Preparing Part Two (F)

[Tarlar]

Aglaia bit her lip as she looked for her pokemon. It worried her they wasn't back already, and she didn't understood why some of them had ran away. "Perhaps they cannot catch them?" She thought about Saury and Shadow, since she had ordered them to stop the two other. "Or perhaps they are lost?" she thought and said aloud: "I have to do something!"
Aglaia's gaze shifted between the two directions her pokemon had split into. Where should she go first? Usually she would trust Saury the most and go for the others, but he had followed the shiny diglett which she know other trainers would have a huge interest in. She feared simply someone would steal it, though she wasn't sure how they could as long as she got it's pokeball.
She looked after Paloma and Shadow, "But what wouldn't people say if I lost a gifted pokemon? And what would Grandpa say if I lost Paloma? I'm sure that will count as a failure," Aglaia thought and brushed away some of her hair. The wind continued to blow it into her face.
With a sight Aglaia started to look around to find someone who could help her search for her pokemon.

Saury soon began to breathing heavily since he wasn't used to run long distance, and usually didn't have to catch up with another pokemon. He was happy Shadow had agreed she followed the faster pidgey. He looked quickly at the fast moving clouds above him, and hoped the wind didn't make the pidgey too fast.
Saury made a quick stop as he suddenly reached the place where the road split into three directions. He looked around at the ground, but there were no dirt thrown up which could show the digletts movement. He sighted as of what he knew, the diglett could have dug straight downwards too.
"Saur!" He called out, but go no response. He started down the middle path and kept an eye out both for any sign of the diglett, but also for any pokemon he could ask for information.
Diglett watched hidden from a nearby bush as Saury started his way down the path. He soon disappeared down into the ground again.

"Purr purr, purr," Shadow tried to call to Paloma, who flew ahead of her. The pidgey clearly made good use of the wind, and even Shadow had to fight to keep up.
Paloma enjoyed the flight and finally to be able to use some energy. She heard the purrloin asking her to stop, and she found it funny the feline tried to catch her. Did she really think she could catch hér? She was a gorgeous and experienced pidgey, what could a little kitty ever do to her? She landed in a tree where she could look down on the purrloin.
She looked arrogant at the cat and then flew down and landed on her back. Shadow hissed as Paloma's claws dug into her back and it hurt!
Then they both froze as a rustle reached their ears, and Shadow took a few steps back as two rather desperate looking pokemon arrived. "Purrloin?" 'He-hello, can I help you?' She asked them hesitantly. She wasn't keen to battle with them, as she had lost too many battle in her past. She barely won any, and she had been sold many times due to that.
Paloma didn't have such doubts, and with a challenging scream she took to the sky and flew straight for the nearest mareep with the intent of tackle it.
'No!' Shadow exclaimed and look terrified at Paloma.

(ooc: alright, I better explain, what I have done this time

1: The party of pokemon is split into two, one with Paloma and Shadow is currently between some trees, and Alter and Saury in the grass. Aglaia is ALONE and cannot battle herself ^^
2: Pdigey is trying to tackle one of the mareeps, while Shadow looks
3: Saury is looking for Alter, and I hope for some describsions on their surroundings, but not much more, though anything is welcome ^^
4: Aglaia looking for some help to find her pokemon again, I would love if she could get some help, but I also would like her not to succed in finding them right away, if I can ask for that ^^

I hope this isn't too confusing, but else just send me a pm, and I can try to make it clear )

[Tiki]

With the wind passing by Cherrygrove blowing around, the grass blades on this route were swaying and slowly releasing the pollen into the air. The pair of Mareeps were rather hungry, but their personality was different. One of the sheep, seeing that a small Pidgey was attacking, vibrated its throat for a loud growl. The flying Pidgey was a couple seconds before tackling the Mareep, only to be mentally hindered by that annoying "BAAAAAAAA" noise that seemed to sound "go away!"

Then, Pidgey resumed from the growling pause and flew for a tackle again, slamming that wool-generator on the side. The Mareep "danced" a little on its feet, but it was mostly from not tripping on the pebbles it just stepped on after getting the hit. Then, the Mareep stood right back up.

The other Mareep slowly walked to the cat and began bleeping, "I'm sorry if my friend is rude. We're trying to make it to Cherrygrove for some nice grasses to chew on."

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Weather= Windy~

Mareep- level 7
23/26
Status: None
Mareep used a successful Growl!

