interim (in the city/egg) [Closed/Mod/Finished]

[Caramell 🍬]

The red-haired trainer dispelled his anger by making his mind focus on the goal. All he needed to do is focus on winning the battle. Finnian’s opponent watched the other trainer with a smirk. The smug smile spoke about the inner confident that the red-haired trainer blindly believed he had at defeating Finnian and his Cascoon.

“Chikorita, give it the strongest Tackle you’ve got! Don’t let me down!” His voice piqued over the battlefield. Chikorita nodded her head in determination, spinning the leaf on the top of her head around in approval. She knew that she would win this fight, because her trainer was counting on her. Though she was still feeling a little sluggish in the midst of the fight, and questioned why her speed wasn’t as swift as she should be.

“Chika!” She boasted. Cascoon bounded forward and collided with the Chikorita, using its entire body to knock itself into the Chikorita. Oaf! The attack was pretty strong, and dwindled down her already dying level of health. “Look at that stupid cacoon!” Her trainer taunted her, shaking his hands about wildly in the air as he pointed to the other Pokemon. “You’re way better than this, stop acting like a loser!”

Chikorita retaliated. With a low growl, the light green grass type Pokemon rushed forward and Tackled its opponent back, knocking itself against Cara. The poisoned burned inside of its veins though, singeing the Chikorita from within and dealing damage to her. “Chhikaa!” She cried out in pain, stumbling backwards. “Just GREAT!” The red-haired trainer sighed in annoyance. “Your weakness is rubbing off on my Chikorita! He stated, almost challengingly at Finnian.

vs ??

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Weather: Clear

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Chikorita

LV 12
HP 8% [3/36]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Cara

LV 9
HP 60% [18/30]

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??'s Chikorita [Overgrow]: Poisoned! -1 SPD
Finnian's Cara [Shed Skin]: Normal

[Chikorita Tackled Cara. Cara Tackled Chikorita. Chikorita was damaged by Poison.]

[zena]

Finnian continued to watch silently, and somewhat nervously. He wasn't sure how this would wind up, but he definitely knew none of his other Pokemon would stand a chance against the Chikorita. He just had to have faith in Cara that she would be able to handle this. Luckily, his faith in his Pokemon hadn't been misplaced yet. It was weird, how he kept winding up in these almost life-or-death situations. If not that drastic, they were definitely high-stakes. He didn't know what the consequences of losing here might be, but he didn't want to find out.

Cara hung in there, though she was hurting too. She felt somewhat bad for this Chikorita, but she did enjoy a good fight. That was what this had been, in her mind.

She decided to back away from the other Pokemon at that point, since she wasn't interested in them hurling themselves against each other for this fight. Since she could attack from a distance, she decided that was her best bet. Besides, perhaps her poison would be more useful than her body for once.

As she had before, she shot some poisonous barbs at the other Pokemon, eager to see if she would be fast enough to get out of the way.

Cara used Poison Sting!

[sable]

Chikorita noticed her opponent inch back for distance; she considered it a challenge. Blushing red with rage and patently sick, she stood her ground and hunkered down for the charge.

"Don't be stupid," the boy snarled. "Hang back. Use Synthesis." Cocky as always with only a note of exasperation snaking out - for now. For now, Silver was confident, counting on her. All this training had been for something - the chikorita had to mean something.

And yet, she didn't stop to listen for Silver's order anymore; some distinct part of her whispered, He doesn't deserve it. Maybe the opponent's "weakness" had rubbed off on her after all.

So Chikorita entered a Tackle. It was less than graceful, her staggering into it, nearly veering off and away from her target in the process. But she corrected her path - just when the rain of stinging projectiles rushed her down. Just when Silver gave a big, "NO-!"

Chikorita bashed into Cara, but promptly tripped over the cocoon. Listless on the ground, little nettles sticking out around her face, she moaned incoherently, and that was that.

_{vs ??}

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Weather: Clear

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Chikorita

LV 12
HP 0% [0/36]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Cara

LV 9
HP 42% [13/30]

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Chikorita used Tackle:
Cara took damage. (18% > 13/30)

Cara used Poison Sting:
Chikorita fainted!

---

You beat Mystery Kid!
Paid out 600P.

He wasn't as enraged as might have been expected. Maybe the boy saw it coming in some subconscious pocket of his mind. He was also busy trying to rationalize what had happened.

