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You should probably read this journal first: fav.me/d6rl2bt

the last page in case you need to go back and look over it: fav.me/d6mi5vm

Link to my Nuzlocke comic.

Link to the comic on the forums.

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so, so, unnecessarily complicated

After agreeing to help the Kimono girls, James is pardoned to make preparations when he informs them that he needs to do something beforehand. James explains what happened to the other Pokemon who take the news of two of their friends’ deaths hard in their own ways. Hamma, however, has refused to come out of her pokeball since getting recalled before. After the initial shock dies down, Banksy starts suggesting other options that aren’t going along with the Kimino Girls’ plans and James refuses all of them, without explanation. Jazz tries to get Banksy to calm down, which only serves to frustrate him more, given the situation, and James notices that Jazz seemed to be in pain. When asked, Jazz waves it off as not being as important as the issue at hand.

Afterwards, James gives Chuck a phone call, and asks him what he knows about Ho-oh. Chuck tells him that he only remembers fables of Ho-oh angering and turning its people (unprovoked) and killing many people before the nation’s other legendary figure, Lugia sacrificed itself to strip Ho-oh of most of its revival abilities, preventing it from returning to life instantaneously.

The fact that Chuck’s story was slightly different to the Kimono girls’ leads James to also call Pryce jr to ask about Ho-oh as well (because Pryce is the oldest person he can contact). Pryce gives him more or less the same story that Chuck did, with the only differences being him telling James of a story he heard that involves Ho-oh pulling three pokemon out of its world to wreak havoc with it after one of its revivals over a century after its defeat. However, those pokemon refused to obey Ho-oh, while also refused to oppose it and were cursed with immortality to pay for their indecision.

(James doesn’t tell either of them why he asked about Ho-oh to begin with)

After James finishes with his preparations, he meets the Kimono girls again, who escort him to the top of the Tin Tower to prepare the summoning ceremony. The whole time, Jazz exhibiting progressively more intense signs of pain.

The Kimono Girls summon Ho-oh’s body which, as they had previously said, behaved in a feral manner, indiscriminately setting things within its range alight until James manages to catch its attention. James calls out Scarmigl, who had evolved into a Golem sometime since her last appearance, to fight Ho-oh. After the Scarmigl weakens Ho-oh enough to make it begin to submit, the Kimono girls inform James that he had completed his job, but he continues to order Scarmigl to attack, something they really were not pleased by. After a while, Ho-oh succumbs to the damage- too weak to exist in the world of the living it is forced back into its limbo, but not before expending the last bit of its energy to try and destroy its surroundings.

Later, James wakes up, bandaged, in one of Morty’s rooms in his house, one of the other Kimono girls in a bed across from him. Morty discovers that he’s awake and tells him that the only reason as many of them survived is because of their pokemon’s protection. He then asks him to not blame the girls for what they did, as they were under Ho-oh’s influence. Whenever Ho-oh is ready to return, an item called a clear bell makes its way into the hands of someone with some sort of blood relation to the first kimono girls, that person gathers more like them and they prepare to revive their master.

He goes on to explain the original Kimono girls were a group who were loyal to Ho-oh before it fell from grace. When Ho-oh went insane because of the betrayal of its people, the group sided with Ho-oh, believing its aggression to be divine justice. When Ho-oh was defeated, they made the clear bell from its ashes to preserve its wrathful heart. The ultimate objective of every generation of Kimono girls is to reunite Ho-oh’s body (stuck in limbo) with Ho-oh’s heart (the clear bell), using another person as a catylist.

When James asks him why he’s sure the girls were merely brainwashed by contact with the clear bell, he tells him that the reason he’s sure is because he knew two of them before they became Kimono girls- Kirei and her younger sister Keiko. Morty grew up near them and was childhood friends with Kirei. When they suddenly disappeared, he looked for them and found them to Ecruteak. After discovering how they had changed, he researched into it. He says that, ironically, he had helped recover every person from the Ho-oh incident except Kirei, as she’d managed to once again disappear along with the clear bell.

