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"Here, just sleep and silence your mind's fears..." The Houndoom hybrid would speak up as he resurfaced, exhaling a cloud of toxic fumes around Reno in an attempt to choke him before he could attempt much more. The Smog would threaten to catch anyone else closeby, and maybe deter anything from surfacing to turn him into a snack as he went to get back onto dry land.

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Cera would pause for a moment at noticing another hostile mind in the area, quietly making her way towards the shrine and trying to avoid the conflict as well as she could. No need to get herself caught up in it if she could help it, if only to avoid becoming a liability.

Amaranth would eventually catch up at long last, though all she saw at this point was RC... roaring as usual to her, and some other hybrid trying to attack. She was safe from being in the immediate crossfire, though she did try to whip up a Gust to try and throw the Druddigon hybrid off slightly. However, the wind's blowing meant it might do the same to RC and Dan as well.

Now RC was starting to be come concerned. Did this brute have a bottomless pool of energy?

"He changed the plan you. you had better attack and quick." martha chimes at RC.

"I know. I am going to have to throw something strong at him. But not our ace card. Not yet. As bad as this is, I am not willing to reveal the full extent of my strength yet." RC responded.

"Understood. Now get to it before he gets any closer!" Martha says with a bit of urgency.

"Let's see if you can withstand this!" RC chimes and then unleashes his Draco Meteor upon the Druddgion Hybrid, landing all 7 Meteors in his chain.
RC would angle himself towards a safe landing spot and touch down. His breathing was now heavy. Draco Meteor always took a good deal of strength from him.

"I know you're exhausted, RC, but do not let your guard down! I fear the brute is of the beserker class. Taking one out will not be that simple. " Martha states to the point.

"Great" RC says a bit breathlessly as he forces himself to his feet and readies himself for the coming storm.

All RC could do was get off a reactionary Thunder Wave before getting crashed into by the Druddgion Hybrid. and by god it was like getting hit by a herd of Tauros. RC shakes his head as his vision blurs on him for a second.

"Dear Arceus! Did you have to take that in that manner?" Martha clamors after him.

"I had...No choice. He was...outpacing me...somehow. His chi levels...keep on spiking up and up." RC gets out to his counterpart.

After the hit the Druddigon hybrid would recoil backwards, landing on a nearby boulder. The monster would stare down RC panting heavily, his chi levels in sharp decline at this point. What on Earth was this thing? One minute its chi kept climbing higher and higher as it raged on and now its dropping back down to more reasonable levels. So much potential in such a mindless brute. "You...leave while you can..." He panted, struggling to even look at RC as he squinted his eyes, must be the confusion and paralysis kicking in.

As for Dan, he would make it down the stairs just fine and into a basement of sorts, the iron door to it wide open. Inside he would find numerous riches. Gold and silver statues of various dragon Pokemon. Countless pieces of jewelry and clothing crafted from various scales. And many more works of art and miscellaneous valuables. What a treasure trove. The treasure would not be his focus however as a blue skinned man turned around to face him as he entered, an elderly man, the clan elder, laying at his feet.

"Can I help you? Can't you see this place is off limits?" The man said as his fin-like ears flicked back and forth.

"My story is on a need to know bases, and you don't need to know. Now, while I wait for my ride out of here, why don't you entertain me?" The blue skinned man stated as he thumped his mermaid-like tail on the ground, knocking a staff off the ground and into the air, catching it in his hands.

The man would flick the staff into the air in front of him and out of nowhere fire off a stream of water from his mouth which would perfectly connect with the end of the staff, sending it flying straight for Dan like it was a javelin. If the staff missed it would hit the wall behind Dan and reveal that he spoke too soon as various dragon designed weapons were knocked from the wall. What fell was mostly various pole arms and other seemingly ceremonial weapons. Beautiful but still looked deadly.

Dan got his guard up as the man picked a staff off the floor. His follow up maneuver; however, took him by surprise and caused him to clumsily stumble backwards in an effort to avoid it. The weapon nearly took his face off as he hit the floor, looking back to see it lodged into the wall. When it the ceremonial weapons to the floor, a grin appeared on his face. "H-Hey, what do you know?" the teen laughed nervously. But then he spotted his weapon of choice among the pile and quickly scrambled over to procure it. Standing, he'd hold the sheathed katana, quickly drawing it out only to reveal... "A bokken?! Ugh, just my luck..." At least he could bludgeon him with it as opposed to having nothing. "Axew, Scary Face!" he'd command his shoulder companion. The dragon would stare the man down once more with glowing red eyes and bared fangs. Dan would have the sword sheathed again as he rushed the hybrid, drawing it out once more for a horizontal strike to his side.

It was still after him. He could feel it, even as he hid himself behind the shadow of a beast that he had been previously fleeing. It was after him and it was out for his soul. He needed to hide, he needed to flee. But he was trapped. Stuck in some damned cave, left behind by his people. Who needed them anyways? All they ever did was leave him behind for this kind of stuff anyways. Another whisper of his name, the words feeling like breath on his ear would settle it for Reno as he rook off as fast as his small body could carry him past the creature he had been following behind. While what he passed might harm him, this other creature felt ready to rend him to shreds.

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In the real world, a pair of eyes would snap open almost in wordless agony. His breathing hitched and stuttered as panic controlled his whole system, compelling him to his feet to take off towards the shrine and hide behind the stonework. "He comes for me. He Who Walks Ahead, he comes. He comes for my very soul. What has that Xatu hybrid done?" Reno said, frantically glancing around the room for some hint, some small tell from the entity after him. In his panic, he would let his telepathy try and lead him to any minds in the area. He would make sure he picked out that beast or anything like it long before it got here. It wasn't getting him, not this time. Damned thing wanted his soul, he would find that Xatu hybrid and leave the overfluffed Pidgey behind as a sacrifice. In fact, Reno focused his telepathic attempts at picking out sentients to specifically find that hybrid. Damned bird wished to summon a devil, he would be left behind to greet it.