Thin lines were sketched out onto the white sheet of paper, short strokes formed a bigger picture together and finally created the image of a human with an impossibly wide grin. In his hand, he held a smaller human that was gazing up with a horrified look on her face, a combination of despair and resignation.

The houses drawn in the background actually revealed that the grinning man was the size of a giant and that was ominously looming over the town full of humans. The monster watched the town underneath it with an almost childlike glee. It was one of many panels, but they all had the same eerie atmosphere.

"Eeeii, that looks so scary." Fay winced as she looked at the drawing. "I can see all the teeth!"

"It's supposed to look frightening," I remarked.

"Why don't you draw something nice," Fay muttered.

"Nice doesn't sell," I said out loud before actually thinking it over. "Drama and conflict makes a story. Otherwise, there would be nothing to draw people in."

"No one's gonna read that." Fay defended her point. "Besides not to complain but I personally think the drawing quality is lacking."

Oof, I might need a burn heal for this.

"I know." I answered without much emotion. I can draw decently but not quite good enough to actually go professional. I took a few seconds to find the right words."This is not the finished product, those are just the drafts for the storyboard. Someone else will actually redraw them before they get published."

"Mmm, I don't think they'll sell."

I shrugged. "Welp, either way, I did my duty."

Obviously, I hoped that the finished product would sell well, besides just satisfying my own ego it would also serve as a good introduction to a whole new genre of manga.

For some reason most manga in this world were pretty much Pokémon centered traveling stories, a bit like the 'actual' Pokémon manga from my own world.

Producing an entire series myself was a bit too much work for one person but I had been told that the Dream Company could find someone else to transform it into something worth reading.

Fay sighed and pressed her head against my arm. "It's just so gruesome, with the teeth and blood."

Maybe I should tell the publisher to put a not-for-kids rating on it. It would probably attract even more kids. Well, and more revenue.

"Hmmm..." Snowflake stared at the drawing of a medieval-style village while making some kind of humming sound, which I didn't even know she could do. She looked perplexed almost as if in a trance. Her eyes staring into nothingness as if reliving a lost memory.

She finally pulled her gaze away and faced me. "Nineee?"

"She's still not saying anything." Fay mumbled when I turned to face her for a translation. Fay clarified. "Just random noise."

I patted the white fluffy creature and she purred with happiness, all the previous emotions were washed away like sand in the wind.

"Kiiirr!" A loud yell echoed through the room and was followed by a loud bang.

Sand plumes stirred up around Luna, she retracted her fist and glared at the shattered rock in front of her. "Kirlia!"

No idea what she was saying exactly but my guts told me she was cursing in Pokéspeak, seeing how Fay scowled at her.

"Fine, try it with a smaller rock," Sabrina said, not at all impressed by Luna's rage.

Kirlia turned towards Sabrina with frustration. Her voice told me I was right about it. {It simply won't move.}

"Patience." Sabrina retorted with an impassive look on her face. The red dress wearing Psychic stared at the broken rock. Suddenly her eyes glowed with purple flames.

The shards of the rock began to float up in the air around Luna, levitating at eye level, each piece slowly spinning and orbiting her like a miniature solar system.

It was extremely fascinating to look at. I had seen it before, and this was the least surprising thing in this world, but it kept being something so cool to look at.

"I know you can do it," Sabrina said. "Don't let your emotions ruin your concentration."

How long had we been here again? One hour? Two?

It felt like the two had been trying to master this trick since forever. The floor of the arena was littered with rocks, most of them visibly damaged by Luna's frustration. Yet for all her trying she had not been able to move anything with telekinetic powers.

Sabrina was convinced she could teach Luna how to do it but I started to doubt that Luna had an affinity for it. I wasn't even sure how telekinesis works, level-wise Kirlia shouldn't be able to learn it at this stage but...well it's telekinesis, the laws of physics are still a Work in Progress in this world.

Did I want Luna to learn telekinesis? Hell yeah! Alakazam had shown first hand how extremely effective it could be and with telekinesis in Luna's move pool the number of attack combinations she could pull off would increase drastically.

