Set in the original region of Arciel, Legends Rising is a route-inspired, but not strictly route-based, Pokemon roleplay. Pick a faction, pick a class, and strike out into the wild to take on the League, master Contest coordination, research the mysteries of Pokemon and Arciel, and much, much more. Will you be a classic trainer? A criminal? A farmer? Choose your destiny on Legends Rising.
Shalin's heart was racing. Though she was no stranger to the massive training facility just outside Birch, with the ground completely covered in foam blocks like what one would see surrounding the walls of a race track, the issue was the Pokémon she would be training. Dondon, her freshly-caught Tropius, would be the easy one - she had no trouble gearing up the winged, long-necked grass Pokémon. Saddles for aerial Pokémon had a steeper curve to them than ones for overland Pokémon, presumably due to movement in three dimensions. Wouldn't want to fall off while one's partner is taking to the sky! When she finished, she gently pat the base of the gentle quadruped's front-left wing. "I'll be right back, okay?"
Shalin turned toward Flit, ready to strap his similar-looking gear into place. They were similar in design, but each was custom-fitted to the Pokémon in question. It had to be. "Now you stay still, okay?" The Yanmega's compound eyes shifted in all directions as she worked on attaching all of the safety gear needed for flight at all, let along her first flight. Some of her Pokémon preferred to be rein-controlled, while others preferred to be controlled by trust alone - there was only one way to find out. Dondon seemed content with the long cords hanging from the sides of his head, ready to try it both ways. Just as Shalin had finished attaching the enormous dragonfly's reins, he inaudibly fluttered his wings for a few seconds before buzzing for about a half second.
The gust blew the legs of her loose-fitting, green pants around wildly in that moment. Moreover, her right hand wouldn't stop tingling for some time even after the buzzing stopped. Shalin shivered, having second thoughts. She was supposed to ride this?
Flight Training Repeatable, Anyone | 1-2 people 1 post
Instructions
To start out, write at least 200 words in your thread, then use [ proll ] (no spaces). This is how many points you've scored so far; you are aiming for 100 total. Assuming you don't roll 100 on the first go, write 200 more words. (You can cheese this just a little if you went a bit over before, such as 220 the first time and 180 the second. Each section must be a minimum of 150 though, regardless of how far over your previous sections went.) Use proll again, and repeat this until you have either reached 1,000 words or your rolls add up to 100 or more.Once you have reached either goal, you succeed!
Last Edit: Apr 16, 2020 1:38:28 GMT by Shalin Nariya
Post by Elliot Sunderland on Apr 14, 2020 22:25:21 GMT
"Alright, Lord Beerus, Echo, test your might with another Psybeam!"
It was a familiar scene. A Ralts, building up a shimmering vortex of rainbow energy between her hands. An Espeon, gathering a similar vortex at the tip of his nose. And their trainer, watching with excitement at his eyes as they launched rainbow-colored beams of energy at one another. What was once a shaky, unstable blast hard turned into a sturdy beam of energy, the fruits of several drills and training sessions up to this point. The beams collided into each other, rainbow streams blending together in a beautiful, eye-catching fashion. How long would they be able to hold it this time?
As Echo's focus splintered, and the Ralts turned away to look further down the Training Grounds, the answer turned out to be "not very long." Her beam faded, allowing Lord Beerus' to send her flying back in a single blow. "Echo!" Elliot shouted, flinging out a Pokeball and calling out the ever-loyal Murex. The Shellder hopped back and forth, prying herself open to catch Echo with no problems. As she checked on her friend, Lord Beerus strutted around victoriously, an Eevee following behind him and trying her best to match his pace.
With Echo secured, Murex hopped back over to Elliot, the boy stooping down to check on his Pokemon. "You okay, Echo?" Elliot asked, only to notice that the Ralts was shivering up a storm. "You're . . . cold?" Elliot asked, only for Echo to shake her head. "No, no, scared?" Echo perked up, then shook her head and pointed off into the distance. "Scared, but not you, over there . . . someone's scared? And you felt it from all the way over here?" That finally got Echo nodding her head. She teleported out of Murex's clutches and onto Elliot's shoulders, pointing again to spur him forward.
Once they were close enough, Echo teleported away from her trainer and over towards the worried Shalin, giving her a hearty wave before falling back down to earth.
Post by Shalin Nariya on Apr 14, 2020 22:49:54 GMT
Shalin turned around to see the Ralts. "Oh! You startled me!" Shalin turned around to see a young, brown-haired male which she presumed was the Ralts' trainer. Dondon tromped toward the two, his big. leafy wings strong enough to blow small gusts of wind toward the two trainers, the Tropius excited. "And who might you be? I'm Shalin--" Her voice was cut off by the pounding of Flit's wings. Despite only fluttering just fast enough to get him airborne, the Yanmega still drowned out her voice. It wasn't deafening, but was still hard to talk over.
