What's this? Another fear?

[Lee]

"A TUNNEL?" Zach's voice was uncharacteristically raised into something like a shrieking Dodrio in the dawn, as he pointed a trembling hand at it. "WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT?"

Jasmine grinned, <Yup. Why are you screaming? Hey! What are those stones inside? C'mon lets go look!> The Sandshrew freed herself from Rapheal's grasp, and charged into the tunnel.

"JAASMINE! YOU-WE-CAN'T GO IN THE-bleghel..." Zach found his mouth covered by Oakash's branch, as Rapheal tossed the Sudowoodo's pokeball in one hand.

<We'll be fine. It's not even dark in there. Now come on, Zach.> Rapheal waved a hand and then grabbed Zach's and pulled him in after him, while Oakash stood by to muffle Zach's shouts again if he started to scream.

[MorriganFearn]

There was a lot of rustling in the softly lit passageway. Actually, the rustling wasn't so much in the passageway, as filtering down from the glowing ceiling. It was the kind of rustling made by things with wings begining to move said wings.

And then somthing big and blue detatched itself from the roof, and dropped neatly down to nearly land on Zach's head. At the last possible moment, great leathery wings unfurled like sails, and then flapped. With amazing speed the golbat was suddenly hovering in front of Zach, with a grin on its fanged face, and laughter dancing in the yellow eyes.

<Hey, kid,> the voice was very quiet for something that big. <Keep the noise down unless you want a lot of bat guano on your head, alright?>

[Lee]

What do you think happened as this occurred?

Yep, you guessed right. Zach started to scream again, though it was quickly muffled by Oakash's branch. This time you couldn't really blame him, since the giant bat had just appeared out of nowhere.

<Oh cool! What's bat guano? Hey! What are these stones? What's your name? What are you?> Jasmine peered up from her perch on Zach's feet, having scuttled back at the prospect of an interesting thing happening, and stared at the Golbat.

Rapheal sighed, <Sorry, sir. I believe we may have a problem with out...trainer. I don't believe he likes caves...> He paused, <Or ghosts, if his reaction with Akriso was any indication.>

[MorriganFearn]

There were more rustlings up on the ceilings, and annoyed mumbles of people who aren't keen on waking up. The golbat who had come down to warn Zach and co, although his intentions might have been more dubious, judging from his actions, laughed, and tumbled in midair in a way that suggested he would have been rolling on the ground if he had no wings.

<Scaredy-skitty trainer. Now that's just brilliant,> the golbat chortled. <C'mon, getting covered in dung isn't all that bad.>

[Lee]

Oakash didn't even bother to uncover Zach's mouth. It wasn't like it would hurt, even if Zach did bite him, after all, being rock and all. Not that Zach had tried that, or was even thinking of it. He might have gone into shock though, what with his eyes being so wide, and his pupils dilated.

Rapheal frowned slightly. <It isn't that funny. And personally, I think I'll avoid the whole dung thing.>

Jasmine raised her hand, <What's a skitty?>

Rapheal shook his head, <A pokemon, Jasmine. Sssh. We need to be going now-> He had returned his attention to the Golbat. Normally he might have suggested Zach capture the pokemon, since he was apparantly in good humor and Rapheal thought that would be a good thing for him, except that /he/ didn't like the pokemon. <-So we'll just be leaving you now.>

[MorriganFearn]

<If you like,> the golbat said, fluttering higher, still looking mischevious. <I think I may be following you though, to see how things work out.>

He flitted up to the roof, all the while grinning. This was going to be real entertainment right here. He wondered what would happen when they encountered lairon.

((Bah. Can't think. Store names and prices are eating my brains...))

[Lee]

Jasmine hopped off of Zach's feet as Rapheal tugged him foward, his mouth still covered. The Sandshrew continued to look up as she followed them, asking questions. <You never told me your name, or what you were, and what are those stones, and how come you want to see how things work out, and what do you want to see work out-?> Well, you get the picture.

Rapheal shook his head and glared up at Zach. <Can you be quiet?> When he recieved a sharp, almost frantic nod from his trainer, Oakash removed his branch carefully. Zach didn't scream though, although he did look around frantically, his eyes just as wide.

((You'll have nightmares. And I'll be chanting into your ear, 'Store names...prices...store names...prices' XD))

[MorriganFearn]

<I'm a golbat!> the golbat called down from above, hoping that this would stop the flow of questions.

It did make someone grumble, quite audibly: <Shut up!>

((AKK! <goes back to thinking about the usefuless of capes> Sorry this is so short, I'm trying to multitask, and thinking about Salhi fashion doesn't conincide with walks thought tunnels. Besides, unless you move I can't really send some pokemon to attack you for walking into territory, unless you want Zach to meet a particullarly agressive pokemon...))

[Lee]

((It's 'cause capes are awesome like that. XD And you do have a point. -pokes Zach and urges him along-))

That was a completely useless hope, considering Jasmine /never/ shut up. In fact, it probably wasn't possible for her. She probably talked when she was in her pokeball. <Really? What's a Golbat? Do you like vegetables? What are those stones that make the funny light?>

Rapheal was trying very hard not to laugh. In his mind, the Golbat deserved the flurry of questions, if only because Rapheal just didn't like him.

