Calm Copse

Lumina
Energy: 46 - 11 (entrance)= 35
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Lumina padded towards the lake that surrounded Fallen Leaf Copse. She was returning to her place of evolution on a whim today, as she had no other plans to do anything. She hoped that exploring a dungeon and collecting some items would do her some good, as recently she had fallen into a rut of doing the same thing day in and day out.

She stood at the edge of the lake and looked out over it, admiring its serene, glassy surface. It truly was beautiful, especially with the way it reflected the autumnal colors from the trees on the edges of the copse. Today was a peaceful day; surely it wouldn't be broken by any mishaps? Or so Lumina hoped.

The shuckle decided that today was the day to go on out to gather the much desired leaf. He spent some time at in Grassveil to figure out exactly what he was trying to get. He learned that there are these colored leaves in the Copse. Someone offered him one to buy, but Giles thought that was against the entire purpose of this.

Giles traveled back into the Copse, where he received this quest of sorts in the first place. He knew that he was close as the leaves changed into the familiar hues of reds, yellows, and oranges. Giles, as per normal, was too busy taking in the scenery than where he was going. As he slowly made his way into the entrance, he just caught sight of another pokemon there.

Energy: 25-11= 14

Lumina
Energy: 35
Items in Use: Heal Ribbon (+1 energy each page)
Vulpix Tag (Reduces pokemon rolls by 1)
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-Max Elixer

Lumina sat at the edge of the lake for a time, her tails curled around her nonchalantly as she looked around at the peaceful day. She had no particular aim for the day, and the feeling was a strange one. Usually she was out exploring some dungeon or having an adventure somewhere. The lack of excitement was a foreign experience for the fire pokemon.

After a while of sitting there quietly, she noticed a pokemon traveling towards her, presumably on their way to the copse's dungeon. Lumina waited quietly as the shuckle made its way towards her.

"Hello," she greeted the pokemon with a respectful nod of her head as it approached her. "Wonderful day, is it not?"

Giles eventually made out that the other pokemon was a ninetails. He had to think for a bit about whether nor not the vulpix family was native to the Copse. He came to the conclusion without any real evidence that they are not, so he figured that the pokemon would not be hostile to him for coming here.

When she spoke to him it seems to back up his claims. She did not threaten him to leave or whatnot just said hello and tried to make small talk. While fighting is not Giles’ specialty, small talk is. “Oh hello there miss, why yes, today is quiet lovely. I just love all of the colors here.”

Lumina
Energy: 35
Items in Use: Heal Ribbon (+1 energy each page)
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Lumina dipped her head in agreement. "The colors are indeed beautiful. I came here to evolve, just for the beautiful scenery, actually. That was a month or so ago, but the leaves haven't lost any of their beauty."

She looked over the shuckle curiously. "What brings you here on this fine day, sir? Planning to explore the dungeon, perhaps? Or just enjoying the day?"

When the ninetails mentioned evolution, Giles had a confused look on his face. He then remembered that most pokemon do not stay the exact same for most of their lives like shuckles do. As he was drifting off in thought he just nodded along to her talking about the scenery.

She managed to catch him off guard with the question of what he was doing here. “What am I doing here? Well a friend of mine, actually I only met him once… but I still consider my friend, asked me to bring him one of the leaves from here. Apparently this place is known for some strangely colored leaves. I’m giving him one because…” His voice began to trail off when he said because for he remembered that Windrose is not really public knowledge. “You know what, I can’t remember why I was going to give it to him, but I said I would and so I will,” he said emphatically

Lumina
Energy: 35
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Lumina chuckled softly at the pokemon's attempt at an explanation. "So you're looking for leaves, but you're not sure why or what makes them special, and you're not sure why you're bringing them to your friend? Well, whatever makes you happy, I suppose."

She looked out over the stepping stones that led to the actual dungeon. "Would you like some company? I hadn't any plans for today, and I suppose looking for mysterious leaves are as good of an adventure as any..."

Giles listened as the ninetails did a summed up version of what he just said. “Yup, yup, you got it!” he said. He looked past the entrance of the dungeon into the maze of autumnal trees. Two diametric thoughts came to mind. First was that it would be easy to find one of these leaves because there are leaves everywhere. Next he thought that it would take forever to get one because why would Russell ask for such an easy to find item.

After thinking for a few moments about this maybe daunting task, Giles heard Lumina saying she would help. “That would be mighty kind of you there miss. You see, I am not too much good in a fight.” He said that as he motioned with his tentacles emphasizing that he is a shuckle. “But with the two of us here, what can go wrong?”

