The Other.
Dying felt as if I had just come back from zoning out for a while. The snowscape around me suddenly snapped back into focus. It was odd, though. I didn't see any of the ice spires my Frost Fall had made, nor was there a death squad of Sableye waiting for me.
Instead, there was a frosted rocky shoreline outlining the nearest parts of a glacial lake. The snow around that deepened very quickly, until only the top third of the scraggly pine trees in the distance were uncovered. And I could barely see those trees through the ice fog.
"So..." I looked around. "Ninth Circle, then? Let me guess, I betrayed my humanity?" I gave a mirthless chuckle. "You'd think that I'd be in the Seventh, but no, here I am-!" I flinched as what sounded like a gunshot boomed out. I whipped my head around until I spotted a tree that had exploded from the cold, the ice fog started to creep back towards it. I frowned in thought. "It's odd though." I mused aloud for a lack of anything else to do. "I don't feel cold..."
I hopped to my feet and began to stretch. "Welp! I guess I should look around before whoever runs this place decides to freeze me here." A soft crackle started up from out on the still waters, obscured by the mist. "Or I guess I should just think of a cool pose instead."
"..." A soft voice echoed out from the mist, audible over the suddenly much louder cracking.
I watched as the water rapidly froze into foot thick sheets of ice. I had to quickly make multiple hops back from the expanding ice sheet, until I was standing in belly deep snow. "Look, just because I deserve that, doesn't mean I'm ready to be an Eevee-sicle just yet!"
"..." I looked up to see a very disturbing sight. It looked like someone had taken a large husky, tripled its size, shaved the vast majority of its fur off, and gave it an extra couple sets of legs for good measure.
I gulped. Although I could see that it had no teeth nor claws, the black fur around its paws and muzzle were frozen into wicked replacements. Other than those patches, it was completely hairless, its taut muscles clearly visible underneath its chapped skin.
"...?" I jumped as it addressed me again. "..." It sighed out a foggy breath, freezing an icy incline out of the very air. It lounged against it and waved a forepaw at the ground in front of me. "..."
"Erm..." I looked around me before shoveling the snow in front of me until I had packed down a cushion to lie on. "So, uh, when you said "us", did you mean other... whatever-you-are's?"
"..." It stretched a hind leg out. "..."
"And, uh," I nervously scratched behind my ear, "what do I call you, then?"
"...," It yawned, "..."
"Well, then..." A faint memory started to niggle at the back of my mind. An old obscure myth, that this being's form reminded of. "That's it! I'll call you Qiqirn. Less of a mouthful, more personable than Other." I gave... it? Him? I gave them a nervous smile. "Th-that's okay, right?"
"..." They chuckled. "..."
"So long as they didn't call you late for dinner!" We both chuckled, although mine were slightly more hysterical. "Arceus, I wouldn't be joking around if I wasn't already dead!" I muttered.
"..." I flinched with a squeak. "..." They sighed. "...!" They leaned back and crossed their front paws. "...?"
I stared at them, then looked around the winter landscape around us. I observed my misting breath, even though I couldn't feel the chill. "I'm evolving?" They nodded with a chuckle. "Is... is it too late to ask you to send me over to the Flying type zone?"
They tilted their head back and roared. I flinched back into myself, ears folded and eyes screwed shut. It was only after listening to their roar echoing off the tundra for a little while that I realized that they were laughing. Eventually, they calmed down enough to talk again.
"..." Their face softened. "..."
I sighed in disappointment. "Alright. I'll try to make the best use out of all of this, but I'm going to sulk while I'm here and have the time."
"..."
If they truly know everything, maybe... I chewed my lip in thought. "Do you know what's wrong with our eggs?"
"..."
"That bastard!"
"..." They sighed. "..."
"And what of the Claw?" I scowled. "Is he behind that too?" I got a rueful chuckle in response. "What?"
"...!" They ground their gums together. "..." They leaned forward. "..."
