The Princess's Acquaintance

The day was young as the tyrunt returned from the waterfall, having left the Pawniard as she began her journey back home. She had not seen any significance in the loud and roaring waterfall, and was a bit irritated that she had come all this way for nothing.

The princess's amulet reflected the light of the few rays that made it through the canopy of leaves as she traversed the forest. She did not may much attention to where she was going, and had regretted it as she had gotten herself lost.

Victoria gave a huff as she came to a halt, she had a kingdom to build, and yet she was lost in this forest of darkness and dangers. She looked about, hoping to find something that could make her feel more optimistic about this situation. She could spend this time trying to recruit more to help her build her kingdom...yes...that's it! She would use this time to search for others and continue to build up citizens, peasants, knights, and other pokemon of all kinds to live in her kingdom in Blackspear. They would need to help her build shelters for others and other places of great importance though.

The optimistic ideas slowly began to fade into nothingness as she wandered on aimlessly, turning occasionally when she found something of interest, or at least thought she found something of interest. It always turned out to be junk and rocks though, causing hope for some kind of profit on this trip to dwindle.

[DYE IN EFFECT: Tail and crown feathers - Sakura pink]

Shara was taking a lazy flight, she might wander about some, Maybe do some exploring in a dungeon, she scanned the forest and something caught her eye. It was a Tyrunt. That was odd. Shara dived down to check it out.

"Heyo, How you doing the name is Aria, now that that's out of the way what are you doing here?" Shara said, invading the private space of the large jawed pokemon.

She was rather curios, the last time she saw a Tyrunt was in that valley. Strange place. Interesting though. She could be an explorer, I mean that's what Shara had come for. Maybe she was just lost. But that seemed so boring considering the other possibilities.

[Dungeon entrance -10 energy]
[E:6]

The tyrunt was surprised to see a pidgey suddenly fly down from above and hop around the tyrunt a little too closely, invading her personal space. The bird began to introduce itself all of a sudden and question the tyrunt.

Victoria let a growl loose, angered by the sudden invasion of Royalty's personal space. Her teeth became coated in Ice as the tyrunt parted her jaws in a warning bite that missed the Pidgey's soft and feathered neck by a short distance on purpose if it had decided to not move.

"Back off!" she growled, "Even peasants should know to respect a princess's space when introducing themselves!"

The light on her pendant stopped reflecting as it moved out of a sun's ray and ceased its shining. The sapphire became a dull blue due to lack of light as the tyrunt warned the pidgey to back off. The tyrunt herself spoke once more to at least answer the pidgey's question, "I'm here because i'm leaving this forest."
[energy 9]

Shara giggled and moved back away from the angry dinosaur. So she fancied herself royalty then? That was interesting, if nothing else. Shara frowned when The Tyrunt answered her question.

"You sure know how to give boring answers don't you? though I suppose royalty is always dull and official. Where you from? I've been a lot of places, the last time I saw royalty they were... Tyrantrum. No, It couldn't be!" Shara said, exaggerating disbelief.

Was she really from that far off vally? Stranger things had happened. Shara grinned like an idiot. Things were getting really interesting. Shara shot off through the canopy and returned a short time later after scanning the forest.

"In any case your highness, You aren't getting out of this forest anytime soon, mind if I keep you company?"

[E:6]

The tyrunt only continued to growl as a surge of power rose in her throat that she resisted using. The disbelief on the pidgey seemed to obviously be exaggerated, and the way she called Victoria "your highness" only added to the distrust between her and the strange pidgey named Aria.

"Why?" the tyrunt questioned the pidgey, still irritated towards the pidgey about not having received an apology. This pidgey didn't quite seem to respect her much, but Victoria dismissed that as differences in culture.

She watched the pidgey, having remembered her father having a Pidgeot that replaced the deceased Charizard as kingdom messenger. The pidgeot wasn't as good as the charizard, constantly losing messages, and constantly being attacked and defeated easily where as the charizard defended itself. The poor performance of the pidgeot of her kingdom seemed to influence the tyrunt's willingness to try to recruit this pidgey as one of her kingdom.

"You seem interesting and I'm bored. more or less. are you really from the valley kingdom? It's been ages since I was last there. Strange place." Shara said, happily hopping along.

It really was, the whole idea of a ruling body was strange. Then it being based on bloodline? Royalty was something out of a fairytale for shara, so of course she was going to the one place she knew had it.

That begs the question what was the crown princess doing traipsing through a forest so far from home? Shara stopped smiling for a second, contemplating this. She had heard rumors about some fallout in the royal family, but they were just rumors caused to stir up controversy. Shara decided to wait before asking more questions.

[E:6]

"I've said absolutely nothing about a Valley Kingdom!" the tyrunt growled, becoming rather suspicious, "What do you know, and why are you so interested in my status?"

Her fangs began to grow colder as she spoke, her breath beginning to become visible as the ice crept up her sharp teeth and formed icy daggers that were just waiting to puncture into the pidgey should it give a reason for her to attack.

All of this knowledge seemed suspicious, other pokemon she had met before knew nothing of her upbringing, so why does this one suddenly know of her past? It was strange, the only reason she could think of was her father or mother or someone sent this bird after her, wanting to bring her home or even assassinate her. She didn't want to go home, she was out here to make her own kingdom! Didn't her mother and father agree to this anyways!?

[Sorry If this post is weird, I feel weird and it feels weird writing it, but whatevs.]
"Well I guess I could have jumped to conclusions, but what are the chances that anywhere else in the world, i would find a Tyrunt princess? You guys aren't the most common species. add to that the lack of royalty in general in this world, I just assumed. I mean I did ask didn't i? I asked if you were really from the Valley kingdom. I should have asked 'are you from the valley kingdom?' But I guess i was too sure of myself. meh I'm looking to far into this." Shara said, slightly ranting.

