It was a typical January afternoon in Truce, the air was slightly chilly and there wasn't much of a wind blowing. Citizens could be seen out and about doing their daily routines. (Eevee)

Mogwai sits on a bench near the fountain, using her sharp claws to peel an orange. It was such a peaceful day, the kind where absolutely nothing bad could happen.

"Well, that's an interesting way to peel an orange..." an apparition of some sort was looking over Mogwai's shoulder, chuckling softly to himself as he appeared to float around the bench, taking a seat down near the end and looking up at the sky. (Nightwind/demonicor)

Mogwai looks looks around in fright until she sees the apparition and calms down "Oh jeeze, it's just a ghost." she says, before biting one of the orange pieces with her fangs and sucking the juice out.

Julexa comes storming into Truce not even a few minutes later, screaming at the top of her lungs. Her fur is fluffed completely up, making her look like a little yellow tumbleweed that zipped on by instead of a Pichu. She hides under a bench, whimpering and curled up in a tight little ball.

Mogwai gives a surprised yelp and bends down to look under her bench "Hey, what happened Julexa, you look like you've seen a... well, monster."

"Not quite a ghost, I-" he turned his head and stood as the pichu ran into the town square, kneeling before the bench, his form looked slightly more solid than a moment ago "Is everything alright?" (Nightwind/demonicor)

Julexa doesn't answer, she seems to be slowly rocking herself back and forth, making soft noises that probably resemble crying as she tries to calm herself down and tell herself that what she saw couldn't have been real.

Mogwai slinks off the bench and crawls under the bench with Julexa to give her a hug "Whatever it was, you're safe now. I won't let anything hurt you. What do you say we go find Eevee and take care of whatever frightened you?"

Julexa looks up at Mogwai. "pi..pipipi..pi..pi...pichu..(Well, I'm not sure that he can even help me with this. I'm still trying to figure out if what happened back there actually happened..but it really scared me..")" She manages to choke out, holding up a small bunch of grapes and she then proceeds to take small bites out of one. Those grapes could probably last her a week.

Nightwind flickered a bit before he decided to crawl under the bench as well, a little more difficult for what appeared to be a semi-tangible ghost (or something) of a fully grown human "Well, you're here now, I don't often see threats survive long in the middle of this city, so you should be perfectly safe..." (demonicor)

Mogwai smiles sweetly "He's never let me down before. He may not realize it at times, but he's the most Reliable friend I know. So... what did happen?"

Julexa blinks "Pi..("Well...")" She starts to tell Mogwai about how she found a big pile of dead bodies in her cave when she returned, and how the cave went pitch black...and something was watching her and she escaped from the shadowy demon-like figure and ran all the way to town, only stopping to rest after she collapsed.

Mogwai forms her lunar whip in one hand as she offers the other to Julexa "Well then, what we need to do is clear. I need you to be brave, and lead me back there. If there is a demon at your place, Eevee could be in danger. I need to protect him."

Towards the west, Kalin could be seen steadily approaching Truce. Spotting Mogwai and Julexa from a distance, he stopped and thought to himself for a moment. Should he say goodbye? Or perhaps leave without saying anything? Or maybe he should hide before one of them sees him. These thoughts fill the Eevee's mind while he stood still. At any rate, he was glad he cleaned his bloody fur up before leaving the cave.

Nightwind laid down beneath the bench to listen to the story, becoming slowly more tangible as the tale wound onward. He crawled out from under the bench at the story's end "It seems like dark tidings, or a cruel joke," he wiped off his suit some as he stood "and I'm not certain I'm much use in a fight." (demonicor)

Mogwai follows along with Julexa, eventually spotting Eevee off in the distance. "Speak of the devil..." She runs ahead to greet him "Hey! I just ran into Julexa, she was telling me about some demon back at her cave... I don't suppose you already ran into it did you?"

