Zoruas, Eevees, Wrumples Oh my!

Philomel seemed confused when the boy ran up and offered his hand. Was he following her? She shook her head slightly, picking herself up. Once standing, she dusted off her coat. "Uh, yeah. I'm fine... What happened here?" She asked, looking around. Charred grass, dark ash spread about, and the final remains of many burnt stumps. The clearing, even if small, was much too damaged to have been caused by a wild pokemon. There didn't even seem to be any footsteps to indicate a fire pokemon approaching the area. Then again, it could've flown. What if it was a Charizard?

Silas growled, climbing onto the Scyther's arm and grabbing the Wurmple between his fangs. Jumping off the blade pokemon, he landed on the ground and immediately spat out the worm. He made a slight gagging noise, definitely not finding it any way tasty. he brought a paw up, wiping his mouth before turning his attention back to combat. He used Leer, eyes glinting maliciously to shock the bug.

The Wurmple received the Leer, returning the favor by hurling itself towards the fox to use Tackle. It managed to hit, but the Zorua didn't seem all too fazed. The dark type growled, retaliating the attack with a Scratch. The Wurmple shot out a web of silk, hitting its opponent and wrapping its silk around the incoming paw. The silk managed to cling to the Zorua's claws, but did not stop the incoming scratch.

Meanwhile Flora took on the Bellsprout, the bellsprout grew as it lashed its vines uselessly on the Turtwig's shell. Flora used Withdraw and Tackle, the only moves she COULD use. She tackled the bellsprout over and over until it finally decided to yield and flee. She was about to move to help the Zoura but a tail slapped into her face with a pound attack, it was another treecko! "What the-" she spoke before getting pounded once more and being sent into a tree.

Give her back!" the Treecko snarled to the female trainer in pokemon, demanding something from the girl.

Seph had ran over to Flora, scared for his pokemon, to check to see if she was all right. Flora seemed weak, but otherwise still energized and ready to battle. He sighed in relief and looked to the treecko, he didn't want to hurt it, but it seemed that the treecko wanted to harm them. They would have to fight.

Silas fought off the Wurmple with relative ease, though took much longer than Flora as the irritating worm wouldn't stop shooting webs of silk at him. He growled, using one more Leer to lower the pokemon's defense. He took a running pounce, scratching the bug's mid section using one paw, then using the other to hold its head down to the ground to avoid being spurted with another String Shot. The fox continued swiping until the bug stopped retaliating, and once he was sure it was unconscious, he threw it off into the bushes.

"Well, that takes care of that..." The Zorua muttered, before turning to the Scyther. The fox's ears pricked upwards in surprise as he watched the Treecko suddenly send the boy's Turtwig to a tree.

Philomel watched the commotion, shifting her focus frantically to and fro. That boy's pokemon had just been hurt! She furrowed her brows when she heard the Treecko talk to her, unable to decipher its odd language. She frowned, not liking how this grass type was acting. "S-Silas! Use Scratch!"

Silas nodded, feeling slightly relieved that his trainer had finally given him some orders. He ran towards the gecko with as much speed as he could muster, before taking a leap. His claws were unsheathed, ready to scrape at its opponent.

The treecko was struck by the attack, and found that he was being teamed up on. He leered at the two before releasing a screech into the air, he was calling on some of his friends to come and help him. He was tackled by the Turtwig once more, he decided to try and ignore the turtwig and get rid of the zorua. The Treecko darted towards the Fox Pokemon and attempted to pound into it with his tail.

Flora used a tackle attack and quickly retreated and withdrew into her shell once more. This pokemon seemed to have physical type of moves so raising her defense was probably best was Seph's thoughts. Seph hated to force her to keep fighting, but the turtwig had refused his order to return and continued to help fight against this annoying treecko.
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Silas was hit, falling onto the ground. The Treecko's large, heavy tail had managed to throw itself down onto his back, inflicting more damage than expected. The fox hissed in pain, raising his head to look up to the grass type. He used Leer, before forcing himself to roll
over and scratching the tail above him.

Meanwhile, the Scyther seemed bitter about the fight. It slowly approached Philomel, making sure to lower its scythes. Its eyes were fixed on the trainer's bag, but didn't seem to be showing any intention of harming her other than taking it.

But Philomel didn't catch that. She stared back at the Scyther, looking very much frightened. She shuffled back everytime it took a step forwards, not wanting to be any closer to the possibly dangerous pokemon. Those blades looked sharp, and its speed was definitely a force to be reckoned with. Scyther were never much of a friendly species, or at least the books she had read said so.