Silver returned his Pokemon with an underhand toss, the 'ball sailing back to him. "That was pathetic. For you. That was my ace..."

Wait.

He snarled, changing tactics. "You took cheap shots that entire fight. Poison Sting when I was already poisoned? That's-"

Strategic. Wait.

"You're an awful trainer who just got lucky. Don't think I forgot your dumb cosplaying Pikachu. You've got no chance in a serious fight, got that? Take this as a warning."

_Results

---

Cara rocked the fight and grew to Lv. 12!


...what's that? Cara's ready to take flight!
Evolve Silcoon into Beautifly?

[zena]

Finnian winced slightly as the poor Chikorita faceplanted. Poor little thing. He had a feeling that was going to be an ugly conversation whenever she woke up. Hopefully, he wouldn't have to be around for it. There was clearly no way he could change this guy's mind about his Pokemon.

"Yeah, I do get pretty lucky," Finnian agreed. "That and I have some smart Pokemon." They more than made up for his lack of knowledge and skill in battling. He probably should do some work to help them out, but he hadn't had time for it thus far what with getting thrown into one situation after another.

He was promptly distracted by Cara making some weird noises that were somehow familiar. "Oh! Are you evolving little buddy?" he asked, eager to see what Cara would turn into. The feisty little caterpillar had grown up so fast! He couldn't believe it. None of his other Pokemon were progressing through their evolutionary stages so quickly, but he didn't mind. They could move at their own rate and he'd be perfectly happy with it. He was just pleased at how well Cara was doing. Once she was finished with her transformation, he was ready to continue exploring the city.

Cara evolves!

[Tarlar]

The boy quickly disappeared to lick his wounded pride although Finnian didn't seem to notice, other than might being relieved not having to deal with him anymore, there was something much more interesting going on: an evolution.
Cara finished her doing and spread a pair of magnificent wing, a few flaps with them to dry them off and she was ready to explore the world from above.

This beautiful beautifly is Cara, she can learn Gust now she has evolved.
Forget another move to learn Gust?

Cherrygrove had a lot to offer for the curious, it was a little town but with plenty of small green areas in between the wide areas between the houses, had it been summer everything would have been green and full of flowers. It was Cherrygrove City after all.
Today, in the middle of the winter, most was brown and withered, except the few evergreens which stood here and there, and the saltwater smell from the nearby ocean was clear in the air.
A flock of taillows flew past with the sound of flapping wings, they didn't spare a single glance down towards the ground, humans and pokemon was a common sight and not one that usually bothered them while flying.

Soon Finnian and his pokemon would spot something glittering between a few trees, if they looked closer they would find a small pond that was half frozen, but glints of red could be seen moving around below, and a magikarp stuck out its head in the ice free part.
It quickly dived as a skitty came jumping over the ice and playfully swatted at the water, and then shook its paw plenty of times to get rid of the water. A magikarp swam past it below and it swatted at the ice trying to touch it, it jumped after it only to lose its balance in the slippery ice and fall flat on its stomach.
It sat up and washed its paw a few moments, before it got distracted by the magikarps which was teasingly swimming past it and it once more tried to touch them.
Beside the pond a meowth saw and was washing its paw in a movement that was the image of what the skitty just had done, it paused to look at Finnian and his pokemon, and then continued to wash itself.

The skitty finally noticed some movement and turned its head to see the newcomers, it mewed excitedly and raced over and ran in circles around itself. It waved its tail in a playful manner and then hurried back to the pond, it was so fun on the slippery surface. It looked expectantly at Finnian, would he either play just with it, or join it in the chase of the fishes in the pond?
A blue head appeared in the water behind the skitty, the azurill had a soaked bow tied around one of its ears, perhaps the pokemon in the pond was owned already?

A Skitty [lvl 6] has appeared and wants to play!
Would he play just with it, or would he let some of his pokemon join it in playing with the pokemon in the pond?



Magikarp [lvl 10] & Azurill [lvl 8] are willing to play as well, if Finnian chose to join up with the skitty.

(ooc: breaking all "rules" here, just to let you find that water you were looking for The magikarp and the azurill are of course non-catchable, since they are not available in normal ways on this route.)
As a side note: just if you are looking for something specific, you have reach 5 pages in this story, so you can ask for/spawn pokemon from that route that are common or uncommon here.

