[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Right of the bat Nathan managed to both grab his attention and utterly mystifying/perplex him with his casual declaration of a talking Arcanine guarding endanger Pokemon species Eggs, and could only stare at them in Noctowlish fascination. You'd think after being *LURCHED* throughout time and meeting/experiencing all sorts of strange and epic things would have tempered him enough not to be boggled by the boy's succient tale, but it seemed some thing stretched past his imagination.

"Talking......Arcanine? Guardian of....those Egg? Gave them to you? Oh................ ......Okay. Sound.......weird, but I believe you. ......What is an Arcanine like, though? And Flabebe, Dratinin and......Moltres too? *Shakes head* Never seen or heard of those Pokemon before.  *Beat* ....How did you meet Arcanine? Why did he decide to.......give over Eggs to everyone?"

Not a lot of questions from the mountain of a man, but what few he did have were important ones!

Continued Flashback!

First off, Nathan points to Thrawn's Arcanine.  "That's an Arcanine.  Except the one in the Volcano was bigger.  And probably worthy of being called a true Legendary.  Stories of Arcanine like that are probably why we call Arcanine the Legendary Pokemon in modern times, despite the ones we're familiar with not actually being fully fledged Legendaries."

Then Nathan gives brief descriptions of the other pokemon.  "Dratini is a really rare, serpentine Dragon.  It's final evolution, however, isn't serpentine, and the entire evolution line is very famous worldwide.  Flabebe is a really, really small, always female Fairy that is perpetually perched on its favorite kind of flower, which it usually chooses immediately after its birth.  Her final evolution is often depicted as a guardian of flower fields and meadows.  Moltres...I can tell you more about that one later.  They're a Legendary Fire type bird pokemon, though, so Heart has the most important and difficult job out of all of us."

And finally, how they got in that situation!  "Shiva and I found a couple predators trying to get at the eggs Arcanine was guarding.  We KOed them...and I think Arcanine probably just dropped them off somewhere outside the cave later after we left...and Arcanine told us about what he was doing.  After a little talking, he decided we might be able to help the species that are endangered in our time repopulate since we're kind-hearted.  His words, not mine.  And I'm paraphrasing a little since that wasn't exactly what he said, but that was the gist of it.  Heart and Spira wandered over to the cave a little bit after Shiva and I finished battling the predators and had the same opportunity to potentially adopt one of the eggs.  This isn't going to be an easy job, but we'll do our best to see it through."