[PKMN FULL] Darker than it Seems... [IC]

The history books are lying. Saffron City is not a bustling place full of welcoming, warm-hearted people. All that lurks around every street corner and in the dark alley's are thieves, murderers; people trying to survive.

Arryn is one of them.

Her Absol, Shadow, growls her indignation at their new 'home' - an abandoned apartment block with half the doors missing.

"I know," Arryn whispers to her Pokemon, feeling bad for ever capturing her trusting companion. All I've done is put her through hell.

The window overlooks outside the city and just as expected, it's practically barren. Sometimes you get the occasional person slinking down the streets, hood up and targeting the nearest supermarket but Arryn has never seen them return with all their items.

Madox, her Furret, whimpers on the deteriorating couch: the padding inside lays in clumps on the ground, springs stick from the sides - Arryn was sure she couldn't sit on it without being poked.

"I want to go outside, too but it's dangerous."

She is one of those dangerous people, well-versed in doing what it takes to survive. It makes her a hypocrite in many ways as she cannot stand watching people thieve off others but has absolutely no hesitation in snatching what she needs for herself and of course, her Pokemon.

It's for them, she tells herself to sleep better at night.

She chews on her lip in thought and considers the worst that can happen. Kidnapping, a high chance of death for me and my Pokemon...

The weight of the ice shard that rests coolly on her chest comforts her enough to take the final large strides to the door and wrench it open. ​

Tulip sat inside the warm house in Celadon City. It was her boyfriends parents home. It was large and had a golden fence around it. Cheryl came back from the kitchen with some soup.

"Here you go love. The boys should be back real soon." She smiled setting the soup down in front of me and sitting down. Volkner and his dad were out chopping wood. Volkner's my boyfriend, hes a gym leader from Sinnoh but his parents live here so we came to visit them.

"So did you hear about those...mutants...?" Cheryl said with a disgusted face.

"Yes, I did... I feel awful for them...." I said. I wasn't lying. I do feel bad for people like me... I was one of these mutants, I did a good job hiding it ,but some people may not be as good of an actress as I am.

"You feel bad? No. No. They are abominations. If I ever met a fire type one... Id douse it in water until it died..." She said darkly.

"What?! You would kill a human being because they are different? Whats wrong with you!" I screamed standing up. I didn't mean to snap at her but that's just not right. Volkner and his father Sam ran inside locking the doors.

"Volkner...? Whats wrong?" I asked walking to the window looking outside. In the distance there were shadowy creatures running tword the house. Were they pokemon... or people... I wasn't sure. Volkner and Sam barricaded the door with the wood and started throwing anything they could at the door.

"Volkner what are those things..?!" I asked alarmed.

"Looters..." He looked me in the eyes and kissed me. "Go. I want you to be safe." He said nodding and pushing me back a little. I walked back with them to a room in the back and then I heard a window break. It was gun fire. The looters came in taking and breaking things. Then a shot came through the door. I stood up and looked at Volkner and mouthed the words "I love you." I opened the door and shut it, Volkners screams being drowned out by the looters.
"Selene! Lend me your power!" I screamed tword the heavens, all the looters turned to me and started to run at me. I waved my finger in a circular motion in the air and sent a beam of pinkish white light at the looters. I spun in a circle then stopped. When I looked up, all the looters body's were on the floor. Volkner and his parents looked at me in shock. Volkner collapsed on the floor and said nothing to me.

"Youre one of those freaks?!" Sam screamed at me.
Get out! Get out now!" He screamed grabbing a Steel sword from the wall and waving it at me. I looked to Volkner but he was not saying everything he was in total shock.

"Volkner!" I screamed but he didn't flinch, he was frozen.

"OUT!" Sam screamed running at me with the sword. I started to cry and ran out of the house. Then everything kinda turned to black. I couldn't hear anything or feel anything. When I woke up from this daze, I was in Saffron city. I was at an apartment building. I saw a girl with a Furret and an Absol.
"H-help." I said quietly to her. I was soaking wet. I had blood and dirt on my dress and on my white shoes. I wore this beautiful dress to impress Sam and Cheryl... guess I failed at that. I still had my pearls, which was a little surprising. I guess I didn't look very cute but it was a girl so I suppose it doesn't really matter.

