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The Hoenn Diaries (M) (IC)
http://letsplaypokemon.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hoenn.jpg/270761606/1040x587/Hoenn.jpg H O E N N † D I A R I E S [ PRESS START ]It's been several years ever since the events of Pokémon Emerald took place. Kyogre, Groudon and Rayquaza have returned to their eternal slumber in hidden sectors within the landmass, and the region of Hoenn has fallen into a state of peace and prosperity. More and more challengers are rising up as they try to take on both the Hoenn League and the contest scene - natives to the island and tourists alike -. Young trainers are appearing in droves each looking to achieve their goals and realize their every ambition. And you are one such trainer, a young male or female from Lavaridge Town or small settlements nearby, and you are about to begin your own journey. You will experience fierce battles, view captivating contests and take on many other challengers as you seek to fulfil your dreams – whatever they happen to be. [ GAMEPLAY. NOPE, NO FUNNY TITLE HERE. NOT AT ALL ] Progress: The role play will be broken into several chapters, starting with the first beginning in Lavaridge Town. The length of chapters will vary but the general progress mechanic will be that small-average length routes will take a full IC day to traverse whilst landmarks such as Mt. Chimney and long routes may take up to several IC days. Goals/Aims: Whilst chapters will be structured assuming that characters will be challenging the Hoenn regions gyms it is not mandatory for characters to have defeating the league as their goal. The focus of this Role Play will be on the individual goals of each character whatever they may be. Pokémon: To create a better flow and more interesting environment in the role play levels will not exist in this RP. Rather evolutions or the appearance of evolutionary items (trade evolutions will not exist) will be decided by a GM. Similarly, whilst a wild pokemon’s moves will be chosen by the RPer (otherwise it would be impossible to not have levels) the abilities of pokemon will be chosen at the discretion of GMs as will opportunities to learn new moves. Players will be able to encounter wild pokemon at will, however posts are required to end at the capture attempt (this is negotiable for story line purposes but discuss it with me first). The success of the capture (and as such the ability of the captured pokemon) is also to be determined by a GM – in general most captures will be successes but if there is a good reason then they may not be. The limit of pokemon to a team will be six however Professor Birch and Brendon will look after any extras and swap team members with those “stored” via PCs in the style of the anime (having seen it is not going to be required in the slightest). Whilst to begin with no Generation Six pokemon will be included this role play utilises the Gen 6 type chart. Update: We will now be including Gen 6 pokemon as wild pokemon available to be caught. Interaction: You can interact with each other and create NPCs at will. All gym leader battles will also be NPCs (but they will have predetermined teams).[ RULES. RULES? RULES! ]
[ CHAPTERS ] 1. The Journey Begins 2. Taking The Heat 3. The Road to Mauville [ GAME-MASTERS ] Gimmepie (myself) and Scyke. We both live in different time zones, so chances are that one of us will be on to address any problems that come up. Furthermore, most decisions we make will be collaborative - so you can be assured that everything will be as fair as it can be. [ ACCEPTED CHARACTERS ] 1. Aya Ingvar with Axew as starter (Gimmepie) 2. Akito Sasaki with Heracross as starter (TD) 3. Albert "AJ" Johnson with Shuppet as starter (TheZenTraveller) 4. Midori "Kyuu" Kuramoto with Phantump as starter (Dementia) 5. Dava LaLonde with Elekid as starter (Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers) On Hiatus 6. Skylar Rose with Poochyena as starter (ShayShayTheShaymin) 7. Sullivan "Sully" Raine with Chikorita as starter (Ducklighter) 8. Reserved (LucarioPWNs) 9. Hark Rense with Ralts as starter (Stingray) 10. Open |
Chapter One: The Journey BeginsLavaridge Town and Jagged Pass http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/da/Lavaridge_Town_anime.png Lavaridge Town, where, for better or worse, your journey as a trainer begins. Whatever your motivations are in this chapter you will receive your starter (unless of course you received it prior to the beginning of the RP), and you will be able to interact with your fellow beginning trainers, explore the town and prepare for the treacherous journey ahead. |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 1.1Team Spoiler:
The morning they were supposed to set off on the road together, Dava rose up early. She hurriedly took a quiet shower, got dressed and fixed up and grabbed her gear, which consisted of a gray, waterproof canvas backpack. Carefully tripping through the corridor between the rooms on the second floor of the house, she stopped to listen at her twin sister's door. When their aunt had moved in, she had made sure that they got separate rooms. Every teenage girl needs that! Dani didn't make a sound from inside, so Dava carefully opened the door up and tip-toed up to her bed with a devious smile and a little note in her hand. Tehehe. Dani wouldn't expect this. Dava would set off before her, on her own. Just as she put the note down on the sidetable, she saw another note already lying there. Only this was in blue paper, as opposed to Dava's pink paper. She picked it up, curiously. "Dear sister. I know you will likely try to sneak away before me in the morning, so I got up even earlier and sneaked away before that. See you on the road one day. Good luck!" A roar echoed through the quaint neighborhood and the blue note and the pink one were soon lying crumbled together in the waste-bin under Dani's desk. Half an hour later, Dava was finally out of the house too. No need to hurry with breakfast when her sister was already gone. It wasn't like she was going to hurry up to the Jagged Pass just to try and catch her. Nope. She would enjoy the sights of Lavaridge one last time before she set off. Who knew, maybe it would take quite some time before she saw her hometown again. At the belt on her hips sat one, shiny pokéball. The girl sighed as she thought about it. Why had she given up dear, sweet Mareep Princess to her sister? Then again, if Dani actually had some success in contests, Princess could be a star. That would be lovely for her. As for Prince... Her feet had automatically walked downtown and made their way towards the Lookout. Recently constructed, the lookout was a large platform attached to a big cliff by Lavaridge Town. Dava and Dani had loved to stand there when they were younger and view the rocky cliffs below them, all the way across to Route 112 in the distance. This morning, Dava was alone when she reached the top and leaned against the railing. Too early for tourists and it wasn't the most fun place for townsfolk who had been here a thousand times already. Gazing north, she saw the peak of Mt Chimney towering above them. No ashes in the air today - the air was as clean as ever. Most often, the winds blew the ashes further north instead. It was said that there was a town completely covered in constant ash rain. Dava couldn't imagine it, and sure as hell wouldn't like to go there. To the south, many more towns and cities lay. She would visit them on her journey. Soon enough... Prince's pokéball shuddered on her belt, suddenly. "Waking up, are we?" Dava asked it. She should make an effort to wake up properly herself, too. Still too early to set off after Dani. She wouldn't want to risk meeting her on the very first route... What if she had actually captured some pokémon already? She really didn't want her cheerful, well liked sister to be more successful than she was. And if she was, she sure didn't want to see it. Now it was Dava's turn to shudder. Maybe she needed a warm bath. A few minutes later, Dava sunk her bath-suit clad body down into the hot waters of the main tourist attraction of the town: the Hot Springs Resort. Thaaat's more like it. Since her father worked here, she was allowed to come and go freely. Employee's perk. By the side of the water, on a stone, sat the Elekid's pokéball. Dava had brought it because she wanted him to come out and have a bath too. Dani hadn't been to the Hot Springs in years, so Prince probably had never tried it. Princess, though, often followed Dava here. It took some time for her to learn to control the static in her fluffy wool enough to not shock everyone else in the water, but eventually they got it right. Prince had no static wool, just some horns and claws, from what Dava knew. Hm. She probably should try to learn his attacks. She would become a trainer, after all. Auugh. She sunk deeper down into the water until only her nose and eyes were above the surface. A trainer. There probably weren't any Hot Springs in other cities along the road. Or out in the routes, for that matter. She might have to go days without showering. The horror! A sudden noise made her head plop up from the water. She caught a glimpse of light in the corner of her eye and turned to see an Elekid standing on the stone next to her. "Prince!" she exclaimed. He had finally come out, and was now eyeing the girl suspiciously with his small, narrow eyes. Dava decided to play it friendly. She needed him to be her ally, at least until she caught some pokémon of her own. "So we'll be going together from now on," she said casually and leaned back in the bath against a cliff near him. "Care for a hot bath to warm up on this lovely day?" Prince stood still for a second, then turned around and walked away from the water. Dava scoffed and crossed her arms, staring back down into the water. Be that way, then. But suddenly, quick footsteps were heard, stopped, and... SPLASH! Dava jumped up with a scream. Prince had just bombed the water and now resurfaced with a gleeful smile on his face. "You little monster!" the girl screamed and splashed water at him. He took that as a challenge. Still with the smile, he kicked with his feet to stay afloat while he began spinning his arms like turbines in the water. Loads of water splashed up at the girl, who had to get out of the water up onto the stones to avoid getting drowned. "Oh, how dare you! I'll show you." She leaped out, curling her body into a ball in the air and landed just beside the electric pokémon with an even bigger splash than his bomb had caused before. When Dava resurfaced, she laughed hard. "Beat that!" she said and looked around. "Prince?" He was nowhere to be seen, until a light glimpsed in the water underneath her. Flashback memories from incidents with the Mareep in the Hot Springs made a warning signal go off in her, and faster than she could think, she was out of the water again, throwing herself up to lay on the stone floor. Seconds later, the whole water crackled from electricity and the Elekid came back up to the surface. His horns crackled once more as the pokémon panted for air. His smile had turned more devious as he stared at his new so called trainer. She stared back. Determinedly. He was toying with her, testing her limits. She had to draw the line early. This pokémon wasn't frail and careful like Princess had been. Prince was a rascal, not properly raised by Dani, apparently. "Don't shock humans," she said and sat up, no trace of joking in her voice. "It's dangerous to us. We're not strong in the same way you pokémon are." Prince kept facing her stare for a moment, then looked away and jumped up from the water. He sat down next to his pokéball and closed his eyes, as if meditating. Dava decided that they had finished bathing for this time. At lunchtime, they went home again. Dad wasn't home, but Dava's aunt was. She made food for the two of them as well as the pokémon. He didn't look Dava in the eyes for the whole time they were eating, but Dava didn't care. She guessed what was going on inside of him. Maybe he tried to show some defiance now that she had told him off. Well, that wouldn't work. She was his master now and she'd show him how to behave if he wanted to become a strong pokémon. The Pokémart was their next stop. Dava bought some Potions and Pokéballs that would come in handy on their journey. Emma also followed them there to buy some things of her own. Dava was curious - Emma had never had a pokémon of her own before, so why would she need to visit the Pokémart? Apparently, some people at the Hot Springs had found a pokémon egg buried in the sand there. Emilio had taken it home, not wanting to care for a pokémon alone, and Emma had felt up to the task. They were thrilled to see what the egg contained, and the aunt promised to call Dava about it as soon as it hatched. After that, Dava couldn't really come up with a good reason to stick around anymore. She had to leave Lavaridge Town, at last. Prince was back inside his pokéball, mostly to ensure that he didn't try to escape back to their house or onwards towards the scent of Dani or something. With nervous steps but a determined face, Dava finally entered what was known as the Jagged Pass in the afternoon. |
Lavaridge Town The Lavaridge Research Lab Lyssa Ganston Team: Spoiler:
Hmmm…you can see part of route 112 from here… Lyssa used her hand as a visor as she looked off the balcony of the lookout point. There were a couple of binoculars available, but she really didn’t feel like inserting a coin or two just to use them. Chimchar jumped up from the ground onto the ledge of the balcony next to Lyssa. “Nice view, isn’t it?” She said. Chimchar didn’t say anything, but just stood there gazing into the distance. It was almost looked as if it were going to just fall off the balcony from admiration. Lyssa didn’t really want to go anywhere yet, but she knew the longer she stayed, the longer it would take to get back home. “Should we get going Chimchar?” She looked at Chimchar, who just turned its head at Lyssa, but didn’t again, didn't say anything. After a few seconds it jumped back down next to her feet. “Alright, in you go.” Lyssa took out a Pokball and pressed the button which shot out a red light, striking Chimchar and retreating it back into its Pokeball. She put the Pokeball away in her bag, and proceeded to walk down a flight of stairs, which spiralled downward back to the base of the lookout. ~ Lavaridge Town PokeMart Lyssa Ganston Wandering through the aisles, Lyssa held in her hands a potion and burn heal. She figured it would come in handy in case she needed it, if something came along and there wasn’t a Pokemon Center or resting stop nearby. I think that’s it…there’s not much here that I think I would find helpful. There wasn’t much in this Mart, just basic necessities, but for Lyssa, that would be more than enough. “I’ll just take these.” She walked up to the checkout counter and placed her items down in front of the clerk. He man nodded as he scanned each item. Lyssa took out some money from her bag, and placed it on the counter in front of the clerk. Grabbing her things and placing them in her bag, she casually walked out of the PokeMart, opening the doors to Lavaridge Town. She stood outside, taking in a deep breath and looking into the blue sky. Alright, I think I’m ready. Pokeballs, Pokemon, and some first-aid supplies. All checked and ready to go. |
Nylea Dahl Lavaridge Team Spoiler:
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Nylea sat up in her bed and yawned blinking tiredly. "Ros.." she started to say before stopping. I'm in Lavaridge remember. Rosa is back home with mom and dad she thought sighing. Getting up Nylea showered quickly and dressed for the day. Fifteen minutes later she was walking out of the Pokemon Center with a full belly and a vulpix walking by her side. "I haven't thought of a name for you yet Vulpix. Maybe I'll let Rosa pick one for you" she said softly as her PokéNav started to ring. "Morning mother" Nylea said answering the device. "Good morning Nylea, I'm handing my PokéNav to Rosa" her mothers voice rang in her ears through the device. Before a new voice was heard. "Hi Mommy" "Good morning baby, mommy misses you. Are you being good for Nana?" Nylea asked entering the Pokemart passing by a girl her age that also had black hair. "yes Mommy" Rosa's voice chimed and Nylea smiled paying for five pokeballs and five potions. "Rosa do you want to choose a name for Mommy's vulpix?" she asked leaving the Pokemart. "How about Blossom mommy!" Nylea grinned hearing how excited her daughter was. "Blossom it is then, I love you Rosa" Nylea said sititng under a tree. "I love you too Mommy" "Bye baby, I'll call you tonight" Nylea said before hanging up and putting the PokéNav in her bag. I'm doing this for her she thought opening her locket and smiling at the picture of her child. Looking down at her vulpix who was sitting by her feet Nylea smiled again. "ready to go Blossom?" she asked standing up chuckling as Blossom bounced around excitedly. "let's go then" |
Blaine Byron Berk - Chapter 1 - Part 1Team Spoiler:
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Two men strode into Lavaridge Town with grins on their faces. The two of them seemed to be joking around with each other, playfully pushing one another around. One was a good deal older than the other, and seemed to be a middle aged man. He was wearing blue jeans, a green tee shirt, and and was sporting a nicely shaved bald head. The other seemed to be a young adult, adorned in black jeans, a black tank top, a white long-sleeved button up unbuttoned and the sleeves rolled up neatly, and a head of long, spiky black hair. The pair continued to goof off until they reached the PokeMart. The older sighed and looked down at his young companion. The pair just stood silently for a moment, looking at each other. After a moment the older broke the silence. "I'm gonna miss you son." The younger smiled. "I'm gonna miss you too, dad." He felt sad. It wasn't often that he had to say goodbye to anyone, no matter how long. "I know I'm going to be gone for a while...Tell Mom I love her." He felt a tear well up in his eye. "I promise I'll win. I'll be the very best. For the both of us." His father never had the opportunity to embark upon his own journey, a great damper on his spirit. "Me and Apollo...We'll beat 'em all." He held out his hand in diplomacy. His father smiled and took his hand. "I know you will, son. You've always been a good boy, and an even better man." The compliment sparked a forgotten emotion in the boy: Embarrassment. The man let go of his son's hand. "Listen...I know you're mother isn't happy about this...but I think you should follow your dreams. I never got to, and I don't want you to go through that." "I know, dad." "Listen...I love you son." "I love you too dad." The pair embraced. They finally let go a moment or two later. The older man began to walk away with a smile on his face. Before he was out of earshot, he turned back to his son. "I love you, Blaine." -------------- Blaine walked out of the PokeMart, his bag now filled with five pokeballs, four potions, a few antidotes, and a paralyze or two. He filled his nose with the fresh, clean air of Lavaridge town, and exhaled with a smile. Today my adventure starts. Today, I become a man. He took the one occupied pokeball from his belt and pressed the button in the center, enlarging it. "Go, Apollo!" He chucked the red and blue ball, and it opened to release a red flash that took the form of a red monster. "Mag! Magby!" The small red pokemon ran behind his trainer's legs, cowering in fear. Blaine laughed and reached down to pet his little buddy's head. "Don't worry little man. I got you. I'm here for you." Apollo seemed to calm down a bit, and began to scan the area of the town. Blaine couldn't help but smile brightly with the Magby still cowering behind him. "Today, we start our journey. It'll be fun. Trust me." |
Hark Rense - Chapter 1 - Part 1 Team Spoiler:
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Beep Beep Beep Beep! Filled Hark’s ears as his alarm tried to alert him to the start of another day. Not just any day, but the day marking the beginning of a new chapter in his life. One where he didn’t live any longer in this small tourist trap, but instead one where he can really start looking to find a way to better advance his knowledge and truly start creating things that would usher a new age for humanity! Hark hit the snooze button and rolled over, much to the human’s race dismay Hark didn’t feel like getting out of his overly comfortable bed. “Why is it that the bed is only this comfortable when I have to get up?” thought the teenager as he drifted back off to sleep. An hour and a half later Hark was woken up by his mother banging on his locked door yelling franticly, “Harky is time to get up! You’re running late you slept in!” Muttering to himself about how he shouldn’t have stayed up till four in the morning adding the finishing touches to his to his mechanical arm, Hark emerged from the covers and grabbed some clothes to put on just as his dad unlocked the door letting his frantic mother him. “I told you not to lock the door,” said his father as sternly as he could, despite his huge grin. His mother didn’t say a word as she quickly found his backpack and began filling it with supplies and clothes. She wanted to remove all the items Hark had already put in there like many of his tools and some of his nowhere near complete projects, but she knew better than to try since he would just put them back. “Son you realize all the good Pokemon are going to be gone by the time you get there,” said his father who just stood there with a proud look on his face. “Then I’ll beat everyone with a weaker Pokemon then,” muttered Hark in a continuation of his lie. His parents thought he was going to try in restart his career as a trainer. He was going to get a Pokemon it was only going to be a temporary solution for protection, until he had the machines and weapons for his defense then he could get rid of the Pokemon. His fake response only seemed to make his father prouder of him as he put on his remaining shoe. “That’s my boy,” said his father handing him the backpack his mother had just finished packing with several “essential” pokemon training items like extra pokeballs and potions. Minutes later Hark was walking out the door of his home for one last time. Out of the corner of his eye, Hark caught his father’s Gardevoir glaring at him as she washed some dishes. She blamed Hark for the death of her son and was unwilling to let it go, and glare would not be one Hark would miss. Continuing out the door Hark breathed the unusually fresh air with a grin. Looking down at his right arm, he made a sudden movement with his fist and the top of the machine popped open. In a mere second a blade had extended out and locked into place. He quickly made another gesture and the blade retracted back into its casing. He was going to rock this world to its core, and he would lay the framework for progress. He then put on his sunglasses and started forward toward the small Trainers academy in the middle of the small town with a sense of pride and purpose. When Hark arrived there were only a few Pokeballs left, and by the time it was his turn to pick there was a merger three remaining. Stepping up to the table for his Pokemon Hark looked uninterested with the encouraging and energetic words of the lady, who was handing Hark a Pokedex and trainer card. She explained all the wonderful things that were waiting for Hark in his adventure and how his first Pokemon would be a companion for life, and blah blah blah. Hark decided he had enough since he had heard this speech when she had given it to the other kids in front of him in the line. Without invitation he stepped up and grabbed the middle Pokeball and began to walk off. “Wait don’t you want to hear about your choice in Pokemon or the other ones?” asked the woman shocked at the boy’s behavior. “No, I honestly don’t care what Pokemon I have… it’s a means to an end,” replied Hark as he walked out of the large glass doors with haste. “Time to get out of his town,” muttered Hark as he began to look at his Pokedex with interest as he slowly walked away from the building. He first looked at the device itself then began to shift through the information (or lack of at this point) stored on it. He then stuffed it in the front main khaki pocket and started toward the steep Jagged Pass. Approaching the pass he looked up it while thinking of the best way up. There are a much longer but easier way up the mountain that most tourists took, or there was the direct but hard mountain climb. He could climb the pass without too much trouble, but it would take a lot of effort and he was still a little tired. While considering his route up the mountain he also walked into some kid and his red Pokemon that looked strange. He should know what type it was but he never paid much attention to Pokemon types. Hearing the boy’s words of encouragement for his cowardly Pokemon Hark rolled his eyes and hoped this kid didn't turn out to be one of those over enthusiastic trainers who would challenge him on the spot. |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter One - Part OneAya's Team Spoiler:
Aya awoke to the warmth of the early morning sunlight flowing in through her window, curled up in the foetal position under the sheets of her cosy bed. Groaning and brushing sleep from her eyes she pushed herself up to be sitting and looked around the room that she wouldn’t be seeing again for a long time. It wasn’t particularly large, but was far from tiny containing her double bed, a desk (with overhanging shelves) that was piled with books, a small standing mirror, a single set of cupboards and her bedside table, upon which sat a small red and white sphere. The pokeball containing Ladon, her Axew. Aya rose from the comfort of her bed and was soon showered, dressed and groomed as much as was needed before heading down the pine staircase that led to the lower floor of her house. She entered the kitchen dining room where the stair came down to find her grandparents already awake and enjoying their morning coffee. “Mornin’ Aya” her grandfather grinned at her from across the table, he seemed to be more excited about her journey than she was. Her grandmother was slightly more concerned, but proud of Aya none the less. “Good morning” Aya responded, grabbing cereal for herself before sitting across from them. For a while they just idly talked but the minutes were drawing on, and as much as she wouldn’t want to admit it to her grandparents – she hated that all the enthusiastic early risers would be ahead of her. They seemed to know regardless though because she soon found herself outside of her house with her satchel swung over her shoulder and her grandparents tearfully waving goodbye from the doorstep. *** Walking further into the town Aya looked around, she felt as though she should remain for a while and take one last look at the place. But she had no need for supplies as she had already been packed for days, Ladon was in perfect health and she had no intention of dawdling at the hot springs or lookout where she had been numerous times. Releasing Ladon from his pokeball she looked down at the little green dragon to question him “What should we do?” “Axew!” Ladon, had already started off in the direction of the lookout. For reasons unbeknownst to Aya it was his favourite location in Lavaridge, and she had to admit that she loved it herself even if it got boring fairly quickly. After a few minutes, she was climbing the wooden steps up to the top of the structure, Ladon cradled in her arms and soon enough she found herself leaning against the railing. In the distance she could see Route 112 where she herself would be in the near future. “We’ll be going there soon” she said to the pokemon in her arms, Ladon staring intently over the edge. “Axew!” |
Nolan Richards - Chapter 1 - Part 1 Nolan sat on the eastern edge of town, looking out on to the route that lay before him, waiting. Today was the day he left this dead-beat town for good. There was no reason for him to stay, or anywhere for him to in fact. His parents had kicked him out that morning, saying they had had enough of his attitude and behaviour, so he was out. Good, he wanted to be out on his own anyway. Well...apart from his companion, Jackie. A few moments later, he saw a shadow creeping along a tree branch and he knew immediately, it was Jackie. He always tried to sneak up on Nolan, ever since they first met. At first it had worked and Nolan had suffered many a flurry of Jackie's punches and kicks, but they were always playful, never malicious. "Jackie, I can see you! There's no point trying...plus I'm kind of not in the mood right now" Nolan shouted over to the tree, trailing off towards the end. Jackie's purple form jumped out of the tree and he came over to Nolan with a puzzled expression on his face. "Ty...tyrogue?" Jackie enquired, unsure of what had happened to make his best friend so downbeat. "My parents kicked me out today Jackie..." Nolan said with some what of a sigh in his voice. He couldn't say he wasn't expecting it, but now that it had happened... "TY!" Jackie's eyes seemed to burn with anger. Nolan's parents had never let Jackie in their house, they were worried that a wild Pokémon in their house could do untold damage. Plus, neither of his parents liked Pokémon all that much either. Jackie's anger seemed to assure Nolan that they had been pretty harsh, at least in somebody's eyes. "Well Jackie, today's the day! We can finally leave this boring town and make something of ourselves, you ready?" Jason asked enthusiastically, already knowing the response he would get. "TYROGUE!" Jackie shouted with happiness, nodding his head. "Well, let's get going!" The pair set off around the edge of town, preferring each other's company, plus, there was no real reason to go into town. Nolan only had the clothes on his back and didn't have much money, so he was saving it for later. The only other thing he had in his possession was a shiny Pokéball he got from one of his crew as a sort of leaving gift, not that his friend would have acquired it in the most legitimate way. *** After a few minutes, the pair had weren't far from reaching the entrance to Jagged Pass, the next leg off their journey. As they approached, Nolan saw a few other people around with Pokémon. They looked like they might be new trainers and Nolan didn't want a battle right now. It was his first day on his journey, he didn't want to get beaten already. "Jackie, follow my lead", Nolan whispered to Jackie as they approached. Nolan swaggered over towards the entrance of Jagged Pass and the few trainer's around there. "Coming through, losers!" Noan sniggered, more audibly than he would have liked, giving disapproving looks to those around him. He swaggered on, into Jagged Pass and he and Jackie began their assent of the pass. |
Carl Bizarro - Chapter I - Part I On To Jagged Pass! Team Spoiler:
Carl woke up somewhat confused. He was sharing a room with separate beds with his best friend and travelling partner Felicity, however she was not there. He checked the clock, and was surprised to see how early it was. That's odd... Felicity usually isn't awake at this time of the day... he thought as he groggily stepped out of bed. Very carefully he switched his pajamas with his shirt and pants, put his glasses on, and stepped out of the room. He was feeling slightly dizzy at that moment, but it wasn't the first time that had happened and he knew that it would fade away after some minutes of walking. He went up to the receptionist and asked her if she knew where Felicity had run off to, but all she could say was she left the inn without saying a word, and that she looked very worried about something. With a smile, he politely thanked the receptionist and left the inn as well, having already figured out an answer to his question. The hot springs were a few steps away from the inn they were staying at, and Carl made his way over there in almost no time. Having known Felicity for so long, she was probably either taking a bath in the hot water to relieve stress. Upon arriving, he spotted her buried in the hot sand. "Close enough." he said to himself and approached her. "Hey, you okay?" he said to her. Felicity was startled at first, but quickly realised it was Carl Bizarro, her travelling partner and calmed down. "Oh, Carl... Yeah, I'm fine..." she said calmly, "I was a little worried about something...but let me tell you...these springs...Ooh...They're miracle-makers! I feel as gooood as neeew..." "Well, I'm glad to hear that. What were you worried about anyway?" he asked. Felicity didn't want to answer that. She was worried about him. The time to split up and go their separate ways was coming, and she wasn't sure how to say it. And she was worried that with Carl's lack of experience with battling he could put himself in danger. What to say, what to say... "Oh, just about your training...No biggie..." she said, calmly, with a relaxed smile on her face, "Say, Carl, I got an idea." "Huh? What is it?" Carl said, surprised. "I've been thinking...about the reason I gave you that Weedle..." she replied. "Oh, yeah, Sting." Carl said, confused, "What about him?" "Well, I think a greeeat way to train him would be going on a small trek alone with him. You two could bond and get stronger. What do you say?" Carl was puzzled for a moment, "So you won't be coming along?" he asked. Felicity replied with a chuckle. "Not this time." he said, "But trust me, just like this sands are just great for me, this will be great for you... You'll get a whole lot stronger, trust me..." The skinny boy was hesitant, as he felt the two of them were somewhat symbiotic. But Felicity was right, it could help him get stronger and bond with Sting. The two hadn't grown very close and rarely battled. "Okay, I'll do it." Carl said, reluctantly, "What place do you have in mind?" "Well, near this town is a mountainous route known as Jagged Pass. It leads to Mt. Chimney. You should try getting to the top." she said relaxed. Carl opened his eyes wide in shock. "Mt. Chimney?! But isn't that a volcano?!" he said loudly, freaking out, "It's gonna be teeming with Fire-type Pokémon! Sting is a Bug-type Pokémon! Bugs are weak to fire! We won't stand a chance!" "You'll do juuuust fiiiiine...trust meee..." Felicity said, getting more relaxed with every second, "You can do it." Carl was very nervous. He had a very slim chance of getting to the top in a good condition. Sting could get burned, or could even faint! Then I'll be helpless! Felicity looked at him, he was very afraid of going there. "Oh, don't be such a baby!" she said, "Believe in yourself and Sting! You're very smart, you can pull it off!" Carl nodded, and without saying a word, rushed back to the inn. Felicity giggled and bit her lower lip. This could also teach him that types aren't everything. There are a lot more things to battling than that. she thought. She was slightly worried about him, after all, he was going to a volcano, but she had the feeling he would be alright. The hot sands boosted that feeling, and she went back to relaxing there. Some time later... Felicity and Carl were standing at the entrance of Jagged Pass. Many people were coming in and out of the rocky route, and in Carl's eyes Felicity could see he was still hesitant to go. "Are you sure about this, Felicity?" he said quietly. "You'll do fine, silly! And if you feel like you need an extra aid, use those Pokéballs I gave you!" she said, "You do know how to catch a Pokémon, right?" she asked. Carl nodded. "I've seen you catch Sting...I think I can pull it off..." he said timidly. She giggled, "Then, off you go!" she said happily and gave him a hug. "I'll be sticking around town 'till you get back, okay? And don't forget to use Potions of your Pokémon are weak!" "G-Got it!" Carl said, and took many small steps into the rocky road ahead. Boy, this is sure going to be tough. He looked behind, and saw Felicity motioning him to go forward, so he miked further into the route. In a matter of seconds the girl was out of Carl's sight. For the first time in a long while, he was on his own. Well, here I come... |
Ken Darbin - Chapter One - Part 1Spoiler:
Ken found himself staring down at the pokéball now containing the pokémon he’d been taking caring of for almost a month. His mouth began twitching upwards before developing into a toothy grin as he was filled with the joy of owning his first pokémon. Whooping, he jumped into the air, filled with nervous energy; he looked around, feeling the beginnings of the desire to head back to town at a full sprint. Ken paused, taking a deep breath, inhaling the damp scent of the mountains in the early morning. That was a monumentally bad idea. While he might’ve been able to sprint that distance, fifteen minutes at a decent jog, he was also on the side of a steep mountain, wearing flip-flops rather than the infinitely more useful hiking boots still in his room. Sighing, Ken began the walk back. Soon, amid the largely ignored sounds of unseen pokémon making the noises of their daily lives, his mind began to drift back to the pokéball he’d stowed in one of the lower pockets of his pants. My own pokémon! He couldn’t wait to show the little guy all his favorite haunts in the nearby area, as well as re-exploring most of them with someone to talk to who might be able to help him get to areas he’d never seen. As he was mentally mapping all the areas, he found himself thinking of Jagged Pass and Mount Chimney beyond, areas he’d not ever actually been to because of all the wild pokémon that inhabited the area. Ken felt his grin returning. I have a pokémon. I can scope out that whole area; all of Jagged Pass to poke around in, Mount Chimney beyond, and… And all of Hoenn after that! His heart was racing as he considered the possibilities. He’d never been on a pokémon journey like so many of his peers had. It hadn’t really bothered him, but now that he’d already taken that first step and acquired his own pokémon, it seemed like the path was laid out before him, practically begging to be taken. He found himself making up his mind as he stepped off one of the glorified mountain trails he frequented onto a well-traveled walking path, not quite big enough to have a route number, but cared for well enough for Ken to feel safe letting off some of his building energy by taking off at a smooth jog that rapidly became a full sprint. By the time he made it into town he was breathing a bit harder but he felt great, and was completely sure: He was going out to see the world, his pokémon by his side! The day was just truly beginning, early risers getting up and moving about with the rising sun rose as he entered the western side of town. He began making a mental list of what he would need; his first course of action would need to be to stop by the Pokémart and pick up a few things and let them know not to expect him in this week, or any time in the near future. He wandered past the hot springs and looked at them wistfully, but he knew it was a much better idea to grab a shower at the small house he shared with his mother if he wanted to get an early start today. Lost in his planning, he found himself standing in front of the blue-roofed building he’d been working at for almost three years. The bell over the door clinked as he entered. It didn’t take long to gather up everything he could think that he might need; a few pokéballs, a couple potions, and at least one heal for each status condition. He was all but ready to leave when a small seasonal display labeled “Survival Gear” caught his attention. After eyeing the display for a long minute he grabbed two repels, a wide brimmed black hat, and a flat-tipped k-bar knife with a serration along the quarter of the blade nearest the blotchy camouflage handle. “All sorts of people stocking up today Ken,” Mark, the cashier, said as he noticed Ken. “Planning on going somewhere, man?” he asked with raised eyebrows as he saw the item’s Ken had piled onto the counter. Ken nodded to Mark, a man who’d worked there as long as he could remember, as he swiped his discount card and came closer than he’d like to clearing out his disposable income. “Yeah, about that… I’m gonna be gone for a while, not sure how long, so don’t expect to see me back here any time soon. I guess I finally get to go see the world.” Mark stared at him somewhat uncomprehendingly for a moment before his eyes widened in understanding “Did you…? That’s why you bought that pokéball the other day! Finally got one did you? What was it? A numel? A spoink?” Ken produced the pokéball from his pocket and gave a mischievous grin saying “Remember that larvitar that was following me around? I guess he likes me, hahaha.” After exchanging parting pleasantries with Mark, Ken took his load and jogged back to his house, depositing his new purchases in his room and setting his smartphone to download several PokeNav style apps before taking a quick shower. Shortly thereafter he was simultaneously trying to dry off, pack, and get dressed, resulting in most of his clothing having at least a few wet splotches and the dark green muscle shirt he’d chosen for the day already had a spreading dampness across his upper back from his as of yet unbound hair. Less than an hour after leaving the Pokémart Ken was making for Jagged Pass at a brisk pace, munching on a protein bar, his still slightly damp hair in a tight braid behind his head, a red and black short-sleeve button-up with geometric patterns thrown over his muscle shirt and rucksack strapped across his back, canvas pants covering from waist to ankles, and hiking boots pounding out a rhythm as he made took his first steps toward his life’s next journey. |
