koiwamizuiro | 1st Dive: Beginnings [Action]

[A quiet and peaceful slumber after a long, tiring day in high school for Ai Nanasaki ended up with her waking up in the middle of a forest, her body on the ground surrounded by leaves. Not that she thought she was waking up at first, but that she was in the middle of an odd dream, rather. A particularly vivid one.

It was a bit cold - certainly colder than her room had been - and her body didn't feel as relaxed as it did on the comfy mattress. And she was lying on something else other than the ground.

As Ai leaned forward, her eyes inspected her surroundings curiously, her head feeling a bit dizzy. It resembled the hill her grandfather owned, but... there was something off about it. She wasn't on the route she usually took, either - there wasn't one to begin with.

Still feeling something on her back, she reached over her shoulder and touched what felt like a wing. Also, she seemed to be wearing a peculiar white sundress and not the pyjamas she had gone to bed with.]

Huh...

[This was so strange. And it felt real. It didn't feel like a dream.

Ai continued turning her head around, and it wasn't until her gaze landed on a book right beside her when she stopped doing so.

The girl reached out and inspected both covers of the peculiar object with curiosity in her eyes.

Standing up with the book in her hands, she opened it up, trying to make sense of what was happening. But what was inside of it just seemed to confuse her even more at that point.]

Where am I...?

[Her voice sounded as confused as it could be. It was a good question. And why did it feel like she had wings on her back?]

(OOC: Ai will be walking around the forest while inspecting the book, trying to either find anyone who could help explain what was going on or a sign of civilization. You can catch her there.)

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[Diamond watches her as she talks, Lax dozing off again beside him, and 'wows' silently. It sounded bigger than his!]

That's a lot for one planet. I wonder what else is on mine... There's a lot of oceans too, but Sinnoh's main point are its mountains. At the top of one is a pillar that a family gets material from for their crest. It's a long journey.

[Hmm.]

There's also a volcano. It's still active, I think. Yours sounds much bigger though! What kind of animals do you have?

[There was a certain amusement in seeing Diamond interested about her world - it was hard imagining Earth actually being alien to somebody.]

Well, all kinds, really. The oceans are filled with marine life - many different kinds of fish, sharks, dolphins, whales... And on land, it varies between continents. There are lions and tigers in Africa and Asia, for example, and a lot of other wild animals. The closest thing we have to Pokémon are the animals we choose as pets. For a lot of people those are mostly cats and dogs, but there are a lot of others too.

[Her expression turned into one of curiosity as she turned a little on the tortoise in the direction of Diamond.]

Do you have animals in your world too, or are they all Pokémon?

[Huh... It sounds pretty odd, a world without Pokémon.]

Well, all we have are Pokémon, so I guess you could say they are what would be your world's animals. Hold on.

[He shifts Lax away a little, going to his bag and taking out his blue Pokédex. He returns shortly after and decides to show her some of the Pokémon in it.]

See? Here, you can look through it if you'd like.

[Considering he's seen basically every Pokémon in the Sinnoh region minus The Creator Arceus himself, it's a hefty amount to look through and he'll let her hold it.]

[Ai's eyes narrowed at the next unfamiliar device that she found herself holding in her hands. This obviously came from his world, though, and not Luceti itself.

This... is a Pokédex, isn't it?

It was a Pokédex - she remembered what it was a few seconds after holding it, having seen it before on the show. A database of Pokémon.

There was a lot of information pertaining each one, but it was mostly their portraits that she looked through curiously. Most were unfamiliar to her, this being the Sinnoh region. But some she could vaguely recall...]

Ah... I like this one.

[It was Gyarados' entry she had just seen.

She turned her head to look at Diamond curiously after a question popped up in her mind while she looked through these.]

How do you have your Pokémon with you here? Were you... brought here with your Pokéballs on you?

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[He shakes his head after thinking. Gyarados is a sweet looking thing, though he's only got the data through a nifty data transfer between dexes. So many Pokémon...!]

Not really... Well, I found their balls in the item shop, but the Pokémon themselves were kinda wandering around... I only have these two and Moo, my Mamoswine, with me here.

[He briefly scrolls through the Dex, pointing out Mamoswine. Big fella.]

The Little Miss told me that the rest of us only have three of our friends, too, so the means my other three pals are safe at home~.

[Mamoswine was an impressive Pokémon, just like the others Diamond had - and it was certainly bigger than its trainer like Wig was. Though she was taller than him, she reckoned it would tower over her, too.

She then turned to look Diamond's way with her eyes narrowed sympathetically.]

At least you get three of them, but... you must miss your other Pokémon.

[She knew she would, in his position. If she had a pet back home, she would be thinking about it too.

It seemed like he wasn't the only person to come from his world - so maybe these won't be the only Pokémon she'd get to see in person.]

Which of your Pokémon didn't come here?

[He flips through the Dex as he talks fondly.]

Don, my Bastiodon; Tung, my Lickilicky; and Gi, my Regigigas friend. There's also Rotom, Phione, and Manaphy who I'm friends with, too, so they're okay back home right now. Rotom's a big fan of the mecha anime I watch! And Don and Tung eat as much as I do too. Gi's a protector of the world.

[Legends galore!! Not that she'd probably know, but man. Diamond's smile turns slightly sad, but it's obvious he's okay with them being left behind. They're safer there and there's some sort of non-Dialga-related time thing in place.]

I miss them a lot. We were taking good care of Phione before we came here, and it's kind of been hard not taking up and seeing that odd Pokémon... Oh! Um, right. There's some kind of timethingy put in place so you return the exact moment you left at.

[Ai watched curiously as Diamond showed her the other Pokémon he had - none of them particularly familiar to her. It was still nice seeing their pictures in the Pokédex, because the names themselves didn't mean anything to her. She listened to the trainer intently, gasping a little in surprise at his last words.]

I will return exactly where I was before?

[That was relieving, in a way. Her family and friends wouldn't have to worry about her, and she wouldn't have to be concerned with what was going on at home.

She put her hand on her chin thoughtfully after, her brows slightly furrowing.]

Will I remember everything that has happened to me here?

[Will she remember... He's heard that no, you wouldn't, but he's not entirely sure himself. Diamond shrugs.]

I don't think so... But since I only got here a few days ago, I don't really know. If it's just caused by something here, I don't think you will, but I'm not sure at all...

[He wishes he were, but he isn't.]

[Ai nodded at his reply, not sure how to feel about that yet. Depending on what happens here, maybe some things would be best left forgotten anyway... Though the situation didn't look as gloomy as it did a few minutes ago.]

I guess that... people who know for certain won't be able to tell us, since they will be back in their worlds by then.

[Unless they were brought here twice in their lives. Was that even possible?]

[Certainly so! Some of his housemates are like that (now).]

Ah! I could ask my seniors! Um, two of them left for a bit and then came back, so they'd definitely know the answer to it.

Oh.

[So it was possible to come here twice even after a person was brought back home. That was both intrigued and frightened her a little.]

If they do not remember anything from their previous stay here in Luceti, then... they probably did not remember anything from it back in their world, either.

[Unless there was a way to go back here willingly, and they consciously chose to be here at the expense of their memories. Everything here was apparently free, after all, and that may tempt a lot of people to go back. Or if they were to form an attachment to the place... it wasn't far-fetched to think that they could.]

I wonder if that's for the better, then... It'd be like waking up from a dream if they did, since I don't think we'd be able to keep these wings and all.

[Waking up from it like a dream... That sounds pretty pleasant.]

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