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ToT Intermission 3-1 - Troubled Debriefing

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Nox and Sonya from Team Pathfinders both were sitting infront of Cerise and Adrias, who appeared at the midday in Yawaru with a herde of Pokemon they were leading, along with a Shaymin called Mirya. He was feeling annexted and tried to be relaxed around them, because the Skiddo was blind, yet somehow were his closed eyes focused directly towards the silver eyes of the shiny Umbreon *I don't like this at all... he cen sense my presence... but is he... also able to sense my two different auras too?*

The shiny Mienfoo wasn't with him and the Sylveon because she was helping out at the orphanage. It was leaded by a lovely female Liepard called Selene, who was the aunt of the Absol Prier, which caught them off guard. *Selene who runs the orhpanage here is a gentle Liepard... I hope Prier isn't bothering Yang...* was he thinking about that for a moment before hearing Sonya sigh. "Thank you for seeing and hearing us out." was she speaking up as formally as she could do before her stare was directly towards him.

The shiny Umbreon looked back towards her, nodding calmly before looking back towards the strange looking Pokemon that resembles for him like a special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors. "As the representatives from the guilds will we both try to answer your questions as good as we can." was he speaking very formally towards the two Pokemon. Nox tried to stay calm, especially since he was in a debriefing after all *Relax... this is just a debriefing... pretty much like the military... so what can go wrong?*

He does see how Cerise was looking towards Sonya with suspiciousness, so he spoked up to start the debriefing "Umm... we're ready whenever you both are, Miss Cerise and Mister Adrias, right?" Adriass head moved slightly in a small nod to Nox "We appreciate you both taking the time to explain your reason for being here. Though it might be difficult to explain everything, all we ask is you try your best." Both Eeveelutions nodded to aknowlege what the Skiddo have said towards them, yet can Nox see that Sonya seems to be uneasy.

"Let's start with the Don. You all came here to help the citizens of Ywaru with their water problem correct?" was the blind Leian Tribe members first question. Sonya nodded and responded to the question with clear voice"Yes sir. Half of us were tasked to try to reason with the Don about stopping his high prices on his supply, but part of us already knew he wouldn't listen to reason. Others were tasked to begin purifying the tainted water thanks to our Scholars Guild, and others were tasked of taking already clean water to the citizens."

"So you went after his own water reservoir discreetly to take some." Adrias says in curious observation. The Sylveon sighted from that as she answered with "We tried to. We were found by his hired assassins." Nox quietly listened to the little conversation until  there was a pause from Sonya to take over, which he did by responding shortly after her with "Yes sir, we tried to get water for the Pokemon that really needed it... while the Scholars Guild did their job to purify the contaminated water that was around Yawaru."

Cerise was the whole time silent and kept staring towards the Sylveon, which made the shiny Umbreon become cautioness about the two other Pokemon as the Skiddo nodded to let them know that he listened "I see... but it still is a large group of Pokemon that keeps making the herd feel uneasy... especially if you are all from Taberia." Nox instantly spoked up apologetic towards them with "We're sorry that the big group of ours is starteling the herd like that... but we really have no ill intentions at all unlike the Ludicolo Don Kapon."

It was at this moment where the special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors was finally speaking up in the round "It still doesn't explain why a large group of yours is here and about to head towards Fever Flats, the lands that historicly belongs to the Leian Tribe. That's also why Mirya the Shaymin was so agitated." Noxs ears were still up to signelise that he listened to the two of them as looked over to Sonya for a moment to see that she's still uneasy about the strange situation they both were in. *Why are you so quiet Sonya...*

His silver eyes soon went over to Cerise to respond her "Well...it's a little long story to tell what happened before we gathered in Yawaru to help out..." The Skiddo nodded to hear that, but requested gently "Then please tell us what happened, we've all the time of the world to talk about it..." The shiny Umbreon looked over to the Sylveon again, wondering if she's allright as he whispers softly to her "Are you okay? You seem to be nervous about something..." Sonya turned her head with a small glare towards him because of that question.

