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Located near the Pokemon Cove was a large but mysterious island that had appeared just recently. The island looked normal compared to the other island's that Li had, at least for now. Give the island a couple of days and it will be filled with Starvia. Even more surprisingly, was the fact that they were people living on this island, which was split between two cities.



One that had a darkish cloud above it but appeared to have humans living in it peacefully thanks to there ruler, who currently resided in the tallest tower of the city, looking at the Kingdom nearby and the shore's of Pokemon Cove from a far.

Soon another woman with brown hair, who unlike the woman with dark hair that was standing before her, was taller and had a lighter dress on compared to the other woman's dark dress as they looked at both locations. "It looks like it's going to be another slow day." Said the woman with brown hair dress.

"You say that but who knows. Maybe Alar has a trick up his sleeve, which would be a miracle, seeing as how he's incompetent at being a king so far, he can't even create a proper army to try and siege this long abandoned city despite having the people to do so." The Woman with dark hair turned away from the balcony that her and the woman with brown hair were on.

"Because he's scared of you. He's already seen you use your magic and how dangerous it can be on any victims that you target with it. Besides, we might also expecting... Outsiders today by the looks of it. I think I can see a boat near what I guess is called Pokemon Cove, we should be careful of whoever might come over at the boat." The Woman with brown hair told the one with dark hair, who nodded as she followed the woman in the tower.

"Oh, how is... She doing?" The Woman with dark hair stopped, the two were now in the Woman with dark hair's bedroom.

"She doesn't show any signs of breaking free yet, so we should be fine." The Woman with brown hair said, as the other woman smiled.

"Good." The Women then walked out of the bedroom.

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In the other city/kingdom on the island, it had nicer weather. Although it's residences were not human, they were all anthropomorphic deer, doe and donkey people going about there day. Although some of them looked scared. Near the end of the city was a large castle, who's owner, the king of this kingdom, was watching the dark city from a far, along with two women.

The King was a donkey, while the queen was a doe. The third figure... Didn't look like either.

In fact, she looked... Human. All three of them were worried.

About the future of the kingdom that they are currently living in and what the opposing kingdom and maybe outside forces will do to it. After all, outside forces may have already claimed four people that they have already known.

And the person that was going to deal with tensions that this kingdom had with the other... Was still missing.

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Finally near the waters at the front of Pokemon Cove itself, the Toad Officer would look worried. It has also come to the attention that until San's and Shantae arrive for the mission. He was the only one around, as all the other Pokemon in this area were scared off and won't return for awhile.

"Oh dear, why am I the only one here. I hope the two people for the mission will arrive soon." The Toad Officer was shaking in his tiny officer boots, worried that he will get jumped by a creature from the Starvia.

And that's keeping him from thinking what horrors might await Shantae and San's on the mysterious island, as who knows what goes on there. All the Toad Officer know is that they're are people living on it, and are probably unaware of the Starvia.

MISSION BEGIN!

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

{Starii, I'm showing Shantae's stats so you may know what I have to work with, especially since she is a squishy wizard}

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The Toad would not need to worry, the sound of a gigantic war bird flapping it's wings heralded the arrival of the Half-Genie, Shantae. As per usual, Shantae was armed with her usual get-up, and was actually looking forward to a decent job, especially since she was working with a skeleton who's puns can liven the mood.

*Sigh* "It's days like this that make me glad that I choose to do missions for the great thrill of adventure. Now to wait for the pungeon master skeleton so this mission can get underway." Shantae said , acknowledging the Toad that was in the area.

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Shantae
HP: 120/120
Shield: 35/35
Status: Ret-2-go
Stats:
{STRENGTH}: 12(+1)
{DEXTERITY}: 12(+1)
{CONSTITUTION}: 4(-3)
{WISDOM}: 11(0)
{INTELLIGENCE}: 11(0)
{CHARISMA}: 20(+5)

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As the Half Genie hero appeared on her gigantic war bird, Sans arrived... Completely out of nowhere, and he was standing right behind Shantae. No doubt he must've came from one of the many 'Shortcuts' that Sans is able to traverse around the world. He kept quiet for a moment, his eyes taking the opportunity to look at the world around him, enjoying the calm ocean waves and good scenery, before placing a bony hand on Shantae's should giving her a friendly wink, chuckling mercilessly at the comment at now being called the 'pungeon master skeleton.' It was only natural that the Mr. Megalovania himself replied with such a suitable pun.














