Flailing Uselessly

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Energy: 29
Items in Use: Stamina Band (-2 energy to all encounters)

Silverdawn raced through the wilderness, barely putting out any effort to sense where she was going -only enough to prevent herself from slamming into trees, rocks, and the like. She wanted to put the events of the day out of her mind.

She didn't want to think about how happy Aaron must be with his new partner, Alona. She didn't want to think about how Aaron would abandon her to pay attention to the Sylveon. She definitely didn't want to think about the similarities to her childhood!

She finally reached the entrance to Pricklemist Hill, where she could taste the heavy wetness of the mist in the air. She knew that somewhere in this dungeon, two gastly outlaws awaited her. She would prove to herself -and to Aaron- that she didn't need him, just like he didn't need her. She'd proved to her parents that she could survive without them; and she was going to do the same thing here!

Mission Taken:

Silverdawn knew that she would have to get clever if she was going to beat this gastly. Her bite was all well and good -super effective against the ghost type- but the outlaw was wise to the move now, and knew to avoid her sharp fangs.

She thought for a moment. Perhaps a distraction of some sort would work?

Silverdawn made a decision and shot forward, feinting a bite at the gastly before slamming to the ground, her tail glowing with power as giant rocks rose into the air and flew at the gastly.

Caught off-guard by the feinted bit, the gastly slammed its core into one of the rocks, unable to phase through it in time. The gastly cried out and fell to the ground, unconscious.

The Gastly smirked sinisterly, admiring his small handy work he had brought to the Deino. He took a HUGE risk, his curse move had weakened him tremendously. However, the Deino now knew who he was dealing with! That smirk vanished instantly when he heard his brother cry out in pain. When he checked to look, he gasps in shock. His brother! Beaten by that stupid snake?! She was blind! How could she beat him so easily? "How dare you do this to my brother! I won't let you embarrass us like-" Suddenly he felt teeth sink into his body, electricity flowed within it. The Gastly cried in pain, collapsing underneath Aaron's feet. "Stupid..." He lost his patience, he had to endure all of this, and he had enough! Thankfully, with the Gastly knocked out, the harmful energy faded away, giving Aaron some relief.

Now that was over, time to get something off his chest. "Silverdawn! What were you thinking? Do you have any idea what I've been though, just to save your scaly hide? And for what? Because I have a girlfriend now? Because you were scared that I'd would leave you? Why would you think that?! I thought we were partners?!" Aaron was not holding back with his scolding. His voice was raised, and he sounded beyond angry.

Silverdawn
Energy: 21 - 2 (rolls on pg. 1) + 2 (pages) = 21
Items in Use: Stamina Band (-2 energy to all negative encounters)

Silverdawn turned from the fallen outlaw to find that Aaron had defeated his own opponent. Relief shot through the large purple snake, only for the relief to plummet into shame and anger as Aaron began to shout at her.

"Excuse me, mister?!" She finally lost her temper, slithering over to Aaron and beginning to shout in his face. "It wasn't ME who decided to, oh, 'la-dee-da' fall in love and abandon their partner! Cuz, even if it hasn't happened YET, it will! I've been through this before! You guys will like each other at first, then you'll hate each other and by that point you'll be stuck together forever and I'll be stuck in the middle and then you'll hate me just like you hate her and then...." Silverdawn trailed off, tears in her eyes. She couldn't do this! She couldn't loose her partner like she lost the chance to have loving parents!

"Y-you can't love her! Love only brings bad things, can't you see, Aaron?" she pleaded with her partner desperately, the anger gone and only a small plea for some sort of reassurance that she wouldn't be left alone in the world, again.

Aaron didn't flinch when the Snake started to shout at his face. In fact, It only made him angrier. Even after saving her, she still doubts him. And she even had the galls to even plea that she shouldn't be happy? Just To make her happy? It was official! She didn't care for him nor his happiness, she was unimportant to him! The darkness started to do its dirty work, temporary infecting him. The only thing that's making the darkness not infect him immediately was his bonds with his friends. Still, this didn't change the fact that Aaron was going to go on an ear blistering rant on Silverdawn. He was not holding back this time, even if she was crying.

