#project garithea

Designation: SACRED BARRIER

Filed By: Kahuna Hina, Dreamward Division, Tapu Watch

Date: [REDACTED]

Status: FRAGILE CONTAINMENT. STAND-BY ALERT

Distribution: Tier-4 Clearance, Global League Remnant, Psychic Sanction Required

SUMMARY:

Alola remains the only major region without full collapse or divine silence, but it is not untouched. The Tapus maintain a psychic barrier across the islands that confines Ultra Rift incursions to localized breaches. That barrier comes at a cost. Dreams are fracturing. Visitors report mirrored moons, speech in reverse, and glimpses of Necrozma where light should dominate.

KEY EVENTS:

01:12: Melemele Island experienced a blackout. The moon remained visible but emitted no light. Tapu Koko reappeared near the ruins tied to it, sparking violently and attacking a League observation drone.

03:40: Several children across the islands reported having the same dream — a black sun humming like a flute. When interviewed separately, they all spoke the phrase:

"He is trapped in the prism of waking. Let the night come back.”

04:06: Tapu Lele was observed hovering over open ocean, motionless, encircled by salt rings rising from the sea. On approach, all electronics around failed. One assistant experienced brainwave reversal for thirteen minutes.

06:00: The Aether Foundation has flagged Dreamspeaker Syndrome among staff stationed near Ultra Rift observation posts. Symptoms include memory lapses, false awakenings, and spontaneous chanting in extinct Ultra dialects.

07:29: Flickers of Necrozma were logged in four separate locations simultaneously. In each instance, it appeared to climb some invisible structure, “ascending toward the moon.”

ANOMALOUS ZONES:

Mount Lanakila: The summit wind now emits static. Echoes fail to repeat the same phrase. One researcher tested “What protects us?” and the wind responded “What buries you.”

Poni Island, Ruins of Hope: At dawn, Tapu Fini’s waters turn black for exactly three minutes. The surface shows images of those no longer alive.

Hau’oli City: Multiple cases of sleep paralysis have been reported across nights. Victims state they felt watched from overhead by a dripping mask of light.

Dream Journal Synchrony: Twenty-one independent trainers submitted journals that describe a pale figure walking through Ultra Space, holding a lantern made of stars.

SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES:

Traditional kahunas now wield de facto leadership. Most League facilities are shut or only operate under Tapu sanction.

Shrines to the Tapus are meticulously maintained. In at least three documented cases, Tapu Rage manifested when offerings lapsed.

A movement called the Moonblind has formed. Its members refuse to venture outside after dark, citing recurring dreams of watchers behind reflected water.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Expand dream journal networks and cross-compare entries weekly across all islands.

Avoid mirror surfaces or reflective glass after midnight.

Reduce or suspend use of Ultra Beast energy for power generation; its hum may act as a beacon.

Recovered from a bloodstained notebook found beneath an unnamed mountain

There is no sky anymore.

Just a smear where heaven used to be. Like someone dragged their fingers through wet paint and erased the stars.

I do not know if this is happening. I do not know if dreaming still exists. I do not know if I exist.

They did not kill me. They called me Witness. Said the end needs an audience. Said truth must be recorded even if no one survives to read it. I do not know if they meant me or if I am just the last thing here that remembers language.

I am beneath the Spear Pillar. No, inside it. The walls pulse like flesh, like magma-filled lungs. There is no stone anymore. Just breathing architecture. The air stinks of ozone and blood. It hurts to think. My memories come apart when I blink.

I saw Volo.

He does not wear a face anymore. Just the shape of one. He walks like history, weightless and inevitable. He spoke without sound. Said:

"Garithea remembers the First Silence."

"Creation was the original sin."

"Arceus tried to forge permanence in a world born to forget."

"We are fixing it."

Then the summoning began.

Dialga cried first. The sound looped, a scream trapped in a time knot, echoing backward and forward at once. Palkia followed, its body fracturing across dimensions like shattered glass.

And then it came.

A thing dragged from the deep trench of the world’s shadow, fused, molten, and wrong. Groudon and Kyogre, lashed together in a shape that defies reason. Its body weeps oceans that burn, bleeds magma that flows upward. Its roar erases sound for miles.

They call it Deiforme, the prototype of erasure. The spine of contradiction. A husk of primal hatred resurrected to prove the world is flawed.

Above it all, the Lake Spirits watched.

Uxie gouged out its own eyes. Mesprit tore its heart out and laid it bare. Azelf broke its chains and knelt.

Then Arceus descended.

The Alpha. The Origin. The mistake.

And they tore it apart.

Not symbolically. Not ritually. Physically.