Sans commented, holding up a random gyro out of no where to complete the pun. As to where he got the food from... No one knows, and there was little room for error that even he didn't know where he got it from. With a simple shrug, Sans cause the gyro to disappear, most likely sending it through the shortcut to save it for another pun. That and he didn't want to carry a gyro throughout the entire mission, that would be way too silly, even for his standards of comedy. Not to mention it could possibly give away their location due to it's smell.


The skeleton gazed at the toad, giving the little fellow a thumbs up, a gesture of good faith and arrival of the two companions that were tasked with the mission at hand, and by the report from the actual mission board, it sounded rather serious. Usually, Sans never bothers to take on such drastic and concerning expeditions. Yet sometimes, even he can't help but be overcome by curiosity and the sense of adventure on his part. That and he can 'charm' (a word to be taken quite loosely people) and win their affections through his actions and wit, just to make friends and maybe even enemies laugh.

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The Toad Officer twiddled his thumbs worriedly. However his anxiety of how Shantae and San's will act when they appeared to him increased by the arrival of the Half Genie on a war bird, causing the Toad to scream in horror as he somehow managed to hide under his hat, only coming out again by the arrival of San's and even still. The appearance of the small skeleton man caused the Toad Officer to whimper a little bit before coughing.

Regardless, he still had to tell the two about the objective of the mission and how to start it.

"Uhh, hi. You two must of heard about the mission, which is simple." The Toad Officer pointed towards the Boat.

"Just take that boat to the island and look around. If you can, try and save the people that are on it, if they're are people and my mind is not playing with me. Or the starvia is playing with me." The Toad Officer began to walk away from the duo, looking slightly worried.

"I should get back to the Life Sphere before the smell of the Starvia does make me sick. Good luck!" and with that, the Toad Officer soon ran off from the cove soon after.

Although not before tripping on a pebble first.





Once he left, Sans and Shantae would find a small boat nearby that they can take to the Lost Island. Of course, they can use other ways to get to the island if they want, such as Shantae's war bird or San's "Shortcuts" Either way, they should get going and find out more about this island then they already know.

As who knows what will await on it.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

{Interesting options, I approve!}

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Shantae looked noneplused, but giggled at Sans' puns. But was slightly exasperated that the Toad didn't want to join them... Oh well, at least they had options, sadly, The giant War Bird had left back to it's roost, so Shantae would looked at the boat, and out of some form of bravery that mushroomites SHOULD show instead of being 24/7/365 cowards, got into the boat and grabbed the oars.

"Reminds me of my third adventure, where I explored a bunch of islands and beat the snot out of a bunch of evil monsters... Except instead of this boat, I was aboard a ship to go to those islands." Shantae had said, waiting for Sans to come aboard so that she could get to rowing the boat to wherever the heck this mystery island is.

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Shantae
HP: 120/120
Shield: 35/35
Status: Ret-2-go... with rowing a boat!
Stats:
{STRENGTH}: 12(+1)
{DEXTERITY}: 12(+1)
{CONSTITUTION}: 4(-3)
{WISDOM}: 11(0)
{INTELLIGENCE}: 11(0)
{CHARISMA}: 20(+5)

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By the time Shantae had hopped on board the little Boat, Sans was already chilling at the back part of the boat, resting both skeleton hands at the back of his head with his casual smirk. Somehow he had managed to equip the boat with an opened umbrella, a music box, and a guitar... It's probably for the best to not even ask where did the pungeon master even managed to GET these items at a short amount of time - this is Sans we are talking about, and he was no doubt planning to do something with them either comedic or something else...



Which he did.



Out of the blue, Sans flips the switch as the small music box plays the instrumental tune of Mario Lanza's 'O Sole Mio', as he proceeds to play with the guitar to the tune of music... Was Sans flirting with Shantae!? He had his casual grin on his face, so even it was very confusing for anyone to take note if he was being genuine, or goofing around. Knowing Mr. Megalovania, it was probably both. Still, having music to start the long journey was certainly better then the long quiet (and incredibly boring) trip by boat. That, and mainly because Sans had no idea what was waiting on the other side, so why not take the chance to play one more goof role before he had to get serious.

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And arrived they did as the boat soon hit a piece of land just after San's and Shantae had left Pokemon Cove. The land was green with grass and would lead into a large field with a small hill just up ahead. Other then that the two had arrived on the mysterious island and when they got off from the boat, they would see three noticeable things about the island.

To there right was the first thing that was noticed on the island. It was a large city that looked abandoned, although judging from the fact that a few people were standing outside of it meant that the city was filled with people. There was also dark clouds surrounding the city from above, as if it was going to rain on it anytime, but it wasn't, the rest of the sky around the island was bright blue, such as the Kingdom to Shantae and San's left.