"Help!" I said a little louder this time waving up to her. Was she friend or foe...? Guess I was about to find out.

This is stupid, Arryn chastises herself and leads her eager Pokemon through the halls. So incredibly stupid...

"Help!"

Arryn almost trips on the bottom step in shock at the sudden, hoarse voice.

Gathering herself, Arryn peers around the wall to see a very helpless girl in a ragged dress, ripped and bloody. The only thing that remained intact and not broken were pearls around her neck. A chilling thought ran through her but she quickly rounded the corner and kneeled down next to the girl.

"What happened to you?" Starting to panic, Arryn looks over the girl for any serious injuries and thinks of a tactic: The police wouldn't give a crap about what happened to her, the hospital is too far from here that we might both get attacked on our way... It looks like she might not have a choice.

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"Looters t-they attacked my boyfriends house and I-I fought them off then... then I just blacked out... " She was shaking and crying a little. She looked closer at the girl. She was pretty. Not as pretty as me but a different kind of pretty.

"I-I think im okay... I just need like some new clothes... and some new shoes... and a shower... and maybe like a milkshake or something... Maybe a cinnamon roll... Is that your apartment? Ill just relax there and you can go get that for me. Thank you so much!" She said smiling a little then she started walking up to the apartment.

She shook her head and started to erase the memory of what had just happened out of her head. She looked back at the girl and at her pokemon. She looked nice, maybe a friend... She got to the apartment and looked inside.


"This place is disgusting... ew." She took off her cardigan and laid it on the floor and sat down. She took a brush out of her ripped up bag and started brushing her blonde locks.

"Looters," the girl starts to shake and cry. "T-they attacked my boyfriends house and I-I fought them off then... then I just blacked out..."

Arryn feels a twinge of sadness for her.

"I-I think I'm okay... I just need like some new clothes... and some new shoes... and a shower... and maybe like a milkshake or something... Maybe a cinnamon roll... Is that your apartment? I'll just relax there and you can go get that for me." The girl stands to her feet and begins to walk inside the apartment building. "Thank you so much!"

Arryn blinks. What? She wants me to shop for her? Although upset at the sudden shopping list the girl rattled off, Arryn feels responsible enough to march down the street and to the nearest convenience store.

I left my rucksack back at the apartment, the girl can borrow some of my clothes if she needs to...

"Madox," Arryn addresses her Furret that is far too big to be inconspicuous. "Go back the apartment and make sure the girl doesn't get herself in more trouble, ok?"

Madox gives her shoulder a small nuzzle and slinks back into the darkness. Shadow looks at her expectantly.

"Don't give me that," Arryn rolls her eyes as her Absol can tell what she's thinking better than she can at times. Incapable of letting people fend for themselves, always the responsible one, I get it...

Arryn ducks into the store with her Absol following closely behind; the stench of cigarettes hangs in the air. Avoiding the eyes of the clerk, Arryn gathers a toothbrush and paste, a bottle of water for herself and an icy slushie for the girl since milkshakes would require far more effort and Arryn didn't fancy a trip all the way across town.

Cinnamon roll... a box of dunkin donuts will do.

"I hope you intend to pay for that," the clerk quips from behind his counter.

Arryn is in the midst of shoving the items in her backpack that usually hugs the lower half of her back. "I don't have any money," she says matter of factly. Who does these days?

He straightens up, hand 'subtly' going beneath his counter where Arryn is sure a red button that will alert the police is. "Then put them back and get out."

She gives him a tight lipped smile and walks up to the counter. Her fingers pry the yellow plaid scarf from her neck to grasp her necklace. She dangles the shard from her icy fingers as understanding registers in the clerk's dark eyes.

"I assume you know that this will end worse for you, so I'll make you a deal..." Arryn begins, her words lacing with Taunt. "You take your stumpy finger off that alert button and I'll let you live," she waits until he lifts his arm into the air then lets the shard drop onto her neck.

"Have a nice day," she waves to him over her shoulder and exists the store with Shadow trailing behind, giving the clerk extra incentive to let her leave without hassle.

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"What is your problem?" Arryn stops walking on the side-path, fed up with Shadow whom has been growling at the darkness around them for the past few minutes.

