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ToT Intermission 3-2 - Potentiam voluntatis Part 1

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It was almost afternoon when the two Eeveelutions got out of the rather difficult debriefing they had with Cerise and Adrias. Nox was catching up to Sonya, who was walking ahead of him with her gaze downwards and her ears lowered to her head. "So many questions were asked... I'm glad that we managed to answer most of them..." was he speaking up once he caught up to her while seeing her like that. The shiny Umbreons ears lowered down to see the Sylveon like that because of what happened not long ago, as he asks softly "Are you okay Sonya?"

"I'm fine." was her response while not looking to him, which was in a tense tone but also told him that she's wasn't and doesn't want to talk about it when she got a rather pained expression on her face. Nox looked down and had a pained expression while his rings glowed a bit weaker then usual as he continued to speak "A-at least wasn't Yang with us. I'm sure she... would have felt very horrible in that situation." Sonya flinched from him mentioning that and stopped heading to the meeting spot, causing him to stop too.

Her gaze was still focused downwards as she spoked up with a rather pained tone "Nox... Please don't tell Yang about the corruption of witch-hunters and my clan." Nox looked understandingly towards Sonya, while her ears still remained limp onto as she continued with a sad and pained tone "When Yang met me, I had better control of the corruption and was learning to think differently than what I was taught. I told her a few things, but she doesn't know about how corrupted witch-hunters can be...  and how I was almost like that."

The shiny Umbreon nodded to her request "Allright... I'll keep that for myself. Um... please don't tell Yang about what I had to tell them." To hear such a past like that and revealing his own past to two strangers, just to cause no trouuble for the Taberian guilds was exhausting for both Eeveelutions as he thought about it for a moment *To know that your own sister became a corrupted and cold-blodded killer... you really are strong Sonya.*  The Sylveon nodded at his request and took a shaky, deep breath that sounded like she wanted to cry.

But she didn't as she started to walk again without looking towards him and past him, causing him to see her down casted violet eyes full of sadness and regret. His heart stopped for a split second to see her like that, since it was very painful for him to see a female like that, as he became concerned for her when she said in a soft tone "I don't want her to know. Not yet." Nox quickly caught up to Sonya and placed his cheek softly next to hers, which caused her to jump softly before she glanced over to him with a light surprised look on her face.

He spoked up quietly, but in a very soft and honest tone towards her "You're not her Sonya. You're strong... and you have Yang and your Mentor." Her eyes widened from that as she slightly raised her head through that and started towards him with a very surprised look on her face. The shiny Umbreon wasn't aware that he was brushing against her top feelers as he started to nuzzle her very softly without realising it as he added "And despite my hetirage... did you spared my life. So you're defenetly not an emotionless killer Sonya, not like Luciana."

Sonyas look changed to sympathy, given that she could feel his pain of his own past, and that he was concerned about her as he tried to cheer her up. Out of instinct did she rubbed her cheek back against his in mild comfort while frowning with a sad look. For a moment were both Eeveelutions commited in cheering each other up, before they both realised that they were way too close within each other as they both took a small leap to the side. They both had a soft, red blush across their faces, given that they are opposite genders after all.

The Sylveons soothe bell ringed out in a light tone as she frowned, trying to hide her nervousness as she reminded him "D-Don't get close. Remember I warned the Lenian tribe about my new ability Cute Charm that I have now. You can't touch me or you'll be affected too." He frowned in return as he had forgotten about that and agreed with her to keep some distance to each other because of that "R-right. I-I'm sorry I forgot about that... A-anyway... we both have to be strong for our friend Yang and not get bothered by our past."

Sonya looked towards him and nodded in agreement "Your right. We have to for Yang. She's the only friend we have who is truly honest and kind. We can't let her down." She soon glanced away from him as they started to walk to the meeting spot again, quickly passing by Nox as she was feeling embarresed. "Thank you, Nox." was she saying in a soft, grateful  tone  while he did caught a glimps of her blushing face. *You're welcome Sonya... can't let you be down like that after all!* was he thinking with a rather silent chuckle to see her like that.

