A/N: So, as you all know from my previous announcement, the Hope and Faith saga rewrite will be placed in a new world, with the only remaining elements being as follows: OCs (heroes and villains alike), the Alpha Continent, Alpha-type and Demon-type, the Dark Blessing, and Mortite. However, most all else will be overhauled.
Also, as someone who liked it better when Pokémon media not in video game form (i.e.: the anime, the manga, novelizations, and probably other fanfics) felt free to disregard the four-move rule in the name of realism in combat (if there are cases where this still happens, consider me elated), I will be having characters know more than four moves (in a dangerous world like this, it'll take everything you've got to survive). But don't worry; that doesn't mean I'll totally punch common sense in the face by having a completely impossible scenario like a Greninja using Fire Blast or a Magikarp using Roar of Time (what an image, huh?). I might also not be above simpler cases like a Charmander using a Tackle-like attack, because it honestly doesn't take a trained fighter to realize how to charge into an opponent. Anyone can do it. Although for those kinds of cases, I won't be naming them after actual Pokémon moves.
Okay, I think I've rambled on enough. So have a small preview of the story.
"Two years," Pelame though to herself, staring down at the blank pages of her history book. "I thought I could've solved you by now, but I'm still on square one!"
"Hey, Pelame," Pugno said, settling into his bed. "I see you're still puzzling over that blank chapter. Any ideas yet?"
"Not a one," Pelame answered stressfully.
"Well, it never was something that was going to get done overnight, but I think you knew that. Don't give up."
"I still want to solve this mystery, but it's hard not to feel discouraged after two years of getting nowhere."
"These things take time, you know. For instance, that book. Can you imagine how many Pokémon had to have worked on it for just about all of time? It isn't even just for this line of work that lots of time has to be poured into. I've been at my guard training for as long as you've been at that blank chapter, and the Twilight Kingdom still hasn't considered me. I still haven't met Captain Keldeo nor his Furfrou soldiers. But I know it'll happen one day." To his relief, Pelame's mood seemed to be lightening from his words. "And one day, you'll uncover what was on those blank pages. After all, history is what you're best at. I still fondly remember the time you told me the story of the final wish Jirachi ever granted."
"Me, too. That was when we made our friendship official. On that same day, you gushed about how great the Furfrou Guards of the Twilight Kingdom are."
"Bottom line is, you have gotten somewhere in your efforts. We both have. If we had put less than our all into our aspirations, where would we be?" Pugno then pointed out the window, down to the ground where a young Snivy was trying to pass flyers out to uninterested Pokémon walking by.
"Join Team Static!" she shouted as she brandished flyers at anyone nearby. "Remain as you are! Team Static will help you keep yourself as you are! Resist change at all costs!"
"I don't think we'd fall to that level," Pelame said in an incredulous but amused tone.
"Well, yeah, bad example," Pugno conceded. "Let's go get some amigiri. You hungry for any?"
"Actually, I am a bit famished. I'd love to."
I still can't guarantee when this will start coming out, but I do plan to start writing when I finish up the schedule of requested reviews on my Ryu's Journal story (I did post a schedule in one of the chapters there). And I'll be releasing it in "sagas", meaning that when a major arc finishes up, there'll be a break until the next chapter arrives. And it'll all be one big story, instead of being split up into three. I hope you're all looking forward to it.
Oh, and one more thing: "amigiri" is a portmanteau of "amigo" (Spanish for "friend") and "onigiri" (Japanese for "rice ball"). Amigiri is basically just a rice ball-like snack in this new world I'm making in this story.