"How Dare you!" Aaron shrilled. "Do you have any idea what I'm going through right now? DO YOU? I've lost my family! This darkness took them! I was depressed for weeks WEEKS! I didn't even leave the guild anymore because of it. Alona made me happy again, brighten my mood when I felt I was worthless. You have NO RIGHT to take that happiness from me! And for what? Because a paranoid snake was scared that I was going to leave her! Do you have any idea how STUPID THAT SOUND! Even the crap you pulled, I still wouldn't leave you!"

Aaron gasped for air, tears started to drop from his face. Suddenly, he went quiet, only muttering, "You don't care about me do you? You think I'm worthless?" He was now scared, fear that she only cared about herself. "Silver... I'm not worthless... Please tell me that I'm not worthless..." Before she could of respond, he suddenly nuzzled the snake's body, desperate to hear her say what he wanted to say. "Please..."

Silverdawn flinched at the ire pouring down on her from Aaron's mouth. She lowered herself to the ground, practically cowering against it as he ranted and raged. She hadn't even known about the troubles with his family! Why hadn't he told her anything?

"Y-you never told me about any of that!" She protested weakly. "If I'm really your partner like you say, why didn't you come to me about those problems? I could have helped you," she pointed out, a little resentfully.

She was surprised, though, when Aaron's rage subsided into sorrow and fear. He pushed himself against her body and begged her to tell him that he wasn't worthless. "Aaron..." she murmured, twisting around him lightly in a snake-hug. "You aren't worthless... I never thought you were worthless. Of course I care... I was afraid of my own uselessness, Aaron. I was afraid that once you had someone else, you'd realize how worthless I was. It had nothing to do with you..."

Aaron didn't say anything at this point, even when Silverdawn wrapped around Aaron in a snakehug. It was... heartwarming to him to say the least. Everything she said was soothing to Aaron, causing the darkness that was infecting to leave his body. "I... I didn't want to talk about it." Aaron muttered. He stood there, enjoying the little hug Silverdawn was giving him. Her comfort and words was all he cared about now. The action Silverdawn was displaying showed that she does care. "I would never leave you silverdawn, not even if Alona and I are mates. We're partners until the very end... Thank you." Aaron soon started to show affection to the snake, nuzzling her head that was next to his.

However, that was short lived when a Seviper suddenly hissed at the two of them. "There you are! like to make my mate a mindless slave huh?" Despite the warmness he was experiencing due to the hug, he still couldn't help but feel that cold sweet go down his back. "Uh heheh, well... it was... self defense?"

Silverdawn stiffened when she heard the voice of the Seviper hiss at them. She'd been too concerned with their conversation to remember to be paying attention to their surroundings, and now an enemy had caught up to them!

She hissed, rising up and flaring out her hood in a direct threat to the seviper. "Excuse me, but I am no MATE of yours," she hissed scornfully, wrongfully assuming what the seviper was talking about. She hadn't heard what Aaron had muttered in embarrassment over her own rage that was pumping blood into her ear-holes.

"Get away from here, or I'll drive you away myself!" She hissed angrily.

The deino couldn't do anything at this point, but gulp as his partner decided to talk back at the Serviper. "Your mate?" The snake almost gagged at the mere thought. Of course, now he was annoyed. "Why would I be mates with someone like you? No, we don't have beef with each other, so you have no right to make that threat." The Serviper soon pointed at the Deino with accusingly. "Whatever this Dragon type did, he brainwashed my mate, and I won't stand for it. Speak up you filth! Admit that you did something to her." Aaron's heart stopped. She attack him first, how else was he was supposed to do? Besides, he just made up with Silverdawn. The last thing he wanted was to screw it up as fast as he fixed it. "I... I don't know what you're talking about." The Dark type lied.

