united_one | fourth flight - Nightmares in Dream World

[ITT: A deeper look at Iris and her fears. Also not Kirby. Though Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland was my first Kirby game! More fun facts about me!

For Iris, dreams are a kind of new experience. In her world, they'd been robbed from most by the man with the legendary, in his efforts to destroy their spirits without destroying them whole. However, she has had a few dreams. Of home... for her, she thinks dreams are just a way to see the path home.

So. For her, she thinks she is walking down the streets of Opelucid, her Pokemon safely in their Pokeballs. Her gym team - not the Pokemon she grew close to. They'd be waiting, right? That is, if she hadn't gotten home.

But something feels wrong. For Opelucid - the Black version... there were no lights. No signs of life - of the future. It was completly blacked out - exactly how it shouldn't be. Okay, Iris is a little scared.

The only sound is her footsteps, and the flapping of a Salamences wings. Looking at the ground, it looks like it's been ripped up. How? Perhaps by an underground Pokemon.

She wasn't even talking to Skyla. Something felt wrong here.

Weakly, she let out a call. For anybody.]

U-Uncle Drayden?
Lili? Blake?
[...]
...Anybody? Skyla, can you see anybody?

[The Samamence let out a grunt, and flapped her wings a few times - before taking off. She's gonna look for people.

Iris didn't want to be alone, though. Alone meant that she could be destroyed easier. Sure, she had Skyla's other Pokemon... but that was a sign of her failures. She ruined everything for the one who saved her, after all. But she was strong. She couldn't cry in a situation like this. She had to keep strong, for that girl. The one she saw in those other dreams, the ones of home. The person who might be the future hero of her world...

However, Iris doesn't notice the shadow following her, silently hovering off the ground. The strange, unknown-to-most Pokemon... Blazikas. (Seen here in a less creepy place.)

Note that, yes, Iris thinks this is real, just like her canon update dreams.

Of course, if you want to enter this dream, you can have just... appeared near to her. Or just in the blacked out, dead-feeling city in general.]

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[[Also, rather ironically, he's currently dressed in the male Black/White protagonist's outfit right now- no hat though, and since it's summer now ~~I think~~ the jacket's around his waist... <-< ]]

He'd thought he was dreaming just a few moments ago. It had to be have been a dream- duels were happening and super-imposing with pokemon battles, people he recognized from one world slowly becoming replaced with another...

And the duels would throw him back, and Astral was telling him to give in before his friends met their deaths but he was his friend too wasn't he and....

Time had stopped just like before. In the entire city, as three suns, each from another world appeared. But the more he walked and ran this time, the more the city twisted and changed and the more it became somewhere else. A dead place, black and cold.

Cold enough that he's tempted to put that jacket back on, though he doesn't. It's weird... Astral is gone, the pokemon are gone... "Hooooooiiii! Anyone here...!?" ...Was that really the best idea?

((Actually, it's Autumn - it was mentioned in the latest modpost.))
The first thing which approaches is friendly, at the call. Well, both of them are. The shadowed beast is still watching, though...

It's that Salamence, the one so important to Iris that she dreams of it, which approaches first. She lands, with a playful yelp. She found somebody! She found somebody!

And then, Iris catches up. "Geeze, Skyla-- wait, this is where that call came from?" A complete change in tone, in just a sentence. She then rushed straight up to Yuuma, giving him a hard look. "Are you prepared?"

[[And aaaaah- I don't get notifs in my mail all the time, so I missed that update... ...Guess he's in a jacket then!]]

E-Ehhh! "W-Wh- Prepared for what..?" What was with that sudden change in tone..!? "O-Oiii, here is this place anyway..?

"This is Opulucid City, silly!" Iris said, with a sad smile, "home of Uncle Drayden, and the best gym ever. But it looks like they got here first."
...
"As in, this one guy who's trying to get rid of everybody. He wouldn't have just left the city like this - I'm sure of it."

Okay. He doesn't recognize all of those names (sorry!) but...

Well you got his attention at least. "Eh... But who's 'that one guy'..? I've never even heard of 'opulucid'..." Ahaha..

"Opulucid is the city with the 8th badge - and where I go when I'm not at home!" Iris said, helpfully - before suddenly frowning. "But I promised Uncle Alder I wouldn't tell many people about that man."
Of course, her dreams have other ideas, a purple-ish fog starting to form.

"Ah... The final badge then..." Hahhh...

He'll get there! (eventually!)

"Well, if it's a promise, I won't make you talk then!" he decides with a grin. "No pro-"

Suddenly, the grin falls as that purplish fog appears. "Ahhh..."

fourth flight - Nightmares in Dream World

-not entirely sure if dream mixing happens or no- -shrug-

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Oh- It's not going based on the game's seasons anymore? (Or was I off one month...)

it's been two months - one season - working on a calender page to make it easier to see at a glance!

That should help yea- I'd thought it was still on the 'one month' system the games had. xD

hehe, yeah, just gotta get kibi to give it a look over and then it'll go live!

:D!