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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 23, 2018 7:06:03 GMT
I wake up and head for the boulder field, after breakfast and stretching we get started
“to start off today’s training Chimchar will practice brick break and Scarlett will practice the tossing thing from yesterday, but first Chimchar go find a few more rocks like the ones from yesterday” I say and Chimchar nods and rushes off then I turn to Scarlett
“I was thinking about the move from yesterday and it has two main problems, its useless against bigger opponents and it leaves you prone on the ground and open to attack. Luckily you have those jaws” I say
“Wile?” Scarlett says confused
“I was thinking if you position them the right way during your throw, you can use them to get yourself back to your feet, so lay on the floor and let’s practice” I say and Scarlett lays down and I see Chimchar roll a stone over and leave to find another one
Scarlett is laying on her back
“Let’s try strait up I guess” i say and Scarlett’s jaws get into position and Scarlett is laying in a strait line
She tries to lift herself from this position but it seems like it won’t work
“Okay… Then maybe put them under you?” I say
Scarlett gets up and then lays down on top of her jaws but this doesnt seem to work either
“Maybe to your side then?” I ask
Scarlett lays down on her back again and places her jaws under her left arm, she struggles a bit and opens her jaws, it flip her over so now she is on her stomach.
“Hmm, that might work, if you can land on all fours you could go straight into iron head and charge the enemy you just tossed” I say
It takes a few attempts but scarlett is finally able to land on all fours after the flip
“Nice! Keep practicing that while I start Chimchars training” I say petting her
I walk over to Chimchar and he has found nine roundish boulders of various sizes.
I set two aside for Scarlett and help Chimchar roll the rest up the hill, then we sort them from smallest to biggest
“I’m going to roll these at you and I want you to use brick break on them” I say
Chimchar nods and runs to the bottom of the hill
I roll the smallest stone first, and Chimchar runs at it, his fists start glowing white and as the stone reaches him he steps a little to the left and he punches the center of the stone and it explodes into rubble
“Nice!” I say
“char!” Chimchar exclaims happily
We continue like this until we reach the biggest stone, when Chimchar punches this one it doesnt break apart only cracks and rolls to a stop at the bottom of the hill.
“Good job! Time for a break” I say picking up chimchar
We eat the lunch I packed atop the hill
After we finish resting scarlett takes position at the bottom of the hill
“Remember, catch it, toss it, jaws to the side, flip” I yell
Scarlett nods and I roll the stone downhill
The stone rolls toward scarlett and as it gets close she attempts to grab it but misses and it slams into her sending her flying down hill
“Scar!” I yell
Scarlett staggers to her feet
“Sorry, It didn’t occur to me that yesterday might have been a fluke” I say
“maw!” Scarlett says shaking her head
“Forget the rest, just focus on learning the timing of the catch” I say
We continue like this for an hour and she manages to get the timing right three time in a row, tossing the stone over her to the bottom of the hill
“Now let’s try with the flip!” I say as she gets back into position
I roll the stone and as it reaches her she grabs it, falls back tossing it over her, her jaws swing under her arm, once she touches the ground her jaws open and her body flips and she lands on all fours.
“You did it!” I yell rushing to her
She lays exhausted on the floor, a big smile on her face
“The next step is an actual battle, but you rest up, Chimchar your turn again” I say handing scarlett a water bottle
I go to the top of the hill and pull out my pokenav and call ruche
“Dakota, why are you calling, your not hurt again right?” Ruche asks
“Nah I’m fine, hey are you busy?” I ask
“Uhhh, kinda, but I’m almost done, I should be finished in about an hour” ruche says
“Perfect, I challenge you to a battle” I say
“Ha ha, alright” ruche says
I tell ruche where to meet and then I take a metal Frisbee out from my bag
“Chimchar, I’m going to throw this and you hit it with ember” I yell down to him
“Chim!” Chimchar yells up to me
I toss the Frisbee and Chimchar shoots an ember at it but misses and the flame dies out
He tries again and misses again
“Don’t aim where it is, aim where its going” I yell down to him
Chimchar nods and shoots another flame this time hitting it causing the Frisbee to flip and fall to the ground, Chimchar picks it up and runs it up to me
I throw it again, this time much faster, Chimchar misses his first few shots but manages to hit it before it hits the ground
The third time I throw it I throw it really slow, Chimchar hits it right away and brings it to me, the metal Frisbee has started heating up so I quench it with some water and continue with the training
After an hour I see ruche walking toward us
I wave him over and turn to chimchar
“Good work today Chimchar” I say with a smile
Ruche walks up to us
“So, how’s the training going?” Ruche asks
“Great! If this battle goes well I’ll be challenging the gym tomorrow” I say
Ruche nods and grabs his pokeball summoning riolu
“Riolu, let’s give it everything we’ve got” ruche says with a big smile
We find a flat area in the field and stand a reasonable distance apart
“Scarlett, don’t focus on doing the throw, just battle normally and if the opportunity presents itself we’ll go for it”
“Wile” Scarlett says with a nod and jogs out onto the field
Riolu walks out toward scarlett and ruche smiles
The stage is set
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2
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Battle start!
“Riolu agility!” Ruche yells
“Scarlett fairy wind!” I yell
Riolu hops twice and disappears as a blast of pink glittery wind whips past where he was standing
Riolu reappears next to scarlett
“Low kick!” Ruche yells
“Jump and Bite!” I yell
Riolu goes to sweep Scarlett’s legs but she jumps over riolu foot, her jaws wrap around and clamp onto riolus body and he screams out in pain
“Slam him down!” I yell
“Counter!” Ruche yells
Scarlett winds up and goes to slam riolu into the ground, but right before he hits his whole body glows blue
“Riolu use it to escape!” Ruche yells
The blue aura surrounding riolu body focuses on his paws and he uses the energy to pry open Scarlett’s jaws and escape
Riolu puts some distance between him and scarlett and both are starting to breath heavier
“Iron head!” I yell
“Counter!” Ruche yells
Scarlett glows a metallic white and charges riolu and riolu glows blue as scarlett slams into him sending him skidding backwards
“Use it!” Ruche yells
The energy flows into riolu fist and he charges at scarlett
“Do it!” I yell
As riolu goes in for the punch scarlett grabs riolu arms and reels backwards
“What!?” Ruche yells
Riolu gets thrown off balance and gets tossed into the air behind scarlett, scarlett lands with her jaws under her arm and opens them flipping over and landing on her feet
“Iron head!” I yell
“Counter!” Ruche yells
Riolu lands with a thud and before he can climb to his feet scarlett slams into riolu sending him flying again, he lands a few feet away and this time doesn’t get up
“Yes!” I exclaim happily running over to scarlett who is panting heavily
Ruche walks over to riolu
“Good job” ruche says putting riolu back into his ball
“Well, looks like your challenging the gym tomorrow” ruche says
“Yep thanks for your help” I say
“no problem” ruche says
We head back to the pokemon center and check in our pokemon
We find Sasha, have dinner, and go to bed
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 23, 2018 7:37:31 GMT
I wake up, and hurry to the shower and get dressed, then head to the lobby and get my pokemon then go and join ruche and Sasha for breakfast
“So you two excited for your rematch?” Ruche asks
“Yes!” I say bouncing in my chair
“Maw” scarlett says equally excited
“Who will you be starting with?” Sasha asks
“Chimchar” I say
“I see” Sasha says
We finish breakfast and head for the gym
As we reach the third tier I summon Chimchar and we all start stretching as we walk toward the gym
We enter and Ian smiles at us from behind the counter
“I was wondering when you would show up” ian says picking up the phone
After a few moments he hangs up
“Roark is on his way” ian says
After a few minutes Roark walks in with a smile on his face and he’s covered in dust
“well looks like its time for our rematch then, just give me a moment to prepare” Roark says running off
Ian lead us back to the battlefield, its the same as last time, a battlefield filled with jagged rock spires and boulders, there in a different orientation from last time, and an open air roof, scarlett and i proceed downward into the recessed area while sasha and ruche head to the benches
I see Sasha summon buneary like last time
Roark walks out from a door and smiles
“Well, let’s just get to it then” Roark says
Ian walks to the center of the field
“The match will be two on two and only the challenger can make a substitution, do you understand?” Ian asks
“Yep” I say
“Challenger, send out your first pokemon” ian says
I grab chimchars pokeball and toss it and Chimchar appears on the field
“Starting with Chimchar again huh, then I think I’ll go with onix!” Roark says tossing his pokeball and onix appears towering over us
The stage is set
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Battle start!
“Stealth rock!” Roark says
Onix glows white and starts shooting stones from all over its body toward Chimchar
They are so fast that the only thing Chimchar can do is raises his arms to try and block the hit
They strike the ground kicking up a cloud of dust, when it settles Chimchar is fine and there’s grey stones strewn about the battlefield
“Uh, it missed? Chimchar quick brick break!” I say
Chimchar shoots forward and strikes onix with a glowing fist and onix groans in pain
“Onix use slam and sweep the field!” Roark yells
Onix swings its tail across the field, and Chimchar goes to jump over his tail
“Double edge upward!” Roark yells
Onixs tail glows gold and he flicks it upward just barely missing chimchar
I look at the ceiling and get an idea
“Brick break again!” I yell and Chimchar punches onix again and you hear an audible crack as onix screams in pain
“Onix screech!” Roark yells
Onix opens his mouth and screams sending out shockwaves that blast Chimchar backwards past me and into the wall
The attack stops and Chimchar lands and starts runs back onto the field
I lower my voice to a whisper as Chimchar runs past
“Jump the tail, let it send you up, brick break on way down” I whisper to him as he passes
Chimchar looks confused for a second and then nods as he rushes toward onix
“brick break!” I yell and Chimchar punches onix again
“Onix slam sweep the field!” Roark yells
“Jump it!” I yell
Onix sweeps its tail across the field and Chimchar jumps over it, this time a bit slower than last time
“Double edge upward!” Roark yells
Chimchar crosses his arms to block the attack as onixs tail glows gold and slams into Chimchar sending him flying upward and out of the gyms open roof
Roark looks at me and smiles and I ignore him looking up for any sign Chimchar is still conscious
Then roark realizes something is wrong and looks up and opens his mouth to say something
I take a deep breath and scream with all my might
“Ember at onixs face!” I scream and immediately start coughing
“Onix screech to slow his decent!” Roark frantically yells
Onix aims his head upward and goes to open his mouth but before he can a flurry of small flames fly into the gym and strike onixs face blinding him
He reels back in pain as Chimchar plummets into the gym fist outstretched and glowing
The fist strikes onixs face sending his upper body crashing to the ground and moment later Chimchar falls as well
Chimchar panting heavily staggers to his feet but soon collapses beside onix, neither get up
“Both pokemon are unable to battle, this round is a draw” ian announces
Roark returns onix to his pokeball
“That was a nice idea, a bit risky though” Roark says
“Yeah” I say putting Chimchar back in his ball
“You did great Chimchar” I say clicking his ball back onto my belt
Roark tosses a pokeball and geodude appears on the field
“Okay Scarlett your up!” I say
“Maw!” Scarlett says running onto the field
The second her foot touches the field all the grey stones onix launched glow white and fly at Scarlett and they explode kicking up some dust
“What!?” I yell
The dust settles and Scarlett is all scuffed up and looks to be in pain
“The move stealth rock, its a delayed move, only activating if the opponent switches pokemon” Roark explains
“Sorry scarlett, you okay?” I ask
Scarlett flicks a thumbs up and runs out onto the field
The stage is set
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Battle start!
