[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Only when the others eventually arrived, she cared to look up again to greet them. "Hello Heart... Ven... Raphael... Oh Ven... You're not looking good, so pale." She gave his hand on her shoulder a soft stroke with her own hand before laying the arm around Azumarill again. The fae rabbit blinked at the scene and the highly concerned young man that broke the touch barrier to her sweet Master like nothing, before remembering him, giving him a melodic chirp, and eventually summoning a red rose from somewhere only to place it behind Ventus' ear, pulling a shiny 50$ from there in the process! She keeps it for a moment enjoying her new skills, beforehanding the coin to Shiva who turned it in her hands in wonder before thankfully packing it away.

"What happened... Heart, you can withdraw your Pokemon. I'm....okay... The danger has been dealt with by me... It was a predator hunting on the Furret. This one here *another stroke for leader-Furret beside her* asked me to take care of it if I'd like to have him as my Pokemon and companion. It was a...........Ven, a real Druddigon... And two Nuzleaf minions. Unfair battle...... haaah... But I defeated and caught them a on my own, icy-cold wrath, they're taking care of now.............H-However..." Before Shiva continued, she hugged Azu a little tighter and leaned a bit more into her new Furret. "Braixen...got crunched, his arm got broken by the dragon... Cottonee suffered claw-slashes... Lethal wounds. Blood. Felt the pain of them like my own...I've sent then to Bill's PC, a Nurse Joy in Cress City does hopefully already take care of them. Ice Beam and Sonic Boom defeated Druddigon, he could have killed me if I'd get into his range......"

"C.....Can we please make our way to town? I'd like to check on them.... Azu, dearest one, before we leave, please wash away any blood stains from the floor and wall with your Water Gun."

"I'm fine, Shiva. What's my main concern is how you are doing," Ventus easily/stoically replied, his grip on her unwavering yet still gentle as his gaze swept over her form for anymore injuries that Ralts could have missed with their Heal Pulse. So intense his focus on his blessed friend the he didn't even react to the Azumarill preforming MAGIC tricks around him, though it certainly made him ever so slightly uncomfortable beneath the greater trauma he's currently dealing with.

His expression hardly changed as she timidly recounted her Encounter with the Druddigon, of how she was took on the task of excommunitcating it from the area by the large Furret by her side, how she was outmatched by the scaly beast and his tengu minions, how the drake nearly killed Braixen and Cottenee before she was able to capture them all.....it caused him to frown more severely as his eyes darkened, already his mind calculatedly brewing with thoughts of VENGENCE against the Druddigon who dared harm his dearest and her Pokemon. Were he in a more stable state of being and Shiva wasn't so......careworn now, he would have most likely have begun to rage the horrid atrocity that the Dragon and its minon, and/or become almost glacialy cold in his dealings with it.

As it stands, he was rightly concerned and angry over what happened, but the full brunt of his WRATH was directed inward in order to better cope with it and not further unbalance himself and Shiva. He had yet to deal with his problems, so it would be some time before he could deal with others....

When his fae friend declared she wished to depart to Cress City ASAP, the researcher nodded his head, before he quietly offered what little comforting words he could give right now.

"Alright, let us depart to Cress. Though the cost was severe, you have subdued the Druddigon and its minions, eliminating the threat they posed and safeguarding countless lives in the process. You have done a great deed this day, Shiva, so be proud. Be proud that you could defeat one of the most vscious of Dragon, and be joyful  you could inspire and instill such Strength in your Pokémon that they could accomplish this feat unflitchingly , faithfully, and well. Good job, Shiva...."

Nathan's eerily quiet for a moment.

"...just find a good home for that Druddigon since you caught it, alright?  Someone will take it, appreciate it for what it is.  It's...not a common Rattata, after all."

"....I'll trade it far FAR away from me and this place. Yes, that'll do it."

How she really and willingly pondered over killing his dragon, she doesn't mention towards Nathan to not worry him unnecessarily. Actually, for now she doesn't mention it towards anyone, not even to Ventus.

He was then about to offer to kill the Druddigon for her and craft them a ramant from their Rough Skin, but that exchange between Nathan and them caused him to pause for a moment. None of the less, however, he decided to voice this option to her anyway, as he was well aware the boy had the misguided tendacy to be more merciful than not and how he tried to impinge it on others, and wanted to make absolutely certain that his dearest truly wish to trade them away rather than pay evil unto evil.

".....Are you sure that is what you want, Shiva? If you wish, I can take Druddigon of your hands and.....dispose of them for you, so they may never pose a threat to anyone forevermore, and that what they did to you are your own will not go unpunished. What it nearly done to Braixen and Cottenee......its unforgivable, and it could possibly happen to others even if they take the right precautions, so......."

He almost completely ignored the small spat between Heart and Nathan over healing, other than to glance over in their direction and briefly fix them with an unamused stare that plainly said: "Too much caution is never a bad thing, or have you forgotten that already?"

Order: Comfort Shiva as much as Ventus can do right now, before still offering to kill Druddigon, as he feels its still an prospect that must be considered and not just brushed off. Sorry guys, but this is just the way Ven is, as he takes a dim view of ANYTHING that harms his group/family, and is very much 'eye for an eye' in his dealings with threats if safely able to....