#even though he hates the thought of someone else protectin me. he can deal with it when it's somewhere he can't do it (like out here) but

[kindacreepy-kindaugly]

Huh.

#doll #i think. he might be startin to let me in a little bit. #yea yea i know he could be fakin it but he's only ever done that when i've been really upset n on the verge of leavin #(assuming that was fake either but it was at least calculated) #& he'd have to be gettin desperate to start fakin vulnerability to this extent #i've been so completely infatuated for a couple of days now again that it wouldn't fit the pattern at all #especially with the way he's...sayin the kinda things that he knows played a part in me becomin more independent to begin with #tellin me i really should have reaper get me outta there if he gets out of control again n doesn't listen when i ask him to stop #even though he hates the thought of someone else protectin me. he can deal with it when it's somewhere he can't do it (like out here) but #if he's there but not doin it so someone else needs to? he looked. really upset about it. cause apparently that's his job #upset with himself not me (or reaper. who he only referred to as 'that guy' sgsgsgsg) #& talkin about how it's not fair the way the only people men like him can really be with are ones like me. cause if it's someone more like #them that fights back n doesn't put up with their shit it's just mutually toxic n everyone's secretly miserable #but when it's someone like me we get hurt so that they can get better. when we really should be w/ someone good n kind n safe #said i shouldn't be the one to pay the price for that. but i'm his 'only shot at getting better' n he doesn't wanna let me go #n it was. a lot. he's never talked about 'gettin better' before. just 'learning how to take care of me right' #but up til now he's always rejected the idea that he'd even need to get better. that there's anythin to heal. #i mean. i'm stayin as long as it looks like he's makin progress. or til he relapses enough times to burn me out completely n i go dormant #that was always the plan. i'm just slowly gettin better at keepin my distance when he's back to his old ways #i just.....really wish he'd stop self sabotaging n talkin about himself the way he does. like ok you wanna be bad then be bad but #stop actin like you're too far gone n all the shit you say about yourself is so built in you can't change em even if you want to #not with that attitude you can't! #spdrvent

[psmdnuzdad]

Pip Story Chapter Four

Pip rubs her head, her eardrums hurt, and also her throat did too. She wouldn't be able to go over the papers today. That was the last time she was sneaking out. Pip walks out of her room and trips, falling on her face. She sits up. stretching her limbs.

"Mornin', child. Up and movin'?"

Pip grumbles something in response. At least Nuzleaf got some blissful sleep.

"You sure got an earful last night, huh?"

"Yeah, now my head fudging hurts." She was annoyed, cranky, and bitter.

"But, I'm sure Carracosta is just lookin' out for you kids..."

Pip resists the urge to fold her flippers and roll her eyes.

I DO NOT need a huge water type looking out for me. He could fucking crush me like a mashed berry.

"He was probably just worried sick by that stunt you pulled."

The stunt that was not my idea in the first place?

"Have you regained any memories yet?"

"...No."

I lied. I remembered...that my parents don't want me....just because I can't evolve.

"Not even a little, huh...Well, no need to push yourself."

Pip is silent for a few seconds.

"...Hey, Nuzleaf, there's something...I've been meaning to tell you." Pip rocks on her feet anxiously.

"Huh? What is it?"

By the way she answered, maybe she was admitting to lying-

"I hate going on adventures."

"You...hate going on adventures?"

"Y...Yeah. The first day I was here, I honestly was only saving someone, the next one I had to go, I just do not see the appeal. Not to mention they're dangerous, you could end up dying in there and then Pokemon find your bones-"

"O-Okay, Pip slow down. No need to put those kinds of morbid thoughts in my head."

Pip smiles innocently, fixes her green bow that she got a while ago. (Meg that never seen Pip so happy to get the bow.)

Five minutes later Pip was struggling to stay inside.

"It's summer vacation! Why do I need to go outside?"

"Pip, there's nothin' wrong with fresh air."

"I'm allergic."

"No, you're not."

"I don't want to go outside!"

"You can't stay inside and just read all day."

"But the papers are important-"

Nuzleaf finally manages to get the stubborn Piplup outside. "You can go over 'em later."

Pip is startled out of her grumpy attitude when she hears yelling from Lunar and Meg's house.

-

Later that day much to Pip's annoyance, Meg and Lunar popped by to talk to her.

Then apparently Nuzleaf saw Pip 'talking' to them.

"I like seein' certain young kids bein' adventurous and gettin' out there, personally."