"...and I'd like to hear why you have two auras, young Umbreon." was the blind Pokemon calling out towards him that caught Cerises attention. Nox was shocked in surprise when the Skiddo called out what he hoped he didn't realised and gulped. *H-he did felt both my auras... properbly since a while now...* were his thoughs as he cleared his throath to prepare to respond. But he instantly got interrupted by the special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors as she speaked out "Adrias, we'll deal with him later... but I knew I'd seen you from somewhere before... you're that corrupted witch-huntress Lucina, aren't you!?"

Nox was shocked when he heared a name that he never heared before, especially since Cerise was staring intensly towards Sonya who was speaking with a quivered, shocked voice "W-What did you say....?" The Umbreon wasn't sure what do to right now while growing very concerned for the Sylveon as he kept on listening towards the surprising turn of the conversation. It should have been just a normal debriefing that was just a bit long, yet did it turned into a sudden interrogation.

The special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors kept glaring intensly towards Sonya and stomped her hoof on the ground "Don't play innocent! I knew I saw you before and now I remember where.  I remember you and your comrades very clearly during my travels! Especially after you hunted and caught a witch trying to run. You and your comrades killed the witch on the spot in front of others without any hesitation!"   "I-It can't be...." was Sonya mumbeling in fear and a very shocked state while Nox was starting to dislike the situation.

"I know others hunt witches as their profession, but what you Lucina and your comerades did was not right! Even if they're witches they don't deserve a public execution like that! She wasn't even doing evil magic but you still killed her!" was Cerise continuing, before her tone became a tad sadder "If this is how Tabira works, having corrupted witch-hunters in their guilds, then they're no better than the Don himself.... infact, they're WORSE!" "Lucina....." was the Sylveon mumbleing as she was still in shock, before she slightly snappped out of it as she glares back at the special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors  "I'm not Lucina."

"Don't lie to me. I can tell your both the same! You even have the same glare she gave me when I told her killing wasn't right!" was she scoffing in return, which caughted Sonya in surprised as she took a shaky breath and digged her claws in the ground, trying to stay calm. Nox had heared a lot about someone he never knew before, who was also related towards Sonya. And that person was an actual corrupted witch-hunter.  It was at this moment where the shiny Umbreon took a shaky break as his tail was touching Sonyas to calm her down.

Soon did Nox glared with his silver eyes towards Cerise to deal with the misunderstandings "Whoever that Lucina person is that apperently is a Sylveon... she's NOT present in this room" The shiny Umbreons silver eyes were showing the same look a witch-hunter would give, yet at the same time was his silver aura flaring up, which didn't got unnoticed by Adrias as he spoked up loud and clearly "Cerise! If the Sylveon is truly who you think she is, then why is the Umbreon still alive who haves two auras inside him?"

Nox was clearly concerned as he spoke out what he had to tell sooner or later "My full name is Dante 'Nox' Volpes, I'm from a far away place called Aurora, incase that's a familair kingdom name." He looked over to the Sylveon for a moment to show her that he's there for her before he looked back to the other two. "If Sonya next to me is really 'Lucina' that Miss Cerise mentioned before... then I wouldn't be here alive! Because I'm the son of a witch-hunter called Valerio 'Venator' Volpes, and a good witch called Marissa 'Lily' Volpes!"

Adrias seems to be calm about that information due to the two auras he sensed inside Nox, while Cerise was looking rather surprised to hear that from the shiny Umbreon "A hybrid between a witch-hunter and a good witch that is still alive?! And from THAT place too!? "If you don't belive me then go there and asks the Pokemon that serve in Auroras military, mainly the 108th Fighter Company Warfox that my father was serving in!" was Nox continuing with no hostility in his eyes and voice, but as loud and clear as he could speak up.

The special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors sighted with a frown as her hoof stomped onto the ground again "I'll be damned to hear the name Warfox again... I heared about the things they did during the Glennish War over in Aurora... and if you're truly the descendend of the Volpes-Clan who all served in the military... then why are you here in Taberia and not serving in the military too?" The shiny Umbreon looked down when Cerise spoked up about that, his tail moving away from the Sylveons as he tries to remain as calm as he could be.

Adrias finally spoked up after the long conversations between Cerise and the Eeveelutions. "I don't know about the place you came from Nox... or Dante. Nor do I know a lot about your family name Volpes, except the tales I've heared about them beeing witch-hunters. But that you're a witch-hunter and a witch... that's what makes clearly sense with the two auras of yours." The Skiddo soon looked over to Cerise with his blind eyes on her spot "But you seem to know about them Cerise... properbly because you saw a lot of places in your life after all."

