Myra's POV

I pretty much sulked over the next few days as I watched over Roni endure the trance Eslit put him in. It didn't so much have to do with that I was angry over have to put him in a trance, but that he was the most interesting person to talk to, whereas Adele was really quite annoying to put up with. I didn't know how Roni could do it. She was just way too bothersome. It was following the events that Roni had fallen in Eslit's trance that I had noticed much more obviously.

A Week Ago

"What'd you just do to Roni," Adele hissed, her fur bristling on end. I looked quite bored at her. She was pesky, bothersome, and really just a headache to me. Then again, I had found that out while we were communicating psychically; how she kept asking me over and over again if there was anything between me and Roni and how I just kept saying that it was nothing. I began grooming down my fur which had been out of place from running, also earning me a growl from her.

"I did nothing really," I told her nonchalantly pointing at Eslit, who remained perched on Roni's head, with a free paw. "Eslit here was the one who put him in the Celebi-forsaken state. Ask her."

"What'd you just do to Roni," the Espeon repeated. She grabbed Eslit and held her between her paws, all the while staring down her with the best death glare I had seen her give all day. Being a Natu, Eslit was somewhat used to staring and being stared at, but she was also introverted. Thus meaning, she wasn't exactly a people's person and preferred her moments of solitude. The little Natu fidgeted and tried fluttering around.

"I-i-i-i-I p-p-put h-him in a t-t-trance," Eslit flapped nervously. It was pretty ironic how a Pokémon who's basic written personality of life is to stare at things would be unnerved by something staring back. I laughed quietly to myself, enjoying the moment as Adele continued her interrogation. "Could you bring us back to our current safe house," I cut in. I patted Roni's head slightly and pointed out to the horizon, towards the moon. "We're losing moonlight and we're expected to make it back before then, otherwise we're considered dead. Or worse." Eslit nodded violently, a tingling sensation and sudden blast of light following shortly.

I sighed. A week with Adele was torture, how could Roni do it? I couldn't hold it in anymore and directed more of my attention and stress to Roni. I slowly brought a paw to him, who was currently asleep on his side, and prodded his belly slightly. He shivered slightly in response, a grin curling upon my face. What had he been saying before when we had been battling?

"Looks like you don't have as much stamina as I had thought," Roni grinned playfully, "With you in a position such as that, it wouldn't take much to tip you over; which isn't really an attack. And after you're stuck in a position like that, imagine the possibilities I could exploit..."

I immediately turned red after recalling it. Stamina. Position. Stuck. Possibilities. Exploit. Celebi, he knew how to turn things in his direction, and all he had to do was talk. He hadn't even done anything. Just said what he could have done. Could. Celebi dammit! How long was this going to be burned in my memory? Well, now I would get my revenge for that.

I tickled his tummy with my tail, earning an annoyed, sleep-filled moan. This was definitely going on the top of my list as fun things to do in my spare time. Sneaking up on the overly-serious, white Eevee in his sleep and exacting fun; sounds enjoyable, don't it? It borders on the line of awkward and fun. I then turned my attention to his ears. Adele often would toy around with his ears in his sleep, and occasionally his tail. Was there something special about them? I gently took one of his ears with a paw, tweaking it slightly in both directions. His other ear flickered while his tail mimicked the motion. I giggled quietly before tweaking it again, this time a bit stronger. A ghost of a smile lit upon his face.

"… If I could interpose," a voice behind me started out. I whirled around, tripping on a paw and landing ironically on Roni. He woke up for the first time, eyes fluttering. "Now that you've had your fill with… how to say, satisfying your urges, as Miss Adele would put it, I'd like to draw you away from Roni so that I may have a few words with you before him." I groaned.

A certain bright white, male fox-like Pokémon sat near the nearby door. His jet black rhombuses and paws seemed darker than usual. His light gray eyes glinted quietly in the moonlight bleeding in through the blinds, all the while keeping their curious demeanor. There was only one Glaceon who could hold a look like that, and even less a Glaceon who was white and black rather than the usual shades of blue.

