ToT Intermission 3-2 - Potentiam voluntatis Part 2

With a loud gasp did Nox returned into the real world, his silver eyes opened up instantly as he bolted straight upwards. Because of the sudden movement did he released a pained grunt and a sudden strong cough, which was to get the rest of the blood out of his lungs. The shiny Umbreons eyes widened a bit to see blood underneath him as he had a quick though about it *Is that... my blood? Wait... Yang and Sonya!* He looked upwards to see that the magical blue smoke was gone and that they ended up in a big temple like room.

A sigh of relief was escaping him when he could see that the shiny Mienfoo was looking okay, but focused in a mediative position with closed eyes before he saw the Sylveon  next to him, who was still unconcious and also was loosing blood from her mouth. Nox realised what really happened as he started to cry silently. Everything that happened in his mind felt way too real that it shocked him to the point where he was shutting in. The result of that Trial were so devastating for him that he felt insecure and extremly weak about himself.

After a while did Sonya gasped out loudly and woke up from the Trial, but also whimpered in pain while Yang breathed out in relief as the shiny Umbreon could hear hear say in exhaustion "F-Finally...." The Sylveon stood up onto her paws, although pretty unsteady as she headed over to the shiny Mienfoo. "Yang... Thank you. Are you ok?" was a weary sounding Sonya speaking up. "Of course. J-Just a little tired. I-I'm going to.... rest a bit." did Yang responded weary, then breathed out as her green eyes shutted down to get some rest.

The Sylveon lowered herself onto the ground softly, then sighted out tiredly because her trial was also pretty shocking and exhausting. Yet when she saw Nox condition did she stood up again and carefully walked over him, asking him softly with a hint of concern "Nox? Are you ok?" The shiny Umbreon was capable to hear her, but no response came from him, heck even his silver eyes weren't full of life as usual. The last nine years did he though that he was strong and had an unyielding willpower, but the Trial almost broke him completly.

Sonya became more concerned because of that, as well as that his body was trembeling in his current shellshocked and pained state that he's in after the trial the group had to get through. The Sylveon was still shaky from what she went through in her own trial, but out of the three was she currently the only one in the right state of mind. She closed up the distance between her and the shiny Umbreon, although beeing a little bit weary to be too close to him out of instincts, yet was she putting them aside because of her concerns for him.

"Nox? Come on snap out of it." did she tried to reason with him while waving a paw infront of his face, trying to get his attention through that. "Its over. The trial is done, Yang snapped us out of it. I'm sure our shaken up like us but we need to get out of here and I can't carry you both alone." But there was still no reaction from him other then the silent cry and his almost broken soul that was reflecting in his silver eyes. The violet eyes of the Sylveon narrowed as she thought of a way to get through to the shiny Umbreons current state.

Their friend Yang was too exhausted and already did enough for both of the Eeveelutions, because of that did Sonya not wanted to bother her even more. It was at this point where she got an idea as she looked down towards her bow and her feelers. An uncomfortable frown formed onto her face, since she didn't liked to touch others with them... but she was more worried that her ability Cute Charm might accidently affect Nox. Yet was it her only way to somehow help him, even if that means to deal with unnessesary attention.

The Sylveon hesitated for a second as she steeled herself for the task, then raised up her ribbon feelers to place them gently onto the cheeks of the shiny Umbreon. Nox froze on spot when he felt her ribbons on his cheeks, causing him to finally react as his almost lifeless silver eyes to look towards them for a moment. "Who said I survived..." was Nox finally speaking up for the first time after having woken up from the trial, although his voice seemed to be broken, which reflected the way he was feeling and thinking about himself.

The silver eyes of the shiny Umbreon slowly looked towards the violet eyes of the Sylveon, only to see that she was looking pained and about to cry. Yet did she took a shaky breath, before looking towards him with seriousness as her voice rang out loud and clear with honesty "Nox. No." Sonya used her own feelers to push through the tense emotions that Nox haves, then started to share her own calm and comforting emotions. She gulped nervously before she spoked out his real name for the first time since she knew it "Dante."

