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Nightfury 4: Uplifting

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    All three left Drethan's shop, heading out into the blinding snow. It felt nice to know that Polar was going to come out of his shell, literally speaking, that he wanted to help other costumed people in the community. It seemed like he was accepting that he could of all people could actually make Mewtwo a better character to look up to, at least it was what I had hoped would happen when we reached the community. We slowed down when we came to the outskirts of the town where the forest edge touches the town. We landed for a brief moment to catch our breath a bit and take a small lunch break.
    "Hope you don't mind that we land here for a bit." Minx said, "I'm a bit hungry."
    "Don't mind one bit, getting used to Polar's psychic abilities takes some getting used to."
    "Getting used to your voice without your mouth moving takes some getting used to." I chuckled.
    "About you Polar..." Minx paused.
    "Hmm?.." said Polar munching into an apple.
    "When we get to the town I need you to hang behind me for a bit while we get there."
    "Why's that?" Polar asked with some concern.
    "You see Mewtwo doesn't exactly have the best reputation in it's series or here in the real world. You have to understand that some of the people in this group have had one bad experience with a Mewtwo we had in the past. Kind of the reason why most costumes or people for that matter stay away from Drethan because they blame him for what happened." She explained.
    "What happened?" I asked.
    "About two years ago, after I went into get my costume from Drethan and noticed another Mewtwo costume in the corner of the room. Now like you I had no idea that the costumes were magical and could make you into the being that you wanted to be. I also didn't know that Drethan, being the secretive wizard that he is made it hard for anyone in this town to remember whether or not they see strange creatures in the town. You could call it a shield for everyone in the town so that anyone who commutes to the city or lives here never knows or remembers the costumes IF they see them." She explained
    "Kind of like the two policemen that knocked on my door to ask if I had seen a large bird outside my building." I laughed to myself.
    "Like that, yes, those policemen probably didn't remember what they saw after a couple of hours. Anyways, after I left and discovered that I could become my costume things became inherently better for me. I could get away from the town when I was stressed and didn't have to worry about a job or people for that matter." she said.
    "Doesn't that get lonely after a while? I mean don't you have friends or family that care about you?" I asked.
    "My family thinks I was killed in the army, which I came back from right around two and a half years ago. With six years of service, a purple heart, and PTSD driving me out of my mind. I obtained the costume and my life became inherently better I could even walk!" She said happily.
    "I'm guessing that your purple heart was for a serious injury that got you discharged. I'm sorry." I said
    "Don't be. It was my choice to be in the military and war is war. Stuff happens that you can't control even if you make it seem like everything is under control. Anyways, I got my life back, be it although a very strange life, I was mobile again and I loved it." She smiled.
    "So what's the story behind your community not liking Mewtwo over here." I said pointing over at Polar.
    "So as it happens Drethan had made several Mewtwo costumes over the years and some of them were fine where as some of them became sentient, as in their owner was lost in the mind and the Mewtwo took over. This happened to us just over a year ago when one of his costumes took over one of Drethan's costumes. Someone with revenge on their mind kind of like you Polar." Polar dropped his head. "Don't feel ashamed, stuff like this happens, Seether you weren't expecting another mind to push into yours were you?" She asked
    "Not in the slightest, Seether was pushed in but it wasn't a very hard push in. I can't imagine something like a psychic taking over someone with revenge on their mind. I remember Drethan talking about Polar's costume and that he had made a less sentient version for him. I guess Drethan does scans of the people that get his costumes." I said.
    "Makes sense I guess." Minx said. "Drethan has apparently been doing this for a while, a lot longer than any of us has been around and has been tinkering with these costumes for a while. I do like that we have a voice in our head though."
    "Since you are permanent does your voice stay with you at all times still?" I asked.
    "She does still exist, its fun to talk about things going on outside and occasionally I let her take control when she wants to, well, stretch her legs. Since I merged I have more instincts that were built into her that became a part of me. So I have some of my own dragon instincts as well as my own human ones. I let her hunt most of the time because I am still not used to picking up things with my maw. The other reason I merged besides getting part of my life back was the side effects from the costume began to bother me. Getting scales, teeth sharpening, tongue getting longer, the usually things that would make it seem like you would be transforming into whatever your costume is. How long have you both been in your costumes?"
    "I just got mine today." Polar said.
    "I've been in and out of mine for about a week or so. But I have started to notice my nails getting longer than usual or sharper than usual." I said.
    "It takes a while for anything to become really apparent." Minx said. "I didn't get my first side effect of scales until almost a month after near constant use. Anyways back to the reason why Mewtwo is a cautious character around the village. Let's just say we have had a Mewtwo come before who had other intentions for the village besides helping us. Whoever was inside the costume was obviously not in control. We thought we had a normal person coming into the community actually but he had us deceived. He had lifted up near half of the village by the time Drethan appeared and used his magic to, one, stop time and ,two, fix everything he just cocked up. It was a learning experience for him as it seems. But even someone as powerful as him can't control things he creates. Using people to beta test his costumes really gets on my nerves."
