The Royal Pokemon Clan

"oh, can i have some water? i was too excited to get to the lab to grab some myself." while Anzai asked for water, Espurr walked over to Siorrin. "es, es!" it was some form of friendly challenge of who can get the most victories before their trainers left the route. before he could respond, Espurr rushed off to start, searching in every patch of grass he could find for wild pokemon to faint. Anzai watched him and sighed. "knowing Espurr, he wont stop until he knocks out the whole route..." Espurr found a sentret and started to battle with it.

Egg nodded, handing off a bottle to Anzai.

Siorrin took a moment to respond, but when he did it was a big affirmative. Face still dripping, he charged off after Espurr, cheering on his new friend and going after pokemon that tried to muscle in on the psychic kitten's ongoing battles. Mostly tackles and growls, occasionally trying to intimidate an enemy by slapping his vines against the ground behind him and making a face.

At some point along the route, pokemon just stopped coming at Espurr and Siorrin in the grass. Battles turned into chases more often than not, and the two had to work at fainting their target before it escaped into a den. Before long, poor Siorrin was left pawing uselessly at holes in the ground. "Saarrrgaur," he whined. He had just been starting to get the hang of using his vines to swat at pokemon, too.

Nearby, some flocks of pidgey could be seen, watching from the trees... So Egg watched them and went to pick up his wiggly partner.

"Alright, that's enough of that... Save some energy for Viridian, 'kay?"

he put his water bottle down and walked over to Espurr. "he has a point, buddy. besides, everything has hidden now. it wouldn't be much of a game with no goal." Espurr reluctantly nodded, and curled up on the floor. "oh, well i guess that would technically preserve energy." he picked the little Espurr up and put it in his hoodie. "well, that's that out of the way. hopefully they wont continue this mad rampage across every route we reach." he walked back and picked up his bottle. he drunk some water then put it away, and walked back to Egg. "well, that's that sorted." Espurr suddenly used Anzai's back as a launchpad, thinking he saw something interesting. midair he realised it was the grass moving in the wind, and fell flat on the ground. Anzai sighed. "i thought you had stopped chasing things... and didn't i tell you lying might just lead to karma?" he picked the small pokemon off the ground and put it back in his hoodie, making sure it couldn't jump out again. he turned back to Egg. "sorry about that."

As Anzai tended to espurr that second time, the pidgey scattered from their tree in a hurry, flying low to the ground. Before long, they disappeared into the brush, past the tall grass a little ways down the hill.

Egg frowned, about to comment on that oddity, when a dark shadow passed over the road, moving fast. Some large pokemon with broad wings and a predatory shape. He flinched, ducking and protectively hugging his bulbasaur tighter.

It seemed more interested in that flock of pidgey, though, and swooped into the grass, scattering the birds once more. Through all the squawking and flying feathers, it might have been easy to miss but there were fewer pidgey flapping than had entered the grass. They might have easily been sitting very still to avoid being caught, but it still seemed ominous.

Egg hissed to his travel companions, "C'mon!" nodding towards their destination. "Whatever that is, I've never seen it before. But I don't think we have enough pokemon to try fighting it."

The boy was clearly terrified by that thought. Even Siorrin was quiet now.

"i'm not gonna run! and i'd much rather if you back me up here!" he refused to stand down, coming to a presumption of what had happened to the poor Pidgeys, and, possibly stupidly, not backing down. "i wont stand idly by!" Espurr was also afraid but rolled his eyes at it's trainers arrogance. it turned to Egg as if to pleadingly ask for him to keep trying, knowing that if Anzai didn't run he would have to go up against some winged Goliath. Anzai followed the mysterious pokemon with his eyes, waiting for a chance to see what it was. Espurr continued trying to make Egg stop Anzai from doing something stupid.

Before Egg could argue just how crazy that sounded, a shrill cry went up from the remaining pidgey as three more shadows swooped that direction. Their forms were more easily recognized: two pidgeotto flanking a pidgeot, in a tight formation. Their first maneuver scored three direct hits and the mystery pokemon turned away from the pidgey to focus on those closer to its size.

As the trio of newcomers doubled back for a second pass, their opponent reared up, revealing a bat-like face atop its long neck. It took a deep breath before a wall of sound erupted from what appeared to be its ears.

"Gah!" Egg yelped and Siorrin grunted. Both tried to cover their ears to block out the noise. When it finished, the dragon-looking bat launched into an aerial assault of its own and Egg shook his head, backing away. "Nobody's asking you to stand anywhere - we need to go!"

