Author's Note:

Hello everyone! Sorry for this being three months late! It is past Spring Break, and life is super crazy! Anyways, winter break got cut short, and with new games being out and such, my time was limited for getting this done. And now at school, I've been having a lot of projects and such. I'm also finding out I'm getting to the point where I can pretty much do whatever I want in Unity, so some of my time I would spend on writing has been going that way. I still plan to keep this story up until completion, but things are going to slow down a little (as if they weren't already too slow for most of you).

So regarding this summer, I will not be doing weekly updates. Re-reading my past work, I realized my latest chapters are pretty crappy and not up to my standards. This summer I want to focus on getting those up to par as well as closing out Arc 2 nice and proper. Regarding bonus chapters, there is a transition chapter between Arc 2 and Arc 3 which will be fairly long. If at least half the updated chapters this summer meet bonus chapter requirements from previous summers, then I will throw in this last chapter before the end of summer. Event submissions are still active, and will help Arc 3 be more rich and exciting.

That's all the updates I got right now. Enjoy this interactive chapter, and don't forget to interact if you wish!

File 3: The Blind Side of Reality

What's rhyming internet! It's your man Drake! Wisdom from the Lake! I'm back here with another one of these files. Super sorry these aren't in order. The guy who encrypted File 2 did something really weird with the encryption, so I guess we'll move on to the third file.

So remember how I asked if the name Melody was coincidence? Well, it turned out it wasn't. This is Melody Prixy's writing. If you never heard of her, she and her sister Harmony were both well-known writers. Melody typically wrote biographies and such. They belonged to the champion at the time. Anyways, Melody does a pretty good job setting up the scene, so I'll let you guys get right to reading what she had to say:

So, I guess it's my turn to tell about my weird dream. But before I do, I suppose I should provide some background information. You see, while we were having fun with our guests and all, there was another thing on my mind. Our annual trip to Alola was in a week, and that trip means a lot to me. A couple years ago, the story of Alola leaked across the other dimension, which meant it also made it to our region. Less than two weeks later, our enemies were already attacking, trying to obtain information about the wormhole activities. Fortunately, they gave up when they learned that the wormholes lead to the Legends' Realm, and that the wormholes were powered by the Royalty's offspring. At least that's my understanding. My theory is that there was some war some hundred years ago, and the Legendary Council (I can at least confirm that's a thing) got intelligence on one of the armies having an outside connection with Kalos. But before the technology arrived, solgaleo and lunala were sent in to end the war. But unlike most wars, many of the people were reluctant to live a peaceful life. So solgaleo and lunala brought them into their own kingdom in the Legends' Realm where they could settle their quarrels without disrupting the islands and the pokemon that lived there. And then every few years or so, some of the remaining pokemon from solgaleo's and lunala's kingdom return to challenge the island guardians. That's my theory for any of you who heard the story that crossed dimensions. I told my sister that, and she laughed. She used to spend a month every summer in Alola for personal reasons. She was there when all the incidents occurred, and when Alola named their first League Champion. She knows the region's actual history, but she won't tell me! Back on topic, the reason this trip was so important to me was because our mother is from Alola, so half our relatives live down there. It's the only time I ever get to see them!

My dream was the worst-case-scenario of how that trip could have gone. It started in the plane ride. I have no idea why we were traveling by plane, but my sister and I were on it, along with Cira and Amy, who are also from Alola. Our plane landed in the water, and we got off at the Heahea dock. We quickly moved into the hotel, and then the four of us were given freedom for the rest of the night. We decided to head north and quickly found a trainer battle to watch. A young tourist woman and her normal-typed variant persian (Sorry, but I do not know persian variant names) were battling a young trainer girl and her torracat. The young girl with long, straight, and sandy hair and her fire-type partner were pretty impressive to watch. They had good sync and were bringing the fire to the tourists. Not to my surprise, they won the battle. The tourist gave the trainer a quick handshake and ran back towards where we came from. Then suddenly, the torracat started glowing. He was evolving!

