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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 9, 2018 8:00:02 GMT -8
The original intent of the trip to the tunnels was a little excavation. Skye had never done anything like this before so it was a perfect opportunity to see what he could find. That notion was short lived however when his Sableye popped out of his ball and started eating anything Skye possibly found. Skye knew that the Sableye liked gemstones and ate them like rock candy but this was getting out of hand. Luckily he was the only one the young man had to deal with. Psyche wasn't a fan of the dark and decided to hide in her ball while they were down here. At this point he wasn't going to get anywhere so he supposed it was time to leave. Kitschy, had other ideas in mind. The Sableye was chewing away at a bunch of rocks. Skye sighed and crouched down to the pokemons level. "Haven't you had your fill yet? We can't stay here all day you know." The Sableye took that as a personal challenge and started eating faster, Skye sighed and eventually got the pokemon back into its ball. He promised the creature he'd fill up on some rocks if it went back into the ball. So now here he was, picking away at rocks in a neat pile to put away. He tried making them as small as he could so he didn't take too much and burdened himself. As he was working he heard faint footsteps. Was someone here too? Well this was going to get awkward in a moment. Lucien Benoit
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Post by Lucien Benoit on Mar 9, 2018 8:58:25 GMT -8
Lucien yawned and stretched as he made his way down the tunnel way. It hadn't been too long ago that he had been down this way searching for one treasure or another, but that day, he was mostly there to take an extended walk. Scuttling along the walls parallel to him was a rather pesky Salandit that he'd had for a while but hadn't had a chance to go out with for some time. She was the most interested in going on this walk through these tunnels, so he'd let her out to scour and see whatever she wanted to see. They walked for a while undisturbed, taking in the various sights and sounds as they came, Lucien walking much slower than the Salandit scurried.
Even before Skye had heard footsteps, however, Lucien had become aware of an aura not too far off. He couldn't make out the details of it just yet, as there were bends in the tunnels and various other things, but the shape of it was distinct enough: something small. Something not fierce and terrifying and worth running away from like a Steelix heh. "Stay close, Sable," he spoke causing the Salandit to look up confused. What? She hadn't gone that far or anything! Lucien flashed a grin, and the Salandit looked even more confused before just… sort of nodding in repose. Ah, ok? Sure.
As they finally came around the tunnel bend that led to Skye, Lucien stopped short, blinking a couple of times at seeing the person doing… something with rocks? In the dim light, it was hard to tell exactly. Lucien wouldn't process that as immediately so much as the battered and weak nature of the aura that was within instead. W-woah? What was up? "Uh… hi?"
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 9, 2018 11:40:33 GMT -8
The footsteps continued to grow louder but the reverberation made it impossible to tell which way it was coming from. There was no reason to be nervous though, not yet anyways. If it was a pokemon well he could battle it so it wasnt too much of a big deal. He should hurry and finish up with the rocks. He finished breaking off the last bit if rocks and was in the middle of packing them when the other arrived. Skye turned to face the other young man. He was quiet for a moment to study the stranger, urgh why was he running into attractive people all over now? He looked about his age or a bit older. Skye squinted to see another form, a pokemon. He recognized it as salandit, he thought they were really cool looking. Maybe he should've invested in one while he was in their native region.
"..hi..."
Okay this was really bad, he was terrible at conversation, which doubled if it was a good looking person, which trippled if they owned a cool looking pokemon. This triple threat was going to curbstomp him into the tunnel ground. It wasn't fair, he didn't do anything wrong to deserve this. But he couldn't make it obvious that he was extremely nervous. But if he didn't day anything it will get awkward very quickly.
"...are you lost? Do you need help?"
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Post by Lucien Benoit on Mar 9, 2018 12:19:26 GMT -8
Lucien smiled a little, raising a hand and giving a wave. Was he lost? Did he need help? "Ah nah bro, jus' wanderin' tha tunnels," he answered thumbing sideways to the Sanaldit on the wall. "Lettin' her run 'round a bit." While he was feeling up to it at least, heh. Resting a hand on the back of his neck, he flashed a grin. "Whatcha doin'? Searchin' fer treasure?" That was what he did most of the time he came into these expansive tunnel systems, and it made sense with him hunching over and … doing whatever? With the rocks?
