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(OOC: So... time for a little adventure?)
Todd - Dark Cave
Todd was walking on the dusty road with Poliwag beside him. He had for once put Shockman and Wing inside their pokéballs, because Wing seemed to think Poliwag was weird and Shockman was annoyed with the little blue blob constantly staring at him or blowing a bubble at him. They didn't get along well right now... how would Todd cure that?
Poliwag squeaked a little and Todd looked down at it. Oh, dang. How stupid of him. Here they had been walking for quite a while and he had completely forgotten about Poliwag's tiny legs. It wasn't made to walk far on land! Feeling guilty but also a little bit disgusted with the slipperyness of its skin, Todd picked up the pokémon and carried it in his arms. The blue blob seemed awfully content about this arrangement, and began blowing bubbles randomly again, some of which popped dangerously close to Todd's face. His arms were still a bit red...
They hadn't met anyone for a while, when they encountered a sign seemingly in the middle of nowhere, saying "Dark Cave ahead, beware."
"There's a dark cave ahead? Alright, let's not go there." Todd mumbled to himself and turned right at the sign instead of following the winding trail onwards.
Poliwag started to squirm uncomfortably in his arms. "Hey, stop that!" he said, "or I'll drop you down!"
Poliwag bent backwards and looked up at the trainer with his big, watery eyes. "What?" Todd asked impatiently, but stopped. "Do you want to go to the dark cave?"
Poliwag's eyes grew to double the size and it gurgled excitedly. Todd shook his head. "You are so weird... I might just name you Weirdo."
He thought about it for a while. He wanted to get home to Violet as fast as he could... but then again, he was on an adventure now. And adventurers explored. It was their duty. In many games, you could earned exp points by finding new areas. Some part of his mind now erased the fact that he wasn't inside a game now, and his eyes glimmed almost as weirdly as Poliwag's. Upon seeing this, the blue blob gurgled even more and squirmed its way out of Todd's arms.
With a wet "ploff" it landed on the ground and started more or less running back towards the Dark Cave. Todd came more or less to his senses and debated following, wondering for how long it would manage to run... and sure enough, after just some seconds it tripped over its own legs again and started rolling forward as if it was a natural means of transportation. After a slight facepalm, Todd ran after it.
After making a few turns on the smaller road leading away from route 30 and 31, they stopped, facing a large solid wall of stone, stretching to the east. Right before them, there was an opening. A cave. Nothing could be seen in there. "Indeed Dark Cave..." Todd said and his adventurous state almost faded.
Poliwag gurgled and blew a bubble into the opening. Then it followed its own bubble. Todd swallowed but followed him.
It was pitch black. Todd couldn't even see his own bag after walking a few steps inside the cave. He fumbled with it and eventually found his flashlight. Turning it on, he had a small dot of light to move around to try to see where he was going. Not much and maybe not enough... he looked back, seeing the tiny trail of light sippering in from the entrance. He didn't want to loose track of the way out.
"Poliwag?" he called out. No answer. "Where the hell are you?"
A squeak reached him and he turned the flashlight to the right, dropping his jaw. Poliwag was standing over 20 meters away, much higher up than he was, on a great pile of rocks. Todd let the flashlight wander upwards, but didn't see a roof. Dang... this cave must be like a cathedral inside the mountain. Pretty intimidating.
"How the HECK did you get up there? You can't run, you're slippery... you CAN'T climb! I refuse to believe it!" Todd shouted, fumbling to get the pokédex up to find out if there was some weird ability Poliwags had that he hadn't thought about.
A movement in the corner of his eye made him look up again. The flashlight's dot was still on the place where Poliwag had just been... but poliwag wasn't there anymore. Or rather, the rocks Poliwag had been standing on weren't there anymore. Now it was Todd's turn to squeak, and he dropped the pokédex on the ground, waving the flashlight to try to see what was going on.
He caught sight of Poliwag, who was now only a couple of meters in front of him. And beneath Poliwag was... a pair of BIG eyes... etched into the very rock. How...
The pokédex beeped on the ground. Todd felt with his hand and picked it up, flipping it open. It told him there was an Onix in front of him. Onix? The image on screen showed him some sort of snake made of rocks. But this was just one huge rock, didn't look anything like a snake...
A horrified realization started to creep up inside him as he heard a deep grumble. Poliwag looked down, as if he thought it had been his stomach. Todd clicked the size comparison option. A tiny human shade appeared on the screen, only as big as one of the smallest rocks on the snake's tail...
