Noire Days

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[kitsunenoire]

faintheartedphantom‌:

The first thing Davin noticed, aside from the room’s decor, was the fact that Kit wasn’t in it. Or, she was? Maybe? His mind grasped for possibilities as he gawked at the person on the bed, almost completely drowning out Gav and Kineta’s banter. Was Kit trying out a new look or something? It was unmistakably her, but also wasn’t her at all, and it made him feel incredibly uneasy.

When the person spoke it was even stranger. He’d never heard Kit string even a few words together let alone whole sentences, but as they continued it began to make sense, at least sort of.

“Waw…” Dav repeated quietly, his brow twisting with a combination of concern and confusion. His first thought was to call this as an elaborate joke, but none of them would use one of the other kids as part of a gag like that. “How did this… like… even happen? Where is your body? And how did you end up in Kit’s?” He had a million other questions, but where to even start? Things like this just didn’t happen. He had to look to Gav to make sure he wasn’t the only one losing his mind.

Gavin’s face was decidedly serious as he listened to Waw explain. It was certainly a subject that was difficult to understand.

“I don’t know. I can’t really answer any of that.” they confessed, with a clear look of disappointment at themself. “We both got hit by something when we were running away. She wasn’t moving, and I tried to get over to her. Then... I don’t know. The next thing I remember is waking up in that forest as Kit, and seeing... him.”

“Tsade...” Kineta added, sadly. “Wait, our Tsade? He was there too?” Gavin asked, speaking up for the first time in this conversation. “Yes...” “What happened exactly? Why do you two sound like him being alive is a bad thing?”

“It isn’t that, it’s...” “We got out of the Battle Chateau alright, but Kineta thought she saw somebody suspicious and tailed him into the woods. It turned out to be Tsade, but he’s been with... these people called Hiens for the last ten years. I’m pretty sure they’re the people that were behind Infinity in the first place...” Kineta nodded in agreement. “Tsade wasn’t like how we knew him at all. He was... aggressive. He wanted to take us back with him to rejoin Infinity.”

[kitsunenoire]

lilyofthevalour‌:

“Bruh what am I meant to do about it? If you think convincing a five-foot-tall monkey to leave is so easy, you can do it, I left my Monkey Net in my other cave.”

“You’re... kidding, right? This is a joke? ...Who am I kidding, of course you’re serious... You do remember Poké Balls exist? You know, the round capsules human society literally revolves around and has done for the last fifty years?”

[kitsunenoire]

lilyofthevalour‌:

“Monkey update; he lives here too now. I’ve been sleeping on the couch ‘cause he stole my bed. House update; I made a couch. For the same reason.”

“And you’re just, like, okay with that? I’m pretty sure living with a wild Pokémon isn’t exactly the safest thing...”

[kitsunenoire]

dawnofstarlight‌:

The frost was not thick. It wasn’t even particularly cold. But its properties meant that Kineta was no longer able to move her body at all. Atlas didn’t say a thing. Not a single word, even as he turned and moved towards where they had started.

For a brief moment, Kineta was confused. Was he giving up? Leaving? And then it hit her. This wasn’t just about her and Tsade. It was about Kit as well. Kit, who was unconcious and defenseless with her incapacitated.

...

It was a strange thing, to have been both aware and unconcious for years. To be able to say that you know a person intimately, without having ever spoken a word to them yourself. To know that a friend needed help, despite your last true interaction with them having been a decade ago.

Strange as it may have been, however, it was the case for Waw, the sixth subject of the Infinity Project, who died at the age of nine when the entire group had broken free from a situation that should have never been.

And yet, in another way of thinking, they had never died. Because the person standing before Atlas Hiens now was undeniably them, despite still bearing the physical appearance of Adelaide Noire, Fire-type Affinity and all.

"It's good to see you again." Atlas said to them, smiling again, even as it was clear the sentiment wasn't returned. "Tell me how this came to happen." "Shut up." They suddenly retorted. "Are you completely out of your mind? Don't talk to me like we're old friends after what you've just said!"

Kineta felt that she wasn't able to follow any of what was going on. Hearing Kit's body speak in any capacity was strange. Kineta had heard her voice before, of course; she was capable of saying short syllables and laughing out loud, but the surrealness of hearing Waw's completely different mannerisms leave her throat was enough to leave her stunned.

"None of them are going back. I don't care who's responsible, or why. It's just not happening." Waw continued. "Why would you even want them to? You put everything into making sure it all got focused on you. All those experiments, all that pain, just so nobody else had it as bad. So tell me how it makes sense for you to talk like this now, Tsade!"

Tsade, Atlas, made no move to respond. With a loud shout, Waw charged at him, fist raised with a clear heat haze around it. "Answer me!"

The first collided, but Kit's physical weakness, combined with Atlas's apparent strength, meant it meant nothing, even with the type advantage. Waw was raised by their collar, several inches off the ground. Within a second of closing the distance between them, they were now putting their all into just trying to break the taller man's grip.

