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"How dare you?!" the older woman shrieked, recalling her downed Sandshrew and glaring angrily at Jaeshan and Torchic. "Such impudence! You kids these days have no manners!" She took a step forward, causing the tired little Torchic to utter a frightened little peep and dashed for cover behind Jaeshan's legs.

"Look Lady," Jaeshan started, feeling what little temper he had start to flare up. "I'm not here to cause trouble. I'm simply heading out this way to do some training. Now if you'll kindly excuse me..."

"Rubbish and poppycock! You're up to no good; I just know it!" She continued to rant and rave at him, her voice rising by an octave with each word.

Jaeshan sighed and grabbed one of his Pokeballs. Wordlessly he released its captive, and Mightyena appeared before them. Instantly, he sensed the hostility and anger coming from the deranged woman, and his ears lay flat against his head as he started growling and snarling, gnashing his teeth together in an attempt to get the woman to back off.

"Now you're going to attack a helpless old woman, are you? Scoundrel!"

Mightyena glanced up at Jaeshan, then back at the woman. His chest puffed out and he loosed a deafening Roar that sent the woman scurrying back. Her eyes were wide as saucers, and she didn't say anything else, only shook her fist at Jaeshan as she fled the scene.

Rika stopped in a clearing in the forest to take a break. She propped her bike up against a tree and sat down on a log. She looked around the clearing and spotted a tailow perched on a tree glaring down at her, she took a step back a little scared but she shook that feeling out of her and reached into her bag and brung out Aiko's pokeball and threw it. "Go Aiko!" She yelled as a red beam appeared from the small red and white ball and her small Eevee came out. "Vee!" Aiko exclaimed. The Taillow ready for a battle jumped off the tree and began to circle around Aiko. "Aiko use Sand-Attack!" Rika shouted. Aiko used her tail to sweep up some sand and toss it at the Taillow. The Taillow easily dodged the attack and started to peck at Aiko. "Aiko! Use Bite!" Rika exclaimed. Aiko reaveled her sharp teeth and bit down hard one of Taillow's wings. "Taillow!" It schreeched in pain and flew up causing Aiko to fall onto the ground. While Aiko tried to get up Taillow came down at full speed trying to hit Aiko. "Aiko dodge and use tackle!" Aiko jumped out of the way and charged into Taillow causing it to fall back. "Follow up with another Takle!" Rika ordered. "Vee!" Aiko said as she ran into Taillow once again. Taillow was sent flying across the clearing and it tried to push itself up but collapsed. Rika took another Pokeball from her bag and threw it at Taillow. The ball fell to the ground and wiggled around. "Return Aiko!" Rika said as Aiko returned to her Pokeball.

The Pokeball wriggled a few times before it burst open, and the startled Taillow flew up, giving an indignant shriek before it flew up and out of sight.

((kittikat5000, you have to wait a while before you can catch your first Pokemon. When that time comes, a Taillow is perfectly fine.))

((I dont know if they have each others Pokenav numbers but they do now.))

After passing through the small vine-encased building, Miharu found herself in the perpetual darkness of Ilex Forest once more. She hadn't taken more than ten steps inside when she heard some one enter the forest behind her.

"Hey, you!" the figure shouted, breathing heavily. He'd obviously just run a long way, and he nodded at Miharu as she turned to look at him. "Yeah, you with the strange Pokemon. What was with that display out there, anyways? Do you always get carried around like that?"

Miharu scoffed. "No, not usually. Tingle was just eager to come here, that's all." To prove her point, Tingle somersaulted on the spot, flailing its arms excitedly.

"If you say so," the boy shrugged. "But whatever. I followed you here because I want to challenge you and that Pokemon of yours to a battle!"

Miharu looked to Tingle, who returned her gaze with an expressionless hum. "We accept," she replied finally.

((It's okay, common mistake. ^^ Your posts are good though, keep up the good work! smile ))

"That was...insane!" Jaeshan exclaimed, having found the right word to describe what had just happened. Mightyena snorted in agreement, sitting down and using his hind leg to scratch behind an ear. "Come on, Torchic, let's keep going. We've got to continue with your training and..." Jaeshan trailed off as he looked around for the small chick. "She's gone..." Jaeshan said quietly.

Mightyena gave a sigh and rolled his eyes. He put his nose to the ground, and started sniffing, hoping he could catch the scent of the small Pokemon. He circled around a few times, and sure enough, his reliable sense of smell picked up the trail. He nudged Jaeshan's leg a few times, and then headed off in the direction they'd initially been traveling in. "You know where she went?" Jaeshan asked, and followed the dark Pokemon since Mightyena wasn't about to answer him.

As the two trainers made their way through the deserted manison they noticed that this building had been something much more than someones house. Broken beakers and test tubes lay everywhere and in several places they found massive tanks in which they saw Pokemon floating in strange liquids.
"Wow something certainly was going on here. But what I wonder? Who could be so creul to such docile animals." Eraku said as he peered into one of the tanks seeing a Rattata floating in it.

After they had entered the mansion they had made thier way past the home portion into basement where they had found all these gruesome displays.

"Yeah the basement is nothing like up on the main level. It seemed perfectly normal till now." Trey whispered.

"Hey do you remember that library up on the main floor maybe there is something there that can explain all this. I was orignally coming here for Pokemon but this is just too bizarre." Eraku said to the young boy.

They made their way up stairs and as they left many glowing eyes came from the shadows and began to follow the boys upstairs.