Black halos
Violet stopped humming and gave off a short chuckle as she walked along the white sand beach of Mount Cinnabar, watching two Krabbies fight. As one triumphantly threw the other into the water, Violet looked up the cliff directly to her left, looking at the spot she had been five hours ago. It seemed amazing to her that five hours had already gone by since this morning.
A day hadn't gone by that fast since she touched down her final time on this island. She had been trying to think about anything else, but her thoughts always came back to, 'Is it really better to be around others?' She'd always been taught since she was born to stay away from others, and as long as she did so she would discover her powers. It's been two hundred years and the only thing she's really discovered is that her discolored flower on her head brings her trouble with flying pokémon on a regular basis. And that her parents were nutcases, but she never really knew them, so they could be for all she knew.
Violet was still thinking over her actions until she walked strait into the edge of the cliff. She fell back and quickly got up, hoping no one saw it. She turned around and saw the triumphant Krabby laughing at her, which was quickly subdued with an energy ball, obviously her favorite move. Not long after she used her move her Gracia flower started glowing an eerie dark purple.
After Violet noticed this she jumped; she really couldn't do much about it. Her flower shortly after stopped glowing but she got a weird feeling that made her shiver. Once it all subsided she felt her flower and discovered one of the flower petals was much colder than the rest of the flower, and a short look up at the petal revealed it was completely black.
"What…was that?" She asked, afraid to know the answer. She stood in place for a few moments, thinking, before shrugging it off and walking back towards the forest. She looked up at a flock of shiny Fletching overhead, which reminded her it was around noon. "Oh yeah, I'd better do this while I still can." She stopped moving forward and closed her eyes as her flower started glowing white and green, followed by the rest of her body.
The losing Krabby had just crawled out of the water when he saw a small object glowing green and white. The glowing area started getting taller until it was about 5 times bigger. The glowing suddenly faded, revealing a green haired girl. She turned her head around and saw the Krabby staring at her, but after a few seconds turned back and started walking away towards the now rainy forest.
"I swear I-I didn't even n-notice." Sirus replied quickly to the now human Banish, whom had jumped atop of him. Bluefire had backed up from the duo and was by the window. Dai shortly after ran up to his Banish and barely withheld himself from yelling, "Daddy, stop." Banish looked over at Dai and sighed, "Alright Dai, I'll let him up." Banish got off Sirus slowly, meaning to cause a little more pain to Sirus.
Sirus slowly got up and had to stretch his legs which had fallen in an awkward position. "I'm sorry Banish, I should have stopped to help you," Sirus apologized to Banish. Banish started stretching his arm as he apologized, "No Sirus, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten mad, I guess with the situation and me being in pain, I over-reacted. Besides, I can't stay mad at you." Dai nodded after he saw his parents make-up.
He then shortly trotted over to Bluefire's stash of berries and grabbed a few. Bluefire, whom had been standing at the window idly, watched him trot back to his parents and hold up the berries. They looked down at him and gave an acceptable pause before asking, "Where did you get those Dai?" Dai looked behind him for a moment before turning back around and happily answering, "From Bluefire. He has a stash of them over there." Dai made no motion in any direction, so Banish and Sirus had to accept Bluefire had some kind of stash in his house.
Banish looked over at Bluefire, whom gave a slight nod to show approval of Dai's action, before looking back down and Dai and replying, "Alright Dai, I'll have one." He bent over and grabbed two, then handed one to Sirus. They both, almost in unison, said, "Thanks Dai," proceeded with them both eating their berry in a couple of seconds, Dai nibbling for much longer.
No one made a sound after they finished their berry, but Bluefire, who had moved to the couch, noticed they all were looking at his flames. Bluefire hadn't noticed, but they were white and yellow, colors they hadn't been in a very long time. He shrugged it off after a few seconds and decided to break the silence by asking, "So…where do you guys live?"
He could tell he shouldn't have asked that question because almost immediately after he asked it Dai's spirit seemed to drastically lower and he walked over to his parents. Sirus looked down at the ground, which he seemed to be doing a lot, before answering unconfidently, "…Uh…we don't…really have…a home-" Sirus barely finished his sentence before Banish cut in, "We go from place to place. Our home is wherever we are at the end of the day."
This was the first time Bluefire had really noticed how different the two were. Sirus is quiet and relatively peaceful, at least compared to Banish. Banish is literally the exact opposite, out-spoken and seems to rely more on more physical tactics then working things out. Dai seemed to have both of their qualities, thankfully it seemed he has a lesser temper than Banish.
The room went silent after this, no noise except for the chatter of pokémon and soft tapping of rain on the roof. And then all the distractions fade into an unintentional harmony of pokémon's voices; various birds chirping, the rain falling on the soft leaves and grass in the forest, fade in slowly, as well as a single recorder playing a melodic rhythm. After about thirty seconds the voices fade out and the single recorder is heard playing its smooth rhythm quietly with the rain until the rain fades away leaving only the recorder to continue, slowly dying away as the next section continues.
