It was impossible for him to tell just how long he'd been walking, carrying this unconscious girl in his arms. But as the clouds passed and the stars winked down on him, Siam began to feel the weight of her in his arms finally, and his legs began to give under the strain of an unknown hours walking. Finding that he'd just broken past the end of the bridge, Siam spied a small rocky overhang nearby, under which he lay the girl. Lucilla lay the body of Augustus beside the girl, and the group curled up on the grass nearby.

Siam awoke to a painfully familiar sound of crying "Augustus? Please!". Opening his eyes and looking over to the sound he saw Jessabel on her hands and knees over the Electrike, gently shaking it "Oh, please no!". She placed her face in the fur of the small creature and sobbed, Siam slowly, quietly stood up "You can't be dead, don't do this to me". She picked the small body up in her arms and looked at Siam "What happened?" She screamed at him. "You said you would protect me!" tears streamed down her face at a rate that would have made the storm of the night before impressed "How could you let this happen!" She pulled the small mass closer and stood up completely. "I shouldn't have trusted you" She spat at him through clenched teeth before running off away from the bridge, cradling the body of the Electrike in her arms.

He couldn't say anything, truly, there were no words he could think to say if at all he could have said them. She was right to be angry at him, he had promised to protect her, and by extension her pokemon. He had failed, worse than that, for a moment he had given up. Siam had surrendered to the prospect of dying in that water, he'd welcomed it, fought against fighting it. She should have told him what the problem really was, not that that would have mattered, he still would have been stabbed, he still would have been pushed into the water to drown. Siam's eyes furrowed and he moved a hand to the small of his back, his fingers ran across the hole in his shirt, his fingertips lightly brushed the scar on his back. The scar was too well healed for it to be new, but still too tender for it to be an old wound. It wasn't a hole covered with clotted and dried blood, it was a true scar, raised scar tissue and all. Was it really last night? Was he really stabbed in the back? His attentions were snapped back to reality when his eyes glazed over the sight of the Linoone, Antony, rolling playfully in the grass nearby. He shook his head and set about collecting some berries for breakfast, since they were nearby anyway. Each of them; Siam, Lucilla and Vipsania, ate slowly and enjoyed the meal, Antony however almost swallowed his hole. Siam let Duilius out of the pokeball and into the large, crystal clear lake, he rose some berries to his own mouth and ate them. Duilius dove under the lake and surfaced several minutes later, swallowing a last fish.

Passing through the gate of the city, Siam felt like he'd entered a shopping centre. The streets were roofed, the buildings were built into the walls, no dirt or grass could be seen. It was a large; sterile place, and at the intersection ahead, stood two people. A large, rounded man, and a smaller sickly looking boy with sharp green hair. "Uncle! I'm begging you!" the boy pleaded, his voice wasn't sharp or high pitched, but it seemed to ring in Siam's head none-the-less. The boy's voice almost seemed to echo "I want to challenge this Gym to see how much stronger I've become!", the older man's head and eyes drooped as he sighed. Siam couldn't hear the other man for the ringing voice in his head "Please! You'll let me, won't you?" it continued, the man placed his hand on the boy's shoulder. The man's lips moved, but Siam couldn't make out any words. Siam had to bring his hands to his head as the echoing voice continued to ring, stinging at his skull. "If it's me and my Ralts, we can beat anyone!" The man caved, nodding slowly, the boy grew excited and dashed away down, a path? a corridor? a street? These roofed streets confused Siam, thankfully there were street-maps. The maps themselves even looked like Shopping centre guide points.

Since the city seemed so much like a place to shop anyway, Siam thought to sell a couple things he'd picked up on his travel, the shopkeeper offered to sell him pokeballs. Siam turned his head to the side, Antony took the chance and rubbed his face along Siam's cheek, Siam turned back to the shopkeeper and shook his head. The sudden quick movements made him dizzy and he collapsed to sitting in a nearby chair. "Are you ok sir?" The shopkeeper became suddenly concerned, Siam nodded slowly and grabbed the side of his head with one hand. He felt two small paws rest on the other side of his head, his other hand he brought to his mouth and, clasped as if around a glass, made a drinking motion. "Water? Water, just a second" the man rushed through the back door and returned quickly with a large glass of water "You should drink that slowly-" he began, handing the glass to Siam. Siam threw the glass back, and in three gulps had drunk all the water. "Ok, never mind then, just relax" he accepted the glass back from Siam, Siam's head cocked to the side as he pointed to a set of bottles of water on a nearby shelf "Oh, I would have to charge for stock, and legally I cannot refuse someone water if they look to need it" Siam smiled and nodded, slowly this time. Placing a hand on the man's shoulder for balance, he stood "No, sir, you've just had a spell, you should probably sit down for a while" Siam shook his head slowly and grabbed six of the water bottles, taking them to the counter. Once he'd bought the water, he stored them in his backpack and left. Stepping out the door, a strange sense came over him and he walked back into the store, grabbed one more bottle of water, paid for it and left. Outside the store he ripped the label off the bottle before putting it into his bag with the others.

Turning a corner into a new street/alley, Siam came face to face with the young boy with green hair. "Siam!" The boy said, excited but without much energy. Siam was taken aback by this, he'd never seen this boy before, he would remember hair as blue as that. "Ralts and I have gotten a lot stronger since we first met!" He smiled, Siam noticed the tall lanky man the boy had called uncle earlier standing behind him. "We've been growing together! I want to prove that to you and my uncle both, Siam." Something about this boy was familiar though, a weak, niggling sense of familiarity in the recesses of his mind "Please... help me once more? Have a battle with me!". Siam sighed, he wasn't a pokemon trainer, but this poor boy was sickly, could be pretend? Just for a moment? Siam's shoulders dropped and he nodded slowly, the boy's face lit up and he moved back to give duelling pokemon room.

A flash of red light, and before the boy stood a small pokemon. It was about one foot tall, standing on two legs, with long handless arms. It's body was covered in a white, velvety fur. The entire room around them exploded in flames, but from the faces of everyone he could see, Siam was the only one who could see it. He could feel the lick of the flames burn across his hands as he stared at this small white pokemon with a green-haired bowl cut. It was as if his head had ruptured, he felt his skull split starting between his eyes and fissuring backward and over his scalp, branching out like a bolt of lightning as his bones shattered apart. No-one was moving, as if every person was frozen while the flames melted him. The floor seemed to turn to the carapace of the great beast, the monster that haunts his nightmares. A nightmarish whisper sliced in his right ear, shredding his brain "โปรดจำไว้ว่า ความทุกข์ทรมาน" it taunted him. Siam's hands rushed to his head, vainly trying to hold his skull together as he felt every muscle in his body ripping apart and baking in the insane heat "มัน จะเป็นของคุณ อีกครั้ง"

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