The shard wakes.

Sorry, no cheesy title this time. This is a serious event, and it needs a serious title.

There still aren't many pokémon about, there are our partner pokémon, Glaceon and siblings, and the odd earth creature that looks different if you squint. Aswell as the bird I told you about last time, since I last posted I've seen a carp in a pond that flickered between normal and magicarp, and a bee that became a lot bigger when squinted at, looking distinctly like a beedrill.

Oh, I mention 'siblingS'. Not just just the one Eevee. And I should probably tell you about where we hang out in order to hide all the strange happenings. Let me explain:

I think I'd better start with where we hang out, because it's not just us anymore.

We have started (Since about a week before post 1) hanging out in an abandoned shop down a deserted side street in the middle of Cambridge. I don't know what made us go there, but one day we just felt drawn to that street while we were in town. It was empty, it used to sell videos and film cameras, stuff like that, but didn't upgrade with the rest of the world, and began to fail, until it went bust.

It was mostly empty, the windows were covered in dust, and a lot of the shop's name had faded, but the door swung open when Ragnarok pushed it, almost as if it had been waiting for us. Inside, there was a wobbly table, a few old swivel chairs from behind the counter, the counter itself, and stacks of old video tapes. Why hadn't they been taken away when the shop shut?
So we tidied the place up, put a video box under the tables short leg, got rid of some cobwebs, generally made it habitable, and started hanging out there. It seemed to make so much sense, we didn't know why. Still don't really, although it worked out well, sort of. That's where we were when the shard arrived in our dimension, that's where we had our battle, and that's where Eevee tried to seek shelter from the bullies.

Right, I promised to explain the siblings remark. Quite simple really. Glaceon has more than one sister. He has three. And four brothers. All Eevees, around level 10. Turns out Glaceon decided we were alright, got the Eevee we met to lead him to our abandoned shop, and then proceeded to move everyone into one of the rooms above it. Seems he now thinks of us as helpful protection. We have promised to do everything we can to keep his family safe.

Well there we go. On with post development.
About a week ago, (Sorry it's taken me a while to write this.) me and Ragnarok had met up again, although to be honest, we'd been meeting up pretty much every day since this whole thing started. Today though, Jonny had joined us, with the egg I gave to him to look after. We'd promised a proper look at our Pokémon, and we'd finally all managed to meet up together.

So there we were, watching Rattata and Charmander playing around, and Jonny had just asked if we could have a battle so he could watch, when my shoulder started tingling. It was such a weird feeling, I fell to my knees, clutching hard at my shoulder.

'What's wrong? You look like you're having a heart attack!'
'Thhhaaaattttt's your whooole LELELELEFT aaaaaarm!'
'Oh, yeah. Shard?'
Whaaaaat dooo yooou thiiiinnnnnk?'

A pinky purple light was coming out of my right sleeve, and I was shaking wildly.
Just as Jonny was coming over to check on me, a wave of energy erupted from my shoulder, and expanded to envelope the whole room, and then head through the walls, expanding rapidly, until it faded from sight, all in a couple of seconds. I got up, dizzy, head throbbing, and looked around. Rattata and Charmander looked happy, but a little afraid, and they seemed to glow for a few seconds, before that too faded. Jonny's egg was shaking violently, and I could smell a slight burning. I looked down. We'd decided to have lunch here. The strawberries were gone, but there were 9 apricots left. Or there had been.

The plastic tub they'd been in was now a puddle, and where they had been, there were steaming red and white spheres. Very small, steaming, metal balls. With buttons on the front. 9 Pokéballs.

'Wow.' I stared at them, shocked. I was joined by the others, and after they'd checked I was ok (Strangely, apart from the headache, I felt fine again. The moment seemed to have passed as soon as the wave of energy left me.) we divided them up. We each took two, and left the other three in a cupboard we'd fixed, so they were there if any of us needed them. Then three things happened at once. There was a small white flash in the air, and a piece of paper fell to the ground, my phone started ringing, and Jonny's egg started to glow.

Ragnarok picked up the paper, I answered my phone, and everyone turned to stare at the egg. I noticed it was a friend of mine, Don calling me, just as Rag said 'Ah, this might explain some stuff. Tempest, you should look at this. Do you know anyone named Tingle?'
'Huh? In a sec. Hey Don, What's up. Don't you have Karate now?'
'Hey T. Yeah, I do. That's why I'm calling. I was in the middle of a session, and I felt this weird sort of wave shoot through the room, and then as I floored Sensei, something appeared next to my bag. Nobody else seemed to notice it appear. It's been a few years since I played, but it looks like a Pokéball. Know anything?'
'Aaah. Maybe you should come round...'
We were interrupted by a yell from Jonny. His egg glowed even brighter, and hatched.
'Hap? Happiny! Happy happy happy!'
'What was that?'
'Yeah, uh, this will take a while. You'd better come round.'

Sorry this took so long to put up, I'll try and catch you up better in future.