"People like to think of the world as something they own, something they worked hard for, and thus deserve. And when the fire comes? It reminds them that it's all a lie, because it takes everything away from them. Everything they worked so hard for. Everything they clung to."

~(Scene Selection)~

ACT I

Intro: 0:00
Starts With a Disaster: 0:07
Better Ideas: 9:18
Waiting for the Brick to Move: 22:41
Flareon Makes a Friend: 32:17
Recess: 40:22
More Things to Look Forward To: 54:45
The Big Day: 59:14
The Beginning of the Story: 1:10:13
All I'm Going to Say About That: 1:25:56

ACT II

Forever...: 1:32:58
Lessons: 1:44:59
Another Odd Friendship: 1:57:12
I Was Going to Win: 2:05:34
The Second Big Day: 2:15:27
Back to the Prison: 2:42:04
Ends With a Disaster: 2:54:11
A Bitter Parting: 3:04:43
Epilogue: 3:12:47

~(Videos in the Series)~

Prologue (START HERE): http://youtu.be/aLYqCecuMiU
Water: http://youtu.be/Q8K8GlxyUoo
Fire: [You are here]
Lightning: Coming (not very) Soon!

~(Listener Resources)~

For those of you who wish to read along: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9575384/3/Eon-Fable

Downloadable FLAC File (file size: 384 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/download/mvpfqf7l7m18kt2/2_Fire.flac

~(Reader's Note)~

This was a long time coming.  A LONG, long time.

Y'know, it's interesting.  You'll notice my standards of reading slowly get higher and higher as the video progresses.  Most of the mistakes I make are in the beginning.  (I hear my kitties in the background during the first half of the reading as well.  I find it funny how much bigger they've gotten since then.)

There's currently one more in the series.  I'm starting to get the hang of the whole continuity thing with my readings, so maybe Lightning will come out in less than five months.  Maybe.

For those of you reading along, you'll notice that I took a lot of readership license and "rewrote" some parts mildly.  Some parts were necessary for typos, but other parts were a bit extraneous in retrospect.  I apologize for that.

~(Tools)~

Microphone used: Shure SM57
Adapter box used: M-Audio Fast Track Pro
Headphones used: NVX XPT100
Recording software: Audacity
Video maker software: Sony Vegas Pro
Image manipulation software: Adobe Photoshop CS6, but it might as well have been GIMP.

~(Credit)~

Cover picture courtesy of CuteSkitty on deviantART.com. It was commissioned by ScytheRider and can be found here: http://cuteskitty.deviantart.com/art/Comission01-401650899

The Vaporeon picture is an official artwork released in the Best Wishes anime series. The image itself can be found in the Bulbagarden Archives here: http://archives.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:134Vaporeon_BW_anime.png

The Flareon picture is an original drawing by Sugimori for FR/LG.  Image can be found here: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:136Flareon.png

Story written by ScytheRider on FanFiction.net

Story read by me, Arbitrary Renaissance.  YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYkApMRK9GTnBhIBulFR7g

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Thank you for listening!