Jagged Pass Lyssa Ganston Spoiler:
It had been a good half hour since she had left the PokeMart, and Lyssa was finally getting near the outskirts of town. She came across a wooden sign impaled in the grassy hill, which read ‘Jagged Pass’, in bold letters, along with an arrow pointing forwards. Well, I guess this is it. The start of my journey. There wasn’t much except for a dirt path, that seemingly got more rugged as it went uphill. It winded around mountainous trees so it was difficult for Lyssa to see exactly what lay ahead. She patted down her satchel, containing Chimchar’s Pokeball, and started to walk ahead, up the winding path to the mountain. Hopefully this won’t be too hard. I know ash can sometimes fall down, but usually that’s not until people start getting higher up the mountain. She looked around, and although there wasn’t any ash, the terrain was definitely a bit rocky. Maybe I should let Chimchar out for a bit… She reached into her bag and pulled out a Pokeball, giving it a light toss. A white light shot out, revealing Chimchar. Chim… He let out a quiet growl as he started to walk calmly alongside his trainer. “You’re not very energetic like other Chimchar, are you?” Chimchar didn’t say anything, continuing to walk. “Speaking of which, I think you need a name.” She put her hand on her chin trying to think of a decent name. “How about…Cinder! You like that?” Chimchar looked at Lyssa blankly for a brief moment, before turning his head back forwards. “Alright, Cinder it is.” |
Blaine Berk and Hark Rense: First Battle! Ralts Vs Magby...FIGHT Blaine and Apollo were both just taking in the sights when they noticed a burly looking man walking by. He seems like an interesting fellow. He appeared to have a wire or two protruding from his arm..."Odd." He muttered to himself. He made to approach the man and smiled at him brightly. "Excuse me sir!" He stopped him and put a hand on his shoulder. "I don't suppose you're a new trainer too?" He looked at him inquisitively. Hark let out a sigh then looked over at the trainer as he removed the teen’s arm with his own mechanical right arm. Turning around to fully face Blaine he replied in a neutral uncaring voice, “I just received a Pokemon.” Hark would never call himself a trainer, he hated that title since it implied devoting one’s life to raising Pokemon. Being a trainer was a great sin in Hark’s mind as they did nothing for humanity, and trainers and the world’s obsession with them is what held back progress. Several years ago Hoenn launched the first ship into space to go to the moon. Did anyone care? No, some pokemon championship was on. Now the space program is slowly dying from lack of interest and funding. Snapping his mind back to the world around him Hark looked up at the tall boy awaiting for the enviable challenge. Blaine was almost taken aback by the man's rather shrewd remark. Almost. He seemed a bit apposed to pokemon training. "Well, so did I." He gestured to the small, red pokemon behind him. "This is Apollo. He's a Magby." Apollo did little more than hide behind his trainer's leg, causing Blaine to laugh a bit. "Don't worry, little man. He seems friendly enough." The one thing about this guy that bothered Blaine was his cold, metallic hand. It was almost...robotic. He looked to the man and gave him a smile. "I'm Blaine. Blaine Berk. Blaine Byron Berk. I'm gonna be the very best trainer in all of Hoenn!" He gave a slightly arrogant grin and crossed his hands behind his head. "So, wanna have a battle with a champion? “I’m Hark Rense, inventor,” replied Hark trying to be somewhat polite to the mindless trainer. He then looked down at Apollo as he pulled a Pokeball out of his pocket with his machine arm. He looked at the Pokeball and said, “And this is my… well no idea what it is.” Then the kid challenged him to a battle with a boast included. Hark sighed and said, “I don’t care that you might become a champion, and while I’m not normally inclined to waste my time battling. I guess it would be good to see what this thing is and what it can do in a controlled environment. So yes, I will battle you…” As he said this he clicked the button on the Pokeball releasing a Pokemon at his feet. The pokemon had pale white skin and looked much like a toddler. Her green hair was longer on the sides and back, while short enough to almost see her ruby red eyes. Seeing his pokemon for the first time Hark’s face twisted into almost terrified look of disappointment. He also seemed to suddenly spaced out as he stared at his Pokemon, yet his eyes seemed to not really be looking at it at the same time. The Ralt’s face and demeanor instantly sunk as well. This was to be her trainer? It seemed like he hated her already. The Ralts wanted to cry, but she fought back her tears. She was raised by a breeder and was told that she would be some lucky trainer’s first pokemon. They would have a special bond and would be best friends as they went on a wonderful journey together. Instead she got this part machine person who seemed horrified by her. His emotions of horror, loss, and guilt overwhelmed the small emotion Pokemon. Looking up at her trainer the intelligent Ralts fought through her new trainer's emotions, but she was too weak to figure out why she invoked such sudden and saddening emotions. The mechanical man seemed to be polite enough, and an inventor nonetheless! He seemed to be completely opposed to pokemon training, however. No matter! A friend is a friend, no matter how small. "Being a trainer isn't as bad as you think, ya know?" He smiled and crossed his hands behind his back. "It brings us closer with pokemon." When Hark released his pokemon, it turned out to be a Ralts. It seemed like a shy, timid creature. Hark's look, however, was not compassionate to his new companion. A small frown crossed Blaine's face. Hopefully Hark would come to know and love his new companion. "Well, let's do this then!" Blaine ran back about five feet with Apollo on his heels. The Magby seemed to be afraid to go without his trainer to protect him. A small smile crossed Blaine's lips. He's gonna be big and poweful one day, I just know it! He pulled out his PokeDex and scanned Apollo. His only moves were Flame Charge, Smog, and Smokescreen. Ah. A sneaky fighter I bet! "Common' Apollo! Let's show this guy how awesome training is!" He laughed jovially. "You can have first move!" Hark snapped out of his flashback and said to his Ralts half heartedly, “Ok attack.” The Ralts just stared up at him looking a little lost and waiting for an order to use a move. “Come on… you know your abilities better than I do. Just calm your mind and do what you know is best,” added Hark as he looked up at the other trainer. Hark had no idea what he was doing, but why should he? If his Pokemon was truly as intelligent as people claimed Pokemon were it would know what its own abilities were. The Ralts was still confused a little but she did what he said and calmed her mind and focused on summoning up her physic energy. As her mind calmed she began to realize that likely her trainer had no idea what he was doing and had no clue of her abilities. It was going to be up to her to fight for herself. Her horns began to glow with a sky blue aura as she tapped into her inner power. As his Pokemon used Calm Mind, Hark looked at the boy and spoke with conviction, “Being a trainer is pathetic. It’s devoting one’s life to improving Pokemon instead of one’s self and wasting one’s own potential. Humanity’s true potential is held back by its obsession with Pokemon. It’s a profession of intellectual slothfulness and I find it appalling. I can’t stand seeing so much potential wasted, and how much humanity has stagnated due to his sport.” Hark no longer cared about being polite as he spewed its opinion out for the world to hear. Flashbacks of his greatest failure had lowered all his defenses and he was just going to speak his mind for now. Hark seemed not to care in the slightest about pokemon training, battling, or even his pokemon. He ordered her to do her own attacks, although she was nothing more than a baby pokemon. She used Calm Mind to raise her defenses. "You just can't let them do things on their own! Their sentient beings! Just like us!" He began to grow frustrated, but he kept his anger in check. "They can help!" He grunted in frustration. "Apollo, use Smokescreen!" The Magby looked confused for a moment. "You know, Smokescreen." He made a gesture that one would suggest blowing a flame. Apollo's eyes opened wide and nodded. "Maag!" It looked to his opponent and began to spew forth a thick, black screen of haze. "Now follow up with Flame Charge!" Apollo cloaked itself in flame and charged towards the faint blue outline in the smog. Hark began to go on in a small tirade about how pokemon training was a waste of time., and how he appalled it so. "I guess I can see where you're coming from..." He pondered his opponent's thought processing. "I guess not, but I won't step on your ideals. Just don't go stepping on others! It's just flat out rude!" Hark smirked and said, "Yes they are sentient, I'm hoping my Ralts can learn to fight without my help, otherwise it is no use to me." The Magby slammed into the Ralts burning her as well as tackling her. In a frantic response the Ralts quickly hit the fire type with a burst of Psychic energy, sending him flying off her and back into the smoke. When the Ralts was hit, Hark frowned a little. His Ralts then stood back up and summoned up Psychic energy to attack the Magby whenever he re emerged from the smoke. The Ralts was looking frantic and her focus was being replaced by fear. "Sorry, Blaine but I'm too set in my beliefs to not step on yours. Call it rude, I do not care," replied Hark coldly. He then added, "I can't help but see you as weak and unwilling to strengthen yourself. Instead you will always rely on others to do the fighting for you." Apollo was sent back reeling into the smoke, but he had managed to regain his feet. The powerful Psychic attack was good, but it wasn't enough to keep him from backing down, although he did feel a bit more skeptical about his chances. "Use Smokescreen again, but with Smog mixed into it!" The combo would be perfect. The Ralts would be both confused, AND poisoned. Blaine looked to Hark with a smirk. "I can understand that." Blaine, himself, defended Pokemon Training, using both tooth and nail. It wasn't easy to let go of a passion. "I grew up in Verdanturf, which all on its own is a troublesome thing, with their close-mindedness and what-not, but I didn't let that stop me!" He smirked and flicked a strand of hair from his view. "And say what you will. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion." Something crossed his mind. "You know what? Nothing is worthless!" He forgot all caution. "Apollo, use Flame Charge!" Once again the Magby charged forward, albeit more reluctantly this time around. The Ralts started to cough uncontrollably and started to back out of the cloud while her eyes watered. She tried to force away the poisonous fumes with her psychic abilities but this left her open to the incoming attack. The Ralts saw the charging Magby coming straight at her a second later, but she had no time to recover her defenses. All she had time to do was brace for the hit that never came. A second before the Magby slammed into the Ralts, Hark recalled the Emotion Pokemon into the safety of its Pokeball. “No reason to extend my Ralt’s misery… it isn’t going to win this fight,” stated Hark as he looked at his Pokemon’s ball, he actually looked a little concerned for his Pokemon. “I best be off to the center to heal my Pokemon before her wounds get worse. Also your wrong there are plenty of worthless people and things in this world,” said Hark as he turned around to head to the Pokecenter. He didn’t wait for a reply as he walked quickly to the Center. He was trying to not look like he was in a hurry but he was doing a poor job of hiding his urgency. A small grin came across Blaine's face as he watched the lad return his Ralts to its pokeball. He looked to Apollo, who was running up to him, and grinned. The Magby seemed to be ecstatic and jumped into the air with a fist pump. "MAG!" The two began to do a little dance until Blaine realized that he was still in public. He quickly sobered up and removed a Potion from his bag and used it on his pokemon. The Magby cringed at first, but it was obvious he felt better afterward. "Good job, little man!" He crouched down and held out his hand for a high five. Apollo was confused at first, but after a moment he nodded and slapped his little palm against Blaine's larger one, causing a grin to break out. Blaine nodded as Hark turned to go to the Pokemon Center. It...actually seemed like he cared. "Alright. It's been nice battling you, Hark." He smiled and gave a wry 'wave of a couple fingers' and turned away. He was going to leave peacefully...until he heard Hark's statement about there being a lot of worthless beings. He turned around and called out, "You know what? You can say whatever you want about me, but you can't say anything about anyone else, okay?" He humphed in anger and looked to Apollo. "He's quite a bitter man, no?" With that, the pair began to walk towards the Jagged Pass, both now filled with hope that they could make it through this journey. After all, Blaine was now undefeated. As Blaine and Apollo approached the jagged pass, Hark entered the PokeCenter and walked up to the counter and handed the nurse the Ralt’s Pokeball. “I think it’s been poisoned, and it took a pretty good beating.” The nurse took the Pokeball while frowning at Hark, and then stood up and walked off with her patient. Several minutes later the nurse returned and Hark stood up to take the Pokeball, but the nurse refused to give it to him. Hark looked confused as the nurse said, “Your Pokemon is not an it…She is a female, so the correct term is she. Considering your one of those trainers who doesn’t even know what gender your Pokemon is I’m guessing you haven’t named her yet.” Hark glared at the bold nurse and with a sigh he said, “No name yet.” The nurse frowned and said, “Before I give this back to you make me a promise. That you will give her a name she likes before the end of the day, so you can stop degrading the poor thing.” “I promise I will give her a name she likes,” said Hark as he leaned against the counter. “Then here… I really shouldn’t give you this Pokemon back but she is officially yours and I can’t steal her from you,” muttered the Nurse handing Hark the Pokeball. Hark took the ball, and quickly left. He was on his way to the Jagged pass when he opened the Pokeball releasing the Ralts. Looking down at her he said, “Ok I promised to give you a name so what about… Erin?” The Ralts shook her head in response. Hark threw out more common names, but were all rejected by the Ralts. A little frustrated he asked, “Want me to just make up a unique name or something?” To this the Ralts nodded. So Hark made up several dozen names until the name Lannia came up. Hearing this, the Ralts suddenly nodded. With a sigh of relief Hark said, “Ok Lannia it is.” They walked slowly (for the Ralt’s sake) for a few minutes toward the pass before Hark spoke again. “Lannia I think I should be honest with you. I'm not a trainer at all, and I never want to be one. I just need your help to protect me while I get my plans underway then you can go free. That being said I need you to think for yourself and fight for yourself since I have other things I need to focus on. I will take care of you and do my best to protect you as well, but don't expect me to be some friendly Pokemon obsessed friend for life trainer. You will have your freedom when I no longer require you." Lannia was shocked at Hark's bluntness and was a little worried that he would just toss her aside once he didn't see a need for her. Seeing how she preformed earlier she started to fear that time would be sooner rather than later. She had to prove herself to him. She was always called weak, but she knew she was better than everyone said she was, and now she had to really prove it. She had to show Hark he needed to keep her around. |
Jagged Pass Lyssa Ganston Spoiler:
Lyssa and Cinder stood behind tree, looking over at the small black, bird-like Pokemon munching on seeds on littered on the rugged mountain side grass. It says here this Pokemon is Starly, A flying and Normal type...Cinder may not have the best type advantage, but I think it should do. "Alright, Cinder, you ready?" Cinder didn't say anything, looking Starly while standing next to Lyssa's feet. She opened up a page about Cinder's abilities and scrolled through the list. Let's go with this one... "Alright Cinder, use Ember!"Without hesitation, Cinder ran around the tree towards the wild Starly several feet away,launching a small ball of flames once he got within range. Chim! The flame shot right past the wild Starly, who immediately became alert and rose into the air letting out a screech. "Cinder, try to keep your distance!" Cinder stood on a grass patch, looking upwards at the airborne Starly. It suddenly flew downwards, attempting to dive-bomb Cinder, narrowly dodging with a side step. Cinder turned around to face the Starly, who once again returned back towards Cinder's direction, this time getting a direct hit. Chimchar! Cinder was knocked back a few feet and lay on the ground. Oh no...not good. My first battle, and already I'm getting my butt kicked... "Quick, scratch!" The Starly once again flew towards Cinder, but was interrupted with a quick swipe of Cinder's claws to the face, causing the Starly to fly into the grass, grounding it. Lyssa quickly took out an empty Pokeball and threw at the wild Starly. Star! The Starly quickly rolled over on the grass, dodging the Pokeball, and started to flap it's wings to become airborne again. Darn! "Cinder, Ember!" Cinder opened his mouth, and let loose another ball of flame at Starly, who managed to do a barrel roll around the flaming projectile, and land another direct hit on Cinder. The red Pokemon was once again knocked down back a few feet, but this time lay a little longer on the grass. "Cinder...get up!" Lyssa said with a hint of worry in her voice. Cin... Cinder weakly got up, readying itself for one last bout. C'mon...there has to be something... Lyssa looked through the list of attacks, until she decided to use one last move. "Alright, use Bulk Up!" Cinder hesitated for a moment, still recuperating from the last hit. It huffed and puffed a few times, before starting to glow slightly in a orange-brown aura. Meanwhile, the Starly shot forwards towards its opponent, attempting one more smack before the battle was over. "Now Cinder, Scratch!" Cinder quickly dove below the line of Starly's tackle, clawing it from underneath. Star! It flew back into the ground and lay there motionlessly. Lyssa used this to her advantage, throwing one more Pokeball. The ball hit the defeated Starly, putting it into the Pokeball in a red light. Lyssa and Cinder watched as the Pokeball shook a few times, awaiting a potential capture. |
Nolan Richards - Chapter 1 - Part 2 Soon after beginning their assent of the Jagged Pass trail, Nolan was starting to realize that this was not just going to be a walk in the park. He was already slowing down and flagging slightly, as appose to Jackie, who looked to be quite comfortable in his effort to climb the pass. Mind, Jackie had lived in the wild, so he might have been used to climbing step passes, Nolan thought to himself. Despite only having been climbing for a short while, Nolan had seen quite a few nervous looking people all with one trait in common. They all had a Pokémon. He hadn't bothered talking to annoy of them, they all seemed to have a peppy attitude to him, definitely not his style. "Ty!" Jackie said, in a sharp whisper to Nolan. He pointed over to their right, where a girl was battling a bird Pokémon Jason had seen around quite a lot before, but had never bothered with them. They always seemed pretty weak, and with his reputation, he didn't have time for the weak. He crouched down, out of sight and observed the battle unfolding between this girl's Chimchar and the Starly. "What do you think Jackie?" Nolan whispered, wondering what Jackie was thinking about the scene unfolding before them. "Ty-rogue!" Jackie tutted, not seeming overly impressed, which was no real surprise to Nolan as Jackie wasn't a fan of elemental attackers, such as Chimchar. After the girl threw the Pokéball at the Starly, the pair began walking again, more slowly this time, wanting to see if the girl caught the Starly or not. |
Jagged Pass Lyssa Ganston Team Thus Far: Spoiler:
One shake...two shake...three shake...Gotcha! Lyssa counted in her head, jumped up and down in excitement. The Pokeball made its signature 'beep' noise, signalling Starly had been captured. Lyssa ran happily towards the Pokeball and picked it up. "Since you're a Starly...I'm gonna name you...Star!" She smiled, looking at Cinder, who was tired from the battle. Cinder walked up to Lyssa and leaned against her leg. "Awww, Cinder you're tired? Here, take a rest." She said, taking out another Pokeball and putting it into her free hand, returning Cinder in a burst of red light. She put away Cinder's Pokeball back into her satchel, and took out her Pokedex to do a quick analysis on her newly retrieved Starly. Available Moves: Tackle, Growl, Quick Attack. Ability: Keen Eye. A mechanical voice spoke from the device. Lyssa knew that the Starly probably did not know any higher level moves, but the speed it showed in battle against Cinder was incredible. She figured she could use a Pokemon like that on her team. She put away her Pokedex and Starly's Pokeball and continued to walk, until she saw a figure walking behind some trees. Another trainer? Or maybe a hiker? Lyssa just took a quick glance, as she had no clue as to who this person was. She didn't want to give the wrong idea by walking up, or staring for too long. She started to walk upwards, continuing her trek through Jagged Pass, looking around every so often to see if the person was following. |
Blaine Byron Berk - Chapter 1 - Part 1Team Spoiler:
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Blaine was having a merry old time walking up to the pass with Apollo by his side. Sure, it was blazing hot, but they wouldn't let that stop them. Volcanoes didn't have anything on them! Blaine looked to his small companion and smiled. "Apollo, my man, we'll be at the top of the pass by breakfast tomorrow!" He laughed lightheartedly and began to pick up the pace a bit. "I'd say the league should surrender to us already!" He began to laugh even more. Sure, he was a bit arrogant, but hey! Who could blame him? He was an undefeated, rookie trainer! He had to get beaten before he could say that he wouldn't lose! "Now, onwards!" The pair charged forward, but they were met with a rocky path. Both Apollo AND Blaine managed to trip and fall a good dozen times before they decided that running was a bad idea. Blaine stood up shakily and laughed a bit. "Apollo...Why did you listen to me? That was a terrible idea! You should be the voice of reason!" His body was racked with laughter. The little Magby close behind him was smiling, although he seemed a bit tired. "Here, little guy, I gotcha." He lifted up his little friend onto his shoulder. Thankfully he wasn't very heavy, so he would be easy to carry around. Blaine began to walk even faster as he saw the entrance. "We're almost to the second step of our journey!" He grinned and sprinted forward, stopping only to evade a tan girl by turning at an odd angle, ending up on his stomach in order to prevent Apollo from being hurt. He stood up shakily and brushed the dust off of himself. He turned to the girl and smiled. She was almost a foot shorter than himself, and had long, purple hair. Blaine held out his hand and smiled. "Hey there. I'm sorry about that." He laughed a bit nervously. "I wasn't watching where I was going...Was in a bit of a hurry to get to the pass, you see." He gestured to the Jagged Pass behind him. "I'm Blaine. Blaine Berk. Blaine Byron Berk." He broke each different version of his name into smaller parts. "I'm gonna be challenging the league." He noticed a pokeball or two on her persona. "I don't suppose you're a trainer too?" Apollo peaked over his shoulder barely, making sure he wasn't too easily noticed. |
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Nylea brushed a straind of her black hair out of her face as she looked at the boy that just fell onto his stomach in front of her. "Hey there. I'm sorry about that." he laughed nervously. "I wasn't watching where I was going...Was in a bit of a hurry to get to the pass, you see." he continued gesturing to the pass behind him. "I'm Blaine. Blaine Berk. Blaine Byron Berk. I'm gonna be challenging the league. I don't suppose you're a trainer too?" he asked her. "um..yeah I'm a trainer too" Nylea said looking at him nervously not shaking his hand. "I'm Nylea Dahl and this is Blossom" she gestured to her little vulpix. "my daughter named her" she added looking around. "I hope you don't mind if it takes a bit for me not to be a little nervous...I don't trust guys that easily" she said softly deciding to be honest with him. Honesty was the first step to trust in her mind. |
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"um..yeah I'm a trainer too" The girl seemed quite timid. "I'm Nylea Dahl and this is Blossom," Nylea gestured to the Vulpix beside her. "my daughter named her" she added looking around. "I hope you don't mind if it takes a bit for me not to be a little nervous...I don't trust guys that easily." Blaine gave her a bright smile and crossed his hands behind his neck. "It's find. I don't mind at all." Blaine was never one to question anyone's quirks or tendencies. "Nice to meet you, Nylea. You're officially the second trainer I've met on my journey." His face was one of sheer excitement. It was always interesting meeting new people, and girls were certainly no exception. He gestured to the Magby hiding on his back, "This little guy is Apollo. I just thought it would be fitting, seeing as he's made of a fire." A small laugh escaped his lips. Apollo peeked his head over his human's shoulders timidly. "Don't be shy, my man. She doesn't bite." He looked at her with an eyebrow raised and a sarcastic smirk, "Do you?" |
Ken Darbin - Chapter One - Part 2Team Spoiler:
Standing at the beginning of the road that would lead to Jagged Pass, Ken found himself eyeing the thickly wooded area on either side of the trail, wondering at the possibilities that might be lurking there. Eh, what the hell, he found himself thinking as he stepped off the well beaten path and into the unknown shade of the forest. He walked through the trees, attempting to move as silently as his size and the tightly spaced trees allowed, keeping an eye on the ground to make sure he would be aware of any protruding roots, large rocks, or ankle-snapping diglett holes; a habit one picks up when most areas that are explored are later ran through. After perhaps ten minutes had passed, he began to wonder if his instinctual urge to explore was doing any more than delaying his progress up the mountain. With those worrying thoughts accompanying him, Ken nearly missed a sound that caused him to freeze in his tracks. There it was again. “-diursa” drifted through the forest, just barely audible. “My, my, my, what have we here?” he murmured as slowly stalked towards the source of the sound. Carefully avoiding the brittle twigs scattered about, Ken slowly approached a small clearing, all but invisible until he got near enough that the illusion of perpetual forest began to fade, and peered at the source of the noise; a small pokémon. The plump little brown ball of fur was half way up the side of a tree, sticking its paw into what appeared to be some kind of nest, seemingly empty. Pulling out his smartphone and selecting a pokédex app, he snapped a quick picture of the scene, letting the pokédex analyze the situation and taking in the readout it gave him. The little bear pokémon, has a thing for honey, and… oh, that’s probably a beedrill hive. I hope it’s as empty as it looks. Reaching into one of the pockets of his pack, Ken brought out Rexus’ pokéball, sending the larvitar out into the cover of a tree. As the pokémon solidified into his familiar shape, Ken put a finger to his lips, shushing Rexus before he had a chance to make any noise. Rexus looked up at his, his head cocked to the side quizzically. Leaning around the trunk of the tree he was hiding behind, Ken pointed to the teddiursa, “I think we just found our first battle. You’ve got this,” he said as he gestured his pokémon out into the clearing. “TAAAAAR,” Rexus shouted as he stepped forward, issuing his battle cry. The teddiursa snapped its head around to stare at the larvitar, first in confusion then in comprehension as it let itself slide down the tree to land gently on the ground. “Rock polish first, then bite!” Ken called to Rexus. The little rock skin pokémon nodded in affirmation, taking a firm stance as his skin began to glow a dark green. He charged the teddiursa, mouth open for his first strike. The teddiursa threw up its arm to take the attack. It paused for a moment, and then blinked at the larvitar attached to its arm. It began trembling, blinking profusely, and then broke out into tears, wailing loudly. Rexus jumped back in surprise a look of confusion and uncertainty on its face, looking back at Ken, “Lar?” “Rexus, don’t trust it!” As the larvitar turned back to its opponent teddiursa was already leaning in, its tongue extended, licking Rexus on the cheek, giggling all the while. The teddiursa brought its paw up to its mouth as it giggled at the ridged larvitar who stood there, wracked with trembles. “Are you gonna let it get away with that!” Ken shouted hotly. Rexus’ trembling seemed to fade for a moment and it shot a leer at the devious teddiursa and bared his fangs. Backing off a few steps the teddiursa seemed to forget its defense, presenting just the opportunity for Rexus to dart in and deliver a devastating bite to its shoulder causing it to flinch and taking the chance to deliver another to its briefly upraised arm. “Okay, I’ve got this!” Ken said as he produced a pokéball from his pack and tossed it at the downed teddiursa. He and Rexus stared intently at the pokéball as it began to jerk around. C’mon… |
Nylea Dahl Team Spoiler:
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"It's find. I don't mind at all." Blaine smiled brightly at her as he crossed his hands behind his neck. "Nice to meet you, Nylea. You're officially the second trainer I've met on my journey." he looked excited by that and Nylea just smiled nervously. Blaine was the first trainer she had met. "This little guy is Apollo. I just thought it would be fitting, seeing as he's made of a fire." he gestured to the magby hiding on his back. "Don't be shy, my man. She doesn't bite." Blaine looked at her with a raised eyebrow and what looked like a sarcastic smirk on his face. "of course I don't" Nylea said shaking her head in faint amusement. If things kept going like this she might be able to trust this boy. Plus the fact he hadn't been rude when she mentioned having a daughter was a plus in her book. "It's nice to meet both of you, I'm going to become a Pokemon breeder" she said holding her locket in one hand. "I do have to say Blaine. Your the first person I've met in years that hasn't made a rude or insensitive comment when I mention having a daughter" |
Chapter 1 Part 2 Lannia the Ralts Spoiler:
Lannia walked beside her master who didn't seem to care for her or Pokemon at all. She was worried for the future and couldn't shake the fear of being just tossed aside later as useless. She had to prove herself invaluable and she had to do it soon. The pair soon encountered a crossroads and had two choices ahead of them: a treacherous climb up the side of the pass or along the path made for tourists and trainers. It was clear Hark was going to select the harder route, likely to avoid trainers. Lania on the other hand didn't want to go into her Pokeball or climb up the mountain. Tugging Hark's pants she motioned in the direction of the much easier path. He looked down at her and noticed the direction that her hand was pointing and he said to her, "I can carry you up the cliff or return you to your ball." Lannia wanted to do things herself so she shook her head. Sighing Hark muttered, "Fine." Lania wished she could tell Hark her reasoning since he seemed unhappy with her choice. Too bad she couldn't just explain it to...him. Then a sudden thought hit her and she joyfully yelled out Ralts! Which caused Hark to look down at her with a questioning look on his face. Smiling back up at the teenager, Lannia had a brilliant idea: to learn how to communicate with humans, specifically Hark. If she could communicate with him maybe she could reason with him and so he would maybe like her more. Lannia's mind continued to race as they started up the rocky path. Using her psychic abilities she would levitate herself onto or over larger rocks. This was a great way to maneuver her smaller body up the rocky ascension, and the same time allowed her to exercise her control over her abilities. After a few minutes the pair passed by the trainer and the Magby that had defeated Lannia. The small Ralts felt her embarrassment of her defeat return like someone had poured it over her like a bucket of water. Looking at the Magby the Ralts promised herself next time she would defeat the Pokemon, but first she did need to learn how to fight without needing much help. After passing the two and being around 20 feet away Hark said, "Bet you he challenges that other trainer... or if he doesn't he tries flirting with her." Lannia looked up at her master wondering what made him so odd. From what little she knew from the breeder that had raised her, Pokemon training was the most popular thing in the world and every kid grew up dreaming being a trainer. Yet, this Hark didn't, and instead he seemed to dream about machines or humanity becoming better or whatever he had told that other trainer. After walking down the easier path for another 20 minutes Lannia decided it was time to try a more challenging route. There was a faint trail that forked off the main one. This other trail was much smaller and likely used by Pokemon instead of humans. Instead of just showing Hark the direction she wanted to go, Lania just started off on that trail on her own accord. She started moving up the trail the best she could, but it was quickly becoming a rock climb instead of a hard hike. Suddenly Hark passed her on her right. Getting her attention he smirked and said in a teasing voice, "Sorry you were going too slow for me." The boy's metal arm was enabling him to move quickly up the rock face without too much effort as it seemed to be stronger than his real arm. Lannia took Hark's words as a challenge and she came up with her own solution. Summoning up several magical leaves, she used the attack to cut small slits in the rock face as she climbed. This gave her weaker body plenty of good hand holds and foot holds, but it wasn't enough as Hark still beat her to the top of the ledge. When the tired Ralts reached the top she discovered that her trainer was not alone up there. Four Machops stood in a semicircle around around her trainer, and now her too. One of the Machops then spoke in the Pokemon's language, "You want the honor of ending this human's life?" Lannia's eyes showed her shock as she responded to the Machop's question with her soft voice, "Why would I want to end my master's life? Why do you want to kill him?" "Because your his pet! This is your chance for freedom, and all humans are horrible! They took my parents from me and even some of my friends. One almost took me but I ended that with a shove much like I'm going to end the life of this one," replied the Machop giving Hark an evil glare. "All humans deserve death," hissed the Machop. "I... I can't let you kill him. We will leave you in peace we promise," replied Lannia who was getting rather scared. They were on the edge of the ledge they had just climbed, and she was outnumbered four to one. Even with the type advantage she knew they could beat her. "You can leave in peace if you don't interfere, but the human dies," said the Machop as he started charging forward. The other three also started to charge at the pair, but Lannia quickly summoned up a burst of psychic energy and pushed the one on the left away. Then she grabbed a rock with her psychic power and lifted it enough to trip a second Machop. "Master run!" yelled Lannia, which to Hark sounded like Lannia screaming a variation of her name. Suddenly a Machop tackled Lannia to the ground and then he sat on her and was about to pound in her delicate face with his fist when Hark's foot caught the creature's head in a kick knocking the Machop right off the edge of the ledge and bouncing down the rocky cliff they had just climbed up. The force of the Machop being forced off of the Ralts almost sent Lannia rolling off the edge as well, but Hark quickly grabbed her and pulled her to safety. As he did this two of the Machops moved in behind Hark, but Lannia picked up several loose rocks and stones with her mind and threw them at the two. The barrage of stones stopped them for a second and to allowed Lannia and Hark to recover to their feet. "One down just three to go," said Hark in a cold voice. Lannia glanced up at her master as he stood there ready to fight alongside her. When she saw her master's confidence and will to fight it restored her courage and she suddenly felt confident. She calmed her mind and began to focus herself for the coming battle. Seeing the human send their comrade off the cliff with a well placed kick shook the confidence of the Machops and made them hesitate until their leader spoke, "I got the human, you two take care of his little lackey." With those words the Leader charged forward and the other two charged at Lannia. Lannia decided to split her focus and she held out both of her tiny hands at her two opponents. She then grabbed each one by a leg and tripped them at the same time. While her attack did almost no damage she was able to delay them as she shifted her focus on their leader, who was almost to Hark. She grabbed him with all her stored energy and was about to throw him into the nearby cliff wall, but Hark struck first. He stepped forward as his hidden blade deployed. The sharp metal blade cut straight through the creature's chest and out the other side. Lannia was shocked to see both her master's ruthless attack and his hidden weapon. The shock caused her let go of the Machop who was now dangling from the blade with an expression of pain and horror. Hark held the creature in midair with his blade for a second before slinging its body to the side. The Machop's limp body hit the hard rock ground and rolled a few times before coming to a complete stop. The remaining Machops were enraged by the brutality of the human's attack and charge after Hark. Lannia on the other hand moved to not only save her master, but to prevent him from running another Pokemon through with that blade. She charged forward to intercept the two and as she moved forward she summoned up psychic energy around her hands. Once she was close to the two fighting types she pushed the energy out in a violent burst of energy that collided into the two creatures and sent them tumbling into a nearby pile of rocks. She gasped for breathe as the two Machops stood back up. "Grab your leader and go," ordered Lannia in her soft voice between breaths. "No!" yelled one Machop as they recovered and started after Lannia and Hark again. "Idiots," muttered Lannia as she summoned up several magical rose petals. Spinning them around one of the Machops for a second as she summoned more, Lannia prepared to unleash her attack. Just as the Machop reached the Ralts she closed in all the petals from all directions, each petal left a small cut, but the number of them made the attack very potent. The Machop was still able to land a kick on Lannia knocking the breathe out of her and knocking onto her back. The Machop walked up to Lannia and prepared to stomp her face into the rock but she quickly responded with a small burst of psychic energy that tossed the Machop backward a foot and on its back. It tried to get up, but as soon as it was on its shaky feet it just collapsed back down to the ground, and passed out. Looking over at Hark she saw him pulling his blade out of the other Machop's back then retract the weapon back into its hiding spot. Hark then rushed over to Lannia and asked her, "You ok?" Before she could answer Hark was pulling a potion out of his backpack, and was trying to figure out how to use it. His concern brought a small smile to Lannia's face, he really did care for her. A second later Lannia felt the strange healing mist of the potion wash over her body and it began to heal her. She then looked over Hark and noticed several nasty bruises, and a slight limp from him. However his face betrayed no pain. Seeing her look of concern he said, "I'll be ok... my tolerance to pain is much higher than any normal human you have met... our first fight together. Glad I had you with me... I think they were going to kill us." Lannia nodded as she looked at the three Machops laying motionless on the ledge they were on. "Well that was fun... next time I choose the path we go," said Hark as he slowly tried to climb the next ledge. "Ok we should back track... this one is a bit too steep for me right now." Lannia nodded in agreement. They quickly started back down the cliff wanting to leave to battlefield behind them. Almost a hour later they were back on the tourist's trail, and Lannia was deep in thought as Hark limped ahead of her. She then shook her head and started walking faster to keep up with her travelling master. Who would have guessed out of all her many brothers and sisters she would be the one stuck with this bizarre human who was willing to fight Pokemon. Her life was going to be NOTHING like she had expected it to be. |
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"of course I don't" Nylea said shaking her head in faint amusement. "It's nice to meet both of you, I'm going to become a Pokemon breeder" she said holding her locket in one hand. I do have to say Blaine. Your the first person I've met in years that hasn't made a rude or insensitive comment when I mention having a daughter." The compliment struck Blaine as odd. Why would one to play on something such as that? He smiled and rubbed the back of his neck with one hand and dropped the other. "Well, it's kinda pointless to do so. Why make someone feel bad to make yourself feel better." He gave her a sincere look. "I know I can't just people based off of their past. People change. Things that we can't prevent happen." He looked to Apollo, who was finally taking his rightful spot on his shoulder, sitting in it like a human. "Besides." Blaine turned back to Nylea. "I hate bullies. I've dealt with too much of that crap to put with anyone else getting it." A grin disappeared. "If anyone ever bothers you, you should let me know. I'll be glad to teach them a lesson." He cracked his knuckles to get the point across. "I don't tolerate bullies. Never." His moment of seriousness passed off. "So you're going to be a breeder? That's pretty cool!" |
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"Well, it's kinda pointless to do so. Why make someone feel bad to make yourself feel better." He gave her a sincere look. "I know I can't just people based off of their past. People change. Things that we can't prevent happen." he looked at Apollo and while his gaze was off her she smiled faintly. "Besides." her smile faded as he looked back at her due to nervousness. "I hate bullies. I've dealt with too much of that crap to put with anyone else getting it." A grin disappeared. "If anyone ever bothers you, you should let me know. I'll be glad to teach them a lesson." He cracked his knuckles to get the point across. "I don't tolerate bullies. Never." His moment of seriousness passed off. "So you're going to be a breeder? That's pretty cool!" "that's...very kind of you to say to someone you just met" she smiled timidly. "and yeah I'm gonna be a breeder, I never really thought of challenging the gyms that's just not in my interest" |
Jagged Pass Lyssa Ganston Team Thus Far: Spoiler:
((OOC: I know short post, but I thought now would be a good time to give Lyssa a small break.)) Lyssa was getting tired after walking for a little while uphill. The winding road was getting harder to trek through, and she honestly needed a small break. She found a tree on the side of the path and sat down next to it, and leaned against it. That feels better... She thought, closing her eyes momentarily and resting her head back. She knew she would be walking a lot, but she had no idea that it was going to be this tiresome. A traveling companion would be nice... Lyssa was more of a people person, and much rather be walking around with one or two other trainers than going solo. This wouldn't have been a problem if she started her journey several months ago like her brother, but even then, the thought of travelling alongside her brother wasn't something she was too fond of. She was really hoping she didn't run into him anywhere, and would honestly feel better knowing he would not come back to their house when he was done with his little journey. He was far too immature, rude, and obnoxious and as cruel as it would seem, she did 'hate' him. Just a little though. Her train of thought was interrupted by the sounds of Starly flapping their wings, as a flock of them flew out of the tree and into the mountain skies. Lyssa sat there for a while longer, not in any hurry to get going again. She took out a granola bar from her satchel, unwrapped it, and munched on it as she enjoyed the scenery. |
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Blaine Byron Berk - Chapter 1 - Part 1Team Spoiler:
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"that's...very kind of you to say to someone you just met, and yeah I'm gonna be a breeder, I never really thought of challenging the gyms that's just not in my interest" Nylea seemed to be a very shy girl. Interesting. Blaine smiled and gave her a thumbs-up. "Hey, not everybody has to be a jerk," He dropped the thumb, "Ya know?" It was ridiculous. The only guy he had truly met out of Verdanturf was Hark, and he was quite the character. Maybe...just maybe people weren't all the same. Not like back at home. "And that's pretty understandable." Blaine smiled at her brightly. "The gyms...I'm destined to beat them! How else will I become champion?" He grinned like an idiot. He felt a bit cocky at the moment, but he couldn't help it. That was his general personality. He slowly dropped the grin. "I-I know that sounds a bit arrogant." He laughed a bit nervously. "But I will win. It's my dream!" |
Aya Ingvar and Carl Bizarro - Chapter One - Part 2Aya's Team Spoiler:
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Aya and Ladon stood on Lavaridge’s lookout for several more minutes, fifteen at least but probably closer to twenty, watching as various flying types flew around the cliffs below the town, but they were dawdling and Aya was eager to move onto Jagged Pass and start her journey. Slowly she and her Axew descended from the tower-like structure, so to give Ladon a longer look, until she reached the bottom of the wooden steps and was on firm ground again. Soon enough, Aya and Ladon had walked through the small tourist spot that was their home and were proceeding onto the rocky terrain that was Jagged Pass. After walking a ways into the route Aya stopped to survey the area as Ladon frolicked around nearby her doing some surveying of his own. Jagged Pass was beautiful in a strange way it seemed to Aya, it was rocky and lacked a lot of colour save for the odd patches of grass that sprung up and the trees on the route’s edges. Despite the rugged landscape, it seemed to possess a certain purity to Aya and it was that which made it stunning to behold. Walking through one of the rarely occurring patches of greenery she progressed, still marvelling at the world around her. Despite its appearance, Jagged Pass was full of life if you looked hard enough. Above the heads of Aya and Ladon flocks of tailow and starly whirled and spiralled in the air, sometimes a rock would roll off a ridge for no good reason – turning out to actually be a geodude and many the spoink or snubbull peered at her from within crevices in the rock or tall patches of grass. It was whilst considering attempting to catch such a snubbull that Aya noticed she wasn’t alone in the area. A shorter boy who was probably around her age, maybe a little older, with an outdated haircut and glasses was standing not too far away looking rather lost. In good spirits, Aya decided to be the good citizen and walked across to where he was standing “Hey, is everything alright? You look a bit lost.” Tact may be something to work on in the future… Carl Bizarro had his mind focused on the sight of the rocky path ahead. The volcanic ash could not be seen at that part since the hike had just begun, but he could see some Pokémon around. Some of them he had seen for the first time in his life, others, like Machop, Geodude and Snubbull, he had met while travelling with Felicity. He was taking little steps, like a baby learning how to walk, when suddenly, he was startled by someone's voice. He turned and saw a girl there. "I-I'm g-good, I think..." he said timidly, not very used to wild conversations popping out as if he were walking on tall grass. He took his eyes off her and took another shaky step forward. He thought about Sting, and what would be of him when they got to the higher part of Jagged Pass. That's where the volcano's summit is! His eyes turned to look at the girl. "A-Actually... I-I know it sounds crazy, b-but..." he said and looked at his feet, "W-Would you, um, mind, um, t-tagging along?" Aya was taken aback by the sudden request for companionship that the boy blurted out, although he had tried to act as though he was fine earlier. Maybe he's not a trainer? But no, that can't be right he has pokeballs... interesting. "I don't see why not, I'm heading up to the top anyway. My name's Aya and my Axew here is Ladon. What's your name?" As she awaited answer Aya looked the boy up and considered his shy mannerisms. He's really not a very confident trainer by the looks of things. He looks to be a rookie like me... but to be this timid on the first route of your journey? Sure it is a bit more treacherous for us than those who start at Littleroot, but if you can't even get started on your journey how are you meant to finish it? Aya smiled lightly at the boy who was soon to be her temporary travelling companion "Why the sudden desire for company anyway?" "W-Well," Carl said nervously, as the girl who introduced herself as Aya continued to ask him questions, "I-I'm not very sure that I can get to the top." He grabbed the Pokéball on his belt and sent out the small Weedle that was inside of it. "You see, I'm just starting out, and this first challenge is t-tricky." Sting began climbing up a nearby tree to feast on some leaves. "Y-You see, Sting over there is a Bug-type Pokémon," he added talking quite fast, "and this path leads to the volcano's summit, which means it's teeming with Fire-type Pokémon, which means he's very likely to get a burn or faint. which means-" Then he realized what he was doing. He was rambling on, talking so quickly that the poor girl probably didn't get what he said. He timidly looked away for a moment, and took another small step forward. "S-Sorry about that..." he whispered, "And, by the way, I'm Carl." Boy, this is so embarrassing! Aya kept a calm, pleasant smile on her face. She figured it would probably not do well to let on that she actually felt pity for the boy. He was clearly quite nervous, although he definitely new he was at a disadvantage. I guess, I approve of his brain power but not how he uses it. Carl nodded, in response to what Aya said last, and it was hard for him to hold back another of his brainiac ramblings. He had to think of a Pokémon that could balance Sting's typing. Probably a Water-type... Or a Ground-type... Or a Rock-type... A tock-type could handle his other weakness, Flying, so that would be like taking down two birds down with one stone... He chuckled at his non-intended bad pun that he had made, then forced a normal face as both of them went up the mountains. He looked back at Sting, who was staring at the Axew somewhat confused, and the Weedle snapped out of it and crawled up Carl's body, finally settling on his right shoulder. Aya, Ladon and Carl, who carried Sting on his shoulder, progressed fairly quickly up the pass from their passing the odd trainer or two and plenty of wild pokemon despite the craggy landscape they were travelling upon. The group would often find themselves having to physically pull themselves up and over steep ledges that jutted up from the slope the walked up. Sometimes they’d make small talk, but a lot of the time they simply enjoyed the walk in silence – save for Ladon’s consistent exclamations at anything he found interesting. I wonder if he’ll outgrow that the young trainer thought to herself seeing Sting eyeing Ladon wearily from his place upon Carl’s shoulder. Keeping an eye on her overly curious Axew Aya looked at Carl through the corner of her eye and found herself asking about his goals “So, what are you looking to achieve through your journey? I’m in it to become as skilled and knowledgeable a trainer as I can, I figure the gyms are the best start to that goal so I’ll be taking them on.” "W-Well, I'm looking to become stronger." he replied shyly, "Strong enough to become an Elite Four trainer. It's a long story, but-" The conversation was soon lost due to a loud exclamation of not excitement, but pain, from Ladon. Snapping to attention Aya assessed the situation before her, it seemed that he, in another burst of excited curiosity, had disturbed a teddiursa that was peacefully enjoying a honey lunch. That teddiura was now launching a barrage of scratch attacks at Aya’s tiny dragon-type. “Hey!” Aya was talking to both her own pokemon and the wild one, her own for being disruptive and the teddiursa for attacking Ladon, but even as she scolded the combatants and idea formed in her head. Teddiursa evolve into a pretty powerful pokemon in Ursaring. This would be a good catch for me… “Ladon, stop taking hits so easily. Throw it off with a Leer!” Lado instantly obeyed, replacing his look of shock with a fierce glare that took the attacking Teddiursa aback and lowering its defensive abilities. “Take advantage of its lowered defence and hit it with Dual Chop!” A pale blue light encased Ladon’s tiny clawed hands which he slammed into the stomach of his opponent twice in succession with a chopping potion. The teddiursa was knocked to its feet but caught Ladon of guard by immediately swinging a branch it hand caught on its fall upward having it collide with Ladon’s head and knocking him sidewards. The clever normal-type then proceeded to attack with a barrage of quick slashes with its claws using its fury swiped attack. I have never seen a pokemon other than Farfetch’d do anything like that… and now Ladon’s going to take more hits. I need stop the excessive fury swiping… “Ladon, use scratch! Straight up through its attack.” Aya’s stroke of genius paid off, Ladon sliced upwards with one of his clawed hands breaking the streak of scratches from the Teddiursa “Now use Dual Chop!” Ladon followed through again, hitting once in the normal-types stomach causing it to double over and then once on the back bringing it to the ground. Almost instinctively Aya tossed a pokeball at the fallen pokemon drawing it within in a flash of red light. I hope this is a success… if it were to fail after such a narrow win it would be infuriating. Carl meanwhile watched the battle as if he was taking notes inside his head. He wasn't really paying attention to his Weedle, who continued to stare at Ladon as it battled. Wow, she and Felicity make catching Pokémon look like a cakewalk... Perhaps I should give it a shot sometime soon... he thought, watching the Pokéball shake. Once again, he got aboard another train of thought, and it looked like someone would have to make him snap out of it. |
Hark Rense - Chapter 1 - Part 3 Team Spoiler:
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Hark limped along the trail slowly watching his Ralts pick up random rocks and toss them around. He felt more confused than ever. He had intended on getting rid of whatever Pokemon he had received once he was strong enough to fight on his own, but now that lingering guilt from his past failure would prevent him. No he would have to wait until she could defend herself as well or perhaps find a safe place to release her close to more of her kind. Right now he was pretty sure releasing her would doom her. While she fought well beside him earlier, he was there doing a lot of the fighting himself and protecting her. Also the Machops where fighting types which were very weak to Lannia’s Psychic abilities. Thinking over the last fight he remembered his blade was still caked in Machop blood. Putting down his pack he retrieved a cleaning rag then once he thought the coast was clear he deployed the weapon and began cleaning the hidden weapon. As he cleaned his mind began to wander on how to make the weapon more lethal. He could add an electrical current to it, simple but effective. Then the idea hit him and an evil grin spread across his face. Perhaps some sort of injector that could send a poison or acid through a wound created by the blade would not only be more interesting to design but the functionality would be greater. His mind instantly began to come up with blueprints for such a device when he was spotted by another trainer. As he was finishing the last bit of cleaning he heard a voice exclaim, “You have a sword arm!” Looking up shocked, Hark withdrew his weapon back into his arm as he looked at a very young trainer who was coming down the path. The boy, who couldn’t have been older than 12, ran over to Hark stared at his arm, “That was wicked cool! Make it come out again! What do you use it for?” “Protection and no… it stays hidden for a reason so I would like it if you stop talking about it,” said Hark glaring at the kid. He couldn’t believe he had allowed himself to lose all situational awareness. The kid frowned and said, “Why be so sneaky? Are you some sort of assassin or villain?” “No, now go away kid,” replied Hark with a hostile voice pared with a disapproving look. The kid then noticed the Ralts standing next to Hark and exclaimed, “You have a Ralts too! We should battle!” The kid then released one of his Pokemon revealing a male Ralts. “This is Psychic Slicer, he is going to be an awesome Gallade when I get him to evolve! See I already have a Dawn Stone that my uncle gave me!” exclaimed the kid. He then pulled out his Pokedex and scanned Lannia before saying, “O yours is a girl… it has to evolve into a Gardevoir… that sucks.” “No, we are not battling… go away,” said Hark glaring at the kid who knew his dirty little secret. “But we have to Battle, I challenged you so we have to battle,” replied the kid looking a little shocked at the refusal. No, we…” started to reply Hark he then noticed something pulling at his leg. Looking down he saw Lannia trying to get his attention. Once she had it she stepped forward, her body glowing with psychic power. “I guess she wants to battle then,” muttered Hark with a disapproving tone of voice thinking Lannia was trying to still impress him. Lannia wasn’t doing this for Hark. No she was tired of being looked down on was angered by this trainer’s words. She was tired of being disregarded by humans and then watching them choose one her many her brothers and sisters. Being told she wasn’t good enough for this or that. She was merely given away to a Trainer School to be a first pokemon since she wasn’t good enough for a serious trainer. She was going to prove she was better than his Ralts. “Alright Psychic Slicer use Confusion!” said the kid as the more experienced male Ralts quickly summoned up energy and picked up Lannia and tossed her into the side of a large rock. Lannia had closed her eyes and tried to focus and draw power from deep inside herself. She was going to prove she had more power than his Ralts. Lannia opened her eyes with a burst of energy only to realize that the other Ralts was holding a massive rock over her. She tried to push it away but the other Ralt’s psychic energy was too strong. As a last resort she dove away as the rock fell. It should have landed completely on her, but instead at the last minute it shifted so it just landed on her body and legs, barely missing her head. Yelping in pain she started to desperately force away the heavy rock with her abilities. Once she got it off she took a gasp of air and realized the other Ralts was standing over her. “Give up… I don’t want to damage your face… you’re too pretty,” said the other Ralts almost shyly. Lannia could only stare in shock at the Ralts who seemed to have a crush on her. “Come on Slicer why are you holding back finish it off!” yelled the other Ralt’s trainer. The other Ralts looked back at his trainer and Lannia took advantage of his distraction and shoved him back to the ground with a burst of her own Psychic energy. Standing back up Lannia prepared to attack the other Ralts with a barrage of magical leaves, but he simply forced almost all of them away with a burst of his own abilities. He was clearly more powerful than Lannia, and he picked her up and tossed her to the side. In her mind she could hear him telepathically telling her sorry as he tossed her around. Lannia tried to fight back, but he was too strong even though he was holding back due to his crush on her. Lannia was so humiliated, but this embarrassing display was ended by Hark recalling her. Hark looked at the kid with a glare and said, “You won… now scram.” “You’re suck a poor loser gezz, well its clear I’m much better than you as I have 3 more Pokemon that could easily beat your one,” said the kid as he recalled his love struck Ralts that just staring at the Pokeball in Hark’s had. The kid then pride fully marched off down the hill. Hark smirked and said with a voice that seemed to indicate he knew something the kid didn’t, “We will see about that in a few years.” He then released Lannia again and sprayed her down with a second potion and stated, “That wasn’t pretty, now let’s go.” Lannia on the other hand was overwhelmed by her humiliation and started to cry. Hark was about 15 feet away from her when he realized she wasn’t walking with him. Looking back to see her crying he muttered to himself, “I don’t have time for this right now. I’ll deal with this once we are at the top.” He then recalled the Ralts back to her Pokeball and then continued back up the hill, his mind more focused on his future plans than what had upset his Pokemon. |
Nylea Dahl Team Spoiler:
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"Hey, not everybody has to be a jerk," Blaine gave her a brief thumbs up "Ya know? And that's pretty understandable. The gyms...I'm destined to beat them! How else will I become champion?" He grinned and Nylea felt herself smile back before she could stop herself. "I-I know that sounds a bit arrogant." He laughed a bit nervously. "But I will win. It's my dream!" "it may sound arrogant but I say go for your dream" Nylea said quietly taking off her locket and opening it to show Blaine the picture inside. "it may just be the mother in me...but when Rosa is our age I'll be encouraging her to go for her dreams...so I say you go for yours if you try hard enough you'll get there" |
Blaine Byron Berk - Chapter 1 - Part 1Team Spoiler:
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"it may sound arrogant but I say go for your dream" Blaine watched Nylea remove her locket and hold it out, opening it to reveal a little girl. "it may just be the mother in me...but when Rosa is our age I'll be encouraging her to go for her dreams...so I say you go for yours if you try hard enough you'll get there" Blaine smiled. "I don't think that sounds arrogant at all. Everyone needs to follow their dream, no matter what it may be." He felt Apollo come to a stand on his shoulder, no longer afraid of the scary new girl. Blaine looked to him and smiled. "Here that, little man? We're gonna chase our dreams! We're gonna be the very best!" He held out his fist to the little Magby, who looked at it inquisitively for a moment, and cautiously bumped his own fist against Blaine's, causing him to grin. He turned back to the locket and smiled. "She has your eyes and your hair." He grinned a little bit. "I think you'll be a great mother." |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 1.2Team Spoiler:
Dava entered Jagged Pass after most of the other new trainers who set off from Lavaridge that day. Her visit to the hot springs had made her late. But she wasn't competing against them! She was only competing against Dani. And right now, she could afford to give that wildchild of a girl some kind of headstart so that she didn't have to see her incredibly annoying happy-go-lucky smile. That was until Dava really gazed up the ledges of Jagged Pass. "It'll take me days to get up there on my own!" she exclaimed, standing at the foot of a dwindling path, lined with cliffs, pine trees and bushes and only rough patches of grass. Prince scoffed. Before she could comment, he was bounding up the path without a trouble in the world. "Hmpf!" Dava wasn't going to let her own pokémon best her. She set off after him. It only took 5 minutes before she was completely out of breath, her legs ached and she felt sweat breaking out. Her body wasn't used to hiking these days! Stopping for a moment and looking forwards again, she could see many other trainers higher up. Right. Jagged Pass was a popular spot for local trainers - and faraway campers and hikers - to come and train. Such as Dani. She had probably carried Princess all the way up long before Dava even woke up. The thought made her angry. Determinedly, she grabbed a big rock on the cliff closest to her and pulled herself up. When she stood up on the next ledge, she noticed the rock was still in her hand... Moving... Opening its eyes in front of her and grunting. "WAAAAAAH!" Dava exclaimed, almost tumbling back down again. But her senses caught up with her just in time. "A Geodude?" She had heard of them but hadn't seen once since she was a child and Dani had saved her from one when they were hiking. This time, Dani wasn't here, and the Geodude didn't seem happy about having been disturbed. "Uh. I'm sorry, I thought you were a cliff! I mean, you look sturdy like one. I mean, you don't look fat or anything like that, I just mean-" The Geodude growled and clenched its fists visibly. "Can't we just be on our way and pretend we never met?" Dava tried, panic welling up in her. Suddenly, a thick yellow fist slammed down onto Geodude's head and made it gulp. Dava gasped and saw the Elekid jump up behind the flying rock. After the slamdunk, the electric pokémon landed on top of Geodude and began crackling its antennas as if it was loading up a special attack. Geodude didn't approve. It took both its rock-hard fists and prepared to squash its attacker between them over its head. "Prince! Look out!" Dava shouted when she saw this, and Prince looked up just in the right time. He jumped away before Geodude's fists clashed into each other with a loud noise. Prince landed on his feet in front of Dava, battle ready position. Geodude growled deeply again and seemed to certainly accept the challenge. "Oh boy..." Dava winced. |
(OOC: I know it's a short post but just wanted to set up the interaction between Akito and Lyssa.)
Akito Sasaki |
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Lyssa was busy enjoying herself, until she saw a figure approach her. "Hello." Lyssa looked up and saw a boy, smiling at her. "Are you a trainer? If so would you like to be my travelling companion on my journey. My name's Akito by the way." The boy extended his hand for a handshake. Lyssa just looked, but quickly realized he was just striking up a conversation. "Hi Akito, I'm Lyssa. Nice to meet you." She said, smiling back. She grabbed his hand and pulled herself up to stand. Wow, he's taller than I thought. "And yes I am a trainer. I would gladly travel with you to the next town. There's no harm in travelling with someone." She smiled. She as a bit cautious as she had no clue who this boy was, but she supposed someone to talk to until she reached the next town would be good. She paused for a moment to think of something to say. "So, I'm assuming you just started your journey too?" |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 1.3Team Spoiler:
They were chased by the Geodude across cliffs and rocks and ledges. Prince tried to stay and fight back but Dava kept grabbing an arm of his and pulling him with her just in time to avoid a badly aimed punch from the Geodude. The rock pokémon clearly was strong, but not very technically skilled. Prince saw this, and wanted nothing more than to show his superior skills. Dava only saw cliffs, cliffs and more cliffs. And suddenly, her foot slipped and she tumbled down a couple of meters to the ledge below, screaming terrified. Finally laying flat on her back in the tall grass that grew there, the first thought that struck her wasn't if Geodude had followed or if Prince was okay. "I... Got... DIRTY!" She jumped up and tried her very best to hurriedly wipe soil and leaves from her outfit. Some brown patches didn't go away. Tears nearly welled up in Dava's eyes as she realized that she had gotten her outfit dirty already on the very first route. It wasn't fair. Angered, she looked up. On the ledge above, Prince and the Geodude stood still, watching her with confounded faces. It was as if their struggle to understand her behavior had interrupted their fighting. "Don't just stand there!" Dava now shouted up to her electric pokémon, who looked surprised. "Make that rock pay for making me look like this!" Prince finally smiled. Showtime. He did his favorite thing, charging up his electric attack between his horns by spinning his arms around. Geodude's eyes narrowed and it came in for a direct Tackle, which Prince easily avoided with a jump. While the Elekid fired its Thundershock straight at its opponent, Dava was trying to climb back up to them along the rocky wall. Thankfully it wasn't too long or steep, and she hadn't really hit herself. Just gotten dirty. Oh, that Geodude would get it. But the attack had no effect. Instead of yelling in pain, Geodude just shook its body and came in for another Tackle, this time hitting Prince hard in the belly and throwing him back. "Prince!" Dava called, only seeing him disappear out of sight where she was, halfway up the ledge. "Don't use an electric attack, it won't work on ground types!" This, she had learned from reading up on Mareep, who was an electric type as well. Strong against water and flying, weak against ground. Apparently Dani hadn't been as knowledgeable in her approach to training, and rather just relied on Prince's strength and battle technique to win. Brutes. Geodude steeled itself and suddenly conjured some rocks out of thin air, seemingly. They were flung towards Prince. Once again, seeing the attack well in advance, Prince avoided the attack. He countered with a Quick Attack that easily hit the floating rock pokémon. But it did little harm, even if it wasn't completely uneffective like the Thundershock had been. Geodude was merely knocked back a little, before it flung one of its strong arms again and managed to grab the Elekid's foot. Dava just climbed up to their level in time to see Prince being lifted into the sky several meters up, instinctively charging up its Thundershock again just to do something. Then, Geodude just let go. Prince fell down, bounced into Dava and they both fell back down into the tall grass on the ledge below again, a couple of extra soil stains on Dava's shirt coming with them. The rock pokémon just grunted its goodbye and floated away out of sight, while the two traveling partners lay in a pile of each other and grass and silently tried their best to not express their infinite disgruntlement with the turn of events. ((still planning on catching that Geodude. But later~)) |
Nylea Dahl Team Spoiler:
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"I don't think that sounds arrogant at all. Everyone needs to follow their dream, no matter what it may be." Blaine smiled at her he turned to Apollo and gave the little pokemon a fist bump "Here that, little man? We're gonna chase our dreams! We're gonna be the very best!" Nylea chuckled as Blaine turned back to her. "She has your eyes and your hair, I think you'll be a great mother." "Thank you" Nylea said softly with a small smile. "she's just turned two her name's Rosa" she said putting the locket back on. "we should probably continue on...I don't mind tagging along with you...you haven't given me a reason to distrust you yet" |
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"Thank you" Nylea said softly with a small smile. "she's just turned two her name's Rosa" she said while putting the locket back on. "we should probably continue on...I don't mind tagging along with you...you haven't given me a reason to distrust you yet" Blaine smiled and crossed his hands behind his neck. "I sure hope I don't." He began to walk while making sure she was right behind him. "You knows, Nylea, not all guys are bad." He gave her a grin and walked at a leisurely pace. "There's always one bad apple or two in a bunch, I don't care how you put it. They always manage to create a bad name for the entire group." Blaine hated how there was always a jerk that would insult a girl or make her feel less than what she really is...Not only was it disrespectful. it was just flat out rude. "You should learn to trust people more easily." He grinned and looked to her. "It's better to trust and regret it then to not trust and regret it." |
Chapter Two: Taking the HeatMt. Chimney Having successfully traversed over the treacherous Jagged Pass you will arrive at a plateau not too far below Mt. Chimney’s peak, probably expecting to take a relaxing ride in the cable car from that point to the route below. Those who were planning to take this route will soon be disappointed though as it will soon become apparent that the cable car is going to be out of order for the next several days. This will leave you with only two choices, a boring and unpleasant wait for the cable car to be back in action, or an even more treacherous trip down the volcano. I’m thinking, you’ll probably choose the latter (because plot progression). GM note - Remember, do not move past this chapter in your posts! Have fun roleplaying. |
Hark pushed forward alone as the sun began to set. His mind wrapped up with theories, blueprints, and in progress projects. His mind focused on two projects primarily: first was the sunglasses on his head which were almost complete, and the second was the upgrade to his arm. He wanted an advance poison injector, but that was starting to get more complicated the more he thought about it. Sighing he decided to focus on the other less interesting project for now. His mind focused on the almost complete project now that he had all the parts now. Before Hark knew it he was at the top of the volcano and he took a second to look around before wondering why the heck he had come up here.