Pip smirks knowing very well his 'certain' was referring to her dislike of adventure, she tried to sneak back in the house. Nuzleaf didn't even look at her when he grabbed her flipper to prevent her escape.

"Really? You're totally the opposite of my old pops, then! Do you think he's wrong?"

"I wouldn't say he's wrong, no. He just cares about you, and so he worries."

It must be great having someone who worries about you...

"I'm just not the type to worry much about things. Maybe it's just 'cause I like goin' on adventures myself."

"So where around the village would you like to explore?" Lunar asked.

"Well, I reckon sure I'd sure like to see what lies up Revelation Mountain."

"Revelation Mountain?!" Lunar yelped, Meg also had some objections.

"But that's a sacred mountain! That's a place no one should ever go to!"

"Well, I reckon so...Maybe it's 'cause I'm new to these parts...and I don't rightly know exactly why that mountain's off-limits...but I feel like I oughta be able to at least go have a little look-see."

"Yeah, I know what you mean...But if I went, I'd get the lecture to end all lectures..."

Nuzleaf laughs, "No one said you had to go! All I'm tryin' to say is that you shouldn't lose that sense of curiosity and adventure. And if you really want to keep it alive, sometimes you've gotta be a bit reckless."

-

A few days passed of Meg and Lunar doing their usual adventures.

"Hold up there you two young'uns."

"Huh? Mr. Nuzleaf?"

Pip was standing by him, looking through her bag of papers which seemed to have increased.

"Come on over thisaway."

"What is it Mr. Nuzleaf?!"

Pip flinches at Lunar's outburst.

"Shhh! Keep your voices down! I've just got a little somethin' to run by you two. Come on, this way."

-

"WHAT?! Up Revelation Mountain?!"

"How many ways can I tell you to keep it quiet, child?! We're goin' in secret, naturally, so I'll thank you to keep your voice down!"

"B-But my old Pops told me just yesterday that we absolutely can't go there."

"Yeah, I know that line of thinkin'. But then, I also thought..."

"What?" Lunar questioned anxiously.

"Me. My memories might be linked to Revelation Mountain. That's why we're going up there."

Pip shuffles her papers.

"Revelation Mountain is always surrounded by some mysterious kinda veil. I asked around the village, but everyone insists they don't know nothin' about it. But maybe they do know somethin' and they just keepin' it from me..Either way,I reckon this village has been protectin' some secret up there for ages. That's what my gut tells me."

"You really think it's connected to Pip's memories?!" Lunar was still in shock.

"LUNAR, think, is for simple Pokemon, I prefer might, it's a word of power." Pip huffed, rolling her eyes.

"So, we're just going to have a peek around. If it looks dangerous, we'll turn back."

In the end, Pip convinced Lunar and Meg to come with them.

-

Pip looks at her paper that had Pokemon who would on guard and notes which said what guard would be easiest to get rid of. And just like she thought, Hippopotas was on guard.

"Just like I thought."

"Um, excuse me, Pip," Meg frowns, "how did you know Hippopotas was going to be on guard?"

The Piplup scoffs. "Because I observed the days."

That's...strange. Why would Pip care to note who would be on guard?

Maybe she did it to find out if she really did have a connection to the mountain.

"So what is your plan and why does it matter on which guard?" Meg raises an eyebrow.

Pip pockets her paper. "Just stand back and watch."

Nuzleaf comes out from hiding behind the crate to Hippopotas.

All it took was a lie from Nuzleaf?

Pip seemed able to read Meg's thoughts.

"Of course! Lies are great, you tell one, the Pokemon buys it and you walk away, lie accomplished."

Meg had to wonder if Pip has ever lied to them with that logic.

-

"Uh oh...This was not in my papers."

The sheriff and the Pokemon guarding is apparently an outcome Pip never saw coming.  

"Ugh, I guess we have no choice but to turn back." She almost sighed too loudly.

-

Time passed and Meg, Lunar got a surprise visit from Nuzleaf. (It was mostly a surprise because Pip was there too)

Meg couldn't help from noticing...Pip putting one of her blades away, that had blood on it.

Hopefully she didn't attack someone.

Pip said SHE was popping by to give them supplies she found that they might find useful. While she was traveling with Mr. Nuzleaf, because...

"Wait, you came to the village because Pokemon called Beheeyem attacked you?"

