Is Water Really That Bad?

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Approaching the entrance to a dull gray colored waterfall in the middle of the dull, dark Shadowhue Forest definitely wasn't Sova's idea of a fun time.  But there were missions to be done and he could do two at once here, so that was that.  Though, he'd been to Shadowhue a few times before and never actually checked out the Monochrome Falls....  He didn't even know there were supposedly ruins behind them.  Nearly everything he knew, he'd learned from his parents.  Apparently they hadn't gone to Shadowhue much either.

Perhaps the least desired part of his situation was the dead weight he found himself having to carry.  What was he, a gogoat?  The houndour, whose name he still hadn't gotten, at least wasn't burning him like he was worried of.  "Hey, are you still dead?"  He questioned to the passenger on his back.

As the glaceon emerged from the brush and trees of the forest near the waterfall, having had to go off the path he was on to follow the sound of the water, he immediately spotted someone else already there.  A vaporeon was sitting in front of the waterfall and the pool of water under it, simply looking into the water.  Despite the urge to immediately greet another eevee-lution, he decided to stay back and try to see if it was hostile before approaching it.

Skylar stared into the water, looking at the reflection of her self.  Being a vaporeon was....okay, but when she had evolved, she was apparently turning into water.  WATER.  She'd have to learn WATER TYPE moves too if she wanted to be useful.  What if she drowned her self trying to use Hydro Pump or something!?  Could she even drown any more?  She distinctly remembered being able to breathe under water when she'd evolved.  Or maybe she'd just imagined it.  What if she didn't imagine it?  What if she could, but now that ability was gone?  She wanted to find out so badly, but then she'd have to dive under water....

(Sova - 33 energy)
(Skylar - 11 energy)

Aries finally stopped sobbing, the idea of making it up to the group being brilliant, "Yeah..." he nodded. He put on a determined face, his ears flying straight up, "Yeah! I'll make it up to you!" he smiled slightly, tears still lingering in his eyes. He looked to the glaceon and saw that he was looking at the water fall. He took off all of a sudden, thinking that he meant to go into the waterfall. He leaped onto the other side, the skiddo finding the caverns of the ruins. He was already known of this place, rumors having been spread around town, so he had assumed it to be safe.

The houndour leaned against the Glaceon's shoulder, thankful for the support as he could at the very least walk like this. He hoped they would not have to get into a battle, because he would only be able to use Flamethrower from the sidelines at this rate. Grah! Why did he have to be so weak? At least Boss wasn't abusive towards him...

Skylar reached a paw out to try and stop the skiddo from running off, but it was too late. Aries was headed straight for the waterfall, as if he was determined to end his life. "No no no wai-" She stopped to cringe as the skiddo leaped through the waterfall, but there was no thud to indicate he'd hit a wall, there was no body to indicate he'd been knocked out or worse. "What the...." She carefully crept closer to the waterfall to examine it. "You there?"

Sova laughed and shook his head. "There's a cave, apparently. Behind the waterfall." He informed the vaporeon as he began walking towards the cave himself, slowly to allow his tagalong to keep up. He had missions he needed to do in that cave, so he needed to get through the waterfall. Though getting the houndour through the waterfall would likely be difficult. After all, he was a Fire-Type. Water probably didn't feel too good on the hound. It was probably comparable to the glaceon trying to walk through a fire.

Aries had thought that his new found friends were directly behind him, but soon discovered that he was wrong. He blinked and looked back, managing to hear Skylar ask if he was there. He leaped back onto the other side, landing on a stepping stone, "C'mon!" he piped to the group, before jumping through again, having zero problems due to his durability and ability to jump.

Zera looked up at the waterfall, his ears flattening and his mouth open in a gape. He would have to go through that!? He could barely survive WALKING how would he go through that!? The houndour looked to Sova, giving a whine at the sight of it, hoping that the Glaceon would get that the waterfall would not be happy fun times if he already did not know.

"Don't worry, I've got this."  Sova assured his companion who seemed to be resorting to making noises, talking apparently being too difficult.  It seemed he'd have to figure out the houndour's name later.  As he walked by Skylar, he stopped to retrieve a leaf from his bag.  Without even a warning, he pushed the hound off of him and onto the other eeveelution.  "Hold this for me."  He said before turning his attention back to the houndour.  "And you, eat this."  He said as he dropped the leaf by the houndour.

Skylar sighed in relief as the skiddo showed himself to indeed be alive and she was informed about the cave, but this meant she'd have to go THROUGH the waterfall if she wanted to stay with the skiddo.  It seemed the other two were planning on going through the waterfall too, she'd be left alone if she couldn't do it.  Then the houndour was apparently passed to her for safe keeping, prompting her to move a bit closer to him and lean in so that he would fall against her and not onto the ground, if he fell.