The Salandit, meanwhile, scuttled forward and around Skye eyeing the strange human before snatching one of the rocks that the human had been collecting. Shoving it in her mouth, she scuttled back away climbing the wall once again. A small snort reverberated from Lucien as he watched that. "Sorreh 'bout dat. S'e's a bit of a collector 'r somethin'." A hoarder more than not, but he wouldn't put down his own Pokemon too much.
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 9, 2018 12:43:22 GMT -8
Well duh, of course he'd be here for treasure. But the didn't mean he wasn't lost. He wasn't lost but still. Ugh! You can do this Tenebrose. It was considerably better since his face covering wasn't brought up. Odd but good, yes he could probably do this without getting too nervous. Skye heard the padded footsteps of the salandit crawling on the cavern ceiling and grabbed one of the rocks. Kit would've thrown a fit if he saw that. Skye nods.
"It's okay, she can take as much as she wants. I made too many anyways."
The masked young man went back to packing and then hummed in confirmation.
"Sort of? It wasn't very profitable."
Before he could explain himself, the greedy gremlin of a Sableye remerged fron his ball. Apparently his owner was taking too long and he needed rocks right now! The Sableye cackled cheerfully and dove face first into the rock pile and started to shove the rocks into his gaping maw like a two year old eating a pile of dirt. Skye, totally embarrased covered his face in his hands. His ears warmed and turned very red. He could die right now, he should go find a chasm to toss himself into right now before anyone noticed.
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Post by Lucien Benoit on Mar 9, 2018 12:52:03 GMT -8
Lucien's head tilted one way and then the other, restless stretching for someone as lazy as him. He didn't quite get what he meant by 'made', but as the Sableye burst forth, it all seemed to click into place pretty quickly. Oh huh? Look at that.
Easing over even as Skye covered his already hidden face, Lucien crouched down to grin at the Sableye. "Yer a hungry one eh?" he chuckled a bit, his gaze drawing over the Sableye's form and stature. From the way the crystals were pushing up through its skin, he'd guess a male, young or adolescent maybe. It was hard to tell with the Mineral egg group, though- no wait, this was definitely in Human-like. Right, right, yeah. "Growin' ta get stronger heh." His gaze flickered back to Skye again. "T's nice 'f ya ta do wild feed now 'n again." Some Pokemon had such specific diets that Pokefood was really the only way to ensure that they got what they needed, but sometimes it was neat to see things come together like this.
"Oh yeh, name's Lucien by the way~ Call me Luci." Heh, before he forgot entirely.
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 9, 2018 16:09:13 GMT -8
Skye eventually looked up from his hands and spotted the guy walking over to his pokemon. The Sableye look at Luci with interest, for about five seconds before going back to eating rocks. Skye rummaged through the bag of rocks he found and pulled the one out that had a gem embedded into. The gremlin flickered over to his owner with interest, he pattered over to Skye and reached up with clawed grabby hands. Skye crouched down to hand the pokemon the gem encrusted rock.
"Yeah, Kit throws a fit over pokefood, he really likes his rocks. Especially gems, he loves them like candy."
The Sableye gnawed on the the rock happily, it latched onto the young man's pant leg which meant he was very happy with Skye. Then the other introduced himself as Lucien with a preference for Luci. That was easy enough to remember, Skye nods and walks over to the other. He extended his hand in greeting, at least here it was dark so he wasn't so worried about his hands.
"My name's Skylar...but you can call me Skye."
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Post by Lucien Benoit on Mar 9, 2018 16:32:57 GMT -8
Clasping the hand, Lucien flashed a grin. "Nice ta meetcha Skye, kinda weird tho' since we're undahground," he laughed at his own pun, unable to contain it. The Salandit that was scurrying around rolled her eyes. Humans and their weird wordplay were beyond her sometimes.