"So he didn't just choose us?" I growled, hackles twitching. "Why didn't he just-?!"
"..." Qiqirn sighed. "..."
"Well, that sucks." I pouted, before tilting my head. "Why do you call people by titles instead of names?"
"..." They shuffled a little with a chuckle. "..."
"Oh. Do you know mine?"
They waved a paw. "..."
I shrugged. "I'll take it."
"...?"
"Did anyone else get pulled here, other than Luke?"
They fondly smiled. "..."
"Really?" My tail started to thump into the snow behind me. "Who?"
"..."
"Awww." My pout returned. "This is going to be one of those weird dream things where I'm going to forget everything when I "wake up", isn't it?"
"..." They folded their front most legs over their barrel. "...?"
I place a paw against my chin. "Why did Luke and the others get pulled in?”
“...” They chuckled again. “...” They waited a brief moment to see if I would speak up. “...?”
“Yeah…” I thought a little more. “Yeah, that should be all.”
"..." They stood, frost growing and flaking from their skin. Their eyes glowed a pale blue, and their voice gained a reverb. "..." Three motes of light were pulled from my chest. I watched as my fur lost all colour.
Qiqirn cupped the motes of light with their front paws and breathed out an intense cold. Hoarfrost grew on the ground beneath them, and trees exploded in the distance. Once they stopped, a single pale blue crystal floated between their paws. "..." The crystal floated back to me, and embedded itself in my soul.
Though I felt no pain, I could feel all of the changes happening to me. As I grew, I shed my greyed out brown and tan fur and light cyan fur grew in its place. I already knew that the darker blue diamond patterns were fading onto my back and the end of my tail. I also gained socks in the same colour. My ears became more angular, the thicker fur making them appear slimmer. My tail flattened, broadening at the tip. The strangest feeling was the crest and fleshy flaps growing from my brow.
I looked over myself before sheepishly looking up at Qiqirn. "Do you have a mirror, or, er, another such reflective surface?"
Their eyes had returned to normal. They gave me a fatherly smile. "..."
I nodded, and focused on my mana. It felt different than it did before. Colder, stiller, but more... complete. I pulled it up through my throat and breathed out a mist. Where it touched, it built up a slab of smooth ice. I gave myself a proper inspection with my reflection.
Satisfied, I turned to Qiqirn and bowed. "Thank you. I will use your gift to the best of my ability. I will make you proud." The world started to crack and glow into a brilliant light.
"..."
[Third]
Rainbow crossed the barrier around the Empire and dropped Shining onto the grass. She didn't land so much as stumble from the air. Something was different, something was off. She couldn't tell what it was and was distracted from recovering from their run. She turned, staring out into the snowy expanse.
"Rainbow! Ya gotta take a look at this!"
"Not right now, Pinkie." Rainbow called back over her shoulder.
"But-!"
"I gotta know that she's okay!" The prismatic mare returned to looking for her Eevee, breath misting as she worriedly scanned the snow. "C'mon, Leo..." She muttered to herself.
Several thousand miles away, a crack boomed out from the gardens around the Canterlot palace. Though the guards searched for hours, they still missed the long crack hidden under the rose vines growing on Discord's statue and the fountain he was decorating.
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So, Leo is becoming a Glaceon, and something tells me Discord is coming back earlier than planned.
2 thing This will be awesome reading it and cool pokemon
Boy that's a lotta hidden text you've replaced and smothered away in this chapter...
And thus it has come to pass, as many of us anticipated from very early on. Here's hoping Leo's hatred of Winter doesn't cause any issues.
Sheer Cold with STAB is going to be brutal.
I wonder what multiplicative Ability Leo will now have, and if theres any useful non one shot items available.
