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Training proceeds without incident. Lucille joins you for breakfast and feeds her roster, you notice that her tympole has been replaced by some... odd, knob-covered, blue... thing with a smug expression. It seems it evolved during training.
"Looks like your Tympole finally evolved!" Tyson pulls out his pokedex to register the amphibian. "Palpitoad huh? Even though they were both tadpoles Palpitoad's definitely a far cry from Poliwhirl. It seems strong though. Speaking of which, Gramps put in some work last night against those Zubat! I appreciate you leavin' him out in the cave." He takes a quick glance at the Torkoal before looking back to Lucille. "So what about naming him 'Ash'? It's just a thought I had last night."
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When you ask Lucille if she's ready to head out, she tosses her hair out of her eyes with a smirk "Always."
Lucille sets the same punishing pace as the day before, but, scrapes and bruises and dirt aside, it produces results, it isn't more than a few hours into the climb that you cross over the shoulder of Mt. Moon and begin the descent down the Cerulean side of the mountain.
About an hour coming down the other side, Lucille apparently gets fed up with the mundanity of plodding one foot after another, sending loose rocks and gravel down the mountainside. "So, I read a mountaineering article back in Pewter. It talked about a method of getting down mountains faster... it's called 'glissading' or something like that." She points to a shelf of rock jutting out from the mountainside, about 50 yards down slope. "Wanna give it a try? Meet you there!" She takes a half-skip, half running step and hops onto a particularly dense patch of gravel, laughing. The gravel skitters under her feet, and Lucille begins to half step, half slip down the slope... until one piece of gravel turns out to be a rock embedded in the stone and trips her instead of giving way. She begins to to tilt off balance, about to face plant and skid facefirst down the mountain.
"Tch!
Of course Pewter would have an article on mountaineering, half of it's population is made up of Hikers and Martial Artists after all." Tyson laughs at the thought and listens to the rest of Lucille's explanation.
"Glissading? Never heard of-" Before he can finish Lucille bounds down the slope only for a single stone to give way and send her tumbling down the mountain.
Damn it! The ninja boy's body begins to move before he can even register what's happening. He recalls Nimbus and returns his pokeball to his belt before leaping out onto the cliff side after Lucille.
Rescue Shinobi Activate!
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Climbing is a part of every successful Ninja training program, you leap out from the cliff and land in a splash of loose stones and gravel and begin sliding after Lucille in a much more controlled fashion than she did, within seconds you've caught up to her, still tumbling and seconds away from a major beef.... now all you have to do is grab her.
Alright Ty... You didn't undergo all of that Shinobi training for nothing. Just gotta thread the needle!
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You take Lucille by the arm and, with the extra balance, slowly bring the both of you to a stop, even though it costs you a fair amount of skin from your hands and shin. Lucille sits down shakily and stammers out her thanks. "Okay... maybe not... the greatest idea I've ever had to save time." She lays back, panting. "How about... we stop for lunch?" She says, looking up at the sky.
"Hang on..." The young shinobi is finally able to reach the tumbling trainer and manages to grab hold of her arm. "Gotcha!"
As the two trainers finally come to a stop, Tyson takes a moment to catch his breath and soak in the last few seconds. He quickly looks Lucille and himself over before loosing a sigh of relief. He looks from his hand to the mountainside, then back to the blonde and smiles. "Yeah, probably not but there's no point in worryin' about it now. We made it out without a scratch-" His hands and shin begin to sting from the abrasion as if on cue. "Well... mostly, and that's what really matters in the end. Lunch? Actually, that sounds great right about now. But first..." Tyson slowly sidles up to Lucille and places the back of his less bloodied hand to her forehead. He holds it there for a moment before lifting it and continues. "You're in luck. My diagnosis suggests that this wasn't caused by a fever, it's just a symptom of youth. Happens to all of us. You probably wouldn't believe it but when I was little I had the bright idea of pretending to be a baby Kangaskhan because I didn't want to walk across the safari grounds and then I unintentionally ended up being kidnapped by an
actual Kangaskhan."
As the two trainers break for lunch Tyson will break out his med-kit and sterilize his hands and shin before wrapping them up in gauze. When he's finished he'll eat with Lucille.
OOC: I took a look at what would have happened if I had failed those checks... I have yet to regret being a Ninja.
If lunch lasts long enough for AP to recover (1 hour) I'd would like to try using one of the baits that I bought to potentially lure out (non-mankey/primeape) mountain or cave pokemon during that time. I don't know if where we've decided to break for lunch is conducive for battling on let alone setting up a spot for bait.