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Post by Danny Kazuki on Jan 6, 2015 14:00:59 GMT -5
News about the recent shifts in swarming Pokemon buzzed across the online boards faster than Danny could keep up, which was saying something, because he considered himself a relatively hip guy that stayed on top with the times. It wasn’t even that long ago since he followed the Relicanth hype train, and now his twitter notifications were exploding with pictures of the newly discovered Skiddo swarm that was making their winter trek across the Wilds. Someone online mentioned that they migrated like this twice a year in search of greener fields, and someone else commented about how affectionate the species was despite its wild status. That explained why so many people were getting up close and personal with the Skiddo swarm in the selfie spam that Danny tediously skimmed through until he made up his mind to go and check out the swarm for himself. He wasn’t all that convinced about catching one for himself, but after staring at their pixelated leafy manes online for about 30 minutes, he wanted to experience the fluffiness for himself.
Once he set off from Iceburgh in search of the rumored swarm, it didn’t take long to realize that the sheer size of the Wilds presented him with a minor problem; where the hell was he supposed to start looking? The answer must’ve been online somewhere, and he must’ve overlooked it somehow. Yeah. That made sense. “If I was a goat with a grass coat, where would I be?” Danny’s eyes quickly skimmed across the snow-laden ground that easily consumed most of his boots regardless of where he walked, and given the lack of footprints in the snow, it was safe to say that the swarm was nowhere near here. Yet. Sticking around to see if they’d end up coming to him was one option, but that meant bumming around in the snow with nothing to do, and Danny’s legs were already walking as far away as they could from that suggestion. To him, the best method of tracking down a swarm was to stay on the move and to check around each potential hiding spot as if he was caught in a game of iSpy. He sucked at that game though, so he decided to cheat a little by recruiting a few extra eyes and ears to make up for his lack of talent.
“Alright! Big Larry. Sa-laaad. I need you gents to help track something down for me. Apparently these things are swarming around here.” Upon calling out his dorky Pelipper and potentially buzzed Pansage respectively, he flipped out his phone and made his fingers dash across each button until he managed to pull up a picture of their current target—Skiddo. Turning his phone around so each Pokemon could get a satisfactory look, Larry looked perplexed as he studied the details of the unfamiliar species, and Salad merely gave it a quick glance before flashing Danny a giddy thumbs up. Of course he could find that silly goat thing, no problem! “Yeah. They’re called Skiddo, and they’re apparently more docile than the early Disney princesses. Maybe I’ll catch one. I don’t know yet—but if it ends up being in the grand scheme of Danny things, then so be it. I’ll catch them all! Or at least one. One is good.” Catching an entire swarm sounded like a ridiculous feat when Danny hardly had the means to take care of such a ridiculous amount, but he didn’t see the harm of adding one to his growing collection of Pokemon if Skiddo ended up deserving the hype it got online.
With the combined efforts of Larry dutifully flying overhead while Salad nimbly hopped from tree to tree, it took about an hour to spot a group of four Skiddo digging their hooves into the snow in search of fresh grass to graze upon. <Monkey boy, go get the big guy.> Larry turned towards the Pansage and ushered the monkey away by giving him a light slap on his back, and luckily Danny wasn’t trailing too far behind the duo, so Salad was able to bring their wheezing trainer back in a matter of minutes.
Danny gasped as he stumbled closer to the small group of Skiddo, whose ears immediately shot up in alarm at the trainer’s presence. “Shoot. Izzat them? That’s them. Whoa. Cute. Fluffy and cute.” Clasping his hands together at the sight of their tiny button noses that wiggled each time they tried to sniff Danny from a safe distance, Danny didn’t quite catch the memo that he didn’t have the group’s approval in the first five seconds of seeing them, and hastily attempted to stroke one of the bigger ones out of curiosity. Neither Larry or Salad seemed to show much concern for their trainer’s poor life choices, but Salad covered his eyes and Larry winced in advance as the Skiddo headbutted Dannys hand away and started to back up in retreat. ”Hey! Hey! Heeeey! No need to fear, little animal creature dude. I’m just a wild Danny. Humble, kind, and jazzy.” Attempts at reconciling were made by crouching down and extending his hand in greeting, giving the same Skiddo a chance to reconsider its prior hostility. Sure enough, the Skiddo tentatively trotted forward with the other three standing guard in the back, and after giving Danny’s hands a few sniffs, it deemed Danny friendly enough company to cheerfully rub its head all over Danny’s hand in joy.
