<b><span style="font-size: 15px">Round Primary</span></b>2/21/14<br/><br/>Eleyna was startled when the Snover rushed her, reaching at her. A brief moment of relief followed as suddenly the Snover was on the ground, rolling with a very angry Eevee on top of him. The relief didn't last.<span style="color: blue">No! Stop, go away! Stop it!</span>Eleyna yelled, relief turning to panic. She clutched her clothing to her bare lower half, yelling in a rising panic as the fight escalated. She didn't hear the waterfall split behind her.<br/><br/><span style="color: blue">No, stop! Please, stop it!</span>She pleaded. Something came into her peripheral vision and she looked, falling backwards onto the rocks and choking as the air caught in her throat mid gasp. The Milotic rose, gliding through the air, lifting its head and looking down on the disturbance with a baleful scorn in its red eyes. Eleyna was frozen, looking up at the Pokemon. Its tail circled around from behind it, its tail fin parting like a fan into its four large glistening scales whose colors seemed to shift with the light. All across the shoals near the waterfall Pokemon suddenly retreated, skittering across the exposed rocks, or darting away through the water. Eleyna could feel the anger from Milotic like heat from a fire, radiating.<br/><br/>Eleyna's attention turned to the water around the shoal as it began to rise like a tide, drawing in. It began to rise like wall around them, surging and impenetrable. Milotic stared down Eevee and Snover, knowing it had their attention. Eleyna had begged forgiveness for disturbing the sanctity of its den, and to the ancient Pokemon, for such a squabble to follow was an offense it would not so easily ignore. The surging wall of water rising around them could be seen even as far as the camp, a display of power that terrified Eleyna. It would be easy for the Pokemon to kill them all, right here.<br/><br/>Eleyna, trembling, raised an open hand.<span style="color: blue">Please... we're sorry, we - we didn't know,</span>The Milotic turned its gaze on her, the anger in its penetrating red eyes burned through her. She looked down in fear.<span style="color: blue">We were leaving... we were going,</span>her voice shook.<span style="color: blue">We are foreign to this place. They didn't know.</span>Eleyna pleaded.<br/><br/>Milotic looked back at Eevee and Snover, looking for any reason to crush them for their insolent disrespect.<br/><br/><span style="color: blue">Please.</span><br/><br/>Milotic looked back at Eleyna, at the Pokemon. The water crashed down on them, consuming them in a wave that sent them tumbling beneath its turbulent surface. Eleyna was upside down, sideways, she couldn't even tell for a moment which way she was pointed. The wave that consumed them drove them out and away from the waterfall. She felt a rock hit her leg painfully as the surge settled. She paddled and quickly found the surface. She coughed and caught her breath. The wave had pushed them some ten meters to the very edge of the shoals where they dropped into the shallows. Eleyna looked back towards shore at the bluff where the waterfall's inlet lay. The Milotic floated there staring out at them. It could have killed them, she knew. It could have killed them but it didn't. Eleyna understood very well its intent in the act of mercy. She would not set foot there again.<br/><br/>She swam a short distance to where the water was shallow enough that she could stand and took a moment to collect herself. She whimpered as she realized the surge had thrown everything she was carrying from her. When a few minutes before she had lamented not having her bag, now she was thankful that she left it at the camp. Had it been here she would have lost everything. Now, she had simply lost her clothes and sleeping bag. She spotted the blue and white hat a short distance away among the shoals. It had caught the edge of the protruding stone which had kept it from being washed away into the lake. A moment of awkward panic settled in as she realized she was now pants-less. She frantically looked around, and was overjoyed to find the lower half of her over garment caught in a nook of a rock. Eleyna wasn't about to make the same mistake twice and pulled her pants on without a second thought.<br/><br/>She waded through the shoals, spotting Pokemon slowly coming out of hiding along the way. She kept well clear of the waterfall, the Milotic having once again retreated behind the blanket of cascading water. The water continued to shallow until she was able to stand up onto a rock out of it. She was utterly soaked, and water rolled off her as she sat down on the wet stone in dismay, dropping the crumpled hat in her lap.<br/><br/>She sat for several minutes, disheveled, sopping wet. She just stared at the water, taking deep breaths. Almost burned alive, almost drowned. The second one wasn't even her fault. She simply couldn't catch a break. She wanted to cry, but was so emotionally shell shocked that she just thought,<i>fuck it.</i>She stood up off the rock, walking through the water, not even mustering enough to care about walking through the water, or how very tight and clingy her clothing was while wet, or that her underwear and sleeping bag were now lost in the middle of a lake somewhere.<br/><br/>She walked in a half stupor past Aisha, Jake, and a girl she hadn't seen before, making a B-line straight for camp, only her crumpled hat in hand. She didn't respond or so much as look at them save with a single 'don't even bother asking' expression. She made it to the beach and followed the sand to the camp where at least a small campfire was burning. She plopped down in the sand beside her bag, stared for a long moment out at the lake, then opened the bag and withdrew a wrapped morsel of food. She looked out at the lake solemnly. She barely heard Audree and Steven return.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="text-decoration: underline">Lake Zone</span><br/><br/>Afternoon<br/><br/><b>Immediate area:</b><br/><br/>At Shore:<br/>Remnants of a camp site.<br/>•	Rubber Dinghy<br/>•	Fire pit at the shore, looks to be more than a week old.<br/>•	A fishing rod lays partially covered in the sand.<br/><br/>At Shoals (North):<br/>Rocky terrain.<br/>•	Rocky terrain rises and forms around a small inlet where a river runs from the mountains to the lake in a small waterfall pouring down on the shallows.<br/>•	Shoals hold many crevices, Pokemon Encounter Zone.<br/><br/>At Field (East):<br/>Clearing on the edge of tall grass.<br/>•	Tall grass can hide many thing, Pokemon Encounter Zone.<br/>•	Clearing of solid earth, shows signs of Pokemon battle. A training zone from when the camp was previously active.<br/>•	Grass may hide berry bushes, Food source.<br/><br/><br/><b>Distant:</b><br/><br/>At Deep Water (West):<br/>Water Pokemon hot zone, excellent fishing ground. Accessible with Dinghy.<br/>•	Aquatic Pokemon feeding and habitation area, Pokemon Encounter Zone.<br/>•	Food source.<br/><br/>At Grotto (North):<br/>Beyond the shoals, a cave mouth among the rocks. Accessible by foot or by Dinghy.<br/>•	Contents unknown.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>