"Celebi dammit it all Rei," I exhaled from my long held in breath. The guy was a hell lot quiet, I gave him that. I could never keep track of his velvet trail. Rei, or rather Reizo, padded quietly over to my side, sitting down and watching Roni with still held curiosity. Reizo waved a paw in Roni's face, getting him to track it for a moment. He yawned loudly.

"Dear Arceus, is anyone else sore all over," the white Eevee groaned as he flipped onto his belly. He cringed a moment before regaining his usual distant composure. "What's going on? How long have I been out? I demand to- gahh~! My stomach hurts…" I sighed loudly, drawing his attention. "He seems quite… aggravated, at the moment." I concluded the matter, followed by a short cough by Reizo.

"Agreed, and if I may now drag you off to the side, hopefully not by force as last time. May we discuss the upcoming matter at hand?" I followed him off to the nearby corner, just barely keeping Roni in the corner of my eye. The white and black Glaceon cleared his throat, staring me down. "What would be the current situation concerning our certain guest… and his Espeon friend? Frankly, I question the reasoning put into allowing a potential-, scratch that, quite probable causality-inducing threat into our current base of operations while being both aware of the threat he there in poses and hindrances that come along with it. "I blinked twice in confusion at Reizo. "What is it Myra?"

"One, I only woke up a while ago. I barely caught half of what you just said. Talk like the damned normal Pokémon I foolishly try to believe you are. Two, don't make me manipulate your… condition. Three, I know the cons, but I also know the pros. On a side note, the Espeon is pacing around just outside the grounds of our current position."

"… It isn't my fault that my personality yields me to speak in this manner. What's more, I dislike the idea of you blackmailing me with my condition. And I'm not the only one here with a problem. You have it freaking hot for the Eevee (or so my sources tell me) and I can't wait to see how he finds out about your sudden, normal mood swings."

"I'm just bipolar~!"

"And that's my problem too~!"

"Both of you just fucking shut up," Roni yelled out suddenly at the two of us. We both turned our heads towards the half-drowsy Eon who was swaying side to side. Maybe he did need a berry or two; he looked a few pounds thinner from when we had put him out. He sure burns calories in his sleep. Then again, with a body like his, it would make a hell lot of sense. Reizo walked up to him, curious intent still on high. He stared at him before, looking to me and back again. Was he still adjusting his eyes? "Who's the girl, Myra," the white Eevee asked tilting his head. Reizo tripped over his paws and landed muzzle down onto the ground.

"W-wait a sec," the glossy white Glaceon said back upon his paws. I noted how he had just lost his smart talk way. "I-I'm not a girl~! H-how dare you mistake me for a fem~?" Roni adjusted his eyes further before widening them and backing up until he hit the wall behind him.

"Dude~! So not fucking cool~! Like… like… like… are you like… were you female once?"

I laughed loudly at the two of them. Reizo was often mistaken for a female on more than one occasion, but it never got tired. I quickly regained my calm self-possession and looked back at the two of them all the while as they went on warring.

"If you're not a female, then why do you look so much like a female," Roni started out.

"I-I simply have a girlish figure," Rei mumbled out before rising to a growl. "It's just a physical thing. What's the matter about it?"

"Sorry, Glaceon… You really, really and Arceus do I ever mean really, look like a female. I- erm… So what's with the white and black fur?" I cut Roni off from there, hoping that he wouldn't cause the situation from getting any more awkward an unnecessary than it already had reached. I sat beside him, signaling both males to follow suit. "You see, Reizo here is our Eon intelligence officer in a sense," I started out, "He handles important information and such that we don't have other Pokémon perhaps a bit more suited to handle for. He's good with strategic thinking and combinations; somewhat like you are. I'd like for the two of you to get along, get to know each other, and try not to end up getting the other to bleed out on the ground. But you shouldn't worry. I think you two will learn to get really close to one another soon." I had made sure to put special emphasis on, really soon, seeing as it would only be a matter of time for Roni to find out Reizo's condition. But there was something I had to do as first. "But first of all, Reizo needs to give you the basic intro. Would you?" He stared at me for a moment irritated. I sighed. I knew he wasn't going to now that he was giving me that look.