"Because it's where you belong!" Atlas growled, as the pair of the struggled against each other. Waw swung with their foot, catching Tsade in the stomach just enough to make his grip falter, and seized the moment to barge Kit's full weight into his chest, managing to push him backwards about a foot before Tsade's regained his footing. "It's where you've always belonged!"

"Then why did you help us escape?! Why did you try to yourself?" Waw barked back, falling backwards as Tsade forced his weight on them in turn, only for them to slam both feet into his chest at once from their grounded position. "None of what you say makes any sense, you fucking idiot!"

[kitsunenoire]

venemy:

“You were following me.” the man spoke coldly. “Why?”

“I saw you outside the Battle Chateau.” Kineta replied, her voice not at all shaky, despite her position. “And? You decided to follow out of curiosity? What kind of idiot would–”

He trailed off, as he began to realise exactly what it was that the pink-haired girl in front of him was wearing. With a long sigh, he took whatever the object in his hand had been away, and tapped her arm under the shoulder, indicating that she should get up.

Keep reading

She was positive that she had seen Kineta run off in this direction. It seemed rude to just leave while she gave her statement, but Kit knew that was out of character for her friend; there had to be a good reason, especially since Kineta was staying with her family while in Kalos. It wasn't as though she could just ditch her and stay somewhere else.

Kit finally caught up with her a few minutes later, reaching the outskirts of the woods. But who was that with her? Certainly not somebody she had seen her with before...

Pink eyes.

His greens fell upon them as soon as she came within range of their sight.

Those distinct, unmistakably unique eyes.

Were they unique in the world? It was likely not, truthfully. How would any one person's eyes be truly unique, after all? One would have to inherit the colour from another, and they from another still. But even so, eyes like that had only met his once before in all his lifetime.

No... Not eyes like those. Those eyes.

The word froze her feet to the ground harder than any ice ever could. She almost lied to herself. Came close to assuring herself it was impossible he'd said it. That he must have said something else, be speaking of something else, and that her experiences had merely made her paranoid. But Kineta's face told her otherwise. Had there ever, in all history, been another word that was so short, yet held so much power?

She wanted to run. As the panic set in, the command to do so was screaming in her head. But she couldn't. It would be irrational, wouldn't it? Those days were ten years behind them by now. They shouldn't still have a grip on her after this time. But even so, she felt faint.

[kitsunenoire]

lilyofthevalour:

He would say something else stupid and insulting but there appears to be a Fennekin on his face.

Hers, specifically. Apparently you shouldn’t insult Kalosians when one knows where you live.

[kitsunenoire]

She was curious what had caused the other girl to lose focus on their battle to such a degree, however. She had been doing so well before that it seemed odd for her to suddenly change and lose against somebody like Kineta, who had such little battle experience.

Kit had little time to contemplate. She had been about to ask if Kineta was ready to leave, signing the first word just before the lights in the building suddenly all cut out.

[kitsunenoire]

Amidst the startled cries of the attendees, another sound could be heard, albeit barely. A scratching, shuffling sound, as though several people were moving around in the darkness.

It was so black that it was completely impossible to see anything. Kit reached for Kineta's hand in the dark, intending to ask her to light the room, but her hand hit nothing where Kineta had been before the lights went out. Instead, she felt her other hand be taken by somebody, who quietly whispered for her to not move and stay quiet, as they did the same beside her.

After a few more seconds, the lights came back on, and the source of the sounds from within the dark ws made clear; several men and women, each dressed identically in a predominantly black uniform, with a particularly foul-looking Pokémon beside each of them. With a scarlet pattern running down the back of its lizard-like body it appeared to be part Fire-type, but the dark grey body didn't give away anything more. There was, however, one man whose Pokémon was not the same as the others. By all accounts, it looked like a Raticate, but instead of the brown fur Kit had seen on Pokémon of its species before, this individual wore black, and appeared to be bulkier.

Kit looked around briefly, as she noticed many of the trainers in the building do as well, but saw no sign of Kineta. She did, however, get a good look at the young woman that had taken her hand in the darkness; most certainly the gifted trainer from before. Had she somehow known something was about to happen? Perhaps that explained her distraction while facing Kineta earlier...

"Everyone, if I may have your attention, please." came the voice of the Raticate's trainer, whose purple hair stood in stark contrast to the black uniform he wore. "Me and my associates are not here to do you any harm, I assure you. Please, settle down, and do your best to listen over the sound of how rich you all are."

As he spoke, he began to pace slowly, as though letting everyone take in his aura. He was tall, at least by her standards, and constantly looked as though he was holding back laughter, though his voice instead radiated a kind of eerie calmness as he began speaking again.

"We will, however, be relieving you of the burden of your Pokémon today." he said, causing a shockwave of gasps through the gathered crowd. "Don't panic, my new friends. I know how precious a Pokémon is to their trainer. That is precisely why we have taken the liberty of relieving you of precisely one each already."

He let out a smirk that immediately caused Kit to shiver with disgust, as everyone around her reached for where their Pokéballs were stored. Sure enough, each of them was missing a single ball.

"You...! How dare you!" an elderly man cried out, stepping forward and shaking the tip of his cane in the Raticate trainer's direction. "How could you do something like this?!"