The Serviper hissed again, only more annoyed by his lies. "Tell the truth! What did you do to her!" Aaron didn't exactly say anything else, getting the Serviper more worked up. "Listen here, Arbok. Don't trust him for a single second, you hear me? I expect you to make the right punishment." The Seviper stormed off, giving the Dragon type some relief. "Uh... What a way to ruin a moment, right Silverdawn?" Aaron asked in a half Joking manner, hopefully to shrug off at what just happened. Before she could respond, he walked up to her and nuzzled her body. "Thank you for standing up for me."

Silverdawn reared back in surprise from the vitriol spewing from the Seviper's mouth. Once the other serpent had left, she rounded on Aaron suspiciously.

"What was he talking about?" she asked her partner. "Brainwashing? What did you do to his mate?"

Silverdawn had a niggling suspicion in the back of her mind what Aaron had done, but pushed it away for now, waiting for his response before she jumped to any conclusions.

To the Deino's surprise and utter horror, the Arbok started to round him up, causing him to gulp in fear. "I don't know, I swear! I didn't do anything to his mate, I haven't even met her! He just confused me for someone else!" Aaron lied in a panic manner. He prayed that she didn't ask anymore questions, and that she was satisfied with her answer. The last thing he needed was a lecture on why using attract carelessly was a bad idea.

"Please, Even if I did do it, I would have a good reason. I would never use this move for personal gain. Please, lets forget what happened and go back to the guild. I'm tired." After what he been through trying to get to her, All Aaron wanted was to sleep it off.

Glaring suspiciously in the direction of Aaron's voice, Silverdawn considered his words. The deino had probably used Attract; that much was quite obvious. But in the wake of everything that had just happened, she was simply too tired to hold onto her temper at this moment.

She let go of the deino, slumping to the ground. "right... Let's just get to the guild, collect our reward, and go to sleep," she said.

Upon releasing the Deino, Aaron sighed in relief. "Thank you... I guess we should take the outlaws with us? I mean our job was to take them to jail, am I right?" Though even if they did, how are they going to carry them? They are made out of gases, so it's going to be hard to even get them to move an inch physically. "... Actually, how are we going to bring them with us? We can't exactly touch them." Aaron wasn't in the mood for this, he already fought his way to Silverdawn, what else was he suppose to do to make this mission a success?

"I don't suppose that you know some kind of psychic move, do you?" Aaron asked with an annoyed expression. If they can't pick them up, they might have to wait for them to wake up again. How fun...

Silverdawn hummed thoughtfully. "Well, actually, it wasn't a mission set by the Police Force. It was a local pokemon asking for help... I think beating them and teaching them a lesson was enough in this case, don't you think? They'll certainly think twice about attacking innocent pokemon again. And if we get any hint of them causing trouble again, we can come back and teach them the lesson all over again, if need be."

She nodded as she spoke, convinced that she was right. It didn't occur to her that the client might need proof that they had done what they said they had done, rather than taking their word for it.

"That's all I needed to hear." Aaron muttered. "Alright, let's head back." Well, he couldn't just yet. He still needs to address something. "Wait, before we do. I know you and Alona had a bad start. Heck, she almost got the whole guild worked up before I stepped in." Aaron blushed, remembering the whole thing the last couple of hours ago. "She's cute when she's worked up.... AHEM! Anyway. now that we're more intimate now... Uh... Maybe you should get to know her? Who knows, you guys might have something in common. Heheheh..." What was he thinking? This could only end up causing a huge fight between the two. Still, Aaron could just help ease up her curses a little bit, though that is no easy feat.

"Er.... why don't you think about it, Ok? Can you lead us out of this dungeon?"

Silverdawn rolled her sightless eyes at her partner's stumbled attempts to convince her to give a friendship with Alona a try. She didn't like the Sylveon one bit, and that wasn't going to change, she was sure of it. But she'd have to at least give an attempt, for Aaron's sake.

"I suppose I can try," she grumbled, leading the way through the dungeon. "But I make no promises about us getting along..."

Silverdawn soon led the deino out of the dungeon, whereupon the duo made their way to the guild.