Shrugging Hark walked over to the skytran, which he quickly discovered was out of order. “I guess it’s time to go down by foot,” muttered Hark, but first he was going to take a break. Putting down his pack he opened it and pulled out several tools, took off the sun glasses that were on top of his head, laptop, and pulled out his Pokedex. He then pushed the button on Lannia’s Pokeball releasing her. He then booted up his computer and got to work. Lannia watched with tear stained eyes Hark disassembled his Pokedex and start taking parts and attaching stuff to his glasses. She had no idea what he was doing but she was a little intrigued for a couple of minutes, but then she got bored of his tinkering. Yawning Lannia decided to do something which was in her mind bold, she moved over to Hark and leaned her head against his side. Hark looked down at her for a second then went back to what he was doing. Lannia was glad he didn’t shove her away, but she did wish for more of a reaction. Closing her eyes Lannia quickly fell asleep. A choking darkness surrounded her, a terrible smell filled the air and she quickly realized the darkness was actually a thick cloud of black smoke. Then she heard it… the sounds of screaming filled the air. The dream ended as quickly as it had started by her waking up violently, looking around she saw that she was still lying against a working Hark. She lifted her head and wondered what her dream meant. Most of her dreams where nice, or weird. They felt like dreams… this one felt different, and it made her feel very uneasy… |
Aya Ingvar and Carl Bizarro - Chapter One - Part 3Aya's Team Spoiler:
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Aya watched with anticipation as the ball containing the Teddiursa she was attempting to catch rocked back and forth. It had only been a short amount of time really but she couldn't help but feel it was taking excruciatingly long to discover whether her capture was a success or not, however she was okay with the wait so long as her capture attempt was a success. Nothing was more disapointing than losing to an audience. After a final rock a distinct beeping noise was heard from the capsule and the pokeball remained still, the capture was a success. Aya breathed an inward sigh of relief, smiling at her catch. "I think I might have to call you Grizzly after that last battle" she said laughing to herself. "W-Wow, th-that was amazing! And it looks so easy!" Carl said, as if he was a kid who had seen somebody catch a Pokémon for the first time in his life. "I think I'll be able to pull it off!" Sting, his Weedle, looked as amazed as his trainer. He was also feeling excited, and itching to have a battle with another Pokémon. He crawled over Carl's back to reach the rocky floor, then moved around in circles to draw his trainer's attention. And he succeeded, as Carl looked at him and immediately knew what was going on. "Look, he's so full of energy!" he exclaimed, "It looks like he wants to battle, too!" Aya returned Ladon to his pokeball also, congratulating him for the hard-fought battle and his success in it. "Both Ladon and Grizzly will need to rest for a while after their battle but if you'd like we can have one a little later" she said to her temporary companion, flashing him a grin "and it wasn't as easy as it looked. I wasn't sure at all if I was going to succeed." Aya didn't like telling people that sort of thing, but it seemed the confidence boost would do Carl well. "Let's keep heading up for now, it's starting to get a darker and I don't want to have to go up this road when it is pitch black" Carl nodded in response, a huge grin on his face. Sting looked slightly disappointed, but he would get to battle later and its tiny heart was beating with excitement. Neither of them seemed to mind the darkness that the sunset was generating. Sting crawled back to his trainer's shoulders, and then the boy continued his trek up Jagged Pass. The closer they got to Mt. Chimney, the harder it was to go upwards. There were more rocks that made the hike hard, and some volcanic ash could be seen over patches of grass and rocks. Nevertheless, both continued, putting all their hearts into the hike. "H-Hey, Aya..." Carl said timidly. He was starting to get tired, and it was getting harder for him to spit out the words he wanted to say, "H-how longer d-do you think th-this path...is?" Aya turned at the unexpected noise, the pair had been mostly silent for this leg of Jagged Pass on account of the darkness, it was taking more focus to not trip over a rock (or a geodude) than it had during the day. "Hmm?" Aya thought for a while "It doesn't look like it is much further, I think maybe we should set up camp once we reach the end of Jagged pass, perhaps have that battle then." Aya pulled herself up a steep ledge that had seemingly materialised out of nowhere, extending a hand to Carl to help him up. "That sound like a plan to you?" Carl grabbed Aya's hand and smiled. "S-Sounds good." he replied and went up the steep ledge. "W-Wow, where'd that one come from?" He looked up and, although it was getting dark, he could see that there were more ledges like that to get past. He was too focused on the volcano's summit that he forgot to look where he was walking and stepped over a rock that made him lose his balance. "Wh-who-whoa!" he exclaimed and fell backwards. Thanks to Sting's reflexes and part of his survival instinct, he was saved from falling all the way down to his possible doom. The Weedle jumped off his trainer's shoulders and fired a String Shot that left the boy all covered in the Weedle's silk but held him in his place. "Whew... Th-thanks, Sting! I don't wanna know what could have happened without that String Shot!" Weedle squealed happily in response and crawled over to Carl's side. "Woah!" at the sight of Carl falling to the side of a yet steeper ledge she made a lunge for him, only to be outpaced by a hasty String Shot from Sting "Careful, there are ledges and dips in the most random places up here. We seem to have picked the most treacherous way up we could." At least I haven't nearly died yet... I guess I'm doing okay next to other trainers. Aya and Carl continued to travel up the steep, and progressively more dangerous route for a while before a flat, albeit rocky, clearing appeared not to far away. "Why don't we go that far for tonight" she said gesturing at the location "and set up camp there. It isn't long until we reach the top of Mt. Chimney so we may as well set up camp, eat, battle and sleep." Carl agreed without hesitation, he was unable to get all the silk off his body and was getting more and more tired with every step he took. "S-Sounds good" he said and made his way over to where Aya had gestured. Sting, who was back on Carl's shoulder at that time, hopped off him and began to crawl in circles again, after hearing that Carl might be battling his companion. After both him and Aya had arrived at the clearing, Sting began to rub his head against Carl's leg. He understood what the Weedle meant and looked at Aya. "S-so, w-we're here. It's a little early to eat so, um," he said timidly, "why don't we, um, spar?" "Sounds good to me" Aya said "I figure it will be good to see how well I gel with Grizzly in battle. Aya strode across the clearing to face Carl with a decent space between the two of them. "Alright Grizzly, let's see how this goes" Aya said to her teddiursa in an encouraging tone as she released it. The flash of white light dissipating to reveal the small orange-brown pokemon. "Ready when you are Carl." Carl smiled shyly after Aya sent out her newly-caught Teddiursa. Sting was getting even more excited, and the boy finally said the command. "L-Let's do this, Sting!" he shouted, and his Weedle leaped into the battlefield without hesitation. He looked at his opponent defiantly, and the other Pokémon could see the longing for a battle in the small bug's eyes. |
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"I sure hope I don't." Blaine smiled and crossed his hands behind his neck as he began to walk and Nylea noticed he made sure she was following. "You knows, Nylea, not all guys are bad." he grinned at her. There's always one bad apple or two in a bunch, I don't care how you put it. They always manage to create a bad name for the entire group." Nylea had to admit he had a point. Jared had managed to make her think badly of any male. "You should learn to trust people more easily." he looked at her again "It's better to trust and regret it then to not trust and regret it." "That's easier said than done" Nylea shrugged walking with him as Blossom followed her. "Rosa's father told me it was my fault I had gotten pregnant and then left for Kanto. He's made it hard for me to trust...before I had Rosa." Nylea paused taking a breath. Wondering why she was telling Blaine this but she still continued. "Before I had my daughter I was very rebellious and acted out a lot. If I hadn't done that then I'd be more trusting...but I also wouldn't have my daughter and I don't want to imagine not having her." |
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"That's easier said than done" Nylea seemed a bit reluctant. "Rosa's father told me it was my fault I had gotten pregnant and then left for Kanto. He's made it hard for me to trust...before I had Rosa. Before I had my daughter I was very rebellious and acted out a lot. If I hadn't done that then I'd be more trusting...but I also wouldn't have my daughter and I don't want to imagine not having her." Blaine nodded, listening carefully to everyword Nylea said. "I can understand that. I had a situation with the same concept, although not as big." He couldn't help but resist a smile. "When I was young, I tried broccoli, and hated it. Still today, I can't eat broccoli. My past experience with it made it in-consumable." He decided to address the other problem. "Sure, you went through a rebellious stage, everyone does! Heck, I'm disobeying my mother by going on this journey, ya know? Everyone can make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn into something beautiful, like your daughter for instance." As they walked, Blaine could feel the path steepening. "Listen, Nylea, nothing is anybody's fault. Everything..." He paused momentarily, "Everything happens for a reason." |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 1.4Team Spoiler:
How do you defeat a Rock/Ground type pokémon with only an Electric pokémon and your burning will for revenge to help? Well, first you need to find your foe. For Dava and Prince, it wasn't the easiest thing. After having been humiliated in the middle of Jagged pass, they climbed higher in a renewed search for their enemy, without talking to each other. Prince went ahead, fearlessly along the ledges, while Dava was a bit more fainthearted and slow. It wasn't that she was afraid of heights, not at all. She just didn't want to risk falling and get even more dirty. Turning around a particularly large cliff, they suddenly ran into a middle aged hiker man who stood there with a small smile, as if admiring the view. He didn't seem displeased when Dava suddenly became part of it though, because his smile grew wider. "Excuse me, sir," Dava said, trying to ignore the fact that her clothes had some dirt on them, and turning on her charm despite her underlying annoyance with generally everything right now. "Have you happened to have seen a Geodude here lately?" "Oh, yes, little lady!" the hiker said with a chuckle. "I just so happen to have one here in my very own pokémon gang. Want a look?" "Um, no thanks. There is a particular one I'm looking for. A wild one. But I'll-" "Large or tiny?" The hiker's question threw the girl off. "What? I don't know, do they come in different sizes?" "Of course! Just like we humans do," the hiker said and patted his own rather generous belly. "If it was a particularly tiny one, I happen to know that there is a young Geodude running around this area quite visibly lately. He seems to want to mark his territory. I study the wild-life of sturdy pokémon from times to times-" "Thank you sir! Bye!" Dava said and rushed past him before he could ensnare her in boring talk. She just wanted to find that Geodude and defeat it. Preferably by making it really dirty with soil or something too. It took them another hour of looking. By then, as the afternoon sunlight pressed on, Dava was seeing double and breathing heavily, and her level of irritation was over the threshold. "Prince! Wait up... Let's just... Rest for a little while!" she said and sunk down with her back against one of the few trees that stood in the Jagged Pass. Prince hadn't even broken a sweat yet. But he just turned, gave her a little stare and then shrugged before he sat down near the edge of the ledge they were at. Only to jump up with a shriek a second later. Dava jumped up too, and realized that Prince had sat himself down on top of a moving rock. More specifically, a Geodude. The glimpse in its eyes when it levitated up and Prince backed away with a growl was unmistakable. "It's you!" Dava breathed. Geodude grunted. Prince charged ahead but was stopped in his tracks by Dava, who grabbed his arm. Displeased, he looked back and crackled his electric horns as if to warn her not to let him go. "Wait, sillyhead," she said in a low tone. "Remember I looked things up? Your regular attack won't work on that stone. We'll have to do something else." Prince just looked at her as if she was out of her mind. Geodude watched them with intrigue from a few meters away. This time, it didn't seem keen on getting away. Which suited Dava well. "Hey, dear," she shouted. "Look closely at this Elekid, will you? It's your opponent and this time you will not humiliate us again!" Geodude raised an eyebrow but did indeed look at Prince. "Now, Flash!" Dava suddenly called out. Prince followed through on reflex, instantly sending out an incredibly bright light from its horns, while his trainer covered her eyes carefully. Only afterwards did he slowly smile, realizing how clever it had been. Geodude was blinded and waved its arms to try and get a grasp of what had happened. "Can you handle it now?" Dava asked Prince with a glance. "Just no electric attacks, remember." Prince nodded and darted away in a Quick Attack that hit Geodude without problem and was fast enough for Prince to avoid the flailing arms that came about. He jumped around and got another hit with a Quick Attack, sending Geodude crashing into the cliff behind, before it opened its eyes with a rumbling growl, as if it could finally see again. "Flash!" Dava called out once more, and Prince repeated the move. Geodude was too slow to get it this time too, but at least had the sense to protect itself with its arms when two more Quick Attacks came in, than to flail about aimlessly. When the rock pokémon could see again, it immediately launched a Rock Throw at its opponent. Luckily, the Elekid had already initiated another Quick Attack and could avoid them easily, even if it made him breathe harder and not hit his target in the end. Unfortunatly, some rocks landed close to Dava, making her trip and fall on her bottom. "Oh, no, not again..." she moaned, realizing that she likely had a large dirt blob on the back of her tunic now. "Grr, you should be ashamed of yourself!" she shouted. Prince stood down, and the girl received Geodude's stare. "You are continuously making my clothes dirty in one way or another! I cannot forgive that. I will beat you with my own bare hands if I need to!" She started walking towards the pokémon, who actually looked like they believed the threat. Suddenly, Prince jumped up and tackled the girl lightly though, throwing her back a little. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Before she could understand what was happening, the Elekid reached for something in her bag and threw it at the unwary Geodude behind them. It was a pokéball. It sucked the Rock pokémon in. It rocked once... Twice... And popped open again, destroying the ball in the process. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Dava called out again, giving Prince an unappreciative push. "You can't go and capture pokémon, that is a trainer's job... Aha." The Geodude looked tired and its minerals gleamed in the sinking sunlight. But it apparently had some energy left. Dava was a trainer now, that was her mission. Trainers captured pokémon. Now, she didn't really want a dirty, rough pokémon by her side. But it was the first wild pokémon they had fought on their journey. It was special. So she would capture it. Somehow. The girl clenched her fists and swallowed. "Prince, Flash again!" she suddenly shouted out. It took Prince a second to react, but it was fast enough to not let Geodude shield its eyes. Once more, its poor eyes were blinded by the light, and during it standing still, protecting itself against potential incoming attacks with its massive arms, Dava pulled out another fresh pokéball from the bag. "We've got to teach you new moves..." she muttered to Prince, who gave her a little smile in agreement. "For now... Use Quick Attack on the cliff above Geodude, see?" Prince did not see. He wasn't the most strategical of pokémon. He was fast and strong, but that's about it. And he didn't completely trust Dava, if at all. Mostly she was just fun to look at, and sometimes to tease. However, he did feel her resolve and will to defeat this opponent, so he had to believe that they were working towards a common goal. And he would obey. For now. Just when Geodude started to see properly again, he saw the Elekid come in for a Quick Attack. Geodude aimed with its rock-hard fist and got ready to punch the electric pokémon away as it approached. But in the nick of time, Prince jumped up and tackled the cliff above Geodude hard instead. Geodude first thought that it missed horribly, as the Elekid then simply returned to its trainer's side. But then a crackling noise came, and before the bulky pokémon could get away, a river of large rocks came tumbling down on top of it, trapping it beneath them and hurting it some. In the midst of all this, the new pokéball was thrown, sought the Geodude with its mysterious powers and sucked the pokémon inside in energy form. Landing on top of the pile of rocks, it began rocking again... Dava hardly breathed from suspense. |
Aya Ingvar and Carl Bizarro - Chapter One - Part 4Aya's Team Spoiler:
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Alright Grizzly, let's go in hard and fast for now" Aya instructed her newly caught teddiursa eliciting a response of "Tedi!" from the small orange-brown pokemon "hit it with Fury Swipes!" Grizzly ran across the battlefield as fast as she could, seemingly having no qualms about listening to her trainer, and launched a barrage of scratches with her sharp claws at the tiny horned bug across from her. As Grizzly's paws came closer and closer to Sting, Carl shouted out his first command. "Sting, c-counter with Electroweb!" Sting spit out silk, in a way similar to when he used String Shot to save his trainer; only that it was charged with electricity! What? Could a simple Weedle be capable of handling such powers? Or wasn't this Weedle a common one? Anyway, putting aside the narrator rant, the silk strings formed a net which Sting hurled at the foe Teddiursa right after being scratched by the latter for the second time. The sudden use of an electric attack caught Aya by surprise. It appeared she had underestimated Sting's abilities. However, she was also rapidly learning Grizzly's talents. As she was propelled backwards, her body caught in the web that was now shocking her Grizzly managed to grab a large-ish rock in her paw. "Use Fling!" Aya commanded her newest team member and watched with anticipation as her teddiursa launched the rock at Sting even as she hit the ground "now use scratch to get out of that web!" It took a couple of attempts but Grizzly was soon able to cut through the sticky material and was once again ready to leap into battle. Sting was caught by surprise by Grizzly's Fling, and the rock sent him rolling back. However, he still managed to stand his ground. Then the opponent used scratch to break free of the electrified web, so Carl had to use another move. "Sting, use String Shot!" Carl commanded, "Th-then use Poison Sting!" Sting spit out some non-electrified silk at the small bear Pokémon's paws and feet, so as to slow it down and distract it a little. After that, the Weedle charged at Grizzly and stabbed her with the poisonous sting on his tail. Carl could only hope that, apart from the damage, the attack would poison the foe. However, on the other hand, he knew that Sting was very vulnerable to an attack from his position. The gears on his brain began to grind as he began to analyze the battle. Aya was quite surprised with how effective Carl and Sting were in battle. She had never expected them to not only gel so well on the field, but have such effective strategies. But must he tie Grizzly up again? The Teddiursa fell forward suddenly, her feet wrapped up and pushed back by the force of the rapidly propelled "string" and was caught by the poison sting attack that followed. Grizzly crumpled slightly over the nasty horn, but she still had free hands with which to inflict revenge. "Scratch! We have to make them pay for that one" the effect of her weight falling forward bolstering the strength of the attack slightly Grizzly brought one set of claws down hard on the weedle's head, raking the across the centre of its face. "Alright now get out of the String Shot the same as you did the Electro Web, we won't keep falling for the same trick. Don't worry" At least she didn't get poisoned... that was a close one. Grizzly kept breaking free of Sting's silky traps with her paws, and even landed a Scratch on the bug's head. Carl continued to analyse the battle, and could only come with one conclusion: Sting needed to poison Grizzly in order for him to get an upper hand. Not that he was losing, in fact, the match looked pretty even, but Carl Bizarro was a guy who did not want to afford taking any unnecessary risks. "Poison Sting, one more time!" Sting jumped and furiously stabbed his foe near the moon-shaped mark on her head, in retaliation of the previous attack. If Carl was lucky, this time he would poison his opponent, but the boy was so focused on the status condition that he was neglecting the part of immobilizing the target. Once again, Sting was left exposed to another attack, only that this time Grizzly would not be restrained by any web. Aya grinned at Carl as sting launched at Grizzly intending to once again stab her with his toxic horn. Gotcha "Roll under and scratch it from below!" Grizzly headed the command ducking under the leaping bug and rolling to its back below it just in time to rake her claws across the underside of the weedle. "Nice try, but I won't fall for the same tricks all the time." Carl Bizarro's gears began to grind harder. He could feel the battle getting out of his hands. "Electroweb!" he commanded again, hoping to deal some more damage and slow down Grizzly again. The Teddiursa remained with no status conditions, and Sting was beginning to look worn out from the battle. Carl was unsure if the battle could be carried on for much longer. I'm done for. I can't possibly win this battle... That Teddiursa has more energy to fight than Sting, and its defenses are probably higher too... My only chance to get even was to poison her, but now that's out of the question. A Poison Sting looks too risky... I'll have to strike from the distance, and I doubt that Sting will be able to take much more, as Grizzly has Fling, and can strike from the distance as well, and- The Electro Web had come as a sudden surprise for Aya, something she had anticipated but had been quite ready for as such there was little chance of Grizzly dodging the attack. "Make sure your arms stay free!" she yelled to her teddiursa "Teddi!" came the acknowledgement from Grizzly. As the electrified web wrapped around her Grizzly raised her arms so they weren't caught with the rest of her body. Falling to the ground with a thump the Teddiursa was now more or less at eye-level with Sting, but the bear-like pokemon had shown to Aya she was actually quite smart - having her paw slightly concealed by her body and the web. Seeing the clump of dirt in the teddiursa's grasp that Carl and Sting could not Aya gave the command "Don't do anything until they are close enough. Then fling." It doesn't matter that I have said it aloud, wrapping her up further will achieve nothing and they have to get close for Poison Sting. "Electroweb, again!" Carl instructed on instinct, his brain still going on that train of thought he had boarded a couple paragraphs above. He didn't want to risk getting close, and thought that if he kept striking the electrified web would shock Teddiursa to defeat. He hoped it did, but Grizzly appeared to be way above Sting when it came to strength and endurance. Sting spit out some more electrified silk at his foe, then panted. Grizzly's next hit could leave him with little or no energy left to fight! "Roll forward, then use Fling!" Not quite what I wanted to do, but it will work for now. Grizzly rolled forward quickly, still bound by the previous net of electrified web, the new attack flying over, just barely missing her. Now in clear, and close enough to Sting's face, Grizzly hurled the clump of dirt she had picked up directly towards the bug-type's face. "Electroweb, once aga-" Carl commanded instinctively again, but was cut off by Grizzly using Fling again, this time throwing a clump of dirt at Sting. The attack hit fast and hard, and the small Weedle was too weak to dodge it. It attempted to spit out the electrified web attack, but the silk didn't get very far, and he collapsed on the rocky ground, his eyes all spiraled, which meant that he was unable to keep on battling. "...Sting, return." Carl said, looking down, "You did good, now get some rest." Ack! I should've seen this coming! I could have forfeited before he was knocked out! his brain rambled on, But it would have been a loss anyway so... I haven't been able to win a battle yet, what strategy must I use? I'll have to ask Felicity later and train with her! Maybe I just have to make Sting evolve, that way he'll get stronger. Well, maybe not physically, but as a Kakuna, his defenses will surely increase! Then I'll be able to endure longer until he evolves again, into a Beedrill! Yeah! Once he does, it will be a huge powerhouse! If Carl was a robot, there would be smoke coming out of his head. If he was a computer, his screen would be showing the lag previous to the huge blue screen error. Where am I going with this? What's the point of this bunch of crazy, nerdy metaphores? The point is, his brain was finally overloaded with thoughts. Aya could see Carl suddenly collapsing to the ground, his eyes closed, lucky enough not to have broken his glasses, which landed just a few inches away from him. "Good job Grizzly, a great first battle!" Aya congratulated the teddiursa as she returned it to its pokeball "you did really well also you gu -" Aya was cut off by Carl collapsing in front of her. Well that's not good. Aya checked Carl over, deciding that he was probably just exhausted, before dragging him into his sleeping bag. It was late enough now that sleep wouldn't be ridiculous, but she decided she'd stay awake through the night and watch him. |
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Hark Rense - Chapter 2 - Part 1 Team Spoiler:
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Despite the nightmare Lannia was able to fall asleep again, only this time she laid down on Hark’s bag instead of him. She was awoke up hours later by some rather unfamiliar sounds and a strange voice that announced, “Admiral, Enemy forces detected jumping into one of our systems.” Opening her eyes a little Lannia looked around for the source of the voice when a second one announced, “Thrusters to full” Soon after that second voice a third one announced, “Engaging the enemy!” The Ralts was very confused as she stood up. Looking around she spotted the source of the voices: Hark’s computer. He was playing some game with some things firing beams of light and explosions at each other. The battle seemed chaotic and confusing to Lannia as she watched the battle on Hark’s game unfold. It took her a while but she figured out which ones were Harks and he looked like his things were outnumbered and losing. Then the screen rapidly changed to some other area where bright blue portals suddenly appeared and more of those machines looking things appeared. Lannia was unsure what was going on so she tried to ask Hark by trying to project in both her language and mentally like the other Ralts had done to her. However all she got out was “Raaaaa?” Hark glanced at her for as second before saying, “You’re up I see… I will be done soon.” “Raaaaltssss?” asked Lannia again while trying to figure out what was going on as Hark expanded out the game’s view to see a large portion of a galaxy. Hark suddenly explained his plan in the game, “I lured away the enemy’s main fleet by tempting them with what appeared to be my main fleet. I’ve been playing cat and mouse with his main forces with these ships.” He then zoomed into his forces that were getting overwhelmed and destroyed. He then continued, “However while his focus was on that fleet I sent a second one deep into his space and now I’m going to lay waste to his shipyards and capital planet before his main fleet can return. I will lose more warships, and militarily he will come out stronger. However with his economy crushed and his capital planet a wasteland from my orbital bombardment I will outlast and out build him. His fleet is now too weak to break my defenses, and I’m already building a third fleet to finish him off. He doesn’t know it, but I’ve already won.” Lannia continued to watch for another hour and sure enough all the pieces fell into place like Hark had said. The enemy’s fleet retreated and destroyed Hark’s ships that were destroying his factories and worlds. However they were too late to stop the crippling destruction that would be the enemy’s downfall. The enemy tried to capitalize on having the only fully functioning fleet, but was repelled by Hark’s defense networks around his worlds. Then the enemy was left unable to rebuild fast enough to repel Hark’s newest fleet. Hark crushed his opponent’s remaining ships and worlds before he was announced the winner. Lannia was still confused by this game, but it also hurt her. Why did Hark care about his gadgets like the newly modified sunglasses on his head and this game, when he didn’t seem interested in her at all? He clearly had some grasp of tactics and strategy, but he refused to help her. Her emotions got the best of her and she pranced onto his computer and went off on Hark screaming at him and asking him why he wouldn’t help her and didn’t care for her. Of course this all sounded like “Ra, Ral, Tls” and other variations of the word Ralts in a loud voice to Hark. Hark had no idea what his Ralts was doing as she stood on his computer’s keyboard screaming at him with tears running down her face. She motioned to his latest invention and his computer a few times, but he was completely clueless why she had gone off on him. After she settled down a little he just stated, “You realize I have no idea what you just said, or why you’re so upset. I told you that I’m not a trainer and I’m not here to be your friend.” He then returned the crying Ralts back to her ball before anyone witnessed this scene and packed up his stuff. What was left of his hardened heart tugged at his chest, but he did the best he could to ignore it as he stuffed items into his bag. He had a plan and he wasn’t going to let emotions get in his way. |
Akito Sasaki and Lyssa Ganton
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http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 1.5Team Spoiler:
"I captured a pokémon... WE CAPTURED A POKÉMON!" Dava sung out, lifting Prince up and spinning around while hugging him. Prince did not approve, and one small Thundershock later, Dava was once again sitting on the ground, sighing over her clothes. She was too tired to even get enraged by now. But she had done what a real trainer does. She had captured a pokémon! "Hey, what's the commotion?" another voice came from behind, making her jerk her head around. It was the hiker from before. Oh no, Dava hoped he wouldn't become creepy again. "Whoa, looks like there's been a battle here," the hiker commented with a raised eyebrow. "What, you can tell?" Dava asked and got up. "Of course. A crumbled cliff, lots of footsteps in the dirt, plus I saw a lot of flashes from below so I figured someone was trying to fight with an electric type here!" He chuckled and shook his head. "You shouldn't bring electric types here..." He spotted Elekid. "Oh right. It was you." "Yes. And we won. I captured a Geodude. The strong, speedy one you were talking about earlier, sir!" "Really now?" the hiker scratched his head. "Can I see?" Dava still held the pokéball dearly in her hand. After a moment of hesitation, she pressed the button and let the pokémon materialize in the air between the humans. Geodude blinked, rustled its body as if it still felt the rocks on top of it, and stared blankly at the hiker. "Oh, look at that! What a rough buddy you've caught!" "Indeed!" Dava said, putting her hands on her hips proudly. "He won't terrorize this place no more, he'll come with me and learn to behave! Right, Geodude?" The rock type turned around in the air to stare blankly at her instead. It made her feel uneasy, but at least it didn't seem to argue against her words. "Certainly. But he ain't the one," the hiker said with a slow nod. "He... What?" "He's not the Geodude I was talking about, he's too large. Even a bit larger than usual I'd say. A true sturdy rock type!" the hiker laughed and actually patted the pokémon on its head. Dava was afraid it would lounge out and punch the man, but apparently he knew how to handle these pokémon because the rock type just closed its eyes and let the man pat away. "Aw. I thought that young, speedy Geodude sounded cool. So where is that one, then?" "Could be anywhere. It's really roaming these ledges, attacking pokémon out of the blue-" A rumbling noise was heard. All four of them turned to look over the ledge. A small, shiny boulder was floating up towards them, eerily slowly. It really did look different from the Geodude that Dava had captured... and even more angry. Before they could say anything about the sudden scene, the new Geodude materialized a rock above its head, ready to fling it with its strong hands. "WHAT NOW?!" Dava exclaimed. "I'd say run," the hiker said, and turned head over heels down the way he had come. Rocks were thrown after him, missing fortunately. Then the Geodude turned back to Dava and her pokémon. "Prince?" Dava said, wondering what he thought they should do about the hostile situation. Prince yawned and patted his own pokéball on the girl's belt, disappearing into it with a flash of light without saying anything. "YOU LITTLE MONSTER!" Dava roared, but then suddenly felt a raspy hand grab hers and pull her away, stumbling on the ground and hearing a cracking noise from where she had just been standing. It was her Geodude! He had just saved her from getting hit by a trown rock. The girl looked puzzled at him. "You... I just fought you. Why would you...?" Another growling noise from the hostile rock pokémon before it materialized more rocks above its head to launch more attacks. Apparently they were in what it considered its territory. The slightly stunned Dava was even more surprised when the new addition to the team suddenly swooped her up into his arms and flew away with her, close to the ground along the ledges, away from the danger. Dava lay there against cold rock arms, the breeze from the speed in her hair and the evening sun reducing Geodude's round body into a black silhouette against the yellow sky. She really didn't understand pokémon yet. |
Aya Ingvar and Carl Bizarro - Chapter One - Part 5Aya's Team Spoiler:
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Carl slowly opened his eyes. The last thing he remembered was having a battle with this Aya girl and losing. He groggily looked around and quickly spotted his "granny glasses" near him, and put them on. As his vision became more clear, he ironically got more confused. The battle had taken place when the sun was making its way to the bottom of the horizon, and it had ended once the moon reigned over them; however, Carl could see some rays of sunlight filtering through the ash-covered trees in Jagged Pass. He sat up, rubbing his head, and then was startled by the sight of Aya, who was nearby watching over him. "G-Gah!" he exclaimed, "Wh-wh-what h-happened?" "You passed out" Aya answered the confused Carl truthfully "It just looked like exhaustion to me and you were fine all night. So long as you're careful and take it easy I think you'll be okay for now. Sting is back in your Pokéball by the way." Carl looked at the Pokéball in his belt, which contained a sleeping Sting. "Oh, yeah...Whew..." he said, and looked at his travelling partner. "Th-thanks f-for keeping an eye on me while I was unconscious..." he whispered timidly to her, "A-Are you alright?" He was feeling a wave of awkwardness that reminded him of his days in Zero's stronghold, back when he was first teamed up with Felicity to escape the mad scientist. He smiled as he reminisced. Aya was confused by the random grin on Carl's face, she figured he was probably remembering something though and didn't bother prying. "I'm fine" she said in response to his question, she was a little tired but there was no way she would be admitting it "Hey, what are you up here for anyway? Did you mention what your journey is for?" The question had come to her out of nowhere, but she figured she might as well find out. It seemed to Aya as though she would end up seeing a lot of Carl, especially if they were competing. Carl adjusted his glasses after Aya's question. He hesitated for a moment, but his overly-analytical mind told him that there was no harm in speaking about it. "W-Well, it's...kind of a long story." he said timidly, "B-But I guess there's p-plenty of time, r-right?" He cleared his throat before continuing. "Anyway, I-I'm here to train. A v-very speacial friend of mine told me it would be great t-training for both me and Sting to go up Jagged Pass... And I-I long to become a strong Pokémon Trainer" His voice then lowered and became a low whisper, "and perhaps...become o-one of the Elite Four..." "The Elite Four huh?" Aya wondered aloud, toying with Ladon's pokeball in her hands "Does that mean you'll be taking on the league? That's really the only way for someone like one of us to earn that title. I personally don't have any interest in the fame that comes with being champion or an Elite Four member, I'm just taking the league on to improve myself, learn more and to compete with others." Aya stood up, smiling at Carl and slinging her bag over her shoulder "Which would make us competitors I guess. So let's make an agreement. We'll have a rematch once we both have Mauville's badge." Carl smiled at his travelling companion as she spoke about wanting to challenge the Elite Four as well. She reminds me a lot of Felicity... I wonder what she's up to now... he said to himself, as Aya stood up and spoke again. She proposed some sort of pact, after both of them had earned the Mauville Gym Badge, they would have a rematch. He liked the idea, but at the same time he wondered whether he would be able to get strong enough to defeat the Gym Leader. He managed to jump off his train of thought before it sent him to another mental blackout and stood up as well. "S-Sure. I-It's settled!" he said happily. "Well in that case, I'll leave you to it and see you in Mauville." With that Aya waved her temporary travelling companion goodbye and set off up the last small stretch of Jagged Pass looking forward to her rematch. Carl was surprised by Aya's sudden departure, but waved goodbye to her as well. "G-Goodbye, and good luck!" he said. Well, here I am. Back the same way I started. he thought. Volcanic ash was falling from the sky as if it was snow, and the rocky floor was covered with a thick layer of it. This means that I'm not far from the summit! Great! He resumed the hike up Jagged Pass, determined to reach Mt. Chimney's summit as he had told Felicity he would. |
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Hark Rense - Chapter 2 - Part 2 Entering the Nightmare Team Spoiler:
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Hark yawned a little as he had only gotten two hours of sleep that night since he had spent almost all the night working on the sunglasses and integrating the HUD system with the Pokedex. He would be fine, he was like a machine and could operate for around 72 hours without much rest . He thought he was that way at least. Just as he took a step forward an unfamiliar voice behind him said, “You really shouldn't ignore her like that.” Spinning around Hark saw a man who was standing about 20 feet away from him. This man’s body was cloaked in a black robe with a hood that hid much of the man’s face. However the hood did not hide the man’s mouth that, which was twisted up in a fake smile that combined with his clothing made him rather creepy. Hark closed his eyes for a second wondering if his lack of sleep was getting to his head, but when he reopened them the man was still there… and still smiling. “Ignore who?” asked Hark with a slightly hostile voice. Suddenly Lannia’s Pokeball opened and released the Pokemon without Hark’s permission. “Her,” replied the man taking a step forward. “She was opening up her heart to you and you just locked her away. That was rather cruel of you,” continued the man as he walked up to Hark. “She was crying and I didn’t have time to deal with it. Anyway none of this is your business,” replied Hark in a cold voice as he stared at the man wondering how the heck Lannia had been released. “Do you even have a heart?” replied the man who was now five feet from Hark. Lannia was making noise like she was trying to talk, but Hark kept his focus on the man in front of him. “Emotion is pushed aside if it interferes with my goals, now leave me alone. I’m not interested in the whole “Take care of your pokemon and they will be your friend forever bull****.” I don’t want a Pokemon, but I need one for now” replied Hark with a hostile voice. “I don’t plan to leave you alone… I have other plans for you,” replied the grinning man with a sinister tone in his voice as he walked up to Hark. A strange energy seemed to form around the strange robed man; this energy was very similar to a physic Pokemon’s energy. Hark’s eyes got big as this display of power, and he quickly deployed his blade as he looked the man’s dead eyes. This man’s eyes were strange but it wasn’t due to his powers. Hark suddenly realized this man not only was a psychic but was also blind. Hark felt very uneasy and his entire body had teased up. “Let me be the first to welcome you to the nightmare realm,” said the man’s fading voice as Hark’s world turned to darkness. Hark tried to fight it but the man’s power over his mind was too much. How had he creeped into his head so easily? Then everything went black for Hark. Opening his eyes for what felt like the first time in a decade Hark looked around, but he couldn’t see anything beyond two feet in front of him. He was surrounded by an unnatural darkness that he could reach out and touch and his fingers would disappear into it. He looked around and he was wearing nothing but rags with a robe like belt that held a strange oil lamp that kept the unnatural darkness away. Shaking his head he started to move forward in order to find a way out. The ground was cold and hard with an odd texture to it against his bare feet. Looking down he froze as he realized the ground was rock that was formed into the shape of tormented human faces. ‘Where am I?’ Thought the boy. Looking at his small hands he then thought, ‘Who am I?’ He then heard a strange grumbling noise, and the sound of large crawls scraping against stone. The boy froze in fear as he started to smell a foul odor. It was that of rotting fresh… The boy turned and started to run through the darkness, but whatever was making the noise suddenly started to move faster as well. It was chasing him… Lannia could feel a powerful amount of psychic energy coming from this stranger and consuming her master’s mind. She could only watch as Hark collapsed to the ground as he was put into a coma by this stranger. She was unsure what to do, and had no idea what was going on or what this stranger had done. “You can risk your sanity to try in pull him from the Nightmare… or enjoy your freedom,” said the man now facing her with a bone chilling smile. He then added, “If I were you I would pick freedom as he clearly doesn’t care at all for you.” Lannia looked at the twitching Hark. He didn’t care for her, and would likely abandon her if she was in his situation. She stood there for several minutes before she slowly walked to his side and put a hand on his shoulder and felt his emotions he was filled with fear, despair, pride, and confusion were just the main emotions she felt. She looked up at the stranger and said in her own language, “I will not abandon him… not in this state.” For once the man’s smile turned genuine and he said, “He really doesn’t deserve you. Look into my eyes and allow me to enter your mind. Unlike him you will be able to exit the Nightmare at will however you can’t reenter if you leave. Try to guide him if you dare...” She did as he told her and the world around her started to fade to darkness as he put her into an unnatural sleep. Lannia looked around in the darkness and couldn’t see very far. Looking around she noticed she was different. She looked down and noticed she was much taller. Instead of her “natural” clothing looking like oversized pants she had a long flowing gown. Out of her chest poked a small red crystal which was glowing and keeping away the strange darkness that surrounded her. Lannia smiled as she looked over herself… she was a Gardevoir! Her excitement however ended when she heard the sounds of someone running and the emotion of fear and desperation, and not far behind was something dark and evil. He stopped looking at her new body and started running in the direction of the two… |
Carl Bizarro The Training Session Ends... Or Does It? Carl's Team Spoiler:
As it always has been, the last part of the trek was the longest. At least to Carl. Having his mind focused on the summit only made it harder for him to climb up the rocks that were separating him from there. He did manage to get up a couple of them, but just when the exit of Jagged Pass was in the boy's sight, a huge rock stood in his way. He tried climbing it, but to no avail: his arms were too weak and the ash was not very helpful with getting him a grip. Then, all of a sudden he heard a very familiar voice from beyond the rock. "Need any help?" the voice said. Carl instantly recognized who it was, and his eyes sparkled with joy as he looked up at the rock. No way! This can't be! Is that- "F-Felicity? Is that you?" he asked, "What are you doing here?" "You didn't think I would send you here while I stayed at the hot springs all day, did you?" she replied, "And, besides, it's been, like, a day! I wanted to check on you, how you were doing!" "I'm...good. I had a...battle, you know" he said, "I lost, but, well, I think Sting got stronger." "Aww, sorry to hear that. And he probably did!" she said, "Who knows, maybe it could evolve before you know it!" She then grabbed a Pokéball from her belt. "Anyway, what do you say I help you out with this rock over here? I can see it's bringing you some trouble." Carl nodded in response, not saying a word. "Alright, then. Poliwhirl, come out! Rock Smash on that huge rock!" The Poliwhirl punched the rock and shattered the top, and the rest collapsed near Carl, making it easier for him to reach Felicity. The girl thanked her Pokémon for its good job and retrieved it. As soon as Carl reached her, his best friend gave him a big hug. However, what the boy couldn't see was that she looked somewhat concerned, perhaps even regretful about something. But when she pulled back there was a friendly smile on her face. "Now, what do you say we finally get to Mt. Chimney?" "S-Sounds like a good idea!" he answered, and both went to the exit of the soot-covered Jagged Pass. Felicity looked at her friend and bit her lower lip, her eyes showing some concern again. I'll stick around some more... But it's gonna hurt so much when we split up, Carl... I'm not even sure if I can do this... |