“Fairywind!” I yell
“Hidden power!” Roark yells
Scarlett blasts a stream of pink glittery wind at geodude as he shoots a blue ring at scarlett, the moves cross through each other without any resistance and both attacks land, geodude gets sent floating backwards as the glitter hurts his eyes, the blue ring collides with Scarlett causing a small explosion that causes her to scream out
“Iron head!” I yell
“Seismic - no wait dodge!” Roark says in frustrated tone
Scarlett glows a metallic white and charges at geodude who dodges to the left but Scarlett corrects her course and slams into geodude sending him flying into a boulder
“Use rollout!” Roark yells
Geodude rolls into a ball and starts speeding toward scarlett
Scarlett looks back at me and I nod
Scarlett positions herself in front of a large stone and opens her arms as geodude rolls toward her
As geodude slams into her she grabs on and reels back smashing geodude into the boulder then uses her jaws to flip back over and dash away, geodude stops rolling and seems to be stuck in the rock
“What?!” Roark says
“Scarlett iron head” I yell
Scarlett glows white and dashes at geodude slamming into him and smashing him through the boulder, he rolls across the ground and doesn’t get up
“Geodude is unable to battle! This round goes mawile and that means the winner of this match is the challenger Dakota!” Ian announces
Roark walks over as ruche and Sasha rush onto the field
“That was a great battle! Congrats” Roark says with a smile
“Thanks, couldn’t have done of without your advice” I say
Ian walks over carrying a shiny wooden box, he opens it and sitting on a pillow is a small grey badge
Roark picks it up and smiles
“It is my honor as the Oreburgh city gym leader to present you, Dakota, with the Coal Badge signifying your victory today” Roark says handing me the badge
“Thank you” I say taking out my badge case and placing the badge into the appropriate slot
“Seven more of those and your headed to the pokemon league” Ruche says
“Oh yeah, forgot about that part” I say glancing down at the badge case
“You know what, I think I’m going to make my goal getting all eleven badges” I say
“That’s a fine goal” Roark says with a laugh
“So where are you three off to next? The nearest gym is up in Eterna City” Roark says
I take out my map
“How about we take the long way around? Head back to Jubilife then up to Floaroma town?” I suggest
“Sure” Sasha says
“Yeah!” Ruche says excitedly
“Well then looks like this is goodbye” Roark says
“I’m sure we will meet again” I say with a laugh
“Then next time you’re in town I’ll bring you back to play with the fossil pokemon again, I’m sure they would like that” Roark says
We leave the gym and head back to the pokemon center and pack while my pokemon get healed
The speaker in the corner of the room chimes signaling that my pokemon are healed and we grab our gear and head into the lobby
I get my pokemon and we check out of the room
We exit the pokemon center and ruche jumps out in front of us, a big smile on his face, he reaches into his bag and pulls out two gift wrapped boxes
“Congrats on beating your first gym!” Ruche says handing Scarlett and me a box each
Scarlett tears hers open and pulls out a dark pink vest and her eyes light up as she puts it on
“Its the same color pink that Mawile get when they mega evolve” ruche says
I open mine and its a tie the same color as the vest
“Wow, thank you so much!” I say taking my black tie off and putting this one on
“Maw!” Scarlett says happily twirling in her new vest, she leaves it unbuttoned on the front
“When did you have time to make these?” I ask
“While you were training” ruche says
I turn to sasha
“How does it look?” I ask
“It suits you” Sasha says
“Thanks” I say
“Oh, before leaving town I want to stop by the ranger base and say goodbye to Mayce and Cobb” I say
On our way to the ranger base I stop by a bakery and buy some poffins in a small basket
We all walk into the ranger base and Mayce looks up from behind the counter and meditite is asleep on the couch
“As if today wasn’t bad enough, here you are” Mayce says with a smirk
“I’m so glad we managed to find you a sense of humor down in that cave” I say
Mayce laughs
“So what are you here for?” Mayce asks
“Were leaving town and wanted to say goodbye, is Cobb here?” I ask
“No, he’s down in Oreburgh gate supervising. Its so crazy down there, the new generators getting put in, the stairs are getting rebuilt, nurse joy is down there helping heal all the pokemon that got injured by those prism jerks, Cobb just sent me back to get some rest actually, we have been working non stop since the incident” Mayce says with a sigh
“That’s too bad” I say
Sasha tugs on my sleeve
“Dakota look” she says pointing at a poster on the wall
On the wall was a poster showing the picture of the poacher I took
“Oh yeah, those got sent all over the world yesterday” Mayce says
I walk over to the poster
The text reads
“Warning, the group known as the prism association are known criminals any sightings are to be reported to the nearest police station or ranger base. *Colors and outfits differ by region* ** the more colorful their outfit the more dangerous they are if you see a prism association member flee immediately**”
“Wait, they are in other regions? I thought this was just a sinnoh problem” I ask
“No, from the little information interpol had to distribute it seems sinnohs prism association members wear red, while every other region have there own colors, they are calling the sinnoh branch the ” Red Sect", if you see one run away" Mayce warns
“If no ones in trouble, sure, I don’t feel like getting tased again” I say with a laugh
Mayce sighs
“You two, keep this idiot out of trouble please” Mayce says to Ruche and Sasha
“I’ll try” ruche says
“impossible, he can’t stop himself” Sasha says
Scarlett just nods in agreement
“You too scar?” I say
Thy all laugh
I walk up to mayce
“Hey, let’s register each other in our pokenavs” I say taking mine out
“…yeah sure” Mayce says taking out her styler
We register each other and I look over at meditite
“Oh yeah, I have a gift for meditite” I say placing the basket of poffins down on the counter
“I couldn’t have gotten the gym badge if meditite didn’t teach Chimchar brick break” I say
“Thanks, I’m sure he will love them when he wakes up” Mayce says
“Alright well bye, thanks for everything down in the cave” I say
“Heh, yeah same” Mayce says
We leave the ranger base and head for Oreburgh gate
We reach the caves entrance and head inside
Its much brighter and busier in here than the first time we went through, there seems to be a newer brighter lighting system installed, and there’s piles and piles of lumber lining the path
“These must be for the new stairs” I say
“Wow, how how deep did that staircase go!?” Ruche asks
“Not joking, it was like a forty five minute walk down” I say
“Wow” Sasha says
We head through Oreburgh gate and as we reach the split in the path we see many construction workers carrying lumber toward the depths
We hurry past and after awhile reach the exit and emerge back onto route 204
We walk through some trees and come out into a large grassy plain that stretch’s into the distance
“I really don’t want to cross this field again” I say
“Wile” Scarlett says nodding in agreement
“Then how about we go around, but it will take a day or two longer to get to Jubilife” ruche suggests with a smile
“I’m fine either way” Sasha says
“Let’s just cross the field” I say
“fine” ruche says with a sigh
We spend two hours walking across this field and find the tree from before, we decide to stop and rest in the shade for a bit
“Ruche, now that your delivery is done you are going home, correct?” Sasha asks
Ruche doesn’t say anything
“Ha ha, I was wondering about that too but was going to wait until Jubilife to ask” I say
There’s a long pause
“No” ruche says after awhile
“What?” I ask
“No I’m not going home. I want to keep traveling with you guys” ruche says clenching his fists
“Well we would be glad to have you, but what about your mother?” I ask
“I’ll call her when I get to Jubilife” ruche says
“Well alright then” I say
We continue across the field and after two more hours we finally reach the forest
“There seems to be a path over there” ruche says pointing at a break in the trees
“That would have been handy last time” I say with a laugh
We walk over and start walking down the dirt path, and continue like this until the sun goes down, we find a small pond and decide to stop and set up camp, then we have dinner, and go to bed
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 5:52:20 GMT
After breakfast the pokemon go play in the pond and mantyke starts giving riolu and buneary rides across the pond while Scarlett and Chimchar watch from a diatance
Ruche walks over
“I can understand Chimchar not wanting to play but I thought Scarlett would be all over this” ruche say
“She uh, she can’t swim. She sinks like a rock, I don’t know if its because she’s a steel type or what, but she just can’t seem to stay afloat” I say
“Oh, so she doesn’t go into the water ever?” Ruche asks
“Well I do have a inflatable ring she could wear, but she hates it” I say with a laugh
Mantyke launches out of the water and floats toward us and nuzzles up to sasha
“Sasha, is mantyke feeling better?” I ask
“He seems to be getting better by the day” Sasha says
“Is he well enough to battle?” I ask
“Mantyke, you feeling better enough to battle?” Sasha asks
Mantyke flaps happily in the air
“I think that’s a yes” Sasha says
“I’ll referee” ruche says getting up
We separate a fair distance apart and mantyke floats out in front of sasha
“So who wants to go?” I ask Chimchar and scarlett
But before either can say anything mantyke has a coughing fit behind me
Sasha rushes to its side
“Its not ready to battle yet” Sasha says giving it some medicine and water
“Yeah, we can put off battling until your all better mantyke” I say petting it gently
“Tyke” mantyke says weakly
We pack up and start heading toward jubilife city
we walk along the forest path and just as the sun begins to set we see Jubilife peak out over the trees
“Wow, that was a lot faster with the path” I say
“how did we get so far off track last time” ruche says looking at his pokenav confused
“I’m not complaining, I got to meet Chimchar because of it” I say
“Yeah, I guess that’s true” Ruche says with a smile
We hurry into the city and rush to the pokemon center and get checked in, we all wind up in separate rooms.
We all say goodnight and head to bed
Im not particularly tired so I break out the book Sasha lent me
After about an hour of reading I finish the book
To summarize what I just read, its a continuation of the first part
This part seems to be about how moves can evolve just like pokemon. The three machop from before that learned pound while training with a boxer, a kickboxer, and a scientist, all kept training pound by punching, kicking, and slapping away diligently, and then one day they all learned new moves replacing pound, the boxers machop learned dynamic punch, the kickboxers machop learned rolling kick, while the scientists machop learned dual chop.
Its said that anything can affect the moves your pokemon know, environment, training, emotions, even other pokemon your pokemon befriend, and the moves themselves can vary wildly by the individual as well! “Pokemon moves are amazing woo!” Or so says the last page of the book
“This kukui guy sounds fun” I say closing the book
I put the book away and decide to make a snack before lights out and walk into the lounge
After eating a small snack I start heading back to my room but some movement in the communications area catches my attention
I see ruche screaming at a computer screen, tears in his eyes, I can’t hear anything because its soundproofed but I can guess thay he called his mother
I debate if I should wait and see if he’s okay, but decide to give him some space and ask him about it tomorrow
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:00:51 GMT
“You’re making breakfast?” Sasha asks
“Yeah, ruche probably isn’t in the mood to cook today” I say
“I see” Sasha says sitting down at the table
As I continue cooking i see ruche walk out of his room, he has bags under his eyes and he looks tired
“morning” I say
“morning” ruche says in a scratchy voice
Sasha digs in her bag and takes something out and hands it to ruche
“Here’s a cough drop” she says
Ruche laughs as he pops it into his mouth
“Thanks” ruche says sitting down
“Are you sick?” Sasha asks
“No, I just had a two hour long screaming match with my mother last night” ruche says
“So it went as well as you expected it to” I say
“Pretty much” ruche says
“Why were you arguing?” Sasha asks
Ruche sighs
“I told yo how I was scared of poison types right? Well there’s a reason for that, when I was little I fell into a skorupi den, fell onto one, and it stung me pretty bad” ruche says rolling up his sleeve showing a zigzag shaped scar on his arm
“Luckily someone showed up and carried me to the hospital, just barely making it, apparently I had turned purple and stopped breathing at one point, I almost died” ruche says
“After that I was terrified of poison types, and my mother became a bit overprotective, restricting where i could play, at what times, thing like that, but as I got older and realized that the skorupi didn’t attack out of malice but because I had scared it, I decided I wanted to try getting over my fear by going on a journey, as I told my father about this my mother overheard and reacted… Poorly. She tried filling my head with horror stories about kids getting hurt and dying during there adventures just to try and dissuade me from leaving home. Luckily my father was a voice of reason and her scare tactics didn’t stick, Then I was told I could run an errand to "get it out of my system” but why would I go back? Its been a month and I’m fine and I’ll continue being fine!“ Ruche says slamming the table
"Uh ruche?” I say
Then he realized what just happened
“Oh geez, I’m sorry, I guess I’m still a bit riled up from last night” ruche says emberassed
There a pause in the conversation
“Ruche… Can I say something?” I ask
“Uh, sure?” Ruche says confused
“I’m not by any means saying your mother is right, what she did sounds awful, but I’ve been doing this for what, two weeks? and I’ve been bound, tased, and blown up, I just want you to know that you’re probably going to get hurt at some point, its unavoidable, you should accept it rather than deny it as a possibility altogether” I say
Ruche nods and seems to zone out as i finish making breakfast and hand everyone their plates
“Oh right, did you tell that friend of yours about your journey? Sorry what was her name again?” I ask
“Nia” ruche says smiling gently
“She was the first one I called. She was like "finally! I was wondering when you would get fed up and leave” Ruche says with a laugh
“You probably wanted to travel with her right?” I ask
“No, she’s busy most days” ruche says
“Well she sounds fun, I hope I can meet her someday” I say
“Oh dont worry, I’ll introduce you when we get to canalave, theres a gym there and your goal is to get all eleven badges right?” Ruche says
“Yeah!” I say
After we finish our food we pack up our stuff and check out of the pokemon center and start heading north out of the city
We leave the city and start walking down the path toward floararoma
“So how far is it to floaroma?” I ask
“About a day and a half” Ruche says looking at his pokenav
“And then how long until eterna?” I ask
“Quite awhile actually. Oreburgh, floaroma, and Jubilife are fairly close together, but eterna is pretty far up there on the map, maybe…. Two weeks?” Ruche says
“Okay, so I need to catch at least one more pokemon during that time” I say
“Yeah, otherwise you won’t be able to challenge the gym” Sasha says
“It wouldn’t hurt to catch more than one as well, its always better to have more options right?” Ruche says
“Yeah, and it doesn’t help that I don’t know what kind of gym it is” I say
“You could always look it up” ruche says
“Nah, I like surprises!” I say with a laugh
We walk along the path for a few hours, i spend my time looking at some of the pokemon in the trees but i dont feel like adding any of them to my team and then we finally stop for lunch
“So, you didn’t feel like catching any of those pokemon?” Ruche asks as we help him set up for lunch
“No, none of them really jumped out at me. I don’t want to just catch any random pokemon” I say
“That’s fair, I’m sure you will find one you like” ruche says
Ruche begins cooking something and after awhile the whole area starts to smell fantastic
“Dang, that smells good! What is it?” I ask
“Curry! I found some good spices in Jubilife yesterday, your both fine with a bit of spice right?” Ruche asks
“I love spicy food!” I say
“Im fine with a bit of heat” Sasha says
As ruche continues cooking I notice a pokemon stumble out of a bush, its small and pink and resembles a fruit, it wanders up to ruche.
“Oh hello” ruche says suprised
I take out my pokedex
Cherubi - The Cherry Pokemon - Grass - the sunlight has turned this pokemon red. As the time for its evolution nears it sucks up the nutrients stored in the small ball causing it to shrivel. The ball is said to taste very sweet so starly try and peck it off.
The cherubi is drooling a little and then its stomach growls loudly
“Ha ha, you want to try some? I was just about to taste test it myself and could use a second opinion” ruche says
Cherubi bounces excitedly as ruche pours some onto a saucer and hands it to cherubi, cherubi tastes it and a big euphoric grin spreads across their face.
“Well that face just says a thousand words huh” ruche says laughing
He tastes it himself and nods
Then he puts the lid back on the pot and considers something for a moment
“Cherubi, would you like to join me on my adventure? You will get to eat a lot more of my cooking” ruche says crouching down and offering a pokeball to cherubi
Cherubi bounces happily, face covered in sauce and then slapps the button on the pokeball with one of its leaves and gets sucked inside
The ball shakes three times and then chimes
Ruche stands upright and smiles
“Looks like I wound up catching a new pokemon before you Dakota” ruche says with a smirk
“Congrats” I say with a smile
“I’ll make some grass type pokemon food for them in floaroma” Sasha says
We summon all of our pokemon to meet cherubi as ruche serves the curry and rice
It tastes amazing and after lunch we pack up and continue on our way We walk for a few more hours and stop once we reach a cliff face, it stretches upward about ninety feet, in the face of the cliff is an entrance into a cave system
“So we head through this cave, its fairly short, about five minutes in there’s a path leading up to an exit” ruche reads from his pokenav
We head inside, the cave is lit with a string of extremely dim lights along the wall, a few of the lightbulbs have burnt out
We walk for about ten minutes before reaching a path leading down
“That’s not right… There should have been a path leading up about five minutes ago” ruche says confused
“And there wasn’t a single pokemon either” I say
We take out out flashlights and walk back the way we came
About five minutes pass
“There should be a path here!” Ruche says in a frustrated tone
I shine my light at the walls an notice that a section of the string of lights is missing, on closer inspection its going into the wall and coming out a bit further down the cave
“Look, the lights disappear here, was there a cave in or something?” I say
Sasha walks up to the wall and places a hand on the craggy rock wall
She takes a few steps back and takes a pokeball from her belt and tosses it, then mantyke appears in a flash of light
“Use bubble on the wall” sasha says
Mantyke starts spitting bubbles at the wall and they each pop with a splash of water
The wall starts to shake and crumbles into a heap on the ground then the rocks start to shift and unravel their arms and legs
I take out my pokedex
Graveler - The Rock Pokemon - Rock/Ground - with a free and uncaring nature, it doesn’t mind that pieces fall off of it when rolling down hill, its favorite food is mossy rocks. It will climb mountains eating all the rocks it can find and upon reaching the top roll all the way back down.
