Crystal, a young adult from New Bark Town, has spent most of her life trying to get a job, in a world where it is expected for people to go on Pokémon journeys and become Pokémon trainers. Despite strong resistance, when her dream company asks her to go on a journey for her first assignment, she reluctantly obliges with the plan of doing her best to coast through the next year. However, when a cursed photograph falls into her hands, Crystal finds herself with incredible issues and responsibilities. Suddenly, she is bound by contract to be the keeper of the soul of Red, a trainer lost to the world for a year. As the only one who can see him, and know of his existence, she must fulfill an impossible contract to set him free. But not everything is as it seems. Red has lost his memory, and neither party knows how or why Red's soul is trapped away. With time ticking down, and Crystal's new job on the line, the two must team up to overcome obstacles of themselves and the forces that strive to keep them from their dreams. Can the two of them set Red free in time? Find out in Finding Red. Cover by Imberlapis

Kanto knows the pains of war: the conflicts, the corruption, and the deaths. Ever since the nation suffered its first civil war, Kanto continued to thrive under the reign of Queen Rin. However, she lost many of her knights in battle including her right hand man, Andrew Fraverden, his best knight. Queen Rin took his orphaned daughter under her wing. Soul, the said daughter, trained vigorously, facing a series of discriminatory hardships in order to continue her father's legacy. With the help of Sir Aaron, another aura guardian, Soul was able to achieve greatness at a young age. However, it seems that another war between two foreign nations might just make its way into Kanto. In order to prevent another tragedy, Soul, Sir Aaron, and four more knights are sent out to gather vital information to prevent another tragedy. Is it possible for history to repeat itself once more? Will the knights be able to prevent another war and protect the Kingdom of Rota? » Black Brew 2017 2nd Place Winner « » Pokémon Watty Awards 2017 3rd Place Winner: Adventure Category « » Pokémon Watty Awards 2017 Special Award: Best Depiction of Setting «

「I was stupid, so stupid.」 「Just control me, and make the whispers stop.」 • • • Celeana Asthansia is the first victim that has been released from the Meowstic's den. For five long years, she's been hurt, traumatised and controlled, losing any sense of independence she had. Now, five years later, she's been through severe therapy, and she's ready to go on her first Pokemon journey. The freedom the Meowstic gave her was both a blessing and a curse--- she's met so many wonderful friends that she never wants to leave. But when they aren't around, everything quickly spirals into pure black silence, so dark it's defeaning, and the whispers grow and spiral out of control. • • • 「I'm proud of this mask. I have a whole assortment of them for you to enjoy, a whole selection of smiles, but I'm afraid they're breaking.」 Ryou Imizu is a mysterious teenager who's running from the past. • • • 「What would you know about hope? I've seen the end coming too many times to count. Tell me, if everything results in our eventual end, what good is there to hope?」 Quinn Mave is an eccentric girl who doesn't know which timeline to trust any more. • • • "Everything will be quiet once more," the Meowstic whispers, "If you just give in once again." • • • 「I've taken away all your friends. You've nothing left now.」 「That's right. Come with me, and I'll give me plenty of friends that'll stay with you forever.」 • • • 「Cover by me (@izayoix)」 「Entered in the Pokemon Watty Awards 2016 • Adventure Category」 「3rd Place in the Adventure category of the Pokemon Watty Awards 2016」

"It's much harder to stay hidden from the Dark Lord when you're in love with a Death Eater." Evelyn Hawkings' parents were well-known Death Eaters, but they died when the Dark Lord fell and Eve was only an infant. Now fifteen years have passed and Voldemort is back, and Eve has changed her last name to stay hidden from him. She lives a quiet life, staying out of trouble and avoiding the life of a Death Eater...but everything changes when she meets Draco Malfoy. He's the bad boy, the guy everyone avoids if they know what's good for them. But what happens when the bad boy meets someone completely different? What happens when Draco Malfoy, against all odds, falls head over heels for one girl? Which will come first, the girl he loves...or his reputation as a Death Eater? What will he do when he finds the bird that can finally set him free? A Draco Malfoy love story.

