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The kicking and shrieking from the girl in her hold made Stellar let the girl go. Once upon a time, the woman would have hold on to Quinn harder; but when you are paranoid and the object you are helping doesn't like you, it's best to let go.
Stellar stared at the girl, who looks angry and is crying, now.
('"Why? Why? You killed him and he didn't do anything."')
Kill.
Kill.
Stellar's eyes widened at the accusation, and for a brief moment, her breath hitched, her heart skipping a beat.
Kill?
Her eyes narrowed, and she sit up, straight. "Kill?" Stellar asked the other girl, "Kill?" Her tone is hollow, questioning, a little confused, and to those that know her, they could hear mortification and guilt, eternal, guilt, laced in Stellar's voice.
In front, Sae stopped, eye perking backwards. She heard the guilt, of course, and Sae knows why.
The Ninetales whacked the Abra backwards with her tails before the weak one could perform teleport, waking him away again when he appeared on top of her. He is nothing, compared to her, her, who battled from young till now.
"Be glad I don' have a reason to kill you just yet," Sae snarled at the Abra. One command, one attack to Stellar, and there will be no mercy from Sae at all.
Stellar stared at Quinn, trying to understand the accusation. There's no possible way the other girl have seen into her past, so perhaps, the Abra is hers?
Before she could say anything, though, there's something int he other girl's eyes, as she watched the Abra stir. The question that came after was something that caught Stellar off guard, and for a moment, she faltered, before gathering herself quickly. Such an odd, odd girl.
"...A battle is not violent, when you play it right," Was Stellar's final reply, "It's a sport. You don't hate Kung Fu practitioners, do you, for fighting?" She have more than see enough battles to see how violent one could get. Her mind struggled with the images of battles gone wrong, ones that ends in blood and tears.
"That's yours, right?" She assumed the Abra is Quinn's, since the wild Pokemon seems to want to protect her so much, "Get it back to your pokeball. We'll head over to a Pokemon Center to get it healed."
Her head turn to her Ninetales. "Sae," she called out softly, and the Ninetales leap back to her trainer's side easily, leaving the weakened Abra behind. Stellar patted the Ninetales as she return, cuddling it briefly. "...you did well," she murmured, "Well done for your excellent control of Flamethrower." Excellent enough to lower the power to such degree, to not faint or kill the Abra at all. Stellar noticed, of course, after all, if the Flamethrower is in full power, not only the Abra is gone, the whole area will be on fire too, and there will be a strong wash of heat.
The two of them lived in completely separate worlds, yet they were very similar in a way even though Quinn had not realized it yet. She began to see a little of it through the hints that Stellar was giving. The way she questioned Quinn when she used the word kill made the civilian think that it wasn't new to her. Killing was something normal, something hallow, a necessity. She admired Stellar for being able to deal with such a tragedy and being so well kept together, at least that was how it seemed in front of her. And her problems started to feel very insignificant around the girl.
She was depressed because she was constantly ignored? Well this girl had to take a life, something she personally could not do, and she still walked every day. She was also friendly, caring, able to take care of her and did not react negatively when she struggled to get away. She did not let that aspect of her life take over and that impressed Quinn more than anything else. She looked up at Stellar again with tears in her crimson eyes and began to sob as she heard the question of the girl. "I don't know what Kung Fu is. And I don't understand why people have to fight, or kill, yet it seems you have done both and can still be so kindhearted after. So strong. You accept your past even if it wasn't the most favorable, and you live the day as if it never happened." She said to the girl, so glad to have met her at that moment.
The Abra saw what was going on in this battle and felt he did not need to be here anymore actually, he could just leave as the two had worked out their issues and there would be no more terror in this area. But he also did not want to leave, sure he was getting beaten up by the Ninetales but he also enjoyed the battle. It was so much fun for him, an excitement he had not had for a while. Ever since he took the job as protector of the Iron Works he hadn't really had a chance to battle, as that was often the last resort of cops and he was given other tools to fix problems. And the area was largely abandoned anyways so he didn't get much interaction. He should have left but he did not want to.
He regained some more strength from this time off, and suddenly charged the Ninetales again, again trying to grab it and teleport it to a higher area so that it could drop to the ground and sustain damage. He was still a bit weak, but also getting stronger with each rest period. The problem was, before he could teleport in front of the Ninetales, a pokeball came after him.
