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)

Sova began a walk towards the roggenrolla, only to be halted as he felt the air bear down on him. His legs shook momentarily as he struggled to keep himself standing, there was no way he was going to just collapse. No way some little rock-thing was gonna beat him, with one move even. "This is Gravity. It does what it sounds like it does. If you don't notice it, I'm guessing you're a lot tougher than you look." He explained to the confused looking skiddo.

Skylar was immediately pulled to the ground as she unexpectedly felt gravity intensify around her. She tried to stand, only to fail. She simply wasn't physically strong enough to do so, not by a long shot. As the glaceon explained, she began to glow an eerie purple color, quickly strengthening her body as she Cursed her self. Sure, she was going to be a lot slower, but she would still be able to move faster than if she stayed pinned to the ground. She attempted to stand, but found that the effects of Gravity were still too intense for her, for the time being.

Zera could only lay on the floor, helpless as he could only glare at the glinting eyes in the darkness. His nostrils flared, a purple smog emitting with each breath as he glared at the sableye with rage. The smog crept and crawled along the floor, spreading in the general direction of the two ghost and dark types. He impatiently waited, hoping that they would not notice.

Aries bleated in fear as the situation was explained to him. He looked to the rock type, and a vine shot out from his shoulder and wrapped around the top of the Roggenrolla, "LET GO OF MY FRIEND!" he cried, slamming the unfortunate rock type around as if it were some baby's rattler. The skiddo knocked it into the walls and onto the ground and ceiling, but the rock type held its stance, continuing to use Gravity.

Sova huffed due to both agitation at the situation and the strain on his body just to stand, then proceeded to do what anyone with sanity would do....push himself even harder to walk. He took one shaky step after another, the shaking decreasing as his walking speed and fluidity increased. He stepped past the roggenrolla who was being flailed around like a rag-doll, focusing on the darkness that he assumed hid what ever was orchestrating this inconvenience. He fired an Ice Beam directed at one dark wall of the cavern, quickly turning his head and firing the beam all throughout the dark cavern in front of him, leaving some icy residue on the inscription-covered walls. He hoped to hear something that indicated he'd hit something noteworthy.

Skylar slowly lifted her self to her feet as her Cursing finally gave her enough of an edge to stand despite the overbearing increase in gravity, just barely. It was slowly getting easier as she went on, on top of which she would also be able to take a hit and hit back a lot harder. Maybe now she could be useful to some extent. Instead of trying to immediately attack the darkness like the glaceon was doing, though, she decided to stay close to Aries in the hopes of sticking near an ally for better protection to them both. Plus, she wanted to make sure the skiddo didn't get hurt. It would be hard to do that if she ran off to go hit things.

The sableye screeched as they were struck with the ice type attack, and fled as they found that they had bitten off more than they could choose.
"Flee! Flee!"
"Too much..."

Zera's eyes widened as he realized they had been running, and barked a breath off flame onto the fog. The flame quickly erupted into the gas and flashed over to the sableye, burning their behinds as they fled. The light of their burning behinds faded into the darkness, as they cried out in pain and fear.

The skiddo continued to flail around the roggenrolla, not desiring to let go until his friends were helped. He pulled the roggenrolla up to his face, "Will you let go of my friends now please?" he asked. The roggenrolla, who was still alive thanks to sturdy, shook itself in a gesture of "no." Aries's eyes teared up, and he felt as if he was going to cry since he was doing nothing to help his friends, "Go Away!" he yelled at it, throwing it in a random direction, which happened to be the waterfall. The roggenrolla cried out as it suddenly disappeared behind the water and a splash could be heard from the other side.

(Sova - 19 energy)
(Skylar - 13 energy)

"Come back, we're just gettin' started!" Sova shouted to the fleeing sableyes, lit up by his fiery friend, in an obvious taunt. He then turned his attention back to the others just in time to see the roggenrolla be tossed through the waterfall. "Sooo....everyone alright?" He questioned to the others, expecting the houndour to say no since the effects of Gravity hadn't yet worn off and were obviously effecting him the most.

