• Welcome to The Cave of Dragonflies forums, where the smallest bugs live alongside the strongest dragons.

    Guests are not able to post messages or even read certain areas of the forums. Now, that's boring, don't you think? Registration, on the other hand, is simple, completely free of charge, and does not require you to give out any personal information at all. As soon as you register, you can take part in some of the happy fun things at the forums such as posting messages, voting in polls, sending private messages to people and being told that this is where we drink tea and eat cod.

    Of course I'm not forcing you to do anything if you don't want to, but seriously, what have you got to lose? Five seconds of your life?

Sojaveña Wilds Twilight Quarry

Reader mode
Grace just wanted to go before Alexander came after them. Surely it wouldn't take him long to see his gigantic pet Owen gone, and detect the fleeing non-Shadows leaving his realm?

She sucked in a breath and channelled a radiant life dew in her paw. "Mister Giovanni, sir, I can help soothe Shadows with this. I know Owen is super duper corrupted, but, I want to try. I won't be a bother."
 
Mhynt had noticed Nova's signal, but then saw Grace's proposal. She would... be a much better fit than she ever would. Wincing, Mhynt stayed quiet.

Giovanni didn't seem to notice Mhynt's gestures and stared instead at Grace. "If you're certain you can help him... of course. You may stay for the night, but don't expect cozy accommodations. Now... would you like to get going?"

Red appeared with the bag and offered various simple Poke Balls, some of them already tethered to a Wayfarer from before.
 
Grace nodded, then glanced at Mhynt. "You should rest, then you can see him. If Alexander can't find Giovanni's hide out, then Owen's safe. We'll make sure of it."
 
Oh, great. Lovely. Best news he had heard all day. The King Ghidorah wannabe had returned home, and Silver had no doubt they would soon be the main course of his menu.

The exit to the entrance was so close, and yet it felt so far. The freezing sensation that coiled around his mind felt so horribly familiar. The cold glare of a power-driven woman, staring down at him with those emotionless, calculating red eyes. He was nothing more than yet another pawn, which we wanted to bend to her own will…

However, Silver was quickly dragged out of his mind and back to reality by Owen bursting out of his Ultra Ball again, darkening the atmosphere considerably. The Sneasel groaned loudly, both physically and mentally exhausted.

“Dammit! Not now!” he hissed, pouring more venom into his claws. Why couldn’t that Charizard get the freaking clue and stay put?

But before he could try to stun Owen again, someone very familiar had appeared to handle the situation, and Silver’s eyes widened in shock. In his frenzied half-dazed and half-shadowed state, he couldn’t stop himself from muttering a surprised, “Father…?”

Realizing what he just said, he coughed in his claws to try to hide his blunder and quickly backtracked with a louder, “I mean—Giovanni! For once I’m glad to see you here!”

He shot a wary look at his surroundings, his ears and tail-feathers flicking in alarm, then let out a loud snort.

“Well, how ‘bout we have this kinda chitchat when we’re far away from this hellhole? And if you want someone to accompany Giovanni for extra reassurance,” he stared intently at the Mewtwo, his gaze stoic but determined, “then I’ll go, too!”
 
Last edited:
"We can check in on him first thing tomorrow morning."

Nova handed Owen's ball to Grace. Then he headed up to his ultra ball and booped the button with his beak to recall himself. The weightlessness would hopefully help stave off the inevitable soreness from what had just happened.
 
"Welcome," he said quietly to Dave. He couldn't wait to put this whole incident behind him.

A sinking dread came over Koa at Giovanni's proposal. No choice, again. They had to trust Giovanni. He had to trust Giovanni. If Ein got away again... He glanced at Silver, then dropped Ein's pokeball and rolled it towards Giovanni and Red.

"I'll go too," he said quietly. "If thats okay. It's not just Owen, there's a Manectric named Ein, and I don't want him to escape," he growled. He started forwards, then paused. "Mhynt..." he said quietly. "Maybe Owen needs a familiar face."

Somewhere in the back of his mind he couldn't help but be amused by how much this was beginning to sound like the worlds most awkward sleepover.
 
Really? No one else disliked this? Well, what-the-fuck-ever. Just a crime boss from another world in the body of a destructive mutant, but he was nice now, supposedly.

"Sorry, are you proposing you put us in balls and then haul us off and then pinkie-promise to let us out in Frontier Town?" Granted, he was about to melt into a fucking puddle, and it would be nice to not have to walk. But on the other hand, what the fuck.
 
"I believe you've already seen some proof of how easy it is to escape if you needed to," Giovanni said coolly, holding Owen's ball a little higher. "Of course, you could also fly with my partner and I. I can go over my findings of the power of friendship with you."
 
Silver cleared his throat loudly, his foot tapping anxiously and impatiently. “Hey! Little friendly reminder that we have literal hell demons chasing us and a dragon who’d be all too happy to make us join his twisted family if he were to find us!”