This was just the head. The pokémon was huge.
Todd couldn't even scream. He just turned and ran. Out, quicker than Poliwag could ever have been rolling.
It wasn't until he was halfway back to the "Dark Cave" sign that he realized he'd left Poliwag. Dang! He... he had to go back. That was what a noble trainer would to.
So he ran back, entered the cave and searched with his flashlight, scared and stressed up. What he found wasn't really reassuring. The huge rock snake didn't have any trouble moving around the cliffy ground inside the cave, and it apparently had good eyesight in the darkness. It was banging its tail trying to squat Poliwag, who was running and leaping around looking more confused than anything else. Not scared, at least.
Todd didn't for one second think that Poliwag could ever even have a chance against this monster. "Why doesn't that weird blob realize it's dangerous for him?"
The pokédex beeped. It just wouldn't shut up today, would it? He looked at it and saw a button blink that he had never used before. "Type info", it said. Still feeling stressed, he clicked it. Some sort of chart came up, and the column named "Rock" was highlighted. The row named "Water" was also highlighted. It took Todd far too many seconds to figure out what that was all about. Poliwag suddenly spotted him and came running, whipping the trainer's legs with its tail as if to ask what that mean snake was all about.
"Poliwag... you are strong against Onix," Todd said slowly. He looked up, letting the flashlight follow his gaze. Onix was towering before them, looking ready to strike down and squash them both with its massive rock head.
If it did that, they would be dead. Or in seriously bad shape with all bones in their bodies broken at least. If now slippery Poliwag blobs had any bones... So it was all in or nothing. Game over or a slight chance, a slim stupid chance.
"Poliwag, do those bubbles. On Onix."
Poliwag gurgled. He turned around, just as Onix head disappeared from the flashlight dot, lounging forwards. Todd's heart stopped and he blinked, though it wouldn't have mattered as it was completely dark anyways. The impact didn't come...
Instead he heard a low grumbling scream, a very strange sound he had never heard before and not even imagined actually. His hand automatically moved the flashlight towards the source of the noise.
Poliwag was blowing bubbles in a fierce cloud towards Onix. When they hit its face, one after another, Onix seemed even more bothered by them than Todd had. It looked like they really hurt.
Slightly amazed, Todd said: "So rock snakes can't stand water! That's... really weird but maybe logical... I'll have to consider this..."
Onix waved its massive tail and swung it towards them without warning. They couldn't have seen it coming. Todd felt the air leave his chest as he was tackled in his side by the rocky tail and thrown to the ground. He could swore he heard something snap inside. The flashlight dropped to the ground as well as the pokédex. He lay on his back on the dark, cold ground for several moments, trying to breathe. When he finally could, he felt an awful sensation in his left side. It hurt as soon as he tried to move. Dang!
The cave was quiet too. He called out: "Poli-" then stopped due to the pain in his ribcage. He had broken a rib. He had broken a rib! Was that dangerous? He didn't know for sure, but he imagined it would feel this way...
A soft thud to the right, and he heard the familiar gurgling noise. Poliwag sounded like he was ok. Todd turned his head and saw the flashlight move. Poliwag had picked it up in its mouth and carried it to his right arm.
Todd mouthed thanks, then felt stupid. Poliwag probably wouldn't see that. He steeled himself. "Thanks," he said.
He sat up with immense effort. He had been hurt in computer games countless times, but that had only been numbers and health bars... this was completely different. He was a bleeding, mortal human. So darn weak.
He pointed the flashlight in front of him and was surprised. Onix lay there, seemingly fainted, in a curled up pile of rocks. "You... defeated it."
Poliwag gurgled and started walking towards the entrance of the cave. So NOW it had had enough of this place... how convenient for that weirdo. But Todd wouldn't name him that. No, he was weird but pretty good to have... even it he had caused him a broken rib. If Todd died because of this, he'd be sure to haunt that stupid blob forever... but if he didn't, he had sure had an adventure today. He simply named the pokémon Bloblue.
He managed to stand up, imagining he was a paladin, injured in battle. He had to endure. And... spoils of war?
He reached for the bag, which was still on his back. Some food was probably squashed now as well. He pulled out a pokéball. He wouldn't let this trip into darkness amount to nothing else than an injury. He fiercely threw the pokéball, earing a searing shot of pain from his side. It hit the rocky head of the Onix and sucked the whole pile of stone in before bouncing down to the ground and start to wobble.
