(ACE) The RELIC Team

Servous sat on top of the relic, he was growing hungry, because he couldn't bring himself to eat anything in his web. Perhaps he'd head back to town, maybe he could find some...berries, or something. He maneuvered around his web until he found the tunnel and he checked for anyone outside the cave before going.

(It's been evening for the past few pages so thought it was time to have it be late evening now)

Sunshine sighed as she saw the building and looked at Carrie before she led the way inside the building. She gently moved around to get Glinyua off her back so that both of them can relax easily for the night. The sun Pokemon waited for Carried to get inside before she laid near the door. There wasn't much an Espeon can do as protection but at least she will be able to hear danger before it strikes them unaware. She just hope that the remaining survivors are out there and that they will come across them soon so that their group will be stronger since there will be strength in numbers. Sunshine's mind turned to her friend Panthera and she hopes that her friend is somewhere safe for the night.

Carrie looked out the window. The rain was still coming down. Everything just made the mood feel depressing. She looked over at Sunshine, then at Glinyua before returning her attention to the window. The Froslass let out a sigh, wondering what had become of this world.

There seemed to be a figure moving in the rain that caught Carrie's attention. It's movements seemed to be too active to be that of someone who if infected or undead. Was it someone who was alive? The Froslass slowly moved towards the doorway, but didn't leave the house. "Hello? Are you alive?" The figure stopped, its attention was on the Froslass. She heard a faint "yes". "Then come in from the rain. We have plenty of room."

The figure moved forward to Carrie's view. It was an Absol. He was soaking wet, but he looked familiar to her. The Absol thought the same thing. "Carrie? Is that you?" He said
She nodded as she realized who it was. Her expression grew worried as the Disaster Pokemon smirked. "So... killed anyone lately?" The Froslass wasn't amused. With a sigh, she told him, "Elliott, now is not the time to joke about death. Two of our friends just got killed..."

Elliott noticed that there were others in the room with Carrie. "My apologies. I-I didn't know." The Absol stepped forward into the house. He went into a corner to shake himself dry before moving back towards the group. "Hello everyone. My name is Elliott." He said bowing. Carrie moved back into the house as well. "Elliott is a friend of mine from when we did contests. Ironically, our trainers didn't like each other." The two let out a chuckle at the true statement.

(And enter Elliott...)

Upon seeing no one in the immediate area he ran out into the rain. He sought for some sort of berry tree or bush. He hoped he wouldn't run into anyone, feeling somewhat guilty for his sudden departure, but still untrusting of the group. Then he found an Oran tree near the top of the hill and climbed up, satisfying himself on the Oran berries there.

Glinyua felt her body rolled onto wood, coughing and sputtering water as she carefully sat up, rubbing her eyes. "Wha..." she murmured, looking around. "What happened?" Realizing the mood and the obvious absence of the two newcomers her breath hitched with thought. "Did... They die?" she asked, quietly, balling her hands up into fists. "I can't do anything right."

"Hello everyone. My name is Elliott." It was only then did she notice the Absol, and Glinyua felt her mind screaming at her to get away. More Pokemon, more death. She anxiously fidgeted her hands, frowning. "Er, um... I'm Glinyua, pleasure to be of your acquaintance." Carrie spoke. "Elliott is a friend of mine from when we did contests. Ironically, our trainers didn't like each other." Contests? "Which contests did you both do?"

Sunshine looked at the new comer her eyes widen as she recognized the Pokemon as an Absol. At once her mind turned to the Absol she met before, Soul, if she recalls his name correctly. But her thoughts turned away from him since he just suddenly disappeared without a goodbye which really hurt her. She smiled softly as she listen to Carrie and the Absol, she now knew as Elliot and heard Glinyua comment by asking what contest they did which grabbed the Espeon's interest as she looked at the Absol. "I'm curious about that myself. I never been in contests before. I've always been in battles. Also it's nice to meet you Elliot, my name is Sunshine," she said as she smiled softly at the Absol. Her eyes seemed to glow as she spoke but she didn't realize this. She already knew Carrie's story and knew what had happened at the contest since Carrie had let her see her memories earlier so she knew what Elliot was talking about in a way. Sunshine is glad that Carrie had a friend as she went through all of what she did.

Elliott listened to the others introduce themselves. The spider walking on two legs (he wondered how she did that) was Glinyua. Could be a little tough to remember. The Espeon was called Sunshine. That name was easy enough to remember. The two asked Carrie and Elliott about the contests. "I wasn't really a fan of them, personally. Carrie would know more about it than me." He looked at the Ariados. "Also, uh... Glinyua, is it? Is there a shorter name you like to go by? I just want to make sure I don't screw up someone's name." The Absol sat down, obviously tired from the long day.

