[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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The other Lumineon, however, darts behind Nathan while he's distracted with healing the winged seahorse.

Nathan doesn't see the barbed, frilly fish until it's right on top of him.

He tries to raise the Sword to deflect the coming blow, but even he can't react that quickly...

...and then mere moments later, Terra gets stung, and the incredibly powerful Poison can clearly be seen taking its toll.

"Terra!"

Nathan doesn't think.  He just reacts.

*schwing!*

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Moments later, the Lumineon have all either scattered or fainted.

...or in the case of the final Lumineon, is laying on the seafloor, barely conscious and in immense pain.  A long, deep gash cutting across their side, one of their frilly fins torn and rendered practically unusable.

Nathan's breathing heavily as he tries to process what happened.  The Lumineon, they...and Terra just...and he...he...

...

Nathan briefly turns his gaze to the blade of the Sword, then back at the Lumineon.

The blade's bloody.  And it looks like Lumineon's blood, too.  "...oh no...no no no no...I...I didn't mean for that to..."

Did he really...?

Nathan stares at the bloodied blade a moment longer, breathing hard...

He looks at Terra, who also seems a bit winded, but...mostly seems fine, otherwise?  Maybe?

...Nathan decides to check on Lumineon first.  He swims over to them and looks at the wound...

...he's not sure he can treat it.  Not underwater.

So he does the only thing he can think to do that might help in this situation.

He gets out an Ultra Ball.  If he catches Lumineon, the Pokemon Center can get them proper treatment for that wound much more quickly than he would be able to.  He just hopes that there's enough time to save them...

The only question is: how many tries does it take Nathan to capture this fish and get them treatment for his mistake, @Iron?

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Afterwards, Nathan swims over to Terra to check on him.  "...are you okay?"

Nathan's not the only one taken aback by their instinctual backlash against the Lumineon, as Terra looked shocked in between grimacing from the finned fiend's toxic at his friend nearly cutting them down. Both by the very act itself, and the fact that they did it, who normally had a huge (and some might say exorbitant) amount of love/respect for the sanctity of Pokemon life. The fact they reacted so strongly to him being Poisoned was a harrowing experience for the mountain of a man - if not also a great deal humbling too.

Too stricken by the chronological Toxin of the Leomineon and its near Lethal end, the more sagely monk could only watch Nathan access the injuries they inflicted upon the fish and struggle to recover and treat his affliction. 

Sari, however.....

Well, now that the action was over and she had taken her own assessment of things, the magnificent monarch was not pleased what happened to their loyal servant and occasional adviser. Not in the slightest. Though not entirely well bonded and close to Terra, the sparkling queen still took a dim view on him having a great deal of their life practically erased in a instant by their aggressive and malicious assault (given her species intelligence and Psychic sense, she'd realize what happened to him), even if he did bring it entirely on himself. Say what you will about her regal, snooty attitude and condescension towards others, but Sari knew and appreciated those she valued - most especially the one that elevated her into her unique and elite status and position - and therefore loathed those that undermined them in anyway.

So when Nathan looks prepared to try and Capture the abnormal Lumineon, Sari intervenes, darting right between him and it with a small but markedly displeased frown on her face, making a sweeping gesture with one of her arms and shaking her head. The boy may have laid low the blight aquatic monster, but it had made a serious and grave attack against her adviser, and by extension to herself. She demands retribution for its transgressions , and she was not about to let the young man completely absolve that from them thereof and deny them (her and Terra) that.

(The scene with Terra can wait while this one is resolved. I hadn't planned on it happening, but hey, you've inspired me to make it!)