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The Crystal [pg-16]

Adric squinted from the brightness of the room. Around him, there were so many crystals, making the room glow.

"Ok, let's look around and see if we can find anything interesting." he said.

Since it was only the three of them (Adric had decided that the rest should search other parts of the cave), the cave seemed spacious. As Adric went to a corner, he saw Marc and his Houndoom, his hand reaching out to grab a crystal.

What does he think he's doing!? The fool! We don't know what happens during a Soul Bond! He might get hurt!

"Hey! Wait-!" Adric managed to shout, but it was to no avail. The young boy grabbed a crystal and touched his Houndoom with it. Suddenly the bright crystal changed its color to a dark black.

"Marc! Wait until I give you an order until you take an action. Who knows what might've happened." Adric shouted. His shoulders relaxed, glad that his subordinate was not harmed.
 
Marc spun around, saw Adric and replied,"I knew what I was doing. I talked to one of the scholars back at the castle and he told me that all that happens is that you become one with your Pokemon. I made sure to study up before I left the cave. I knew what I was doing. Now, I'll meet you back at camp sir."

Marc wandered back through the water, which caused another howling from Houndoom. Unfortunately this disturbed a nearby Golbat, which swooped down and used Wing Attack.

Houndoom dodged effortlessly and Marc smiled, Golbat's were weak, a nice warm up for the trials to come.

He ordered Houndoom to use a Flamethrower, which it did, knocking the Golbat to the ground. It tried to get back up again, but by now Houndoom was standing over it, trapping it to the ground.

Marc walked over to the Golbat. He smiled, time to show this Golbat how Marc von Bonhof deals with creatures that attack him. He drew his sword and sliced the Golbat in two. Marc smiled, that wasn't too difficult. Nice to see his ruthless edge hadn't left him.
 
Shen's armor was still dripping with water that had been trapped inside of it during the swim, but he didn't bother shaking it off, he just waited for it all to be out, the swim has been easy for Scizor, he had just sunk to the ground and walked through the water, and after he got out all the water slid right off of him as if he had been laminated. Luckily Shen was nowhere near as bright as the crystals, but light still glinted off of his armor. Looking around, Shen found the crystals and the cave itself to be truly beautiful, but there would be time for admiring beauty when they weren't in the middle of something important.

Shen walked over to a light source he found more beautiful than the others, the small crystal he found growing out of the ground was a beautiful shade of light blue faintly glowing outwards. Seeing Marc's change was enough to convince Shen it was safe. Shen pulled the crystal out of the ground and looked to Scizor. "Are you ready?" He asked, Scizor nodded. Little did Shen know that the transformation was different for each pokemon and human, pluse there was the face that each crystal was unique. He reached forward and lightly touched the crystal to Scizor's forehead and it burst apart with a bright light that blinded Shen and, as he saw nothing, he felt himself changing, his lust for battle grew even stronger, while his emotions grew cooler and more distant, almost as if he had none at all. When Shen could see again he gasped with utter surprise when he looked at his pokemon he felt like he saw his own eyes reflected in Scizor's.
 
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Leon, still in the trance, started to walk into the pond. Kabutops looked up, and watched Leon. The pond was relevantly shallow. Leon was a third of the way in, and it was only up to his waist. Leon stopped halfway through the pond, and looked down. Kabutops was looking earnestly at him now.

Kabutops walked over to Leon, swimming half of the way for fun. Leon was about to dive into the pond when Kabutops grabbed him. Leon turned around, "We have to stop doing this…" A weird noise came from the forest. "Come on, let's go check it out."

The sun was setting as Leon and Kabutops jogged through the forest for a ways. Looking out, he found Jen, but something had found her…
 
[[OOC: Big post? Maybe! My skin doesn't let me see sooo.... :D ]]

The huge blue bug lunged at Jen and she dived out of the way of its horn, and then rolled to the side of its clawed feet as it charged forwards.