Hearing Adrias saying that calmed Nox a bit down, but he still was annexted because of the special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors who nodded and frowned at the same time "Not much Adrias... from what I've seen so far was Aurora a decent place, but it's strangly a magnet to wars... I do know about the Volpes-Clan a bit and it's true that they are a witch-hunter family." Cerise soon looked back towards the Eeveelutions as she spoked up again towards the shiny Umbreon "Anyway... you haven't answered my question, young Volpes."

He sighted when she pressured him to answer "Allright... I've never told it in Taberia nor towards the guild before but... there is a very important reason I'm here..." Adrias noticed that it was something grave as he speaked up "You don't have to tell if it's that tough for you to talk about it." Cerise looked over to the Skiddo as she was about to say something while Nox gaze stayed downwards, but he silently teared up as he started to remember his painful past "I have to talk about it so you all can understand why I'm here."

Nox took a deep, shaky breath as he stared to tell his story "When I became just eleven years old... right on my birthday... did my home village got attacked. My parents... brought me and my little sister Nariko to safety... and then went back to deal with the attackers..." The ground underneath his paws was starting to become wet from the tears that were falling down his cheeks by now, while his voice was becoming more shaky then before. "M-my sister... she rushed out of the hiding spot during the fights... I-I couldn't stop her..."

The shiny Umbreons body started to shake by now while the others were listening to him with full attention "O-once the fighting noises stopped... d-did I... got out of the spot... a-and saw my home village in flames..." he took another shaky breath because it was straining him to tell the full story, especially with Sonya around "I... I went back to my home... hoping that my... parents and my sister were alive..." He paused shortly to gulp down "But... they were not... my parents are dead... while my sister.... was gone without a trace besides a blue scarf..."

The Sylveon was surprised about Nox full story, but decided on her own to bring the topic elsewhere to give him a well deserved breather, which he really needed as he whiped the silent tears of his away. "I came from a somewhat similar situation as Nox." was Sonya speaking up as serious as she could with narrowed eyes as she got their attention through that. "My name is Sonya Hearne. Cerise, who you saw was my older sister Lucina Hearne." The special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors looked surprised while the Skiddos face scrunched up curiously as he asked "Hearne... Isn't that an all Eevee-Evolutions clan?"

Sonya nodded as she continued on "Yes. We are also a long generation of witch-hunters. My father is the recent head of the clan and my sister is the next in line, with me after." The violet eyes of the Sylveon then narrowed angrily about the last part "Although I have disregarded and left my clan name and family, I am not a witch-huntress anymore." The shiny Umbreon was still shaken up by the painful memory, but listened to the conversation as he was surprised to hear the discharged family name that Sonya had.

Nox mustered up as much as he could to just give a short information towards them "The Volpes family... is also an all Eeveelution family... I... might be the 7th genetation of my fathers side... and of my mothers witch side... although I don't know much about hers..." The Sylveon looked for a brief moment towards him, before she looked back towards Cerise and Adrias as she continued with "I don't know about other witch-hunter clans, but I didn't know about Nox being from one like I was nor that he was also a witch until recently."

"Recently? So you aren't from the same clan?" did the special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors asked curiously,  which she assumed since they both were Eeveelutions. Both Sonya and Nox shook their heads to decline that as she continued with "While we encountered the assassins in the cavern of Don Kapons reservoir, Nox's powers were awakened and he saved my and my teammates lives." The Skiddo then asked curiously when she mentioned Yang "Where is your teammate now? Shouldn't she be with you?"

"Please forgive her that she isn't here right now. She's taking on another task of assisting the orphanage. I swear though what we say is the truth." was Sonya speaking up with honesty and seriousness. Nox could hear how she took a deep breath before she continued with "I can understand your distaste for my clan Miss Cerise. I share similar feelings despite the fact I hailed from those customs. And for a time I accepted who we were. I was in an illusion that what we were doing was justified and right, but I was broken out of that illusion one day."

