Ignia: Ignus Scrublands(7F Mystery Dungeon): Age of Entei, Year 1: 5th of First Month: A Different Kind of Guild, Part 2
Moonbrand Present: Gina, Mandy, Ornia, Ultima, Verden
Ignus Scrublands: 1F
Verden was the first of the pokemon to leap into action against the bandits. He looked at Mandy and let her know his plan as she stood up as well. "I'll get you where you need to go safely." He announced as he created a Substitute clone of himself to cover Mandy while the two of them moved around the battlefield.
"Right." Mandy nodded.
"Alright crew, you know the drill!" The lapras, who seemed to lead the darumaka, aron, snover, and miltank on either side of her, announced authoritatively while she put up a very clear Safeguard around their party. "Drive out the intruders, but don't hesitate to kill them if they don't plan on leaving!"
"Guess I'll throw the first shot then." Gina decided as she blew a Frost Breath towards the snover, causing the bandit to shudder in the frigid winds.
"Gah!" The snover grunted as he Ingrained himself where he was standing.
Ultima meanwhile rushed towards the darumaka with an Aqua Tail, hoping to take out the small fire type quickly, but its size proved to its advantage as he dodged the water attack with ease, and Belly Drummed to taunt the gyarados.
The Miltank, noticing that Ultima was the only pokemon within striking distance, set her sights on him as she leapt into the air for a Body Slam, which give Ultima more than enough time to slither out of the way, avoiding the bandit's attack.
Ornia gave a prayer to Tapu Lele, and while the others rolled their eyes, they did thank her for the Light Screen that she provided them.
"Lead me towards the aron!" Mandy requested of Verden as she used a Swords Dance to move forwards while they rushed across the battlefield.
Seeing both Verden and his Substitute, the aron began to panic, and let out a Roar to knock him back, but found himself unable to get his voice out, and as he attempted to let the Roar out, the Rock Wrecker pendulum came swinging back towards him, knocking him past his allies into the far wall. The poor pokemon could only just barely bring himself to his feet, clearly using the last of his strength after that blow.
Verden's attention turned towards the lapras as he flung a Seed Bomb, but the lapras easily slid across the ground to avoid coming into contact with it.
"Let's neutralize you, shall we?" She sneered before she let out a melody with a Sing attack.
Verden reflexively went for his toxic orb in order to poison himself before he could be put to sleep, but noticed too late the shattered pieces where he and Mandy had landed after being hit by the Rock Wrecker pendulum. "Arceus..damn it.." He yawned as he feel asleep.
"Oh you've gotta be kidding me." Gina sighed as she noticed both Verden and his substitute slumping down to the ground, asleep. "Wake up, honey!" She announced as she summoned a Blizzard in an effort to hit all the enemies at once.
She succeeded, and the frigid cold was more than enough to topple the aron down, and just barely enough to defeat the snover. Meanwhile, however, the lapras, miltank, and darumaka were all perfectly content to continue fighting.
Ultima was all too happy to take another crack at the darumaka, but as he rose his Aqual Tail, he accidentally came into contact with the pendulum, halting his attack and shifting the trap's trajectory, as it rushed passed Verden and obliterated his substitute, leaving Mandy virtually unguarded.
"Hah!" The darumaka laughed as he charged towards Ultima with a Headbutt, however, he jumped the gun a little too quickly and ran into a still powered Aqua Tail, killing himself in the process.
The miltank headed over to Verden's sleeping body, as with one of her hooves, attempted to Wake Up Slap him, but instead was blocked by snapping jaw on Mandy's head.
Ornia summoned up a javelin shaped rock and quickly hurled her Rock Throw at the lapras. "This is for my comrades!" She announced as the attack bludgeoned the lapras's front left flipper.
"You little-" The lapras sneered while Mandy, sensing opportunity, ran toward the miltank with an Iron Head, slamming into the normal type and causing her to stumble backwards, flinching.
As Mandy turned to encourage Ornia and Gina to attack the miltank, she looked on in horror as both of them took the full force of the Rock Wrecker pendulum.
