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Two hours later, she lowered them down to the ground gently, letting them continue to sleep. It wasn't until she had found the specific cave that she would even begin to try to awaken them, and even then she didn't REALLY try until they were in the section of the cave that was entirely composed of charge stones. /Stay on my back please, unless you're immune to electrical charges, this will do more than hurt./ She was -not- immune to these charges, of course, but being a dragon first and a flying type second, and with the charge stone on her leg, she was alright so long as she maintained the current.

/What level of electricity are we talking here Serena? You've got plenty of things in my head to go through for comparison./ Kyn asked. He wasn't trying to act tough or showoff, just that he figured that since these versions of charge stones behaved a bit differently it might be where the major electricity was coming from, but still...

"Ask Heji, who would probably LOVE to be out of his ball before _I DO _have to give you a good nagging about not letting him out while he was here, especially since I went off to the other one on my own...and I could compare it to about five uses of the move Thunder all at once." She adjusted to normal speech once she was sure they were both awake on her back.

"Well Serena. That doesn't really tell me much. Simply put.... I've ordered Heji to attack humans with it before, even at full power. Perhaps you are saying it is comparable to a true bolt of lightning." Kyn said.

"I've never been struck by lightning...don't think I'd like too either, but probably, that being said, I'm going to look around and see If I can't find some of decent quality...and since as much as I would love to be able to brag that I'm immune to electricity...being part flying type, I'm not, so the heal pulse will be going...meaning you're only going to be able to talk to me in my head...now, going to let Heji join us, or do you think that he'd get shocked too much too?"

<Heji will not be joining us this time. Though if he were holding onto a ground type, I suppose that'd be different. Maybe Stripes the Krokorok can help with that.>

She folded her wings tight against her body with a slight sigh. <Pity, this is the best place to find the good quality ones because so few Pokémon can get at them...> She sparked up the Heal pulse, which echoed over her body and encompassed Kyn as well, dealing with the wounds that he had dealt himself back in Gambitville. When she came upon a big slab of Charge stone she gave a whistle and a click that sounded very dolphin-y. /Hang tight boys, got some claw work to do./

<Unless of course, you'd want to test out the limits of Heji's ability to endure electricity. Being either a ground or electric type one would think would be the best type to enter the cave. So then, if Heji gets knocked out.... it will be your job to revive him.>

<If I can handle it and I'm no where Immune to electricity, I do not see why he can't if we're comparable in strength...but even if he did, I would not have a problem with reviving him.> She answered, giving the two males on her back time to grip her before lifting up onto her hinds and bringing down silver claws--metal claw--into the rock face and carving out perfect diamonds, which she drained of all electricity before handing back to Kyn and repeated twice more before resuming the heal pulse with an annoyed huff.

<Alright Serena. He's going to be joining you.> Heji was let out of his ball, and was rather grouchy at Kyn and Serena, at frst, having been roused from a nap.

-Grumpy Kitty.- Serena mused. -How do you feel? Any tingling?- She stopped the heal Pulse and went back to carving into the wall. -Should look at where you are before you grump at me.- One more diamond, and then she checked on Heji again, just to be sure that he WASN'T passing out from being exposed to all the electricity.

"There is a tingling, and that is all. This place feels similar to Charge stone Cave... are we... at the area you said we'd go to and such...?" Heji said out loud, not knowing if she would talk mentally or verbally.

"This is the deepest reaches of Chargestone cave in OUR world, yes, though it's not called as such here. If it becomes too much, let me know." She cut another diamond shape from the wall and Tsk'ed at the quality, dropping it down to the ground below, and then cut another one from a different section of the slab before her before she had to go back to using the heal pulse. Granted, she wasn't letting herself down below half health, but it still annoyed her that she had to use this so often.

"Serena... do you suppose... Charge stones got their initial charge from the Black Yang Pokémon a long time ago in this world...?" Heji asked, combining a few titles he'd heard.

"It's possible? Anything's possible really...There, that's the last of them, lets get out of here." She practically ran to the point where most of the Chargestones had been carved out through the walls, and then she let her wings unfurl a bit, shaking the feeling of the electricity running through her, and the zap that she received as things equalized. "Ah...that's better..." She muttered under her breath, and flexed her claws in the sand from the wind outside. "If we're ready to go...it can be either source of travel, whichever you're in the mood for...and that brings our total of stones up to 12, Heji, the same amount of alcoves I made from my claw marks from our first night in the cave."

"Well yes, I can imagine there was a correspondence there. So then, I'm thinking about ways to mimic some aspect of Kyn's humans' technology with charge stones. Just for the hell of it." Heji commented.

"So long as I can still take some lush pillows from my bed and put them in the cave, have at it." She snickered. "So, Kyn, flying or teleporting?" She poked him with her tail tip with a slight amount of impatience.

