Luneth Tarot
Tide Song Hotel
Affected RP'ers: @Neo Emolga

At least her plan seemed to be working. The two witches she was following were talking openly, already revealing that they were going to the Megamart, and the reason behind the attack.

At the latter bit of info Luneth’s stomach twisted. So the reason they’d attacked was because of the hospital itself. Not much chance of setting it back up again until it was all over. And if they were this angry at people using Shadowcraft against them, what would happen if they found out about her or Glimmer?

There was a crash followed by another roar. Head whipping round, Luneth saw that Giratina had won against it’s enemy. So even another legendary wasn’t enough to stop them… How could they possibly stop these witches?

Trying not to think like that, she turned her gaze away from the hospital ruins, just in time to see that one of the witches attacking the other with a barrage of spells, leaving only a sleeping Blitzle in their place.
What had happened? Luneth was ready to run if they turned on her next, but thankfully the witch seemed only interested in her former companion. Had this been punishment for spilling all that info earlier? Still, she hadn’t targeted Luneth yet, so she could still tail her a bit longer.

It was when she met up with another witch that Luneth realised what had happened. The witch she had been tailing was one of Triad, and had seemingly thought of the same plan as she had.
In most situations Luneth would have been annoyed that she risked her life for nothing, but as it was she was just glad that Triad had survived. Or at least two of them…

It took her a moment to recognise that the half flower person being helped along by one of the witches (Cassandra?) was Jarena. Luneth cried out is dismay at how bad a condition she was in.

She spent the short journey in silence, not wanting to disturb Triad, while there was no one else in the are could speak pokemon to explain to.

They headed for the Tide Song Hotel. Luneth briefly thought about picking back up her clothes and pokemon, but Agatha’s witches might still be on the prowl, and a bunch of pokemon would be more likely to be overlooked that a trainer would.

Once at the hotel, Luneth jumped onto a sofa and breathed deeply. She was out of danger temporarily at least. Now she had time to think properly, without looking over her shoulder every moment.

She couldn’t go out and pick up her Pokemon, or spell reagents. So for now she was stuck as a Vulpix, though honestly that was more of a plus than a downside.
If she could borrow another agents comm, she could call up hers and tell them where she was, but Triad were indisposed, and she didn’t know any other agents who could speak pokemon aside from Avery and the guy with Jirachi, neither of which were here right now.

She was stuck here, powerless to do anything, and unable to even communicate with the few people who could.
She hunched herself up and rocked back and forth, trying not to panic.

It’ll all be fine, she told herself. Everyone will be fine. The curses will be lifted and everyone will go back to normal. Everyone will make it out of this alive. Her pokemon were safe, the witches wouldn’t find them. And if they did, they’d ignore them.
Everyone would be fine. Everything will turn out ok in the end.
If she kept telling herself this, maybe she’d believe it.


Glimmer
Route 8
Affected RP'ers: N/A

Glimmer grumpily marched back to the motel. She spent all day following up on a lead on a potential Shadowcraft witch, only to find out that it was just some festival goers cosplaying.

As Steven filled her in on the situation however, her annoyance changed to worry. While she had been chasing red herrings, Agatha had struck home base. Heahea had been overrun by Shadowcraft witches, and now Glimmer had been requested to attend a meeting about some intel.
She was slightly surprised that Steven trusted her enough to invite her. Maybe he just needed as many witches on his side as possible? She didn’t think too much on it though, distracted by everything else she head learned.
As soon as the call ended, Glimmer dialed on Luneth’s number. After a few moments, she heard the high pitched voice of Flan. That was not a good sign. Luneth must not be carrying her comm with her.

“What’s going on back there? I heard about the attack on the med center. Is everyone alright?”

Glimmers heart sank as she heard the reply. “Luneth left after some of the witches a while ago, but hasn’t come back yet.”

“I might be in the area soon, if she gets back call me, otherwise I’ll come pick you up.”

She cut off the call. She hoped Luneth hadn’t done anything stupid, but there was nothing she could do for her right now. Now she needed to get to the meeting site. If Steven had called her specifically, then it must be important.

Normally she could just fly there in a breeze, but the haze of Shadowcraft seemed to be interfering with the sunlight enough to block her Sky Form even in the day. Plus, her spiritwater costume was too much to carry in that form, and silly as it was she didn’t want to have to abandon it just yet.

So, she’d need to travel on land. She’d never learned to drive, why would a Shaymin need to operate a motor vehicle after all, so even if she “borrowed” a vehicle, it wouldn’t do her much good, and the other operatives she’d come here with were still on duty here, so she couldn’t get a lift back from them either. Roseli or Circuit would have come in helpful right now. Well, assuming Roseli would deign to carry her anyway.

She really hoped that there was a cab service willing to take her near Heahea. She wasn’t looking forward to the prospect of having to hike halfway across Akala on foot…