Now that was more like it! As soon as one Skiddo was alright with Danny’s presence, the rest scampered closer out of curiosity, and Danny easily scored some enjoyment out of his temporary Skiddo petting zoo. The fluffiness of the Skiddo’s silken, oak-colored fur rivaled that of a Mareep’s wool, and when paired with their puffy leaf manes, it felt as if Danny was hugging the cool side of a pillow. The Skiddo were about as friendly as a household dog, which was amusing, because imagining a goat as a pet was like bringing a farm straight into your house. It was an odd thought, but given their affable personalities, Danny easily warmed up to the idea of owning one.
But he just wanted one. All of these guys were cute, but he came here planning on catching one or none, and he planned on sticking to it. While Larry and Salad socialized with some of the Skiddo for some casual small talk, Danny watched for the varying characteristics of each Skiddo until he settled on one of the female goats that kept head-butting his hip each time he neglected to scratch under her chin. She was cute, but he doubted that she liked him enough to simply come with him upon asking, so Danny whistled for his Pansage to come closer so their actions could do the talking. “Skiddo, you now have the honor of challenging Sa-lad the Pansage to a battle! I plan on taking you home with me, so get ready to rumble.” Danny bounced back onto his feet so he wouldn’t accidentally get caught up in the crossfire, and as the rest of the Skiddo tilted their heads in confusion, Larry made sure to stand in front of them so they wouldn’t get involved in a battle that wasn’t meant for them.
[ VS. PANSAGE ]
Danny’s Pansage squared himself off with the flustered Skiddo that towered over him, but size wasn’t that much of an issue for Salad, who occupied himself with grooming his ‘do while the Skiddo processed the change in events. After raking his claws through his hair a couple of times, Salad stretched his arms way over his head and swayed from left to right, making sure that his muscles were chill enough to pull off the sick acrobatics that he planned on doing. <Yahhh…battles. So we’re doing this then?> Salad held out his fists like he was ready to fight as he bounced from one foot to the next, keeping his body moving while the Skiddo jumped at the realization that they were going through with this.
Oh dear. She wasn’t all that confident when it came to battles, and here was this chillass Pansage looking like it was nothing more than the day’s morning jog. <I don’t want to…but here goes.> Skiddo squeaked and shook herself off like a dog after a bath, and by doing so, a flurry of seeds shot across the air and bounced off the Pansage’s head. The leech seeds weren’t going to do anything to a fellow grass type, but a different kind of seed was shot out at the same time, and the Worry Seed was another story entirely.
The Worry Seeds crackled as they sunk into the Pansage’s ears, causing nothing but distress at the static-like crinkle that refused to put his mind at ease. Right when Salad was preoccupied with digging what seeds he could right out of the infected area, Danny gaped at how easily the Skiddo claimed the battle’s edge by ramming her horns into Salad’s gut. “Salad, no! You’re supposed to keep watch. Ignore that ear stuff for a sec and use Torment.” He didn’t know what to make of the Skiddo’s moveset based on what he saw, but assuming Salad got the Torment off, he’d have a better chance of figuring out what he was up against. Salad wheezed as he stumbled back from the Horn Leech, not liking the Skiddo’s devious tricks in the slightest, and with an arm applying pressure to the wound for a bit of comfort, he spat out whatever form of mockery came to mind. The Pansage’s mouth spread itself wide with a wicked grin as he shamed the Skiddo for relying on shallow tricks, and while the Skiddo knew full well that the Pansage was only ranting because he held a grudge, she couldn’t help but get riled up from the Torment’s effects.
