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Post by Unnur Liefsdóttir on Mar 22, 2015 1:35:43 GMT -5
[attr="class","bookmark"]Treasure
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Something had started to change in the forest ever since they had encountered that shiny and very pretty gem. Unnur had abandoned the ruins some time ago and ventured into what she hoped would be the last trek of forest she'd have to traverse before reaching Shui. True or not, they'd still have to cross its entirety, so she figured she might as well hurry on with it instead of stopping to appreciate the scenery changes, and it was with this philosophy that she walked alongside her Eevee and Spheal.
The colour of the leaves was changing. Green leaves of every shade and shape were no longer, but rather cute little pink petals falling softly and delicately on top of her head. On her hair and on her shoulder and pffftbh even one right in the face. Okay. Not funny. Her Pokémon should really stop laughing right about this precise instant. She shot them a warning look before moving on.
Dig Dig Dig . . . What's this?! Congratulations, You've found INTRIGUING STONE! Not a Mega Stone but it's still a beautiful stone. It can be sold for a high price to a collector.
Post by Unnur Liefsdóttir on Mar 22, 2015 23:26:07 GMT -5
[attr="class","bookmark"]Passing
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Finally, what both of her Pokémon had been so eagerly waiting for: another horde encounter. It was a swarm of bugs this time, small and insignificant enough to almost go by unnoticed by any average human's eyesight, except the game they were playing was too conspicuous to be ignored. And then there was the little tiny detail that they were in the middle of a forest clearing. Unnur gazed at the cobwebs that multiple Weedle were creating and strenghtening by shooting more and more strings upon an almost complete work in progress. She didn't know how to react to this, honestly. She couldn't figure out what they were trying to do with these webs, seeing as they were no arachnids and fed on no meat.
One thing she did know, though, was that it could be nothing good for her party. Experience had taught her that the hard way, though of course she had never stood around actionless long enough to experience the end consequences. This, she thought, wouldn't be the exception. "Vesper," she called softly, "dig a tunnel for me, all the way to the other side of the cobweb." The Eevee followed her trainer's eyes before she started digging. "I'm counting on you," she added, as the Pokémon disappeared underground.
She continued observing the Weedle and their masterpiece. Unnur wanted to figure out what they were doing so that she could act accordingly, but their antics were so strange that the task was becoming harder than she would have liked it to be. But no matter; this was pretty exciting so far, and she was sure that Captain, still by her side, felt the same way. Her eyes, fixed on the enemy just as Unnur's, were a clear indicator of this. It wasn't a surprise, then, that she'd be able to dodge the projectile the bugs had catapulted their way via the cobwebs they had woven, whereas the tactic itself was quite surprising. Unnur's eyes widened and it was only then that she noticed the resplandescence coming from the other side of the field. Those were Kakuna hardening their shells before being thrown at her and Captain.
"Cap, roll out of the way!" she shouted in alarm as she saw a second Kakuna begin to descend upon them, and so the Spheal did. She didn't even bother to curl up this time–there was no time, nor any need to boost her attack power just to evade. The lightfooted trainer, too, dashed as far away as she could from what would soon be the impact zone. She couldn't escape from the small quake that the Kakuna's collision produced, but she could at least escape instant death. She stared in horror at the hole in the earth, deep and wide and impressive for a small little bug. Hardening its body til they became steel-hard had resulted in this, which added another reason for her to stop those little pranksters to her mental list.
After the initial rolling away from the impact zone, the Spheal rolled back to inspect the body. It felt like a sci-fi film gone wrong. The first Kakuna took advantage of distraction to stand up and hop back to its friends for, in Unnur's verbalised thoughts, "who knows what other catastrophe to provoke." She was almost certain that it would harden its body so that it could create a crater as big as the one she and her Spheal were inspecting. "Go get that one!" Unnur ordered severely. "Don't let it escape." And so Captain rolled one more time, coating her body in ice, this time aiming for the first Kakuna that fell from the air, the one who had not boosted its defense yet and was probably sent to distract them from the first, if not by mistake.