"Well I'm used to flying now more, so... teleporting...?" He said, not really thinking much about it.

"Hmmm~ well, interesting choice...do you want to interrupt Miru from his rest or shall I try my claws at it?" She asked, turning her head so that she could look back at him.

"Let us witness.... Serena Brand space-warping. I prefer warping as opposed to tearing in this case since well, technically if you're clever about it, you can make it so that simple door literally can fit an entire forest inside a room so, since we're just saving distance... it's not exactly a tear, more so an aggressive warp I'd say." Kyn didn't know why he started rambling but he figured Serena would either stop him or not.

She let him talk, the quip about a door gave her idea however, and with her claws glowing with the Palkia brand energy and she cut a door sized rectangle into the air in front of her until it shimmered with the scene a little ways out from the Bay town, hidden amongst an outcropping of trees--just in case someone HAD decided to come by just at that moment. She stuck her head through, then the rest of her body followed. as she deemed it safe, leaving Heji to bring up the rear. "Heh, not bad for a first try."

"Though, do you know if there is a time distortion and if so, how much? That's' one of the things I want to find out before walking through this. I realize it's more localized, but it's been shown to happen before." Kyn said, trying to go over the more basic.... things on traveling via that method.

"I was careful, when I thought about the place I wanted to go, I included time and date, down to the second. That being said, we're actually a couple seconds behind, since I didn't update it as I went, not that that will make too much difference...Planning on staying up there all day?"

"No. Speaking of which, do you think that... since you and I plan on extending our lives supernaturally, we'll be able to have a castle built for us somewhere....?" Kyn asked, obviously thinking of something similar to Draclugia.

She kind of grimaced at the thought, and brought up the legend of Dracula to his mind, rather than Merlot. "You want to be thought of like THAT?"

"Thought of like what? I just figured it'd be neat to live in a castle. Serena... what... what exactly are you implying here...?" Kyn said, almost feeling a bit incredulous.

"Castles are cold, dank and dark, they're unnatural and don't sit well with me...Castle Draclugia was no exception, and I worked as a guardian outside of there." She sighed. "Drafty places too, no insulation, hard to keep warm...and you'll be thought of as a vampire, just like Merlot is...by some, that is, I would hate to think that that would be something that I would have to watch out for while guarding where ever we choose to live at that time." She paused, when exactly had it become a we? Well, she supposed that she could only return to the Dragon's den once every other lifetime, at the least.

"Unnatural eh? Well, perhaps it is time you got more used to it. I'm speaking of a castle that will be more so like one from my world. I never did take you to any castles in my world. It would have been a much different experience for you. But I suppose that _I WOULD _be on the level of a Vampire Serena... and Merlot a Vampire... ha! Where in the world would they have come up with a silly and ridiculous idea like that?"

"Lets see, always drinking red wine--Merlot to be precise, always cruel to her servants that people see, showing very little compassion, a complete recluse from the world around them, essentially self sufficient, and the castle has been in their family for generations--not only that, but no one can remember Merlot's father ever taking a wife to have a child." She almost pranced as she spoke, likely jostling those that were still on her back a bit--perhaps not the best for Kyn's rear, had she been thinking about it.

"All of those can be explained except the father thing, and I can attribute that to being something along the lines of things being kept more private in the castle as well as their more than likely long lifespan. I cannot... raise human children here so that phases that out of the equation. As for the wine thing, hell the lady just likes her red wine. She can't get drunk off of it unless she drinks more than a few barrels full I assume, so there's nothing really out of the ordinary."

"I never said I believed it. Don't get your boxers in a knot...now why did you want to come back to the bay, aside from cutting off the rest of our favorite Slowking's tail and having a romp with your Sceptile, that is?"

"The first reason is the only reason. Well. There is... one rather interesting way to find out a few additional things about Merlot, if I was curious. It'd require a few of fresh feathers from her though. Anyway that's about it. Oh. Wait, no it isn't. Serena... besides Royce... Nina and Riiko... who else is at the top of the Casino...?" Thinking of Royce reminded him about the rest of it again.

"Dee and Hugh, both are elders in the council, they've already found their replacements in a young Abra and a Buneary, much like themselves, Male Abra, female Buneary..." She looked back at Kyn with a snort at his mention of the first reason being the only reason, then looking back at the Sceptile further back. Well, if Tensa wasn't going to call him on the fact that he had made a promise...right after she mentioned it...it wasn't her place to do so. With a destination in mind, however, she slipped back within the flow of 'mon around the city, and then after getting annoyed with the slow movement, she picked up Heji in her claws and took off into the air.

"Damn. If I want to do what I want to do, I'll have to kidnap them. Also, now that I think about it... wasn't I supposed to take you to Hearthome City?" Kyn said, remembering the Pokémon Contest that he was supposed to have shown her a long time ago that he absolutely did NOT want to not show her now.