Aglaia's Paloma- Level 4
18/18
Status: Attack -1, Speed +1 (Windy)
Paloma used a successful Tackle!

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Elsewhere, with Aglaia still confused, she was approached by an unlikely Pokemon to help her. Where are the humans on this route hiding? A Bidoof appeared, looking as if knowing what was going on with Aglaia's confused face. However, it was terrible at communication. The normal Pokemon stood on two feet, and pointed in a direction that Aglaia could hope it would be her Pokemon and not another event. Bidoof greeted, "Bii---dooof!"

At least she didn't get a Slowpoke trying to help her.

A Bidoof is trying to point Aglaia to something, if its stupid face doesn't make you second guess.
PS: i don't think you could fight and catch this bidoof, at least not with mareep vs pidgey ongoing

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Even more elsewhere, Saury's choice of middle path led him to a path of loudness. This path was likely a home for many Chatot, who were mimicking and chatting in their human speech imitation. The area was loud, noisy, and distracting. How was Saury supposed to find Alter? He walked carefully turning his head left and right, scanning the ground for dug up pattern. Looks like the Diglett couldn't be here...

OOC; since diglett is underground, i'll keep him underground lol. I don't know if you want diglett to pop up near aglaia or stalking saury or popping up near the pidgey and purrloin

[Tarlar]

Shadow looked surprised at the mareep, it was sorry? In her world it had been Paloma who had been reckless and just attacked without warning. Shadow wondered if she had missed something.
She looked worried at the little pidgey, she was sure she didn't had a chance against her opponent. "And I'm sorry I have to help my team member," Shadow apologized and bowed her head to the friendly mareep. Then she jumped and pushed Paloma away just as the pidgey was about to launch another attack on the mareep.
Paloma were slammed right into the ground and rolled a few meters before she stopped. As she staggered to her feet, Shadow growled at the mareep to get its attention.
It took a few minutes before Paloma understood what have happened, and she was about to start yelling at Shadow for doing it, when she changed her mind. Paloma started proudly to clean her feathers and did all she could to pretend it had been her plan all the way.
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Aglaia was beginning to be frustrated since it seemed there were no-one who could help her. She turned from the town once more, and froze. A brown low pokemon stood in front of her, and it had scary long teeth.
Aglaia wasn't used to communicate with pokemon and had no idea it perhaps just tried to help her. She slowly backed away and began to move around it in a big circle. She didn't dare to stay in this area anymore, so she started to move in the direction of Saury and her shiny diglett. She chose this path because she wanted the safety of her starter, to secure her rare pokemon and least but not last: it was the direction furthest from the brown pokemons raised paw. Who knows what it would do with that? She knew about scratch attack, so it was what she assumed it would try.
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Saury had also given up trying to get help to find the diglett. He had tried to ask some of the chatot, but they had been to noisy for him to get any attention. And now he was quite sure some of them had started to yell Bulbasaur too. He sighted as they began to give him quite a headache.
Suddenly a brown head popped up from the ground just in front of him and as soon as they had locked eyes, the diglett gestured to Saury before turning around. Saury followed the path of raised earth the diglett made and he was guided away from the chatot.
Diglett popped out again as soon as they were far enough away to hear each other.
"What are you doing?" He asked Saury, who was rubbing his vines against his ears. "Following you," he answered with a relived expression on his face. "Why?" He was asked, and Saury answered: "Because she told me to."
"Do you always do what you are told?" Diglett asked rather disdainfully and Saury stopped rubbing his ears and looked closely at Diglett. "You don't?" Saury asked, though it was more a statement than a question, and the two glared at each other.

(ooc: alright, I better explain, what I have done this time

1: The party of pokemon is split into two, one with Paloma and Shadow is currently between some trees, and Alter and Saury in the grass. Aglaia is ALONE and cannot battle herself ^^
2: Pidgey is shifted out with Shadow, who uses growl
3: Saury has found Alter(they have started an "argument"), and I hope for some descriptions on their surroundings, but not much more, though anything is welcome ^^
4: Aglaia is slowly moving towards Saury and Alter, the other way than bidoof is suggestion. She tries to avoid it, since it scares her. It could be fun with more interaction with the bidoof, but it is up to you. I would like Aglaia not to find her pokemon right away despite she is started to look for them now.)

[Tiki]

The friendly Mareep had no idea what happened, and bleep a "huh?" at the Purrloin and Pidgey. When Purrloin took over Paloma, the more aggressive sheep growled once more, warning the two to stop blocking them from going to a nice pasture of grass.