Sadly there was no progress to speak of, despite all of that Sabrina kept pushing Luna to keep trying with the same stubbornness she had shown me before. She subtly kept glancing towards the tribune where I sat, probably worrying I wouldn't be satisfied with the lack of results.

For some reason, she still acted a little bit skittish, something I took a little sadistic amusement from. Luckily there were no visible signs Sabrina had received a kick to the head.

Coldheart had been nice enough to patch up Sabrina without asking questions, although she shot me an amused look that suggested she knew something, but didn’t ask any questions. Apparently, my kicking techniques suck because Coldheart managed to fix Sabrina without needing too much time or her weird Lickitung. I had been tempted to suggest Sabrina to take therapy (by God she could use some) but because I'm such a noble person, not because I was scared she would start nagging about my own mental state which is completely fine by the way, thanks for asking. Talking about being a noble person.

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I put away the shiz I was working on and got up from my bench. My legs were still sleeping so I kicked the air to wake them up. Snowflake and Fay watched as I stepped onto the battlefield and approached Luna from behind.

A rainbow-colored laser sniped a big heavy rock and caused sand around it to stir up. Three more rainbow beams followed like bursts from a shotgun. Frantic cracks appeared on the surface of the rock Luna had taken her anger out on.

{It's not working! Aaargh!} Luna fired a final beam and the rock shattered with a thunderous crack. {What good is this new form if I can not even move a damn rock!} Luna cried out.

She turned around to face me as if she had just noticed my presence.

The fragile Kirlia gazed down at the ground and began to speak telepathically. {I'm sorry...I don't...I can't do it.} Her eyes began to tear up, she tried to blink it away but failed horribly.

Seeing this scene unfold in front of me shattered a small part of my heart.

I wanted to tell her to drop it, that it wasn't such a big deal but I had the feeling that Luna wouldn't accept that and see it as a loss instead. She was just like that.

"Are you really sure she can do this?" I turned to Sabrina.

The girl nodded. "Absolutely, her power is strong enough and all the knowledge is there." A shrug followed. "It's a mental block, maybe fear of failure or disbelief; Psychic powers require willpower and strong belief."

Well, Luna wasn't lacking determination… hmm a problem presented itself.

Luna can't use telekinesis and telling her to drop it would leave her like this. For some reason, she really wanted to learn it and there isn't much I could do to make Luna give up on her goals.

Guess I'll have to do something.

"Say, Sabrina, the anti-teleport field is still in effect right?"

"Uhm, yes?" Sabrina answered, confused.

"Please do me a favor and don't move in the next minute, and don't use your power either."

"Okay?" Sabrina arched her eyebrows but complied anyway.

I knelt down in front of Luna. "You do realize I love you, even if you don't learn telekinesis?"

Luna gazed down at the ground. {I must learn it….otherwise…}

She didn't finish the sentence. I sighed and decided to tap Luna on her head.

"Don't worry, I trust you can do it." I smiled.

I got up and took a few steps backward and with the same sweet smile I just spoke to her I drew a silver gun.

"5 seconds before I pull the trigger." I looked her dead in the eyes as I put the gun against my own temple. "5...4-"

An invisible force jerked the gun out of my hand and violently threw it behind me where it landed on the dry soil with a clicking noise.

Luna's eyes glowed demonically and a scream followed. A telepathic voice screamed in my ears and made me involuntarily flinch. Luna jumped towards me and magically managed to tackle me to the floor despite not being that heavy.

I landed on my back but it didn't really hurt.

Luna laid sprawled out on my chest, heavily breathing as if she had just run a marathon. Her body was shaking and her blood-red eyes were fixed on mine.

{Don't do something that stupid ever again!} She whispered yet still managed to sound threatening at the same time.

I grinned up at her and pointed at the gun that was lying on the ground a few meters away. "Congratulations you used telekinesis, unless you interfered?" The last part was directed at Sabrina but she answered it with a glare, looking quite pale herself. "I didn't."

She managed to find the right words and like a volcano she exploded into a tirade. "You are literally the worst! Seriously, what's wrong with you?!"

