Was taking a break from studying, training my Pokémon... and this happened. I have no explanation.

I own nothing, this is purely for my own amusement, etc., etc.


Of Ancient Tombs and Gullible Trainers

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"That giant rock… I would like to believe it may indeed contain ancient ruins. But I see no entrance."

Jade blinked a few times, considering this statement. She looked at the hiker-cum-ruin maniac she was talking to, then over at the Ancient Tomb behind her, where a gaping hole in the rock was clearly visible.

One of us is hallucinating, she concluded, and I'm fairly certain it's not me.

To be certain, the Trainer entered the Tomb, going as far as the place in which she had met her Registeel. It was exactly the same as she remembered, right down to the crater in the wall where her Swampert had gotten tossed. No way was Jade hallucinating this.

She trotted back outside. "Er, are you sure there's no entrance?" she asked without preamble.

"I've been all over that rock many, many times, miss Jade," he assured her. "By the way, where did you disappear to a moment ago?"

"Um," the girl said eloquently. "Sorry to cut this short, but I'm gonna go now. Gotta retrieve someone from the Day-Care…" And with that, she produced a Pokéball, released the Charizard inside, and flew off.

The man smiled to himself. That was never going to get old.

As the Trainer faded to a mere dot in the sky, the ruin maniac picked up his pack and headed inside the Tomb. It was starting to rain, after all, and it would be nice to get some more work done on those engravings.