The many graveler that had huddled together forming the wall look angry having been woken from their nap
“Run!” I say picking up scarlett
Sasha quickly returns mantyke to its ball and we start sprinting up the sloped path the graveler were blocking
I look back as we run and see a few chasing us but after a few moments one slips and starts rolling down the sloped path, knocking the other graveler back down the slope as well
We keep sprinting and see a bright light at the top of the slope and then we rush out of the cave and collapse onto the grass all panting heavily
After we catch our breath we continue on our way towards floaroma until the sun begins to set and we set up camp for the night
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:12:17 GMT
I wake up and head a bit away from the camp to train a little
I gather a bunch of long sticks from around the forest
“today we are training scratch, ember, and bite since we couldn’t use them against rock types, well we could, but they wouldn’t have really done anything” I say looking down at the two of them
I tie the sticks together forming a few bundles of varying thickness
“Scarlett use bite to break these bundles smallest to largest” I say
Scarlett nods as I place the first one in her maw
She snaps it instantly with no effort
I place the second bundle in her jaws and she snaps them with a little effort as its twice as thick as the first
I lift the third one into her jaws and she bites down snapping twig after twig, after a few moments she finally breaks through the last twig and all the wood falls to the ground
“Good job” I say patting her on the head
I gather up all the sticks and turn to chimchar
“I’m going to toss these, you use scratch and chop them up” I say and Chimchar nods
I toss the sticks at Chimchar and he chops them to pieces with his glowing claws
After about ten minutes he chops all the sticks to bits
“Nice, next we are going to train ember, but let’s move next to the stream” I say
We all carry the chucks of wood to the stream
“I’m going to chuck these into the air and you try and hit them with ember” I say
Chimchar gets ready and I toss one high into the air and Chimchar launches a small flame hitting the wood chunk lighting it on fire
It fall to the ground and I stamp it out
Next I toss three into the air at the same time but not very high, Chimchar manages to hit two before they hit the ground
I toss another high one and Chimchar goes to launch an ember but suddenly grabs his throat and falls to his knees with a pained expression
“Maw!?” Scarlett yells
I rush over to him
“What’s wrong?!” I ask frantically
Chimchar just clutches his throat and starts coughing up smoke
“Oh jeez!” I say picking him up
We rush back to camp and I see ruche cooking breakfast, he smiles at us but it fades as he notices the look on my face
I see ruche rush to Sasha’s tent and yell something
As I reach the camp Sasha rushes from her tent and over to us
“What happened?” Sasha asks
“I don’t know, he was using ember and then suddenly grabbed his throat and started coughing up smoke!” I say
Chimchar is breathing heavier and Sasha presses her hand to his head
“His temperature is really high, We need to get him to a pokemon center” sasha says
“Floaroma is about an hour away If we run we can make it there sooner” ruche says
I detach Chimchar’s pokeball from my belt but Sasha stops me
“Don’t put him in his pokeball, it could make it worse” Sasha says
“Okay I’m going to run to floaroma. Can you pack my stuff?” I say
“Yes! Go!” Ruche says
I stand up and start running and Scarlett starts to follow
“Scarlett stay with them, sorry but you arent exactly the fastest runner” I say
Scarlett looks worried but nods and stays behind as I rush down the path to floaroma
As I’m running Chimchar starts coughing smoke again, and I notice the smoke is a darker color than before, I rush along the path cradling him in my arms
My arms start to feel hot but I try to ignore it
After about thirty minutes I rush through the flower arch that welcomes you to town and I rush up to the first person I see
“Pokemon center!?” I yell between exhausted breaths
The man looks flustered and worried and points me in the direction of the pokemon center, after a few turns I see it and rush through the glass doors
I startle a few people with my entrance and nurse joy rushes up to us as Chimchar starts coughing pure black smoke
“Chansey quickly get a cart!” Nurse joy yells
“How long as he been like this?” nurse joy asks
“About… Half an hour…” I manage to say between deep breaths
Nurse joy goes to grab him but recoils as she makes contact
“Oh my god! He’s burning up!” She says as chansey brings the cart and nurse joy quickly gets chimchar onto it
Nurse joy looks worriedly at my arms which are bright red with burns
“Chansey! take him to the hospital next door!” Nurse joy yells as she rushes Chimchar into the back
I start feeling woozy as chansey lifts me over her head and rushes out of the pokemon center and to the building next door
An old woman rushes to my side as chansey gently lays me on a cot
My arms start to feel hotter as the old woman looks them over
as she goes and gets some medicine the pain starts to intensify and my arms start shaking
The old woman injects some pain killer into my arm and the pain starts to fade
After a quick examination she sprays my arms with something that feels cool, she hands me the spray bottle and it says that its aloe
“Use this when your arms start feeling too hot” she says taking a seat at her desk
“The burns aren’t too bad, should heal in about a week and probably won’t even blister” she says tossing me a bottle of pills from her desk
“These are some light pain meds, take one every day until your arms heal” the doctor says
I nod and put the pills in my pocket
“Thank you” I say looking at the door
“You can go” she says
“Thanks!” I say rushing back to the pokemon center
There’s a chansey behind the counter as I rush up, they direct to the waiting room outside of the examination room
I sit down and wait for news
After about an hour Scarlett runs up and tackle hugs me as I see sasha walk up
“Hey” sasha says sitting down next to me
“Hey” I say patting scarletts head
“Ruche is putting our bags in our room” sasha says
“Thanks for packing up camp for me” I say
“No problem” sasha says
She notices my arms
“You are hurt again” she says
“Yep” I say with a sigh
“…you get hurt a lot. Even as a kid you were constantly getting hurt” sasha says
“Yeah… I’ve noticed, maybe I’m cursed?” I say with a laugh
We sit in silence for a while
“Hey, how’s Chimchar doing?” Ruche asks running up to us
“I dont know” I say
A few moments later the light above the door turns off and nurse joy walks out
“We managed to get his temperature down and he should be fine, its good that you got him to us when you did, any later and there could have been permanent damage to his body” nurse joy says
“Oh thank goodness” I say
“What was wrong?” Sasha asks
“He tried learning a move his body wasn’t ready for, basically to prepare for the move the heat in his body started rising, but his body wasn’t actually ready to handle that level of heat, usually the body prepairs for the move first but very rarely the wires get crossed” nurse joy explains
“So is he all better?” I ask
“He needs some time to recover, he shouldn’t use fire type moves for about a week and we would like to keep him overnight for observation” nurse joy says
“Alright” I say
We walk into the examination room and Chimchar is asleep in a bed hooked up to some moniters
I decide to spend the rest of the day at Chimchar bedside while ruche and sasha leave because they have stuff to do
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:21:47 GMT
I wake up the next day to Chimchar smiling at me.
“Hey, how are you feeling?” I ask
“Chim chim!” Chimchar says with a smile
“That’s good” I say
Chimchar notices my arms and looks worried
A chansey walks in and checks Chimchar over one last time
“So is he good to go?” I ask and chansey nods
I put Chimchar back into his premier ball and wake up Scarlett then leave the pokemon center.
Its about six in the morning and I decide to Check out some of the stuff I read about floaroma on my pokenav yesturday
The sun hasn’t risen yet and the town is silent
My arms sting in the cold air so I spray some of the aloe vera on and carefully rub it in, then take an asprin
First we head to the mart and buy a quick breakfast since nothing else is open yet
As I go to the counter to pay Scarlett points at some candy and the clerk chimes in
“That’s one of floaroma’s specialties, "Honeycombee Brittle” Its peanut brittle made with combee honey and has the airy texture of a honeycomb. Its very good.“ The clerk says with a smile
Scarlett looks up at me with a pleading look
"Sure, I’ll take it” I say lifting up the small basket onto the counter
I put all the food into my bag and we leave the store
“Scarlett, let’s go to the flower fields and take some pictures” I say
“Maw!” Scarlett says with a smile
We walk through the town, every house is surrounded by gardens full of flowers, as I reach the north edge of town a field of wild flowers stretches into the distance, full of flowers of every shape and color
I snap a picture and start heading out into the middle of the field, being careful not to step on any flowers
After about ten minutes I find a small patch of grass without any flowers, so I sit down and get my camera ready
Scarlett sits on my lap
“They say as the sun rises tons of bug pokemon come out and fly around the flowers, I hear bug pokemon are easily startled so let’s keep quiet and not move to much ” I explain in a whisper
Scarlett nods
And a few minutes later the sun begins to rise
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:24:09 GMT
Ruche sits down below the tree and takes out his sketchbook, on the page are drawings of cherubi and a bunch of crossed out accessory’s
Ruche sighs and starts sketching again
After about ten minutes ruche hears someone approaching and looks up from his notebook to see a little girl
The little girl approaches nervously
“Um… Are those your pokemon?” She asks
“Yes” ruche sad
“Can… I play with them?” The little girl asks
“Sure!” Ruche says with a smile
The little girl smiles and runs over and starts playing with riolu and cherubi
After twenty minutes of sketching ruche crumples up the page in frustration
He looks over them and they are all sitting in the flowers watching something that the little girl is doing
As ruche is about to get up and see what it was she seemingly finishes and plops a flower crown on riolu head
“Oh, a flower crown” ruche says with a smile
He pauses
“Flower… Crown?” He repeats
He gets a fresh page and starts sketching with a smile on his face
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:26:23 GMT
Sasha wakes up at around eight and gets ready for the day
She leaves the pokemon center and heads toward the market
There she spends an hour searching through the extensive Berry selection, she settles on rindo berries for cherubi, and passho and coba berries for mantyke
Then she picks up some crushed revival herb to sprinkle into mantyke and Chimchar food to help them get better faster and then some combee honey to counter the herbs bitterness without using pure sugar
She pays and heads back to the pokemon center
She lays down a cloth and gets out her tools for making pokemon food, a mortar and pestle, a small portable dehydrator, cutting board, and a knife
She decides to start with mantykes food first
She takes her knife and cuts a small sliver off of both the passho and coba and summons mantyke and buneary
“Taste these” Sasha says gesturing to mantyke
Mantyke floats over and eats the berry pieces and bounces happily in the air
Sasha nods and starts choping the berries up and then tosses them into the mortar and pestle and starts smashing and grinding the berries down to a paste, after a while she tosses some of the revival herb and combee honey into the mix and mixes it up forming a blue mush
She tastes it and then puts that into a separate bowl and cleans out the mortar then she chops up the rindo berry and repeats the prosses, leaving out the revival herb
she grabs a few plastic cylydrical tubes from the dehydrator and fills them with the blue and green mush and puts them back into the small dehydrator and turns it on
“While were waiting let’s do our usual training” Sasha says to buneary and buneary smiles
Sasha goes to the kitchen and gets some ice and sees ruche walk in to the bedroom with a smile on his face, she follows in after him
Ruche sits on the bed since the table is being used and takes out his fashion case
“hey sasha, I finally thought of an accessory for cherubi!” Ruche says excited
“What is it going to be?” Sasha says sitting down at the table
“Its a secret!” Ruche says taking out his tool kit and bag of supplies he bought on the way here
Buneary hops onto the table and Sasha hands her an ice cube, buneary pops it into her mouth and starts to regulate her breathing
“What are you doing?” Ruche asks
“Were trying to learn ice beam. It would cut the time in takes to make pokemon food from three hours to one” Sasha says
“Is that how that works?” Ruche asks
“Maybe” Sasha says
After a while they run out of ice and buneary, riolu, cherubi, and mantyke play in the room while ruche and Sasha work
After about two hours Sasha takes the container off the side of the dehydrator and dumps the water it collected down the sink, she turns off the dehydrator and takes the tubes out, she slides the long cylinders of hardened pokefood out of the plastic tubing and chops them into bite sized pieces and places them into containers
She takes a piece of the blue pokefood and feeds it to mantyke and he bounces happily in the air
About two hours later ruche finishes his project
“Cherubi come here” ruche says happily
Cherubi jumps up onto his bed and ruche clasps a small crown around her stem, the crown is shaped like a five pointed crown and is built like a cup with a hole in the bottom, it has a hidden latch on the inside of the cup to keep it closed and below each point on the crown is a small pink jewel in the shape of a cherry blossom petal
“How is it? Too tight? Too heavy?” Ruche asks
Cherubi bounces around happily and the crown doesn’t move
Ruche breaths a sigh of relief
“What do you think?” Ruche asks
“It looks good” Sasha says
Sasha grabs the container of pokefood and hands it to ruche
“Here is the pokefood for cherubi” Sasha says
“Thank you!” Ruche says opening it and handing cherubi a piece
Cherubi eats it with a smile on her face and then stairs at the container and starts to drool again
“Ha ha, yeah its almost dinner time huh, I should go get that started” ruche says getting up and stretching before heading to the kitchen
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:30:33 GMT
As the sun begins to rise I ready my camera as Scarlett sits in my lap
Suddenly there’s a faint buzzing sound resonating through the air from all directions, moments later a huge swarm if pokemon fly out into the field and start flicking from flower to flower
I start snapping pictures as the little yellow pokemon seem to dance across the field of flowers
After they finish they seem to settle down and start to play together among the flowers
I carefully take out my pokedex and switch it onto silent mode
Combee - The Tiny Bee Pokemon - Bug/Flying - Combee consist of a trio that are together from birth, they create honey that is high in nutrition and offer this honey to the vespiquen that rule over their hive. At night they sleep in a large cluster. Female combee have a red mark on their face and are the only ones known to evolve, they are very rare and usually flee from trainers.