The emotions that the Sylveon was putting through to the shiny Umbreon were starting to calm him down, as he blinked for the first time in his shellshocked state. Because of that did she continued on to reach out to him "Listen to me please. Its ok. Yang and I, we're both here. What you saw wasn't real. None of it was. Please calm down. Your safe now." Sonyas ears perked up when Noxs eyes were showing that he was getting little by little back to life again. It relieved her to see that she was doing it right and made her focus even more onto him.

Because of that was the Sylveon encouraged her to keep talking towards the shiny Umbreon and to keep her ribbon feelers onto his cheeks. "It's ok now, we're all ok. It was just a nightmare put in our minds to test our willpower. It wasn't real." Sonyas tried to sound as as clear and honestly as she could be while she kept glaring into his eyes to make sure that he noticed that she was beeing serious. "I don't know what you saw, but I have an idea. It's ok Dante." was she reassuring him as good as she could do to help him returning to his old sel.

Nox breathing became slower then before, more calm and composed then the fast, snap like breathing that he had before. Also were his feelings changing more and more from shock, sadness, despair, fear and pain towards what he usualy would feel, which kept Sonya talking towards him "I can feel what you felt before. I know the fear of corruption, from both witch-hunters and even the witches. They both are the same, but they won't control you. I'm here help you dealing with that. You have to trust and belive me."

The shiny Umbreon blinked again and looked directly towards the Sylveon, to see a sudden  soft smile form onto her face as she spoked up with honesty "We tree can help each other. You've shown me you really can be trusted, and even against my better judgement, I have thought of you as my friend." She continued to smile towards him despite the little pause, and was still completly honest towards him "Yang and me are always there for those we can trust and care for. We'll defenetly help each other out whenever we can. That's a promise."

Nox silver eyes blinked yet again before they gained their usual shine back, which caused Sonyas violet eyes to widen when he spoked out her name weakly "S-Sonya..." "Thank goodness..." was the Sylveon saying in relief when she started to relax, beeing glad that the shiny Umbreon was finally back to senses. Yet did she blinked suddenly in surprise, as she became suddently nervous while they realised the distance between them. *S-she's so close...* were his thoughs, but before he realised it did he mindlessly placed his lips onto hers.

Sonyas looked shocked as she frozed in place with wide, violet eyes frun the sudden kiss. Her face turning bright red, while Noxs face was also becoming bright red like a tomato once he realised that he was kissing her right on the lips. But at the same time was his heart beating so fast that it wanted to explode right out of his chest. The Sylveons face became much more redded when she closed her eyes from embarresment, since she didn't know what to do in this situation, which made her was rather adorable for the shiny Umbreon.

A sudden groan from Yang caused Sonyas violet eyes to open up wide when she got back to reality, which also made Nox snap out of it even if he felt embarresed... but he strangely felt pretty happy too?! His silver eyes blinked when she pulled back from him, seperating their lips as she restedg her feelers and her left paw against his chest to hold him away. The Sylveon glanced over to their shiny Mienfoo friend, who started to shift around a bit with another groan, but didn't woke up yet as she got into a slight paniced from the situation.

At the same time the shiny Umbreons right paw moved towards his lips, before he blushed like a madman when it dawned to him what really happened. With embarresment, yet also seriousness did he spoked out in a mumble "T-that was my... f-first..." Sonyas ears twitched when her ears caught Nox mumble, as she looked shocked and confused towards him, while her blush became even worse then before. He looked down for a moment as tried to get clear thoughs while they spinned around *W-Why... did I ended up... k-k-k-kissing her!? A-am I really...?!*

The Sylveon tried to get a hold of herself as she stared at Nox with as seriously as she can when he looked back upwards. Yet was she still blushing like crazy as she said in embarresment yet seriousness "N-Nox snap out of it! Y-Your being affected by my ability!" The shiny Umbreons ears twitched from that explaination while his heart stopped for a split second for some reason. His ears lowered down onto his head with a pained look in his eyes as he was uncertain about what she said *W-was it really... j-just her ability that caused this?*

Sonyas gazed down for a moment after seeing the gesture of his, but then made a face that tells that she tried to be rational before her paws and feelers lowered away from Nox. She soon glanced back back up towards him, then looked away rather embaressed when she softly spoked up with honesty "I-I'm glad your ok." His ears perked up from that sudden phrase of hers, somehow feeling semi relieved when he responded the same way she did "Same for you too..." Both Eeveelutions took a breath to calm themselfs down from the... kiss.

