Right sorry for the delay, but I was just feeling eviler than usual.
Anyway on Friday for my trip to Dragon*Con I was cosplaying as a Sableye, and I couldn't see worth shit, still I rather enjoyed it, though next year I think I'll go as Mega-Sableye so I can carry around that shield gem and use it as bag for my stuff.
Aside from that the only noticeable thing that's worth mentioning was the number of assassins from various media's there, I was worried I'd get backstabbed.
*Chapter 9*
*Byron's P.O.V.*
Once again when I woke up the sun was in my eye's, 'If Volcarona were a Legendary pokemon I'd be cussing him out, at least I'm alone and in the same spot I closed my eyes this time.' I thought and got out of bed to wash up, 'I know I shouldn't be too amazed that Pokemorph's have found ways to get running water, even if this is just water collected in buckets on the rooftops.' thought as I bathed in a tub in the guest room, I really needed this as I smelled like blood, sweat and ash.
After I re-armored myself I stepped into the main room and took a seat on a chair as everyone else came in. "Let me thank you again for killing that servant of Dar-Arceus." Lila said, "You're welcome again Miss Floral, by the way have you noticed anywhere that large amounts of pokemon have been gathering or seen coming out from?" I asked, "Well my uncle has told me that several guards have seen Pokemon crowding the old Forest Shrine." Lila said, "Forest Shrine?" Kraig asked, Lila nodded before replying, "The Forest Shrine is an old temple-like structure not too far from here, back before Bloomstead was a full on city, people used to stop by there to honor Shaymin, who many believe is the one that keeps the Blossom Forest healthy, however as the city grew it often became dangerous to visit the shrine, so we had one built in the city on a slightly less impressive scale next to the church of Arceus." Lila said, "You Guy's thinking what I'm thinking?" I asked, "Shaymin stopped by the shrine for one reason or another and was grabbed." Nyra said, "Here's a map of the Blossom Forest, the Forest shrine is marked as a landmark." Lila said giving me the map, "Thank you for the assistance." I said
*Forest Shrine entrance*
The Forest Shrine looked like an old wooden temple and had many plants growing on it to show how old it was, however the door to the temple was locked by metal chains and a metal lock, "Lila never said anything about a lock." Clyde said, "Clyde look closely at this lock, it's not only metal, but it's also fairly new." I said, "That's because I set it up last night." A familiar voice said, I leapt back and looked near the top of the temple to see Maria sitting on the edge of the temple, "So it's safe to say you have the key." I said, "I do, and if you want it, then take it from me." Maria said jumping down. Nyra began to draw her sword but I gently grabbed her wrist, "No, this is between me and her." I said drawing my katana.
*Boss- Maria Crimson- Music- Another side, another story, Battle version*
Maria and I rushed each other and locked blades rather fast, "I will be taking you home Byron." Maria said, "Sorry sis, but I'm staying here until I have everything I need to know." I said, "Then I'm sorry for this." Maria said then she slugged me in the face, causing me to stumble back into a mossy stone, as much as I would like to evolve, my flareon form would burn the forest down, and my Umbreon form would only cause me problems and tire me out in seconds. "Sorry about this." Maria said, I soon saw my ring begin to glow with a leaf shaped emerald, "So am I." I said as the glow consumed me. As a Leafeon I had the obvious trait changes and palette swap, but my weapon was now a green vine-like whip with a viper head at the tip, giving it a test swing I saw that the viper head snapped shut as it reached it's target or max distance, within seconds I could feel as if something was giving me more strength, I soon realized it was all the plant life around me, "Don't think you've won just yet." Maria said as she ran toward me, I quickly lashed out my whip, Maria barely managed to avoid the viper head, however she didn't notice that I wasn't aiming for her, but rather the small key hanging from her waist. I retracted the whip and pocketed the key before she could take notice of it. "Damnit, I to learn some ranged abilities." Maria said and she threw down a smoke bomb. When the smoke cleared Maria was gone.
*Music end- Maria repelled*
"Fuck, she got away with the key, Byron why didn't you let-" Nyra started but I cut her off by holding up the key I stole, "Oh… Never mind then." Nyra finished and I unlocked the main door.