When Flit touched down next to the blonde, she tensed up again. "I'm supposed to help these two learn how to fly with me," she explained to Elliot after a long pause. "Dondon, my Tropius, shouldn't be difficult. But Flit here..." Upon his name being mentioned, the Yanmega's compound eyes lit up, fluttering his wings fast enough that they were too fast to follow, yet slow enough not to make noise. "He's been with me since I came to Arciel. I was looking forward to flying on him when he evolved, and he was looking forward to it. But now--" The excited flying insect buzzed again for about a second and a half, the girl's hair standing on end. "...How?" was all she could say.
Post by Elliot Sunderland on Apr 15, 2020 3:30:29 GMT
"Heh, sorry about that," Elliot said, rubbing the back of his neck with a sheepish grin as Shalin was startled by Echo's approach. "Echo can be a bit curious sometimes. She must have felt you were around here and decided to drop in. I'm Elliot, by the way. Nice to meet y-"
Wow, yeah. The Yanmega's wings really really intense, weren't they? Frankly, Elliot could barely hear over them once they started beating. Nevertheless, he made sure to strain forward a little and listen, if only so he could hear out Shalin's problem. It seemed that she was trying to learn how to ride the Yanmega, yet despite her best efforts was struggling with how she could do it.
This was quite confusing for Elliot, if he was being honest. "It seems like the right size for it," Elliot said, missing the fact that this wasn't really the problem here. "You've got the proper equipment. I mean, I think. I haven't seen a Yanmega saddle before, after all. And if you're arrived him this far, there's already sure to be a strong, dependable bond between you guys. Those are really the three things you need to ride a Poekmon, right?"
Shalin listened to Elliot go over three suggestions - the size, equipment, and bond. "That's...not the problem," the girl sighed, leaning toward the excited Flit, who turned his head toward Elliot. Dondon followed Elliot as well, the Tropius gently nuzzling the side of the male's head with his own. Shalin procured an earplug and put it into her left ear, now only able to hear clearly out of her right. The curious Yanmega bumped into Elliot, perhaps giving him a clue what the problem was while he continued to warm up his wings. There was still a bit of a droning sound coming from them but not nearly as loud as the sharp buzzing from before.
Taking a deep breath and exhaling, she swung aboard Flit. "...Think you could help Dondon here learn to fly with a rider while I see how Flit handles one?" Her words sounded like she was speaking through a running fan blasting air toward her. Nerves flared up again, her heart raced in anticipation of the giant dragonfly's takeoff. Even with his wings going barely fast enough to make a low hum, it was enough for Shalin to get some feedback, like she was on a motorcycle or something.
Post by Elliot Sunderland on Apr 15, 2020 22:28:03 GMT
Elliot laughed as the Tropius came running up to him, nuzzling its head against his. He reached up to give the friendly sauropod a few gentle scritches on the chin. "Whoa, hey there, big guy," he said between laughs. "It's nice to meet you, too!" Soon they were joined by the Yanmega, Elliot shooting a warm smile the giant dragonfly's way. "And you, too- oh!" Now he understood what was going on here. The Yanmega was vibrating like a freshly-started motor, even just a touch shaking Elliot's hand like a joybuzzer.
"Okay, yeah. I think I see what you mean," Elliot admitted. "And I'm sure this is going to feel different from what you're used to. But . . . again, you and your Yanmega have been through a lot together, right? Maybe you'll need time to adjust and get used to it. And I'm sure your Yanmega's going to need to adjust to having a person on her back. You two will really need to trust in each other to make this work, and adjust your comfort zones to fit what the other can handle. But I'm sure you can!"
Of course, that advice was a lot easier to give than it was to take! Elliot looked up at the large sauropod by his side, especially how low it needed to bend just to nuzzle him. This was going to be difficult for sure. Yet, while Elliot paled a little, he responded to the request with a warm smile. "I'd be happy to," he decided. "Would you be able to help me get started? I'm still really new at this myself."
Shalin smiled at Elliot's willingness to help. She started to explain from her position, then realized she was probably hard to understand. "Quiet, Flit!" The bug-type was quick to rest his wings, the silence by comparison almost eerie. Shalin resumed her explanation. "Once you hop on him, there are two ways you can control a flying Pokémon - with his reins or by leaning on him. Most Pokémon prefer one way or the other, so you'll have to see which he likes better."
