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Moemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Chapter 48
"Alright, so you got a Skuntank?" Sven asked, turning to us. "Good. Now, use that power of yours, girl."
"My 'power'?" Skuntank asked, frowning. "What power would that be?"
"That stench of yours." Sven said, smiling. "Use it to clear them out."
"Gee. Thanks a ton." Skuntank said, frowning. "You really know how to talk to a girl."
Skuntank turned to me, frowning.
"Who is this guy, anyway?" She asked, frowning. "He's kind of annoying. I mean, what right does he have to talk to me like that? I'd like to give him a piece of my mind, that annoying…"
"…SO you didn't capture her?" Sven asked, frowning. "Why not? She won't do it unless she listens to your every order."
"Well, yeah, I would." Skuntank said, frowning. "But not for you, you jerk. Commenting on a ladies smell?"
"Whatever, just do it!" Sven said, exacerbated.
"I don't want to!" Skuntank said, frowning. Suddenly, the air around us began becoming less… putrid. It then turned rather sweet, and the scent from before disappeared.
"What just happened?" Sven asked, frowning. "Why'd the air start smelling better?"
"Because I wanted it to." Skuntank said, smirking. "I can control my scent at will, I just CHOOSE to smell terribly, in order to keep everyone away from me. That's what allows me to keep you away."
"Why are you smelling like that now?" Sven asked, frowning. "I don't think that's much help."
"Well, I don't want to help you." Skuntank said, smirking. "You need my help, I don't want to help you, so what are you gonna do about it?"
"I'll capture you if I have to." Sven said, releasing the capture disk out of his capture styler.
"Hey, wait, Sven, I'm not gonna allow that." I said, frowning. "Listen, you can't just force her to do it just because you want to."
"Then how are we going to get them out of here?" Sven asked, frowning. "I don't want to, but we really don't have a choice! We need to stop Team Dim Sun, and she's the only one who can do it! We need her help!"
"Not. My. Problem." Skuntank snapped.
"Skuntank…" Lulu asked, frowning. "Can you PLEASE release that stench and knock them out of here?"
"Okay, if you want me to." Skuntank said, smiling. "But only because of that amazing performance you gave me earlier."
Skuntank placed her hands on the rock ledge and flipped down the rock floor, walking out into the center of the grunts.
"Huh? Who's that moemon?" One of the grunts asked, frowning.
"I'm not sure…" Another grunt said, turning around, staring at her. "I don't think I've seen that species before…"
"I think I've seen her species before…" A third grunt said, staring at her. "But I can't remember what she does…"
"Just keep watching, boys…" Skuntank said, smirking. She inhaled, and then exhaled deeply, releasing a noxious gas from every pore on her body. The grunts began coughing and hacking, and they turned and ran the other way, out the cave entrance. When the grunts had all fled, we went out and walked up to Skuntank.
"Alright, nice job, Skuntank." Sven said, smirking. "You cleared them all away. You can go now."
"Well, as long as YOU say I can go, then I guess I can." She said, frowning. "I'll be going, you guys. I can't say it's been fun… But it's been… interesting. See you guys."
Skuntank turned around and walked the other direction, back towards her chamber. This left us with only one path left to take.
"Wow, some women are just difficult to deal with." Sven said, shaking his head.
"This is what I hate about men like you." Lulu said, frowning. "You don't think of moemon as people. You think that they're just tools to use to get what you want."
"What?" Sven said, frowning. "Nonsense!"
"Oh, really?" Lulu asked, frowning. "Because it seems like it makes perfect sense to me."
"Well, you're wrong!" Sven said, smiling. "See, I became a ranger in order to work with moemon and help them out whenever I could."
"Maybe." Lulu said, nodding. "Maybe you did. However, whatever their intentions, rangers inadvertently force moemon to work for them, and release them when they do their jobs. You rangers state that you don't force the moemon to be with them, but you do something just as bad: You're nice to them, and then you just go off on your own and leave them."
"What…" Sven said, shocked. And I can't say I blame him. Lulu just pointed out a gaping flaw in the very foundation of moemon rangers, a flaw that had been overlooked since its existence. I was speechless.
"Speechless?" Lulu asked, frowning. Guess she can read minds, too. "You should be. Now then, I believe that you wanted to go and see what they were doing, yes?"
"R-right." Sven said, regaining his composure. He led us to the tunnel that the grunts fled from, and we headed into it.
"Um, it's a little dark…" Mary said, clutching my hand in a vice-like grip.
"That's fine." Sven said, his confidence slowly coming back. In fact, I can almost swear I heard him smile. "Lucy, use flash."
The Luxray that was walking loyally behind him released a blast of light, and soon enough the entire tunnel was well lit, the Luxray, Lucy, giving off a soft, warm light. Sven led us further and further into the tunnel, and we wound up at a large cavern. This cavern held an alter on it, built into the stone wall. The alter was large and stretched up towards the top of the cavern. It seemed as if there was once something imbedded into the stone wall, but had been dug out. Whatever it was, judging by the size of the indent, it was large and jagged.
"What's with that alter?" I asked, frowning, staring at the large stone alter.
"It's what you might call a long story." Aurore said, suddenly appearing at the top of the alter, staring down at us, smiling.
So, dramatic entrance much?