But as soon as he finished, he completely lost control over his new power. He started unleashing attacks at everything in sight, even setting a tree on fire. His trainer ran up to him, grabbing him to try and calm him down, but he threw her off with his arm. She looked at him in determination, hoping to snap him out of his evolution high. But then he started flexing his muscles and examining himself. His trainer called to him to try to get his attention, but he gave no notice to her. She began crying, got up, and ran off.

Amy and I were heartbroken. I knew incineroar had a reputation for being a bit arrogant and losing control, but I didn't think it could have been this bad. The poor girl was scared of the monster she had created. They had been such a good team until that point, and I don't think she believed that he could betray her as he seemed to be doing. We decided to go get help, so we ran back to the hotel. However, when we arrived in our room, we found our trainer with several others discussing ideas for some kind of first person shooter game. Amy and Cira decided to go inform the local police instead, while they left me to watch this design process. A new game was always interesting. Our trainer had so little time, so for him to be working on something like this was a rare occasion. I rested on the bed and watched him discuss concepts of the game with some sort of self-respawning mechanic and ammunition that only blinded. It was set at a school, most likely based off the school my aunt and uncle teach at west of Black Forest. Minutes passed, and I got bored of him trying to draw what he called "anime" characters (and failing miserably), so I turned on the TV.

I saw a shadow of a vulpix walking through an alleyway at night. But when the camera panned, where I expected to see the vulpix, I instead saw a young girl get down on her knees next to the door of a building. She started tapping away at the computer strapped to her arm. Suddenly, a click sounded, and she and some completely black partner of hers entered the door. The camera then panned to a roof where an actual vulpix (though distinctly different hairstyle from the shadow) sighed. And then I turned around to see what looked like a really attractive pokemon get shot! Or it was something like that. I don't remember. I just remember that while I was waking up something came at me and I lost it.

Well that was my dream. I was still a bit disoriented the rest of the day remembering the incineroar incident, but I'm glad it wasn't real. I leave this up to all of you to interpret and compare to your own visions.

And because I know someone was going to ask, my father and his brother were on an investigation in Alola when they met their soulmates. My mother is a true mountain ninetales, or a keolau as they used to be called, so unfortunately my sister and I don't have any morphing capabilities aside from our burst evolutions. I used to be super jealous of our cousins.

One last thing, the trip was great as always. Thanks for asking.

~Melody

Wow! Sorry! I just love writing from the Prixy sisters. This one may not be that polished, but it is still impressive how Melody is able to bring you to the scene of her vision and really share what it was.

So what is interesting is that this follows the same formula as Spe's dream. There's a segment about what their trainer was doing. There is a segment about a fear (Spe's was psychological, to which he approached the situation sarcastically), in this case the incineroar incident. And then there was the vision within the vision. For Melody, it was what was on TV. And as much as I want to focus on this, I just don't have anything to discuss. I have a lot of theories, but none of them are solid enough to be worth sharing. I can say that the whole attractive pokemon being shot ordeal was likely Melody seeing a cut scene from the FPS game her trainer was working on. Her trainer wasn't a good artist, but he was really good at special effects and such. To be honest, the game Melody described might actually be a real game. I'll have to ask my sister, but maybe you guys know something?

I apologize. But this one caught me off guard. I'm a little confused by these "morphing capabilities" that Melody describes. And what school did her aunt and uncle teach at? And how did this relate to these special abilities that Melody's cousins possessed? And was there anything that made her no longer jealous? Alright. I really need to ask my sister. Shoot! That could be tricky!

So while I try to get some answers, I can at least explain a little bit about the Prixy sisters. They were actually the descendants of the Heroes of Time! But if that weren't enough, they found themselves in the company of the champion, so the stories they tell are pretty remarkable. Melody was typically the more outgoing one, and the one who would often write journals, blogs, and biographies. Harmony was a fiction writer, best known for her novel White is Best Stained Red. I actually know one of Melody Prixy's descendants named after her.

What is more interesting however is when Melody Prixy mentioned her cousins. I rarely hear of them (Perhaps because of some secret power they possessed?), but rumor has it one of the descending families lives in Eon City. Huh. Food for thought. I'm at a loss. Hopefully the next file will have more information. But as always, if you know something, shout it at me!

~Drake

~Eon Undercover Historical Analysist