Todd - Dark Cave
Todd was walking on the dusty road with Poliwag beside him. He had for once put Shockman and Wing inside their pokéballs, because Wing seemed to think Poliwag was weird and Shockman was annoyed with the little blue blob constantly staring at him or blowing a bubble at him. They didn't get along well right now... how would Todd cure that?
Poliwag squeaked a little and Todd looked down at it. Oh, dang. How stupid of him. Here they had been walking for quite a while and he had completely forgotten about Poliwag's tiny legs. It wasn't made to walk far on land! Feeling guilty but also a little bit disgusted with the slipperyness of its skin, Todd picked up the pokémon and carried it in his arms. The blue blob seemed awfully content about this arrangement, and began blowing bubbles randomly again, some of which popped dangerously close to Todd's face. His arms were still a bit red...
They hadn't met anyone for a while, when they encountered a sign seemingly in the middle of nowhere, saying "Dark Cave ahead, beware."
"There's a dark cave ahead? Alright, let's not go there." Todd mumbled to himself and turned right at the sign instead of following the winding trail onwards.
Poliwag started to squirm uncomfortably in his arms. "Hey, stop that!" he said, "or I'll drop you down!"
Poliwag bent backwards and looked up at the trainer with his big, watery eyes. "What?" Todd asked impatiently, but stopped. "Do you want to go to the dark cave?"
Poliwag's eyes grew to double the size and it gurgled excitedly. Todd shook his head. "You are so weird... I might just name you Weirdo."
He thought about it for a while. He wanted to get home to Violet as fast as he could... but then again, he was on an adventure now. And adventurers explored. It was their duty. In many games, you could earned exp points by finding new areas. Some part of his mind now erased the fact that he wasn't inside a game now, and his eyes glimmed almost as weirdly as Poliwag's. Upon seeing this, the blue blob gurgled even more and squirmed its way out of Todd's arms.
With a wet "ploff" it landed on the ground and started more or less running back towards the Dark Cave. Todd came more or less to his senses and debated following, wondering for how long it would manage to run... and sure enough, after just some seconds it tripped over its own legs again and started rolling forward as if it was a natural means of transportation. After a slight facepalm, Todd ran after it.
After making a few turns on the smaller road leading away from route 30 and 31, they stopped, facing a large solid wall of stone, stretching to the east. Right before them, there was an opening. A cave. Nothing could be seen in there. "Indeed Dark Cave..." Todd said and his adventurous state almost faded.
Poliwag gurgled and blew a bubble into the opening. Then it followed its own bubble. Todd swallowed but followed him.
It was pitch black. Todd couldn't even see his own bag after walking a few steps inside the cave. He fumbled with it and eventually found his flashlight. Turning it on, he had a small dot of light to move around to try to see where he was going. Not much and maybe not enough... he looked back, seeing the tiny trail of light sippering in from the entrance. He didn't want to loose track of the way out.
"Poliwag?" he called out. No answer. "Where the hell are you?"
A squeak reached him and he turned the flashlight to the right, dropping his jaw. Poliwag was standing over 20 meters away, much higher up than he was, on a great pile of rocks. Todd let the flashlight wander upwards, but didn't see a roof. Dang... this cave must be like a cathedral inside the mountain. Pretty intimidating.
"How the HECK did you get up there? You can't run, you're slippery... you CAN'T climb! I refuse to believe it!" Todd shouted, fumbling to get the pokédex up to find out if there was some weird ability Poliwags had that he hadn't thought about.
A movement in the corner of his eye made him look up again. The flashlight's dot was still on the place where Poliwag had just been... but poliwag wasn't there anymore. Or rather, the rocks Poliwag had been standing on weren't there anymore. Now it was Todd's turn to squeak, and he dropped the pokédex on the ground, waving the flashlight to try to see what was going on.
He caught sight of Poliwag, who was now only a couple of meters in front of him. And beneath Poliwag was... a pair of BIG eyes... etched into the very rock. How...
The pokédex beeped on the ground. Todd felt with his hand and picked it up, flipping it open. It told him there was an Onix in front of him. Onix? The image on screen showed him some sort of snake made of rocks. But this was just one huge rock, didn't look anything like a snake...
A horrified realization started to creep up inside him as he heard a deep grumble. Poliwag looked down, as if he thought it had been his stomach. Todd clicked the size comparison option. A tiny human shade appeared on the screen, only as big as one of the smallest rocks on the snake's tail...