He tells James that he was picked by them to be the catalyst for one reason or another he was unaware of, but before that, he was their first choice. The reason being he exhibited his skill as a trainer from a very young age. The reason they changed their mind, however, is because they discovered that Morty could see everything from Ho-oh’s realm and would be a lot less useful to them as he’d be fully aware of what was going on. When asked about what he can see, Morty calls Innomin, his Gastly, which James comments that it looks just like his psycho Gengar. Morty confirms that it is the same pokemon and reveals that it came from the same place Ho-oh did. When Ho-oh was trapped in its own realm of revival, it dragged a lot of nearby pokemon in there with it. Those pokemon can’t die, and are stuck in there for the most part. Sometimes, however, they can slip out, but are easily forced back and lose any memory of what happened after they escaped. Innomin is a very frequent offender, and Morty formed a friendship with him, despite knowing that his friend will continuously forget him every time he returns to him.

Morty then leaves him and asks him to leave as soon as he’s able, since his hospitality has its limits.

James wakes up his other pokemon to give them a full explanation, telling them that the reason he seemed like he was on the kimono girls’ side was because he wanted them to keep believing that. The reason he couldn’t tell any of his pokemon was because they had already established that they were able to spy on him without his knowledge, so revealing his true intentions out loud would have given them away. He had planned to get Scarmigl, who on paper had the highest resistance to Ho-oh’s attacks and keep attacking it until it was unable to stay on this side, since he’d heard from two of the tellings of the Ho-oh story that Ho-oh needs to regain its strength to come into their world, so he was hoping that weakening it would send it back, which it luckily did.

After making up with the team, the Kimono girl who was in the same room as him wakes up, and after introducing each other, James discovers that she’s Keiko, Kirei’s sister. He gives her the news about her sister and apologizes. She explains that she discovered the clear bell in a field one day, and after that her memory is patchy. She understands what she helped do and apologizes for that, and informs James that they had known he was going to double cross them in the end, but had expected him to have tried to subdue Ho-oh and use its power as his own to try and betray them, which would have actually worked out for them and let James act as the catalyst anyway. Defeating Ho-oh, however, was not something they had anticipated James doing.

Before he leaves, James asks Keiko about why they picked him to be the catalyst, and she tells him that she doesn’t remember it all that well, but it had something to do with professor Elm and a boy named Ethan. When asked if she means him, since he’s been called other names beforehand, she says that while her memory isn’t great, she knows for some reason that Ethan is definitely someone else.

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fav.me/d6talva previous
You should probably read this journal first: fav.me/d6rl2bt

the last page in case you need to go back and look over it: fav.me/d6mi5vm

Link to my Nuzlocke comic.

Link to the comic on the forums.

fav.me/d6rxz7y

so, so, unnecessarily complicated

After agreeing to help the Kimono girls, James is pardoned to make preparations when he informs them that he needs to do something beforehand. James explains what happened to the other Pokemon who take the news of two of their friends’ deaths hard in their own ways. Hamma, however, has refused to come out of her pokeball since getting recalled before. After the initial shock dies down, Banksy starts suggesting other options that aren’t going along with the Kimino Girls’ plans and James refuses all of them, without explanation. Jazz tries to get Banksy to calm down, which only serves to frustrate him more, given the situation, and James notices that Jazz seemed to be in pain. When asked, Jazz waves it off as not being as important as the issue at hand.

Afterwards, James gives Chuck a phone call, and asks him what he knows about Ho-oh. Chuck tells him that he only remembers fables of Ho-oh angering and turning its people (unprovoked) and killing many people before the nation’s other legendary figure, Lugia sacrificed itself to strip Ho-oh of most of its revival abilities, preventing it from returning to life instantaneously.

The fact that Chuck’s story was slightly different to the Kimono girls’ leads James to also call Pryce jr to ask about Ho-oh as well (because Pryce is the oldest person he can contact). Pryce gives him more or less the same story that Chuck did, with the only differences being him telling James of a story he heard that involves Ho-oh pulling three pokemon out of its world to wreak havoc with it after one of its revivals over a century after its defeat. However, those pokemon refused to obey Ho-oh, while also refused to oppose it and were cursed with immortality to pay for their indecision.

(James doesn’t tell either of them why he asked about Ho-oh to begin with)

After James finishes with his preparations, he meets the Kimono girls again, who escort him to the top of the Tin Tower to prepare the summoning ceremony. The whole time, Jazz exhibiting progressively more intense signs of pain.

