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[betterthanawiki]

[Uxie was a patient creature. He had taken a five-week course in Mu training honed his mind to tune out pain, to spam Endure hold fast until his body's natural processes made the aches and agonies recede. He was grateful to Dana for her intervention; there was absolutely nowhere else he would have rather been than safely tucked away from the world

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[things_go_boom]

What luck. Lash needed a soda, having stayed most of her time between the beds of her friends and visiting Blacky's bed. It was quicker than the cafeteria, so she...shook it violently.

She didn't have any money okay, nothing wrong with stealing a soda or two.

[betterthanawiki]

Uxie let out a dismayed squeak at the sudden disturbance, skittering away from the machine as best as he could. Being far too drained to levitate himself, the best he could manage was a sort of skimming bounce for a few feet.

[things_go_boom]

What the hell was that? Did someone leave a small squeaky dog toy around here? She lowered her entire body and got a closer look...

[betterthanawiki]

Uxie was curled up into a ball again, face shielded behind his tails. His human vocabulary seemed to have vanished entirely: the only sound he made was a frightened crying.

[monotreme_101]

Knuckles was on a mission.

He hadn't been this worked up since that whole Thief fiasco of... gosh, was it really almost two years ago??... and he was making sure that no stone went unturned. He was going to find the person or persons responsible for stringing up his friends and he was either going to bash them into gravy or drag them to the headmaster by the hair.

His footsteps were surprisingly light for someone who wore ridiculously heavy shoes. Walking quietly down the corridor, his nose twitched. There was pain in the air. Blood scent - not exactly fresh, but close enough. He immediately became even more alert. Hopefully he could track down the source of it. His nose was sensitive, but he wasn't a bloodhound by any stretch of the imagination.

He wandered past the soda machine, eyes scanning the hallway ahead.

[betterthanawiki]

Uxie peered out from behind his tails. Knuckles... a nonhuman. Perhaps a little hasty, but a creature with a strong sense of justice and a love of all living things. He waited until Knuckles had moved past the soda machine before he darted forward, peeking out from behind his hiding place.

Yes, he would do nicely. How fortunate for Knuckles that one of the victims of that stringing incident happened to be right under his nose.

Uxie huddled down again, hoping that a cry would attract his attention.

[monotreme_101]

Knuckles stopped mid stride and looked around. That was definitely not the noise of a happy creature.

His eyes scanned over the hallway behind him - and there it was. No wonder he'd missed it, the poor little thing was curled into a ball and wasn't big enough to notice unless you knew where to look.

He closed the small gap between them fast, dropping to his knees. He recognized it now - it was Uxie.

"Professor! What are you doing out here!?" He said, alarmed. "You're injured - you oughta be resting!"

[betterthanawiki]

"Ah... forgive me. I thought perhaps I would try to pay a visit to the infirmary," Uxie replied, voice small and wavering. He lowered his tails slightly, face barely visible behind the twin fans. "I was hoping that no-one would take notice of me."

[icequeen_aran]

It had become very clear after browsing the network and reading the flurry of posts of what had happened in the past few days. Clear from Point A to Point C, anyway. Point B currently composed of cryptic gods with cryptic answers. Students were fearing for themselves. Adults were fearing for them. The school's cameras yielded nothing useful. Everyone was acting stupid and ridiculous and any information she could get she would seek, lest something even more gruesome happen again.

Not very long ago, Samus had the very supposed Being of Knowledge in her hands and she let him go. She was going to find him again.

Samus expected more cryptic answers but she wouldn't know until she hunted him down and asked.

[betterthanawiki]

And here came another mostly human soul. He need not have relied on his psychic abilities to pick up on that much; from this low on the ground, the vibrations of the floor and the sound of heels clicking against the tile were enough.

Ah, the Hunter! He'd expected to see her sooner or later. This was a woman who was fond of shaking hornet's nests; it didn not surprise him one bit that she didn't accept the Original One's vague replies, but sought her own truth.

Uxie pulled himself further into the corner. How exciting... would the infamous Hunter take notice of this small and insignificant thing tucked away on the ground, or would she walk right past? Even in his pained state, he simply couldn't refuse the chance to make a game of it -- he was a fairy down to his very core.

[icequeen_aran]

It was his very movement of pulling himself into a corner that caught her eye. Had he stayed still, it was very likely she would have walked right past the tricky Pokemon and his tiny form. The clicking of her heels stopped after she rounded a hallway corner, paused as if reconsidering what she thought she saw and then came back; the quick and determined strides now slower and barely audible. Prowling. Looking for further movement, or sound.

[betterthanawiki]

Ah, but what use was moving? There was no home free in this game of hide-and-seek. On foot, Uxie couldn't hope to outrun a fully-grown human in peak physical condition.

Had he not been in so much pain, he could have giggled. She'd caught the scent; could she follow it back to him?

It might have been the tiniest little glimmer in one of the gems embedded in his tail that gave him away, barely more that the smallest ripple of movement. Even if he'd resolved to stay still... Uxie couldn't resist peeking.

[rockinthrutime]

The all too familiar clicks of the small metallic hooves of Arceus echoed in the darkened corridors. Someone was looking for him and Uxie probably knew why she was.

[betterthanawiki]

Uxie was, in fact, all too aware of the reason Arceus was seeking him out. To remain in hiding would have been a futile exercise: he knew that as well. Tottering back onto his feet, he moved to the center of the hallway and sat down once again, awaiting her with his small hands folded in his lap.

[rockinthrutime]

[betterthanawiki]

In a way, that may have worked in Uxie's favour. Certainly, a ten-foot beast was intimidating, especially when you were as small as Uxie, and many would have been cowed by such a majestic creature standing over them.

Uxie, however, had known Arceus the Original One far before he'd known Bob the human. This was a rare glimpse of -- though he would never use the term himself -- mother, as he knew her. The same one who would scold a far-younger pixie for far more benign childish mischief, for letting his curiosity get him into things he oughtn't. For a brief, flickering instant, there was the desire to set his dignity aside, to reach up to mother and beg to be forgiven and cry about how much he was hurting

[will_be_god]

Cyrus had no reason to stop at the soda machine. He was headed towards the library with a due book, and he was nothing if not punctual.

But then Houndoom, who he kept out as security, strayed from his side and sniffed around the vendor, growling slightly.

"Curious," Cyrus muttered as he approached. And saw the Fairy curled up. "...Uxie. So you survived."

[betterthanawiki]

The tails moved away without hesitation, revealing a single tightly-sealed eyelid. "Of course I did. I was made to endure, Cyrus of Team Galactic."

He regarded Houndoom for a moment, then lifted his head to Cyrus once more. "Recall your dog, if you please. That growling is making me quite uneasy."

[will_be_god]

"Houndoom, stand down." The canine moved back and was silent, but kept watching. "Uxie...Mesprit spoke of your condition to a point, yet ceased upon saying you were not moving. Without you, my plan will fail, so I have every interest in your survival."

[betterthanawiki]

"Mere interest," replied Uxie, "is irrelevant to my ability to survive. I assure you, I am quite able to move."

Thought the fact that he remained immobile, still huddled on the ground, probably hinted otherwise.