"The hell?" she shouted, clambering to her feet and picking up the kukri that she had dropped in the process. The Heracross stopped charging and spun around, casting around an eye blinded by rage as it sought her out among the forest backdrop. It faced her directly and lowered its ample horn, challenging her. In response, she raised her kukri, bent her knees in preparation to avoid and lowered her head to issue the challenge right back at it. Heracross kicked up dirt on the ground, like a Tauros preparing to stampede; Jen had seen it happen at the farm on her village, when the Tauros herd had gone for the farmer and ended up breaking the fence between their pasture and the Miltank field. Many calves had hatched that summer. Jen tensed to spring.

Heracross surged forwards, its horn aimed at her head.

Jen jumped. She had tried to dive to the left and had prepared to land one knee, but the horn caught her shoulder - hard - and knocked her off course so that she landed heavily against a stray tree stump that she had not noticed before. Fool! She thought. Always check out your surroundings, that's what Edgear taught you! Jen tried to stand, but was pulled down; her kukri had buried itself deep in the soft grain of the stump's bark, and it took more strength than she would have guessed to remove it. And the Heracross was circling. It was waiting for her to make her move. She frowned; never before had she fought an enemy so armoured, so strong... she would have to use every trick she could to force it to submit, but already an idea was forming within her mind, and if she could pull it off, her natural speed could overwhelm the Heracross's bulk.

"This. C'mon. Over here." Jen spoke in hushed tones as she slowly moved into position against the trunk of a similar tree to the stump her kukri had been buried in. If she could get it to charge again... The Heracross promised to deliver. It lowered its horn again and began kicking like a Tauros. Almost intimidatingly, it opened its wing cases and flapped at her, clenching its little clawed fists in anger. And then it ran. Jen waited for as long as she possibly could bare to, and then leapt aside. As she had hoped, the Heracross continued to dart forwards and its horn struck the tree, embedding itself deep within the wood. Straight away, Jen lunged with a kukri and slashed at its arm. The hard blue exoskeleton cracked beneath her blade and the useless limb dropped to the floor, separated from the body. The Heracross roared in pain and anger, but could not move away fast enough. Jen sliced again and removed a leg. The Heracross continued to roar and shook its head but couldn't free the horn. Jen realised her oppurtunity and ran as fast and as far as she could, glad to be able to escape but not quite able to bring herself to kill it.

Unknown to her, Spoink, who had before kept hidden, approached the Heracross in her wake. The hopping Pokémon stared up at the larger creature with a degree of consideration, and then concentrated hard, clenching his fists and urging his pearl towards the bug. Heracross made eye contact with Spoink, and then clenched up in pain, wincing. Spoink continued his ministrations, making no physical contact whatsoever but still being able to cause pain to his foe. Eventually the larger being collapsed, hanging miserable by its embedded horn and balancing weight on its one remaining foot.

Spoink giggled, and then picked up the dismembered arm. Carrying it like a trophy, he continued along the path Jen had taken, immensely proud of his victory.
 
((OOC: This post took slightly longer than intended, because PC stopped working for a bit...))

Blade woke up many hours later. The sun was still rather high in the sky.
Perfect. Plenty of time to get to the armory. Sharpen my swords... hmm... I feel different. I feel... happier... I also feel the need for some new armor...
Blade set off with Lametto, towards the armory.
When blade made it there, he went straight to the forge, with some mythril and worked.
Several hours later, he left the armory with many new things:
Several mythril plates, to make some new armor, boiled cotton, boiled leather, and a thin sheet of mythril, to hold the armor together, a new sword, and finally a large shield.
Blade looked to the sky and saw the setting sun.
Oh no! I need to get to the ridge!
Blade ran back inside and grabbed something to carry the armor in, a sheath, and ran back outside. Blade stuffed the armor in the bag, the sword in the sheath, and put both of them, along with the shield, on his back.
What's the quickest way to the ridge...? I know! The part of the ridge next to the forest is easily climbable
Blade ran to the ridge, and started to climb it. He heard someone running towards the forest yelling for a Spoink.
A Spoink? That girl! Blade had remembered one of the girls he saw before his nap had a Spoink.
I''m already halfway up the ridge, and with this armor, there wouldn't be much I could do anyways... Blade quickly decided to get to the ridge, then, if possible, go to help.
When he got to the top, Blade saw the other girl from before with her Prinplup.
"Hey!," Blade shouted. "Who was that that just ran into the forest?"
As Blade got closer, he decided to introduce himself.
"Hey, my name is.... Blade, it's very nice to make your acquaintance" Blade said.
"Now who'd you say that was?" Blade asked again.
 
