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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It was raining on her face. Thalia stared up into the grey sky. It didn't really matter which way she looked--she was getting rained on either way. It was the miserable kind of rain where the wind blew the wet every which way and unless you were in a warm cozy cottage, complete with roaring fireplace, there was no escaping the damp.
She was not in a warm cozy cottage. Tunneling a little further into the hollow at the foot of the massive tree she had made her pitiful nest in, Thalia pulled her knees up to her chin and watched the rain drip steadily down. admin
Something bounced off her head and then it felt like someone aimed a hose at her face. Thalia sputtered and wiped her eyes. "You have got to be kidding--"
She stared at the togepi. She assumed that it stared back. Admittedly, it was hard to tell through the haze of water blurring her vision. "You're gonna regret that," she promised, launching herself forward at the baby pokemon.
The togepi did, in fact, stare back at the ugly pink creature.
But it was attacking! What to do, what to do? With a flailing singing of its tiny arms, it jumped (the flailing and swinging arms didn't really help) to the edge of pinkie's nesting area, sidling out of arm's reach.
The togepi considered its arsenal of attacks. Perhaps another metronome? No, it might use splash.
It scrunched up its face for its uneviable task, and went for a sweet kiss. (under 75 hits)
W-what had she been doing? Thalia blinked. There was something there--just out of reach. She was under a tree. It was raining. Was she on a picnic?
Her gaze lighted on the togepi again. Oh, yes. Fighting the goddamn Togepi. Her focus redoubled, she went to punch the togepi and promptly clocked herself in the face instead. admin
With a sigh of relief, the togepi inched a little closer towards Thalia, away the mouth of the tree roots' opening and out of the rain.
It carefully observed the confused pink human, and it decided that it would be best to spend time with an unconscious pokemon trainer rather than an angry conscious one. Thus were the rules of survival.
By this point, even as Thalia's pokeballs went rolling about in the mud under the tree roots as a result of the togepi (and who had ever labeled togepi cute and harmless? no one who had met this togepi, that was for sure.) and his disgusting, evil underhanded tactics, she was kind of grateful that it wasn't worse. Sure, she was going to have a pretty wicked shiner in the morning and she was soaking wet and shivering and a togepi had beaten her up without even breaking a sweat but at least there was no one around to witness her embarrassment, like say, that asshole Jigglypuff that breeder had pawned off on--
As she fumbled clumsily for her scattered Pokeballs, she accidentally released said asshole Jigglypuff. Accidentally, or by the whim of a cruel and capricious god. Who could say?
JIGGLYPUFF!!!! the asshole baby jigglypuff squalled as the rain pelted down on him. He was not happy. Baby was not fine. With spite-filled lungs, he began to sing.
Her eyes fluttered open slowly, taking stock of the scene in front of her. Still raining. Still in Ceres forest. Right eye still throbbing with pain. Togepi and jigglypuff stirring in front of her. The temptation to close her eyes again was very strong. She didn't really fight it at all.
Jigglypuff, on the other hand, stayed true to form and rolled out like a number one jerkoff, throwing himself at the togepi to pummel the other pokemon with his tiny fists. admin
The jigglypuff had a pretty high opinion of himself. At the end of the day, though, he was a level one jigglypuff. He talked the talk and tried to walk the walk, but he was out cold on the ground before rock throw had even finished. Thalia cracked an eye open just enough to watch him squeal and curl into (somehow) even more of a ball.
"You're a monster," she informed the togepi, before picking up the rocks around the jigglypuff's prone form and throwing them back at him. admin
Thalia watched in disbelief as the togepi first dodged her rocks, and then blazed with renewed fury. "I give up. I just give up. I'm fine with being a bully, forget trying to do this on my own." She grabbed the nearest two pokeballs off the ground. "Whichever two you are just--please. Make that togepi go away."
Dratini and scyther emerged. The former looked slightly put out at being called in for such a menial task, but obliged with a thunder wave, but the ever bloodthirsty scyther sprang forward with an eager steel wing. admin
The thunderwave froze the togepi in place, and the steel wing felt like a love tap. The togepi had faced greater opponents before.
It used mirror move on the scyther.
It used steel wing on the scyther.
It used metronome.
It used rest.
It began to regenerate health.
ETA: Attack stat buff lets it convert its defensive action into an offensive physical attack. Speed buff gives it a third action, canceled out by being paralyzed.
"IS THIS A JOKE?" Thalia screamed at the uncaring still-raining sky while her scyther folded up faster than a wet piece of paper. "IS THIS TOGEPI ARCEUS IN DISGUISE? DOES MEW WANNA POP OUT AND TAKE A SWING AT ME NEXT?" At least her dratini was good for something; the dragon-type redoubled its efforts out of contempt for how weakly her companion had folded, the dratini took advantage of the togepi's focus on the scyther to execute a one-two punch (not literally) of leer followed by water pulse. admin