Nightwind's form began to flit and flicker even more as he became fully solid, sitting back down at one of the fountain-side benches to relax and watch as the water was artistically thrown from its apex into the basins. (demonicor)

Kalin grit his teeth as Mogwai and Julexa approached. As much as he wanted to flee, he stood his ground. He winced in response towards Mogwai's question about a 'demon'. "..Vee. (A..demon? Er..yeah, it's gone..)" The Eevee wasn't sure what else to say.
Upon the fountain sat a can of 'Old Spice: Swagger' body spray, which was no doubt within the ghostly individual's sight. Why would such a thing be there? (Eevee)

Julexa blinks at Eevee. "Pi..("It's gone? You mean, you saw it too?"")" She asked as she looks at him, then to Mogwai. ".....Pi..?("Well...I guess that settles that?")" She says, as she continues to eat her grapes

Mogwai dissipates her whip and ruffles Julexa's fur "See? I told you he was Reliable." Something seemed a little off here, however "Err, you ok Eevee?"

Kalin's eyes began to tear up gradually as he watched his sister peacefully move on from the traumatizing ordeal. He moved closer towards her and wrapped his paw around her, hugging her tightly. "Vee! (I'm sorry, sis..I'm sorry..)" is all the Eevee could say. As the tears began to roll down his face, Kalin let the Pichu go and started to head eastwards without responding to Mogwai's question.

Mogwai jogs along after Eevee "Aww, someone's being a grumpy Gus again. I'm sure whatever's wrong can be smoothed over, and we can all go do something fun together."

Julexa looks at Eevee. "Pi?("Eevee? Where are you going?")" She asked, but made no motion to try and follow him, she had no idea why he just started to move on like that. She looks up at Mogwai, then decides it's probably okay, so, she just follows at a safe-ish distance.

Kalin couldn't fight the tears anymore, causing his face to become drenched as he looked into Mogwai's green eyes, hoping to outpace her. "Eevee! (Don't follow me! I..I can't stay any longer. You two..you're better off without me!)" shouted Kalin as moved into a sprint, banking southwards as soon as he reached the fountain. (Eevee)

Mogwai runs after shouting "Buuuuuuuullshiiiiiiiiit! Don't make me drive after you, I'll chase you to the end of the Cleft if I have to!" She pays absolutely not attention to the can of Oldspice. It is, after all, simply an inanimate bunch of deodorant.

Julexa glances up at Mogwai, raising an eyebrow. "Pi..?("I don't feel that's true, Eevee, I've had fun knowing you..even if it's had it's rough times...")" She says. "...Pi.("...However, if you feel that way, then I really have no power to stop you.")" She says, afterward, as she watches Mogwai chase him and she attempts to keep up.

Nightwind doesn't look back, doesn't raise his eyes from the can of deoderant, reaching out to poke it and see if it would go splash in the water, or if his hand would simply phase through the ghastly metal apparition. (demonicor)

Kalin came to a stop as he turned around to face Mogwai. "Vee! (Is it? What have I done for you?! I made you wanted in the Beast Kingdom! I've hurt you plenty of times in the past! I..)" The Eevee stopped and glared at the ground. "Eevee! (I betrayed you! I knew what I was doing, yet I did it anyway! Don't..don't make this hard on yourself, Mogwai..this is the reason I was -meant- to be erased from time!)" shouted Kalin as he closed his eyes and focused on Sylphid's blessing.
The can of Old Spice: Swagger falls into the fountain after being poked, resulting in a slight *PLOP*. It floats aimlessly along its surface. (Eevee)

Mogwai doesn't stop, but slows down as she approaches Eevee "I've forgiven you for that. You've helped me find closure in my life, you've always been there for me when times were tough. I can't think of a single time when you legitimately betrayed me."