Releasing Skye's hand again, Lucien set both hands in his pockets pretty easily. "Ya come 'ere often?" He knew plenty of people who made their money selling old stuff found in the tunnels, but there were others who did it more for the sport of it than anything. "Ah'm in 'ere all the time." Except not really considering how much work he put in at the ranch, working at contests, and the various other things he found himself invested in.
The Salandit, meanwhile, had scurried around and started to pull at the walls, claiming a couple superfluous treasures that caught her beady little eyes.
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 9, 2018 19:19:39 GMT -8
Yow! This guy's got one hell of a grip, Skye totally underestimated him. He was way stronger than he looked. And that smile, it was very contagious. It made Skye want to grin, but that would be very painful right now. He looked away and focused his attention on the salandit that was still scurrying about. He zoned out for a moment as his mind was tuning into something. Oh. Its that sensation again, that wave of energy. That little buzz that he was near a psychic. Now he knew what that was he didn't have to stupidly walk up to people and scare them by telling them he knows. Oops. Was this guy a psychic of some sort? And most of all, did it matter? His ability to sense things beyond human ability was so annoying and extra sometimes. He figured if it ever came up, it would be on person in question's terms.
He heard the other laughing and missed the entire thing that had been funny, quick! Make it seem as if he totally didn't space out!
"Oh..yeah haha."
Nailed it. And now he at least was paying attention to Lucien to hear his question. Skye shook his head, it wasn't even hard to think about it.
"Oh, no this is my first time here. I was hoping to cash in some of the stuff I found, I'm not from around here so having a way to make some cash here and there is very beneficial."
Too bad his greedy little gremlin ate all of the gems, Skye looks back down at Kit who looked up at him showing all his sharp teeth. He was trying to be adorable, and it was working. Skye leaned down to pet his Sableye, who nuzzled into his touch.
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Post by Lucien Benoit on Mar 10, 2018 7:24:46 GMT -8
Lucien smiled a little and set a hand on the back of his neck. Guess that joke fell flat, but whatever~ As Skye explained that it was his first time in the tunnels, however, Lucien's lips quirked up a little. "Oh yeah?" Well, that made sense. The presence of the Sableye, however, made things a little more humorous. Lucien knew what they were like, after all. "Well- welcome to Veria?" Skye had said he wasn't from around here, but Lucien couldn't quite tell if he meant whatever city they were under right now or the entire region. It had sounded like the latter considering how far these tunnels supposedly ran, but yeah.
"Ah'm actually from Kalos, 'n then lived in Alola fer a long time before moving 'ere, been 'ere 'bout a year now." A year and then some, or so he realized on saying it. He had been fifteen when he'd showed up, even if a couple months later he had turned sixteen. How he was seventeen and close to finishing up his online schooling among other things. Shesh, where the heck did the time go anyways?
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 10, 2018 8:21:30 GMT -8
The Sableye wandered back to rock pile, scanning through it in hopes of finding more gems. Skye stood back up to continue his conversation with the other boy. He welcomed him to Veria but it sounded more like a question because he wasn't sure if he wasn't from this area or this region in particular. It made sense as tons of people from other place move here year after year. Surely there was way of seperating natives from non natives but why anyone would do that was his guess. Then Lucien mention Kalos, what??? He's from Kalos!? Actually he shouldn't be all that surprised, his accent was quite apparent to him. But what were the chances he'd meet someone who'd lived in Kalos and Alola? He wouldn't call this fate, more like a happy coincidence.
"No fooling? I've lived in both those places too. I'm originally from Kalos, Lumiose city. I lived there until I was 13...."
He gripped the sleeves of sweater, clearly uncomfortable so he quickly moves on.
"Then I move to the Alola region. I was there for about 6 months before I left to travel abroad. How funny things work out huh?"
That's not exactly how that happened, but this was as close as he could explain his life story without treading into comfy territory. Despite this it was nice to meet someone kind of like him. Granted Lucien was NOTHING like Skye. He was happy, cheerful, healthy. He really shouldn't compare himself to other people but he couldn't help himself, he knew what he was and when he saw other people he always sees what could've been. Something unobtainble and it hurt sometimes. That's what he liked about veria, who he was didn't seem to matter and people were more than willing to give him a chance.
