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*gasp* 😍

[Endgame Spoilers]

Area Zero is said to be a place full of treasure, but a few old rumors say something very different.

They call it a place of riches and ruin, where only pokemon can survive. Everything else erodes away, leaving only crystalline statues in their wake. Everything there is connected, and once you enter, it is unlikely you will ever return.

These rumors weren't plentiful, nor popular, but they exist. They also appeared completely false, as there have been a multitude of researchers and Pokémon alike that had entered the crater and returned with little issue.

The problems began after they returned.

Many who returned suffered injuries whilst in the Crater, and slowly withered away before passing. Those who escaped unharmed often faced with respiratory issues and heart problems for the rest of their lives, only without pain when they returned to the Crater.

There are some who say that an entity lives in the Crater, and it made its home. It considers everything there its domain, and entering it makes you a part of that domain. Leaving its hold, then, angers it. Thus, it would curse you to suffer until you either return to where you now belong or wither away.

At least, that's what they say.

Now, there have been people who were able to leave the Crater freely, with little consequence. Heath, author of a seemingly fictional account of an expedition into Area Zero, never showed any symptoms of 'the curse'. The professor who discovered teraslizing also never faced the entity's rage. And yet, they went back to the Crater of their own free will.

They are lucky, the rumors say, the entity liked them. It let them leave because it knew they would return. If someone ever managed to gain its favor, to impress it, to catch its full attention-

(The five of them leave Area Zero with only an odd bit of crystal dust scattered across their skin.)

-it would never let them go.