After a little walk were the Eeveelutions able to see their shiny Mienfoo friend, while both of them were calm again so she won't be able to notice a thing. Yang had her usual nervous smile when she waved towards the two of them when they were close by, causing Nox to smile softly to see that she was doing well and allright when she asked to them "H-Hey you two. H-How'd it go?" Nox instantly responded with the truth "Tiresome and tough, but we answered most of their questions as good as we could and explained some of the things that happened."

But he kept the secret that he promised towards Sonya very well hidden "Overall were they pleased with our answers. At least were they calm, composed and friendly after that comission that happened on the morning." Yang became relieved to hear that they didn't had any trouble and smiled softly while he streching his body. He was slowly getting used to his new height and features that he haves as an Umbreon and that he was constantly glowing navy blue, with the fact that he's a hybrid between a witch-hunter and a good witch.

"To be honest, any longer and my paws would have slept in during thatdebriefing... even if it was needed." was he starting to rant a little bit when. "Even the debriefings in the military are more interesting then the debfriefing we had, because each squad had to tell what happened during their mission part of the whole operation." Nox soon was in the normal stance with a soft frown as he looked towards their friend to ask about her own task "Anyway... how was the work you had to do Yang? I hope you didn't had any trouble with Prier."

The shiny Mienfoo flinched from that and tapped her paws together in nerousness when she stuttered "U-Uh, i-it went ok..." He realised that she was hiding something as the Sylveon snapped out of her thoughs and looked suspiciously towards her as she asks "Yang. What happened?" Nox looked over to Sonya as Yang jumped lighty from that tone, he didn't showed it but he was glad that she was starting to get herself together again. He soon looked back to Yang, who was waving her left arm nervously infront of her as she responded "N-Nothing."

Sonyas violet eyes narrowed sternly when she said in a stern tone "Yang, tell us. If he did something-" Yang instantly shook her head and disagreed with "N-No!" She started to tap her hands nervously again as she looked lightly to the side and admitted "H-He didn't do anything bad. I-I just had a small mishap with one of the kids while he was there. B-But we managed fine and the kid was found." Both Eeveelutions looked rather surprised about that when the Sylveon asked "You lost a kid?" The shiny Mienfoo sighted from that "Sort off..."

She was still nervous as she continued with "L-Let's just say he overheard me talking to Pier about what happened in the cavern and being curious, he ran off to see what happened and I chased him there. I-I got him back without any troubles so its fine. I-I swear." Sonya soon lectured her in concern for her safety "Yang be more careful. Even with the Don out of business in Ywaru it's not safe to go there alone." Nox agreed to that and said with the same concern "Yeah, Yawaru's stiill a rough place despite that Don Kapon is out for sure."

"I-I know. S-Sorry." was Yang speaking out in defeat with her head hanging down. The shiny Umbreon didn't buyed it as he looked closely towards her with his silver eyes, notecing the Bag of Holding he haves too but calls her out "Yang... despite that an orphan did got lost in that cave after overhearing... the talk with you and Prier. You're still hiding something, so tell us the truth, what really happened?" The Sylveon gave her the same look, because she too realised that their friend was only telling them half the truth of what really happened.

He was focused on their friend, who looked timidly to both of them, then glanced backwards to the bag again as started to reach for it while beginning with "W-well..."  But before she could continue to talk was he walking towards something that reflected his navy blue glowing light. A rather confused look appeared on his face when he found a corked up bottle with a piece of paper inside it *A bottle message? Here in the desert?* He looked towards the females, who both were looking confused and surprised towards him in return.

Sonyas violet eyes narrowed as she mumbled "Weird, that symbol looks familiar." Yang instantly responded confused "I-I've been standing here for a while and no ones came besides you two. I-I didn't even notice that this was right here." A light hum escaped the Sylveon as she kept looking to the bottle "Open it." The shiny Mienfoo became rather nervous about that suggestion and looked towards her "N-No. W-What if it belongs to someone." The shiny Umbreon was frowning about the fact that something like that is here.