The guilt of using Horn Leech on an unprepared foe was enough to make the Skiddo hesitate long enough to try and terrorize the Pansage with even more seeds. She didn’t understand why the Leech Seed wasn’t having any luck against the Pansage, but at least the Worry Seeds seemed to be bothering Salad enough to leave him open to another Horn Leech. She pranced at the opening and charged in horns first, ramming the center of her horns into the Pansage’s back before he could jump to dodge. Danny wasn’t liking the look of this, and after stomping one of his feet into a fresh layer of snow, earning a satisfying crunch for doing so, he declared that he was going to turn this bullshit around. “Quit acting like you have fleas and stun her with a Seed Bomb!” Grass moves weren’t effective against grass types, but as long as the Seed Bomb served its role, Danny saw that as more of a minor detail.
Salad plucked a fresh seed out of his hair bush and tossed it from hand to hand, giving the explosive seed a chance to warm up until he was ready to lob it at the Skiddo’s feet. It wasn’t an easy throw because she was already charging towards him with another Horn Leech, but the Seed Bomb popped and sizzled like a couple of fire crackers, nipping at the Skiddo’s feet until she nimbly hopped away. “You got her now! Move in with an Acrobatics.” Now that the Skiddo lost her momentum, Danny cheered the Pansage on as the limber monkey took to the skies and landed sideways on the bark of a tree, and with that as a platform, he kicked himself off and dived straight the Skiddo like a honing missile, dragging across the ground as he kicked and flipped all over her back as if she was some kind of living playground. The attack was strong, but that didn’t stop the Skiddo from retaliating with another Horn Leech before Salad could jump back into the air. And this time, the chirpy little goat managed to sneak a small bit of health back in the process. “Keep trying, Salad. You’re sooooo close!” Danny couldn’t tell if his legs were chattering against one another out of excitement or out of frost bite, but either way, he was pretty sure he had this battle secured when Salad leaped back up with another Acrobatics towards the Skiddo. Sure enough, the second he slammed his fist against the Skiddo’s head and used that force to skillfully somersault over the injured Skiddo’s body, he made a smooth landing on the ground right as the Skiddo fainted.
With the battle one, Danny cheerfully skipped over to the fainted Skiddo’s side and tapped a Pokeball against her creamy white cheeks.
Post by Josh Dragomir on Jan 7, 2015 22:06:44 GMT -5
Josh had heard rumors of a herd of Skiddo being somewhere around this part of the wilds. Skiddo were known for their evolution, Gogoat, which made incredibly fast mounts. Josh and Izumi were planning to do a riding class for their mountable Pokemon soon enough... Including a Skiddo in those ranks was a perfect plan, should he manage to evolve it into Gogoat. So off he went, with Lightning by his side. Eventually, he heard just what he was looking for after much searching. A herd of Skiddo and Gogoat ran past him and he took a breath. "Lightning, use Thunderbolt to make them scatter and separate them" He said. "Pika... CHUUUUU!" Lightning responded as he let out a vicious Thunderbolt in the center of the herd, causing them to scatter and run. "That one!" Josh said, pointing toward one of the straggling Skiddo. "Use Thunder Wave!" Josh would call to Lightning. "Pika!" Lightning responded, shooting blue sparks that would hit the running Skiddo, slowing it down good. It wouldn't be escaping now!
[Skiddo Paralyzed]
"Alright, go Buddy!" Josh called as he would bring out his Houndour. "Dour!" Buddy let out as the Skiddo would quickly try to defend itself using a Lead Blade attack. "Quick, counter it with Thunder Fang!" Josh called. "Dour!" Buddy would respond with a crackling fang to counter the Leaf Blade, with both of them hitting it's mark and the two Pokemon skidding back. Sparks would surround the Skiddo from the paralysis from earlier...
"Flamethrower!" Josh called, taking advantage of the situation to score a clear hit. Buddy would let out a roar before shooting a heavy dose of flames at Skiddo, hitting it dead on. Skiddo would wobble a bit, but try to use Double-Edge. It would hit, sending Buddy slamming into a rock, but it did a lot of damage to Skiddo as well. "Shake it off, Buddy! Shake it off!" Josh called. "Quick, Howl!" He called. "HOOOOWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOO!" Buddy howled as his power went up...