"Seems the trial was more tasking than we thought. It brought our worst fears out to test our willpower." she tried to focus on the task they had as he responded withY-yeah... our worst fears were the trial of our willpowers..." The shiny Umbreon thought about that particular scene again that just happened a moment ago in his own mind *It still felt too real to be just an illusion...* as he was able to see how the Sylveons face turned upset when she spoked up what they both thought happened to the group "Seems we didn't pass."

"Seems like it..." was he agreeeing weakly with a nod, before the ears of the Eeveelution twitched and rised up when they both heared the voice of their shiny Mienfoo friend call out "N-Not quite." Yang was awake again after the nap she took, as she started to push herself up. Both Eeveelutions immediatly walked up to her and helped the shiny Mienfoo sit up on the ground at least. "Careful Yang..." was Nox speaking up relieved to see that their friend is allright. "Easy Yang." did Sonya spoked out relieved at the same time like him.

"You really pushed yourself. You entered our minds." did she mentioned when Yang was holding her head, properbly from pain and sighted softly. Nox was realising that really happened, as he recalled seeing Yang beeing alive at the end of the trial that he had. "T-Tried to. I-I think mentor might have helped me a bit. I-I'm just glad it worked. I'm so tired though... I-I haven't exerted my aura that badly in years."  was the shiny Mienfoo explaining what she did... he had to really thank their mentor once he'll meet that Pokemon with them.

Yangs green eyes opened up completly, which had relief and happyness in them as she muttered "Y-You both were in scary situations. I-I'm glad I was able to help, even a little." Nox sighted from that fact Sonya spoked up with a smile on her face "Yang you did more than a little. You really saved us. Thank you." He too got a wide smile on his face as he followed up with "No Yang... that wasn't a little thing that you did. You really saved me and her back there... So thank you a lot Yang for saving me. I really own you my life this time."

The shiny Mienfoo looked very surprised when both Eeveelutions did said that she did made them a major favor by helping them as she was ready to cry because of that, yet quickly wiped the tears in her eyes away. "I-I'd never thought.... I'd be the one to ever save you both.... I-I was so scared.... I-In my trial you both had left me behind back in my prison because I was weak..." Nox was shocked when Yang told them what she whitnessed in her trial, then pained when he remembered that he almost did gave up completly if it wasn't for her.

Sonya was equally shocked, then pained too when she remembered her own trial too. The soft laught of their friend made them both pay attention towards her again as she spoked up softly "I-I can't tell you, how happy I am that wasn't real. A-And that I was able to help you both this time." The Sylveon hugged their friend softly on one side as she she reassured her "Like that would ever happen. I'd be a mess without you in my life." At the same time did the shiny Umbreon ended up hugging the shiny Mienfoo on the other side of hers.

"Like hell would I abandon you... I'd be a complete mess by now if you weren't my friend Yang." was he speaking with honesty towards Yang as she was giggeling softly in happyness by the embrache of her friends. Nox soon glanced over to Sonya when she looked sadly to the side as she spoked up with pain  "My trial was facing my corrupted self. The one I could have been if I had stayed a huntress." A frustrated sight escaped her as she continued "I had given in, almost accepted the fact I could never be different due to my family history."

The Sylveon soon made a face as she touched the top of her head very softly with a little rant "And I got a painful reminder from Mentor due to almost giving in."  She then glanced over to the shiny Umbreon, who looked sadly to the side as he spoked up weakly "I... nearly gave in too..." He quietly mumbled shortly atfer that "To blame myself for everything that happened in the trial..." His hug onto Yang became a bit tighter when he started to shake a bit again "R-really... if it wasn't for you Yang... would I've been dead for sure... or worse..."

Sonyas eyes narrowed a bit in sadness after hearing that, before she said in frustraition "Either way. We still failed the trial of willpower." The shiny Mienfoo instantly reacted to that with "N-No we didn't." Nox gasped in shock to hear that, while the Sylveon looked confused as she continued with "I-I might be wrong, but I believe we passed. I-I may have offered you my help, b-but I think that is what this trial is teaching us." Both Eeveelutions were rather dumbfounded about that as they asked in unison "Teaching? Teaching what?"