Teaching people how to ride Pokémon felt natural to her - once learned, it would be a valuable skill for any traveling trainer, both for fun and for convenience. "If you're going to directly control him, hold it so your hands are grabbing the center of the cord. Then if you tug with your left or right hand only, that's how you turn him. Pull on him harder, and he'll fly upward. Ease up on him, and he'll glide down. If you're not going to control him directly, then just lean in the direction you want to go. Got it?"
With that, it was time. She took another deep breath, still nervous. The image of Flit uprooting prairie grass flashed before her for a few seconds before she shook her head. Not now. This was not the time for that. While Flit's wings were at rest, she put her other earplug in. She probably wasn't going to be able to hear Elliot very well now, if at all. "Alright, buddy...let's fly!" she commanded, centering her hands on the cord attached to the sides of her Yanmega's face. She slowly pulled back, and Flit started warming his wings up again. her eyes shifting toward them on occasion until they disappeared from view.
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The girl felt the Yanmega jump. A split second later, she felt a powerful reverberation course through her body, every single one of her hairs standing on end. She could hear Flit's wings loud and clear despite the earplugs, but that was probably because she was sitting mere feet from both. "Holy..." was all she said, her legs tingling from bouncing up and down faster than the eye could see, albeit a very short distance. And this was just the Yanmega hovering.
The girl leaned to her right, Flit responding by slowing his right wing only and letting his left propel the two to her right while still facing forward. She leaned left, which caused the opposite to happen...but the dragonfly still faced the same direction. Pushing down and pulling back on him seemed to control altitude, as she expected with a flying Pokémon. Once she figured out how to control Flit fully, she had nearly unlimited aerial agility at her fingertips - he could face one direction and fly another.
The nervous rider leaned ever so slightly forward and gently jabbed her knees into the green Pokémon's exoskeleton. His wings roared more loudly, Shalin's whole body shaking both from how fast Flit accelerated as well as from being rocked about by the faster vibration.
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{1/5 post, 96 pt. - 96 pt. total} {WC: 214}
Last Edit: Apr 16, 2020 2:11:37 GMT by Shalin Nariya
Post by Elliot Sunderland on Apr 16, 2020 3:16:21 GMT
It was a little hard for Elliot to mount Dondon at first, considering their side difference and his bad leg. However, Echo recognized this and popped behind Elliot to give him a helping hand. She tapped Elliot on the shoulder, teleporting them both away off of the ground and onto Dondon's back. He was a little off from the saddle, but it wasn't hard for him to use his good leg to ease himself onto the tremendous sauropod's back. "Alright, Dondon. I'm ready when you are," he said, a slight smile on his face. Then he pulled on the reins, giving the Tropius his cue to take the first flaps of off the ground.
Briefly forgetting about what Shalin had advised, Elliot instinctively clung to the reigns harder. This gave Dondon the cue to keep flying up into the sky, until soon the ground was a distant memory below. Lord Beerus, Vivi, and Murex were looking up at him, watching as he became a brown splotch in the skies and they were a trio of dots on the horizon. It took Echo tapping Elliot a few times on the bicep to remind him to loosen up, Elliot easing on the reigns and letting Dondon know to lower his ascent. The Tropius stopped thrusting and started coasting, swiveling his leafy swings so that he could start drifting back down to Earth.
Elliot wasn't exactly the most comfortable with taking a tight hold on a Pokemon's neck like that, both out of fear of hurting Dondon and out of awareness of the control he lacked. Instead, he opted for following Shalin's other piece of advice, deciding to lean and let Dondon guide himself for the most part. He decided to try it out, leaning forward a little more to guide Dondon's descent forward and downwards. He sighed in relief as the Tropius obliged, slowly, gently gliding onwards with Elliot on his back. Once he was a bit closer to the earth, maybe Elliot would take up the reins again.
Post by Shalin Nariya on Apr 16, 2020 23:22:21 GMT
It was at that moment Shalin had an epiphany - she realized she wasn't controlling Flit with one or the other. To fully control her Yanmega, she would need both. She would lean her body in the direction she wanted to fly, and tug with her hands to change which direction she was facing. To test her idea, she leaned hard to her left while pulling back equally hard with just ber right hand. The result was Flit flying backwards through several large rings forming a semicircle, then doubling back over the same path while facing forward. That, combined with Flit's powerful vibration, made Shalin feel more disoriented than the time she tried riding a whirling Starmie through Olivine Bay back in her homeland.
Though being able to independently control flight directly and facing direction was cool, it was awkward. That, and too much to think about mid-flight. The two would need to work on a way for her to coordinate both into just leaning motions - she felt it would give the dragonfly more freedom. That would be for another day, though.
