[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

"Works for me if what you're doing already is working.  If we need to excavate this fossil, I should be ready to make an attempt at doing so.  Gallade, let's stand back and get ready.  Aspis, do your thing, and don't worry about the glowing aura!"

Nathan pulls out the Sword and bestows its decidedly magical effects upon Aspis!  That should give her Poison attacks a lot more oomph!

"Any Poison attack should hit with equal potency now, but the effects will be unchanged, so go ahead and take your pick for dissolving away that stuff.  Just don't hit any of us with them accidentally."

Up until he called her name, the resplendent and regal reptile that was Aspis was not paying too much mind to anything besides constantly upchucking a barrage of Gunk Shots with close to Mind Reader levels of Accuracy as possible. Being a brand new Move she had learnt less than a hour before now, she was not well versed in its usage, and ALSO being 'out of constant, harrowing, and big action' (as her fellow brother predator would put it) left her once exceptional capabilities rusty and stagnant, further hinder her usage of the Move. Not that she hadn't been getting plenty of Training and exercise between the variety of hunts her BP shared with her and the occasional pest of his that had to be dealt with, but compared to what she been through when she and him were with their old pack.....it didn't begin to compare.

All that, and she had to ALSO prevent herself from accidentally vomiting out those TMs he stuffed into her. Talk about having a lot to digest all at once! 

It was enough to make a venomous viper like her want to *Hissigh* , but she refused to succumb to the urge. She was a big - no, huge proud apex predator of a Arbok, and her sibling all but in blood's most trusted and beloved! Mastering one of the most powerful Poison Move enough to destroy and dissolvethat Ditto looking sea plant quickly would a matter of ease[i] for her, and [i]nothing should -

At that thought, right as she was priming to fire off another another Gunk Shot, she heard Nate call out her name. Her eyes widened in pure surprise and she snapped her head towards his voice and looked at the boy, until the growing pressure in her throat reminded her of the explosive 'ammo' rapidly building up to the point of firing off. The colossal cobra jolted at that realization and panicked, prompting causing her Gunk Shot to catch in her throat , making her let out a painful and queasy sounding *Chrrblurghrk!* as it stuck and detonated in it, and finally cause her to start coughing/vomiting/retching a utterly vile gloopy cloud of toxins into the water beneath her body that slowly settled to the bottom of the DIVE tunnel.

Several seconds passed as she got the last of the failed G.S. out of her system and recovering from it and the vile taste and burn it left in her mouth, shaking her head with a grimace and a displeased *Hiss....* and then promptly snapping her focus back onto Nate once more. And it was Nate, and my my my how much he's grown! Not just physically, but in stature and presence. Confidence and Power. Pride and excellence. Such drastic changes and growth in only a scant few weeks since they saw him last - when she thought she'd not see him in months, years, or ever again - was......well, shocking to see for herself. Ven constantly kept her updated on the status of their mutual.....interest, so she's amply aware of the trails he has face and conquered, but it's another thing to be suddenly confronted with it when she least expected it. 

Aspis could hardly believe her own magnificent eyes at what Nate had become. It was (again) a shocking sight, but also one that filled her with.....pride?

The supreme serpent sister would've have continued staring at the boy hero boggled eyed were it not for him suddenly (to her) bestowing upon her The Sword's power, which caused her to stiffen and then rear at the rush of invigorating might it gave her until she could come to grips and basked in it. Oh, what is this power she's so comfortably filled to the brim of her barrel with? Did Nate give it to her? How very interesting. More and more, he keeps surprising her, and at this point she wonders what else are they now.....

This kicks off a new round of staring at Nate, letting out a ponderous and familiar *Hiss* as she did so. Eventually she'd get to doing as her BP and Nathan would Order, but until then she'd stall in her asssssssessssssment of the young historian......

Speaking of Ventus, his own reaction to The Sword's power was one of marked curiosity and interest, not the revilement or disguised scorn/disappoint they (Nathan) would probably expect. Hmm.....

(....And done! Couldn't resist making a scene centering around Aspis and Nathan, considering the two share a strange bond and history with one another. Hopefully you'll enjoy it, mate!)[/i][/i]