Pokemon United

Chris waved hello to Nurse Joy. Nurse Joy seemed in much higher spirits than her sister, clapping her hands together on the sight of Titania, "Oh! I was told you'd be arriving." She bends and fetches something from underneath the counter. Placing a box, then another box on top of it, Nurse Joy pushed the bundles towards the two trainers, "Of course! Here they are!"

Smiling brightly and waving away Titania's words, "No need, she already called. You take care now, ya hear?" Chris took one of the parcels into her hands and put her knee underneath it for a brief balancing act, before she held it squarely in her hands, "This shouldn't be too bad." Though even if she were to hold a cup of water, it would become heavy eventually.

The Charmander let loose a small huff of flame and nodded his head in agreement. Chris let out an exasperated sound, rolling her eyes up a bit before smiling, "Tell me about it." Hoisting it over her shoulder until they reached the mine, she set it down and rolled her shoulder, "Maybe..." Kitty settled on top of the box and Chris crossed her arms and pulled her hoody off, a striped white and blue shirt underneath. She gently bapped Kitty's butt off of the crate and bound it with her hoody.

Tying the hoody around her arms, she let Lagi and Titania lead into the mine, the crate along her back. Once inside the mine, the pit was much more visible. There were abandoned pickaxes, for now, laying about mine carts full of dirt. Something was carrying pieces of bright metal towards one of the carts. It was small and made very careful steps.It was pink and no doubt a Pokemon. A ladder led into the pit from the main entrance, and strangely enough, the great hiker was no where to be seen. One of the tunnels leading directly from the pit showed signs of yellow and black and blue.

The Pokemon seemed more active since the commotion has calmed down.

Travelling through the mountain, eventually the two reach the end. Appearing at the other side, the sun was high in the sky. Around a large rock, the pack of the greatest hiker was settled against a large rock and the man himself was waddling in a circle with a Munchlax behind him. Holding a sandwich between his hands, he was trying to out-waddle the Pokemon, "Please, no, it's my lunch!"

Chris raised her brows and nodded her head towards the hiker, "Our boatman is under attack!" She snickers, then full out laughs, as the hiker pleaded, "It *huff* wants to *huff* eat my lunch!"

The Munchlax stopped and eyed the treat, holding its small hands upward and licking its lips. Waddling towards it and after Oberon, the Munchlax was easily lured away. Berrito placed his back against the boulder and his hands against his legs, breathing heavily, "Thank goodness, you came by, when you did! I was nearly a goner." Wiping his face with a white cloth, he tucks it back into his pocket, heaving himself to his feet, "Woo, little tyke almost got me."

Berrito grabs the cord to his lunch holder, lifting it to his mouth as he bites into his sandwich. The bag looked like it would hold binoculars, but the space was occupied by a massive sandwich. After several minutes, Berrito dabs at his beard and clears his throat, "Thank you again. I don't know what I would have done were it not for you two. I would have been very late in returning to my ship! Ahaha!" Berrito's belly bounces as he laughs and he trots towards Whalerdrake.

Titania and others arrived at Whalerdrake without much commotion. The Pokemon Center was still open at the hour and Nurse Joy was cleaning the floor with a mop and bucket nearby. She still appeared to be very tired, and rubbed at her eyes as she worked, yawning a bit.

Nurse Joy turned her head and set the mop and bucket aside, walking towards the counter, "Hello, how may I help--oh, you two. And you have my supplies." Smiling as much as she can, Nurse Joy took both boxes into the back room and returned, "Thank you so much."

At Titania's words, Nurse Joy thought it over, "I run this Pokecenter by myself, everyday. I wouldn't mind a nap. But first I should pay you." Sliding two Pokemart vouchers for 500 yen towards the two, "Thank you, so much. And if anything happens, don't be afraid to wake me up." She retires to the backroom and passes out into her almost untouched bed.

Titania would listen to him silently as the machine worked on treating his Vulpix. After he finished, the machine would ding and she would retrieve his Vulpix for him. Then after handing him ball the pokeball, a thoughtful expression appeared on her face.

"Wait here. I need to go talk to someone." She would ask him before stepping into the staff area. She would head to Chris and gently nudge her to wake her up, applying a bit more force if need be. Then once she was awake Titania would say.

