<b><span style="font-size: 15px">Round Primary<br/>
</span></b><br/><br/><br/>Eleyna was in agreement with Aisha, Jake, and Susan. It was a very odd notion that there was something not classifiable as a Pokemon on the island. Ultimately, if it wasn't an animal or a human, it was a Pokemon. They had thousands of years of history and modern study to prove it.<br/><br/><span style="color: blue">It would have to be a Pokemon, though. Maybe one we don't understand, but it would still be a Pokemon. </span>She added after Aisha.<span style="color: blue">I mean... like she said, even Ghost types we didn't really understand until we started developing the Scopes that let us see them when they're hidden.</span><br/><br/>Brollem raised his hands in defense.<span style="color: red">Now I know the notion is an odd one, albeit. I'm sitting where you lot are. But I've been on this island for ten years and in that time my perception of what exactly is real and what's myth has started to get... well, fuzzy. Surely when you were out there walking the valley you felt something - like a wave of some feeling that wasn't your own. Your Pokemon perking up like they're sensing something when there's nothing there.</span><br/><br/>Eleyna was about to rebut, but paused. The old Gym founder wasn't necessarily<i>wrong</i>. There had been moments in the valley, at the lake... brief moments when there was something strange in the air. Waking up the first night on the hill, as well. She dismissed the thought - after all, in a new place, one as often majestic and other worldly as this island was, being overwhelmed by the place was completely rational.<br/><br/><span style="color: blue">Brollem, sir... I mean... You can't honestly believe that... that what, there are spirits out there like in the stories and myths? Those were stories about Pokemon, some of them exaggerated... sure. But still Pokemon.</span>She said, watching the older man. From where she sat, Kaiyo watched the dialogue carefully.<br/><br/><span style="color: red">Aye, history and modern understanding line up just fine most of the time. What we used to call demons and spirits are just Pokemon, ones we've since understood. But some of those legends don't add up. Take uh... take the mythology of Mew. Its a Pokemon that's never once been seen, never once recorded except on several thousand year old tablets - each one, regardless of its region of origin are depicting the same thing. Even now, rumors form of sightings of these so called mythological entities. Has it ever occurred to you, girl, that maybe they aren't stories. Mew was said to have had the power to create life - hell many myths suggest that life originated from it. And its note alone, either. The myth of Entei, The three Guardians, Xerneas and Yveltal ... these beings, hypothetical as they are, are said to have power over the elements, over space, over life and death. <br/>
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Pokemon learn an utilize their energy in carefully trained and exercised ways. They each have abilities, and each has its limits. But these myths don't describe Pokemon using abilities. They describe gods. </span><br/><br/>Eleyna sat in silence for a moment, staring at Brollem. She couldn't fathom a retort, nor could she fathom that he honestly thought any of it was true. She looked at the other trainers.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>