PokéIsland [1x1 mister-rei & fennekchu]

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(heads up, I have no more time tonight. I'll post the reply tomorrow though!!)

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Kayden stared, straight-faced, at Athena as she posed dramatically. "...okay. That. Definitely sounds ambitious. And it's great knowing that you and Prasina really are close, since it didn't feel like th... uh. Anyway, good luck?" The corners of his lips quivered slightly as he forced himself not to chuckle. Not from mean-spiritedness, but because her transition from serious to enthusiastic was sudden - though at the same time Kayden really had a feeling she'd say something similar to that speech. "So where have you gone to so far? Oh!" Eyes widened, he aimed an intensely curious gaze at her. "Do you have any causes to battle for? Like, to donate the cash you receive? Or to create a business? ..Maybe become a gym leader, or create a championship once you've 'struck the world'?"

After nodding to Prasina, Mae prepared his Volt Switch, knowing he'd be able to hit the fletchinder hard with the electricity type move. He dashed forward as the embers came his way, dodging them by moving side to side in short bursts. However, they came at a such a speed that he couldn't hit the pokemon before the embers stopped. In addition, the fletchinder had begun to slowly rise to the air, flying at least four feet above them. A small worry about if Prasina was dodging fine rose in him but as he barely missed the last ball of flames he threw it away in favor of what's happening to him. Seeing the opportunity, he used that jump Kayden had been forcing him to train and barreled into their foe's side. The fletchinder winced hard and seemed to struggle with flapping its wings for a moment before regaining flight, though a static wove through its feathers, signalling potential paralysis. The joltik skittered around in a tiny dance before realizing he should've used a web to constrict the flying-type opponent. He froze, too embarrassed to glance back at Prasina, then closed his eyes in the joltik equivalent of a shrug. Mae then prepared spinning an Electroweb to shoot at the bird. Meanwhile, after narrowing its eyes at the both of them, the fletchinder began pumping its red and grey wings and soared into the air with its body gaining streaks of fire, evidently about to unleash Flame Charge. He thought he did good damage, so they'll probably be fine... right?

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Athena thought for a moment, placing a finger on her chin, and answered "By the point I reach my goal I'll probably be a bit older, so I'd find a young child in a poor home who wants to be a trainer, and I'll give them 1,000,000 pokeyen. In fact, I might even start an organization to help out people all over the world. Maybe I'll team up with some breeders or professors too, who knows. When I gather enough recognition, I suppose I'd try and a pupil and help them out with my own two hands." She answered assuredly before her eyes scanned over Kayden. "And I suppose you want to be a pokemon master? A champion?"

Prasina dashed out of the way of the embers as accurately as she could as Mae began charging something up to attack the fletchinder. Athena was always telling her that she "had amazing speed and special attack EVs and IVs" and although she wasn't exactly sure as to what that meant she knew enough to know that she was fast and powerful. She managed to slide out of the array of flames with just a few marks on her as the joltik charged into the fletchinder. She noticed a few sparks dance through the pokemon's feathers before they dissipated. Prasina watched as lines of flames spun around the fletchinder, which she knew probably meant that a flame charge was coming up. Prasina jumped into the air and spun her tail around as a purple tinted twister formed, firing itself at the wild pokemon as she was sent back a little before landing yet again.

(Okay okay, here's something I forgot to tell you: I am SUPER precise with my battles, so I'm just gonna say these things right here.
If you aren't into battles that are really accurate to the games that's totally fine with me, I'll stop with my exactness.

Volt Switch doesn't paralyze opponents, it has no secondary effects. Also, if the fletchinder knows Flame Charge then it has to be at least level 38, which basically means that if either of these two get hit it means it'll be a OHKO due to the level difference, but since this can't and shouldn't be exactly the same as the games they should be able to dodge the attacks easily due to their small size and high base speed.)

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(sorry for the wait! It's not related to your post, though, it's good with me! In fact please continue pointing out when I mess up. I'll try to research better beforehand but I know that won't be enough. since they can dodge though, I decided to just retcon the paralysis)

'So this is the type of person Athena is.' Kayden hesitated before answering, "A pokemon professor. There's so much we still don't know about our best friends and I want to help find some of those answers. Especially concerning their origins." His eyes blazed with passion. "Different places have different beliefs. According to them, pokemon were created by either Mew, the first ancestor, or Arceus, the creation pokemon, or some other legendary God pokemon I'm not aware of. But these beliefs contradict each other - Arceus can't be the creator if Mew is its ancestor, and Mew can't be the first ancestor if Arceus created it, and etcetera with the other God pokemon. How do we know for sure? We don't. Not right now. But I've kept up-to-date with pokeology current events and I can feel it, feel that with the technologies we have now, we have to be close to finding the answer!"