Seph was too busy having a pokeball be dropped on his head from something moving in the trees to notice the scyther growing nearer to the girl. He picked up the pokeball while rubbing his head and looking up. He was about to command his turtwig to attack whatever was in the trees, but the treecko had decided he was sick of the pokemon and used a pound attack on it and sending it flying into Joseph's stomach.

The turtwig was about to jump back out into battle despite its wounds, but Joseph had pretended to be knocked out and held onto the turtwig. He feared that Flora was going to get seriously hurt if she continued to fight in her condition, she was obviously tired and needed a rest.

Lucius floated into the area with an astonishing attack called "Astonish." Lucius was glad to be back in action after taking a nap for so long in the pokeball. He would also get to see what the Zorua could do with him on the field, someone immune to the pound attacks.
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Philomel was in that situation again. She was cornered by a Scyther, who she guessed was planning on harming her. The glint it emitted from its sharp, sharp claws made her yelp. She forced her cry down, not wanting to accidentally trigger it. From that mere yelp, the bug took an immediately step forwards. It stared at her with intense eyes. It was very focused, and the girl could only guess it was planning its attack or was making sure she wouldn't try to escape. A small bead of sweat dribbled from her forehead. Her heart beat with an unhealthy speed.

The Scyther had enough. It needed to get that bag, whether the girl was willing to surrender it or otherwise. It leaped towards her, mouth open and ready to snag the bag. To the bug's surprise, its mouth did not meet with leather or cloth. Instead, it was met with a circular device.

Silas paid no heed to the ghost type, putting his attention on the Treecko. He used Leer once more, before running towards the grass type with a Scratch in mind. He was unable to deal much damage as he was deflected by the Treecko's sudden swing of a tail, hitting him and sending him back.

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The treecko was weak now, but it wasn't finished yet. It ran towards Silas to try and land a final blow, but it had been intercepted by a Yamask, who had used Protect while standing in front of the Zorua so it wouldn't even have to bother to move. He also did it so he could get closer to the treecko. The pokemon collided with the barrier and tried to push through it, only to be slammed in the face with Lucius's mask as he used Astonish once more. The treecko screeched and fell through a hole in a tree that some pokemon must have made. The treecko tried to get back up, but failed.

Flora struggled against her trainer's seemingly unconscious grip, until she saw that the treecko was defeated. She gave a huff and simply returned to her own pokeball in a bit of a fit.

Upon seeing the pokeball suck up the Scyther, Philomel sighed with relief. She hurriedly ran to Silas' direction, wanting to make sure her partner was okay even after the ordeal. She was interrupted, however, as the Scyther broke out from the Pokeball and grabbed her hard by the bag. The girl gasped, hastily struggling against the bug. She finally pulled her arm free from the bag's strap, trying to get away from the bug type before it caught her. The blade pokemon fell backwards, having pulled too much on the bag. It fell to the ground, and by some stroke of fate, a vacant pokeball had dropped and hit it in the belly. The red light emerged from the ball once more.

Philomel took the opportunity, grabbing her bag and running to her partner at once. Silas seemed surprised by the Yamask's actions, but didn't bother questioning. He muttered a thanks to the ghost type, before turning to his trainer. The fox was bombarded by apologies and questions on whether he was alright, to which he replied with only nods.

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Seph floated slowly over to his trainer who had finally "Woken Up" and saw the ordeal as the scyther broke out of the pokeball once more and headed towards the girl who seemed to terrified of it. He assumed that the scyther had been attacking as well, so maybe he WAS right from the beginning. He planned out what he would do, he would grab a rock, throw it to get its attention and then run like Boufflaunts were on his heels...He put on a determined front and reached back to grab a rock, he thought nothing of the strange perfectly round shape of the "rock" as he threw it.

He was surprised when a pokeball flew from his hand and towards the scyther, hitting it and sucking it into the strange contraption.
[Note: This is the pokeball Noci found earlier so this will not count as mine]
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Philomel watched as the Scyther was sucked in by the random pokeball. She was hesitant to feel relieved, assuming that the bug would probably be able to break out like it did before. She watched it closely, taking a few steps back from the twitching Pokeball as she counted. 1...2...3... She breathed a sighed of relief. And then the pokeball suddenly broke open. She gave a squeak of fright as it suddenly broke out from the red light, leaping towards her. It seemed much, much angrier now.