Shadow growled back, in a tone teasing and mimicking the Mareep. The agitated Mareep bleeped loudly and rapidly, shouting "Go away, thin cat!" and charged toward Shadow. The Purrloin was hit lightly, but she felt mostly the soft wool charged with static electricity.

Paloma continued to tend her feathers, carefully combing them with her beak. Yup, this was totally intentional. It was Paloma's feather-cleaning time, even in the middle of a battle.

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Weather= Windy~

Mareep- level 7
23/26
Status: Attack -1
Mareep used a successful Growl!
Mareep used a successful Tackle!

Aglaia's Shadow- Level 12
32/35
Status: Attack -1
Paloma was switched for Shadow!
Shadow used Growl!

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As Aglaia was walking, she could heard the noise of a bunch of Chatots squawking loud and annoying things. One of the distinct words was "Bulbasaur". What was going on? Could it be Aglaia's Bulbasaur or another trainer with a Bulbasaur walking around? For one thing, those birds are loud and noisy.

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As Saury and Atler were talking, they were in a field filled with crawly bugs. Weedles and Caterpie were hiding, and dangling strings of webs could be visible. With their bickering though, it seemed the bugs were more afraid of them.

OOC: short on the other stuff, sorry

[Tarlar]

Paloma followed the battle closely, though she pretended not to. She shook her tiny body and lose feathers flew all around her, before she used her beak to put the last stray feathers in to place. Then She flew to the tree she had been sitting in before and landed on a low branch, looking down the battle underneath her.

Shadow jumped away from the mareep when she felt the electricity against her skin, not keen to be in contact with it any longer than necessary.
As soon as she touched the ground again, she spun on her heel and attempted to scratch Mareep in the face. Shadow was quite sure it wouldn't help letting her claws run trough the thick wool, and as she could only see the sparks dancing in the wool, she would do anything she could to avoid touching it.
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Aglaia was relieved she avoided the scary teeth and claws from the strange brown pokemon, but she kept an eye on where she had come from to make sure it didn't chased her.
She kept looking nervously around as she felt awfully vulnerably all alone in unknown terrain with nothing to protect her.
Aglaia lifted her head and looked hopefully ahead of her, had she heard what she hoped to find? She held her breath and waited for what seemed to be a lifetime, then she smiled when the sound reached her again: "Saaaur." She had found Saury and he could protect her!
She started to run and didn't hesitate when she reached the place where the road separated since she could hear Saury straight ahead.
Aglaia stopped abruptly when she saw all the chatots and soon she retreated back as the noise was too loud. She was ready to cry when she came back to where the road split, how should she figure out which one her pokemon had chosen? It didn't occur to her they could have left the road.
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Meanwhile was the diglett and Saury trying to stare down each other. Then Diglett snorted, "Always obeying, don't you any self respect?" He didn't pay any attention to the surrounding and just stared at Saury with dismay."And now you think I will follow you back to your trainer willingly?" He asked when Saury didn't reacted on his former statement.
"No, but I will not try to take you back," Saury said to Digletts surprise. "Why?" Diglett asked suspicious and Saury smiled smugly as he answered: "She only asked me to stop you, which I have done."
Diglett looked confused at Saury while the bulbasaur turned towards some of the trees to take a closer look on the pokemon inside it. Then he slowly followed as he heard Saury tried to start a conversation with some of the green and yellow ones..

(ooc: What I have done:

1: The party of pokemon is split into two, one with Paloma and Shadow is currently between some trees, and Alter and Saury in the grass. Aglaia is ALONE and cannot battle herself ^^
2: Shadow uses scratch
3: Saury has found Alter(they have started an "argument"), and I hope for some descriptions on their surroundings, but not much more, though anything is welcome ^^
4: Aglaia is slowly moving towards Saury and Alter, I would like Aglaia not to find her pokemon right away despite she is rather close now. It would be fine when the other battle has ended.)

[Sacred Fire]

As the Purrlion started its round of attacks, the feline pokemon rushed forward and let one of her paws glow bright white. The glowing paw was soon pulled back and lashed at the fluffy coated Mareep. The Purrlion felt the static of electricity coming off of the Mareep .Just like that Shadow jumped away once more in order to avoid being shocked.

