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Thawing out; And drying off
Topic Started: Nov 24 2009, 10:09 AM (1,006 Views)
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The three stepped carefully across the ice, little Faith little more than a feather to the creaking surface, and Anubis keeping a wary eye on their trainer as he advanced. A hiss of breath as he spotted the danger, and bounded that way. "Look out..."

It was already too late, though, as the slick ice, despite all the caution Ben could muster, sent his feet skidding out from beneath him, and about the only thought he had at that point was for the egg, as he twisted to make sure he didn't land on top of it.

The biting, burning cold, on the other hand, drove absolutely everything else out before it. It was almost impossible not to gasp at the bitter, painful chill as it surrounded him, only a vague sense of self-preservation that the water awoke. There was no room in his mind for anything but the cold, and trying to get out of it, however. This wasn't the first time that Ben had ended up under water, but the Loch wasn't nearly so COLD...

There was no light to guid him in the proper direction, just instinct as he clawed at the water, the clothing generally intended to keep him warm becoming a threat in about an instant.

A paw sliced through the water, clamping down on his arm and yanking. Ben gasped as his head broke the surface, coughing grabbing at the paw with his free hand, any trying to make his muscles work to pull himself out. Another paw grabbed hold of that hand, though, and the cold made it so hard to move, and even the air burned as he breathed it in.

He gave up on the trying to move for the time being once he was out of the water, the cold numbing his thoughts still, as the lucario and eevee (mostly the lucario) dragged their half-frozen trainer across the last of the ice. He could feel fumbling at his pockets, and heard the voice. "Where's J-Jax? Let h-her out."

There was something wrapped around his toes, as he tried to make sense of the question and statement. Jax sounded familiar, but it was rather hard to think. The adrenalie surge and panic had left him tired...

"Damnit, l-let her out!" Ben sort of sat up at that, as the paws tugged at his coat, trying to get it off. The movement against his side cause a flash of insight and he fumbled at the coat with numb fingers, frantic to make sure the egg hadn't taken much harm. It felt all right, but it was impossible to tell if it had taken much of a chill, then whatever had been wrapping itself around his toes curled around it for him, and his fingers buried themselves in the warm, dry fur.

"F-F-Faith...?" Ben tried to get his numb mind working, as the name floated to the surface.

"Yes yes yes...n-now get J-JAX!" Ben winced at the not-quite roar, digging for the other pokeballs he had on his person, numb fingers still refusing to work. Still, those paws that had saved him snatched them up even as he tried to make them work, sending three dogs out.

The vulpix blinked at the situation, then tugged the dripping boots off and took over the role of footwarmer, as Shinobi sighed and draped himself over his trainer's legs and lower torso. The white arcanine shot the lucario an unreadable look, before settling down to let the warrior pokemon help Ben use her as a sort of backrest.

"And where do you think you're going?" she asked rather tartly when the shivering steel type straightened up and took a step or two away.

"S-someone needs to watch f-for trouble..."

"You need to thaw out just as much as he does." One dinner plate sized paw swooped out and with a muffled yelp of surprise, Anubis found himself trapped between her paws, as she looked him over, then started grooming his fur as if he were a puppy.

Perhaps seeing Lloyd had awoken some sort of motherly instinct in her. Ignoring the feeble protests, she made sure he stayed there, as Faith nudged the egg closer to the group as well.

It was a good thing, having furry fire types on the team. Or furry types in general. Gradtually the worst of the cold was releasing the lock it had on the trainer's brain. "T-told you you w-wouldn't laugh..." he muttered finally.

"Ha, ha. Better?" Anubis's reply was muffled by Jax's fur and tongue, but Ben chuckled weakly at it.

"Yeah...thanks." If he weren't buried in fur and the lucario out of reach, he probably would have given him a pat on the shoulder with that statement, but still.

The lucario coughed. "We're here, by the way." The blind trainer smiled a little at the attempt to change the subject, but just nodded. Hopefully it wouldn't take too long to evolve the eevee here.

"Once we're d-done, we're going to h-head for Deepwood..." He wasn't about to go crossing that stupid ice again any time soon...

"Maybe we should have done that in the first place."

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Thawing out. Looking for a fight or two for Faith. Despite my APL, I'm looking for a fight for my level 10 pokemon. Would appreciate that being taken into account. ^.^

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Edited by DarthEevee, Dec 12 2009, 08:49 PM.
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It was a stroke of luck that the forest around them was a peaceful place... even from where they were, anyone who was looking around would spot some bugs in the trees, cocoon types, but at higher levels then the little Eevee could take. There were other critters too, and if Anubis was paying attention, then perhaps he could sense them. Unfortunately Jax was giving him a bath and he was still cold. It was getting better, though.

When the fighter was aware enough and managed to extract himself from Jax's clutches (or when she finally let him extract himself from her clutches) the Aura-wielding fighter would sense a curious little mind in the bushes, somewhat similar to Faith's, but wild instead of tame. Whatever kind of critter it was, it was too timid to come over and say hello, but was still watching from the bushes and trees around them, darting around. Instinct wouldn't let him stay in one place too long, especially with a human around. Even if the human was half frozen.

But there were other things in the forest watching too that Anubis could sense, nothing hostile, though. That was likely for the best, for now.


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Faith curled up around the egg, watching the area warily, as did the other four pokemon. Ben shifted a bit, and eventually fell asleep, exhaustion from the cold catching up to him.

Anubis, meanwhile, suffered the minstrations of Jax for quite too long, for his peace of mind. About the only reason he didn't punch her in the nose at some point throughout it was the memory of a silvery puddle in the middle of a street...

"Come off it already..." he shoved at her muzzle again, for the umpteenth time, and with a sigh, the white arcanine let him up, since he wasn't shivering any more. And only damp.

"I was only trying to help." Jax harrumphed, and adjusted her position slightly, watching Ben carefully to make sure he was recovering as well, from that dunking.

"I know, I know..." The lucario shook himself off, pausing as the myriad auras of the area presented themselves to him. "Thanks and stuff, okay? Just...enough is enough." Jax snorted, as Anubis prowled a bit, tasting all the flavors in the air.

Concern from pretty much everyone on the team, weakest from little Inari, but still, the fox liked his new trainer all right. Curiousity, a gentle aura of relaxation...it was unlikely that anything would attack them openly at the moment, at least.

One locus of curiousity crystallized as he prowled, and Anubis paused, cocking his head to the side. It had a slightly familiar flavor, though with an unfamiliar tang of wariness that made it different enough that it was hard to place exactly. He remained where he first sensed it, poised a moment, then turned, dropping to all fours, ears flicking back and forth as he tried to home in better on the moving target.

"Hello?" he called, angling to intercept whatever it was. Not threateningly, no...but it had caught his interest. "Come out, come out, wherever you are..."

Sure, he had a pretty good idea where...but maybe the playful singsong would give the idea that he wasn't going to be hostile if they weren't.

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The critter was alarmed when the fighter seemed to know where they were, and doubled back to get away. They thought they were being quite clever... not knowing what Anubis was since they had never seen one before. Thus, it was unaware of his powers.

Thinking very highly of himself, a little brown blur zipped out to hide behind Jax, very slowly creeping around her hind end till his furry, pointy brown ears appeared, just before his eyes. "Vee?"

The Eevee saw Faith, and pranced over, batting at her tail from where she was sitting on Ben, barking quietly up at her. The little furry critter was about the same size as her, but brown furred and male. He batted at her tail a few times, then hopped away, dropping into a playful pose and waggling his tail. Looks like someone was here for the same reason they were. Did wild critters know about the power of this rock that they were so near? Well, looked like this one did, anyways.


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The little thing thought it was being clever, did it? Anubis smirked a bit, then carefully surpressed a shiver, as the cold still had yet to completely go away, one ear flicking back as it darted around behind the group, around Jax.

"Ah-..." The lucario made a turn, about ready to pounce, when the two ears popped up over Jax's paw, followed by a pair of dark, bright eyes. Oh-ho. The little fuzzball was practically radiating smugness, confident that he'd outwitted the group with his sneakyness.