The skiddo waited on the other side of the waterfall, waiting for his friends to cross through. He waited for them to burst through at any moment, his tail wagging as he could not wait to adventure with his new friends. The knowledge of the deep unknown just behind him having completely flown over his head, if it hadn't he likely would have jumped back once more and hide behind the vaporeon.

Zera found himself being shoved onto the vaporeon, then snapped up the leaf before it touched the ground as the glaceon ordered him to eat it. The leaf was bitter, making him want to spit it back out, but forced himself to swallow it. He had no idea what it was, but he trusted Boss enough for this. After all, why would Boss try to kill him after saving him?

Sova looked the waterfall up and down. "I hope this works." He muttered to himself before firing an Ice Beam at the waterfall, freezing it solid.

"Did you just freeze our way in?" Skylar questioned. She would have been relieved that going through the waterfall was now off limits, but that meant Aries was stuck inside the cave!

"Yes, I did. Fire-Types don't like water, so I'm gonna make a hole for him to go through." Sova responded, then rammed the waterfall. Though he quickly realized he alone was not strong enough to break it. "If someone could help, that'd be just dandy." He commented, hoping for someone to assist him. Hopefully quickly, the entire waterway wasn't frozen and the water would likely begin flowing over the ice soon.

Skylar shook her head. "I'm busy holding your friend up." Someone else would have to help, she was stuck with babysitting duty.

The hound watched as the glaceon attempted to headbutt the wall of ice, and failed miserably. Zera, having felt a bit more rejuvenated thanks to the Petlil's leaf, managed to stop leaning on the vapreon and limp over to the waterfall himself, "I got this..." he found himself finally able to speak. He opened his jaws and blasted the ice with flames, melting it into a thinner sheet. He planned to keep going until there was a hole going straight through, but his legs buckled and he fell over out of weakness, he gave a yelp as he fell, the flames cutting off and ceased their assault on the wall of ice.

Aries, on the other side of the waterfall gave a fearful bleat as the water suddenly froze over. He quickly rushed at it, in attempt to either get out before it froze completely or break it, but he was too late. The skiddo gave another bleat, as the other side of the falls began to glow red for a bit before suddenly stopping. The skiddo watched, waiting a moment as the redness suddenly stopped, before ramming into it once more, this time breaking the ice and causing him to fly into the houndour painfully as he was still in front of the waterfall.

"Don't push your self too-" Sova began, but ceased as his worry turned to reality. The houndour collapsed, apparently from pushing it too far too soon. To make matters better and worse at the same time, the skiddo had smashed through what was left of the ice, then into the houndour. "Well, at least now the cave's open. We should hurry through before the water starts flowing again." He commented as he leaned down to allow the houndour to use him to prop himself up again, if need be.

Skylar allowed the houndour to leave her shoulder, feeling relieved that she could now move freely again. She watched as he tried to burn a hole in the newly formed ice wall, and failed. But as soon as Aries broke through and fell into the houndour, she rushed over to make sure the skiddo was alright because the other two are jerks. "Are you okay??" She asked, mostly to the skiddo.

[Zera: 9
Aries: 4]

Zera forced himself up and leaned against the glaceon, he remained silent, now that he'd assisted the Boss and it was time to move on. He had already been useless the entire trip, but at least now he could say he did something, even if it was half the work. The duo walked into the caverns, the cave now open for them to cross safely inside without getting drenched or crushed under the pounding water.

The skiddo popped right back to his feet, completely forgetting that he had bowled into the houndour, "Yeah! I'm fine! They're going in, let's go!" he chimed, before taking off. He hopped ahead of the vaporeon and the other two pokemon, turning around and shouting at the top of his lungs, "C'mon! Let's go! Let's go!" before hopping in a circle excitedly.

Zera Roll:

Kat carried out 9 launched of one Monochrome Ruins :

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Upon entering the cave, Sova's imagination immediately began getting the best of him. Or so he thought, at least. He thought he'd spotted something in the dark, but upon further inspection, he saw nothing there. Surely it was just the dark playing tricks on him. Then a sound like something skittering or running through the cave behind him made him turn his head to see what was there, again to see nothing. "So, what's your name?" He asked to the houndour whose name he'd still failed to get in the hopes of taking his attention away from the cave.

He directed his attention back to the path in front of the group when something grabbed his tail, making him jump forward almost enough to knock the houndour down. Again, he looked behind him, this time to see a geodude latched onto his tail. For some reason, he was getting deja vu from this.

