June Catch-All

[hundredeyesoni]

Who: Akira and quest partners
What: Quests, more to be added over the month
When: Throughout June
Warnings: Fog effects and Pokemon battles likely. Will add as needed.

Comments

[seacub]

Right, exactly. One intends to disorient or claim their victims, but the other just takes advantage. More like a parasite, than a partner.

[Emporio jumps at Guilmon's statement though, and quickly turns to the others for some guidance.] R-right- Or at least, it's probably another Pokemon of some kind...

[He seems...a little worried that Guilmon didn't take his offered hand, but oh well. Lusamine at least is, and he smiles quite warmly at her in turn.

Best keep recontexualizing, Lusamine.

And then again, maybe he does need a bit of comfort himself. He certainly holds on tight enough that it feels that way.]

Haha- Thanks? [He doesn't sound sure- of himself, more than anything- but to be fair, he has no idea what impression he left.

...and...speaking of impressions.] ...There he goes... [he says quietly, shaking his head.] ...it's like being back with Hermana...

[They carry on though. They walk onward, eyes wide to what's around them until abruptly what's around is darkness. The night. Moonlight-]

H...Huh?

[guilmon]

[The shift in their surroundings makes Guilmon bristle. His normally bright, innocent eyes narrow. His pupils slit. His lips curl back to reveal his sharp teeth.]

It's coming.

[Growling, Guilmon scans for the scent. That crimson moon, glistening in the dark...

He charges.]

Fireball!

[Flames spew from his maw, targeted at the beast. Logic and reason have left the building, ladies and gents.]

[hundredeyesoni]

Do you think it'll try to eat me??

[He's.. not worried about the idea of it, somehow. Even as that light begins to impossibly shine through the fog as it had before, Akira's initial response is to happily continue his approach-- just narrowly stopping in time to avoid taking that Fire attack himself.

But was a preemptive strike the best idea? Something feels off. And while it takes him a moment, the realization brings along laughter.]

I wonder if we made it angry..?

[His reflexes might not be the quickest anymore, but he's sure his intuition's just fine. The height's wrong. He'd never forget a detail like that. Large as their still hidden opponent might be, the moonlight seems to be above it. An attack, then?

No longer the only one in immediate danger, Akira turns back to try forcing the other three away, soon aided by Block in place of reaching them himself. Though the effect may only last a moment, it's all it takes to prevent anyone stepping into Blood Moon's range as it lands. What it can't prevent, however, is the bear's figure soon becoming visible behind him.

... Maybe he'd rather not have that Shellder's help just now.]

Okayyy, looks like we're fighting. Guilmon, your move was good! Special attacks seem to be the most effective, but everything helps. Let's just try not to get hit...

[The ground where they could have been standing without interference isn't looking too great, after all.]

[ibalsamina]

[Lusamine is about to lightheartedly tell Akira that yes, perhaps the creature would be interested in trying to eat him—more just to see his reaction to the idea than for any other reason—when she, too, finally takes notice of the moon shining above them. Something about it sends a spike of cold dread into her heart; suddenly, she imagines golden claws and great, star-filled wings unfurling. She tenses, gripping Emporio's hand a little tighter as if anticipating pain—but it doesn't come.

Akira forces them to stay back, just as a beam of light lances through the air, carving into the earth in the space that they might have been standing in if Akira hadn't Blocked them from it. The light in Lusamine's memory was a blinding blue-white. This light is bright and red as blood.

It's also bright and red as the disk glowing in the head of the creature that's just materialized before them. Its hulking, shadowed shape, lit up briefly by the flames Guilmon spit at it, towers over them all—Akira included. Lusamine realizes with shock and awe that she has no idea what it is. Its outline almost resembles that of an Ursaring, but...

Looking at the unsettled and charred earth at their feet is the last step it takes for her battle instincts to take over. Releasing Emporio's hand, she drops to all fours and pushes her way to the front of their group, teeth bared and fur bristling. With a deep, bloodcurdling growl, the beast strikes, lunging forward and swinging a colossal arm at them, claws shining. Lusamine leaps up to meet it, surrounded by a green glow—Protect.

The creature's claws glance harmlessly off of her; taken off guard and thrown off balance by its own deflected attack, the creature staggers backward a step—an open target.]