Lumina
Energy: 35
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Lumina gave a nod towards the shuckle. "It's not a problem," she said in reply to his gratitude. "Surely you have got some techniques to keep yourself safe?" She questioned the shuckle curiously. She found it hard to believe that the shuckle would have such a lumbersome body without something to protect it, otherwise surely no shuckle would have survived this long.

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Giles thought that Lumina seemed to be concerned for the shuckles well-being. She does have a good point because Giles cannot do much in a fight. “You are right there; I mainly just hide in my shell here. It’s very durable, yes it is.” The shuckle gave off the feeling that he was quite proud of his defensive prowess.

After he finished basking in the pride of his shell, he caught a purple leaf go flying through the air from the wind. “Wait, is that one right there?” he asked the ninetails. Not waiting for a response he took off in the direction of the leave. However as one might suspect, Giles did not make it that far because shuckles are very slow.

Lumina
Energy: 35 - 12 (roll) = 23
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Lumina looked up at the exclaimation from the shuckle, and noticed the purple leaf fluttering through the wind. The shuckle started after it, but was soon left behind by the breeze.

Lumina chuckled and bounded after the purple leaf, easily outrunning the shuckle with her long legs. Her strides soon brought her ahead of the fluttering leaf and she reached into the air with her tails, two of them curling around the leaf easily and bringing it down out of the air.

She trotted to a stop, and walked back to where she had left the shuckle behind. Her tails curled up and brushed along the ground in front of the shuckle, leaving the purple leaf curled up on the ground in front of him. "Is this the kind of leaf you're looking for?" she asked in amusement. "From what I understand, they had something to do with the shrine that lays further in the forest. When this copse was first discovered, a gengar came to me and begged me to finish the mystery for him when he was barred entry to the shrine by a large group of powerful pokemon. I did, and received a Stamina Band and a lot of poke," she explained.

Giles blinked rapidly when he saw Lumina get the leaf for him. “Um, why I think it is. It’s funny, I was not imagining that it would be this easy actually.” He looked at the strange purple leaf. “Must be the one,” he thought. He looked around at all of the leaves surrounding the copse. Out of all of the leaves here, it just so happened that this one managed to pick up the breeze and fly right into the two.
 

“You know, it is such a lovely day. Would you care to continue to journey farther in? I came here for this, but this is such a vast place, so much to explore, I don’t want to see this opportunity go to waste.” He waited around for the ninetail’s response. He was willing to venture forth to see all that the copse had to offer, but companionship always makes things more fun in his mind.

Lumina
Energy: 23
Items in Use: Heal Ribbon (+1 energy each page)
Vulpix Tag (Reduces pokemon rolls by 1)
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-Max Elixer
-Stick (1)
-Light Box
-Trap Scarf

Lumina smiled. "Well whoever sent you here, if they thought that it would be hard, were mistaken. These leaves populate the forest. It's how the place got its name, I think. 'Fallen Leaf' and all." she chuckled good-naturedly.

"Well, I did come here to enjoy a nice walk on this beautiful day. It wouldn't hurt to continue with you. Someone's gotta keep an eye on you -some of the pokemon here can be kind of dangerous, after all." She winked at the shuckle. "Maybe you could get some practice in... Surely you have more skills than just hiding in a strong shell."

The shuckle laughed as his new friend explained to him how easy his task was. “I just figured that it was because of all of these other leaves, all of these reds and oranges. I thought that I would take forever to find one among this sea of color. Little did I know that I could just find one so close to the entrance.”

He then smiled as she agreed to venture out into the copse with him. He knew that there were hostile pokemon about, but his plan was just to hide and hope that they got bored. “Yes, one of those skills is to make my shell even stronger,” he joked. “I also try and use its strength as an attack.”

Lumina
Energy: 23
Items in Use: Heal Ribbon (+1 energy each page)
Vulpix Tag (Reduces pokemon rolls by 1)
Inventory
-Max Elixer
-Stick (1)
-Light Box
-Trap Scarf

Right on cue, a beautifly flew out of the forest, diving for the pair of pokemon angrily. It beat its wings heavily, creating a huge gust of wind that slammed against the two pokemon. Lumina lifted up a paw against the wind, digging in her other three paws in the ground to stop herself from blowing over.

She gave a light laugh and pranced forward, spitting a stream of flame at the flying butterfly pokemon. The beautifly gave an angry cry full of pain as the fire hit its wings, and began to burn the feral pokemon. Lumina tossed her head back and dodged a dive-bomb from the beautifly as it tried to retaliate.

The ninetales gracefully avoided each attack of the beautifly, sending constant streams of flame at the butterfly until it gave the battle up for a bad job, and disappeared into the forest once more. "Hah. No match for my fire!" Lumina boasted arrogantly, flicking her tails triumphantly. She turned to the smaller pokemon, expecting him to be wowed by her amazing skills.