Nylea Dahl Team Spoiler:
Stored Pokemon Spoiler:
"I can understand that. I had a situation with the same concept, although not as big." he smiled "When I was young, I tried broccoli, and hated it. Still today, I can't eat broccoli. My past experience with it made it in-consumable." hearing his words Nylea smiled softly to herself and chuckled shaking her head. "Sure, you went through a rebellious stage, everyone does! Heck, I'm disobeying my mother by going on this journey, ya know? Everyone can make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn into something beautiful, like your daughter for instance." the path got steeper as they neared the top. . "Listen, Nylea, nothing is anybody's fault. Everything..." he paused "Everything happens for a reason." "My mother made me go on this journey" Nylea said softly glancing at Blaine. "I rebelled because my rich parents didn't let me do anything, they told me to go on this journey to become a Pokemon Breeder so I can take care of Rosa myself and not rely on my parents" Nylea looked around as they reached where the cable car was. "Looks like it's out of order" |
Blaine Byron Berk - Chapter 2 - Part 1Team Spoiler:
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"My mother made me go on this journey" Blaine caught the glance he sent her. "I rebelled because my rich parents didn't let me do anything, they told me to go on this journey to become a Pokemon Breeder so I can take care of Rosa myself and not rely on my parents." He listened carefully to what she said, chewing his lip softly. He was about speak up when she said, "Looks like it's out of order." Blaine looked ahead of them and noticed the cable car. "Wow! We've come this far already?" He was pretty amazed. They managed to get around the Jagged Pass without getting attacked by any Pokemon! "Well...That sucks." He sighed. "So, it seems like we're gonna have to head up the pass itself." He gestured his head towards the area. "We may or may not be attacked by Pokemon, but no worries!" He grinned. "I'll protect you." He bowed in a joking sort of way. "Blaine Byron Berk, at your service." |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter Two - Part 1Aya's Team Spoiler:
Aya brushed her hair back over her head after a brief gust of wind blew ash over the area she stood from the nearby caldera of Mt. Chimney. She had only one more ledge to climb up, and then it was down the cable car and onwards to the next route of her journey taking her one step closer to obtaining her first badge. Or so she thought. Aya pulled herself over the steep ledge, walking across the hot craggy ground onto the large plateau that housed the higher end of the cable car. Behind the old, but sturdy looking cement building the last rise in the mountain before the peak of the volcano loomed blowing the odd flurry of volcanic ash over the area. This amazing sight however, was not the first thing that Aya noticed. A growing crowed of restless, disappointed and irritated trainers seemed to be growing inside the plateau. Aya looked around for the source of the irritation, but was unable to see anything past the crowd of people that had formed around the entrance to the cable car. “Don’t tell me…” “That the cable car is out of order?” a drawling voice said from off to Aya’s side. Aya looked to her left to see a boy slightly older than she dressed in tan cargo pants, a simple grey-black shirt, an orange and blue jacket and a straw hat laying back against one of the few trees in the plateau in the shade with a wide grin on his face. A mismagius hovered behind him and a grovyle dozed on one of the trees branches – Aya assumed they were his. “That’s certainly what I was thinking” she sighed “do you know how long it will be out for?” “The notice from the staff said it will like take a few days to repair” the unknown boy replied, his grin never faltering “a fair number of folks have decided they’ll just take the more treacherous route and just climb down the mountain. Personally I’m more of a go-with-the-flow kind of a guy.” I’ll bet… Aya looked towards the side of Mt. Chimney, her mind pretty much made up the moment she saw another trainer already heading off in the direction she looked. “I think they have the right idea” Aya laughed, making to head off down the volcano “Be careful now miss…?” “Aya, and you are?” “Name’s Tex” he said, still perpetually grinning. His name’s Tex… really? Aya walked off, past the crowd – feeling somewhat odd as a result of her encounter with overly-friendly Tex. “I keep running into some strange people on this journey” she muttered to herself as began her climb down Mt. Chimney. |
Akito Sasaki
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http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 2.1Team Spoiler:
Geodude had carried Dava until their pursuer had given up. They had together, in silence, walked the last part of the ascent and reached the top by the time the air was dark around them. Instead of pushing on through the night, Dava didn't like darkness and the wilderness after all, she decided that they should stay and sleep near some big trees. She brought Geodude back inside its pokéball, still not sure how to thank it or even what to say after it had rescued her like that, and she took out Prince instead. No matter how mischievous he was, she trusted him better for now. "Keep watch. If you want to sleep, poke me!" Dava ordered before she put out her flashlight and crept into her isolated sleeping bag, wrapping it up around herself like a Silcoon. Luckily, Hoenn was not cold in the nighttime. Just fresh. When she woke up, the sun was up since some time. Prince sat at her feet, staring at her. She scolded him for not having awoken her if he had wanted sleep himself, but he didn't reply. Now, Dava's next goal, after some quick breakfast she had packed in her bag, to get to a toilet. She needed to freshen up. She did not like the outdoor life at all! But she was proud of herself, she had survived one night alone in the wild! After a light hike, they reached the Cable Car Plateau. Without bothering to listen to the crowd of trainers and people who were muttering outside the building, Dava pushed her way through and got inside. Half an hour later, she emerged from a traveler's bathroom, as refreshed and clean as she could be. She had changed her clothes (which Geodude had dirtied) and taken a quick shower. Quite incredible how much could fit inside traveler's bags these days, if you were a girl with some willpower. As she went to the small (and uncomfortably expensive) shop that was inside the Cable Car building, Dava couldn't help overhear some trainers talking. By the time she realized that what she was hearing was that the Cable Car was out of order, she had turned to stare at the trainers with a gaping mouth. When they saw her and raised their eyebrows, Dava quickly shut her jaw and went on her way. Outside, she spat out her feelings to an Elekid who didn't have much choice other than to listen to his trainer. "Out of order! How can they do this? Am I supposed to trek down the mountain myself again if I want any chance to catch up with..." She stopped mid-sentence. If she wanted to reach Dani, her sister, she couldn't sit around and wait for several days. Dani wouldn't have hesitated to climb down herself. Dava shouldn't either. She wasn't the silly, weak sister. She was the strong, smart one. She would prove it. "We're going," she told Prince and suddenly started walking past the crowd, towards the winding trail that led between even more treacherous rocks and cliffs than Jagged Pass... Prince had been ready to electrocute her lightly to make her stop ranting, but when this was not necessary, it was his turn to raise his eyebrows. If he had had them. But he did follow her. |
Cerulean Clarke, 17
Chapter 2.1 - Out of Order? [Eevee - Anticipation - Tackle, Sand Attack, Baby-Doll Eyes] -------------------------------------- Cerulean Clarke pulled herself onto a ledge, struggling and grunting the entire way until she was up. She stood, dusted herself off, and released a sigh. She looked over the ledge and to the path from hence she came. Cerulean had faced many a trial and tribulation; the hardest being the many ledges she had to climb just to make it to the plateau that the lift was on. She had lost sight of any trainers that she had resolved to follow, they were all too quick for her, all more determined than her - she had decided. |
Carl Bizarro Chapter 2.1 Time to Climb Down! Carl's Team Spoiler:
Carl had finally reached Mt. Chimney. His best friend Felicity walked by his side, looking around the scenery. Before them the huge mountain that led to the volcano's fiery crater stood majestically, and nearby there was a line of people that looked annoyed. Carl followed the line with his eyes, and saw that it led to a small building which had some cables coming out of it. "I wonder what's that fuss all about." he said. "Yeah. It's odd..." Felicity said, "Let's take a look." With that both of them walked over casually the last one in line. It was a young boy, in his early teens, that was somewhat fidgety. Felicity knew about her friend's shyness, and instantly knew that she would be the one to do the talking. "Hi there." she said, "Um, do you know what's going on?" "Yeah..." the boy said, avoiding eye contact, "The cable car is out of order. I don't know when it will be working again." "I see... Well, thanks!" she said, and walked away from the line. "Well, this is inconvenient..." Carl commented, "What do you think we should do?" "I don't know." Felicity said, and looked around for an answer. Many people around were setting up camp in the hot, rocky ground, others were making their way back to Jagged Pass to return to Lavaridge. The answer to Carl's question came to Felicity's head when a man from the line suddenly left and started to head for where the cable car would take them. Felicity looked in that direction, and quite a whole lot of people were opting for that. The hike down Mt. Chimney looked more dangerous than the trek up Jagged Pass, but Felicity was up for it. However, she wasn't sure if her friend was up for it. "Many people are climbing down the volcano. It looks rough, but I think we can handle it. What do you say?" Carl smiled and nodded. "Okay. I'll go." he said happily. "It does look rough, but Sting and I have gotten stronger while climbing up Jagged Pass! I could even catch a new Pokémon there! But only if you stick with me." "Of course I'm sticking with you, dummy!" she replied, "There's no way I'm letting you climb down this huge blazing mountain with only a Weedle!" Carl and Felicity then headed over in that direction. Their climb down Mt. Chimney would begin shortly. |
Akito, Aya & Dava - Mt. Chimney Aya's Team Spoiler:
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Dava was really careful when she walked the mountaineous terrain now. She did not want to get her clothes dirty AGAIN. Elekid jumped on cliffs beside her, but suddenly he froze and stared ahead. "What is it, Prince?" Dava asked, worried that the vicious wild Geodude had caught up with them or something. But Prince pointed and Dava followed his finger with her gaze. It was a young man, tall, seemingly strong and ruggedly handsome. At least in Dava's eyes, where she was an alone girl in a bothersome landscape. He could help, she was sure! "Oh, hello!" she called out in a sing-song voice, turning on her charm as she approached smiling. Elekid rolled his eyes and only approached slowly. "I seem to be lost," Dava said when she got closer to the entrance to the cave where Akito was sitting with his PSP. She ignored the fact that he was playing games or something. "Would you mind pointing me in the direction of Mauville City?" Akito seemed to suddenly wake up from hibernation he quickly put away his PSP with an embarassed look on his face. "Sorry. I was a bit too absorbed in my game. And actually I myself am lost. Name's Akito by the way. Maybe we could go along together for a brief moment?" replied Akito, seeming totally oblivious to Dava's sudden show of charm. "Oh," Dava said, but her smile didn't falter. It wasn't like she was actually lost. She just wanted a reason to make him come with her, since she wanted to avoid more unpleasant encounters with wild pokémon. So his proposal fit her perfectly! "That sounds very nice, let's go together towards Mauville!" she chirped. "Who might you be? My name is Dava and this here is Prince." She gestured towards the somewhat sourly Elekid that wobbled up to the humans. "Name;s Akito nice to meet you Dava!" said Akito getting up finally. Suddenly, Prince's stare shifted and he looked curious rather than sour. He had noticed the trapped Klefki, and walked up to it in slight confusion. Aya continued to travel carefully downwards, she was in a difficult spot at this point and didn't want to fall down a cliff. It was with a sigh of relief that she got her feet on a flat patch of the rugged ground again. "Whose idea was this again?" she queried, not actually talking to anyone in particular, as she proceded to continue her descent until she found herself on another plateau - one that was already occupied. She surveyed it quickly, taking note of the two people already there. A young woman with an elekid, a boy with a video game addiction and a klefki trapped in some rubble - that the group seemed to be more or less ignoring. "I don't suppose anyone is going to let that klefki out?" she chimed in. Dava spun around at the sound of the new voice. Prince, standing just beside the Klefki in question, put his hands on his hips (does he even have hips though?) and nodded in Aya's direction. "That Klefki tried to attack me so my Numel sent him spiralling into the rock." replied Akito to Dava. He then heard Aya's voice and turned back. He noticed a girl with with an average height of about 5'5 feet. 'Sorry didn't notice you there. I guess I can break that Klefki free with my Heracross." said Akito, getting a tiny bit intimidated by the number of females around him. Dava glanced at the new girl neutrally. She never automatically liked other girls; there was always a risk that they would try to seem more beautiful and clever than her. And she hated that. But she was well behaved enough to not act mean before she had the time to properly judge her competition. Akito sent out Hercules and ordered, "Okay, hercules use buleet Seed and free that klefki from the rubble." "Wow, genius." thought Hercules before he launched a series of five seeds to free the Klefki. The Klefki managed to break free, withh some effort after Hercules' assistance. It glanced a cautiously at Akito, before floating away. "Hey, are we just going to let it leave like that? Shouldn't someone, like... capture it?" Dava couldn't help saying. She was under the impression still that trainers tried to capture anything they could. "I don't think I'll get along well with that thing. It would have probably starved to death, if not for one of you'll coming. Anyway what the heck do klefki eat?" Akito wondered. Dava was at loss for words for a moment. She hadn't expected the food to be a reason for a trainer not to capture a pokémon. Now that she thought about it... What did pokémon eat? She had just given Prince some of her own food this morning, and Geodude hadn't wanted any and seemed to want to gnaw on some rocks instead. "I actually have no idea," she admitted. "Well, maybe it was for the best then. Should we get a move on?" "I think we should but what about her?" asked Akito motioning towards Aya. Dava froze for a second but realized that she would be forced to acknowledge this new girl after all. She turned towards her and raised her eyebrows as if asking her what she thought herself. Akito looked behind and the girl seemed to be standing at the entrance of the cave silently. "So you coming?" asked Akito. Aya couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at how blunt the boy was, and she took note of the poorly veiled looks given to her by the woman. "I don't see why I couldn't stick around with you guys for a while, travelling in a group until we're all used to this terrain seems like a pretty good idea actually." "Well, that's decided then. We'll stick together, at least until we reach Mauville City." Akito blurted out. He however did notice the raised eyebrow of the new girl. He ignored it however and asked, "What's your name by the way? I'm Akito and this is Dava." "Oh right, I completely forgot to introduce myself - normally I'm not so forgetful. I'm Aya, nice to meet you. What are your pokemon's names, since they're out and about?" Aya smiled politley at the duo, she didn't want to make any enemies. "Well this is Hercules, my Heracross. he's my first pokemon. Also, i have a Numel called Vulcan. He's a bit tired from his battle with the Klefki so he's resting." he replied to the girl's question. He still felt nervous being the only man in the group. "Pretty appropriate names I think. I have an axew named Ladon and a teddiursa named Grizzly. They're both resting for the time being though." Aya approached the elekid kneeling down at the rather surly looking electric type "and who might you be?" Prince smiled and let his horns spark a little, as if he wanted to seem cool to this new girl. Maybe just to piss off Dava. "That's Prince. He's a bit of a jerk now and then, but he's pretty strong," Dava replied in his place. She continued, since Akito had done it already, "and I also have a Geodude who's more of the silent type. His name is... Duke." She was kind of proud for coming up with that out of the blue, but Akito and Aya didn't need to know that. She was still wary, but wouldn't let it show. Instead, Dava let on a calm smile towards the other girl. "Shall we go then? Akito, did this cave lead somewhere or should we continue in another direction?" "I got lost in this cave, so I stopped for a bit. As far as I know you just land up in the same place." replied Akito. Akito meanwhile thought about the two girls. Dava seemed to be cheerful and happy but he could make out that Aya thought he was a dud."Shall we be on our way ladies?" questioned Akito. |
Hark Rense - Chapter 2 - Part 3 The Darkness Within Team Spoiler:
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Lannia ended up almost running into a young human boy that was running for his life. It only took Lannia a quick glance to realize this boy was likely Hark, however she didn’t have time to really make sure thanks to whatever was hidden in the darkness was still charging at them. Stepping between the boy and whatever was charging at them Lannia summoned forth a large amount of Psychic energy and used it to stop the monster dead in its tracks and sent it back a few feet. There was a blood curling roar and some grunting as the creature recovered from the attack. The boy popped his head out from behind the Gardevoir to see what had been chasing him, but the darkness was still hiding its form. The boy reached down and grabbed the strange lamp that was still tied to his belt. He quickly removed the lamp from the belt and held the device high in the air. The lamp’s tiny flame intensified and it lit up a much larger area. The light was intense and it stopped the creature that was starting another charge by blinding it, and revealing its true form. The creature was a massive bulky monster standing on six elephant like feet and towered above both Lannia and Hark. It had to be at least 12 feet tall, but its massively fat layered stomach almost reached the ground despite this. Its head jutted forward and was low to the ground. It had five sets of tiny eyes that where squinting from the bright light. Its mouth was a massive flesh rending black beak that was four feet long and had several strips of half eaten rotten flesh hanging from it. However this wasn’t its only mouth as it had several others (Lannia counted six others but there might have been more) that were just teeth filled gaping holes that were constantly drooling some foul smelling liquid. Lannia and Hark could only stare at this goutiest thing for a second as its eyes quickly recovered and it started to charge them again. Lannia tossed it aside with her powers, but this was getting exhausting fast for her because of the creature’s size. She deflected another attack before Hark said, “Just hold it still next time ok?” She glanced down at the boy who was holding the lamp in one hand and a sharp stone fragment from the floor in the other. She shook her head and tossed the creature back again but she was already panting for breath from exerting herself so much. She wasn’t going to let Hark get himself killed. She came in here to help him, not to watch him die. “Hold his head down before we both die,” ordered the boy. However his determination convinced Lannia to listen. So the next time the creature charged Lannia grabbed its head with psychic energy and held it down as Hark charged up and stabbed it in an eye with his makeshift weapon. He continued to stab the creature until it overpowered Lannia and tossed Hark off and into the darkness. Lannia panicked and ran in the direction of Hark but the creature kicked her with one of its massive legs as it also lunged toward Hark. The kick sent her flying backward and she hit her head on the hard stone and blacked out for a second. When she woke she could hear some horrifying screams and could see a flickering of light. Standing up she limped over toward the screams as fast as she could where she found a wounded Hark holding the scrap metal that used to be his lamp, and next to him was a burnt corpse of a monster. “We did it,” said Hark with a smile as he stood up despite his many wounds. “Hark that was amazing,” said a sudden voice from the darkness. “If you hadn’t destroyed Greed like that it would have consumed many more victims. With no weapons either that is impressive feat for sure! I dare say you are a true Hero!” Just then an attractive woman wearing a black dress appeared from the darkness holding a lamp in her right hand. She continued to praise Hark and beckoned him to come with her to her town so they could throw a feast in his honor. Lannia followed after them, but something was slowing her down, or speeding the other two up. She called out to Hark but his ears were too busy being filled with praise to take heed to her. She had felt like something with this woman was wrong and now she knew something was wrong. She had to warn Hark! She tried to push forward with all her strength and yell out but some dark force was holding her back. Soon Hark and the woman disappeared out of sight and Lannia was left there alone both hurt by Hark and fearing for him. Hark and the woman reached a village that was centered around a vast meeting hall. There were shapes of people all around Hark but he couldn’t really make anyone out as the woman led him to a feast in his honor. His chest was puffed out and he felt like the most powerful man in the world, until he took the first step into the hall. He instantly fell through the fake floor into a large metal object. The black metal around him was very hot and it burned his skin. Looking up confused he saw the woman smiling down at him. “Greed is often so blunt due to his unquenchable hunger that he doesn’t realize it’s much easier to just lure your prey in with false praise. You will make a fine feast for me and my children tonight,” said the woman as Hark started yelling for Lannia but she was nowhere to be seen. Just then several of those people that he saw carried up several large pails of boiling water. These people were some sort of twisted creatures with no eyes but massive hungering mouths and long talons for hands. In unison they poured the scourching water into the pot and all Hark could do was close his eyes and wait for the end that would not come. “Pride cometh before a fall,” said the familiar stranger that had put Hark into this nightmare. Opening his eyes Hark’s memories and statue returned to him, but he was still in a dream. Instead of a pot he was in a bright room with nothing other than the stranger sitting on a bench beside him. “What the… no wait why the **** did you do this to me?!” yelled Hark as he sat up. “To hopefully help open your eyes quicker than I opened mine. After looking through your memories and mind it’s almost frightening how similar we are. We both thought ourselves better than the rest, and sought nothing more than to serve ourselves. We have used our gifts to promote our pride and quench our greed for power,” said the man with a normal tone. There was no smile on his face as he continued, “We were also both blessed with overly faithful and loyal companions, who we disregarded and only saw as another stepping stone to our own glory.” “What the **** are you talking about?” asked Hark. The man leaned forward and put his hand on Hark’s forehead and shared with the boy some of his own memories. “Skyna sacrificed herself to save me even though it was a fate I had brought upon myself and worse yet I never treated her with the respect or kindness she deserved. Don’t do the same thing with Lannia,” said the man with a deep sorrow in his voice he then changed the subject yet again, “Stop hating the world and blaming it for your failures Hark. You forsake Ranger in your own fear, and he died. You made a mistake that cost something else its life. You didn’t pursue the Pokemon that took off with Ranger and you let go to stop the pain. It’s not the world’s fault for “pressuring” you to be a trainer… no you were weak. However you did try so you can’t beat yourself up completely either.” The stranger then stood up and said, “Don’t make the same mistakes as me…” The man then disappeared and Hark woke up. Gasping for breath and jumping to his feet Hark looked around but the man was gone. Looking down he saw that he had knocked Lannia down as he shot to his feet. Picking her up Hark muttered, “Sorry.” He then shook his head and started down the volcano pass, still somewhat in a daze. His mind was spinning and still trying to recover from the shock from the nightmare and figure out what to do with the advice and information. Lannia sat in his hands thinking about what she too had experienced in the dream. |
Eric Mathis Chap. 2.1 Half way there.
Riolu- Fera: Quick attack, Endure, Force Palm. Eric groaned in exhaustion as he pulled himself up the ledge and Fera barking encouragement as he climbed the ten foot ledge face; with her on his back. “Rou, Rou, ROU!” Fera barked as he was reaching the top of the ledge face. “Fera…. Please stop the cheers, I’m losing focus.” Eric says as one of his hands slips on one of the last stones. “Rou.” She nervously yelps as he regains his grip. This had pretty much been the scene the past day. After then had reached Lavaridge town, He had stopped to get some food supplies, potions, medical items, etc. Then they left to head up the pass; but they took the wrong path. The path they took was long and winding until they had to climb about five or six ten foot ledges. “Hey… look Fera, a clearing” Eric said excitedly. “Maybe we finally made it to the right path” He thought. “Rou…” She said pointing to the crowd of people near a building and what looked to be a lift station. “Hey…. Uhh.. Fera…. Maybe we shouldn’t go over there in case someone recognizes me.” He said nervously. “Rou…. Orru.” She said pointing at the crowd walking that way. “Hey! Fera! Wait up!” He whispered hurriedly as he ran to join her. As they approached the crowd nervousness wretched Eric, "what if someone recognizes me?" he said quietly. They approach the group quickly. Then seeing a girl with blue hair walk off in another direction. "Strange." He says walking up to a older man. "Hello sir, can you tell me how to get to the top of the mountain?" Eric says politely. "Yes, young man. Over that way there is a path that leads up the volcano. You'll have to use it since the lift is out." The old man says pointing towards the direction where the blue haired girl went. "Well thank you sir." Eric says walking towards the path. "Well fera, lets get movin' shall we." he says enthusiastically heading up the entrance to the path. |
Chapter Two - Aya Ignvar, Dava LaLonde and Akito SasakiAya's Team Spoiler:
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Aya didn't really say much to the other two, although she did join in the conversation occasionally she just wasn't as much of a conversationalist as the other two, and it seemed pretty clear to her that Dava didn't like her much. She chose rather than speaking much, to focus on where they were going - having entered the caves thin confines the trio were walking in what was near total darkness towards a faint glow that they assumed would lead them back outside once more. The glow of the (supposed) exit and the occasional crackle of electricity from Prince were the only guiding lights available to the trainers. Dava didn't like their cavetrip too much. It was hot and the air was moist in a strange way. She kept close to Prince and Akito's handsome body, just in case something would jump at them. She didn't even have focus enough to stay wary of Aya. Noticing something however, Aya decided to speak up "Have either of you realised the ground has just started to slope more? We're heading downwards so this cave should actually take us further down the mountain without us having to scale a cliff or anything. Good choice of direction so far Akito." "Thanks." said Akito while on the contrary he was just felling embarassed. Dava felt in front of her with her feet. The ground did indeed slope a bit on the hot stones. "You're right! Ah, that's good at least. I don't like... darkness," she admitted in a weak-female voice. Just as she said that, the glow in front of them expanded as they turned around a corner in the cave. And all of a sudden, the air wasn't as moist anymore. In front of them was a wide pool of lava, bigger than the hot springs system in Lavaridge. It bubbled occasionally but mostly floated silently in all its fiery redness. Here and there, it looked as if parts of the lava broke off and went up onto the cliffs. Dava blinked when she noticed the weirdly behaving lava. But then she understood. "Are those... pokémon?" "I guess those are Slugma. I've battled some once. I believe very agressive Slugma hide in the lava and charge at whatever comes past them We need to stay careful around those things." mutterred Akito under his breath but just loudly enough for the others to hear him. He smiled. The previous day, before going to the Hot Springs he had memorized each and every pokemon's Entries in this exact area. That had paid off well. Dava shuddered and moved closer to Akito, instinctively reaching for his arm to hold but hindered herself in the last second before contact. It would have been weird. "It does make sense for them to be more agressive around humans, since they wouldn't come across us as much they could find it very intimidating to find us in their territory. I think if we go around the edge carefully though we should be okay." Aya hadn't heard of agressive slugma, in fact to the best of her knowledge they were usually rather passive. However, she wasn't going to risk being melted just because some information sounded odd. "Ladon, come on out" Aya released the little green dragon-type from the confines of it's pokeball to which it cried out happily. "Axew!" Ladon went to run ahead only to be grabbed by Aya. "Careful now, we don't need you getting fried for no reason. You're out just in case they attack since you resist fire attacks, but don't go starting trouble. Akito you should get Vulcan out and Prince could be useful too, but he's out already. Shall we continue around then?" "Yeah, Vulcan would be quite useful." said Akito sending out Vulcan. He himself was not sure about Vulcan. If he told Vulcan to use Magnitude on the Slugmas then there was a good chance that Vulcan would use Ember on them. Vulcan came out of his Pokeball half asleep. He lay on the ground for a few seconds before his ears started moving. He stretched lazily and got up he looked at Akito and thought that his trainer had sent him out for some random battle. He then looked at Aya and Dava for an instant. Then probably thinking 'What in The World are These females doing here.' He got into battle position and growled as savagely as he could. Only Akito's wordings, "Whoah, easy boy." calmed him down. Then he saw the lava and his first reaction was 'Hey go and jump in the lava.' He then stopped himself and decied that all these humans probably needed his protection. Dava didn't know much about pokémon battling, but she did know a bit about pokémon themselves. She had groomed the Mareep Princess for contests, after all. "Actually, I think Prince should take a rest for now," she said and returned him to his pokéball before he could object or try to avoid the beam from the ball. "From what I recall, Geodude - I mean Duke! - will do better in an environment like this!" The Geodude - I mean Duke - came out and blinked blankly at its trainer, who grinned proudly at actually knowing something useful for once. Then Dava turned to Aya and nodded. "Ready now!" It was hot and uncomfortable in the cave, but somehow Dava was starting to feel thrilled, in a positive way. Strange. "Okay, stick together. Nobody want's to get burnt by bugs made of lava right?" Akito tried to sound cheerful while saying those words. They then began moving around the lava, far enough from the Slugma. Aya followed suit behind Akito, staying close to the edge of the room and heading for the exit on the other side. She felt somewhat foolish forgetting about Dava's Geodude (which was evidently named Duke), but she put that out of her mind focusing on the positives. Both Vulcan and Duke could potentially posess attacks super-effective against the large group of slugma and as she had already said, Ladon resisted fire attacks. Despite feeling reassured by the pressence of their pokemon, Aya still let out an inaudible sigh of relief upon reaching the end of the cavern though (inaudible because her pride would not let her make such a noise loud enough to be heard). The group, their pokemon by their sides, moved through the passage at the end of the slugma cavern - only to arrive in another, slightly larger cavern. This cavern also contained a small pool of magma, however it was off to the left of the cave. What really got Aya's attention was the presence of a young woman . Akito narrowed his eyes a bit. it was a bit difficult to see. Then he could make out a slender figure wearing blue jeans and a black shirt. There was a Camerupt beside her. It constantly shot out flames from it's nose. Dava raised an eyebrow; the woman in front of them reminded her of her rough sister Dani somehow. Akito finally realized who it was. "Whoah, that's Flannery." he said with a look of awe. "Definitely..." I'm standing only a few feet a way from the most skilled trainer to come out of Lavaridge in decades. It was at that moment, that the red-haired young woman turned to look at the three trainers watching her. "Well hello, you three. It's pleasant to see someone for a change!" she exclaimed, seeming quite excitable and happy, a wide grin plastered on her features. |
Hark Rense - Chapter 2 - Part 4 Zubats Team Spoiler:
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Hark was quiet as he carried Lannia into the volcano. His mind was still consumed around the events that were caused by the powerful psychic as he started down the side of the mountain. The ledge was small and it made for a dangerous climb down. Seeing a nearby cave entrance Lannia pointed to it. The heights and tiny ledge was scaring her and she wanted to take a different route than risk falling. As they started to pass it Lannia became more insistent and was able to snap Hark out of his thoughts. Looking at the cave Hark looked back at Lannia and said, “There will likely be many hostile Pokemon in there… you prefer taking that risk over this ledge?” Lannia nodded and Hark entered the cave deciding to listen to her as it didn’t matter much to him as long as they got down. Hark moved slowly and he carefully scanned the cave walls and ceiling for movement. Suddenly Hark stopped as he heard some squeaking noise coming from the roof. He looked the direction of the noise, but couldn’t see their source. He continued to move but was trying to be quiet. However the supersonic hearing of the Zubats could easily hear the sneaking human and Ralts. Suddenly a small swarm of disturbed Zubats started flying in every which direction around the two. Lannia moved in closer to Hark as they swarmed around for a few seconds then flew deeper into the cave, leaving the two unharmed for now. Sighing a little Hark muttered, “I remember my dad complaining about those things… how they constantly attack you in caves.” He then started forward with Lannia close behind him. Stumbling around for a bit, Hark shook his head then pulled out his Pokedex and turned it on. Finding a bright screen he started using it like a flash light. “Considering all the junk I brought I can’t believe I forgot a flashlight,” he muttered as he glanced down at the silent Lannia. She didn’t seem talkative and it made Hark wonder if the darkness of the cave reminded her of the dream. “Hey… thanks for helping in that dream, I wish I could say I didn’t need your help. However it was pride that got me… and she only did it after separating me from you. I will not leave you like that again since it appears I need more help than I think I do,” said Hark. Even though it was a dream he hated that he had been so easily defeated. He wanted to think he could have gotten through the situation alone, but he doubted that would have worked. No, he needed a reality check otherwise the next situation might not be a nightmare, but the real thing. Lannia thought about Hark said, but she wasn’t going to just accept an apology like that and go on her way. He had shown how little he valued her to the point she couldn’t deny the glaring truth. That man had reached into her mind as well, and had opened her eyes to the truth. However he had also given her something to think about. She just had to decide what she wanted to do but it’s hard to make such life changing decisions in a short time. Her train of thought was interrupted by a high pitched squeal. A disturbed and rather grumpy Zubat swooped down and bit Lannia’s head causing her to yell out in pain. She pushed it away with her psychic powers but it just started flying around madly and taking little bites that sucked a little blood from Lannia each time. Hark tried to swat it but failed, and Lannia couldn’t grasp it while it was flying around randomly. Quickly changing her attack method she gathered up energy and waited. When the Zubat bit her for a 7th time she quickly sent all that energy toward the area where she felt pain. The Zubat was fast but not fast enough. The burst of psychic energy blasted the blind pokemon sending it into the cave wall with great force. Before it could recover Hark said, “Lannia pull those rocks on top of it.” The Ralts quickly grabbed a few loose rocks and shifted them from their position so they rolled down on the Zubat before it could take back off. One rock hit it right on the head and knocked it out. Hark didn’t get a chance to celebrate as the sounds of more leathery wings beginning to take flight filled the air. “I think we made them angry,” said Hark as the first ones began to attack them. He scooped up the wounded Ralts and began to run. A swarm of Zubats chased after them, biting Hark every chance they got. As Hark ran he realized the tempature was rising and soon he found a path that was slightly lit by something. Gasping for breath and sweating Hark stopped running as he realized the Zubats were gone. Moving forward slowly he soon found himself looking down into the belly of the dormant volcano. Setting down the Ralts he quickly pulled out a potion and healed her with it. “Well there seems to be another cave entrance down there on the side,” muttered Hark looking down and to his left. Before he started forward again he sat down to take a quick breath. Lannia walked around and took in her surroundings, she didn’t like this heat and wanted to press on, but Hark looked like he needed to rest so she didn’t push him to keep moving for now. |
Carl Bizarro Chapter 2.2 The Hike Down Carl's Team Spoiler:
Carl shuddered as he took his first steps down Mt. Chimney. He wasn't a big fan of heights, and seeing the road before him turned his legs to jelly. And it certainly wasn't one of those situations in which one could say 'Don't look down' to oneself. He had to look down if he didn't want to end up as 'Carl on the Rocks'. Felicity had less problems with the surroundings, and stopped to see her partner shaking in one spot. She hiked back up to him and grabbed his hand. "Come on, let's get going!" she said, and Carl only gulped down in response. "Listen I know it looks a lot scarier than you thought, but I'm sticking around, alright?" When her partner nodded, Felicity slowly began to hike down, followed by a hesitant, frightened Carl. "See? It's not that bad!" "I s-suppose. But you're stronger than me." Felicity thought about that, and he was right. Then she had an idea. Perhaps catching a Pokémon would make Carl more confident to climb down the volcano! And judging by the terrain, strong, tough Pokémon were likely to be living around, so it would be a plus for him. "Say, Charlie..." he said, "What do you say we start the second part of your training right now?" Carl was confused by her words. "Second part? Training? Whatever do you mean?" he replied. "Well, climbing up Jagged Pass was a part of training session!" she said, "Didn't you get stronger? I thought I saw you more confident when we met at the top!" It didn't take long for Carl to see that she had a point. Although he didn't climb up Jagged Pass all by himself, he and his Weedle had gotten stronger. He smiled upon the realization, and grew excited about what the next part of it. He didn't have to say anything for Felicity to see that he was eager to know what that second part of his training would be about. "Well, since you obviously want to know... your next, um, assignment is quite simple." she said with a smirk, "You have to catch a Pokémon!" "What? Isn't that a huge step?" "Maybe. But if you do it, it will be way easier for you to hold your own in battles, or rough places like this one!" Felicity, once again, had a point. |
Hark Rense - Chapter 2 - Part 5 Team Spoiler:
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After trying to rest for three minutes Hark gave up. He pulled a small water bottle from his backpack and took a drink before saying, “Lannia, here.” The Ralts looked back at Hark from the ledge she was looking over. Seeing the water bottle she rushed over and grabbed it. She drank all the water she could and was finally stopped when she realized she had drunk all of it. She felt suddenly ashamed and handed back the bottle with her head hanging low. “I’m such an idiot for not being better prepared… I have one more bottle left. We need to get out of this heat before we sweat out what little water we do have,” said Hark as he started toward the cave corridor he had see earlier. Hark quickly found the path he was taking to be very difficult. At one point Lannia almost fell and he had to recall the Ralts to save her from falling to her doom. Despite this, Hark was able to make it to the chosen exit from the volcano’s belly. Hark walked down the corridor several feet to get away from the heat before stopping to rest again. Releasing Lannia from her ball, Hark leaned against the cavern wall gasping for breath. The heat was lower the further they got from the core of the volcano, but the darker it got as well. “So we have a choice of darkness or heat. Sadly I think darkness is the safer option as the heat was getting worse and we simply do not have the water to continue dealing with it.” Pulling out his Pokedex he used the screen to light the way as they weaved down the closing in cavern walls. Thankfully they didn’t run into any Zubats, but the cave was getting smaller and soon Hark was forced to crawl on his hands and knees through this path. As Hark slowly pressed forward he suddenly heard something scream, “NOS PASS!” Hark used his Pokedex to light further ahead on the path in front of him just in time to see a rather large rock coming toward him. Hark had little time to do anything but curl his face into his chest to protect it as the rock smashed into his head with a powerful force, dazing him. Seeing Hark get pounded by a rock Lannia darted between his legs and arms just as he collapsed to the floor. Seeing another rock incoming she summoned up some of her mental powers and tried to force the rock backward, but only succeeded in slowing it a little bit. She took the hit this time and the blunt force knocked her back and knocked the wind right out of her. Looking up she could see a Nosepass being lit up by the Pokedex screen that was luckily still pointing in its direction. Lannia knew she couldn’t pick the rock type up with her mental powers so she started conjuring up a group of rose petals (her personal version of Magical Leaf she summons flower petals instead of leaves), The Nosepass was already preparing to throw another rock, and Lannia’s attack was not ready when it threw the rock at Hark. However it just glanced his metal arm this time. Lannia was about to unleash her attack when Hark muttered in a dazed voice, “I think… it’s trying to hit the light.. or something.” He then shifted the position of the Pokedex to the right and the Nosepass’ focus moved to follow it. “I’ll hold its… eyes… you…” painfully said Hark, but Lannia suddenly grabbed the device with her abilities. She began to move it toward the Nosepass in little patterns to make it hard to hit. The closer the light got the more frantic the Nosepass got as it tried to destroy the light source. While the rock type was distracted, Lannia was summoning more and more petals. The Nosepass finally hit the Pokedex causing the screen to crack and the light go out, but Lannia then unleashed her own attack. A massive flood of magical petals filled the small passage way, and engulfed the Nosepass. The grass type attack hit the Nosepass hard and sent it reeling in pain. However it was not out of the fight yet. Anger filled the Rock type’s mind and it picked up a large rock and threw it at the small emotion Pokemon, hitting her hard. Lannia was losing this fight, but suddenly she felt a strange wet mist cover her and restoring her strength. “Stop standing there… that’s silly… try not getting hit… you can beat that ugly. Just stop thinking of it as a fair fight…. No rules…. Just win it,” said Hark, who was using his invention’s HUD to see the general location of his Pokemon and the Nosepass. However he was mostly blind and still dazed. Lannia nodded and started to dart back and forth. The Nosepass was suddenly having a hard time hitting the unusually fast Ralts and decided it was time to get up close and personal. He suddenly began to charge at Lannia, and she had a sudden idea. She stopped moving close to a wall and started focusing her mental power. Right as the Nosepass was about to slam her into the cave wall the Ralts suddenly dove to the ground while focusing her psychic energy toward her feet. The Nosepass glanced Lannia’s little white toes and suddenly with the help of the Ralts gained a massive amount of momentum. The result was that the Nosepass slammed into the hard rock with the combined force of its own momentum and the “push” that Lannia gave it. The Nosepass bounced off the hard rock and onto its back where it lay motionless. Lannia’s plan had worked! She smiled as Hark muttered, “you’re fast...” He then started to crawl forward slowly before running into the wall himself. He muttered something to himself as he tried to figure out which way to go. Lannia walked up to him and took his real hand and started to pull him in a direction. She was using her Psychic powers to “feel” her way down the corridor. Hark followed his Ralt’s lead trying to act normal, but his world was still spinning and his mind was cloudy from the blow. He could also feel blood leaking from the wound on his head. He didn’t want to alert Lannia, and he wanted to get out of the darkness before he tended to it so he did his best to act normal as he was led by Lannia. However Lannia was worried as she had noticed his less coordinated movements and the fact his speech was so strange. She was moving as fast as she could drag Hark in what she hoped was the right direction… |
Aya, Akito and Dava vs Flannery!