They swarmed it. Bound it. Ripped its divine frame open with hands, teeth, relics older than death. It bled stars. It screamed in every language. Its halo shattered. Its plates fell like meteors. The god who shaped all things died begging.

And from its carcass, they called forth the end.

Giratina did not resist. It opened. Its wings unfolded into glass. Its torso cracked like a chrysalis. Through the hollow of its body, Garithea stepped into the world.

It is not a being. It is absence wearing shape. It does not move, the world moves away from it. No eyes. No limbs. No voice. And yet it speaks directly into the bones.

It does not kill. It unwrites.

I can feel it peeling me back like old bark.

I do not remember my name. I do not remember why I was fighting.

I only finish this because I began before I was unmade.

I saw the moon fold inward like a paper sigil closing itself. The sun dimmed, not extinguished. Reverted.

The stars? They were not snuffed out. They were simply never there.

Even light can be forgotten.

The cult cheers silently. Their mouths gape wide but make no sound. I think I am the last one who can still hear anything.

I do not know what hearing is. I do not know what I am.

All that remains is the shape of a story no one will remember.

Then the sky fell. Then

...

Compiled by: Agent "Looker"

Classification: PRIORITY THREAT

Distribution: All relevant agencies, including regional police forces and Pokémon Ranger organizations

Region: SINNOH

Cult Affiliation: UNKNOWN, DEIFIED FIGURE

Known aliases:

"The Seeker"

"Golden Prophet"

"Voice of the Old World"

"Custodian of Fracture"

May be a name or a title. Identity unconfirmed.

Observed activity:

Linked to multiple anomalous incidents across Sinnoh and Johto, including:

Recent attack on a Sinnoh village involving Shadow Tornadus, Regigigas death, and widespread memory distortions.

Partial disappearance of Zapdos and other regional Pokémon from public awareness.

Evidence of ongoing cult activity and ritual sites, suggesting the subject is preparing to target Groudon next.

Cryptic glyphs appearing in conjunction with anomalous Pokémon behavior.

Historical analysis

Earliest mentions of Volo date to Hisui-era records. Once a merchant of the Ginkgo Guild, he was obsessed with ruins and ancient Pokémon. Attempts to control Arceus at the Celestica Ruins failed; he disappeared thereafter, presumed dead, though recent activity suggests he is not aging and may not be fully human. Personal accounts describe him as appearing unchanged over decades, with voice patterns matching recovered historical recordings.

Recommended action:

All units are advised to monitor and report unusual activity immediately.

Do not engage without full backup and protective measures.

Caution: subject may manipulate perception, memory, or time in localized areas.

Notes:

Volo is not known to be directly hostile in general, but his recent actions indicate a high potential threat. Agencies should focus on containment and observation while further information on motives is gathered.

Designation: REDACTED

Filed By: Officer Darien Hale (Status: Suspended)

Location: Route ██, Date Corrupted

Status: DEEMED NON-CRITICAL / UNVERIFIABLE

Forwarded To: Internal Oversight, Archive Bin [AUTO-PURGE FLAGGED]

SUMMARY:

Officer Hale was dispatched to investigate signal distortion reports affecting local weather towers and Trainer ID systems near Route ██. Within two hours of arrival, Hale was found wandering the treeline, covered in data ash, babbling incoherently.

Audio logs and bodycam footage were corrupted beyond recovery. The following is transcribed from Hale’s interview, recorded six hours after containment.

TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO — SUBJECT: DARIEN HALE

“It wasn’t a storm. I thought it was. You hear the buzzing, the static crackle, like a broken Poké Ball left in the rain. Then the air just, broke.

Broke.

Like glass turned inside out. There was a beach, I think. Sand. But the ocean didn’t move. The sky didn’t render.

The world wasn’t gone.

Everything was gone.

No wind. No sound. No god.

Just the thing.

It was tall. Or wide. Or sideways. It shimmered like a memory left too long in the sun. It made a noise like a dial-up scream swallowed by a television.

It saw me.

And it was happy I remembered it.”

[LONG SILENCE]

“It didn’t move toward me. The world just kind of, tilted. Like space forgot gravity. It kept showing me shapes.

Like a bird.

Like a ghost.

Like numbers.

Like death given a loading bar.

I couldn’t blink. Every time I tried, the thing shook. The edges of me went missing. I couldn’t find my left hand. My thoughts.

But I knew it.

I knew it like a cheat code you never used but always remembered.

I knew it like a prayer someone patched out of the Bible.”

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Hale's ID chip now returns: ERROR: [DATA UNRECOGNIZED].