In a world full of floating islands, sky pirates, exiled magicians, and Pokémon, peace is difficult to maintain. Shaymin, kind Pokémon who'd guided travelers once man learned how to fly, were hunted to extinction for their Gracideas: magical flowers said to bring grand fortune. Since their disappearance, everything in Caelum has begun to fall apart. With natural disasters destroying the land, powerful criminals seeking revenge on the innocent, and countries preparing to go war, hope is all but lost. Runaway pirate August Gold has done the unthinkable and stolen the last known Shaymin from the infamously vicious Captain Calico. In an attempt to become wealthy quickly, August will accidentally uncover the mystery behind the isles' destruction. After all, one doesn't escape the life of magic and piracy that easily. ------------------------------------------------------- ✩ Pokémon Watty Awards 2019 ✩ -1st Place in the Adventure category -Most Polished Prose -Best Depiction of Setting -Pushing Boundaries

❝There's a darkness on the edge of town...❞ There was a darkness coming. A war to end all wars, an evil that was rising with nothing that could stop it. The Order of the Phoenix was reassembling, and this time, they have a weapon far greater than anything they could've produced; a weapon that would defeat Lord Voldemort. A weapon no one knew about. Her. [ book 1 - completed ] [ order of the phoenix - half-blood prince ] [ harry potter ] [ written by heidi© ]

He could see the other boy's eyes widen as he lost his grip, and whatever he tried to yell was lost to the wind. And then he fell. -- A year after Citrus wakes up near a city in Unova, missing most of his memories, he's managed to find a home, a best friend, and a meagre source of income, but life has settled down and he doesn't care about delving into the past much in the first place. He may not want to find out about his past, but his past will chase him until he can't ignore it any further. Between the increasing frequency of cracking-- something said to happen when there's a shift in another dimension-- and the many intermittent disruptions to his otherwise pleasant life, he's starting to think that this is a matter he has to bother about. Maybe then, he'll learn about the strange way some people are distorted in his eyes. -- Cover by @izayoix

Since the time she was a young girl, Éponine Rosier has learned the importance of marrying a respectable pureblood and not trusted to make the decision on her own, she finds herself arranged in a marriage with a boy she hardly knows. Throughout her childhood, she's had very limited interactions with the boy by the name of Regulus Black, despite being in the same year and the same House as him. Éponine is the type of person that enjoys the quiet company of herself, filling her time with reading or horseback riding on her family's land and Regulus has been known to never go out of his way to be social. Fearful that the marriage will later on result in nothing but failure, the parents of the teens decide to force the interaction between the two. Éponine finds herself at Twelve Grimmauld Place the summer before she is to start her fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, away from her family and home. Initially, their introduction is awkward, full of long bouts of silence and the avoidance of eye contact. They are nothing more than strangers. Yet, as time passes, words are exchanged, memories are created and shared. A love emerges between the two that was meant to be unbreakable. A love story meant for the books to be passed along for generations, however, it takes a tragic turn as the young lives are forced to face the darkness that wants to consume them whole. Cover @ -voidlegends

When Juliet Weasley tells people who her parents are, they can hardly believe their ears. All of the Weasley's have red hair, freckles, and belong to Gryffindor House, right? Wrong. When Juliet was sorted into Slytherin in her first year at Hogwarts, her parents practically disowned her, her twin brother Ron and the rest of her siblings refused to acknowledge her presence when in public. Because of this, Juliet swore that she would succeed in everything she did and prove her worth to them. 5 years on, Juliet is the top of her class and adored by her Slytherin classmates. Seeker on the Slytherin Quidditch Team and protégée of Severus Snape, it appears that Slytherin House has found a new star. However when handsome yet notorious bad boy Draco Malfoy comes into the picture, Juliet can't help but fall for him. With the guilt of her secret relationship and the secret that she's keeping from Draco and the rest of Slytherin - her membership in Dumbledore's Army, - Juliet's dancing on thin ice, and with the smallest crack, her world could come tumbling down.

Monsters lurk in the corners of our minds. They prowl and snarl at any sense of happiness, ushering in a darkness with each step they take. These creatures take on many different forms to slowly tear us apart. Some tether us to our beds, refusing to let us walk under the beautiful sun. Some of them suffocate us in crowds, their claws tearing at our throats with a crowing laugh ringing in our ears. For Kate Hitomi, Hero of Almia, vanquisher of shadows, and bringer of light.. Her mind is nothing but darkness. Ever since she was young the monsters have manifested themselves as nightmares. However they are worse than they've ever been. Kate can't close her eyes without screams rising in her chest, her entire body trembling and laced in a cold sweat. It kills her friends to see her like this. But what can they do? Keith can only hold her as she cries. Rhythmi can only listen with their hands intertwined. The fight is no longer tangible, or as easy to capture a raging pokémon. For the war rages within Kate's mind. (Vatonageshipping, Shadows of Almia Fanfiction. Cover art was edited by me, but actual art was not drawn by me. Here are the original artists for credit: Feather- pokémon movie, Rise of Darkrai. Kate- Dazaru on Tumblr Background- Steve Riley on Monodomo, a free wallpaper site)