From a distance, Quinn had chucked a pokeball at the Abra. She saw how much damage he had sustained, and felt it was to protect her more than anything, and he knew the personality of the Ninetales having witnessed it herself. If he made a move again, he may just die this time and she did not want the blood in her hands, seeing how the Abra was there because she was hurt. She crossed her fingers and prayed, hopefully this would keep the pokemon alive as she took the advice of the girl.
Then she turned to Stellar and wiped her tears. "Sorry about the Abra, hopefully it will not give you or your Ninetales anymore trouble." She said, waiting to see what happened with the pokeball.
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The ball had rolled once, twice, three times before it finally clamped shut, inside the Abra had been caught and this brought joy to Quinn who took a big sigh of relief as she knew that the Abra would no longer be so haughty inside the ball and could not get hurt anymore. It was pretty sad for the pokemon too, going against something so much bigger than it, the poor psychic type really had no chance to win. And she could tell that Stellar wasn't someone who liked to hurt others either, her pokemon sometimes had a mind of their own and they seemed to be pretty messed up also which made them attack on instinct more than anything else. She sighed and looked over at Stellar, nodding at her before she noticed a purple balloon flying above the trainer also.
"Uh... Uh... Uh... What is that?" She asked Stellar at that moment. She was so distracted that she could not find her way to the pokemon center at this time, not that it would even matter as she didn't really even know what a pokemon center was for that matter. The pokemon peaked her curiosity, not how it flew in the air as that was common knowledge. Balloons fly. But how it stopped itself from being taken by the wind and blow away, that was what surprised her. She thought it was just a regular balloon at first, an oddly decorated one with eyes and arms, but it started to stockpile its body and get bigger, something that told her that it was alive and not just a regular balloon. And the shock was so much for Quinn, she fell on her bum at that moment unable to contemplate or understand what just occurred.
Pokedex Name: Drifloon ALIAS: ---- GENDER: Female ABILITY: Aftermath MOVE SET: Minimize | Payback | Stockpile | Swallow PERSONALITY: Comedic - Deceptive - Class Clown - Loves to play ruses on others
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I don't want it so if you do, you can have it. Seeing how you are in my thread anyways (I believe it'd be fine). Or if you just wanna kill it. By all means =].
The Drifloon could not help but feel delighted when the trainer fell on her bum. Stellar was boring as she wasn't paying the ghost pokemon any attention, so she giggled when she saw Quinn fall. And she began to float away from the brunette and towards the redhead, trying to see what else she could do to terrorize the trainer. The first thing that came to mind was a stockpile as she increased her size and defenses, hoping that it would bring more terror to Quinn as she witnessed such a ghastly sight.
Her goals were achieved as Quinn started to quiver at the sight of the Drifloon floating towards her. She didn't understand how it could be a balloon but alive at the same time and this terrorized her more than anything else. And then, it expanded in size. And it looked even more twisted and demented in the larger body that it now possessed. The size also made it look less stable, as if it could pop at any time and cause her a lot of pain. She started to shield her eyes as she looked at the pokemon, hoping that it was just a trick and wasn't actually there. Maybe Stellar wanted to play an illusion on them. Maybe this was all a ploy by "The Man" or something. She just hoped that once she opened her eyes, it wouldn't be there anymore.
She was mistakened, as her eyes opened but it had gone nowhere.
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Stellar took a deep breath, calming herself down, quelling all her raging, bubbling emotions. She got a little too emotional; everything is written on her face, huh? She sighed softly, listening to the other girl. Her past was something not desirable, and she felt bad for showing even a glimpse to the total stranger.
"...no worries," Stellar said back softly, "It was never a problem in the first place." Never. Not when Sae could handle herself well enough. The girl stood up slowly, lending a hand to Quinn to stand up as well. Before she could say anything else, something made Quinn fall backwards again.
Stellar looked up.
She sighed, again. Of all times for a mischievous, well known trickster Pokemon to appear. Instead of bothering, Stellar reach down to help Quinn up again.
"Come on, let's go to the Pokemon Center," she murmured, "Don't worry about that Pokemon, it won't harm you." Behind her, Sae stared at the Drifloon, gesturing with her head for it to go away. When instead, the Drifloon just giggled, Sae snapped at the ghost type, warning it more, brandishing her tails as a weapon.
Now, while the Drifloon is a trickster, it's not suicidal, in fact, far from it. One look at Se, who threaten it with Iron Tail if it doesn't go away soon, and the Drifloon floated off, grumpy and annoyed, but not wanting to die.