Shiny? QVcHasWu1-421-42
(for skitty and meowth)
1-42·1-42

[zena]

((You know, ironically, I was hunting for a Skitty XD ))

"Aw, you look great Cara!" Finnian exclaimed as the worm turned butterfly finally appeared from within her shell. She made quiet noises of happiness and spun in the air, bobbing up and down happily. It was so nice to be mobile again, instead of being stuck in that cocoon! Yes, it had been excellent protection, but this was much better.

She drifted alongside Finnian as he continued through the city, taking in the sights. It was a beautiful place, once he got a chance to really look at it. When it seemed like he wouldn't be jumped suddenly, he even relaxed a little bit and really looked around.

Finally, there seemed to be some water through the trees, and he made a beeline for it. It seemed they weren't alone at the water spot, but he didn't mind that. It would probably be good for his Pokemon to be able to play with others, presuming the other Pokemon were going to be sociable and not attack on sight. At this point, he was somewhat expecting it. Instead, he got a very playful group of Pokemon, save for the Meowth hanging out on the edge of the water, who didn't seem to worry about their presence. Whatever worked for it.

They seemed willing to have others join them, so Finnian approached eagerly. "Okay, time for you two to get some fresh air!" he said, releasing both Talia and Beau. The Goldeen was literally a baby, so he hoped they'd be careful around him, but if nothing else Talia could keep an eye on him. Beau didn't seem interested in playing with the Skitty, instead swimming around well below the surface of the water, but Talia was the opposite. She popped under the surface to swim with the pair of fish there, and headed up to tease the Skitty occasionally as well.

Cara will forget String Shot to learn Gust!

[Caramell 🍬]

The pond was peaceful, as the Pokemon played together. The small, pink cat pounced at the edge of the iced-over parts of the pond. As the red carp dashed back and forth underneath the block of ice, the Skitty would chase it about. The wide-eyed fish jumped up high at each end of the ice, in the open parts of the water. With a low growl, the small pink-and-cream colored cat with a cat-toy shaped tail swiped at the fish at every turn.

The small, round water mouse would use its tail to kick up a splash of water in the feline’s direction. Each time that the little blue Pokemon witnessed the Skitty dart off and try to attack the Magikarp, it would send another spray of water to try and get the normal type Pokemon’s attention. It bounced and bobbed in the gentle current of the pond water. Though, the Azurill’s face sulked, as anger and frustration took hold.

Then, a small blue shelled turtle and a small white fish with orange markings joined them. Magikarp turned its attention away from the Skitty and the Azurill and swam over to the Goldeen. The small white-and-orange fish seemed very young, so the Magirkarp would carefully swim around the smaller fish Pokemon. When the red carp felt that the other water type fish might be having a harder time, it would swim in front of it protectively and try to show it how to use its fins to swim better.

Azurill watched the blue turtle help it to gang up on the Skitty and beamed brightly as it rushed in. It dived underneath the edge of the water and swam over. “Azurill Rill Rill!” It informed the Squirtle how this Skitty had been attacking all the fish in the water, and pleaded the other Pokemon to help step in to teach the cat a lesson. “Zurill Zurill!” A rushed, hurried mess of ’they need our help!’

Another girl walked over to Finnian – a young brown-haired lass with a bow-tie in her hair that matched the one that was tied to the blue water type mouse Pokemon’s ears. “HEYYY!” She greeted, waving her arms around frantically. She ran all the way up to Finnian and held out a small red-and-white Pokeball in her hands. With a gesture, she pointed the ball in Azurill’s direction, shrugging to the two wild cat Pokemon at the pond. “I’m Melissa. I want that cat over there!”

The young lass pointed specifically to the creamish-white feline with striking brownish-orange markings at the end of its tails and on the feet of its hind-legs. The other trainer had always dreamed of owning a Meowth, but she felt like she had been on the hunt for it for EEVERR! “Every time I try to battle it, Skitty gets in the way!!! NO FAIRR! All I have is my Azurill, though. Will you help me?! I don’t want that ugly pink cat, I just want the Meowth!” She wined and complained.

Trainer Lass Melissa as asked you to team battle!


^{Will you team up with her Azurill to battle the Meowth [Level 8] and Skitty [Level 6]?}

Just to make a note about Pokemon Radar to avoid future confusions: A skitty is a rare pokemon here and wouldn't have been possible to ask for, only common or uncommon pokemon. Pokemon Radar -Tarlar

[zena]

((Gotcha!))

