Wherever I Roam [Training Grounds]

[Caramell 🍬]

The wild bull stomped. This human was not worthy of these sacred grounds. Those that watched over the lands, prepared to toss every would-be lightweight back into the beginner areas, must have made some sort of mistake by allowing her to progress further. Then she called out to Tauros, offering a foot race to see who was the fastest. He snorted with thick breaths of air that escaped his large nostrils in wispy waves and floated up into the air. “You will not win. I will gorge you both unless you return from where you came!”

Tauros chased after both of them. His hooves were strong and clacked against the ground, smooshing the snow underneath its heavy mass. Tauros shook his head around wildly, constantly trying to aim his horns after Azumarill or Freya in hopes of gorging them through the center of their mass. When the large blue rabbit blasted Tauros with a powerful jet of water, he sped up. Assured that he would remain victorious in this fight, Tauros easily caught Azumarill and tossed it over his back.

“Now what do you have to say for yourselves?!” Tauros laughed, rounding the base of a large tree to jump out in front of Freya. When he planned to gorge her as well, she easily tossed a ball after him that gobbled the wild bull up. He struggled against his containment for a moment, before finally breaking free of it entirely. With the broken pieces scattered on the snowy ground underneath him, Tauros glared around the area angrily. “You think you have the power to contain ME?!” Tauros bellowed. “You’re but weaklings meant for me to trample!”


Wild Encounter

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Weather: Clear

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Tauros LV 32
HP 9% [9/99]

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Azumarill LV 28
HP 16% [16/102]

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Tauros [??]: Healthy
Azumarill [Huge Power]: Healthy [-4 SPD]

SP20+ Azumarill used Aqua Jet! 9XKh|07Mp_1-16 p_1-16
SP85 Tauros used p_1-4 Assurance! p_1-16 p_1-16

SP+ Freya used Ultra Ball! p_1-100 Failed! (11 > 10)
SP85 Tauros used p_1-4 Scary Face! Azumarill's speed dropped!


Tauros' Moves: Assurance, Horn Attack, Scary Face, Zen Headbutt
1-16·1-16·1-4·1-16·1-16·1-100·1-4

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Freya swore. They were going to get trampled by this bull! This was how and where they die. She grabbed for another ball to throw helplessly at the tauros to try to tame the beast, but Azumarill had other plans. Seeing her trainer cornered by the rampaging beast, the water-rabbit felt remorse and shame twist in her gut. This was her fault. Freya didn't challenge this bull out of foolhardy bravery but out of a desire to protect Azumarill from harm.

Topaz eyes were full of fear and uncertainty, but she held up her only line of defense, an ultraball, in front of her, ready to throw it when the bull closed in with those dangerous horns. Her back was against a tree, her chest heaved, sweat dripped down her neck. 

"We are here because we are worthy. You, on the other hand, are just a hotheaded bully! Maybe you aren't worth my time. I AM a champion trainer, after all. If you were with ME you could climb to greater heights than you could ever accomplish here. But we will never find that out, will we? You will just stagnate here, in a world so small that you can seek the edges of it, but makes you feel so big."

Azumarill wanted to smack her trainer for her audacity in antagonizing the bull, but perhaps it was enough to turn the tides. Azumarill covered herself in water and jetted forth to try to end this battle once and for all!

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Word Count; 000 | OOC:

Giving up on this catch attempt. xD
Maybe another day with a status user.

Aqua Jet!
Please use modbar on Azumarill if battle ends.

[Caramell 🍬]

The rampaging bull skidded to a halt and stood still, his eyes locked on Freya as she spoke. There was a strong presence that reeked from her core, tainting the air around her. Tauros could smell it, and he could feel it, inside of his own core. “I do not wish to leave my homelands.” The words were strangely calm despite the bull Freya and Azumarill had been battling the entire time. “I will one day be one of the Guardians who preside over this land, casting out those that fail our tests.”

The three whip-like tails lashed from behind Tauros’ backside. He turned to Azumarill and kicked at the dirt of the earth. His sharp hooves cleared away bits of snow that settled on the ground and uncovered small blades of green grass and flowers that bitterly refused to give up even as winter claimed the land. “Strength comes not in pure size, and not always in the strongest attack.” These words were now directed at Azumarill, even as she fired another stream of water at him.