Skylar was the last to enter the cave, still hesitant. What if the waterfall suddenly started flowing again as she tried to walk through and knocked her back into the water? She took a deep breath and ran through the entrance the others had worked together to create and sighed in relief that it held up. She took a place in the middle of the group, between the skiddo and the other two.

The question of what the houndour's name was caught her attention, prompting her to look back to the two as she awaited a response. Everyone's name was currently known other than this hound's. Then something more urgent happened, a rock grabbed onto the glaceon. Wait, a rock? Oh, a geodude. Was it trying to attack? Surely it would be a bad idea for the little thing, given it was four against one and it seemed like it'd even be outmatched one on one.

There was a crack behind the vaporeon, as the sound of roaring water resumed once more and the falls crushed the ice and resumed its natural state. The sound of the crash and roars brought the Houndour's attention away from Boss who was talking, "You know we're going to have to do that again, right?" he huffed, not looking forward to having to burn a hole through it again. The geodude caught the attention of him, the rock type was grabbing Boss's tail! He snarled, prepared to teach the geodude a lesson on command.

The Skiddo looked back to see the waterfalls crash down. He shivered at the noise, and spotted the geodude that had clung to the Glaceon's tail. He tilted his head, "Why is he grabbing his tail?" the skiddo asked. He had seen many Geodudes back on the mountain, his father used to bash them around with his horns a lot, and often tried to get him to join him and bash the geodude the farthest he could from his turf. TO him, the geodude was nothing but a soccerball pretty much.

Completely ignoring the sounds of the waterfall continuing its pounding, Sova glared back at the living rock holding onto his tail. "Is this a thing geodudes just do?" He questioned. To which it replied, "No?" The geodude then grabbed a rock off the ground with its free hand and pulled its arm back to throw it at the glaceon, who simply responded by raising his tail and slamming it to the ground, with the geodude still shackling its self to him. It released its grip and fell to the ground, dazed, before being knocked unconscious by a beam of ice ejected from the glaceon's mouth.

Skylar jumped a bit as the waterfall came crashing down. If she'd waited just a few seconds longer, she could have been smacked down and knocked into the water as she'd feared.... Worse yet, the houndour's point was true, they'd have to do it again! What if she wasn't so lucky next time? Then to make matters even worse, she could have sworn she saw something run through her peripheral vision in the darkness of the cavern, barely lit by florescent mushrooms.

"Visitors..."
"Yes! Yes! Visitors!"
"They have valuables..."
"Shinies! Shinies!"
Two creatures whispered to each other in the dark, Aries blinked, looking in the direction of the voices, "Hello?"

"Spotted!"
"Rock thing..."
"Greet them!"

From the darkness it seemed that a Roggenrolla rolled into view, the rock type appeared to be confused for a moment, as it seemed to look up at Aries. The skiddo bleated in fear, having not seen this thing before, and retreated behind the Vaporeon, almost slipping on the wet floor on the way.

Zera was a bit disappointed that he didn't get to do anything, but could only stand there as he watched the Skiddo bleat in fear of something, and a strange rock thing appeared before them.
"The hell is that?" he snarled.

"That, my friend, is a wannabe geodude." Sova replied to the houndour, knowing already what a roggenrolla was but deciding to make a joke instead.
It wasn't like it was going to be much of a threat to them. He was more worried about the voices that had sent it to them. "Hello wannabe geodude and hello to the lurking creepers! Show those beautiful faces so we can talk." He purposely antagonized to the living rock and who ever was lurking in the dark.

Skylar actually would have considered running away if not for the fact that the waterfall was currently blocking her escape and Aries was apparently hoping for her to protect him. Besides, the other two didn't seem worried. Though if the enemies were powerful the glaceon was probably going to get them all killed with his mouth. Not wanting to try and interfere, she simply stood her ground in front of the skiddo and waited for something to happen.

(Rolling with Sova)

Lord E V carried out 5 launched of one Monochrome Ruins :

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"No! No! No!"
"Rock thing..."
"Get them!"

The roggenrolla huffed, before beginning to glow. The air around the pokemon began to grow heavier, as it used Gravity, intensifying the gravity in the area.

Zera had gotten ready to attack, but only collapsed as the gravity kicked in. He snarled and attempted to lift himself back up, but found that he was pinned to the ground. He snarled in rage, and tried again and again only to fail. He wished that he could dash up to those ghost types and rip them apart, but he was too weak.

Aries looked around, watching as his friends began to struggle to stand. He blinked, not sure what was going on. The skiddo had strong legs, having lived on mountains his entire life, and could only slightly feel the effects of the gravity.
"Why is everyone like this?" he asked, a worried look in his eyes. Had they suddenly fallen ill?