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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leraje sends a flurry of ice and water at the lucario, her powerful cries echoing through the training area. unlike when the woman has her pokemon spar with each other, the lapras is nearly stationary -- the pokemon is too large on land.
delilah raises an eyebrow at the alternating attacks -- water, ice, water, ice -- and though bael has the advantage, he's hard-pressed to avoid the barrage. "c'mon," she encourages. not only are they working on his speed, but she notices the lapras' aim slowly improving as time passes.
then the lucario finally comes close enough to strike the lapras, and she nods appreciatively.
her training sessions have been slowly transforming into massive free-for-alls. or, well, pseudo-free-for-alls.
decarabia pants with exhaustion as he faces down the two dragons opposing him -- of their own volition, paimon and vapula have formed an allegiance against the gallade. (it is the first time delilah has seen either of them be even relatively cooperative, so she supposes it's a good thing?)
violet flames blast through the arena as they try to bring the fighting-type pokemon down. he weaves through the two of them, his fists colliding with painful accuracy as he passes. although their respective power levels aren't all that different, it's the experience her stupid dragons lack --
-- and it's experience they're getting, if the dragons' rising frustration and injury count is anything to judge it by.
it's interesting to see sitri so coordinated -- not once has the roserade tumbled or fallen.
granted, it might be because she has both bright orange and violent voilet flames right at her heels. delilah watches with slight amusement as the grass pokemon releases an array of needlelike, incredibly poisonous spikes behind her in an attempt to delay the two pokemon currently chasing her down.
delilah figures sitri is lucky that both aren't entirely devoted to taking her down; the blaziken and garchomp have seemingly begun their own rivalry, cimeies meeting paimon's open aggression with nothing more than silent irritation (and a few attacks).
it is when cimeies lands a solid hit on the dragon pokemon, causing her to stumble slightly, that sitri turns and sends a flurry of razor-sharp leaves at the downed garchomp, followed by a blob of viscous, rank poison at the blaziken.
the roserade is decidedly tired of being the victim.
zara does not hesitate to start the machine on full blast the instant her doduo enters the arena. rubber balls whiz out of the many holes in the wall, and she merely watches as the pokemon's two sets of eyes widen --
-- then the doduo is running around like a headless pidgey (which she finds ironic, as the bird pokemon has two more heads than an aforementioned headless pidgey would have), frantically trying to dive out of the way.
zara keeps up the relentless pace until the bird is on the ground from exhaustion, when she finally flips the switch to turn it off. there are no 'good jobs' or 'well dones' -- just her returning the doduo and walking away.
it's lapras versus dragonair, with vapula twising through the air to avoid the dangerous, powerful beams the lapras is shooting. delilah briefly appreciates the spectacle unfolding before her -- violet flames from a bright pink snakelike body, weaving through the icy blue of leraje's attacks.
and then there's phenex.
the small deino is clearly on the side of the dragonair, ineffectually attempting to use his small body to tackle down the much larger lapras. leraje spares him a small, pitying glance -- she wouldn't attack the poor pokemon -- before returning to trying to shoot vapula out of the air, to which the dragon reponds by slamming her tail into the lapras.
bael spars with the breloom, recently evolved and unused to the sudden mobility of his now-larger body. eligos takes turns battling, fighting one round with the lucario before switching and exchanging blows with the gallade. the two older pokemon are careful not to push the breloom too hard -- their goal isn't to drive him into the ground -- but they don't take it easy, either.
delilah watches with approval as bael and decarabia finally allow eligos a short break, the two pokemon turning on each other and fighting from there.
she sees her breloom plop onto the ground, his eyes drooping, and she gently taps his shoulder. "watch," she says, pointing to the other two, "and learn."
the scraggy is eager to fight; he bounces back and forth on his heels, his small fists raised in anticipation. the pokemon eyes the objects hanging around him. what does zara have in mind for him now, he wonders?
the woman stands behind the glass, in the control room. she flips the switch.
a giant pendulum swings into the pokemon.
when all is said and done, the scraggy stumbles out of the room and stares tiredly at the breeder. zara simply smiles and returns him to his pokeball.