[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

The very moment Shiva makes it to spot Melly and Whimsi returning from direction Mount Molten, she directly RACES towards them to pick her treasured Artifact back up, and there's a joyous moment where she falls around the electric dog's neck to nonverbally shower her with sheer thankfulness and gratitude. "I owe you something for this, Melly...", she whispers solely to the ears of this particular Manetric.

There's little time to enjoy the moment though, as that massive anger she picks up from Deoxys as well as the gruesome sight of them being shred to pieces little afterwards causes Shiva to literally duck behind the Shield, which was the involuntarily right decision as this protected her from the deathly attack of their psychic afterimage. Whimsicott cuddles up to her as close as possible, both to provide comfort to her lovely Master and to save her fluff from being roasted by psychic energy. Kyuu lands in a graceful moment on the edge of the Shield, and Pangoro, despite his pain making him cringe unpleasantly, bravely raises to full size in front of Shiva and her Pokemon to grant additional cover.

He lets out a loud roar of victory up to the very sky, as if the panda wanted to tell all the currently not-visible stars that this Alien Invader is no more.

Whimsicott eagerly makes sure that none of the fire reaches Shiva and others as well as prevents it from spreading too much by controlling the wind accordingly, Kyuu curls around Shiva's neck, and Pangoro, seemingly completely ignoring his pain, has ran off to punch out flames with his bare fists. Realizing the situation and danger of the fire, Shiva quickly summons Delphox - the natural fae enthusiast and her small group of Pokemon join the particular E4-member and Corporal Wake to aid in putting out the fire as quickly as possible, feeling a little guilty since this happened because of the battle.

Once this is done for the biggest part, Shiva returns to the others, being a little weak on her feet but physically unharmed. She's looking rather exhausted though, and clings to her ancient Shield from which's edge she timidly and carefully peeks at them all. Her voice is quiet as she speaks up, and there are tears in her eyes: "Is it... over? *sniffle* It's really over now, right, and we.... we have won, h-haven't we?"