Climbing the Hill! The Ralts and the Pawniard training for Black Mist Mountain!?

Akuroma hefted up his bag as he waited at the entrance of Pricklemist Hill. After getting back to Grassveil and healing up, the two Pokemon decided to go to Pricklemist Hill. However, unlike their attempt at Black Mist Mountain, they decided to prepare. It was nearly two weeks before they decided they were prepared and began their journey.

However, they got separated along the way, but planned to meet up at Pricklemist Hill anyways. Now we've reached today. Akuroma had reached the misty foot of the hill nearly an hour ago. He was clearly frustrated that Enzu had not reached the hill yet, knowing that he'd be dependent on the Pawniard for this training excursion.

He sighed, his psychic sensory abilities wouldn't allow him to sense Enzu's arrival, which means he had no idea if the Pawniard was miles away or just a few yards. Thankfully the mist here was not as thick as the mist on Black Mist Mountain, and Akuroma could see through it without much difficulty. Not that it helped at the moment, unless the gleam of the Pawniard's blades shined through the mist.

Energy: 10

Enzu made his way to the base of Pricklemist Hill. It had been almost two weeks since his first attempt to climb Black Mist Mountain with Akuroma, and after deciding to attempt it again, the pair also made the decision to train and prepare for the journey rather then making it without any practice. And during those two weeks, Enzu had made his own adventure to the Black Spear Mountain Range where he made some new friends, and he had also traveled with one of them to Monochrome Falls.

Enzu had hoped that both of these experiences would help him in preparing for traveling back to Black Mist Mountain. As Enzu walked through the fog he thought back to the black fog that covered Black Mist Mountain, luckily this fog was not as thick at Pricklemist Hill, but it would provide proper training for Enzu and Akuroma. As he continued walking Enzu noticed a figure just ahead that he determined to be Akuroma. He then called out to Akuroma, "Hey Akuroma!" he shouted, "Can you see me?"

((Enzu's Energy: 13))

Akuroma looked up when he heard someone shout his name, "Yeah, I see you," he said, hefting his bag higher up on his shoulder.

"What took ya so long?" he asked, walking up to the Pawniard with a smug look, "I was getting worried that I'd have to go back and get you." Akuroma smirked a bit, placing his hand on his side, on top of one of the scars the Pawniard gave him on their first trip to Black Mist Mountain. Though he didn't resent the Pawniard for giving him the scars, he wasn't against reminding him.

"Sorry about that," Enzu said, "On my way here I happened upon a large group of sleeping pokemon and had to make my way around them so that I didn't have a confrontation." When Akuroma placed his hand on the scars Enzu had given him, Enzu quickly gazed at the wounds, "How are the scars doing by the way?" he asked. Enzu felt responsible for giving him the scars, and its because he was.

Akuroma looked down at his scars, "Fine, no pain from them anymore and I can move pretty freely without them tearing open," the Ralts said, stretching a bit to prove that the scars were finished healing.

"I have to say I'm becoming a scar magnet. First that Patrat and now you, next thing you know I'll have an X-scissor scar on my chest or back," Akuroma said rather casually as he turned abd began to walk into the mist.

"I'm going to refrain from making a clearing for us as we walk so I can conserve some power if you get attacked," Akuroma said, turning his head back towards Enzu to see if the Pawniard was alright with this.

((Enzu's Energy: 13))

Enzu chuckled when Akuroma called himself a scar magnet, "Well your just going to have to be more careful," Enzu said, he was quite shocked that Akuroma was so calm when it came to talking about his scars. When he heard Akuroma say that he wasn't going to make a clearing Enzu nodded, "Thats fine, feel free to conserve you energy," he said, "Hopefully we won't run into pokemon as strong as the ones we did at Black Mist Mountain."

Akuroma rolled his eyes slightly, "I am being careful, I'm afraid what would happen if I were careless," he said as they began to climb the hill. Akuroma was a bit happy at the lower slope the hill had, it wasn't as hard to climb as the mountain, but if he wanted to climb the mountain with ease, he'd have to work on his climbing, which were sorely lacking.

"We shouldn't, Pricklemist Hill is near Rainfront town. I don't think a town would be built so close to a dangerous dungeon," the Ralts said at the Pawniard's concern about strong Pokemon.

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While they were walking Enzu was training his eyesight to try and see through the mist. He figured that if he can get his eyes used to seeing through the mist, then it would be easier to navigate Black Mist Mountain the next time he and Akuroma would attempt it. Enzu thought it was kind of funny what Akuroma had said, Enzu knew that the enemies here wouldn't be too difficult, he had meant his own statement as a joke. "Well if it is dangerous," he said, "Then the people of Rainfront town must be a lot stronger than they appear to be."