Dava, Aya and Akito stood on the rocky floor in the big cave under Mt Chimney, pools of lava around them with Slugma creeping about and just ahead of them on some large rocks in the middle of it all: the former gym leader of Lavaridge Town, and one of her pokémon. Camerupt. "Flannery!" Dava burst out with a relieved smile at last. "We're so glad to see you here! We only wanted to go down from the mountain without waiting forever for the cable car, but this cave only seems to lead deeper and deeper in under the mountain..." The elite four member stepped down from the cliffs, coming closer to them, with a raised eyebrow. "You were heading through these caverns to get to Mauville?" "Yes, exactly!" "But the way you are going, you will end up north. Near the northern edge of the Desert." The trainers looked at each other. Neither of them had really known which way the tunnel would lead; it had been a chance. Finding Flannery certainly was a streak of luck, then. Flannery laughed and reached for a pokéball. Sending the Camerupt - who had been staring blankly at the three trainers - back into its pokéball, she finally walked up to the trio with a look that was growing increasinly mischievous. Dava recognized it; that was how Dani looked now and then when she wanted to play a joke or use Dava in some way. And the reason Dava knew what that looked like was that she knew that she herself looked the exact same as her twin sister when she felt the same. Only, she actually went through with her deeds, as opposed to how Dani was too just and fair to play it dirty. "I could help you out, of course," Flannery said, smiling deviously. "I know these tunnels well, and the Slugma are all my friends and wouldn't attack us. But... I'm actually down here to train, and I'm not really done yet. So if you want my help to get out, you need to help me train first. Battle me!" Dava was surprised. Flannery was a member of the elite four! There was no way they were ready to battle her now. At least not she. She had hardly learned how to manuever a pokémon in a dirty battle as opposed to the sweet, careful showbattles of pokémon contests. Maybe Akito and Aya were more experienced though? Aya couldn't help but notice her eyes widen at the challenge. Sure, she was confident in her abilities despite it being early days in her journey but she wasn't sure that even the three of them together could defeat Flannery. Any degree of success against such a skilled trainer though... would be such a huge boost at such an early point in my travels... and I can't exactly pass up a challenge like this. "What are the conditions?" Aya asked cautiously, fighting back her excitement so she could keep a clear head. Flannery smiled, a vigorous air about her, before responding to the less experienced trainer. "You each use one pokemon at the same time against one of mine" Aya couldn't help but grin back slightly, she didn't think they could win but she would certainly try. "Fine by me, ready Ladon?" "Axew!" "What about you guys?" Fight Flannery? Aw, come on! was the first thought that came in Akito's mind. Here was a Elite Four member and he was nothing but a novice trainer. He wasn't sure about Dava and Aya. But at the end of it they were not experienced trainers. Flannery on the other hand was an Elite Four member. He then thought. It would be an excellent opportunity to battle Flannery and improve his battling skills. It would help him later on when he challenged the Elite Four. Then he contemplated what pokemon he would send. Hercules would be weak against fire types, so he said "I'm in it. I'll be using Vulcan." Vulcan poked his head out through Akito's head before realising that Akito had asked him to battle. He then came out and rubbed his leg on the ground threatening Flannery. "How sweet. I remember my Camerupt when he was a Numel." Flannery laughed. Vulcan then growled as he threatened to fry Flannery. "What's your pokemon Dava?" questioned a very worried Akito. He didn't show any worry on his face but his limbs felt stiff. "Aah... I'll..." Dava stuttered. She felt somewhat weak after seeing Aya accepting the challenge head on. Usually, Dava was the one to never back down. But this was kind of an unusual situation. She swallowed and put on a brave face. "Duke will do well," she said. Her Geodude blinked and turned around to face Flannery, hovering closely above his trainer's head. Flannery looked over the trio of beginners, the familiar sense of anticipation that came with every battle making her feel like leaping on the spot. Adrenaline coursed through her veins - sure it would probably be easy but the thrill of a battle was always the same... even if she would prefer it to be longer. "Alright the, I'll use this guy then." Flannery tossed a pokeball int the air and in a flash of near-blinding white light a figure emerged. Far taller then any of the trainer is the room, sharp claws and red, yellow and cream coloured fur. A Blaziken, and it looked raring to go... albeit disappointed with its competition. "Let's get right into this!" Flannery called, unaibale to fully hide her excitement "Blaze Kick on the geodude!" Aya watched in awe as the tall bird-like pokemon leap for Duke from where it stood, preparing to slam one of its powerful legs (now engulfed in flames) into the small rock type. Dava gasped, not fully ready for the battle to start so abruptly. She had honestly thought that the stronger trainer would have let them have the first move. But apparently that wasn't Flannery's style. As the mighty fire pokémon got closer though, the miliseconds passing, Aya snapped back from her watching, ready for the battle to come. "Dual Chop!" she ordered, Ladon leaping to Duke's aid knocking the Blaziken to the side - where it landed on its feet - with apair of glowing blue chops from his tiny arms. Dava turned to stare unappreciatively at Aya while Flannery raised an eyebrow. "You're actually going to work as a team? I'm impressed. Blaziken, use Mirror Move and give the little dragon a taste of its own medicine." Not good... a super-effective attack like Dual Chop will easily take Ladon out " Vulcan use Tackle." ordered Akito. The tiny fire type charged at Flannery's Blaziken. It managed to prevent Blaziken from attacking Ladon but the Blaziken was obviously unfazed. Training with Slugma might be fun...... but there's always such an awesome feeling battling other people thought Flannery. Her heart was pounding fiercely while she debated what move she had to choose. "Blaziken, use Quick Attack on the Numel." Before any of the other pokemon could block the attack Blaziken moved as fast as lightning and smashed Vulcan back. Akito grimaced. Vulcan was probably fine but that would have taken a large chunk of Vulcan's hitpoints. Aya watched as in a flash of speed the Blaziken sent Vulcan reeling. What can I do? I can't use Dual Chop unless it is distracted enough and Leer and Scratch will do even less damage... Dava felt disoriented. Akito and Aya were sending out attacks and Flannery's eyes gleamed as if she was really enjoying their imminent defeat. No. She hadn't started this journey to lose battles, at least not without trying. Duke glanced back at her and she nodded. Time to become better than her twin sister. "Come on then!" Flannery shouted at them, smiling. Blaziken took an imposing fighting stance and swayed slowly towards the poor Vulcan. "Duke, Magnitude!" Duke didn't hesitate; a shudder of power went through his body before he smashed down into the ground with both his fists, transferring the built up power to the earth below them. The stone floor between Dava and Flannery started cracking up, and all the trainers and pokémon felt the ground shaking slightly, accompanied by a low rumble from the cave. Dava almost fell over from the rumbling; she hadn't counted on it affecting anything around them. When she looked up, she saw that Blaziken was in the air. It had jumped up and avoided the attack, and was hovering almost gracefully as if defying gravity above their heads now. At least it felt that way to the onlooker, while in reality it was only there for a few seconds. Then came Flannery's next command. "Blaze Kick on Geodude!" The leg flared up. Dava's brain went into hyper mode. What could she do? What could hit it while it was in the... air... "Rock Throw!" she called out. But Blaziken had jumped back up into the air already, maybe to avoid another Magnitude counter attack. If nothing else attacked it now when it was distracted by Duke, her rock pokémon would take serious damage. Type resistance didn't mean much when facing an opponent of such immense power. If there was one thing you could say about Aya, it might be that she knew an opportunity when she saw one. "Dual Chop Ladon!" The axew leapt into the air, tiny hands glowing a bright blue as he shot toward's Duke's aid. Ladon swung it's left arm first hitting the fearsome blaziken and causing it to lose it's balance in the air. With a crashing noise, the flaming foot of Flannery's pokemon slammed into the ground just before Duke, leaving an deep hole that is was now pulling it's leg from. Ladon then slammed the head of his larger opponent, disorienting him further as Ladon landed. Dava didn't stare in a bad way towards Aya now. She suddenly felt like she realized what they were doing, what she was doing here. They weren't just showing off for a member of the Elite 4. They were cooperating. Aya wasn't mean when she made the Axew save Duke from getting crushed, as much as Dava would have liked to think so. She couldn't think so anymore. They were in this together. "Now Jump up again, quickly!" Aya added, Ladon obeying without question. One of you guys take the opportunity! Aya found herself hoping desperatly. Flannery merely looked amused. "Flame Charge!" Flannery called. As a torrent of fire engulfed her blaziken cracks began to move from the hole it was now stuck in - and quickly. "Hurry!" Aya yelled, not sure if she was talking to Dava or Akito. If I don't act fast then Ladon's going to faint................. a thougt came into Akito's mind. Okay, Ladon's in mid air and that Blaziken's in the ground. Dava reacted surprisingly fast too. The two trainers called out in choir: "Vulcan use Magnitude!" "Duke, Magnitude!" The Numel's eyes glowed white. An aura surrounded him as he smashed the ground with his foot, right about when the Geodude's fists slammed into the ground once more. A miniature earthquake shook the battlefield and the Blaziken became distracted. So the fire around it disappeared but the Blaziken got out of the hole it was stuck in. "Blaze Kick." Flannery called cooly. An inferno of flame seemed to engulf the Blaziken's right leg. It was only a few seconds till that kick struck Vulcan and that would probably be Vulcan's last hit in the battle. There was no time to use Magnitude and Tackle and Growl would probably prove to be futile. Akito closed his eyes and hoped that Ladon would use Dual Chop and break Blaziken's leg bone or something. "How did that not work!" Aya felt quite helpless as Flannery's blaziken launched itself back at Vulcan. She was forced to think quickly, but the only idea she had was going to take too long. "Sorry, Vulcan will have to take the hit." she then turned to Dava. "Get Duke to throw Ladon at Blaziken. Duke's strong so this should work out okay." "Throw him? Right at the enemy? He'll be engulfed!" Dava protested wildly. Please listen to me Dava, just once, Aya begged desperately inside her head, opening her mouth to voice it, even though she knew they had no time to argue. Seriously. Just then a crazy idea came into Akito's mind. "This may sound absurd but Vulcan use Growl!" Vulcan stared at Akito for a second before letting out a cry that would have made an Exploud proud. The Blaziken distracted once again cupped it's hand over it's ears and stopped. Akito could make out that nobody could stand the noise but he had to do some things for his pokemom. While the Blaziken was distracted, Akito looked pleadingly at Dava. That Blaziken would soon come and smash Vulcan's face as Vulcan's growl had considerably weakened. The look Akito shot Dava told her enough. There was no time for arguing. Only action. "Duke, Tackle!" she began, then put a hand on her pokémon's head to make it look up at her. "On its legs." Duke nodded and shot away the moment Blaziken started to regain focus. However, it was too late. The rock boulder pokémon crashed with all its force into Blaziken's right leg, making it fall over with a cry of pain. It didn't matter what level you were at - a low blow is low. The trainers rejoiced. It seemed like they had triumphed at last, with Blaziken on the stone floor, moaning. But Flannery shook her head with a chuckle. "Flame Charge, full power," she said camly. It was as if a switch turned in Blaziken's eyes. Without even getting up from the ground, it started growling and you could see its fists shaking from gathering power. Duke, Ladon and Vulcan all staggered back in anticipation. But they stood no chance. When the shockwave of flaming air came, the trainers were just outside its blast range. They felt the hot breeze touch them, but were left without burns. The pokémon standing closer didn't manage so well. When the humans looked up after having shielded themselves from the blast, they were met with a terrible sight. All three smaller pokémon lay motionless on the ground, signs of burns on their bodies. It had not mattered that all of them had an innate resistance to fire moves. Blaziken was too strong. "Duke!" Dava called out desperately and ran up to her fallen pokémon. The ground was scorching hot beneath her feet, and so was the Geodude's body. Akito bit his lip. That Blaziken was too strong. He then walked over to Vulcan's side and sat beside him. There were burns all across the tiny pokemon's body and a look of shameful defeat on his face. Akito stifled a laugh. It was a bit funny looking at a Numel with a look of injury on his face. He returned Vulcan back to his pokeball and then felt across his own forehead. He was sweating. But he had enjoyed every bit of the previous battle. Aya looked on in a amazement at the strength of the Flame Charge, it had been so powerful that the blaziken had not even needed to make contact as was customary with the move. The cavern was scorched in places and the trio's pokemon lay motionless suffering from burns. "Sorry about that... I might have gone a bit overboard" Flannery called from across the room, returning her blaziken but Aya only had eyes for Ladon at that moment. She ran to the little dragon's side and quickly proceded to spray him with a potion and a burn heal. "You did a really good job out there, you were really brave too." she encouraged her companion before returning him to with the confines of his pokeball. Aya hadn't really been expecting to win, but she couldn't help but feel disappointed and - shocking herself - she found herself quite angry with Dava. If maybe she had listened and done what I asked instead of ignoring me and going crazy with Akito we could have at least done better. It was simple, hurl Ladon at the blaziken whilst it was distracted with Vulcan and hit with a boosted Dual Chop... then the others could have used Maginitude on the downed blaziken and done some serious damage! Or maybe that is just me being sour and overestimating Duke and Ladon's capabilities? Gah! I don't know but this Dava woman has been giving me filthy looks the whole time and now this?! Aya pulled herself together, despite the rage in her head, and stood up. "Thanks for battling with me guys" she said to Akito and Dava - trying to hide her animosity towards the latter "and thanks you for battling against us Flanenry! To think so early in our journeys we got to go head to head with one of the elite four!" she added. Flannery grinned at her opponents "You guys are welcome! The path behind me opens up onto a small plateau. From there you can head downwards to the right and no matter which path in that direction you take you will eventually get onto Route 112. You guys have a lot of potential I think, good luck with you on your journeys and I look forward to battling you again one day." Dava was too bewildered to notice any feelings stemming from the other girl. She was still sitting down beside Duke and nodded while Aya and Flannery talked. That was a real battle. |
Carl Bizarro Chapter 2.3 The Fall Carl's Team Spoiler:
After a few seconds of thinking about Felicity's idea, Carl Bizarro decided to go along with it. With a teacher as experienced as she was and a student with a mind like his, the process of learning how to catch a Pokémon was supposed to be a walk in the park. "Well, Carl," she said, "Shall we get started?" Carl replied with a nod, and Felicity motioned for him to move. Both of them continued their trek down Mt. Chimney, with their minds alert for any wild Pokémon that lived nearby. As they moved Carl could see a couple of Slugmas climbing up the volcano, some Machops training by shattering boulders, and even some Geodudes that were napping and could be easily mistaken for boulders or part of the rocky floor. However, none of them appealed to him, and he continued to look around restlessly for a Pokémon that would suit him. The pair continued their trek down for some more minutes, and Carl still had not taken any interest to the Pokémon that passed his way. What was more, the road before them appeared to turn more treacherous the more they moved forward, and both of them were forced to slow their pace down for their safety. The boy, really not used to this type of terrain, was getting tired, and asked Felicity for a time-out. She agreed happily, and both looked for some sort of cave where they could set up camp for a while, as the terrain was clearly not made for camping. Carl quickly spotted a small cavern, and made his way there, but as soon as he entered a horde of Zubats screeched and flew right into his face, knocking him backwards and making him take a tumble down Mt. Chimney. Felicity gasped, and tried to rush over to where he was, but the ledges were making her go very slowly. Carl was tumbling down and in a lot of pain. His arms were too sore to move and thus he was unable to call out Sting. When he stopped falling, he cried out in pain, unable to move. "FELICITY! HELP!" His best friend heard his faint screams, and she began to hike down faster. "I'm coming, Carl! Just a moment!" she shouted worriedly back at him. The huge amount of pain that the boy felt began to fade after a while, but so did his consciousness. The last thing he heard before passing out were some sinister giggles that were coming closer. "Kehehehehe..." |
Chapter Two - Aya Ignvar, Dava Lalonde and Akito SasakiAya's Team Spoiler:
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After searching, Aya pointed out to that he was searching in the left and not the right. Akito, who was immediately embarassed started heading along that way. It was quite a wide pass. Now all of them could walk along with each other unlike the previous path where Aya and Dava had to follow behind Akito. Akito then narrowed his eyes in front of him and he saw a bit of light. he motioned to the other girls to follow him. Then all of a sudden, Hercules' pokeball began to shake. Hercules came out and stood in front of the future great trainers. Akito understood that Hercules was trying to warn them. Then there came the sound of snapping jaws. Akito turned around to see three greyish - giant mouths sliding noiselessly on the ground. Dava shrieked. Aya looked round to see a group of three yellow and black humanoid pokemon, each one stood around at her knees in height and none of them looked happy. "Does anyone think those mawile look really unhappy to see us?" Even as she said it she hear more snapping "Oh good, there's more of them." The three closest to the trio of trainers seemed to be the ring-leaders of the group of steel/fairy types that had the young trainers pretty much surrounded, but Aya didn't particularly want to to deal with any of them with Ladon still recovering and Grizzly and Ladon both having no moves that could do much damage to the mawile group. "I don't suppose either of you guys have any more fire or ground types then?" "Errrr, no." came the reply from Akito. "That battle with Flannery took out all of Vulcan's energy. He can't fight anything till he reaches the Pokemon Centre in Mawile." "Duke is worn out too..." Dava said, eyes wide open from fear of the dark mouths in front of them. All of a sudden, a Mawile leaped at Hercules and swept it's giant jaws over the ground. Hercules jumped and managed to avoid it but it was extremely close. "Hercules, Bullet Seed!" came the order from Akito. The Mawile kept on getting pelted by a barrage of hard green seeds from Hercules but Akito knew this wasn't doing much damage. There were two other Mawile there and they would soon try to attack Hercules. 'I need to get Guts activated.' thought Akito. Akito then saw a few more Mawile emerge. Akito muttered something under his breath. Dava had backed away from the others, absent-mindedly picking up Prince's pokéball in her hand. Behind her back was the exit. Light. It had to be the way out. But the new Mawile bunch were blocking the path. They couldn't make a run for it. A sudden thought to call out loudly for Flannery struck Dava. But before she had time to realize that idea, one of the Mawile behind her snapped at Hercules and caught his arm in its gap, causing Akito and Aya to call out. Spinning around, Dava didn't see the Mawile in front of her readying another attack. Together. But all of a sudden, they felt it. The cave became an inferno of rushing sand and wind; a Sandstorm had been brewed. On Dava's mind was only one, stupid thing. People can get stupid from shock. I'm getting dirty again! No! She ran blindly, arms crossed in front of her face, for several minutes and not stopping until she stumbled and fell over. Slowly, she realized that the Sandstorm had ended. Opening her eyes, dusting away the sandy residues from her face, it became clear that it was rather the fact that she wasn't where the Sandstorm was anymore. She was outdoors, the blue sky above her head and the rocky mountain around her. She didn't even see the opening of the cave behind her. Had she run that far, or fallen from so high? Shock, it could make people stupid. Her cheeks suddenly burned red. What had happened to Aya and Akito? |
Hark Rense - Chapter 2 - Part 6 - Lannia's Move Team Spoiler:
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After crawling around for several minutes Hark muttered, “Stop… let’s take a break.” They were in a slightly larger room than they had been crawling in most of the time. This allowed Hark enough room to sit up and rest. Lannia climbed up some rocks to tend to Hark’s wound, but as she tried to touch the wound Hark pulled away. Lannia was confused and tried to communicate with Hark, but was only able to touch his mind with her powers. However she couldn’t transmit any thoughts or words. “No, Lannia… stop it,” said Hark with an angry voice. Lannia took a step back wondering what she had done wrong. “I hate this weakness! Why are humans so pathetic? Why does the rest of humanity feel fine with being so weak? Our weak bodies can’t take a tenth the punishment that the smallest of your kind can take. Seeing you take more punishment and still you can press on with no trouble once I spray a chemical on you just makes me hate your kind for showing me how pathetic I am… I hate being so pathetic,” stated Hark with anger filling his voice. Lannia was a little shocked by his sudden confession. She understood his frustration as she struggled with being a weaker than normal Ralts, but the amount of hate it caused was startling to her. She wasn’t sure how to react, but she wanted to do something. Crawling down the rocks she walked over to him then threw her arms around Hark’s waist the best she could. Hark didn’t respond to her touch physically, but she felt his emotions shift some. “I’ll become better… even if it means sacrificing my humanity to do it,” muttered Hark he then went back into a crawling position. “Let’s go,” Hark said to Lannia, who was confused by his last words. She started to lead him around again. It wasn’t long before Lannia realized they were lost, but she continued to lead Hark around randomly for several hours. Frustrated and disheartened Lannia just stopped and looked around in the darkness hopelessly. She was able to use her abilities to “see” enough to not run into anything but she couldn’t tell where she was going. Feeling Hark getting uneasy, Lannia just randomly started down another path. A few minutes later she heard another Pokemon saying, “You’re lost… if you want I can help you out.” Lannia looked around with her abilities but couldn’t figure out where the Pokemon was. “Just follow me,” it said and Lannia finally figured out where it was so she could follow the Pokemon just as it began to walk away. “Why are you helping us?” asked Lannia as she followed the unknown Pokemon. Just then Lannia’s footing gave way and she fell into a hole where she landed on her back with a yelp of pain. “Lannia where are you?” asked Hark’s voice from above. However before Lannia could respond the other Pokemon was standing over her. It had almost dress like look to its legs much like her and was small in stature. Its head had two tuffs of hair and something massive thing growing out of its head. “Because I’m hungry,” said the other Pokemon as the thing opened to reveal a large jaw. Lannia’s pulse quickened and she frantically summoned up some psychic energy to protect herself from the quickly closing in jaws. However just as the jaws began to close around her they suddenly stopped and the Pokemon started to laugh uncomfortably. “You should have seen the look on your face,” it said as it withdrew the jaw trying to make its attack seem like a terrible prank. It then offered its little hand to Lannia to help her up. Lannia took the hand but the Pokemon suddenly let go suddenly causing Lannia to fall back down. “Got you again,” said the Pokemon with a weak teasing smile. Lannia stood up with Psychic energy fueled by anger surrounding her. The pokemon’s smile faded and it stepped back as it said, “I was just joking with you… Don’t take it seriously … I’m sorry.” Lannia responded, “I don’t think you were joking… you were going to eat me but when I showed I was not going to be such easy prey you changed your mind and tried to play it off as a joke.” She stepped toward the pokemon, and right before she blasted it with a powerful psychic blast she stopped. She could feel its emotions, and she realized what she assumed wasn’t completely true. The Pokemon was guarding itself with its jaw as it shook in fear and said quickly, “No, I couldn’t do it… I couldn’t eat you it was just wrong. I’m starving but I couldn’t eat you. It didn’t feel right. I gave you mercy please show me mercy in return.” Lannia knew the Pokemon was speaking the truth. It didn’t stop because it feared the Psychic Pokemon, it stopped because it couldn’t bring itself to kill Lannia like that. Lannia could feel the Pokemon’s desperation and weakness. It was starving and it had tricked her to be its much needed meal, but it couldn’t eat her. Despite starving almost to the point of death, it couldn’t kill the Ralts. Pity filled Lannia’s heart for the dying Pokemon and she said, “My master has food… I can get you a little now and if you help us out of here I can give you more.” The pokemon looked at the Ralts and hope filled its eyes as it nodded its head. The Pokemon then led Lannia back up to Hark who was trying to reach down the hole to get Lannia without much luck. Walking up to her master Lannia said a few words in her language to make him relax. With a little effort, Lannia got Hark to take off his pack so she could get out a few of his rations. Handing them to the Pokemon it quickly gobbled the food down then with a real smile offered to show them the way. An hour later the three were standing in the mouth of the cave leading out into the fresh air. “Good job Lannia,” said Hark as he let out a sigh of relief as he looked around. Lannia looked over their guide who she could clearly see now. It was an unhealthy skinny female Mawile that looked uncomfortable with being out in the light. The Mawile looked to Lannia and said, “The rest of the food please… I don’t like being out in the open like this.” Lannia once again pulled on Hark’s backpack strap to get him to lower the bag. Lannia then went digging into the back pack, while Hark glanced at the Mawile, who was staring at him carefully. Lannia then found something else that made her think. Sighing, she closed her eyes and wondered if she was doing the right thing. She turned around and handed the Mawile an energy bar that the Mawile hungrily gobbled down and then handed her another object pretending it was food. Lannia was correct in assuming this Mawile had little exposure to humans as she took the Pokeball and started to take a bite out of it. The ball suddenly grew in size and popped open before the Mawile could realize it had been tricked. There was a flash of light and the sounds of Hark, who had been looking at something outside the cave when Lannia tricked the Mawile, saying, “what the ****?” Lannia hoped she had made the right choice as the ball shook. The Mawile looked like it was barely surviving, and perhaps by capturing it with Harks would give her a better life. Yes, Hark was not the greatest of masters, but being his Pokemon had to be better than starving to death. Also having someone else around to help deal with Hark sometimes might be nice… |
Chapter 2.5- Akito Sasaki
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The taste of dirt bought Akito back to his senses. Dirt in truth, tasted a bit like some of those foods that they fed you when you were sick. Bitter and tasteless that is. Akito hated that kind of food and spat the dirt out. The soil was quite good for growing crops. For millions of years, creatures had lived and died on that soil. At the thought of this, our little hero almost spilled the contents of his stomach. Hercules, the faithful stag beetle on the other hand, was busy trying to shake his master into consciousness. His master however, just groaned and muttered something about Flannery being cruel to Vulcan. Hercules was no healer pokemon but he knew that the sweltering heat and rocky surface was no good for his master. Come to think of it, Akito kept on moving his legs restlessly and scraping the wound against the ground. ~ ~ ~ Bruce Atkinson had been enjoying his nice lovely walk. The handsome young man, with his blonde hair and lightly tanned complexion was obviously extremely fit. He loved this trail even though it was quite far from Mauville City. It was so peaceful and different from the bustling metropolis that was Mauville. Sure Mauville wasn’t the biggest city in Hoenn but it was definitely one of the busiest. The constant stress of work was so much that every week without fail he would take leave from work. Bruce smirked when he thought of work. His boss was an unmarried woman who seemed to like him a lot. Whenever, he asked for leave she always consented. That however, didn’t mean that he was a slacker. He was potentially the best worker in his office. He always worked hard and well. A few days leave were necessary for him. Bruce looked up. What he saw was a steep mountain. It took some effort to climb but it was enjoyable. He then narrowed his eyes. There was something blue, maybe a Heracross crouching over somebody lying crumpled on the ground. Bruce began running up the hill at breakneck speed. He was on leave, but he should do everything he could for an injured person. ~ ~ ~ Akito stared at the wooden ceiling above him. It was sometime around afternoon. He had been lucky that Bruce had found him and taken him to the wooden lodge that was located somewhere down the mountain. Bruce had then treated him with some kind of medicine that had eased his pain a bit. Well not actually a bit. It had eased his pain so now he had no trouble walking. Bruce was a doctor. He was 25 and was 7 years older than Akito. Akito and Bruce had grown up in Rustboro City. Bruce was a big bully when they were small and Akito never quite liked him. Bruce had left to study medicine at around the same time as Akito had left to go training with Chuck. Akito and Bruce still kept in touch but were not that good friends. Akito had never quite liked Bruce. When they were small, Bruce was a huge bul and even now he wasn’t very different. Akito was good-looking but Bruce was ridiculously handsome. That guy was always flirting with any women he came across and due to his strange habit if being a prankster, tricking Akito. Akito then stopped criticizing Bruce in his mind. Whatever happened, Bruce had saved Akito’s life. He should have been thankful for that. As if drawn to Aito’s thoughts, Bruce suddenly came in. “Fine, Aki dude?” he asked mockingly while pouring himself a glass of water. “Stop calling me that.” Akito spat back. “But I’m fine… Thanks for the …. h-elp” “Geez man, you should really calm down.” Bruce replied. “Anyway, one good deed deserves another. I see that you can walk just fine. Now would you mind to battle me? Don’t worry I’ll use my weakest pokemon.” “Grrr. Okay I’ll battle you.” came the reply. “Perfect.” They then headed outside. The lawn was perfect for them to have their match. The grass was short and the ground was earthy. “Ready?” Bruce asked. “Never better.” replied Akito. Akito sent out Vulcan his Numel, while Bruce sent out Ares the Pancham. |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 2.6Team Spoiler:
Deciding that Aya and Akito were probably capable enough to not be worth worrying for, Dava brushed what sand she could off her poor clothes (really, it had been unnecessary to change them this morning!) and started walking south. Mount Chimney was really bigger than you thought, and she now realized that Jagged Pass and Lavaridge were actually seated on a pretty high altitude. The route she was aiming for now was further down, closer to the sea level. Which meant the way down the mountain here would take longer than the Jagged Pass trek had done. Unless that cave where they met Flannery had actually been cutting their way short by at least a bit. After a little while, Dava stopped to eat and nurse Duke a bit. He was still a bit shaken and injured from the heavy fire taken against the E4 person. Really, such a bad idea to battle a person like that when you are a rookie trainer. Prince watched them as Dava sat with Duke in front of her, polishing his rocky skin carefully with a towel. Duke didn't seem to mind, but the Elekid rolled his eyes at them. Sissies. He had seen Dava take care of Princess before, her old Mareep. Who was now with his real trainer, Dani. Prince wondered when he would see her again... Prince had zoned off, standing on a cliff next to his traveling partners. Suddenly he came back into the physical world, noticing that someone was standing beneath the cliff, watching him with suspicious eyes. A pokémon. A fire type. He jumped up and fired a Thundershock in the pokémon's direction from instinct. It wasn't even a hit; the other pokémon seemed fast and jumped away maybe only feeling a little tickle from the attack. "Prince, what are you up to now?" Dava's voice came. She stood up and walked over to the electric pokémon, Duke hovering up behind her. Then she saw the newcomer. About Prince's height, but red with some kind of bulbs on its head and a pouting mouth. "A Magby!" she exclaimed. They were pretty rare, but also pretty cute in a way. Dava looked from Magby to Duke to Prince. Duke would do well in a battle against it, but he was still weak. So it would have to be Prince. "I will capture you," the girl said with an excited smile towards the fire type, who raised an eyebrow. Prince raised both of his. But then sighed and turned back towards Magby, ready to engage. As he watched his soon to be opponent a bit more closely, something suddenly struck him. This pokémon was a female. |
Carl Bizarro Chapter 2.4 Blackout! Carl's Team Spoiler:
Carl slowly regained consciousness. He was still in pain after the fall and his eyes were still closed. He weakly moved his arms to try to reach Sting's Pokéball, and sighed in relief when he felt the small, round object apparently intact. Whew... Thank Arceus for that... he thought. He attempted to move his legs, but to no avail, as a sharp wave of pain stopped him right there. "AGH! FELICITY! HELP!" he screamed at the top of his lungs, but no response was heard. He opened his eyes slowly, and to his surprise it was very dark and he could see nothing. "F-Felicity? Hello? Anyone?" he weakly asked and tried to sit up before another wave of pain pinned him to the rocky, uncomfortable ground. "Help... me..." he mumbled. This time, he could hear a response. Something was crawling in his direction quite quickly, and Carl gulped down, frightened. "Wh-Who's there?" "Kehehe!" Then, Carl heard a thump. Whatever was crawling towards him had either hopped off or fallen. Any way, it began to creep closer to the nerdy boy, who tried to move backwards instantly to no avail, as the pain he was in was too strong. "G-Go away!" he said, "P-Please, leave me alone!" He could see two bright diamond-like objects floating as if they were eyes that were staring at him. Those things look like something's eyes! he thought, gulping down, Wait a second... They ARE eyes! There was a Pokémon with gem-like eyes! What was his name? The eyes were getting even closer. That's it! It was Sa- "SAAAABLEEEYEEE!" the creature cried and leaped over to Carl's side. A mischievous grin on his face, Carl was waiting for it to pull a nasty trick on him, however, it just stood there, staring and smiling at him in a very creepy way. "H-Hello, Sableye! I-I'm Carl... And I'm v-very badly hurt!" he said in a shaky voice. "C-Could you please h-help me out?" The Sableye said nothing, and scanned Carl's body with his eyes. Then, he giggled and grabbed the Pokéball that contained Sting. "W-Wait, that's mine! Give it back!" he said, but the Sableye snickered and began to make a run for it. With the little strength that he had left in his body, Carl managed to grab a rock and hurl it at the evil wild Pokémon, making it trip over and let go of the Pokéball it had stolen. The Pokéball opened upon impact, and Sting came out of it. "Grrrr.... SASASABLEYE!" the wild Pokémon cursed, and leered at Sting. Well, I believe it's time for another battle! I can't see anything, because it's so dark, but I think I can see the shadows of both Sableye and Sting... he thought, Well, here goes... "Sting, Electroweb!" At the same time, the wild Sableye charged at Weedle with a Scratch attack. After being hit, the Ghost-type was covered by an electrified web, that made it cry out in pain and attempt to get it off with Fury Swipes. "Sting, Poison Sting!" he said, "Then, attack with Electroweb!" This appeared to be a quite heated battle for Carl Bizarro. I can do it... This time, I can win! |
Chapter 2.5- Akito Sasaki
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The taste of dirt bought Akito back to his senses. Dirt in truth, tasted a bit like some of those foods that they fed you when you were sick. Bitter and tasteless that is. Akito hated that kind of food and spat the dirt out. The soil was quite good for growing crops. For millions of years, creatures had lived and died on that soil. At the thought of this, our little hero almost spilled the contents of his stomach. Hercules, the faithful stag beetle on the other hand, was busy trying to shake his master into consciousness. His master however, just groaned and muttered something about Flannery being cruel to Vulcan. Hercules was no healer pokemon but he knew that the sweltering heat and rocky surface was no good for his master. Come to think of it, Akito kept on moving his legs restlessly and scraping the wound against the ground. ~ ~ ~ Bruce Atkinson had been enjoying his nice lovely walk. The handsome young man, with his blonde hair and lightly tanned complexion was obviously extremely fit. He loved this trail even though it was quite far from Mauville City. It was so peaceful and different from the bustling metropolis that was Mauville. Sure Mauville wasn’t the biggest city in Hoenn but it was definitely one of the busiest. The constant stress of work was so much that every week without fail he would take leave from work. Bruce smirked when he thought of work. His boss was an unmarried woman who seemed to like him a lot. Whenever, he asked for leave she always consented. That however, didn’t mean that he was a slacker. He was potentially the best worker in his office. He always worked hard and well. A few days leave were necessary for him. Bruce looked up. What he saw was a steep mountain. It took some effort to climb but it was enjoyable. He then narrowed his eyes. There was something blue, maybe a Heracross crouching over somebody lying crumpled on the ground. Bruce began running up the hill at breakneck speed. He was on leave, but he should do everything he could for an injured person. ~ ~ ~ Akito stared at the wooden ceiling above him. It was sometime around afternoon. He had been lucky that Bruce had found him and taken him to the wooden lodge that was located somewhere down the mountain. Bruce had then treated him with some kind of medicine that had eased his pain a bit. Well not actually a bit. It had eased his pain so now he had no trouble walking. Bruce was a doctor. He was 25 and was 7 years older than Akito. Akito and Bruce had grown up in Rustboro City. Bruce was a big bully when they were small and Akito never quite liked him. Bruce had left to study medicine at around the same time as Akito had left to go training with Chuck. Akito and Bruce still kept in touch but were not that good friends. Akito had never quite liked Bruce. When they were small, Bruce was a huge bul and even now he wasn’t very different. Akito was good-looking but Bruce was ridiculously handsome. That guy was always flirting with any women he came across and due to his strange habit if being a prankster, tricking Akito. Akito then stopped criticizing Bruce in his mind. Whatever happened, Bruce had saved Akito’s life. He should have been thankful for that. As if drawn to Aito’s thoughts, Bruce suddenly came in. “Fine, Aki dude?” he asked mockingly while pouring himself a glass of water. “Stop calling me that.” Akito spat back. “But I’m fine… Thanks for the …. h-elp” “Geez man, you should really calm down.” Bruce replied. “Anyway, one good deed deserves another. I see that you can walk just fine. Now would you mind to battle me? Don’t worry I’ll use my weakest pokemon.” “Grrr. Okay I’ll battle you.” came the reply. “Perfect.” They then headed outside. The lawn was perfect for them to have their match. The grass was short and the ground was earthy. “Ready?” Bruce asked. “Never better.” replied Akito. Akito sent out Vulcan his Numel, while Bruce sent out Ares the Pancham. |