Ornia was knocked back into the far wall, unconscious.
Gina was knocked clean unconscious as well, even more bruised than Ornia appeared.
"Verden, we really need you right now!" She pleaded.
And, as if by a miracle, Verden's eyes shot open.
He took notice of Gina and Ornia, as well as notice of the pendulum.
He turned to Ultima and Mandy. "Go stabilize those two! I'll deal with these two while you do!" He lobbed a Seed Bomb at the lapras, scoring a hit just on her cranium, doing what appeared to be just barely enough damage to incapacitate her.
Ultima quickly slithered to Ornia, the closest unconscious pokemon, and made sure she was stable, and not about to die.
Meanwhile, Mandy left to go stabilize Gina in the same way, taking advantage of the miltank's flinching.
Verden faced the miltank, cracking his neck around. "Well, it looks like this is the end." He fired a Seed Bomb, point blank range.
The miltank was no more.
"They're both safe for now." Ultima said as Many handed Verden Gina to carry to the next floor while Ultima carried Ornia on his back.
"We should probably rest up once we get out of here." Verden decided. "That rock looks like it could drop at any time."
"Definitely don't want to be there when that happens." Mandy agreed, picking up a rawst berry that the miltank had dropped as the three of them moved on to the next floor.
"You...don't know...what you're...getting into…" The lapras gasped out in her final breaths.
"The...Bronze Mothims...they're worse...than us common bandits...They won't just kill you...They'll...destroy...you…"
Ignia: Ember Wilds(B5F Mystery Dungeon(because they're going the other way this time)): Age of Entei, Year 1: 5th of First Month: Revenant, Part 2
Moonbrand Present: Bravero, Charlie, Conlan, James, Ken, Magdalene, Semora, Xialyn
B1F
Bravero rushed into the fray and rocketed his fist into pansear with a poison jab, clearly poisoning the monkey immediately.
Semora quickly joined the action, using Acrobatics to jump around the area before slamming herself into the cacturne, causing him to stagger slightly backwards.
Magdalene, taking note of the greninja as the true biggest threat in the room, fired off a Hypnosis from her eyes, which the greninja jumped out of the way to dodge.
Charlie shot a Flamethrower towards the cacturne in an effort to simply get rid of an obstacle before he could do too much damage.
The cacturne shrieked in agony as the flames engulfed him, but he didn't fall, and kept his ground as the pansears rushed Bravero, each one ready with Fury Swipes.
The first two pansear managed to cover Bravero in a multitude of stinging Fury Swipes scratches and cuts, while the final pansear, succumbed to poison before he could land an attack on the blaziken.
The greninja disappeared and quickly appeared again near James, slamming the haunter with a Feint Attack, dishing out a fair amount of pain to the surprised Haunter.
The cacturne, for his part, shot a Pin Missile towards Ken, hitting the kirlia with a good three spikes, each one scraping his skin.
Ken's response was to make full use of his Telekinesis. Using his powers, he took various armor parts from around the armory and donned them onto Bravero, providing his teammate with the essential benefits of an Iron Armor move.
"Nice…" Bravero said as he moved around in his makeshift armor. "This'll be fun."
Conlan shot a Fire Spin towards the cacturne in an effort to finally be rid of him, but found his attack going wide.
Xialyn set up a Reflect upon the party to help them with such physical opponents.
James took a hint from Magdalene and fired his own Hypnosis at the greninja, who once again jumped out of the way.
The greninja disappeared into the shadows, and jumped out of them to attack Ken, who managed to react almost instinctively as he practically danced out of the greninja's way, clearing the path for Conlan's Mach Punch on the water/dark type, hitting him square in the face.
Bravero turned to the two remaining pansear, and rushed towards the closest one with a Sky Uppercut that missed as the monkey jumped over the blaziken and away from the attack.
Semora turned to flank the greninja with a Leaf Blade as Conlan kept the frog busy, slashing the cretin along his backside.
