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The quiet clatter of claws echoed in the cavern, a ghostly white-and-black shadow materializing out of seemingly nowhere to stand by its twin. "Has it begun, then?" the first asked, its voice distinctly feminine.

"Yes," answered the second. "Lady Abbadon is stirring from the Seal. Soon she will call her forces to her, and the Twilight will come."

"Then we had best be ready."

we stand here at the crossroads of our destiny

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The Sevii Islands were located far south of the continent of Kanto. They were isolated from most of the world due to the swift-running currents of the sea surrounding them, and it took days for a bird Pokémon to fly from the mainland. As a result, many of Sevii's inhabitants were a bit…ah…strange.

This did not excuse the fact that someone was skulking around Seven Island's Tanoby Ruins.

Lily Delphi, Island Leader of Seven Island and a specialist in Psychic Pokémon, had come to the Tanoby Ruins upon hearing rumors of activity inside the Tanoby Key. There was always the chance that it was simply some annoying mainland trainer who had no idea how dangerous it was inside the Key, but that didn't mean she could afford to ignore it. As one of the Sevii Seven, she had learned of the secret history behind the creation of Sevii, and she couldn't just ignore it.

After all, there was danger involved. All that lovely mortal peril and death.

Pushing her sunglasses up on her forehead, Lily squinted in the dim light. There wasn't much she could see, as the Key was a cave and all that, but that could be changed. Selecting a Pokéball at her waist, she enlarged it and released one of her three Pokémon. "Psyche, I need light," she informed the Venomoth.

"Vee-nooo," Psyche agreed. She began to glow with white light, soft at first but quickly grew almost blinding. Most Venomoths didn't learn Morning Sun, but Psyche did.

The cave was thrown into sharp detail by the light, which Psyche maintained easily, keeping circulating the solar energy outside her body. Lily immediately noticed two things were out of place. Six of the boulders were occupying six of the seven pits, and a humanoid figure with brown armor and white, viciously curved scythes for arms was pushing the final, which was teetering precariously at the age of the seventh pit.

"Oh, damn," she whispered, just before the boulder fell in. A white flash that did not come from Psyche filled both trainer and Pokémon's vision. Through the blinding brilliance, she could hear a voice that was more likely than not the monster's.

"You shall do quite nicely…"

reality is fraying around us

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On One Island, a girl and her Persian were walking on Treasure Beach. The girl was young, though her Persian seemed quite capable, and was dressed in a long blue skirt, loose blue jacket, white blouse, and white sandals. Her hair was her most distinguishing feature, in a pair of sandy-colored pigtails. The Persian was sniffing at the ground, tail dragging, and leading the girl.

They stopped at a sheer rock wall that towered above their heads, blocking out the sun. "Thanks, Jin," the girl said, scratching behind the Persian's ears. She pulled a small device out of the pocket of her jacket, which looked suspiciously like a remote control for a toy car or something similar. The girl stabbed a button on the remote, and the rock wall rumbled, and then stilled. The girl walked forward into the stone illusion, her Persian following lazily.

"Aislynn? Aine? Turn on the lights already, I can't see in the dark," she called as a thick steel door slid back up behind her.

"Our apologies," a voice said, and white-gold light blazed into life from crystal balls placed upon the cavern walls, revealing a rather bleak gray expanse of stone. It also showed two girls. They could have been any age from ten to twenty, and were dressed identically, in long, flowing white robes, the same color as their long, loose hair. A black sash was tied around both their waists, and their skin was almost as dark. Both regarded the girl and her Persian with red eyes. One spoke first.

"So you received our call?"

"Yeah," the girl answered. "Why now?"

"Because, Tsukuyomi-san, Abbadon is coming, and we must be prepared. You are our only link to the outside world."

"Oh, great. So you mean…?" the girl trailed off.

"Yes. Come with us – the morphers are prepared. You must give them to the others." One of them turned to sit by the steel wall, and the other walked deeper into the cavern. The girl followed, her Persian padding silently along.