With a slight disappointment, though amusement as the reasons why it was familiar and different became apparent, the Lucario continued to sweep his gaze past, to be nice and let the fuzzball think he was all that. Besides. He didn't really have interest in beating a puppy up, and after all of Ben's worries about depleting the population further and whatnot, it would probably not go over well to try to sic Faith on it. Besides, he was probably here for a similar reason.

Faith squeaked in all the surprise the fellow could desire, hopping about a foot straight up, and tumbling from her self-appointed position of egg-warmer, and stared, eyes wide, at her brown-furred counterpart.

"Eevee?" Blink. Blinkblink. Anubis snorted and padded over, though he kept a safe distance, to not scare the other Eevee off. The playful pose was irresistable, however, and Faith relaxed and swished her tail after a moment, and looked a little bashful. The invitation was tempting, but...

"Oh, go ahead. We'll be fine." Anubis snorted, correctly interpreting her look over her shoulder at their trainer. He remained on the other side of the clearing from the pair, though he intended to track them if they left the rock. "Just don't get too far away. I'm willing to bet he can show you a thing or two." Faith looked over her shoulder at Ben again, hesitating a moment, then squeaked as Jax shoved her side gently, but still with enough force to send her tumbling into the wild Eevee with an amused snort.

"He came here for you, anyhow, m'dear. Go on."

Anubis settled down as Faith hesitated a moment more then squeaked shyly, and pranced a little, accepting that, and more than eager to have a little fun. "If you say so. Um...hi..." The slightly shy expression she turned on the male Eevee was also eager, letting him take the lead in this little adventure. Jax had had an adventure once...it had sounded so exciting...

Anubis settled back, to let his other senses take over, to better track the two of them and what was going on. If they bit off more than they could chew, he'd go rescue them...but it was probably good for her to learn a bit from her own kind.

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Edited by DarthEevee, Nov 27 2009, 10:20 PM.
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The little male grinned broadly at her when she finally noticed him, still in his playful pouncing pose, waiting to see what she did. The other Pokemon around didn't seem to bother him, even though he saw Anubis looking at him now. Ha, he had still fooled the funny blue dog thing, or so he thought.

He seemed like he was ready to wait all day, and yipped happily with a little bounce when Jax shoved her at him. Running in a little circle, he sunk back into his playful pose, fluffball tail wagging.

"Hiya!" he chirped happily, bouncing closer to get a good look, "Are you here for the rock too? What's wrong with your trainer? What's that blue thing? Why is that Arcanine white? How come you're all sparkly?" he rambled on, excited.

So excited, that he darted over to the rock, climbing up onto it's mossy top and looking back at her, waiting to see if she'd follow. There was plenty enough room up on the rock for the both of them, and with the moss it wasn't that hard to climb.
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Anubis rolled his eyes as he was called a blue thing, but didn't comment as Faith bounded after the male Eevee, with one last glance back at the egg with some concern. She had been guarding it...but relaxed as Anubis shoved it at Jax. "Don't worry, she needs something to mother." The silver eevee giggled at that, recalling Anubis's earlier bath. Jax just pretended to not hear it all, though she did make sure the egg was settled comfortably in her forepaws while she lay there.

"Kay! I don't know why we're here really...everyone says it's for me, though," she replied to the first of the questions as she bounded after the wild fellow. Then there was the rock, and she followed him again, bounding for the top of it...and missing. Her paws flailed at the side for a few moments, searching for and failing to find any purchase. With an indignant squeak, she fell to the ground beside it, then sat up, shaking the dirt off and glowering up it's surface, waiting for someone to fix the problem.

Pampered princess indeed.

However, no one else moved, and after a few moments, she make a face and tried again. And again. After half a dozen or so tries, she managed to scramble up to the top of the rock to join the other Eevee. "The blue thing is Anubis. He's kind of grumpy sometimes, but Daddy says he has a good heart." She wrapped her tail primly around her paws, and inspected each and every one for any damage from scrambling atop this mountain.

Nevermind it's probably not more than Ben's height, if that, even. Hardly qualifies for hill status, let alone mountain. To Faith, sheltered thing she was, so to speak...it was a mountain. "And Jax is white because she saved the world once from evil." The eevee puffed up proudly, even though she hadn't been born when it happened. "All the goodness she used to do it turned her white or something. It sounded very exciting..."

Groomgroomgroom her silver tail, pausing to inspect it, then the wild Eevee's chocolatey color, then back down. "And...iunno why I'm all, um sparkly. I came that way?" Yeah, nobody's bothered to explain that she's special and shiny, not wanting to inflate that ego. "I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be..." She shook herself off, and cocked her head.

"There's not something wrong with that, is there?" Suddenly she was worried about it. She didn't want him to not like her because she was the wrong color, after all...hmm. Maybe a subject change!

But what? She looked down. Aha! "And what's the rock supposed to do, other than sit here? Are we gonna have an adventure or something on it?" She liked adventures...
Edited by DarthEevee, Nov 29 2009, 11:59 AM.
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His long ears pointed straight up when she tumbled down the first time, and they were the first things to appear as he looked over the side of the 'mountain' down at her, twitching his tail. "You alright?" he asked as she went to try again. After her second try, he crouched down and crawled on his belly forward, trying to help her up. She managed to get up one way or another, and he sat up again and scooted aside to give her some room.

He looked back at Ben and co as Faith explained, and nodded. Maybe it was because the boy had his own Eevee, but he noted that the others didn't really care about him. It was nice... he didn't like being chased around everywhere. Speaking of, he sniffed the air while Faith was grooming herself, smelling the faint scent of a human that wasn't Ben. It was far off, with only the wind bringing the scent to his nose. He was safe for now, it seemed.

"Oh, no, it's not bad!" he looked back at her, waving his tail, "I was just surprised, is all. It's a nice shiny," he reassured, then looked down at the rock under their paws.

"You can't feel it?" he tilted his head at her, ears flopping. He had never been around an evolution stone, but it was a similar feeling... though instead of being so condensed at a single, chaotic point, it permeated through the space around the rock and had a quality that he could feel inside him... but it wasn't overwhelming. It felt like it needed a jump start, though.

"But, uh. Yeah! We can have an adventure," he stood up, turned in a circle while wiggling his tail, "There's not much to do around here, though. We could go find someone to spar with or something," he looked around, nose twitching again as he took in the breeze, and hopped down off the rock, looking back to make sure that she got down alright.

"Your trainer's awfully quiet, though," he pointed out finally, looking back over at Ben. Most trainers flipped when they saw him, and he had to run, but this one appeared to be sleeping.

"But, anyways," he grinned back at her, "I can show you around a bit if you want,"
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If he only knew that the egg that the arcanine was slobbering over was ALSO an Eevee...well, probably that disinterest would make a LOT more sense. Well, that and the fact that Ben didn't go around with pokemon that liked to pick on babies, by their comparison. After all, any one of them could have flattened the young upstart like the bug he was, even Inari.

Not that that matters. He was too clever and sneaky for all of them, after all. And this is more about Faith having a bit of fun.

Faith shook her fur out, her relief at the color not being an issue quite plain to read. She seemed determined to pretend that she had had no difficulty in getting to the top of this rock, as she cocked her head to the side, then dropped her nose to sniff carefully at the rock.

It did seem a little different from other rocks. There was something about it that she liked...but she really couldn't place it. She was a rather naive little thing, and it showed in many ways. She padded around the rock some more, trying to figure out the funny feel to it. Really, it was kind of the whole area, wasn't it?

"I suppose it does feel different...kind of. I donno how." She gave up after a little on trying to figure it out...it was all over her head, and really, it wasn't that important, was it? And they had an adventure to go on! Squee!

She fluffed her silvery fur out and pranced a little in place, though she deflated when he pointed out Ben was so quiet. "Yeah...Daddy's been kind of like that since he fell into the water through the ice back over that way." A paw was waved in the general direction of the thin ice back towards Pontarctica. "Anubis and Jax and everyone seem to think he'll be okay after he gets some sleep or something though. And warms up and stuff."