“I see now that you both are, indeed, worthy of these lands. But tread lightly.” Tauros snorted, turning away from both Freya and Azumarill. “They are not kind even to those of us who have spent our entire lives here.” The strange omen clung in the air, layered thick as Tauros simply trotted away. His snorts and bellowing could be heard tracing behind himself. He would always refuse to travel beyond his home so long as he could draw enough of a fight to keep himself free of such choices. There was more to life than what Freya offered, even if she thought his world to be ‘small’.

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Azumarill gained +2400 EXP to [3800/2437 EXP]!
Azumarill gained +1 level to [Lv 29]!

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As the battle wound to a close, Freya drew in a slow breath, composing herself, meeting the bull's gaze with narrowed eyes and a ready posture. Her muscles burned with strain, but she was ready to move if needed, to spring into action, running as fast as her legs would take her. However, the tauros spoke with a certain pride that had her relaxing and wiping hair from her face.

"An honorable aspiration," she murmured. "I would still guard my accusations if I were you, for you are not a guardian yet. Let us both admit we were hasty and foolhardy, underestimating the other." With the battle over, she broke her appearance of calm to hurry over to Azumarill, trusting the bull not to charge her. She pulled the water-rabbit to her chest, holding her form close. "Little idiot... You charged in here without looking twice or thinking about it for one second. And look at you? You're all roughed up."

<You can stop fussing...I'm fine> Azumarill complained, though she didn't struggle free. She just watched the Tauros walk away with his warning to them both. Freya offered a bow of respect for his authority on this matter. 

"We should turn back..."

<No! We just proved our worthiness, I want to train here!> she insisted.

"Why?!" Freya asked, absolutely baffled.

<Because I want to get stronger and this is the first place where I've felt challenged! I want to feel a challenge. To fight. To struggle. It's the only way I'll get stronger!>

"Getting stronger is really important to you, huh?" Freya said, petting her pokemon.

<It is.>

"Okay...okay. Fine. But before you go charging off into danger, you're resting." She sat them down on a nearby log to dress Azumarill's wounds and to catch her own breath. Freya pulled out a water bottle and had them both drink down nourishing refreshment before giving the impulsive water-type a snack. Fortunately, cuts and bruises faded readily with a few dabs of Potion and a filling snack. The world really was a miraculous place. Once the both of them were less beat up and aching, Freya would stand. "You want to train?"

<Yeah! Let's go!> Azumarill shouted, tail bounding eagerly as she bounced to her feet.

"We're going to do things my way, so no running off!"

<Yeah, yeah, fine. Let's go...that way!> 

"AZUMARILL!"

And once more she was chasing an overexcited pokemon through the grass.

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Word Count; 404 | OOC:

New encounter!

[Caramell 🍬]

Something watched the pair from the tops of the trees. As they traveled, flashes of cream would shoot past the greyish-brown limbs of the canopy overhead. Small crimson and orange leaves snapped off their branches from the weight of their hidden friends and fluttered to the frost-covered ground below. Their guests were intriguing and offered to the wild apes something unique that they hadn’t seen in a while.

So shortly after the primates moved swiftly through the trees, swinging along the long vines that draped from the wide oaks, they would land on the ground all around Freya. There were dozens of them, and they surrounded Freya with ease. One of the most powerful among the tribe stepped out and punched its chest repeatedly with powerful, loud snorts from its nostrils. “YOU ARE STRONG! BUT WE ARE STRONGER!” The monkey shouted boldly.

It wrapped one hand up into a tight fist and pointed to Azumarill as it stepped up towards both of them boldly. “We demand a challenge! If you disappoint us, we’ll feed you to the bottom of our lake. If you please us, we will share your stories for years to come.” As the Mankey spoke, the other primates stomped their feet on the ground and bashed their fists against their chests. They shouted loud and powerful sounds that sent small birds fluttering off towards the heavens – up and away from the area entirely.

“Do you think you have what it takes?” Mankey smirked, then charged at the top of its heels after Azumarill without giving the other Pokemon time to truly consider the options.