"Flamethrower!" Josh called. "DOURRRR!" He let out, releasing an even more powerful Flamethrower that hit Skiddo while it was recovering from the Double-Edge recoil. Josh would toss a Pokeball at Skiddo quickly, hoping that would do it...
Post by Yumi Tasukai on Jan 9, 2015 8:09:05 GMT -5
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"YES OUR TEETH AND AMBITIONS ARE BARED! BE PREPARED!"
"Tabetha you doing okay?"
Yumi fell to her rear beside her recently evolved axew, now a fraxure. The little beast had proven itself to be quite the heavy hitter when Yumi had left them all to train during the dwebble swarm last month, and she was somewhat relying on this little dragon to help her catch a skiddo. Just the one. Yumi had been looking for a reliable ground mount for a while, and with most of her current candidates having evolved to stand on two legs, or just be damn untrainable, a skiddo, or more precisely, it's evolution, seemed to be the best bet for her. It was only worrying that tabetha seemed to be coming down with a case of nerves.
"You okay? Your not still afraid of battles are you? Big strong Tabetha taking on 10 dwebble all by herself? And hey, now you're a fraxure! You should be able to handle one little skiddo no problem!" Even with the confidence boost tabetha wasn't really feeling it. The resident pseudo land dragon, zillia, had been teasing her a lot about how she could never fill her huge shoes. Not that the little dragon wanted to of course, but the teasing still made it hard for her to get pumped up, even as she spotted a skiddo grazing out of the corner of her eye, the gaze of her own eyes soon directing Yumi's. "Come on, you sure you can't even give it a shot?" The Fraxure held it's head still for a moment, before giving a sigh and gentle nod, slowly rising to it's feet and staring down the Skiddo, which proceeded to get a little bit intimidated by the dragon with the giant tusks clearly challenging it.
"That's the spirit! Now, dragon dance, you know how it goes." Tabetha did, dragon dance was always how she should start. With a bolster to her speed and attack, she rushed towards the skiddo, dragon claw at the ready, but with her body raised high, the skiddo whent low, striking her gut with a leech seed that sapped her strength, struggling to get off until she ultimately rolled to the side off the skiddo's head to free herself, Yumi feeling a bit of guilt. This was hardly the way to get her confidence up. "Come on, just need to be a little faster. Dragon dance!" The Dragon repeated the move, charging again with dragon claw only for the skiddo to leap back and out of the way. She thought to charge again but Yumi gave a fast order. "Dragon pulse!" Tabetha froze for a moment, wondering why she was being ordered to use a special when she was bolstering her physical, but it was still an order, and soon the energy of dragon pulse burst forth from her maw, blasting the skiddo before it got it's footing again, and leaving it open for a strike.
"Now! Dragon claw again!" Tabetha nodded quickly, rushing forward and striking upward with her dragon claw, sending the skiddo into the air, soon enveloped by the red light that was Yumi's pokeball. "Great job! Lets see if it pays off!"
Post by Sera Werner on Jan 14, 2015 20:41:16 GMT -5
GO GO FIELD TRIP!
song link here It was a school field trip that would last seven days. She packed up her overnight gym bag with her clothes and made Engi an entire weeks worth of bento's that took care of all his meals from breakfast to dinner and overtime. She knew his schedule in advance since it was already marked on the calendar, and just bagged them up with little paper post its of what day they were for. He should be able to survive that long without her, for now at least. He better be eating them though, she was going to be upset if she came back to find them forgotten about or only half gone.
She stared down at her phone, the only reason she wasn't calling him to check was because she was out of the service area. Blue eyes looked back up and around to her classmates. They were all dressed in their gym suits and white T-shirts and sneakers. Standard issue uniforms for the Doom school as the teachers and M.I.B. chaperons were spread out amongst their groups making her feel as if she was in some sort of military camp. Still, she was kind of excited. It was her first field trip in the Nue region. She'd only seen it from the train and in short pieces as they went from Tynntill town all the way across to Wizen when they first moved. Which made her sad as back then she wanted to take so many pictures but didn't have the means to do so. Now armed with her new phone she made certain to make up for it. It was a trip into the Wilds, and so far she filled up over half of her phones memory with pictures.
