Pokémon Academy: Ch 2a: Dragons [IC]

[Tacos]

Ryan chuckled at Roman's comment. "Haha! Not a problem for me!" Ryan beamed at the man. He loved using the Flygon more and more and how easily it read his signals to maneuver. Ryan suddenly felt like he was being watched. I know this feeling all too well. He scanned his group to see, but nobody was particularly looking at him. He shrugged it off and stared off into the swamp, looking for some pokemon.

[DarkLight]

"Aww. they are so c-- Owww..." Danielle moaned quietly, rubbing her shoulder. "Are you okay, Avis?" Her Murkrow nodded before looking at the redhead with a disapproving glance. "No matter, Avis. I'll go somewhere else to look. You can sneak around to look at the baby dragons, alright?" Avis, however, didn't budge from her perch. 'Guess that's a no.' With that, Danielle walked around the redhead and decided on a spot by Alastair; It wasn't the best view, but it was enough for her to be satisfied. Danielle was tall enough to see the babies playing around with one another.

[Sutoratosu]

Mareek walked away from the group as soon as the anouncement was over, without a single word to anyone. Once he had trekked a little into the woods he took out Erce's capsule and released the Mantis in a bright burst of light as Java watched from over his shoulder, taking a look around at the trees to find a suitable one for wood. His eyes fell on a desirable looking candidate and he nudged the Back of his trainer's head, using Lock-On to signify the one.

"Hey, Erce," he said, glancing at the tall oak. "How do you feel about a bit of carving?" The Scyther perked up eagerly at the prospect, her eyes filled with excitement. She buzzed her wings once in approval. "Good then," Mareek said, turning back to Java. "Use Lock-On again; see if anythings living in the tree. I'd rather just keep looking than go disturbing anything."

The porygon nodded and used another lock on, this time scanning the branches and upper levels of the tree to locate any nesting pokemon. After a few minutes and several sweeps, he stopped, turning back to Mareek and shaking his head.

"Then let's get started," the boy said, pulling out his pokedex and powering it on, the screen going right to the bookmarked page Java had left earlier. The image of the pokemon in question popped up within an instant.

"Hm...Interesting choice, Java," Mareek said. Majesty would always do just fine in place of beauty, afterall. He walked over to erce, whispering what he wanted into her ear and pointing up at one of the thicker branches high in the tree. She nodded when he finished and took off from the ground, flying into the canopy and disappearing for a moment in a blur of motion. just a second later the large branch he had pointed to came tumbling down and landing on the ground a few feet away from him, Erce descending shortly after it and landing beside him.

"Psybeam," he ordered Java, not missing a beat. The Porygon did as told and held up the branch in the air with telekinetic force. Mareek only had to nod at Erce next to get the process started. She stepped forward and readied her scythes, going to work striping away all the bark from the branch...

[Commander]

As Henry and the others examined the dragons, a small creature dug itself to the surface. A Drilbur popped its head out of the hole after being awakened by children's footsteps. Being a fairly new resident, he had no idea what was going on and decided to go and take a look. He was half asleep causing to trip over a rock before finally reaching what caused the sound. He saw some oddly colored Dragonairs and Dratinis decided to join the cave. He walked up to one to greet his new neighbors.

This particular Dratini was rather strange. It didn't seem to react to anything he did or say. He decided to put on his thinking cap and realized that maybe this dragon was in a bad mood. The best course of action to solve this problem was to give him a great big, warm hug. After all, everybody likes hugs.

Meanwhile, Henry was focused on the Garchomp. He heard stories of a very powerful one that rests in Sinnoh. One of the rumors was that the champion's Garchomp was able to sweep teams without them even landing a hit. So this is the almighty land shark. One day, I hope I can do battle with one.

Henry's thoughts were immediately interrupted when abrupt pain came from his bad leg. He immediately clasped to try and muzzle out the screams of pain coming from him. Thankfully, only those nearby could hear him. Gypsy was also knocked off and didn't enjoy the hard landing. She looked over to Henry's leg and noticed some mole thing wrapping its giant arms around it. She tried knocking it off with a Confusion, but it didn't seem to be enough.