Magdalene shot a Flamethrower at the cacturne, to finally get them out of the way, only for the cacturne's Spiky Shield to save him from a fiery grave.
Noticing that the greninja seemed to be giving everyone the most trouble, Charlie shot a Hidden Power towards him, pelting the greninja with small orbs of light that conveyed the scent of a lush meadow.
"Gahh, dammit!" He hissed as his stance started to waver.
The two remaining pansear, noticing their brother on the ground, flew into a ravenous frenzy and managed to slash all of Bravero's armor clean off before hitting each of his pressure points and forcing him to the ground, unconscious.
Ken, noticing this, quickly Teleported to Bravero's unconscious body and stabilized the blaziken before turning his attention to the pansear minions.
"You like bipedal, feminine looking pokemon right?" He made sure to get the attention of both monkeys. "Why don't you dance with me for a while instead of him, alright?"
Xialyn rushed to aid her friends in taking down the greninja with a Poison Jab of her own, connecting with his chest and sending poison throughout his body, all while she snickered to herself.
James's second Hypnosis, aimed towards the cacturne, also failed as the pokemon maneuvered his Spiky Shield to block that attack as well.
The greninja jumped up and tossed Water Shurikens straight at Conlan who managed to roll and flip, doding each of the five of them, and returned the favor by jumping up towards the greninja with a Mach Punch, which he also managed to avoid as the two came back down to the ground.
Semora was waiting, and slammed her Leaf Blade straight through the small of the greninja's back, before he slumped onto the dungeon floor.
Magdalene shot another Flamethrower at the cacturne, ready to be done with this entire fight, and as the flames came into contact with the villain, his green skin singed away leaving nothing but a pile of ash and charred bones.
Charlie, noting that only the pansears were left to attack the team, quickly Dug a hole to ambush one of them.
Both pansears, now paying attention to Ken, rushed at him each with a Lick attack, each one hit in succession and as they took a stance on either side of Ken, the kirlia found himself paralyzed, unable to do anything, even stabilize his companion.
Xialyn rushed towards the nearest pansear with a Poison Jab, only to have her attack dodged by the nimble monkey.
James fired off a third Hypnosis, and this time, it found its mark in the pansear that Xialyn had attempted to hit. The small red monkey fell to the ground and began to snooze.
Semora, noticing the proximity of the two pansear, called forth a Rock Slide with such force that all of Moonbrand could hear the crushing of flesh and crunching of bones.
"Well, let's move on then after a short rest, shall we?" Conlan suggested as Semora stabilized Bravero while James and Magdalene made sure Ken recovered from his paralysis unhindered.
B2F
After Ken had healed up the party with Heal Pulse, they continued into the main area of the next floor of the dungeon. Conlan's, Charlie's, Magdalene's, and Ken's eyes all lit up as they noticed the gargantuan library that seemed to occupy the entire floor.
"That's a lot of books." James observed. "Think any of them are good reads?"
Magdalene, Conlan, James, Ken, and Xialyn all took various untitled books from the shelves.
"No title, eh? Think it's just kindling for the fires for these guys or something?" Magdalene wondered.
"The pages look like they were once soaked with water." Ken observed.
"Well, nothing ventured nothing gained." Xialyn shrugged as she opened the book in her hands.
The others followed suit and did the same.
"It's just a picture in mine." Conlan announced.
"Mine too." Ken confirmed.
"Mine too." James chimed in.
Soon, everyone realized it was all the same book, copied over numerous times. The picture itself was pleasant enough. Noble looking pokemon gathered around a table with a stuffed grumpig on a platter, each of them making merriment as servants poured berry juice.
As Conlan turned the page, he noticed the exact same scene, but fallen into depravity. The nobles were fighting with each other, partaking in carnal encounters on the banquet table, or sprawling on the floor in puddles of vomit.
"This is absolutely disgusting." Magdalene decided to put the book back on the shelf, as did James. They had both had enough of that. Conlan, Ken, and Xialyn all looked at each other. There were at least two more thick pages to the book.