The Wilds west side was so different from Wizen or Orre. The way the dessert faded out into trees before coming across a vertical wall of mountain. She'd seen them on TV and there was one back in Orre but it was nothing like this. To be up close to it and see the actual white peaks in the backdrop touching the sky or how the dessert finally had an end and this is what existed on the other side of it without all the sand. She couldn't help but be giddy over it and tourist happy. While most of the students seemed bored out of their mind she was content to snap pictures of anything.
But today was special.Today was field day. Which meant they got to bring their Pokemon out and if they wanted to, had the option of capturing a Pokemon from the local swarm that was going on. Engi had given her forty dots to last her the week and Sera wasn't too sure what a Skiddo was. She liked the name though, kind of reminded her of the movie Kung Fu Panda and it was fun to say. If it was cute she might get one, if Fuzzy was any good at taking orders.
They were told they could bring one Pokemon with them, and while several people had some big ones that she had never seen before who impressed not only herself but the teachers she was content that she just brought Fuzzy along with her. He was big enough in her eyes and thought he would love the chance to run around outdoors. Plus she could train him up a little more. Ace said that he'd do it but so far he'd been too busy with work to have time. Fuzzy wasn't getting any younger either so she took matters into her own hands and decided she'd try and do it herself. She could at least get him to obey the basics. Maybe even get some pointers from the others on how to do it.
The students had a walk a head of them to the swarm location which resulted in several complaints and a few who road or was carried their Pokemon rubbing the luxury in the others faces. Typical student jerk behavior if you asked her, though some of them reminded her of Engi in how smug they could get about things. Engi was Mr. Popular back in his day, but at least she wasn't spending the rest of her final school year smothered under his shadow. He was everything back in school, popular, smart, good looking and an ace in sports.
Her chin dipped down as she watched Fuzzy's water fountain cascade of a tail swing back and forth in front of her, recalling the disappointment the teachers had when they realized she wasn't anything like her brother. She sucked her lips in between her teeth chewing on the flesh, at least she got a chance to start over, even if it was a little late in the game. Her gray blue eyes looked up as her hand clenched the Pokeball she bought from the visitors center in her track suit pocket. Hopefully Skiddo's would be cute just like their name. If not she just wasted five dots and practically a crime in her eyes, five dots could buy a lot of bento ingredients.
The announcement from the teachers came nearly three miles later that they had arrived and Sera looked up to find them at the base of one of the smaller mountain cliff faces. It wasn't the proximity of the stone that had her eyes going wide and her mouth hanging open as she tipped her head back. It was the amount of fuzzy little green goats that were bouncing and climbing up and down and all over it.
"They areso CUTE!" Another girl beat her to the punch as Sera just started smiling and nodding her head. Fuzzy stood by her feet watching the little goats bounce around getting him all worked up and excited causing his tail to start beating against her leg. Several students rolled their eyes and fell back to wander off or go lay in the sun somewhere. Skiddo apparently weren't their thing, but that was fine with Sera. The more cute little fuzzy things she had the better. She had completely tuned out what the teacher had been saying an explaining when a tiny rock pinged her on the back of the head breaking her out of the stare and causing her to look around. The teacher repeated her name again calling her to the front. She was class rep after all. Oops.
Embarrassingly she shuffled forward, Fuzzy in tow fighting the leash she had him on to not break off into a chaotic run to the sweet chaos that perched vertically on the cliff side. She was in charge of the group attendance and counting who all was going to catch one. Which wasn't very many considering how many had showed up expecting something better.
The students dispersed in their random directions, the teachers moving over towards the side to sit on some rocks and fallen trees. Their cigars and cigarettes coming out of their pockets and lighting up as the M.I.B stood stoic with their arms crossed at the borders of how far the students were allowed to venture without causing suspicion to arise. Sera could only inhale letting her eyes shut as she filled her lungs full of an air she never smelled before. It made her feel like she could fly, like she could run around and never get tired. Her eyes opened when she felt something pulling on the attendance sheet.