She had utter faith that those companions wouldn't lie to her. Kind of cute, really, her utter certainty in such situations. "And they said it'd be okay if I went on an adventure, anyhow...so it should be fine." She scooted over to the edge, and looked down. That was an awful long way down...

One paw prodded at the side of the rock, then went back up, so the other could test it, then she inched slowly to be partially over the side, and to make her a few inches closer...then she hopped down to join her new friend, landing with an "Oof!" but otherwise looking perfectly eager to be shown around the place. "I'd love to see the area, too! I'm sure you know where all the most exciting places are around here..."

Not having much to live up to there, is he? Especially with that utter certainty she had in that statement.
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Oh, he had fallen in the ice. His ears drooped a little when he learned. It was unfortunate; he'd seen trainers fall through the ice, and only be recovered some time later... taken away covered up. He hadn't liked those times at all. He leaned over a little bit, and could see Ben breathing. His Pokemon also didn't seem too stressed, so... everything must be fine, then!

"Well, if they say so," he looked back at her when she jumped down, and beamed happily. He tilted his head at her certainty, and shifted from paw to paw. He liked to think that he knew everything rather well... hm. If he could, he would have snapped his fingers, but instead he brightened up, and puffed his furry little mane out.

"Yeah, yeah. I know the BEST place," he grinned and darted off a little bit, to the north east-ish, pausing and looking back at her and make sure that she was following.

[I know this landmark they're going to is in a different area, but you can just keep the thread here. Prolly easier. xD They'll be heading back to the Moss Rock soon enough,]

He was somewhat of an expert when it came to dodging through the trees of the forest here, always on the run from predators and trainers alike. Though, even as he darted up trees and to low branches, then back down to the ground, he'd pause periodically to check on Faith and make sure she was following along just fine.

The trees suddenly cleared out ahead, opening up to a calm, flat expanse of lake that shined like crystal. The Eevee hopped up onto a small rock and twitched his tail. The slight elevation gave them a better view.

"This is my favorite place. It's really pretty and quiet," he nodded, and decided to be silent for a second so she could take it all in, or whatever.

At about this point, the wind changed again, and he frowned, ears sticking straight up. His nose twitched, and he looked a little afraid for a second, sticking his face into the breeze and sniffing again. His big pointy ears could pick up a very faint noise of something moving around in the forest nearby, but it wasn't anywhere close... yet.
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Ben dozed on, oblivious to the scrutiny by the wild Eevee, restoring energy lost due to the fear/panic/frozen-ness of his recent misadventure. It was a good thing he was used to this by now. Misadventures, anyhow.

Faith pranced excitedly. She was an aptly named little thing, in that she was practically the embodiment of such. Jax and Anubis, Ben's two most trusted companions, said that he'd be okay, so he would be. This new friend of her said he'd show her around, so obviously he knew all the really interesting and exciting spots around here.

It was obvious this was all the case, after all.

Anubis settled down, closing his eyes and relegating his full attention to his other sense, making sure they didn't get TOO far away, or have something decide to make a snack of them, as the wild Eevee led his shiny companion off to see his 'BEST place' with him.

"Oooh...I can't wait!" She bit back on about a zillion questions she had about the place, almost entirely due to the fact that she needed that oxygen to keep up, at that point.

Yeah, the wild fellow could quickly note two things about the shiny silver fluffball. One was that she was clearly not in serious shape, out of breath in a surprisingly short time, though she puffed valiantly along, doing her best to keep up, convinced that wherever they were headed was obviously worth any effort. The second was that she obviously had never had a need to be sneaky or hide or something. Angry Tauros rampaging through the undergrowth might be quieter at times.

Then the forest opened out onto a vast lake (at the very least, by her standards), one that sparkled like a crystal in the sunlight. "Ohhh..." She scrambled atop the rock with her new friend if it were big enough, taking in the sight with wide eyes.

"It's beautiful..." Her attention was riveted upon the view, drinking it in, completely oblivious to anything that might be sneaking up on them. Her tail waved idly as she absorbed the beauty of the lake, then turned to her companion.

"Thank you so much...I can't believe that there's something this lovely out here like this. It's so amazing, the way the light sparkles like..." She trailed off, however, as she finally noticed that her companion wasn't admiring the lake, blinking in confusion as he sniffed the air uneasily. Faith tried copying him, but the wind sent that same bewildering aray of odors at her that she'd never bothered to sort out before at her, ones she'd never really cared to take the time to sort out.

"You okay?" she ventured finally, giving up on trying to puzzle it out.
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His ear flicked at her, which turned his gaze when he noticed that she had stopped mid sentence. He had been listening, but also trying to hear the trees around them at the same time. He managed a smile for her concerned look, and wagged his tail.

"It's, um," he hesitated a little bit, like he didn't want to upset her. She kind of had to know, though. "There's another trainer out here, who's been kinda chasin' after me for a while. He just won't leave me alone," his ears drooped a little bit at the thought, but then he realized that she was in much more danger then he was. She was a weird color and an Eevee... and female.

"C'mon, let's get back to your trainer," he said suddenly, hopping down and waiting for her. He'd stick close, this time, "We can bring him back here when he feels better," he reassured, waiting for her to follow him.

They went back into the forest, and didn't get far before a furious buzzing reached their acute ears, and a fast, bladed bug zipped out in front of them, claws raised. Eevee gasped, but glared and darted forward before the bug could attack, knocking him back.






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Faith cocked her head in bemusement, at least initially, as the Eevee commented about the trainer following her around. Her Daddy was a trainer, she knew, and this sounded like he was putting trainers down or something...

Oh, wait! Everyone had warned her about the fact that not all people were nice people like Daddy. This must be one of those mythical 'Bad People' they talked about all the time. That made sense!

But, even while she was puzzling this out, her erstwhile companion was scrambling down, saying that they could bring Ben here to show it to him after. "Ooh. Good idea...but..." She glanced over her shoulder to catch a last glimpse of the beauty of the place. Well, she could describe it to him, surely...

She knew Daddy couldn't see, but that was part of what made him special, really. "We'll have to do that." Everyone could enjoy it, after all. She hurried as best she could after the brown Eevee, though she fell back with a startled squeak as the bug thing darted out of the bushes. As her friend blurred into motion, plowing into it, she recovered from her shock and bared her little teeth. They had to get around this bugthing and back to daddy...but it didn't look like they'd outrun it for long.

"Come on, you can do this!" she yapped confidently, darting around the bug, calling to her companion encouragingly. He could take this bug out, she was certain...

Faith was a powerful thing after all, and it was her name.

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:ninjask :fl
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The fast and furious bug recovered as quickly as it could, looking at Faith and seeming as surprised as a ninja bug could manage, but turned around to its target. The silver one could wait, she supposed. At that, she dove, bringing her claws up and wildly slashing at the little brown one.

The male bit back a yelp at the claws digging into his skin under the fur, so Faith didn't get worried. Even as he darted away, while the bug was slightly distracted by Faith, he could feel a different power flowing through himself. He felt stronger, and used that strength to zip in again, throwing his body into the bug as hard as he could.

They both crashed into the ground, a little stunned and hurt, but the Eevee was up first, and running after Faith, "Run!" he said, waiting for her to go before following after. He was limping a little, but still managed to keep up, sticking behind her.

Ninjask buzzed, taking to the air again and shooting after them. It was also suffering, but would not give up its mistress's chase!

"Do you think you can make it back to your trainer alright?" he asked, glancing back at the bug quickly gaining on them. He wasn't about to let her get caught up in his own problems, that was for sure. That, and he knew... where one was, the second wasn't far behind... and the rest of them weren't far behind that, either.


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Faith kept looking over her shoulder at her companion, as he limped along, which certainly helped with him keeping up, and her ears slicked back as the bug started to catch up. He was faster than them, that's for sure...

"You're coming too, right?" she asked, huffing at the speeds they were running at. She wasn't going to abandon her friend, nosiree. Besides that...that bug was MEAN. So it was a bad bug, and bad bugs were supposed to be fought and driven off.


