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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This place was...so very quiet, and ordinarily? Ordinarily that would bore a girl such as her, but not on that day. Not since coming to Kohaku, at least. She found that places that were so quiet were often a lot better than she had ever given them credit for, especially when she was doing it to try and strengthen a friendship with a certain electric mouse pokemon she had. Glancing at the Pichu walking by her, Luna couldn't help but smile. They had come a long way since the day the creature had attacked her for trying to see what was wrong, but not long enough that she'd cling to her shoulder yet...Luna couldn't wait for that day.
She couldn't help it, the Pichu was just too...cute to not think of that. "So, whaddya think? You like this dream world place?" Luna questioned of the Pichu as they walked on, doing her best to pay attention to the surroundings as she awaited the response in the form of the Pichu's cries. After all, it wouldn't do to go tripping on branches that were just laying around.
The swablu found it amusing to make a nest on Delilah's head -- Ronove had decided for herself that a thoroughly-unamused human looked infinitely better with what was essentially a giant, fluffy cloud of feathers for a hat.
Delilah felt the sharp poke of the swablu's talons on her scalp and distinctly disagreed.
She had almost resigned herself to certain defeat when the yellow pokemon suddenly took off from her head. Oh, thank Arce --"Wait, come back!" Where the hellw as Ronove flying off to?
The trainer caught up to her pokemon in time to see the swablu attempt to land on a poor girl's head. "Shit." Delilah rushed forward. "Ronove, come back -- and I'm really sorry about this, by the way." (Damned dragons and their ridiculous personalities.)
Something was on her head. What that something was, Luna had no way of knowing, but she knew something was there both based on the pressure and the fact that her pichu just stopped all of a sudden and was staring at her head. And...and now she was trying to leap up to catch the swablu? Weird. Luna watched, bemused a little, as the little electric pokemon leaped up, trying to reach the swablu, before gravity asserted itself and she fell down, and she did this for a bit too. At least until someone came running over.
"Oh, she...he...whatever is yours? No worries, pokemon can get kind of silly sometimes," Luna spoke to the woman, giving her a smile as she turned, her pichu still focused mostly on the swablu. Luna reached her hand up and extended her finger before gently poking the swablu. "Hey, don'tcha think you ought to perch on her head instead?" she questioned, gesturing towards Delilah.
The swablu stared at the strange thing on the ground, chirping in confusion. Ronove tilted her head to the side, blinking, before chirping once more and settling comfortably in a fluff of feathers. She tweeted happily when Delilah came running over, the trainer waving her right hand in the air. Delilah came to a stop in front of Luna, panting slightly. "Yeah, she's mine -- and kind of a pain, but there's dragons for you." (It didn't matter that Ronove was still a flying cloud, she would evolve into one.)
She held out her left arm, the hand hanging limply, and the bird blinked for a few moments before taking off and landing on the arm. Delilah bit back a curse as the talons dug into her skin. (Better than her head, anyway.) "Again, sorry." The woman shook her head. "This is Ronove; I'm Delilah." She shot a grin at the girl, then at the small pichu. "Nice to meet you both."
Luna winced a little once the swablu took off, the talons weren't exactly comfortable, and tried her best to hide her giggle as her pichu never took her eyes off the flying future dragon pokemon. What was so fascinating about the cloud, Luna had no idea, but her pichu seemed to be wary of her. "Heh, no problem. Besides, I'm gonna be a famous flying specialist someday, so I might as well get used to pokemon landing on me," Luna joked, both because she doubted she'd become that famous and because she was poking fun about what just happened. "Are dragons all really like that though?" she had to ask of the woman, unable to hide her curiosity.
Not that she planned to get a dragon-type, but it would be good to know in case she did run into one. "Anyway, nice to meetcha too! I'm Luna, and the little mouse here is Lily. Whatcha doin' out here?" she decided to question of her. Probably just exploring this place like her and relaxing. That, or she was looking to do some training, a feat which was far easier here in the dream world than in the real world due to the lack of the Scourge.
Delilah laughed. "Flying specialist sounds pretty cool." She didn't have many flying pokemon, but they were certainly versatile. The woman rolled her eyes. "And I don't know about all of them, but mine are pretty whacked." Delilah began to count them off on her fingers. "One thinks humans are spawn from hell, another thinks she's the queen of the world, one argues with himself, and one is kind of a wimp." She glanced at Ronove. "Then there's that one."
She shrugged at Luna. "I was going to train a bit, but she' being uncooperative." The woman scratched the bird's neck, sighing. "What about you?"
"Yeah yeah, they are! Just uh...I don't really have many yet. Don't tell anyone that though, it can be our secret," Luna stated to the woman, giggling a bit. One day she would, flying high up in the skies just seemed too cool to pass up, but for now she couldn't have people knowing she didn't have many flying pokemon at all. "And...huh. They all sound pretty crazy. Wish I could say the same about my pokemon, but the only thing that stands out is how skittish the little gal here was scared of me, at first," Luna glanced down at the pichu with a smile.
What she got in return was the smallest of small smiles from the electric pokemon, before Luna looked back to Delilah. "Anyhoo, I actually came here to train to! Not much luck yet, of course, and probably even less luck now that there's two of us here."