The Marreep winced from the pain as the damage seemed to be taking a toll on the pokemon. The Mareep however was a determined one, maybe just one more hit from contact and it might shock the Feline pokemon for good. Of course it could only hope for that. The Mareep charged forward now at Shadow and struck Shadow on the shoulder with a powerful tackle. The Tackle had knocked her back just enough to make her stumble on her paws but it wasn't enough to make her fall over entirely. Shadow flicked her tail showing that she was ready for more and not about to fall to fainting just because this mareep used electricity and it did not.

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Weather= Windy~

Mareep- level 7
19/26
Status: Attack -1
Mareep used a successful Tackle!

Aglaia's Shadow- Level 12
29/35
Status: Attack -1
Shadow used Scratchl![/size]

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Agalia continued to search for her pokemon as the cries of the Chatots split the air as they were flying above into the sky to move towards another area. The cries of other pokemon could be heard as well as they seemed to be very familiar. One was Saury's voice and the other was Alter as they continued to argue. Their argument didn't seem to have any time to stop at this point as they kept going. On the other hand, the battle going on with Shadow and the Mareep seemed to be getting interesting as Shadow was starting to get the upper hand in the battle.

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As the two pokemon were arguing, Saury and Alter were in a field that seemed to have numerous bugs. Some of the bugs dangled in the tall grass in order to try and hide from prey like those unforgiving bird type pokemon that tried to swoop down on them from the air. But some seemed curious enough to see what was going on. It was rare in these parts to hear such noises unless it came from pokemon battles that had been brought forth by trainers.

Some of the Weedles and Caterpies poked their heads out to see what was going on. Any sign of danger that made them suspicious would probably make them duck and run for cover again. So far, Saury and Alter seemed to be alone as the Caterpies and Weedles were too nervous to come forward and meet or speak towards the other pokemon. But they were curious, Alter seemed to want to speak to them as to avoid another conflict with Saury, as the two began to travel back to find their trainer.

Ooc: Hope this was enough, wasn't really sure what to type up for Agalia or her pokemon o.-;;

[Tarlar]

Shadow tensed for a moment when she felt the electricity once again tried to reach her body. To her relief she again was lucky and kept the electricity from attache to her, and her good balance kept her from faling from the tackle.
She made sure to keep a good distance and started to circle the mareep to make it difficult for it to get close to her, to minimize the risk of touching the wool. It wasn't as easy as she had hoped it would be.
She knew she had to surprise the mareep so she decided to try to remember what things her team member were doing when they battled, and once again headed for the marreps head. The reason: it was the thing with less wool and therefore lesser risk to get shocked.

Paloma stayed in the tree and looked like she was bored. She began to think about plans to get her into battle again somehow. She thought about attacking the other mareep for a moment, but quickly abandoned the idea, as she wanted to fight the other one much more, since she know it would be easier to defeat. And she could hide that idea by saying she just wanted her battle back and it was her who had started it, though it wasn't a thing she was aware of herself.
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Aglaia went back and forth where the road were splitting. She walked a little down the left one, and then a little by the right one, before she returned to the splitting once again. She looked down the road where the Chatot were, and she wanted to go that way since she had heard what sounded like her bulbasaur. But for now she didn't have the courage to do it because of all the pokemon that way.

To Algaias suprise they suddenly all took off, and the road was free for her to walk, though she still hesitated. When all those pokemon suddenly chose to leave, there must be a reason. And Aglaia feared it maybe was the appearance of a dangerous pokemon which had caused it, so she didn't get any further anywhere at this moment.
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As Saury moved around, the diglett suddenly stopped. Why was he following? And was the bulbasaur heading back towards the town and the trainer? Resolutely he turned away and started to make his way in the opposit direction.
Saury tried to get the bugs to calm down, but to no use. He sat down frustrated, why was it always so difficult to just talk to other pokemon? The wild ones were too afraid and didn't trusted any trained pokemon, and all owned one he met, was always disturbed by the humans who wanted to battle!
"Bulbasaur..." 'I don't want to fight, I just want to make new friends,' he called out to the hiden bugs. Then he laid down and waited. He didn't made any attempt to stop the diglett again, since he saw his job as already done, and he didn't expected Aglaia to turn up anytime soon.

(ooc: What I have done:

1: The party of pokemon is split into two, one with Paloma and Shadow is currently between some trees, and Alter and Saury in the grass. Aglaia is ALONE and cannot battle herself ^^
2: Shadow uses assist
3: Saury has found Alter. Alter is moving away from Saury in the opposit direction of where they came from. Saury are still trying to talk with the bugs. THEY ARE NOT RETURNING to Aglaia XD
4: Aglaia is slowly moving towards Saury and Alter,but is stopped at the seperated. Not daring to move any closer.
I would like Aglaia not to find her pokemon right away despite she is rather close now. It would be fine when the other battle has ended.)