I slowly got up, holding Luna in my arms like how I would hold a cat or dog. "I did what's necessary."

{Don't scare me like that!} Luna glared. {It was not worth it.}

"But you were sad and all, can't let you be down around me." I patted her on the head. "Besides, it was not like I would actually shoot myself."

The safety switch was on, so there was almost no risk. "Anyway, try levitating something."

Luna tried to keep looking at me with anger but couldn't hold out for long. She pulled her gaze away and stared at a small heart-shaped rock lying next to her. It began to flow up in the air like it was hanging from invisible strings.

{It floats!} Luna said with awe.

The heart-shaped rock started moving in the air, zigzagging and moving up and down. The movement was jerky and rough but it was movement. Luna could not suppress the urge to start giggling like a creepy yandere. Weird shit, I know.

I felt something hit my knee, I looked down and saw a blue Riolu giving my leg a weak punch.

"You are an idiot," Fay muttered. "I actually can't believe you would come up with such a stupid plan."

I opened my mouth to respond but Fay wasn't done yet.

"Actually, no, I can believe you would do something like that." She sighed and looked up at me with a sad look, "Sometimes I wonder why I even follow you."

"Can no one appreciate how smart it was from me?" I protested.

"Yip!" Snowflake said happily, she had apparently joined Fay.

"Doesn't count," Sabrina shook her head in disappointment. "Fuck I can not believe you just did that."

I watched my cute Kirlia floating rocks in front of her, all the while laughing and smiling. I'd like to argue that it was worth it to see her happy like that.

"I told you, there have been better attempts to take my life than yours."

She seemed to be taken aback by that, after a second of opening and closing her mouth like a Magikarp. She finally stuttered. "Killing yourself does not count!"

"It does," I said smugly. "Killing myself counts as self-defense."

Huh, I had never seen a girl be confused, furious, and have a disappointed look on her face at the same time. Welp, it was kind of amusing to see, I wish I could snap a picture.

"Urrgh! You are impossible!" Sabrina threw her hands up.

"I'm possible," I replied.

While we were having our discussions more shards began to float around us. Luna was playing with them, crashing them into each other midair or trying to make figurines out of the various pieces. It was pretty cool to see and even cooler to think about what else she could do with this newly found power.

I let go of her and retrieved the silver gun from the ground. While I picked it up I suddenly had a moment of enlightenment because I finally found a cool name for it. I had been looking for a name for a while. I decided to call it Soulsilver, now I only had to think of a name for the golden gun but what name could I possibly come up with?

As I was applauding my own sense of humor another question popped up in my head and I turned around to face the cute fluffy snowy fox.

To experiment I waved my gun in front of her face but the white fox spared it not a single glance, instead, she kept gazing into my eyes, all the while having that stupid smile of hers.

"Hey Sabrina, does Snowflake understand what guns are?"

"No?" the girl frowned, "Why are you asking that all of the sudden?"

"I suspected something like that," I replied. Snowflake had not acted up when Sabrina pointed a gun at me, instead, she kept being her useless self and just a few seconds ago she ignored the fact I pointed one at myself.

"It is part of her mystery," Sabrina said, "She doesn't seem to grasp the concept of firearms. However, she does get aggressive when a sword or knife is pointed at her."

"Hmmm," I mused out loud, "Well isn't that something."

I put the gun away and booped Snowflake on the nose.

"Ni!" Snowflake made a sound that came close to giggling, she relaxed and closed her eyes. Her mouth opened and her tongue tried to lick my hand.

"Damn, that's cute." A voice called from behind.

My red-haired knight strolled over the battlefield, he gave Kirlia a curious look.

"Did you teach her that?"

"Something like that," Sabrina answered vaguely.

"Anyway, Dust, the Commander wants to speak with you." Caleb suddenly said. "I was told to fetch you, apparently I am your babysitter."

"What? Why?" Sabrina asked cautiously.

Caleb shrugged. "Beats me, he just told me to bring him and his Pokémon, and said he had an offer for him."

I raised an eyebrow.

This was getting interesting.