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 Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:53 pm
(( Not really an open role-play. Just a story developing my characters. Some warning: it will be a bit violent- someone will get hurt really badly. You are free to join in and post, but try not to get caught in my main story.))
"Please be careful Lina." Valerie told her daughter, hugging the girl close. And that was their goodbye, the young 10-year-old girl and her 14-year old brother heading off on their journey.
By Lina's side ran the Vulpix named Pixie, and on her belt Frill the Caterpie rested. Charm the Charmander and Fudge the Pidgey waited inside their own Pokeballs, held snug but within easy reach on the side of Sicel's backpack.
The two's planned route was west of Lilycove, the city they grew up in, towards and past route 121. They will stay there for a few weeks, a place that Sicel said he had spent many months training Charm when he had first started his journey.
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Lina huddled against Charm for warmth, and the Charmander didn't seem to mind- in fact, he was rather enjoying the attention. Charm didn't receive much affection from Sicel, and while this was not something he minded, it was nice to get adored every once in a while.
Sicel had managed to set up the tents between a few trees to the side, and is now stirring something over a small cooking stove. Sicel seemed perfectly comfortable with these conditions, and while Lina went through a lot of this at Trainer School, she was still nervous. It was their second night out from the city, and they had stayed their first night at the Safari Zone's trainer's accommodations.
"Vulpix!" Pixie seemed to enjoy herself a lot, running around, chasing bugs, picking on Frill, and arguing with Fudge. Pixie had hatched as an egg in professor Gum's lab, and didn't enjoy living in the building all the time as an experimental subject. She was treated well, with good food and a nice soft bed, but she liked the open air a lot better.
"How much farther is it?" Lina asked her big brother as Sicel came to sit by her side, now letting their dinner simmer. Lina had asked him an innumerable amount of times, but Sicel would never mind. He was rather snappy with most people and didn't get along well with them, but if there's anyone he truly cared about, it was Lina.
"Tomorrow, the day after that if we take our time." Sicel explained, and remembered back to the area he had found so long ago. When the road turned north up Route 120, he left the road and continued to the west, where he found a small clearing nestled on two sides by cliff, the other sides with trees. There was also great fertile soil there, with lots and lots of berries growing.
The area was raining very hard the last time he was there, but the route had just gone through a particularly dry winter, and although it was almost April, there was no signs of rain. It would be nice and dry, and devoid of the usual mud that plagued the area. Even in the harder conditions, Sicel had found it a great place to train Charm. The constant rain trained Charm to resist the water, and learn how to protect the precious flame on his tail. There were many wild Pokemon that were all too eager to drive them out of their territory, and gave the Charmander the experience in fighting.
The drawback was that it was far from civilization. If either of them got hurt, they didn't have anyone to help them heal except each other. The Safari Zone was the closest place for help.
Which was the argument their mother Valerie made against they trip, but Sicel overrode it easily, rationalizing it with his own experience, and Lina's specialization in healing and nursing Pokemon back to health. There was nothing to be afraid of, nothing that could go wrong.
"All right, I think the stew should be done by now. Let's have dinner. Pidgey, come on out!"
"Um...Frill, you too."
And thus the first part of the journey passed, uneventful except for a Linoone they ran into. Charm quickly chased it off though, and nothing else exciting happened.
They reached Sicel's special place the next night.
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:25 pm
Sicel dropped his pack on the ground and looked around the area. The ground was hard and packed, which was great for setting up their tents. Lina came up beside him, slightly winded, but the road had been easy so she wasn't completely worn out. Pixie bounded up beside her, while Fudge flew past their heads and landed on one of the trees. He didn't seem to like the tree very much though, for it was coniferous, and his big size made it awkward for him to perch there. Unfortunately for the Pidgey, there wasn't a better tree around. He finally just hopped down to the ground as Sicel set up the tents.
By now Charm and Frill were also out of their pokeballs and examining their surroundings. Charm stayed calm, recognizing the area and turned to help Sicel with the tents.
"Frill! Where are you going?" Lina called out to the Caterpie as it began wandering off toward the trees. Lina watched as the Caterpie began to climb up the tree, and Sicel stopped his working to stare at the bug-type.
"Frill's ready to evolve." He explained. "Caterpies become metapods when they evolve. They go up a tree, or another high place, and when they do evolve, will stay there motionless until they merge as a Butterfree. Just leave Frill alone for the next few days, and it'll be fine. Metapods goes through their evolution very quickly."