"I don't see a name on the bottle. And if it does then the name should be on the parcel. We'll have to open it if we want to see who it belongs to. I say open it" was Sonya speaking up with a noticable hint of playful curiosity as she looked towards him. Nox was also curious about the bottle as he admitted it towards the females "Hmm... I'm curious too. Yet did he not forgot that Yang didn't told them the complete truth as he continues with "But I wanna know what Yang is hiding from us before we'll deal with this strange message in the bottle, allright?"

Yang flinched when he brought that topic back, while his tail wrapped in a good grip around the bottle, making sure not to shatter it as he headed back to the females. Sure, everyone was curious what the message might be as he ends up standing next to Sonya with his tail unintentionally beeing close to her as she took the opportunity. "Oh yeah! Since you were in that cave, does that mean that you..." was he starting up, before his right paw moved up to his neck where his wornout blue scarf was wrapped around, which he was missing ever since.

Yang realised what he was going to ask as she answered "U-Uh well, yes. T-the bag came in handy as I kept one of the kids in here that ran away. H-He was tiny enough to fit while I got us out of there quickly." She started to reach to her bag and finally opened it as she spoked out "A-And well, as I did I found some things." She smiled as she grabbed out the amethist hairpiece Sonya always wore, who was shocked to see them and lost the grip of her feelers on the bottle as it shattered loudly onto the ground, freeing the parcel in progress to that.

The Sylveon jumped from that noise, then sighted as she said like she was caught "Whoops." She glanced with a glare towards her feelers as she thought out loudly  "These are harder to use than I thought." The Umbreon glared towards her and mocked her a bit playfully "Impatient as ever, huh?" She soon went over to Yang, walking around the broken glass shards to see her hairpiece, only to say "Please keep them safe for me Yang..." Nox could hear the sadness of hers, meaning that she couldn't use them as she usualy did.

The shiny Mienfoo glanced over to Nox and became a bit sad when she apologised to him "N-Nox, I'm sorry." Her hand moved into the bag again, only to take out shredded pieces of his wornout blue scarf "T-That assassin tore your scarf and this was all I could find before the cavern collapsed." was she finally admitting the truth, causing both Eeveelutions to gasp. Nox was shocked from what she did on her own, before Sonya said with a stern voice full of concern for their friend "Wait, you were that cavern again and it collapsed?!"

Yang sweatdropped and laughted nerviously, before she looked back sadly towards them "I-I'm sorry. B-Both your precious items were damaged." The shiny Umbreon instantly spoked up with a small scolding tone "I don't care about the wornout blue scarf if it was almost costing your life!" She flinched again and looked down with a sad pout on her face, making her say dejectedly "I-I'm sorry. T-The child was returned safely and after taking them I thought it be safe to go back and look. I-I didn't realize the fight we had there had made the area unstable."

Before Yang could even react did he ended up hugging her and sighted a bit delighted "I'm just glad you got out there alive..." Yang blinked surprised by that, then hugged him back while she was touched from that as he thought silently *I'm sure Sonya would agree that our items wouldn't mean anything at all if ourfriend would have lost her life today...* The Sylveon sighted, but was was agreeing with him as she spoked out softly towards their friend "Next time take someone you can trust with you or wait for us to help you out."

Nox letted go of the hug as he heared her continuing rather playfully "Anyway... seems your getting a back bone. You went to a dark cave all alone and managed to avoid being squished. Our Yang is growing up." Yang smiled sheeplishly in return as she responded with "G-Guess you two are rubbing off on me." That caused him to say with a bit of concern "As long as you don't become reckless Yang..." Sonya made a concerned face when she said "That might not be a good thing." But Yang only responded with an honest smile "I think it is."