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Carrie nodded at Elliott's remark. She noticed he wasn't fond of them, so he would have a tough time explaining. Carrie, however, didn't want to make things too complicated, so she shortened it up as best she could. "The purpose of contests is to use your pokemon and their moves to showcase their beauty and talent. That's basically all there is to it, and I really don't want to go into further detail." The Froslass was starting to get tired as well and let out a yawn. "I say we should get some sleep for the night."

The berries filled him up, allowing him to forget the hunger he'd felt just a minute ago. Servous felt a wave of exhaustion almost causing him to slip out of the tree. So tired... He began spinning a web within the tree, not willing to go back to his clearing and began to sleep in his webbing, stretching down half the trunk. The sounds of electricity was more soothing than one might expect and he was quickly lulled to sleep in the webs.

[OOC: Just gonna skip this round so I can get some work done without worrying constantly, lol. xD Lets just say Glinyua said that Elliot could call her Glin and that she says she's been in several contests too. c:]

Sunshine listen carefully as Carrie explained contests before she yawned. The Sun Pokemon smiled softly at her friend and said, "Yeah, we should all get some rest we all had a long and horrible day today." She then look at Elliot curiously as he sat down. For some reason she wanted to be near him but she wasn't sure if she should move. She sighed softly, if not sadly, as she thought of the young Zorua who she had began to care for even before she got to know him. As she thought of Shift her ear drooped in sadness and her eyes dimmed in their glow. She was glad they didn't come across Reagan's body as they headed to this shelter so that image wasn't in her thoughts as well. She believe she had enough of a gruesome death in her mind from seeing Shift being killed before her eyes when he wasn't even able to defend himself.

(Permission for either Carrie or Elliot to notice the sadness around Sunshine and cheer her up if they wish, mainly Elliot though)

Glin was an acceptable nickname for the Ariados. Elliott nodded, showing he understood. "Yeah, we should all get some rest we all had a long and horrible day today." Sunshine said. "Yes... it's been a bad day..." She lowered her head and went to look for a place to sleep. Elliott was going to follow her, but noticed a sadness coming from the Espeon. Seeing her like this didn't settle well with the Absol, so he went over to her.

Elliott sat down beside Sunshine and spoke softly to her. "Sunny, are you alright? What seems to be troubling you tonight?" The Disaster Pokemon felt a deep concern for her and wanted to make sure that she was alright.

(OoC: Sorry for the short/crap post. I just didn't want to skip)

(Zzzzzzzz, skip)

"Yeah, we should all get some rest we all had a long and horrible day today." Rubbing the fatigue out of her eyes, Glinyua scraped her hands against the floorboards, thinking. "Alright, we all get some well-earned sleep. We need someone to keep watch for the night, and I'll do that. When we wake up tomorrow, we'll begin fortifying our shelter and making barrier around the village. We can also go scout out food in the early morning, so it can last us the day," pausing to think it through some more, the spider spoke again.

"Another plan of action we could take is search every nook and cranny of this area for food, take it, and start heading off to maybe find some other place to take refuge. It's a bit risky, so we might want to put that idea on hold until we've all regained our strength. We could also conduct a search for other survivors later on," standing up, Glinyua glanced at the misfit squad she was with, before nodding. "We can discuss it more at dawn, right now everyone should get to sleep early so we have more energy. I'll be keeping watch outside," With that, the Ariados slipped outside and closed the door, sitting beside the entrance as she looked at the setting sun, alert as ever.

"Even the sun looks like it's drowning..."

Sunshine was just laying her head on her front paws when she heard Elliot say, "Sunny, are you alright? What seems to be troubling you tonight?" She lifted her head and looked at the Absol with her ears still droop while she answered, "I've seen so much death today and with some of the ones I considered really close friends with. But one of them I cared about as if he was my own child and he was killed while I couldn't do anything to stop it. I was so powerless to save him and I can't get his death out of my thoughts." She wasn't sure if Carrie heard her but she knew that the Froslass will know who she was talking about.

"I've seen so much death today and with some of the ones I considered really close friends with. But one of them I cared about as if he was my own child and he was killed while I couldn't do anything to stop it. I was so powerless to save him and I can't get his death out of my thoughts." Elliott noticed that Sunny's ears were droopy. Someone with a name like Sunshine shouldn't have to be depressed like this. Elliott found it rather ironic, really. The Absol lightly nuzzled the Espeon. "I'm so sorry for any and all losses you have experienced in your time out here, Sunny. Everything's going to be okay."

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Carrie overheard the conversation between Elliott and Sunshine fomr another room. She thought that everyone would be safer if she slept in another room. Whenever she sleeps, she has the same dream. The one about the contest incident. 'They would be safer if I wasn't in the room...'