The Kingdom was walled off, with the only way into the kingdom being a large gate, climbing up the wall, or taking the boat into the Kingdom because there was no walls in the water, which meant that San's and Shantae could enter the city through the boat. It was bright compared to the cloudy city. Although nobody appeared to be around, however if Shantae and San's moved closer to the walls then they would hear people talking and laughing at the other side, enjoying the time of their lives.

Finally, at the middle, was a large mountain that appeared to resemble a volcano, except on the top was a large tower that looked just as abandoned as the city. It also looked fragile, as if it would collapse any day now. Although the duo can investigate the tower first, it would be unwise to even go to it, as the mountain looks very hard to climb, and it would be dangerous if the tower did collapse on the two.

So that only left Shantae and San's with three locations to investigate which was up to them. Would they investigate the dark city first, or the bright kingdom, maybe even the abandoned tower on the volcano like mountain?

Another thing that was noticeable, was a strange purple rock that was near the duo, judging by it's colour, the rock was infected with starvia and it was slowly spreading onto the ground of this mysterious island, slowly spreading it's influence onto the land.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

{Even more options to choose... Good thing I chose to come in with Shantae's new scimitar, leaving the Hungry Cookpot in her hammerspace as a Very Last Resort!}

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Once Shantae got them to the island itself, she would dock the boat on the shore. "Choices, choices everywhere! and not a drop to think. Do you think we should split up or go as a group." Shantae would ask Sans, hoping for some ideas to go about the mission now that they were in the area, aware that the Starvia starting to gain some form of influence on the land here, so it was best to keep moving to avoid corruption.

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Shantae
Stats:
{STR}: 12(+1)
{DEX}: 12(+1)
{CON}: 04(-3)
{WIS}: 11(=0)
{INT}: 11(=0)
{CHA}: 20(+5)
HP: 120/120
Shield: 35/35
Status: Ret-2-go

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The air was quiet for sometime, yet it seems as though Sans and Shantae can't come up of a decision as to where they should go first on the island. A light breeze blew past Shantae, going towards the Mountain as if to suggest to her to go there first.

Of course it was up to her as to where she and San's should go next. The wind was just mildly suggestion where the duo should go at random.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

{starii, I think the person who is RPing as Sans may have poofed, we will need to open that slot if he fails to turn up.}

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Shantae decided that it would be best to explore the more bustling town area since she was probably on her own, it wouldn't be safe to deal with other problems and made her way into the city, keeping her Iblis's Scimitar in her personal hammerspace for in case she had to go into a battle.

"Looks like I'm going in alone..." Shantae said, more to herself than anyone else. She wasn't wrong though, as she was indeed alone.

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Shantae
HP: 120/120
Shield: 35/35
Status: calm and collected...
Stats:
STR: 12(+1)
DEX: 12(+1)
CON: 04(-3)
WIS: 11(=0)
INT: 11(=0)
CHA: 20(+5)
Cooldowns:
N/A

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As if in replacement for the skeleton, something looked over the waters near Pokemon Cove and suddenly took off after Shantae's boat, beelining after her with a determined intent. It wasn't the war bird, being scaly and with a flame ignited upon its tail. Any Pokemon fan could recognize the beast, a Charizard, and a giant at that! A previous denizen of Pokemon Cove, it was clear why he was here. Old habits died hard, and he wasn't leaving the possibility of these survivors harming his home or spreading Starvia to it...maybe it wouldn't even end in a fight...please Arceus, don't let that happen.

His shadow suddenly flickered next to Shantae, and with a thud, he alighted a little ways behind her, rumbling in a greeting as he nodded firmly at her. An ally, he hoped she understood, though his jagged smile born from excitement might make that observation a little hard to ascertain.

Not that it mattered anyway, they were already in the bustling area, if she were uncertain of his intentions, he'd just have to make it clear if there were any danger.



Charizard: 170/170

Shield 60/60

STR 16 (+3)
DEX 12 (+1)
CON 14 (+2)
INT 6 (-2)
WIS 14 (+2)
CHA 8 (-1)

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Not so fast Shantae, it doesn't seem as though the genie won't have to go into the darkened city by herself. Thanks to the arrival of Charizard, who had came after Sans had vanished and so Shantae wouldn't have to do the rest of the mission alone. Now that he was with her, the duo can go into the mysterious town with a dark cloud above it together.





However as they got closer, the two would notice that the residents in the city were all humans, humans who were not infected by the starvia, humans who were wearing medevil clothes and humans who didn't seem to care that there was two new people heading towards the city, one of whom wasn't even human.