"Ok as for what I know I've traveled there a couple times, It's an odd place, but interesting. I'm a wanderer, I've been a lot of places. And you were the one to make a big deal out of your princesshood. not me."

Shara took a breath. She really didn't want to have to explain everything to the Tyrunt. Buuuuut It looked like she wanted answers. Shara would rather not fight so she got everything out as fast as she could. She stood there, the eyes of the tyrunt on hers. Shara rolled her eyes.

[E:6]

Victoria stared at the pidgey as it rolled its eyes, the tyrunt merely huffed before turning, "Join me if you want, I don't care."

The tyrunt's footsteps thumped against the grass of the forest floor as wind blew past and her icy fangs melted, water dripping from her jaws and giving her a slight drink that satisfied a small thirst she was growing.

She did not care much for the pidgey, and merely wished to continue onward and find her way through this dark forest and its dangers. She wondered if she would find someone of better use in her adventure through this forest, since this pidgey seemed to having nothing special about it. Not like that charmander had that she had met back at Black Spear, that charmander was strong! As a bonus, the charmander seemed to be able to recognize and respect her status and royal blood, not like this pidgey did...

Kat carried out 1 launched of one Shadowhue Forest :

A Paras stepped out behind a tree, making weird bug noises, shara zipped over to it. inspecting it.

"You wild?" She asked.

The paras hissed and tried to use sleep powder on the Pidgey, but was far too slow.

"Taking that as a yes!" Shara said, getting down to business. She tackled The paras and then hit it from behind with a feint attack, knocking it away. Shara proceeded to use her powerful wings to whirl up a sand attack on the dazed bug.

Shara turned to the Tyrunt and with a cocky smile said; "Would your highness like a piece of the action?"

Shara was curios to see that ice fang in action. also curios to see the pride of the valley kingdom in a fight. Then again It was fun messing with bugs. conflicting ways of having fun are the best kinds of conflictions, shara mused.

[E:6]

I'll take a piece of your wing if this attitude continues, the tyrunt growled as she spoke to herself. The tyrunt's teeth began to coat itself with ice once more as the slow crackling ice made its way to the tip of the daggers of her jaws. The tyrunt charged forward and managed to chomp down onto its arm, the paras cried out and tried to yank itself free as Ice slowly crawled up the Paras's skin and coated and weighed down the arm.

The paras managed to free itself by unleashing spores from its mushrooms that spread onto the princess. She felt something seize her body as she grew to be paralyzed!

[OOC: was the exclamation point really necessary?]

"A for effort princess." Shara laughed. She cracked her neck. Time to finish this.

Shara burst forth with incredible speed. When she neared the paras it tried to use poison powder. "Too slow~" Shara sang, coming up from behind using feint attack. Kicking up another sand attack, shara became a blur, using a combination of tackle and feint attack to rapidly attack Her foe.

Her luck would not last however, as the Paras caught on and turned around fast enough to use leech life. Shara retreated to take a breath. She wasn't exactly back to square one, but The paras was getting awfully annoying.

[E:6]

The paras seemed to grow a determined front as the bug type began to scuttle about back and forth, steadily growing faster and faster before multiple paras began to surround the two pokemon.

Victoria tried to take a chomp towards a double, but missed as it easily scooted backwards and away from the clumsy tyrunt, who was hindered by the paralyses. Her icy teeth met air as the tyrunt was unable to move enough to save herself from falling over. Her jaw crashed into the ground while the rest of her body fell limp, her entire body unable to move as the powder still took effect. The tyrunt could still move her eyes though, as she tried to find some way of assisting despite her incapacitated status.

It was time to end this. If the paras could leach more life off of shara every time she attacked then this fight would go nowhere. so shara decided to go faster.

Shara approached the Paras with a tackle, only to move behind it with Feint Attack. The paras was prepared and wheeled around, but by that time Shara was gone again. She was stringing together Feint Attacks so fast that The paras couldn't keep up. Eventually Shara got far enough ahead to start hitting the bug.

In a flurry of blows and blurry images of a pidgey that was not there the moment you looked at them, the paras went down. Shara huffed. Stringing that many attacks in a row had taken up nearly all her strength.

That paras was too smart, Made for a bad impression. Shara could normally take on at least three of any bug, but this one was different for some reason, maybe it was teetering on the edge of Sapience. who knows? It was out cold now.

"Tada." Shara said with little mirth. "Well. That was embarrassing. I don't know about you, But I don't want to look like I almost got beaten by a wild bug. Wish I had a heal seed or some berry to help that paralysis. Guess we just gotta wait it out."

[E:6]

[btw energy 7]

A breath of ice and bitterness erupted from the tyrunt's nostrils before she spoke, "At least you got to do something!"

Victoria was stuck with the embarrassment of being helpless and having to wait for the paralyzing effects of the mushroom pokemon's spores to wear off. It should not be long luckily since the spores seemed to have finished the climax of their effects while the tyrunt had been fighting.

"Aria was it?" she spoke, a bit hesitant to speak the next words, but figured that they were due, "Thank you."

The tyrunt slowly felt the control return to her body as she slowly struggled up onto her huge hind legs once more. She looked down at her amulet, gripping it in her tiny arms to check for its welfare. This amulet was the only thing of true value she had, both in market value and sentimental value, as it was the last connection she had to royalty. The Sapphire Amulet was proof of her heir to the throne despite having wandered off to make her own kingdom.