[attr="class","diana"]Adorned in Galarian funeral attire, Diana Cavendish stood to the back of the funeral procession. Her icy gaze was nearly hidden beneath the brim of the black hat atop her head.

Her injuries from the penitentiary inhibited her from standing too long, her legs still healing from a NIHILEGO'S attack. She found herself nearby Frank Caffey, remaining silent as words were exchanged.

Offers of condolences, pity, and... THEO BECKETT's remarks.

Diana shifted in her seat, grunting uncomfortably from the pressure on her wounds, before exhaling through her nose. She knew when this war came, she would not be held in regard that even VELMOS was. To Rocket, she was a grunt. She was used to do meager work.

Would Remiel Calcifet grieve for her? She'd like the think so.

"I don't think this will end well," she murmured to no one in particular, clasping her hands together on her lap.

[attr="class","dianatag"]funeral of velmos

[attr="class","diana"]Diana couldn't help but laugh lightly. She wasn't making fun of her or laughing at her. But she had to ask her...

"You miss basic grunt work? The boring, every day tasks?"

She found that going into something more dangerous and intense was... terrifying. Her mind recalled the times of distress at home, or perhaps it was day by day task she endured lying to Remiel Calcifet knowing that any moment she could slip up and face death.

Death from ZEKROM sounded terrible.

[attr="class","dianatag"]avery jones | skip

[attr="class","diana"]Diana nodded, understanding. However, she did wonder one thing. The beast had more experience than her in combat. Which led her to asking:

"If you were in my shoes, what would you have done differently? Or, is it that I lack defense?"

She retracted both of her Pokemon into their respective Poke balls as she awaited his answer.

[attr="class","dianatag"]Zev Harcourt | super training

[attr="class","diana"]Diana wasn't expecting words of encouragement from Howard. She had expected gloating about her failed ideals or an "I told you so" instead.

So, she decided to move on and continue with his suggested mode of action. "Alright. First to faint, be unable to continue fighting, or surrender loses the battle."

Last time she saw his REGICE, it was against the WALKING WAKE. Now, it was facing her in battle. There seemed to be a chill in the air as it stood proudly in front of her and her terastallized Pokemon.

"Stay on your toes," she ordered her Paradox Pokemon.

And the battle with initiated by Howard. For a brief moment, her mind flashed back to her battle with Zev Harcourt. She tried to recall his words to her. "So practice regularly, with a lot of different people. Do the gym challenge, if you want."

What better way to fight than against a legend?

Her WALKING WAKE was boosted by the tera crystal, faster than the REGICE. It jumped, a side step, to avoid the ZAP CANNON as it let out a loud NOBLE ROAR. In an attempt to lower it's power, it then attacked with an instinctual move against ice-type: FLAMETHROWER.

[attr="class","dianatag"]howard slayte | zero to one hundred

[attr="class","diana"]Diana was surprised by the amount of emotion that the Rocket beast shared, especially to someone like her. She found herself feeling concerned, empathetic, and... sad.

"I'm... sorry. I didn't mean to pry," she said.

She sat down, patting the ground beside her. It was a silent offering for him to join her. "I'm not familiar with team Rocket. Galar had dealings with them, of course. But I never imagined that I would be a member..."

What was she confessing to him?

[attr="class","dianatag"]bryan delarosa | protect the dyna tree

[attr="class","diana"]The ALLY SWITCH was her team's undoing.

With one Pokemon down, she had to rely on her DRAGAPULT who had no idea the move was underway. And as he materialized, it was not the ESPEON waiting. Rather, the AMBIPOM attacked in retaliation with a fatal SHADOW CLAW

The matched only last a matter of minutes, and one of her Pokemon were unable to continue to battle as the FARFETCH'D regained consciousness. Diana didn't see a way she'd be able to win against a two on one.

"I surrender. There's no way my Pokemon could beat yours in this match up."

[attr="class","dianatag"]Zev Harcourt | super training

[attr="class","diana"]Diana had a feeling deep down that Remiel Calcifet would perhaps never set foot back in his homeland. He seemed content here. Or maybe it was that he was forced to be that way. She had no clue what happened to him or what he'd done when he left Galar, but...

He almost appeared Hoennian now.

She didn't respond or react to his joke, instead holding her hands close to her and looking away from him.

Her head turned into the direction he indicated to when the ARBOLIVA appeared into the field. It seemed to not notice them in the distance, performing its dance across the ground.

"What is it doing?"

[attr="class","dianatag"]Remiel Calcifet | birth of new beasts

[attr="class","diana"]Diana felt her chains removed by none other than Remiel Calcifet. It always seemed to come back to him. Her mind was still foggy, clouded by pain and poison. She could barely register the words he was speaking to her as wave after wave of pain and sickness threatened to over take her body. There were only bits and pieces she could truly pick out.

”Poisoned…”

”Stubborn… rest…”

”I loved… lose you too.”

”What are you-” But the former prince was gone in an instant.

There was a thud, her body thrown to the ground with the weight of the landing in ultra space. Cyllora’s cries met her ears, but she wasn’t unable to make out with he said. What she noticed was Remiel Calcifet and his cousin Elise Calcifet, standing ready to attack and kill him.

”What are you doing!” Diana exclaimed, her voice high and strained. ”You kill him, and you’re no better than what our people are suffering! There are children here! This is not the way to go about things.”

Perhaps it was in her delusion she spoke out against the Calcifets. However, in her dazed state, this was unforgivable. They were just like Ronan Calcifet.