Henry then looked down and noticed a Drilbur with its claw partially dug into where Zuko burnt Henry's leg. He place his cane in between his leg and the Pokemon and successfully cropped the Pokemon off his leg. The Drilbur was upset that the Dratini was so resilient and thought a second hug would do the trick this time.

Henry decided that the Drilbur wasn't worth the hassle of catching seeing how clingy he was so he shooed him away. He then looked noticed a couple Gible hanging close to the Garchomp. Maybe I could figure a way to catch one of the...OH SWEET MOTHER OF ARCEUS! Henry felt the pain come back, but was able to avoid yelling in pain this time. Without even thinking, he pulled out the empty Poke Ball on his belt and threw it at the Drilbur. To his surprise, the Pokemon was sucked into the Poke Ball.

The Poke ball shook 1...2...3 times before finally making a click noise. Henry was dumbfounded at the scene. That...that was my Skitty's Poke Ball. There's no possible way that should've happened unless...Dad, I'm going to kill you for this. Henry let out a sigh before finally picking the ball up. "I thought that was Zuko's Poke ball, but I guess this can't be helped. At least I didn't anger the dragons. I guess I'll call you Major Burrows. Hopefully, I can manage to turn you into something decent." With that, Henry put the Poke Ball on his belt and went back to watching the Gible.

[Azeria]

As most of the group left for their own projects,James took a path on the far right,after a while he came upon a small area next to the rock caverns that looked to be perfect to make something with.Wanting to get started as fast as possible,James took out Shade,Luna and Tytanniel's pokeballs and threw them in to the air.One bright flash later they came out and he started explaining what they were going to do"Well guys .....and galls"James said when he saw Luna's reaction"We are going to be making a stone statue of this pokemon"

"I want Shade and Luna to go get a Really large rock to carve this pokemon out into a statue,and i want Tytanniel to stay here and wait for you 2 to come back ok?"He asked the group,in response he got a collection of nods and a Spin from Tytanniel.

Edited November 3, 2014 by Can't Type

[TurboAura]

After hearing Roman's description of the area, Robert gave an head nod yes and continued to follow. He heard Ryan's voice up on the Flygon, not quite catching what he's said, but had a feeling that looking up to actually set his attention on him would probably would likely lead to tripping and going face first in the mud, which would be the very least thing Robert would be willing to do, not only in the presence of peers but in the obvious presence of the authority leading them.

[Chim]

Commander and DarkLight

Alastair made their presence known to the dragons by slowly walking up to them. Some dragons, especially the older ones, recognized him and didn’t react when they saw him. They knew he wasn’t a bad person so for now they wouldn’t mind people approaching them.

TurboAura and Tacos

A girl with brown hair kept looking up at Ryan and the Flygon. She was trying to find a way to get closer to him, but this scenery probably wasn’t the best place. She had to watch her step if she didn’t want to fall into the swamp.

Robert soon found himself at the edge of the group, almost in last position. While he scanned around the area to look for Dragons and other Pokémon he failed to notice the presence behind him. It slowly came closer and closer without making a sound. A shadow fell over the boy and if he watched the ground he could see it grow.

A cracking sound of a twig snapping in half brought his attention to the Pokémon closing in from behind, but it was already too late. As soon as he turned around he got the full on body check from a very friendly Goodra. Robert couldn’t escape the tight hug for almost half a minute. When the dragon finally released her grip, the boy was completely covered in the gooey stuff.

[Jory]

Jacob made his way over to Brendan and Rebecca, his mind concentrated on one question as he neared the instructors. He cleared his throat and waited to make eye contact with Brendan, then spoke. "Are there any non-Dragon types around? Teo here is going to be my only Dragon. It's because he's the best there is, so I'll never need another!" he said jokingly, causing Teo to gurgle happily.

[Chim]

Jory

Brendan thought for a second. “In the forest around us are a lot of Bug, Grass and Flying types. In the caves are Ground, Steel and Rock the most common ones. If you consider one of those types you should have no trouble catching one. Do you have a certain Pokémon in mind? I might be able to point you into the right direction.”

