[Maverick Hunter Zero]

"Not Lost, just exploring. Though I would say that this island is going to be in very real trouble if the Starvia is any indication." Shantae said calmly, having noticed a rock a little while back that was corrupted by the Starvia disease, and made a mental note to let the villagers know of the threat.

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

[Deleted]

Charizard turned his gaze curiously towards the three newcomers, tilting his head before approaching and stopping at a hopefully friendly distance, nodding at the assumption that they were new but shaking his head at the lost assumption. Please! They arrived on a boat, they couldn't be lost!

As a force of habit, he kept picking at his collar with his claws as Shantae spoke, jerking his head in a nod as Starvia was mentioned. He tossed his head in a wide sweep, at the city and its surroundings before bending down and scratching into the ground.

This place new. Simple and sweet, perfect.

---

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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Upon being told about the threat of the Starvia from Shantae, the women had three different reactions. Evanora just simply smiled as she did before, while Justine looked the same as she did, Tani however gave a bit more of a concerned look. "Starvia? Shouldn't you be concerned for that, for you and your people?" Tani asked Evanora as she happily turned towards Tani.

"Nonsense, if we do face the threat of some virus, then we will easily handle it. I won't let myself or Justine down." Her and Justine smiled at each other before turning back towards Shantae and Charizard.

"Nevertheless, you two look like you just came a long way. Please, we will take you to my castle manor over there so you can get something to eat, dinner is about to start in this city after all." Evanora then turned back towards Tani.

"Tani, seeing as how you recently arrived yourself. Why don't you join us?" Evanora offered as Tani shrugged.

"I don't see why not. Even if I am very suspicious of this place." Tani then began to follow Evanora and Justine towards the tower, Shantae and Charizard could follow them, or they can quickly leave the city and head to either the mountain tower or Greyiron instead.

If they got closer to the tower however, they would see something, green briefly glow from one of the castle windows.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

"You do know that there is no known cure outside the Life Sphere; meh, We'll take you up on the offer, just don't blame me or Charizard for what happens when the Starvia spreads." Shantae would say in a matter of fact tone, which was the blatant truth, Evanora wouldn't know of any form of cure, and the only known place that could be researching a possible cure is in fact the Life Sphere.

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Shantae
HP: 120/120
Shield: 35/35
Status: Shantae knows best, sorry Evanora.

[Deleted]

Charizard scoffed rather loudly at the sheer ineptitude of this so-called "leader". A possible danger, and not a lick of concern, some leader! He didn't even consider that this possible danger was from two strangers...though even if he did, he still would think this ignorance is stupidity. But if this ignorance led to free food, why, how generous.

Thus, Charizard followed closely behind, looking about the city as he went. His gaze lingered on Tani as they walked, who appeared to be the only one of intelligence stuck in this city, surely this girl wouldn't linger here long? Be a shame for someone already suspicious to not get an opportunity to escape...the ignorant ones, though...he only hoped that any infected wouldn't get near Pokemon Cove, that would make this whole situation perfect.

---

Charizard: 170/170

Shield 60/60

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

[Deleted]

Evanora and Justine laughed at what Shantae had said as Tani simply glared at the two women as they arrived at the castle, where they soon entered it. There the group would see numerous painting's on the wall, all of which were scratched off or covered in moss as Evanora would lead Justine, Tani, Shantae and Charizard towards the room where the food was as she tried to reassure Shantae that things would be all right.

"Hmph, I can tell that you're the one that prone to panic, sort of like Tani here." Evanora teased Tani. She tried to pet the girl who was around her size over for the sky pirate to whack it away.

"I don't panic, I tend to get suspicious, like what that girl's saying about this starvia. Your town will be in trouble if you don't at least find out what the starvia is and how you're going to combat it for your citizen's sake. That would be the first thing my father would do if he had heard about it." Tani scolded Evanora as Justine looked at her disapprovingly.

"She does have a plan for it. Me and Miss Personne have already discussed it privately, right?" Justine looked at Evanora as she nodded.

"Exactly. I heard about the Starvia actually, and don't worry, nobody here will be infected if it does come here." Evanora said to Tani, Shantae and Charizard, the former remained suspicious with what she said as the five walked past a door that was glowing green from behind it.

It was likely the room with the green glow from earlier. It finally caught Tani's attention it seemed, as the girl wanted to go inside it, only for Justine to quickly block it before Tani could reach the handle.