[attr="class","dianatag"]Remiel Calcifet & Elise Calcifet
- delusioned/poisoned/injured
- speaks out against Remiel Calcifet and Elise Calcifet voting to kill cyllora
- vote: spare cyllora

[attr="class","diana"]"I find that a field study may be a waste of our time, since this didn't go according to plan," Diana muttered to herself, staring at the WALKING WAKE with utter disappointment.

While it stood beautifully, elegantly, before them with crystalline features and a bold roar, it wasn't what she wanted.

And she wanted to smack howard slayte across the face.

"Fine. Alright. We can have them fight it out and see what happens," she conceded, though she refused to take his pity.

[attr="class","dianatag"]howard slayte | zero to one hundred

[attr="class","diana"]Diana scoffed, throwing her hands up and having them land heavily on the table.

"Did you hear a single word I said? You typical man," she hissed beneath her breath, her jaw clenched tightly as her icy blue gaze trailed far away from him. Her arms were tight around her chest, refusing to look back at Remiel.

"I feel like you've made your stance rather clear. What else is there to talk about?" Diana asked with spite lacing her voice, sparing him a meager glance from the corner of her eye. However, she stood abruptly, walking away from the tables and the staring crowd.

She exited without a word.

[attr="class","dianatag"]Remiel Calcifet | sunset selfie

[attr="class","diana"]As if the damage that the NIHILEGO did to her legs weren’t enough, an onslaught of mochi was thrown haphazardly across the battlefield. Diana raised her arm to shield herself from the purple treat, not thinking that it was more than a distraction — until it exploded. The scent was sweet, almost sickeningly so, and she wondered if there was really any point to it aside from distraction.

Sickness and delusion hit her moments later.

She fell to her knees with a grimace, clutching her chest as she wretched on the floor. It seemed, for the moment, that Cadbury was okay. But she had a feeling that her own Pokemon would be affected soon as well.

The familiar squawking of her enemy rested on her ears. Diana couldn’t tell if she was dreaming of FEZANDIPITI or not. But in her mind’s eye, the bird was standing in the room along with the other wardens, ready to punish their prisoners.

”You insolent bird. I will kill you!” she shrieked, commanding her ALTARIA to attack with a TAKE DOWN. The dragon-type moved swiftly across the field, perhaps in thanks to Remiel Calcifet’s command of the ELECTRIC FIELD from ZEKROM.

Diana attempted to stand again, though she found herself falling down in the midst of the chaos from her injuries and the poisoning.

[attr="class","dianatag"]- injuries: damage to legs from stealth rocks (nihilego), poisoned by mochi
- ill and delusional
- attacks FEZANDIPITI with ALTARIA using TAKE DOWN

[attr="class","diana"]Before she began to climb into the flesh tube, one of the NIHILGEOS had unleashed STEALTH ROCKS onto the playing field. And while the majority of the dagger-like protrusions managed to avoid piercing into her, a few of them embedded into her legs.

Diana let out a shriek of pain, reaching out with flailing hands as she tried to pull at them. Blood streamed down her legs, her skin torn, shredded, from their vice. ”Fuck!”

Her teeth sunk into the bottom of her lip as she began to crawl through the fleshy tube, leaving a trail of blood behind her and whimpering cries that only Remiel Calcifet could hear as they travelled through the tube to the other side. How she managed to stand again escaped her mind. Perhaps through pure adrenaline, though her knees shook as she helped him pull luka chêne through.

She did wonder, though, if the green liquid below would cause her legs to become infected. It would be something she’d suffer later.

Diana looked around the BREEDING ROOM, finding that her mask was loose from her face. She quickly threw it off, finding it easier for herself to breathe once more. That’s when she spotted her Pokemon, and then…

”Remiel. Look!”

ZEKROM.

But why were there two of hers? What were they doing to her dragons? What were they doing to his Pokemon?

She found that if she attempted to attack the tubes that held Cadbury, but no ice shot out from her palms. It seemed that her power had disappeared. But from the corner of her eye, she spotted the dangerous-looking beast. BLOOD MOON URSALUNA.

”What is that?”

[attr="class","dianatag"]Remiel Calcifet
- injured by STEALTH ROCKS (long term injury to her legs)
- escaped via the flesh tubes to the BREEDING ROOM
- spots her pokemon + ZEKROM
- wtf is that @ BLOOD MOON URSALUNA

[attr="class","diana"]Somewhere, in the midst of her fury and the mingling chaos, Remiel Calcifet found his way to her in the feeding pit. Diana's eyes locked onto FEZANDIPITI one last time before finally conceding to her former fiancé, following him through the screams and the fighting.

Maybe, later, she'd have a chance to pierce it with a spear of ice through its heart.

Meeting Remiel's panicked gaze, she nodded. "I won't leave your side." It was a selfish promise: get him out of here alive. He was needed for her plans to succeed. Yet, there was a feint tugging at her heart at the thought of him dying.

"He's only fodder, a tool to step closer to Hammerlocke's revival."

The memory sprang into her mind, causing Diana to falter for a moment before following him once more.

She nearly ran into his back when he paused to throw a bursting flame at the NIHILEGO ahead. If that wasn't enough, a spear of ice from her own toxic chain ability was thrown its way, offering Andrea Vaneau reprieve to her task.

Diana is the first to try and climb to the flesh tube, reaching a hand. "Hand her to me. We can get her through easily with both of us pulling."

[attr="class","dianatag"]Remiel Calcifet & luka chêne
- following Remiel Calcifet to escape
- wants to kill FEZANDIPITI
- Remiel Calcifet needs to be kept alive for her own goals...
- throws an ice shard at NIHILEGO in order for Andrea Vaneau to continue on
- through the flesh tube