Speaking of, it surprised him that the shadows hadn’t caught up with them yet. Huh, adrenaline and panic are one heck of a speed boost!

“If our choices are joining those brainwashed fellas,” he pointed at the churning darkness, “or getting inside a ball,” he pointed at the Poké Balls and fished his own sphere, identifiable by a tiny silver sticker, “then ball doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, no?”

And without hesitation, he tapped the ball on his head, letting himself be sucked inside and drop back into the pile.
 
Namohysip said:
"I believe you've already seen some proof of how easy it is to escape if you needed to," Giovanni said coolly, holding Owen's ball a little higher. "Of course, you could also fly with my partner and I. I can go over my findings of the power of friendship with you."
Click to expand...
On the one hand, it was tempting to immediately pop out of existence and stop dealing with any of this. On the other hand, if this was how it was going to be, it was about time he got to judge this fucking guy for himself, instead of squinting at every bizarre third-person report about him. “…Sure. Power of friendship it is.”
 
Giovanni chuckled in his usual, sinister way. "Of course. I'll be happy to share my findings with someone. You appear to be... knowledgeable in the field of science."

His eyes glowed, and suddenly Dave was floating, while everyone else had been withdrawn and carried by Red. They flew from the Quarry, leaving it behind, and getting a haul twice as big as they'd been expecting...

<><><>​
 
[Ch07] ~ Void Adjacent (Scouting) New
  • Threadmarks
    • Mhynt didn't like how familiar she was becoming, again, with the strange gloom of Twilight Quarry.

    But what seemed worse about this place was that it was now... empty. Utterly and completely empty. All that lingered was Alexander's influence over the place, the darkness and Voidlands that had leaked into the Dungeon. The Wayfarers could only be thankful that such darkness didn't go further from the Dungeon itself--and stopped within it, like a quarantine.

    "Mental check," Mhynt announced. "Does anyone feel Shadows rising?"

    For her, she felt a tug. But by now they had experience warding it off. It was weaker than last time, at least...

    "We're going to go deeper this time to find more information. Perhaps even to understand the nature of where Alexander goes... and how. We have our suspicions, but we need confirmation. And perhaps we can find a weak point in doing so."
     
  • New
  • Threadmarks
    • Nova felt... a slight tug, maybe? Like someone was pspspspspspspspsing in his ear. Nothing awful. Just annoying.

    "Anchors," he said. "Just, uh, think about people who are important to you. People worth fighting for." He shifted his bag around on his back. "See if that changes anything."
     
    "If anyone's worried about taking in too many Shadows, I can help keep them at bay a little?" suggested the Togetic as she sat in the air near Nova. "My Radiant healing miiight attract some attention, but... maybe we can hide somewhere if I need to assist someone in an emergency...?"

    She was definitely a little nervous, but now that they'd rescued Owen and she'd spent a lot of time with him... just what would the Shadows bring forth within her now...?
     
    "Well, the Void Shadow population seems a lot smaller now," Mhynt said. "If any get too close, scare them off with a good hit or two... I don't think they'll alert Alexander anymore. and even if they do, he wouldn't want to bother with here anymore. I know his habits well enough. He has a new stronghold..."

    She looked left and right.

    "Do you all remember where Owen was before? I think... there might be something there worth investigating. It seemed to be a place that was... guarded. We were in no position to investigate before. Now we can."

    They advanced, quietly, and ran into very few Void Shadows. There were a few milling about idly, like straggled, abandoned spirits. Wayfarers could choose what to do with them, though Mhynt was focused on the goal. And soon, they made it to the quarry proper--the Shadow concentration in the air was higher. They'd need to stay focused to keep it away.

    Nova's advice, however... seemed to work. Thinking of anchors, of tangible allies, kept the Shadows from seeping in. Perhaps something about Alexander's Shadows in particular, while potent in some ways, could be countered in others in return.

    The remnants of that great meteor still riddled the battlefield. At least it was cooled...
     
    "Cripes, that thing's still here?" Nova cautiously approached, the dog part of him kicking in and sniffing around for anything that didn't just smell like nauseating void ash. "I thought it'd be, like, a mega destruction ball of darkness and destruction. That'd go away without anyone to look after it." He squinted. "Guess it was literally an evil meteor."

    Nova stopped next to it, nudging the ashen ground with his beak. "Maybe it fell on something important. Don't suppose we could smash it?"
     
    "Maybe. I could try Teleporting it away, but... it's a bit large for that. Maybe if it was broken up into fragments. But... I don't think anyone we brought has that kind of strength..."

    She eyed the meteor, then Nova.

    "Unless... Nova. How resistant to falling from great heights are you?"
     
    "I mean, I know the move Rock Smash, one would think that's good for smashing rocks," Dave pointed out. He looked critically down at the meteor.
     
    Reader mode
    You must log in or register to reply here.
    Back
    Top Bottom