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After the appeals, Eva takes the opportunity to relax for a minute and soak up the sun. She leans back in her chair, kicks her bare feet up onto the table, Charja-Cola and watermelon in hand, and simply enjoys the view of all the contestants in their beachwear. Nice.

Eva munches a big bite of the juicy fruit while the contestants scatter to start building, defending, and attacking the sandcastles. Naturally, Kazimir Wynter , the beefy blonde, and Kusanagi started things off with some impressive manipulation of the sand with the pokemon’s sharp cuts.

The sharp ring of the phone and chryssa glasgow ’s voice draws Eva’s attention around to the “judge” by her side. Leaning back a bit further, Eva can catch a glimpse of the trainer’s face on the phone in the Jynx’s hand, “Oh hey there Chryssa!” Eva offers the girl a smile and wave before stabilizing the chair in the sand again. Eva doesn’t move to release her pokemon just yet. Cursola makes a haunting appearance, spreading a HAZE across the field, “Nice,” she smile before taking a sip of the Charja-Cola.

Chu-e Choi uses the sheer size of his Wailmer to protect his castle. Smart! She respects someone who works smart, not hard. kyle lopez attempts to get around it with a Bullet Seed.

Eva finds herself more impressed by samuel carter ’s usage of his Dragonair’s Aqua Tail to strengthen the sand around his castle to act as a natural barrier. angelo vestri follows a similar take on defense as Kazimir, having his Wingull create a moat with which to defend his castle.

Eva finished her slice of watermelon and dramatically slapped the rind against the table, “Alright, this is getting’ boring! Time to spice it up!” Eva stood up and jumped onto the table. The pokeball in hand cracked open and a small, pink blob formed on the sand. The annoying substrate clung to it as it turned around to face it’s trainer, “Alright, Shift, let’s get this party started,” she pointed towards the contestants building their castles, “Get ‘em all!” The Ditto crawled forward, fixing his eyes on angelo vestri ’s Wingull.. He Transforms into a carbon copy of the seagull and takes to the air.

For how small the pokemon is, the force it builds as it flaps its wings is astounding. A rush of wind starts to tear through the field as the HURRICANE builds stronger. Moats can’t protect from the violent winds of a Hurricane.

It was lucky no one was paradoxically paying attention to them.

The King was crouched before a hole on the sand, speaking into the darkness moodily while dragging his finger through the sand.

Six? Really? A six? Unconvincing? THREATENING?!

Well, they weren't wrong there. The heck was oscar clayton doing here anyway, though?

"Unconvinging shmincing... bleh... Ugh. Are you quite done in there?" He said in a heavily fake british accent, tapping at his mask's chin. A chitter echoing up the hole in in response. "I don't know what chitter chitter means."

His cape suddenly flapped atop his head and torso as the wind picked up without warning, causing his arms to pinwheel wildly before he fell into the hole with a scream.

"Crap, CRAP! CATCH ME, CATCH MEEE!" It was a long fall down the hole, it seemed like.

THUD.

"Ya didn't catch me, ya git." Mumbled the youth against sand as forced himself up onto his knees, eyes widening behind his mask as he got a good look at his pokemon's handywork.

The golisopod sighed tiredly as she observed the sand pooling into her handywork, swinging her water sword atop her shoulder before turning towards her trainer, tilting a nonexistent brow.

Had he said anything?

"No." Snapped the youth moodily as he finished picking himself up, patting the sand off his suit and cape before pointing up. "But anyway... there's a lot going upstairs."

Keeping their heads literally down and not bringing any attention onto themselves was obviously the superior tactic to properly construct the castle, But...

... Whatever, don't over think it. Just have fun.

He turned his gaze to the pooling sand, before popping his neck twice and standing up.

"Our spectacle earlier was not enough. Clearly, we simply did not go big enough." He said, punching his palm as he turned towards his Golisopod.

Appealing to the species' unique nature of being a deep sea, meditating recluse that only came out when it needed to fuel up from prey threading its territory hadn't worked for the contest's head honcho before.

She tilted her head, wondering about that.

"There's nothing to wonder about. Mr. Ramsay wants to see what makes you unique- and sadly, your deep sea meditation flew under the radar." It wouldn't have been authentic to have her meditate in the middle of the beach, but doing so underwater and out of sight wasn't exactly a breathtaking appeal, even if it was exactly what a reclusive Golisopod would do.

"We can just wait on this for now- but we can't just stay out of sight and out of mind until its ready." He said, sweeping his arm wide. "We must destroy the competition's efforts! And to that end-!"

