Loomian Legacy Veils of Shadow

The Trio's Terrible Day!

"You have no idea where we're going do you?" Lucy asked as she and her twin brother trailed behind Mabel. Next to her, Lucas was noisily eating some jelly-filled donuts. "Of course I do!" Mabel snapped as she held up the map close to her face. "I don't know Mabel, we've been walking for a bit. Maybe we should have used the GPS?" Lucas said through bites. "We don't need the GPS! I know exactly how to get to Sepharite." Lucy sighed and placed a gentle hand on Mabel's shoulder. "Just admit we're lost." Mabel's eye twitched. "We're not-!" Suddenly, before she could finish, rain started to pour down. "Seriously!" Everyone cried simultaneously.

Mabel did her best to protect the map as the trio scrambled. Lucy tripped, her face eating mud when she spotted the cave. "In here!" She yelled as she took off, desperate to escape the downpour. She slid into the cave, and her friends followed closely behind. The three of them stood there for a moment, cold and shivering.

Meanwhile, on Route 6, Thane had found shelter underneath some giant rocks that had formed into a sort of natural "tent." Embit had helped make a fire and now, he and his team were happily munching on smores. Geklow served as the group's lantern and Slugling and Paratweet snuggled against Embit's warm, soft fur.

Things weren't going so swell for Mabel and company, however. The girls wrung the water from their hair while Lucas pulled off his hat and wrung the water as best he could. Lucy sighed as she turned to the outside world. "We're going to have to wait this out." Mabel groaned and kicked a rock further into the cave. Lucas was on one knee, his hands fiddling with the matches from his backpack. Suddenly, Mabel put a hand up. "Sush, guys. Do you hear that?" Everyone paused and listened carefully. "I hear something," Mabel told her friends. "Coming from deeper in the cave."

The twins strained their hearing, trying to pick out the sound their red-headed friend was hearing. Then they heard it. It was the sound of scattering legs. "Somethings coming," Mabel said through a wild gasp as she stumbled back, nearly running into Lucy. Lucy stepped forward and turned on the flashlight in her watch and pointed it into the cave.

The Burroach, suddenly illuminated by the bright spotlight, stopped in its tracks and stared up at them with giant red eyes for a millisecond. As soon as Mabel saw the Loomian, her mouth opened in a scream that made Lucas jump and nearly drop his last donut. "Kill it! Kill it! Guys do something!" Her cries echoed in the enclosed space and drowned the minds of her friends, threatening to throw the entire group into chaos. Burroach, upon hearing the sudden cries, jumped into the air and began to scurry around wildly, only fueling Mabel's hysteria and making the situation worse. "Guys!" She yelled as she clung to Lucy's arm, shaking the blonde-haired girl violently.

Lucas, without thinking, grabbed a disc from his open backpack pocket. He aimed and threw it at the wild Burroach. The Loomian was pulled into the disc in a flash of blue light, and the disc clattered to the ground, the sound echoing through the cave. Mabel held her breath, more so than Lucas as the disc shook. She finally breathed when the disc shook for the third and final time, and the multicolored stars shot out from the top of the device to signify the capture.

Mabel leaned against the cave wall, her hand on her chest. She could hear her heart pounding in her ears and she let out a sigh of relief. Then, her eyes snapped open. "Wait," She said as she was turning to Lucas. "You're not going to keep that thing, are you?" Too late. Lucas was already putting the disc containing Burroach into his bag, causing his friend to groan.

Lucy was right. Mabel and company had to wait out the storm, the entire night. They had to wait in that dark and cold cave. Lucas and Lucy had fallen asleep quickly. It was Mabel who couldn't drift off. She had shut her eyes for the longest time but nothing came over her. Ever since Burroach's sudden appearance, she was worried about another wild Loomian coming out of nowhere. Needless to say, the night was long.