So the Ninetales hopped to her trainer's side, following both ladies, heading to the Pokemon Center.
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Do you want to start a new thread with them in the Pokemon Center, or just continue it in this thread?
Stellar was right, the pokemon wasn't suicidal and technically should have backed down when she was threatened by the Ninetales to do so. But upon seeing the reaction of Quinn, she just thought the entire thing was a game and could not help but play along with it. She couldn't tell the Ninetales was being serious at all, taking it to be a bigger obstacle that she would play by. She backed off for a bit, floating away from the trainer and pokemon as Quinn accepted the hand of Stellar and was pulled up safely, brushing it off as she looked cautiously at the Drifloon and wondered if it would do something rash now. She heard the words of Stellar and turned to face the trainer, before refocusing her eyes on the Drifloon again to see if it was still playing a trick. When it didn't move, she decided she was safe and smiled at Stellar and nodded her head. Going to the pokemon center would be nice, they could rest and relax.
So she decided to walk towards the center with Stellar and get her pokemon and herself healed up. The problem was, the Drifloon kept a good distance between them so the Ninetales would start no trouble and the trainers would not notice. She just drifted quietly and in the night, when Quinn was asleep, she floated into her window and stood above her. She opened her eyes to a nightmare sight, as the pokemo opened its mouth as if it would pretend to eat her.
"AHHHHHHH!" Quinn screamed in terror there, but before anyone could walk in, the Drifloon floated under her bed swiftly and hid herself, out of sight. People would just think Quinn was going crazy and this only brought her more joy as she could not help but give a wicked smile at the scenario that unfolded. She was so twisted!
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So I'm gonna catch the Drifloon for Murdoc. And I want to stay in this thread to get the final spawn out of the way. Then we could do another thread as I close this. Maybe another CATCH + interaction or just a pure interaction?
In the Pokemon Center, as night falls, Stellar didn't sleep.
She tried, of course, but Quinn's words keep ringing in her mind, an echo of kill, kill, kill and it bounces of her inner ears and when she closes her eyes, she sees splotches of red. It's driving her mad.
So she seeks the companion of her Pokemon, singing softly to herself. By her side is her Umbreon, another side, her Leafeon, both cuddling her. On her shoulder, a new friend, the Litwick that attacked, or perhaps, bumped into her, the other day, in that haunted ghost house. Turns out she's just a lonely sweety, who was checking out the intruder, which was Stellar, at that time, and just so happened got attacked by Raven.
Stellar sighed, switching to humming instead. A little bonding time with her three Pokemon, the stars dim above the city they are in. Her hand patted the Litwick on her shoulder, liking the little one's warmth. She must be a pretty young one, shunned for he kindness, the kindness that ghost Pokemon tend not to have.
Before she could think any further, however, a scream tore through the Pokemon Center, and Stellar stood up, all her Pokemon immediately alert. "Raven!" her voice was sharp, and the Eeveevolutions ran off immediately, to find the source of the sound. She reach out to pat Spiara, to comfort the Litwick on her shoulder, only to discover that ghost type is gone, as well, riding on the back of her Umbreon. Oh, it must got dragged off amidst the excitement. She ran after the Umbreon and Litwick, Spring keeping her trainer safe.
Meanwhile, Raven the Umbreon and the Litwick, Spiara, on her back, ran towards the source of the sound. Raven trusted Stellar; they must be send to sout what's happening. The Umbreon also took a quick guess at the sound; Stellar's reaction seems to say that that's the sound of the girl that Stellar is talking about, the one that they accompanied to the Pokemon Center.
The Umbreon burst into Quinn's room with a bark, eyes narrowing, looking around for the threat. The rings on her body glowed, and coupled with the Litwick's flame, the two of them lightened the girl's room enough to see what's going on.
"Umbre?"
A question. Where is the threat?
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Well, up to you, if Quinn wants to have some more Pokemon, then a catch thread is fine too. A safari thread? A pure interaction thread could be fun as well, since that would focus on Quinn and Stellar alone. And poor Quinn, and Umbreon and Litwick burst into her room, and bothlook pretty evil by nature, unfortunately enough.
