Crown of Thorns

Pokémon [20]

2 — Virizion EX — Plasma Blast (9/101)
2 — Shaymin EX — Next Destinies (5/99)

4 — Roselia — Flashfire (8/106)
4 — Roserade — Dragons Exalted (15/124)

4 — Shelmet — Plasma Blast (7/101)
4 — Accelgor — Dark Explorers (11/108)

Trainers [23]

3 — Great Ball — Emerging Powers (93/98)
4 — Level Ball — Next Destinies (89/99)

2 — Professor Juniper — Plasma Freeze (116/116)
3 — Professor Birch's Observations — Primal Clash (159/160)
4 — N — Noble Victories (101/101)

3 — Virbank City Gym — Plasma Storm (152/135)

1 — Life Dew — Plasma Freeze (107/116)
3 — Trick Coin — Phantom Forces (108/119)

Energy [17]

4 — Herbal Energy — Furious Fists (103/111)
4 — Double Colorless Energy
9 — Grass Energy

Epilogue

A tortured life is not one worth living. Such a thing invalidates our greatest potential in this world—to make the best of it and all we have. For we are brought into this world beyond our control of it; where by all reason, the best we can possibly do—is make the best of the time and space we have.

In this lies the meaning of life itself. Yet there are forces in this world that can tear away from this meaning—and tear us down in all that make life whole—mind, heart, and soul. These forces are known as pain and sorrow, and the darkness of these forces is notoriously known for haunting some people all the way to their grave.

For those who've never known the torment of such things, in this life they're sure to get the only experience of it they'll ever need—a tragedy that leads many to the darkest epiphany one can behold. "Death is our friend. Those who relinquish themselves to the darkness become one with it; released from the misery known as life—laid to rest in the silence."