The Hunt is On!

So this was the Fallen Leaf Copse....the thing Sova had failed to find first. It was certainly beautiful enough to be a treasure, but the real treasure was within....somewhere. Perhaps it wasn't too late for him to be the one to find the treasure. Of course, having someone as enthusiastic about treasure as Mirage with him was sure to help as well.

"This looks like a nice place to live...." He said.

"Too bright..." Mirage huffed, "Shadowhue is more suited for my type," the zorua had been trailing behind the Glaceon, keeping pace with ease as she looked about. The stepping stones to the island had been a bit of a pain to navigate, but the island seemed to be coated in leaves. She was surprised the trees weren't completely bare of them yet. She wondered if this island ever changed its season, as some have rumored that it was in perpetual Autumn. The leaves had to rejuvenate somehow...right? It just didn't make any sense. The zorua continued on, the treasure that awaited them, she could practically smell it.

[Energy: 22]

Wow this place looks amazing. Thought nico as he floated closer to it. He had come alone. Again alone on another adventure. depressed by his thought he decided that he should probably make some new friends. He floated by a few people but they were all very uninviting looking. Boring he thought i need an interesting bunch of companions. He spotted a glaceon from a distance away. There we go he thought maybe I could talk to him. As he floated towards them he noticed a zorua walking next to him. I hope this goes well. He got up to them and said''Hi my name is Nico and well to be completly honest I cant find a group to explore with, if you guys arent busy maybe...'' he trailed off. He was nervous again.


(energy orginally 19. minus 11 makes 8 total energy available)

(Energy - 27)

"Awww, but that place is so gloomy."  Sova whined back to his companion.  "Well, guess it doesn't matter anyways.  We're here for treasure!"  He said enthusiastically.  He may have been beaten in finding the copse, but the fact that solving the original riddle did not lead one straight to the treasure meant he had a chance to redeem himself.  At the very least, he got to spend some time with his friend surrounded by beautiful scenery.  That was enough for him, even if they didn't find the treasure.

Then the gastly (that I totally didn't completely skimread past) interrupted his train of thought. "Huh? Uh....sure, if it's alright with her." He gestured to Mirage.

Mirage stared at the Gastly, being given the control of whether or not it stayed or went. It didn't look all that menacing, and it didn't look all that suspicious either. The suspicious ones were usually explorers trying to disguise themselves or pretend they weren't explorers in order to trick her into going with them into an ambush. She nodded, decided to let the gastly follow, for now.
They were much closer to the guild now, the likely-hood of meeting an explorer was greatly increased. The zorua had to be more careful than she was in Mt. Frostmeer, else she'll end up in the jailhouse, along with her friend too.

''Names Nico by the way. Im from Shadowhue forest.'' Nico figured that they would be suspicious sense he was well a ghost. So he floated on ahead of them just to show them he meant them no harm. ''So.... you guys ever seen a place like this island before?''  He asked. hoping to initiate some form of conversation.

Sova shook his head. "I've seen a lot of places, none as nice to look at as this place. I'm guessing that's why you're here?" He questioned. The two most likely possibilities were that this gastly, Nico, was either sightseeing or searching for the treasure. Hopefully it wasn't the latter. Sova knew Mirage likely wouldn't want to share the treasure with others if they found it.

"Bullsh*t," Mirage interjected with a huff, "I've lived in Shadowhue for quite some time. Never have I seen anything like you there. Anyways as for the island, it was only recently found, so no I haven't seen anything like this before." Her ears flicked, causing the earrings that clung to her ear to jingle slightly. The outlaw looked to the gastly, "So, what are you? Explorer? Adventurer? Some Lost Tourist?"

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They don't believe me?''My mother, valentine still lives there'' he said. He remembered the dank musty air. Oh he missed it. ''My dad well he got into a bad fight with a alakazam. It over powered him in the end.'' How Dare she! who the fuck did this lady think she was. accusing me of some liar. I should..... no nico not again. You need to breathe. ''Listen i don't think i have seen you there before but i assure you i am a adventurer in a way. i don't have many friends. looks your gonna wanna leave my past alone, please its very very painful for me'' Come on man don't cry don't show the pain

Sova thought about just pretending he didn't hear the argument unfolding and continuing to walk, but decided on trying to stop the conflict before it inevitably got worse. "Alright, that's enough. If we're gonna be here as a trio, lets get along and make this a nice trip." He suggested, mostly towards Mirage. He knew all too well that she could be....insensitive at times. The last thing he wanted to deal with was a random argument over some petty details. At that, it could attract....unwanted attention.

Oh! What? Where? What was that? A nearby pokemon shot straight into the air, standing on its tail to get a higher look. A sentret spotted a trio of pokemon, it made a slight growling sound before emitting a rather loud noise, giving off an alert to something else. It did not take long for a wrumple to come crawling out of the bushes at the trio and a Cascoon roll in before pushing out its spikes to stand and appear intimidating.

"You!" the sentret growl, pointing at the trio, "Trespassing!"

Mirage was alarmed by the loud noise, and snarled in the direction of the sentret, her hair raising and making her appear fluffier, bigger, and intimidating.

Nico floated to the back preparing to hypnotise anything that got in there way. He started hypnotizing the sentret as it slowly began to feel drowsy. ''i think we should run just saying guys'' but he had a feeling that they would appreciate him more if he stood his ground so he doubled his body mass and made it look like his friends had giant shadows

Sova couldn't decide whether he was excited to cause overkill severe damage to something, or annoyed to have so many things taking him away from getting to know Mirage and trying to find the treasure. But at least he'd get to test out Ice Beam.

Regardless of whether or not the seemingly hostile pokemon planned to attack, he wasn't going to sit around and wait to find out. With a moment to prepare, he fired a burning cold beam of....cold....at the wurmple, knocking it back onto the ground. It seemed the gastly was also being useful for something, as the sentret collapsed and fell asleep from what seemed to be hypnosis. He rolled his eyes, feeling this fight would be far too easy and boring.

Mirage stood her ground, "Run? The party's only just getting started!" she huffed. The zorua began to surround herself in a dark mist, the mist thickening itself until it was an orb. The orb gathered together towards her mouth as it seemed to grow larger and larger, before she finally shot forward towards the cascoon. The orb of shadows suddenly sprung forward from her jaws like a bullet, and struck the cascoon, knocking it off of its footing on the ground and attaching itself to a tree on accident. It struggled to move, but the spikes would not budge as they were buried deep into the tree.

'' True enough'' Nico said. He lept to the front of the battle ready to deal some solid damge. He aproached the sentret. and pulled back a giant part of his gaseous form as it shot forward it was coated in ice and it froze in a shape of a fist shattering upon the sentret's body. Splintering its entire body with ice shards. It laid there sleeping peacefully as it bled into the dirt.