She nearly was consumed by inner squealing fluff and it took all she had not to react and scare it away. Even Fuzzy, who seemed like he wanted to stick his nose into everything had backed up like a bit of a coward and watched in wide curious eyed wonder. One of the baby goats had come up when she was in her meditative deep breathing exercise and started to chew on the attendance papers. She was so lucky to catch the last bit of the explanation in that it was one of the first Pokémon to live in harmony with humans. It was cute and friendly and apparently didn't need to eat food all that often! It was perfect for the apartment! Small, cute and self sufficient! Engi would love it!
She wasted no time in slowly trying to tug the attendance papers from it's mouth but the little booger seemed adamant on having the class roster for brunch. "No you little Chia-pet. You can't have this." she muttered under her breath and tugged the papers. The little Skiddo only stopped in its chewing long enough to hold onto the corner and follow with her. "Let go please." she told it nicely and backed up again tugging on the papers.
Her puny efforts to take away the required daily fiber intake was met with heavy resistance. She could see it on its cute tri-colored face that reminded her of a chocolate snack cake. She stopped pulling, on the paper and stared it down, she watched its jaw shifted and without breaking the grip. Gasp! Another chew took more of the paper in its mouth and Sera realized that she was in a face off with an amount of cute she wasn't prepared for. Briefly she wondered if this is how Engi felt when he tried to argue with her sometimes. "Oh no you don't." she tugged on it again and it sunk it's little hoofed feet into the dirt and leaned back like a tug of war causing her to lurch forward. The stumble caused the papers to tear and leave her wide eyed as the Skiddo-doo head polished off the bottom of class two and five. "You little jerk! That was important!" she said staring at the sheets of paper and flipping through them to see how many were missing. That didn't stop the small munching mower from advancing on her and moving to start on Fuzzy's leash. "No!" she shouted and tugged the leash away as Fuzzy barked and dodged about jumping around to play with their new friend. "That's not food you stop that!" she scolded it again. Swinging the papers back down and whacking the baby Skiddo on the head. "You little porker quit it!" she shoo'd trying to get it to leave off and stop eating things it wasn't supposed to.
The thwack to the head only seemed to encourage it into retaliation as it headbutted her taking her in a stumble off her feet and snatching the attendance papers out of her hand and taking off. "Mr. Ogden!" she cried out for one of the teachers in a whine pointing at the Skiddo as she chased after it.
The bald teacher that reminded the student body of Bruce Willis paused with his sunglasses on and cigarette hanging loosely from his mouth. His head moved in slow motion watching the most innocent of all the students chase after one of the wild life as if her life depended on it. The white set of papers in its mouth a sure sign of the reason she was so adamant on taking it down. He gave a half chuckle at the sight reaching up to take the cigarette from his lips as her vanilla looking Growlithe, leash trailing and all, followed after them excitedly content in the game of chase. She was entertaining that was for sure. "Hurry up and catch your kid Werner! I need those papers!" not really but it was kind of fun for him to have someone to pick on finally.
Fifteen minutes later, she was panting for breath, had her jacket off and was moving towards Mr. Ogden looking as if she was about to cry. In her hand was half a page of attendance and behind her was Fuzzy and chewing on the hem of her coat that was tied around her waist was the Skidoo who was currently working on trying to eat the zipper. "I...am so sorry!" she apologized and bowed thrusting the single half sheet out to him. "Meehhhahahah" the Skiddo cried out and continued to chew on her coat which she yanked to get it out of it's mouth. "Stop that." she scolded it as it lowered it's head to the ground. She looked back at Mr. Ogden who was just staring at the remainder of the attendance sheet. "You're not familiar with how to properly catch a Pokemon are you." "N-no sir." He nodded his head and stared at her and to the Skiddo who was content to chew on the growlithe's leash. "Well, not bad for your first try." Her head popped up and looked at him then down and over to the Skiddo wondering what that was supposed to mean. "If this was for a grade though I'd give you a C."
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Pokémon Dubstep (ft. Lindsey Stirling)
