[OOC: Pity. We seem to live in different time zones. Oh well, I'll try to make a POV post to cover everything...
I did one that was even longer, but it disappeared when I clicked a wrong button ;.; never write long replies in the Quick Reply box, check. Now I'll just make Riz fall a bit too hard for the teetering dance, so he can skip the events with Ambrose in the middle. ]
Daiyu walked along in thought but answered Riz. "Um. Nah, I just came here about three months ago, I guess." She then looked up at him curiously, her big eyes glowing. "How about you?"
Riz thought for a while. "Several years," he replied. "I came here as a Pikachu, but evolved pretty quickly to get stronger. I think now... that I evolved too young. Don't make that mistake."
He wondered if they had managed to get far from the village yet. He knew about some hyena lands that they should reach pretty soon. Unless they had gotten lost.
"Need some help over there?" Daiyu suddenly called ahead with an unmannerly laugh. She was looking at some pokémon in front of them.
One of them was... a Spinda? Very oddly colored. And the other one was a Mightyena. Aha. So they had reached the hyena lands. Well at least that was a good sign. Now, all they needed to do was to walk around this encounter and greet the hyenas friendly and respectfully and there would probably be no problem...
"Hey! What's your problem?" Cobalt called out to the other Mightyena to get its attention. God, no. Of course the hyperactive Mightyena couldn't let a chance slip to interact with his own kin. Riz put a hand on Daiyu's mouth to at least stop her from calling out anything else. Maybe he should have told them about the hyena lands before they got here. The only one who seemed to know that it would be best to back off and just watch, was Nova. She kept to the shadows, where her dark fur helped her stay pretty much unseen.
Riz saw the Spinda, or whatever it was, talk with the hyena... and then march forward and push it aside to get past. Bad move. Indeed, the next second, the dog's jaws were around his neck. Cobalt immediately took a leap forward and attacked the other dog so that it let the teddybear go. Teddy though, didn't seem overly grateful as his next words sounded rather sarcastic.
"I thank you for your help out of that unsavory situation, but I can deal with the rest, thanks." he said as he strolled past the red scarf baring Mightyena, to face the territorial dunce doggie. "Well, lovely job on your part, my friend. But it's time to rap this up."
He closed his eyes and stood completely still. Before the violent Mightyena could react, the teddybear started to move in a little motion very rapidly. Teetering would be the best term to describe it. Riz couldn't help looking at his movements in awe and confusion.
Soon, everyone around Teddy had fallen victim to his Teeter Dance. As they stumbled on themselves, someone bumped into Riz and made him fall to the ground. He missed when the Spinda snapped his fingers and said: "Come on, come on, wake up."
Riz put his hands on his head and tried to lay still and snap out of it, but it was so difficult. He tried to see and spotted something yellow in front of him. Daiyu! He failed to grab her hand and suddenly saw her falling over as well. That was followed by a sudden electric shock. It didn't hurt Riz much, especially not in the state he was in at the moment, though.
Finally, the world stopped whirling around and Riz got back up. The Spinda was gone. Instead a Roselia stood there talking to Cobalt. He had apparently just introduced Riz and the others to her, and she told them her name was Amethyst and that she was looking to help Celebi as well. She wanted to find Rayquaza.
Riz couldn't help letting out a little burst of laugh. "I'm sorry," he mumbled so that someone maybe, but not the Roselia, would hear. "She's looking for Rayquaza all by herself? Haven't she heard the stories about how large and dangerous he is? And here we're going in a whole group to find Registeel. Oh, well."
Nova had apparently had enough of standing around chatting. "Waste time here if you like. I'm leaving," she said over her shoulder as she turned south.
Riz nodded, but then Cobalt started to sniff in the air. He was smelling danger. "I gotta check this out. I'll be fine, so don't worry about me. I'll see you all later," Cobalt said quietly. He wandered off after what ever he was smelling.
Amethyst ran after him, apparently thinking that a small flower pokémon could be any help.
"Cobalt!" Riz shouted after him, taking a few steps forward. But the dog was gone between the leaves, the Roselia as well. "Oh god. Running off into the Poochyena territory."
That was when they heard the Uproar. Every bird in the jungle must have taken off at that scream. That at least convinced Riz that Cobalt had been right about smelling danger.
"Neither Cobalt nor Amethyst could have done that attack... Teddy?" Riz said, half to himself and half to Daiyu, who were standing pretty close to him. "I mean, the Spinda. But he sure looks like someone who could be called Teddy."
He sighed. "If it's him getting into trouble and Cobalt saving him again... well, he wasn't very much grateful the last time, was he? If he had just shown some respect to the Mightyena borderguard before, then I could have talked calmly to them and made us go through the lands without any bloodshed. Quick action and arrogance are most often not your best tools. Know that."
Riz wasn't aware of that he was sounding pretty dominant now. He knew he was right, at least in his world. Why be humble? He looked to see that Nova hadn't gotten very far yet. These people were probably quite reliable after all.
"So... shall we go and clean this mess up? They are our teammates after all. At least Cobalt is," he said and started to run towards the Mightyena camp, hoping the girls would follow his lead.
When he got there, the first thing he spotted was Cobalt and his red scarf, battling the largest Mightyena in the middle of the pack. The Alpha. Dear boy, what had the young hyena gotten himself into now? Some ways away, Amethyst was fighting as well, another Mightyena.
Some small Poochyenas saw Riz and tried to jump and bite him. The larger Mightyenas hadn't spotted him yet. Riz growled menacingly and swung his tail around and slammed one of the small dogs. It was sent flying and landed with a thud several meters away. The other Poochyenas blinked, but one other leaped towards him. It bit his foot. Riz squeaked, he was a mouse after all, but then he stomped down hard, crushing the dog underneath his foot. The Poochyena dropped his grip and squeaked in pain as Riz let go and it stumbled away badly hurt. The other Poochyenas backed away.
"Good, now that we're clear on that... I guess nobody here is going to listen to common sense at the moment."
[OOC: If Nova and/or Daiyu didn't follow Riz, then simply ignore this next piece of text.]
"Daiyu, help Amethyst! That dog is sure to go out with a few of your well aimed and timed shocks." He was only slightly referring jokingly to the accidental shock she had fired off earlier. "Nova, come with me and help Cobalt. I don't care if he wants to try and defeat the Alpha fair and square. We're going to end this stupid battle now."
With that, he ran forth to Cobalt's side. The Mightyenas in the ring got a bit surprised seeing a Raichu butting in on the hyena Alpha fight. That must be against the rules.
"Sorry mate," Riz said quietly to Cobalt. "I don't agree with you on that this is the best way of doing things. Let's defeat him together?"