Quinn had to be dreaming, there was no way that this was actually happening to her at that moment. First, the Drifloon followed her to the room and scared her, attempting to eat her. Now, two other pokemon were coming to the room and stirring trouble also. An Umbreon with its scary black skin and blue eyes, and a Litwick, a flying candle pokemon that could set anything on fire if it touched it. The two just quickly burst in and caused her even more panic. Her screams became louder and more prevalent, as she started to kick her blanket off her bed and try to throw her pillow at the two pokemon. "Get away from me! Don't get close! I'm too young. I don't want to die! Nooo!" She screamed, hoping that they would not get closer and cause her even more displeasure. The two probably thought she was a weirdo or something, and she herself though that also. She just hoped she could wake up soon from this nightmare...
And at that moment, she started to pinch and slap herself, hoping to force a wake up. But that also did not help things at all since she was not asleep. Below, the Drifloon could not help but chuckle at the whole misfortune. This was too funny for her, and she was also the one who made this all happen.
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I have a Safari thread that is interaction now, if you want to join that. Though we can also do a pure interaction also. I prefer the safari as I like adding the wild pokemon into it.
Raven leaped aside to avoid the pillow, but Spiara, who was sitting on top of the Umbreon got knocked clean of her when the pillow came flying. The pillow didn't catch on fire, though, and all it did was knocked the unfortunate ghost Pokemon rolling across the floor in a daze.
The Umbreon let out a displeased noise; just what is wrong with this girl? Raven hated the thought of someone not understanding Pokemon, all because the Umbreon was abused very badly when she was in the hands of another trainer who couldn't understand her. That grudge held on, after all.
"Umbreeee," the Umbreon growled, disgruntled, but did not step forward. She did not appreciate the throw, but she will stay until Stellar reaches the scene.
Meanwhile, Spiara, who rolled on the ground, sat up, having rolled close to Quinn's bed. "Liiiit?" the poor Litwick questioned, but she noticed something else, the presence of another Ghost Type, similar like her. Spira was more than displeased, she outright hates it. Unlike the wild trickster ghost Pokemon, Spira didn't like being shunned for her dislike of pranking people in general, and she got the gist of what happened faster than anyone in the room.
"Liiiit!" she shrieked, sending a Hex towards the hiding Drifloon, forcing it out.
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Another safari interaction thread then. Not the one now; I was thinking maybe Stellar could bring Quinn there to teach her some basics of wild Pokemon. What do you think?
Once the pillow came flying, Quinn started to regret everything as she had never been the violent type herself. She was the compassionate civilian who worried a lot about how pokemon were treated. Never in a million years would she think of hurting a pokemon, so when the pillow hit the Litwick and brought it down, she could not help but clutch her mouth in terror. Her body tensed up and she started to shiver, which turned into sweat when the Umbreon then let out a loud growl, as she felt she had just made a situation worst when she had not planned it at all. She was about to break down into tears when the Hex sent the Drifloon out of the basement and into the vicinity of the two pokemon. Oh no! She had just been spotted which worried her. And not to mention the attack did not feel nice either because she was ghost and it was strong against her.
She sent a payback attack, feeling angry for having a Litwick attack her even though it was not involved in this affair to begin with. This was just between her and the trainer, and she didn't appreciate getting attacked. Her attack doubled in strength thanks to the boost of having been attacked first.
Pokedex Name: Drifloon ALIAS: ---- GENDER: Female ABILITY: Aftermath MOVE SET: Minimize | Payback | Stockpile | Swallow PERSONALITY: Comedic - Deceptive - Class Clown - Loves to play ruses on others Hit by Hex (SE). Health is low green Used Payback (x2)
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Yeah! You can teach me how to catch pokemon the way most trainers do. To beat them up first instead of just trying to friend them. And teach her how to battle.
Quinn began to realize she probably wasn't dreaming anymore at that time because the battle had occurred and everything just seemed out of her control which meant that she was not the one in charge of the actions now so it was not all in her mind. She realized that everything that happened now would be in her control as she had to put her foot down to prevent any further onslaught. She took out a pokeball at that point and decided to have a battle herself, sending out her Pawniard to deal with the Drifloon who had just started a battle with the Litwick anyways. Hopefully she'd receive help from Stellar, if not she hoped she had enough strength and courage to win the battle herself. The Drifloon had terrified her twice already and now it was stirring trouble with others in the room, it had to be stopped and Quinn was going to do that herself.
