[FIN] Soul Sucking

[Blood_Goddess]

Impossible... This was impossible. How could the forest be so quiet? The trees, the Pokemon, wildlife, all sleeping, how could everything just sleep in the wake of this crisis?
It was impossible that this silence fall over the snowy world. Making every crunch of the snow below his green boots crunch louder, shoveling his way though the knee high snow. every heavy breath bounce off of the foggy air, making it sound like he was yelling into the cold.

He had to be close by now, had to, the snow was getting deeper, even the Pokemon trudging along behind him was snorting heavy breaths from his nostrils, though had little trouble sorting through the snow.
Still Gon didn't complain, he didn't slow down, the young boy hunkered forward with a bundle in his arms, crossed close to his chest, light determined eyes straight ahead.

Beside him the massive form on a Sawsbuck, with sprawling antlers trudged along with him, his stride careful, each step deliberate and slow as to not jostle the form hunkered on his back.
The shiny Lopunny couched with the body, one pay firmly on it to keep whatever it was from slipping off. while her gaze slipped behind them as if watching for followers.

His lungs had started to heart ages back, the cold are pulling into his lungs stabbing at his throat, the scarf did little to alleviate that without him feeling like he was going to suffocate. but still he pressed on... it wasn't much further... it wasn't much further.
Many other men might have gotten lost, but Gon knew these woods by now, he knew the features of nature. They were close... close.
Still, even with this knowledge in mind, the sight of the dim lights and fires from the clearing of his current home swelled a warmth of relief in his chest.
The young boy staggered forward into the clearing, took a breath and screamed "RAAAAY!" He moved forward again, the snow breaking into thin patches, allowing him to break into a run toward the tree house "RAY!"

Please let her be here, please let her be back.  

[insidiousEnigma]

"Charizard."

Drayce stirred, green eyes slowly blinking open at the nudge from their pokemon. "Hm? Wuzzat?" The red-head swatted at the giant fire-type before letting their hand fall limply to their chest. "S'too cold, Smaug. Too cold." They didn't want to move from their comfortable position curled up with the Charizard.

Though the sound of their friend calling had them hopping to their feet in no time.

"Gon's back!" They hopped into some pants, tugged on a sweater and coat, and then stuck their head out the window. "Gon?!" It was hard to see too far away with all of this dumb snow everywhere. IT WAS EVERYWHERE! "Gon is that you?!" But they knew it was Gon, who else would it be? "Smaug, Smaug my-" They turned to look at the Pokemon only to see that he had already pushed the boots towards his trainer. "Ah, merci." They pulled on their boots and threw their door open to step out on the porch. "Ray's not back yet. Where ya been?"  

[Blood_Goddess]

Gon's eyes widened when the door opened and Drayce came out, Thankful to see someone else, though the words that followed caused Gon to pause, looking around the clearing. "Ray's not back yet?"
that was... Strange, he had no doubt that she would have come back okay...

He took off the pit in his stomach of that news, and looked back up at Drayce. "Drayce! Rosie's hurt!" He said "I don't know how to help her!"

Gon himself didn't look like he was in top shape either, dark marks on his winder clothes would indicate some blood. his hair, while usually messy looked less intentionally frayed. cuts in his clothing, and the bundle that he held close to his chest blended with his clothing, a familiar green tail hanging from under his arm.

Behind her Grealhorn was making his way into the clearing, being careful with the lump on his back.  

[insidiousEnigma]

The moment Gon said that Rosie was hurt, Drayce was launching themselves over the railing and into the snow below. "Smaaaaaaug!"

They landed gracefully before sprinting over to the Sawsbuck, a worried frown replacing the ever cheerful smile. "She's hurt? How? Bleeding?" They weren't as good as Ray at patching people up, but they knew enough growing up in the forest. "Put her on Smaug? Il la portera à l'intérieur." Said pokemon landed not too far away, tail lifted high to light up the clearing. "Gon, need lots of blankets. Many much blankets." They instructed, motioning their pokemon closer so they could start transferring Rosie to Smaug to be carried.  

