In the m I slowly open my eyes as I get my bearings. The worst part about meditating for sleep is the dissonance you feel when you wake up. It feels like everything around you is either moving too fast or too slow, even whehing is still around you. I reach over and grab my phoo see what time it is. Great, it is still well before dawn so no one will be awake yet.

  I sigh slightly and put on my workout clothes before heading down to the gym for my m routine. Instead of my normal routine, I hop on a bike and just mindlessly pedal, letting my mind drift as I fall into a rhythm. Before I know it, two hours pass and when I get off the bike, I don’t feel like I exercised at all but at least my brain is awake now. As I head back towards my room, I see that the lobby is starting to fill with the earlier risers so I quickly duto the stairwell before anyone sees me.

  I toss my workout clothes into the wash while I take a shower and finish pag everything up. I leave out the three rings that I got from the gacha st night and make sure that everything is ready befetting dressed and doing o check of the room before recalling Zephyr and pig up Skadi. It has nearly been a week since Bea and I arrived ier City and I was ready to leave. The fact that there is an adventure ahead of me is maki want t my feet in a city any lohan I o. Besides, I was a try girl in my st life so being in a city puts me on edge.

  I head back down to the lobby and find ay table to sit at while I wait for Bea and Fnnery. I sent them a message when I in my room that I would be waiting for them down here. During our chats the past few days, I asked Fnnery if she wao travel with us, to which she happily agreed so now it is us three girls against the world! I order myself a tte to sip on and some breakfast for Skadi and myself. About the same time as the food arrives Bea and Fnnery show up in the lobby and quickly walk over to my table.

  “M babes.” I give them a slight smirk as I greet them.

  “Mornin’ yourself good looking.” Fnnery fires back with a wink.

  “M~” Bea yawns.

  “I got something when I was out this m. I figured it would be a good way to mark the start of our journey.” I tell them as I pull out the rings I got from the gacha ahem oable.

  “Mmn, these are pretty nice.” Fnnery looks over and then with a cheeky smile she picks up the ring that matches my eyes and stares at me as she slides it on her left ring finger. “This one seems to fit me perfectly.”

  I nearly spit out the coffee I was drinking and look at her with my eyes wide open and my mouth mimig a fish. I feel the heat creeping up my face as I sputter out a reply. “Th-that’s not the f-fi is s-supposed to go on.” Fnnery just starts to giggle wildly at my rea. Bea, atg all this go on, smirks and grabs the red ring and does the same thing as Fnnery by putting it on her left ring finger as well.

  “I guess this one is mihen. She’s right, it does fit perfectly.”

  I look betweewo of them, uo figure out what is going on. I swear, smoke would be ing out of my ears at this point if this was an anime. I puff my cheeks and pout at them and pick up the amber-g and pce it on the same finger as them with a slight huff and look away. “Fine, be that way. See if I care.”

  My rea seems to be the tipping point and both of them start ughing hard as I pout more. They spend the hour teasing me as we eat our breakfast and finally start heading out of the city towards the huge mountain in the distance. As we pass the edge of the city, the sun passes the treetops, lighting up the path we are walking on. I let Zephyr out so that she fly above us a us know if something needs our attention.

  We spend a few hours chatting with each other as it is rather dull as there are very few wild pokemon and we are early enough that no other trainers are on the route as well. Sometime iernoon, the small hills that we had been walking on give way to more rocky terrain aarted to see more wild pokemo our pokemon fight without our intervention as we walk. The wild pokemon in the area are fairly weak aher of us see any that fit in our parties.

  We crest another rocky hill and we are suddenly greeted by a sheer cliff face with a dark cavern in the side. he cavern sits a wooden building that has seeer days with a few people milling about outside. We g each other and decide to stop by in case there is information we need.

  “Hello dies. Are you going into Mount Moon?” Asks a nky guy in a green tank top and beige cargo shorts. I feel his eyes sweep ay body and a shiver gets sent down my spine. My face shifts to a frosty expression before answering.

  “We are. Any information we should be aware of before we enter?” I ask coldly as my eyes search around the area. The wooden building seems to be a resting spot for people that have e through the tunnels. I see a number of people that look like the person that just spoke to us but they don’t give the same creepy feeling this guy does. I also see a few people that are dressed in all bck but are huddled together and talking quietly.

  “Oh well you dies should really have a guide if it is your first time through the tunnels. There have been sightings of packs of wild pokemon ag mgressively than normal and we have had to pull out a few injured youngsters. I am avaible to guide you through the tunnel.” The guy offers as I feel his eyes linger on my chest a lot lohan they should have. I shift my stao something a bit mgressive as I reply to him.

  “My eyes are up here mister. We will be safe on our own. reciate the information on the aggressive pokemon but anything more is unwele.”

  He coughs slightly awkwardly but still tries his luck. “You really should resider. An experienced hand is definitely a good thing to have on hand. I would hate for something to happen to young dies such as yourselves because they refused a helping hand.”

  My voice drops an octave as I gre into his eyes causing him to take a step back. “I. Said. No.” I punctuate each word with a step toward him. Before I get too far, I feel two soft hands on my shoulders that pull me back slightly. I look over my shoulder to see Bea and Fnnery shaking their heads and I back off slightly.

  “Alright, I see I’m unwanted. Good luck with your travels, you will hem.” The guy answers as he backs off and heads into the building.

  “Alright Ice Queen, time to chill out. Take a few deep breaths.” I shoot a dirty look at Fnnery at her statement but then I y eyes and start taking some slow, trolled breaths. Moments ter I open my eyes and feel calmer.

  “Sorry about that girls. I couldn’t stand the way he was looking at me, it felt disgusting. It felt like he was strippih his eyes.” I shiver slightly remembering his sight.

  “Well he will regret not getting to see it, I mean it is a work of art if I have to say so myself.” She fshes me a smile that makes me blush again.

  “Alright lovebirds, how about we get going. I want to get as far as possible away from this pce. I agree with Frost though, that guy was looking for a beating.”

  With our deade we head towards the cave entrahe entrance looks like a mouth that was ready to e us. I shake off the feeling and step into the darkness. I notice the cave gradually get darker until suddenly it is as bright as daylight for me. I blink and look around and then gnce behind me only to be momentarily blinded due to hht the light outside seems.

  “Frost! What is up with your eyes? They are glowing!” Fnnery asks in shock when I look behind us.

  “Glowing? What do you mean?” I ask, I have never seen my eyes glowing.

  “They are like the eyes of a cat at night!” I raise my eyebrow at her iion.

  “Here, look!” She takes out her phone and takes a picture of me before I stop her. She didn’t turn on the fsh thankfully. She flipped her phone around to show me the picture she just took. What I see is white and blue hair that is still refleg the light from the entrance, a shadowy fad twhtly glowing blue orbs with a pupil that has slightly elongated, giving it an almost diamond shape. I spend a moment studying the picture before I blink and look back towards Fnnery.

  “I guess they do glow. I have never noticed this before.” I give her a small shrug, unsure of what to tell her.

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