OOC: Oh darn... I start this post, and two more people post before I finish my post... Well, it's finally finished.
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Before the Cave-In
Tiffany and Daisy had curious or excited looks on their faces when they walked towards the underground city... What would be there? What sort of treasures and sights were there to behold? Why was this made such a popular attraction? All these questions passed through the minds of these two future friends (hopefully) as they walked through the entrance, past a man who went by to greet the people as they entered. When Tiffany and Daisy passed by this man, Tiffany stopped Daisy by grabbing her arm, and turned to him to ask him something.
"Excuse me... Are we allowed to bring Pokemon in there as well?"
"One only, and make sure it's no bigger than an Azumarill," the man replied as both Daisy and Tiffany took out a Pokeball.
As the two girls walked through the tunnel leading to the city, red flashes of light appeared from the two Pokeballs, materialising into two Pokemon. A Clefairy appeared out of Daisy's Pokeball and peered over Daisy's head from the shoulders she was standing on. From Tiffany's Pokeball emerged a Banette, who Tiffany held close to her--like an actual plush toy. And so the two girls and the two Pokemon entered the city. Soon after they did, they spotted an old-looking well with a modern-looking fence around it (to keep tourists out). But still, when the foursome spotted the intricately decorated orb on top of the well's roof, their jaws dropped in awe (well, Ravenna's mouth had to remain closed) at the orb's colours and the line carved around it. Resting on the line was a circle--wow, a Pokeball! Or a sculpture of one, in the very least, apparently coloured to look like a Dusk Ball. A Dusk Ball... Tiffany had gotten her hands on three of these at some point on her Pokemon journey, and had used all of them in attempts to capture a Murkrow. The Banette now in her arms was the result of one of those attempts, and in fact had been a Murkrow in her life. The foursome stared at this Dusk Ball sculpture for quite a while...
CRACK. A large crack formed in the ceiling directly above the well, causing large amounts of dust to fall on top of it. The crack kept getting bigger and bigger, and the ceiling started to rumble...
BOOM! What sounded like a large boulder hitting the ground sounded from a short distance away, although it was too dark to see anything. Soon after, more boulders started falling from the ceiling, some smaller, some larger... one even narrowly missed hitting Dolly on the head. The frightened Clefairy jumped off of Daisy's shoulders, and hopped over to the well. However, the fence was in the way, so Dolly just sat there clinging to the side of the wire fence while the ground started to shake as well.
GRUMBLE! The ground shook in one jerk towards the entrance, causing Tiffany to fall backward and Ravenna to roll sideways off her chest. Luckily, the fence caught Daisy's fall as she went over to grab Dolly. Dolly was still holding onto the fence, which tipped outward and gently fell on the ground. Daisy panicked and fell forward onto her knees, the light fence landing on her back. More boulder-falling took place, and Daisy prayed that none of the boulders would hit her, Tiffany, or any of the Pokemon...
OOF! Daisy heard a sharp yet muffled cry right near her, but it was too dark to see anything. Ohh, if only she could see... But just then, light shone behind her. Daisy turned to look at the light, but then the ground seemed to disappear underneath her...
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After the Cave-In
"Fairy! Cle-fairy!"
Dolly slapped Daisy awake (there goes her Wake-Up-Slap at work), startling her trainer quite a bit. When Daisy opened her eyes, she saw that she was in a small empty chamber, in complete darkness were it not for a pile of burning wood nearby. This fire was accidentally summoned by Dolly's Metronome, a huge stroke of luck. Anyways, Daisy got up, and immediately felt her head for any signs of bumps. Nothing... whew, that was close. But then she saw something that made her gasp in surprise: Tiffany's arm was sticking out from underneath a pile of large rocks.
"Oh! Tiffany!"
Daisy ran over and knelt down next to Tiffany's arm, seventy percent certain that her potential friend was now dead. She was a little afraid to touch her (wasn't touching a dead arm creepy?), and so just sat there, frozen...
But then...
"...Daisy..."
It was Tiffany's voice, although her arm did not move, and although the voice sounded weary and faint. Okay, not dead... maybe "dying" was a better word...