"No, sorry but nobody is allowed in there. We tried to have it locked, but we don't have a lock, nor does Evanora have a spell to lock the door." Justine warned Tani, who got suspicious again.

"What's in there? Your grand plan to protect this city from that Starvia virus?" She asked as Evanora walked to the two.



"It's nothing. It's a room that has a green emerald, nothing too important." Evanora smiled to Tani, which sort of creeped her up as she quickly approached a door and opened it for the four.



"Anyway, welcome to our dinner room." She showed the group a room full of delicious food as she and Justine walked over to the table. It had five chairs, which Evanora and Justine sat at as they looked at Shantae, Tani and Charizard.

"Come on, the food will get cold. I used a lot of magic spells to conjure up them." Evanora offered to the trio... But Tani stepped away.

"Uh, I need to go to the bathroom before I have something to eat. Where is the restroom?" She asked Evanora.

The girl got suspicious, but pointed the direction to the bathroom.

"Down the hall to your right." She told Tani the location, causing the girl to smile and nod.

"Thank you. I won't be too long." She turned and ran off back down the hall as Justine looked on.

"We sure hope you don't." Her and Evanora then looked at Shantae and Charizard.

"How about you, do you need to go to the bathroom? Or do you wish to have some dinner, and we can discuss more about this island you found. I'm guessing you want to know more about it huh?" Evanora asked the duo.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Shantae would promptly enjoy herself as she walked with the group not paying any mind to conversations going on, she did eat her fill though with no prompting, but when it came to being asked about using the bathroom, Shantae simply gave a polite smile... In spite of being in another's house. "I know we only just met, but why ask if I have to use the restroom, I'll at least say that you are at least polite in asking a Half-Genie what she'd do next... Speaking of which, I'll respectfully accept that." Shantae said.

"This woman is confident in politeness, but a fool to think that an army could stand up to the Starvia without casualties... Best to let this play out and try to find out the root cause of the situation here, and if it is revealed that she is trying to keep us and Charizard here against our will, she will know what it means to fear our magic." a thought in Shantae's mind had said as Shantae walked to the bathroom. This thought was actually the voice of Shantae's darkness; which went by the name of Nega Shantae, even Evanora was Oblivious to the fact that Shantae had a dark copy of herself within that couldn't be purged by any means.

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Shantae
HP: 120/120
Shield: 35/35
Status: Nega Shantae giving her thoughts, be mindful of the fact that nobody else but Shantae can hear these thoughts, Starii; do I make myself clear?

[Deleted]

As Shantae disappeared down the hall to the bathroom, Charizard lingered by the table and seated himself. The chair creaked ominously, but he barely noted the sound and refused to adjust in any way to make it easier on the chair. Curiosity flickered in his mind about the glowing door, but he wasn't dumb enough to turn his back on these two without a guard. The girl and Shantae were gone, so he supposed he was the guard today...good, nobody was better for the job, he'd bet.

So he turned his eyes to the food, shooting a claw forward and grasping a mass of skewers in an utterly non-classy manner, filling the table with the sound of clinking plates and utensils. "(Sorry.)" Even with Pokespeak, the smile that twisted his snout spoke volumes about how "sorry" he was. Then, as additional insult, he sniffed at the food as if to eat...and dropped it in front of him. What? He wasn't hungry yet!

His disrespect finished, he tilted his head at the two curiously. Knowing more about this island could help, so, talk.

---

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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"Because we're being nice, unlike yourself." Justine threw in a stealth insult at Shantae, an insult of which that Evanora is strangely not scolding her for as after all. Shantae was their guest, but as the two women watched as Shantae left the room to seemingly join Tani in the rest room, the women were left with Charizard.

"Come sit down, nice dragon." Evanora smiled as Charizard sat down with them, and so dinner began, even if it was without Shantae and Tani. As the trio had dinner, Evanora looked towards Charizard.

"So dragon, may I ask you a question?" Evanora asked as Justine looked at Charizard.

"If you can even talk." She snarked.

"Yes well, what do you think about a world where only dragons and apes rules and not any humans or dragons that oppose the ruling's of a wise noble dragon lord. Would you wish to live in that world?" Evanora questioned to Charizard, as she and Justine awaited for the Pokemon's answer.

