(10-02-2018, 03:45 PM)Dragonstrike Wrote:

(10-02-2018, 10:51 AM)Spiritmon Wrote:

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When bring Nathan to some place close to some private place. It has some good ol view of the Chesire from many years ago. Its was not like Cheshire it is ugly place, but this past Cheshire is pretty beautiful. Heart sight, taking a deep breath to few the air around him. "This air...is pretty amazing isnt not? This...view is quite familiar with our time...but at the same time different." Heart look for a few seconds and down his eyes for a second, sad with something. "Do you...do you mind if I make a personal question Nathan?" Heart dont turn his back on Nathan. "If...if you didnt know your father was alive...if you still think he was dead...when a chance in change the future would appear to you...would you take it? Even knowing the consequences? But the feeling of solitude would be so big, you would try to change the timeline?" It was not a joke question. But a serious question.

The view we probably get looks over the Creshirean Savannah as it progresses towards the ocean.  There's more trees closer to Cress City and Liverwort Town (this town in particular looks a little chillier than most of Creshire's other populated areas), but as the land gets closer to the sea, there's fewer and fewer trees.

Nathan takes a deep breath.  "...yeah, the air's nice."

When Heart poses his question, Nathan pauses to think about it for a few, looonnnng minutes.

"...I can see why you'd be asking that..."

Nathan looks over the savannah.

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"...I don't think he's dead, and...never really fully believed he was, I guess.  Luxray's definitely with him.  And Skarmory.  Wherever they are...those two have been with him for most of his life.  They wouldn't let him go down that easily.  Particularly Luxray.  And they beat three of the Elite Four before Hayes and Latias ended their streak...he only just barely didn't get into the Hall of Fame...he's a lot tougher than he appears to be..."

...a brief pause follows before Nathan continues.

"...I...am still worried about him.  A lot.  People don't normally just...vanish without a trace...I'm not sure if I'll see him again...but if I can find something, anything that might tell me where he went...my pokemon and I will find him.  We'll latch on to that info and never let go of it until we've found what we're looking for..."

...another pause as he considers something else: the question he was originally asked.

"...honestly, I'm not sure I would need to change the past.  Even if I could...I'm not sure I should.  Celebi and Dialga...their rules on time travel say the past can't be changed.  But events in the past do mold the future...when Keni met us earlier today?  He knew us already.  Knew what we'd done for him already.  Or we at least reminded him of the ones who saved the lives of him, his parents, and all their pokemon.  That's why he seemed so...welcoming.  We'd already done the deed prior to 2017...and then proceeded to actually do it when we traveled back to now, 1925.  It had been predetermined, in a way, just as Celebi decreed..."

He goes silent for a minute.

"...I guess you don't have the same reassurances and confidence that I do, though, given that as far as you know, everyone definitely was..."

...when it comes to family matters, Nathan can be surprisingly Insightful, whether he intended to be or not.

"...I'm sorry...I'm treading in sensitive territory...I guess the point is, though...the past is a rather rigid thing.  We can't change it...but we can try to mold the future.  I think that's what Celebi intended to teach.  How much time you're given...it doesn't matter as much as what you do with the time you have.  That's what I think."

He sighs.

"...probably not my best attempt at a pep talk.  I think everything will turn out okay in the end, though.  I can't know that for certain...but I'm confident that you'll get whoever did that terrible deed one day.  You deserve at least some closure on that, in some form."

Another pause.

"...I don't know about everyone else, but I know that if I see someone in trouble like Dr. M and the Morgusis were...it doesn't really matter who they are, nor where or when they're from.  I want to help them.  I won't be able to help everyone...we can't save Captain Bridge and his men, for example...but that doesn't mean I want to stand idly by.  It's...difficult to tell if you should or shouldn't act on that when time traveling, though, to be honest, unless you know what kind of an impact such an action might have had on the present already..."

One last pause.

"...I'm not sure I could keep my dad from vanishing even if we did visit 2014 somehow.  If he hadn't...well, I might not have met Ralts 2 years later.  It's...something keeps you on your toes, that way of thinking, that's for sure..."

Well, that took a decent amount of time to type out.  What does Heart think of that little lecture?

(10-02-2018, 04:53 PM)Dragonstrike Wrote:

(10-02-2018, 04:16 PM)Spiritmon Wrote: Heart think for a few seconds, thinking and mushing all the lecture Nathan have told to him. He find some rock to sit, seeing the view around him. He close his eyes for a second then talk again. "...you know? Back in my past, I have some companions who once training with me back in my time in my training times. My Clan was training in various types of styles of combat, but stealth it was our speciallity on our main focus. It was necessary change of strategy because of some conflict between clans. We were once masters of stealth and info gaining. Never though why I so good in stealth? I was a bit lack after so long time, but when we begun our adventures with you guys, facing Scimitars and all I have recover some of my former stealth skills."

"Anyway, the names of my old clans companions was Salazar and Homero. Well...tell them as companions its a bit too much. They help me a few times, but we never was "real" friends...but they were good people. Salazar was always a trouble maker, almost everytime putting us in trouble...and Homero was the smart one, the oldest of us three. Salazar would be more or less in your age..." Some tears was rolling in Heart eyes. "...his head was rip off from his body, and Homero die with a sword in his chest."