Captain ice-balled into the Kakuna not once, not twice, not even thrice; five times she hit the shell and the bug inside when all it could do in return was attempt to protect itself by hardening its skin. "Make sure to leave it unconscious so that it can't be used against us again!" called her trainer from afar. Meanwhile, Unnur poked the fortified Kakuna left under her watch with her right foot. It barely moved, but move it did, signaling that it was conscious despite the fall. Unnur would have to get her Spheal onto it later. For now, it was crucial for her Eevee to incapacitate the catapult workers.
Slowly, carefully, noiselessly. Now that she was getting dangerously close to the enemy base, Vesper had to dig her tunnel with all the care of the world. She poked at the earth softly, let it fall to her feet, dug deeper in—or up, now—and repeated. After a while of poking hard cold ground, she felt a really light patch that would be easily pulled up and out. She had reached the other side, at long last. The only problem was that her eyeballing calculations weren't perfect, as one may understand, but at the very least the presence of deep and very thick roots up ahead, had she continued digging forward, gave her the certainty that she had reached the other edge of the clearing, and she would be sprouting out either behind the Weedle or precisely where they were.
Well, no time to waste then.
Vesper's ears poked out of her tunnel first, just like a bunny's in a magician's black top hat. Then, slowly, her face and the rest of her head appeared, her big eyes first staring directly to the front and later wandering everywhere. She was behind their centre of operations. What's more, the Weedle hadn't noticed her so far. This was perfect. Best case scenario. She just needed to take one of them down now—but which? The one on the far left seemed like a weak point in her opinion, but then the one on the right was closer to where she was and seemed like it was in charge, even. Vesper dashed towards the latter, fast as lightning, and confident that once it was unconscious the battle would be pretty much won. She let out a battle cry that truthfully sounded more like a battle march than a cry as she approached, letting her voice vibrate against her pharynx before it struck the Weedle's auditory system.
The Weedle had no time to react, but its friends would no doubt notice the infiltrator's voice loud and clear. Vesper felt the sting of a pair of tiny little fangs in her hind leg and let out a loud cry of pain that eventually became more melodious and threatened to hinder the offending Weedle's attacks. She turned around to bite right back at whomever was trying to harm her, and watched a second Weedle fall before her eyes. One more to go.
What the Eevee didn't realise until then was that, when she attacked the first Weedle, it and its colleagues had been in the process of hurling a Kakuna at her friends. Correction: yet another Kakuna bomb. Taking one of the bastions of the makeshift catapult down brought instability to it, and the trajectory of the fortified bug being propelled up and away ended up being distorted and— Wasn't that thing en route to... Unnur?! Vesper cried, or maybe howled, a warning to her trainer, to the Spheal, to anyone as long as they could hear it and get Unnur out of the way. Which didn't happen, but at least her voice reached the Kakuna up in the air and managed to scare it out of its sand-coloured shell for all of ten seconds before it was struck by the rapidly spinning form of Captain the Spheal.
The sudden collision sent the cocoon flying backwards and towards the cobwebs that had started it all. Uh-oh. Vesper quickly dashed to a side and down into a tunnel back to her trainer to avoid the incoming bombshell, leaving the bugs to fend for themselves as the Kakuna slowly, slowly descended upon them, and then all at once.
Dig Dig Dig . . . What's this?! Congratulations, You've found WISE GLASSES! Looks like another digger lost their glasses in the dig. Lucky you these are just for show, so you can probably sell them off or keep them for yourself to make yourself look smart?
Post by Unnur Liefsdóttir on Mar 23, 2015 11:27:12 GMT -5
[attr="class","bookmark"]Passing
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Unnur removed her foot from over the Kakuna with deliberate speed. If there remained any levels of consciousness in the wrapped-up bug, it would surely make a move at the sudden lifting of the weight it was subjected to during the fight. Even if a slight one. Unnur felt and saw none. Once the nasty little bugs had been ruled out as potential threats, there would be nothing to keep her or her Pokémon around. The Weedle and Kakuna would not follow, and finding another gem around this clearing was unlikely. Not that Unnur had exited the ruins without knowing this, of course. Actually, she figured she could try to go back to them after resting, eating, and restocking. If only she could find the city surrounded by mountains already.