"Roni. Have you heard of the legend of the Five Trees," I questioned.

"Of course," Roni smiled, "It's one of the oldest legends there is. It's right up there with the Story of Creation. What about it?"Roni nodded at the remembrance of the story to himself. I smiled.

"Well… I'm about to explain a lot at once now and I want you to pay attention," I announced. "So, just sit back, listen to me retell the story and explain more afterwards."

"Once upon a time, there was one gigantic tree in the middle of the largest plain in the world. That tree was known as the World's Breath, the considered center point of the world that provided shelter, food, protection and most importantly, balance to all. From its exact position in the world, four other trees grew in hard to travel places around the world. These trees were known as the Aether's Thresholds, places of shelter and sanctuary.

"One day, the Gods' neglect and non-caring caused what was thought to be impossible, possible. The World's Breath began dying. Because the Gods' were powerful, almighty and worshiped, they decided to blame the Pokémon upon the world for their mistake instead of taking the blame upon themselves. The ill will and hate between Pokémon grew to the point where four different Eevee's rose to positions of power as lords and having the other Pokémon divide and join under which lord best appealed to them.

"For many years, the war never stopped, becoming stronger and becoming weaker. Eventually the lords had come to the points where they had offspring and evoked the beginning of, "royal" bloodlines that would take up the position of the next lord. Every now and again, the war would not stop but simply stagnate before erupting once more. After seeing so many innocent lives die for years, the Gods' only then began to realize what they had done. It seemed to them that they had to repent for their mistakes. So, they did the only thing that they could really think of as a brilliant idea. They led a young Eevee to the spot of which held refuge to the only other Aether Threshold that did not have a lord standing before it. The Gods' deemed this Eevee as a lord destined to one day stop the war.

"This fifth lord fought armies, made alliances and eventually brought down each lord to their knees. The fifth lord did not kill the other lords however. The fifth lord showed the quarter, allowing them to live, but to stand beside their side in order to. Eventually, fighting was down immensely, large-scale battles erupting now and again and another war rising up that threatened to break apart the lords since because the World's Tree could not be healed, it had to be left to die. Quite still, the fifth lord was able to stop this war with the help of a neutral aligned army they had created. The fifth lord then marked there that whenever war would break out, their offspring would rise up and halt the war once more, just as the Gods had said so long before."

"That story always gets to me," Reizo said, faking being over-emotion. This was probably a means to provoke me to switch suddenly from calm to agitated right before Roni, whom, was currently rethinking the story. I cleared my throat and continued on by saying, "The warring has returned." Roni looked at me, a confused look piercing me. He stared at me in disbelief and said, "What do you mean the warring has returned? As in, there's going to be more bloodshed? What does this have to do with anything?" I nodded in his understanding, which was understandable with the list of current events, the battle at Roni's clan currently topping that list. "It's just a stupid story. What are you talking about? They were fighting over a godforsaken, dying tree. Why would there still be war?" I snickered quietly from his unbeknownst god joke. Quickly picking up my thoughts, my face began solid.

"Well… The story isn't one hundred percent accurate… This was the story I heard from my father, but the version from my mother was different. It was passed down from her mother and from her mother and so on. There was a reason for the World's Breath dying out like it did. It's not because of poison or corrosion and decay or whatever theories that Pokémon had. It was because of a dark entity that had taken refuge within the tree, taking control of things from the shadows of the curtains, in a manner of speaking. As the story my mother told me goes, the fifth lord did not know that it was this dark entity that was the root of evil and focused mainly on the lords. Not even the Gods knew it was because of this entity. Right now, the present day ancient royal bloodlines of the lords have not been fully identified but I can assure you, they are very much alive. The new, fifth lord must arise to stop the war once more, but with the danger greater than the last."

