

"Thanks, Gladion." She mumbled, "I really just need time to relax now."

I chewed on my lip, "I know you do, Moon... but Wicke found something relating to the charizard incident and I need to warn you about it." My voice was firm. "There are other reports of the exact same situation happening in Sinnoh and Kalos, charizard specifically attacking champions."

She said nothing, the only thing I could hear over the line was her hitched breaths of nervousness.

"Was there a metal collar on the charizard?" I asked.

"There was." Her words were breathy. "So... so there's someone sending these charizards out to get champions?"

"I'm about 85% sure there is." Silvally's head cocked to the side, watching me carefully. I held a hand out to the Pokémon and it bit at my fingers playfully.

"Shit." Her swearing caught me of guard but it was relieving to see her acknowledging the severity of the situation.

Note cont.: I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Expect to see a lot more of Gladion's perspective and alot more intense stuff in the future! Thanks! c:

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