Silas roared, leaping up and bashing his head against the bug's. He and his new opponent toppled onto the ground, dull aches on their skulls. Primarily the Zorua's, as Scythers were much tougher in terms of bone and shell thanks to their bug typing. The dark type stood up once more, slightly wobbly. He watched as the Scyther did as well, both locking gazes as they waited for the first move.

Philomel decided to try one more time. Scyther were known to be BORN with fighting moves. And Zorua were pure dark types that would definitely feel intense pain from fighting moves. She wasn't going to take that chance.

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Seph was relieved that the Scyther was caught he relaxed a bit, the swarm of pokemon now gone. He looked to his Yamask which seemed to be bored once more and continued floating about. Seph stood up and approached the girl, "Are you alright miss?" he asked, genuinely concerned for the girl. Lucius floated above his head, ready to hit him with the mask if he ended up making a fool of himself once more. Lucius looked at the Zorua, he remembered that in his previous life Seph's father had killed a Zoroark and left the egg to fend for itself just so he could have a Zoroark mat on his living room floor. Lucius hated Seph's father...he wondered what had happened to that little egg that had been left alone once...

When the satisfying CLICK! was finally heard, Philomel didn't know if she was to feel happy or fearful. She had just captured a scary bug pokemon that had just tried to attack her and it had scythes for claws and and and- The girl snapped out of her thoughts, realizing that the boy was approaching her. She looked down, seeing her partner giving her a look that said 'don't mess this up'. She frowned, not so sure if she could fulfill her friend's wish.

"Um... yes. Thank you again for helping me... I get into trouble a lot you see but I think it's because I'm kinda clumsy and I don't really see where I'm going but..." She stopped, finally noticing that she was beginning to ramble. "Uh... Sorry for being a bother." She said, struggling to keep her voice from shrinking again.

Silas rolled his eyes, but accepted his trainer's performance. At least she didn't run this time. His ear twitched before he turned his head, facing up to the odd ghost pokemon. It seemed to be staring at him. "Zoru. Zorua, zoru. <Is there something wrong?>"

"Nah you're fine!" Seph laughed, glad that the girl was finally talking and not running from him. He looked at the pokeball with the scyther and said, "Good catch you got there. Scythers are strong as we've just seen...since it was able to break out of all of those pokeballs." He realized that something was missing, he reached behind him to find that his back was bare, his bow was gone! He searched around frantically but quickly found it in a bush next to the tree where the treecko had fallen. It must have been flung there when his turtwig was slammed into his stomach.

"Oh? Nothing...you just remind me of a time when Seph's father killed a Zoroark for his living room mat and left an egg to fend for itself...Never liked that guy. He always pushed Seph to be just like him, and only caused Seph to run away..." The ghostly pokemon trailed off as he was reminded of his own past life.

Philomel smiled, feeling much less nervous now that she had heard the boy laugh. It had been a while since she'd actually heard someone laugh, and not at another or her own expense. It was... nice. She looked down at the Pokeball in her hands, her genuine smile being replaced by an awkward, unsure one. "Haha... well, I guess a Scyther would be a good addition to the team... But it'll probably be a handful though..."

The girl looked up from the Pokeball, seeing the boy suddenly frantically search around the area. She raised a brow, puzzled by the other trainer's antics. She walked over, about to ask what he was looking for. Her eyes landed upon a bow, which not soon after was taken by the boy. She tilted her head, still not understanding why he treasured it so much. He apparently didn't even bring any arrows. "Uh... Sorry for asking... But why do you even bring that bow around?"

Silas, at first, simply raised a brow at the beginning of the story. But when it reached to the part where 'Killed a Zoroark' and 'Left an egg', his calm, uncaring mask broke into that of anger, outrage, and confusion being mixed and held back by sheer willpower. 'No, it couldn't be possible. Okay, I may have lost my parents at an early age, found by humans, stolen, then given to Philomel, but...' The Zorua took a deep breath. "Zorua, zoru rua zorua zoru. <What a coincidence. But there is utterly no way.>"

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"Erm...If I told you, you would just think me mad. I'd rather not speak about it...I just have to have this with me at all time no matter the cost..."Seph spoke. He wished he didn't have to speak anymore about it, he got lucky. A pinecoe dropped out of a tree and a bulbasaur leaped out of the bushes, they seemed to be enraged and they seemed to have a few burn marks on them as well.

"Has there been a forest fire or something that's ticking these pokemon off?" he asked uselessly as he scrambled away from the pokemon and giving room for Lucius to hover in front of him with a slightly annoyed glare. He decided to continue the conversation with the Zorua anyways since these pokemon were most likely push-overs, "What do you speak of?" he asked.

