[X] My Assistant

[flarp22]

Bunnying is a-ok and stuff.

The night before docking in Barley, Umbra didn't sleep much. In fact, she gave up on sleeping about an hour until sunrise. She let Dex, her Hoothoot, out of his Poke Ball so he could fly around for a bit, and waited on the deck, staring into the horizon until she could see the shore. The view was gorgeous, especially since she started to see most of it as the sun was rising. Due to her lack of sleep, however, she's pretty much forcing herself to stay awake and stick to her plan.

"Step one: get a map. Step two: ask around to learn where Dragons have been sighted..." She began to quietly recite her plan to herself both to double check that she has this all thought out, and attempt to keep herself awake despite the sun beating down on her. The forecast called for rain today, but her first steps into Furoh were accompanied by a clear, sunny day. To many people, this would be a pleasant surprise, but Umbra isn't very pleased. Her skin is sensitive to sunlight; she can't stay in the sun for very long without it starting to harm her. "...Step zero: find shade."

Dex was recalled to his Poke Ball for some rest, as he is a nocturnal Pokemon, and Umbra steps off the ship. Conveniently, someone was giving out maps to newcomers, so she took one and started to look it over. "This place is...bigger than I thought it would be...where to start...?" As she focuses on the map, she starts to walk forward, only vaguely paying attention to where she's going. She bumps into a few people here and there, apologizing immediately and attempting to get some info on Dragon Pokemon's likely whereabouts. Unfortunately, she had no luck in obtaining such information. She finds an empty seat on a shaded bench and takes a deep breath of the salty air she'd grown accustomed to while out at sea, letting it all out with a large sigh. She quietly mumbles to herself. "Maybe random people on the street aren't the best sources...I'll need to find someone else...the problem is I don't know who they could be and I don't know where they might be...what to do...?"

Umbra decides to sit and wait for now. In all likelihood, the person or people who have the info she wants would stand out in a crowd. She lets her Chingling, Mint, out of her Poke Ball, thinking that when she spots someone who might have a clue, she can attract their attention by having Mint use Wish. Mint hops around, making a quiet ringing noise and keeping an eye out for someone unusual among the small crowd of people while not straying too far from Umbra. She attempts to keep an eye out, but soon finds herself yawning, slowly shutting her eyes, leaning back, and dozing off. Mint turns around and notices, hopping onto Umbra's lap and attempting to wake her up by jumping up and down and making a somewhat louder ringing noise. Unfortunately, the sound Mint makes is actually quite soothing, and Chingling are very light in weight, so Umbra is hardly affected at all. Mint is getting visibly frustrated, and so lets out a Stored Power attack to wake her trainer up, successfully this time. What Mint didn't realize, though, is that some of her attack was released behind her as well...

This post has been edited by flarp22: Oct 29 2012, 02:56 PM

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

The more analysis Jill did on the situation, especially after watching some of the Chandelure run a bunch of pokemon into the ground, the more she determined Flare would not be able to hold her own particularly well against one. All of Flare's powerful attacks were resisted by the fire/ghost pokemon. She was starting to think she started a fight she shouldn't have.

"Flare, come back," she had to yell it so that her Vulpix could hear, but eventually just pulled her back through her pokeball anyway. There was chaos all around her, but the Chandelure seemed to only be targeting people playing the game. Jill was well aware of how to put chaos behind her, and look confident. She moved forward, pushed her way through the crowd without drawing much attention to herself at all.

First on her mind, rather than getting rid of the aggressive ghost pokemon, was to figure out why the hell they were there in the first place. Maybe there was a secret room or basement, or something like that. Something that could provide answers.

It should be noted that this had nothing to do will Jill. She decided already she didn't need a ghost pokemon on her team. She could have just walked away, but her curiosity had been piqued. She had little experience with ghost pokemon, but from everything she read, when a bunch of them are together in the wild, there's a story to be told.

So she went to the one person she knew there, who might know a little more about this warehouse. At the moment, he was in the middle of a fight with a Rotom. The look of determination was different from when they battled earlier - Seiccan was trying to capture this thing. In that case, she would wait to ask him her question, but standing center stage with one's arms crossed was not a smart move in the middle of a ghost battle.

When she turned, she saw a few Gastly and Haunter floating around. Just like with people, if you make eye contact, you have to battle. Apparently, Haunters worked the same way. As soon as theirs eyes met, the biggest, scariest grin showed up on its face. It called its group and together, they charged her.

Fortunately, they didn't resist Fire attacks. "Flare, now!" The Vulpix popped out of her pokeball, ready to go. "Fire Spin. Keep those fuckers where they are. Then we can pick 'em off one by one."

Assisted by the intensified heat in the area, Flare shot out a few separate streams of flames, which came out similar to lassos. Each of the ghosts stopped dead as the flames got closer. The intensified heat made the the spinning flames do a lot of damage, and allowed Flare to hold multiple ghosts in chains at the same time. "Good job, Flare. Hold them best you can. Let me know if one's about to break, alright?"

With that, she summoned her next pokemon, Vinyl. Vinyl was her offensive powerhouse. It had speed in the sunlight, and could use Growth, which amplified its power, and amplified it even further in the Sunlight. "Vinyl, use Growth. Then start blasting the Haunters and Gastlys with Weather Ball."

She probably wasn't going to take all of them down by the time Seiccan finished his fight, but at least she'd keep the ghosts at bay. "Seiccan! Let me know when you're done with that thing."