Mogwai's words felt like knives piercing Kalin's heart. After his transformation, he looked back towards Mogwai once more. As much as he tried, he couldn't find the strength to say it. He simply growled, "Sylphideon! (..Ask Twilight sometime.)" Kalin then leapt up into the air, circling once around Truce before turning to Mogwai and Julexa one last time. (Eevee)

"Sylphideon! (I told you already what my intention was for saving my world. I should never have stayed with you two. I should never have fallen for you! I can only hope that preventing my existance will save you from remembering me. I'm sorry, Mogwai..but this is goodbye!)" said Kalin as he circled around Truce once more, preparing to take off. (Eevee)
"Sylphideon! (I told you already what my intention was for saving my world. I should never have stayed with you two. I should never have fallen for you! I can only hope that preventing my existance will save you from remembering me. I'm sorry, Mogwai..but this is goodbye!)" said Kalin as he circled around Truce once more, preparing to take off. (Eevee)

Nightwind reached for the can, this time his had did phase through it, he simply blinked at the hand before resting on the edge of the fountain with a sigh "Ah well, these trips are a nice break from the usual." he smiled and close his eyes, his form flickered and flitted one last time before popping out of reality again. (demonicor)

Mogwai jumps up in the air, fluttering hew tiny wings in aggravation "Come back here you coward! I'll show you I'm not mad at you if I have to beat it into you!" She snarls and stomps back to the fountain, doing her best to stay angry for the time being.

Julexa just sighs ands looks up at Eevee. She opens her mouth to say something, but she knows that it more then likely wouldn't change his mind. She slowly turns away, waving good-bye to Eevee, and just plops a grape in her mouth to keep herself from going any further.

With a flare of white light as she materializes near the fountain, Twilight Sparkle shakes the soot from her mane, before following through with the rest of her body. "I can never seem to avoid looking burnt whenever I do that..."

Without anything else to say, and hoping that it wouldn't matter in hopes that all memories of him will cease to exist, Kalin takes off southwards. He wanted to use as much as Sylphid's power as he could to reach his destination and to put distance between him and Mogwai. Tears continued to stream down his face until he disappeared from sight. (Eevee)

Mogwai storms up to Twilight "YOU! Eevee mentioned something about wanting to run off and ceasing to exist. He said he'd betrayed me and you'd know the answers. So what the FUCK is going on, kupo!?"

"Wh-wh...?" Mogwai's outburst has a wide-eyed Twilight Sparkle stepping back and falling flank-first onto the dirt, clearly too surprised to say much, though her surprise gives way to guilt as she looks away sadly. "I... He was attracted to me, back when I was cursed to look like a cat. I invited him to visit, so he could see what it was I do for a living, but... Oh, Celestia, I'm so, so sorry..."
"I'm honestly expecting you to hate me, Mogwai..." In humility, Twilight Sparkle lowers her gaze, folding both ears flat against her head in inconsolable and sincere regret.

Mogwai looks taken aback "...that's it? Jeeze, he made it sound like something serious. Next time invite me. Anyway, don't suppose you have a telescope? Eevee flew off somewhere and I want to try whatever I can to find him."

"I should have one, but I can't help you... I'm feeling ashamed of how I acted, even if it was inevitable..." Sighing sadly, and rising to her hooves, Twilight Sparkle turns to trot away, extinguishing the glow of her horn as she heads north into the darkness. "Besides, I'm going to feel guilty that I didn't act rationally, and thought with desire instead of my mind..."

In the middle of this commotion, the little Pichu seemed to have snuck off somewhere, for she isn't by the fountain anymore. Maybe she headed back to the cave? Who knows, but as of right now...Julexa is nowhere to be seen at the fountain area.

Mogwai shrugs "Nonsense. Now we have more in common. Besides, if you really feel guilty then all the more reason to help. You'd owe me."

"Mm... I suppose you're right..." Even though she stops and looks back, Twilight Sparkle keeps her gaze fixed on the ground, with her mane falling over her eyes. "I do owe you that, at least, so let's get to looking for him..."


Mogwai gladly follows after Twilight, grinning mischeviously "And while we work, I'm gonna have some fun questions..."