Sara turned slightly when she heard Arturo yelling at his Shinx and when Brantly caught up with them. The girl just grunted once more and continued walking ahead of everyone. She really didn't care what Arturo did with his Shinx, nor did she care if the cat apologized to her and Renyard or not. However, when Brantly said that they should be close, it did give Sara some hope that this whole thing might be over soon.
A growl from Renyard made the girl stop in her tracks. Sara looked in the direction that the fox was growling at and braced herself, expecting this to be another Pokemon coming out to fight. Her fears were realized when something moved in a blurr of speed and knocked Renyard over. When the thing slowed down, it showed itself to be a Rattata.
Sara grunted, not wanting to be side tracked by something like this. But since she had little choice, the Rattata clearly wanted to fight them, she said, "Okay Ren, use Ember!"
The Fox Pokemon quickly got up at his trainer's call and sent many little fire balls at the wild rat. The attack hit the Rattata right on and knocked him back. However, the Rattata got back up fairly quickly and used another Quick Attack. Fortunately, Renyard was expecting the attack and, having learned from the Riolu he fought, dodged the very speedy move.
"Another Ember Renyard!" Sara called out.
Renyard did as he was told, once again hitting the rat right on. Though obviously suffering from his new wounds, the Rattata used another Quick Attack, this time hitting the fire fox.
"One more Ember and that should be it Ren!" Sara shouted.
Renyard was in agreement, but when he used his only attacking move, the Rattata also used Quick Attack. It was unclear if the little fire balls would be enough to defeat the fast moving rat, or if the speed he was going at would just be enough so that it didn't do too much damage and hit the fox...