---

As Shantae would go down the hallway of the castle, she would quickly hear a familiar voice from nearby. "Ok... Let's see what's behind this mysterious door." Tani said nearby. Should Shantae follow it, she would be met with Tani standing in front of the door that they were standing at earlier. She turned and noticed the half genie just before she was going to open the door.

"Oi, your that half genie girl that came to this island after me huh, and who's also suspicious of Evanora and that weird assistant of hers." Tani said before smiling.

"My names Tani by the way. Daughter of Tatu, the leader of the Sky Pirates." Tani leaned onto the door, which soon opened.

"Aha, let's see what secrets that Evanora has behind this door." Tani told Shantae before noticing that Charizard isn't with her.

"Hey, wheres your dragon?" Tani asked Shantae, before a green light filled the hallway that the girls were in, when Tani turned towards the inside of the room. She gasped at what she said at the inside of it.



There was a glowing green emerald inside of it, but what was inside it caused Tani to gasp.



It was a girl, around the same height as Evanora. She had brown hair and appeared to be sleeping from the inside of the emerald, but she was actually trapped from inside the emerald. Tani looked up and after briefly noticing a bell that was glowing red for some reason, quickly shook her head.

"Evanora must of trapped this girl in the emerald. We need to get her out, now! She really is doing something shifty." Tani spoke to Shantae before running into the room and taking out her spear, where she tried to stab into the emerald to break it open and save the girl, but no matter how hard she chipped the spear into the emerald, the emerald wasn't showing any cracks or damage anytime soon.

Nothing would work for Shantae either if she tried to break it open using magic, she was stuck there as Tani took a step back, but she then hit a portrait of someone from behind her.

"Huh?" Tani looked up at the portrait, and took a step away when she saw contents in front of the portrait.



It was a shrine, dedicated to someone called... Malefor.

"Who the heck is Malefor and why does Evanora have a worship shrine of him. Is she some fan of him or something?" Tani asked Shantae.

---

Before Evanora and Justine could wait for Charizard to answer their question, Justine quickly noticed that a small bell on top of the door that the group had came in from began to glow red.

They found it...

"Evanora!" Justine pointed to the bell, causing Evanora's happy face to turn into a frown as she too noticed the bell.

"Oh... No." Evanora quickly stood up, as did Justine.

"They did go into the room." Evanora growled to Justine, who nodded.

"I think we know what must be done." And without another word, Evanora and Justine quickly left the room. But before they did, Justine briefly stopped at the door and turned to Charizard.

"Please stay in this room and continue the dinner without us. We have some... Urgent business to deal with. But please be aware that Shantae or Tani will not return for dinner." Justine reassured Charizard before leaving the room to join Evanora.



The girls soon arrived at the room to confront Tani and Shantae, and realised that the girls were close to discovering the truth.

Of what they're really trying to do.

"You two, you... You..." Evanora looked at the girls with an angry expression at the face, she looked at her shrine of Malefor, and the emerald that was keeping Theodora at bay.

"You two weren't supposed to go into this room. I told you it was off limits." Evanora crossed her arms as she glared at Tani and Shantae. The former aimed her spear at her and Justine.



"Who is that girl and why is she sealed in that emerald that looks chaotic... A chaos emerald!" Tani tapped on the emerald that has trapped Theodora.

"And another question is." She pointed to the shrine.

"Who the heck is Malefor and why are you worshipping him!?" She left the air open for Shantae to say her input of what was going on.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

It was at this point that Shantae had gone into the bathroom, thinking about what to do about this situation, at the very least she knew little of things beyond her, she took her time to enjoy her business, but it didn't last long as she soon felt her magic start to go haywire, almost as if something was attempting to unleash itself upon the place, in addition once it stopped Shantae still looked as normal as usual albiet with some form of magical interference by the time she came out.

So she took it upon herself to investigate this and unfortunately got roped into doing so with Tani.

The place in question was somewhere that Evanora said was off limits, and unfortunately for Evanora, off limits was not in Shantae's lexicon, and saying otherwise only made it more suspicious on Evanora's end than anything else, and looking at the bigger problem is that both Evanora and Justine were suspicious to Shantae period.

The magical interference had reached critical mass when the two of them found the emerald in that room, unfortunately it also led to Evanora and Justine to confront her and Tani. This however did not sit well with the Half-Genie and the when the interference had subsided a magical burst of energy was released from Shantae's being, a level of such magnetude only meant one thing to her...