[Blood_Goddess]

With Drayce to help brace her, Pop positioned herself so that she could help roll Rosie off of Greal's back and into Smaug's arms
Pop warned, hopping into the snow once Rosie was transferred, and making sure that her arms were folded onto her chest.

Now that she wasn't laying face down, it was clear to see the condition that the trainer was in. though she didn't have as many cuts on her body as Gon did, no sign of blood on her clothing, the young was not conscious, her skin was pale white, looking more like she was made of snow, except for the dark bags around her eyes, and a stain of blood under her nose.

It was clear that Gon and the Pokemon had bundled her up as much as they could in her jacket, clearly worried about the loss of color on her body. clearly they had difficulty, as they turned her around, Pop had to position a strange long object onto her chest.
a sword, thick and un-moving as it too appeared unconscious. a pulse followed with purple smoke slowly leaking from the missing bottom half of its black and opal decorated blade, its sheath also no where to be found. Its long ribbon like arm was wrapped tightly around the length of Rosie's arm, and her hand weakly gripping the hilt.  

[insidiousEnigma]

The eccentric Charizard murmured in return, gently curling his arms around the injured girl though pausing when he spotted what it was that was attached to Rosie. <...Is that...?>

Drayce too seemed speechless at the sight of the sword, their green eyes widening in fear. "Oh no...Oh no ohnoohnoohno." The colour drained from their face. "What is that doing here?!" The Charizard didn't seem inclined to wait around though and immediately flew up onto the balcony before disappearing into Drayce's hut. "Oooooh, this is bad. Bad, bad, bad." The red-head murmured, hurrying after their pokemon without another glance at the others. "Blankets!" They called over their shoulder as they climbed the rope and disappeared into their hut as well.  

[Blood_Goddess]

"What-?" Gon's eyes widened at Drayce's sudden panic. He knew it was going to be a problem, since Gon had seem what the strange sword Pokemon had done to Rosie.
He hurried after Drayce, climbing back into the warmer indoors where he set down the bundle he had in his arms on the nearest flat surface, then disappeared out again to gather blankets from the main storage in Ray's main quarters.

He returned shortly with a bundle of arms. "We haven't been able to get it off, I don't know what would happen if we tried, I thought Ray would know what to do but we got separated in the attack, I thought she would come back by now."

Rosie was cold to the touch, her breathing was slow and shallow, though she was in fact still breathing, the soft puffing of the purple smoke from the Pokemon's sheath swelled in time with her breathing.
Grealhorn had to remain down in the snow, but Pop was never a few paces away from Rosie at any given moment.
 

[insidiousEnigma]

Busying themselves with getting Rosie comfortably situated on the bed, Drayce carefully propped the blonde's head up with a few fluffy pillows and smoothed her hair back from her forehead. "
Rosie, peux-tu m'entendre?" They leaned down to press their ear to the girl's chest to listen to her breathing. It was faint, but it was there, which only added to the red-head's confusion. When no response came from the other trainer, Drayce began checking her over for other injuries but made certain to keep a distance between themselves and the sword at all times. "You can't take it off. It won't release until dead." They murmured softly, gaze resting on the connection between sword and girl. "Dunno how she's alive..." They moved away to dig a first aid kit out of a nearby trunk and motioned for Gon to put the blankets on Rosie.

Smaug said softly, curling up near Rosie to share his warmth.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Gon stood at Rosie's cot side next to Drayce, watching the taller trainer moving around to try and take care of Rosie. his eyebrows arched at something he had said, and with a quick look back at Rosie he spoke "she did die." He explained, turning back to Drayce "When she first grabbed it... she stopped breathing."
The grip on the spare blankets tightened in his grip, his face tensing as he started down at the ground, trying to understand what had happened.
As Drayced gesture him to use the blankets, Gon quickly started to lay them out over Rosie's body. "I couldn't even hear a heart beat. It wasn't until Her Rapidash kicked and broke the sword she suddenly started breathing again, but she still wouldn't wake up."

