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Emalthya watched the other trainers desperately flinging their pokeballs at the mystery pokemon. She pulled a bun out of her backpack, split it in half and offered Pheonix the choice of them. He chose the half closest and they ate their bun while they watched the theatrics.

-Niko got a bit sidetracked but will return to clean the girl's wound on her arm after this mini pokemon encounter-


Piko noticed bits of pink rustling in the tall grass and flew over there to take a closer look. He saw his trainer busily talking to a stranger but it didn't stop him for calling out for attention. He made a lot of noise as he used Air Slash twice in a row to ward off the unknown pokemon.

Niko stopped digging through his bag and saw his pokemon acting all aggressive towards something in the grass. He looked at the girl and said "Sorry my pokemon isn't usually like this. Something must be wrong. I will be right back to tend to your wound!" Quickly, he ran over to where his Togekiss was making a big deal out of it. He too saw bits of pink being shown here and there through the tall grass. It was fast and darted in all directions making it impossible to identify what it is.

With a situation like this, he had no choice but to take out a Safari Ball out of his pocket and throw at the unidentifiable creature. "Well, here we go," and he throw the ball at it.

The ball kept on wiggling around and he waited patiently for a "Chak" sound to let him know that he had caught whatever it was that was hiding in the tall grass. If he manages to capture it at all that is.

Pokeball go!

As the grass thinned out, the pokemon was finally fully visible as it glimmered in the sunlight - a shiny dunsparce! But as everyone threw pokeballs at it, another high pitched shriek sounded through the air, and a shadow emerged from the grass. In everyone's haste to follow after the shiny pokemon, it had been able to more or less sneak up on its prey undetected. With a single bite, the pokemon devoured the dunsparce in a single gulp before being pelted with the thrown pokeballs.

The pokeball that captured the victrebell belonged to the girl with the lavender hair, it seemed, but alas, the trainers were too slow to save the shiny dunsparce-snack.

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Magnolia's eyes glittered. A Dunsparce! And a shiny one at that! While it wasn't much of a immortality granter, at least it could be— "Uh?"

Why was there a Victreebel? Why was it approaching the Dunsparce? Why was it opening its mouth—

"Oh my Arceus!" the fourteen year old shrieked as the Grass-type swallowed the snekloaf Lane Snake Pokemon in one fell gulp. Next thing she knew, it was overcome by a barrage of Pokeballs, and hers happened to be the one to knock it on its eyeball and suck it in. She watched in horror as the predatory plant shook the sphere three times before settling in it for good.

"O-oh my..."

Scuttling up to it, Magnolia scooped it up, and held the ball between her hands daintily. Her face drew to a miserable frown as she declared, then and there, "Why did I have to catch it. I don't want it. Why."

There was quite a lot of commotion as they followed the mysterious pokemon in the grass. For a while they were only able to see hits of it: the yellow rattle-like tail, flashed of pink. Eventually it came into view and was revealed as a shiny Dunsparce. But before Shaun could even raise his camera to his eyes, a much larger - and much hungrier- pokemon burst out of the grass and ate it in one bite.

Shaun just stood there for a moment, dumbfounded. It was kind of hard to believe that happened. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have though a pokemon could swallow another pokemon whole. That...was actually kind of fascinating, in its own gruesome way. Could other pokemon conceivably eat another whole? Very large pokemon like Wailord could manage it easily. So could pokemon that could stretch their mouth quite wide and had large stomachs, like Swalot. And if the pokemon being eaten was particularly small, like a Joltic, even more pokemon would be able to swallow it whole. Barring the likely fact that a electric pokemon would certainly object to being eaten and try to deliver a nasty shock to its assailant. Though that would make no difference to large Ground-types, like Steelix...

Anyone looking at Shaun would see him gazing idly at the spot the Victreebel had been caught, head slightly tilted with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Salvo had been trotting along behind Shaun. Though he hadn't been as fast as his trainer, the fact that everyone had stopped let him catch up. So he was fairly close to Shaun when Joey ran up to him. Salvo and Shaun both turned their heads to look when the boy spoke up. "Hmm?" Shaun hummed, momentarily distracted by his own thoughts about pokemon eating things whole. "Oh, sure, no problem. Here, let me give you a hand."

He tucked his camera back in his pocket, then headed over to the boy. He considered offering to lift the boy up, then decided he wasn't sure if he was strong enough. Instead he knelt beside Salvo and cupped his hands. "Here, put a foot in my hands and I'll give you a boost. You can grab Salvo's leave to help pull yourself up. They're tougher than they look. Once you're up I'll hand you Lily Rose, OK?"