Yang soon holded the torn pieces of his old blue scarf towards him, making him sight a bit sadly before saying with honesty "Welp... that was the only keepsake I had from my old home. But knowing that my dear friend isn't harmed is much more valuable then that." She smiled happily as sheunderstood what he ment with that as he grabbed them softly from her hands with the intention to put them into his own Bag of Holding. But he stopped in his movement when he heared Sonya sight, then speak out a rather dissapointed "Aww man."

When the shiny Umbreon turned around could he see how the Sylveon was near the shattered glass bottle, having picked out the parcel of with her feelers and holding it with one, while looking rather irritated towards her other feeler that had a cut from the sharp glass pieces. "Great, I can feel pain in these too. Fantastic." was she sarcasticly speaking up before starting to lick the cut while Nox slowly walked up to her. Before she wanted to ignore it by looking to the parcel did he grabbed her feeler and ripped apart a piece of his scarf.

Sonya turned around, and was rather shocked to see that it was him as she wanted to remind him of her Ability, yet did she said nothing as she could see how he used a piece of his own scarf to bandage that cut up. "There... even if that's a piece of cotton will it prevent sand to get into that wound." was he speaking up as he looked to the parcel, which made it hard for her to see that he was a bit embarresed from beeing close to her and having done that, but he didn't minded using a piece of his torn blue scarf if it was helping someone out.

"Also did I always washed the scarf, so don't worry about any infections. But next time... let Yang pick up something with her Psychic power when it's surrounded by sharp things until you got used to the feelers like I have to get used to beeing a walking flashlight." was he saying softly towards her, which earned him a rather stunned look of hers. Sonya soon glanced towards her feeler that was wrapped in that piece of his old scarf, knowing what it ment for him but got a rather small, grateful smile when she realised what he just did.

Nox wasn't seeing that as he blinked when he looked towards the parcel, trying to read it but only commented "This handwriting is pretty messy... if someone wrote that in a hurry..." She snapped out and cleared her throath rather awkwardly as she looked back to the parcel "I-It does look like this is some sort of message for a journey."  Nox frowned a bit as he tried to read it out loudly "I can't read it at all, just some words of it... like... history... seek it... endurance... and something with numb... as well as something about caverns and a reward..."

Sonya waved over Yang to get closer to them, which she did as the former pointed on the strange looking symbol of the parcel. The symbol was a blue shaped outline with two long tails and what looks like three gems. One in the middle and two on the ends of the tails as she spoked out "Actually, this symbol here looks familiar." The shiny Umbreon blinked when the Sylveon pointed onto the strange looking symbol on top of the parcel.l "When did you saw such that symbol?" was he asking a bit confused while Yang looked rather curious.

"When we were scouting out a location for the Voice Stone, the night Nox evolved, I recall seeing this on top of a cliff side." was Sonya responding to his question. Yang frowned to that as she exclamed "I-I don't recall seeing that before." Sonya instantly responded with "You and him were talking when I barely saw it in the moonlight. I thought it was nothing and kept going, but it's the same shape I saw before." Nox recalled that night as he said "Ah I see. No wonder I haven't seen it if it was during the time Yang and I had that talk..."

"C-Could they be the same?" was the shiny Mienfoo asking with honesty and curiousity while his thoughs were at that particular night again  *I really am grateful to have met such an amazing friend like Yang. I never want to see her life fade away infront of my eyes...* The loud ring of Sonyas soothe bell did gained his attention again, while he saw her smirking very interested and had the eager look in her eyes as she asked "Wanna find that out?" Nox was also interested in finding out what was awaiting for them from that parcel.

"What ya waiting for then?!" was he speaking up with an eager look on his face, while Yang was looking rather worried about that idea but didn't complained. "Let's stock up on water before we head out to that place!" was he suggesting, which they nodded in agreement too as they headed back to Yawaru so they could prepare for the journey to the unknown adventure. Once the unlikely trio were fully prepared did they headed out to the spot from yesterday, and it just took at least one and a half hour to arrive at the cliff side of that place.