"Sorry for the wake up, but there is little boy who came in with his hurt Vulpix and apparently he lost the money he needs to buy food for his mom. I'd go help, but I have to stay here to man the counter, think maybe you could help him? I'd lend you my voucher so you can wager that instead of your own money since it's my idea."

It would take a bit of nudging, but Titania would manage to wake up Chris and then convince her to head out to help the kid. Hopefully things would go well since she had to man the Pokemon Center and thus couldn't come with.

She would then head back to the counter and would pet Oberon as she waited to see if anyone would come in. Things would be perfectly silent and her Sylveon would end up curling up on the counter before taking a nap of his own.

However the peace and quiet would be abruptly shattered as Chris as well as the boy from earlier both ran back. Then following in after them were two young men. These men accused Chris and the boy of cheating and then threateningly reached for their pokeballs.

Oberon meanwhile having been woken up from his nap by the commotion and would take one look at the two men before jumping down in front of the counter. Then standing directly in front of his trainer, he would snarl as he took an aggressive posture with his fur bristled, teeth bared and his feelers spread out in an ominous way. If either of the men came any closer to Titania then they would immediately attacked with Fairy Wind.

Titania meanwhile would attempt to diffuse the situation somewhat and say. "I'll fight you, but not here. Let's head outside to fight, besides you wouldn't want to risk damaging the Pokemon Center or you'll be out of luck the next time your pokemon need treatment."

(If Oberon's actions would cause an intimidate roll, let me know and I'll pm a roll.)

Titania was thankful that the young men agreed to take it outside and would calmly head outside with Oberon. Then once outside the two men would call out a Skarmory and a Huntail while Chris would send out her Vaporeon. All that was left was for her to make her choice.

Now while Oberon was still glaring at the men, clearing wanting to fight, the presence of the Skarmory made her decide against allowing him to do so. She would look at her loyal companion and wordlessly shake her head. This would make the Sylveon look disappointed, but he would sit down obediently all the same.

Titania would then turn her thoughts to her other three pokemon. Now while Lagi would have an advantage against the armor bird pokemon, he would also be at a disadvantage against the Huntail. He was also her only pokemon that could do much of anything againist the steel type as well. Best to keep him in reserve until the Huntail was gone. That left Zephyr and...Rufflet. The latter of which was so dangerous that she was very reluctant to use him in a trainer battle. In fact she would seriously consider forfeiting before resorting to using him. So that left her with just one option.

"Zephyr I'm counting on you!" With that the Tailow was sent out. She would then crouch down on one knee and would address the tiny swallow. "Please I need you to help me help a little kid take care of his mom. Please fight this battle."

She would then step closer to Chris and whisper. "Can you focus on that Skarmory? The only pokemon I have that can fight it is weak against that Huntail."

Titania would then step away and wait to see which team would start first.

Titania was pleased to see that Zephyr looked ready to fight and would smile at him before saying. "Good boy Zephyr." She would then thank Chris and wait for the battle to begin.

Once the battle began, the Skarmory would head right for Zephyr, but a squirt of water in it's eyes from Kitty to cause it to completely miss. Meanwhile the Huntail would move in to bite the Vaporeon but would be driven off by the eeveelution's sand attack.

"It's your turn now Zephyr, use quick attack against Huntail." She would order and the Tiny Swallow pokemon would obey and fly straight towards the huntail.

Titania was disappointed to see that Zephyr didn't manage to cause any damage to the Huntail, but would be even more dismayed at it's vicious counter attack. All she could do was hope that her Tailow could defend himself and then try again.

Once the issue of the Huntail's attack had been dealt with, she would be grateful for the fact that not only had Kitty not been harmed by the Skarmory, he even assisted her by breaking the Huntail's focus. Now she really had to take advantage of this chance and score a solid blow.

"Zephyr use tackle, hit it's head!"

Titania would be relived to see that Zephyr managed to successfully defend himself from the Huntail's vicious jaws. Though she was also feeling a bit inadequate as so far Kitty had been doing all of the work this battle, but she wouldn't blame Zephyr since she knew he was doing the best he could.

Zephyr, fly up and then attack him from above with Quick Attack!" Perhaps if they changed their angle of attack, they would have more success in taking down the deep sea pokemon.

Once again Titania would see both pokemon fail to damage each other and were currently at a stalemate. Well they were just going to have see if this could break this stalemate.

