[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail

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[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail
POSTED ON Mar 16, 2024 8:21:16 GMT
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Hero had managed to pierce through the wall of Glimmora that had impeded the progress of the party. With his drill shrinking back down to normal size, Lucia and Nala were quick to make their way into the hole with Josh. The sights inside of Chasm was something right out of a paper book!

"This is amazing..." Lucia gasped, leaning forward on Nala as she did her best to not burn herself on the mane. "Do you know if anybody else is down here? Or are we the first people down here in a long time?"



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December 12
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[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail
POSTED ON Mar 17, 2024 4:10:45 GMT
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Even if Lucia made direct contact with Nala's blazing mane, it wouldn't hurt her. Like many fire Pokémon such as Ponyta, the Pyroar could suppress her heat, making her body feel refreshingly warm instead of blistering hot. If there was anything uncomfortable about sitting in Nala's saddle, it was feeling vibrations from her purring. Josh loved them; it was a sign of just how powerful the normal-type's Hyper Voice could be.

Josh and Raikiri led the way down the winding trail to this unexplored corner of the Giant Chasm. "I bet there are a lot of people down here in pursuit of power. There's these robotic Pokémon that look like legendary Pokémon. Tyrfing is one of them. Looks like 's Sacred Sword, Terrakion. Plus, my favorite three Pokémon of all time have been spotted down here. Raikou, Entei, and Suicune have all been spotted down here." Josh was mistaking Raging Bolt and the others for the Pokémon they bore features of. It was a reasonable assumption to believe they were akin to regional variants, such as Alolan and Galarian Meowth. Little did he know they were their own species. "And it's been healthy for me. After fourteen years of chasing him, I am at long last friends with Raikou."







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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Tyrfing         Iron Boulder      Poison
Mastema         Togekiss          Good
Aleph           Type: Null        Poison
Raikiri         Zeraora           Good
Zaborg          Zeraora**         Poison
Nala            Pyroar            Good
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[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail
POSTED ON Mar 17, 2024 6:01:41 GMT
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The way down through the ravine was a perilous journey. Lucia clung onto Nala to ensure she wouldn't slip off, but every so often stuck her head over to peek at what would like below. It would be a pretty long hike down, but at least she had somebody to talk to! The robotic Pokemon Josh had been talking about sounded pretty neat.

"I've never heard of them before." Lucia said, trying to imagine a Terrakion but as a robot. It seemed pretty improbable, but she was willing to be surprised. "Wait, they're down here too? SO that must mean that Kyle's down here too! We gotta meet him if he is. I promise I won't ask him way too many questions."

"I was gunna ask, too. How come you like Raikou so much? Is it because he's super fast? Or do you like electric-types?"



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[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail
POSTED ON Mar 18, 2024 0:25:24 GMT
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If Lucia wanted to slide down to the bottom of the ravine with Nala, the Pyroar was more than confident to do so, as were Josh and Raikiri. Their sharp claws gave them a lot of control, even on slopes too steep to stand on. The ride down would be longer, but with how fast these big cats could run, it wouldn't be ages longer. "They were just discovered about a month ago. They look like the Sacred Swords. I really wanted the one that looks like Virizion; she's my favorite of the three. Somehow, I wound up with both of the other two." It wound up being a good thing, too; in the distant future the paradox Pokémon was from, Terrakion had morphed from being the slowest of the Swords to being by far the fastest.

"They are," Josh answered. "Not the Raikou, but a Raikou. It's not the same Entei that Kyle uses, either. I had for a long time speculated that legendary Pokémon can split off a piece of their essence. Have you ever wondered what happens when a legendary Pokémon gets captured in a Poké Ball?"

Josh would give a chance for Lucia to answer before continuing on, riding alongside Nala while still treading cautiously toward the bottom of the ravine. For unbeknownst to them, something wicked awaited them at its bottom.

"Raikou checks all the boxes for me. He's super fast, he's an electric Pokémon, and he's a big cat. I love them all. Him being legendary has nothing to do with why I love him. I love the others, too, but Raikou is... special." His love of Raikou was so great that at one point he thought Raikiri, the unique quadrupedal Zeraora, was a reincarnation of the Raikou that many believed to have died during the Kanto invasion.







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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Tyrfing         Iron Boulder      Poison
Mastema         Togekiss          Good
Aleph           Type: Null        Poison
Raikiri         Zeraora           Good
Zaborg          Zeraora**         Poison
Nala            Pyroar            Good
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[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail
POSTED ON Mar 18, 2024 7:25:24 GMT
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"Robot versions of the Sacred Swords sound cool though. I bet Coballion would be fun to ride, but are they really made of metal? I thought that steel-types were all...not like robots. Just stuff made of metal." Lucia said. She was a bit surprised about how there could be multiple versions of a legendary that could be out in the world, especially considering the state of things going on.

"Sometimes. I figured that they couldn't be kept in Pokeballs because they could break out easily. I guess it does make sense that they don't want to show themselves a lot. The essence thing is kind of weird though. Unless it's kind of like a copy of a legendary. But then how would it stay in the ball when you defeated it? Wouldn't it just disappear?"

Josh's answer about why he adored Raikou out of the three dogs was a few things that she had guessed. It was kind of cute in a way, a person who was supposed to be super serious gushing about something they loved. It was a lot like how she could list off everything about a Dunsparce just by her hyper-fixation on them from early on in her training career. Everybody had their favorites after all!

"Wow, you must really love him then, if the stuff in your office is anything to go off of!" she smiled, checking on their progress as the party was nearing the bottom of the crater. "We're about half way there, I think. Imagine climbing this by foot."



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[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail
POSTED ON Mar 19, 2024 5:16:08 GMT
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Josh smiled at Lucia's mention of sitting astride an Iron Crown. "Oh, it is," he replied with confidence. "Maybe if we run into each other again down here, you'll get to see Sigmund." The steel-type was only placid enough to ride within Area Zero, as was demonstrated the last time he used the paradox Pokémon. Outside the Terastal Caverns' boundaries, he was almost uncontrollable, having tortured Josh in front of with his powerful mind. "We still don't know a lot about them."

Josh breathed a deep sigh. She understood some, but not all of the theory, it seemed. It was, of course, all conjecture; many secrets of the gods would never be gazed upon by mortal eyes, past, present, or future. "So a popular theory is when a legendary Pokémon gets captured, it splits off a piece of its essence into what's called a shard legendary, and that's what gets captured. A physical copy of the god, but without the divinity that makes the god... well, a god." He felt that Avatars, many wielders of Legendaries with a capital L, held powers that humans couldn't be trusted to wield.

That, as well as how many Patrons manipulated their Avatars into slaves, was the biggest reason the young man had no desire to be one. He would only receive such a blessing if it was forced upon him.

As the Pyroar and Zeraora galloped toward the bottom of the chasm, Josh heard three clicks from his belt. The switches on Tyrfing's, Aleph's, and Zaborg's Poké Balls turned red: an indicator that they had all succumbed to their poisoning and could no longer battle. "Ugh, Glimmora are the worst down here," Josh moaned. "It's just Nala, Raikiri, and Mastema, my Togekiss, now. We... really need to be ready to retreat at a moment's notice."







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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Tyrfing         Iron Boulder      KO
Mastema         Togekiss          Good
Aleph           Type: Null        KO
Raikiri         Zeraora           Good
Zaborg          Zeraora**         KO
Nala            Pyroar            Good
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[EXCURSION][C/Lucia] Blazing a New Trail
POSTED ON Apr 1, 2024 20:20:03 GMT
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