Paradise falls: Mishu's finneon encounter #1

[Tarlar]

Finneon [Lv 25] wants to test itself against Mishu's pokemon.
Encountered here

[Caramell 🍬]

 
MISHU MIZUMA
Dark Type Trainer •
Education / Science

The thirty-year old’s soft amber eyes stared at her own reflection. She carefully noted how the wise nasal base, broad tip, and wide bridge of her Nubian nose slipped down the center of her face, highlighted by the high rise of her cheek bones. Mishu leaned down close to the water and watched its surface dance with small ripples. Different Pokemon stirred underneath the surface of the water, though some seemed to blend in. She blinked slowly and carefully when something bright like a light seemed to lurk further offshore where the floor must have dropped off into an unknown murky depth. Mishu pulled off her shoes and allowed her wide feet to gently step into the harsh, cold waters of the lakeside.

What was out there? She pondered if it could be some unknown Pokemon she’d never met before. With her imagination running wild, Mishu began to speculate over the possibility of a hidden water-and-dark type she’d never met before swimming along the lake’s floor down several feet below the surface. Though Mishu reasoned that given the spark of light that lurked further and out of reach, it was most likely some part-electric type that lurked far out of reach. Something splashed up from underneath the water’s surface and spoke up in a blabber of speech that she couldn’t quite understand. As Mishu blinked and jumped back, rubbing her eyes for a split second, the light she was sure she had recently followed into the lake disappeared.

“Oh?” The blue haired trainer carefully stepped back out of the water and shivered as the fresh air hit her wet feet. The sandy banks clumped together and stuck to her feet, covering them with sands and mud that would require a lot of careful washing to fully remove. “What are you?” She pulled out her Pokedex and flipped it open to scan the Pokemon. Mishu would quickly flip through all the information that flashed in front of her screen, absorbing as much as she could to better understand the Finneon. Not a dark type…but it was known for its beauty especially while swimming and a popular favorite with divers…Interesting… “I didn’t mean to intrude into your territory…” Mishu apologized with a long bow towards the wild Pokemon.

Finneon didn’t look like it wanted to leave, however. Mishu scratched the back of her head and fumbled around inside of her pockets for one of the Pokeballs containing her own Pokemon, unleashing Karasu with the click of a button. The large blackbird stretched her long wings out wide at her sides with a loud caw. “Hi! Yes?” She chirped, shooting up onto Mishu’s shoulders. Karasu would raise one of her feet up to scratch at the side of her face while flapping her wings to settle herself on her newfound perch. When she noticed the Finneon, Karasu would tilt her head and lean close to the strange blue fish. “Hello, hello!” She cawed with a smile. “I Karasu.” The Murkrow explained, then thought harder about her response as Finneon explained what it was.

What was Karasu? The bird curved one wing underneath her sharp beak as though she were deep in thought. She’d largely only ever heard Mishu and her teammates refer to her as ‘Karasu’ though there was another terminology she’d heard rarely before. But...what was it again? She hummed and scrunched her brows together as she focused in deep thought. Then it clicked for her almost instantly and she raised a wing up triumphantly in the air. “Karasu is Murkrow! Named Karasu, but am Murkrow!” She chirped thoughtfully. “I plenty brave!” Karasu declared, jumping off her trainer’s shoulder to fly after Finneon and aim to hit the small fish with her wings.

Set at Night

WORD COUNT: 629 words
OOC: Karasu uses Wing Attack!
^{Mishu | Kotaro | Akira | Karasu | Yōsei | Hinoina | Suraimu}

[Tarlar]

The finneon looked on more and more baffled as Karasu thought hard to come up with an answer, "are you joking with me?" It asked laughingly but didn't really think that was the case as Karasu seemed genuine. It was just hard to believe someone didn't know who they were.
"And what is a murkrow then? I have never seen anything like you around here before, you are like a black wingull with something on top!" It said cheerfully and tilted its whole body a bit in the water to look at the murkrow from a different angle, "let me guess, you don't spent days soaring over the sea, do you? Then what do you do instead?"

"Wonderful! Let's see if you have anything to back it up with!" The finneon called and dived to rush further out into the lake and lure Karasu out where it had the home field advantage, not that it would made that big of a difference now Karasu was flying but it would make a big difference for the finneon to not be stuck on land.
It swam around under the surface and waited to see what Karasu did, which was to soar above and wait to see what the finneon did.
The finneon beat its tail hard and shot high up from the water and sent a familiar looking water orb flying at the bird. At least there was only one and Karasu flipped over doing a sideway loop to dodge it and then sped into the finneon hitting it with a wing as it fell down towards the water. The finneon spun around as it dropped but it still somehow managed to send another orb flying and hit Karasu with it, before it plumped into the water.


Wild Encounter

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Weather: Clear

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Finneon LV 25
HP 53% [36/67]

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Karasu LV 22
HP 61% [40/65]

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Finneon: Normal
Karasu [Super Luck]: Normal

SP51 Karasu used Wing Attack! Critical hit!
SP45 Finneon used Water Pulse!