Shadow gives her an equally frustrated look. We're polar opposites, how we manage to get along is becoming a mystery...

With a hard shove, Shadow pushes Arryn to the other side of the street, back in the direction of the store.

"What? You want me to pay or something?" Arryn doesn't try to resist and walks slowly as Shadow continues to prod. "I'm sorry to inform you that the money I do have is for an emergency, lighten up. Besides, I can't show my face back there now, not after threatening..." she trails off as the back of some random guy and his Houndoom come into view.

Arryn chuckles in disbelief. "Wow, all this way for that? You're losing your touch, Shadow. Let's get back and make sure that girl is fi-" Shadow cuts her off with a sharp growl and swipe of her paw.

Shadow was usually ill-tempered and quick to annoy but her attitude was downright predatory - enough so that Arryn drops the attitude and follows the guy and his Pokemon, careful to stay out of sight.

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She sat combing her blonde locks getting most of the dirt clumps out. The furret came up and watched her.

"Oh. Hello there!" She smiled at the Furret petting it a little.

"Oh no... I forgot to tell her to get me a non fat milkshake... shit... oh well. I guess ill splurge a little..." She said out loud but to herself.

"So... I guess its a good bet to say me and Volkner are over... He was so cute.. and nice and strong... I guess ill have to find a new boyfriend... Maybe one like me....What is taking her so long..." She stood up and went into the little bedroom the Furret following her.

She looked at the clothes the girl had. They were not her style at all. Then the thought hit her. The little dress store. It was right by the Silph Co. Building. They had an amazing Versachi dress. It was floral and super cute. They even had some ribbon shoes. I should find a spell that can like protect my clothes... Or maybe make a spell... Id figure that out when I got there.

I took out a Pokeball and tossed it my beautiful Gardevoir appearing.

"Gardevoir can you teleport me to that dress shop for maybe 5 minutes..?" The gardevoir nodded its head in agreement and teleported us to the dress shop.

I found the dress and the shoes I wanted, put them in a protective bag and then we teleported back to the apartment. Gardevoir and I were both super tired from the trip. I went back to the living room and curled up on the blanket using the furret as my pillow waiting for the girl to come home.

The guy and his Houndoom didn't seem to notice her nor Shadow and Arryn was quickly losing interest. Really, what was the big deal here?

Shadow, again, resumed her growling but at a new target. A large Skarmory flew overhead in many loops, left and returned with it's owner. The owner landed between her and the mystery guy, intimidation radiating off of him.

"So... You must be Arryn... Sorry to say this but... You're going to die."

She blinks in shock. I just went out to get a stupid slushie and donuts for that girl!

"You have two options. Come with me, or resist me. You have 30 seconds." The glare cuts into her deep and she falters back a step, hand diving into Shadow's fur in effort to keep her balance.

His glare is different from others...

Not willing to let him call the shots, Arryn levels a glare back at him. "This is a really bad time. I have to be somewhere..." Madox and the random girl come to mind - how can she just leave them there? "And you're making a huge mistake."

Arryn starts to unwind the scarf from her neck for the second time that night, ready to attack if this guy tries anything.

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Arryn squints at the picture, it's definitely me... why the hell does he have this?

"Wait," she throws an arm out defensively in front of her. "Where did you get that? Who are you? How do you know who I am?" The questions pour out of her the moment two rods extend from the sleeves of his jacket.

Shadow bristles beneath her hand as Arryn keeps her at bay. I need answers before any possible bloodshed takes place...

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He's a Hybrid, Arryn realises as the small bolts of lightning emit from his body. He's like me...

Just before Arryn can ready herself for the attack, he stills. He's not going to attack me... his hand disappears inside his jacket and takes out a Mareep - the guy who could very well kill her glances in her direction, then away. Is he... crying?

"Tch.. W-...We'll continue this, later," he leaves on his Skarmory without answering any questions.

Arryn frowns as the Pokemon disappears into the night sky, clouded in darkness.

Shadow's fur starts to smooth out now that the threat is gone, she nudges Arryn's hip gently. Arryn touches her Absol's head fondly, still staring at where the guy flew away. "I'm fine..."

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