"Oh! Somehow we've got to get you out of there!" Daisy sounded quite worried, but that was natural when she was in a panic. And if this wasn't a cause for panic, what was? But how to get all those rocks off of Tiffany? Phantom or Ravenna could have been able to lift those rocks out of the way, but they both belonged to Tiffany, and Tiffany obviously could not reach Phantom's Pokeball. As for Ravenna... she was nowhere to be found. And none of Daisy's Pokemon could move the rocks out of the way... well, Jelly probably could with Gust, but there was the possibility of the Gust repositioning the rocks so that they sunk downward further and crushed Tiffany...
"It's all right... the rocks are not crushing me too badly at the moment..." Tiffany spoke again, just loudly enough so Daisy could hear. But if only I could reach my Pokeballs, Phantom could lift these rocks away telekinetically, a very safe manner... The truth is, I can barely move...
"Cle fairy, cle fairy..." Dolly started chanting. Daisy looked around to see Dolly waving her fingers in the air...
"No! Dolly!" Daisy shouted. "If it turns into the wrong move, it might..."
Just then, a swarm of bees appeared around Clefairy, sprinkling green dust all over her. A while later, the bees turned into dust as well.
[/i]Whew, that was just Heal Order,[/i] Daisy thought out of relief. "Er... if you want to use Metronome, try aiming at the wall first in case it's something destructive..."
After that, Clefairy tried Metronome a few times.
"Cle fairy, cle fairy, cle fairy... Fairy!"
Dolly puckered her lips, from which a stream of water appeared. This water hit the fire and put it out, plunging the area into complete darkness. Daisy shifted her attention away from Tiffany just in time to hear the last of the water spout hit the floor.
Great, Water Gun, Daisy thought. Now THAT's useful.
"Cle fairy, cle fairy, cle fairy... Fairy!"
Dolly flew right at Daisy and grabbed one of her Pokeballs. Then she flew back to her spot near the rocks, incredulous of the fact that she had just done what she did. But she just threw the Pokeball, and out came Hima.
"Sunflora flora!"
Upon seeing that it was dark, Hima used Flash to light her flower petals up. Light returned to the area, in a brighter and less dangerous source than the fire was. Daisy was finally staring at Clefairy, an awkward expression on her face--half annoyance, half gratitude.
"...That Metronome turned into Thief, didn't it?" Daisy guessed. "Well... it turned out well..."
"Clefairy fairy... Cle fairy, cle fairy, cle fairy... Fairy!"
The ground shook, at least in the area that this particular group was in. But as a result, the rocks which were carefully balanced over and around Tiffany toppled over and fell on top of her.
"Flora flora!" When the Earthquake was over, Hima walked closer to where Tiffany was and shone a bright light on her. To Daisy's horror, Tiffany's arm now had a few streaks of blood on it. No sound came from Tiffany otherwise. No sound came from Daisy either--but she stood up, gasped, and backed towards the damp spot where the fire had been seconds earlier. She shut her eyes tight, for she knew she might go crazy if she took another look at Tiffany. After all, she was a recovering hemophobe, and didn't want to risk it. But still, now that seventy-percent chance she pictured earlier of Tiffany's survival was more like ninety percent...
Still...
"Cle fairy, cle fairy, cle fairy... Fairy!"
A lucky stroke of fate indeed. No, the attack that came wasn't Psychic or Confusion, as Dolly hoped. Instead, dark particles hovered around Dolly for a while, while a light pink aura enveloped her. The dark particles flew around Dolly like orbiting planets. Then, the aura expanded outwards like a flash of light, enveloping the room in flashes of pink and pearly white energy. It wasn't properly light--more like an energy force that seemed to consist of space itself... Soon after, pearly white vortexes appeared around every single rock that was on top of Tiffany, and every single rock rose up into the air and spun around themselves, looking like a rocky solar system. For a few seconds the scene was absolutely stunning--swirls of pink and pearl, orbiting, vortex-infused rocks, and the dark particles being absorbed into Dolly. When the last dark particle entered Dolly, the energy field disappeared, and the rocks exploded into glittering white dust. When all the dust fell to the floor, it gave the impression of a pearl having melted on the floor.
