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The Grimm
Chapter 1: the origin
It was a nice, warm day, and shadow the umbreon child was out playing. He was being closely watched by his parents, moonwalker and dusk. He was rooting through the ground happily, and playing with the wild Pokémon he found. He was digging around the base of a tree, and his mother, an umbreon, called “Come back sweetie! It’s time for your nap!” Moonwalker said, and he sighed. “Okay” he said in a small voice, leaving the red patch he found and going to his parents. “It’s not that bad, you can play after” his other mother, also an umbreon, said. “But I found a cool thing…” he trailed off. He went and sat down on the pile of cloth in their cave “g’night” his other mom said, fluffing up the cloth with her front paws. “Goodnight” shadow yawned, closing his eyes. A few hours later, he woke up. “Time for play!” He said, jumping over his mother, who was currently turning rocks black and piling them up “Be careful!” She called, as he went back to the trade “is someone down here?” He asked, going to the red spot under the tree. It shone a bit,a Nd he dug more “Elec-?” Something asked quietly. “What?” He asked, digging more “Elec!” It said, a bit louder “let me help you out!” Shadow said, and before anything could move, he jabbed the bigger spot of red with his paw “ELECTRODE!” The voice roared, and his entire world was enveloped in pain and fire.

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Title: Chapter 2: the land of the dead

Shadow suddenly woke to an antigravity world, filled with bluish purple smoke. He felt odd… when he moved he screamed, it hurt the worst pain he had ever felt in his life. He looked around, and spotted a shadowy figure hovering feet away from him, its hood down. “Hello?” He croaked, ash coating his throat. “Greetings” a voice hissed “welcome to the distortion world. You are dead” only then, did shadow realize half his body was torn apart, revealing bone all over him, flaps of skin hanging over his body like rags, and one ear was missing. Half his skull was showing, and one of his eyes was gone. He started crying, but wasn’t able to cower, the pain was unbearable. “Oh yes, we don’t get Pokémon your age commonly…” he trailed off, only causing shadow to cry harder. “Sorry young one. But you must stay” he said “b-b-but I d-d-d-do-dont wanna” he stuttered. “Hmm…” the Grimm said. “Maybe…” he snapped his fingers, and a blinding light appeared, before fading to reveal a piece of paper “sign this” he said commandingly. As shadow obliged, almost absentmindedly. “Good. I will bring you back, but when you turn 18 you will replace me,and go back to looking like this” he said, chuckling madly and gesturing to shadows decrepit state. “Goodbye young one” he said, waving, before he was enveloped in light, and the distortion world faded out.

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Title: Chapter 3: Reborn

Shadow came fading back into life, his skin back together. His parents were calling his name, before he opened his eyes “mommy? Mom?” He asked, looking around. His two mothers gasped, and held him as he coughed “you’re all right!” Moonwalker gasped, holding him tight. Dusk held his back as they all shared the hug “I thought you died” she said, before death himself, a tall figure, appeared, and explained everything that happened in the distortion world. When he finished, his mother’s looked at shadow in shock “so… so shadow will have to go back to being… gross when he turns 18?” Dusk asked, holding her heart. Death nodded, barely moving as he explained soemthing else “I’m getting ancient. You see, 567 billion years is too old for me to continue on, so he has to take over for the huge favor I pulled. So he will leave at 18. Also, he will be in unbearable pain always, so just get him used to it” death said, before disappearing. Dusk and Moonwalker turned to look at shadow, who watched back “well… get to sleep I guess” a moon walker said. Later that night, Moonwalker rested against dusk. “I can’t believe it honey. We have to lose him at 18” she said, as dusk put a comforting paw on her “it’s fine” she said, kissing her. “We get to see him anytime, he just has to leave when someone Is dying of natural causes” she said, closing her eyes as she continued resting on her. Moonwalker nodded, and kissed her back. She turned away, glancing at shadow, before tears filled her eyes, and she buried her face in Dusks chest fluff, and she comforted her by patting her shaking back. “I’ll miss you shadow” they coursed, before falling asleep against each other.