With a small nod from Conlan, each turned the page another time, and both Conlan and Ken immediately wished they hadn't.
A scene of horror confronted them, noble pokemon feasting on their own servants, eating each other alive, and destroying the hall with their pokemon moves. The grumpig was alive and laughing on its platter as a simisage, simisear, and simipour engaged in necrotic activities under the table.
This spooked Conlan and Ken to the point that they began to rush through the library towards the stairs.
Xialyn, on the other hand, was not so disturbed.
"Ah, I see," She mused mainly to herself as she turned the page one last time before setting the book back on the shelf. "So that's how they drive themselves insane. Interesting...Good thing those two put those books down when they did."
"We should probably catch up with Conlan." Magdalene suggested as the rest of the team agreed. Conlan and Ken by themselves, in a dungeon like this, probably wasn't the best idea.
B3F
As the rest of Moonbrand found their way into a large dining room, clearly used by the smell for "intimate" gatherings or informal meals, their suspicions were confirmed as they saw Conlan as well as Ken surrounded by four pansear, and four simisear.
"Ah!" A Ludicolo turned to face the rest of the team. "It appears the rest of you are here! Please, join us all for dinner! These hungry monkeys would love to eat you all as the main course. Meanwhile, we can ransom these two to the Fable King for enough money to fund my master's grand plan!"
Ignia: Ignus Scrublands(7F Mystery Dungeon): Age of Entei, Year 1: 5th of First Month: Redclaw, Part 2
Moonbrand Present: Aaron, Hex, Rudo, Wesley
1F
Aaron slid down into the ditch, and quickly set up an Iron Head for the sliggoo, so quickly in fact that he instead tumbled down the ditch, scraping and bruising himself in the process, and angering the savage pokemon present.
The flygon's response to this was to shoot a Dragonbreath at Aaron, which somehow missed, likely because the steel type was still rolling around in the dirt.
The sliggoo, on the other hand, began to tense itself up with a Bide.
Rudo slid down the ditch as well, towards the bagon, in an effort to distract at least one of the savage dragons away from Aaron. "Hyah!" She shouted as she thrust a Force Palm towards the small dragon as it dodged out of the way.
The bagon retaliated with a Zen Headbutt, knocking Rudo quite a ways back. This was normally enough force to make a pokemon flinch, but thankfully, Rudo never had to worry about flinching owing to her Inner Focus. Hex joined her teammates in the ditch as she charged the flygon, clearly the most powerful of the savages, with a Dragon Claw attack, which the savage pokemon fluttered around to dodge easily.
Wesley, taking note of the fight that was going on, hid behind the lip of the large ditch.
Aaron struggled up onto his feet and once again rushed towards the Sliggoo with an Iron Tail this time, hitting the gooey dragon with what felt like the force of two Iron Tails, sending it far out of the dungeon.
The flygon was now preoccupied with Hex, and in an effort to neutralize the dragon type, fired a Supersonic attack in her direction, which Hex just barely managed to avoid.
Rudo decided to take a page out of the flygon's book and used Copycat to mimic the Supersonic, aiming it at the bagon, hitting the target point blank.
The confused bagon lunged, ferociously, into the flygon with another Zen Headbutt, grazing the wing of the other savage pokemon.
Hex once again charged the flygon with a Dragon Claw which was once again dodged by her savage pokemon opponent.
Wesley, meanwhile, began creating a Double Team to come join the fight if it continued to go on while he could use Hone Claws in peace.
"Where is our fourth?" Aaron wondered as he swung an Iron Tail towards the bagon who disorderly dodged the swing, still clearly incredibly confused.
The flygon hissed at the closest hostile pokemon to it, Hex, and slashed at her with a Dragon Claw of its own, giving the haxorus a small gash.
Rudo grinned mischievously as she made use of Copycat again to this time mimic Dragon Claw as she rushed towards the bagon, this time hitting the savage pokemon where it really hurt. As the poor confused bagon attempted to retaliate once again, it ended up attacking itself with its own Double-Edge, and sprawled out, defeated, on the floor, leaving only the flygon left.