Bloodwork shows no red blood cells. Only placeholder proteins and an unclassifiable string of junk DNA.

Surveillance shows Hale leaving the facility three days before he arrived.

Every person who views his footage complains of tinnitus and eye floaters that "don’t follow normal movement."

STATUS:

Officer Hale was transferred to the Null Observation Ward.

He no longer speaks. But he smiles at empty corners and whispers, “It was waiting for us to forget.”

When asked what he saw, he always says the same thing:

“It didn’t glitch.

Designation: FROZEN LEGACY

Filed By: Knight-Warden Orin of the Crown Watch

Date: [Redacted]

Status: CRITICAL STASIS - ZONE PARALYSIS IN EFFECT

Distribution: Tier-4 Clearance, Crown Vaults, Dreamwatcher Class-3 Required

SUMMARY:

The Galar region is in a state of living paralysis. Ever since the initial corruption of Dynamax phenomena by residual Eternatus pulses, the land has been caught between states of stasis and rupture. Entire cities remain "active," yet unmoving. Wyndon is officially lost. Its heart no longer beats. In its place: stillness. Not peace. Not death. A breathing stop.

Dreamwatchers are now assigned to every roaming unit, trained to resist the "legacy loop dreams" emanating from the Wild Area. The Sword and Shield Slumber Cycle is repeating, but differently.

KEY EVENTS:

02:00: A Dynamaxed Corviknight dissolved mid-flight above Hammerlocke's river spire. It reformed seconds later in perfect stillness, encased in a vitrified Dynamax sheen, hovering thirty meters off the ground. It has not moved in six days.

03:12: A fog descended over Route 10. Visibility fell to zero. Those who entered returned hours later frostbitten, speaking with a northern Galar cadence despite being born in Kalos or Alola. They described events from the wrong version of Galar.

04:00: Stadium cores across the region began humming in harmonic unison. Several reported projecting Eternatus-tinged beam signatures without any power input.

06:33: A group of certified Dreamwatchers breached Wyndon's southern gate. Only one returned. Their eyes were crystallized. Their mouth kept opening. A low moan, rhythmically:

"He is beneath the pitch. Beneath the pitch. Beneath the pitch."

WARPED LOCATIONS:

Wyndon: Entire city preserved in near-absolute stasis. People reported seeing themselves through windows, younger versions, weeping. The air is unmoving. It is not recommended to enter.

Hammerlocke Vault: Ancient murals have rewritten themselves. Zacian now depicted weeping into a mirror, while Zamazenta sleeps beneath black roots.

Lake of Outrage: Dynamax clouds here have taken unnatural shapes. Letters, sometimes names. One researcher saw her own surname form in red lightning. She has since gone silent.

Slumbering Weald: Reports of ghostlike wolves with blades of rot and shields of bone. Do not follow their howls.

SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES:

Wards of the Crown Tundra have sealed themselves off. The Peony Expedition is listed as missing, presumed folded.

Dreamwatchers are now trained from childhood; those exposed to Dynamax phenomena are monitored for dream leakage.

The League has formally dissolved. Only the Crown Watch remains, and they do not hold matches, they hold vigils.

NOTABLE TESTIMONIES:

"The moment you remember the past glory, it becomes real again. And so it begins again. We are the sword in the stone, forever sinking."

"My daughter spoke in rhyme last night. Not her voice. She told me: 'The heroes failed because the story demanded failure.'"

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Avoid all Dynamax zones unless escorted by three or more Dreamwatchers.

Report any speech loops, memory errors, or mirror hallucinations.

Burn all unauthorized fanworks relating to the Sword and Shield legend. The myth itself may be contaminated.

Designation: SLEEPING FIRE

Filed By: Warden Élaine Mercier, Verdant Watch, Lumiose Fringe

Date: [REDACTED]

Status: UNDER OBSERVATION, POTENTIAL ESCALATION

Distribution: Tier-5 Clearance, Global League Remnant, Silence Directive

SUMMARY:

Kalos has grown unnervingly still. Winds barely move through the fields, wild Pokémon are unusually quiet, and the tide near Coumarine City barely shifts. Minor tremors beneath the Ultimate Weapon site in Geosenge Town suggest something is stirring underground. The Tree of Life in Laverre City has bloomed out of season, with crystalline flowers shimmering in ways that do not match recorded local flora.

KEY EVENTS:

00:01 - Every clock in Couriway Town Station stopped for six minutes. Nothing mechanical failed.

02:45 - A trainer near Geosenge Town heard footsteps behind her in an open field. Her Pokédex recorded a presence labeled only “AZ?” No one else saw anything.

