[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Letting out a long, frustrated sigh at Nathan's rant and depature, he chased after Nathan, quickly overtaking his path and baring his way. The researcher returned the glare he'd been given, extremely displeased with his immaturity and current stupidity. "Regardless of whether we killed them or not, Nathan, we still engaged in a viscous battle with her Combee, and totally neutralized them. If she doesn't consider us hostile threats now... well then, she must abnormal, because Vespiqueen are not known for there merciful nature. Quite the opposite in fact," Ventus ground out to him, now a bit testy from not only the Nathan overeation, but him breaking their earlier promise of cooperating together, regardless of history.

"You said that you'd were willing to work with me, set aside our concerns and issues with one another, but now you turn and run at when you hear ideas that disagree with your views? Not only is that being close minded, its moronic as well given our surrounding! Storming off alone deeper into their hive, without back up or support? That's a death wish waiting to be granted, and I know your intelligent enough to see this is true!" Ventus growled at him, punctuating word with an angry gesture. He was not going to let this boy's hotheadness lead to tragedy, even if it made things worse!

"As for you earlier point, the Vespiqueen and her swarm already consider us a threat, if she was willing to send her bees in an attempt to stop us. If they defeated all our Pokémon, who do you think they would target next? They would deal with us as well, if we couldn't get out fast enough! Letting my Apsis eat a few of her hive is not liable to make thing worse for us, if they were going to attack us anyway!" Ventus yelled, extremely displeased his naivity. Did he think that they were going to get out of this unmolested, after being attack? Pinching his noise ins frustration, he gathered his anger and put it away for now. He needed to be calm for what he said next. "Like it or not, we all need to work together, Nathan. Despise or fear me for my disregard of a wild Pokémon's life, but we have to stick together if we want to have a chance at success." Ventus crossed his arms in front of the young trainer, waiting an response.

Nathan is on the verge of yelling.  He is NOT in the mood for this.  "And those were NOT sentries!  They were worker bees, tending the honey, defending it from unexpected intruders!  We hadn't seen any combee besides the ones in the walls before then!  What do you think they're going to do in response to killing workers?  Killing them is plenty reason for more aggression than what we would have otherwise encountered!  I'm not just thinking about our situation!  I'm thinking about the town's, as well as the pokemons'!  By letting your snake eat them, you've deprived this hive of some of its workers for when we eventually leave.  You've likely sent alarms ringing throughout the hive for even MORE combee to show up, and they'll likely be even MORE aggressive!  They might start attacking anyone who comes near the hive, not just us, and may even continue to do so even if we were to leave!  It's actions like that which leave bad impressions on pokemon, and cause them to dislike humanity!"

Nathan pauses for a moment, fuming.  Swiftfire is looking rather scared now.  Whether it's due to Nathan's explosion of emotion or the increased volume of the buzzing is unclear.  Nathan takes a breath, calming down only slightly, before continuing.

"I've read a lot about the history of all kinds of regions and trainers.  And while there are plenty of good apples, there's equally as many bad ones.  And the bad ones ALWAYS seem to blot out the good ones.  Pokemon mistrust people, people mistrust each other...it's all one big, vicious cycle, perpetuated by every single event that occurs, especially by the ones that end badly, even if they were well intentioned.  I don't intend to walk away from this hive, nor the group, but know that I'm not angry at you just because of the disregard for one life, and you make it hard to stay calm if you insist on continuing the discussion despite the situation.  I recommend you save any further arguments for later, when we're not in a great deal of potential danger.  Then you won't have to worry as much about me for the time being."  There's a finality to those words, the warning hanging in the air.

Nathan begins walking away from Ventus again, with the intention of staying a respectful but still in view distance away.  Before he moves too far though..."Oh, and there's very little that's natural about a snake eating a bee in the middle of a hive.  The snake wouldn't even get into the hive in the first place, let alone be interested in eating the insects inside.  Come on, Swiftfire.  We're keeping a little bit of distance between us and the rest of the group for now."

Swiftfire is somewhat reluctant to follow, but she does anyways.  She knows Nathan's not angry at her, but...something in him has just snapped again.  It's easy to see him shaking now.  Swiftfire hasn't seen Nathan like this in a loooonnnggg time...the last time he'd been like this was about a year ago, and 2 years before that as well...he's afraid.  Angry, but mostly afraid.  And it's not just because of the bees' buzzing getting louder...