But he didn't go far, not exactly sure he could just leave Anzai behind. Especially not if he was serious about dragging his poor Espurr into such a mismatched fight.

Unfortunately, he'd hesitated a moment too long. Just as he was about to make his decision, the big pidge-trio swooped low, their leader passing between Anzai and Egg and the other two cutting behind and around them. As the mystery pokemon followed (and the incensed flock of battered pidgey followed it), Egg hit the dirt to avoid getting clawed, pecked, or bit.

Espurr realized what it was and shook his head, as if to say 'nope, i'm out'. he bit Anzai's foot and pointed his whole arm at the Pidgeot. he hissed at his trainer slightly. Anzai looked down at him, realizing how foolish he was being. "okay, okay, it's not my fight." he quickly picked up Espurr and ran over Egg, and grabbed his hand to help him up after the flying types passed over him. "look, i'm sorry for being a moron but now you really are right, we have to run!" Espurr frantically looked around for Siorrin. "esp! eeeesp!"

He didn't have to say that twice. Once back on his feet, Egg scooped up Siorrin (poor guy got landed on but seemed okay) and bolted.

Egg didn't stop running until he could see Viridian. The flying 'mon's battle had probably ended by now - no distant swooping could be seen back the way he came - so he flopped on his butt, huffing and puffing. Then he lay back, letting his arms flop to the ground, staring at the deceptively friendly sky.

"Syarba? Sasaur? Mmbabsaur?" Dusty and a bit scuffed from having been squished, Siorrin seemed more concerned about his friends. He patted his trainer, who took a moment to answer with a wheezing, "I'm fine."

Then the bulbasaur looked around for everybody else. "Byaaur? Asabyaaur?"

he quickly followed, collapsing on the ground next to Egg. "really.... sorry... about that." Espurr quickly followed, and glared at Anzai. "i know, i know.. i should care more about your safety than some random Pidgeys. i'm sorry, and i promise i will from now on." Espurr perked up, both at his trainers promise, and at the fact it just noticed they had made it. the small feline-like pokemon wondered if there would be one of those 'gyms' all the humans in the group seemed to be talking about here. Espurr spotted Siorrin and went over to him, wondering what his opinion on the situation was. after a second Anzai stood up, still feeling guilty about what he did. he looked down at Egg. "hey, are you ok?"

Glad his new friends were okay, Siorrin tumbled off of Egg's chest to be on Espurr's level. "Ssyaaah," he remarked, sitting back on his haunches and patting the psychic kitten gently on the head. Then he continued to ramble, clearly still a bit rattled, but relieved as well. He seemed to be saying, 'Wow, that was a close one! Do you think we'll have more like that?' And other relevant things. No hard feelings, though.

Egg, on the other hand, stayed on his back and glared up at Anzai. "What were you thinking?!" he hissed. Whether Egg's face was still red from the running or if it stayed that way from anger was hard to say. "Do you know anything about relative levels or type matchups?"

"i know it was all completely reckless, but relative levels and type matchups isn't anything to do with it. level-wise, we hadn't seen what it was yet so how would that affect my witless attack? and types, types are my strong suit. unless it was a psychic, steel, bug, dark or ghost type, Espurr would take and deal normal damage. so while i'm sure everyone in the kanto region can agree it was an idiotic move, it wasn't for those reasons." Espurr sighed at it's trainer's attempt of defense, and stormed inbetween Anzai and Egg, doing a sort-of 'round over' motion with his hands, then pointing towards the city. he had a very agitated look on his face, but also gave Egg a look that seemed to say 'i know he IS a moron at times, but be patient with him.'

From the ground, Egg glared up at Anzai but didn't interrupt. And when he'd finished his defense and Espurr stepped between them, Egg just shook his head and stiffly rolled to his side to get back on his feet.

"I guess that's fair. It wasn't idiotic for those reasons, if it was just your own pokemon on the line... You're just selfish and you didn't think about anyone else's." He punctuated those harsh words by picking up Siorrin and turning towards Viridian. Which saved him from having to talk immediately about the tears that rimmed his eyes. Or the fears that fueled them.

"Whatever... Let's just get out of here. We can make it to the PC in an hour if we keep moving."

He walked quickly to try and keep his back to Anzai.

(I am back. I am happy to join! ^^

((Thank you. And I suppose we could do the scene of him getting his Shinx. ^^