[Caramell 🍬]

 
MISHU MIZUMA
Dark Type Trainer •
Education / Science

A cold breeze surged through with a loud howl. Karasu fluffed up her feathers and shook her head. The small blue fish with two butterfly-shaped tailfins questioned her in such a strange way, it took the blackbird back for a second. Karasu – a bird who spoke directly and to the point, with a steadfast determination in what she did – wasn’t quite sure why the Finneon thought she was joking. What was so funny? She simply could not see it. Karasu sat on the ground and tapped her wingtips against her sharp beak as she searched around the luxurious lake for a second with a soft shrug. “I say some joke?” Karasu hopped a bit on her feet and scratched at the ground for a second. “What I say?” She asked the Finneon, trying to understand the joke that seemed to soar right over her head.

The questions didn’t seem to stop there. The next one was just as perplexing as the first, for different reasons. The blackbird’s sharp eyes widened for a second, then a warm smile slowly curved the edges of her yellow beak. She fanned her wings as if to point to herself. “I Murkrow!” Karasu puffed up her chest feathers proudly. Wasn’t it obvious from her first answer? She’d never encountered another of her kind before and had no other answer than this. She’d only had explanations based on her type at best, and some Pokedex entries and theoretical research that her trainer had spoken about around her. “Trainer say I known for liking shiny things. They so pretty! And say others think I curse. I no curse. Why think I curse?” Karasu hummed sadly and stared down at her own reflection that danced through the ripples on the surface of the lake.

“No soar over sea, no. I travel with trainer!” Karasu turned and pointed her beak in Mishu’s direction. What did they do on their travels, though? Karasu tried to think hard about the past experiences she’d had with Mishu and a smile washed over her face. “Lots battles! And explore new places! You explore places? Or just stay here?” Karasu asked Finneon and gestured towards the surrounding lake. Was there anywhere else that Finneon had gone? Karasu’s sharp eyes followed the cascading waterfall backwards from where it crashed down into the lake back up to the top of the cliff’s side with a deep thought. Could Finneon scale the height of the gigantic falls to explore the lands beyond Paradise Falls? Had this Finneon done that previously before?

“Decent move!” Karasu cawed loudly as she looped around and spun in aerodynamic feats through the air. The pulsating water rings had managed to thoroughly soak Karasu’s feathery wings, causing her to stumble in the air temporarily until she was able to lift herself back up into the skies. She circled high above the lake, flapping her wings in long rhythmic strides, and craned her head to keep a steady focus on the lake below her. She’d wait for the perfect moment, hoping to take Finneon by surprise, and then dive down after her prey with her wings stretched out wide to try and strike Finneon once more. “But I plenty strong!” She laughed with a wide grin. She would easily win this fight against the fish and prove to herself and her trainer just how strong and powerful she was.

Mishu frowned as she watched the two battling against each other and turned to her bag. Karasu didn’t look terribly worse for wear, but Mishu wasn’t confident that the Finneon wasn’t slightly stronger in the long run. She fumbled around with her supplies and cursed underneath her breath. Why did she have so many of these red Apricorns cluttering up the same compartment in her bag as her balls?! And why were some of them spilling over into her medicinal compartment?! Frustrated, Mishu tipped her bag upside down and shook out all of its contents to shuffle through them individually. She would carefully reorganize her bag properly, then turned to snatch a small potion up inside of her hand to tuck away for later. A small blue ball with two red ridges on the top of the dome rolled away and flopped into the lake, floating awkwardly on the surface towards the blue fish…

Set at Night

WORD COUNT: 727 words
OOC: Karasu uses Wing Attack and then using 1 Great Ball. Self-Updating 8 left.
^{Mishu | Kotaro | Akira | Karasu | Yōsei | Hinoina | Suraimu}

[DarkSlayer]

Oh yes, plenty funny indeed! The finneon couldn't help but grin, even if it was a wee bit hurt. Battles were fun, though! Fine, so maybe it didn't really appreciate somebody splashing into its little territory, but it wasn't as if it was permanently this finneon's or anything. It was just here for the time being! Eventually it would have had to go off somewhere else... and then even further on in the day, right back home! Which, obviously, wasn't too far from here. Just a short swim... a little fin move or two. But even so, this wasn't all theirs or anything.

"Yes, you are definitely strong! But I'm powerful too. I might be a fish, but that hardly means that I can't do my own damage!" It was a bit tired of others thinking that it was a weak fishy, and it felt that it really needed to prove its mettle in battle. "Just you wait, I'm going to show the strength of my tail! See it? Look at how pretty it is. So flawless and smooth..."

Why it thought that it could actually manage to get the bird to think it was so gorgeous is anybody's guess. But it was really trying to show itself off. It didn't matter, though. Hit by another wing attack, and then failing to actually attract its opponent, there was nothing more to do. That blasted bird kept it so well distracted that it didn't notice the ball floating towards it. Not until it tapped it, and sucked it up inside... wiggling just a bit before announcing the successful capture.

Karasu grew to Level 25! She's trying to learn the move Assurance! Should it get rid of another move for Assurance?

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[b]Finneon[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 25
OT: Mishu Mizuma
Moves: Water Pulse, Gust, Rain Dance, Attract
Ability: Swift Swim OR Storm Drain
Nature/Personality: [choose]