i forget who i owe a debt to
so i'm grateful to everyone

Johanna walked through the forest, to where she remembered it all happening. "Mesprite," she begins. "Mesprite." Tears begin falling from her face. Why did she ever agree to this? Eating the dust-powder of any legendary's body was never a good idea. Especially when it was the grinded horn bits of Suicune or the red diamonds of Mesprite.

After moments of walking, wading really, into the water, a blurry pink light floated to Johanna. It questioned her and the woman replied calmly. "He's back... and it's not innocent this time." The emotion pokemon nodded as best as it could in this form before returning below sea level. Johanna left the lake, headed to go farther north, where Suicune might contact her if she tried hard enough.

She could always ask Leona to throw off her disguise, but that would be just plain cruel. The few days that poor girl got to pretend she was not some reincarnated, pitiful beast were far and few in between. Especially with Raikou pinning after her, trying to reignite the romance.

"Poor dear," Johanna said as she put her shoes back on.

"No, they're fine, I checked." A voice from above. Johanna looked up, eyes widening, terrified. No, he wasn't supposed to find her yet. She pulled out a pokeball of her shorts, now back in training clothes. She sent out her pokemon, a kangaskhan.

It was a futile effort. The ex-lover's own haunter quickly put the khangaskhan out for a dangerous nap. Johanna returned her khangaskhan and sent out umbreon. The evolved eevee hissed, remembering Eusine. He formed a shadow ball, flinging it at the haunter who phased out before using a quick attack to get to Eusine in the trees.

A swift thunder attack stopped the tiny fox, though. Eusine seemed to understand the odds were against him... for now. He recalled his electrode and instructed his haunter to make them disappear.

Johanna stomped the ground before petting umbreon, who was still growling at her side. "We've got to hurry. If he finds out about the kids..." She knew she would have to have a family meeting soon, but she wasn't looking forward to it.


Who were you really expecting?