Sicel then went back to his setting up of the tent, leaving Lina to get the stove out and attempt to cook something for dinner.
Some time later that night, a glow in the trees alerted Lina and Sicel of Frill's evolution.
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:13 pm
"Pidgey! Use Gust!" Sicel called out, still refusing to call his Pokemon Fudge. Fudge hesitated a moment, before jumping into the air and flapping his wings hard to create the strong winds. Too late though- Charm ran through his defences and knocked the Pidgey out of the sky.
Fudge landed awkwardly a few feet back, one wing dragging along the ground and the other nearly pointing up. He straightened himself as he finally stooped, gingerly tucking his wings in and ruffling up his feathers.
"Pidge!" It cried indignantly.
"Try again." Sicel told the flying-type firmly. It just glared at him, and hobbled off to perch on a rock, preening his wings and examining the various wounds it had collected over the past few training days.
"Brother, you should stop." Lina told Sicel, going to Fudge's side, hand itching to dig out a potion from her pack.
"Leave him Lina. He just needs to learn some more endurance. He's not badly hurt." Sicel told his little sister, and then turned back to Fudge.
"Pidgey. You're not quitting this early are you? I'm ashamed. The last Pidgey I caught lasted a lot lot longer than you, but I still released him. If you think you're too weak, you're welcome to leave my team." Sicel threw the remarks casually at the Pidgey, but it had the effect he was looking for. It flapped its wings angrily a few times before taking to the air and diving at Sicel.
"Charm. Intercept." And the Charmander jumped up in front of Sicel, once more blocking the Pidgey's attack. But this time Fudge had momentum behind it, and it drove the Charmander a bit forward, forward enough to crash Charm and itself into their trainer. They fell down in a tangled mess of arms, legs, a flaming, tail, and feathered wings.
"Are you okay!?" Lina cried out, running over. By the time she had reached them, all three had extricated themselves from the pile they had been in. Charm looked ashamed of himself, Pidgey had a glare in his eyes and puffing himself up proudly, and Sicel had a grin on his face.
"That's what I want to see. Although the next time you try to attack me, I won't be as forgiving."
Lina watched her brother's method of training from the sidelines, still confused about Sicel's constant switch between harsh discipline and loose freedom.
"Alright then, let's do this again. Pidgey, use gust!"
Fudge glared at Sicel, and then charged at Charmander without leaving the ground, both wings flapping to help with his speed, pointedly ignoring Sicel's orders. Charm skipped to the side to avoid the beak, but Fudge's wing clipped him on the side.
And then, Fudge began to glow. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stood still as they watched Fudge's bright silhouette grow larger. As the light dissipated, the crest on its head was bigger and now had a red hue. His tail fins were longer and were coloured red and yellow.
"Pidgeotto!" Fudge cried triumphantly.
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:01 pm
"Why are you upset that Fudge evolved?" Asked a very confused Lina. Sicel sighed, and took out the Pidgeotto's Pokeball.
"Because once they evolve, they change forms. They aren't used to it, and they underestimate their own strength. They need a lot of time before they're comfortable and not awkward with everything." Sicel explained, and pointed the Pokeball at Fudge.
"Pidgeotto, return." The red light engulfed Fudge and drew it back into the Pokeball. Sicel then snapped it back into it place on his pack.
"Is that why Charm hasn't evolved yet?" Lina asked. Sicel nodded in reply.
"Yes, Charm remained a Charmander for three years because of this. Actually..." Sicel looked down to Charm, who was standing obediently by his side.
"Both of us have agreed to let him evolve soon. It's also part of the reason I wanted to come back here." He explained.
"Charmander!" Charm agreed.
Lina looked back to Frill, who had been motionlessly hanging from a tree for the past few days, and then to Pixie curled up under a tree.
"Say, how will Pixie evolve? Do you know?" Lina asked her big brother as he walked off to prepare everything for the night.
"Vulpix? They don't evolve by themselves like most Pokemon do. You need a Firestone. Vulpix becomes Ninetales when they evolve." Sicel told her, and then proceed to rummage through the supplies, which was now significantly more messy than when they had arrived here, on account of everything being dug out and thrown back in.
Lina sat down on a rock and examined her own pokemon again. She knew that she would let Frill evolve into a Butterfree as soon as possible, -a Metapod didn't do much- but she wondered about Pixie.