This was just the head. The pokémon was huge.
Todd couldn't even scream. He just turned and ran. Out, quicker than Poliwag could ever have been rolling.
It wasn't until he was halfway back to the "Dark Cave" sign that he realized he'd left Poliwag. Dang! He... he had to go back. That was what a noble trainer would to.
So he ran back, entered the cave and searched with his flashlight, scared and stressed up. What he found wasn't really reassuring. The huge rock snake didn't have any trouble moving around the cliffy ground inside the cave, and it apparently had good eyesight in the darkness. It was banging its tail trying to squat Poliwag, who was running and leaping around looking more confused than anything else. Not scared, at least.
Todd didn't for one second think that Poliwag could ever even have a chance against this monster. "Why doesn't that weird blob realize it's dangerous for him?"
The pokédex beeped. It just wouldn't shut up today, would it? He looked at it and saw a button blink that he had never used before. "Type info", it said. Still feeling stressed, he clicked it. Some sort of chart came up, and the column named "Rock" was highlighted. The row named "Water" was also highlighted. It took Todd far too many seconds to figure out what that was all about. Poliwag suddenly spotted him and came running, whipping the trainer's legs with its tail as if to ask what that mean snake was all about.
"Poliwag... you are strong against Onix," Todd said slowly. He looked up, letting the flashlight follow his gaze. Onix was towering before them, looking ready to strike down and squash them both with its massive rock head.
If it did that, they would be dead. Or in seriously bad shape with all bones in their bodies broken at least. If now slippery Poliwag blobs had any bones... So it was all in or nothing. Game over or a slight chance, a slim stupid chance.
"Poliwag, do those bubbles. On Onix."
Poliwag gurgled. He turned around, just as Onix head disappeared from the flashlight dot, lounging forwards. Todd's heart stopped and he blinked, though it wouldn't have mattered as it was completely dark anyways. The impact didn't come...
Instead he heard a low grumbling scream, a very strange sound he had never heard before and not even imagined actually. His hand automatically moved the flashlight towards the source of the noise.
Poliwag was blowing bubbles in a fierce cloud towards Onix. When they hit its face, one after another, Onix seemed even more bothered by them than Todd had. It looked like they really hurt.
Slightly amazed, Todd said: "So rock snakes can't stand water! That's... really weird but maybe logical... I'll have to consider this..."
Onix waved its massive tail and swung it towards them without warning. They couldn't have seen it coming. Todd felt the air leave his chest as he was tackled in his side by the rocky tail and thrown to the ground. He could swore he heard something snap inside. The flashlight dropped to the ground as well as the pokédex. He lay on his back on the dark, cold ground for several moments, trying to breathe. When he finally could, he felt an awful sensation in his left side. It hurt as soon as he tried to move. Dang!
The cave was quiet too. He called out: "Poli-" then stopped due to the pain in his ribcage. He had broken a rib. He had broken a rib! Was that dangerous? He didn't know for sure, but he imagined it would feel this way...
A soft thud to the right, and he heard the familiar gurgling noise. Poliwag sounded like he was ok. Todd turned his head and saw the flashlight move. Poliwag had picked it up in its mouth and carried it to his right arm.
Todd mouthed thanks, then felt stupid. Poliwag probably wouldn't see that. He steeled himself. "Thanks," he said.
He sat up with immense effort. He had been hurt in computer games countless times, but that had only been numbers and health bars... this was completely different. He was a bleeding, mortal human. So darn weak.
He pointed the flashlight in front of him and was surprised. Onix lay there, seemingly fainted, in a curled up pile of rocks. "You... defeated it."
Poliwag gurgled and started walking towards the entrance of the cave. So NOW it had had enough of this place... how convenient for that weirdo. But Todd wouldn't name him that. No, he was weird but pretty good to have... even it he had caused him a broken rib. If Todd died because of this, he'd be sure to haunt that stupid blob forever... but if he didn't, he had sure had an adventure today. He simply named the pokémon Bloblue.
He managed to stand up, imagining he was a paladin, injured in battle. He had to endure. And... spoils of war?
He reached for the bag, which was still on his back. Some food was probably squashed now as well. He pulled out a pokéball. He wouldn't let this trip into darkness amount to nothing else than an injury. He fiercely threw the pokéball, earing a searing shot of pain from his side. It hit the rocky head of the Onix and sucked the whole pile of stone in before bouncing down to the ground and start to wobble.