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Title: Chapter 4: Moving out

Shadow yawned, and stood up. It was his 18th birthday! He ran over to his moms, leaping over their blanket, which was in the colours of the lesbian flag. He landed in a skidding halt next to the cave enterance, where his birthday was set up. His moms were sitting near a table, and they greeted him happily, as he ran over to them “good morning sweetie” Moonwalker said, as dusk smiled, preparing his cake. He smiled, and looked around his party, where an electrode, a slum tank, an Espeon, a flareon, and… who was that? He was so beautiful. Shadow slowly walked over to the beautiful pokemon. He was a vulpix, but half alolan. He turned around, handsome as something chiseled by arceus, and fur softer than a snorlax “Hi! My names frice, what’s yours?” He asked, brushing away curls of hair above his eyes “uh… uh- uh- uh… my name is shadow, do I know you handsome- frice?” He asked, correcting himself while frice was looking at soemone “Oh, we don’t” he said “Sorry if I’m intruding, but I saw the party and wanted to check it out” he said, swooping his beautiful tails around. Shadow stammered, and wiped a little bit of drool from his mouth “it’s perfectly fine” he stammered, before running back to his moms “hey. When do I get to eat cake and open presents and fo back to talking to that cute vulpix?” He asked, as the beautiful fusion brushed his hair, while looking in a mirror. Moonwalker giggled at the last part, before holding his hand “well, you can have cake now” she said, before the cake faded to black. Death rose form the cake, only visible to Moonwalker, shadow, and dusk, “hello. I have come to turn him to a Reaper”he said, and befor they could protest or ask anything, he pointed a finger at him, and he turned back to his skeletal form. But he turned back to normal, a ripped cloak around him with a metal scythe on the back. He sighed, as death disappeared, a normal haunter now. Everything went back to normal, and they continued his birthday in stunned silence. At the end of the day, Moonwalker sighed, and tied ipup his belongings, crying silently “h-here” she stammered, handing it to him before burying her face into dusk, weeping loudly. He sighed, tears in his eyes. “Bye mom, bye mom” he said, hugging them as they wept goodbyes. He walked out, trudging to the town, looking depressed. Frice bounded up to him “hey buddy, what’s wrong? Your birthday was fun!” He said, as he looked up “I have to move out. I won’t see my moms for a while” he said, and frice hugged him, causing him to blush “I’m sorry bud” he said, tightening the squeeze. He blushed deeper, and hovered his hands around him. “I- thanks” he muttered, as frice pulled away. He saw him blushing, and smiled,blushing slightly as well. “You’re really nice, thank you” he said. He smiled more, and brushed out his hair, his one blue eye and one red eye sparkling “you’re welcome” he said “and I could make you feel better” he ssid “we can live together! I moved out a couple months ago when I turned 18” he said. He nodded vigorously “okay” he said, as they both walked to a motel. They checked in, and frice guided him to a hotel room. They sat down on the same bed, and frice laid down, and shadow groomed him like a cat does. He looked up at him “you’re pretty nice too. And I saw you blushing” he said, and shadow froze, blushing a deep shade of purple “I-“ he said, before frice sat up, and shushed him, before kissing him on the lips.

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Title: Chapter 5: A blossoming relationship

He blinked quickly, then slowly, and closed his eyes, leaning into the kiss. A few minutes later, they pulled apart. “That was…” shadow said, before frice smiled, and re applied his purple lipstick. “It was very nice” he said, as shadow watched him, and decided to put on blue lipstick “yes it was!” He exclaimed, smiling “I Haven’t ever kissed someone before, and that was amazing!” He said, hugging him tightly. Frice smiled, and closed his eyes, hugging him. The hug was warm but cold, like a nice winter sleep. He kissed his chest, and moved back up. Frice blushed, and blooped noses with him. Shadow smiled, and nuzzled into his neck “I love you” they coursed, then laughed that they said it at the same time. Shadow leaned into him, and purred, as frice slowly kissed the top of his head. Later, they were outside, side-by-side, and looking for places to shop. He bumped his side to his,and frice looked over “what?” He asked, as shadow tilted his head at a dusty shop labeled “Krustys coming out shop”, multiple letters falling off the sign. They walked in, no one except a lowly mewtwo sitting at the desk, on her phone. She looked up “hey young couple, we have all the best needs for coming out, and a parlor in the back for being in love if your houses aren’t safe” she said, looking back down. Shadow looked at a large group of pride flags, each with white letters emblazoned: “i am” and then the corresponding gender identity/sexual orientation on it. He picked up a rainbow heart, and squeezed it, as frice flicked him with his tails, and walked over to a small corner, where photos of happy gay couples, transgender pokemon, and non-binary pokemon sitting down on stools were stapled. He looked at them, and pointed out his moms, and frice pointed out his gay dads, one of them a trans-man. They bonked heads, bonding slowly. They walked over to the plain pride flags, nothing but the colours on them, and he tied a rainbow flag to his back, and went to pay. “Free, we’re shutting down” she said, as her lunala girlfriend floated out, and said in her eerie voice “yep. No one comes by anymore, it’s almost like our town died out” she saod, as they nodded, and walked to a room. Frice kissed his check, and he blushed, kissing him
back. “I love our relationship” frice said, kissing him again, and flicking his tails.

