pokémon moon spoilers

[moonsmile]

The smooth stone beneath her feet shifts to grass. That's a little strange.

The sky goes from dark and star-speckled to...not quite sunny, but clearly day. That's more like it.

Nebbie escapes their Ball and flutters above her, making excited chirping noises at the wall in front of them both.



They look back at her, glee and curiosity pressing against her mind. Did you do this? Where are we? This is new! ♪

Moon's climbed the Altar of the Moon and Mount Lanakila enough to recognize clouds at her level, but this is obviously neither. The ruins of Poni don't look anything like this worn wall, or the parapets she can barely see high above. That looks more like...a Kalos thing. Did she walk into an alternate version of there?

Nebbie calls to her again, flying up and over until Moon can't see her at all. Green, grass, soft! she hears.

...Nebbie does not come back.

Moon's smile doesn't falter. It's more of a chance to look around this new space, after all, and Nebbie can handle themselves.

She adjusts her hat and heads into the first entrance she can find. 

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[voidster]

"No. We don't." Wormholes, there's a word he hasn't heard in a long time. Maybe she actually knows of such a thing, but he won't waste speech on asking.

"Some have been here years."

[moonsmile]

No?

"You're trapped?" No we.

decided to do the 'accent' after all, lmk if it's annoying

[voidster]

"We are." We doesn't necessarily mean himself and her. Everyone's trapped.

"I've been rube, haven't I? What's your name?"

gotcha~

[moonsmile]

She doesn't acknowledge that outwardly. The thought of being trapped lances ice through her gut, but she knows she can get out. Nebbie's with her, and her mom or the Professors would notice her missing eventually.

"I'm Moon. I was looking for somewhere exciting."

[voidster]

Moon isn't a strange name at all. Bratty and Catty, now those are silly names.

"The average day is not very exciting, in my opanion. I go by Gaster."

[moonsmile]

Of course it's strange. Exotic, in Kanto. It just sounds weird in Alola, but at least everyone's nice enough there not to mention it.

"I've never been in a castle before." It's sort of impressive.

[voidster]

"Neiher had I. Different when you're confinet without modern technologhy." The castle is much smaller than the underground, after all, and with so few people these days. Oh, well, it's still a step up from the void.

He pauses and opens a door they're passing... just another empty bedroom, very very dusty.

[moonsmile]

It's a strange place...but she's tempted.

Very tempted.

...

She wanders in like it's natural and drops onto the bed, atop the blankets and all. It's a bad habit, but Moon finds she learns a lot testing beds.

It's very soft, but incredibly musty. It's nearly sad how long nobody's used it...

And then she hops up again. "It looks like a museum."

[voidster]

"Not clean enough for a mufeum."

His poor pronunciation really makes no sense. Oh, well, walking talking skeleton.

"There are cleaner rooms."

[moonsmile]

"Are you biting your tongue?"

She brushes herself off, looking around a little more. There are minuscule cobwebs in the corners. A desk with paper--scrolls, but there's no writing at all. A bucket, empty of anything but rings of old waterstains.

Oh well, there's plenty of other rooms to explore, aren't there?

[voidster]

"Don't have one."

Laughter in his voice, as he watches them explore. Not the dangerous sort of human child, he thinks.

"Comlicated skeleton... thing. I don't hear myself the way you hear me. Never sure what I'm s-saying."

[moonsmile]

She halts and looks him over again, far more deliberately than before.

Moon understands. "You don't have ears."

...But he can hear her, so...maybe she doesn't.

[voidster]

"No, it's strainer than that. I hear nonsense, you hear words."

Absolutely he could give a better explanation, if she weren't new and needing more important things explained, if he had the patience to truly speak freely. If.

Oh, well, she seems laid-back.

[moonsmile]

"But you know how to talk..."

She's got more important things to do than interrogate a skeleton how it talks--Moon starts walking away again, a little faster. Maybe he'll be able to keep up, maybe he won't; she'll be keeping an ear out to see which is which, but she's not going to slow down just for him.

[voidster]

"Yes."

Well. Either he's making her nervous after all, having the sheer nerve to stand around looking like the undead, or she's worried about her friend.

He doesn't need to walk any faster. He cheats. Suddenly, he's opening a door she's passing, just wide enough to grin at her. Shortcuts!

(A little immature, but funny. Soon he probably won't feel up to being amusing.)

"Rather explore alone?"

i am so sorry her replies are not much to work with |'D

[moonsmile]

Alright, maybe she will slow down for him, if not in the way she was considering--she halts, looking back.

Nothing.

That's...disconcerting.

"What?"

I can stop!

[voidster]

He's twiddling his thumbs. (It's strange to not be doing anything with his hands.)

"You can tell me to go away."

nuuu

[moonsmile]

A moment ago, Moon wouldn't have minded if he did. Now...

"Are you a ghost?"

[voidster]

"No. No ghost monsters here. Four skeletons, though."

Only half a lie. The Mettatons aren't really ghosts these days, and she'll hopefully have forgotten by the time she finds out. If she does.

[moonsmile]

"You moved through a wall," says Moon.

Hm. She doesn't like it when things move through space in ways they aren't supposed to. She doesn't acknowledge this sudden thought of unease in the least.

[voidster]

"No, I took a shortcut. Teleported. Seleported?"

One of those is probably right. Points for effort and for not giving up yet.

"Skeleton magic, or family magic. Not sure which."

[moonsmile]

Moon doesn't indicate which is right, but she's heard that word--teleport. Some Psychic Pokémon can do that.

Skeletons that walk and say they can't talk, and who think they aren't ghosts, and have moves called magic.

"That's very different..."

[voidster]

"Different from what?" he asks, as he steps out of the room. It's... another bedroom. This whole hallway is, in fact. Silly to have so many bedrooms and so few people in an entire castle...

[moonsmile]

"Ghosts can't teleport alone."

He looks like a Ghost and sort of sounds weird, also like a Ghost. So he's a Ghost, end of story.

[voidster]

"I'm not a ghost. Not a ghost monster." Wait, alone? That seems backwards, it should be more difficult to take someone or something with you. "I don't think ghosts teleport at all."