Back with the sleeping Ben, the egg gave a tiny twitch, almost imperceptible, then stilled again, before anyone noticed. Still a bit to go, but it was getting there...

Crimson eyes opened, head turning slowly in the direction that the two Eevees had gone. Had he sensed some sort of disturbance from them? Another presence? He focused carefully, trying to make sure it wasn't his imagination.


And Faith started to glow slightly as she galloped ungracefully on, a dark purplish black aura slowly starting to form around her, as she cast another look behind her at the bug. Bad bug...he had hurt her new friend, and wanted to hurt him more. And maybe her too. Just plain not nice, that was...

"Go AWAY!" With that pronouncement, the energy burst outward, arrowing for the insect, to be replaced with a soft glow once more that began to grow. She was ready to do it again if he didn't take the hint...

~~~~~~~~~~~~

I did say that Anubis was keeping track of their auras, so... *chuckles* Don't know how far exactly they are or how clear a read he might get.

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His ears slicked back a little at her question, and he looked back at the murderous bug, trying to capture them. He didn't have the heart to outright lie to her, though. "I'll try," he said, hopping aside as a claw slashed for his tail, taking off a chunk of hair. He had kind of been planning to let her get ahead while she held the bug off, but wasn't so sure now.

There was one thing he was sure of, though, and that was that Eevee's weren't supposed to glow. His ears shot straight up when she stopped and faced the bug, firing off her power at it. The flying beetle was going to take another swipe at him, but got blasted by the shot of energy. The little male was shocked, but barked and cheered Faith on. The bug wasn't done yet, but only got a few swipes in on Faith before the second, more powerful blast, felled the flying critter.

He didn't wait around, though, even after she launched the second blast of energy, "C'mon!"

Luckily, they'd gotten further then they thought, for it was only a few quick hops before they tumbled out of the bushes and back to the area of the Moss Rock.

NOW they gain 1.5 :exp each! Faith is at 18/30 :hp .

The male was releived when he saw Ben and the others, and laughed a little bit, "Haha, well, at least we made it ba-" he stopped suddenly, and started to glow... and prolly wasn't the only one.

Anubis could sense another presence, floating towards them, like a ghost on the wind. It was followed by the feeling of a very irritated, angry Pokemon Trainer...
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Anubis hopped to his feet as the flavors crystallized as he focused, the two Eevees in pain and a bit of a state, and a...no wait. Not any more. However...the lucario's ears slicked back as he sensed even more presences. Irritation and anger, with a slight taste of greed or desire...it was hard to tell for sure, as the irritation and anger overlaid anything else with a heavy cloak.

And an altogether otherworldly presence, faint as if not quite in this world...drifting across his abilities like a breeze through his fur. He hopped atop the rock, growling softly, as the other three canines stirred, looking over at his agitation.

Faith squawked as claws tore into her lovely silver fur, leaving gouges in her side, but her ears twitched at the sound of her new friend barking encouragement. The glow brightened once more as she braced herself against the second swipe, biting down another squeal, unleashing the energy of the shadows that she had mastered back in misthenge from one of those disks that her Daddy had had.

With that blow, the bug fell, finally, and she turned and scuttled after the other Eevee, tripping over a stray root and literally tumbled into the clearing, fetching up against the moss-covered rock. She lay there a moment, catching her breath.

"Oh wow...didja see that?" She scrambled to her feet, all but bouncing in excitement. The slashes in her side ached, but she had won, a heady enough feeling to make the agony all but forgotten for the moment. "That bug thought he was all that and then, whiff, bam, I-" she, too was glowing as she babbled on, the air shimmering slightly as her genetic code reacted to the presence of the rock and the residual battle energy she was still exuding in her excitement.

Her height tripled under the glow, fur shortening somewhat, though it remained the same smoky silver-gray shade it had been before, less the shimmering green tufts here and ther. Her ears lengthened and turned green, as did her tail, forming into part plant, part animal extensions of her body, even as she continued to chatter, oblivious. "-showed him what-for, didn't I?" she huffed proudly, shaking herself off as the tingly sensation faded, and looked over to her companion.

"We did good, didn't...hey!" Blink. Blink blinkblink. "You changed! Like Anubis did not too long ago...you evolved!" Squeal.

"So did you, little one, but now isn't the time, really..." Anubis commented idly from his perch, gaze fixed on the woods where they'd emerged, sensing the continued approach of trainer and phantom.

"I...huh?" She looked down, blinking at the tuft of emerald fur on her chest, amidst the silver-grey, and the smoky brown paws beyond it. "...oh."

The stirring of the pokemon warming him up caused Ben to stir a bit as well, though sluggishly, and not yet waking.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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When his own glow ceased, the now-Leafeon shook his head, blinked in a bewildered fashion down at his paws, then looked back up at Faith, flashing a grin as he watched her finish evolving. The feline/canine/fox/cabbat/grass-thing smiled, happy for her. Her trainer had to have known about the rock... and now she had evolved.

"You showed him alright, that's for sure," he reassured, standing up and looking at Anubis. The male gave the fighter a grin, and nodded, "Yeah, you evolved too. So you look like me, but, uh, just a little different color," he tilted his head at her, admiring the new shimmer of her coat.

Now, unlike the last bug, this new bug floated in on the wind, silent as the death. Suddenly, there was a Shedinja in their midst, staring at the Leafeon pair with its dead, hollow eyes. Leafeon noticed it, and pinned his ears back, "Aw, not you again!" he growled, turned, and zipped in, only to fly right through the bug. He knew that was going to happen, though, and skidded to face the bug, grinning, "Ha-ha! I can get you now, though!" he seemed triumphant, summoning some multicolored, glowing leaves, and launching them at the bug... only for them to sail right through. What? He looked dumbfounded, while the Shedinja disappeared, and snuck through the shadows to smack the Leafeon with a claw, sending him tumbling to the ground.

The others were nearly there, if Anubis was keeping tabs on them... though it was only the trainer girl at the moment.



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Faith shook herself, admiring her coat and the shimmering green tips, almost posing, though with a wince as her scratches reminded her of their presence. Anubis flicked an ear in their direction in vague amusement, but he was more preoccupied with with the others approaching than their excitement, eyes narrowing slightly as a phantom drifted in, solid and ephemeral at the same time.

Before he could really do anything, however, the newly evolved wild Leafeon lunged right through the phantom, smirked and whirled, sending a barrage of leaves flitting toward the ghost as well.

Even Anubis blinked as the leaves did...nothing at all. The thing looked as flimsy as wet paper, all things considered, even if it were partially ethereal...usually attacks that weren't purely of the physical world worked on them...

Faith pricked her ears interestedly at the barrage of leaves. That looked nifty and she wished she could do it, but...it didn't seem to do much to the bug thing and she slicked her ears back in confusion as it faded out of sight, then shrieked indignantly as she nailed her new friend, sending him sprawling, barely conscious.

"YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Fangs bared, she leapt to stand over the fallen Leafeon, fur bristling as she once again began to glow. It had taken out the other bug, after all, and obviously tackling it or throwing leaves at it wasn't going to do anything. The ethereal energy gathered at her command, ready to be launched at the bug.

Ben started awake at the angry screech, sitting up with a start, or trying to. Eighty pounds of black hyena-wolf was a major hinderance to the effort, and then his nerves caught up with his brain and announced that all his muscles HURT because they were thawing out and he stopped the moving with a muffled yelp of his own. "What..?"

Inari kept himself wrapped around his new trainer's toes, eyes on the battle. "We've got company, is all. And Faith evolved." he relayed simply, in that way he had, as Shinobi and Jax tensed slightly, watching the situation.

"Trainer incoming, too. And she is Not Happy." Anubis announced, hopping down from the rock to head to give Faith some support if she needed it, or more importantly to collect her injured friend and get him out of the line of fire, and her as well, if what she was trying worked. That angry lady would be here soon enough and it would be better for both of the young pokemon if they were back out of the way.