Inside the shrine one of the first things we noticed were that there was a giant gap in the middle of the shrine, and that there was no bridge. "Okay first order of business is to cross this pit." I said, "Kraig is it possible for you to jump that?" Reia asked, "No the ceiling is to low, I'd just slam my head into the ceiling and either fall or get stuck." Kraig said looking up, "And we can't just climb down, mainly because I can't see the bottom." Aria said, Reia then grabbed a torch and dropped it down, "Reia!" Nyra shouted, We all looked down to see the light from the torch fade as it kept falling until it was gone, I could soon hear the faint sound of wood hitting a thin layer of water and stone, "Yeah, way too deep." Reia said, "I can fly across myself, but I don't exactly have the strength to carry someone across." Clyde said. I looked around the ceiling and walls and soon caught sight of a series of evenly spaced poles along both walls, "I' think I can make it across." I said and swung my whip out to the first pole and began swinging from pole to pole until I reached the other side.
Upon reaching the other side I saw a valve that said 'Bridge control', "That's convenient." I said and I reached for the valve, however before I could touch the valve I was hit in the back of the head by a nut, I turned around to see a Mankey that proceeded bounce off my head and steal the valve. "You've gotta kidding me." I muttered as I signaled Clyde over. "Did that-" Clyde started, "Not. Another. Word." I said as we went down the left hall that the Mankey went.
"This way." I said as I led Clyde down a branching path in the hall, "How do you know which way the thing went?" Clyde asked as he shot down an Oddish that was following us, "I'm not exactly sure, but I can see the trail it left." I said, I could clearly see stepped on grass, weakened branches, loose bark, every possible distortion in nature became plain as day whenever I focused on trying to find the Mankey.
We soon cornered the Mankey in a small circular room, "We got you now." Clyde said, the Mankey seemed to get angry and ran straight at us, only for Clyde to shoot it in the face. "Quick and clean." I said grabbing the valve.
*Kraig's P.O.V. - the split up*
I watched as Clyde and Byron ran down the hall to chase the Mankey with the valve, "And there they go." Reia said, "So what do we do while we wait?" Nyra asked, at that moment a group of Gloom and Nuzleaf, led by a Tangrowth fell from the ceiling, "We fight." I said hefting my axe.
*Encounter, Music- FF8 don't Be afraid*
I ran up to the Tangrowth and swung my axe to cut off it's left arm, then I grabbed its neck and flipped it over my head, slamming the pokemon into the floor behind me, the I slammed my axe into it's face. "Thanks for getting rid of that, Gust!" Reia called, summoning up a wind to clear away some of the Gloom, "Will you quit worrying about some fucking tentacle rape?" Nyra said as she chopped down a Nuzleaf, then proceeded to use Dragon Breath on another Nuzleaf, "Well can you blame her, I mean I fear that a much as the next woman." Aria said as she uppercutted a Nuzleaf in a way that can only be defined as a Shoryuken. The last Nuzleaf looked around before he looked at us, I'm pretty sure he was about to shit himself by the look on his face, he turned around to escape, "Oh no you don't." I said as I chucked a Sludge Bomb at it.
*Music end*
I heard the sound of a thud behind me and turned around to see a bridge had extended from the other side. "Looks like Byron's done." I said as we began to cross the bridge to Byron, and then we took the path to the right.
*Byron's P.O.V.*
"Arceus I can't wait to get as far away from this forest as possible." Reia said, as we began descending a long spiral of stairs, "Why, what is it with you and tentacles Reia? I mean I understand the rape part, but I kind of find it kinky." Nyra said, "Wha…" Clyde said voicing everyone's thoughts, "Well it's kind of thing my mother once did, you see we once had a pet tentacruel in our basement, We called her Kraken," Reia said, 'Oh the irony' I thought, "Kraken was always so nice to me and my mom, I often found myself playing with her as a child back when my studies weren't so rigorous. When I was sixteen, my mom was dragging home an unconscious bandit that tried to rob her, now this happened rather often when I was younger and mom always told me to go to the second floor so I couldn't hear the screams so well, but as mom had already told me about the Pidgeys and Beedrill she wanted me to finally learn what exactly happened to the people who tried anything with her. Mom took me and the bandit into Krakens pool and mom tossed the bandit, who I should add was female, into Krakens pool." Reia said, 'Holy fucking shit.' I thought piecing the rest together, "Mom and I ended up looking away as Kraken 'played' with the bandit, Mom told me that Kraken actually saved her life once at the beach like this, though see always stops her from going too far, though I have to admit that sometimes when men were taken to Kraken they never really came back out. I still treated Kraken the same because I knew she would never try something like that to me. The day my mother died she told me in her will to tell Kraken what happened and release her into the ocean via the grate in her pool, I haven't seen the old girl since." Reia said, "That's… deep." Nyra said, "Yeah, that bandit's face was scarred into my memory." Reia said.
