I know I must be scaring my dA friends but bear with me.

Here's a picture of Ruby straight from the Pokemon Special manga. Okay not straight from the Pokemon Special manga for a few reasons:

- They stopped printing Pokemon Special (also known as Pokemon Adventures) in the U.S. after the end of the 'Yellow' series so I actually don't own this manga (since this is from the Ruby/Sapphire series which is 2 series after Yellow)

- It's colored!

To best explain what's going on in this picture I decided to take a quote from the Summaries at Serebii.net

"Sapphire is taken by shock at what Ruby is suggesting, and doesn't understand why he is trying to safeguard their foe from harm. With a solemn look, Ruby remarks that enough people have died already, and he doesn't want anyone else to lose their lives."
~ Pokemon Special Vol. 22, Chapter 267 - The Last Battle VIII

Now that you have the mood and background of what's going on I better explain my sudden Pokemon revival shouldn't I?

Like I said before this is from Pokemon Special (PkSp) a manga that's completely different from the Pokemon Anime (for one thing it's more realistic/darker - come now can you see a person dying in the Pokemon anime? I think not) While I'm still fond of the anime I really like the manga. Especially the Ruby/Sapphire series. When I went to order the manga I was pretty upset to see people in the U.S. can't legally buy it! They're sold in English in Singapore but they're not shipped to the U.S. which is another bummer! So I decided to do some promotional art for it. Maybe if enough of us do then maybe, just maybe Viz will pick up the manga again. (It's a nice thought at least)

So here's Ruby, being very angst; but you really can't blame him since 3 people close to him died between these huge battles (including his distant father on which he recently learned actually cared and protected him! (Big time angst! ))

Re-inked and Colored in MS Paint
Summaries and Bios can be found here:
- General Manga
- Ruby/Sapphire Summaries
Original picture can be found here: Offical Japanese Website _{(it's in frames so I can't give the exact page since it never shows a difference, just go exploring)}

Expect more of these to come