Trouble...

Trouble for anyone that sought out conflict and discord only made Shantae put up a much more agressive front, this became a moot point however due to the magical energy surge that was unleashed, and no sooner than that was the fact that Shantae had begun to change form, a form that was more 'Serpentine' than what Evanora could surmount without an immense level of willpower or the Conquerors Haki, none of which she could hope to have...

Especially since her opponent was a Half-Genie with animorphism powers that let her turn into things like...

...A Naga!

"And here I thought that this would work out without a problem, but you had to make yourself suspicious by not telling us why you didn't want this room opened, now your little secret is exposed and I feel you better come clean... Otherwise you and your citizens will be taken to the Life Sphere against your will. And to be honest I hope you aren't afraid of being on the receiving end of an 'inside' experience with a serpent." Shantae said with her new form now glaring at Evanora and Justine with eyes that looked like they could terrify the two into total submission regardless.
z18wcSR8p_1d20+4=22{Medusa Gaze @ Evanora and Justine, targets INT, 50% chance of both Fear and Paralysis if it connects}

It wasn't the extent of her animorphism powers however and this was just the tip of the iceberg, as something more monstrous was dwelling inside Shantae's magical being, Neither Evanora or Justine knew of the terror that was to come...

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Shantae
HP: 160/160
Shield: 55/55
Status: New form revealed: Naga form
Cooldowns:
Transformation Dance(4)
Medusa Gaze(3)
Stats(Naga form):
STR: 12(+1)
DEX: 12(+1)
CON: 12(+1)
INT: 08(-1)
WIS: 08(-1)
CHA: 18(+4)1d20

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A place of dragons and apes only? Charizard's face seemed to settle into a neutral expression, one could almost hear rusty gears of actual logic running in his head. First of all, the chain. Judging from the chain around his neck, he could easily see exactly what would happen to any dragons that didn't agree. What idiots, they wanted to keep away other dragons and humans, on Li!?

Secondly, and his face started to show the beginnings of a frown, he wasn't a dragon, fire-type, flying-type, the occasional dragon-type, this was all Pokemon here! If he could talk, they'd get an earful, he'd make sure of it!

However, it seemed that his answer was in no way their priority, not as much as some room they wanted to protect. And they wanted him to stay like some pet! How cute. Oh, it was only to bad he wasn't a dragon, then he might have appreciated everything they were doing. It was only too bad they messed up, how truly tragic.

For a few seconds, he stayed seated at the table, head tilted as footsteps started to vanish, and then he abruptly stood up. Call it petty, but whatever they told him to do, he wanted to oppose. The chain dangled on his neck and made a hot rage start to bubble in his chest, this was not going to stand!...and he had to help his allies, sure, but the need to personally show these two how little they could control this...that took priority.

A sweep of his tail flung the chair away, and he bashed his shoulder into the table as he rose. The poor food went flying, and he snorted in satisfaction before stomping after the two. The girl and Shantae had headed straight for the room, no real plans, no beating around the bush, perfect. Rushing into a confrontation was exactly his style!

The Charizard loomed at the door, aiming to trap the two where they could see them. He only paused momentarily to glance at Shantae, more serpent than ever, but she looked, smelled, and sounded similar...thus, it was her to him, and he didn't falter in trying to trap them.

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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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Once Charizard threw the food off of the table, he would see that the food would vanish into thin air as soon as it hit the ground should he stick around the room for a bit before confronting Evanora and Justine. Speaking of whom, Tani and Shantae wanted to know the truth about what was going on.

"Eww." Justine said about what Shantae had planned to do to the girls, but Evanora took a step forward as the two appeared to be surrounded by the group now, who were ready to attack them.

"I guess you three should know before this battle begins. For you see, in this town of Flora Em, or as It's really called, Malefor, I worship a very thoughtful dragon who wishes to conquer words so dragons and apes like him can roam them. I loved his ways, but unfortunately my family, including my cousin Theodora here thinks there wrong, so I intend to have Theodora here encased in this emerald forever and when the time is right. I will sacrifice all the citizens of Flora Em who are unaware of who I really worship." Evanora grinned.

"Malefor was slain by two dragons, one of whom served him for a long while, before she betrayed him!" Evanora punched a wall in anger. 

