[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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Heart waves back.

Then the Egg starts shaking and cracking!

More purple fluid oozes out - Shiva is careful to take it out of the Incubator and avoid the fluid, but it's only a little bit. Then the Egg splits, and writhing in the puddle is a baby Skrelp! It's so tiny!!!
(...)
This is one of the most poisonous Pokemon known to man, and Shiva just hatched it.

Spotting Heart at the entrance, he gain them a nod of his head and a smile, before his attention was abruptly yanked away when his fae friend's Egg started to hatch, and nary a moment later a Skelp was born into the world! "By Reshirim, its a Skelp! I thought they were only native to the Kalos region, but its difficult to doubt its presence in Cheshire when the newborn is right here! How in the world did the Shelter receive such an relatively rare species into their care and not being able to verify its identity.....? Ah well, no matter at all, in the end! Please don't let my ramblings prevent you from tending to your child, my dear!" Ventus said in short order, a wide excited grin on his face as he looked over to the mystical lass in question...............before he noticed the previously rare collector had vanished.

When Heart appear behind Shiva he came a little close and say: "Boo!"  After that Heart chuckle a bit. "Sorry for that Shiva and Ventus. I was training my stealth abilities. I was training together with my pokemon and was testing my stealth skills. Sorry for that."

True, Shiva immediately stopped waving and brought all her attention away from the PUNisher to that precious Mystery Egg finally hatching. Huh, what a good timing the young one had, deciding to hatch not only very shortly after she has checked on it – visually, not with Almanac obviously since Ventus and Heart were nearby – but also in front of the place she obtained it from. She has looked forward to this, has waited for this with great patience and wondered more than once what mysterious species was growing there within the eggshell – now the moment of realzation has arrived, one of the most precious moments for a yet young Breeder like Shiva was.


… Now a very small brown and purple seahorse stared up to her with its big red eyes, joyfull spreading its bluish pectoral fins while Shiva...just stared back in wonder. Seemed like she and her expression have frozen on the sight of having hatched a young Skrelp of all costs. She knew about this species, not much however, but certainly enough to know these seahorses 1. must indeed/luckily be very rare in Chreshire, matching Ventus' words there and 2. belong to THE most poisonous Pokemon known.

Ventus adressed that Skrelp as her child. ...Shiva averted her gaze from it and gave him a look that clearly spoke worry, 'What... Excuse me?!' and disbelief, before she went down onto her knees and carefully made cautionous eyecontact with that small Pokemon.

Skrelp seemed to smile at her. It was definitely not afraid, but even joyful to see Shiva (or so she detected). Neither felt she any danger coming from that Pokemon, at least none towards her. Faintly wondering about this, Shiva kept staring back, and eventually...she smiled back. Very faintly, but she did. To be honest, this lil' one was cute – so tiny! So...aww. One of the most toxic Pokemon known, and she of all people has cared for an egg of this line the whole time, anticipated to what will hatch, and now it was her young one. If...young Skrelp does not feel uneasy and even was friendly towards her, it won't harm her, right? It won't poison her or anyone close to her, right...? There was, actually, no reason to decline and fear what she has hatched there, was it? Even its toxicity will grow with the Pokemon, even if it might be a dragon one daywhose touch may be deadly, if things start with the right foot there is no point of shunning this little Skrelp... Right? With Psyshock and Co. On her side, she was able to somewhat defend herself from toxins lurking around, right...?


In the middle of this train of thought Shiva was stopped suddenly as something from behin startled her, almost causing her to either freeze again or yank away in pure shock – but not this time. This time, Shiva did what Ventus has prevented himself from doing – punching Heart. Well, not in the face, mind you, she ended up hitting him somewhere between chest and right shoulder.Probably not hard enough to give him any pain (unless GM feels like rolling out a Strike here nevertheless) and definitely not hard enough to send him flying, but enough to air some of her displeasure over being startled here, to defend her new Skrelp from a possible predator and enough for the desired 1 point in Brawl Speciality. (6xp spent)

[/b]Once she realized it was no predator nor something poisonous but ony Heart and his Phantump, Shiva went silent and withdrew her fist. She stared at it for a moment, before looking up to Ventus – wouldn't she know the oddball of sociologist relatively well by now, she'd be scared and possibly panicked over how wrathfully he seemed from that fun training of Stealth. Now though, she soon averted her gaze from him like nothing really happened, to bring her attention to her new Skrelp again.


In a move of very cautionous courage, Shiva extended one hand to her new companion(??) in an attempt of softly touching it on the forehead, then motioning it to come onto her open hand. The whole time she was keeping her calm as best as she could, as well as cast another faint smile to it. „N...Now then“, she spoke in a subtly shaky voice, „come with me, young Skrelp. I have hatched the egg you were in so far until now, so you have nothing to fear from me... In return, I am hoping to not having to fear your poison. Alright? How about a snack? I'm enjoying the pure taste of these cookies, so how about you...?“ *offering that Skrelp a tiny pice of it*



(@Iron's input now!~ I guess I'm making this Skrelp female, Comite is sent to PC for now to keep her in party. Once these scenes are resolved, I'll send out my Pokemon for Little Cup against that stonesmaiden.)