[Game Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

(Okay @Lord Windos, I think I've kept you waiting long enough.  Let's jump back into what's been going on with Platina, shall we?)

It was strange.  Platina felt cold after she passed out.

Very cold.  As if something was staring straight at her hard enough to drill holes into her...

She opens her eyes, only to see...

White.

Or more accurately, that's all she could see.  It was hard to make out her surroundings.  It was if she was in the middle of a storm, though it definitely wasn't like the rainstorms and thunderstorms she's used to.

And it's cold.  She couldn't get over that fact, especially with all of her metallic sheened feathers and that lingering sense that she's being watched...

Movement in her peripheral vision distracts her, though the weather doesn't let her see what it is very clearly.  What she can make out though is a constant, rhythmic clicking sound.  Something that hardly sounds natural, especially in the middle of a storm like this.

She loses sight of the shadow, only for a long, slow, loud metallic grind to come from behind her moments later.  She turns around, and sees nothing.  She can continue to hear whirrs and the crunch of snow, though, as if something is moving around in the middle of this blizzard.  Hiding?  Waiting to pounce?

A storm is approaching...as sure as the ticking of a clock, the movements of a machine...

The storm clears as quickly as it arrived after those words fill her head, and she suddenly finds herself in a large room made entirely of glittering ice.  She can see a Raichu talking to a large, bipedal dragon with misshapen wings covered in ice.

The ice covered dragon suddenly looks past the Raichu and at Platina.

Find me in the Glacial Ruins.  We have much to discuss.

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Platina suddenly wakes up on a comfy bed she's unfamiliar with.  The cold, dread filled dream had ended.  When she looks around, she can see Hydreigon watching her carefully, as well as another tall, yellow dragon with two red, axe-like blades sprouting from its black jaw.

Hydreigon smiles.  "Ah, you're awake!  I didn't think you'd pass out so suddenly during our conversation!"  His nonchalant demeanor is a stark contrast to the rather intimidating picture that the two dragon pokemon create while in the same room.

"So this is one of the members of that team that's visiting Paradise?"

"Indeed she is!  Platina, let me introduce you to Haxorus, one of the founders of our lovely Paradise."

The axe jaw pokemon nods.  "Pleasure to meet to meet you, and apologies for showing up so suddenly unannounced.  Hydreigon told me you're here on official guild business, so I'll try to keep this brief.  Do you mind answering some questions for me?"

 
(You know, I didn't actually mind the wait, considering you were busy and all, and truth be told I'm busy now with the start of school, but hey, thank you for the plot hook!)

'Suddenly' was the right term, as she made a near Metal Sound level of racket as she awoke, screeching "By the Twins!" and looking halfway between startled and panicked before she noticed her company. A small but awkward amount of silence passed as she stared at the two, now suddenly mortified and very aware of herself, before she meekly *coughed* and looked to the side for a moment, contrite.

".....Apologies. I just had a most......peculiar dream that has left me rather.....rattled. If you could please forgive me of this rudeness and forget about it, that would be very nice."

Foggy headed from her recent awaken and disturbed from her Dream (for it deserve Capitalization) as she was, the three headed drake comment shook her awake as she remember why she passed out and found herself here. Almost immediately she started to become an odd mix of extremely excited at the revelation that her companions were Human, eeeeeee!!!, and absolutely appalled and embarrassed at the scene and inconvenience she made. What would her mother think of her acting so....so utterly debased?! Adventurer as she was and learning to live a new lifestyle, she should hold herself to some standards, by the gods.

Another shiver wracked her metallic being, shocking her out of her self-admonishment and emotional frenzy as she was reminded again of what she Witnessed in her Dream. No, no, the time to worry about appearances and her human friends ('ohmyohmyeeeeeee - STOP IT, you feather brained!!') was NOT now. She needed to tell her companions, Lord Umbreon and Espeon.....the Guardian Hydregion and this Haxorous? (Should she? ....Yes, something is telling her she should) about her Dream NOW.

Only half-way paying attention to what the axe-bladed drake was asking her, Platina hopped up quickly, looking nonchalantly at them and the jovial hydra with sudden seriousness and apprehension.

"My apologies once more, but I must hold off answering you questions to tell you two first this - I had a Dream. Not just any dream, but one that carried a Vision with a Message. Please, humor me as I share it: I was in a cold, cold place. A blizzard was howling. I could hear this......clicking. It was unnatural. Unnerving. Waiting for....something. Then the storm clear, and I was in a icy domain. One belong to a Dragon with wings of Ice and a powerful presence. It was....entreating the company of a Raichu, I believe. Then it looked at me, as spoke thus, at this moment and the one before: A storm is approaching...as sure as the ticking of a clock, the movements of a machine...  Find me in the Glacial Ruins.  We have much to discuss. Then, at last, I was permitted to wake[i].[/i]"

She paused for few seconds and looked down, taking a deep, shuddering breath, before she looked back to her two hosts, worried.

".....Does this mean anything to you two? To my Team's mission? Because somehow.....somehow I don't think it's unrelated to either."