Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon, PMD3, and everything else that doesn't belong to me. Enormous thanks goes to Olihmajor and Ebaz for brainstorming with me!

Summary: Cooper wakes on a foreign shore, with no memory and a strange body. Along with the thief Gavin, she strives to find out who she is, how she ended up on that beach, and, most importantly, why. A retelling of PMD3: rated T for violent and romantic themes.

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Prologue

Respice Finem

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"Telling a sad story backwards doesn't give it a happy ending: you can rewind it all, rearrange the scenes, and take everything out of context, but you won't change the inevitable. You can't. No one can.

"Not even time itself.

"Of course, that doesn't mean every sad story lacks happiness. My story had it: moments of joy in between tragedy; triumphs that overcame defeat; flashes of laughter, friendship, and romance. But that's what makes it sad, of course- the fact that the good is always blotted out by the bad.

"So listen, listen. I'm going to tell you my story. Not so much the beginning, since beginnings are flimsy things, and not the ending, since endings don't really exist.

"I'm going to tell you the most important part. The only part that matters.

"The middle.

"Because after it starts and before it ends, all you can do is live."

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Look Back At The End

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A/ N: This is a darker retelling of the PMD3 storyline, with gijinkas instead of regular pokemon. No, I will not be discontinuing Love/ Last Train, but this is yet another project I am taking on. Also, I will be starting each chapter with a Latin quote, and will be placing its English equivalent at the end. Just to clarify : )

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