Finnian was more than content to sit back and watch the Pokemon play. He didn't care too much for swimming himself, especially not when the water was cold enough to allow ice on top of it. He wished he could understand their banter, especially since it seemed like the Marill was having a serious conversation with Talia, but such was the way of things.

"Oh, well of course!" Talia replied once she had heard the story. If the Skitty was taking it beyond just playing, then surely something needed to happen. As it was, Finnian was also approached with a request from assistance at the same time. He was just as kindly as his Pokemon, in some cases more so, so naturally his response was the same.

"Well, sure," Finnian said to the young girl. "I think the little pink one is pretty cute myself! Maybe we can both get something out of this. I'm Finnian, by the way," he concluded. More likely than not, if he'd attacked the Skitty himself the Meowth would have intervened, which he also could have handled considering he had more than one Pokemon, unlike this woman, but it would have been more difficult. "How do you want to do this?" he asked, not sure of what the social rules for battling with another person were, or if there even were any. The last thing he wanted to do was mess up her chances at getting this feline that she clearly really wanted.

[Tarlar]

"That's perfect Finnian! Really wonderful!" Melissa exclaimed and clapped her hands together in front of her and silently squealed.
"I'm certain those fish would like to be free of them as well, they are here everyday! That must be soooo stressing," the girl emphasized and shook her head sadly.
When Finnian asked how they should do she frowned and tapped her chin for a few moments, and the she brightened up.
"I will use my azurill, obviously, and since the skitty always interferes I think we should try work together and battle them at once. I'm sure the meowth will do the same if you start with that, or perhaps it will run away if you capture the skitty," Melissa said and nodded along to her own reasoning.
"What pokemon will you use?" Melissa asked and would listen to what Finnian would present.

"AZIIII! Come here sweatheart, we have gotten help!" Melissa called out and the azurill's head popped out of the water, and it made its way out of the water, and bounced over to its trainer.
"See Azi, this nice man will help us get that sneaky meowth, are you ready to give it all?" Melissa asked her azurill who bounced happily on its tail.
"Ready? Three, two, one!" Melissa counted down, and then they stroke a pose, "Team Sweet!"
The two giggled but looked fired up after their shared cheer and Melissa looked at Finnian.
"We're ready when you are!"

The magikarps watched as Azi left the pond and joined the humans and one who looked older sighed a bubble.
"Perhaps we can get a bit of peace now," it said with more bubbles floating to the surface.
The one who had watched over Beau gave the goldeen a gentle nudge to get his attention.
"What do you like?" It asked, that was often a good conversation starter with the young ones, they all liked something.

[zena]

Well, since she was using a Water-type, he thought it only fair that he use one as well. He had two after all, though Beau was just a baby. Perhaps he would be interested in getting into things? Finnian didn't know what the Goldeen's personality was like, besides apparently wanting to be alone in the pond, and thought this might be a good idea to figure it out. If things started to not go well, then he could always have Talia or Aislyn step in.

"Talia, go see if Beau wants to try," he called to the Squirtle, who nodded in agreement and dove down to the little group that was gathering around the Goldeen.

"Uh... I don't really know," the Goldeen admitted. "Shiny things, I guess." They were just like him, and he liked things that were like him! It helped that he was so beautiful too, so obviously anything like him was going to be as well.

"Hey, Beau! Come help with this cat!" Talia said, drifting in front of them. "Its been messing with these fish." Honestly, Beau didn't care about that, but he did notice that some of the fish seemed to have scars where they had been scratched. Had the cat done that? If so, how long before it did it to him!? That couldn't be allowed!

"Okay," he agreed, swimming closer to the surface with her. Now, what did he want to do? Not get too close to the feline, obviously. He sucked water into his mouth, holding it briefly before unleashing it in a powerful blast at the Skitty.

"Looks like Beau's gonna help!" Finnian said as warning to the woman as he spotted the pair coming towards the surface. He was proven right a moment later when the torrent of water erupted from the surface of the pond.

Beau used Hydro Pump on the Skitty!

[Tarlar]

The magikarp which had asked the question nodded as Beau answered.
"Ah, shiny things, they are really pretty," it said but was a loss for words after that, it had been surprised at that answer as it had expected something about playing or the like. There weren't many shiny things in this murky water.
Talia moved in between them to get the goldeen's attention and the magikarp withdrew to the bottom of the pond to be out of the way of the battle.