"Allright, lead the way to that symbol Sonya while Yang and I stay close. We have to be alert too, since we don't know what lies ahead of us when we go into that place. I'm pretty sure that we'll encounter traps in it that might be still active... cause nothing is free after all." was he briefing to them, earning a nod from Sonya while Yang looked rather hesitant to continue. She fiddled nervously on the Warding Charm that was hanging around her neck, following them as she mentions "T-This is kinda nerve wrecking. H-How are we not sure this is just a trap?"

Sonya looked over her shoulder towards her teammate and responded "That symbol looks legit enough. I'm sure whatever's thrown at us we can handle." Before she looked at her feelers as she mumbles a bit irritated "Even if I still can't use these very well yet." She started to climb first, while Nox went after her and sometimes looked back to Yang to see if she was doing allright. Thanks to his training was he able to cliumb up that cliff and wasn't even scared of heights. After a fifteen minuteclimb were they on the heighest point.

Both Yang and he did looked back down, only to see that they had did had climbed quite some distance. The shiny Mienfoo was looking rather nervous from that while the shiny Umbreon on the other hand whistled "Man that would have been a painful landing, properbly with a broken paw or two. We sure had luck that none of the rocks got loose during the climing up to this heigh." At the same time was the Sylveon looking around carefully for the symbol that she saw last night as she mumbled "It was here somewhere."

He soon started to look around for the symbol Sonya have pointed out on the parcel. They searched around for a good while as he decided to break the silence with a little joke "Shall I take the lead should we find that place? We don't know if there is any sort of light after all... So I might come in handy as a walking flashlight for this little group." Yang giggled softly from that, while Sonya shook her head before she responded with a playful smirk "At least your not covered in sand again. I recall that you took quite a tumble and were covered in sand on that night."

Yang covered her mouth to stifle the heartly laugh of hers when while Nox was actually silently pleased that it did worked as he thought *Ah hey, you're opening up to me Sonya. I'm glad to find out that we both do get along and can become friends.* He faced her teasing smirk with a soft smile, causing her to blink and quickly look away while he looked over to the shiny Mienfoo, who still was laughting with her covered mouth. Another fifteen minutes passed by until Nox spotted a strange looking symbol above a cavern entrance.

He pointed over to the north-west direction as he called them out "Yang, Sonya! I think I've found it!" They both then perk up and quickly followed him to the said entrance. By the looks of it was it leading underground into the cavern rocks when they all looked at it. "Looks like we're getting down under ladies. Stick close to each other, and keep your eyes peeled while I'll try to lead the way." was he suggesting, as the Sylveon spoked out "Yang go  between Nox and me." With that did they headed into the cavern, not knowing what was awaiting for them.

Since he was leading the group were his paw steps slow enough for them to keep up with his glowing navy blue rings, which were able to illuminate at least 100 feets around them. The further they went inside the path, the less natural light was shining into it, making it pitch black infront and behind them. "I-It's really dark in here." was Yang mumbeling softly while his tail was close to her body incase she became too nervous. Sonya instantly replied her with a surprisingly grateful tone about that situation "Good thing Nox is here with us."

Nox silver eyes widened a bit in surprise when he heared that as a soft blush appeared on his face while his heart skipped a beat *S-she's really warming up to me.* . But despite that did he stayed alerted and focused infront of him as he spoked up "Stay alert you two... last thing I want is a nasty surprise." "You too." was Sonya mumbeling in return while Yang ended up grabbing onto his tail gently yet firmly enough for him to feel it. He didn't minded it, since it was his intension for her to grab his tail incase she got too scared.

After a good while of walking did the little group stopped when they came across an ancient looking writing on a wall, which also showcased a strange looking Pokemon on it that looked very similair to the symbol on the parcel on it. Both the shiny Umbreon and the shiny Mienfoo tilted their heads, as the former spoked out  "That's... interesting... I don't know that language at all..." He stayed on his spot and kept beeing highly alerted while looking towards the Sylveon "Sonya? Can you take a closer look on it please? I'll keep guard here with Yang."

