01 [Action]

[unreined]

[It has been a long journey from her mountainous home in the far north, but Absol has finally reached the front gates of her destination: Union, home of the illusive "humans".

She was actually quite lucky: noticing the odd behaviour of a swarm of Beedrill, she had stalked their route until they had emerged into the clearing where Union was based. The Beedrill seemed to be drawn to the voluminous blossoms that coated the city in unnatural amounts: was this even normal, or some product of human foolishness? Her answers would lay inside, she decided.

Seeing no reason for caution or cowardice, she approached the front gates with a fearless stride. Of course, her lack of Warp Band was more than enough reason for the guards to take notice, and move to stop her. Ahh, she recognised this: the alphas looking to defend their pack from outsiders. In that case, it was time to be diplomatic by asserting herself.

With one movement she drew the jagged naginata from her back into a battle-ready position, and declared in her most powerful and dominant voice:]

My name is Absol! I seek entry into your nest, humans!

[Audio]

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

( [Pre-post action] )

[Unlike Lux though, Apollo's waiting until more people are awake before posting.]

Just before the plants regrew earlier this morning, two lights came from the east. They kind of looked like two Pokémon dancing in the sky, but we couldn't see any details. Once the plants stopped growing they flew high over Union and stopped moving. Then we heard faint laughter and they flew northwest really fast. They dropped some pink flowers over Union as they left, but they dropped a faint reddish light pretty far to the northwest too just before we lost sight of them.

If anyone finds a flower lying in a strange place where it couldn't have come from one of the plants, Grandpa wants to see it so he can see if it's the same kind as the ones in Union. I'm wondering if it might be interesting to look for that light that they dropped though. Does anyone else think so?

Action

[flying_chains]

At around 8 in the morning, a shooting star landed outside of Union's front gates. It left no crater, and didn't even make a lot of noise, but still attracted a fair amount of attention.

Anyone coming to investigate would find a young girl with red hair and a simple dress lying on the ground as if asleep, along with a set of shattered shackles. At the sound of another person approaching, she sat up and blinked a few times, looking around curiously.

[Later, video. The strange girl bows formally before the camera.]

For taking me in when I had nothing, I offer my sincerest thanks. As repayment, I wish to make myself useful, and so I also offer my services in whatever manner you would find useful.

My name is Morgiana.

9 ♪

[celebrity_commentator]

[Video]

Hey, uh--

[Rise pauses briefly as her Chikorita clambers over her head to try and get to the nearest set of overhanging vines. She suffers it with a grimace, as she'd only taken Nadeshiko out of the Habitat to give the poor workers there a small break.]

--ow. Anyway, did anyone else notice all the people and Pokémon acting weird have something in common? I was looking around and YEESH that tickles, girl, leave my foot alone!

Anyway, uh, I was looking around and most of the weirdness seems to be coming from Bug, Grass, and Fairy types, aside from those Castform guys. I--

[Rise suddenly blinks out of the camera and the Warp Band goes on filming the wall behind her. Himiko decided to play with Teleport again, despite a long series of lectures on why she shouldn't. The message is just going to go on until Rise's Chansey waddles by, waves into the camera, and thoughtfully turns it off.]

[Rise will respond to replies in a half hour or so when she makes it back to her room at the Theater.]

(no subject)

[bejustorbedead]

[Video; Backdated to before the night of weird lights]

[Ky's face can be seen briefly, smiling very faintly]

Well, I did promise my cousin that I would let her see this - but I think there might be people interested in seeing a Bulbasaur evolve.

[With that, Ky turns the warp band towards Jacob - who was sunning in a bright spot in the Crownguard court yard. The outer shell of bulb was unfurling, extending and forking out, revealing a lighter-colored bud as the grass-type increased in size]

Huh... so the bud isn't blooming - any ideas as to why?

[Private]

[Sometime later, Ky was working on training Isaac on controlling the voltage of his attacks and pushing the obnoxiously clingy magnemite away from his face when he felt a tingling sensation on his skin and his vision goes white as sparks jumped from his fingertips to the light ball of the Flaffy's tail as he could feel a strange, uncomfortable change.

His vision clears - first aware his hair was now touching his shoulders, and felt as though there's something different about his eyes, but he would have to find a mirror to check it out, but right now he's trying to shake the fog from his head as his pokemon crawls into his lap and nuzzles him in concern]