"WATCH OUT!" Melissa shouted a warning but it was too late. As Beau made his way to the surface and readied his attack, the skitty jumped forward and slammed its paw straight in the face of the goldeen, sending him propelling backwards down into the water. His Hydro Pump only helped pushing him further down when he got his mouth underwater. His attack still made it to the surface, although only as a little spout on top, reminding of a fountain.
The skitty stood eagerly at the edge and looked down after its colorful "toy", its tail whipping in playfulness.

"Arh, I'm so sorry! I should have warned you before!" Melissa whined and looked apologetically at Finnian, "it always does that. That's why it's been so hard for me to get the meowth!"
"Now it's when they usually run away, but now we're two! So we will be successful!" Melissa encouraged Finnian and turned to her azurill.
"We need to do our best! This is only chance we got! Give me your best Bubble!" She said urgently to Azi who bounced forward.
Meowth was ready and met the azurill with a flurry of claws, Azi cried out in pain and bounced high up above the others before sending out a barrage of bubbles at both cats They wailed although it looked more like it was from getting wet by the cold water than from the hit.

A fog began to appear above the pond and slowly spread out to cover the area.


Wild Encounter

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Weather: Fog _{Acc -10%}

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Wild Skitty

LV 6
HP 82% [19/23]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Wild Meowth

LV 8
HP 80% [21/26]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Beau

LV 1
HP 8% [1/12]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Azi

LV 8
HP 67% [19/28]

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Skitty [Ability]: Status
Meowth [Ability]: Status
Azi [Ability]: Status
Beau [Ability]: Status, Flinched!

<Skitty used Fake Out, Beau Flinched! Meowth used Scratch, Azi used Bubble on both opponents.>

[zena]

Poor Beau found his plan intercepted by the other feline, who he hadn't particularly been paying attention to. He should have been, but he was just a baby, and therefore planning wasn't his strong suit. That was likely to be a problem in the future, since it wasn't Finnian's either. In fact, it wouldn't be a stretch to say it wasn't a word in their vocabulary.

Luckily, Talia was prepared to intervene should just such an event occur, and she was quick to move between Beau and the Skitty. "Good job, let me take it from here," she said as Beau tried to figure out which end was up. He was fine with that, he decided.

The Squirtle lunged out of the water, hurling herself towards the Skitty as hard as she could. Let them try to protect each other from that, she thought. Whichever one she slammed into would feel the pain, so she didn't mind.

"It's fine," Finnian replied. "We can manage. I wanted him to get a little bit of practice in, that's all." And he'd gotten it. Finnian just wasn't sure if he'd ever want to do it again.

Talia used Tackle!

[Tarlar]

No matter which feline Beau had focused on, it was Skitty who was close and had its focus on him! Talia was quick to intervene and the skitty backed off as it saw her getting close to the surface. It wiggled its behind as it got ready to pounce her once she got out of the wet water, but the squirtle took it by surprise when she hurled out of the water instead of stepping out nice and slowly. It made af frantic jump, its first thought to surprise her as it had done to Beau had been pushed aside for a simple direct Tackle.
In the fog and the sudden change of plan made it miscalculate the jump and it used way too much force and leaped straight over Talia, and had to fight not to continue straight into the pond!
Talia spun around and it was easy for her to slam into the kitty and sent it sprawling to the ground. The skitty wailed and flopped tot the ground from where it looked at the squirtle with big innocent eyes, whipping its tail around cutely. It was the picture of a playfull little youngster who wouldn't hurt anything.

"It's how they have avoided me until now, it was soooo frustrating! The skitty would scare Azi and then they'd run away!" Melisa exclaimed frustrated but then brightened up, "but now we're two! And we have already gotten past the hard part, so I'm sure we will win this!"
"You ready Azi? Time to get this one!" Melisa held her peptalk to her azurill who had turned to look at her.
The meowth growled threateningly but both Talia and Azi was too occupied to take notice, and Azi's waving tail did not help on the beige cat's mood.
Meowth leaped forward and closed the distance fast, Melisa noticed.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! Finnian, look! See how elegant and powerful it is! That's why I want it!" Melisa almost swooned and would pull at Finnian's sleeve if he was close enough for her to reach. She didn't seem to be ready to do something about the charging meowth. Azi still stood with its back to the cat and looked curiously at its trainer.
"Look how its muscles are working under the skin! I want to work with that pokemon, I could make it reach its full potential! It would bring so much beauty to my team!" Melisa exclaimed and her eyes widened as Meowth opened its mouth with all its long sharp teeth.