(Currently too unmotivated to write about his dreamings skip)

[OOC: Skip]

"I'm so sorry for any and all losses you have experienced in your time out here, Sunny. Everything's going to be okay." Sunshine heard Elliot say just when she felt him nuzzling her. She looked at the Absol and gave a small smile as her ears lifted up a bit more. "Thank you Elliot," she said softly before she relax next to him. She realize that Carrie wasn't with them and looked around for her friend when she caught a glimpse of the Froslass in another room away from them. Remember the memory Carrie showed her she understood why and sent to her by telepathic ways, ~Goodnight Carrie. I hope you sleep well~ She then closed her eyes and went to sleep. After a bit she snuggled closer to Elliot without realizing it as she slept.

Elliott smiled as Sunshine smiled at him. "Thank you Elliot," She told him. She fell asleep next to him. He noticed that the Espeon snuggled closer to Elliott, but wasn't sure if she realized it or not. Elliott chose to go with it and softly smiled as he fell asleep as well. Tomorrow was a new day, and he hoped the rain would stop.

Carrie continued to watch as the Absol and Espeon were talking. Sunshine had noticed that the Froslass was in a different room. ~Goodnight Carrie. I hope you sleep well~ She heard. Sunshine sent it to her via telepathy. She softly smiled and hoped for sleep as well. She hasn't gotten a good night's sleep ever since the incident, and was hoping this would be the night she could put that behind her.

(OoC: So... time skip, anyone?)

((Hopefully this is the last skip, I'll try next turn))

It was to the early dawn that she awoke, eyes droopy as the Ariados attempted to blink the sleep out of her eyes. Glinyua had fallen asleep in the middle of her watch, but realizing that nothing seemed to have attacked them, sighed in relief and slowly stood up. Peaking into the broken window at the others, still resting, the spider decided it would be a good idea to grab some berries as breakfast before they woke up.

Scaling the sloping hills of the village, her long, spindly arms reached out for the berries above her head, snatching them from the budding vines and collecting them in a broad leaf. Glinyua yawned, slowly beginning to drag her collection of fruit down to the ruined home. Entering their temporary shelter, she began shouting at the top of her lungs.

"Everyone get up! It's a new day today," the Ariados shouts, laying the pile of berries in the center of the now-awakening bodies. "I got all of us breakfast, eat up so we can go along with out day!"

Sunshine slept peacefully beside Elliot but when she heard Glinyua shout, "Everyone get up! It's a new day today. I got all of us breakfast, eat up so we can go along with out day!" Her ears popped up in alert and her eyes shot open giving a slight glow to show how startled she was being awoken like that. When she looked beside her and saw the Elliot had stayed by her side the entire night and that she had snuggled closer to him in her sleep she blush before she looked at Glinyua and smiled at her friend, "Well, that was a nice wake up call Glinyua." She chuckled softly before she looked around at the others before she gently moved from Elliot's side, but not before she gave him a soft smile, and went to look at what Glinyua brought for them to eat.

Elliott and Carrie were both woken up by the sound of Glin's shouting. Both of them had different reactions. The Absol woke up slowly, still next to Sunny. "Good morning, Sunny." He said with a smile. Sunny seemed to have a blush on her face from snuggling closer to Elliott. He looked at the berries in front of him and wanted to be a gentleman. "Let's wait for Carrie."

Carrie did not react as well to the wake up call. Her eyes snapped wide open as she prepared an Ice Shard attack in her hand. "Stay away!" She screamed as she flew out of the room. She looked around the building frantically only to see that all eyes were on her. She rubbed the back of her head and blushed, embarassed at the scene she made. "Ehh.... Sorry about that... Didn't really have a good sleep..." The Froslass looked at the pile of berries that was on the ground and moved closer to the group. "So, what's for breakfast, today?"

"Well, that was a nice wake up call Glinyua." The Ariados gave a wry smile, laughing. "Sorry about that, I just didn't know if anyone was a deep-sleeper or not," When the Frosslass woke and screamed, the spider tensed, before calming down. "Oh gosh, I'm really sorry Carrie. I'll do a bit more of a... Quieter wake up call next time. Anyways, I got lots of Pecha, Oran, Cheri, and Chesto berries for breakfast. Let's all eat up to regain our strength!" motioning to the rather large pile of berries, the bug-type herself picked out a Pecha Berry and gently bit into it, savouring it's sweet taste.

"So yesterday I mentioned the plan of action we should take today..." she murmured, wondering if anyone had actually listened to her at that time. "So what do you guys think? Do you want to stay in the village and fortify shelter, or salvage all the food and supplies here and go somewhere else? In the long run, we will have to move when we run out of berries, unless we cultivate our own farm..."