The Sylveon gulped while the shiny Umbreon was listening to the stroy in retur "My sister Lucina and I, used to be close. Our father was strict and uncaring, only focusing on our training and hunting witches. Lucina was the one I went to for comfort and support. She always would smile and encourage me to stay strong, I looked up to her." Sonyas violet eyes lowered sadly after having spoken about that. *So your sister Lucina was someone dear to you...* was Nox thoughs when he heared about the first part of the story.

"Things changed. Lucy--- Lucina changed. The corruption from our father spread to her and slowly turned her in to who you saw. She became distant, cold, and ruthless. The sister I looked up to and loved, looked down on me like I was useless."  Cerise looked surprised as Adrias look softened, widened his down casted silver eyes in shock, especially about the part with her sister that caused him to look with stained cheeks towards the Sylveon with a look of sadness and understanding when she was telling her story like he did around her.

"Due to that, I wanted nothing else but to become stronger and gain her and my fathers recognition. Then it turned to where I just wanted to be stronger than my sister overall. To be better, stronger. I trained and hunted as often as possible, the corruption coming to me due to that and started taking over." Sonyas violet eyes lowered to glare at the ground in shame that she almost became like her sister and her father, a corrupted witch-huntress  "It almost took over completely, until one day my eyes were opened to the truth."

The Umbreon sighted out weakly, before speaking up with "I know how the desire to feel stronger is... but I saw now that you first had another reason before your eyes opened... as for me..." Sonya looked quietly towards him, as he could see that she wasn't happy to have spoken about the past. Nor was he but they had to do that so they both tried to convince Cerise and Adrias that they both aren't bad natured Pokemon, which they managed to do so, but they both had to tell their whole story around each other, which was unconfortable.

"I'm still able to hold on because my sister is still alive." was Nox continuing on, which caught the Skiddo and the special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors off guard and a bit confused. Adrias soon asked to clear that up "And what do you mean with that, if I may ask?" The Sylveon was looking with a troubled look on her face as the shiny Umbreon sighted a bit before responding the question "When I was out cold... by the attack of the assassins... that's when I got to knew about my true hetirage through my own parents."

After a short pause to take a breather did he continued with "As well as the information that... my sister might be still alive. And since I've heared that you, Miss Cerise traveled through a lot of places... may I ask you an important question?"  Cerise blinked a bit from that as she nodded "As long as it's nothing personal about me, or the herd may I try to answer it to your statisfaction." The shiny Umbreon nodded in an understanding matter before he took a deep, shaky breath while his paw moved to his neck out of habitat.

"Have you... perhaps seen a young Sktty... or perhaps Delcatty with the name called Nariko? She's... part of my family after all... even if it surprised me a lot when I've heared from my parents that.... she's actually a good natured witch that is specialised with support magic... even if her powers were still slumbering on the day my... home village got attacked and destroyed..." Sonya was surprised to hear about Nox searching for his sister and asked about, before she looked down with a well hidden bitter expression because of her own sister.

The Sylveons gaze was still down as Cerise listened thought about the question. She then shook her head "I'm sorry, but I haven't met a Skitty or a Delcatty with that name who is even a witch. Still... that you, a halfling is still alive does make a point that the Sylveon over there isn't Lucina." Nox sighted a bit as he looked with pained, silver eyes towards Sonya to see her gaze beeing down like that. "Is there... anything else we have to answer?" was he asking with lowered ears, cause he was feeling bad for Sonya since she had it tougher then him.

*Sonya... it must have taken a lot for you to talk about such a painful past... as much as it took out of me too...* were his thoughs as Sonya took a deep breath but kept her gaze down still as she spoked up "We only wanted to help out. We got in to fights unintentionally but had to defend ourselves and our friends. We didn't mean to cause such a ruckus. We had heard about the problems the water pollution has had on different places and only wanted to help. We helped those sick in Mosswood then came here to fix the pollution."

"Stopping the Don was a side mission." was the Sylveon finishing up with that. Cerise though skeptic but understood it, while Adrias sensed the exhaustion as he nodded for a moment "We see that now. Cerise both are mentally exhausted after what they had to tell... Thank you both for your explanation." Both Eeveelutions nodded when they both were dismissed by the Skiddo as they were to head out, but heared an "Hold on.". The special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors asked with both seriousness and curiousness towards Sonya.

