In the Alola region there exist a place called Lush Jungle, a thick jungle filled to the brim with all kinds of exotic life, from Pokemon to plants, the Lush Jungle is a mega diverse habitat and an important part of the island's ecosystem. People come from all over the world to see the Lush Jungle, some for academic purposes and others tourism, though there is always those who have more darker reasons but today you won't worry about that.
A friend of Team Snagem's, the eccentric berry farmer named Lum, wants to take a trip to the Lush Jungle. Lum, while some would say is completely insane, is actually an expert in all things concerning berries and other plant life and wishes to examine some of the plants growing in the jungle, that and there is a very specific berry tree he visits deep in the jungle in order to take routine saplings of. However the jungle is very dangerous and Lum's Pokemon are not made for battle, nor does Lum have any talent for such a thing. As such I want you to escort Lum through the Lush Jungle and make sure he makes it out in one piece.
You will be escorting him into the deepest part of the jungle where a unique tree called the Topo Berry tree grows, the only one known to exist. Lum has consistently tried, and failed, to get saplings to grow outside the jungle to save it from extinction, you see. The jungle is dangerous however with its many wild Pokemon as well as the Totem Pokemon which protects it. Surely the Totem Lurantis won't take kindly to anyone getting near such a rare tree, never has. The is one more thing to worry about as well. Lum has a hit taken out on him by a member of Team Rocket, someone he stole valuable plant life from long ago and ruined the Rocket's endangered plant life trade. Lum has been warned that this Rocket is looking for him and insists on still going out so all we can do is make sure he is safe. Unfortunately we've learned that Team Rocket scientist Drash is aware to Lum is headed to Alola so be alert for him and his goons.
-Objective: ---Escort Lum through Lush Jungle to the endangered Topo Berry tree so he can gather a sapling.
-Opposition: ---The wild Pokemon of Lush Jungle, battle at least two wild Pokemon. ---The Totem Pokemon, Lurantis, may attack. Do not engage in battle, it's simply doing its job. ---Team Rocket scientist Drash and his grunts. The grunts use standard Rocket Pokemon while Drash uses the following three: Beedrill, Gloom, and Charmeleon. Battle at least one Rocket grunt and Drash.
-Pokemon: ---You may capture or snag one Pokemon. Totem Lurantis can't be caught.
-Rewards: ---5x Snag Coins ---You may do a random number generation in the Pokemon Center (OOC) thread to see what random item you find in the jungle. Generate a number between 1 and 10.
---Random Reward Results:
1. Tiny Mushroom 2. Tiny Mushroom 3. Big Mushroom 4. Balm Mushroom 5. Starf Berry 6. White Herb 7. Mental Herb 8. Any Apricorn x 2 9. Energy Root 10. Revival Herb
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Keiko and I wound up inside the Paloina Ranch Pokemon Center alongside Fenrir. As a note of precaution, I had my Pokemon checked up by the Nurse right away, and Keiko followed suit. Once that was done, we headed outside and waited for Fenrir so we could discuss the plan.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:50 am
While Ter and Keiko would be waiting outside, a small rumble would begin to be heard from the far end of the town, slowly growing louder. The cause of this would be revealed soon enough, a seemingly stampeding Tauros. A few things would be odd about this, though. First, the Tauros should have been coming from the closer entrance. Secondly, it seemed to have some sort of saddle and harness on it? And on that seat would be a terrified Espeon hybrid, doing her damnedest to calm the beast.
Finally, it would calm down by the time the bull reached the Pokémon Center, allowing the hybrid to finally slide off and catch her breath. "Oh. My. Word. How do the Alolans ride Pokémon that aren't explicitly theirs?" A short from Tauros would bring Crystal's attention to it once again, with the woman bringing out a slender green device from her overfilled messenger bag and pressing a button on it, recalling it to the device somehow. "Yeah, go calm down some more elsewhere."