I put my pokedex away and continue taking pictures for another hour
Scarlett taps my arm as the flowers start shifting beside me, and then a combee appears
This combee seems to be sniffing the air
My heart jumps when I notice the red mark on its face and I freeze so I don’t scare it away
Combee keeps sniffing the air and getting closer, as it approaches its attention shifts to my arms and it starts rubbing up against my arm happily
It seems to be attracted to the smell of the aloe on my burns
I decide to try and make friends with it
“Hey combee, would you like some honey candy?” I say is a soft voice
Combee jumps a little and floats backwards
I slowly reach into my bag and take out a piece of the honeycombee brittle I bought earlier and offer it to combee
Combee cautiously floats over to and smells it and its eyes light up
It bites it with a loud crunch and it bounces happily in the air as it chews
I let combee have the rest of that piece and it seems to let its guard down and float back over to me
I take a premier ball from my pocket, and knowing that it would just run if Scarlett attacks I decide to risk it and quickly press the ball against combee and with a flash of light it gets sucked into the ball
It shakes once
And there’s a long pause
Then it quickly shakes two more times and the pokeball chimes signaling that combee has been caught
“Yes!” I exclaim in a whisper
“Maw maw!” Scarlett says in a congratulatory tone
I click combee’s pokeball onto my belt and take out my pokedex
“Let’s see, combee, female, its ability is called honey gather, it knows the Moves gust and sweet scent” I mutter to myself
I look up honey gather on my pokenav, its not a combat ability, it seems that every morning combee will produce an amount of honey, the amount varys based on a few factors from the previous day, things like physical health, exercise, diet, mood, and other things
I put my stuff away and decide to spend the rest of the day taking pictures around town, each house has its own unique garden and some have even created pictures using flowers
At around noon Scarlett and I go for lunch and I summon combee and chimchar
“Hi Combee, I’m Dakota, this is Scarlett and chimchar, welcome to the team!” I say
“Combee comb” Combee says
“Chim!” Chimchar says in a raspy voice
“Maw” Scarlett says with a smile
We eat lunch and then we all share the rest of the honeycombee brittle
As I get up to leave a girl walks up to me
“Hey, how’s your chimchar?” She asks
“Uhh, fine?” I say
“Oh sorry, i’m June, I was in the pokemon center yesterday when you burst in clutching your chimchar” June says
“Oh, okay. Yeah chimchar is feeling better, he should be all better in a week” I say
“I’m glad” she says
“Oh sorry, I’m Dakota, this is my partner Scarlett, you know chimchar, and this is combee” I say introducing everyone
“Nice to meet you all” June says
“Maw!” Scarlett says with a smile
We stay and chat for a bit but june says she has to go and i continue exploring floaroma
As the sun starts to set we start heading back to the pokemon center
I check in combee and chimchar for a checkup and wait in the lobby for ten minutes when a chansey walks back up to me with two premier balls on a tray and smiles
“They all good?” I ask
“Chansey chan” chansey says with a smile
“Thank you” I say taking my pokeballs and heading to the lounge
I see ruche cooking dinner and wave at him as I enter our room
Sasha is reading a book on her bed and all the pokemon are playing in the room
I summon chimchar and combee
“Everyone, this is combee” I say and everyone seems to say hello or wave
“Combee bee” combee says happily
“You caught a combee?” Sasha says putting her book down
“Yeah!” I say
“Interesting. Its a female combee too” Sasha says and then seems to consider something
“Female combee honey is really nutritious and works well as a sweetener in pokemon food, but since females are rare its expensive, if you give me the honey she makes I’ll consider that enough to cover the cost of pokemon food for your team” Sasha says
“Really? Fine with me” I say
Ruche walks in and sees combee
“Oh cool, you caught a combee! its honey is really good for cooking, can I get some?” Ruche asks
“You’ll have to ask Sasha, I’m giving it to her as payment for the pokemon food” I say
“You can have some once I have a some stocked up” Sasha says
“Thank you” ruche says happily and then remembers something
“Oh yeah, dinners ready” ruche says
We all go out and eat dinner and the head to bed
“So are we leaving town tomorrow?” Sasha asks
“Actually there’s something I want to check out with everyone tomorrow” ruche says
“Alright, then we leave the day after tomorrow” I say
“Where are we going?” Sasha asks
“The windworks! Its about five hours out from town” ruche says
We turn out the lights and fall asleep
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:49:17 GMT
We wake up and get ready for the day
After breakfast we leave the pokemon center and start heading west out of town
After about five hours of walking we reach the entry into the valley
On both sides theres a cliff face that seems to stretch upward for a very long time, and there a steady breeze wafting out from between the cliffs
We enter the canyon and continue walking, along the walls and sprouting from the ground are many wind turbines that spin gently as the wind turns them
After about twenty minutes the wind starts picking up, the flowers that litter the valley sway in the breeze occasionally sending a flower petal tumbling through the air
We see a white three story building in the distance, it sits in the exact center of the canyon and acts as a storage facility for the spare parts needed for the wind turbines, as well as lodging for the mechanics that live here and maintain the turbines
Circling over the building is a small flock of black bird pokemon
“Well that’s ominous” ruche says
As we get closer to the building we get close enough for my pokedex to work
Murkrow - The Darkness Pokemon - Dark/Flying - Feared and loathed by many,it is believed to bring misfortune to all those who see one at night, it is known to steal and collect shiny objects and it enjoys leading people astray at night
As I put my pokedex away Scarlett stops
“Wile” she says in a serious tone and points at the murkrow
We all look up and see that they have stopped circling and are now all facing us
“Perhaps we should-” ruche starts to say but gets cut off by a loud screech that echo’s through the canyon
All the murkrow dive straight toward us and we start running back the way we came but they are much faster than us and get in front of us
They flap their wings and stars form in the air and start flying at us with enough force to lodge themselves in the ground
We scramble as we turn and run for the windworks building, a hail of stars raining down behind us
As we get closer to the building we see a woman in a jumpsuit open the front door and motion for us to hurry inside
“Maw!” Scarlett yells as she trips and falls
“Go!” I yell at Sasha and ruche as I head back for her
I quickly pick her up and start running for the door again
I see ruche and Sasha rush through the entrance as I hear the pitter patter of stars hitting the ground getting closer and closer behind me
As I reach the door I throw myself inside cradling Scarlett, as we hit the floor we slide until we hit a wall
“Quick! Put the barricade back up!” I hear someone shout as I look up and see people stacking stuff against the door we just came through
Then I hear something slam real hard against the door as they hold the barricade in place after a moment the pounding stops and everyone seems to breath a sigh of relief
The woman in the jumpsuit walks over to us
“Well, welcome to the windworks I guess” she says scratching the back of her head “What was that about!?” Ruche yells
I stand up and dust myself off
“Ruche, calm down” I say
“Im Dakota, this is my partner Scarlett, and my friends ruche and Sasha” I say
“I’m Lucy, chief engineer of the windworks, as you’ve seen, we’re in quite the situation” she says
“How long have you all been stuck in here?” I ask
“About a week” she says
She motions for us to follow, as we follow her through the house I notice some that looks like dried blood on the floor
“There’s six others here, well, now you four make ten. Me, two mechanics, my son, a machoke, and a pokemon ranger” she says
“Oh good, there’s a ranger here” Ruche says relieved
She says nothing
We walk up the stairs to the second floor and i see a small boy playing with some toys at the end of the hall
Lucy opens a door and we walk into a bedroom.
Laying on the bed is an unconscious Pokemon ranger, his head wrapped in bloody bandages and his leg just the same, towering over him was a staraptor, its wing also wraped in bandages
Ruche looks away
“Isn’t this the ranger that claimed the aipom bounty last week?” Sasha asks
“Oh yeah” I say
Lucy steps forward and checks on him
“He showed up yesterday, and got ambushed in the air, I don’t think he was here to help us, more of a wrong place wrong time thing, they got his leg and then he got flung from staraptors back and fell to the floor and hit his head, staraptor tried to catch him but got attacked by the murkrows leader, Honchkrow, luckily while they were distracted we managed to get him inside and patched up the best we could, but he still hasnt woken up” Lucy explains
“I thought you weren’t supposed to move people with head wounds” I say
“It was better than leaving him out there, otherwise he’d end up their plaything just like…” Lucy says face twisted in anger
“Like who?” I ask
Lucy raises her hand in a sort of “not now” expression
“Why haven’t you called for help?” Sasha asks
“The phone signal in the canyon is pretty much non existent, there was a dish on the roof that helped but the murkrow knocked it down” Lucy says
“What about the rangers uh… Styler? Isn’t that a phone?” I ask
Ruche shakes his head
“Won’t work, its locked in a way that only the ranger themselves can use it” ruche explains “Well that sucks” I say
“Its to prevent theft. They are very powerful tools” ruche says
“Yeah, and the final problem is food, we are running out” Lucy says with a sigh
“So that’s the situation, let’s go introduce you to everyone” Lucy says
We follow Lucy across the hall into another room, there’s a man and a woman wearing jumpsuits like lucys and a machoke standing around a table
“Oh good, more mouths to feed” the man says in a sarcastic tone
The woman next to him slaps the back of his head
“Sorry about him, I’m Gwen, he’s Jerald, and that’s machoke” Gwen says with a smile
“I’m Dakota, this is my partner Scarlett” I say
“I’m ruche” ruche says with a little wave
“Sasha” Sasha says playing with her necklace nervously
“What are you doing?” I ask
“Trying to come up with a plan to get out of here” Jerald says
“How’s that going?” I ask
The room goes silent
“What about fighting our way out?” Ruche asks
“The only pokemon we have are a machoke who isn’t really a fighter, and a staraptor that wont leave that rangers side, what about you guys?” Jerald asks
“I have a buneary and a mantyke” Sasha says
“I have a riolu and a cherubi” ruche says
“I have Scarlett, and… An untrained combee and a Chimchar that can’t use fire type moves because its sick” I say with a sigh
“Yeah, fighting our way out isn’t possible then, I’ve counted eight murkrow and their boss, honchkrow, we’re outnumbered and outmatched” Jerald says with a sigh
Lucy pats me on the shoulder
“Follow me” Lucy says
We all follow her and she leads us down the hall toward the kid playing with some toys
“That’s my son denny” Lucy says
She points to a room at the end of the hall “You can have that room since you’re stuck here now” Lucy says
“Thanks” Sasha says
We enter the room, the window is boarded up and there’s a few beds strewn about, we put our stuff on the bed and sit downs
Sasha keeps playing with her necklace while ruche paces around the room
“If only we could whittle their numbers down, maybe if I try and catch a few” I say jokingly
“…oh” I hear ruche say and rush out of the room
I follow behind and see him enter the pokemon rangers room, he frantically starts looking for something and seems to find it under the bed, he slides it out and its the rangers bag ruche starts rifling through it
“Star!” Staraptor squaks
“Sorry sorry I just need something from here! I promise to give them back!” Ruche says “What is it?” I ask
“You know how rangers aren’t permitted to catch pokemon outside of the one that’s their partner? Well they have special pokeballs for transporting Bounty’s and other dangerous pokemon, they are called Ranger Balls, no one but rangers are aloud to use them though but, ah ha!” Ruche says dumping a bunch of pokeballs onto the bed, they have a orange top and a yellow bottom and black stripes making it look like a cage, there’s ten in all
We take them to the room and let everyone know about them
“Alright, good thinking, but the murkrow are really fast and organized, it will be really hard to catch them, but we have more options now, Thanks” Gwen says
We leave them to continue planning and as we are walking back to our room i see Sasha enter the rangers room
I peak inside and see her start treating staraptor
Then I see the kid playing with the toys at the end of the hallway still and decide to say hello
“Hello, I’m Dakota, this is Scarlett” I say “Hi, I’m Denny” he says
I spend an hour playing with Denny and Scarlett and introducing him to Chimchar and combee
As the sun begins to set everyone goes to bed but I decide to explore a little
I wander around the house and find a basement and decide to check it out, there’s metal parts for turbines repairs strewn about, it seems the boxes they were in were used to seal the windows, there’s small metal hatches and turbine blades and piles and piles of other metal parts
After I finish exploring the whole house, I start heading back to the room, but run into Lucy who is sitting in the kitchen
“Can’t sleep?” She asks
“Nah, just exploring” I say with a laugh and then i sit across the table from her
“…I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but your kinda weird” Lucy says
“How so?” I ask with a laugh
“You are weirdly calm, your friends are freaking out inside, but you? Your just here, like its just any other day” Lucy says
“…am I?” I say with a laugh
“Yeah.” Lucy says
Theres a pause in the conversation
“… I’ve noticed that when I’m in these situations its like… my mind clears, I can focus on the moment and my worries and fears fade away” I say a bit reluctantly
Lucy says nothing so I continue talking
“Ive been in situations like this before, when I was three apparently I was taken hostage while a store was being robbed, I’m told that he threatened me with a knife to my throat but he got freaked out when I just stared him down, and then when i was five Sasha and I almost got crushed by a rampaging steelix, but I wasn’t scared, all I could think about was getting Sasha to safety, then when I was seven there was an injured glameow stuck up a tree, so I climbed it and fell, snapped my arm and could see bone. It hurt like hell but I didn’t cry, I rushed home and they took me to the hospital, and recently I was at the wrong end of a golems explosion but wasn’t worried in the slightest” I say with a nervous laugh
“Have you talked to anyone about this?” she asks
“Nope. what’s there to talk about really? Oh no, Im calm in stressful situations?” I say shaking my head
I stand up
“Sorry for talking your ear off with my weird problems” I say with a laugh
“It’s fine. Everyone needs to vent there worries from time to time” Lucy says
“goodnight” I say
“Goodnight kid” Lucy says
I head back up to our room and lay down and soon after that I fall asleep
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 6:53:37 GMT
I wake up to a loud screech rattling the house
Ruche, Sasha, and Scarlett get startled awake as well
We rush through the house to find everyone else, we head down stairs and find everyone in the kitchen
They have a grim look on their faces
“What’s happening!?” Ruche asks
“… Its honchkrow, his… "Show” is about to start again" Gwen says
“Show?” I ask
No one says anything
I start walking toward the window
“Don’t!” Jerald says slamming his fists on the table
I ignore Jerald and go to the window and I’m horrified at what I see
Sitting in the yard a fair distance from the house is a small colorful bird pokemon, bloody and beaten crawling toward the house, every time is gets closer a murkrow knocks it backwards back to where it started and it begins crawling again while the murkrow sit on the fence laughing at it
“What… Is this?” I turn and ask
No one says anything
Finally Lucy stands
“That’s chatot, a pokemon that hung around the windworks. When… When the murkrow first showed up, chatot tried to fight them off, he bought us time to get into the house, but he didn’t last very long. They put him out there everyday and attack him over and over, he keeps trying to claw his way here, they seem to enjoy watching him struggle” Lucy says with her face twisted in rage
“Why haven’t you gone to help him!?” I shout
Jerald slams his hands on the table
“And end up like him?!” Jerald yells, his voice cracking with fear
There’s a long pause, the only sound is the murkrows laughter
“No, I can’t leave him out there” I say before rushing off toward the basement before anyone can speak up
I scan the room for anything usable amongst all the spare turbine parts
I see a hatch of some sort, its about half my height and a bit wider than me, it has a handle in the middle, and the front is flat, it looks sturdy enough to block those stars so I pick it up and bring it with me
I head upstairs and pocket the rangerballs then head across the hall to the rangers room
I see staraptor with a sad look in its eyes
“Staraptor, I need your help to save a pokemon from those murkrow” I say
“Star” staraptor says in a sad tone looking at the ranger on the bed
“I know you don’t want to leave his side, so I just need to know if you know any long range moves?” I say
Staraptor nods
“Great” I say and walk to the window and pry off the board sealing it shut
“Just try and cover me as I run out to help him that chatot” I say
Staraptor looks a bit worried but nods
I head back downstairs
“You can’t go out there!” Gwen says
“I can, and I am” I say as I start moving the blockade away from the door
“Your crazy!” Jerald yells
I laugh a little
I finish removing the blockade
“Don’t worry, I have staraptor covering me from the second floor” I say
ruche sighs
“I guess we will go up and cover you too” ruche says summoning cherubi
“good luck” Sasha says
“They are all crazy!” Jerald says and Gwen smacks the back of his head
Sasha and ruche head upstairs as I turn and get ready to run outside
I see Scarlett getting ready to go with me
“No, scarlett, you have to stay here and protect this door, don’t let a single murkrow in okay” I say
“Maw!” Scarlett says with a nod
Lucy grabs my shoulder
“I guess i cant stop you?” Lucy asks
“Nope” I say with a smile
“…Good luck then kid” Lucy says and she opens the door
I take the makeshift shield in hand and rush out the door
I run out of the house and almost immediately I hear an ear splitting screech reverberate through the canyon
The murkrow take flight and start flying toward me, the one in the front flaps its wings and stars form in the air and fly toward me
I crouch behind the hatch and the stars pound against the sheild
A moment later they stop and I start running again
The murkrow stop in the air for a moment and I see a big blue cross fly from the second Story window and crash into one of the murkrow, with a small explosion the murkrow falls to the ground on my path to chatot, I take one of the ranger balls from my pocket and toss it at the murkrow as I run past. The murkrow gets sucked inside
I keep running and I see the murkrow flap frantically
I hear that screech again and they seem to reorganize themselfs
One of the murkrow wings start glowing and it dives straight at me, I elect another blue cross to fly from staraptor room but it doesn’t come
As the murkrow gets closer I raise the shield
Murkrows wing collides with the metal hatch and I get sent sounding backwards just barely managing to stay balanced
Murkrow is flapping right in front of me so I bash it with the hatch and it tumbles to the ground, I toss a ranger ball and the murkrow get sucked inside
I keep sprinting towards chatot until I finally reach him, I crouch down and gently pick chatot up, he’s covered in cuts and bleeding a lot, he’s breathing heavy, he looks up at me and passes out
I cradle him in one arm and have the shield in the other, seeing this one of the murkrow dive towards me
Then I see ruche at the window on the second floor and then I see cherubi launch a seed and it hits the murkrow, the seed sprouts a bunch of vines and wraps the murkrow and zaps it, its wings being wrapped up it falls to the ground with a thud, the remaining five murkrow seem apprehensive to attack
I smirk and start running toward the house, but I hear that loud screech again, and then on the roof I see it
A huge black bird that I can only guess is honchkrow, he’s looking at me with a furious look in his eyes, he raises a wing pointing at me, and the five murkrow all fly straight at me
Then I hear someone yell “staraptor brave bird!”