Hark Rense - Chapter 2 - Part 7 Zubats... again Team Spoiler:
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Lannia and Hark watched the pokeball shake twice then just stop. It sat there for several seconds completely still before locking. The Mawile didn’t fight to escape like most wild Pokemon would, but instead she had just given into her fate. A split second later the HUD on Hark’s sunglasses lit up with information on his new Pokemon. As an excited sounding female electronic voice in Hark’s ear explained some trivial details about his new Pokemon, Hark stared at the ball then at Lannia. “Please tell me you didn’t do that on purpose,” moaned Hark as he looked at Lannia. The Ralts nervously nodded with a forced smile. “Great now my Pokemon is capturing Pokemon for me.... Lannia you are strange,” said Hark shaking his head with a frown. Suddenly the Pokedex asked Hark verbally, “Do you want to give your Mawile a name?” Harked sighed and picked up the Pokeball and pressed the button releasing a bewildered and slightly depressed looking Mawile. Staring at her for a few seconds a name materialized in his head and he pulled out the broken Pokedex and used the integrated keyboard to type in the Mawile’s new name. Looking at the Pokemon he said, “Nara.” The Mawile didn’t give him much of a response as she was staring at her capturer, Lannia. A part of Hark wanted to release the Pokemon just so people didn’t get the wrong idea, but she could prove useful. A second Pokemon did mean a little bit more protection, which couldn’t hurt at this point as it was clear he was much weaker than he had initially estimated. After being released Nara was silent for a few seconds as the reality of her new situation sunk in. Looking over at Lannia she asked in a lifeless voice, “Why did you enslave me?” Lannia was shocked by this question but was still was able to formulate a response, “You’re not enslaved… you’re just Hark’s Pokemon now, and I did it because then I… we could help take care of you and you wouldn’t have to starve to death.” “That is what my mother called it… told us humans forced us into little prisons and made us slaves… that is why we lived deep in the volcano to stay away from humans. She said if we ever interacted with a human and their slaves we would either be beaten terribly for their amusement or worse: enslaved so we could be forced to beat up others,” muttered the Mawile. She then looked up at Hark and said, “I may be starving but at least I’m not being beat up to the point of passing out every day… I’m not a good fighter… and I don’t want to harm others, especially for his amusement.” The depression and defeat in the Mawile’s voice made Lannia feel horrible for what she did. “I’m sorry… I just thought… I wanted to help,” she muttered as he stared at the ground taking in the viewpoint of this once wild Pokemon. Lannia had grown up in captivity and had been fed the ideas of human/pokemon friendship all her life. Nara’s view on the matter was so different, and it basically turned her world upside down. Looking up at Hark her mind processed the events of the last two days. Looking at the Mawile once again she muttered, “Hark is not a trainer… his goals do not include becoming a champion or anything like that. He is different. He wants us to help protect him… not to going to lead to a very good life for Nara. If it did then what Lannia did wasn’t bad, and she shouldn’t feel guilty anymore. “Let’s go… I don’t like caves anymore,” said Hark turning and quickly walking toward the brightly lit opening that was no less than 100 feet away. However just as the three were almost out of the cave, the air was filled with the sounds of flapping wings and the squeaking of Zubats. A second later four Zubats were circling over their heads preparing to attack. Hark responded to this event by saying, “You have GOT to joking. The exit is RIGHT THERE, stupid…” He continued by muttering some colorful words about Zubats under his breath. Lannia started to focus her powers as the Zubats circled around looking for an opening to attack from. Nara however took a different route and started running for a little crevice so she could hide from the Zubats. Two of the Zubats swooped in on the Mawile, but she was able to slide into the small crevice with only her jaw showing. Lannia turned to help Nara, but when she did a Zubat swooped in to attack her from behind. However the Zubat didn’t know Hark was a fighter as well, and it paid the price as it suddenly felt a metal fist to the face. Thanks to Hark’s support Lannia was able to get to one of Nara’s attackers and hit it with a powerful burst of psychic energy sending the Zubat cart wheeling into the cave wall. The remaining two decided that Lannia and Hark should be the ones they need to deal with since the Mawile was just cowering in a crack. Deciding to take down Lannia first, they swooped in from two directions forcing Lannia to only defend against one. Lannia hit one with a Psychic burst that sent it spiraling deep into the darkness of the cave, but the other bit into Lannia hard with its fangs. The Zubat began to bite into Lannia more opening a large gash on her shoulder. Before the screaming Lannia could defend herself, The Zubat became a shish-ka-bob on Hark’s blade. Lannia was fighting and Hark started digging for a healing potion in his bag while the two remaining Zubats were recovering. “Lannia I’m out of potions… just hold on until I can take care of these pests,” said Hark stepping over the wounded Ralts as the two wounded Zubats swooped down to finish off the Ralts. The closest Zubat got a boot to the head knocking it out, and the final one decided it was time to call it a day. With one last squeak it flew off into the darkness just as Lannia collapsed. Picking up Lannia, Hark said, “Come on Nara we need to get out before more come.” He then left the cave in a rush, and Nara quickly ran after him after crawling out of her hiding spot. Once outside the cave Hark set down Lannia carefully and fetched a spare shirt and a first aid kit. Moving Lannia to the shirt he pulled out the first aid kit and rubbed some disinfectant on the wound causing the Ralts to squeak in pain. “I know this hurts but it will keep the wound from becoming infected,” said Hark. He then pulled out some bandages and put some pressure on Lannia’s wounds. After getting her bleeding to stop, Hark wrapped the wound. Lannia had lost a good amount of blood for her size so she was rather weak. Satisfied with his first aid job Hark stood up and then picked up Lannia. “We need to get you to a PokeCenter,” said Hark as he started to move in the direction he assumed was the correct one. Nara nervously followed right behind Hark wondering. This was the first time she had seen the world outside the caves of this mountain and to her it was frightening. |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 2.7Team Spoiler:
The yellow pokémon and the red stared at each other for what felt like minutes but was really only seconds. A slight wind whipped up around them in the meantime, nothing close to the sandstorm Dava had just come out from, but enough to tug her tunic and hair. Magby moved. "Thundershock!" Dava called out, but Prince did not carry out that attack. Instead, he moved forward even faster than his opponent, hitting it with a Quick Attack. As Magby stumbled back, Dava gasped. "Prince, what! I said Thundershock!" Magby jumped up, seemingly not much hurt by the attack. Prince didn't wait for another order. Instead, he moved forward to perform a Low Kick on the fire type. Before he reached her though, Magby blew out a thick Smokescreen that caused the Elekid to miss. "Can you listen to me, you little monster?" Dava said, climbing up on a rock to try and oversee the black cloud that now covered the already cramped battlefield. Prince was in his own world. He was facing an opponent with guts, who thought she was stronger than him. The look she had shot him just before her first move told him that she heavily regarded him as a weakling. Before even seeing him in action. A pokémon owned by a human, ordered around. He wouldn't have that. He could defeat this... this little fire monster on his own. Dava's voice was annoying in his ears. Embers flew out from the Smokescreen; Magby could see through it with much less trouble than Prince. They hit the electric pokémon and made him cover. Magby quickly came out from the now rapidly dissolving cloud and approached Prince with an odd look on her face. Prince hesitated, looking up between his arms which were shielding his face. Was she feeling guilty now? "PRINCE, NO, IT'S A TRAP!" Dava called out and almost jumped down from her rock, but too late. Magby suddenly knocked Prince's face hard from below, throwing him back with a dizzy head. "Sucker Punch..." Dava mumbled, remembering having watched battles with Dani before. Memories of attacks and strategies came flowing back to her now that she was in that life herself. She wasn't sure she liked it... Had she really been watching Dani that closely? Prince was in bad shape now. Lying on his back, he slowly looked up and saw the Magby close in. Her look was triumphant. The wild pokémon was stronger. Prince's look shifted to Dava, who watched him worriedly, not daring to give another order because she knew... She knew he wouldn't follow it. Since when was he a bad pokémon for his trainer? He had always obeyed Dani. Even when she wasn't ordering smart moves. With Dava, he had tried to be the teacher. Or rather, he had decided prehand that he knew best. But what if that wasn't the best way to do this? Dava wasn't stupid. She was just... Silly. Much sillier than her sister. And here was a Magby who was free and thought that was the right way to go. If they captured her, they could show her how lucky captured pokémon were. To have trainers to help realize their true strength. Yes. Prince sat up. Instead of attacking, he reached out a hand towards the approaching Magby, as to stop her. Wait, his hand said. Then he stood up fully, and turned to Dava. He looked at her with anticipation. Dava's eyes almost teared when she understood. He wanted to listen to her now! No, she wouldn't let the feels overflow her. She would use this. And quickly, before Magby picked up on the silent exchange between pokémon and trainer. "Flash!" she called out. Prince didn't hesitate a full second before making the move. Dava had already closed her eyes since she knew what would come. But Magby got caught in the intense flash of light that came from Prince's horns. She rubbed her poor eyes with her paws and yelped. Blinded! "Now, Low Kick!" Prince, still hurt but filled with new courage, moved forward and easily swept Magby off her feet with a Low Kick. "Thundershock!" Dava shouted, jumping up and down on the rock in excitement. This was how it was done. When trainer and pokémon were in unison. She watched Prince fire off the finishing attack, striking Magby and leaving it scorched and weak, and felt pride welling up inside of her. Pride over Prince or over herself, she wasn't sure. It didn't matter when she finally picked up a new, fresh pokéball and threw it towards the fallen wild pokémon. The red light sucked Magby in, the pokéball fell to the ground and started rocking back and forth, and Prince let out a content sigh. Wild pokémon, pfft. |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter Two - Part 5Aya's Team Spoiler:
In an instant the entire area was covered in a whirling sandstorm as though a portal had opened up and spilled a desert across the surface of Mt. Chimney. Aya could hear the screams and shouts of Dava and Akito intermingled with her own as she hurried to find her way out of the Sandstorm - avoiding mawile after mawile that leapt at her from within the cloud of sand. Just. Aya's foot hit something hard and she felt herself tip forward... and then there was nothing below her. She felt as though she fell in slow motion, flying through the air over the edge of a ledge before she hurtled down the steep decline behind it rolling and bouncing over jagged rocks and hard ground. Eventually though she came to a halt on another plateau. Groaning and brushing sand from her eyes and clothes Aya took not of herself - she was battered and bruised but somehow she had managed to avoid serious injury. The worst damage was a cut on her arm that she cleaned with bottled water and then staunched easily with a bandage. I must look terrible she laughed to herself as a chunk of rock fell from her hair. Aya walked to the edge of the plateau walking a lap of it until she stood where she began. There was no hills, caves or paths. She had two option - wait for help or attempt to climb down a sheer drop to the next level of the mountain below her. "If I stay around here I could end up fighting a bunch of feral mawile in this tiny amount of space with a sheer drop to fall down if I get Sandstormed again... and if I climb I could end up just as dead." Aya sighed carefully climbing over the edge and beginning her decent. I knew that this wasn't going to be a simple journey, it's a well-known fact that trainers from Lavaridge get a harder beginning than most and I know that I chose the most difficult option - I could have waited for the cable car after all. But I guess I wasn't expecting my pride to have already taken such a beating. sure everything got off to a good start, beating Carl and catching Grizzly and all - but now look at me. I got trounced by Flannery even with two others helping me out, I've clearly made an enemy of sorts out of Dava somehow, I got attacked by a group of angry mawile, separated from Dava and Akito and now I'm dangling off the edge of a cliff, looking like hell and having conversations with myself. Good going Aya. |
Carl Bizarro Chapter 2.5 A Change of Plans Carl's Team Spoiler:
The wild Sableye found itself once again covered by Sting's electrified web, but this time it did not attempt to break free of the web that slowed it down. Instead, it opted to use a typical move for ghosts, and use the power of the darkness surrounding them to attack the opponent. With a chuckle it used Night Shade. Its gem-like eyes glowed a bright, sinister red, and then fired two beams as dark as the surrounding with an evil red aura around them. Sting was pushed back a few steps, but the move was not enough to bring the small Bug-Type Pokémon down. Carl's eyes, meanwhile, began to get used to the dark surroundings and he was able to see better. He was still unable to stand up, but he managed to slowly drag himself against a rocky wall to sit up. After watching the wild Sableye use Night Shade, and being aware of the move's extremely high accuracy, he knew he had to come up with something. He could see that the wild Pokémon was still covered by Electroweb, and that gave Sting a little advantage regarding speed! This is my chance to try to inflict Poison on it. Being slowed down AND poisoned will certainly give me an advantage! However, I'm not sure about the chances of Poison Sting poisoning the opponent, but I have no other choice but to try! "Sting, Poison Sting!" he shouted, "Use it as many times as you can!" Sting managed to sting the wild Sableye once, to Carl's dismay. Being so close to the opponent left Sting very vulnerable to any attack, and Sableye used Night Shade again, the dark beam hitting Carl's Weedle right in the face and sending him flying some feet away. Sting tried that again, and the same thing happened. To add to it, the wild Pokémon had no signs of being affected by Poison. Carl's strategy was failing, and he had to think of a backup plan, quick. Okay, trying to poison it is out of the question. I'll have to go with Electroweb again, and try to immobilize him with it... "Sting, Electroweb!" Sting immediately covered his foe with electrified silk from a distance, and watched as the electricity dealt damage to it. The gem-like eyes glowed red once again, and another Night Shade attack hit Carl's Weedle; and it appeared that one more Night Shade and he would be out for the count. Carl was worrying. He had to finish off the Sableye in that turn or he would be losing. Taking a look at the wild Pokémon, he could see that it was beginning to get tired, and that the Electrowebs and Poison Stings had taken more than half its fighting energy. On the other hand, he was pretty sure that none of Sting's moves would be able to finish it off in that turn, not even with a critical hit. The gears of his brain began to grind as he tried to come up with a plan C. Plan C... What could be a Plan C? Then it hit him. C? Wait a second... With his injured arms, Carl Bizarro weakly reached for the bag that was lying hear him. He opened it and with his hands looked for a round object. Eureka! he said to himself, and pulled out the round object. In spite of the darkness, he could see that it was one of the Pokéballs that his travelling partner had once given him. He stared at the wild Sableye, who stuggled in the Electroweb. I can hardly move... but it doesn't look like that Sableye can dodge or break this, either... Here goes... He put the little energy he had left in hurling the Pokéball at Sting's opponent. Immediately after the round device left Carl's hand he screamed in pain, drawing the gem-eyed Pokémon's attention. It stared at the object in confusion until it hit it in the head. Then it was turned into a red light and sucked inside. Carl hoped for the clicking sound while he waited for the pain to go away. Please work... Please work... |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter Two - Part 6Aya's Team Spoiler:
Aya launched her hand out as fast as she could, feeling the the rock her other was holding on to crumbling and then breaking. Her hand, propelled by her fall, finding a handhold on the rocky cliff she was descending she quickly found positions for the rest of her limbs before hanging on the cliff face breathing heavily. That is the second time this has happened... I have clearly lost my mind. Aya continued moving down the cliff-face. Sweat rolling down her from the intense effort of not falling to her death and her clothes and body getting more and more torn up as she climbed, often grazing against a jagged protrusion or mistaking one for a safe handhold. It was only after a long time, the sun now setting above her that she finally reached solid ground once more. Aya looked in front of her, she had only another couple of meters left on the mountain and then she would be down onto the next route. "Ladon, Grizzly it's dinenr time" in a flash the Axew and Teddiursa were before her, looking somewhat alarmed at their trainers appearance - she was still dirty, sweaty, bloddy and wearing rather torn up clothes. "I'll explain whilst we eat, but it's nothing to worry about. We're much closer to Mauville now, how could I complain about anything?! I just hope that Dava and Akito are okay." |
Finally reaching the base of mount Chimney (and likely noticing that the cable car is once again active) you will step out onto the short Route 112 that is overlooked by the same mountainous land that Lavaridge sits upon. Like everywhere else there are a few pokemon found on this route; |
Chapter 3.1- Akito Sasaki
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Akito looked around him. There was grass but it wouldn’t be helpful in a pokemon battle. Akito then told Vulcan to use Ember on Ares’ feet. Ares jumped off easily when the camel pokemon used Ember. Ares then jumped up and gave a nice Karate Chop on Vulcan’s head. The camel pokemon then responded by covering it’s body with flames while the Pancham’s body was still in contact with Vulcan’s body. The Pancham winced in pain as it moved back a bit more cautiously. “Vulcan you learned Flame Charge. Congratulations man.” Akito said aloud to the Numel. The Numel looked adoringly at Akito’s eyes before glancing away. Akito understood what the Numel felt. Now they understood each other. It had taken only a day for pokemon and trainer to bond together, “Okay, Vulcan use Flame Charge.” Akito said clearly with no hint of mastery whatsoever as the Numel covered it’s body with flames and charged at a high speed at Ares. “Spoil the party with Grass Knot.” Came the cool order from Akito’s opponent. The Pancham used it’s telepathic powers or whatever and the grass in front of Vulcan bended into a large knot and Vulcan of course tripped and due to it’s high speed went flying over the Pancham’s head who gave him a slight smash in the belly which brought Vulcan down. The Numel had obviously fainted, so Akito returned Vulcan back to his Pokeball. That was stupid. At the moment, trainer and pokemon were one the pokemon got thrashed badly. “You’re getting beaten again right Aki dude?” Bruce said with a crazy grin. “No and is this a two on two match?” Akito asked with a voice of steel. “Erm. Yeah.” came the reply. “Then it’s all up to you, old guy.” Akito muttered slowly under his breath as he pressed the button on Hercules’ pokeball. |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 3.1Team Spoiler:
It was getting late, and Dava's feet hurt. She had come down from the mountain only to realize that the Cable Car was working again. Her adventure down the mountain had been in vain. Grunting, she entered the building where the Cable Car arrived to freshen up a bit and buy something to drink for her and her pokémon. She was unsure of what to give the newly caught Magby though. Wasn't it made of lava or something? What could it possibly want to drink? As she went outside, sat down on a bench and let all her pokémon out of their pokéballs, she couldn't help sighing at the sight of them. They were all tired and not a little battered. Duke was still struggling with his burns from the fight with Flannery, Prince tried to not admit it, but he had gotten quite a beating from the Magby. The Magby who was now sitting a little ways away from the others, sipping silently on her juice. As she held it in her paws, the paper on the little juicebox began charring a little. Was her skin this hot all the time or only when she was upset? Because she was clearly not happy with this arrangement. Being a trainer's pokémon. She just seemed to know she was to weak to do anything about it now. Plus, her trainer gave her juice. Why not accept it. Leaning back on the bench, Dava stared up into the sky. Was this how she had imagined her adventure to be? Maybe it was. She had already met other trainers, lost them in a sandstorm and wild pokémon attack, battled a member of the E4 and captured two new pokémon. All within her first few days of being a proper trainer. Maybe this was how it would always be from now on. Getting dirty, getting hurt. Getting lost. She couldn't help thinking about Dani, and wondered how she fared. Dani wouldn't have any problem trekking down the mountainside, for sure. But she would probably have arrived at the Cable Car before it broke down. She was probably tucking into a nice bed in Mauville City by now, after having carefully brushed Princess' fur and now they would both dream of the contest they would probably enter tomorrow... Oh, Princess. Dava felt a little sting as she realized that she was missing her dear pokémon quite a bit. How could she have been talked into handing her over to her careless sister? And received Prince in return. The selfish rascal. She was happy she had Duke, he seemed like a gentleman. And this new Magby... Who was she, really? Dava glanced at her newest capture for several minutes, until the pokémon decided that it was enough. It suddenly threw the juice box away, stood up and began spouting noises towards Dava. She didn't understand any of it, and jumped back on the bench from shock. Duke and Prince seemed to understand though. "Hey," said Prince, in the universally translated language of energy, thoughts and noises which only pokémon can understand, as he walked up to her. "Cool it, or I'll zap you." "Zap me? ZAP me?" Magby shouted back at him, almost spitting out a little flame in his face since they were standing so close. "She captured me! I was happy as I was! I don't need any trainer, I don't want to be someone's slave." "Truthfully, that girl's my slave," Prince said with a crooked smile, not getting intimidated. "She thinks she has some say in things, but really. Nah." Magby shook her head. "You're dumb. You've probably grown up in captivity, haven't you? You don't even know what it's like to be free." "Say that again if you dare, dumbhead!" Prince growled and let electricity sparkle between his horns. "Bring it!" Magby roared back and you could feel the head begin to radiate from her again. "Guys, what are you doing? No!" Dava said helplessly, holding out her hands but not daring to get in between the powerful little creatures. What should she do? Her team was fighting. Oh, this would surely never happen with cool or beautiful contest pokémon... Suddenly, Duke was in between the other two, one rocky hand on each of their chests, and pushed them apart. "You only want what you don't have, don't you?" he said with a deep, slow voice, before floating peacefully up to Dava and taking her hand in his. The trainer's eyes blinked repeatedly, widening. She really didn't understand this rock pokémon, but she was appreciating him more and more. Trying not to squeal from admiration of the round gentleman, she squeezed his large hand back. Prince and Magby gave them the stare for a few moments, trying to come up with something to say. Then Prince sighed. "Whatever," he said and waved a hand towards the fire type before getting back into a sitting position to finish the can of soda he had been given. Magby crossed her little arms with an unhappy face, but her insides felt differently. Warm, of course, but also somewhat... jealous? Dava patted Geodude on his head before taking forth a package of pokémon food she had brought. Magby watched them, standing at a distance for a while. Her stomach started to rumble at the sight of food. Food she didn't have to look hard for. Food she could get if she admitted defeat and obeyed her new mistress. She'd have to deal with the question of obedience later. For now, her biology needed to be satisfied. Slowly, she walked up to the girl on the bench, trying not to look as if she had really given up, and looked up at the trainer. Their eyes met. "Want some, then?" Dava finally asked, a little glint of triumph in her eyes as she reached towards the Magby, food in her hand. Magby let it slide and simply took the food without a comment. "Good," Dava said, smart enough to not add onto it unnecessarily. Though, she couldn't help but adding: "I think I'll call you... Maiden." |
Hark Rense - Chapter 3 Part 0.5 Water and Teasing Team Spoiler:
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Hark wandered around the base of the mountain for about 10 minutes trying to find the main trail, but he ended up finding a fresh water spring instead. He stared at the small bubbling spring wondering if it was worth the risk to drink the water. As he considered his options Nara ran up from behind him and dove into the water where she started to drink as much as she could with both mouths. Lannia protested and pointed to the water. “I guess dehydration is a bigger threat right now,” said Hark setting down Lannia close by the spring but not close enough for her to drink from it. This caused Lannia to protest loudly. “Patience I’m getting you some,” said Hark as he fetched all his empty water bottles and began to fill them. The first bottle Hark filled, he gave to Lannia, who started to drink it the second she had her tiny hands on it. Hark then drank most of the second bottle after one last hesitation. Nara was done drinking by this point and noticed Lannia drinking out of the bottle. Nara smirked as an idea formed and she quickly said to the Ralts, “Lannia has our Master drunk from that bottle before?” Lannia stopped drinking the bottle and looked Nara with a questioning look, “Probability why?” Nara’s face twisted into an evil grin and she said, “You like it?” “Like what?” asked Lannia feeling unsure where Nara was going with this. “Drinking after the master?” asked the Mawile as both of her mouths grinned. “I like drinking water… and it’s nicer to drink from a bottle than sticking my face in the river,” replied Lannia completely unaware where Nara was going with this. “You realize drinking after someone is almost like kissing them… at least that is what I heard from some humans once. Looks like you’re enjoying almost kissing our master,” replied Nara who couldn’t contain herself and burst out laughing when Lannia’s face turned red and her eyes melted into ones of pure horror. Lannia dropped the water bottle, which made Hark jump when it splashed water all over him. “Lannia! Could you set the bottle down instead of spilling it all over me?” said Hark as he grabbed the bottle shaking his head. He then inspected his wet shirt and pants with a disapproving look, before resuming the bottle refilling. “Maybe our master likes that idea too… bet you drank out of the bottle he used too. Also he handed you the bottle didn’t he instead of letting you drink directly from the stream,” said Nara trying to milk this for all its worth. “Shut up!” exclaimed Lannia as she tried to think of what to do or say. “He has been carrying you around all tenderly, and protecting you. Maybe you’re his little damsel in distress,” continued the teasing Mawile trying to see how far she could push the Ralts. Nara was also laughing a good bit by this point and was almost falling over from all the laughter. “He would never do that… I would never want to kiss HIM. That is gross! My “knight in shining armor” is going to be a handsome Gallade one day!” exclaimed Lannia in response as she glared at the Mawile. Good thing she was weakened, or she would have throw Nara into some rocks with her Psychic abilities. “Ooooo we are the romantic type are we?” asked the Mawile with a grin. “So is your knight in shining armor going to swoop in and rescue you from our Master’s evil grip, likely killing him in the process? Then take you off to live happily ever after?” “No! He will just sweep me off my feet and be there for me forever… Hark isn’t evil… strange, and well a bit bizarre for a human, but not evil. Anyway one minute you’re talking like he is my future mate, and now my future mate has to kill him so we can be together… you’re being really mean right now,” said Lannia with a large amount of frustration in her voice as she couldn’t think of anything better to say. Nara’s teasing voice went away and she became dead serious as she replied in a serious tone, “I was just teasing you… however you do realize Hark is our master, he determines our lives now. There will be no happy ever after with a special someone unless while he is around. As long as he is alive he controls us, he tells us who we are with, he decides if we get to have a mate, and he decides how our “ever after” will be. We are slaves, not servants… we have no say in our future, only he does.” Lannia had no real response to this as she just sat there being forced to face the truth behind Nara’s words. Looking over at Hark she closed her eyes and used all her energy to try in touch his mind… and she did! Just a little, but she did. To Hark it felt like nothing more than a tiny pin poke in his head which make him look around for a second before finishing the filling of the last bottle. Looking down at Nara Lannia said, “That doesn’t have to be true… I’m going to learn to communicate with Hark and when I do I will make him see us in a different light. We will no longer be slaves, we will be friends.” Nara rolled her eyes and shook her head as she climbed out of the small pool of water. She desperately hoped Lannia’s claim would come true, but in her mind she was a realist and knew that would never come to past. |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter Three - Part 1Aya's Team Spoiler:
Aya awoke in the morning to a loud screeching noise and the sight of a Tailow hurtling off in the opposite direction. It appeared that it had gotten into a bit of a fight with Ladon and Grizzly – who were outside their pokeballs on account of Aya falling asleep – and evidently it hadn’t won. “Well it’s not exactly the wake-up call I was expecting” Aya groaned pushing herself up “at least try to be friendly?” Her pokemon merely looked up at Aya as though confused as to why they were being scolded by the sleepy trainer. Aya pushed herself off of the sleeping bag, she had fallen asleep on it immediately after dinner without even managing to climb inside. Suffice to say her challenging trek down mount chimney culminating in a disastrous loss to Flannery and an ambush by a gigantic horde of mawile had been exhausting for the girl. But she wasn’t about to let a rough start slow her journey down, after all it wasn’t exactly a secret that Lavaridge trainers had a somewhat rougher start to their journey. Soon after getting up Aya had cleaned up and switched to a slightly less totally destroyed set of clothes, returned her companions back to the confines of their pokeballs and set off across the short Route 112. She observed that the rocky offshoots around Mt. Chimney were gradually fading away, and whilst she could identify where Lavaridge Town sat she couldn’t make anything of it out and the cliff it sat on was moving further and further in the distance. I should probably call home and let Grandma and Gramps know that I’m doing okay. I should probably get in touch with my parents in Unova too at some point, although Grandma will be sure to let them know what’s going on anyway Aya continued her walk at a fairly brisk pace, she didn’t want to spend too long under the shadow of Mt. Chimney and wanted to get to Mauville as soon as she could, after all who knows how long she could be stuck there waiting for a gym battle. I wonder if I’ll get a shot at catching a ground-type before reaching Mauville. From what my grandparents said before I left it isn’t legal to make captures within the confines of the city any more on account of the disturbances it can cause but the Mauville Gym specialises in electric types. I guess if the worst comes to the worst Ladon resists them anyway but it certainly something to think about… Aya’s musings were cut short as a flock of Starly flew past her “Clearly they’re used to people” she laughed to herself, having very nearly been bowled over by the birds. But it was at this time her eyes opened wide. She was standing at a T-junction on the route. To her left (the north) a vast expanse of hot yellow sand was visible, but it was the simple path south that she would be taking at this point – towards Mauville city. Towards the city that she would soon see a shadow of on the horizon. I’ll be there by the end of the day I think, maybe early tomorrow. I can’t help but feel somewhat excited Somewhat excited meaning she was already starting to feel her body buzz with the excitement of competition. |
Carl Bizarro Chapter 2.6 Catch and Evolve! Carl's Team Spoiler:
The hoped for click echoed through the small cave. Carl sighed in relief, and congratulated Sting on a job well done. Sting rejoiced, and, suddenly, he began to shake. He began to spit out silk, and covered himself with it. Carl watched in confusion, wondering what was going on with his first Pokémon. Once Sting was a ball of silky whiteness, he began to glow! Carl gasped. Could it be... Is Sting... finally... evolving? he thought. The nerdy boy watched as the orb of light began to change its shape and take the form of a cocoon-like thing. When the lights faded, Carl was once again unable to see the new form of sting, be he was certain of something. Sting was no longer a Weedle. He was now a Kakuna! Which means it will evolve into Beedrill next! And Beedrills are very fierce and powerful Bug Pokémon! His attention then focused on the Pokéball that was lying next to Kakuna. Carl rolled over and slowly made his way towards it. Every little inch he got closer brought him a whole truckload of pain. He weakly reached out for the ball and managed to grab it. When he did, he let out a small chuckle before the immense pain he was in forced his eyes to close and his mind to drift away. ---- Felicity hastily but carefully made her way down Mt. Chimney, looking for any trace of her partner and longtime friend, who had tripped over, fallen, and seemingly vanished into thin air. "Carl! Carl, where are you!" she shouted, "Say something! Please!" Tears began to form in her eyes as she feared for the worst. He has to be around here somewhere... He can't just go away... like this... she thought, And it's all my fault... One of the tears jumped out of the corner of her eye and made its way down her cheek. She continued to look around her surroundings, when she spotted something... unusual. A small trail that led to a cave was noticeable among the soot in the mountain ground, and Felicity was smart enough to figure that something was dragged all the way into that cave. Something... or perhaps... someone! Her heart pounded faster as she got inside the small cavern. The entrance was small, but nevertheless she managed to squeeze through. Once inside, she could see almost nothing. It was practically pitch-black darkness! She sent out a Duosion and commanded a Flash. The whole cave was then lit by a greenish light coming from the Pokémon's body. "Carl! Are you there!" she shouted, and spotted someone lying on the ground with no sign of consciousness, "Carl!" She rushed over to him. She was more than glad to see that her best friend was still alive, although very badly bruised and hurt. She had to get him out of there and heal him. With no hesitation she sent out her Poliwhirl and told it to pick up her unconscious partner. While looking at Carl she saw that he was holding a Pokéball with a Sableye inside of it. Well, I'm glad at least you got to catch a Pokémon... she said, another tear rolling down her cheek. Then she saw that a Kakuna was nearby. "Sting... is that you?" she asked, and the Kakuna moved as if he nodded. Wow... he caught a Pokémon and evolved another one... Way to go, Carl! "Wow... I can hardly believe it!" she said with a smile, "I bet you'll be a strong Beedrill someday soon! Now, let's get going!" The bug cried in agreement and bounced his way over to Felicity. The girl picked him up and they all began to walk towards the cave's exit. You'll be okay, Carl... Everything will be alright... |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter Three - Part 2Aya's Team Spoiler:
Aya continued her walk towards the south, and Mauville City home of the first gym she would challenge on her journey. The weather was pleasantly warm, something Aya figured had to do with the already tropical climate and the hot wind that was blowing off of the desert to the north. But yet her body was racked with shivers – not of cold but of excitement. She had managed to work herself into a frenzy of anticipation on the walk having spent the whole time she had been on Route 111 so far fantasizing about her upcoming battle with Wattson and plotting out various strategies she could use against the electric typed expert. I definitely need to use Ladon in this battle, I mean he resists electrical attacks so it makes perfect sense for me to use him. But ideally I should catch a grass or ground-typed pokemon on this route since grass types are also resistant to electric attacks, whilst ground types are completely immune. Not that I don’t have complete faith in Grizzly of course – I just can’t help but think about things like this. I wonder, do you even catch ground types on this route? I’ve never been here before so I wouldn’t have the slightest clue… Aya continued to walk towards her destination, completely oblivious to her surrounds as she was lost in thought – contemplating the various strategies she could use in her battle and what useful pokemon she could capture along the route. Which would probably explain how she tripped over the guy sleeping against the rocks his hat pulled low over his eyes. Stumbling, but thankfully not falling Aya turned to looked at the boy who had jumped up screaming at the top of his lungs and flailing about like he was using Splash. “Uh… sorry about that” Aya offered, grinning sheepishly and running her hand over her hair “I was kind of lost in thought and…” “Since when is that an excuse for nearly crushing someone half to death” he groaned at her, readjusting his hat. He was a fair bit taller than Aya, thin with a light tan and long jet-black hair the same colour as his eyes. He’d have been only a few years older than her at most she guessed. The boy sighed “So, who might you be murderess?” he asked her, still apparently slightly snarky over being trodden on “It was an accident… so it would only have been manslaughter if you died. Anyway, I’m Aya – nice to meet you even in somewhat unfortunate circumstances” “Dave” the boy, who clearly didn’t like to be woken up offered before adding “Nice to meet you too I guess… I’ll tell you what, if you can beat me in a battle I’ll forgive you.” Aya was somewhat shocked by the sudden challenge, but her competitive side wouldn’t let her turn down a battle from anyone. Within a minute they were standing a decent space apart from one another “Let’s make this one on one” Dave said, clearly not caring to hear any other ideas “let’s see what you’ve got.” Aya contemplated her choices before reaching into her bag and selecting a pokeball. “Grizzly, you’re on” Aya called, as the Teddiursa appeared in a flash of white light. “Teddi!” the bear-like pokemon exclaimed, brandishing her claws and teeth briefly – making it clear she wasn’t to be trifled with. Dave laughed “That’s cute” he said, and clearly the words were not a compliment “Sandlash, let’s show them what real claws look like!” In a similar white flash a yellow pholidotal pokemon with long claws and menacing brown spines covering its back appeared before Grizzly, practically dismissing her with its nonchalant gaze. Aya looked at the pokemon, disliking its attitude but still impressed as it was obviously powerful and confident in its power. “Amazing” Aya said, unable to help herself, much to Grizzly’s annoyance. Dave grinned rather unpleasantly, his chest puffing up with his arrogance “yeah, I was looking for a Sandshrew to challenge Wattsons gym with because I heard you can find them along here, and I chased a couple along the route but ended up running into this guy instead. He’s way more powerful than his pre-evolved form so I caught him with my Pancham.” “Impressive” Aya responded, not letting the arrogance of her opponent get to her “but nothing Grizzly can’t handle” “We’ll see” Dave replied, his voice taunting “Sandslash, use Stone Edge!” the spiny pokemon obeyed in an instant, conjuring up several jagged-edged stones and sending them flying at Grizzly, surprising both Grizzly and Aya alike with the sudden attack. |