Sonya sighted in seriousness and started to head towards it, only to jump from the small tug of Yang onto her feelers, who looked worried towards her. She looked back to them with a a distressed look, then shook her head and smiled towards their friend "Calm down Yang. It's ok. Me and Nox are here." Yang took a deep breath, then spoked out with an undertone of determination "I-I can't help but worry. B-but I want you both to be safe too. J-Just know I'm here to help too." She letted go of her teammates feelers, who headed to the wall.

Nox looked over to Yang with a soft smiile and nodded when he saw her determination "Thanks Yang, we appriciate it. As long as we stick together will we be able to get through everything, right?" They soon looked towards Sonya, who looked around carefully before she dusted off something. "Hm. Seems someone already decided to translate this to something we can understand." was she informing them, causing them both to look curiously towards her as she took a took a deep breath for reading it out loud for them.

"Look beneath the rocks in Ywaru Canyon. A juicier history awaits for Those brave enough to seek it. For Those valiant challengers: do not let your endurance falter, even in an uphill battle. Numbing death will find you from the walls. Water has long left these time-worn caverns; do not neglect to bring your own. Ancient cobalt regalia from a forgotten era will be your reward. Godspeed to those who risk their lives, and goodwill to those who do not." After she finished reading that out aloud did she looked back to the other two.

"I don't like how this sounds." was she mumbleing as she grew tense while Yang grip on Nox tail got a bit tighter. He didn't flinched from that thanks to his new ability Inner Focus as he repeated "Endurance, uphill battle and numbing death..." A frown appeared on his face as he rubbed his front head for a moment "I don't like it either. But it was a good thing we stocked up on water and food before we headed out to this place." It sounded like a dangerous trial was waiting for them ahead, but he was more worried for the other two then himself.

"A regalia from a forgotten era and that strange Pokemon that is drawn on the wall..." was he contemplating when he looked towards the strange drawing again, not knowing that it was a rough painting of a forgotten legend called Azelf. Even Sonya was contemplating on that as she mumbled "Forgotten era..." She soon looked back to the wall she read of from before as she speaks up "I know regalia can mean a symbol or item of importance, like royalty or even something more. Whatever this reward is must be ancient or something important."

Her eyes narrowed as she spoked out what she was thinking "Though it seems something must be passed in order to obtain it." The shiny Mienfoo picked that up and asked with curiousity "L-Like a test?" In with the Sylveon turned around and nodded to her "Sounds like it. But what kind of test is it? is the question." The shiny Umbreons His determination to explore that cavern grew even stronger as he looked towards the two females and spoked up "We could be the first one who'll discover a forgotten era and find a very ancient treasure within this cave if we decide to go further ahead."

*But what do they mean with numbing death... is it a crushing wall trap? Or some kind of gas that will kill us slowly? I don't want to drag them into something that dangerous* were his thoughs about the upcoming test. He soon looked to the females and suggested them "How about a little moment to think about it?" Sonya realised what he was implying on as she reassured her teammate with "Yang, if you're not sure on this can we go back again."  Yang took a deep breath and looked with determination towards them "N-No. I-It's fine. I-I may be nervous, but I don't want to hold you both back if you want to see."

"Yang you won't hold us back." were both Eeveelutions speaking out in unison towards her. She was touched that they both were concerned about her, but responded with seriousness "Yes I will. I know your both eager to see what this is. E-Even with the danger it warned. I-I'm not going to disappoint my friends by chickening out." Her left hand moved over to her chest as she softened up in her tone "I-I may be scared, but I'm still your teammate Sonya. And both of you are my friends. I-I won't let you both down by letting my fears get to me. N-Not anymore."

"A-At least I'll try not to." was Yang ending unsure as she looked down for a moment. Both Eeveelutions were staring towards her, then started to smile in proudness to realise that she wants to deal with her fears. Sonya was the first one to respond "Like I said no matter what you won't hold us back. I was just going to suggest you remain between Nox and me as we go check it out.  I wasn't going to leave you behind, and if things look back well turn back." Yang looked surprised by that answer, then smiled relieved before she looked over to Nox.