"How many are there?" the girl asked.

"Five."

"…But there's seven of us, Aislynn-or-Aine."

"Yes…unfortunately, we do not have one corresponding to your specialty, nor for Delphi-san's."

"Meh. There's no one I trust enough to be a ranger anyway, so that's okay."

They continued on in silence, the white-haired girl leading them both through a labyrinth of branching and merging corridors. She finally reached a dead end, where five small boxes were laid out, next to each other. Each was labeled neatly, "Two Island," "Three Island," "Four Island," "Five Island," and "Six Island" with what looked like black Sharpie, which seemed strange given their surroundings. The white-haired girl gathered them all up and handed them to the other, who shook her head and muttered something about needing some ways to hide things that didn't take so long.

"I believe that is everything."

"No. It's not."

"Oh?"

"Don't play dumb, Aislynn-or-Aine. If Lady Abbadon is awakening…then so is Lady Eden. I want to meet her. It'd be nice to know who I was taking orders from."

The white-haired girl tilted her head, eyeing the other with more respect. "That's all very well and nice, Tsukuyomi-san, but I am afraid you cannot truly meet Lady Eden."

"Why not?"

"She has sealed herself away until the final battle comes, to gather her strength."

"Okay, fine. Thanks, Aislynn-or-Aine. I can leave on my own."

The Persian slipped in front of her, almost racing out with tail held high. Apparently she didn't like the cold gray cave, and the girl followed. The other white-haired girl was no longer there, but an Absol had her paw placed on a stone before the steel wall, watching expressionlessly as the wall sunk back down into the earth, leaving behind only the rock illusion.

The Persian disappeared through the rock, and the girl followed blindly.

you know you're blind when you see only black and white

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A/N: I tried to make the prologue not suck. Did it work? By the way, no, they won't all have annoying italics in them. I just stuck them in the prologue because I felt like it.

Yes, I realize that PhantomHuntress/AzureJustice has a villain named Aine. But I like my Aine-chan too much to change it. 'Sides, it's a good name.

So. Submitting characters. I'm going to have to type a lot and you better listen…er, read. For starters, the rangers are selected by the Sevii Seven – the Island Leaders, pretty much Sevii's equivalent to Gym Leaders. And right now, only five rangers. So your ranger will have to know at least one of the Island Leaders, corresponding to their color and all of that stuff. The current Sevii Seven are, in order, Serena Tsukuyomi, Raye Volten, Oliver Ashford, Rhine Yukiton, Sean Dylan, Aiden Huang, and Lily Delphi. Serena and Lily are both out of the picture, Lily because, well, you already know, and Serena…well, you'll see. Hah.

Now, a little backstory might be helpful for these nutcases (and yes, that's a good thing). Most of them were born and raised in Sevii (Aiden is the exception, but meh). The only ones with any relatives set in stone are Rhine and Aiden. Aiden has one older sister and that's it. Rhine also has an older sister – Lorelei. They're fairly young for the Sevii Seven – Serena is thirteen, Raye nineteen, Oliver twenty-six, Rhine fourteen, Sean twenty, Aiden nineteen, and Lily twenty-eight, so keep that in mind.

Yeah, I think that's more or less everything. And I still haven't thought of what the morphers should be, just their power source. Bleh.

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Color/Pokémon: (you get to choose between Red Charizard, Blue Gyarados, Green Victreebel, Yellow Raichu, and Cyan Dewgong. Yes. Cyan. Not White, for reasons that will be explained later. The corresponding Leaders are Aiden, Sean, Oliver, Raye, and Rhine)

Appearance: (be specific people. That includes clothes. If you don't want to have them always wear the same clothes, then say what style clothes)

Personality:

Pokémon:

Relation to Sevii Seven: (as in, which one(s), how did they meet, etc. Siblings and family and all that are fine too, unless specified otherwise)

Anything else: (this is where you go nuts and throw in something. Or else I will, and it will probably involve explosions)

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