Heart then clean his eyes and try to focus again. "In our timeline Nathan all my clan is dead. My mother....My brother...and the only people I was once close have as friends....all of them...." Heart was with a sad face, remembering everything. "Everyday and everynight I remember every details, their faces, and the smell of burning skin....and to accept I am the last one. And carry this cross forever...Sometimes, the solitude its to much to bear and I simple...want to giving up. In put a end to this...miserable existence. My puns and laughts? Its just a mask to hide the sadness and loneliness, trying in vain to not fall in despair..."

"Even after so many years, it is difficult to accept I am alone. If we return to our time, who is waiting for me?" Heart balance his head. "I envy you guys. I really am. I envy you have a mother who love you so much and a awesome father who challenge the Elite four. I envy Shiva loveable parents...there is no one waiting for me in our timeline...but here..." Heart nods his hands in example to around them. "In this timeline...my clan its alive. Maybe...I could meet them, try to warn them about what kind of future wait for them. There could a reason why I am here. That or maybe...just a tragic joke you have say Nathan...."

Heart them put his hands in his head. "....the joke that, not matter I do, I cant change the fate of my clan. That there is no meaning in fighting or continue strugle. No matter I do here, death its the only certain fate for my clan." Heart then sit in the grass and look in the sky. "...if this is some sort of sick joke from Dialga, Celebi or even Arceus itself, I not laughting. And I the only PUNisher here. Damn you Creation Trio..."

That thoughs and emotions was flooding Heart mind for quite a while and he feel the need in share them with someone. "...since we have the luck or unluck in meet Legendaries, maybe we may meet The Creation Trio or even Arceus itself. If that time I comes, I swear I gonna punch in his divine face. Thats something would make me feel really better."

Nathan puts a hand on Heart's shoulder as he continues speaking.

"...at the moment, Heart, we're too far back in time to be able to do anything, let alone in the right region.  If we DO end up in that time, in the right place...then maybe we're supposed to do something about it after all.  That's how Celebi's time travel works.  Everything happens for a reason."

Nathan thinks for a moment.

"...maybe you wouldn't have become a traveler and seen all those cool places, eventually coming to Creshire, if that fire hadn't happened.  And now that you're here...maybe you can learn something that might be able to help.  Maybe that's what Celebi intended.  Maybe that's where Arceus is trying guide you.  To train yourself, better yourself...and restore your clan's honor in due time.  And if it happens to involve saving at least one member of your family...maybe that would make that journey worth it.  If you never confirmed everyone died, then maybe there's a chance someone got away after all.  There's also the journey to catch and bring to justice whoever's doing this, whoever's picking off those clans one by one...in my opinion, they're who you should be blaming for this.  They're the ones who caused it.  It's a small hope, maybe even a false one...but it's better than nothing, in my opinion."

Gallade puts a hand on Heart's shoulder too.

"...and you're not alone.  Not any more.  Never were.  Your pokemon are here for you, Rose most of all, and they always will be so long as you've earned that trust and companionship, right?  And I'll render what aid I can as well.  There has to be some kind of information out there on this...some kind of motive...and you can count on me to eventually find that information for you.  I don't know how long that might take or when I'll get the chance to look for it...but I'll find it.  You escaped, so let's try and make the most of it when the time comes, yeah?"

"...I can't really say much about the envy, unfortunately.  I just hope everything turns out okay for you in the end, ya know?"

(10-02-2018, 05:24 PM)PhantomUnderYourDesk Wrote:

(10-02-2018, 04:35 PM)Iron Wrote: You guys take it very easy as you journey west. As the Morgusi's predicted, you don't encounter any hostile Pokemon, just the common ones on this route like Zigzagoon and common bird Pokemon.

You find a good camping spot as evening arrives - any special preparations for it being 1925? What is Spira doing, is he welcome in the tent? (It has wings that can be sealed off for private rooms).

From Shiva's side, no real special preparations, but she desires to stay out at the campfire a little longer, technically until night has fallen and it is dark enough that she can do a bit of stargazing with Gothy and Raphael. They just lay on their back here in the grass, enjoy the scent of the night and the chill of the breeze, soak in the silence and starlight while enjoying each other's company - it was a very weird feeling to do so while being 90+ years in the past. Oh Celebi... What may you have in store for us...?

She'd compare the stars and constellations with celestial charts she has made in 2017-Chreshire, curious whether she'd find any differences or curiosities here in the old times. If she herself can't seem to find any, she'd turn to Gothy with a kind request: "You, Lilith... We're currently in the year 1925. Weird, isn't it....? Say, can you spot any...well, anything special or different in this almost ancient sky that I fail to see on my own?"



Shiva is carrying the tent, but she still sucks at building it up herself so she'd ask for the help of the others. While doing so, she'd unconsciously find herself throwing subtle gazes over to Spira every now and then, wondering whether he'd be up to join them or has his own rest for the night. Given that Terra insists on sleeping OUTSIDE - which allures her asking him twice whether it's really fine for him and whether he isn't cold, "There's enough room in there, Terra, you sure...?" - and Valder has left them as well, she'd be the first one to kindly offer Spira spending the night with them all inside. However, she'd lead him to the spot Valder always occupied, not the one Ventus usually rested at. "It's more safe inside - the tent fabric is even sprayed with something that repels wild Pokemon, assuring a restful sleep. Up for that? You... don't have to if you'd prefer something different, but from my side you're very welcome."

Heart has also asked for Shiva's help on finally preparing the shed claw of Gustav for dinner before it spoils, which she is all up for. (I guess it was a Crafting Check?)