Skylar simply watched as the others dealt with the threats, feeling a bit useless. But what would she have done anyways? With the Gravity bearing down on her and Curse making it even more difficult to move quickly, albeit that was the only thing letting her move at all, she couldn't really get to the enemies to hit them even if she tried. The eerie purple glow around her faded away, signaling the end of her Curse. Hopefully, the effects would stick around until Gravity stopped trying to pull her to the ground. "I'm fine." She replied to the glaceon.

(Gonna roll again with Sova because WHY NOT)

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

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"Yes..." the skiddo sniffled, still upset that he had done nothing to help his friends, at least in his eyes. He sat down, his legs beginning to feel sore as the effects of the gravity began to take its toll on him. The grass type's vines retreated into his leafy pelt, his ears were flattened as he stared at the ground before him, feeling as if he had failed his new friends. He swallowed his tears though, he would just have to make himself more useful later on!

"What do you think?" the houndour huffed, still pinned to the ground by the intense gravity. Zera had been able to watch the two fiery butts fade into the distance, whether it was them putting it out or they had gotten far enough for the darkness to swallow the light. He waited, his bruises from previous fights not appreciating this new pressure being placed onto them.

"Well, you look like a pancake, but at least the others are okay."  Sova joked to the houndour.  Maybe he was being insensitive, but in his defense it was kind of true.
Wasting no time, he approached the houndour and lowered himself, offering a shoulder to help the houndour try and pull himself up if he wanted.  The strain of lowering his body without being pulled all the way to the ground with the intense Gravity wasn't comfortable and he knew if the houndour DID manage to get up, it was gonna get worse before it got better, but he could surely handle it.  "Think you can get up?"

Skylar sighed, seeing that the skiddo seemed upset.  She slowly walked over to him, not able to go anywhere fast at that moment.  "You alright?"  She asked, though she was more worried about his emotional state than his physical state.  Something the glaceon didn't seem to care about.
She thought she was beginning to feel the effects of Gravity lessen, but it seemed to be going slow, at least for the time being.  So slow she wondered if she was just imagining it.  Maybe she was just getting used to walking in it.

"If i thought I could get up I would've been up by now," the houndour retorted. He begrudgingly accepted the help, a bit peeved at how useless he was being to the boss. Even though he wasn't willing to be under someone else's command, he still had to be of some use. How would he look if he couldn't hold his own in a fight? The hound gave a huff, flames escaping his snout as he managed to stand, the gravity beginning to lessen significantly.

"Y-Yes, I s-said that," he told the vaporeon, the cry baby holding back his tears now that they seemed to be getting a move on. He took deep breathes, using tricks his mothers had always taught him. His father would have yelled at him for crying in the first place, which would have only caused him to cry more, and rinse and repeat cycle until either his father gave up or Aries passed out from being unable to breathe properly for so long.

(Sova - 10 energy)

Sova chuckled at the houndour. "Well, at least the pressure's going away." He commented, noticing a distinct ease in the Gravity.
After getting the houndour up, he began moving further into the cave. "I should probably mention my missions here. One, find a doom seed. Two, find some misdreavus and "teach them a lesson" for scaring others all the time. Clearly this is getting dangerous, so if you all don't want to help you don't have to." He clarified to the others, wondering if they'd stay.

Skylar sighed, seeing that the skiddo clearly wasn't alright, emotionally. "Hey, cheer up. You didn't do anything wrong. Actually, you helped." She assured in the hopes of calming Aries down.
She chose to ignore the glaceon for now, not wanting to answer until Aries did. She would go with him, where ever he wanted to go, since the other two were jerks and could clearly take care of their selves.

He didn't help if he didn't have to? What kind of command was that? Did he help? Was he to stay back? The hound's face was one of confusion as the glaceon told him that he didn't have to help if he didn't want to. He snorted, "You're the boss of course I have to help!" as if it were common knowledge. The houndour still not quite having gotten the clue that maybe, just maybe the practices his family taught were not performed here.