[Tiki]

The Mareep turned its head left and right as the Purrloin circled around it. The sheep bleated angrily, agitated that their path to the delicious grass was delayed by this battle. Then, out from nowhere, Shadow's leaped with her glowing paw. The paw was glowing brightly with the power from one of her teammates. And then, the Mareep could feel a scratch on its face.

Well, that wasn't too different from the scratch before. The annoyed Mareep ran forward toward Shadow, who had barely landed on the ground from the leaping attack. The feline was hit physically by the yellow sheep, but with that growl earlier, the sheep didn't do much damage.

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Weather= Windy~

Mareep- level 7
14/26
Status: Attack -1
Mareep used a successful Tackle!

Aglaia's Shadow- Level 12
27/35
Status: Attack -1
Shadow used Assistl!

(Shadow used Atler's Scratch, and I re-rolled this twice. The third time is still Atler, but different attacks, imma stick to Scratch )[/size]

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As Aglaia was still at the split path, she was met with silence. Maybe there wasn't a scary Pokemon after all? The area was quiet except for a low hum of not-Chatot bird Pokemon sleeping on the trees. Some leaves may have rustled, but it was probably a gentle wind.

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A few seconds after Saury had said that, a Kakuna fell from the branch! The cocoon Pokemon looked like it was in pain, but also not in pain with the tough cocoon wrapping its vulnerable body.

"Ooowwie. Why did you knock me off the tree huh?" the gold colored cocoon shouted toward the trees. Or at least that what it looked like with its body laying sideways, wobbling on the ground angrily, and with the eyes staring at the sky.

"I'm sorry, I thought you wanted to talk to the Bulbasaur!" the other Kakuna laughed. The Kakuna on the ground sighed, and stared silently and uncomfortably at the Bulbasaur. It shot a string at the tree trunk, as if trying to climb its way back up.

A Kakuna dropped to the ground!
Would Saury intervene before it swings away back to the tree top?

(Of course, you can't catch this if Saury is still talking with it after Mareep battle..)

[Tarlar]

Shadow snorted. "Don't any of them know anything else than scratch or tackle?" She mumbled to herself as she kept going around mareep, annoyed she didn't get to try some of Saurys interesting moves.
She sent the angry mareep an irritated glare as its body language suggested the battle be Shadows fault. It had been the mareep who had tricked Paloma, and Shadow had to help her, since the Pidgey wouldn't do well on her own right now. Shadow would take care of the bird as soon as she got her paws free.
She circled a few more times before she jumped for mareeps head once again, to let her claws swipe it with fury as many times as possible.

On her branch Paloma moved her head from site to site, while she followed the battle closely, looking for an opening where she could interfere without getting caught in claws or the prickling wool.
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Aglaia slowly relaxed when nothing happened where she stood and there didn't appear something that indicated the noisy birds had been scared away by something terrifying.
She looked around in the peaceful forest and couldn't help but enjoy the scenery for a brief moment, which helped her to pull herself together.
"Perhaps they just got hungry?" She thought before she turned her attention to what she should do now.
"I need to come up with a plan. I Don't get anywhere running around headless," she thought and walked to the side of the road where she sat down.
Then she pulled out her notebook and a pen which she tapped against her libs as she was thinking. "First I need to come up with a plan to avoid wild pokemon, now I don't have any protection. And then I have to figure out how it would be best to go looking for them all."

The first part was quite easy since the only thing she could come up with, was to be extra alert and try to see the pokemon before they saw her, so she could hide.

How she should search for her pokemon, was much more difficult though, since she didn't know much about them she realized. She soon found out her map and pokedex and tried to figure out all she new about them, and if she in some way could figure out how they were thinking, so she could guess on where they were heading.
The unease about why they had left her in the first place, she ignored. She couldn't do much about it now anyway, and she had no idea of how they did it, and just felt sad about it.
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Diglett continued in a random direction for a while until he suddenly stopped again. Where was he going? He knew the area since he had been her several times before, but there wasn't anything interesting or important in that direction. He glanced back at the bulbasaur, who didn't payed him any more attention as he apparently was busy talking to a tree.
Diglett sighted. The important thing he had been on his way to was long past, and he could not do it now. And even if he wanted to, could he even leave now he was caught? It seemed like he was stuck with this trainer and her pokemon. He looked closer at Saury and shook his head a little at the strange way he was thinking.