"Zephyr land and then use Focus Energy." She would order the tailow who would respond by landing and then attempting to pump itself up. Landing a critical hit was often enough to turn the tide of battle and a properly executed Focus Energy would increase the odds of that happening. With a bit of luck, this would be enough to break the current stalemate in their favor.

(Edit: Dang it! Can I do anything right this fight? X.X This is getting ridiculous.)

Zephyr would attempt to defend itself from the Huntail's vicious attack. Then if it managed to stay in the fight, Titania would order it to try using focus energy again in the hopes that his second attempt would be more successful then the first.

Meanwhile Titania would be trying to choose who to send out next if Zephyr fell. Not counting the likely too dangerous Ruffler, she had Oberon and Lagi to choose from. The problem was that both were weak against one of the opposing pokemon. However only one of them was actually strong against the other pokemon which was Lagi vs the Skarmory. So if Zephyr was knocked out, she would send out her charmander.

Titania would cringe at the horrific blow that Zephyr took, but the little bird pokemon wasn't out just yet. On top of that the Huntail's attempt to finish off the taillow had just left it wide open for a counter attack.

"Zephyr strike while it's wide open. Use quick attack!" She would command the little bird and would hope he could land just as solid a blow as the one he had just endured. With any luck that focus energy her tailow had managed to perform would come in handy here.

(Edit: I hate my life. X.X)

Tailow would manage to avoid the slicing wings of the Skarmory much to Titania's relief. She would then praise the Tailow before commanding it again. "Nice dodge Tailow, now try to use peck on Huntail while it's distracted with Kitty!"

((Another miss.....oh and I rolled the wrong damage anyway. Anyway sorry for the posts getting short, but it's getting pretty repetitive with my constant failure to hit.))

(Zephyr lives and of course I get a nat 10 on damage when I miss my attack again! Augh!)

Zephyr would manage to avoid the skarmory's fearsome charge by diving under it and then would make a charge himself at the enemy huntail. Titania meanwhile was lightly biting her bottom lip in worry as she watched the battle going on. She wondered just how much more of this could her tiny swallow pokemon could take. Oberon however would cry out some encouragement to the tailow as he watched the fight,

Titania would watch as the long stalemate that was this battle would finally break After Zephyr managed to score a powerful hit on the enemy Huntail, fainting it. The Tailow would also seem pleased with himself as he let out several loud chirps of victorying while circling above.

"Good job Zephyr, you did such an amazing job, I am so proud of you." She would congratulate the tiny sparrow pokemon and then pull out his pokeball. "You deserve a good rest, so Zephyr return!"

Once Taillow was safely back in his ball, she would return it to her ball and then pull out Lagi's pokeball. "Come on out Lagi." Then the pokeball would open up to reveal her Charmander. "Ok Lagi, I really need you to help me by battling this Skarmory along with Chris's Vapoeron. Can you do that for me please?" She would ask the lizard pokemon as she didn't like simply ordering her pokemon without taking their feelings into account.

Titania would see that Lagi was a bit scared of the Skarmory and would offer some encouragement. "It's ok Lagi, you have a type advantage against it and I believe in you!"

Charmander would then take a metallic feather to his side which made Titania cringe. However before she could order a counterattack, Chris's Kitty would land a powerful water pulse that would finish off the Armor Bird pokemon. "Great job Chris and Kitty!" She would congratulate the pair and then would turn her attention back to Lagi. "I'm sorry you got hurt, but thank you for being willing to fight. Now let me put you back in your pokeball so you can get healed up."

With that she would recall Lagi and then call out to Chris. "Can you settle with them? Both Lagi and Zephyr took some significant damage and I want to go tend to them."

Lagi regained his spirits, turning to breath hot fire...but was outdrawn by Kitty's attack. Instead, a small puff of breath escaped Lagi's mouth and he ran to hug Titania's leg. It didn't seem he was hurt as much, as the feather sizzled and fell out.

Lagi nuzzled his nose into Titania's leg before returning to his ball. Chris stopped hugging her own Pokemon and promptly returned him to the ground, offering a thumbs up, "Don't worry, I am on it." She is very good at handling social matters. Kitty walked into the Pokecenter, after Titania, and Nurse Joy was behind the counter. After yawning a bit, she smiled wearily, "Hey you, how can I help?"