Having already gotten some experience in the Safari Zone with her Pawniard, she had some idea of what it knew to do, so she tried to use those to her advantage. "Pawniard, use the dark slash." She said, trying to signal Night Slash although not knowing the name. Babe knew what she was getting at so he sent some negative energy into his claws before he slashed the sides of the Drifloon with the attack. >OUCH!< The Drifloon said before she swallowed deep to build up her defenses and then sent a counter attack at her opponent, a powerful payback that brought serious damage to the Pawniard, although it wasn't so effective because of type advantage.
"Try it again!" She said again and the Pawniard, again sent negative energy before he tried to slash the Drifloon again. >NO NO NO!< The Drifloon said this time as she was able to dodge it, but she knew she was in a bad place after getting attacked once already. Pokedex Name: Drifloon ALIAS: ---- GENDER: Female ABILITY: Aftermath MOVE SET: Minimize | Payback | Stockpile | Swallow PERSONALITY: Comedic - Deceptive - Class Clown - Loves to play ruses on others Hit by Night Slash (SE). Dodged Night Slash. Health is low yellow Used Payback and Stockpile [+1 DEF , +1 SP DEF]
Pokedex Name: Pawniard ALIAS: Babe GENDER: Male ABILITY: Defiant MOVE SET: Night Slash | Iron Defense | Metal Sound | Slash PERSONALITY: Protective over Quinn, Blind in one eye, Self-conscious of imperfection Hit by Payback (x2, NVE). Health is mid green Used Night Slash x 2
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Spiara had been bullied before, a lot, in fact, all because she's too kind as a ghost. Too kind for her species, who tends to use other's life source as their own power, and for this, being attacked by a ghost move is usual.
Unfortunately, enough, that kind of hurts. A lot, actually.
But that is way before she joined Stellar's team, and as the Litwick winced backwards, eyes close, , waiting for the Payback to hit her, it never really came. The tiny ghost type opened her eyes quietly, and watched in awe as it's Raven who took the hit, brushing it off like Psyduck with water. Dark Type moves are simply not effective on the Umbreon, moreover on one who, by species, have high defenses.
"That's sweet of you, Raven," a voice from the doorway. Stellar have arrived, at last, a Leafeon by her side. The woman took one look at the scene, and roughly took a guess at what happened. "Now then, why not save our friend the trouble and finish this off?" In a way, Stellar has no patience for Pokemon who pranks, especially if their pranking could get lethal. She have also gotten protective thanks to watching one of her team get attacked, in this case, Spiara, and no one gets away from attacking her team in spite.
Raven bared her fangs.
As soon as the Drifloon finished the final Night Slash, Raven leapt, jumping high enough to catch the Drifloon in her fangs.
And in one Bite, the wild prankster when limp, and the Umbreon landed back on her feet with the fainted Pokemon in her jaws, red eyes burning with sated revenge. She, still with the body in her jaws, bowed lightly at the Pawniard for his help.
Stellar, on the other hand, is now cooing over her frightened Litwick, who is crying softly into her chest. Poor thing, so frightened in battle, yet so willing to do her best. The Leafeon soothe the child ghost type with a hum on her own, and Stellar just kept patting the Litwick, trying to calm it down.
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Not so much beating up, since Stellar gets her Pokemon by technically friending them too, but she knows the general idea, so that can be passed down. And battles is definitely an okay to teach.
Normally Quinn would not be accepting of this type of onslaught as she wasn't one who appreciated it when pokemon were teamed up against and were beaten up ravenously, which was how this battle turned out in the end because the Drifloon was unfortunately between two juggernauts and could not get out of the situation. The Night Slash she was able to dodge, but the bite came and knocked her out, especially seeing how powerful the Umbreon was in comparison to her non-evolved body... She went limp and in that moment, Quinn felt a sigh of relief and a new friend in the making in this Stellar character. She smiled at the woman as she felt that Stellar finally understood what had happened and that Quinn meant no harm to the Litwick. It was all because of this wild pokemon that the troubles were created.
She bowed to thank Stellar before she took out a pokeball and threw it at the Drifloon, probably not the best idea but she had something in mind for the pokemon. "I don't want it to harm others anymore so I will keep it inside a pokeball to prevent its mischievous ways from getting in the way of others from now on." She said as she waited to see if the pokeball made contact with the Drifloon.
She probably would just end up giving it away because it did cause her a lot of trouble, but the person she gave it to would actually want a Drifloon enough to ignore the trouble it would cause them. And that she could accept...
Pokeball Thrown at Drifloon
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