He smiled in return as he responded after Sonya "Neither was I going to leave you behind Yang. And yes, like Sonya said you'll be between us like we got in here." Shortly after that did he placed his right paw onto Yangs shoulder "Also are you starting to become more and more brave, I like that Yang!" She smiled rather bashfully from that compliment of his as Sonya looked towards him now "That alright with you? You may be a solo team but we need you because you can light the way. But if things look bad we high tail it out, allright?."

He nodded in agreement to that "Yeah, I'm allright with that. I want to go find that place too and just wanted to make sure that we are agreeing with each other. Also do I know that you both won't abandon me should things go haywire." Sonya took a gulp of her teams water bag, then handed it over to Yang as she sighted after wiping her mouth, then respond with honesty "We do seem to work well together if things turn for the worst." Yang nodded to that and took a gulp from their water bag too, while Nox proceeded to do the same with his tin can.

They both placed the sealed water into their respective Bag of Holdings as Sonya continued with "Of course we won't abandon you. Your our-" Nox ears twitched to hear Sonya almost finished that sentance as she looked rather embarresed frown to the side. "Y-Your Yangs friend and a fighter I respect. We're in this together like we usually are." was she trying to sound irritated, but she slightly failed to do so. Nox head turned towards the deeper part of the path they were going to contiinue to head to after she played that rather awkwardly off.

*She almost called me her friend... you don't have to hide it Sonya. It does feel... strange though.*  were his thoughs about what she actually wanted to say. "Right... if I wasn't in a group would I have-" he stopped and frowned as he almost finished that sentance otherwise. He awkwardly cleared his throath and sounded slightly irritated as he continued "Still become my own team despite that I respect you as a fighter."  At the same time was he facepalming himself in his mind *God... I almost said I would have joined their team if I wasn't my own team already...*

"L-let's go ladies. The faster we reach the end, the faster we're out of here." was he speaking up as he started to walk again. The shiny Umbreon lead ahead of the shiny Mienfoo and the Sylveon and kept illuminating the surroundings as good as he could. They all were highly alerted, despite that he felt a bit strange as he kept the pace they were walking in the beginning. The walls seeming to be littered with more symbols and strange words, but they were also deteriorating so a lot of the symbols and words faded away or were missing.

But the same symbol of the forgotten legendary Pokemon Azelf appeared here and there on the walls, causing Sonya to speak out during her observation "This place could of been a kind of temple. Perhaps it belonged to whoever that symbol belongs to." Nox was also seeing the strange symbols and words on the walls, but ept more attention infront of them as he noticed something odd on the ground. He stopped on his position when he spotted a rock that was a bit more upwards then usual and called out "That might be a pressure plate trap..."

He pointed it out for the females to see it as he looked around for what it could activate. Sonya saw it and responded in a very sarcastic tone "Great, traps. Whatever treasure this is, it must be valuable." Yang gulped to hear that and tightened her grip on Nox tail again, while he nodded and said what his guts were feeling in the current situation "I've the odd feeling that there are more of that ahead, be careful not to walk into them. It's also better that we don't touch the walls either. Who knows if there are pressure plate traps too..."

With that did the shiny Umbreon moved very slowly around, avoiding the pressure platr he spotted and kept moving carefully across a minefield of such traps. The shiny Mienfoo used his tail as guide to follow his exact pawsteps to avoid the traps as she asks worriedly "B-But what kind of trial is this? D-Do we really have to face one at the end of this place to get the item?" The Sylveon was following their exact steps to avoid the traps too as she answered "Seems like it. This could be one of the trials, getting past traps. Or just the beginning to the real trial ahead."

Nox soon looked over to Sonya to respond "You're defenetly right Sonya. I've the feeling that this is just the beginning of the whole trial." A sudden strange noise caused the group to halt, while both Eeveelutions ears raised up to that. Sonyas soothe bell gave out a loud ring that echoed through the path they were walking through, while he took a defensive stance. They both scanned the area while Yang asked "Sonya?" She responded in an alerted tone "I swore I thought I heard something." Nox shook his head as he responds " I've heared that too..."