Aries sniffed a bit, "A little I guess...but it wasn't enough! I have to make it up, I need to help my friends," he spoke to the glaceon and the vaporeon at once. He seemed to cheer up a bit though, admitting that he had helped the tiniest bit having giving him a good confident push in a good direction.

"Uuuuh....okay." was Sova's response to the two. He didn't quite understand why the houndour was so keen on calling him boss, something about being beaten, but he wasn't going to object to free assistance. As for Aries, he hadn't really been paying enough attention to know what the skiddo was talking about. "Anyways, lets get moving."

Skylar sighed, slightly relieved that the skiddo had at least seemed to cheer up slightly. It wasn't perfect, but it was better than nothing. She wasn't interested in replying to the glaceon, but if Aries was going to follow, she would as well. Besides, maybe the other two weren't as bad as they seemed.... It seemed unfair not to at least give them a chance. Still, this didn't mean she had to try to make conversation with them.

Zera was relieved to be able to walk on his own, the bitter petlil leaves taking effect completely and its healing properties taking effect. He wondered if perhaps they could find enough flammable objects here, if they could then they could make a bonfire, and he could roll in it. Fire practically healed him, due to his Flash Fire ability, to compare it to a normal pokemon, it was like having a really long and labor filled chilly day and going back home to have a nice warm bath in a hotspring.

Aries leaped after the Glaceon and Houndour, eager to get going and assist his friends in their endeavors. He loved his new friends! The houndour was so helpful, the glaceon had the same leadership skills that matched his fathers(maybe even better!) and the vaporeon was just so nice! The pokemon hopped along, his hooves clopping against the hard rock solid ground beneath them as they went along on their journey.

As they walked along, Sova paused. He heard something. Frantic breathing? Before he could try to guess what it was, a baltoy came rushing towards them out of the darkness. He would have thought it was an opponent if it seemed at all focused on them. It seemed to just be aiming to run right past them though, as if away from something else. The glaceon stepped in front of it and blocked it off before speaking, "Woah, what's the rush?"
To his surprise, a nearby rock answered him. "He probably met that misdreavous...." the geodude explained.

Skylar followed along at the back, but made sure to stay close to the others. She didn't want to get lost, after all. Not in this place. She stopped when the glaceon stopped, worried something was wrong, but she was relieved to see he was just talking to a little baltoy and geodude. She thought she'd heard faint skittering behind her and turned around, but there was nothing there. Just her imagination, surely.

Zera watched the baltoy spin towards them, resisting the urge to attack as it neared the boss. Once he realized it wasn't heading straight for the boss, he settled down. The houndour snorted not quite caring for the terrified baltoy. It was just a big chicken, he didn't know what a misdreavous was, but it could not have been THAT scary! He looked back, waiting for the group to get moving again. He would have just kept walking, but that would have meant leaving the boss behind.

Aries tilted his head in curiosity as something neared them. What was it? He blinked, and bleeted in surprise when something next to him began talking. He jumped in the air and scrambled to the opposite end of the cave, until he realized it was just a geodude. He calmed down immediately, and the skiddo's grin resumed, "Miss Greedious? Who's that? Is she somebody who wont share anything?" he asked, his head tilting once more.

The geodude literally facepalmed at the goat who was clearly not getting it. "Never mind...." The baltoy, meanwhile, seemed to suddenly become afraid of one of the group and flee in the opposite direction.

Sova tilted his head at the baltoy's odd behavior, assuming the geodude was referring to the misdreavuus he'd been sent to teach a lesson about scaring others. So that meant it was here. He peered into the darkness in front of the group, hoping to catch a glimpse of his mission objective....

....If only he'd looked behind him instead, he could have seen the little ghost creeping up from through the ground near the houndour.

As the situation seemed to defuse its self, Skylar sighed in relief. This relief didn't last long however as she once again heard the faint skittering behind her. It didn't sound like it was very close, but this time she was SURE she heard it. She turned back around as quickly as she could, only to see the darkness with no imminent threats visible. However, this distraction had taken her attention far away from the houndour, keeping her from noticing a certain cost creeping up on him.