Illusion-Factory

"The stairs creak at night." She paused to take a sip of her coffee and grimaced. Once again she had managed to dump too much sugar into it. "I can't get to sleep anymore." "It's just the house settling." He says, sitting across from her, head held up by his hand. "You should try playing music or something." "It just seems so much emptier around here," Her eyes skate over a pair of discarded boots on the mat by the kitchen door. "Since…you know…" She shrugs and sinks into herself. He nods sympathetically. "I know I wouldn't have taken it half as well as you have if things were reversed." He offers. "I know it looks like I'm doin

In the eyes of many of his fellow trainers, Elijah was nothing more than a disgrace to the proud tradition of Pokémon training. He was not a typical trainer, or at least, he was not the right kind of typical trainer. There were the trainers who wanted to become famous, the trainers who wanted adventure and the trainers who viewed and treated each new Pokémon they caught as a friend. Elijah belonged to the class of trainer that was not in the trainer business for friendship, adventure or fame. Elijah belonged to the trainer class that was only in it, to win it, provided there was a hefty sum of prize money at the end. Elijah had jus

He had had it all planned out, everything, down to the last minute detail had been carefully and meticulously plotted out. He had booked the restaurant months in advance, he had notified the staff of said restaurant at the time of reservation of his plans and they had assured him, all would be taken care of on their end; he had called again just last week and last night to remind them and make sure nothing was forgotten. He had picked out the ring around the same time from a top notch custom jeweler and he had picked up the ring just last month. He had hired an expensive limo service, the best in the city, for the occasion, again, months bef

Name: Dandin Species: Raichu Family: Older brother Jacob Home Abbey: New Bark Abbey Position: Wandering Warrior Weapon Choice: Rapier and dagger Name: Riley Species: Oshawott Family: Younger brother, Reginald Home Abbey: Nuvema Abbey Position: Wandering warrior Weapon Choice: sharpened shells Name: Micah Species: Linoone Family: N/A Home Abbey: Petalburg Abbey Position: Wandering Warrior Weapon: Broadsword Name: Trapper Species: Plusle Family: twin sister, Tripper Home Abbey: New Bark Abbey Position: Abbey Scribe in Training Weapon: none Name: Tripper Species: Minum Family: Twin brother Trapper Home Abbey: New Bark

"Ohhhh mmmmyyyy ggggwwwwaaaadddd! This. Is. The most boring sport ever invented!" The girl waved one hand wildly around in the air, the other was clutched around a battered fishing pole. "Who, I ask you, who would want to do this for fun? That old man was crazy I tell you! Fishing guru my ass, he just wanted to pawn this piece of shit off on me. And I, stupidly, took it! I might have known you can't catch anything worthwhile with this!" The sound of seabirds followed this pronouncement the girl brought her fist down hard, punching her ride on the head. "Are you even listening to me?! I'm complaining here!" She opened her mouth to continue ber

It was a nice day in the Ilex forest, it was passably warm, not too cold and not too hot. The sky, what little bits and pieces of it could be seen through the densely packed trees, was a lovely shade of bright blue. A nice breeze that managed to make it past the thick rows of trees ruffled the long grass on the sides of the forest path where several trainers were working with their pokemon, battling the rag-tag groups of bug and water type pokemon that called the forest home. The old man had been kept busy for most of the day, teaching prospective trainer's pokemon the move headbutt, and now trees lining the path bore evidence of the move's p