After familiarizing themselves with Reborn City, our heroes decided to help Julia, the Pokémon Gym Leader, with her troubles with local criminals. Based on what she´d found out so far, Julia believed that Team Meteor wanted to cut the electricity of in the whole city, in an attempt to force the citizens out. That would allow Team Meteor to take over the city, and to gain control over any resources left in the region. Whatever their full plan with Reborn City was, they would be free to act as they wished then. Ash, Jonathan and their friends agreed to help her learn more about Team Meteor´s plans and hopefully to find a way to stop them. They were currently on their way to an electrical factory, because the rumours from the resistance hinted that Team Meteor was planning to sabotage it. Julia suggested that Team Meteor might be already sneaking around the place, possibly already in the middle of sabotaging it, and stopping them was urgent and necessary. “Of course, I don´t want to
Good impression [Contest prize] by lulu-illussions, literature
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Good impression [Contest prize]
“Hey, watch out!” Gokudera complained, when Yamamoto walked past him, carrying his tea. “Sorry,” Yamamoto muttered, a little confused by the commotion. Gokudera seemed strangely nervous today, constantly smoothing his shirt down and brushing it off. Unknown to Yamamoto, the shirt was new and Gokudera wanted to show off. That´s why he was so protective of the white silk button-up and glared at everyone who dared to get near him. Fortunately, the shirt was still as flawless as when he put it on that morning, so Gokudera allowed himself to relax a bit. He hoped to impress his “boss” with the shirt, wanting to always look his best around Tsuna. So far, almost all Guardians gathered at Tsuna´s place and Gokudera was quite sure that he looked the best of all of them. The meeting was called by Tsuna, and it was supposed to start in another half an hour. As the Guardian who lived the closest, Gokudera arrived the first and was now impatiently waiting for his boss to join them in the
Under Grisborgo [C] by lulu-illussions, literature
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Under Grisborgo [C]
After Dario, Pandora and the others found the lost children safe and sound, it wasn´t easy for them to accept that they were played and the children were actually on run from the evil orphanage. But Matilde and Bastiano told the truth about the schemes of the director of their orphanage, and they persuaded the team to help them escape being sold to mafia. Matilde still seemed wary of the team, but even she agreed that there was strength in numbers, and accepted the help of our adventurers. The outlaws, who pitied the children enough to help them in the first place, also agreed to accompany them, so they all moved through the caves now together, ready to face any more challenges which might stand in their path. The outlaws walked first, with two children right behind and Dario´s team covered their back. Holder and Endlinn made sure to carefully lead the way deeper into the cave tunnels, so they could hide the children from Don Mauro underground. Hopefully, they could use these cave
Direction in wandering [C] by lulu-illussions, literature
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Direction in wandering [C]
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.” - William Arthur Ward - It was pure chaos, and Retsu was honestly just getting carried by it. Everything felt out of his control. He only managed to drive because he was on a highway and didn´t have to worry about any exits for next 50 miles at least. Fortunately, the kids in the back seats were fussing and making some noise, so his mind couldn´t completely drift off, but he was still staring over the wheel with wide, unblinking eyes, barely seeing the road in front of his car. A particularly loud “are were there yet?” made him flinch and grip the wheel harder as he finally blinked and tried to shake himself more awake. His hands on the wheel trembled. He blinked, and blinked again, swallowing hard, knowing that he had to focus on the driving. At least he had a destination already pre-planned, otherwise he might just headlessly drive around until he would ran out of
It´s been some time since Dario, Pandora and the others arrived to Grisborgo. Since their first meeting, they managed to make a solid team and were building themselves a nice reputation as troubleshooters. Their team worked on multiple missions and tasks during those weeks, and they learnt how to cooperate well under various circumstances. To think that they only knew each other for such a short time! And they already made not only good teammates but also became friends. Dario was glad that he met the others on the boat back then, because he would have to live on his own in Grisborgo otherwise. And this way, he could rely on good friends, and share both challenges and success with them. It was also easier to get better jobs as troubleshooters, when they had more teammates ready. It helped even more that Pandora, Nisa, Gunter, Maria and Iaco had various skills and all of them knew how to fight, so they were able to handle pretty much everything Grisborgo had thrown at them so
The sun slowly rose over Grisborgo, piercing the mist covering the river town. For a moment, the buildings looked warmer and more welcoming, but the illusion was quickly broken up by flat and harsh silhouettes of gray buildings. The mist didn´t disappear completely either, only thinned and left sticky aftertaste. Dario, however, was already used to the gloomy look of Grisborgo. After the last few days, he got familiar with the town and learnt some of its inner works. With his new acquaintances - Pandora, Sotero, Nisa and Gunter, they were planning to find some work around. They were accompanied by Maria and Iaco, whom they met in the harbour and offered to vouch for, as Iaco was a kobold and the harbour’s guard was distrusting towards his kind. Their unlikely group was getting on quite well so far, despite it seemed that everyone had some personal secrets they wished to keep hidden from the rest. Dario didn´t judge the others for that. He didn´t feel like telling his whole life
The first steps in Grisborgo [C] by lulu-illussions, literature
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The first steps in Grisborgo [C]
The silhouette of Grisborgo was slowly growing, as the boat sailed towards it. Finally, after the long journey, it was reaching its destination and the passengers were getting ready to disembark. Dario and his new acquaintances were among the people gathered on board, and they were all eager to stand on the firm land again. Dario was a young man with short blond hair and blue eyes, wearing a long, dark blue cloak. He was visiting this river town for the first time. He was a bit nervous about it, but hoped that the things would turn out well in the end. Town of Grisborgo was awaiting the passengers of the boat, not as much with open arms as with gray-ish, simple buildings and clouds-covered sky. But it was still a pleasant sight as far as river towns went, and Dario, Pandora, Nisa and Gunter were looking forward to exploring it. It was late in the evening, when the boat finally moored in Grisborgo´s port, and Dario gave his equipment one last check up to make sure that everything
Sense in madness [C] by lulu-illussions, literature
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Sense in madness [C]
“It doesn't make sense until you make sense of it.” - Dominic Riccitello - How could this ever make sense, Retsu wondered, while limping through the destroyed room. Broken coffee table resembled a pile of firewood, the armchair was fallen over and some of the paintings were tilted to sides. A family portrait fell off the wall and was leaning on it, spray of blood slowly soaking into the painting. Retsu slowly blinked. The silence after the mayhem was deafening. He could almost taste it, like a sour tension rising up in his chest. Swallowing, he leant down to the dead vampire, and wiped the blood off his hands into vampire´s clothes. Two days ago Retsu was pacing around the room, desperately running fingers through his hair. Messy red strands were already ruffled up, but his anxious gesture made it even worse. Finally, he stopped at the window and abruptly took a deep breath. The world outside was dark, and he could see his pale reflection in the glass. Retsu could barely see the
A few days – and a few practice matches – after arriving to Reborn City, young Pokémon trainers were starting to get used to the place. However, it wasn´t an easy task, because the city itself looked gloom and shady everywhere they went, with the desert wasteland around it offering practically no refreshing of the view. Still, there was a lot to explore, because Reborn City was rather large and full of tall buildings and old factories, despite many places were abandoned today. Other places were crowded and busy, showing that the city had quite a large population despite being in the middle of desert. Ash, Jonathan and their team spent the last couple of days familiarizing themselves with Reborn City, with the help from two young local trainers. Shortly after arriving to city, they met Cain – a feminine young man with messy purple hair, wearing a fishnet shirt, black trousers and black boots, and Victoria – a young woman in her late teens, with long black hair and black and grey