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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J glanced at the pokéball in hand once the poliwag was out of sight and earshot. it didn't want it turning back and finding out that he'd caught the old man and planned to trade it off to a researcher who needed to cover their bases on weaker, less popular pokémon.
thorpe sighed in relief, and returned to J's side. really, so much going on, and without breakfast too. it hoped for something good to munch -- huh? said the riolu, looking straight at the quivering bushes and suspicious movements about in the bidoof's den.
did the bidoof have family -- no, it was a shinx. the riolu jumped into full-on alert mode, and went up to the den.
The shinx froze. It stared at the riolu with wide eyes like a deerling caught in the headlights. It dropped a few of the berries that it was stealing.
<I, um,> the shinx began most promisingly. <Uh.>
Quickly, it picked up all the berries that it had dropped and popped them into his mouth like a chipmunk. Through a very full mouth, it said, <I gotta go.>
Then it turned to leave, but not very quickly since it was still trying to carry all the food it could.
you gotta go where? thorpe demanded, eyes flashing.
"thorpe," J cautioned. even though a shinx was stealing from someone else, it was an abandoned den. the bidoof no longer lived there, but would go to another person. neo, probably. "leave it alone."
i can't! the riolu barked, running after the shinx with (agility).
<I'm going home, asshole. Just try and stop me!> The shinx reared its head back for a yowling howl--and promptly dropped all the berries out of its mouth. 1) Ew. 2) Goddammit.
The shinx left the berries fallen where they were and opened the battling with a spark on the riolu.
you don't go stealing, that's not even minding your own business! thorpe retorted, dodging the spark attack before going in for a double shot of (quick attack). and never talk with your mouth full, it added as an afterthought, diving down from the air to deliver a strong kick to the shinx's face.
<What do you know! It is too my business! The bidoof that lives here--> was a huge jackass, the shinx thought, but it continued to say, <my father!!>
...Did it just say it had a bidoof for a father?
Oh, no. Oh, the horror! His real father (a very respectable luxio, thank you very much) would kill him.
The shinx took the hits with more interest in protecting its berries (the bidoof's berries?) than its body. Angrily, the shinx returned with a tackle and started charging up for his next attack.
thorpe dodged the tackle attack, skidding a few feet from the sheer force that it used to dodge the angry shinx. it's your dad? well you don't deserve anything from him then! yelled the riolu. you don't even help him water the plants and asked him to hire a watering service!
it went in for another two shots of (quick attack). who care what the shinx thought, really. stealing was bad, and stealing from its own parent -- worse.
<I'm electric! I have static! How could I water plants?>
The shinx dodged a quick attack and unleashed a spark. The attack seemed to take out most of its energy. Weakly, it went over to his berries, still defending them. <Where is my dad anyway? I should accuse you of kidnapping!>
if you love your dad you will! thorpe growled, but the spark attack caught it quickly and threw it quite a distance away. you'd find a way! the riolu picked itself up and started running towards the shinx, noticeably slower than before as the agility wore off.
i don't know where your dad is, thorpe yelled back as if it didn't know where the bidoof was, but if you're a good son you'd know! and with that, it tried to (quick attack) the shinx in the jaw.
The quick attack clocked the shinx in the jaw, and that was it--shinx was down for the count. It crumpled next to its berries, tried to stand once, before collapsing unconscious.
It was still worried that his real dad would find out that it ditched him for a bidoof dad.
finally, J chose to step in. he had been watching the battle, and there had been a great amount of yelling going on. the trainer didn't understand a single lick of pokémon speech, but he did pick up the fact that thorpe was getting slightly worked up about it.
he called thorpe to his side, and lobbed a pokéball at the shinx and pocketed the sphere. well, that was probably it, unless another pokémon came along and decided to ransack the den as well.
the riolu chattered something at J, and the trainer sighed. "unfortunately, i don't understand what you're saying," he said, and recalled it into its pokéball. alone, he walked on.