"Yeah, I heard they were outside the village, but I never saw them. I don't really remember how I got to the village. I just know there were Beheeyem and blood. I think a nurse said I was lucky to be alive, so long story short, Beheeyem tried to kill me and I was saved." Pip didn't seem scared every time she mentioned the Beheeyem...just annoyed.

Maybe it was just Meg, but she would be more scared than annoyed if Pokemon tried to kill her.

-

Pip stamps her foot as she waits. Staring at the blue barrier. She pokes it again, but of course it did nothing. She just wasn't...

"Over there!"

"What in the world is Pip doing here?"

Lunar pants from the running. "Good thing she didn't get turned to stone...."

"What in the world is that though?!" Pip was standing in front of a blue thing.

"It's a barrier if you must know." The Piplup responds to her question...as if she rehearsed it and not simply answering a question.

"Waters springing up from the ground...is this...a spring?"

Pip nods instead of rolling her eyes.

Lunar runs over to a stone thing with writing on it. "What's this?"

"That there's a stone tablet. I reckon it's pretty old."

"Can anyone read it?" Pip finally glances over at them.

"...I can."

Everyone minus Pip are shocked at his simple statement.

"You?! Really?!"

"Yeah, 'Should you hope to overcome-"

Archen interrupts him, "Hold on a second! How are you able to stand there and read it like its no big deal?!"

"I don't know. But, I promise, I can read it. Anyway, 'Should you hope to overcome this crisis, summon an aqua. The aqua will have the power to break the barrier over the spring. You must summon an aqua.'"

"An aqua?" Meg slowly processed this.

"It's referring to a water type." Pip droned. "And before you ask, yes I tried to break it-"

"Hold on, WHY were you trying to break it?" The barrier had to be protecting something.

"Because...I'm suspecting...this water can be used to overcome the crisis."

Just then they got a call from someone Pip didn't know but she heard them say the Pokemon's name and...the way to bring the stone Pokemon back.

"Anyway, I couldn't break it. So I'm not the aqua. But maybe Meg can break it."

"How am I suppose to break it?"

"Hey, you there"

They all turn to see Krookodile.

"He's coming!"

Meg thought when the two other legendary pokemon appeared...that was the distraction. But Krookodile ignored them and kept coming...mumbling something.

'This wasn't part of the deal.'

"We had a deal. Where's the money?!"

"Money?" Meg whispered, beyond confused.

"Meg! Get that there barrier open!"

"OR I will use force!" Pip snapped, reasonably upset that Meg was just standing there.

What is this feeling? Meg looks down at her hands.

"MEG!" Lunar yelled.

"Hurry!"

Well, Pip was true to her word, she roughly shoved Meg against the barrier.

It broke.

"You did it! There goes the barrier!" Lunar's eyes sparkled.

"Well in a WAY Pip helped." Meg squints at Pip.

...

"You can't turn anyone else to stone thanks to this water!" The Charmander shouts, feeling victory in his chest as he glares at Krookodile.

"What are you talking about? I just want my money! We had a deal! I dropped those warnings, just like you asked...I came here because you told me to! Right Nuzleaf?!"

Everyone froze in shock...except Pip.

"I still think you should've let me stab him." Pip scoffs, folding her flippers.

"Huh?!"

Nuzleaf begins to laugh in a way that no one has heard him laugh before. "I reckon the time has come! I finally done broke the barrier!"

Well, I pushed Meg so technically I broke it, but whatever makes you feel better Nuzleaf.

"You done good, Krookodile! I reckon you've earned your reward!"

Pip covers her head as Nuzleaf lets out a dark looking power at the red pokemon.

"Wh-What's happening?!"

Turning him to stone.

"Krookodile turned to stone!"

It soon was revealed Nuzleaf was the turning the Pokemon to stone.

Meg had no clear proof but those papers...Pip carried were...probably information.

The days and times Pokemon were on guard, Pip was noting it to get up to the spring.

"Of course! Lies are great, you tell one, the Pokemon buys it and you walk away, lie accomplished."

Guess Pip has lied to Pokemon before.

They thought they could grab the water even though Nuzleaf might turn them to stone or since Pip had no empathy in her small body she might stab someone. Meg did not expect this huge bird to come out of nowhere...and...darkness.

-

Pip is not turned to stone (if no one has figured out) is because she is very useful with information. She is being used for information.

#PSMD #pip the piplup #Lunar the Charmander #Meg the Squirtle #psmd nuzleaf