Hex, getting somewhat impatient, continued her Dragon Claw assault on the flygon, this time managing to land a good hit in.
Aaron, noticing the flygon was the only opponent left, ran around to flank it from behind, and slammed an Iron Head into its backside, causing the pokemon to wail out in tremendous pain.
"Uh-oh." Hex realized. "If the two of you can get close to me do it! If you can't, get out of the ditch!"
Rudo rushed out of the ditch, and while Aaron tried to get as close to Hex as possible, the flygon let loose an Earthquake before he could reach her.
Rudo had escaped the area of effect, and Hex had managed to set up a Protect, but Aaron had no such moves at his disposal, and as he was shaken along with most of the ground, he collapsed, no longer able to keep conscious.
It was then that Wesley stealthily appeared from the other side of the ditch, and silently, sent an Icicle Crash in the flygon's direction.
Like a spear from the heavens, the attack pierced through the flygon's heart, and the final savage dragon fell to the ground beside Aaron.
"Hey, grab the pot of money, stabilize your boyfriend, and let's go!" He called to Hex. "Don't want to keep Rudo waiting on us! She's already by the stairs!"
2F
"This is a really weird floor, don't you think?" a recently conscious again Aaron suggested as the group, including a now 154 poke richer Hex, made their way around.
"Yeah." Rudo agreed. "It's almost as if this floor is nothing but hallway."
"Because someone forced it to look this way." Wesley explained.
"Why would they do that, though?" Rudo wondered even as she tripped the hidden wire that brought the walls down, letting the Toxic and Venoshock acids being contained behind them flood the area."
"FUCK!" Hex yelled. "We need to get to the next floor NOW!"
"W-what the hell?" Aaron wondered as they continued to run through the treacherous poison floor. "Why is it hurting me, too?"
"Corrosion." Rudo realized. "Either a salazzle set it up, or a salazzle provided the poison. Either way, this trap is dangerous. We need to get out of here!"
The party continued to trudge through the sludge, and disaster struck.
Aaron once again lost consciousness.
With the rest of the party too focused on dashing through the floor to stabilize him, he would have to fight off death on his own as he was carried jointly by the rest of the group.
"I can see the stairs!" Rudo announced as the stairs came into view.
Aaron could feel his grip on life weakening.
Wesley, Hex, and Rudo were each clearly at the end of their energies as well.
Only just barely were they able to escape to the next floor.
3F
Whatever the floor was before was irrelevant, as now, on the third floor of the Ignus Scrublands, there lay a very clear, plain as day, shrine to Yveltal, the god of destruction and grief.
Sitting in front of that shrine, an incineroar gave a sermon to a shiftry, a tyranitar, a krokorok, and a skuntank.
Thankfully the pokemon seemed to be too engulfed in their sermon and worship to notice the Moonbrand members.
The group of four took the opportunity to hide in an alcove of the floor for a needed long rest.
When they awoke the next day, they were confined in cages.
"Ah." The incineroar smiled as they all awoke. "Hello, intruders! Sorry about the cages, just a precaution. I humbly ask that you allow us to send you back the way you came. Redclaw is loose, you see, and he's a dangerous one. We're asking Yveltal what we should do with him, but we haven't an answer yet."
"No, we're going through this dungeon." Rudo remained adamant. "I know my friends cleared it out for us a few hours ago."
"Ah, so that was them." The incineroar nodded as he folded his arms. "My name is Irvine, by the way. I tell you what then, should you four help us with Redclaw, we can escort you to wherever you're going."
"Noironia." Rudo grunted. "And I know the way already. Just let us out of these cages."
"Fine, fine, no need to throw a fit about it."
Irvine bent down towards Rudo's caged and reached his hands out.
They went past the lock and into the cage itself, beginning to strangle her neck.
"Listen, you little cunt!" Irvine snapped. "There's a powerful-ass pokemon that's dominating this dungeon and you're gonna kill it, or I am going to kill you! Capiche?"