"Who...why?!" Ben groaned as even his bones ached from the immersion when he moved to sit up again, more carefully, rubbing at his forehead. "You could have woken me sooner..." Jax nosed the egg into his lap as she stood up warily, nose working busily.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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EPIC METER IS RECHARGED.

The ghost knew that it had little to worry about from most of this lot, just based on the base capabilities. Sure, there was a Arcanine and a Vulpix over yonder, but she would catch the Eevee before they could get over there, no problem. What the shell didn't know or even consider, was that Faith had her own secret weapon, and unleashed the hidden blast of power.

It struck the ghost, where everything else had just gone right through, and the bug shell shuddered, lots its ghostly glow, and fell to the ground, nothing but a husk.

Her friend, trying to stand, stared at the useless shell on the ground. "Woaaah. That's a neat trick," he said as he got scooped up by Anubis, hanging limply in the Lucario's arms and allowing himself to be carried to safety.

Good thing, too, because something was crashing through the snowy trees and barking. Something buzzed with electricity, and an Manectric jumped out of the bushes after barreling through the forest, panting and covered in a thin dusting of snow. It was followed by a woman, somewhat short, but hard to tell much else since she was wearing thick jacket and pants, with a hood that she pulled off to let her short, dark green hair out. She looked like she'd been running full tilt through the snowy forest for a while now.

Not that Ben really knew any of this, but the others could see, at least. He could still hear, though.

"Eevee!" she pointed at Anubis, though stopped, realizing that he was not, in fact, holding an Eevee. "Leafeon, whichever. Hand it over, buster, I've had a really crappy day and I'm not in the mood for this!" she declared, putting her hands on her hips with her Manectric standing in front of her, crackling and growling after she shook the snow off.



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WOO FOR EPIC METER!

Ben blinked a few more times as Anubis darted across the field, still trying to put two and two together, as Faith fluffed proudly at her second win.

And then there was a woman. Demanding an Eevee, or Leafeon. Without sight, and with his head somewhat muddled from sleep and being frozen, this leapt to an immediate reaction. "Hey now, lady, that's MY pokemon you're demanding there. And I haven't had that good a day either. If you think I'm just going to hand her over to someone just because they've had a bad day and..."

"There's a wild Eevee here too, that Faith made friends with and he evolved when she did." Inari delicately inserted the thought into Ben's mind, as he prepared to continue the rant at the lady and Anubis skittered behind Ben and Shinobi to deposit the two leafeons behind the shield, as Jax rose to her feet, growling softly.

"..." Ben trailed off as he digested that tidbit, as the four remaining pokemon moved forward, one hand running over the smooth shell of the egg as it twitched again slightly. A bit much for him to be digesting...but the lady didn't sound like she was interested in no as an answer. "Either way...that's kind of rude, to come barging in like that..." he muttered, more to himself. "And if they're a friend of Faith's, even if they're not mine I think I have to decline."

"Inari, you mind?" He shivered a little in the cool air, still not fully recovered from his dip in the water earlier, but this wasn't going to wait. The vulpix shook himself off neatly as he stood up and yawned a little.

"Not at all." The air around the kitsune shimmered as he protected himself against any effects the electric hound might throw his way, before delicately beginning to insinuate his mind into the others, attempting to muddle the other creature's senses, confusing him...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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"You already have your own Eevee, so hand it over!" she insisted again, sort of not listening to Ben. She saw both Eevees, and just wanted the one she had been chasing after for nobody-knows-how-long. Neither of them were going to back down, so a battle it was, then!

"Get 'em Maniac, quick," she said to the thunder hound, who was off like a shot. Moving well faster then the Vupix did, the Pokemon parted her jaws and crunched down on the fox's shoulder with crackling electrical teeth. Only after that was the Fox able to set up his trickery, and befuddle the thunder dog.

"Oh for the love of Arceus," she facepalmed, and reached to her belt, where her Pokeballs were. Another Pokemon burst out of the trees then too, carrying two Pokeballs. The Breloom withdrew the husk of the Shedinja, and handed the women them back. "Oh, thanks Thunder," she took the two balls, clipping them onto her belt. Looking back at the battle, she frowned. Her hand was straying over a ball on her belt, but she didn't grab it quite yet. Depended on how well Maniac did in her next attack, considering how baffled she looked.



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"..." Ben staggered to his feet, leaning heavily on the snow white arcanine behind him, the other arm wrapped securely around the egg in his arms, even as it gave a convusive lurch and went still again. Even as he nearly fell over making sure it didn't actually fall and crack open or something...he couldn't help but want to wince at the irony here.

Here this lady was, wanting the Eevee - well, Leafeon now - that he had absolutely no interest in, considering things...and he was about to have another baby eevee on his hands in no time at all if that was any indication.

By pure logic, he should just let the lady take him and save his pokemon the battle and difficulties thereof. There was no need for him to be selfish or protective of the wild pokemon. It was really rather rude, so to speak, to be doing so. He had Eevees of his own already, and all it was doing was getting his pokemon injured to protect something that he wasn't even going to take with him, nor likely ever see again.

Then again, by a similar logic, all she had to do was wait for him to go to come back and take him anyhow...

"If..." he hesitated a moment or two, having no idea on anything about this friend of Faith's, though he did dig through his pocket for one of his berries and drop it near the two Eevees for him to gulp down.

"He," Anubis supplied helpfully, as he crouched over Faith and the wild Leafeon.

"..." Ben shook his head as potential implication sunk in over that, then shoved that aside for the moment and continued, "If he doesn't want to go with you...I'm not entirely inclined to let you just go around catching him will-he, nil-he."

Still...should he be interfering? Anubis cast his trainer a look, at the conflicted emotions, and looked over to the battle as Inari staggered back into a fighting crouch. "Inari?"

"I've got it, no worries." Inari braced himself as he shook himself, wisps of bluish purple flames flickering around him as he did so, the wisps of foxfire dancing in the air toward the Manectric as his eyes began to glow softly as he diddled more with the befuddled canine opposite him, enhancing all her senses to an excruciatingly painful degree...

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The male Leafeon twitched an ear at the berry on the ground, looked up at Ben, then back at the berry. He gulped it down once he was sure it was alright, and started to feel a little bit better. Better then he had been feeling, anyways. He watched the battle, but panicked a little bit at what Ben said. Leafeon hopped up and darted behind Anubis.

"Nooo, I want to stay here. I like it here," he said to the Lucario, hoping that the strange blue Pokemon would translate, "Now I can keep all the others safe," he continued, leafy tail wagging.

All the trainer had to see was the Leafeon hiding for her to get her answer. "Like any Pokemon willingly goes with a trainer," she snapped, then looked at her Manectric, "Come on, hun, just one more hit on that fox. Focus on a Discharge," she hunkered down a bit and spoke soothingly to the Manectric... and it seemed to work. The thunder hound was also faster then the fox, so the wave of electricity washed over the critter before it could do anything. Luck was not on Ben's side today.

"Next?" she snapped, looking at her dog, who was wobbling and looking cross-eyed still.



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Anubis did indeed helpfully translate. "Nope, he's got friends he wants to stay and protect." Or at least, said enough to get the idea across anyhow. Ben sighed faintly as the egg lurched again in his arms, convulsively, this time with a sharp crack accompanying the wobbling.

Bad timing on top of worse. This lady was going to KILL him. Still...

Inari fell with a yelp, as the confusion failed to slow the thunder hound in the slightest, and he reached into his poket to grab the fox's pokeball and recall him, the other warpped carefully around the hatching egg. Maybe he could hide what hatched...but no. On the upside, at least this puppy didn't have the issues that Faith did with her egg...

"Look lady, I'm sorry...but...yes, they do." Anubis stepped around Ben, fangs bared. He'd show the upstart puppy what for...but stopped dead as his trainer swept the arm he'd jsut used to call Inari back in fron ot him, like a stopgate.