Wildfire had quickly flown away since he had been shut-out. Although the rain was not that bad, he didn't want to fly for too long; he had just came back from his migration and was still not rested back to full ability. So, not long after he started, he decided to land on a small beach at the edge of the forest, surrounded on three sides by a small cliff.
He'd been muttering to himself the entire flight, so when he landed a wild half-shiny Corsola who Wildfire landed by tried its best to say away from him as he walked by and up to the current low tide. After he had been standing there for a while, the Corsola slowly started walking up to him. As it got closer it noticed a small area of sand in between them was slowly sinking, or at least seemed to be.
The Corsola just ignored it and continued slowly heading towards the Murkrow. Once the Corsola got above the spot he notice earlier, it stood on top of it and chuckled. Almost as soon as it looked down its chuckle turned into a gasp; the sinking sand had revealed a large, dark hole with seemingly no bottom. It screamed as it quickly fell into the darkness. Wildfire quickly turned around about the same time as a bright white flash engulfed everything for a split-second. Once he had turned around and the flash was gone, all he saw was an empty beach.
"Hai." Dai cheered behind him out the open door at a relatively short girl walking towards them. She returned the greeting and continued until she reached the door. Once Dai moved and she entered, everyone looked over at her and they didn't know who she was. After Bluefire realized who it was, he approached her, and, unknowingly to him, his flames shot a bright white. Once he reached her, he greeted her, "Hi, Violet. Join the party."
As she continued in, she looked curiously at the three pokémon she had yet to meet. After she had moved back to the couch she seemed to be taking a liking to, Sirus spoke up, "Hello Violet. I-I'm Sirus and these are Banish and Dai." He motioned to the previous respective person as he continued, "It's n-nice to meet you." Violet nodded and replied, "You too."
Bluefire shortly then walked over, gabbed a berry, and walked back to hand it to Violet. She started eating it about when the rain began to die away. After she finished her berry and the rain had dissipated Banish looked outside and sighed, almost unnoticeably, "Well Sirus, I think it's about time we left Bluefire to do his work." Sirus nodded and walked next to the door, followed by Dai.
Sirus looked back and seemed almost nonchalant for once, "It was nice…meeting you Bluefire…and you too Violet." As the parents and Dai walked out both Violet and Bluefire replied, "You too."
After they got out of hearing distance from the house, Sirus asked, "So…where are we gonna go now…?" Banish, taking this as a rhetorical question, ignored it for a while until he noticed Sirus was still waiting for an answer. He thought for a moment and then answered, "Wherever we are at the end of the day."
As all the distractions fade away, an unintentional chorus of pokémon's voices fade in; birds chirping, the dripping of raindrops on the trees, as well as a single recorder playing its harmonic rhythm. After a few moments the noises dissipate out leaving the quiet dripping of water and the recorder to continue, which too, start to decrescendo after another few moments. After the recorder disappears from hearing, the wind starts to blow as a small house fades into view…
"Well, that's just weird, for it to just…disappear like you said." Bluefire replied to Wildfire after he hurrily came back in the window. Bluefire wouldn't usually believe the deceptive Murkrow, but he's never been scared by anything; so he's not lying…this time. "Yeah, it was right behind me, it screamed, then by the second it took me to turn around it was gone." Wildfire explained again, Violet looking confused. She had transformed back shortly after the other three left, more by force than by choice; once it hits 2:30, the power that lets them transform disappears and they change back.
Violet enjoys the delta forme much more, mostly because she gains a few feet, but it figures to her she can only do one of her favorite things two and a half hours every day. Violet responded, "Ok, so maybe there was a fast moving pokémon around here that could ha-", she got cut off by Wildfire as he almost blurted, "Oh yeah! There was a small indent in the sand behind me."
After he finished he noticed Violet scowling at him and turned to Bluefire, whom thought and replied, "Could it have been a Trapinch? They make pits in the sand right?" Wildfire didn't leave any space after that question before answering, "Umm…no, it couldn't. They don't collapse they're pits, and even if they did, I still would have heard muffled screaming. How about I just take you there, it'd be easier."
They waited for a second until Bluefire agreed and they all walked outside. Once they all were ready and they started on their way, Violet walked up to Wildfire and told him, "Just so you know-" Murkrow yelled his name as Violet continued, "…I've only known you for about 20 minutes and I already don't like you, so I suggest for the moment you stay over by Bluefire. We don't want you to get hurt out here." Wildfire gave a scowl before flying up to Bluefire, who did not hear the conversation.
They then shortly exited the jungle and entered the beach, where Wildfire took the lead. Wildfire led them to an area on the beach that, at the time of the tide, would have been inaccessible to anything but water or flying types. It was surrounded on three sides by a small cliff covered in sea spray, with a small opening at low tide that gives access to the area. The walked into it and Wildfire stopped in the dead-center, looking around before stating, "Right here. The dip was right here."