He pointed upwards.

"We'll come at them from the only place they cannot possibly defend." He said sinisterly, his shoulders beginning to quake as his pokemon awkwardly looked away, scratching at the back of her head as her trainer launched into practiced, evil laughter.

"Our first target will of course be-!"

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"You are a pain I must suffer through, Ramsay." Came the same voice as before blaring from th sound systems, sounding annoyed. "You wish to witness what makes her unique? There isn't enough blood between all of you to properly demonstrate, but we'll take the permission to slaughter all the same."

The sand rumbled. The only warning recieved before the sand under Kazimir Wynter's castle suddenly lurched upwards and the Golisopod came bursting out like a drill, sailing far past and into the sky, spinning counter to Eva Morales's ditto's Hurricane.

The Dark Haze from chryssa glasgow's Jynx swirled around her ascenting, spinning form as she reached her apex before being spread out into the sky as she spread her arms and stopped her spin short with a burst of water, her claws gleaming a baby blue before she swiped violently at the Ditto bird, unleashing frozen arcs towards it before beginning to tumble back towards the sand, resuming her spinning once again as jets of water released from the plates of her arms, her body drilling into the sand and disappearing back into its depths.

"Here's a little lesson on these deep sea anthropods. They spend the majority of their existences meditating within deep sea caverns. Even the weakest seaquake could spell demise to them should it go unnoticed in time- so they've developed extreme sensitiveness and hyper-awareness to even the gentlest of tremors and vibrations."

Spears of sand-filled ice tore through the landscape and attempted to shear angelo vestri's moat to pieces as the Golisopod flew out once again, a water sword appearing over her claw and swiftly freezing before she reeled back and threw it at samuel carter's Dragonair like a frozen javelin.

"This of course means that traversing through the cover of sand while there's such quantitious amounts of prey threading about is as easy as breathing to them."

The Golisopod popped her neck twice as she lowered herself onto a crouch, narrowing her eyes at the competition.

"There's more to come, since I must apparently explain everything slowly and in detail. Now, Mr. Wynter- shall I explain to you what makes a Golisopod a Shogun, and a Samurott a mere ronin?"

With a swipe of her arm, another water sword materialized in hand, the Golisopod snorting at Kazimir's Samurott as she began to slowly make her way towards it.

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Even if the Jynx couldn't quite tell, the target seemed clear to the youth lying down on the sand Several dozen feet within the Golisopod's cavern.

"Ywouch." He said dryly as he took off his helm, letting go of the switch to turn off the comms. "Leave it to her to make it sting."

She had a point, though. The Jungle Biome's second round might have seemed like little more than a destructive free for all, but there had been some use of the Biome at every point.

Talk about feeling spotlighted in the wrong way, though.

"What can I do?" He mumbled to himself, dragging his fingers through wet hair befor he steepled his fingers over his chest, staring up at the hole as the occasional coconut projectile flew by dangerously.

One of them eventually managed a low enough trajectory to smack onto the edge of the hole, tumbling inside and falling several meters down in a straight line.

It smashed like a boulder directly besides the young man's head, digging in deep with an echoing thud.

"Think I just peed a little." Cooly observed the nearly decapitated youth as he rolled onto his side, grasping the Coconut before pulling out an army knife.

Staring at the Golisopod's handy work did little to help. It would be premature to reveal it now...

Though now he wondered if it would even stick, once they did reveal it. Maybe they should just go for it now while there was still time.

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The Golisopod swiped a coconut in half as it flew towards her, harrumphing moodily.

There would be no dueling at this rate. Not that it seemed like a good idea after one of the judges had gone out of her way to chastise it.

What to do, what to do...

Casually, the Golisopod held out her arm before extending a long blade of water, brutally stabbing several of the many Krabby gathering around and waiting for Chu-e Choi's poor Wailord's demise.

Lifting her crab skewer in the air, she brought it towards her maw before chomping down, ripping through chitinous armor and slurping on the contents inside before ducking under a flying coconut.

What was her trainer doing anyway, she wondered as she began to wander back into the hole, munching on the Krabs.

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"Awright, Angelo." Doug said to the coconut effigy of his brother as he pocketed back the knife, crossing his arms over his chest. "Any ideas?"

Silence.

"Yeah, I dunno why I picked you either, I should've gone with Zac." Groaned Doug as he gripped the bridge of his nose, before the sudden thud of something landing nearby brought his gaze up.