A Wild Mankey challenges Freya!

Level 31. What will Freya do?

Shiny? faF5jcsPp_1-42

SPOILER: Click to show

Pokemon: p_1-10 p_1-5 p_1-3 | Level: p_24-34

1-42·1-10·1-5·1-3·24-34

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"Uh oh." Freya knew they had stumbled into another fight as soon as she heard the mankey's start their riotous banter. They seemed to be calling for violence, for a challenge. They didn't sound like they planned to take 'no, we are just passing through' for an answer. Which was proven when one of the mankey's leapt down and pounded his chest, proclaiming a threat that had her skin crawling. 

She breathed in.

Calm.

Centered.

"Azumarill, you have this handled. Mankey! You look strong. If my champion defeats you, I demand that you ally yourself with us!" She pulled out a gleaming blue-and-white capsule. "We have the advantage, you can still back down~" She knew the mankey wouldn't. Not with the war chant echoing in the background. 

Victory was the only option here.

There would be consequences for failure.

It made her blood race and her cheeks flush. She grinned. Despite the earlier terror she had with the guardian tauros, she had to admit...she was having fun. So far in her journey here in Johto, she had not felt the thrill of a challenge so readily. It made her yearn to do even better.

Azumarill smacked her belly in response to the mankey's, beating a war drum of her own.

Challenge accepted.

<BRING IT!>

She then tried to use a powerful waterfall attack on the mankey as Freya aimed a pokeball.

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Word Count; 404 | OOC:

Waterfall + Greatball
(modbar if catches)

[Caramell 🍬]

Even as Freya offered Mankey to back down, the monkey refused. It pounded its tightly balled fists against his chest and snorted. “We Mankey are a prideful species!” Mankey hooted and hollered, jumping up and down on the tips of its nimble feet. “We never give up, never give in!” It warned Freya. “I accept your terms!”

Then, suddenly, the primate rushed through the frost-covered grass on swift, nimble feet. It would kick off the ground and grab a nearby vine, whose thick and luscious green trunk could possibly carry Cufant if they wanted and swung up behind Azumarill at once. “You fool! You’ve left yourself wide open!” It slammed the back of Azumarill’s neck with its arms crossed over, chopping through it’s opponent.

Azumarill easily and nimbly spun around, blasting a powerful wave of water that knocked Mankey several yards through the wild tangle of grass and brush. It coughed, slowly climbing onto its feet. “That won’t…” Mankey coughed up crimson, and quickly wiped it away. It’s breathing labored. The other Monkeys watched on, alerted to the chance that their leader might have lost. Then, finally, it happened.

“Ah…” Mankey turned to its leg, stuck inside of a log, and grotesquely twisted out of shape. “I am no longer fit for the fight. Well done. I accept your offer.” Mankey reached one hand out towards Freya’s ball, awaiting her successful capture. The other monkeys would hoot and holler. They were victory calls that they announced for Freya and Azumarill. “Congratulations!” They all cheered, before they disappeared off into the woods once more.


Wild Encounter

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Weather: Clear

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Mankey LV 31
HP 56% [42/75]

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Azumarill LV 29
HP 82% [86/105]

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Mankey [??]: Healthy
Azumarill [Huge Power]: Healthy

SP58 Mankey used a0ndQmd6p_1-4 Cross Chop! p_1-100 p_1-8 p_1-16
SP42 Azumarill used Waterfall! p_1-16 p_1-16

SP+ Freya used Great Ball p_1-100. Success!


Mankey's Moves: Swagger, Cross Chop, Assurance, Thrash

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Azumarill gained +2325 EXP to [3688/2611 EXP]!
Azumarill gained +1 level to [Lv 30]!
Azumarill wants to learn Aqua Ring! Forget move?

Here's your new buddy!

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[b]Mankey[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 31
OT: Freya Baxton
Moves: Swagger, Cross Chop, Assurance, Thrash
Ability: Vital Spirit or Anger Point
Nature/Personality: [choose]

-1 Great Ball deducted. (6 > 5)1-4·1-100·1-8·1-16·1-16·1-16·1-100