He was relived that Drayce seemed to know what this pokemon was, even though he wasn't comforted by the explanation the boy had given, maybe after knowing the whole story he'll know why this happened. "What is it doing to her, how can something kill you just from touching it?"

During Drayce's initial search, they would find that Rosie wasn't bleeding, though her clothes had some tears and burn on them from whatever struggle they might have been a part of.  

[insidiousEnigma]

"Hmm, ahhhh." Drayce hummed thoughtfully, a deep frown still on their face as they settled back at Rosie's side with the first aid kit. "It's Monorpale...Honedge." They pointed to the pokemon attached to Rosie's arm. "Persons die, soul goes into sword, sword become Monorpale, touch sword it steals life...uhm...life energy." They explained, nudging the blankets aside just a bit so they could lift Rosie's shirt to do a more extensive check. "So Rosie died...but is back? Sword broken...?" It was a difficult concept to wrap their mind around...they'd never heard about a situation like this from the elders back home. The person the sword attached themselves to was certain to die...but here was Rosie, still breathing. "Prolly why asleep." They reasoned, though they didn't seem particularly relieved.  

[Blood_Goddess]

"You think?" Gon asked, leaning forward to look down at the sword, though as soon as Drayce started to check for wounds under Rosie's clothing the boy shifted to turn his back out of respect.
"Yeah its broken, its blade was in pieces, they're all on the sheath now."

It was on Rosie's skin that Drayce would find what injuries Rosie had, big dark bruising to her chest, rids, along her left side of her body as well as her arms,
there were little in the way of cuts, and most of it was thankfully without need of any stitches.

Pop explained, glancing over to Smauge she narrowed her eyes and looked back at Drayce and his trainer.  

[insidiousEnigma]

"Dunno what that means." Drayce said distractedly as they went about cleaning up the cuts. "Maybe to weak to take energy? Dunno." They sighed, loud and huffy but their gaze focused on their work. "Very dangerous, should leave it on...should see doctor." That seemed like the smartest thing to do if they were being honest, but that wasn't really possible at that moment. "And Ray is missing?" They asked, wiping their hands on their pants before reaching for a roll of bandages so they could wrap Rosie's chest. "Ahhhh, very, very bad. No good!"

Smaug murmured with a shake of his head.  

[Blood_Goddess]

"Yeah... We got separated." Gon explained "I'm sure she's okay though... its Ray after all." Gon started, nodding his head.
He had no doubt that Ray was okay, if he and Rosie were... well... alive then she would be to. he was just confused why she wasn't back yet.

With little to do to help while Drayce gave first aid to Rosie the young boy walked over to where he had put his small Pokemon down. Kneeling down by the chair and lifting up the Treecko from the jacket he had wrapped him in.
Most of the Pokemon were in pretty bad condition... a visit to the Pokemon center would be needed. or if Ray had any extra potions laying around.

 

[insidiousEnigma]

Drayce bobbed their head in a lazy nod, "Ray is much smart, prolly fine." They agreed, leaning back a bit to inspect their handiwork. It would have to do for now. They didn't know how to do much more than this, especially when the person was unconscious. As soon as the snow let up they would need to find a doctor. "Gon," They turned to look at the young boy, concern etched into every crease of their face. "You are hurt as well, no?" They asked as they cocked their head. "And Treecko? He is hurt too?" They wished that they had gone with Ray and Drayce...they could have helped. They would help now though, until Ray came back.

Smaug heaved a sigh, releasing a faint puff of smoke from his nostrils. <...But where is Northern?>  

[Blood_Goddess]

There was no question that Gon had been sustained injuries. other than bruising on his face, and body, there were very clear patches of blood and tears on his clothes to indicate that he was probably the initial target of the Honedge attackers.He shook his head at Drayce when he comment on it though. "I'm okay. Treecko battled hard but there were too many of them, does Ray still have some potions laying around?"

Pop's expression grew darker, and her paws clenched in on themselves she growled