    "So this last Mewtwo had its problems with everybody and left everyone in the town you help on edge. I see how this could be a problem introducing Polar even though we might just be commuters ourselves." I said.
    "Seems that way." Minx said.
    "I just want people to know that I mean differently than previous versions. Even my companion whom you have met Seether seems to want it differently too. With a town you all have to have a lot of heavy lifting to do. How is that done now?" Polar asked.
    "With a lot of teamwork that's how. I'm also concerned that you really haven't gotten used to your powers yet. You just received them only a few hours ago." Minx said with some concern in her voice.
    "All this concern makes me hungry." Polar laughed to himself. "Here let me get something for us all. I know we can all fly but might as well get used to some of my abilities." He waved his hand and a nearby tree began to glow. Polar then pulled out over a dozen ripe apples from the tree all of which floated down onto the ground between all of us.
I smiled. Seems like Polar was going to get used to his powers quickly and could be of some improvement to the settlement of costumes. I was just hoping that after we headed out there, the others would be as accepting as we were.
We decided to head out, Polar was the only one nearly invisible in the snow we started towards the village which Minx told us was in the mountains outside the town. Minx warned us in case people reacted differently to Polar. As we reached the edge of the town, I could tell that Minx was getting nervous.
    We broke through the treeline to the most amazing group of animals sitting on their front porch having what looked like a lunch under the awning while it snowed. Both were anthro-dragons like Minx and both looked up as we approached.
    "Hey Minx back so soon from our good friend Drethan." One of them shouted.
    "Back and with a few friends." She replied.
As we strolled up, and as Polar floated along, the anthropomorphic dragon that has shouted to Minx nearly dropped his mug as Polar came into view through the snow.
    "What the HECK Minx! Why is there another Mewtwo here!?" He said angrily. "You remember what happened last time, don't you!?"
    "I need you to calm down Soaryn, you too Dredd. These are both friends that I picked up while I was at Drethan's place. I already told them of the past incident we had. I think you will find that this one is a heck of a lot more tame than the last one that came here." Minx said in a calm voice.
    "Uh....Hi. Sorry to upset you guys. Polar here hasn't been having the greatest day either." I said. "He just became Mewtwo over the last 24 hours and doesn't have much use in his costume yet, but I was there when he became his costume and so was Drethan. Seems like a clean bill of health to me."
    "We'll see..." Dredd said with some concern.
    "Look instead of standing up on the porch being afraid why don't you come down and actual say hi instead of hiding up there." Minx said smartly.
    "Hehe. Well you do have me there Minx." Soaryn said. "As she already said to both of you, I'm Soaryn." He said as he hopped over the railing gliding down fifteen feet and landing softly in the snow. "And that up there is my brother, Dredd. Sorry for the panic attack. You could see why we have such an issue with Pokemon that are extremely powerful around here."
    Dredd came down right besides him landing softly as well. "How's it going? Looks like we have another dragon to add to the pack here eh Soaryn?" Dredd said as he elbowed Soaryn pointing to me.
    "Yeah, looks like it. Except he's more like a real dragon. We just like having actual fingers and opposable thumbs." He laughed to himself. "You must be Polar." He held out his hand to Polar next to me.
    "Yeah, sorry to scare you guys I don't mean anything. I just want to be of help to others. Trying to forget why I wanted this costume in the first place was hard to get over. But I feel like the longer I am in this suit the more I will get used to what I am capable of. After all, I've only been, well, Me for about 24 hours as Seether said." Polar explained.
    "Looks like you just recruited a new group of helpers for us. Maybe Mr. Polar could help us clear some of the terrain around here. Could start getting used to his costume's abilities as well as meet some of the others around here. We also need to get a house set up for two new members since they are the most recent additions here. You think you could be up for that Polar?" Soaryn asked.
    "Sounds like a plan. Maybe Seether could help you guys with something as well I hope." Polar said excitedly.
    "I'm sure I can find something to do around here. For the time being, I hope I can help out with gathering food maybe. With the weather like this you guys might need all the help you can get." I said.
    "The more the merrier as they sometimes say." Dredd said laughing.
    "Let's go introduce these guys to the people that are here and then we can get you guys set up to help us build."


To be continued..... In part 5 Nightfury 5: The Community

Coming soon to a STA.SH near you!
Numero 4
We get some background info on Minx and we get to see the starting progress made in the community.

Also don't know how but my computer didn't have the definition for "Opposable" When I mentioned opposable thumbs. Don't know how the heck that works but eh. Hope you all enjoy already started working on the next one and I should be getting a rhythm going real soon on these stories.

Also I would like ideas for names that I can add into the story lines. I have the few mentioned above but I would like more since I have a community set. Let me know in the comments or if you want your name in here. (No numbers obviously make it a realistic name and give me the costume you would like to be and I will mention it in the next story.)
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Wow, this story is really interesting. I really wanna see how it'll continue.