I see a bright orange flash fly out of the front of the house straight at the five remaining murkrow, it slams into all five and they all get tossed into the ground with a loud thud
I drop the shield and start catching them all in the ranger balls before they can get back up
After that I see the pokemon ranger stumble from the house as staraptor lands beside him, they rush into the yard to face honchkrow but it has dissapeared
I see the ranger take his styler and call for help, I rush up to them and drop the rest of the ranger balls onto the ground
“Please I need to get to the pokemon center in floaroma!” I say
“Staraptor, take them there quick!” Quell says
I hop onto staraptors back and it quickly takes flight, we reach town in about half an hour
Staraptor lands in front of the pokemon center and I rush inside
“Please help!” I yell rushing up to the counter
Nurse joy gasps and quickly rushes chatot off to the operating room
My arms are covered in chatots blood so I go and wash up
After a few hours Lucy, Ruche, Scarlett, and Sasha show up
“Hey” I say
“Hey” ruche says
“Look! I didn’t get hurt this time! Im getting better at this” I say jokingly
Ruche sighs
“Thanks for coving me by the way” i say
“Anytime” ruche says sitting down next to me
Sasha stands in front of me
“I have a message from the ranger, "I’ll let the illegal use of the ranger balls go since this was a special case, and a warning, honchrows are known to hold grudges, you better be careful” is what he said" Sasha says
“I see, thanks” I say
Lucy shuffles awkwardly
“Uh hey kid” Lucy says
“Hey, how’s everyone else?” I ask
“Good, there eating dinner at a cafe in town” Lucy says with a laugh
“Good” I say with a smile
Theres a pause
“Hey, I have a request… Can you take chatot with you?” Lucy asks
“What? Are you sure?” I say
“Yeah… I… Don’t think we can live with chatot after we just abandoned him. It wound hurt just seeing him, so instead of just, asking him not to come to the windworks I’d rather he go with a trainer that will watch out for him” Lucy says with a sad expression
“I see” is all I can manage to say
After about an hour nurse joy walks up to us
“Chatots going to be fine, it was a close call though” nurse joy says
Nurse joy walks us to chatots room
We see chatot asleep on the bed, he’s covered in scars and hooked up to a bunch of machines
I look over at Lucy and she looks like she’s about to burst into tears
Chatots sits up in his bed
“No! You should be resting!” Nurse joy says sternl
Lucy walks over to the bedside and starts crying
“I’m sorry chatot, I’m so so sorry” she says while sobbing
We excuse our self’s and head back to our room in the pokemon center
We spend the rest of the day resting and then pass out from exhaustion as the sun sets
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 7:00:57 GMT
We wake up and get ready for the day, we pack up our stuff and prepare to leave floaroma
“So what are you going to do about Lucy’s request?” Ruche asks
“I’d love to take chatot with me, but it’s ultimately up to him” I say
We head into the lobby and find Lucy, Gwen, Denny, and Jerald waiting in the lobby
“Hey kid” Lucy says
“Good morning everyone” I say
“Mawile!” Scarlett says happily
Nurse joy comes over carrying chatot in her arms, she hands chatot to Lucy
“He is feeling much better, the scars are permanent though, and he should take it easy for a few days” nurse joy says and then walks away
Lucy turns to me
“I discussed what I asked you with chatot last night” Lucy says
“I see, well then let just get to it then” I say
I take a premier ball out of my pocket and hold it out to chatot
“Chatot, do you want to come with me on my adventure?” I ask
“Tot chat tot!” Chatot says and then starts flapping his wings and takes flight
Chatot fly’s around the room once and then straight at me, chatot swoops low and rams straight into my stomach, i stagger back a little having the wind knocked out of me, and fly’s away with a smirk
“Oh yeah, should of warned you about that, that’s how he shows that he likes someone” Lucy says with a devious smirk
“That’s… Great…” I say with great difficulty and clutching my stomach
Chatot lands on the ground and walks up to the premier ball I dropped when he tackled me
He places one foot on the ball and smiles at me, then he presses down the button and gets sucked inside
The ball shakes a few times, and them let’s out a chime
Some of the other trainers in the pokemon center start clapping as I grab the ball and let chatot back out, he fly’s over to Denny and them and they start saying their goodbyes
I take out my pokedex
Chatot - The Music Note Pokemon - Normal/Flying - this pokemon enjoys singing and it keeps time by flicking its tail feathers like a metranome, with enough practice it can learn to mimic any pokemons cry, and on rare occasions can even learn human speech
Its ability is keen eye
It knows the moves chatter, fury attack, and mirror move
I make a mental note to look those up later
I put my pokedex away and look over at everone
Gwen and Jerald look uncomfortable as they say goodbye, Denny is crying while Lucy comforts him
Chatot hops back over to me and looks a bit sad, I click his ball onto my belt and walk over to lucy
“So what are you kids gonna do now?” Lucy asks
“We are leaving for eterna city” I say
“I see” Lucy says
“What about you guys?” I ask
“We’re talking a week off, staying at an inn in town, get some time away from the house” Lucy says
“Understandable” I say
“Well, we should get going, be careful on your way to eterna city” Lucy says
“We will” ruche says
We leave the pokemon center and head straight out of town
After a few hours of walking along the path we reach a river with a bridge, we cross and decide to have a river side lunch
Everyone summons their pokemon and I introduce chatot to everyone, then they all go off to play by the river
As I’m helping ruche set up his cooking setup Sasha walks over holding a glass jar
“Can I get combee’s honey?” She asks
“Oh yeah” I say
“Combee!” I call out and combee floats over to us
“Can you give Sasha your honey?” I ask
Combee smiles and Sasha opens the jar
Combee floats over and seems to start chewing something, a moment later the bottom mouth opens and honey starts slowly spilling out into the jar
After a few moments combee stops producing honey and smiles, then goes back to playing with the other pokemon
“…that was kinda gross” I say with a laugh
“How did you think they made it” Sasha asks
“I have no idea” I say
Sasha goes and continues making some pokemon food in the shade
After lunch we continue walking down the path, as we walk the greenery fades away in favor of a more rocky surrounding, and the path starts to incline slightly
We continue walking until the path fades away, we are surrounded by cliffs and theres caves dotting the walls
We find a small cave, more of an indent in the mountain and set up camp for the night
Sasha hands me a canister of pokemon food
“This is for chatot” Sasha says
“Wow, that was fast, thank you” I say with a smile
“I had the supplies already” Sasha says
After dinner we all crawl into our tents and go to bed
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 7:03:55 GMT
I wake up early and leave the cave to do some training
I summon everyone and turn toward Chimchar and chatot
“how are you two feeling?” I ask
“char!” Chimchar says in a scratchy voice but with a big smile
“Chat!” Chatot says flapping his wings but grimaces in pain soon after
“Yeah, you two need to rest, we will ease you two into training in a few days once you feel better” I say
“Chim!” Chimchar says in a pleading tone
“Chat at tot!” Chatot chimes in as well
I sigh
“Fine, you can help with the others training, but promise me you will take it easy!” I say sternly
I turn to Scarlett and combee
“you two ready for today’s training?” I ask
“Maw” Scarlett says with a nod
“Combee bee!” Combee says with a smile
I hand Chimchar and chatot two flags from my bag
“You two stand a fair distance apart, and Scarlett will iron head towards you, then stop and turn and go toward the other one, every so often you should move somewhere else to keep her on her toes” I explain
Chatot and Chimchar separate and hold up their flags and Scarlett goes and stands in the center
Scarlett starts glowing a metallic white and runs toward Chimchar, right as she is about to reach him she pivots on her foot and starts heading toward chatot, Chimchar quickly moves a few feet to the left and as Scarlett reaches chatot she pivots again and looks for Chimchar and starts rushing toward him, and chatot takes this opportunity to relocate, after this happens a few times I turn my attention to combee
“With everything that’s happened I haven’t had time to check out your moves, I recall that you had gust and sweet scent? Let’s start off with showing me both of those moves in action” I say
“Combee comb!” Combee says with a smile
Combee starts flapping her wings rapidly and starts kicking up a powerful wind, it feels like it could knock me over if I were even a little off balance, her wings have started making a loud buzzing sound, as her wings beat faster and faster the wind starts to sting a little, then I notice there are very small cuts forming on my skin as the wind whips past me
“That must be gust, next let’s see sweet scent” I shout over the loud buzzing sound
Combee goes back to flapping her wings normally and then starts spinning in the air, soon after a pink powder starts wafting through the air, it smells so sweet it almost makes me nauseous
“I see, good job” I say patting her on the head
I look over at Scarlett and she is still going strong
“You guys can stop now” I yell toward the others
Scarlett stops and wipes the sweat from her forehead with a proud smile on her face
I take the flags from Chimchar and chatot and send them over to the campsite to rest
“Next let’s try something I just came up with, while aiming at each other you will use fairy wind and gust in a sort of contest of wind strength, the one that gets blown back loses” I say with a smile
Scarlett and combee separate a fair distance apart and face each other
Scarlett opens her jaws and starts blowing a pink glittery wind towards combee while she flaps her wings rapidly and blows a strong gust towards scarlett
The two moves meet in the middle and Scarlett fairy wind immediately starts getting pushed back
Scarlett struggles and tries to increase the intensity of the wind but fails as combee gust blows back Scarletts fairy wind and sends Scarlett tumbling backwards across the ground
Scarlett gets to her feet and looks a bit frustrated
“Good job you guys” I say to both
“Breakfast!” I hear ruche yell from near the cave
We all head over and eat breakfast
I give chatot his food and he seems to like it
“I put some revival herb in his food too so he can heal faster, after him and Chimchar get better I’ll make some without the medicine in it” Sasha says
“Thanks” I say with a smile
“Hey guys, I was just planning out our route to eterna, we can take the scenic route or the fast route, I pretty much know the answer already but I’ll ask anyway, which path would you prefer we take?” Ruche asks looking up from his pokenav
“What’s the difference besides the time it’ll take to get to eterna?” I ask
“Well the scenic route has an abandoned ironworks factory along the way, and then we will have to get to eternal through a forest, the quick route is basically just a straight shot eterna though the mountains” ruche explains
“I’m voting for the scenic route, I need time for my pokemon to heal and then more time to train them for my gym battle, and it sounds like i can get some nice pictures along the way” I say
“Sounds good to me, what about you Sasha?” ruche asks
“Sounds fun” Sasha says
We pack our stuff and continue trekking through the mountains for the next few hours until we stop for lunch
We set up camp next to a stream, a little ways up stream is a small waterfall
I sit down under a nearby tree and think about what I should do for my upcoming gym match
Ruche walks over with a smile
“What’s up?” Ruche asks
“I’m conflicted, I think its fun to go into gym battles blind, but its also irresponsible to not read up about my opponent right? also the fact that half my team is injured for a few more days is worrying too, I’m worried I won’t have enough time to train them” I say with a sigh
“So you’re thinking of looking up information about Eterna city’s gym leader?” Ruche asks sitting down next to me
“Yeah, I think necessity out ways my love of surprises” I say reluctantly
“How about I look up the info and tell you just enough to help your training without spoiling everything?” Ruche suggests
“You’d do that? Thanks!” I say flashing ruche a big smile
Ruche smiles and pulls out his pokenav, after a few moments ruche nods and puts his pokenav away
“Alright, so the eterna city gym uses grass types, and the gym leader seems to favor speed” ruche says
“I see… Thank you” I mutter
I start thinking of how I’m going to approach this battle, after about ten minutes Ruches calls everyone over for lunch
As I sit down I look over at the pokemon eating their lunch, and I get an idea
“Ruche, after lunch I want to have a battle with you and cherubi!” I announce excitedly
“Cher!?” Cherubi says with her face covered in food
“Alright, I’ve been meaning to have a battle with cherubi, but let’s make it a two on two battle, riolu needs to get some exercise as well, I’ve been slacking on the training recently” ruche says with a laugh
“Fine by me” I say getting excited
After lunch we clean up and then decide to have the battle next to the stream
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 24, 2018 7:06:50 GMT
I summon combee
“You ready for your first battle?” I ask
“bee!” Combee shouts happily and happily floats out in front of me
I see ruche summon cherubi
“Its time for your first battle! Let’s give it all we got!” Ruche says with a smile
“…cher” cherubi mutters nervously
“Hmm, tell you what, if you win I’ll give you an extra portion at dinner” ruche says with a devious smile
Cherubi turns toward us, her eyes filled with a fierce determination, and a string of drool dripping from her mouth
The stage is set
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Battle start!