((I plan on rolling a die on my next post))

Akuroma chuckled a bit, "Good thing they're as peaceful as the Pokemon in Grassveil then," he said before hearing something rub against the ground as he walked forward. Looking down, Akuroma picked up a dark looking cloth.

"Huh, a Reaper Cloth, either I'm very lucky or these are common," Akuroma said, stuffing the cloth in his bag for now.

"Ugh, I'm gonna need to clean this thing out when we get back," the Ralts said, his bag rumbling as he moved items around to make room. He certainly didn't seem to be paying attention to his surroundings, but his horn was finely tuned to their surroundings. What the Pawniard couldn't see, he could sense psychically.

Energy: 9

"I would assume its pretty rare," Enzu said, "Considering most pokemon need it to evolve it probably has a high value as well." Enzu walked slightly ahead of Akuroma as he put the cloak into his bag. While he was walking Enzu thought about all the items that he might find here on the hill, they were probably different then all of the items that he found on Black Mist Mountain or in Shadowhue Forest. Enzu then remembered that Akuroma had collected samples of the mist when they were at the mountain, "Hey Akuroma," he asked, "Did you learn anything about the mist that you collected?"

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Akuroma looked up at Enzu as he asked about the mist, "Well, let me explain what mist is first. Mist is tiny droplets of water hanging in the air. These droplets form when warmer water in the air is rapidly cooled, causing it to change from invisible gas to tiny visible water droplets. Mist often forms when warmer air over water suddenly encounters the cooler surface of land. As you and I both know, there's no large water source near Black Mist Mountain, which means that water source had to be underground. It's possible there's a water source inside Black Mist Mountain, and it is naturally heated. As the steam formed from the hot water rises, it picks up pieces of dirt from the inner mountain, turning it black. As the now steam-turned-mist breaks through the surface through cracks in the mountain, it cools further and spreads around the mountain, condensing and being sucked back into that underground water source to repeat the process," the Ralts said in a very lengthy explanation. As he was about to continue his horn twitched slightly.

"Enzu duck!" the Ralts said just before a Fletchling came zooming dangerously close to the two Pokemon. Obviously it wasn't pleased with their intrusion to it's territory.

Enzu did his best to try and seem interested when Akuroma began to explain what exactly mist was. Admittedly he did ask the question of his own free will, he just wasn't expecting such a long answer. And on top of that Akuroma didn't even seem to say he learned anything about the mist besides what caused, which didn't help much in exploration. But all of the sudden when Akuroma said to duck Enzu did so instinctively because he knew that he could trust Akuroma's senses.

As Enzu ducked a blur of red seemed to fly over his head. Once it had flown past him Enzu looked at the pokemon that caused a blur and noticed it was a Fletchling. Enzu did not move from his current spot before he started to charge up a Psycho Cut on his blades.

((Enzu's Energy: 11))
((Fletchlings Move Set: Tackle, Growl, Quick Attack, Peck))

As Akuroma's horn began to glow pink and white he finished up his explanation, "In other words, the mist is currently useless to us and there's no way to stop it without causing problems to Black Mist Mountain's already unstable environment," he said before firing off the Confuse ray.

The Fletchling deftly dodged the attack. When it had steady it's flight it released a piercing Growl attack on the two Pokemon. Luckily for Akuroma, he knew none physical attacks, and wasn't as affected as Enzu might be.

"Well thats a shame," Enzu said as Akuroma finished his explanation. When the Fletchling let out its growl, Enzu had to admit to himself that even though the pokemon was small, its growl did strike some worry into Enzu's thoughts. It caused him to have a little less faith in the strength of his attacks when it came to taking down the small bird. However this was not going to change Enzu's plan on making an attack, so once his Psycho Cut's were fully charged he took a ready stance and launched one of them at the bird. It quickly dodged to the side of the first blade. But once Enzu saw the direction that the bird moved he launched the other Psycho Cut at the birds new position and he was able to partially hit the bird, as it began to move again away from the second Psycho Cut.

As Enzu launched his Psycho Cuts, Akuroma fired his Confuse Ray at the other side of the Fletchling. He swung the attack towards the Pokemon as it tried to dodge the second Psyhco Cut, landing a hit. As the Fletchling began to fly erratically it started using Peck on the air and itself. Akuroma, deciding to not wait on the bird Pokemon to recover or somehow land a hit on one of them, grabbed the Fletchling with a Confusion attack and slammed it into the ground.