I legit JUST finished reading the last chapter and clicked back into my favorites to find the story still there. Was wondering what happened and then there the new chapter was! XD
There comes a song to mind:
When heavens divide
🎶♡♡♡🎶
Petals of white
Cover fields
Flowing in grieving tears
And all the hearts
Once new,
Old and shattered now
Love can kill,
Love will die
Give me wings to fly
Fleeing this world so cold
I just wonder why
Cold as the dark
Now my words,
Are frosted with every breath
Still the heat
Burns wild,
Growing inside this heart
When the wind
Changes course
When the stars align
I will reach out
To you and leave this all behind
When heavens divide
When heavens divide
I will see
The choices within my hands
How can we ever protect
And fight with our tiny souls
Let me shine
Like the sun
Through the doubts and fear
Do you feel the storm
Approach as the end draws near
When heavens divide
Time will come
To softly lay me down
Then I can see a face
That I long to see
And for you,
Only you
I would give anything
Leaving a trace
For love
To find a way
When heavens divide
I will dive into
The fire
Spilling the blood of
My desire
The very last time
My name
Scorched into
The sky
When heavens divide
I will see
The choices within my hands
How can we ever protect
And fight with our tiny souls
Let me shine
Like the sun
Through the doubts and fear
Do you feel the storm
Approach as the end draws near
When heavens divide
Time will come
To softly lay me down
Then I can see a face
That I long to see
And for you,
Only you
I would give anything
Leaving a trace
For love
To find a way
When heavens divide
And for you,
Only you
I would give anything
Leaving a trace
For love
To find a way
When heavens divide
🎶♡♡♡🎶
Leo is becoming a Glaceon? I find it the least fitting 'Evolution' for him/her.
Glaceon usually need cold regions to be fine and are miserable in summer...
Congratulations, Rainbow Dash! Your Eevee has evolved into: a Glaceon!
Leo FINALLY evolves! Hype!
Well, Leo always was a stone COLD bitch XD
Author, you sneak. Though I must admit, I like this version better. Trying not to miss anything in the unintelligible was less pleasant.
AWWWW!
I was hoping Leo would become a flying type, a story exclusive evee-lution. The again. I hope your making her an Ice/flying type.
Holy exposition, Mare-Do-Well!
Now Leo and Rainbow will kind of be color coordinated at least. Rest of the pack will be in for a surprise when she gets back to Ponyville. I can already see the CMC trying to open a Glaceon snowcone stand.
Well 2 eons left to be used wonder who going to get the last ones
Well, there'll be no gigantomaxing Leo now.
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Which two? I'm pretty sure that they're all used up now.
Leo - Glaceon
Cy - Jolteon
Yomega - Espeon
Lulu - Vaporen
Zann - Flareon
Conner - Sylveon
Villhiem - Leafeon
Abes - Umbreon
And Vince still as an Eevee.
I had a sneaking suspicion that Leo would eventually evolve, but I honestly wasn't expecting her to become a Glaceion. Time to see what she ends up getting ability wise...
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So Vince will be a duplicate of any one of them? Doesn't feel right if he is the only one who remain an eevee.
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Tbf, if Vince remains an Eevee, that means they can have access to the Z-Move Extreme Evoboost and attack with the power of the whole pack combined
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When did yomega evolve? Last I read he was still a eevee
Awww yahh my hope come true I'm so beyond hyped and happy 😁😁!! I can't wait to see what happens next (no rush).
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STAB only works on moves that use the traditional damage formula. Sheer Cold just KOs things outright (or, more than twice as often, does nothing).
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Now I'm imagining Leo dying her hair to match.
Well, that was certainly a chapter. Some nice information in the hidden text for the dedicated audience to see, although it was a bit of effort to get through it.
Nice to see Leo's evolution, but I gotta say Rainbow I don't think you're finding her just by looking out at the snow. Glaceons kinda blend in with the kind of terrain that surrounds the Crystal Empire.