Finally her attention would turn to Ter and Keiko, dusting herself off. "So, wound up getting quite the rude message from GRAY about you guys showing up here for something, and that we should help?" The hybrid would try to perk her ears up, but they sort of seemed to droop half way? That ride must have been exhausting.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:07 am
Fenrir exited the pokemon center as soon as joy was done with his three dragon types. "So were supposed to go meet Mr.Lum by the entrance to Lush Jungle but first we should go find crystal... Well speak of the devil" he said the ground beneath them started to tremble and shake near the end of town and would get closer and closer until a hybrid slowly climbed off a large herd of Tauros. A small smile found its way to Fenrir's face when crystal got a little feisty with the pokemon that she rode in on. " Thats probably my fault, though i didn't request the AI to blow up you gear." He walked up to crystal passed Terashi and Keiko "Im Fenrir Ragnarok," He said holding out his hand after introducing himself.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:45 am
"Yeah, GRAY's good about that," I shrugged at Crystal as Keiko waved to her. Keiko and I both gave Fenrir an odd look, but he was focused on Crystal and didn't see it.
"Right, Lum should be waiting at the entrance to Lum Forest," I nodded. "Still, knowing him, he might have started wandering in there without us."
"So, we're all going together?" Keiko asked, happy to see Crystal again.
Crystal tilted her head when Fen introduced himself, the hybrid taking in the unfamiliar boy. "Huh. Well, w-I'm Crystal Tanzanaki. A pleasure to meet you, Fenrir." She reached out and shook his hand, seemingly spacing out for a second before getting an annoyed look on her face. The hybrid was about to say something before she shook her head and rubbed her temples. "Sorry. Anyways, no worries, that's not the first time he's been an a** to me," she finally said after breaking out of her daydream.
A small raised eyebrow would be the only note that she noticed Ter and Keiko's faces, shrugging before she responded. "Yeah, it does seem that way. So shall we? Though, we're quite south for the jungle. There's actually a Pokécenter not that far from it," she commented at the end. "Er, not meaning to be insulting ot anything," she hurriedly added on, all of a sudden looking a bit nervous, "I just made that on an observation. I didn't actually expect you guys to know that, seeing as I doubt few of you come to Alola regularly."
Ter and Keiko would get a question sent to them personally, with the only note of any sort of ability being used was a very slight glow in the stone on her forehead, which probably was unnoticable considering the light. 'So, what's with the look from you two?'
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:25 pm
"It's a pleasure Crystal," Fenrir replied noticing quite a bit of hesitation from the female hybrid. After the hesitation the lady then seemed like she was some where else other then here in the moment and then the obvious annoyance/irritation followed soon not to long after. "Well a brisk walk never hurt anyone and its cool," He said forcing himself to be a bit more optimistic.
Like most old habits, Fenrir noticed her lifting an eye brow and the look aimed in his direction but too both Keiko and Terashi. Alright, ill just wait Fenrir thought to himself before taking a few steps over to the outside of the poke center and leaning back against it with his arms cross. He figured that something mental was going on based off the fact that she was half espeon and he saw alot of the same thing between Terashi and his Pokemon during the last mission they went on together.
I'll tell you later, I thought, knowing Crystal likely had the capacity to read that thought and had a reason to since she contacted me mentally. It's rude to speak of someone when they're right beside you. Telepathically or otherwise.
"Yeah, that information could have been useful, GRAY," I huffed, surprisingly not eliciting a response from the artifical intelligence. "Well, we don't need any problems from the locals regarding using Claydol to warp us there, so we're better off walking," I explained calmly, having studied up on Alolan customs recently.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:14 pm
The hybrid would merely shrug, giving a warm smile. "Alright then, a walk it is. Ikimasu!" Crystal would start walking forward, looking like she was maybe prancing? It might have actually been meant to be skipping, if she had standard feet instead of paws for feet. Despite this, though, she was still moving at a respectable pace.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:27 pm
"Sounds good," Fenrir said releasing Tyrunt from his poke ball for the first time since the little one was brought to life from a fossil. The dragon/rock type looked more like a baby dinosaur then anything but hell since when does anyone argue with a good thing. His evolution looked bad pretty impressive even if it wasn't as cool as a Haxorus or Garchomp. Fenrir originally thought that Tyrunt was also male like Hax and Chomp but as it turns out Tyrunt was female and fenrir had a sneaking suspicion. He couldn't put his finger on it but as he watch the little dragon move around she seemed to have this sassy little prance about her.
