count your blessings, dante. she'll only be oblivious for so long. [break][break]

not like she tries to hide her own affection, anyways. whereas he was trying to contain himself from looking her direction, mielle was shamelessly sending glances so she could sate her own need for eye candy. you can't put him in front of her, and expect her not to appreciate. it's like telling a pelliper 'thou shalt not devour this luvdisc'. [break][break]

it won't listen, so neither will she. [break][break]

she's focusing on him, but thankfully it doesn't take long for her to finish up her own preparations. with it all on, she turns and examines herself, slightly. "mmn.." she hums, pinching a bit of the elastic fabric from her chest ".. it's a little uncomfortable~"

Dante Telos

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Needless to say, he did his best to distract himself with the oceans around them after turning himself around.[break][break]

He made quick work of readying himself after the fact, though. After having suited himself appropriately and gotten himself zipped up, he had went on to run his hands over his sleeves, as well as the curves of his neck to ensure that no gaps and the like had made themselves present. At the sound of her voice, however, he perked up and glanced over his shoulder, and then soon turned around in full to attain a better gaze.[break][break]

”Mmn, a little bit~.” With his cheeks rising slightly, he merely shrugged while glancing back down towards his wrists in examination as he wore a soft, idly amused smile. ”Better discomforted than suffering hypothermia, though, no~?”

mielle [break]
mission: luvdisc dive

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"that's true.." even if she doesn't quite like it. the woman sighs and, nevertheless, wears a smile in the face of her disdain. bless the lord for gracing her with some eye candy in this adversary, because the sight before her makes this mission all the more worth it. plus, they were going to be saving some pokemon too - pokemon which, if she recalls, were relatively docile, and had a little superstition about them floating around. [break][break]

in a fluid motion, mielle reaches to slide her arms around his, wasting no time in coiling one arm around his bicep, with the other reaching down to his forearm to gently rest her fingertips against the palm of his hand. "shall we get going, then? surely, we shouldn't keep the poor pokemon waiting~"

Dante Telos

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”That, we can agree on~.”[break][break]

A nod in response to her latter proposal, followed by a shift of the hand in order to briefly and properly hold onto hers as he eyed her with a smile. Before long, however, he averted his gaze towards the smaller remainder of the equipment they would need, quickly gearing himself with his own equipment before taking care to help her with his own.[break][break]

The last part was to toss one of the Pokeballs he’d brought with him atop the water’s surface, catching it as it bounced back to him and hooking it onto his person as a familiar, mismatched water type kept itself afloat with an endearing amount of effort (the sight of its flippers keeping itself afloat was an odd sight to behold, given its heavier lower body) before dropping himself down into the water.[break][break]

He quickly grasped onto one of its shoulders, and—once the woman joined them and settled herself upon its remaining shoulder—gently patted the back of his head in signal, seemingly prompting it to stop moving its flippers in favor of simply letting them sink through the waters.

mielle [break]
mission: luvdisc dive

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with no time to waste, she follows and clings onto the dracovish who starts to sink to the ocean floor - grateful that she had already secured the headgear. it's her first time doing this, so she had to remind herself that she didn't need to hold her breath as they traversed the currents. [break][break]

"i didn't know that he could swim~" she muses in her helmet, her voice being transmitted through the communication device installed in their headgear. "we should be able to find the luvdisc without any problem like this~"

Dante Telos

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”Mmn. They’re quite slow while swimming, but they’re actually rather quick when running underwater~.” He gave a brief laugh as they descended through the waters, reaching over to gently rub the beast’s cheek a smaller time prior to touching down upon the ocean floor. ”Although, they…are prone to sinking like this without other movements. For…obvious reasons.”[break][break]

He looked around briefly, letting go for just a moment in order to begin swimming in attempt to search. His hand drifted down to the belt entailed with his gear, and though he flicked the switch of a flashlight that came with everything on, he found himself glancing over as his own Pokemon seemed to wave its flippers with an even more garbled cry than usual (all thanks to the water, of course) and began to wade through to another part of the sands and rocks.[break][break]

”...Speaking of the Luvdisc, it looks like they already found them~.”

mielle [break]
mission: luvdisc dive

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the poor pokemon, stuck under the rubble and the rocks. had she the pokemon to help with this, she would let them out - although she doesn't think her own fossil pokemon would be able to help (in fact, he'll probably cause more trouble, what with his upper body being that filled with.. electricity). [break][break]

she glances to the dragon who flaps his.. flippers? fins? she can't quite figure out what it's still supposed to be, but she nods her head nevertheless, and swims towards with hr own small, handheld light. there, she attempts to help the pokemon (though not without struggle, seeing as moving in water took more strength she found) before smiling under her mask. "ah! there they are~" she reaches her hand into the small space, hoping to pry the luvdisc and grab their attention "it doesn't look like they're hurt~"

Dante Telos

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He watched as the woman came by some moments after he’d called out, humming in thought as she began to push through the rocks and rubble. Beneath the guise of his mask did he quirk his lip,gently tapping his finger against the light he held within his own grasp.[break][break]

”Thankfully, but prying everything apart by hand would take too long, no…?” he mused, taking a moment to swim several feet closer for closer examination. He touched a hand against another piece of rubble, narrowing his eyes while glancing at the nearest, trapped heart between the cracks. ”We could simply report back to those on the boat, but—”[break][break]

Of course, there was a simpler option.[break][break]

A sudden, soft, ”Ahhh~,” escaped his lips as he quickly shifted his arms within the water, turning once more towards his own Pokemon. ”Amore!”[break][break]

Another, classy gurgle in response.[break][break]

”Can you use Ancient Power for me, my love~?” he asked with a smile, gently patting the beast’s shoulder before pointing towards the collapsed earth and stone. ”Be gentle. Just set the rocks aside~.”[break][break]

And with that, he noted the turn of the Pokemon’s gargantuan head as it sought to look at him. There was an amount of silence that gradually instilled more and more discomfort and uncertainty within him (the soft, seemingly confused gurgle he heard in initial response hadn’t made it any better) as he observed the sense of what he could only assume to be questioning in light of his request.[break][break]

It was quickly followed by a much more confident cry, and he couldn’t help but feel slightly bewildered as he watched the Dracovish prep and utilize a careful Ancient Power on the rubble, loosening its grip on the water types wedged between it before gently pushing it further and towards another part of the ocean floor with confidence and ease.[break][break]

He watched as the Luvdisc quickly situated themselves, fluttering before forming into their own little school and immediately trailing off into deeper and more distant waters.

mielle [break]
mission: luvdisc dive

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she raises her arms up instinctively as the rocks from ancient power for, and slam themselves into the blockage. nothing is hurt in the process - thank god - and all the luvdisc are left flying into the water above. she keeps herself close to dante, ensuring that the currents don't wash her away. [break][break]

with the pokemon freed and swimming off, the two of them take off back to the surface, though she's not doing that without plucking a luvdisc scale from a nearby rock. just for herself.

end

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