The Zorua narrowed his eyes at the Yamask, already knowing where this was going. He didn't have much experience with Ghost types, but was aware that they weren't far off from Dark Types in terms of wit and persistence. The dead and the dark-dwellers had many similarities, but that definitely didn't mean they went along well. He'd heard of many incidents surrounding Ghosts, and it definitely didn't help. He wasn't a fool, and he was definitely not surrendering to this... Mask thing. The shout of his trainer grabbed his attention, and he turned to face the Ghost with only a few words before running to aid. "Zorua. <None of your business.>"

"SILAS! Leer on both of them! Scratch only the Bulbasaur!" Philomel yelped, moving out of range as fast as she could. While the Bulbasaur may be threatening if it was able to release spores and whips from its bud as the books told, it was no match in terms of danger when in comparison with a Pineco. Pinecos were notorious for being able to explode, leaving not only a crater, but knocking themselves and everyone around them unconscious or fatally wounded. That fact only proved how bad it was to face off with the pokemon, or at least provoke it enough to make it use such a move.

Silas nodded, staring at both his opponents. His eyes glinted, giving off a swift, malicious aura that managed to shock and slightly lower their defenses. He moved as quick as his paws could take him, making a mad dash towards the Bulbasaur with his claws at ready.

Lucius knew of a pineco's dangerous ability to explode, which he found odd for pinecones to be able to do, and he knew that his ghost type would make him immune to it. He and Seph had already figured it would be safer for Lucius to take care of the dangerous Grenade like pokemon. The brown haired trainer commanded his pokemon to use his only damaging move, Astonish. The yamask attacked the pineco with a astonishing fashion, using his mask to slap the Pineco about like ping pong ball. The pineco grew irritated at being tossed about so much, it gave a low growl and began to shudder and glow a bright white.

Seph saw what was coming, he screamed for Lucius to use his protect to shield Philomel and Silas. His scream was drowned out by the sound of the explosion, and a huge force of wind knocking him onto the ground. He looked up to see Lucius protecting him instead, the pokemon had heard the trainer's orders, but had protected him instead.

Lucius hated having to choose between the two, but the sole reason he was allowed to come back to his friend as a pokemon was to protect his friend, not some random people he just met. He didn't regret now protecting the others as the ground was ripped from the Earth from the force, creating a crater with a KO'd Pineco and a limping bulbasaur that seemed outraged that his partner had done that move.

Upon seeing the Pineco begin glowing, Silas already put two and two together. That Pineco was going to explode. THAT PINECO WAS GOING TO EXPLODE AND THEY WERE IN RANGE. He ran away from the Bulbasaur, screaming for his trainer to get back. Why wasn't she moving?! The girl was just standing there, mouth agape. His pupils grew small as he realized it was far too late. With a last ditch effort, he leaped towards his frozen trainer, managing just enough to reach her arms. He closed his eyes, waiting for the explosion.

Unprotected, the duo was engulfed by the blinding light. Philomel finally snapped out of her state, but all was too late. She quickly turned around, receiving most of the damage from the attack. She screamed as she felt the burning force of it chip away at her back. Tears dribbled from the edges of her eyes as she endured, nails practically digging into her partner's fur. Her Zorua stared up at her, jaw slack in shock. He could still feel some of the painful force, but even in that quick moment, was aware that his trainer had taken most of the blow for him.

Once the light died down, the 17-year old finally fell. Some parts of the back of her coat were damaged from having to take the attack, parts of it either burned or torn. She hit the ground, unconscious. Her partner stood beside her, wincing as he brought his two paws up and attempted to shake her shoulder. "Zoru! Zorua! Zoru! <Hey! Hey kid! Wake up!>"

When the dust cleared, Seph witnessed the girl laying on the ground with her Zorua frantically tried to wake her. Seph scrambled over to the girl, Lucius following behind slowly. Seph shook the girl and begged her to wake up himself, he didn't know what to do. He knew nothing of medical needs, just the best way to out an arrow through a swasbuck, which was never useful. He looked to the zorua and spoke, "Would you mind if I moved her? I don't think being down here in dirt is better than being up in the grass.."

Lucius didn't feel guilty, he had done what he thought was best. "I apologize...but it's my duty to protect Seph because of what my family did to him..." he floated over the girl's head before moving to float over Seph's. "She looks like she'll be fine though, just needs some time to heal up...

