Ancient Trackways
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don't wait for me after i'm gone by nucifraga
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
04 Feb 2025
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When a rift was torn open atop Mount Coronet, Ingo became abruptedly aware that he no longer qualified as an amnesiac. But how was he meant to explain to anybody - especially in this time - that his only memories were of inhabiting a draconic form that hummed with electricity and overwhelming power, such a far cry from his weary, fragile, too-familiar human body?
And then Akari summoned Arceus.
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- Part 1 of Ancient Trackways
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a part to play, living by written lines by critrate, nucifraga
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions
29 Mar 2025
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Cynthia let out a startled, slightly too high-pitched laugh. “You’re telling me you’re – if what I’m hearing is right – one of Unova’s legendary dragons in human form?” She clutched the ends on her sweater’s long sleeves into balls, knuckles white. “...the worst part is that I see it. If I had to pick one, Zekrom – right?”
Her breaths came quicker now. “But that means– all those years ago, I displaced Zekrom with those rifts that I tore in space-time. Heavens, why didn’t you seek me out and rip me apart when you regained your memories?”
Two regions over, half a century before N's coronation, two not-quite-humans run into each other once more. The rain continues to fall.
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- Part 2 of Ancient Trackways
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inside of a lens by nucifraga
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
04 Jul 2025
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Her regrets follow her at every step, despite having paved the way for the person Cynthia has become - stronger, slightly wiser, and determined to build a life outside of the sins that she's committed. Much of Volo's history now lies where it belongs, in the distant past.
Then comes Dawn, one of this year's new Pokédex holders; the spitting image of a girl who she'd once wanted dead for the crime of being Arceus' chosen. Dawn is twelve years old.
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- Part 3 of Ancient Trackways
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rise above it all by critrate, nucifraga
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
24 Oct 2025
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Zekrom couldn’t hold back a full team of six while protecting both of his young charges.
There were too many variables, too many factors to consider. How could he leap into battle and still ensure the safety of both Hilda and N, when Ghetsis had so openly stated his malintent?
Then a tightly-contained orb of scorching heat blasted past Zekrom and hit the opposing Bisharp head-on, and he faintly recalled that Alder’s footsteps had been accompanied by another’s.
He recognised the attack in a heartbeat.
N’s formula to change the world involved three key variables. Team Plasma, the Pokémon League Champion, and the Dragon of Ideals, Zekrom.
Ingo, dormant within the Dark Stone, had other plans - and so did his brother.
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- Part 4 of Ancient Trackways
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to play a role by critrate, nucifraga
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions, Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
11 Feb 2026
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‘Dawn’ was the name of a Champion, a young girl who had beaten the odds and come out on top over all the other trainers in the Sinnoh Region, who had been lauded as a battling prodigy on the cusp of a decorated career. It was the name of a starry-eyed child whose life was brimming with opportunity.
Akari was no longer that child.
And yet ‘Champion’ was a title that opened doors which an ordinary trainer would never have the ability to. It was a title that came hand in hand with duty, but one that held no small amount of power – power that could be used to scour the earth for hints of a dragon that most relegated to mere myths and legends.
Dawn is finding her uncle, no matter what name she opts to use. No matter what name he opts to use.
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- Part 5 of Ancient Trackways