#asksilvan

Finale: Stellar

Silvan ran to the gem and picked it up in their paws, Kentarous hot on their heels. 

The Gem was unlike any of the others. It was transparent, almost, yet it reflected every colour that either of them could’ve imagined. It sparkled and glittered like moissanite, and within it was power. Silvan could feel it.

“What… is this…?” their voice was a fervent whisper. Kentarous was immensely curious as well at the Gem. 

“I… No… it couldn’t be…” 

Silvan’s head snapped at the shaymin, “huh?”

“It-it can’t be what I’m thinking!” Kentarous was staring at the gem in realisation, “it doesn’t exist!”

“What can’t exist?!” Silvan was almost on the verge of losing their temper. He knew about this?!

“You remember that puzzle? The one in the mine?”

Silvan recalled it, and nodded their head quickly.

“And you remember how you said there’s no such thing as the Light element, right?”

“Yeah…?” Silvan said slowly. “There isn’t?”

“There is, it’s just not called that,” Kentarous was staring at the gem now, shock all over his face. “That…” 

“What the fuck am I holding, Kentarous!?”

“Stellar.”

Silence stretched between them, Silvan staring at the shaymin, and Kentarous looking back at them, his eyes budding with tears. That confused the eevee even more.

“Why are you—”

“No wonder you couldn’t evolve like the rest…” Ken was smiling, and tears ran down his face, much to Silvan’s shock, “you were destined for something so much greater.”

Silvan’s confusion had to be comical as they stared at the crying mythical like he had grown a second head.

“Okay, well, um,” they blinked and took the crown out of their bag. Silvan had decided they could not handle Ken crying. 

“Save the tears for when this thing actually does anything, won’t you?” 

Kentarous laughed and nodded, wiping his eyes as Silvan inserted the beautiful gem into the crown, and placed it on their head.

And finally, the feeling they had been waiting for their entire life washed over them, and the crown and the gem began to glow, and Silvan felt energy rush through them like a warm tide. The feeling they had waited for their whole life felt like the biggest sugar rush they had ever felt. Silvan’s eyes snapped open as the cavern shone with all colours from their crown, and words rushed into their mind.

‘Go to Spear Pillar. Play the flute. The rest is up to you.’

“Spear Pillar…” they said softly as the glow receded, but the crown was lighter, and seemed to carry an inner light now. Just as Kentarous’s stars glowed a soft gold in dark places, the crown shined a soft silver, almost as a compliment.

Finally, they felt they had purpose. Finally, they had a path clear ahead like the brightest of daylight.

Silvan smiled just as brightly and turned to Kentarous, who was beaming, “we need to go to Spear Pillar!”

Taffy: I made it myself! The gem is from a real Terapagos friend of mine! It took a lotta muffins, but I was able to get them to let go of a piece!

*The bracelet glimmered in the light as it was placed in Silvan’s paw.*

Taffy: I also included a little message for you in case you ever start questioning yourself again. But please don’t… you’re awesome!

Taffy has given Silvan a bracelet!