“Combee gust!” I shout
“Cherubi razor leaf” ruche yells
Combee increases her wing speed and send a gust of wind whipping toward cherubi
Cherubi waves her leaves through the air and some leaves materialize and launch toward combee
The two moves meet in the middle and the leafs get deflected off course and stick into the ground
The gust continues having lost some of its force hits cherubi who winces a little
“Gust again!” I yell
“Dodge it and use leech seed!” Ruche shouts
Combee launches another gust of wind toward cherubi who rolls under the gust of wind and charges at combee
“Fly up!” I shout
Combee quickly starts to fly upward as cherubi spits a seed out of their mouth
It sticks to combees back and starts to glow
“Comb!?” Combee shouts as vines sprout from the seed and wrap around her body and wings
As combee starts to plummet to the ground the vines constrict and start to glow as combee screams out in pain as the vines seem to shock her
She hits the ground and doesn’t get up
I rush to combees side and tear the vines off
“Combee are you okay!?” I ask
After a moment Combee floats into the air with great difficulty and a looks of disappointment
“that was a nice try combee” I say patting her head reassuringly
I return her to her premier ball and look over at ruche and cherubi
Cherubi is bouncing around happily with drool pouring from her mouth
“okay, okay, calm down, you did great cherubi, you still have to wait for dinner though” ruche says putting cherubi back into her ball
“Well then riolu you’re up” ruche says releasing riolu from his pokeball
“scarlett, lets win this one” I say
“maw!” Scarlett says in a determined voice While running onto the field
The stage is set
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Battle start!
“Riolu agility!” ruche yells
“scarlett fairy wind while spinning in a circle” I shout
Riolu hops twice and disappears while Scarlett starts spinning and blasting a pink glittery wind all around herself
Riolu reappears rubbing his eyes a few feet away
“iron head” I yell
Scarlett stops spinning and starts glowing a metallic white and starts charging toward riolu but stumbles a little
“oops, she got dizzy” I say with a laugh
Scarlett shakes it off and continues charging toward riolu
“counter!” ruche shouts
Riolu starts to glow blue as Scarlett slams into him sending him skidding backwards
“use it to speed up!” Ruche shouts
The blue glow focuses onto riolu feet and riolu launches off the ground so hard the ground cracks where he was standing
He fly’s like a bullet toward Scarlett, there isn’t even any time to react, he plants a fist deep into Scarlett’s chest and she doubles over and fly’s backward at an amazing speed straight toward me
Without thinking I open my arms to catch her
as she makes contact I clasp my arms around her and we both go tumbling backwards into the stream
Luckily the stream is only about two inches deep because we both had the wind knocked out of us
Ruche and riolu run over and help us to our feet
“I’m so sorry!” Ruche says
“Riolu!” Riolu shouts in an apologetic tone
Scarlett is clutching her stomach and I take a moment to catch my breath
“Its fine, really,” I choke out
We stagger back to camp and Sasha sighs and starts treating Scarlett and combee
Ruche sits next to me
“Sorry again, I didn’t think that using counter like that would be so effective” ruche says
“Yeah, that was awesome. You said the next gym leader is all about speed right?” I ask
“I said one of her things was speed.” Ruche says
“Well then, I think riolu and cherubi are the perfect sparring partners” I say happily
“I guess they are” ruche says with a laugh
Scarlett walks over and sits on my lap lightly rubbing her stomach
“How are you feeling scar?” I ask gently petting her head
“…maw…” Scarlett says in a frustrated tone
“I’m sorry… Today’s loss was my fault, I didn’t think you would get that dizzy so fast, looks like we both have a lot of training to do” I say with a sigh
We pack up camp and continue walking until the sun starts to set, them we set up our tents and go to sleep
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Post by girl-like-substance on Aug 26, 2018 16:00:13 GMT
No worries, I know exactly the sort of thing you mean – and I think I can definitely see it too, in those brief, magical moments like the one where Dakota and Scarlett stumble across the kricketot concert in the woods. You're also right that it gets better as it goes; things definitely get more complex and creative, although I think many of the presentation issues do remain. Anyway, readable is definitely an achievable goal, I think! It's not unreadable as it stands, so you're definitely not too far off hitting the mark you've set yourself. :> With that out of the way, you've posted quite a lot since my last review, and a lot of the errors I could point out are repeats of things I noted before, so for the sake of saving time I think I'll take more of a general response kind of approach here. I've kinda already touched on it a bit, but what you do really well with this fic is capture that languid, dreamy sort of feeling that characterises canon representations of trainer journeys, like a long, hot summer holiday punctuated with moments of almost supernatural beauty. Bumping into old friends, finding natural wonders, hanging around Pokémon Centres with your partner while you try to toughen up; there's a journey involved, sure, but it's also a bit slice-of-life, in a chill, pleasant kinda way. I think one way of describing it is that this is the kind of story where you can get away with hiking in a three-piece suit. Which isn't to say that there aren't places in which a more familiar darkness creeps in at the edges: as Dakota says, everyone's afraid of something, and none of the characters on this journey have perfect lives. But they're all so good to each other; it's really nice to see. Like, Dakota warns Sasha when there are going to be big pokémon, and helps Ruche when he gets panicked by the zubat; everyone covers for everyone else's particular weaknesses without question, even without necessarily knowing the details of their past traumas. It's really nice. They're also quite capable of getting hurt, as the episodes with the aipom or the pokémon trappers demonstrate. But as those episodes also demonstrate, these difficulties do get resolved and give way to that same languid atmosphere again. This is the sort of journey where problems can be overcome and learned from – even really drastic ones, as with the golem, or the siege in the Windworks. I think sometimes the problems are sorta cartoonishly over the top (the elite ranger losing both legs, for instance, seems kinda overkill for your purposes, but then maybe that's the point?), but people are capable of moving past them. It's full of cool little details too – the little machine that 3D prints you your badge case, all the other stuff that Centres have, the way that moves differ depending on the pokémon using them, or on how they're executed. Good stuff.
Anyway, to finish off, here are just a few things that stood out to me as not being quite right:
Here you've got the end of one chapter duplicated above the beginning of the next, as well as what look like the tags from when you originally posted it. That doesn't seem plausible or even really possible, I have to say. Like, if that many people just dropped out of society to start searching for these creatures, society would probably stop functioning altogether. This doesn't sound right at all. What happened to Dakota was 100% avoidable, honestly. If the ranger service hadn't been so negligent as to allow him to go down into the depths; if he'd gone to get help instead of trying to attack the trapper himself; if he'd thought about any of what he was doing before he did it – there are so many ways that he could have avoided all that. I can see why Dakota might say that it's unavoidable, because to a ten-year-old maybe it does seem that way, but the way I read it, the story seems to throwing its weight behind that viewpoint. And that's simply not true of the events as they've been represented here. Besides, if this really was typical of a trainer journey, it's … kind of incredible that it's still a thing, honestly, because when children get hurt that tends to bring about pressure to reform whatever structure it is that got them injured. Now, the authorities have been kind of negligent, in a lot of ways, but I'm not sure that that's what you're getting at. How does something as important as a major power station have no landline? Or, failing that – why couldn't they just turn off the power? Someone would come investigate if that happened. Like, a place like this would be connected in all kinds of ways, and given that this is a world in which pokémon exist and do things like this, I feel like it's strange that there aren't any procedures in place to manage events like this when they happen.
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 29, 2018 8:11:00 GMT
You're so nice, I reread your posts when I'm feeling discouraged BTW. So thank you.
As for the things you mentioned
1. Dang! I thought I caught all of those. I'll go fix that
2.I thought 60% sounded dumb, I'll change it to twenty? Fifteen? Is that still a lot?
3. Double dang. I didn't write that part well. Dakota knows that everything that happened to him was entirely his fault. It usually is. He was just trying to say that everyone gets hurt AT SOME POINT,and that accidents do happen. I guess I just didnt write it well enough
4. OK see, I messed that up again. It wasn't a facility. It was a regular house in the middle of a canyon. I think I didn't describe it well enough. So the only thing the people at the actual facility miles away would have noticed would be if all the turbines stopped
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 29, 2018 8:54:34 GMT
We wake up and set out for the ironworks first thing in the morning after breakfast
We walk for about three hours before the rocky scenery fades and a more natural one takes its place
After awhile the ironworks ruins come into view, a large steel factory completely overgrown with vines and reclaimed by nature
We walk up to the crumbling factory and start looking for a way inside
“Is it even safe to go inside” Sasha asks
“it looked a lot better in the pictures” Ruche says a bit disappointed
“I think it looks like it could be fun!” I say enthusiastically
We start walking around looking for a way in
“There!” Ruche calls out pointing toward a metal door overgrown with ivy
We walk over and pry it open with all our strength and it creaks open making a loud metal screeching sound
We head inside and are surprised that its in even worse shape than the outside
The layout seems like it was confusing resembling a sort of maze, luckily most of the walls have long since crumbled
I take out my camera and start snapping a few picture as we step over one of the crumbled walls
“what happened here?” I ask
“this place created a lot of pollution apparently so they scheduled it for closure, but as they were clearing out there was an explosion that destroyed most of the building, so it sat here for a few years, then when they came back to renovate they found out that a bunch of wild Pokemon had moved in, so they cleaned it up a little and made it safe for the Pokemon and just let them have it.” Ruche explains
“neat” I say
We continue exploring the area until we seemingly reach the center of the factory
There’s big hole in the roof and sunlight is beaming down into a crater in the center of the big room
Everything is covered in grass and moss, there’s flowers everywhere and there’s even a few berry trees
Sitting in a bed of flowers is a heap of Pokemon, they have green heads and long red body’s and long insect wings, they are swarming together in a sort of ball
I take out my pokedex
Yanma - The Clear Wing Pokemon - Bug/Flying - Its eyes can see 360 degrees without moving its head so it can see even see prey that’s behind it. Its a fantastic flier that can make sudden stops and turns midair
“That’s…not… what I think it is right?” ruche asks embarrassed
“no” Sasha says
“ha, ha, I have no idea” I say snapping a few pictures
Then I see a human arm reach out from the pile
“Someone’s in there!” I say as I run forward
I slide down the wall of the Crater and run up to the pile of yanma and grab the arm
I start pulling and out pops a woman with blue hair pulled back into a ponytail, she’s wearing glasses, and a lab coat, and has a delighted look on her face and is laughing as if being tickled
I stop pulling for a moment and the woman chokes out “keep pulling!” between laughing fits
I pull her all the way out if the pile and we tumble onto the ground
she’s on all fours breathing heavily
“Thanks” she says after catching her breath for a bit
“Are you okay?” I ask
“I’m fine, I pulled out some treats for them and they swarmed me. I think I was laughing for like ten minutes, my sides are killing me” she says clutching her sides
Ruche, Sasha, and Scarlett slide down into the crater and join us
As the yanma start dispersing the woman stands and dusts herself off
“I’m Andrena, I specialize in researching bug type Pokemon” Andrena says with a smile
“I’m Dakota, and this is my partner Scarlett, and these are my friends ruche and Sasha” I say gesturing to everyone
“Well its nice to meet you. What are you doing here?” Andrena asks
“Sightseeing” ruche says
“I see. Well I’ve been here a few days, I can show you around if you want” Andrena says with a smile
“That would be great” ruche says
We all climb out of the crater and I notice all the yanma fluttering about
“What’s up with all these yanma anyway, are they your Pokemon?” I ask
“Ha, I wish. No these are all wild yanma. This colony forcefully occupied this factory a few weeks ago driving out the other wild Pokemon, I came to figure out why” Andrena says with a sigh.
“But forget about that, let me show you around!” Andrena says leading us deeper into the factory
Andrena leads us through the factory
“I don’t know much about the actual factory, but I know what I’ve seen. There are many berry trees all over the factory, the grass and moss that covers everything is nice, and there’s a river right outside, This is a prefect natural sanctuary for wild Pokemon, the yanma moved in about a two weeks ago for a sort of… Goodbye.” Andrena says
“Goodbye?” Ruche asks
“Their leader, yanmega, is going to pass on soon. they brought him here to live out the rest of his life comfortably” Andrena explains
“Is he sick?” Sasha asks
“No, he’s just old.” Andrena says
We tour the entire factory, and as we approach a brightly lit hole in the wall, I think I can hear a faint singing
Then from the hole a yell echo’s out
“Yaaaaaaan”
And suddenly every yanma in the building fly’s past us and into the hole in the wall
“It seems like its time, I guess you can come if you want but its not going to be fun, so just stay quiet and out of the way please” Andrena says
We nod and quietly follow behind Andrena into the hole
The walls are made of closely grown trees and the roof is made of their branches tightly woven together forming a canopy, letting in the perfect amount of light, the floor is covered in grass and flowers, there green dust filling the room and it has a pleasant aroma
All the yanma have crowded around a moss bed in the center of the grotto, there must be about a hundred yanma, all with mournful eyes, and each one holding a stone.
