Disclaimer; I Don't own pokemon, nor anything related. All original characters belong to me.

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"Got you." A reptilian like voice gloated and Sephinraph felt a hot hand clasp over her throat and heft her up into the air as if she were a pebbel in weight. "You are nothing." The Magmar splice hissed, evil glee in it's voice as it's eyes glinted and reflected the fire that was rearing up, readying itself to crash down in a mighty wave over the two. "Now you die!" He gloated and the fire fell. And so didn't the darkness.

It felt like an eternity before she surfaced again. Everything hurt, it felt as if her nerves had been left in the open and baked in heat for five days. A whimper escaped her and Sephinraph went to crack an eye open, only to find darkness still awaited her. Fear gripping her mind, she threw the pain to the back of her hazed mind and reached out with her right hand and arm as the other was pinned 'neath her. Intense waves drove up the right arm and a choked out scream tore it's way from her lips and her body shook from the after waves of pain, and the heat from burns on her body. Her questing fingers finaly found something in all the hot ash. Only a foot or so away lay something hard, and stiff. Another pained whimper escaped her as her finger tips brushed over it, revealing to her what it really was as she reached the top of it.

It was a skull. Malformed and devoid of any flesh. It was the magmar splices' skull.

A sob wrenched it's way past her dry and tight throat. She was going to die, all alone. Die in pain and darkness and no one would know. She felt the tears prick at her eyes, wanting to be released as she lay there, dying and wallowing in pain, fear and loneliness.

Due to this, she hadn't picked up the soft sound of feet treading over ashes untill something gently stroked her face. Starting, she yelped as the movement caused fire to etch itself a way up her back and a dull aching burn settled on where ash was pushed into many of the open wounds that flurished.

"Se... Sephinraph." The voice came, strained and sounding a forced calm as the hand once more touched her face, brushing the singed hair out of the way. "... 'deus?" Sephinraph's voice sounded so childlike and fragile even to her own ears. A grunt was her answer as the hand moved away from her face and helped the other in gently picking her broken form up and cradeling her in a blanket of protection as Amadeus turned and started back to where the others stood, their own various wounds in need of care, but they each knew Sephinraph wasn't the only one in the most danger, as Sol was in a state of shock, having withdrawn into himself from all the pain that was radiating out of the forest.

"Is... is she alive?" Luna asked, eyes dark from her own pain and the emotional conflict at seeing the others in pain just as great, or greater. Amadeus dragged his gaze from Sephinraph to Luna, the green eyes of his were cold and emotionless before he gave a single nod of his head. Rick stumbled over to where Luna and Amadeus stood, red eyes narrowed as he kept his right hand glued to his left arm as the limb continued to bleed through his fingers, the fluid of life slowy trailed down his fingers and arms to end by dripping off of him and falling to the ashen ground before.

Lin seemed to be the most whole of the group, as she only had light scratches and cuts on her arms and legs. Looking from person to person, her silver eyes and slightly metalic brown hair caught the light of the moon and gave an errie look and glow to her. "What are we going to do?" She questioned no one in paticular.

Rick narrowed his pain filled eyes as he thought it over. "We keep going." He turned and started to walk away, not caring if the others followed him or not. Luna and Lin exchanged a glance before the steel girl gave a nod of her head and carefully started to lead Sol as she followed after Rick. Luna turned to Amadeus. "Amadeus, come." She snapped out and turned briskly, not waiting to see if the giant form followed after her.

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Sephinraph could hear voices... mutted voices.

"We're losing her doctor!"

"Put in ten more CC's of Tian, and five of the morphine. We need to keep her out cold untill we're done."

"But-"

The Doctor waved his hand as he shifted the scaple back to the girl. "The Tian will keep her alive, the morphine will counter act and keep her sleeping."

The faint pain of a needle being jabbed into her arm woke Sephinraph up more, her eyes flickered. Wait, she wasn't Sephinraph, she was... she was.. Tobias Avest...

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Sephinraph's eyes flew open and she struggled to escape Amadeus's arms, strangled cries escaping her throat as her unseeing eyes were glued to some point far off and her mind was unable to escape the darkness as no light penitrated it, dragging her back down into the horrible memory.

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Tobias looked around, eyes wide and filled with a drugged confusion. The nurses and doctor halted everything as they heard the whimper from the child underneath the blade. Cursing, the doctor turned his gaze onto the nurse. "I said the Morphine before the Tian!"

The nurse stuttered as she reached for the morphine but her hands shook to much and the vial and needle slipped and crashed to the ground. Tobias's eyes darted around, the young girl was confused as to where she was. Everything was such a harsh white. And.. why did something seem very wrong about the whole situation? The whimper of a familur pokemon filled her ears. "Vu... vul..." Tobias gasped out, her head moved and her investigating went un noticed as the doctor continued to yell and scream and rave on about stupid nurses. Lying on a table about three feet from her, was Vulpix and Girafarig. Needles and tubing stuck every which way and place out of them. Both had their eyes open and were alive, barely. Tobias's eyes dialated and her heart stopped beating for a second.

In that second she knew everything they knew. Felt everything they felt. Everything they were, she had become, as the nurse in an attempt to escape the doctor's wrath had knocked into the machine that had been pumping out the blood of her pokemon, that stood poised to filter it and shove it into her body. And in that second it did it's job with a gusto.

"Shit! We can't loose the specimen pokemon! Not this soon!" The Doctor yelled out and turned his back from the girl.

{Toby... help?} Tobias felt tears streaming down her face as a silent howl tore it's way like a demon from her mind as she did the only thing she knew that she could do. Grabbing onto the pulsing she felt that now lay inside her, she pushed, wanting to answer the soft plea from her Girafarig. And then the world erupted in flames....

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"-ap her! Snap her out of it!" Luna yelled out as Sephinraph now found herself in the present as a resounding smack of flesh hitting flesh rang out in the air. For a moment everything was silent and then the girl let out a pain filled, heart wrenching moan of sorrow.

"Ama-am-am-deuuuuus." Seph cried out as she clung to the person she took for Amadeus when it was Lin instead. Burying her head into the shirt of the person as more tears slipped and fell from her eyes. Pain old and new assualted her, but for once Sephinraph did not care. Because she was most likely going to die anyways, she knew how bad her wounds were, to an extent atleast anyways. And without imidiate help she was most likely going to perish.

Lin looked shocked before slowly wrapping her arms around the girl and shushing her like a mother would. Carefully rubbing the girl's head, Lin looked up and over at Luna. "She need's help." Luna only nodded and looked over at the boys as they rested. "I know, but where can we go to get her help?"

Lin's responce was cut away as a small cry alerted them that something was there. Two heads snapped in the direction of the call as a small felidae-esque pokemon approached them, one tail was singed badly and it limped, showing off an old battle wound. The fur underneath the ears had started to grey and silver from age as the normaly amythist eyes had turned a dark cobalt blue from age. "Eooon." The old pokemon uttered softly, looking up at the humans, blinking it's eyes slowly while shifting it's wieght about on it's delicate paws. Luna looked over at Lin. "It can't hurt."

Blinking her eyes, Lin agreed and set Sephinraph down, ignoring the soft cries of protest as her hands were wrenched away from the shirt and she was taken from the warmth. The Espeon purred sparringly deep in his chest before walking up to where the girl's head lay and looked down at her. Turning his body and gaze he slowly pulled himself up untill he was standing on the girls chest and turned around while curling up at the same time, bringing his face into view of her's once more. The dimming ruby orb on his forhead flickered as he closed his eyes...