His Golisopod stared blankly at the youth and the scarred coconut, before trying to climb back up the hole.

"Wait!" Doug said as he jumped onto her back, climbing up until he could prop himself over her head to look her in the eye- upside down.

"We are getting slaughtered up there!" He said, to which the Golisopod simply tilted her head in confusion.

What, really!?

"Well, you saw what one of the judges said!"

She couldn't help but notice who that particular judge was. She crossed her arms over her chest, tilting a nonexistent eyebrow.

"Huh? What about her?" Doug said in confusion.

The Golisopod blew out air. Even human males were this predictable, huh?

Don't rush things just to try and impress her. She's clearly beyond that.

"Who's trying to impress her in particular?" The youth harrumphed, even while refusing to look the unimpressed anthropod in the eye. "We are in a contest, we have to impress everyone. Come on- we gottado something!"

The Golisopod rolled her eyes, moving to chew on another dead Krabby, to which the youth could only blink.

"... Where did you get that?"

Up there.

"Oh, right. Ki's fans." He said, scratching at his chin. "... Wait, I have an idea!"

Oh boy.

"Shush!" He said as he leapt off her back to pick up his helm, grinning at her wide.

"You know how to make sandpits, right?" He said, to which could only reply with a reluctant nod.

Sweeping his arm dramatically for no one in particular, the youth put back on his helm, nodding at her.

"Good. Flood it!"

The Golisopod sighed, before lifting her arm towards the cavernous walls.

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It started small. Nothing but a darkened spot in the sand near the feast that would soon be Ji-hoon Ki's Wailord. The first one to notice it was yet another poor Krabby.

It carelessly stepped onto the sand...

And against all odds, it gave away under its feeble weight in response.

The darkened sand spot began to spread wide around the Krabby, the dry and coarse sand turning out to be not so coarse, and much more of a dense, thick slush.

Without warning, it collapsed inwards like a sinkhole.

There was a significant lack of support underneath after the Golisopod had drilled through and let the content empty out into the sea to be replaced by salt water, after all.

Several Krabbys cried out in a mass panic as the sinkhole grew and dragged the unprepared crustaceans under towards the center where, the thick slush much like quicksand, dragging them towards-

A gleaming, boxy castle of crystal, standing upon bedrock at the bottom of the quicksand, a Golisopod standing in front of it with her watery sword planted firmly in front of herself.

No, wait, that was not crystal-

It was frozen sand, cut and chiseled by a swordmaster's watery blade. The shape was relatively rough, but the idea was clear- large chunks of sand had been frozen over before being cut into basic forms. The ice was essentially serving as a mold, allowing them to create large shapes without them collapsing from their own weight.

And the Golisopod's natural instinct to create its own Deep Sea caverns had allowed it to drill into the ice and create a hollow inside without it coming down. What said there was a hollow inside? Probably the masked man waving mockingly through an opening on the boxy castle.

As the Krabbys continued to sink towards the castle, the Golisopod swiped at them with her sword stabbing one after another for yet another crustacean skewer.

As she finished delighting herself on their meat, the then tore into their chitinous armor, throwing it over her shoulder at the youth, who gripped them and pulled out his knife.

"'Tis customary for a Golisopod to adorn their territory with the carcasses of their prey. A little warning goes-"

A coconut came flying out nowhere, getting split by the Golisopod on reflex. Its two halves flew off into the sandpit as its contents splashed the 'king' squarely across the helmeted face.

"... A long way."

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Still whipping his helmet clean from Angelo's life blood, the youth turned his gaze up to the sky as the vengeful war cry of one Kazimir Wynter filled the air, his eyes popping wide open as he saw the massive wave rising over to cast a shadow over the sand.

Even in the sinkhole, he could hear the waves coming. Not ideal. Not ideal at all.

"Kira, it is time to protect the kingdom!" The masked youth declared as he began pushing at his pokemon's back, pointing up. "Cutting saltwater is your specialty!"

Well, yes, that's what the pokedex claimed, but that was a lot of water- Ah, he wasn't listening. With a sigh, the pokemon quickly created a ramp of ice before swiftly skating her way up, coming to stand at the edge of the sink hole as the massive wave approached.

She breathed in deeply. All right.

She waited as the wave came crashing towards her, clearing her mind of doubt and fear with the practiced ease of a long time meditator.

And swung her sword down with both arms, intent on cleaving the way down the middle, so that two newborn flows may surge past and leave their castle untouched.

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