Adventure Thread - Group A

Once Zoey is in place, and a nice hug later, Chariot starts with a nice trot through the fields. "It didn't stick around when I saw it last, but hopefully it isn't too shy this time. With Clay around, we might even be able to communicate! Hmmm...Could you even catch a legendary? That would be mega cool!"

"I think Zoey's probably right, honestly." Clay cants his head thoughtfully as he guides Toppo to follow Chariot to the watering hole... though if he remembers right, Tiki found Toppo out on the plains to start with, so he probably knows the place just fine. "Of course, if we talked to it and it decided it wanted to join up, or let you try to catch it, that might be another thing. A lot of Pokémon like a good fight at least."

And even if they didn't catch it, maybe they could still talk it into helping out. The more allies the better, after all - though Clay didn't want to bring this up directly, both because they were being cagey around Zoey and because talking about their whole prophecy mess tended to bring Tiki's mood down sometimes.

Approaching the watering hole, the group immediately sees something out of the ordinary. There is a field of inky blackness clashing with a slightly smaller spot of bright light. Similarly, it looks like there are two Pokemon-sized blurs fighting one another near to the first set. Pulses of purple/black energy fly from the area of darkness towards the glowing spot, and are countered by sparkling stars that fly back into the darkness in an attempt to seek out the foe that must be hidden within.

While Clay and Tiki are staring with bug eyes and dropped jaws, Zoey cries out. "MOM!" She screams as she leaps off of Chariot's back and runs towards the fighting.

Even with the fact that Tauros is a powerful, quadrupedal Pokemon, and can keep pace with a Rapidash at full tilt, it somehow is unable to keep up with the speedy Zoey. Now, in a prolonged race, Toppo could probably easily outlast Zoey, but as it is now, her speed combined with her head start allows Zoey to miraculously outpace the Bull Pokemon. She quickly whips out an Apricorn Ball from her belt clip, releasing ZsaZsa onto the field as the two continue to rapidly close on clashing figures.

Chariot has better luck than Toppo at catching Zoey, but she's too far ahead now. The Rapidash overtakes ZsaZsa the Zoroark relatively quickly, but Zoey proves to be just a smidge too far ahead to catch easily. Who knew Zoey was so quick?

"LEAVE MY MOM ALONE!" She shouts as she closes on the brightly lit figure. She gathers dark energy between her hands and hurls a purple and black orb into the surprised figure's back, staggering them for a moment. Thankfully, it's not enough for them to be taken out, as even with their surprise they manage to evade the shrouded figure's next strike. Zoey and ZsaZsa don't give up there though, as both begin charging up more dark-type attacks.

Genevieve's voice rings out from the brightly lit figure. "Get back, all of you! This fight is beyond you! Trust me, please!"

Zoey counters with another shout to leave her 'mom' alone as she and ZsaZsa throw their Night Daze attacks at Genevieve to try and force her to back off. Now that everyone is closer, they can see a Delcatty fighting against what looks like an Absol, only the Absol is red where it should be black. Just as the Night Daze attacks (Zoroark's signature move) fly at a distracted Genevieve's back, another of the Normal Branch Leader's Apricorn Balls opens up. An enormous, dog-like Pokemon appears between Genevieve and Zoey/ZsaZsa's attacks, taking them in her place.

As the fight begins to get even more heated, the sky suddenly begins to darken and an icy gust of wind blows through the area. An enormous stroke of lightning strikes the ground between all combatants, and a yellow furred, cat-like creature materializes from seemingly thin air. No sooner has this new creature appeared when it unleashes a deafening roar. From the North, a blue/white canine figure with a purple mane arrives with an acknowledging cry. It blows away the field of darkness that shrouds Genevieve's opponent, revealing that it is, in fact, D'Mara. She and her Pokemon peel off from Genevieve and begin attempting to fight off these newcomers; clearly they seem the bigger threat to her. Tiki recognizes them from the book, but alas cannot recall their names at this moment. She knows they're related to Entei though. Likely part of a Trio, as so many other Legends are.

Clay's frustrated with Toppo's relatively-slow progress, even if it's still faster than he can run. How in the world Zoey manages to outpace a Rapidash he doesn't know.

But... yup. That's D'Mara, and a red Absol, would explain Red Child's weird report. Where did D'Mara find a red Absol? He doesn't have much time to worry about that, though - there's Genevieve fighting D'Mara, and Zoey has jumped right into the middle... on the wrong side. Which is the other reason Clay had wanted to hold her back.

As much as he hates to admit it, Miss G is probably right about D'Mara being out of their league, especially with no legendary back-up and no Rei here. He really, really wants to fight D'Mara, but this is obviously not the time or place. So instead he vaults off of Toppo's back and bounds toward Zoey instead. "C'mon, Zoey, we need to -"

He was about to try to explain something about the situation, but he gets cut off by a thunderbolt and a gust of wind. It's not hard to tell that these are more than ordinary Pokémon. He takes a couple of steps back as that roar echoes loud enough to reverberate in his chest. "... Wow."

Well, they got what they wanted - they've made contact with legendary Pokémon.

Tiki waves her arms about as she looks to Genevieve. "What do you mean!? We couldn't just leave you to fight her! Where is the rest of the branch?" Tiki then turns to Zoey. "And, you! D'mara is your mom!? You didn't even know she's going to cause a calamity!?" She then turns on Clay. "And, you!! Did you know!? Why didn't you tell me about Zoey!?"

Tiki taps her foot with her hands on her hips as she glares at Clay, but softens up when she does remember the legendaries. Those answers would have to wait. Tiki also lightly shuffles her feet right behind Clay as she looks up at the large, intimidating Entei. She wondered if it recognized her. She waited quietly to see if Clay could make contact. It was also strange since these legendaries didn't seem to have people talking for them.