Lukai suddenly grew back to his normal size. Instead of just waiting for Arin to put him down, he kicked Arin in the chest, freeing himself onto the ground, where he started running after them. "Oh, Arin I am sorry for kicking.. just the urge to be normal again.."
Well, thanks, Arin thought.
That's what I get for being nice... a kick in the chest. She cut off the thought from being broadcasted to everyone around her though. Lukai continued to talk about something, but Arin wasn't paying attention.
"What am I? A next door neighbor?" Aya muttered to himself quietly, although not quietly enough for Arin not to detect it through her psychic senses. She wasn't wrong at all when she assumed that he was a loner of a Pokemon. "Guys, I hate to break this to you, but we've
got to get moving...
now," he continued. "If you want, we could stick together and get somewhere safer, until this is all over, they say there's always safety in numbers. Or we could split up like we were before and find our own way out, but you've got to decide quickly or we're done for. And frankly, I'm not ready to die yet."
Arin nodded her head in agreement. "I dunno about you guys, but I think we should stick together." They continued up the side of the valley; the other Pokemon were distinctly lagging slightly, having to climb uphill.
A roar sounded behind them, and Arin glanced back just a second. Tearing through the ground behind them, like some sort of land torpedo or a tubular shark, was the Death Worm, its body halfway submerged into the ground, its gaping maw open like a black void into which the entire world could be drained into, and one gigantic mandible, like the crescent moon, rising above the ground. It was after them.
Oh, Arceus. For whatever reason, the Death Worm
terrified Arin. And it was gaining on them. "Split, guys!" she called, and dodged to the side.
The worm suddenly changed direction, and burrowed right into the ground. How anything that big could move so quickly, let alone
dig that quickly, was beyond her.
She rose up into the air. What was going on now?
Fwoosh. Like a skyscraper being built before their eyes, the Death Worm
jumped out of the ground, just like it was when attacking that Pidgeot earlier. It curved downwards in a lazy parabolic curve, and opened its maw; Arin was about to be swallowed whole.
Sheer terror made Arin's body freeze for a second. Then, she recovered, and acted, dodging to the side. Not quickly enough; one of the mandibles caught her, and although she avoid the mouth, she hit the right mandible and bounced off, the wind knocked out of her chest. She began to fall, and couldn't slow down fast enough to avoid crashing into the tree branches. Slowly she rose back into the air, wincing and gasping for breath.
Krakooooooooom...
The deep roar tore apart the atmosphere, rending apart the atmosphere, a deafening blast that sent Arin reeling. The entire side of the volcano blew out, and a massive landslide of rock roared down the mountain, sending up an immense avalanche of superheated rock and ash racing into the valley near supersonic speed. This was called pyroclastic flow, the most deadly part of any volcanic eruption, superheated hurricanes of rock and ash too fast to escape that would incinerate anything in their path. A gigantic pillar of ash blew into the sky, mushrooming into a gray tower that would become over 16 miles tall. The massive gray avalanche torrented down the mountain into the forest, obliterating everything in its path.
Arin didn't need to see anymore. She flew for the edge of the valley as fast as she could, and called out below in her loudest voice, "RUN!"
The pyroclastic flows raced across the landscape, and began to enter the valley...
(OOC: A better visual interpretation can be found
here. Doesn't show the entire eruption, but I expect you can imagine Mt. St. Helens... Level 3 coming soon!)