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Title: Chapter 7: after the function

They walked out of the room, and walked outside. Shadow didn’t talk for a bit, then bumped him again. He walked back to the hotel, and laid down. They took a nap, after the nap they got groceries, then visited the lake to have a date, kissed under the shooting stars, and went back. Frice was dead asleep, and shadow suddenly started morphing, and turned into his ripped form. He jumped out the window, and glided along, holding his razor sharp scythe. He landed in an alley, and there was an arcanine, his fur all matted as he sat there, heavy bags under his eyes, brown bottles all around him, shattered glass, and a syringe with liquid koffing gas in it. He looked up, and blinked “oh no. I OD’ed didn’t I?” He shook his head, silent as ever. “Oh. Alcohol poisoning?” He asked, and he nodded. He sighed “well, get it over with.” He said, and he twirled his scythe. He swung it down, and the alley filled with darkness, the faint light from his fur gone. The bricks stained red, he walked away, ripping his soul out and shoving it into the dirt, and a pokemon egg formed in the earth. He walked around, and climbed up a wall. He shattered the window, and climbed into an old zorark room. He heard soemthing upstairs, but that was their buisness. He stood over her bead, and swung his scythe, and her scream didn’t have a chance to happen, before he took her soul and threw it into a tree, a black egg forming on a branch. He walked out her room, and walked up the hallway, passing by a room filled with loud noises. He heard the name ‘Cameron’ shouted, and frowned, before disappearing. He appeared in the town square, where a gyarados sat in the fountain, their eyes horribly dark. They looked down “oh, dying today?” They asked. They were one of the non-binary pokemon from the photos. “Get it done with” they said, and he slashed multiple times, leaving the water red. He balled the soul up, and released it to the air, and the soul floated slowly to the arceus star formation. He yawned, and teleported back to the hotel. He rested next to frice, and curled around him, yawning and falling asleep

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Title: Chapter 8: the pain

Shadow woke up the next morning, as frice made food “morning sweetie” he said, exaggerating the last word for comedic effect. Shadow smiled, and sat up “good morning” he yawned, stretching. He stood up, and jumped off the bed, not noticing the dried blood on the floor, next to his scythe, stained maroon. He walked over to frice, and kissed his check as he went to sit next to the table, and waited. Frice walked over with breakfast, and they are in silence for a bit. “What should we do today?” Frice asked, flurrying his tails. Shadow shrugged, one of his eyes slowly turning pitch black as he ate. Frice didn’t notice, and kept chittering about the day. Shadows other eye grew darker, untill both were eerie black. He looked around, and gasped silently as he saw frice aura. It was warm and orange, wavering around him roundly , with yellow triangles. He looked out the door, and saw a swallow swoop past. Her aura was spiky blue, with grey orbs, and she had a solemn expression. He smiled. This was fun! He turned back to frice, who kept talking, and he nodded along without hearing. When frice looked at him after asking a question, he said “uh…” he said, and frice sighed “where should we go today?” He repeated, and shadow nodded “let’s just visit the town square” he said, bounding around the table and knocking aside the door. He ran Down the hall, past the person at the desk, his aura slow and dull blue, with crisp gray sheets around it, and purple orbs. He watched him sadly, then ran out the door, as frice struggled to catch up. He ran around, looking at everyone’s aura, and jumped into the water, happily checking the aquatic Pokémon’s auras. Most auras turned red and white with anger and fear. He bounded up to frice, who was very flustered “what on galar are you doing?” He asked, frowning. “Ihaveacoolnewabilitytoseepeoplesauras” he said, fast and jammed. Frice stilled looked confused “I can see people’s aura now” he said “just like a lucario” he said, and frice nodded “ah, okay. If you don’t mind me asking, what’s mine?” He asked, and shadow smiled “warm orange with yellow spots” he said, before kissing him, causing frice to smile and blush slowly “but now it’s scarlet” he said, smiling as he pulled away. Then, suddenly, he felt needles all over. He yelled in pain, and thrashed. Frice watched him curiously “is something wrong?” He asked, before shade slowly grew two feet taller and longer, and he hissed slowly, before going back to normal. He blinked “cool!” He said, resting his chin on the now shorter males head. Frice purred, and wrapped his tails around him. “I love you big boy” he trilled, kissing his chin. Shadow kissed back “you too” he said, as the fountain sparkled above them in the kiss, as the sun shone through it beautifully, casting a rainbow on them

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