The Kimono Girls summon Ho-oh’s body which, as they had previously said, behaved in a feral manner, indiscriminately setting things within its range alight until James manages to catch its attention. James calls out Scarmigl, who had evolved into a Golem sometime since her last appearance, to fight Ho-oh. After the Scarmigl weakens Ho-oh enough to make it begin to submit, the Kimono girls inform James that he had completed his job, but he continues to order Scarmigl to attack, something they really were not pleased by. After a while, Ho-oh succumbs to the damage- too weak to exist in the world of the living it is forced back into its limbo, but not before expending the last bit of its energy to try and destroy its surroundings.

Later, James wakes up, bandaged, in one of Morty’s rooms in his house, one of the other Kimono girls in a bed across from him. Morty discovers that he’s awake and tells him that the only reason as many of them survived is because of their pokemon’s protection. He then asks him to not blame the girls for what they did, as they were under Ho-oh’s influence. Whenever Ho-oh is ready to return, an item called a clear bell makes its way into the hands of someone with some sort of blood relation to the first kimono girls, that person gathers more like them and they prepare to revive their master.

He goes on to explain the original Kimono girls were a group who were loyal to Ho-oh before it fell from grace. When Ho-oh went insane because of the betrayal of its people, the group sided with Ho-oh, believing its aggression to be divine justice. When Ho-oh was defeated, they made the clear bell from its ashes to preserve its wrathful heart. The ultimate objective of every generation of Kimono girls is to reunite Ho-oh’s body (stuck in limbo) with Ho-oh’s heart (the clear bell), using another person as a catylist.

When James asks him why he’s sure the girls were merely brainwashed by contact with the clear bell, he tells him that the reason he’s sure is because he knew two of them before they became Kimono girls- Kirei and her younger sister Keiko. Morty grew up near them and was childhood friends with Kirei. When they suddenly disappeared, he looked for them and found them to Ecruteak. After discovering how they had changed, he researched into it. He says that, ironically, he had helped recover every person from the Ho-oh incident except Kirei, as she’d managed to once again disappear along with the clear bell.

He tells James that he was picked by them to be the catalyst for one reason or another he was unaware of, but before that, he was their first choice. The reason being he exhibited his skill as a trainer from a very young age. The reason they changed their mind, however, is because they discovered that Morty could see everything from Ho-oh’s realm and would be a lot less useful to them as he’d be fully aware of what was going on. When asked about what he can see, Morty calls Innomin, his Gastly, which James comments that it looks just like his psycho Gengar. Morty confirms that it is the same pokemon and reveals that it came from the same place Ho-oh did. When Ho-oh was trapped in its own realm of revival, it dragged a lot of nearby pokemon in there with it. Those pokemon can’t die, and are stuck in there for the most part. Sometimes, however, they can slip out, but are easily forced back and lose any memory of what happened after they escaped. Innomin is a very frequent offender, and Morty formed a friendship with him, despite knowing that his friend will continuously forget him every time he returns to him.

Morty then leaves him and asks him to leave as soon as he’s able, since his hospitality has its limits.

James wakes up his other pokemon to give them a full explanation, telling them that the reason he seemed like he was on the kimono girls’ side was because he wanted them to keep believing that. The reason he couldn’t tell any of his pokemon was because they had already established that they were able to spy on him without his knowledge, so revealing his true intentions out loud would have given them away. He had planned to get Scarmigl, who on paper had the highest resistance to Ho-oh’s attacks and keep attacking it until it was unable to stay on this side, since he’d heard from two of the tellings of the Ho-oh story that Ho-oh needs to regain its strength to come into their world, so he was hoping that weakening it would send it back, which it luckily did.

After making up with the team, the Kimono girl who was in the same room as him wakes up, and after introducing each other, James discovers that she’s Keiko, Kirei’s sister. He gives her the news about her sister and apologizes. She explains that she discovered the clear bell in a field one day, and after that her memory is patchy. She understands what she helped do and apologizes for that, and informs James that they had known he was going to double cross them in the end, but had expected him to have tried to subdue Ho-oh and use its power as his own to try and betray them, which would have actually worked out for them and let James act as the catalyst anyway. Defeating Ho-oh, however, was not something they had anticipated James doing.

Before he leaves, James asks Keiko about why they picked him to be the catalyst, and she tells him that she doesn’t remember it all that well, but it had something to do with professor Elm and a boy named Ethan. When asked if she means him, since he’s been called other names beforehand, she says that while her memory isn’t great, she knows for some reason that Ethan is definitely someone else.