"That one beings willpower isn't always enough. S-Sometimes the combined willpower of more can be greater than one." was Yang explaining before smiling very happily. "Basically, being with others you rely on and share the same determination can help you overcome anything instead of alone." was she continuing as the shiny Umbreon blinked from that, then looked down in embarresment because it sounded like a quote. Sonya was snickering in amusement with a smile on her face towards her teammate "That sounds so cheesy."

The shiny Mienfoo instantly reacted surprised, before becoming embarresed while pouting at her teammate "I-I was being serious!" Nox asked with confusion, yet honesty "S-so... d-does that mean we... are a great collaboration team or... what does it mean?"  At the same time did the ... accidental kiss played in his head again as he asked himself a question that really mattered right now between him and her *Am I still... just a friend after that?* Sonya looked rather confused too as Yang smiled softly "N-No. Not exactly collaborative. M-More like-"

"It takes great willpower to overcome your fears, but also to know when you require help." was she getting interrupted by the same voice they first heared before the trial of willpower had started. It startled the shiny Mienfoo, as she jumped in her sitting position while the Sylveon was instantly looking upwards as the shiny Umbreon was looking around confused at first. Soon did Nox looked upwards to the ceiling to the same sign again that was at the entrance of the cave glowing above their heads to take a defensive stance.

"One being alone can prove they they have the willpower to overcome any trial or fear that comes their way. Yet can it also overcome them when the beeing knows that a task is too much it to handle on it's own and calls for help."  Yangs green eyes widened as the voice said something similar to what she explained, while Sonya looked rather surprised first, then seems to contemplate it. Nox silver eyes narrowed to hear that, before he looked towards their friend who was giggeling with a bright smilet, because she nailed what the trial of willpower was trying to teach them and properbly other Pokemon that took it.

"When the willpower of those combined for a single purpose pull through, each of their individual strenghts will shine. Together can they get past any obstacle in their way. You all passed my test."  Both Eeveelutions were rather shocked and dropped their chins simultaneously to hear that they passed the trial of willpower. The shiny Mienfoo was surprised too, but recovered as first when she smiled very brightly and giggled very happily. "I told you!" was she saying in a playful triumph as she hugged both her friends at the same time, having forgotten for a moment that the trial of willpower also harmed their bodies.

The Sylveon grunted a bit in surprise from the sudden strength of their friend, then in pain as released a noticable wince "Y-Yang easy! W-We still took quite a beating remember." At the same time did the shiny Umbreon winced in pain that he didn't really felt so much, while he was also surprised that their friend had such strenght inside her. "Bloody hell! The trial really got us into bad shape!" was Nox exclaming right after what Sonya said, which made Yang gasp in shock as she released the hug and raised her paws up right away "I-I'm sorry!!!"

The Eeveelutions lightly bump into each other when she letted go of them, which caused Nox to look towards Sonya while she looked towards him in return for a split second. They both ended up blushing as he gazed shyly away, while she stood up and backed up, keeping her gaze down while she was kinda nervous. Yang became curious from their reaction, as she looked towards her teammate first, then over towards him while he wasn't aware of that.

"I'm glad you're still alive Sonya." was Nox speaking out loudly as his look softened on him while he looked towards Sonya. Her eyes were widened in surprise before she glanced towards him when he sighted softly. "Thank you for helping me out of the shellshock state i was in... I appreciate it, my friend." yes, he admitted with honesty that the two of them  are friends after this event. Yet was he waiting for her response to that while he thought of what happened *But...I did ended up kissing her... what will she think about me because of that...*

The Sylveon seemed to be confused and nervous when she heared that, yet surprised when she got another blush across her face before she reasoned with herself as her ears lowered down. The shiny Umbreons heart was for some reason aching from what he said before, but even more when his ears caught the sad ring of her bell as he tried to stay calm somehow. He was able to see how Sonya glanced towards the small piece of his old, blue scarf that he used to stop the bleeding of the cut as she took a deep breath with a sad look on her face.

