newberktown | Fifteenth Flight. [video/action for Saffron City.]

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Fifteenth Flight. [video/action for Saffron City.]

[Hey, Pokemon World. Did you miss vikings being derpy? Well, never fear! Here's Hiccup, grinning like a fool and looking way too excited as he backs up from where he's set his 'gear.]

Alright. So, everyone? Feel free to start calling me Bastian. [His smile somehow widens even more as he reaches down and lifts his newest team member, draping her over his shoulders and giving her a little scritch behind the fins.] I just got myself my very own luckdratini.

[The Dratini--an unusual purple-tinted pink--studies the 'gear with a twinkle in her eye. Well, really there's a twinkle everywhere else, too. Yep, like so many pokemon showing up on the network, this baby's a shiny.]

I'm going out to show Falkor the city, okay?

[Someone's been reading The Neverending Story lately...]

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Man, your dragon collection just keeps on growing.

['sup, Hiccup. Have an amused Riku over here.]

Still, that's one of the more impressive shinies I've seen so far, and you can't go wrong with the Dratini line.

I believe that one can never have too many dragons.

[Which is probably obvious.]

Falkor's actually my second Dratini! Looks like I lucked out [hurr] on the energy levels this time, too. My Dragonair isn't anything like this, and Astrid's isn't, either.

Well, I can't argue that.

[And, hah. Riku snickers at the pun.]

Makes you wonder if the color's gonna stick or not. Cinder's already evolved, and she's still golden.

[Hold on, he'll turn the camera to a shiny Charmeleon curled up in the corner for a second. Annnd now back to Riku.]

But I don't know if that applies to all shiny Pokémon or what.

[A part of him's wondering about shiny Dragonites now, oops.]

The book I got her name from said Falkor the Luckdragonair was pink, so I think my Falkor will be, too, when she evolves...

[But wow, what a pretty Charmeleon. Do you see how he covets your pokemon, Riku? Do you?]

Huh, I guess that'd make sense. Just wasn't sure, since shiny Pokémon seem so rare in the first place.

[But maybe not so rare that they wouldn't have books written about 'em.

...Also, it's probably a good thing Cinder's sleeping because if she knew she was getting attention of any kind, she'd probably scramble under the bed. Silly lizard.]

So, what's this book about, anyway?

Yeah... I think there were only six Luckdragonairs in all of Fantastica, and Falkor was the only one who appeared.

[Cinder is such a cutieeee.]

A boy--Bastian--ends up reading this book called The Neverending Story, which is the name of the actual book too. Anyway, Bastian's book is about a world in trouble since their ruler is sick and parts of the land are being eaten up by Nothing. The Childlike Empress sends for Atreyu the warrior to figure out what's causing all this, and he goes on an adventure. It's really interesting, since the actual book is written in two different ink colors to distinguish between Bastian's story and Atreyu's story.

Huh, so the story's about two different characters, huh?

[...Fascinating. Riku can always get behind a good adventure story.]

So, what's this Nothing, exactly?

It has bits and pieces of other characters' stories, but Bastian and Atreyu are the main ones.

[But hmmmn, how to explain the Nothing...]

It's just...this absence that's eating the world? In the book, they describe looking at it as feeling like you've gone blind.

Huh. So is it erasing the world? That's the impression I'm getting, anyway.

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. When the people of Fantastica got too close to the Nothing, parts of them would just disappear, like it never existed in the first place. They say it doesn't hurt, though.

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