"Of my companions here...just one of them didn't ask to be my pokemon. And I didn't catch him, either...just rescued him." Anubis paused at that, ear flicking to one side. "And if he doesn't want to go, which he doesn't..."

Shinobi slunk near-silently around the confused Manectric, eyes never leaving the thunder hound. A feral grin flitted across his features as he joined the fight, watching to see if Maniac and her trainer noticed his movements as opposed to the Lucario, white Arcanine, and blind trainer.

By now she had surely noticed the fact that Ben wasn't even looking in her or the battle's direction, seemingly staring off into space to the left somewhere. Goodness knows how that's making her feel.

But still, the wily mightyena was ready. If the thunder hound noticed him and managed to get around her confusion long enough to make a real attack at him...he would pre-empt such silly things. If she didn't...well...the way of the ninja was to attack from unexpected directions, and from directly beneath her sounded like a good idea in either case.

The shimmering field that Inari had set up continued to shimmer over the field, for the time being...protecting the others from negative effects, as well, which was another bonus.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:manectric :fl "Maniac"
Lv. 40 120/120 :hp
~ Confused

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:mightyena :ml "Shinobi"
Lv. 37 111/111 :hp
Ability: Intimidate
~ Safeguard 2/5
~ 'Death from Below' - Dig + Double Team (if Dig doesn't count as a two turn move, anyhow) if Maniac doesn't notice him sneaking around to attack or attacks herself in confusion
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~ 'Pre-emptive Strike' - Sucker Punch + Toxic if Maniac does notice him AND isn't affected by her confusion

Editnote: Almost forgot to put in ability and fixed the second moveset, since I'd been in a bit of a hurry and screwed it up. I have also just realized that the baby Eevee hatching in a post may also have Swagger since I forgot that it's a TM that Eevee's can learn and Shinobi knows the move. @.@ I think anyhow. The confusing part is that it's part of his natural moveset, so I dunno if it counts. Will need some clarification, I think... (Ninjaedits a nevermind...got the clarification. ^.^)
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She scoffed at Ben's response, shaking her head. "Either way, it always ends up the same, right? They always come around," she huffed, looking at the Leafeon cowering with Anubis and Faith, trying to hide behind the both of them. She knealed down next to Maniac, and rested a hand on her shoulders, trying to talk her Pokemon out of her confusion. It didn't appear to be working.

"And I bet that any Pokemon that you've caught that's hated you has come around eventually, hasn't it?" she snapped back, glaring. It seemed as if she flat hadn't noticed his blindness yet in the heat of the moment. Who knows what reaction it'll provoke later.

Though, those two weren't paying attention to what was going on around them, the last Pokemon out was. The Breloom that had brought her fallen bugs Pokeballs was still out, and staring at Shinobi as he was attempting to be sneaky. Luckily, the dark dog was so focused on his friend...

Before the ninja!dog could do anything, the Breloom streaked towards him, paw raised, and smacked Shinobi in the face with a mach-speed punch. That certainly brought Shinobi's attention onto the Breloom, and before the grass type could smack the dog around some more, he had dug underground. Now, like a ninja, the Breloom didn't know where he was. The Pokemon was bouncing from paw to paw, though, looking around and trying to see if it could predict where the dog was going to come from.

The woman was surprised, and Maniac was still baffled, but she stood up and looked around, as if expecting another of his Pokemon to jump out of nowhere.

"Fine. I was trying to play fair here, but I guess you don't play fair," she tossed out another Pokemon. The light spilled out and quickly towered above her and Maniac, forming into a heavy, reddish colored Pokemon with volcanoes on its back. The Camerupt's volcanoes on its back bubbled and the area started to head up from the Pokemon. It was kind of welcome, if it wasn't for the situation. She did unbutton and unzip her jacket, revealing that she was a little heavier then ideal, but not too bad. Again, not that Ben can see any of this.

She reached up and patted the Pokemon on the shoulder, "You get an earthquake ready, Vesu, I'm gonna recall the others, alright?" she said to the big Pokemon, and fumbled around to recall Maniac first, trying to get at her Pokeball with her gloved hands.

Vesuvius looked around slowly, taking in the situation. He seemed content to sit and wait for the exact perfect moment to strike. The big Pokemon could wait all day, really.



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Level 37
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*Mach Punch*

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Level 37
111/111
*Standing By/Preparing for an Earthquake*

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:mightyena :ml - "Shinobi"
Level 37
50/111
[Safeguard 2/5, Evasion +1]
*Inbetween Dig 1 and Dig 2, hidden underground*


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'They always come around...' The words echoed in Ben's mind as he leaned heavily, still, on the faithful white hound beside him. 'Always come around...' Was it really right or fair of them to force such on a pokemon? Should he have just saved Anubis, then let him go after they'd gotten out of the city? Would it have changed anything?

Did he do the right thing? Of his pokemon, only Anubis hadn't had any sort of choice in the matter. Well, and the new pokemon he had in his PC from Brightopolis...but he hadn't had a chance to figure out what to do with them, but it would probably involve releasing them if he was certain it wasn't going to kill the ecology or something to do so.

Complications...Levi had never complained, and had been more than happy to stay, after evolving while he'd been being given said option...Peter had been grateful for his caring even after Jax's ire nearly killed him. And had stayed...and Anubis...

The thoughts raced in circles, but there wasn't much time. “Once...perhaps...” Ben spoke almost inaudibly, almost to himself. The lucario beside him shifted slightly, well able to feel the conflicted emotions within his trainer. Yes, he had hated Ben when first they traveled...for all the wrong reasons. Ben had even stated before now that if he wanted to leave, he could, but...

“There is a difference, in whether it's necessary or not...” Anubis commented after another moment passed, just as the Breloom lanced across the clearing. Both trainer and aura pokemon's heads jerked up at that, in surprise. Shinobi leapt back with a yelp and a snarl, disappearing into the earth before the grass thing could smack him like that again, multiplying himself as he went, to further confuse the matter.

He wasn't about to be taken like that again, even as Ben blinked again at the woman's words. “What?” It had never occurred to him that letting his pokemon fight to their strengths was underhanded. Shinobi was named Shinobi for his fighting style, which was sneaky, and possibly underhanded, but that was just how he was.

“I don't force my pokemon to be what they're not...” he trailed off as the next pokemon appeared. And he was calling HIM cheap, using so many pokemon on just...

That thought jumped off the track of it's own accord as he heard her command, and he staggered off Jax's shoulder, then dropped down into a sitting position as with another convulsive CRACK the egg literally shattered in his arms, and the young Eevee pawed at him, mewling in surprise.

Anubis wasn't nearly so distracted, as Ben tried to deal with the baby and the thought of recalling his pokemon, and with the trainer's near-panic feeding into his own concerns, he grabbed the wild Leafeon and Faith up by the scruffs of their necks and barked at Jax, “RUN!” He followed his own advice a moment later, disappearing in a blur of speed that not even Maniac could match.

Jax could, though...but she hesitated a moment, before Ben reinforced it. “NOW, Jax!” And she fled, ears flat against her skull, as Ben cradled the squalling puppy in his lap with one hand, crouching low, ready to attempt to dodge any trees, and do his best to shield the baby from the damage...there wasn't time. As he curled around the puppy, adrenaline kicking out all the pain for the moment, again, he used his other hand to let out a shrill, desperate whistle, the one a dog trainer often uses to call their dogs.

He could only hope it got heard, as he braced himself. This woman was trying to kill all of them...


Shinobi burrowed under the earth, ears slicked back with pain as he panted, his ribs grating unpleasantly at every movement. Damn that fungus...he'd show her...he just had to wait for the right moment...he paused a little in his digging at the faint tremors as Vesuvius was released into the field. MORE people jumping in on his fight? He would have snarled but it hurt enough to breathe, and it would give his position away. What the heck did this woman think she was? She asked for the next combatant, he came out...and got ganged up on.

Well, he'd show her to underest...

The wolf's ears pricked abruptly, as the shrill whistle reverberated in the small tunnel, faint, but still audible. He arrowed upwards at it, well aware that Ben didn't use that unless he needed him to be seen.