You know like a confident woman who had no self confidence issues and flaunted it for all to see. With all that being said and done maybe Fenrir was really judgmental, he was practically judging a little dragon (dinosaur).... oh well. "Your gonna be a handful, I can tell" He said to himself watching the the Pokemon run off to the right then to left and back again.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:40 pm
Keiko giggled a bit at Crystal and Fenrir's tyrunt. It was nice to see people enjoying themselves even when things weren't going their way very well. Nevertheless, she walked normally by my side.
It didn't take us very long to get to Lush Jungle, and there was a certain green personality waiting for us at the entrance as predicted. "Ah, there you are, bi! Just as I was about to head inside myself! Huh. Didn't think there'd be so many of you. Oh, well! The more, the merrier, bi!"
"Hello to you, too, Lum," I smirked, used to Lum's antics by now. "Ready to go, I take it?"
"Am I ever! I've been waiting on the edge of the forest in anticipation for hours, bi!" Lum cheered happily.
"Hours, huh?" I asked, a little concerned that he'd wait that long for something like this. "Better not keep you waiting, then."
With that, Keiko, Lum and I entered Lush Jungle, assuming Crystal and Fenrir would follow us in.
"Keep your head up Sass ( Tyrunt), you never know what's going to happen." Fenrir said following the three Into the forest taking a moment to give Crystal a quick glance as he was now ahead of her. Sas on the other hand was merely a few paces ahead of him cutely throwing her head back and forth and then up and down looking for enemies that would come at them. "Alright over achiever, don't get ridiculous with your sassy self," Fen said only for Sass to turn around and stick her tongue out at him. With a small grin, Fenrir shook his head and let out a small chuckle before getting to business with her first lesson.
"Dont just look around using just your eyes, use the six senses your naturally born with. Hear everything around you, feel the wind on your skin, the feel of ground beneath your feat and most of all its best to be a little paranoid about whats going on behind you." Fenrir lectured as Sass looked up at him, the information sinking into her brain deep into her subconscious. With a little effort and the proper up bringing, Sass was going to become an extremely important party of the team.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:11 pm
"Huh. Interesting- ... You know, you've been really talkative lately," she muttered, seemingly to no one. At least, there was no one there that should have provoked that kind of response. Her forked tail flicked once in annoyance, and her large ears went slightly back against her head. This would keep up for about a minute before growling quietly and shaking her head. "Not now. I have more important issues to be dealing with. ...Yes, this is more important than arguing, so shizuka." A sigh escaped her mouth before she spoke to the group, relaxing once more. "So, we're here to grab this berry, make sure that nothing happens to it and our berry enthusiast here, and deal with this Rocket goon, do I have this correct?" A chuckle would follow as she finally saw little Sass, amused by the little Tyrunt's attitude.
This time, it was Crystal's turn to receive some odd looks, though only from me for now. "Crystal, are you alright?" I asked, not sure at all who she was talking to. She wouldn't need to speak aloud if the person she was communicating with was doing so telepathically, and whoever that was wasn't visible to me.
Keiko was too busy giggling at Sass, who, in her mind, was certainly aptly named. "She's a cutie, huh, Fen?" she asked, smiling widely.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:48 pm
"She's adorable that's for sure," Fenrir said watching the little one run play along the path. Coming to a stop here and there Sass would stomp her little feet into the ground and from the side you could see her little toes move around in the dirt. " With that attitude, she's going to end up being the pack leader though. Not exactly special treatment but some of the others are gonna learn the hard way to not mess with her and have some respect."
Basically she was going to evolve and and they were gonna all get squished. Fenrir had this amuse look on his face at the thought of her dominance keeping Had and Chomp on thief toes. Their new way of life was never going to always go as planned and no matter how hard they try it wasn't going to be easy. They would all have to learn to work together as a team, as best friends and as family because that's exactly what they were a family.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:01 pm
Crystal blinked and looked like she was contemplating something to say, feeling slightly awkward. "Um... Things are fine... Just... For the most part, I'm exploring the ruins and what not alone... I forgot I was around people." The hybrid would grab her ridiculously long braid and run her hands along it. "Aheh... Don't really worry about it." She put on a huge grin and continued walking, her hands still running along her braid. "So, any idea of where this tree is," she'd ask, trying to change the subject.