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The hopping grey blob took off for the forests all at once, and before Talulah could say anything, Jen had taken off after it. She and Lise stood watching them run off.

"Well that wasn't very nice," she said down to Lise, who had crossed his flippers and furrowed his giant eyebrows beside her. Just when they'd started getting to know the duo, they'd run off.

"I'm not about to follow them," she murmured, looking down at Lise. He nodded as he met her gaze.

Talulah didn't quite fancy the idea of having dealing with the creatures that undoubtedly awaited in the forests. More than one child had been carried off or seriously injured getting too close to the ominous trees that had surrounded the far left side of the daycare. She thought for a moment how lucky she had really been to see Lise first of all creatures. There were some serious beasts in those forests surrounding the area.

A couple of quiet minutes passed before Talulah began wondering when Leon was going to get there. With Jen and her Spoink gone, her mind was drifting back to the battlefield, remembering times when she'd gone hand-to-hand with the scum of the Arleon kingdom. Beside her, Lise shuddered.

"What? You don't like to fight?" she said down to him, regaining some of her gruffness from pre-soulbonding. "Well get used to it. From now on, you're a proud member of the Witherian kingdom!"

She leaned down and aimed a soft punch at him, grazing his flipper. Lise hopped back, a bit confused. He cocked his head to the side, thinking, then seemed to realize what Talulah was getting at.

"Prinp!" he said, hopping up in down happily. He charged at her, hitting her mid-calf with the top of his head. It made a clanging sound against her armor, and Talulah couldn't help but laugh.

Her laugh was cut short all at once by a monstrous roar. It echoed across the ridge, bouncing back at subdued volumes. Talulah and Lise exchanged a look, before making a dash towards the forest. Talulah wasn't the kind to go looking for trouble, but if someone (in this case possibly Jen) needed her help, she wasn't about to refuse.

They followed the noises, including yelling and a few more roars. Then the forest grew quiet. Lise and Talulah kept moving towards where the last sounds had come from. Coming through the trees, Talulah's eyes fell on an odd sight.

A Heracross lay still, most likely dead, in the middle of the clearing. A few feet away, the silly little Spoink that had seemed so weak was holding... an arm?!

"What?!" was all Talulah could say.

"Prin?!" Lise offered, just as shocked.
 
Leon watched as the fight commenced. He would have helped, but this was a good test for her, and he needed to see her in action, as he should all his solders. Leon heard Kabutops walk up behind him, but didn't take his eyes from the fight. As his pokemon started forward to the fight to help, Leon held him back. "No, only help if she needs it." The large bug charged at the small girl. She was only taller than it by a few inches. As Jen tried to jump out of the way, she was hit.

Leon saw her fly across the forest, and land on a stump. He quickly thought about helping, but decided not to. Any weak enough to lose here didn't belong in his squad anyways. The pokemon charged again, and this time Jen successfully dogged it. The bug was now stuck, and Jen didn't hold back on it. A few attacks latter, and she fled.

Leon now started to walk over to the pokemon to put it out of its misery. It had fought well, and deserved some peace. As he neared it, a small gray orb moved, and picked up one of the blue limbs on the ground, and started happily bouncing off. Leon glanced at Kabutops, "Promise me you'll never do that…." As the Spoink bounced off, Talulah ran into the small clearing.

"What?!?"

She was obviously disturbed by the small pokemon. Leon couldn't help but laugh, and continue walking to the Heracross.
 
"Hey!," Blade shouted. "Who was tha-"
Mid-sentence, Blade was interrupted by a roar from the forest.
The girl ran off without even acknowledging him.
Well then... Might as well follow them...
Blade set down his stuff, and ran towards the forest.
The path there wasn't very long, so it took about 45 seconds to get there. When he got there, Blade saw the two girls, and Leon. The first girl's Spoink was holding an...
Arm??! What the...
"Greetings Lieutenant." Blade said rather cheerfully.
I'm feeling a lot more cheerful... Not so much distrust. Hmm...
"Greetings..." Blade paused, not knowing the girls' names, and not knowing what to say...
 
