[Shalin Nariya]

After the loud jump-scare that nearly destroyed her ears (again), the wooded panorama and the ambiance of the forest during the noon hour returned. That, and the sound of a pair of Zorua giggling back and forth. "Can you hear me?" A still-shaking Shalin asked, facing Senara. "Case in point." She faced the twin Dark-types, then frowned. "You know, with Zorua in the forest, this complicates our search...a lot." She had heard about the Pokémon's ability to mimic humans and other Pokémon, but this was her first time seeing it in person. The illusion was indistinguishable without ample experience raising one.

Caprice let out a loud bark, her eyes glowing a menacing red as she stared the wild Pokémon down whilst embers dripped from her mouth. "Girl's not dropping her guard one bit," Shalin observed. "See, Senara, this is exactly why I never cared for Ghost-types. Seems like they're always up to no good. Caprice looks like she wants to punish them for it, and I'm not opposed."

Senara Spargo

{WC: 172}
{PC: 8}
{Shalin: 164/164}

[Senara Spargo]

As Baby Girl's collided with the figure, it suddenly retreated, leaving the sheet behind and tangling up the unsuspecting Sableye in the process.  Senara let out a breath at the sight of what escaped away from the blanket.  A pair of Zorua?  They were giggling.  And so was the Dusclops!  She could finally see it!  Hell, she could see everything.  And honestly?  After the adrenaline cooled, she found a giggle bubbling to her lips, too. "Aww, regardez-vous petits coquins!  You got the drop on us, didn't you?  Hmm?~"  She looked down as Baby Girl managed to wriggle herself free and was shaking her fist at the other Dark-types and Ghost-type irritably.  Unbeknownst to her trainer, she was giving them an earful about how she was their elder and she was going to teach them a lesson if they tried that again.  Senara snorted, scooping Baby Girl up mid-rant and hugging her to her chest.  She continued to grin at the little ones.  "Maintenant maintenant, petite fille, ils s'amusaient juste.  Personne n'a eu..."  Senara turned to look at Shalin incredulously.  Alright, this was quite enough.  "I'm sorry but did you, like, forget that my Pokemon is both a Dark-type and a Ghost-type?  You know, this one?"  She pointed to Baby Girl with a finger.  "The one who led us through this little trick room safely?  Would you rather we just wander in the woods for the next couple hours without her help?  Hmm?  And don't you dare.  They're babies!  And they were just playing.  The fact that they have turned back into their non-transformed forms proves they like us!  Zorua normally never do that unless they trust you.  So how 'bout you reign in your voyante vulpine and be friendly." Baby Girl glared at Shalin--somehow, as she was without actual eyes--and snapped her teeth.  Senara scratched her chin.  "These woods are their house, not ours."  Actually, now that she'd said that...maybe the two little Dark-types would know a trainer who had an Absol in the area?  It didn't sound so far-fetched.  Senara drew out the Absol's pokeball from her pocket, clicked the button, and in a flash of red released it.  "Excuse me," she spoke to the little Zorua and Dusclops, "But we're trying to find the owner of this Pokemon.  I don't suppose any of you know them, or where they are?" Shalin Nariya @mod WC: 408   Uh-oh.  Mad mama. (8/8)

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[Jae]

A random event has occurred!

What will you do?

Shalin Nariya  Senara Spargo

The Zorua pair grinned up at Senara. Hahaha yeah! They got her! Them and Dusclops, of course! The latter seemed to faze into the tree and then came up out of the ground again. None of them were fazed by Baby Girl’s rant, however. In truth, they found it all the more entertaining! At least until the Ninetales seemed to pose a very real threat. Both Zorua quickly hid behind the Dusclops who frowned at the Ninetales in return. One hand reached back to defend them if need be.

As Senara released the Absol, however, they all seemed to light up and rush over quickly talking to her in quick excited tones! The Absol too seems to brighten and talks quickly back. They were friends of hers and her trainer, actually! And after a moment of excited talking, the Zorua pair look at each other and rather quickly drum up an illusion again together. This time again auditory—

“We know where Sofie is!” It was jumbled and sounded very childlike, but the message was clear enough. They took off running— and the Absol did right after.

[Shalin Nariya]

Senara's rant snapped Shalin out of her defensive stance. "You have a point," she replied with her head down in shame, reining in her fire-type partner who swallowed the dripping embers when asked. "I've had almost nothing but bad experiences with ghost Pokémon up until I met you, and I let it control me. Your Pokémon is one of the first nice ghost Pokémon I've seen in a long time. If she feels she has to take it out on me...then let her." She couldn't help but tear up. "But let her know I'm sorry, okay? Please?"

