[Game] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure: Celadon City Vandel

[Lord Windos]

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This particular version of the move should be hauntingly familiar to Reiner, though.....

The Dragon Queen of the Sea finished her preparations for the Round, looking much more powerful as her presence seemingly loomed over the battlefield, smothering all but her master Reiner, he seemed to bask in her draconic might and glory!

Well, it's not because Clair's Kingdra used it, that's for sure.  If anything, though, Reiner's making sure to keep a close eye on Kingdra.  Don't need her going on a rampage now of all times...

Still, it does feel good to be all buffed up and mighty.  They haven't had a good chance to flex their skills in awhile.

This is why Kingdra Neptunian Arendse is Reiner's Ace and essentially a sister to him.  Not that he'll ever say that out loud if they aren't alone.

The cat thief looked grumpy but somewhat mollified by your explanation of the lapse, though when you alluded to Mew's......less than steller future outlook on things, it turned into one of faint surprise and curiosity. He then made a 'tell me more' gesture, clearly intrigued and a little.....nervous by that little tidbit you offered. Oh boy, this is going to be either real good, or real bad.

(Feeling a little nervous now, eh?  Good.  Reiner is too.  Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond his and Mews' control, Reiner now has to 'fix' things to keep them from getting too out of hand.  Thus, to keep Mew from being a ridiculously heavy burden due to trauma making her near useless for months...well, how do I go about saying this...hmmm...)

(...well, the short of it is that Mew isn't going to like what had to be done.  And if she can't bring herself to like someone even a smidgen...well, they might as well not exist to her if they don't warrant her attention in any way.  She will be cold.  Logical.  Stubborn.  And just really irritable in general.  However, that might be a good fit if Reiner decides to continue hanging around with your Rocket buddies for an indeterminant amount of time...)

(...oh, and Reiner is partially blaming himself for that outcome, just so you know.  It's reminding him a lot of when Lucy was taken and he couldn't do a damn thing about it.  He could use a good friend's company to remind him that things aren't all bad right now, that they'll get better if enough time and work is put into them.  And I do believe you're the only one who can truly fill that niche for him, my dark and handsome feline friend with untapped potential.  So after this battle, I'd recommend you go and remind him why you're one of his best buds in his opinion.  Mew's got nothing on you in that area, and she'll never be able to fully replace neither you nor Kingdra.  Just another little something I think you should keep in mind...)

Speaking of Reiner...he still has to respond to Arial.  So here we go:

Reiner smirks a little at Arial's compliment.  "And you've impressed me on several counts already.  Let's see if your cat and bat can truly compete with my draconic seahorse, or if they'll be tossed aside like rag dolls in a Hurricane.  Not even Arbok tangoes with Kingdra if he can avoid it."

Yes, yes, let your power ebb and flow within you, dear sea queen! They say too much of it corrupts or makes one lose control, but is that always such a bad thing, especially for one so mighty as you are, hehehehe.......

Even with his dislike/distrust of you and him being generally disagreeable to anyone but Reiner, Weavile has the decency and werewithall to look a bit chastised and shocked as you revealed the full extent of what will become of Mew. Which, due to being especially Insight compared to just about everyone but Blissey, he understood as this: his partner had to turn her into an apathetic shadow of herself in order to cope with the immense amounts of grief and trauma from something awful enough that even you were reluctant to talk about.

It would be hardly a hyperbole to say that after events of yesterday night, he utterly despised Mew with every fiber of his fine, fine being for not only being an overly annoying gadfly, but for also exponentially compounding the already worrying amount of trouble they (Reiner and co) run into and leading him astray from the criminal lifestyle that had and would have continue to give them everything. Seeing her in her traumatized state at the Pokémon Center may have brought him some vindictive joy at the time, but to hear the full disasterous and frankly horrific ramifications of it......even he wasn't that cold blood not to care about her plight. Pretty ironic change of heart, considering he's a Dark/Ice type!

The fact that his partner and best friend also felt responsible for whatever caused Mew to go catatonic and eventually apathetic made him more troubled and upset as well. He well knew that once Reiner got into a bad funk or started blaming himself for something, he almost never got out of it without a fierce yet depressing struggle with himself and a lot of help from themselves/Kingdra. It didn't help matters that he associated whatever disaster with Lucy abduction by those damn Elders.......

Urgh.....now he's thinking about when Taylor.......left, no thanks to you. It took Reiner years for them to recover from her disappearance and seeming abandonment of them all, and still he's cold and/or awkward to almost all female company right now! Heck, in their opinion, the only reason he got along with Angelica or Kyubi so well in the first place was that he pitied/felt responsible the situation they were forced into unintentionally by him (one more so than the other...), and so started bonding with the women to 'make it up' to them in his own way! He doesn't want his partner to become even a little more dysfunctional or maladjusted that he was now (no matter how much he liked some of the changes those quirks brought with them) if he could help it, and if you said him lending a comforting paw would do just that, that he still that special and important to them.....

The onyx feline disconcerted expression faded away as a firm, serious one manifested itself in its place, crossing his arms and give you a singular nod of his head. Generally speaking he doesn't like to follow the orders or suggestions of anyone other than himself and Reiner,  but what you said resonated within him, so he was willing to listen to you and follow your advice once again. Judging by the hard gleam in his eyes, though, he doesn't want such things to become a regular occurrence, or he was going to get extra testy in future conversations with you...