She soon looked up towards him with a soft, yet very honest smile "I'm glad your ok too. And I can finally admit it that we are friends. Now I know that I can trust you Nox." Nox played along and smiled in return with honesty that was hiding away his confusion. He should feel happy because the two of them are friends, yet at the same time... *I don't get it... Sonya finally accept me as her friend... I should be feeling very happy. So why am I feeling... sad like this? Is her ability still affecting me? Or is that... something I though I couldn't feel anymore... *

Yang, who was silent during their interaction, beamed up in happyness with a very bight smile on her face when her teammate is opening up to him. But the happyness didn't lasted long when the symbol above their head shined out bright blue again. The three of them jumped up, before the shiny Mienfoo whimpered in concern as Sonya glared up and took a defensive stance when shhe mumbled "Not this again." Nox too stook a defensive stance next to Yang, ready to piick her up despitie his wounds as he spoked out "I swear if it's another Trial..."

"I shall reward you with a proove of passing my trial." The unlikely trio looked confused towards each other, then became highly alarmed when three blue orbs shot out of the symbol. The orbs floated around on the spot, causing the shiny Mienfoo to watch curiously towards them while the Sylveon glared in alert towards them. The shiny Umbreon didn't felt any malicious witch energy from them, as they instantly started to fly towards them, two towards Yang and one towards him. His silver eyes widened in a shocked surprise when he felt the orb enveloping his neck and actually forming something on it.

At the same time did he looked rather confused towards the shiny Mienfoo when he could see how one of the blue orbs went into her Bag of Holding before it started to shine inside it. The last one enveloped around her waist, causing her to jump in surprise while Sonya looked confused yet concerned towards her friends. The blue light flashed out and just left a strange looking waist scarf on it's place. It was blue colored, and had a green gem on the knot, which was holding it together around Yangs waist while the long ties looked like the symbols tails.

Nox then could see how the blue light traced from the Bag of Holding towards Sonya, who was surprised and couldn't react to it as it attacked onto the back of her head. She remained still and was in loss when her long excess hair was pulled into a low ponytail. Her new hairpiece had her amythest gems in the center of it, while it looked similair to the blue symbol above their heads with it's two tails. The two ends had a small gem in the middle of them, the right side is green and the left side is blue.

Both females were looking rather surprised as they tried to look towards them while the shiny Umbreon looked down towards his neck. He gasped out pretty surprised when a silver necklace was attached to his neck, which had a military dog tag hanging onto it that was completly blue instead of the silver color the necklace had. Nox inspected the military dog tag closer, notecing the symbol of the strange Pokemon was on the front it, while on the back of that symbol was a phrase written in latin.

He was confused for a second when he asked out loudly towards the two girls "How did I... got this necklace and the military dog tag? Wait... I can read the phrase on the back of it!" "Numquam se minus solum quam cum solus esset." was he perfectly reading it out loud and clear for his two friends. He looked up towards the two females, who were looking with curiousity towards him about the language they don't now. He letted go of the military dog tag and instantly translated the meaning for them "You're never so little alone as when you're alone."

The shiny Umbreons got a very light frown on his face as he gazed towards the shiny Mienfoo, then looked over to the Sylveon that had slightly widened eyes from the phrase. Both Eeveelutions instantly turned away with a noticable blush on their face after their eyes met again, while their friend looked rather surprised by the latest interaction of them.  Nox on the other hand noticed how fast his heart was beating as *My hearts beating too fast for my own good... yet is it only that way whenever I look or interact with.*

He slowly started to realise what was going on with him as his ears lowered a bit down from beeing uncertain about that *Could I be that I'm... in l-love? But wait... that still might be her ability...* Yang was staring back and forth between the two Eeveelutions, before her green eyes widened as she was about to suspect what might going on. But before the situation got more awkward did the voice spoked up again, causing them to get out of their thoughs again "You have proven yourselves worthy to bear my emblem."

The area they were in suddently started to rumble, before the sudden moonlight caused the eyes of the shiny Umbreon to squint while his navy blue rings responded with a stronger glow in return. Once the light was more menegable were Nox silver eyes widening up, only to see a new corridor that leaded the trio of them to the surface from the Temple of Willpower. "Now go, and show to others the willpower of yours. Use it on good judgement and never let it lead you astray." was the voice calling out one last time, before it faded away, along with the glow of the symbol that was alligned to it.

