The light ding from the Pokéball reassured Nina, as she sighed in relief and picked up her newly caught Spearow, she then glanced over at her panting Wurmple and recalled it back as well "Return Wurmple, you did a great job" Nina then clipped both balls back to her belt and motioned to Rose to follow her as the continued to walk down the path towards Seafoam's Cave.
"Dew. Budew"
Nina looked at Rose, who looked slightly tired… they had been walking for quite a while "You getting tired Rose, you wanna rest for a bit?" Rose nodded and sat where she stood, before Nina did the same, plopping to the ground right where she stood and placing the egg off slightly to the side "I should let Wurmple and Spearow out as well right?" Rose nodded and Nina pulled the two balls from her belt and both snapped open with musical chimes as the worm and the bird appeared before them. "Wurmple!" Wurmple scurried her way over to Nina and crawled up her trainer's shoulder "Are you okay Wurmple?" Wurmple nodded and Nina looked thoughtful, before rummaging through her pack and pulling out an Oran Berry "Here, eat this... It'll help regain some of your health" Wurmple nodded happily and plucked the berry from Nina's fingers, she then turned to Spearow, who was glaring at the trio.
"Here you go Spearow." Nina took out the other Oran Berry she had and held it in front of the bird, who growled and snapped his beak at her fingers, causing Nina to pull her hand back cautiously "Spear! Spearow!" he flapped his wings and snarled at her, wanting her to stay away. Spearow were a stubborn species and this one was prideful and its ego had been injured harshly, not only did it loose to its prey, but he had been captured... and not even by a strong trainer, but some... some novice female trainer! "Alright, I won't force you... but I would like it if you ate the berry Spearow... I don't want you to be injured or fatigued in any way" she murmured staring at the bird who glared at her.
Spearow just huffed and looked away when she placed the Oran Berry a few feet away from him "Please Spearow" Nina asked, but Spearow continued to ignore her and her attempts to make amends. "Dew! Budew!" Rose made a gesture to Nina with her vines that looked to say ignore him and she bounded over to her trainer with a smile on her face "Dew Budew" Nina returned the smile with one of her own and went to check up on her egg, only to find the bag it was being carried in empty "Umm guys.... what happened to the egg?" Rose and Wurmple looked at Nina with wide eyes, while Spearow looked uninterested.
"I had just sat it right beside me for a few seconds... it couldn't have walked up and got away right?" she asked herself, glancing around for the egg "We've gotta find it guys, c'mon" with that said Nina stood up with Wurmple on her shoulder and Rose in her arms, she glanced down at Spearow "Spearow, come on now is not the time... we need to find the egg and if you had a birds eye view from up high, we could find it faster" Spearow stared back up at her with an expressionless face and it clearly had no intention on helping her and she huffed out of annoyance before pulling out his Pokéball "Fine then, Return Spearow!" the Tiny Bird didn't even flinch when it was sucked back in it's ball and Nina placed it back on her belt "I guess... Spearow really doesn't like me" she mumbled softly.
"Wumple! Ple! Ple!"
"Dew! Dew! Budew!"
Her other two companions chirped from their respective places and Nina glanced at them with a soft smile "Well... even if he doesn't like me... I still have you two" Wurmple and Rose nodded happily in agreement but Nina still felt a bit saddened by this predicament, it wouldn't do good if her Pokémon refused to listen to her and she still had to find her egg, before someone else did or if something happened to it. Sighing softly Nina continued to glance around for her egg, when she spotted it a good few feet up ahead being carried by a wild Sentret "Wurmple! Rose! That Sentret... in its arms! Its the Egg!" Sure enough the Sentret had the egg clutched in its arms and was running away from the group, apparently having spotted them and picked up speed.
"Wait Sentret! That's my Egg! I need that!" Nina's shouts seemed to be futile because the Sentret was not slowing down at all.
"Haunter! Haunt Haunt"
"I told you Haunter, be patient, he'll be back with some food soon just wait a little while longer" glancing at his other Pokémon he then turned towards his Pidgey... a bit anxious himself "Can you see him Pidgey?" the bird, who was hovering a good few feet in the sky nodded and used his wings to point "Pidgey!" sure enough bounding over towards them was his recently captured Sentret and he was holding... an Egg.
"Sentret! Tret! Tret!"
"Sentret.... where'd you find this egg?" Zack asked taking the egg from the scout. Sentret opened its mouth and was about to reply but it had been tackled out of the way by a wild Wurmple Zack blinked at the strangeness of it all... why was there a Wurmple in the middle of a mountain filled area? "String Shot Wurmple!" a feminine voice shouted out and Zack only managed to catch a flash of blue and orange before he noticed a girl standing over his now tied up Sentret "I'm sorry to do this Sentret, but you took my egg and I need it back" she told Sentret.
"Its that girl" Zack thought glancing over to his Haunter, who's eyes lit up in recognition and he floated silently over to Nina, a wide mischievous grin on his ghoulish face "Haunter don't you da--" It was too late right before the words had left his mouth the damage had already been done Haunter had licked Nina on the side of her face... for her attention was all on his Sentret and she had been caught off guard by the long pink tongue that had licked her. She froze and shuddered before glancing slowly at whatever had licked her "Hau-Haunter!" she gasped and Rose had cried out too "what... what are you doing here? Do you have a trainer?" Haunter nodded with his permanent grin etched on his face and pointed at Zack, who was standing off to the side watching all this confusion, Pidgey was on his shoulder watching it too Nina glanced him over once before her eyes caught sight of her stolen egg and anger erupted on her face "My Egg! Give it back you thief!"
"So Sentret was the one who took your egg"
Nina nodded and Zack gave her an apologetic glance and ran a hand through his messy black locks, her egg was now back in its carrier, which was resting snugly against her hip "I'm sorry Nina, I didn't think he'd take an Egg when I asked for food" Zack was probably a good 2 inches taller than Nina, his hair was short and had messy spikes, wearing a thin long sleeved shirt under a short sleeved black jacket and some faded blue jeans and sneakers "So that's your Haunter?" she asked softly glancing at the spectre that was hanging with Rose, Wurmple and Sentret "Yeah... I've had that floating ball of trouble since he was just a Gastly" Nina smiled softly and looked at the Pidgey resting on Zack's shoulder, he absentmindedly stroked the bird with his index finger and it cooed happily... her smile then turned into a thoughtful frown "I wish Spearow were like that"
"What's the frown for?" Zack's voice broke her from her thought's and she blushed "I... was just thinking about my Spearow" she mumbled "I just caught it, after it attacked us... its a bit stubborn and won't listen to me... I don't know what to do"
"How about a battle?"
"How is a battle supposed to help me gain Spearow's trust?"
"Not sure... but I've been itching to battle someone for a while now" Zack shrugged and pulled out another Pokéball as he told Pidgey to get in the middle of the field "Lets have a double battle"
Nina gaped at his answer but pulled out Spearow's Pokéball as well "Rose, come over here and Spearow come out!" Rose made her way over to the battle field and Spearow popped out of his Pokéball, looking to Nina for an explination "Your battling Zack's Pokémon with Rose as your partner" Spearow scowled at Rose but turned back to the battle that was about to begin "Sherry Start off with ThunderWave on Spearow and Pidgey Use Tackle!" Zack tossed down a Pokéball and it began to take shape into a small, round, blue fish-like Pokémon with a pair of tiny white fins and two small blue feet it has two antennae that are positioned on its rear like two tails, there is a yellow teardrop-shaped orb at the end of each and its eyes had pupils shaped like plus signs. She pulled out her PokéTech and scanned the Pokémon.