<Uh. Rapheal. We have a problem.> Oakash pointed a branch at the diminishing form of Zach, as he had suddenly tooken off on a run. Perhaps the grumbled 'shut up', or maybe he just wanted to get out of the tunnel. Or maybe he had finally lost his mind, after fifteen years of life.

In any case, Rapheal scooped up Jasmine and took off after them, with Oakash following along more sedately, what with his disdain of running.

[MorriganFearn]

The flutter of wings behind them said that the Golbat was meeping pace with the party, and probably could have outdistanced them. However, the poison type was quiet, except for the occassional snigger until: <Watch out!>

Lairon are big, slow, heavy creatures, and this one had been crossing the tunnel to take a bite out of an interesting crystal formation when Zach ran into it. The lairon turned his head in surprise. <Did somethig just squeak?>

[Lee]

Jasmine nodded happily, <Uh-huh! Zach squeaked, when he ran into you!> She giggled, pointing at the prone figure of the currently fainted Zach. Whether this was because he had run into the Lairon, or because he had been so frightened by running into it was unknown.

Rapheal seemed to find it less funny, and hurried over to him, before sighing and announcing, <He's not hurt.>

Jasmine giggled, falling over and kicking her feet in the air as she laughed. For once she wasn't talking. Probably because she couldn't get a word out around her laughter.

Oakash seemed to be the only one who pointed out, <Uh. Zach just ran into a Lairon. Does no one think around here? I'm sorry, sir.>

[MorriganFearn]

<Oh,> the Lairon said, before looking upwards, at the sound of the golbat doing the exact same thing as the young sandshrew. <Darn flapper, BE QUIET!> he roared, backing up a little, and then running forwar to crash into a bit of rock that was sticking up from the floor. Thr rock separated from the ground with a crack, and arched up toward the golbat, only to fall short, and then begin to fall back to earth.

[Lee]

Rapheal tugged at Zach, trying to get him out of the way of the rock, and any fragments that seperated from it upon contact on the ground. Zach managed to wake himself up and scurry to the other side of the Lairon when Rapheal pointed out the falling rock, and Oakash picked up Jasmine and calmly stepped back.

"What'd you do that for? It's dangerous enough in here without you throwing ro-Oh. I'm sorry. I shouldn't yell at you. Sorry." Zach was speaking fairly fast, but at least he was understandable now. And he seemed to have realized that the Lairon was in fact fairly large.

[MorriganFearn]

<I don't like flappers,> the lairon growled slowly.

The golbat flitted down, and stuck his tongue out at the lairon. <Neh!> He zoomed away as the lairon jerked forward to head butt him. The large steel plated head swung around to fix Raphael and Zach with a dark glare. <Is that thing with you?>

[Lee]

Zach winced at the Larion's glare, melting into himself. "Uh...No. Not with us. I mean, he's following us, but I don't know why. He just...sorta did."

Rapheal waved him quiet, < The Golbat is not with us, is what he's trying to say. > Rapheal gave the Golbat a stern stare, < He said he was going to follow to see how things turned out. I wish he'd stop. >

Jasmine raised her hand, < I don't! He's funny! >

[MorriganFearn]

<This entire group is funny,> the golbat called out from the peanut gallery of the ceiling.

A growl rumbled up from the throat of the lairon. <If you don't move along then, if oh, ten seconds and take the flapper with you, I'm going to attack,> he stated angrily. <I don't like the vibrations their soundwaves cause off my shell.>

[Lee]

Jasmine giggled, <I'm funny! Yay!>

Zach scrambled to his feet, grabbing Rapheal's arm and tugging him with him. "Okay, we're going, don't tackle us or anything, it might hurt." And Zach was off down the tunnel again, though at a slower pace since he was dragging his Zangoose with him.

Oakash nudged Jasmine along with his foot, but the Sandshrew charged the Lairon and gave him a hug. <Bye-bye grumpy!> Before following after Zach in a skip.

[MorriganFearn]

<Grumpy?> the lairon questioned, before growling, as the golbat's wings brushed his sides, before the bat pokemon followed gayly after Zach's company. This free entertainment was absolutely worth every minute, so far.

However, Zachreally needed to learn not to run in the well lit tunnel. Running gave pokemon the idea that there was something to be chased. And soon enough, behind the party there was a rumble of [pounding feet that did not belong to them.

[Lee]

Zach squeaked, running even faster. He had no hope of outrunning whatever was chasing him, but he tried anyways, until Oakash complained, <Look, I'm a /tree/. I don't run. Let's just get rid of it and stop running!> He also muttered something about carrying Zach the rest of the way if he had to. Which he might have to, if Zach was going to start running every time he was given the freedom to do so.

[MorriganFearn]

A big blue loudred skidded to a halt as Oakash took a stand. The wide mouth split ito a grin, and then it split open, sheer sonic force blasting though the rocks and stones of the tunnel floor, traveling in a direct path to hit the sudowoodo.