"But... I know of a ritual to bring him back. It just needs the body of someone on the side of good. I could never sacrifice my dear sweet cousin... So all those people outside will have to do when the time is right to preform the ritual." Evanora smirked.

"So, the citizens of Flora Em will be safe from the starvia after all... In the afterlife!" Evanora declared as Tani gasped.

"That's terrible. You're not getting away with it Evanora!" Tani turned to see that Shantae had already hit the two women when they looked at Shantae again.

"ARGH!" They both cried out. But before anything else could be done, Evanora took the time to focus on a spell.

"Grrgh. By the powers of Malefor, I sentence all that I hate into a life outside the island!" Evanora declared, and suddenly Shantae, Tani and Charizard would not only vanish from the castle and Flora Em all together... But off the island itself thanks to Evanora's teleportation spell.

Evanora fell forward because of the paralysis, as did Justine as she looked over to her.

"Evanora... Don't worry, hopefully whatever's out at sea will kill them. As soon as I can move again i'll nurse you back to health." Justine reassured Evanora, who smiled.

---

As soon as Shantae, Charizard and Tani appeared in the sky's above the island, they would start to fall towards the ocean. "AHH!" Tani screamed as she crashed into the ocean and vanished. Shantae and Charizard however, can use there powers and wings respectfully to stop themselves from hitting the ocean.

Unlike Tani... Who had soon vanished when she landed in the ocean.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Shantae was successful in landing the Medusa Gaze on them, but it came at a cost; being teleported out over the open water which would see the Naga splash down into the water, still bouyant and resourceful, the serpentine form that Shantae had taken on was useful for these sorts of things.

"Don't think teleportation will save you from my wrath, Evanora. The worst is yet to come and you get a front row seat to see a dragon getting eaten by one once I get back." Shantae said mentally making note that the Magical Interference had now begun to trigger slightly stronger than ever before this only meant one thing...

Big trouble!

Shantae would swim in circles and ponder her next course of action, making a mental note to head back for the island immediately because she wasn't going to give up on this mission, and swim towards the islands location she did... Like a naga-powered torpedo of terror.

---

Shantae
HP: 160/160
Shield: 55/55
Status: Naga Form
Cooldowns:
Transformation Dance(3)
Medusa Gaze(2)

[Deleted]

The sudden change of scenery meant Charizard didn't immediately grasp that he was falling, and he came dangerously close to the ocean before he twisted right-side up and spread his wings, flapping above the waters. Water, thank goodness he could fly...but where were his allies? The girl was gone, but Shantae was still here, it seemed.

Shantae swam away quickly, and he circled one last time before following her. He flew low just in case she needed to get out of the water, fire streaming from his jaws as he determined he'd be fighting his way through the next trouble they found.

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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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While Charizard and Shantae made their way back to the island, Tani had meanwhile washed up on the shores near the kingdom of Greyiron, the more brighter area of the island compared to Flora Em. Tani was still knocked out from the fall, but at least she was safe for now. Near her however, a girl around her age was whistling, it appears she was looking around for anything shifty.



And that was when she noticed Tani.

"Huh, a girl!?" The girl ran over to Tani and kneeled down to her. Once Shantae and Charizard had made it back to the island they would find... That they were at the spot from where they originally appeared on the island. However from a far, they can see the girl near Tani, it seems she hasn't noticed the duo just yet.

"She's still alive. Maybe Boras can help wake her up. Viira would be happy to see someone else that's similar to me. I hope she's human." The girl began to lift Tani up and took her towards the gates of Greyiron, however should Shantae and Charizard catch up to her, they would be too late and she would soon enter Greyiron carrying Tani.

They can choose to go to the Greyiron gates and find a way inside, or they can go back to Flora Em and extract vengeance on Evanora and Justine. It seems as though Tani would be alright, despite what the citizens of Flora Em had said about Greyiron.

And there was still that hill with the tower they could check out...

---

Evanora and Justine meanwhile, would recover from the paralysis attack that Shantae had done to them, only to hear her through their minds.

"Did you hear that?" Justine asked Evanora as they got up.

"It doesn't matter right now. I will be surely finished with her before she can even use her first attack should she and her dragon come back and attack us. Come along Justine." Evanora demanded to Justine as she nodded and followed Evanora further into the castle.

Closing the door that had Theodora prisoner.