Hark Rense - Chapter 3 Part 1 A Change of Plans Team Spoiler:
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After refilling all the water bottle Hark picked up Lannia who suddenly seemed like she wasn’t very pleased with him carrying her. She refused to go in her Pokeball, and she was still too weak on her own, despite her trying to act like she could, so Hark carried her anyway. As they walked around the volcano’s base Lannia and Nara were constantly chatting and much of it seemed like argument. Hark didn’t care to know what they were arguing about, but had he known what they were discussing, he might have been a little less dismissive of all the noise. By the time they found the main path that would take them to Mauville the sun was setting. Deciding to actually sleep tonight, Hark decided to find a place to rest. He searched around the woods until he found a suitable tree where he started to unpacked. Pulling out a heavy weight black poncho and some some 5-50 cord he had bought for the journey, Hark attempted to assemble a “survivor’s” tent that he had read about online. However his “tent” ended up just being a poncho tied between two trees. Exhausted and frustrated Hark threw up his arms and crawled into his “cover” to get some rest. Using his pack as a pillow he fell asleep without considering his Pokemon’s comfort. Lannia opted to sleep under the poorly erected cover as well and used part of the pack as a pillow as well, but kept her distance from Hark so Nara wouldn’t tease her anymore. Nara initially tried to sleep outside, but fear caused by the calls of nocturnal Pokemon and the rustling of leaves from a slight breeze drove her into the “tent” where she slept at her master’s feet. Around two in the Morning Hark was woken up by close by footsteps. Sitting up half asleep Hark saw the form of a human in front of him. “****, he is up!” was the last thing Hark heard before something blunt smashed him on the back of the head knocking him out. When Hark came to, he had a massive headache but that was the least of his concerns. He quickly realized he had been tied up and relocated. He could hear voices close by but couldn’t make out what they were saying. His mind was still in shock from the trauma and his consciousness didn’t last long and he faded to darkness once again. A few minutes later his mind had recovered and he came to again and could actually make out what people were saying. “I still say we leave him here once Tim gets back,” said one voice which seemed a little nervous. “Ransoming him would make us more money than selling a hundred stolen Pokemon,” said a more confident voice. “It’s too risky! We should have never brought him here in the first place… just steal his Pokemon and disappear like we always do,” said the other voice. “Except that one cutie… remember her?” said the other man with a pleased voice. The conversation then turned to discussing this previous victim that the one man had apparently raped. While the first person seemed slightly regretful for their actions and tried to change the subject several times the second man had no such shame and continued his describing of memories. Hark quietly deployed his hidden blade that sliced the rope enough freeing him. He was careful to not make noise as he freed himself, but this meant listening to these men talk about their past crimes and future plans. By the time Hark was standing something had snapped in his mind. These men had almost killed him, stolen his pokemon, and their friend was selling Nara and Lannia to some random strangers. This pissed Hark off, but it was the discussion about the one female victim in detail that suddenly hardened his heart and drove his mind to seeing these men in a different light. These were no longer humans in Hark’s mind, they were a tumor that needed to be removed for the betterment of humanity. With purpose Hark marched in on the unsuspecting men. Like a surgeon removing a harmful tumor, Hark struck with precision and speed. The first man only had time to realize that Hark had escaped when his life was ended by cold metal through the heart. The second man was in shock when Hark turned his cold glance on him. This one tried to fight, and he grabbed the bat like object that had been used on Hark once before. Hark defected the blow and cut the man’s throat with one swift slash. Looking over the destruction he had caused Hark’s adrenaline slowed and the reality of what he had done started to sink in. However he didn’t have time to consider what he had done as the third man, Tim, had returned. Tim walked in the cave and his face instantly went pale as he saw the lifeless corpses of his friends. Before he fully realized what had happened Hark had Tim’s throat in his metal hand. “Where are my Pokemon?” demanded Hark. “I sold them… please don’t kill me,” begged Tim with wide eyes. “To who?” continued Hark his cold gaze returning. “To some trainers… two different ones, looked rather young…,” responded Tim. “Details if you want to live,” replied Hark. Tim then described to the two buyers he had sold Hark’s pokemon to, and once Hark had the details he needed released the man’s throat only to stab him through the chest. Tim’s eyes got huge and he muttered, “Why? I told you what you wanted,” gasped the dying man as he sunk to the ground. “Doing humanity a favor,” replied Hark in a cold heartless voice as Tim let out his last breath. Once the last man was dead Hark went to work. He took one of the men’s blade and re cut the wounds to make it look like the knife did it and then placed the weapon in Tim’s chest while repositioning his arms to make it look like he had taken his own life. Hark then changed his clothes (destroying the ones with blood in the camp fire) and retrieved his items before exiting the cave that was their camp. Discovering that the entrance of the cave was unsteady Hark was able to make the entrance collapse before he left to find Lannia and Nara. Hark’s mind was in chaos, he had just killed three men and his Pokemon had been stolen and sold to strangers. In one night his life had shifted beyond his carefully devised plans and into chaos. Never before had he considered how he would feel if he killed someone, and he honestly didn’t feel any regret for ending the lives of these men. In fact his only thought on the matter was to insure if the bodies were found that he would not catch any of the blame. At the same time he was worrying about Lannia and to a lesser extent Nara. Somehow he had allowed himself to care for his Pokemon emotionally. Likely thanks to that Sindri. If only he could have just treated his pokemon well without getting emotionally attached to them, well it was too late for that now. |
Chapter 3.1- Akito Sasaki
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Ares swung his arms around, moving front and back with slow, light jumps glaring at the Big Beetle pokemon in front of him. Hercules had been observing how Ares thrashed Vulcan, from inside his pokeball. This wasn’t going to be easy but Hercules was confident. Strategy was what he needed. Hercules had observed how Ares had taunted Vulcan and then tricked him by using Grass Knot. He better not fall into that trap like Vulcan. After contemplating what he had to do and staring into his opponent’s eyes for a while, Hercules came upon the perfect plan. Roaring aloud, he told the Pancham to give him all he had. The Pancham broke into the grin that was a trademark of its species and charged at Hercules with it’s arm glowing white. The Pancham ran very fast and even Hercules didn’t have enough time to block it’s blow. Hercules was sent flying backward and fell on the ground with a cloud of dust gathering around him. Hercules sputtered and choked as the dust came into his eyes and nose. It was dusty to say the least. As the dust gradually got carried away by the strong beams of light that came on the battlefield, Hercules saw the Pancham grin as he stood above him. “Ha, you’re trainer is a sore loser and so are you.” he laughed while saying these words. Ares’ voice was actually a bit like a six year old kid’s. Looking closely at the young pokemon, Hercules spoke, “How old are you?” The already white face went even paler as the Pancham looked at Hercules. “How did you know.” He then started looking even more depressed. “I’m only 2 years old. Everybody used to make fun of me in my herd. When Bruce caught me I thought I was free from all that age discrimination and then you had to come along.” “Kid, help me up and I’ll give you a few tips.” Hercules said. Ares thought about it for a second and then hoisted Hercules up. Hercules dusted himself and said, “Thanks kid. Now my first tip is ’Never trust you opponent when they offer to help you right in the middle of a pokemon battle.” With a roar Hercules smashed headfirst into Ares with a Tackle managed to send him flying back a few meters. Ares staggered up and heard Bruce shouting, “Get up you fool.” Feeling a sudden surge of energy Ares roared and found himself enveloped with white light. His arms grew bigger and then he looked at himself. He was now a Pangoro! Hercules grimaced. It would be a lot more difficult to fight Ares as a Pangoro. He began thinking of some ideas. Pangoro was big but slower than a normal Pancham. Ares broke into a grin and then set his right hand on fire. Hercules knew what the Pangoro was going to do. ‘Oh crap. That’s Fire Punch.’ he thought. It was too late. Hercules had no time for trying to Protect himself. He raised his left arm above his head which was the place that Ares would most probably attack. He winced as he felt the flames licking his dry arms. With a roar Ares then took Hercules and by spinning around smashed Hercules a nearby tree. Hercules gritted his teeth as his face smashed against the bark of the tree. It felt warm and dry against his face and after what seemed like an hour but was actually a few seconds, Hercules was free from the torture and was thrown down on the floor like some piece of garbage. Ares towered over the semi-conscious Hercules. Hercules knew what was happening and quickly opened one eye and smashed an extremely hard seed into Ares’ face. Ares staggered back and Hercules leaped up taking hold of Ares’ left hand and pinning it onto the ground. Ares roared in pain and tried to break free but Hercules wouldn’t let go. With a final cry of anguish, the Pangoro let go and fainted lying still on the ground. Akito was shocked at the brutal display of power displayed by his Heracross. In barely a minute, Hercules had made Ares evolve and then broken his arm. |
http://31.media.tumblr.com/avatar_8783eb638a28_64.png Dava Lalonde 3.2Team Spoiler:
"He sure is patient," Dava commented. Prince grunted in affirmative response. They were lodged behind a cliff, Route 111 opening up in front of it. Right next to the road, a guy had been trying to train his pokémon relentlessly for the last hour. Dava and her pokémon had at first just stopped and noticed him, then realized how weird it was, and then perched themselves on the cliff to watch him fool around while they shared a snack together. "Come on, Marill," the boy panted. "Just one more time - Acrobatics!" The bubbly Marill in front of him giggled and made a pretty high leap into the air, only to tumble around and bounce back onto the ground aimlessly. Still giggling. "You don't take anything seriously," the boy sighed. But then he laughed and picked up the pokémon to pet it. "Silly you." Dava raised her eyebrows. "He's not giving up? That pokémon clearly isn't worth the trouble. What is wrong with him?" Again, Prince grunted and nodded. Maiden, who was seated next to Duke on a ledge below the others, crossed her arms with a grim look though. Some things Dava said really didn't help her own worth in Maiden's eyes. "I've had it, in any case." Dava jumped off the cliff, and her pokémon followed her, more or less willingly. They approached the guy with the Marill, who was just drinking some water from a bottle he had kept in his bag. The sun was strong today, after all. When he spotted them, he rose up with a friendly smile. Not even suspicious of strangers, Dava thought, shaking her head inside her mind. He was dressed rather properly, in slim dark gray pants, stylish black boots and a softly blue shirt which was tucked into his pants. He was blonde, his hair combed neatly and parted in the middle, and while he did seem well built, he might also be a wee bit chubby; his face was just that tiny bit too round. When Dava walked up to him, his blue eyes tinkled at her. He simply looked like someone who didn't bear a single evil streak inside his heart. How stupid. "Excuse me, sir," Dava said, polite as always, "Do you know if that is the way to Mauville?" She pointed towards Route 111. "Yes, I came from there myself actually," the guy replied. "Are you going there now, miss...?" Dava almost rolled her eyes. Introductions, really? They were just strangers. "Lalonde," she said though. "Yes, I will be challenging the gym there," she added just to seem a bit superior. This guy didn't seem to be a great trainer, after all. "Oh, you are? That's fantastic!" The guy leaned to the side to glance at Dava's pokémon. For some reason, this annoyed her even more. "I suppose you haven't defeated that gym yet either?" she slipped with a raised eyebrow. He laughed a short laugh, as if pretending to be ashamed but not really being it. "No, you are quite right. I haven't. Not sure I'll try either. Some people just aren't meant to challenge gyms." He picked up his Marill, who hugged his chest happily. Dava felt an odd sting somewhere inside of her, at his words. But she shook it off. "What were you doing with that Marill?" she asked. "Training! I saw it jumping high around the pond so I approached it and asked if it wanted me to try and teach it some real moves." "You... Saw it around the pond? And then you captured it and this was some time ago, right?" The boy pretended to think for a moment. "Mm, no, I'm pretty sure it was this morning. Right before lunch. And I forgot to use a pokéball, it seems. Isn't that correct, Marill?" The pokémon cheered again in his arms. Dava dropped the lady-style now. "You actually just met that pokémon and didn't capture it and yet it follows you happily?" she asked, wide eyed. The guy retreated a little with a nervous smile. "Yes? I just wanted to see what it could do, I- I didn't mean to take it away from its home or anything. Unless it wants to, I guess." He looked at the pokémon and held it up. "Was that what you wanted?" Marill cheered and tried to reach down to hug him again. The guy laughed his little laughter and shrugged. "Oh, alright. I guess we'll use a pokéball later then. All is well!" When he looked back to the girl, he noticed she had sat down on the ground, rubbing her head. "What's the matter, miss Lalonde?" he asked, concerned, and crouched down beside her. "I just gotta... I don't know. Who were you again?" "Oh, I'm terribly sorry, miss! I forgot to introduce myself, how rude. I'm Derek Amosso, from Verdanturf Town." |
Carl Bizarro Chapter 3.1 Back on Track! Carl's Team Spoiler:
"Wakey-wakey, sleepyhead!" a voice gently said. Carl was brought away from the pitch-black darkness in his head by a familiar voice. He slowly opened his eyes to find his best friend beside him, with a huge smile on her face. As soon as the boy groggily and slowly sat back up, the girl wrapped her arms around him. Carl let out a somewhat awkward chuckle, and hugged his partner back. "H-Hey..." he said quietly, "I feel so d-dizzy...What happened?" His friend then proceeded to fill him in on the details of how she had found him lying inside a cave, and how, with the help of her Pokémon, she got him out to a safe spot where he could recover. "Anyway, how are you feeling now?" "My back still hurts, but I think I'm okay now..." he replied, "But I'm still very confused." He looked around, finding himself in some odd cavern. It was small yet cozy, and there were no signs of wild Pokémon there. What was more, that cave had furniture! Where on earth was this and how did Felicity know of that place? "What is this place?" "I told you, silly, it's a Secret Base!" she happily said, "Secret bases are very popular around Hoenn! I learned about them while you were climbing up Jagged Pass, and decided to give it a shot now! Talk about good timing, eh?" "I guess... Hehehe..." Carl said, "Still, I can still hardly believe we're almost past Mt. Chimney!" Felicity giggled and helped him stand back on his feet so that both could have a meal before leaving. Carl spotted a PC nearby but decided against asking how it could work in a cave, with no apparent power outputs. Some time later... Where Felicity's Secret Base once was now lied a rocky wall. Carl was even more surprised to see that after a simple command from the computer, all the items were returned and the cave shut itself after they left, leaving behind only a small indent in the wall. "Ready to get going, Carl?" his friend asked him, snapping him out of his train of questioning. He nodded, and both slowly continued to walk along the rocky road. On the distance they could see the Cable Car station, which apparently was fixed and taking people to the volcano's summit as it used to. Deciding to leave that thought of 'I should have waited and set up camp up top' aside for the moment, the two took their final steps off the mountain. On the way they passed a cave which gave Carl the feeling that it was hot in there, and he decided that he would not be exploring it then. Perhaps he'd come back when he had a Water-type Pokémon with him. His attention then shifted to the Pokéballs that were around his waist. He took them both and, although his arms ached, he could move them back to his face. Sting... Gemma... he said to himself, having already named the Sableye before packing up, We're going to get real strong. I promise. Then he placed the Pokéballs back on his belt, his arms sending a slight wave of pain through his body. He definitely needed some medical treatment, but figured that the next city couldn't be very further away from his position. |
AJ 3-0 Old Friends… Old habits… Location: Route 112 Time of day: Morning Inventory: Spoiler:
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There was a small stump in the clearing ahead, and AJ could see it would be the only safe place to rest for quite a while. Taking advantage of this, he sat down quietly so as not to tip off any lurking Pokémon. Tired and aching all over, He began to look around frantically. |
Hark Rense Chapter 3.2: The Search Begins... Spoiler:
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Hark swiftly moved away from the small cave that had served as the thieves’ lair, but now served as their grave. Getting to the main road on the route, he looked in the direction that led to the foot of the volcano, then he looked in the direction of Mauville. He made a split second decision to search on the path to Mauville and started in that direction. It wasn’t five minutes later he found a man sitting on the side of the road with a dazed look on his face. Hark smiled as he quickly realized this man was one of the two the thief had described. Walking up to him Hark said, “You bought a Pokemon recently. It was stolen from me and I would like it back, I can give you a refund if needed.” The man looked up at Hark for a second then said, “I don’t have it. That **** AJ took it from me. Bet that little weasel is long gone by now.” “What does this AJ look like?” asked Hark with a sigh. He thought he was about to get back one of his Pokemon, but now that hope faded. “Like a brown haired hobo in a red swear, he went that way,” said the man pointing toward Mauville. “Can you give any other details?” asked Hark. “Want me to draw you a picture?” asked the man sarcastically. He then added, “He is young for looking like a hobo… sorry I’m terrible at profiling so just head in that direction and look. He should stick out like a sore thumb. Also if you find him, tell him that I’m coming for him and he better find a good hole to hide in because I’m going to kill him when I find him.” Hark glared at the man for a second then went off in the indicated direction without another word. He didn’t want to waste anymore time talking to the man. Hark hurried along for a hour before he slowed down a little. The realization began to hit Hark that he might never see his Pokemon again. The old sting of failure began to return as bad memories resurfaced in his mind. Once again he had failed to protect Pokemon under his care. “Perhaps I made a mistake getting Pokemon… I was supposed to be devoting my time and effort to advancing technology. Now I’m trying to find Pokemon that I failed to protect,” muttered Hark to himself. “Perhaps this is fate telling me I shouldn’t ever have a Pokemon and is driving me to focus on my true destiny,” he continued before shaking his head. No it was too late now, he couldn’t explain what it was, but a deep down something was screaming at him to find his Ralts. Hark didn’t understand why he felt so strongly about this but he did. Hark laughed at himself out loud as he saw the irony of what had happened. Earlier that day he had mercilessly killed three men and he honestly had no regrets, and now something unexplainable to Hark was driving him to rescue a pocket monster. Heartless killer one second, and an overly caring train… caretaker on the other. Either way the decision was clear, he could refocus on his technological goals once he found Lannia. Until then he would devote his skills and energy to finding a Ralts. How far had he fallen… |
Chapter 3.2- Akito Sasaki
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Hercules looked cautiously at the Golbat moving around in circles. He knew flying types were deadly and he had to be careful against this one Golbat. He awaited his master’s orders while observing the Golbat. She was obviously in no hurry to finish the battle. She knew that one false move made by the Heracross was enough for her to win the battle. “Hercules use Tackle!” Akito shouted. The moment he said these words the Heracross charged forward while being covered with a cloaked light at the same time. Bruce just gave a sideways motion of his arm and the Bat Pokemon moved to the side easily avoiding Hercules’ Tackle. After that the Golbat easily flew to another side of the battlefield and yawned, opening it’s huge jaws even wider than before, in the process mocking Hercules. Hercules blew…. He roared and ran towards the Golbat with an even greater speed. The Golbat once again easily dodged Hercules, and when Hercules had stopped, pausing for some rest. It dug it’s fangs right into The Beetle Pokemon’s back. Hercules roared with pain as he felt a pair of fangs digging right into his back. The Bat Pokemon’s wings were also wrapped around him to prevent any escape. They felt leathery and a bit scaly on his skin. Then he felt the poison entering his body. He tried to move but it was hurting him --- a lot. When Gift finally left him, he just lay on the ground and it was impossible to say if he was conscious, dead or had fainted. Bruce shouted,”Hey Aki dude, that all you got?” No sooner had he said those words, Hercules staggered up. Akito was about to shout ‘Whoohoo!’ but then stopped when he saw the bloodshot eyes of his Heracross as it headed for the Golbat.”You are so screwed.” Akito laughed while saying these words to his friend/person he didn’t like/person who saved his life after understanding that his Heracross’ ability had activated. Bruce stood still like a statue along with his Golbat. Hercules grinned and shot out a seed from his mouth. The seed travelled straight and got stuck in Gift’s mouth. “Sh*t,” Bruce muttered as his Golbat went down trying to get the seed out of her mouth. Golbats as everyone knows usually have blood for food not giant oversized seed about as hard as a bullet. Hercules walked slowly with measured steps and then smiled as he stood above the Golbat. Then he held it up with one hand and with glowing arms started smashing the Golbat. Akito whipped out his Pokedex and when he examined Hercules with it, he smiled. His Heracross had learnt Arm Thrust. However, they had not realized it but the repeated smashes had managed to get the seed out of Golbat’s mouth. It bit one of Hercules’ hands and left him crying out in pain. “Haze quickly Gift!” came the order from Bruce. Without hesitation, the Golbat spat out some type of smoke from it’s mouth and Hercules was blinded while the two trainers stood outside the mist with Akito looking carefully for his pokemon. “Gift, finish it off with Brave Bird.” Bruce shouted hoping that his Golbat herself was not lost in the fog. Suddenly something covered with flames came from the sky and eventually the orange flames changed into blue and hit something inside the mist. Akito heard something crumbling to the floor and immediately knew what had happened. Gift stood on the other side definitely exhausted and on the verge of fainting. After the fog cleared, Akito saw Hercules fallen down in the ground and quietly returned him to his pokeball. “Hey, you battled well man.” Bruce said, trying to comfort Akito. Akito looked down at the gropund for a moment before smiling, “It’s okay man. I was bound to lose one day anyway, Bye, will meet you in Mauville.” He said moving along a road that led right. He had lied however. He was very angry and secretly he swore under his breath, “I will take my revenge, Bruce. I will beat you in the next battle.” ~ ~ ~ “Anybody there?” Akito asked ringing a bell many times. He had continued along the road for a while and so he had decided to stop for some time at some guest house. It was an old cottage which was painted in some dull shade of maroon. “Coming dear.” He heard an old voice and turned to see an old woman with silver hair wearing a shapeless type of dress of some color. It could have been made ten years or fifty years ago. ‘Ah, a young one is it? If you’d like I could heal your pokemon and you could rest for a while on one of those sofas.” She asked. Akito gladly accepted her offer and lowered himself one the chair. The old lady handed him a packet of chips which Akito decided to munch on without even looking at the expiry date. He switched on a TV and began watching some of his favorite reality shows. “You know the cost is 50 http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8c/Pok%C3%A9monDollar.png right?” she asked. “Yeah sure, whatever." Akito said lazily not even moving a muscle. |
3-1 Unexpected Catch Time of day: early afternoon Location: Somewhere along route 112 AJ Inventory: Spoiler:
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“Damn! I’m getting tired of all of this running, where is the end of this route?” AJ shouted in exasperation. Route 111 Head south to Mauville, West to Route 112. Just beyond the sign, there was a house that looked sort of like a rest stop. He decided that he ought to rest a little, and get acquainted with both of the Pokémon he had come to receive earlier in the day. He casually walked to the door knocked, being greeted by an old woman. “Well hello there! Do you need to take a break? For 50http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8c/Pok%C3%A9monDollar.png I’ll let you stay here and rest as long as you please” She greeted in a rather gentle tone. “Sure, just let me pay up front.” AJ responded, reaching into his stolen money and retrieving what seemed to him a small fortune. Shaking off the shock of having to spend a tiny portion of the money he had lifted; AJ paid the old woman and walked inside. There was a sandy brown haired man whom looked no taller or older than he was, who seemed to be absent mindedly eating snacks on the couch. He decided to avoid the young man, and immediately headed to the restroom. For 50http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8c/Pok%C3%A9monDollar.png He was going to take a shower and borrow the washing machine to get a quick load of laundry done as well. Then He could sit down and figure everything out. ---------------------------------------- AJ was amazed at how much of a difference a simple shower and some clean clothes made him look. His shirt was no longer a nasty brownish grey but a stark white. His jeans looked new other than their many mends. His face wasn’t greasy and grimy, and his hair looked a tad better; though he knew he needed a haircut as soon as they made it to Mauville. Above all he looked a lot less like an old hobo and more like an actual member of society. After getting dressed, he walked back into the rest of the house. Just then One thought passed through his mind, He had been so happy for catching the strange Pokémon that he forgot all about his sweatshirt, when in fact the sweatshirt was absorbed into the ball with the Pokémon. *Crap!* he thought, conceding that in fact so far today, that little thief had been able to best him. |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter Three - Part 3Aya's Team Spoiler:
Grizzly was sent flying by the jagged rocks, eventually skimming across the ground to a halt behind Aya. “Grizzly! Are you okay?” Aya called, looking behind her to see her furry little pokemon struggling to her feet. “Teddi!” Grizzly replied, looking furious at having taking a hit before the battle had truly begun. Aya felt similarly, she didn’t really know this guy but she knew that she had an intense like for him already. Grizzly obeyed without hesitation, growing ever more used to Aya’s battling style and strategies the more time they spend as a team – and actually finding she had not once disagreed with a command. The teddiursa unleashed a flurry of nasty scrathes with her claws forcing the Sandslah back slightly as it once again attempted to defend with its own claws – against the rapid flurry of attacks this wouldn’t be enough though, unfortunately for Aya Dave would also realise this. “Defence Curl!” the unlikeable trainer ordered, his pokemon immediately rolling up it’s dangerous spines pointed outwards. “Stop before you impale yourself on its spines Grizzly!” the Teddiursa stopped, still poised to resume tearing at her opponent at a moment’s notice. Dave grinned arrogantly at Aya and Grizzly “Pathetic really, you’ll have to do a lot better than that.” Who’d have thought Defence Curl could actually be such a dangerous move… as long as it’s rolled up like that Grizzly can’t tough it without being cut up by its spines and she doesn’t really have any ranged attacks except for fling, and with no decent projectiles around that’s out of the question. “We’ve given them a long enough break, Sandslash use Crush Claw!” the ground type unrolled forwards, to be crouched right in front of Grizzly it’s claws blazing with a furious blue light. Sandslash swung an arm up in an uppercut its claws striking Grizzly across the front of her body knocking her down, sending her flying back several metres. “Grizzly, you okay?” Grizzly struggled to her feet once more, shooting Aya a look that simply said “stop asking” before being knocked back to the ground by a second Crush Claw, leaving a visible dent in the dirt. Grizzly climbed to her feet once more, glaring at the Sandslash. “Rollout!” Dave’s pokemon rolled into a ball again, this time flying at Grizzly. “Don’t get hit, the spines!” Aya yelled even as Grizzly leapt to the side avoiding the flying ball of spikes that was already heading back at her again. Grizzly dodged again and again, but dodging wouldn’t help them win in the long run. What can I do about this… the idea struck Aya even as she began to worry, a group of rocks behind Grizzly was exactly what she needed – and there was one because of the previous stone Edges. “Get close to the nearest rock” she said, feeling victory in her grasp. Dave didn’t even notice she was planning something caught up in his supposedly easy win. “Again!” he ordered, the Sandslash once again flying straight at Grizzly. “Out the way!” Grizzly leapt to the side, the Sandslash destroying the rock but being deflected in a different direction, unwrapping itself just in time to prevent itself from being shoved between a pair of tight-together stones. “I see what you were doing, you won’t beat us with cheap tricks.” Dave cawed, laughing at his bravado Aya also laughed “I beg to differ, Fling!” Grizzly flung a clump of rock shards and dirt into the face of the sandslash at a high velocity, pushing it back, dazing it and blinding it temporarily which all together left it very unbalanced. “Jam it in the rocks!” Teddiursa obeyed, forcing the panicking ground type between the two stones it had conjured. “Now” Aya said, grinning widely at Dave’s frustration “Scratch”. Grizzly delivered a powerful scratch across the dazed and injured sandslash’s weak, and now exposed belly, leaving it hanging limp in the rocks, exhausted and defeated. “It doesn’t matter how strong your pokemon is if you have no strategy” Aya chided before returning Grizzly with a thanks and walking away from the scene of her battle, ignoring the stream of obscenities behind her. |
Hark Rense Chapter 3.2: The Search Begins... Spoiler:
Gadgets Spoiler:
Hark walked down the path frustration filling his mind, he couldn’t stop obsessing in his mind over how he had failed. He stopped walking at one point and calmed his breathing and cleared his mind. He had to formulate a distraction for his mind so he wouldn’t obsess so much about his lost Pokemon. He didn’t know what bothered him so much it… was it that he truly cared for Lannia, or was it because he had failed. Putting down his backpack he pulled out his laptop, and before putting his backpack back on. Opening the Laptop he booted it up and began to work on it while he walked down the path. Holding it with his artificial hand his flesh and bone fingers worked furiously on the keyboard and touch pad. Like a machine Hark’s mind and fingers worked to put ideas and plans on the Laptop. However this would be a short escape from his present problems as the battery on his laptop was about dead. He signed as he closed the device after putting some finishing touches on his idea. Looking around he noticed he had walked right pass a small guest house. Good somewhere he could charge his laptop. Turning around he walked over to the house and knocked on the door. After paying the “friendly” old lady Hark started searching for a power outlet, but someone else caught his eye. The man looked much like the description given to him by the one man, but a little cleaner. Considering his hair looked a little damp likely he had just showered so that would make sense. Hope reentered Hark’s mind as changed direction and walked over to the person. “Hello I couldn’t help but notice you meet the description of someone I was looking for,” said Hark as he positioned himself between the exit and the man. He continued, “I was told you “stole” a Pokemon that never belonged to the man you stole it from in the first place.” Hark looked into the man’s eyes looking to see how he reacted to his words. Hark’s stance showed was not aggressive, but was one that easily turn into an aggressive stance at a moments notice. |
It has been about three days since Midori and Kiichigo left Lavaridge Town. Oddly enough, around the same time, a number of other trainers set out on journeys as well, but Kyuu had done all in her power to remain unnoticed , being more focused on the goal of her journey rather than making friends. “Lampent, the Lamp Pokémon. After much examining and squealing in excitement, Midori felt a sudden spark deep in her heart. She felt excited as never before. Her heart started pounding, her blood started boiling and her cheeks turned rosy as she eyed the Lampent with a determined look. She wanted to battle it, to see it in action so she insisted towards the Pokémon’s trainer, the energetic woman whose name she then found out to be Flannery, until the latter gave in to her pleas and accepted the challenge. Midori and Kiichigo got defeated, rolled around and tossed aside. It was a defeat, but the girl and her partner saw it more of a victory. They had the pleasure of experiencing a battle against another Ghost Type. Together… like a real team. It was then that Midori was even more certain of her goal and that she decided she wanted to get a Lampent of her own one day. Back to more current events, Midori and Kii continued their walk along Route 112, enjoying the Sun and the wildlife, as well as eachother’s company. Mauville City seemed to be a whole day away from reach, but the two friends were ever so motivated that the distance seemed like nothing. The two were so determined that they didn’t even notice the presence of other Trainers along the way. Money: |
Aya Ingvar - Chapter Three - Part 3Aya's Team Spoiler:
Aya continued walking down the sandy road on her way to Mauville, the warm sun starting to get to the point it felt a little uncomfortable when coupled with the hot wind blowing at her back from the desert to the north. After walking a little while further, Aya decided it was time for a break sitting under the shade of a willow tree that seemed quite out of place when compared to the other flora in the area. “Alright, why don’t you keep me company?” Aya laughed, releasing Grizzly and Ladon from there pokeballs and dishing out two bowls of pokemon food. Ladon lunged happily for his bowl, Grizzly on the other hand proceeded to completely ignore her food and began to pummel a large rock at the edge of Aya’s chosen resting place. Aya watched for a while, perplexed before the realisation that Grizzly was unhappy with the battle against the Sandslash earlier. “Calm down, that was a fully evolved pokemon and you won. You did really well, a close win is much better than a loss.” Grizzly ignored Aya, the teddiursa only hitting the stone harder. Aya continued to ponder the situation as Ladon gorged into his meal, oblivious to what was going on around him. I don’t get it… it’s almost like she doesn’t count it as a win? Is it because she thinks she couldn’t have won without me? Aya climbed to her feet, grabbing the orange-brown furred pokemon before it could attack the rock again, clutching it tight as it struggled against her grip. “Knock it off would you!” Aya yelled in frustration, shocking her pokemon into halting at last. “Teddi?” “You’re plenty powerful, and you’re clever too. Remember our battle when I caught you? I’m sure you’d have thought of something without me anyway, but we’re a team now so it’s good that we came up with something faster together. Just relax and eat your lunch, if you want to train that badly we can train some more after you eat.” That seemed to do the trick, the normal-typed pokemon calming down and padding over to eat next to Ladon – albeit far more conservatively. After a while, both were finished – prompting Aya to grin at them standing up. “Okay, now we can train. Why don’t you guys try to hit each other and I’ll judge?” “Axew!” “Teddi!” Aya was surprised with the eagerness with which her pokemon agreed, but she figured healthy competition was always a good thing and they seemed to love the idea, so why not let them be happy with the training method? The two launched at each other in a flurry of glowing blue Dual Chops from Ladon clashing with the rapid slashes of Grizzly’s Fury Swipes. Again and again they clashed, neither giving an inch. Swipes and chops collided again and again, with each pokemon throwing everything into each collision, neither giving an inch, but slowly Grizzly seemed to be getting the upper hand with Ladon unable to keep up with the rapid flurry of scratches. Ladon leapt back, a purple light encompassing one of his paws as he ran for Grizzly trying to hit her with an Assurance attack – but a surprise awaited him. Grizzly’s right paw glowed with a faint white light before she proceeded to launch a powerful punch at the little green dragon. Aya watched in awe as Ladon’s Assurance was easily countered by Grizzly’s new Brick Break attack, her starter being launched backwards straight through the rock Grizzly had been scratching at before his attack unable to match the raw strength of Grizzly’s. “Axew…” her pokemon groaned, crawling out of the rubble. Aya ran for her teddiursa “Well done Grizzly, you learned Brick Break and it packs one hell of a punch too! You did great –“ before she could congratulate Ladon something flew from the rubble forcing Aya to dive to the side. Aya looked after the blur, which stopped rotating and landed on its feet. A small-gold yellow mammalian pokemon looking furious at the group. It appeared the sandshrew had been resting on the other side of the rock when Ladon had gone flying through it. “Shrew!” Aya laughed “Sorry about that, but hey I was looking for a Sandshrew anyway. Ready Ladon?” |
Sullivan "Sully" Raine Chapter 3.1 - Even playing field. Time of day: Midday Location: Route 112 Pokemon Spoiler:
Sully’s journey had only just begun but he already felt as if he’d be doing this for quite some time. His foster carer, Annabelle had accompanied him to Lavaridge Town to get him settled in on his new journey outside of what he knew before. It was a new experience and one that had been on his mind for quite some time but why it took him so long he really didn’t know. Setting off with a backpack filled with the essential gadgets and added extras from Annabelle, it was fair to say that he was ready to take on the big bad world with his partner, Chikorita. |
3-2 What's a Pokedex? Time of day: Afternoon Location: route 112 AJ Akito Sasaki Hark Rense AJ's Inventory: Spoiler:
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“I was told you “stole” a Pokemon that never belonged to the man you stole it from in the first place.” said the man standing directly in front of AJ. |
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