"You said one day your eyes were opened. I have seen corruption in witch-hunters, including in your sister. I have to know for sure you aren't just lying. What made you see the corruption and want to resist it?" Nox glared backwards about the rather delicate question towards the Sylveon if she was corrupted or not. Sonyas face turns upset and pained at the question as she responded with a low and strained voice "One day we had hunted and captured a witch and.... her younger sister." She soon looked back after releasing a sight.

"The witch had not done evil magic, but it didn't matter to us, she was still a witch. She begged my father and us to allow her younger sister to live. The younger sister had not studied or done magic." The violet eyes of the Sylveon narrowed as she told the conclousion of that encounter. "My father and sister killed them both." Cerise gasped in shock to hear that, while Adrias head lowered down in sadness. The shiny Umbreon on the other hand gazed down because that really was a horrible moment for Sonya that opened her eyes.

Sonyas turned back as she gazed at the ground like Nox was doing as she continued to tell "Father said, any and all related to magic must be hunted down. Even if the younger was blood related to the witch, she was innocent. I begged my sister to allow the younger to leave. She didn't know any magic and was too young to learn so why kill her." Her voice turned harsher and with anger as she toldf what pained her the most on that day "My sister only reprimanded me on being weak and did as father said."

"That day, my eyes were opened. There was no mercy or justice in my family like I thought what we did was unforgivable and I realized what we really are. Nothing but killers." The Sylveon growled slightly then took a shaky breath when she continued on "I tried to speak up to my sister and make her realize what I did, father never would listen and I hoped she would, but she wouldn't listen. Only kept calling me weak as the corruption had taken over."

Sonya looked very upset by now "I ran after that. I didn't want to be like my sister who wasn't the Pokemon I once loved. I didn't want the corruption to take me." Nox frustrated even more that Sonyas father and her sister didn't listened to her and both called her weak by their own family. *Sonya... I would have done the same if I was in your place...* were his thoughs as the Sylveon turned to look towards Cerise with seriousness into her eyes. Adrias could feel through the auras of the Eeveelution that they were telling the truth.

"I didn't resist the corruption alone. I found help, someone to teach me to temper the habits I had and resist the corruption. Even if you don't believe me I swear that the corruption doesn't have me and I won't ever turn in to my sister or go back to the life I once had. Ever." The special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors looked sadly towards the Sylveon, but nodded to show that she understood Sonya stared at her for a second then bowed slightly to turn around and  walked out quickly without looking at The shiny Umbreon.

Once Sonya was walking past him and moved ahead did Nox turned around towards the other two Pokemon with a sad look on his face yet bowed down politely "I hope we managed to answer your questions as well as we could." Cerise nodded silently, while Adrias spoked up "Nox, before you go after her... thank you for both your times. We didn't ment to make you both go through painful memories again... but it cleared up a lot of misunderstanding." Nox nodded to othat before he went out of the place to catch up to Sonya.
Results of this Chapter

Nox attented the Diffucult Debriefing along with Sonya from Team Pathfinders, which earned him 1 Token of Reputation. He stashed it away into the Honey Comb Storage.

Both Eeveelutiions learned about the painful past of the other one, and the reasons why they are in the Guild in the first place.

It seems that Sonyas sister Lucina, who is also a Sylveon, is a fully corrupted witch-huntress who disregards her own sister...

Unfortunatly is the whereabouts of Nox sister Nariko still unknown, despite that she's defenetly alive somewhere in the world.

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Yes I did called a Virizion a special looking Sawsbuck with Deerling colors, cause Nox never met a living legend before and I was just like... "Yeah, I'll just roll with it" =w=

Another collab with Ninja-FoxDemon-Angel! Phew... we had the Intermissions already finished, but rl got in both our ways. Ninja's going to draw a comic about the Intermission, which is here, collab we both had.  I'll contain the written out format and we both have some minor differences in writing style, so please check her out :3 Team Exulibus

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Pokémon (c) Nintendo
Story (c) Tales of Tabira
Other Characters (c) Repsective Owners
Sonya & Lucina Hearne (c) :iconninja-foxdemon-angel:
Dante "Nox" Volpes (c) Me
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