The moment the Absol started bounding into the woods and after the pair of Zorua, Shalin perked her head back up. Maybe they were just innocent Pokémon after all? "Sofie? Is that her name?" Shalin turned to Senara, asking her before Caprice started walking and quickly broke into a trot after the Ghost and Dark-types that seemed to know a lot about the Absol and its trainer. "Come on, let's chase them down,"
she said, her typical enthusiasm still missing.

The path the Absol was running down was taking them deeper into the forest, where the roads were a lot less defined. It made keeping the Pokémon in sight more difficult. "We'll lose them this way - Caprice, let's go faster." The agile fox had no problem navigating the gaps between trees more rapidly. Shalin had to hold Caprice's fur more tightly as her sudden turns became more frequent, her smile growing the more intense her mount's run became. It was at least a fun distraction to get her mind off how horribly she felt she offended Senara.

Senara Spargo

{WC: 280}
{PC: 9}

[Senara Spargo]

Senara huffed and looked sharply away from Shalin.  After a moment of quiet, though, she muttered down to Baby Girl: "Elle a dit qu'elle était désolée."  Baby Girl made a little confirming "mrrrr" noise, but otherwise didn't change her stance.  Whatever.  Once they were done here she wouldn't need to worry about this for a good, long while.  Much to her surprise and delight, the moment the Absol was released, they and the other little Pokemon began talking to one another in a familiar, ecstatic way.  Holy Yveltal she'd been right!  She was about to ask if they could lead her to them when the pair of Zorua became a child--sort of--again and spoke in jumbled English.  Oh.  Right.  They were capable of speech, like Coccinelle and Harriet, but not quite.  That was...neat.  Slightly on the unnerving side but still neat.  "Alright, lead the way then!"  The path was certainly easier to navigate when she and Chanceux could actually see in front of themselves, but keeping up with a ghost and three quick-as-lightning Pokemon was no easy task.  Senara was not a racer.  Shalin would likely reach their destination before she could even with Chanceux's greater "reach".  Baby Girl just clung to the back of the Steelix's head, a giant sharp grin plastered on her face.  <Wheeeeeeeeeee!> Shalin Nariya @mod WC: 235   So close, so close!!.

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[Jae]

A random event has occurred!

What will you do?

Shalin Nariya  Senara Spargo

The Zorua and Absol lead down a path this way and that before finally coming to a small dwelling built into the side of a tree. The house sort of looked like it just… grew out of it with the rest of the tree. Coming up to the door, the Zorua pair throw their paws up against it knocking in rapid succession. It opened slowly after that, and a girl with her arm in a sling stepped out— only to almost immediately tear up on seeing who it was. “ARTEMIS!” She threw her good arm around the Absol who immediately pressed her head back into her. The reunion was beautiful.

[Shalin Nariya]

The winding path the Zorua led Caprice and Shalin along was long and confusing - they were so deep into the woods even the veteran explorer had a difficult time keeping her internal compass straight. Shalin and Caprice eventually lost sight of the dark-types, slowing down to let Senara and her Steelix catch up some.

After few more minutes, she could have sworn she had heard a knocking sound, and a very annoying one at that. She followed the noise, Caprice weaving around dense thickets of trees. "Whoever lived so deep in the forest like this, isolated from the rest of the world was crazier than I am," she thought. "As much as I like to spend time in the back woods, I couldn't imagine never visiting a city for--"

A loud cry from a girl she assumed was younger than herself echoed from the direction she was traveling, Caprice picking up the pace again. It sounded like the cry was one of joy, but Shalin had to be sure. When the cabin came into view, Shalin saw a young, disabled girl hugging the Absol with her good hand. She was so moved by the discovery that she stopped at the edge of the clearing where the property was. Watching such a tearful and happy reunion brought her to tears herself. She held the Ninetales back, both so Senara could catch up and not to interrupt their first moments back together.

Senara Spargo

{WC: 240}
{PC: 10)

[Senara Spargo]

Through the winding trees and around what might have been a path--though one far less traveled than the main road--the weird little parade of Pokemon and people went, until at last they came to a home Senara could only describe as "storybook".  A home growing out of a tree like that was the sort of thing that in Laverre City was the tell-tale residence of fae.  It made her a little uneasy in all honesty.  But the woman inside the home was friends with the resident Dark-types and ghosts, so it was unlikely that she'd be anything related to those nasty pink bastards.  No sooner had they reached the small clearing around the home had a girl stepped out, injured as expected, and spotted them. Artemis?  If that's not in the top ten most cliche names for an Absol, I don't know what is. Snarky comments aside she still smiled, and dug the second pokeball from her pocket while she slid off of Chanceux's neck.  "Hey now, don't leave this guy out."  With a quick toss of her wrist and a flash of white light the Wartortle similarly took shape, and likely made directly to hug his trainer as well.  Senara stayed a far distance away from the little reunion but stayed close enough so they could talk to each other at a normal volume. "Glad to see you're alright, miss.  We found these two in the Glowworm Caverns, and just got confirmation from the Rangers of your location.  Sorry for so long a delay, but, hey, they're both perfectly healthy, if not absolutely worried sick," she gave a pointed look at the Absol, not quite letting go of the fact that it nearly collapsed the cave on them. "Though we might have made it quicker were it not for a couple rambunctious foxes..." Shalin Nariya @mod WC: 316   Awww...!