After a moment of silence did Yang spoked up "I-I've never seen a material with an emblem like this before. A-Amazing." Sonya sighted, before she spoked up "Everything hurts, but we gotta get out of here either way. We did what we supposed to do, and almost paid the price for it. Luckily we pulled through. Together that is..." Nox body got up from the sitting position, making him grunt from the pain, causing the two females to look towards him rather worried.  "Don't worry, I still can move... though, everything in my body is hurting."

He at least knew what his necklace and the military dog tag were made out and decided to tell them "The item I got is from a rather rare material that is known to be pretty durable... Tungsten, or Wolfram if I recall it's name right... and the dog tag is layed with fireproof color too..." Soon did the shiny Umbreon realised what they group shared with each other "We all got the same like emblem that looks similair to the symbol above us..." They were still underneath it when they looked upwards to it, realising that it wasn't shining anymore.

The shiny Mienfoo got a soft smile and pointed to the items they got "A-At least we're still alive. A-And we warned these treasures." Nox sighted a moment as he looked towards the exit that revealed itself. "Yeah... we're still alive, even if we almost payed for the decision of exploring this place. At least did we got a proove of passing a... pretty tought trial that broke through our individual willpower..." But his pride and selfconfidence got a rather nasty dent from that, since he never had surrendered before... until that particular trial that is.

He started to walk towards the exit, but then heared the Sylveon spoke about what she learned "I also learned something. I'm not my sister. I may be the same evolution as her, but I'm not going to turn in to her or be compared to her. I'll find my own strength in this form and learn to accept it." He instantly pouted from hearing the same phrase that he had told her shortly after the debriefing had ended, as he frowned in slight annoyence to remind her of that "I'd told you that before Sonya... that you're not your sister and have your Mentor, Yang..."

The shiny Umbreon was determined as he looked towards the exit while finishing the sentence quietly with "..and me too." He soon started to walk towards the exit again, wanting to sleep and nothing more "Let's go Yang, Sonya... I'm pretty tired after that eventful day happened... and umm..." A slight nervous look formed on his face when he looked over his shoulder towards the females "Mind if we share one room tonight incase one of us get's a nightmare? I'm pretty sure that I've to deal with what I saw in the trial a bit longer."

Sonya looked rather surprised by that, whiile Yang nodded with a soft smile "It's fine. We understand." "Yang!" protested Sonya with a stern frown on her face. "W-Why not? I-It's no big deal right? We are all friends now." was the shiny Mienfoo asking with a pleading look, causing the Sylveon to respond with a rather hestiant look on her face "Not everyone will see it that way." Nox blinked from that phrase, before he realised *W-w-wait... i-is she afraid that I might get affected by her ability again?! And why am I so nervous right now!?*

He looked forward to the exit again with an embarresed blush on his face, while hearing the conversation of his friends going on. "P-Please Sonya. I-I agree with Nox. A-After what I saw, I-I wanna stay close to you both. I-I don't think I can sleep without both your auras close." was Yang speaking up with a worried undertone. "P-Plus, we got the dream catcher, remember." was she remembering Sonya, whos bell rang out loudly when she was . contemplating for a moment "Ah right. It's supposed to help keep nightmares away."

"Sure, guess it can't be helped." was she sighting in defeat, which made him sigh in relief to hear that she got convinced, and that they got a dreamcatcher from the Flygon that he got the Starry Dye from. *Ah right... I think I'll apply it to the silver necklace once I wake up from the well deserved sleep...* Yet at the same time did he glanced over his shoulders to the females to see Yang getting up from sitting. She whimpered softly and stumbled a moment, then said "Y-You were right. E-Everything does hurt. I-I'm still lacking energy after using my aura so much."

Sonya was next to their friend and got up to stand onto her rear paws, so she could support her with her front paw onto the shoulder while the shiny Mienfoo smiled grateful towards her, before they both looked towards the exit. At the same time did Nox got yet another blush and instantly looked straight, only to realise what he was feeling the whole time.  His paw moved to his chest as his ears lowered down a bit, when he told himself in his mind what really was going on *I can't deny this feeling anymore... I think... I'm in love... with Sonya.*

He sighted in defeat about the new realisation that he got, before speaking up with a grateful tone "Thanks my friends. Umm.., you can sleep near the door as usual Sonya... I just umm... I just wanna be in the room with you two because of this trial... we're friends after all now and err... I won't be near you if that's what's going to bother you and will be near Yang instead." He felt a bit pained when he spoked these words out, but he didn't wanted to cause trouble either for them. Also was he scared to confess his new feelings towards her.