Saury almost jumped back in surprise when the yellow cocoon landed on the ground in front of him. The only reason he didn't jump was because he was a bulbasaur, and therefore he wasn't good at jumping.
He smiled as he got someone to talk with, though he didn't find it very friendly done of the other pokemon in the tree.
He took a few steps forward as he asked worried "Are you alright?" He sent the Kakunas friends a quick stern look to show he didn't like the way they had treated it. Then he turned back to the one on the ground and extended his vines a little. "I can help you back up into the tree if you want to?"

(ooc: I had guess that, since I can only have one counter at a time and I don't think there officially are Kakunas in this area? Only weedles... And I don't have any ulterior motives at all! )

[Tiki]

Finally seeing an opportunity, Shadow leaped and swiped her claws back and forth on the poor Mareep's face. The sheep could feel pain running on its face. It wondered why the cat only attacked its beautiful face. The other Mareep sighed and shook its head in disapproval, thinking this won't end well now.

Low on its strength, the beaten Mareep only let out a piercing Growl. The electric sheep once again bleated the loud "BAAAA!" noise, yelling Shadow to go away. If that didn't work the first time, this noise probably won't work this time.

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Weather= Windy~

Mareep- level 7
2/26
Status: Attack -1
Mareep used a successful Growl!

Aglaia's Shadow- Level 12
27/35
Status: Attack -2
Shadow used Fury Swipe!
Shadow attacked 3 times! (12 damages total)[/size]

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Hearing the Bulbasaur's generosity, the Kakuna spit out its string to answer Saury, with which the sound of other Kakuna snickering could be heard. "Oh, if you can use your vines to swing be back up that would help and be faster!" the annoyed Kakuna answered. It couldn't wait to evolve into a Beedrill and get away from its friends, and find a new group, of course!

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At where Aglaia was standing and contemplating her decision, she could hear the grass shuffled behind her. Voila! A Bidoof appeared! Wait, could it be the same Bidoof earlier? Was it a different Bidoof? The normal Pokemon just stared blankly at Aglaia, and then growled a welcoming and friendly "Bidoof!"

The Bidoof is back!?!?

OOC: I don't know what to do with the Aglaia part, I don't think she's moving?

[Tarlar]

Shadow backed away when she could see the tiredness on the mareep. Hopefully it would stop attacking and let them alone and she would do what she could to avoid risk getting more close to the electricity she could feel in its fur. She didn't doubted she had been lucky for now. She shoot a quick glance at the other mareep and was relieved it didn't look like it wanted to take revenge or something like that, since she wasn't sure how long her luck would last.

A shadow swooped past Shadow towards the mareep she had been battling. "No!" She hissed as Paloma took advance of the situation and headed straight for the opponent with a tackle.
Paloma had been waiting impatiently in her tree but as Shadow had finally made an opening to a visible tired mareep, she had seen her change to finish what in her head was her battle. She had started it anyway.
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Diglett made his way back to Saury with a grumpy look on his face and stopped in a fair distance watching what the bulbasaur did.
Saury had taken the kakuna in his vines and made a calculation on how to get it up in the tree again.
"You are sure you want me to throw you?" He asked puzzled but then gently leaped it as high up in the treetop as he could, ready to catch the cocoon again, if id didn't get a proper grip and would fall down again. He could see how it should keep itself up there without arms or anything, so he suspected he had to catch it again.
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As Aglaia looked through the map she heard a faint sound in a nearby bush, and after a moment she rose and carefully approached. On the way she picked up a stick which she used to carefully push some of the branches aside, ready to run away or try to defend herself with it if the thing in bush which kept rustling.
A blue thing with orange things on its cheeks looked terrified back at her with its mouth wide open while it pushed itself against the ground. Aglaia slowly let the branches fall back into their place and backed away t o her map.
She had difficulties on concentration though and kept sending glances towards the bush. "It looked terrified, I wonder why?" She wondered worried since she knew that feeling all to well. "Perhaps it is hurt?" She thought and could sit still any longer, and she rose and walked carefully back to the bush and pushed some of the branches aside again. It was gone.
With a little disappointment she returned to her map and sat down again, but after a while her pokedex suddenly came to life: "Mudkip, The mud fish pokémon. The fin on Mudkips head works as a radar and it breaths through its gills on its cheeks." Aglaia looked surprised at it and quickly looked around when she recognized the picture of the pokemon the pokédex had registered. A blue head quickly retrieved into a nearby bush when Aglaia spotted it. She couldn't help but smile and took the pokédex to take a closer look at this scared pokemon.
She read through it and stayed still as the mudkip slowly came out and inched to her to investigate what she was doing and who she was. It jumped back a little when Aglaia suddenly spoke aloud: "Hoenn! What in the world are you doing here? Are you missing a trainer?" Aglaia turned her head towards the mudkip when she saw a movement, the mudkip shook its head sadly, still looking warily at her.
"Are you all alone?" Aglaia asked worried the little blue pokemon. She wasn't sure how well it would do in such unknown area, so far from everything it would know, and its terrified look it has sent her before reminded her of the children who sometimes had wandered into her parents shop, distressed because they had lost their parents.