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[Jae]

A random event has occurred!

What will you do?

Shalin Nariya  Senara Spargo

The girl turned to Senara only to immediately see the Wartortle— only to get tackled by him right after. “Tighton!” she squealed hugging him too. She hugged them a little longer before slowly straightening and smiling at Senara. “Thank you so much for bringing them home—” Her eyes flicked to Shalin right after, and she gave a wave to her as well. “Thank you… thank you so much… I thought I’d—” the girl teared up briefly and rubbed her face quickly to smile again.

Called out on their tactics, the two Zorua, however, turned to Senara and grinned toothily. The girl looked at them and huffed softly. “You two,” she stated tapping her foot at them both. They turned and looked at her before snickering and running off now. The girl shook her head and looked back to Senara and Shalin.

“Would …. You … uhm…” She straightened somewhat and made a ‘wait here’ sign before stepping inside. Coming back out with a box, she struggled to open it (and then handed it to the Wartortle to open instead before taking it back) and holding it to Senara and Shalin. “I’d… put out a reward for anyone who could return them. I don't have much pen, so Please! Please take these!”

For Shalin, there was Firium-Z. For Senara there was Sablenite. 

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[Shalin Nariya]

Shalin couldn't help but flash a beaming smile. "I'm just glad to see the Pokémon reunited with their proper owner again," she replied to the young girl. "You're welcome. It was a stroke of luck we even ran into them at all. Everything just worked out." As the young and excited trainer walked into her cabin, Shalin dismounted her Ninetales and walked toward where Senara was at. "This is the warmest feeling I've felt in a while - it feels so good to help young ones like her. Did you see the look on her face when you showed her...Artemis, was it?"



After the girl had returned with a small box, Shalin was presented with what appeared to be a Fire-type Z-Crystal. She took a step back, flustered. "I can't possibly accept something so rare!" she thought, swaying back and forth nervously before sighing deeply and holding her hand out to accept the crystal. "...You didn't have to do this, but thank you. Seeing someone in need reunited with long-list friends is reward enough for me. But I will accept." She had heard of these things before - they were integral for using incredibly powerful Pokémon techniques. Called Z-Crystals, they allowed a Pokémon to focus all its remaining stamina and strength into a single, awe-inspiring attack. It would definitely be useful in allowing Caprice to take on some bigger game.



Senara Spargo

{WC: 232}
{PC: 11}

[Senara Spargo]

Tighton and Artemis were reunited with their trainer.  It was...strange for Senara.  If it were her, and it were her Pokemon, she couldn't imagine her relief and delight after being separated from them for so long.  But also the fear and guilt that must have been attached to her for all this time, thinking they'd been either lost in those tunnels forever, or had broken free and were just wandering, free for another trainer to catch without ever knowing.  It was such a vulnerable moment to see from another person and it made her feel sick to her stomach being a witness to it.  She wasn't unhappy for them.  She didn't feel like she had made a mistake.  She just didn't want to be here anymore and the sooner they could be done with it, the better. All the same, when the girl stepped back into her home and returned with what could be described as their "finder's fee", Senara felt that unease disperse pretty damn fast at the sight of what she was offering them.  Goddamn!  She was just going to give them a Z-stone and a Mega stone??  Did she realize how valuable those were?  Senara wasn't sure she could have accepted these under normal circumstances.  They were so rare. But if there was ever something she would have also traded such a rare, valuable stone for, it would be the safe return of long-lost Pokemon to her side.  So it was a fair trade. I already have a Sablenite, her mind happily pipped up, I could ask her for something else.  Maybe something even more valuable?  There's nothing she could refuse me right now, not after bringing back her Pokemon. ... "I...wow, thank you."  Senara took the Sablenite from the girl's hand, and behind her still on Chanceux's back Baby Girl made a interested rumble.  Senara glanced back at her before returning her gaze to-- "Sofie, wasn't it?  The Zorua said your name.  I hope you all stay safe out here and on expeditions in the future."  She smiled and handed her the pokeballs for her Pokemon, then turned to go.  Then she pause and turned back around for a second.  "Also, maybe put a name sticker or something on those, just in case!" Shalin Nariya @mod WC: 397   And now to end this plot.  Woo hoo!

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