Shantae and Charizard did get a few odd stares, but other then that nobody in the village didn't say anything and continued about their day in the city, which if the two looked at a sign nearby, was called "Flora Em" judging by the fact that the sign looked recently painted, meant that the city itself was recently settled into by the humans that reside in it.

Other then that however, Shantae and Charizard didn't have any clues as to where to go next.

"Excuse me!"

Or so they thought, a resident in a pink dress and hat ran up to them in curiosity. "Excuse me miss, do you own that dragon?" The Lady asked Shantae, pointing to Charizard before taking out something for Shantae to grab.

It was a chain link with a collar, big enough to fit a dragon.

"Our leader Evanora said that dragon's are prohibited in Flora Em unless they serve for a certain dragon that she likes. Unless they are kept in a chain so they don't go crazy. I felt as though it was right to inform you since you two look new here." The Lady pointed to a tall tower nearby, presumably where Evanora lives.

"Her and her assistant, Justine Nogueira are currently out on a walk, but you'll most likely see her if you walk around this city for a bit. She's easy to notice. Flora Em is usually busy, and somewhat paranoid because of Greyiron being nearby." The Woman lamented, before she realised something in regards to the two.

"You two aren't actually from Greyiron are you? And is that... Really a dragon?" She asked the duo, although the second question was mainly aimed at Shantae.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Shantae turned around and was astonished, a Charizard here in this place; at least she wouldn't be bored out of her mind and was about to greet the Charizard with a friendly handshake when someone spoke up, asking if the Charizard was a dragon and that it would need a collar around it's neck if it was. Shantae simply turned around to look at the person.

"Have you never seen a Pokémon such as a Charizard before? I bet he can become a dragon only when he feels like it, but a collar might not be a bad idea..." Shantae said as she took the collar, though she would probably leave it slightly loose so that the flame Pokémon wouldn't like it preventing him from using it's flame attacks.

"Don't worry, it won't be super tight since I don't want you to be helpless in this adventure." Shantae whispered to the Charizard, hoping it could hear her without much fuss.

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Shantae
HP: 120/120
Shield: 35/35
Status: calm

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Is that a dragon?

A moment's pride did not make up for the instant repulsion that filled Charizard as he glared upon the collar, jaws ajar slightly as he stifled a growl in his chest. Instead, he lowered his head slightly so the collar could wrap around. Having just met this girl, it wasn't an act of trust, not now. He simply didn't think she looked the type to harm him, too small. Besides, he had more ways to defend himself than fire, even if she left the collar loose.

Still.

Instinctively, he raised a claw to his neck and grimaced at the new weight. A Charizard didn't feel off for no reason, but this felt off. If he were a real dragon, he'd hate this restriction with a passion, and all but a few wore this all the time!? Great, he already felt like meeting this Evanora already, and not in the benevolent way!

With one final shake of his head, the Charizard finally settled down and glared upon the tower, then cast his gaze around the streets. Remembering Shantae, he attempted to make his thoughts clear by grabbing his new chain and pointing to the Tower, the streets. Lookijng for this leader would get this situation over with faster, wouldn't it?

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Charizard: 170/170

Shield 60/60

STR 16 (+3)
DEX 12 (+1)
CON 14 (+2)
INT 6 (-2)
WIS 14 (+2)
CHA 8 (-1)

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The Villager Woman just gave Shantae a funny look. She didn't know what she meant by "Pokemon" or "Charizard" "Charizard? Is that the name of your dragon, and what's a Pokemon? Are those creatures from another continent?" She asked Shantae as she took the chain off of her.

And while Charizard wanted to find Evanora and Justine as soon as possible, it seems though he would get his wish... Right now, as a voice was soon heard in the area.

"Listen lady, I just want to get back to my group. I didn't expect to be treated like a thief in this town, despite being a self proclaimed sky pirate."

"And you will get your wish soon Tani." Sounded a gentle voice as the Villagers quickly talked amongst themselves as three woman started to walked towards Shantae and Charizard.

"Oh my god, it's them, our saviours!"

"It's her!"








Shantae and Charizard would finally get a good look of the three woman. Evanora, Justine Nogueira and Tani, the latter of whom looked annoyed with what was going on.

"Why hello, you two appear to be lost. Are you perhaps new on this humble island of ours?" Evanora happily asked to Shantae and Charizard.

"They do certainly look lost your leadership." Justine said to Evanora as Tani crossed her arms in annoyance.

"They're not the only ones." She grumbled, only for Justine to whisper a harsh.

"Shush!" To Tani as she scoffed.