His hands stopped gesturing wildly as he stopped to take a breath. A blush appeared on his cheeks as he realized how enthusiastic he'd been. "So," he cleared his throat, "yeah... a professor. Um." Suddenly, he gazed around. Their location seemed almost unchanged from where they awoke. He frowned. "I just remembered.. on an island like this, people would usually make homes near the water to be able to fish, plus the view. Even if they had other food or better houses, there would be fishermen willing to sell fishes for a living..."

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Mae watched with wide eyes the snivy pummel the fletchinder with her Twister and then enthusiastically cheered her on with a loud "Jolt!". Then, with the fletchinder still coming towards them, he released the orb of electricity that he'd been charging. The fire that viciously swirled around the bird pokemon was so thick at this point that it obscured its reaction to the two moves, but Mae decided that they had to have done great damage. With his advantage and Prasina's evident strength, they must have.

With the snivy having landed a few ways off from him, Mae was first in line to face the brunt of the move. He leapt out of the way as the fletchinder hurtled itself. He barely made it though, and the joltik took a second to catch his bearings before checking on Prasina and the fletchinder.

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Athena had to admit that Kayden had a point. She had always believed that there was an undiscovered pokemon, or perhaps more than one, that had created pokemon, but that simply opened up a new can of worms. There were also multiple extraterrestrial pokemon who supposedly came from outer space, and if that was the case then was it possible for there to be planets full of new and unique pokemon? Along with that there were fossil pokemon which made evolution a possibility, though there would still be questions. The only way anyone would truly be able to know for sure would be if they captured Arceus, and even then it was still a wild guess.

Similarly, Athena hadn't noticed any sign of humans living near the shore, or on the island at all. She looked back, and realized that they had already walked far from where they both met. She knew that there were at least some pokemon around based off of the cries she had heard earlier, but the seemingly complete lack of humans around was troubling to say the least. "Well, uh, maybe the people around here are reclusive. It'll have to be that or us being the only people here."

Prasina let out a sigh of relief when Mae dodged the attack, though she was still worried. Although it looked like the fletchinder was scratched up if there were more close calls like that they'd almost definitely get caught off guard one way or another. The snivy stared at the fletchinder, who seemed to be recovering from striking the ground instead of Mae, and came up with an idea, though it was risky.

"Sni!" Prasina said to Mae as she began running as fast as she could, away from the shore and into the island. She used her vines to grab onto a small tree trunk and hurtle herself into the undergrowth before stopping and catching her breath.

(It's fine! A good source that I use is pokemon database, it lists the abilities a pokemon can have, the moves they learn and when they learn them, what the moves do, and other things like that.)

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size=85](ohp, I had just been using bulbapedia ^^' I'll check pokemon database out! And sorry again for the delay. Good news is that I'm heading home in a few days so I'll be able to post more consistently after that)

"Y-yeah. Maybe that. Maybe it's a private island, and the docks are only on the other side where our pokemon are..." He nervously looked around their surroundings once more. Honestly, Kayden doubted even a private island would be this devoid of signs for human life, but he couldn't say for sure if it wasn't. Not knowing that Athena had been thinking of it, he pointed out, "There are definitely other pokemon here, though. I wish I had bought pokeballs to catch some... Though they probably would've gone missing from my sling bag like some of my other items. Maybe awashed on the shore like we'd been." A thought came to him and he cleared his throat. "We've walked a long way... Do you think we should check on our pokemon in case they've found something, or been found by other pokemon? Or," Kayden paused to glance down the way they were heading, "do you think we should keep going just in case we could find something?" If they went on, maybe they'll find other people or items they've lost. If they went back, they'd discover what their pokemon have uncovered and, in case they've been attacked, help them out. Prasina and Mae might be able to hold their ground but Kayden couldn't help but worry a bit that they've been found by other pokemon and the items the two trainers have on them could help.

Mae jolted his head up at Prasina's call. In a flash of insight, he aimed a Screech at the bird pokemon before turning around to go after the snivy. Wordlessly he understood that they were fleeing. The joltik was completely fine with that -- the fletchinder was starting to worry him anyway. The change from sand to actual grass is welcome for his tiny feet, but he couldn't spare the time to rejoice as he followed Prasina's lead and hurriedly crawled into the shrub she hid in. Mae's legs gave out the instant he did. He was taking a breather like the snivy, though he had lost all the will to stay alert. Until a high pitched cry rang in the distance. Mae turned to Prasina and whispered a curse, "jolt!" There was a sudden thud near them, and the same cry rang out again, only this time much louder. It seemed that the fletchinder was looking for them but hadn't pinpointed they exact location.

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Athena considered both options, looking out into the ocean for a moment. "Well, I'm sure that Prasina could handle any threat around her level, but we don't exactly know how powerful the pokemon here are, and if we turn back right now we might miss something of interest." She then turned towards the forest, and her eyes widened slightly. "Why don't we cut through the forest?
We can get to our pokemon faster and we can get a better idea of the island." Without waiting for Kayden to agree she turned around and began to walk into the forest, before suddenly pausing and looking back at Kayden. "Why the hell did we just end up here anyways?" She had been pushing the question back, figuring that there was no point in worrying about it, but the realization of the fact that they were two random people who woke up randomly on a random, seemingly deserted island in the middle of nowhere was starting to set in.