"What the hell does this mean for me then? What does this have to do with the battle at my clan? Was the fifth or whichever lord there? Keep telling me, tell me everything." he pressed on. I sighed. He seemed hungry for the knowledge, wanting to know more. Apparently, the battle near his clan seemed to have sparked something. I could already sense that he had hypothesizes already developed, but continued anyways. "Here's a little tidbit for you to chew on then; the fifth lord was at your clan but we have them in our protection now." Roni's eyes lit up in fear. Just now, I had noticed that Reizo was gone as well, but that was unimportant right now. I really didn't want to tell Roni until the day after tomorrow, but now was still as good as ever. He whispered out, voice low and dry, "It's me isn't it?" I nodded in an agreeing manner towards him. He looked as if I had just hit him across the face, his face lit in nervous amusement. Just barely I could read him say, "Adele" on his lips.

"You're the descendent of the fifth lord from the story. The bloodline of the fifth lord is rich with their traits and abilities that far surpass any regular Eevee. Your great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was known for being popular with females. The following isn't as important but, it's almost humorous to note how each lord's offspring was usually a female and that whenever the wars come back, a male of the fifth lord's blood line would be born. And the lords, also ironically, we're all females besides the fifth and his great-and-so-on sons that fought in the wars those other times before."

Reizo had just reentered the room with a nonchalant face on, seeming content. Where had he just gone off? It still didn't matter much to me anyways though. Roni was of more importance here. He sighed angrily. "Are you trying to tell me that my freaking great-times a thousand grandfather was the guy who made me popular with pretty much every female," Roni yelled aloud. I suspected that he was more hung up on his female problem rather than the war problem. "Myra~… You have to tell me. You are just damn pulling my tail, right? Right?"

"No. You're the god-given son of the god blessed fifth lord… hot stuff," I winked 'subtly.' I earned a panicked, confused groan of uncertainty from him before watching him pace around. Then, Roni turned slowly at me, eyes focused tightly on mine. I couldn't look away; almost like I was entranced. I stared deeply into his silvery orbs… everything else fading almost. I looked at him almost unconsciously now, my mind adrift with thoughts. "You have gorgeous eyes…" I chimmed half-mindedly before realizing and snapping back to reality, "Uhh…" Reizo snickered before I shot him a death glare, promptly shutting him up.

"Did you catch anything I said a moment ago," Roni asked with a nonchalant lean of the head to the side. He seemed to ignore my comment thankfully; only to sigh repeat what he had last said: "Who exactly or what exactly are you doing then? If you're telling me that I'm the son of some lord, who are you?"

"I'll vent that one," Reizo offered, "We are under no allegiance. We are the Valiant Palisade, a large group that was created after the first war. We seek only to end the war threatening all innocent lives. And yet, we are under allegiance to the leader of the Valiant Palisade, not the fifth or whichever lord. "The white furred Eevee looked somewhat amused at him, smirking slightly. I suppressed a groan. He said, "May I meet the leader?" Rei laughed quietly.

"You already have."

"You're the leader?"

"N-no. But a certain gray furred Eevee who thinks you have gorgeous eyes is."

Simultaneously, they both turned their attention to me. Roni stared me down with an almost hollow glare; one that spoke of annoyance, confusion and shock. I was surprised at him, but he nodded slightly as if he had a ghost of a hint. Reizo patted him on the back, reassuring him that I didn't really look like the type to be a leader. I mean, I had done a good job at acting that I was just a subordinate in a large group. Roni smiled, looking at me eye-to-eye.

"I don't really understand still, and I'm not entirely convinced with the notion that I'm the descendant of the fifth lord from the story. But, I suppose that I'm going to have to believe you. Innocent people may have died when there was that one battle… which I'm still uninformed about… And also Adele and you… too… Nothing makes sense right now, but I'll believe you… hot stuff…"

I blushed brightly and smiled nervously. Looks like things got complicated from here.

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