[TurboAura]

"Wha woah! What the heck?" Was all that he could say before finding himself in the tight embrace of a Goodra. "Well can't say I expected to get Ursaring-hugged by a Dragon." After settling down for however long it took, the Goodra finally let him go, leaving him with clothes covered in their species goo. "Eheh, well I guess the worst I got out of this are my spare clothes gooped. No harm, no foul." Just then Robert realized that the Goodra's playfullness had left him a decent way away from the group, just in sight. "Well, thanks for the hug, I guess, but I've gotta catch up with my group... you could follow me if you really want, but I got to go." With that, Robert walked as quickly as he could, having realized how likely the goo could have made his shoes slippery too and would likely have him falling down if he tried running, and headed towards the rest if the group.

[Tacos]

Ryan burst out laughing as he saw Robert get enveloped by the Goodra. "HAHA! Nice one Robert!" Ryan's abs were hurting from his profuse laughter. As his cackling slowed, he heard careful sloshing in the mud of the swamp. Ryan swung his head to see a brown-haired girl looking in his direction. Well, seems this is who was watching me the whole time. Ryan used his hand to signal the Flygon descend. The dragon flapped its wings, splashing a little bit of mud here and there as it descended. Ryan then turned around and yelled out towards the girl. "Hi there! What's your name ms.?" Ryan held out his hand to help her out of the mud.

[DarkLight]

Danielle mimicked Alastair's careful steps as she decided to approach the horde of dragons. Once she was by his side, she kneeled down in order to be at eye level with the baby dragons. Their playful squeals and cries made Danielle go all fluffy and warm inside. As the Gibles, Druddigons and the Trapinches frolicked in the sand, the coordinator in training turned to Alastair. "Sir, if one of them does decide to approach us, is it okay if we give them some food?"

Avis had leaped off of Danielle's shoulder to observe them from the ground. The sand feels funny between her feet, but it's nice and warm unlike rocks and dirt. Avis hopped a little farther towards the dragons, though still keeping a respectable distance, before she gave a small cry as a greeting.

[Chevaleresse]

Kage had released both of his on the way up the trail, before Devin introduced them to the Tyrantrum. Hesitantly, he moved a bit closer to one of the big dragons and gave it a deep, formal bow, imitating the actions of his teacher and hoping he would be allowed closer. He wanted to catch one of the Tyrunts, but he wasn't precisely sure how to do it. Kage elected to wait until he had finished introducing himself to the current Tyrantrum before asking; it might be considered disrespectful to shout back to him during his bow.

[K_H]

Kenny and his Team headed over to the Cliff Face, noticing Mareek have his Team do some Carving of a Wooden Branch as he walked by.

Well, there goes that plan...

Kenny then turned to his Team.

"How do you three feel about making something out of Stone?"

The three of his Partners nodded, eager to begin.

"All righty then, let's get started. Ryu, get me a lump of Stone from the Cliff Face."

"Ri."

Ryu then headed over to the Cliff face, and used Bullet Punch to chisel out a lump the size of two decks of cards, which he brought back to Kenny. Kenny then had Eve use Iron Tail on the stone to break it in half. Kenny then spoke to Zorro.

"OK, Zorro, make an Illusion in the shape of what i draw in the Air, sort of like a Template."

Zorro nodded.

"Ready when you are!"

Kenny then drew a shape similar to that of a Ring and a Sphere using his hands, which Zorro copied into an Illusion. Ryu then used that Illusion as a Template to carve out two Bracelets and two largish marbles from the Stone Pieces. The Bracelets had a small, spherical holding Place in them, which is where the stone marbles went.

((No, the Stone isn't a Mega Stone, just in case you were wondering.))

Edited November 4, 2014 by K_H

[Aurorix]

Slade proceeded to bow to the Tyrantrum, heading Devin's words. Flare did the same only kneeling due to him being on all floors. He wasn't particularly interested in Tyrantrum, something about them didn't sit right with him. Whether it was their sense of royalty or anything else. All he new is that he wasn't going to get one anytime soon.

[Zephyrus the Priestess]

Raiza made a deep bow, as though she were a wayfaring traveler in the court of her King and Queen. Lucifer had popped out along the way and peeked from behind her shoulder before copying his Trainer, midair.

[Tses]

"I guess she wanted to play with you, that's why she hugged you." Sissy said looking behind her, at where Robert was coming.