Both Bluefire and Violet looked at the spot and noticed there was still a dip there, barely noticeable up close. "Hey Wildfire, you-, " Violet just started to point it out to Wildfire as she got a sudden feeling that made her shiver. Bluefire noticed she stopped talking and looked up at her to notice her Gracia flower was glowing a dark purple. After a few seconds it stopped glowing and Bluefire told her, "Uhh…Violet. Two of you petals turned black." Violet immediately felt her flower and the two petals were freezing cold compared to the rest. "Actually one was already black, but now two are;…something's happening, and I don't like it." Violet replied slowly, starting to think of the occurrences. Wildfire looked over and asked her, "What were you saying before that?" She replied, "Oh yeah, the sand your standing on still has an indent in it." Wildfire immediately jumped away from it and into the cliff wall behind him. Both of the other two laughed at him as he hit the ground.
"Well Banish, it's the end of the day…so where did we end up?" Sirus asked Banish in an 'I told you so' tone, earning a punch in the side and a pause before Dai exclaimed, "We ended here!" Banish couldn't help but smile after that remark before continuing the exclamation, "Where is here?" Dai immediately answered, "Where we are at the end of the day!" Both of the parents laughed at this, and after a few seconds Sirus looked down at Banish and replied in an impressed tone, "I think Dai has that down more than we do." They both looked down at Dai, whom had already disregarded his previous statement and was currently focused on the gym in front of him.
While his previous statement was true, they seemed to always end up at this gym more than anywhere else. It seems to be a place they feel comfortable in. Dai walked over to the spot where he can enter, a small broken air duct. Whilst the other two climb up a vine on the side of the gym leading to a hole in the wall.
The one thing they've found Dai can't do is climb. Everything else that challenges him he overcomes; but when they found the gym, he tried, multiple times, but failed. Being as oblivious as he as is, he only cared for a few seconds before he found the air duct. It took him only a few seconds to work his way in, and he never cared again.
His entrance was faster though, both Banish and Sirus entered and saw Dai was already halfway into the gym. Back when humans were around, the gym was notorious for its electric floors that move you around. With some of the tiles now covered in dangerous objects, the parents freaked out when they saw their son in the center of it all.
As they found out however, the power to the building was out, and had been since the humans had gone extinct. So, they were now just highly decorated floor tiles. Except for some small areas, the place was practically preserved, and had few ways for pokémon to get in, a perfect place for them when they ended their day near it.
They had made a few beds by the front pedestal and collected some food for the place, so they were well off for a few days. "So Sirus, where is the food you said you collected since we were last here?" Banish asked, ending the silence they seemed to have had since they left the house. "Umm…it's over there." Sirus replied, unsurely at first, but then seeing the berries stacked neatly in the corner that confirmed his answer.
The parents, followed by Dai, walked to the stack of berries and grabbed a few each, leaving many to spare. A few hours had passed since they had last had anything to eat, the small hole in the roof showing it was about six' o' clock. The hole in the roof puts the sun perfectly in the center, shining on their beds at six' o' clock.
Sirus walked over to his bed, while Banish and Dai stayed over by the food stash. Sirus turned around to face Banish and stated, "Well Banish, I'm not sure about you, but today has worn me out." Banish got the hint but asked anyway, "So you're going to bed? At six 'o' clock?" Sirus nodded at him as he sat down on his bed, although it was closer to sat in his bed; because he fell into his bed, as in his bed and him were in the same place. Obviously it made a noise when Sirus hit the ground, which caused Banish to quickly look at Sirus, or what he could see of him. All that were visible were his legs and his head.
It took Sirus a second to realize what had happened, but after he looked down and saw that he was in his bed, he screamed and jumped back out of it and standing at the edge of it. Banish couldn't say anything but, "What the-" he managed to stop himself, remembering Dai right beneath him. Dai ignored Banish and walked over to the bed, sticking his hand in it, laughing while his hand disappeared and reappeared as he moved his hand in and out respectively.
Both parents continued staring at the bed until a bright white light flashed for what seemed like a millisecond, revealing they had been instantly transported to a temple of some kind; at least, it had been a temple. It was destroyed, pillars scattered around and rubble everywhere. The family looked around, Dai especially. He almost immediately looked towards the center of the ruined temple and ran towards it. His parents, once again, chased him, reaching halfway to the center before catching him. Sirus scolded Dai, "Dai. Don't run off like that. You have no idea where we are or who may be here." Dai stayed silent, rather odd for him, after this.
Shortly after Sirus finished with Dai he heard a noise around the corner of a pillar they had stopped by, and he slowly looked around it to almost immediately gasp and jerk his head back, as well as Dai's. He then quietly ran to Banish and barely managed not to blurt out, "Banish…We're at Spear Pillar." Banish, whom wasn't facing Sirus, quickly turned around and restated unbelievingly, "We're at Spear Pillar? How do you know?" Sirus ignored Banish's attitude and anxiously answered his question, "Because Palkia is standing right there."