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.
swarms
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Usually, it was a problem trying to get from Nerio City down to Juno. Fortunately, for Mikael, there were plenty of people who were willing to set out on potentially hazardous tasks in exchange for cash. Mikael was one of them, effectively hitching a ride off of himself.
"You take care, kid," his client said with a slight nod. "Where are you off to anyways?"
"Ranger Union."
"One of those crazy kids?" he asks, before clapping Mikael on the shoulder. "Try not to die, yeah?" And then he was gone.
Mikael never got his name.
He's come too far to go back (rumor has it that Griff is back too), he tells himself, as he steps through the door. The Union isn't anything particularly flashy, but he isn't here to evaluate the base on appearances. Most of their funds went into Scourge stomping anyways.
"Hello yourself," Sa'di calls back from further within the Union. She stalks around a table with a map of the region upon it, studies it as if lives depended on it--but she looks up at Mikael all the same. "Rogers, I believe that's the name on your papers? Been expecting you."
She looks him dead in the eye, as if hunting for something. She can't actually see through him, or into his soul, but it's almost as if she can. Whatever she's looking for, Sa'di found it. She nods in approvel
"I have hope for you," she says softly. She straightens up, gestures to the pokemon loitering around the area, most of them a little awkwardly--none of them quite belong. They belong outside, in the battle against the scourge. That's what they're here for, same as the rangers. Louder she continues, "They have hope for you too, hope that they will be selected by you. But know this: you don't just choose your partner. They have to choose you too, else you'll die out there beside a stranger."
He knows what it's like to survive out there with strangers. Dying out there with strangers would be a terrible, terrible fate. Mikael would almost prefer dying in a ditch over dying without anyone out there.
He gives Sa'di a nod because he knows that there aren't anymore words that need to be exchanged. He's here for one thing, and one thing only. So he crouches down to all the Pokemon's eye levels, gaze sweeping over each and every one. A Ranger differs from all others, trust between human and Pokemon, perhaps, the strongest. Each one of them have a glint in their eye and are raring to go.
Except for a particularly small Ralts (albeit that the poor thing's head was so big that Mikael couldn't even see its red eyes).
"Hey," he says to the psychic Pokemon, holding out a hand, even if it's unnecessary. The Ralts can probably sense everything that's swirling about his head. "Will you come with me?"
Sa'di watches on, discreetly, as the little ralts reached out and took Mikael's hand. It didn't hesitate, and that didn't surprise her. Most of the pokemon waiting at the Ranger Union would jump at the chance to go into the field. Not all of them were lucky enough to find a partner.
But these two, they may yet go far.
She coughed for attention. "The heart of the scourge lies at Lake Pax. You head there. Do not rush--you will fare better against the scourge after you learn more about being a ranger. It's not an easy path, but I hope you will find it worthwhile. I did."
LV10 - growl, confusion, double team, choose an egg move
Usually, it was a problem trying to get from Nerio City down to Juno. Fortunately, for Mikael, there were plenty of people who were willing to set out on potentially hazardous tasks in exchange for cash. Mikael was one of them, effectively hitching a ride off of himself.