She wanted a Ninetales- it would be so fluffy and cute, and would be a great addition to a Coordinator's team. But, what Sicel had said...it would be difficult, suddenly becoming so much larger. And also, Firestones were expensive...
"Pixie!" Lina called her Vulpix over. She looked at Lina sleepily, yawned, and trotted over. Such a decision should be made with Pixie's input after all.
"Pixie, what would you think about evolving into a Ninetales?" Lina asked her Vulpix. The fox-like creature's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Vul!" It cried happily. "Vul Vulpix!"
Lina nodded and sat back onto her rock, wondering. Back at the Lilycove department store, they sold evolution stones. It seemed Pixie liked the idea of evolving...maybe she should save up for a Firestone.
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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:59 pm
"Lina! Get up!"
Lina stirred in her sleeping bag. It had been a cold night, and she was shivering slightly, unwillingly to leave the sleeping bag that was freezing, but still warmer than the air outside. She was hugging Pixie close to her chest, the Vulpix probably the only thing preventing the girl from getting hypothermia.
"Lina!" This time, the voice was closer, and a hand grabbed her shoulder, roughly shaking her.
"Frill is evolving."
Lina opened her eyes, recognized her brother's face peeking from the tent door. Sleepily but with urgency, she crawled out of her sleeping bag, threw a coat on, and struggled into her shoes as she crawled outside.
She only caught the last moments as the light of evolution faded from Frill the Metapod.
"Fweee!" Frill the Butterfree cried out, flapping its wings experimentally. It then swooped down towards Lina, landing in front of her, trailing glittering dust behind it.
"Fweee!" It said again in its vibrato voice. Lina's face lit up and she forgot about the biting morning cold as she knelt down to examine her first caught Pokemon's evolution. It was beautiful, and Lina's mind raced about all the possibilities of move combinations it could use in her first Pokemon Contest.
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"Charmander! Dodge!" Charm jumped to the side, sliding along the ground smoothed by nearly a week of him and Fudge fighting each other. The Pidgeotto spread its wings to stop its charge toward Charm. It angled its wings slightly in an attempt to change its angle towards Charm's new position.
Fudge had become much stronger in the past few days. Not to mention the size difference between the two Pokemon. Charm was finding it harder and harder to come out of these training battled unharmed.
But Charm persevered, for this was part of the plan.
"Pidgeotto! Whirlwind! Charm, fire!" Sicel commanded both of his Pokemon. Fudge hovered in mid-air and began flapping his wings hard, in a rhythm he had worked out a few days ago. Blades of wind formed and flew at Charm, who stood his ground, and opened his jaws.
Flames billowed out, attempting to battle the wind. The air made the fire flare, and the heat nearly dissipated the attack, but it finally pushed through, the beat of Fudge's wings stronger than Charm's flames.
It crashed through, hitting the Charmander like a wall, the debris it had picked up stinging Charm and blinding him. It pushed him back a little as he struggled to stay upright.
"Fight it Charm!"
And then, the Charmander began to glow with the light of Evolution, the fourth time the bright light has graced this clearing.
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:56 pm
Everything went wrong in that single moment. As Charm glowed and his form began to change, the Charmander reared onto his hind legs. When the light diminished, Charm was noticeably bigger, and his scales a darker red.
Charm didn't seem to notice the fact his tail swept the ground as he came back down onto all four limbs.
The flame on the tip of his tail flared.
The dry grass that has been thirsting for water through an unusually dry dry season burst into fire.
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"Nurse Joy!" A small boy ran through the doors of the Pokemon centre, and the nurse looked up from the counter.
"Yes?" She asked the boy, who looked like he had run toward the Pokemon centre as fast as he could. Only then did Joy notice the Pidgeotto the boy was carrying on its back. It was still conscious, but weak, muttering a faint "cooo" every once in a while. A nasty burn ran down one of its wings.
"We saw him flying towards the city, and he sort of just fell out of the sky." The small boy explained, his voice panicking. By now two more boys managed to run into the center. One of the other boys was carrying a Butterfree in his arms, who looked better off than the Pidgey, but a piece of its wing was still torn and charred.
"Fweee!" It was crying out, distressed, and struggling to free itself from the arms of the stranger.
"These two have trainers." The third, much older boy explained. "I couldn't catch them."