Sitting on the moss bed were two Pokemon, a larger green yanma who looks old and tired, I assume its yanmega, and a small purple Pokemon who I’ve never seen before, she’s singing and releasing the green dust into the air
Andrena turns to us and whispers “That’s my partner Illumise, she’s using aromatherapy to help alleviate some of yanmegas pain”
I take a picture of this scene, its too beautiful not to, then scan the Pokemon with my pokedex and put it away to read later
I put my camera and pokedex away as illumise's song ends and yanmega starts whispering something I cant make out.
Two yanma from the crowd fly over to yanmega and they seem to have a conversation for about five minutes.
They turn to face the crowd and all the other yanma start beating their wings furiously kicking up a furious wind.
I look over at Andrena and her eyes are fixated on the events taking place, like she’s burning into her memory
The two yanma slowly rise into the air start shining a blinding blue light, as their body’s change and grow the yanmega on the bed smiles and his eyes close, and he passes away.
The two glowing yanma finish evolving into yanmega themselves and land beside the old yanmega.
They bow to their old leader and both pick up his body and they take it to a corner of the room, they lay his body down amongst the grass and flowers.
The yanma float up one by one and slowly start piling rocks around the body creating a tomb for their beloved leader.
After that they return to their positions around the moss bed, the two new yanmega leaders land on the it and face the crowd and let out a fierce yet mournful shout that echo’s through the building.
The yanma split in half, and one of the yanmega takes flight and flies out off the building followed by one half of the yanma, and then the other follows suit.
Andrena has tears in her eyes, her and Illumise walk over to the tomb and pace a flower on top of it.
We silently leave the room.
I can’t quite tell how I’m feeling, I’m sad something died, but I’m happy I got to see something cool.
I look over at ruche who is crying and Sasha who is just the same as usual.
Andrena claps her hands together and startles all of us.
“That was a beautiful ceremony wasn’t it? A fantastic funeral and a brilliant passing of the torch! If you have any questions let me know” Andrena says with a smile
“I have a question! Why did they split into two groups?” I ask
“Nice question, usually there would be only one successor to a swarm, a yanmega would raise a few yanma to be successors then upon its death, pick one and teach them ancient power if it hasn’t already learned it. In this case though, there must have been two candidates of equal worth and so he chose both, thus splitting the group evenly” Andrena explains
“Neat” I say
Andrena smiles
“I know, let’s all go have some lunch!” Andrena says motioning us to follow her
We head all the way to the other end of the factory and enter a small room, it looks like at some point in the past it was used as an office, but now there is a tent set up in the middle of the room, illuminated my numerous lamps placed all around the room.
“Hold on, I need to get some stuff” Andrena says as she starts digging through some bags
I take my pokedex out of my pocket and read the two new dex entry’s
Illumise - The Firefly Pokemon - Bug - Its fragrance attracts swarms of its male counterpart Volbeat. It draws over 200 patterns with lights in the night sky. The more complex the pattern it creates the more respect it gets from others of its kind.
Yanmega - The Ogre Darner Pokemon - Bug/Flying - By churning its wings, its creates shock waves that can inflict critical internal damage to foes, it has incredible jaw power, its tail wings help it stay stable and can easily transport an adult
As I put my pokedex away I see that Andrena has a bag of supplies ready and we follow her and Illumise outside
Andrena and Illumise start making two fires.
“Why two fire pits?” Ruche asks
“One is for cooking, and they other is a signal” Andrena says
Andrena starts the fire and takes a blue log out of the bag she brought and tosses it into the fire
Almost immediately a giant plume of blue smoke rises high into the sky
“There, now all the Pokemon that ran from the factory because of the yanma know to come back, just like you told them right Illumise?” Andrena says and Illumise nods
“I’ll start lunch” Ruche says
We release all of our Pokemon to stretch their legs and right when I release combee I hear a loud excited gasp come from behind me
I turn and see Andrena mouth agape, and her eyes wide and filled with excitement
“Y-you caught a female combee!? They are one of the most elusive bug types on the planet! How!?” Andrena says rushing over to us
“I-I don’t know, I think she was attracted to the aloe I was rubbing on my burns. Then I fed her some honeycombee brittle and when she wasn’t looking threw a ball and caught her” I stammer out as Andrena is right in my face
“Aloe…? Interesting…” Andrena says taking a step back.
She turns toward combee and a smile speeds across her face, she gets close and starts murmuring to herself about combee at high speed
Combee starts looking uncomfortable so I go to step in but before I can I see a purple blur connect with the side of Andrena head sending her reeling to the side like she had been shot.
Andrena falls to the floor and Illumise does a flip in the air and floats down onto Andrena body and bows apologetically seemingly on Andrena behalf
After a few moments Andrena sits up and shakes it off
“Ouch. Looks like I went to far again” Andrena says
“illu!” Illumise says in a stern tone
“Sorry, I got too excited” Andrena says
“What?” I say
“If my research is right, then the shade of red she has on her face means she was born in the Amber Castle!” Andrena says excitedly
“Castle? Combee, are you a princess?” I ask jokingly
Combee does a little spin in the air and winks and I laugh but Andrena looks a little antsy
“So what’s the amber castle?” I ask
“Its a huge combee hive said to be hidden somewhere in eterna forest. A few years ago a treasure hunter managed to find it and prove that it exists by acquiring something called enchanted honey, but I don’t care about that, I just want to visit the place and study it. If I’m right that your combee was born there maybe she can put in a good word for me and get us in!” Andrena says shaking with excitement
I consider it for a moment. It sounds like a great place to take some nice pictures, but I decide to ask combee first
“Combee do you know where the amber castle is?” I ask
Combee looks a bit uneasy then nods
“Are you willing to show us they way there? Its okay if you don’t want to” I tell her
Combee starts bobbing up and down in the air and slowly spinning while she thinks
After a few minutes she stops and nods
“Yes!” Andrena exclaims loudly and throwing her arms into the air victoriously
“Comb! Comb bee bee!” Combee says frantically with a worried expression
“I’m guessing that means they still might not let us in even with your recommendation?” I say and combee nods
“That’s fine!” Andrena says giving combee a big hug
“Lunch!” Ruche yells
We walk over and sit down
“Hey guys, Andrena going to be coming with us into the forest, and were making a slight detour to a place called the amber castle, I hope that’s okay” I say
“I think I’ve heard of the amber castle, isn’t that the place that literally only one person has managed to find?” Ruche says
“Yep!” I say
“Sounds like it could be fun” Sasha says
We eat lunch and wait outside as Andrena packs up her camp
“Do you think we can reach the forest before nightfall?” I ask
“I doubt it” ruche says
Andrena runs out of the factory with a large backpack and an even bigger smile
We walk for about seven hours until nightfall and have dinner then set up camp
After a few hours I get up to go to the bathroom and leave the tent
As I’m walking away from camp I see Sasha sitting in the moonlight playing with her necklace staring up at the moon, her facial expression hasn’t changed but for some reason I can tell that shes sad.
“sasha?” I whisper
I walk over and sit down next to her
“are you okay?” I ask hesitantly
There’s a long pause
“that was the the first funeral I’ve been to since dad died” Sasha says suddenly
She grips her necklace tightly with her left hand
“Oh” Is all I can say
I take her other hand and after a few moments she squeezes it tightly.
We sit there in silence and stare up at the moon
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Post by fattymccatcat on Aug 31, 2018 12:01:46 GMT
My alarm goes off and I get ready for the day, then I get Scarlett up and leave our tent.
I’m surprised to see Andrena and illumise already up and enjoying a cup of tea.
“Morning” I say
“Good morning” Andrena asks with a smile
I walk a little ways from camp and summon the other three
“Chimchar, chatots, how are you two feeling?” I ask
“Chim!” Chimchar yells
“That’s great, your voice sounds a lot better!” I say
Chatot spreads his wings wide and takes flight, shooting high into the sky
“You’re still supposed to be taking it easy!” I yell up at him
Chatot stops flapping and leans back doing a loop and then starts plummeting toward the ground
right as he’s about to hit the ground he spreads his wings and fly’s past me at top speed and then back into the air
“Show off!” I yell with a smile
“Let’s get you three sorted out while Chatot enjoys his first flight in awhile” I say
“Combee and Scarlett, let’s do another wind contest” I say clasping my hands together
“Comb!” Combee cheers
“Maaaaw” Scarlett groans
They separate and start blasting wind at each other
They wind collides in the center but fairy wind gets pushed back one again and Scarlett gets blasted with gust, this time standing her ground instead of getting pushed back
“Nice, I think that lasted a few seconds longer than last time Scarlett” I say
“You two take a rest, Chimchar your up!” I say
Chimchar bounces toward me happily
“First let’s see if you can shoot some fire” I say pointing toward the sky
Chimchar focuses for a moment and then launches a small ember into the sky, then three, then five.
Then Chimchar opens his mouth to shoot another ember but nothing comes out
“Uh oh, let’s take it easy” I say
But Chimchar doesn’t move, then I hear a faint clicking noise, like a stove trying to light, after a few second the clicking stops and he curls into a ball
“Chimcha-” I start to yell but before I can Chimchar uncurls and throws his fists to the side and send a giant plume of fire straight into the sky
A wave of heat whips past me and I fall back onto my butt
Once the fire stops Chimchar looks at me and smiles
“What was that!?” I say happily
Take out my pokedex and confirm my suspicions, ember has turned into flamethrower
I rush over and pick up Chimchar and spin him around
“That’s amazing Chimchar!” I say with a smile
“Chim chim!” Chimchar says happily
“Now go rest with the girls” I say setting him down
Chimchar runs over and sits down next to Combee and Scarlett
I look up at the sky and see that Chatot has gone really high up so I whistle as loud as I can
Chatot looks down at me and I motion for him to come down
After a few moments Chatot lands in front of me
“Hey did you see a big forest when you were up there” I ask and Chatot nods
“Cool, now let’s finally check what your moves do!” I say excitedly
I pull out my pokedex
“Your ability is keen eye. I think that means you have really good vision? And your moves are chatter, fury attack, air cutter, and mirror move”
“Let’s start from the top, chatter” I say
Chatter starts yelling as loud as he can, its so loud a get dizzy and lose my footing and fall down as I clutch my ears
“Stop stop stop!” I yell and Chatot stops
I see Ruche and Sasha look out from their tents
“Sorry!” I yell over to them
Sasha goes back into her tent while Ruche starts prepping for breakfast
“Next fury attack” I say
Chatots beak glows a bright white and he quickly stabs it through the air repeatedly
“Alright, nice close range attack, now let’s see air cutter” I say and Chatot fly’s into the air
The tips of chatots wings glow a bright blue and he flaps his wings toward as hard as he can, a big blue cross forms in the air and fly’s toward a nearby tree, it hits and leaves a big cross mark gashed into the trunk
Chatot fly’s back over and lands in front of me
“Whoa! That was neat, now let’s see the last one, mirror move!” I shout
But Chatot doesn’t move.
“Huh? What’s wrong?” I ask pulling out my pokenav
“Oh weird, another pokemon needs to launch an attack against you first before it can work” I read aloud
“Uh, Chimchar come here?” I yell over to him and Chimchar hurries over
“Launch a flamethrower at Chatot and Chatot you dodge it and use mirror move” I say
Chatot takes to the air as Chimchar fires a flamethrower right past Chatot
Chatot turns toward us and his eyes turn to mirrors and a shiver shoots down my spine
Chatot opens his beak and fires a flamethrower into the sky
“That’s great! Let’s see if it works with physical moves, Scarlett!” I yell
Scarlett runs over and joins us while Chatot lands
“Scarlett iron head at Chatot, Chatot Dodge and use mirror move” I say
Scarlett starts glowing a metallic white and charges at Chatot who dodges, chatots eyes turn to mirrors and then his whole body begins glowing the same metallic white and he swoops through the air
“This move is so cool, minus the eye thing. Good job everyone!” I say with a smile
I see that Ruche has finished breakfast so we head over and I give everyone their food and then sit down to have breakfast with everyone
After we finish eating we pack up camp and start heading towards Eterna forest
After an hour of walking the trees around us start getting taller and more packed together, and the natural light starts to dim
“Looks like we’ve made it to the forest” Sasha says
“Yes! I love forests! So many bug types!” Andrena says happily
“Should I summon Combee?” I ask
“No we need to get deeper into the forest first, once we start seeing large red flowers, that’s when she can lead us there” Andrena explains
“Alright… Hey can I ask you something?” I ask
“Sure, what?” Andrena says
“Is there anyway that you can, like, help teach Combee a good bug type move?” I ask
“Hmm, well I can’t promote she anything, but I can write down some training exercises that might work” Andrena says
“Thank you!” I say
We walk deeper into the forest and after a few hours we stop for lunch much to a pond with large lily pads on its surface
As Ruche sets up for lunch I walk over
“Need any help?” I ask
“Sure, can you cut up those vegetables on the table I’ve there?” Ruche says as he builds the fire pit
I walk over to the table and chop all the vegetables into strips like I’ve seen Ruche do before, they aren’t as pretty as when he does it but it’ll do
Ruche walks over and laughs a little
“That’s pretty good for a first attempt actually” Ruche says grabbing the plate and walking back to the fire
I see Sasha sitting by the pond playing with all the pokemon, except Scarlett who won’t go near the water
I see mantyke splash water at riolu and get an idea
I walk over to Sasha
“Sasha, want to have a battle?” I ask with a smile
“Sure” Sasha says standing up and brushing herself off
“Okay, but let’s make the field this pond” Sasha says
“Hmm, Chimchar, can you stand on one of those lily pads?” I ask
Chimchar leaps onto one of the lily pads and sends a ripple across the pond but it seems they will work as stable footing
“Alright then, let’s do this!” I say getting excited
“I’ll referee!” Andrena yells and runs over
We take our respective places on either side of the pond, the pond has five large lily pads spread across the surface of the water, the largest one being in the center and the other four surrounding it in a cross shape
Chimchar is still standing on one of them near my side of the pond
Sasha takes a pokeball from her belt and points it at one of the lily pads and releases buneary
Buneary is surprised to suddenly be standing on a lily pad but quickly gets her footing and stretches a little to get ready for battle
“Make sure not to damage the lily pads! This is a cool idea for a battle but we don’t want to ruin the ponds ecosystem” Andrena warns
“Okay” Sasha an I say together
The stage is set!