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Yomega evolved back in the dragon lands durring the dragon migration (aka the Gathering)
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Does that mean that Vince will stay an Eevee but have a Dinomax form from sword/ shield, Z-move user from sun/ moon, or a partner Eevee from Let’s Go?
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It IS the most unfitting. Glaceon is one of the SLOWEST eeveelutions, tied with Vaporeon, Flareon, and Umbreon, with only Sylveon being slower.
A FITTING Evolution for the character that's all about Speed and tied to flying would have been a Flying Evolution. Or if had to stick to the core eeveelutions and no made up ones, Jolteon who is the fastest.
We will have to see how the story handles it, but Glaceon from the outside looking in view, was definitely not the best, not even seen as a 'good' choice.
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Wonder if the story will be redacted? I have seen it happen in other stories... But obviously by other Authors.
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perhaps, but it is also at least 40% cooler than any of the others...
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I think you mean 120%. Cause unless the Author retconned it, it hasn't been mentioned in a while. But I remember the other Eevees evolving literally like BECAME the embodment of their element. The Vaporeon for example, little being Water itself, able to feel, control, and turn into water. And Flareon unable to feel heat as he was fire, and Umbreon being Shadow and darkness, which is why he can appear or disappear into any and every shadow.
So with Leo, he will now be the very concept of Snow and Ice, able to feel every single flake of snow across the entire planet, every ice forming and warming, everything to do with winter, ice, and snow.
So I wonder how she will do outside of the frozen north, and if she will not melt
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Leo is Rainbow Dash's Eevee, so she would naturally be 40% cooler than any other Eeveelution...
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Mechanically speaking, Extremespeed is most useful on things that are otherwise very slow. Call it the Priority Paradox.
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You gotta remember that this is kind of Rainbow’s thing. Tank is a tortoise, a slow moving ground-bound pet, that now has a flying propellor and lives in a cloud house. Leo is now one of the slowest but bulkiest evolution, but still has Extremespeed. Plus, have you ever seen an avalanche? That’s pretty fast and terrifying besides. I’d imagine Leo would find some way to speedily skate everywhere on icy paws Frozone style.
Feels like the eeveeverse side stories have been officially acknowledged, and with an official explanation if you're diligent enough to retrieve it. I like that. It's good when someone who, inadvertently and unexpectantly or otherwise, formed their own mini-fandom, acknowledges and even canonizes some of the derivative works that come from that. Sadly it only happens with smaller, more informal groups for the most part, but thus is the nature of capitalism, copyright, and media in general.
A little disappointed Leo got Glaceon'd, I was hoping for the flying type too, but I can understand the reasoning. Plus, beyond my hoping, I had a feeling she'd end up the Glaceon, I just couldn't figure how it'd be justified. In this case I suppose it's similar to Zann's situation: evolution out of need more than desire.
Can't wait for more! But at the same time, I totally can. I have a fair bit of catching up to do, after all!
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How do you translate it is it code or jumbled?
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I didn't translate. I was looking for any actual words the author may have hidden in plain sight amongst the unintelligible. A less than pleasant experience that resulted in nothing. Because there wasn't anything but the unintelligible.
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Hence my perspective and opinions. Never said it was fact. Though I didn't specifically say it, it is still a comment on a story.
I feel bad for Zann. He's still an Eevee, and now with almost the whole pack evolved he's probably going to feel left out in the worst way imaginable
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It's Vince who's still a normal Eevee, but the point still stands.
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Ffs, I just finished rereading this story two days ago, Zann is one of my favorites, and I STILL forgot who is who. Me and names will never get along.
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No, I swear to god that I figured that he has himself, and TWO OTHER "people" in his head. Not sure why or how I got to that conclusion right now, though...
What you describe:
1(me) - says somemthing
2(other me) - says something different.
What happens there:
1(me) says something
2(other me) says something else
3(another me) says something different from both of these things.
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that's because its an encoded message, you need to use a caesar cipher.
The next chapter will be quite entertaining:
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