[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Spoiler

Taking a slight detour from Elanor, some of you (definitely Shiva and Terra, and probably Nathan it sounds like?) come to a thick jungle of thorns in the middle of the wilderness. Flowers bloom on each thorny twig, and a mass of trumpetvines hangs down from one massive tree looming through the fog. Minicorn stirs excitedly in her egg at this sight.

The tree turns out to be a fig tree, several trunks descending from just one central canopy. A large grove is formed, with orchid flowers blooming in every crevice. There are sickle-shaped symbols on many of the trunks, grown from living wood (quite different from Scimitar symbols). You can all feel the Earthpower coursing up through your feet from the soil. While your feet sink two or three inches into the rich dirt, your footprints actually fade away as you advance. If your foot should happen to fall on a twig, the twig bursts into orchid flowers.

Some of the flowers twitch as you pass. You're hearing a lot of rustling noises. Vaporeon cloaks herself in Aqua Ring and Acid Armor. Gallade probably readies a Swords Dance or at least shifts into a defensive stance, just in case his instincts are a little misplaced.

Pulling aside one last set of trumpetvines, you now face a gigantic wedge-shaped mass of wriggling flowers. They unfold a little, peering at you with triangular pink eyes, then scurrying to the back waving tiny legs as the mound rears up. It spreads and crosses two gloriously pink scythes, so brightly colored that it hurts your eyes. New color is constantly rushing into this large being even as the outermost petals of its body fade to brown and fall to the ground, where they become rich soil in a matter of minutes.

The being's form is insect-like, similar to a Scyther/mantis, but in truth its nature is entirely a bloom. Every limb is decorated with golden jewelry and radiating health and power.

Cottonee, Cherrim - their Pokeballs all split at the hinges, falling into two pieces. The released Pokemon bow to the primal being before them.
Gallade also plunges one blade into the ground and sinks to one knee. Solomon bows from the waist, and his gems and runes glow.

The massive Pokemon speaks! "Into my grove you have come. Now, be you friend or foe?"

"You claim to be both friend and foe? You are either very foolish or very wise. Or perhaps I misunderstand. I have not spoken with humans in many years - but the grove seems to have led you here, something it seldom does. Oh, I see! You bear the Eggs of the Fire Guardian. That goes a long way toward explaining your presence here. You may all approach."

If anything, the Pink 'n Powerful Plant's response left the mountain of a man even more confused, causing his features to scrunch up adorably as he continued to stare at them, before helplessly shrugging

"....Yes? Have no reason to be friend, but have no reason to be foe too. Only be a......stranger to you now. Anything more.....that is to be decided by us."

When it mentions the Eggs , though, that causes Terra to perk up in interest, and he doesn't hesitate to stride on forward  , getting as close to them as possible and cranes his neck up (such a rare thing, for him!) and looking at the plant bug with honest curiosity. Fearless he is not, but he has little reason to be Intimidated by it and has poor socialization skills, so up close and personal he goes!

"How you know about Eggs? Did Arcanine tell you? Can you just.....tell?"

The big one doesn't seem worried by your presence, but all the little mantids on its back crowd forward to stare at you. 

"We talked, on occasion, through the millennia. The scent of Earthpower is strong upon them, for they have been incubated in his fiery presence. He is a good judge of character... perhaps a better judge than myself, for I deal in diversity of community, in balance, rather than in preservation of individual species. While the men of Elanor keep to their little town, I have no concern for this meadow."

To be blunt, Heart was speechless. He stared for a few seconds the strange Mantis, with mantids circling around he. For a while Heart let the others talk, but after some time he spoke too. "Well, we are not foes. Just passengers. We mean no harm indeed. But breaking my friends Pokeballs its very rude to be honest and with that I must agreed with my friend."

Heart its someway...intimidated by that primal pokemon, but after seeing Legendary Pokemon from place to place you begin to get used to it. Not to mentioned he is the guardian of the egg of a legendary himself!

"And yes great Mantis. We are the guardians of the Eggs Arcanine gave to us. I myself am the guardian of Moltres Egg myself." To prove this, Heart grab the Incubator with the Moltres Egg inside and show. "You can be sure we not mean no harm. But...who or "what" are you? Even now I felt a enormous flux of Earthpower within you...are you a Primal Pokemon like Primal Altaria?"

"It is not my doing. No mortal's craft can contain the Earthpower swelling within Grass Pokemon within my presence. They feel the growth that is fundamental to my nature. The quintessence of Life..."

(Remember Moltres Egg doesn't go in an Incubator. It can take care of itself.)

"You bear the most significant Cradle ever to fall into Arcanine's care. Long has it been lost. One day it will rise again in a burst of fiery glory. How you treat it could determine the fate of Man, or wipe clean in fire the diversity of an entire forest."

"Some have called me a Primal Lurantis, some have called me a Totem Lurantis. These are my children, Fomantis in the Common tongue. Together we defend the wilderness of growing things. I do not safeguard Eggs or even species, but the entire rooted web of a region's community. Each strikes a delicate balance, grown over thousands of years to a point of stability."