"What, you didn't think the Salandit were all out just for show, did you?" he answered, mockingly ignoring the real meaning of the man's question. "You won't get away with this!"

The elderly man took a step forward, reaching for one of his remaining Pokéballs, only to suddenly be struck with his own cane, inexplicably now brandished by the Raticate trainer.

"Change of plan." the Raticate trainer said, tossing the cane onto the now-collapsed form of the elderly gentleman with the minimum effort, as casually as throwing out the core of a fruit. "I'm annoyed now. Take them all."

[forestandfreshwater]

In another part of the building, meanwhile, Forest was doing a significantly better job than her. Unlike Kineta, Forest was actually winning most of her battles, and accumulating quite the prize as a result. With a little luck, she’d be free of her ‘debt’ to the Carvanhas very shortly, and would be able to head back around to Shalour.

She wasn’t too fond of the audience that seemed to be gathering around her, however. If nothing else, it was incredibly distracting, but more than that it was making her feel uncomfortable. She could feel the negative emotions around her; they were what her type thrived on, after all. Annoyance, jealousy, they weren’t too unusual to feel after a successful battle. Some people were more capable of taking a loss well than others. But among those common feelings, there was something else. It was vague, hard to pinpoint exactly what the emotion was; she only recognized the way those other emotions felt from experience and association, while this one was a feeling she hadn’t felt for an incredibly long time.

The strangeness of the emotion was distracting, for sure. Enough that her next battle resulted in a loss, forcing her to hand over a fraction of the winnings she had gathered so far; not an outcome that she was too upset about, as it caused some of her crowd to dissipate, allowing her a little respite from the discomfort their emotions were causing her. Maybe now she would have some time to herself again.

[kitsunenoire]

"Kiiiit!" Kineta called out to her black-haired companion, grinnning from ear to ear with a visible bounce in her step. "Did you see? I won one! I told you that I could do it!"

The pink-haired girl's cheers were met with silence, of course, with Kit being unable to respond with anything more than a smile and a mildly confused nod.

She may have done more, perhaps mentioned that the other trainer had seemed caught up in something else, and probably hadn't been putting her all into their fight, but she would have felt cruel for doing so when dealing with a girl like Kineta. Honestly it likely wouldn't have slowed her one bit, but that was moot regardless, as neither of the pair had brought their communication set-up, so as to avoid leaving clues regarding Victory Star's identity, and signing would prove difficult while the girl was bouncing like a Growlithe puppy.

She was curious what had caused the other girl to lose focus on their battle to such a degree, however. She had been doing so well before that it seemed odd for her to suddenly change and lose against somebody like Kineta, who had such little battle experience.

Kit had little time to contemplate. She had been about to ask if Kineta was ready to leave, signing the first word just before the lights in the building suddenly all cut out.

[dawnofstarlight]

Mm… it is tempting, but I think I would like to see more. If I let myself get lazy then I will never go anywhere!

[kitsunenoire]

I guess I can be guilty of that too. Okay then! We’ll head to the Battle Chateau today for a little while, and then keep going!

[dawnofstarlight]

Camphrier Town is very peaceful! Even though Oreburgh is actually very noisy, this place very much feels like home. And the palace nearby is very impressive also!

[kitsunenoire]

Do you want to stay longer, then? There’s a lot more to see, but we don’t have a time limit or anything, so we can take as long as you like.

[lilyofthevalour]

Wow, that seems like a major design flaw then, somebody should fix that before it happens again.

[kitsunenoire]

She means somebody probably caused the explosion. Deliberately or accidentally, nobody seems to know, but we’re stuck in Coumariine City until the police say so.

[lilyofthevalour]

…well I wasn’t really planning on it but now I’m kinda curious.

[kitsunenoire]

...I’m gonna go ahead and fill my garbage with sharp objects. And install some security cameras. And possibly a panic button.

[lilyofthevalour]

I feel like I just got destroyed. But I guess I can’t fault ya much… Guess we’re more like the ‘rummage through your trash illegally’ sort.

[kitsunenoire]

Uh. Sure. Don’t... don’t ever actually do that, okay? I’d really rather you stayed away from the things I throw out.

[lilyofthevalour]

Huh? You went somewhere? Without inviting us?! Kit, I’m like, super offended, bruh.

[kitsunenoire]

I went home? To Kalos? Because I live here and not in Hoenn? And um, no offence but neither of you are exactly the ‘bring home to meet the parents’ type... I’m pretty sure I’d be banned from ever going to Hoenn if they ever met you.

[dawnofstarlight]

But, um, why did we take a ship if you’re so bad with them…? I would have been just as excited taking the train instead!

[kitsunenoire]

...I wish I’d known that before we left. I really wish I’d known.

[kitsunenoire]

I didn’t realize that the ferry would be so much slower than the train! Solid ground underneath never felt so good before.

[dawnofstarlight]

Your belief! It empowers me!! And makes me…!!

TRANSFORM!! BLAZIKEN MECHANIC POWER!!

[kitsunenoire]

Where- How did yo- I- Kineta- I’m very confused...