The girl made sure to guide Flit as far away as possible from Elliot and others who did not have ear protection, going all the way to the far corner of the flight training area. Flying alongside the tall fence, she slowly turned around, then jabbed at Flit's exoskeleton harder than before with her legs.
Post by Elliot Sunderland on Apr 17, 2020 5:20:58 GMT
"Told you you'd figure it out!" Elliot cheered, though he knew his efforts were in vain. Between the sheer distance between him and Shalin, and the Yanmega's wings still being faintly audible, Elliot knew there was no chance of her hearing him. Yet deep in his heart, Elliot knew it wouldn't be right to ignore the woman's accomplishments, even if she couldn't hear him doing so. It was just being thoughtful, right?
Still, the best way he could help Shalin now would be to keep teaching Dondon how to fly. And he couldn't just do that as a passive observer. He cautiously took up Dondon's reins in his hands, causing the Tropius to stop his descent. He now took the occasional flap with his large, leafy wings, keeping level and continuing to ease his way forward. Elliot leaned to the right, and the Tropius banked to the right. He leaned to the left, and the Tropius banked to the left. His large size and graceful motions meant that overall, the trip was easy and pleasant. And his heavy weight meant very little turbulence. See? This wasn't so scary after all!
He looked down, a wide smile on his face as he started to laugh in disbelief. "See, Dondon? We're doing it. And you're doing an incredible job," Elliot said, smiling warmly at the Tropius. "Are you starting to feel comfier having a rider on you? You can go a bit faster, if you want. I promise, I'll hold on tight so I won't fall." With that said, he focused more of his weight forwards, hopefully encouraging the Tropius to take off the kid gloves and keep closer to his natural pace.
Post by Shalin Nariya on Apr 17, 2020 22:18:04 GMT
The excited girl leaned forward as much as she could on her partner, her brief squeeze prompting Flit to get serious. Shalin let out a loud grunt from the force put on her by his sudden acceleration, but was completely drowned out by the higher-pitched but still deafening buzzing. It could even be easily heard through her earplugs. She had gotten an idea how bad it was unprotected 100 feet away - sitting mere feet from them unprotected would likely make her permanently deaf.
She took a glance at her right, finding Flit's wings to be completely invisible save a red streak on their edges. Course elements flew by her in a split second, the green insect ignoring them and obeying his rider's command to fly straight forward as fast as he could. Her tight hold prevented Shalin from being literally vibrated off her mount, but was quickly losing feeling in her legs. And yet, despite the intense shaking, she was enjoying herself more than anything she could ever remember. She briefly considered having Flit land on an isolated tree stump and Bug Buzz atop it, then caught a glance at how much the foam blocks covering the ground had been disrupted. Probably not a good idea - she would need to do that in a place where others weren't training.
Shalin eased up best she could, then had one last idea. Flit decelerated a bit more quickly than Shalin was comfortable with, his wings now (barely) visible again. Finally able to catch her breath from the intense flight, she had Flit leisurely fly toward Dondon and Elliot, then started shifting wildly in the saddle. The great dragonfly started zipping above, below, and all around the two with more precision than a seasoned helicopter pilot. Once she had her fun, she had Flit land, Shalin still on her Pokémon while waiting to get enough feeling in her legs to be comfortable walking. "That...was...incredible!" she cried to Elliot between heavy breaths.
Post by Elliot Sunderland on Apr 18, 2020 1:30:23 GMT
Elliot laughed as he saw Shalin zipping about him in every single direction, him and Dondon barely able to keep up with watching the two. In contrast, his flying was a lot less graceful or fancy. He was still getting the basics down; speed up, slow down. Fly higher, fly lower. Push for speed, slowly glide downward. With Dondon being a less dramatic looking mount, and Elliot's own flight technique a lot less sophisticated, it probably looked like Shalin was lightyears ahead of him. Nevertheless, he was having a great time up there, laughing and cheering Dondon on as the two started bringing their first flight to a halt.
Once they landed, Echo tapped Elliot on the shoulder, teleporting the two off of the saddle and onto the safety of the ground. Elliot himself was quite tired too, even if his flight was a lot less intense than Shalin's. Yet with how happy she sounded, Elliot was quite happy to have joined in the fun. "I know, right?" Elliot said, all smiles. "I owe ya big time for giving me a chance to try this out. And, hey, look at you now! To think you were so worried earlier. You really learn fast!"
Your thread has been locked. For completing the Flight Training quest, you each receive 150 pen and 3 Rare Candies. Shalin receives the ability to fly on the back of Flit the Yanmega, and the ability to fly on the back of Dondon the Tropius. (I guess Elliot can fly on their backs too, if he really wants to.)
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