The Zorua hissed wildly as the boy approached, not wanting anyone, especially that boy, to come near his unconscious and possibly dying trainer. When the boy tried to shake her, he immediately growled, unsheathing his claws. He took a stance in front of his trainer, glaring unholy daggers at the boy whom he deemed deserved part of the blame. This boy was a relative of a possible culprit of his own parent's death, and now it was trying to take his trainer?!

The enraged dark type switched his furious gaze to the Yamask, adding disgust to his mix of emotions. "ZORU! ZORUA ZORU ZORUA ZORU! <SHUT UP! SHUT UP YOU STUPID UNDEAD PIECE OF USELESS WASTE! YOU DARE HAVE THE NERVE TO MAKE EXCUSES WHEN MY TRAINER JUST NEARLY DIED.>" He roared, before switching his focus back to the boy. He swiped at his hands, not allowing anyone to touch Philomel.

Seph backed away, not sure how to react to the angered fox pokemon, who looked a bit similar to the rug that his father had "bought" one day when he was a small child. He heard another angered growl and looked to see that Lucius was ticked that the pokemon was threatening Seph. Seph was sour with Lucius for disobeying him, so he took out a pokeball and forced the yamask to return and not come back out. He pocketed the ball and turned to speak with the fox-like pokemon. "L-look, I know you're angry. I am too a bit, but right now your trainer might need medical attention...and down here in the dirt any cuts she might have could get infected!" he tried to reason with the enraged pokemon, even though he was unsure whether the pokemon could even understand him in this state of rage.
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The Zorua's mind was pure chaos. He was angry, he wanted to punish the boy. But he couldn't. As much as it hurt, the boy had a point. He couldn't save his trainer if he beat up the only human nearby. He wasn't sure if there were any of those 'Nurse' humans in the forest. He wanted to wake up his trainer and get her out of here. But he couldn't do that, he didn't know how. And he couldn't even just stand there. The rage, adrenaline, and bloodlust building up was almost too much to bear. He needed to release his anger before he ended up ripping the boy apart.

Luckily, it seemed there were two volunteers for the part. A Shinx with a burned tail and a dead Caterpie in its mouth jumped out of the nearest bushes, hissing in pain. It may have just returned from a hunt, and had taken damage from whatever had charred the clearing. Silas leaped at the passing pokemon without a second through, desperate to release his rage. His eyes glinted as he used Leer, rushing towards the electric pokemon with impressive speed. The Shinx was caught completely off guard as it was suddenly scratched in the face by the dark fox's claws. It cried, before growling and retaliating with Tackle. The attack sent the Zorua back a few paces, but barely did any effect on changing his mind.

Seph was startled by the hunting Shinx, who seemed to have yet another odd burn mark. He would have thought about it more, but the fox pokemon had leaped at the shinx in a frenzied rage and began a furious battle that Seph knew even her should stay out of. He took the opportunity of the Zorua being busy to drag the girl up the crater's slope and onto the forest floor that was strangely extremely dry as if the heat had been touching it. Seph hadn't noticed the grass's condition, since something had fallen from the trees above, onto his head...again.

Flora heard her trainer's cry of pain from her pokeball. She broke out of her pokeball and looked around wildly to find out what had attacked her trainer. She saw a Shinx and that Zorua fighting, but they seemed to engaged in a combat to have harmed her trainer.
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The fight was turning violent all too quickly. The dead Caterpie was long forgotten amidst the fight of confusion and anger. Leers, Tackles, and Scratches were first exchanged, leaving multiple bruises and no signs of the battle leaving balance any time soon. Growls, hisses, and questions from the confused Shinx were thrown about in the scuffle, but all that lead to deaf ears as neither pokemon were ready to throw in the towel nor to stop their insistent attacks.

Silas could feel the hatred building instead of falling. Before long, his rash actions began to evolve into something... not so accepted in battle etiquette. He began using his fangs, his claws, his head in order to retaliate. His aim was beginning to go for the 'red zones' such as the neck, joints, and facial features of his opponent. The Shinx was none too blind as well. The battle grew violent, and the lesser injuries grew to complete bleeding wounds.

After a while, both had exhausted their energy. The Zorua panted, glaring at the electric type.even in his tired state. The Shinx wasn't any different. Both waited in silence, anticipating their opponent's moves. The dark fox roared, no longer willing to wait. He pounced upon the electric type, who responded with a headbutt. It hit the Zorua straight in the stomach, but he wasn't giving up that easily. Opening his mouth as wide as he could, the dark type chomped down onto the back of the Shinx's neck.