"Ohhh... wow..." Daisy stammered, hardly believing what she had just seen. If what that Metronome turned into was an attack, it was certainly an attack Daisy had never seen or even heard of before. But it was truly powerful and beautiful... it was amazing how such an attack could come out of a little Clefairy.
"Fairy fairy..." Dolly muttered, looking at her hands, and examining the pearly white dust on the ground.
"Wasssss..." said a hardly recognisable voice. "...Was that... could... could it have... b-b-been... a... Spacial Rend... attack?"
"Spacial Rend?" Daisy blurted. "What kind of attack is that? I've never heard of a... Oh! Tiffany!"
Daisy stopped when she identified the source of the voice. Tiffany was standing up, one arm clutching her chest, the other arm (the one which stuck out) bleeding slightly.
"...Oh, and Spacial Rend..." Tiffany continued, in a voice that was softer and squeakier than normal, "...that's P-Palkia's... attack. Is it true? Dolly just used Spacial Rend? Oh drat, I d-didn't... see it..."
"Ohh... but that doesn't matter now. Are you okay?" Daisy asked. ...Wait, what kind of question was that? Of course she's not...
Tiffany coughed a couple of times before speaking.
"I think I might be okay." Tiffany's voice was starting to sound better--it was almost normal, although she still sounded as if she had a bit of a sore throat. "But, obviously there's no point to just staying here. We really should be trying to find a way out, or else explore more of the place."
Tiffany sounded quite excited while saying the last seven words, but Daisy was just the opposite--she was eager to get out of this place. Besides, despite what Tiffany said, she was probably not okay, and Daisy was anxious to get her to a hospital or something.
Before Tiffany and Daisy left the chamber for a tunnel nearby, Tiffany looked around at the Pokemon. Dolly was standing there with a handful of the pearly dust. Hima was lighting up the chamber with Flash. And Ravenna... wait a minute, where was Ravenna?
"Hold on a second, we lost Ravenna," Tiffany mentioned. "Let me see if she's around... Ravenna?"
Tiffany and Hima looked around the chamber. Looking was easy because now there were no rocks to conceal Ravenna, but Ravenna was nowhere to be found. The floor was littered with burnt wood and the pearly white dust, the walls were... boring... and the ceiling was formed by large rocky slabs and wooden planks. Maybe Ravenna was stuck in the ceiling... For the next few moments, Tiffany lifted Hima and Dolly up into the space between the planks to look for Ravenna. Hima flashed her light at various places between the planks, atop some of the rocky protrusions, elsewhere in the chamber... nothing. Giving up, Hima jumped down from the space and landed in Tiffany's arms, a living flowery lamp.
"Come on, we can look for Ravenna later," Daisy said impatiently. "Besides, there's no way she could be dead."
"True--but if she stays here, she'll most likely stay a motionless plushie, and we'll never see her again. Remember--she was a Murkrow in her life."
"Ohh, you Murkrow lover..."
"Honchkrow. THAT'S my favourite Pokemon. Ah well, maybe Ravenna is up there somewhere... let's head up there if we can. There is a tunnel right out there..."
Tiffany, Daisy, and the two little Pokemon headed along the tunnel, which turned out to be very short. It bended sharply to the left, and beyond that, it ended at water. It would have been a river, except the water was completely still. Tiffany and Daisy looked at each other, back at the river, back at each other... then Tiffany looked at her purse and took one of her three Dusk Balls out.
"Come on out, Phantom."
Tiffany's arm still hurt a little bit, so she just dropped the ball towards the water. But it still worked--a Bronzong appeared and hovered just above the water.
"Phantom... do you think you can carry both of us?"
"...Zong," Phantom shrugged. Then it descended partway into the water, so that Tiffany and Daisy could climb atop it.
Soon enough, Phantom was floating over the water, Daisy and Tiffany sitting atop it and holding onto the arch on top of the bell Pokemon. Hima sat atop Tiffany's and Daisy's shoulders, lighting the way with Flash. Dolly was flying in front of Phantom, keeping an eye out for anyone else... She was still holding some of the pearly dust from before, except now it was more like a muddy clump since she dipped it in the water.
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OOC: My first post is always long... But anyways, at least now we know where my characters are... except for Tiffany's Banette of course.