Prasina scowled and narrowed her eyes, coming to the same realization as Mae. The only way they'd realistically get out of this would have to be them finding a place where they could hide out that the fletchinder would either be unable to find them in or unable to attack them, and in such short notice and in such an unfamiliar place it could be difficult to say the least. She looked up at the sky and saw the bright red plumage of the fletchinder, and looked at Mae. "Sni!" She said to him, gesturing deeper into the island and beginning to run again.

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(alright, I'll be back at my home in 1 day)

"Sure, that makes sense." Maybe they'd even find answers that way, though the logical side of him told him that wasn't likely. Seeing Athena suddenly walk away pushed Kayden to stride forward as well, but stopped in his tracks when she stopped. He didn't have to think to answer, "I don't know. There;s no reason for anyone to put me here, being an average person. Admittedly, one that wants to be a professor. B-but I don't see why that would be a reason since I've only just begun my journey..." His feet began moving again toward the forest. All the while, a pensive look rested on his face as he speculated other reasons they were brought to the island. Catching up to the other trainer, Kayden sheepishly scratched the back of his neck and raised a curious eyebrow at her. "Then how about you? Any ideas?" In the distance, he could hear the call of a bird pokemon.

Mae nudged his head up and down in a nod and ran after Prasina, attempting to keep up despite not being as agile as the snivy. Especially in a forest that grew denser and denser the deeper they went. Like the snivy, he swept his gaze around for any other shelter that could fare better than the last. He hopefully eyed a small crevice in a rock, but it was a big distance from them and he wasn;t sure if it'd be enough for the both of them. Still he let Prasina know by getting her attention with a short "jolt" and a nod toward the crack. As he did, he hazarded a glance upward. What he saw nearly made him trip -- there was no fletchinder in sight. His pace slowed as he continued to crane his head around, looking for any trace of red. There was none. A wave of dread shuddered throughout the joltik, entering his legs and rising his head, making his yellow fur spark with nervous static despite himself. Mae couldn;t even begin to ponder what the bird pokemon's disappearance meant for the two of them. (Un)fortunately, he didn't have to. Not a moment too soon, orange-red flames appeared, coming from one the direction he hadn;t checked: forward. "Jolt!" Mae cried loudly to Prasina and leapt as far as he could to the side. The fletchinder released a loud, victorious cry of its own as it prepared its next move.

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"My family's rich, and I have access to plenty of different skilled breeders." She said bluntly as she walked. "Still, I don't see why I'd be chosen specifically if I was chosen for anything at all. There are plenty of rich trainers out there with fancier pokemon and more money. Even so, there's the question of how we actually got here. Were we kidnapped? Was it supernatural? Paranormal? I just don't-" Athena's sentence suddenly paused as she felt her head; one of her barrettes was missing. To most people it wouldn't be a big deal, inconveniencing at most. This was different. On that barrette there was a small Key Stone, and those were extremely hard to acquire, even for a rich family. "When I find whatever thing sent us here I'm getting them sent to prison." She said quietly to herself.

Prasina's eyes widened as she dove out of the way of the flames, her tail getting slightly scorched. "Sni!" She shouted in shock as she quickly got up, glared forward at the now visible fletchinder. As she did this she spotted something blue on the ground, and she quickly realized that it was a great ball. She picked it up with her vines and aimed it at the opposing pokemon without throwing it.
"Snivy!" She threatened, although she wasn't sure what would happen if she actually threw it.

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It came as a slight surprise that the girl trainer was from a wealthy standing, though it made sense to him given the air her personality gave off. Kayden raised a dyed brow at her, not catching the words but hearing the angry tone she used, and eyed the spot on her hair she patted. "W-what? Did you lose something? But," He sighed lightly through his nose as he took in Athena's answers—along with her own questions, "you're right. If we were kidnapped, how were we brought here?" Raising a finger to twist a strand of his hair, Kayden considered it. He gave her weary look as he finally concluded, "There's many pokemon moves that can be used for transport on top of the many human-made methods, and since we don't know how much time had passed between us arriving at the island and waking up, I don't think we can narrow it down at the moment."

Mae looked on with an anxious feeling he hadn't felt in a while as he watched Prasina take the blue-colored pokeball and point it toward the fletchinder. The bird pokemon seemed to pause for a moment, obviously not expecting this turn of events. "Joltik!" Mae whispered with tentative cheer; could this be their ticket out of this situation? But even so—a string of white shot from under his fangs. There was an opportunity to slightly disarm the foe and he wasn't letting the distraction to go to waste if the bluff didn't work. The fletchinder beat its wings in surprise before the web tightened on its body.