The two sat a moment in silence and watched each other wondering what to do know, when a sound behind them made them both jump. "Bidoof!" Aglaia spun around and stared at the bidoof, and Mudkip jumped back into a bush again.
"Is it the same?" Aglaia thought nervously as the slowly picked up her pokédex and map and backed away in the direction of where the chatot had been. "If it is, why had it followed me?" She thought as she sat in the direction of Saury and Diglett, without knowing it.

Well on her way she heard the sound of footsteps and she looked nervous back as she feared the bidoof followed and perhaps would bite her with its long teeth. She really didn't like those teeth.
To her surprise and relief it was the mudkip who trotted after her and tried to catch up with her. Shooting the exactly the same nervous glances backwards as Aglaia did, in the fear of something attacking it from behind.
Aglaia stopped and waited for it, and it stopped a little from her, looking embarrassed down in the ground. "Do you want to come along?" She asked with a little smile, and mudkip jumped to its feed with a big smile and an affirmative "Mudkip!"
Aglaia had no trouble catching this pokemon in an empty pokeball since it stopped rolling immediately and Aglaia called it out again. She felt a little more secure now she had a pokemon to defend her, even if it was a little terrified one, and she wanted the company.
With the happy mudkip at her side, she continued along the road.

[Tiki]

Albeit Paloma was less inexperienced compared to the Mareep, she had more stamina to withstand whatever attack the sheep threw. When she took over the battle from Shadow, the Mareep merely bleeped and growled again, ranting how persistent the cat and the bird were.

Taking advantage of the wind, the Pidgey picked up her speed and rammed right onto the Mareep, who passed out briefly.

The friendlier Mareep shook its head in shame, and walked close to the fainted Mareep. The friendly Mareep nudged the wools with its head, or even bleated and made contact with the wools, hoping to wake its friend up. Had Aglaia been conducting the battle, she could catch the Mareep now, but if she returns to this area later, the fainted Mareep would be awoke and gone!

Shadow gained 1 level for participating! Now she's level 13!


Paloma gained 3 levels for defeating Mareep! Now she's Level 7!
She learned Sand-Attack!

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"Yessir, just used your vines and casually toss me up. I can get back up with my String Shot," the Kakuna mumbled, since it couldn't move. There wasn't much to say for the bug Pokemon, since the Bulbasaur wasn't trying to talk to it either, oh well!

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Seeing that the girl trainer had just left the Bidoof alone, twice, the normal Pokemon gave up and just went back to the wild, looking for actual trainers who wanted to battle, or something. Maybe it could find a new trainer and get out of this wild.

OOC: IDK what to put for the last part, so I just wrote the Bidoof

[Tarlar]

"Piiiii-dgey!" Paloma scream in her flush of triumph and flew around in wild acrobatics as she celebrated her her victory.
Shadow glared at her, since she didn't like Palomas dirty playing. The pidgey had started the battle and when the mareep was more or less down, she turned up and took advantage of it.
Shadows eyes widened when she saw Paloma make a loop and heads towards the other mareep and she hissed "no!" And as the pidgey past her, she leaped and slammed the bird to the ground. "You have done more than enough now," she hissed to her and placed a paw on the wing to keep Paloma on the ground, though for now she wouldn't be flying anywhere as all the air was hit out of her. "I'm sorry," Shadow apologized to the mareeps, before she carefully grabbed one of Palomas legs and started to carry the protesting pidgey back they way they had come.
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The diglett watched as Saury accepted the kakunas wish and throw it up into the tree. He had planned to see how the cocoon managed to be up there, but a sound caught his attention and with a scowl he disappeared into the ground.
"Saury!" A voice called and the bulbasaur turned his head in surprised and sighed as he saw Aglaia walking towards him with a relieved expression. Fun time was over and he would probably be called back into the pokeball until the next time she needed him to battle. Then he spotted something that caught his interested: she was followed by a blue unknown pokemon.