Especially because Sonya thought it was her  Cute Charm ability which wasn't working that welll against him since he actually is in love with her. "It's fine if you get the door side Nox. As long as Yang is between us it doesn't matter." was her reaction to that, but for some reason was he able to hear out that she was bothered too. He felt kinda sad about the way Sonya might be thinking abotu him, that he's a burden for her because of her ability *She's properbly thinking about her ability... and the... kiss that we both had...

Nox shook his head one last time, then spoked up "Let's head back to Yawaru in a slow pace... allright?" Despite that his body was in pain did his willpower kept him up on his paws and capable to move around. Although it will be a slow travel did he  calmed down from the blush he had on his face as he speaks one last time "And... speak up if you two need a break on the way back, okay? I don't wanna push it to the limit tonight because we all got a pretty tough day after us." Both females responded to him with "Allright, and you'll do that too."

After what felt like a three hour march back to Yawaru, with several breaks inbetween them thanks to the weary bodies of theirs, did they finally arrived at the Inn they would stay for tonight. The trio instantly headed over to the room they got from the receptionist The shiny Umbreon could see a Pachirisu that was wearing a light blue, sleeveless vest that had a pair of light yellow lightning bolt emblems on the neckline glaring towards him with jealous black eyes, but decided to ignore that when he entered the room as last one.

The Sylveon took the bed near the door and sat down onto it, while the shiny Mienfoo took the middle bed near the window, leaving him the one to the right. Yang instantly sat down on her bed and started to bandage her wounds up, then took care of Noxs wounds. He letted her do so and only made some grunts when she was bandaging up the more painful wounds of his. The shiny Mienfoo soon went over to the Sylveon and sat down next to her, so she was able to start bandaging up the wounds of hers, starting with her front paws.

Sonya whimpered softly from the pain she felt, causing their friend to apologise "S-Sorry. I-I'm still not the best at wrapping these correctly." She shrugged softly to that and reassured her with "Better than what I could do. Thanks Yang." Yang smiled to hear that, and once she was finished did she looked over to Nox to ask "A-Are yours ok too? I-I didn't tie them too tight did I?" He shook his head softly and responded with a soft smile "I'm allright Yang, none of the bandages are too tight on my body. Thank you again for bandaging me up..."

She smiled softly, before she headed over to her bed while he leaned down onto his bed with a sigh and a slight whimper from the pain that he endured on the way back to Yawaru. Because of that was he clearly tired as he looked towards Yang, seeing Sonya from the corner of his view field, not knowing that she was looking towards him "I think I'll try to get some rest now... thanks to the dreamcatcher you two got will we get not any Nightmares from what we saw today... but I just... feel a lot more calmer when I'm near Yang..."

His silver eyes blinked from tiredness as he mumbled quietly "Even you Sonya... despite that you have Cute Charm as your ability..." Sonyas ears raised a bit, causing her bell to ring out as she gazed away while Yang became curious. Yet was he able to see her getting a soft blush across her face as she spoked out nervously yet in honest "N-no big deal. We have become friends now and I trust you Nox." She took a deep breath, then turned to look towards him with a light smile on her face, causing him to get a light blush in return.

He nodded quietly towards her while his heart was leaping out of his chest from that, which reminded him that he was in love with Sonya after all and that it wasn't her ability that was affecting him. "Let's get some rest." did she said towards the two of them as she curled up on the bed with her head on her paws before she sighted softly. "Allright... good night Sonya, Nox." was Yang saying with a soft yawn as she took the blanket and leaned down, facing Nox. "Yeah... night you two... sleep well..." was he responding to that as he curled up in his bed, with his head on the pillow while facing Yang in return, before she closed her eyes.

He looked down towards the military dog tag one last time with a last tought *I lost my parents when I was still young. And I still don't know where Nariko is and if she's truly alive.* His eyes soon looked back up to look towards the shiny Mienfoo, and even the Sylveon *However... I won't let history repeat itself again with the two dear two friends of mine... and I do wonder if she does feel the same for me... but only time will tell.* With that tought did he closed his silver eyes, and fell shortly atfer that asleep thanks to the tough day they all had.