Azi screamed as the meowth chomped down on its bubble tail, the azurill pulled its tail free and spun around to send a barrage of bubbles out, which sent the meowth tumbling back over the grass. They hit the skitty pretty hard as well as it lay squirming on the ground, Talia was unfazed as the bubbles popped harmless against her hard shell.


Wild Encounter

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Weather: Fog _{Acc -10%}

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Wild Skitty

LV 6
HP 26% [6/23]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Wild Meowth

LV 8
HP 57% [15/26]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Talia

LV 10
HP 100% [31/31]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Azi

LV 8
HP 57% [16/28]

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Skitty [Ability]: Status (-1 def)
Meowth [Ability]: Status (-1 def)
Azi [Ability]: Status (-1 def)
Talia [Torrent]: Status (-1 def)

<Skitty used Tackle, Missed! Skitty used Tail Whip, Talia used Tackle, Meowth used Growl, Missed! Meowth used Bite, Azi used Tail Whip, and then Bubble on both opponents, Critical hit!.>

Note: Beau has participated in the battle.

[zena]

Talia was surprised when the Skitty went over her head, and for a moment she was stuck comically trying to look backwards over herself. When she almost lost her balance and tipped over backwards, she caught herself and stopped before she could do anything too stupid. "Careful there!" she warned the Skitty. Most cats didn't particularly like the water, and currently the pond was quite cold. If the feline fell in, she could be in for a bad time before Talia was able to fish her out (which she would do, even though they were fighting). Fortunately, neither of them had to worry about that.

Finnian was too busy watching the antics of his own Pokemon to really watch the other woman's fight, but he tried to keep up with what she was talking about to be polite. "Yeah, it's pretty," he agreed. Honestly, he thought the Skitty was just adorable while he could kind of take or leave the Meowth, but if it was what she wanted then he'd go along with it. Everyone liked different things. "You can do it then!" he said, hoping to cheer her and her Pokemon on. It kind of felt like that was all he was good at lately: being everyone's personal cheerleader. At least it didn't tend to annoy people.

Talia got off a good hit, he saw, and he thought he had an opportunity to end the fight then and there. Of course, if he was wrong, he didn't have a whole lot of Pokeballs left. He only had the one regular one, and a small amount of better ones. Well, here's hoping, he thought, grabbing the one regular Pokeball he had left and tossing it at the Skitty as it lay there looking sweetly up at his Squirtle.

Finnian threw a Pokeball!

[Thirdie]

"No, you can't do that yet!" Melissa exclaimed when Finnian threw a Pokeball. Her warning came a bit too late, and the ball flew through the air towards the playful Skitty, who looked ready to pounce this new plaything. However, Meowth immediately interfered, jumping in and slamming its paw against the device sending it right back to the humans with a hiss. Melissa jumped to catch the returning Pokeball, and as soon it had landed in her hands she gave it back to Finnian. "See, two Pokemon together won't let you catch any of them. We need to stop the Meowth from interfering first." she explained, imploring him to understand it with begging eyes. "I promise, I'll help you get the Skitty, but I think we need to combine our efforts on the Meowth first. It's really too strong and clever otherwise." Her admiration for the Meowth shined through once again, and she turned her head to look at the cats. The Meowth looked really angry now, though the Skitty still looked as innocent and unperturbed as ever. "Oh, oh," Melissa breathed.

The Meowth was staring Talia down, maybe realising that the Squirtle was owned by the human who had dared throw the ball. It looked out for revenge. Melissa grabbed for Finnian's sleeve again, this time nervous. "Are you ready? Azi, prepare a water gun."

Wild Encounter

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Weather: Fog _{Acc -10%}

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Wild Skitty

LV 6
HP 26% [6/23]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Wild Meowth

LV 8
HP 57% [15/26]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Talia

LV 10
HP 100% [31/31]

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[attr="class","qkt-clip"]Azi

LV 8
HP 57% [16/28]

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Skitty [Ability]: Status (-1 def)
Meowth [Ability]: Status (-1 def)
Azi [Ability]: Status (-1 def)
Talia [Torrent]: Status (-1 def)

<The Pokeball was returned to sender. No moves were made, but someone's angry.>

Note: Beau has participated in the battle.