Greta's Personal Scenes

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The smell of damp rock and stone dominated the air as the routine sound of water droplets falling from the ceiling plopped onto the ground every few seconds, echoing throughout the innards of the cave as they did. Alongside the cool ambient sounds of the cave could the shuffling of flip-flops be heard, carefully dragging across the stone below them so not to accidentally stumble into any rocks protruding from the ground.

The wearer of the flip-flops was a short elderly woman, and she wasn't just sort-of old, she was unmistakably old. The skin of her face drooped, betraying any semblance of youth she might once have had, which gave a sour-looking frown to her natural resting face. She was clad in very earthy-looking attire, a very roomy looking beige shirt with a brown skirt which reached down to her ankles with some sort of similarly brown apron covering both articles of clothing at the front. Atop her head she wore a pale green bandana which was wrapped around her aged white hair. All-in-all her fashion sense left much to be desired, but it didn't seem like she'd be bothered if anybody told her that. The elderly woman was not shuffling through the cave alone, though, in fact it'd be difficult to spot her without her little bodyguards.

Accompanying the woman were two Geodude, who were encircling the woman as they levitated around her, always staying at such a distance so not to interrupt her steps but always close enough so that nothing else could get between them and her. It was almost like the woman had her own gravitational pull, and these Geodude were her moons. On closer inspection, one of the Geodude looked a little bit different than the other. It's colour was more of a greyish-blue than the brown of most Geodude, and it looked like he had rather large, bushy eyebrows. This second Geodude was in fact an Alolan Geodude, but this hardly mattered, it seemed to coordinate perfectly with the other Geodude, and the difference in their forms clearly didn't affect their relationship.

"Surely this cave must end soon! my feet are getting sore." The old woman finally spoke, although it was more of an annoyed bicker. Her voice was somewhat raspy and high-pitched, definitely worn from years of speaking her mind. As she complained to herself she stopped in her tracks, the two Geodude stopped too, and ceased floating around the woman. The two Geodude exchanged a look with one another after looking the elderly woman up and down, and then nodded to themselves. The old woman noticed this as she raised her eyebrow. "What are you two--Oah!" she began to question the Geodude, but before she could finish her sentence they had both swept her off of her feet, using their bodies to lift her; linking their arms together to create a seat for the woman. 

"Oh you two!" the woman snapped in an ungrateful tone, clearly upset at the surprise the two had pulled. Her upset face rested after a few seconds though, and then curled into a warm smile. "Hmph - Well, it is somewhat comfortable.." she admitted. With her new rocky throne the elderly woman was escorted further through the cave; now at a much better pace than her small legs had been carrying her thus far. "Well we'll be there in no time now - Hmph?" The woman said, before she suddenly took note of an emerging light in-front of them. "Ah! That must be the exit, good job boys, that'll be enough!" she said, warmly praising the Geodude, speaking to them as if they were her children. As she said this the Geodude gradually slowed their momentum carefully so not to jolt their trainer's body, and after stopping the woman carefully lifted herself to her feet, content to walk the rest of the way now.

"Right then, let's--" she spoke, but she was cut off by some screeching from above. "Hmmm?" The woman pondered, raising her gaze to the source of the sound. The two Geodude looked too, and then immediately sprung from where they were and began protectively encircling their trainer just as they did before. From the unseen darkness of the ceiling above suddenly came three blue-blurs, which all shot towards the elderly woman like bullets. Her eyes couldn't quite make out what they were, but her Geodude could. Without command the two Geodude acted to protect their trainer and linked their arms up the perform a clothes-line attack against the swift assailants. The blurs that were once too fast to see were suddenly revealed to be three Zubat which had all been struck by the two Geodude, who then proceeded to launch them away from the woman.

"Oh my! Good job you two, my eyes must not be what they used to, hm?" she said as she praised her Pokémon, before her gaze trailed to the three Zubat, and her expression narrowed. "Did you think I was an easy target, hm? Well not with my trusty Nuts and Bolts here, I'll tell ya!" The woman said, taunting the Zubat with a proud chuckle. "I've been walking for two days, y'know? And Oreburgh City is just up ahead and you pests shan't be slowing me down now!" she continued, raising her hand and pointing a finger to the Zubat, who appeared to just be shaking off the shock of being launched away after such a quick assault.

"Right, so bugger off now or these two'll show you somethin' you won't be able to just shake off!" the woman said, further belittling the Zubat as if she were scolding a trio of misbehaving children. The three Zubat seemed to exchange looks with one another, despite their lack of eyes. Nuts and Bolts, the names of the woman's Geodude appeared to be flexing their arms at the Zubat as if to deter them from making a second attempt on their trainer. But in the end it wasn't the Geodude that scared them off. "Well go on then! Scram!" the woman suddenly shouted, the voice of an angry old lady appeared to be enough to send the three Zubat fleeing into the darkness from whence they came.

A few seconds of silence followed, and the Geodude returned to hovering around their trainer once more. The woman bared her teeth with a cocky grin. "Hehe - Well then, let's go" she muttered before finally taking her last few steps out of the cave and into the city.