Verna took one look down at her
clothes and realized, much to her dismay, that her Pokémon adventure
had resulted in her getting quite dirty. While growing up,
the young girl had always heard breathtaking stories of the journeys
trainers were supposed to go on. Traversing vast plains, crawling
through the darkest caves, scaling mountains one couldn't even see
the tops of, seeing Pokémon whose power seemed almost magical... And
not once did any of those stories mention the tedious and mundane
t

The sun rose over
the Johto region as it did every morning, heralding the dawn of a new
day. It was a day like any other- the Pidgey were singing, Sentret
scurried through the fields, and even the humble Magnemite wandered
the tall grass, all acting in the way Pokémon were ‘ought to do.
The citizens of the
bustling city of Olivine took to the streets, rising from their
slumber begin their respective days. Nurses switched shifts at the
Pokémon Center, and the Mart opened its doors for those

Step. Step. Step.

The Gardevoir was walking, walking, walking. She had no direction, nor a destination in mind. She just walked, putting throwing her destiny to the winds of fate. How long had she been walking? Weeks? Months? Years? It seemed as if her journey had stretched from the beginning of time to-

She stopped her internal narration. Melodrama aside, it'd only been a few days since her trainer left her- but she'd spent the majority of time since then contemplating the situation while

The afternoon was both cheerful and joyous, and a wealth of other positive adjectives that related to the blazing sun in the sky, the cloudless blue heavens above, and the crystal clear water of the lake that sat in the middle of the forest clearing. A dirt road snaked around the lake and through the woods, itself being the preferred way in and out of the idyllic glade, and a grouping of towels were laid out on the grassy shores, belonging to a group of girls who decided to go swimming on this s

Just a taste,�Lilly thought to herself.�Just this one, little taste.


She lifted the frightened human girl off the ground, bringing her in closer. It's just to see what all the fuss is about, she probably won't even taste very good. The little human, too frightened to even move, looked at the Lilligant with a pair of wide, tearful eyes, awaiting her fate. Lilly's petals were wrapped around her arms firmly, preventing all but the most futile struggles. Every few seconds she would sob, quietly