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Battle start!
“Pound” Sasha says
“Brick break” I yell
Buneary and Chimchar rush toward the center lily pad as fast as they can and leap onto the center pad causing a small wave to ripple across the pond
They collide in the center of the lily pad buneary throws a punch with her ear that Chimchar just barely dodges by jumping backwards
Chimchar fists glows white and he starts throwing punches that buneary easily dodges by swaying back and forth occasionally counter attacking with an ear to the stomach
“Stop throwing random punches, think about what you’re doing!” I yell
“Bounce” Sasha says
Buneary does a back flip and using her ears she punches down on the lily pads surface and launches herself high into the air
“Flamethrower!” I shout
As buneary start falling Chimchar shoots a stream of fire straight at her
“Defense curl” Sasha shouts
Buneary curls into a ball right as she is enveloped in flames
“Move!” I shout and Chimchar stops shooting fire and jumps back a few steps to the edge of the lily pad
Buneary falls out of the sky like a burning comet
She hits the lily pad and bounces a few times and uncurls as the flames go out
Buneary staggers to her feet toward the waters edge and jumps in
“Uh, I guess Dakotas the winn-” Andrena starts to say when buneary resurfaces behind Chimchar and wraps her ears around his waist and drags him underwater with her
“Chimchar!” I yell
After a few moments Chimchar comes flying out of the water and slides across the top of the middle pad clutching his stomach
I guess buneary got a few punches in underwater
He staggers to his feet as buneary pulls herself up onto the pad
They are both drenched and beaten and they stagger toward each other
“Pound” Sasha yells
“Brick break” I yell
Chimchars hands start glowing white as buneary ears curl tightly
The walk towards each other and right as they meet buneary day unfurls and strikes downward across Chimchar face as Chimchar fist uppercuts buneary
Buneary falls back as Chimchar falls forward and they both land unconscious next to each other
“Its a Draw!” Andrena yells
We return them to their pokeball and the release them on dry land so we can treat them
As we treat them Andrena walks over
“That was intense, almost makes me want to have a battle myself” Andrena says with a laugh
“If you really want to, Chatot needs some battle experience” I say
“Hmm, let me ask illumise” Andrena says taking a pokeball from her lab coat
She summons illumise
“Hey illumise, I know its been awhile but are you up for a pokemon battle?” Andrena asks
Illumise seems surprised and then after a moment she nods
“Alright let’s do it!” Andrena says turning back to me
We step away from the pond and find a more open area
I summon Chatot
“Chatot, you ready for a battle?” I ask
“Tot tot!” Chatot says flapping his wings excitedly then he rams into my stomach
I buckle over
“Ugh, ha ha, I almost forgot you did that when you’re happy” I say rubbing my stomach
Andrena and I separate and Chatot and illumise get ready
“Lunch is- oh your about to battle? Need a referee?” Ruche says walking over
The stage is set!
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Battle start!
Bother pokemon take to the air
“Air cutter!” I shout
“Attract!” Andrena yells
Chatot shoots a glowing cross towards illumise who dodges and blows a kiss to Chatot, a small pink heart shoots out and smacks Chatot in the face.
Chatots pupils turn into hearts and he gets a goofy grin on his face
“Uhhh, Chatot use fury attack” I yell a bit confused
Chatot seems to ignore me
“Ice punch!” Andrena says
Illumises hand glows a light blue and she fly’s toward Chatot
“Chatter!” I yell and get ignored again
Her fist punches Chatot right in the face and a little bit of ice forms an his cheek as he tumbles through the air
“Chatot snap out of it! Mirror move!” I shout
Chatot seems to snap out of it for a second and his eyes turn to mirrors and one of his wings starts to glow a light blue and he soars toward illumise
“Catch it and use Mega kick!” Andrena yells
Chatots wing hits Illumises chest and illumise grabs hold, her hands being cover in ice connecting them together and then she swiftly kicks upward connecting with chatots chest
His eyes stop looking like mirrors and go back to hearts as illumise keeps kicking as they fall to the ground frozen together
As illumise kicks one more time the ice on her hands breaks and Chatot slams into the ground and doesn’t give up
“Illumise and Andrena win!” Ruche announces
I walk over and pick up Chatot and then walk over to Andrena
“Dang, attract is kind of a pain to deal with” I say
“Yeah I know right” Andrena says with a laugh
We go and patch up our pokemon and then eat lunch
We walk through the woods until nightfall and then set up camp for the night
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Post by fattymccatcat on Sept 1, 2018 9:27:55 GMT
I wake up earlier than usual so its quite the chore getting Scarlett up but I manage to after bribing her with some candy
We step outside of the tent and there’s a light layer of fog and its cold enough that we can see our breath
I take out a notebook and scribble a note
“Back in an hour, went exploring”
I attach the note to my tent and I set out with Scarlett and my camera
I make note of the camps position on the GPS app on my pokenav
Scarlett and I carefully walk through the fog and trees with my camera in hand
After about twenty minutes we come to a weird clearing, the air smells pure and theres no fog
the clearing is perfectly circular, and sitting in the middle of the circle is a large mossy boulder
We duck behind a tree when i see a pokemon lying peacefully on top of the mossy rock, its a small green pokemon with leafs for ears and a long leaf tail, the edges of its leaves glisten in the sunlight
I hand Scarlett my pokedex and I ready my camera my camera
Luckily I always leave my pokedex on silent mode nowadays and all Scarlett has to do is point the pokedex
I start taking pictures and all of a sudden it stands on all four of its legs and looks at me.
But it feels more like he looks right through me, my while body tenses up and a cold chill shoots down my spine, and I realize I’ve felt this feeling before, when I first saw the boss pokemon golem.
I manage to snap another picture before falling backwards from my crouching position and then dropping my camera onto my lap
Then the pokemon hops off the boulder and runs into the woods
After the pokemon is gone the clearing is slowly flooded with fog
I breath out a breath I didn’t realize I was holding and pick up my camera
I look over at Scarlett who was just in the same state I was
“I think that was a boss pokemon” I whisper
“M-maw” Scarlett says with a nod
I take the pokedex and read the entry
Leafeon - The Verdant Pokemon - Grass - When you see Leafeon asleep in a patch of sunshine, you’ll know it is using photosynthesis to produce clean air just like a plant, as a result it is always enveloped in clean air. Although it doesn’t like disputes, it will sharpen the leaf on its tail into a blade and fight to protect what’s important to it
I go through my camera and delete some of the pictures, like the ones that are blurry because I was shaking, or ones that are too similar
I’m left with two, one where Leafeon is asleep in the sunlight on the rock, and one where Leafeon is looking right into the camera.
I put my pokedex and camera away and Scarlett and I head back to camp
When we get there I notice that everyone is still asleep so I crumple up the note and head back inside the tent to get warm
About an hour later I hear everyone moving around the camp so I get up and join them and immediately run into Sasha
“Are you feeling okay? Usually you are the first one up” Sasha asks
“Actually I went exploring earlier, but it was cold so we hung out in the tent” I say with a laugh
“That’s sounds more like you” Sasha says
“Yeah, I got a few pictures of the boss pokemon for this area, I think anyway” I say taking out my camera and showing her
“That’s a nice picture but please be more careful. Boss pokemon can be very temperamental.” Sasha warns
Andrena walks over
“I’m sorry but I just hear that you ran into the boss pokemon of Eterna forest?” Andrena asks bewildered
“Yeah, its a Leafeon” I say showing her the camera
“Wow. Even the pictures give me chills, I can’t imagine what seeing a boss pokemon in person was like” Andrena says handing the camera back to me
“Well it was intense, but not as bad as golem, I think maybe because Leafeon wasn’t trying to kill me?” I say
“I’m sorry what?” Andrena asks
I tell her the story of the golem incident over breakfast, leaving out the part with the prism association by just calling them poachers
“Geez, sounds like you had a rough time” Andrena says
“Meh, it wasn’t boring at least” I say with a laugh
“Yeah he keeps getting himself dragged into things like that” Ruche says
I just shrug
“Oh right, I have something for you” Andrena says reaching into her bag and pulling out a slip of paper
“This lists two training regiments for Combee, they are for attacks Combee are known to learn so with enough determination and training it should go well” Andrena says
“Thank you!” I say taking the slip of paper and open it its written in pink and has decorations drawn all over it
Combee training special!
~ the first move is bug bite!
Training this is actually quite simple, just have her bite things! The most effective things to bite would be berries, but anything will work!
You will know when she has learned the move when she is able to grow glowing fangs in her mouths
~ the second move is called bug buzz!
This ones a little harder, when Combee beat their wings fast enough they create a loud noise, she will need to beat her wings at literally the maximum speed possible for as long as possible
You will know when she has learned the move once she is able to send out a shockwave from her wings
~Andrena~
“Sasha, can you dehydrate entire berries?” I ask
“Yes” Sasha says
“Great!” I say releasing Chatot
“Chatot, go find a berry tree and bring back as many as you can” I say
Chatot fly’s upward through the canopy and a after about five minutes returns with five Oran berries
I hand them to Sasha and she puts them into her dehydrator
“They should be done in a few hours” Sasha says
We pack up camp and walk for about six hours before stopping for lunch
Sasha tosses me a small bag of dehydrated Oran berries, they are smaller than before and hard like rubber
I summon Combee
“Your new training is to chew through these” I say placing one in each of her mouths
She bites down but doesn’t even make a dent
Combee eyes fill with determination as she bites down harder
I leave her to her training and walk a few steps away
I call Scarlett over and summon Chimchar
“Now for you two… I thought up a little game” I say with a smirk
“The object of the game is to tag the others back with your hand. Scarlett you’re out of he touches the yellow circle on your jaws or your back, neither of you can use your moves” I explain
They nod and separate a few feet apart and face each other
“Go!” I shout
Chimchar charges at Scarlett and tries to circle around, but Scarlett turns to match him
They wind up circling around each other endlessly so I turn to check on Combee
She has chewed halfway through each berry
“Oh, nice!” I say and Combee smiles happily then continues chewing
She has blue drool dripping from each of her mouths and she looks like she’s having fun
After cleaning her up a little i turn back to Chimchar and Scarlett
They are stationary and panting heavily with their arms out and are entirely focused on each other
Steam is rising from Chimchar body
Chimchar charges toward Scarlett and she does the same, they rush past each other and Chimchar swipes at Scarlett’s back but misses because Scarlett spun her body to the side and she slaps Chimchar back and they both go tumbling to the ground
I walk over and hand them both some water
“Both of you did great, good job on getting the win Scarlett” I say happily
“Combee!” I hear Combee yell from behind me
Combee floats over covered in blue juice again so I help her get cleaned up once again
“Did you bite through them?” I ask and she nods
“Great, where are they?” I ask
Her eyes go wide and I can already tell what happened
“You ate them huh” I say with a laugh
Combee nods sheepishly
“Its fine, probably” I say patting her on the head reassuringly
We walk over and have lunch with everyone else
Then we clean up and walk deeper into the forest until nightfall
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Post by fattymccatcat on Sept 22, 2018 0:23:07 GMT
I wake up a little later than usual today, much to Scarlett’s delight
I exit my tent and everyone’s already up and preparing for the day
“Hey guys, just a warning, today’s trainings gonna be loud” I say as me and all my pokemon start stretching
“Oh, are you going to start training for bug buzz?” Andrena asks
“Yep!” I say
I walk a bit away from camp and separate them into two groups
“Chimchar, you and Scarlett are going to do the back slapping game from yesterday while I get the other two situated.” I say
Chimchar nods and they separate a few feet apart and get ready
“Oh and this time, you aren’t allowed to stop running, so start running in a circle and wait for the signal to start” I yell
They start running around each other in a large circle, as I see them start to reach their top speed I raise my arm
“Go!” I yell swinging my arm down
They pivot and run directly at each other as the pass each other the swipe at each others backs but miss and start running in a circle again to build up speed, then they make another pass and miss again and the prossess repeats
I nod and turn my attention to combee and chatot
“Combee, I’m putting the bug bite training on hold for now, the other one sounds more useful, so today we are going to start training for a move called bug buzz, you need to beat your wings fast enough that the sound waves shoot out as an attack, and I thought getting the sound loud enough without a goal would be difficult so your training partner will be chatot, chatots going to use chatter, and you have to make your wings buzzing sound loud enough to match his volume” I say
“Comb!” Combee says with a nod
“Great,chatot, try and match your chatter with the level of her buzzing and then slowly start raising the volume.” I say and chatot nods
Combee starts beating her wings and making a buzzing sound, then Chatot opens his beak and starts screaming
Chatot lowers his volume to about the level of combee buzzing
I turn back to the other two, they have slowed down substantially and are panting heavily as they run
As they make another pass and Chimchar speeds up suddenly surprising Scarlett and then Chimchar tags the marking on her jaws
They both fall to their hands and knees panting heavily
“Looks like the score is one to one, you two can rest up back at camp” I say handing them some water
I turn back to combee and chatot, combee wings have started to beat slightly faster but she looks exhausted
“That’s enough!” I yell over the both of them causing them to stop
“I don’t want you hurting your wings so we will only do this a little every day slowly raising your speed until you learn the move.” I explain
I carry them back to camp and we sit down for breakfast
After eating and packing up we continue walking deeper into the forest
I notice the trees are getting thicker and taller the farther in we go
After a few hours of walking I hear a loud excited gasp from behind me
I turn and see andrena rush over to a large red flower growing next to a tree
Its about the same size as scarlett
“This is a pomeg flower! We must be getting close!” Andrena says happily
“Should I summon combee now?” I ask
“Hmm. No I think its still too early for that, let’s keep going until we actually see some combee” andrena says
We walk deeper into the forest for a few more hours passing small clusters of pomeg flowers along the way
As night falls we decide to stop for the day and set up camp
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