Nurse Joy has come around the counter already, working with Chansey to get the injured Pidgeotto onto a stretcher.
"Call officer Jenny would you boys? And also find a ranger- see if they know of a recent fire around here."
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The rangers heard it first.
"Vul! Vuulll! Vulpix!!" Was the frantic cry of a Pokemon. They followed it through the smoldering greenery, off the road. The fire had not been big- despite the dry conditions, it was contained quickly.
They found the Vulpix relatively unhurt -Vulpixes are unaffected by fire- and it urged them to follow her. And after half an hour of searching, they found two small kids. They were trapped under a fallen tree, but it had shielded and protected them from the fire.
A Charmeleon was also found at the scene, distressed but unhurt. Both young trainers were recovered alive, and were taken to the Forttree hospital.
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:15 pm
"He will lose most of his sight I'm afraid, if not all of it."
That one statement changed his life.
Sicel sat on his Hospital bed, hugging his knees. A bandage was wrapped tightly around his head, covering his eyes. He sulked as he listened to his parents talking just outside of the Hospital wards. The doctor was discussing with them the possibility of getting him a guide Pokemon. Maybe a Houndoom or Mightyena.
"Charmeleon..." came a sad cry by his side. Sicel dropped a hand and petted Charm on the head- awkwardly as he blindly searched for Charm's head. Sicel tried to convey to the Charmeleon that he did not blame him, but it was hard. Sicel still couldn't accept that he would be blind, and the compulsion to find someone to blame was a natural human reaction.
He heard the door open, and he knew it was his parents.
"I don't want a Guide Pokemon." He blurted out before even letting his parents say anything. He felt his bed shift- someone had sat down beside him- and then felt a gentle arm wrap around him shoulders. He shrugged it off and retreated slightly on the bed.
"Sicel, don't be stubborn. You'll need a Guide Pokemon to get around." Was his mother's voice. Sicel shook his head though.
"No."
He heard his mother sigh, and he turned his head away.
"Charm will be able to guide me. I'm not going to be be dependant on a Pokemon I never even trained. I'm still going to continue being a Pokemon trainer. I will become a Gym leader." He told his mother firmly. Didn't she understand? He had his pride, and he is always willing to defend it.
"But Dear-"
"Charmeleon!" Charm cried, cutting Valerie off. The Charmeleon was up to the challenge, and he sided fully with his trainer.
"...all right then..." Was his mother's reluctant response.
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Felix went to the other bed in the room, one where his daughter Lina was sleeping. He sat down next to her, watching her sadly as he considered what had happened. This was why he did not want Lina to become a trainer, but Sicel had talked the girl into it.
Lina stirred and slowly opened her eyes.
"Daddy?"
"I'm here sweetie." He replied, taking one of her hand both of his. Her left arm was heavily bandaged, as it was burned and injured badly during the fire. She has had a good recovery though. She was lucky to avoid any infection, and the skin has already mended over the worst of the wound. She will heal with no scars at all if she's lucky.
She was a lot better off than her older brother, whom she claimed had protected her from the fallen tree, risking his own life. That was why his injuries were much more serious than hers.
Both Father and daughter paused as they listened to Sicel's conversation with his mother.
"Daddy, I want to continue being a Pokemon trainer too." Lina finally spoke up, startling Felix. He turned around, frowning.
"No sweetie, it's what got you into this. Please, just stay home, you can--"
He was cut off by a cold voice from the other side of the room.
"It's her decision Felix. Don't make it for her." The man winced as he heard his son's voice, always filled with so much hatred toward him, who always called him by his name instead of 'dad' or 'father'. He reluctantly looked at Lina, who nodded.
"Yes daddy, I still want to be a trainer." Her voice was suddenly so much smaller. She was afraid to hurt her dad, she loved him dearly, but she truly wanted to continue her journey.
Felix took a steadying breath and reached into one of his pockets.
"Well in that case..." He took out a long, thin and slender stone. It was clear, tinged with yellow, with orange and red dancing within its interior.
"I prepared this when I heard you were heading toward Forttree. I didn't want to present it to you in such a situation...but here." He handed the stone to Lina, who stared at the blankly.
"A fire stone?" She asked unsure.
"Yes. I heard that you got a Vulpix as your starter. This will evolve her into a Ninetales, whenever you two are ready." He explained.
Lina nodded, and threw her arms around her father.
"Thanks daddy."
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