For now, she would have to settle with mere hints of her proximity to said place. No more than a couple metres off the path she was taking, something glistened under the light of the sun, inevitably catching the young girl's attention. There it was; a hint of modernity and civilisation. And quite the fashionable one, at that. Unnur was sure she'd seen a good quantity of teens fashion giant glasses with thick black frames when she was in Lumiose, and even in different Kalosian cities of renown. There was simply no way this pair could be old, not old like the ones she'd found in the adobe ruins at least. Perhaps lost only a couple days ago, at most.
She almost wanted to pick it up, really. After all, it was the one item that had succeeded in improving her mood today, after hours and hours of walking across abandoned buildings and patches of vegetation and being attacked by entire families of crooks. Except– Someone beta her to it. It was a Pokémon. A forest dweller. A small and seemingly young Deerling. It came prancing through leaves, past trees, and leaned its head down to poke the fashionable black-trimmed glasses with its nose. Unnur blinked. If the Deerling wanted it, there was no real harm in letting it keep it, but she could almost bet that the grass type didn't feel the same way when it raised its head, looked at her briefly, and jumped back towards the vegetation it had come from.
In truth the Deerling didn't go very far. It hid just behind the closest tree, but it hid very well in its attempt at blending in with its surroundings. It had forsaken its typing to become pure grass and blend perfectly in. The Eevee accompanying Unnur knew it couldn't have gone far, though. The sound of rustling leaves was only temporary, the almost immediate sort of temporary that ended almost as soon as it started. Vesper looked over at Unnur, who seemed like she also knew, and at Captain, who looked like she would have preferred to avoid confrontation. She'd have to make the first move, then.
Attempting to tackle the opponent with a quick dash right now would be as ineffective and time-consuming as beating around a bush. She didn't know the exact location the Deerling was hiding in, but she did at least know the general location, which was enough to aim her soundwaves at more or less the correct spot. With some luck, this could even lure the Deerling out. Or, more accurately, scare it out of its hiding spot. At any rate, Vesper's plans were a-go, mostly because she was the one executing them. As soon as the Deerling jumped out of its hiding hole, a sphere of green energy summoning the powers of nature also escaped its mouth as the Eevee jumped at the appearing figure.
Vesper couldn't avoid the incoming attack unless she dashed to a side and therefore lost her momentum, but it was at that moment that Captain decided to step in. Or, rather, roll in. The Spheal's body shone a very light blue as her spinning body collided against the Deerling, until then well distracted by the Eevee's various shenanigans. Vesper and Captain's combined efforts, after dealing with two entire hordes of steonger and nastier Pokémon, had it easy with this young, timid, inexperienced Deerling.
Post by Unnur Liefsdóttir on Mar 24, 2015 9:17:42 GMT -5
[attr="class","bookmark"]Passing
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Yet another small and very fluffy bug sneaked into Unnur's path soon after she and her Pokémon made a cute bed out of leaves for the unconscious Deerling to sleep on. They even left a couple of berries next to it so that it could feed itself and recover its energy afterwards, as an apology of sorts for scaring it so. The idea hadn't been hers, but she figured she could comply to her Pokémon's desires for once. Unnur had ended up deciding against taking the quadrupled with her, mainly because her bag was already heavy with pokéball of all sorts—most offering a resting place for the Pokémon she and her team had stumbled upon and captured after a good session of training—and the young trainer wanted no more weight to burden her shoulders.
Unnur did not stop walking even after the appearance of the bug type. The Scatterbug wouldn't stay in position for long, and she knew it. A single wave of paradoxically pretty yet hurtful singing made it lose its balance and begin to fall, slowly, slowly, a string shot the only support it had against all adversity, and a weak wave of concentrated cold coming out of the Spheal's mouth finished it and its consciousness off. There wasn't much the Scatterbug could do against these surprise attacks, even after realising the strangers did not want to play with it as much as it wanted to play with them.
For some reason, Captain didn't try to convince the other two to give this one a proper burial– resting place. Temporary resting place until it recovered consciousness. Yes, that name sounded better. Unnur figured it had something to do with the horde of ruthless bugs they'd encountered not long ago. The human girl never looked back at the Scatterbug or at the shiny stone it had been guarding and was more than willing to share with them if they agreed to spend some time with it. Alas, it was too late for that now.
INTRIGUING STONE!
WISE GLASSES!
DAWN STONE!
Sharpedonite!