After they'd said that did the strange noises started to come from the walls that surrounded them, causing the shiny Mienfoo to jump while both Eeveelutions grew tense. It sounded like the howl of the wind, but there was no breeze passing through the cave as they started to notice soft whispers that were hard to make out "......will......" The noises became louder, which caused Sonya to call out "Who's there?!" The noises became clear through that as a sudden voice echoing through the path "Do you have the willpower to be worthy to gain my emblem?"

"Worthy?" did both females asked in unison while Nox responded with confidence "If it's willpower that haves to be tested can we proove you that we have enough of it!" He looked over to Yang with determination, while seeing her beeing worried and Sonya beeing uncertain about that. Yangs look soon turned into determination as she looked to Sonya, who then nodded to that as she said "Whatever it is. Well pull through." Nox called out "We're ready for the trials that await on our way and proove our wothyness for the emblem of yours!"

The main voice was silent, while distant whispers of incoherent voices were capable to be heared. The symbol of the Pokemon started to glow blue as it responded with "Many have tried but alone their willpower wasn't enough."  Yang grabbed the parcel out of her Bag of Holding, only to see that the symbol on it was glowing too as she asked with a shaking voice full of concern "W-What's going on?" Nox took a strong defensive position near the females as his navy blue rings flared up from that "I don't know but stick together!"

"Prove yourself worthy by passing my trial." was the voice speaking up in a commanding tone as it suddently released blue smoke from the glowing symbols on the walls. "Prove your willpower." The trio gasped alarmed to see that the smoke was rapidly surrounding the area they were in, causing the shiny Umbreon to yell out "Run! Avoid breathing the smoke in!" Yang was too scared that she lost the grip of his tail as he was about to rush to the direction they were heading to as he could hear Sonya yell out "Move Yang!"

The shiny Mienfoo gasped when she snapped out and grabbed his tail again, making him drag her while the Sylveon followed them as they all tried to avoid breathing in the blue smoke. Unfortunatly did the shiny Umbreon already inhaled some of the blue smoke, as he could feel that he was growing weaker and weaker. They arrived at a large room, which looked like some sort of ritual room as the symbol of the forgotten legendary Pokemon Azelf was glowing brightly above them and kept on emitting out blue smoke into the room.

The ground of the room had some fine lines on the ground that lead to the edges, which was actually to collect the blood of the Pokemon that were trapped in the trial. It was part of the trial that the damage they take during that will get collected. He slowed down because he was out of breath, coughing strongly before speaking out weakly "I-I feel... s-so weak now... what's... going... on..." He became unconcious and fell to his side with a loud thud, shortly followed by Yang and then Sonya.
Results of this Chapter

It looks like the two Eeveelutions are getting used to beeing friend with each other, even it neither of them wants to admit it for now.

Turns out that Yang from Team Pathfinders got into quite some danger during her own little quest that you can see here

They don't know about the legend Azelf at all, but it seems that someone wanted them to do the trial as a group.

Yes, they did got knocked out by a blue smoke that caused them all to become unconcious... which is part of the trial.

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Okay, this is a little disclaimer: The next part of this Chapter contains Nox trial and is a lot more serious and mature then usual, but you can skip that if you're not a fan of mature content! Skip to Part 2


This is it, the 2nd Intermission 3 "Test of Willpower" in collab with :iconninja-foxdemon-angel: again~ Yes I do like to collab with her a lot ^^ "Potentiam voluntatis" is latin and means "Power of will", which only suits to the Intermission and the only plausible title that came up as name for this chapter. Fyi: We had this Intermission already finished, but rl got in both our ways. Team Exulibus

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Pokémon (c) Nintendo
Story (c) Tales of Tabira
Other Characters (c) Repsective Owners
Sonya (Hearne) & Yang (c) :iconninja-foxdemon-angel:
Dante "Nox" Volpes (c) Me
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