This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
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the others don't train with her as often anymore, but the skorupi does not mind. she will catch up with them eventually, but it is pointless to fight them if she would be trounced within the first five minutes. she'll get them back someday.
faintly, lotti wonders if she has an evolution. she uses accupressure and imagines this is what it means to be strong. she remembers the feeling and rams into a punching bag. the punching bag is pushed backwards, before the momentum makes it swing back into the skorupi. she is knocked flying, but she scuttles back, narrowly dodging the second impact.
there's improvement, at least. the houndoom gives a howl for her before resuming her own training. heidi gives another flamethower at the pile of steel, determined to beat her old record for melting it.
btw i've had the fossil badge for like a month now lol /adds the six levels
the skorupi stands strong against the honchkrow's tailwind. she is rather proud of herself for not being blown away like last time, but this sense of relief doesn't last long when he comes in for a wing attack. she scurries away just in time. barely, but she does.
stefan watches their training silently. it is as if he is only looking for something to stare at, but the cogs in his head are slowly turning. they don't run as smoothly as they once did, but right now, stefan has all the time in the world. occasionally, they speed up. sometimes they turn in the opposite direction. but they never stop, and that's what's important.
the skorupi boosts her attack with accupressure, and the thunder fang manages to land. she is knocked out subsequently by the next wing attack.
leonardo has made considerable progress since their battle with neo. granted, his opponent seemed to be a newborn himself, but even alia's eyes can tell that this particular rufflet was not a typical runt of the litter.
the world would be a very scary place if rufflets were naturally born with brave bird.
the rufflet practices on the targets, sharpening his claws with hone claws (as one stone sharpens another) before diving in for a aerial ace. soon, alia has to call in for replacement targets.
perhaps it is about time that he sink them into scourge flesh.
alia has seen the other researchers do this at the training center, so she knows that this method won't actually kill her abomasnow. probably doesn't make sleeping on a rack of coals any less painful, though.
she had seen the theory in a biology book. if someone placed a tympole into a beaker of water and placed that over a stove, then the tympole could be unknowingly cooked as long as the temperature rose slowly.
alia watches the thermometer closely with the thermal physics book open in her lap. this is a delicate procedure, after all.
bisharp uses metal sound, and for the barest of seconds, the skorupi feels as if she has nothing left.
wrong, stefan thinks. there is always something, anything. even if it's what remains of your voice or thoughts, there's always something to be done for the sake of survival. if this one can't learn quickly, then there's no point in telling gerfried to hold back anymore.
bisharp uses protect in the face of lotti's thunder fang, and she stumbles backwards in despair.
stefan is only lucky that gerfried doesn't particularly mind babysitting small children.
the skorupi is far more terrified about fighting the sandile than she should be. especially after being beaten time after time again by the senior party members. her movements are hurried and desperate. her sloppiness results in a totally ineffective thunder fang, and she recieves a fire fang in response. the hatchling's attack isn't nearly as devastating as she thinks it is, but it sets off lotti nevertheless. nothing is effective, but she easily takes him down with a poison fang.
it doesn't feel like a victory to her. stefan cannot help but grow fond of the skorupi.
with time, even stefan can learn to accept the comforts of the dream world. it is a strange place, but neither hunger nor primal fear exists here for him. as long as he keeps away from people in this place, he can calm down and think again.
that's not a luxury afforded to the skorupi, who has learned to hate this world. this world where even his weaknesses will not be erased.
the sandile's fire fang barely tickles now. she's been through too many scuffles with her superiors for the sandile to harm her tough skin. regardless of his resistances, even the skorupi's venoshock hurts enough to knock him out.
the sandile attempts to bury itself into the loamy soil when the drapion scurries forward with its acupressure boost. it's something of a pitiful display when she digs him out in point two five seconds. lisbeth thinks that they are only amusing themselves. the sneasel dives in with a double hit.
lotti rears her infuriated head and splays toxic spikes all over the field. it gets less fun for the both of them after that.
the safety of the dream world may have been too comfortable for pokemon who were outfitted to fight the scourge, but certainly not to the newly bred.