"Bulbasaur!" Aglaia looked surprised at Saury when he greeted her happily, "He has never done that before," she thought flattered and smiled to her bulbasaur. Little did she know the greeting was to Cyan and not to her, and she smiled happily as Cyan said hello to Saury before she looked around.
"Saury?" She asked worried and both pokemon looked at her. "Where is Alter?" She asked and Both looked confused at her and she quickly explained: "Diglett, he is called Alter. Didn't you find him?"
Aglaia was sure Alter must be quite old, which was what the named meant, since he had to be quite experienced to fend for himself as he had must been quite hunted due to his nose.
Saury nodded towards a section of raised dirt which were in a perfectly line. "Oh, Thank you," Aglaia said and started to walk towards it.

[Tiki]

As Paloma and Shadow went away from the Mareep, they seemed to find themselves under the shades of many, many trees. At least in the directon they're going, they can get away from slower Pokemon trying to attack them.

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As Aglaia was walking toward Atler's mound of dirt, a green, squishy bug was crawling around the area. The shameless and bold insect crawled toward Aglaia and made its appearance, wiggling its body on the freshly dug soil made by the Diglett.

The Caterpie used its small eyes and shifted its glances at Aglaia and the mound of dirt. It wondered if playing in the ground right now is a good time with the human around. It also wondered what happened if the human's Pokemon attack... No worries, she looks harmless for now.

The Caterpie smiled as it greeted the trainer, and murmuring, "Ca-ter-piee!"

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A (Level 6) Caterpie with whip cream, orange, and cinnamon appeared!

[Tarlar]

Paloma struggled and did her best to get down from the unworthy way of transportation. She scolded and insulted Shadow in her attempts without much success as the purrloin ignored her.
When they reached the trees, Palomas struggle had worn out Shadow somewhat and she had to put down the pidgey, though she once again placed a pawn upon her to keep her from flying away again.
"Release me!" Ordered Paloma and glared at Shadow who answered her panting: "You are just going to take off and I'm not going to chase you again."
"Of course I'm flying! I'm a pidgey, that's what pidgeys do!" Paloma squawked and tried to flap her wings. "I'm not going to just lay in this humiliating position. Let go of me or I'll teach you a lesson."
Shadow sighed. She knew the fastest way to find Aglaia and Saury again would be if Paloma was looking for her from above, but she didn't trusted the bird would just find the first pokemon and start another battle. And it seemed like it would take some time to get Paloma to relax enough to make a deal with her. She shivered as she felt the sudden drop in the temperature. Paloma didn't noticed since she was keeping herself warm with her Resistance.
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Aglaia shivered too as she hid her head between her shoulders while she walked to where Alter should be. Cyan stayed close to her, much to Saurys disappointment and he stayed where he was. He had no wish to neither follow his trainer without ordered to nor getting closer to the grumpy ground type.
Aglaia hesitated when she saw the green bug, not because it was a bug but because it was an unknown pokemon. She found out her pokedex once again: "Caterpie, Worm Pokemon. It releases a horrible stench to scare off enemies." Aglaia took a slow step backwards, and sat a foot in front of Cyan who was about to approach it friendly.
"No Cyan, we don't want to scare it. And it has the wrong color," she said like it explained everything. She had seen the pokedex had stated it as a bug type, which she could use as a solution to her Grandfathers request, but it she had chosen another color.

"Alter, come slowly. You are still there right?" Aglaia asked nervously and to her relieve Alter popped up from his whole. His eyes beamed with fury as he was furious she had dared to name him! But she didn't noticed and she called him back into his pokeball before he had time to anything.
Aglaia carefully picked up Cyan and slowly made her way, away from the area. "Come Saury, we still need to find Shadow and Paloma," she said and the bulbasaur slowly trotted behind her, not to thrilled with the cold or the prospect of dealing with the diglet next time he was released.
Aglaia and her companions didn't walk in the direction of Shadow and Paloma but more parallel to them.


(ooc: Can I get someone to "clean up" my inventory? It confuses me when it is one big mess, and I would like the TM down in the TM case, the pokeballs together and so on Thank you)