Which meant there was something bad going down...and soon. He aimed for the nearest target, ears flattened as he tried to ignore the stabbing pains of his mauled side as he headed upwards, ears flat. Hit whatever was nearest...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:mightyena :ml “Shinobi”
Lv. 37 50/111 :hp
~ +1 Eva
~ Finishing the Dig at the nearest target, as quickly as possible. Will multiply further with Double Team if he can manage

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:breloom :ml “Thunder”
Lv. 37 111/111 :hp
~ Mach Punch'd

:camerupt :ml “Vesuvius”
Lv. 37 111/111 :hp
~ Readying an earthquake


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:lucario :ml “Anubis”
Lv. 37 111/111 :hp
~ Grabbing the green furballs and Extremespeeding for the hills!

:jax :fl “Jax”
Lv. 40 120/120 :hp
~ Reluctantly following suit with her own Extremespeed

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~ Ben is trying to protect from any damage

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The trainer fumbling with her Pokeballs managed to recall Maniac first, then recalled Thunder despite the Breloom's squeaking protests. She was not about to let the two get hurt by their own comrade. Vesu waited patiently, feeling something moving underground with his huge feet. Couldn't tell anything about it, but there were vibrations coming from somewhere.

Something cracked and when the woman realized it wasn't the ground cracking she looked over to see what it was, just in time to see the Lucario take off with both the Leafeons. "Wait!" she cried, taking a step after them before Anubis was gone. She dropped her arm back to her side when Jax ran too took off like a bolt of lightning. "Son of a... ugh!" she threw her arms up into the air and waved them around, "So help me Arceus, that little runt always gets away from me. Every dang time!" she started to rant, just in time for Shinobi to come up right into the Camerupt's belly before scampering away with his copies. It rocked the big Pokemon a little bit, but he gave Shinobi a considering glance before simply ignoring him to look at his ranting trainer.

"Some hunter I am if I can't catch one damn Eevee. Every single time something happens and -" she didn't even seem to realize Ben was there anymore, walking around Vesuvius and essentially monologue-ing to herself. The Camerupt was a little more perceptive, and looked at the boy and what he had in his arms, then stomped his foot once, the lava plumes on his back bubbling up. A small crack opened in the earth between them, spilling nice hot air out and continuing to warm the area till it was nice and comfortable.

That taken care of, the big Pokemon simply sat down and watched his trainer. He certainly couldn't catch those that ran off, but he could take them out if they came back. And if the dark dog tried something, well... he'd be ready for it. Copies everywhere or not.

The woman suddenly plopped herself down next to her Pokemon and slouched, "I'm never gonna get an Eevee. We should just go back to the mainland or something," she sighed. Vesuvius patted her shoulder with his nose, not really having hands to do so with instead.


Off with the Eevee, he clung to Anubis wherever he could, staring in wonder as the world flew past like a bullet, though through squinting eyes that were starting to water from the cold wind. "Where are we going?" he squeaked once he got enough air in his lungs to speak.



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"...." Ben crouched silently, listening in bemusement to the events that played out as his two swift companions darted into forest. He soothed the baby into silence as the brown paws scrabbled at his chest.

Shinobi hesitated, as Vesu made no other move other than to fill the clearing with warmth, summoning up a small lava pit. Ben still shivered a bit despite the warmth, and the fact that he should probably be overheating soon enough, with winter gear and this. He rocked slightly to keep the puppy from making noise as the woman bemoaned her fate. Shinobi backed up closer, leaving well enough alone at this point, his chest hurting from breathing enough that he wasn't any more interested in fighting unless the lady or her pokemon forced his hand - well, paw.

But if they did, he'd be ready.

After a moment or two, listening to the magma beast pad over to his trainer, quietly, Ben seemed to reach something of a decision. He carefully slipped the baby into his coat with him, to hopefully keep him out of sight. He didn't trust her greed to not get the better of her, and with Inari down, and Jax and Anubis gone, he had almost nothing to hold her off with other than loyal Shinobi, gasping nearby, multiplied repeatedly, but still sorely wounded.

He rocked slightly on his feet, whether due to the still tired soreness from falling through the ice and half freezing to death of not too long ago or in an attempt to keep the puppy in his coat soothed, one arm still cradling him gently in the parka.

How to phrase things, though. He knew that Jax probably wasn't too far off, at least, but it would take her time to get back, even with the speeds she was capable of. Anubis, he knew, wouldn't be back until he'd gotten the wild Leafeon well out of sight. So this had to be handled carefully.

And he wasn't even certain what Faith would have to say to him if she heard the suggestion. Still. It was a compromise, of sorts, and he doubted this lady was completely evil, if evil at all. He wasn't going to try to figure that out at this point. At the least, her own companions liked her, so she wasn't actively abusing them, so that was enough, really.

Most people weren't like him, after all. And even he wasn't completely innocent of capturing wild pokemon without asking. However, most of those he'd given the option of leaving, or they had agreed beforehand. There were a few exceptions as of now, the pokemon he'd captured in the Brightopolis contest, for one...

He planned on dealing with that eventually, though. It wasn't fair of him to judge her because she wanted to catch a wild pokemon, in the end, he had one idea, really. He dug around for a berry to give to the puppy, to keep him relatively quiet for the moment and he contineued to rock and stare off into space, for all appearances. "You know, there's more than one way to get a pokemon other than catching it in the wild."

"I've got a female Leafeon, and if you gave me a way to contact you, I could get you an egg." Probably wouldn't work too well, since she was unlikely to trust him, but he wasn't about to just walk off and leave her that.

Being a Nice Guy (TM) was annoying like that, sometimes.


Jax had long since broken off from Anubis, as he vanished into the wood, with the two eeveelutions. She didn't dare go back until called, but she was going to be ready, and she circled slowly, ears pricked for any signal from her trainer.


Anubis on the other hand, slowed the breakneck pace at the squeak, but continued to skitter away from the rock. "How about you tell me, hey? You're the one that lives here. Let me know where to drop you off, and I'll do that." Faith wagged ehr tail, though looked a bit sad at the thought of leaving her friend behind. Still...she knew that her daddy wasn't gonna want to stay here, so.

"I had a lot of fun, you know," she commented wistfully, now that both of them could breathe more easily at the slower pace.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Anubis is asking the wild leafeon where he wants to be dropped off. Jax is circling, not coming back, but wanting to.

:mightyena :ml "Shinobi"
Lv. 37 50/111 :hp
~ +2 Eva
~ Nursing his busted ribs and readying a Sucker Punch if any of the lady's pokemon go to attack

vs.

:camerupt :ml "Vesuvius"
Lv. 37 47/111 :hp
~ Watching and trying to comfort his trainer

Ben is feeding the baby Eevee a :belue Berry and trying to hide him from view in his coat, while offering an Eevee egg from Faith later. (Also, happiness mod for hatching please?)
Edited by DarthEevee, Dec 28 2009, 11:29 AM.
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Vesuvius was watching Ben and Shinobi as he patted his trainer on the shoulder, and seemed baffled at Ben's behavior. He had never seen a blind person before, so he wasn't able to tell that was what was going on.

The woman finally heaved a huge sigh and looked back at Ben, "Oh well. I didn't want a Leafeon anyways," she admitted, and grabbed onto Vesu's neck to pull herself up. "Guess that runt's safe from me, now," she sighed, dusting her hands against each other.

"And you can quit hiding it, by the way. I'm a hunter not a thief," she said, sounding slightly offended. Maybe she had to make the distinction more often then she felt she should have to. It was at this point that her sharp eyes finally noticed the problem with this picture, and she did a little start, "You... you're blind,"

Ok, now we're all on the same page!

She looked away quickly, like we all do when we see someone we don't feel we should be staring at, looking around at the forest. "You can call your Pokemon back. I'm not going to steal yours and I bet your Lucario has dropped that Leafeon off somewhere,"

Her head snapped back to stare at his proposition, but she didn't say anything about it, instead looking at the ground and kicking at a rock.


Leafeon smiled at Faith, and nodded with excitement, "Yeah, I had fun too. You guys can come visit any time, though. I'm generally around the rock and over by the lake. You guys can find me again," he wagged his tail, then looked around.

"And right here is fine, mister, I know this forest like the back of my paw," he grinned proudly, ears and tail perked up despite hanging in Anubis's arms.
