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Aile would show up in the Northern Cliffs of the Safari, Arkana with her this time. "So, boss, what are we after this time?" The Zoroark would look at her claws, for once appearing in her natural form.

"There's three Pokémon here, Roggenrola, Onix, and Larvitar. They're the ones we're after. Let's go, Arks!" Aile would put away a paper as she charged forward into the area, Arkana shaking her head.

"My trainer is odd sometimes...."

Side Area A

Ryan takes a deep breath as he walks along the River. It was amazing how peaceful this Village was. Ryan calls out Ursula and Graft, His Remoraid and Croagunk. Graft was there as backup, seeing as Ryan had work to do with Urusla. If she got out of hand, Graft was going to have to step in.

This was already proving a challenge. As Ryan passed by the Wooper, a nice pokemon, but not what he was after, Urusla began to struggle in his arms Ryan managed to hold her steady, but this was going to be a challenge. His attention divided was not good.

As Ryan continued to walk along he felt a pair of piercing eyes fall upon him. As he turned to look, Ursula would spot the source first and begin to thrash in Ryan's arms, trying to get a good aim at the Basculin. Ryan tries to bring her under control, but gets nailed by his own pokemon using Shadow Blitz. And that stung, on both a physical and emotional level. The Physical caused him to drop Ursula, the emotional made him wonder if she was ever going to be normal again. Sub had assured him that she could, but it would take time. Right now that time felt like a lifetime away. Ryan walks back over and picks Ursula back up, getting control of her this time as they move on.

Shadow Gauge: 3/10

Ryan spots the tiny tadpole and keeps his group moving.

Ryan would spot another Lotad, this time wading in the shallows. Ryan would sneak up and take aim with Ursula. Before he could even issue an attack, Ursula used Bubblebeam. the attack came up short next to the Lotad due to her Hustle kicking in and impairing her aim. This only served to anger Ursula.

The Lotad spun around, shocked by the sudden attack, and growled at Ursula, adding further insult to injury of the Remoraid's pride. She bit Ryan again, which made her trainer drop her as he grabbed at the area where he was bitten out of instinct. Once she had hit the ground,Ursula used her tail to propel herself at the Lotad using her Shadow Blitz,

The attack did good damage to the Lotad, driving back into the water. It shook off some of it as it surfaced and then hit Ursula with an Absorb, recovering a good amount of the damage that Ursula had just inflicted upon it. Once again, the attack only served to anger Ursula further.

Once more Ursula would flop at the Lotad with Shadow Blitz, putting the Lotad down to critical health. But before the Remoraid could hit the water and really become a nuisance, Ryan finally recalled his embattled Remoraid. He then turns to Graft and has his fake frog leap into battle. This only managed to confuse the poor Lotad after he had surfaced and saw all of that happen.

Ryan however, was angry. At many things: The Hitmontop that had infected Ursula, himself for jumping into battle before any kind of protection could of gone up, at his inability to control or help Ursula now that she was infected. He pulled out the Safari Ball and threw it far harder than he should of at the Lotad. Hopefully this would be a quick capture and ease some of his wrath.

And with a great effort, the Lotad would break free once more. This time though, it would blow bubbles at Ryan. This had really taken it's toll on both sides.

Ryan shake away the bubbles and reluctantly pull out his last Net Ball. He was going to catch this Lotad! Ryan takes a deep breath and tosses the Net Ball at the Lotad, Graft just watching on with a spaced-out look on his face.