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Post by Lucien Benoit on Mar 10, 2018 8:59:48 GMT -8
Lucien's eyes grew quite a bit as Skye described his own background. "Realleh?" he grinned a bit. "Ah was over 'n Shalour, lived der till I was 10ish." Or rather exactly ten when he high tailed it right out of the region and right over to Alola. He didn't even fully register Skye's nervousness, his own excitement growing a little too much.
"What island were ya on 'n Alola? Ah lived on Ula'ula 'ut traveled ta all of them now 'n again." Lucien went on as Skye did. Granted, he had, in fact, lived on Melemele for a bit there, and maybe even Akala for a couple of months, oh and there was that one time he stayed over at a friend's house on Poni for much longer than he expected to but- yeah. "Did ya ever see 'ny 'f the Tapu Guardians?" Lucien himself had been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of one years back now, but it hadn't meant near as much to him at the time as it did now. Perhaps absence made the heart grow fonder after all.
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 10, 2018 13:15:14 GMT -8
Skye had to fish around his memory because he didn't stay very long in that region, hell he stayed in the kanto region longer than he stayed in Alola. However if he had to compare the two he liked Alola much much better, mostly because the people were nice to him. While he was in Kanto he was accused of being a...hex maniac....whatever that was it wasn't good and people tended to stay far away from them as possible. Lavender town was really nice, the only thing that confused him was why it was named Lavender town...there was nothing lavender about it.
"Oh uhm, if I remember correctly I lived on Akala Island in Heahea City. My aunt's place of work had a branch there and got a transfer."
The tapu's were something out of fantasy, like all legendary pokemon. The difference was that these pokemon tended to interact with people more. They have chosen Kahuna and shrines where people can go to. It was way different than anything he'd ever seen. Skye himself didn't see any Tapu's but he knew people that had seen them. And sometimes you could even hear them at night if you drowned out all the other sounds of the pokemon wandering about at night.
"Ah, no I never saw em. But the locals in the area have lots of stories on sightings."
He wondered if Lucien saw them, that would be cool. Personally Skye didn't see the big deal with Legendary pokemon. That didn't mean he didn't care about them, lots of legends shaped the world as it is now. That's why he think a lot of them should be left alone. Going out to seek them is probably a very bad idea, however if they so happened to be in your field of vision whilst you doing...whatever it is other people then that's totally fair game.
"Did you ever see them?"
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Post by Lucien Benoit on Mar 10, 2018 13:29:26 GMT -8
Akala Island? Heahea? "Ah man dat's one 'f mah favorite places," Lucien flashed a grin. "Ya ever been in the Tide Song Hotel?" Lucien certainly had. In fact, he'd spent about a week there after some other stuff had gone down, heh. It was huge and fancy and nice for sure.
He deflated just a little as Skye mentioned not having seen any of them. "Ah damn," he chuckled a bit rubbing the back of his neck and shrugging a bit after. As the question was turned around to him, however, he grinned again. "Think ah saw Tapu Bulu a'tually," he grinned a bit. "And maybeh Tapu Koko-" Neither of these he was very sure of, honestly, but of the two, he was more sure of the prior than the latter. "Wuz realleh cool. Der awesome Pokemon." Near enough to gods to be worshiped for sure. As it was, though, Lucien wasn't even fully sure if he believed in Arceus, Palkia, and Dialga in the same way he did the Guardians. Perhaps it was their muted presence, heh.
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Post by Skylar Tenebrose on Mar 10, 2018 14:26:41 GMT -8
Even in low light Skye could see how disapointed the other was, it wasn't the end of the world or anything. Sure its one of those once in a life time things that happen but no one will die if they don't see those pokemon. However, Skye has learned quickly that sometimes it's better to just not say anything. Not a moment later Luciens demeanor changed back to happy as he talked about his experiences with the Tapu's. Though Skye appeared mystfied and intrigued, he really was but he also was having a hard time keeping up with Lucien on an emotional level.
"They sounded really cool when I was told about them. The festivals that the people throw in their name are amazing to. I don't think there's a food out there that will ever compare to Malasada."
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