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Ben coughed, ears going a bit pink at her peevish response to his trying to make sure she wasn't going to steal the baby. Two ears popped out of his coat a second later as the pup peered out, blinking dark eyes as he tried to bring the world into focus.

"Sorry..." Ben commented quietly. "A few bad experiences, is all." For the most part. He hadn't had anything stolen yet, which was good, but it wasn't something he was going to deny the possibility of. Then came the revelation.

"..." He cocked his head as the startled reaction came, the comment. For once, however, it wasn't followed with a stammered appology, or anything else of the sort. There were very few who didn't react that way, which was a relief, but there was an obvious change in the tone of the lady with her next comment, and he scratched the puppy's ears.

Discomfort. Reason number two he didn't much care to be in the company of most people. They didn't know how to act once they figured things out.

He let out a whistle as she suggested he call his pokemon back, much less shrill than the one he'd used to call Shinobi up, and dug into his pack as he waited, considering how to respond to the lady, spraying a hyper potion over the wolf as he slowly dropped his illusions and padded over.

"Yeah, s'pose I am blind," he answered finally, turning in her general direction as Jax bounded into the clearing. "Hasn't really slowed me down yet, though." He smiled faintly and then waits a bit, to see if she responds to the offer.

The silence didn't give him a very good answer, and he shrugged after a moment, as Jax sniffed him and the baby Eevee over carefully, making sure they were both okay, and he recalled Shinobi.

"Well, how about this. Think about it, let me know later." With that, he listed off his poketech number, and patted Jax's shoulder. Anubis would find him when he was ready...the aura pokemon would have no issue tracking him down, after all.

He then started off toward Deepwood, hand on Jax's shoulder. "You've got some nice pokemon, ma'am. Good luck." Unless she stopped him, he was going now, though, despite the sore muscles.


Anubis slowed with a wilfish grin at his comments. "We might, at that," he replied, putting them both down. "It was fun while it lasted. Take care of your friends now, hear?" The lucario reached down to ruffle between the ears with a paw before miving a bit away for Faith to say her goodbye.

"Well...thanks again, and I'm sure we'll be back eventually...I'd love to see more of the forest!" she squeaked, giving him a lick on the cheek before scampering over to join the warrior and head off.
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She continued to be quiet, watching Jax come padding back and Ben's comment about it not slowing him down. "Yeah, obviously. Lots of dogs, but I guess that isn't too surprising," she realized as she pointed it out. Haha... he was blind and had a whole team of seeing eye dogs. Kind of, anyways. The big white beast of an Arcanine seemed to be his main monster.

The woman didn't seem to know what to do or say in this situation, but appeared to be pondering it very carefully, hand on something in her pocket. She nodded faintly at his name and number and whatnot, filing it away in her memory for later, even though she was still thinking about it.

She was still thinking when he started to walk away, too. She looked at where he was going, realization crossed her face again, and she followed after him, "Hey wait, Ben. You're headed to Deepwood? I could take you. My Escape Rope is tethered to there and I have a bunch of charges left," she pulled out what she had in her pocket, the Escape Rope mechanism.

"It's the least I could do after knocking out your Vulpix,"


The Leafeon jumped down and shook off, looking around. Right, he knew exactly where he was. He puffed up proudly at Anubis, "I'll take good care of them, don't worry. Maybe you guys can meet everyone next time!" he said with excitement, wagging his tail.

The little guy smiled at Faith, starting to say something when she licked his cheek. That made him snap his mouth shut, blushing under his fur. His tail gave a little wag and he grinned again, "I'll show you everything next time, you can count on it!" he grinned.

The Leafeon sat back on his haunches and waved his paws at the pair, before going back onto all fours and darting off into the forest. Next time they came through here, they could certainly find the little fella if they wanted to.
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Faith's tail wagged as she was scooped up, the bell about the lucario's neck chiming cheerfully for a moment as he nodded to the Leafeon, taking careful note of his Aura. Yes, he certainly would be able to find the furball later.

Cute kid, really. "We'll see you around, kid. Catch you later." With a wave, Anubis trotted off to rejoin Ben.



Ben cocked his head to the side at the dog comment, and smiled a little. "I just like dogs, really." Which was really the main reason he had so many. Granted, it generally meant he had a guide or five at any given time, true, but only one was officially trained as such.

However, he rocked back a bit on his heels at the offer of the escape rope business. Did he really want to accept something of that sort? Still, it would get him to Deepwood faster, since he now had real reason to want to get there ASAP, in the form of two babies that he hadn't asked for and someone else had.

Goodness knows when they showed up, but poof. There you go, for non-canon. It's magic like that.

So how could he refuse? Other than he would need Anubis and Faith to show back up. "You can do that?" He hadn't been aware that it would take more than one person, but that was handy, anyhow. "How does it work, anyhow?" Odds were he'd have to recall most, if not all, of his pokemon to do this...Faith was going to have a litter of kittens if that were the case...

Still, that reminded him, and he pulled a Luxury ball out of his pocket to hold up to the baby furball. True to the curious nature of a puppy, he flailed a paw at it and neatly caught himself in the device, and Ben smiled faintly as he pocketed it again.

"Do all my pokemon have to be recalled for it to work?" Jax didn't like being recalled, but she didn't object as he did so. Even if it weren't necessary, she was awfully big, which probably wasn't a good idea. "And I suppose I really will owe you one, for this." Sure she'd KO'd Inari, and sorely wounded Shinobi, but there had been a battle that he'd joined freely, so he really didn't see where it was an issue, personally.

Shortly afterwards, Anubis trotted up, Faith glowering balefully at the woman as she was handed over to Ben, draping herself like a stole over his shoulders, as the Lucario recalled himself with a shrug.

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Long and short, agreeing to go with the lady, but considering it a likely debt he'll have to her even if she doesn't. Catching baby in a luxury ball (+2 :happiness ), recalling Jax, and Anubis as soon as he returns with Faith, minus wild-un. Will recall Faith if absolutely necessary, but if possible to keep her out, will do so.

Need to work on that claustrophobia.
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She fiddled with the little machine when he mentioned being able to do that, "I don't see why not. If I remember correctly it uses the same way of travel as the Teleport Holy Mechanism but just with tethers instead of free travel. That's what someone told me anyways," she looked up at him and shrugged, even though he couldn't see it. "Either way, I've done it before, yeah. Two people and two human-sized or smaller Pokemon,"

She looked up as he recalled all of his monsters, and scanned the forest around them. Vesu stomped his foot and sealed up the crack in the ground, and the temperature began to drop again. The woman shivered and zipped up her coat again, pulling the hood back over.

"Eeh, don't worry about it too much," she shrugged, watching Anubis and Faith come back. She frowned at the little shiny Pokemon who was glaring at her, but shrugged.

"Alright Vesuvius, c'mon," she pulled his ball out and tapped the giant critter on the nose, recalling him. That left the three of them in the clearing. Now she didn't seem sure how to go about this, with the angry Leafeon on Ben's shoulders. She sort of waffled about for a second, flipping the casing off of her Escape Rope thing, thumb hovering over the button. She held her arm out, as if she was going to put it around his shoulders, but hesitated, eyeing the Leafeon.

"Like... I'm just gonna put my arm around your shoulders here... just don't, I dunno, freak out or anything. It's just me," she realized how stupid she sounded and eventually just put her arm around Ben's shoulders/upper arms, enough away from Faith that she wouldn't be able to bite her. "Don't want to drop you or something stupid like that," she mumbled, flicking the release on the Escape Rope.



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Ben reached up to soothe the Leafeon's fur a bit as she commented about putting her arm over his shoulder, ready to make a grab is she tried the biting bit, but she didn't, just growling softly under her breath at the lady as the device activated, and off they went.

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No need for :genexp or anything... *skedaddles for Deepwood*
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