In Remembrance

I don't have time for a long post right now as we are embarking for the lake very soon, but I figured I'd type something small at any rate.
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Well, the Nuzlocke Challenge has delivered its first casualty.
It wasn't an intense battle, tears streaming trails through the grit on my face as I barred my teeth in agony. I didn't avenge the poor creature in a flaming massacre fueled by the low, chest-tightened pain of grief.
The truth is much more pathetic, in several ways.

When the Splash Attack just doesn't cut it anymore.

~KNIVES~
in memoriam

P.S.
Here's the Dream Team as it stands thus far. I have no idea how I shall fit my gyarados, Syren, into this image, but I will manage it somehow. *thrusts sword into air valiantly and stares off into the horizon with blind, emotional courage*