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"Haa...well, I guess that's it." Adric sighed as he saw the knight and his Houndoom sink back into the water.

Soon after, the Lieutenant and his pokemon bonded. Noticing that things would be different for him, Adric looked for a crystal. After looking at rows of them, one finally caught his eye.

It was a bright green color, with the shape of a six-point star. Some of its edges were rough, but they couldn't be seen clearly. Adric carefully took the crystal, his gloves protecting him from harm. Kneeling down beside Pupitar, he waited for his partner to acknowledge him. With a nod, Pupitar touched his head to the crystal. Suddenly, a bright flash occured that blinded Adric. For a second, he could feel the urge to do whatever he wanted, regardless of his status, but it slowly melted away as the crystal dimmed to a now dark green light.

Adric stood up and faced the White Knight.

"So, are you ready to head out?"
 
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Without thinking Shen and Scizor nodded at the same time, for one last moment both their eyes glowed the same shade of blue as the crystal they had used. "Yes sir" Shen began walking towards the pool-tunnel but he saw two large boulders near the tunnel entrance and got a sudden to test out his newfound power, Sizor used Double Hit to smash both boulders and with a speed that made it looke like when slash when, in fact it was many, Shen sliced all the pebbles flying through the air into even smaller pieces. Shen and Scizor looked at each other before simultaneously nodding and jumping into the water ti continue towards the cave exit.
 
"Alright then..." Adric nodded, watching the Knight go underwater.

Hmm...

Adric stared at the crystal.

What skills could I unlock now that I've soulbonded with Takeo? I guess we'll have to find out...

"Takeo! Use Dig!" said Adric as he gripped the stone tightly. Takeo and Adric's hand glowed for a split second, then nothing happened.

Adric's light red eyes changed to an emerald green. Suddenly, he felt the urge to abandon his pokemon and dig out of the cave himself.

"Uh...what!? Come on Takeo! Hurry up and use Earthquake!" shouted Adric, his tone ruthless.

Takeo blinked and did as he was told. However, because they were Soul Bonded, Takeo's Dig turned into a powerful one, creating a whole new passageway as Adric walked out into the encampent dry.
 
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Shen was standing in the camp outside of the crystal cave waiting for Adric as far away as possible from Marc when he felt a powerful shaking and a large area of the rock wall burst open and Adric walked out of it, Shen nodded and said out loud. "Impressive."
 
Jen ran as fast as she could, struggling for breath, and still casting a worried eye about her surroundings as she searched for Spoink. It turned out that she didn't have to wait long, as a noise behind her sounded suspiciously similar to the way he bounced, so she stood and waited for him to catch up, at the same time analysing her position. The ridge was now closer than the forest, so logic told her to go up there and wait until dusk, but she could see that Talulah and Lise were no longer there, and she felt slightly guilty for running off when they had just started to socialise. Leon and Kabutops, she had not seen since Leon had revived her back at the castle.

With a cheery hop, Spoink appeared against the backdrop of shrubbery, clutching something blue to his chest. Jen frowned in confusion, wondering what he was bringing back to her, but as he neared, she found herself welling up with laughter as she recognised the blue claw of a Heracross. Spoink chirped as he bounced into her arms, the claw an obtrusion against her chest as she hugged him, but then put him down as she rememberd about his heart.

"So you were there, huh? What did you think?" Jen laughed, indicating the dismembered limb.

"Spoink! Spoipoinkink!" Spoink cheered, lifting the limb high. Jen laughed uncertainly - she still had a way to go before she could understand Spoink's way of speaking. Spoink saw that he wasn't getting through to her, so he lifted one arm like a ringmaster at a circus, and held the claw up again. Jen watched in amazement as Spoink's pearl glowed an ethereal, smoky pink and the claw lifted from his grasp, floating upwards until it hung unsupported in the air.

"...wow," Jen breathed, rendered completely speechless. "I guess... that's your power then?"

Spoink simply grinned and giggled.
 