We reached the bottom of the stairs soon after that and found ourselves in a large circular room that seemed devoid of any plant life, "Is it just me, or is it way too quiet." I said readying my whip, "EEEEK!" Aria shrieked as a large drop of liquid fell on her shoulder, seeing this we all looked up to see a massive Carnivine hanging from the ceiling using the ribbons on it's lower body to attach itself to the ceiling, I checked my Data Watch to learn it was called Mandragora, and the creature lowered itself to our level, but still hung upside down.
*Boss- Mandragora, Music- Nier: Deep Crimson Foe*
Mandragora grinned a spat a glob of acid at us, forcing us to dodge, Clyde began shooting at Mandragora's head and Nyra, Kraig, and Aria began to attack the head, but everything just bounced off. mandragora began laughing at our feeble attempt, "Shut up asshole." I yelled and swung my whip at it's tongue and grabbed it, it's arms begin flailing about as I started pulling it off the ceiling, and with one strong pull I tore it off the ceiling, then we all saw a large red fruit on it's ass, "Weak point!" I shouted and swung out my arm and using Magical Leaf, as everyone else wailed on the fruit for a moment before Mandragora spun it's ribbons out to scatter us and pulled itself back onto the ceiling and roared.
"Dumbass." I muttered as I grabbed it's tongue again, then pulled it down a second time and this time I downed a Leppa Potion out of impatience and changed into a Flareon form, "VOLCANO!" I shouted and threw one chakram into the ground next to it's head, then I threw the other in a similar fashion, and then I lift both my hands into the air as if I'm flipping something large, causing two huge pillars of flame to burst forth from the chakram, completely consuming Mandragora in flame.
When the flames died my chakram recalled themselves to my hands as Mandragora let out a pull of smoke from his mouth before wisps of light began exploding from it's body. "One plant, extra crispy, coming up… okay that was a shitty line." I said reverting to an Eevee.
*Music end- Mandragora- Extra crispy*
As the remains of Mandragora crumbled away, I noticed a figure standing up from the dissolving remains and marching straight toward me, "WHAT IN THE HOLY NAME OF ARCEUS WERE YOU THINKING, YOU COULD HAVE COOKED ME ALIVE!" Shaymin shouted as she grabbed me by the collar of my trench coat and got in my face, "H-hey at least you're not in that thing anymore, as it kinda soaked up all the damage, plus this is the first time I even used my Flareon form anywhere in this forest prior to here." I said, Shaymin glared at me for a while before dropping me, "Fine, I'll forgive you, you did get me outta that damned thing." Shaymin said and vanished to the Hall of Origins, "Holy shit I think I'd rather risk being a love interest for Yveltal." I said, "Watch what you say pal." Kraig said helping me up.
Nyra took my map and pointed to an area near a volcano, "Well head to Inferis and figure out or next move when we get to it's capital, Magmus." Nyra said, at that moment a beeping went off on may Data Watch, I checked it to see that Arceus had sent me a letter, so I opened it.
'Byron, I'd like to thank you for rescuing so many of the legends in such a short time, though I do wish My Daughter, Deoxys, and Virizion would stop fighting over you, nonetheless I wish you luck in finding the others'
I put the rather short letter away and looked at everyone, "Why are we still standing here, let's get going." I said
Right, we'll see how evil I feel when the next chapter comes out.
Lloyd: Bye for now readers