03:13 - Zygarde cells in the region converged unnaturally toward a single subterranean node. It pulses but does not move. It seems aware of being watched.

05:00 - Mirrors in Reflection Cave showed impossible scenes: a Kalos without sunlight, ash falling like snow, Mega Evolution never discovered.

06:33 - The Tree of Life released a brief exhalation. Nearby plants bent outward as though blown by wind, but no wind was present. Wildlife has not returned.

ANOMALOUS ZONES:

Anistar City Sundial - Psychic Pokémon avoid the area. Xatu perched there began screaming and clawing at themselves.

Lumiose Underground - Old power lines hum at frequencies that are not electrical. Locals report vivid, shared dreams of someone building something beneath the city.

Geosenge Town Ultimate Weapon Site - Subsurface scans show a structure shaped like the Ultimate Weapon, inverted like a root rather than a blade.

Route 15 - The forest is silent. A Noivern attempted to echolocate and permanently damaged its hearing; its trainer suffered temporary hearing loss.

SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES:

Citizens avoid speaking above a whisper outside.

A cult called "Les Résonants" has formed, preaching silence and breathing in unison.

Trainers attempting Mega Evolution report Pokémon resisting violently. Multiple reports of trainers being bitten or otherwise severely injured.

FIELD OBSERVER NOTES:

“There was once fire here, so hot it erased itself. We are standing in the ash of something too big to remember.”

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Restrict access to Reflection Cave without full psychic protection.

Study Zygarde-cell convergence carefully.

Designation: TITAN’S FAILURE — EVENT 03: “THE ANCHOR CRACKS”

Filed By: Surveyor Tasmin Veil, Fiore League Archival Expedition

Location: Temple of Regigigas, Icebound Plateau

Date: 20th Bloom, Year 20XX

Status: Closure in Progress; Structural Instability Present

SUMMARY:

The Temple of Regigigas collapsed inward despite the absence of seismic triggers. Regigigas was found in a kneeling posture, motionless, with no detectable life signs. Its body remained intact for just over ninety minutes before disintegrating into static particulate.

KEY EVENTS:

01:44: First resonance pulse recorded across northern Fiore. Local compasses spin erratically.

02:13: Drone captures Regigigas kneeling in the temple’s core chamber, hands braced on the floor. Lights flicker at irregular intervals.

02:31: Glyphs shift on chamber walls. Cracks form symbols corresponding to seven ominous concepts: Null, Rot, Void, Fallow, Ash, Hollow, and End. One symbol remains blank.

02:49: Regigigas attempts to rise. One arm collapses, and stone beneath fractures in radial patterns.

03:04: Final resonance pulse emitted. All electronics fail. Audio recorders capture a single phrase: “The chain is broken. The world drifts.”

03:10: Regigigas goes dark. Crystalline dust begins shedding from its limbs.

03:17: Full structural failure. Dome collapses inward. Glyphs erased. Regigigas gone.

NOTES:

Memory inconsistencies observed among field agents post-event. Some deny the temple ever existed. Psychic Pokémon display distress within a one-kilometer radius.

RECOMMENDATION:

Designation: ANOMALOUS ENTITY SIGHTING / SHADOW CONTAMINATION POSSIBLE

Filed By: Ranger Kira Ames, Hoenn Environmental Protection Unit

Location: Petalburg Woods, near Oldale Town

Date: 17th Tidefall, Hoenn, Year 20XX

Status: ACTIVE MONITORING — FURTHER INVESTIGATION REQUESTED

SUMMARY:

Local hikers reported sightings of a dark, flickering figure resembling a Shadow Pokémon along the southern treeline of Petalburg Woods. Attempts to approach were unsuccessful. The entity vanished each time it was observed directly.

KEY FINDINGS:

Ranger Ames conducted an on-site investigation.

Witness account: “At first, I thought it was just a regular Pokémon in the shadows, but it moved… wrong. Like it was glitching between realities, edges of its form flickering in and out. When I tried to call it closer, it dissolved into mist, leaving behind a cold silence that didn’t belong in the forest.”

Environmental scans recorded brief spikes in ambient energy inconsistent with local ecosystem norms. Physical signs included warped tree bark patterns and faint scorch marks with no discernible source. No tracks or biological residue detected.

Subsequent patrols reported a persistent sensation of being watched. No visual confirmation of the entity since initial report.

NOTES:

Advisory issued to all Hoenn Rangers: Avoid Petalburg Woods after dusk. Shadow phenomena may indicate early-stage contamination.

Report any further anomalies to central dispatch immediately.

RECOMMENDATION:

Area under observation. Formal request for higher-level investigation pending.