Marc was standing with Houndoom by camp in a good mood after having killed the Golbat. Just then the ground itself shook and a Pupitar with Adric rose up from the ground. Marc was impressed, this Adric was clearly a powerful warrior. Marc turned away and decided to show off Houndoom's Flamethrower. Marc and Houndoom walked towards the entrance of the cave, decided it was too risky to set fire too and walked round camp until he found a big rock. Marc shouted,"Flamethrower" at Houndoom who used Flamethrower. The rock started glowing red very quickly and eventually started melting, before setting alight as a warm fire. Marc shouted,"We have a fire, now we can keep warm during the night." Thankfully it was a controlled flame and wouldn't set fire to anything else.
 
Shen stood on the edge of the camp watching the area to make sure nobody snuck up on them, as he was looking around he saw Marc's exposition of Houndoom's new strength brought on by the crystal. "Hmph, showoff" He said to himself to quietly for anybody else to hear, when he looked next to him he saw Scizor shadow boxing fast enough and hard enough to make wind slap him in the face. "Slow down friend, we're not going to be fighting yet, don't be so worked up, and lord knows you don't need to worry about keeping your skills sharp."
 
Shortly after walking out of the new entry way, the crystal in Adric's hand settled down to a gentle dim as the Soul Bond ended.

"Whew! Good job, Takeo." sighed Adric as he patted the Pupitar's head.

Nearby, the White Knight acknowledged Adric's power with a slight nod.

"Impressive."

"Haha, thanks. But we still have lots to learn." Adric replied.

On the other side of the encampment, Marc and his Houndoom were happily warming a rock until a fire started. Adric sighed.

"Well, at least he had the smarts to use fire away from the camp..."

Adric headed to his tent to prepare for the next couple of days.
 
Marc took some meat from his bag and happily cooked them until they were lightly roasted. He decided to make 3 meals (Marc realised that those 2 would be working with him for a while so he might as well not make them absolutely despise him). Marc began eating his dinner, waiting for the other 2 to show up for theirs. He knew they'd smell food eventually.
 
Spoink dropped the claw into Jen's hand and began hopping back up the hill onto the ridge. Jen continued to stare at the claw that had been floating by her head just moments ago. She shook herself out of her thoughts and followed her Pokémon up to the ridge. She sat down, leaning against the rocky terrain, and stroked Spoink's head.

"How did you do that, eh? Is that your power, like when we saw Lise?" Jen asked. Spoink replied with the usual: a chatter in his own language that Jen could neither decipher nor comprehend.

"Spoink... we're such good friends and yet, every time you talk to me, I don't understand a word you say," Jen said, speaking more to the darkening sky that to Spoink. The Pig Pokémon frowned, thinking hard, and then bounced so that he was staring Jen in the face. His pearl glowed that ethereal pink as when he had demonstrated his power before, and Jen jumped at the result.

[Would you rather I try talking like this? Can you understand now?] a dreamy, gentle voice spoke within her mind, and Jen could hardly believe it.

"Spoink... did you just--?"

[This is... you can understand? I didn't want to try this before, as it is unpleasant for another to penetrate your mind, but if you find this easier...] Spoink seemed to be thinking as the voice spoke.

"Spoink. You're speaking. Inside my head." Jen struggled to keep her jaw from dropping. Spoink seemed worried more than anything.

[You... you'd prefer this? Is it alright?] Spoink asked.

"Spoink, this is more than alright! This is amazing! You can... we can communicate now! But... how are you doing this?" Jen exclaimed.

[Jen, my friend, I thought you would have realised by now. Just as we witnessed Lise the Prinplup using an Ice attack, being the Water-type, my type is Psychic, meaning I can use my mind to do things.] Spoink seemed to be regarding Jen with an air of amusement, as though he couldn't believe she didn't know this. [This part of my power allows me to use my mind to speak directly into the minds of others. It is more commonly known as telepathy.]
 
Leon walked up to the Heracross, Kabutops not far behind. "Make sure it's dead." Kabutops maneuvered its way around the tree, and cut deep into the bug neck. 'That should finish it.' Leon looked up from the pokemon to Talulah and Blade. "It is nearing night, ready to go to the ridge?" Kabutops had now come back from the tree, and stood behind Leon like he was backing his friend up.
 
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