"G-...got it…" Rudo choked out before Irvine finally let her go.
The marks of his claws around her neck were still bright red, so she brought her mercenary scarf up further to hide them.
"Good." Irvine grinned. "We have an understanding. Let them out, lackeys. They know they can't attack me in our holy hall, where I know all its tricks."
"The fuck we can!" Rudo announced almost immediately as she lunged at Irvine with a Force Palm as soon as all four of Moonbrand was free. "Come on guys, let's deal with these overzealous nutjobs!"
Ignia: Ignus Scrublands(7F Mystery Dungeon): Age of Entei, Year 1: 6th of First Month: A Different Kind of Guild, Part 2.5
Moonbrand Present: Gina, Mandy, Ornia, Ultima, Verden
Ignus Scrublands: 3F
Just a few hours prior to Redclaw's arrival, two pokemon called this floor their home, a grumpig and a wobbuffet. The room itself was a sort of testing grounds, where certain riddles or puzzles were solved to bypass deadly traps and monsters.
As Ornia, Mandy, Ultima, Verden, and Gina arrived, the grumpig and wobbuffet stood at attention.
The grumpig spoke up. "So, we've got more hopefuls, eh? Well, not just anyone is allowed in, mind you. There's a test first.
See those four posts in the center of this room? Each has a button on top of it, but only one of them opens up the secret compartment containing the key to the stairs. The others call down some of our enforcers and we'll know you're intruders. Also, if you attack us, we'll for sure press down those buttons to summon our enforcers, so don't think about trying to force your way out of this puzzle. You'll do this one at a time…"
A giant wall rose up, separating Ornia from the other four.
"Without help from each other." The grumpig finished with a sneer.
"Go ahead, you ought to know the correct answer already if you pay close attention."
Ornia looked at each post, and noticed that above each of their buttons was a design.
The north post had what looked like the design of a leaf on it. The east post had what appeared to be a pile of sand, or perhaps dirt, as a design. The south post had a design that Ornia wasn't quite sure about, though she made sure to hide that fact. It either resembled eyes, or maybe some kind of strange wings. Finally, on the west post was a design that Ornia could only describe as a whole bunch of junk.
After Ornia had pressed a button, each of the other members went in, alone, noticing no sign of the other members. No one knew whether their companions had gotten the puzzle correct, or had ended up having to fight these "enforcers" or been completely devoured some other way.
All they could do was hope for the best.
AN: Okay, Ornia's crew, simple: from you guys, I need which post's button you intend to press (There is a correct answer, and even if you press the wrong one, surviving whatever fight ensues will get you past this as well). Just read the chapter carefully and you guys should be fine.
AN2: Conlan's crew, four simisear, four pansear, one ludicolo. Conlan and Ken are surrounded by the 'sears, the rest of the crew is on the far side of the room from the ludicolo, who is behind the circle of pansear and simisear. I'd like battle strategies from you once again.
AN3: Rudo's crew, battle strats for you guys too. You've got Irvine the incineroar, a shiftry, a tyranitar, a krokorok, and a skuntank. Remember, you are in a room with a dedicated shrine to Yveltal in it right now. Think about what moves might do more or less damage because of that.
AN4: The aforementioned T-rated series, The Ebonor Edda, has officially been posted. Go check out Book 1: The Mantle of Bones, if you want to be involved in another story like this one.
AN5: OCs!
OC Name, Sex, Species:
OC Home Province (Where they are from):
OC Role(Teammate Hopeful, Other Team Member, Minor Villain, Commoner, Etc.):
OC Profession(Are they unemployed like Terune, are they a veteran like Concordia, an assassin like Semora, etc.?):
OC Moveset:
Move 1(From Natural Movepool):
Move 2(From Natural Movepool):
Move 3(From Natural Movepool):
Move 4(From Natural Movepool):
Alt Move 1(Can be TM or Egg Move):
Alt Move 2(Can be TM or Egg Move):
OC Personality:
OC Background:
Anything Else Doobop Should Know:
That's all for now! Thanks for reading ^.^!