"The next time we went back to your place, Mhm; which will be forced to be pushed back until after we check in with N...and probably after we set the Charge stones up at my cave; I don't want you to have to keep lugging them around in your backpack through all the time we're out exploring...besides...I want to check in on my egg...as much as I respect Clair, and I'm trying to trust her, I don't like being away from it for extended periods of time." She landed outside of the Casino and knelt down to let them off, inadvertently pinning Heji beneath her for a change, she took the time to lick his neck all the way up behind his ear.

"Serena... what exactly are you doing? If I'm going to be doing anything inside the Casino... don't you think you should have dropped me off more so INSIDE of it?" After all... once again, he had no intention of going back through the process of wearing a collar again.

Heji let out a chuckle and a growl, and waited for Serena to get off of him at this point, IF she planned to.

"We'll take the 'trouble' entrance so you don't have to wear the collars, now, either scratch me behind the ears or get off, either way you'll be getting off my back, but one has a softer landing than the other....Tensa will need to go back into his ball, however, no Sceptile have been allowed to see Royce for a while now...not since your last visit anyway." She nuzzled Heji until the others got off--one way or the other, so that she could raise back up.

"Ah yes. When I was posing as a security guard, I do believe I was thoroughly scolded and my intelligence questioned for not being able to follow orders and letting Tensa by." Kyn quickly did an acrobatic flip off of Serena, and landed on his feet, and then he gave Tensa a quick hug, followed by putting him back in his Premier Ball.

Serena gave Heji a nip to the ear, no where near as hard as she had Kyn, and rumbled a single word under her breath to him 'Later.' She lifted herself from him, and sidestepped so that she wasn't over him anymore, then looked at Kyn. "Yes...we're actually going to utilize that again...A color and marking change for me..." As she spoke she changed from the typical blue Salamence to a green one, and her golden markings shifted to the normal coloration, as well as her eyes shifting to a red color. <...annnnd yes, I realize that if anyone was watching that they just got a very odd show...>

<Anyone watching? What in the fuck do you think I just got? Serena you've never been that color before in my life! Green! Of all things... Green! Hold on. Green Salamence... golden Head plates... oh dear. Eh, well anyway, lead the way again...>

<I could have gone purple, I've seen purple Bagon before...but...wait, you should have been able to see through the illusion, you know what I really look like...> She flicked her tail behind her as she walked through the doors, and almost immediately ducked into one of the darker corners with the loos on either side, and counted the plush decor tiles from the end, then pressed a series of them in order, which opened the door at the end. <There are four of these doors...they all open up into Royce's office...and yes, Royce is enough of a pervert to have set up two way mirrors....> She hardly bothered to look as they passed the windows into the male's bathroom, the door clicking closed behind them.

<Questioooon!~ Slowking tail meat as an ingredient in one of my meals, yay or nay?> Kyn was addicted to Royce's tail apparently. Perhaps this is the reason why Slowpoke tails made so much money.

<Only if you share.~> She took the opportunity to lick her lips. <One way or another.> She already knew that her usual way of picking a lock here wouldn't work, and so she sank into the shadows and reappeared on the other side, flicking the door open and locking the opposite one that lead to the bondage club, then sniffed around for the button that opened up the false wall to his private sector, waiting for Kyn to click the door closed behind him to actually push that switch.

<Ah... it's not been that long. I don't exactly know how long it will take, he does have an abnormally long... but still so delicious tail.> He walked through and then closed the door behind him like he did earlier. Sequences were replaying in his head from only a short while back. <Serena, how do I know that there isn't blood in this room...?>

<This...is Royce we're talking about...there's a cleaning system that happens once every so often...when a door has been closed, locked, and then unlocked again, it sets it off...Royce has been, in a sense, subjected to his own cleaning solutions of vinegar, alcohol, soap, and water, all of which have been drained away as well. I can't imagine that it did anything for him, but _NONE _of them are to the level of toxicity, so even if he did try to swallow them to kill himself, it wouldn't work. He might be very sick, but they wont kill him...I still have his ball, by the way, it's sitting in my hoard room, up on a shelf.> She stopped in front of the room that they had left Royce in, and slipped off the illusion.

<Well then, I suppose I should get right too it Serena... I'll be about... oh two or three hours. Do you think you can wait that long before we head home...?> He said, making his way towards the room where they had left Royce. He hoped Royce was still awake, or at least conscious.

<I can wait that long before going back home.> She answered. <However, I'm going to need something to do, since you apparently don't want my help with this, if you'll give me a few moments, I'll gather up the chain and put it back together...since I kind of shattered it when I ordered you to back off...or I could finish what I started with Heji--but that might be counter productive with what you plan on doing.>

<Oh you're gonna have to be there with me, remember? I can't do anything unless you're there. He needs to know that, every single time.> Kyn said, opening the door and walking inside.