Her thought then went straight to what the professors have said earlier. Kingdra and Dragalge can be found here. Meaning there is a lake somewhere near here. So maybe we can find the guy we were looking for too. She smiled upon her thought while walking behind the professors since she didn't want to fall behind.

[Chim]

Group 1 (Bforger, Murdoc, Zephyr, EXLink)

The Tyrantrum, who was in charge when the big one wasn’t around, snorted in reply to the bowing students. Apparently it was some sort of a signal the small Tyrunt’s were waiting for. Their curiosity took over as they sprinted towards the students. Kage and Raiza, who were the closest students, gained a lot of attention. Both of them were surrounded by at least 5 Tyrunt’s. Some of them were sniffing while others pulled them by the shirts.

Slade and Flare weren’t that popular. One Tyrunt came over to play with Flare while another one was curiously watching Slade’s headphones. It tilted it’s head in a curious way, but for now kept its distance.

Lana, who was standing next to Shiro, giggled when she saw Raiza surrounded.

Group 2 (Commander and DarkLight)

“Of course,” Alastair answered Danielle. “The Pokémon here are used to my presence and know that we don’t want to hurt them. Wait for them to get used to your presence so they don’t get startled. Usually they ignore students because the small ones, especially the Gibles, come to us by themselves. Just take a look over there.” He nodded in Evan’s direction.

Evan moved away from the tree line and was standing in between multiple holes in the ground. Every now and then a Gible popped out with a loud “Giiible!” trying to draw Evan’s attention. As soon as the student turned around another one popped up from behind him. The action was repeated multiple times before Evan said something. “Y’all are a bunch of jokers, huh? Let’s see who laughs last!” He jumped towards a hole and put his hand into it hoping to catch a Gible. The small dragons popped up from behind him and started laughing and jumping around. There were four in total and one jumped on Evan’s leg and started biting in his shoe.

Alastair started laughing and moved on to the older ones. He rubbed the head of a Druddigon he apparently knew and said something. The dragon nodded and went over to the rest of the students. In the meantime the girl with the red hair moved closer to Danielle. “You want to feed them? I hope you didn’t make the food yourself or those poor Dragons will be poisoned.” After her nasty remark she flung her hair behind her head and grinned a hateful smile towards Danielle and Avis.

Group 3 (TurboAura, Tses, Tacos)

Roman looked back to the group of students when they reached the lake. “Since this trip is all about interaction with wild Dragon types, you can all start exploring the area. My lovely assistant and I,” he pointed to Phoebe, “will keep an eye out.” His eye fell on Robert and he started laughing. “Looks like you already found a friend, boy!” His laugh echoed through the forest and was sure to attract some more Pokémon.

In the meantime the girl smiled at Ryan. “Thanks,” she said. “Cool Flygon you have there. It belongs to Professor Cadmus right? I’m so jealous I can’t fly on it!” She stroked her hair multiple times and showed Ryan her sweetest smile. He could finally see her long hazelnut brown hair reached over her shoulders. She was a little shorter than him and her smile reached her brown eyes. And while she was trying to play it cool she felt really nervous. She wanted to get to know the boy in front of her that she even forgot to mention her name.

Group 4 (K_H, Surge, Jory, Azery, Lucky Elf)

James’s Pokémon that went into the cave didn’t return. A few minutes passed and still nothing. Maybe it was better if he went inside to take a look.

While Mareek started working on his project he was being watched from a nearby tree. As soon as Erce started the bird left the tree in a free fall way. Right before it hit the ground it accelerated even faster and landed on Mareek’s shoulder. The Swellow looked with interest at the soon to be statue.

((I’m going to let Kenny continue for a little longer))

[TurboAura]

Roman's laugh had shaken Robert out of his little 'well that just happened' state from the Goodra hug. Sure, he heard Ryan's laughing fit and Sissy doing what he thought was a way to cheer him up, but he didn't think the replies would be necessary until later. While snapping out of it, he put his hand on the back of his head and let out an retrospective laugh. "Yeah, apparently the Goodra back there decided it wanted to hug someone. Not really like I could get out of it until it let go." The less awkward Robert felt about the situation, the more he realized that either the Goodra hug would either lead to Lady Luck balancing it out, or simply that whatever he finally 'decides' on would be somewhere close to as friendly.

Edited November 4, 2014 by TurboAura

[Tacos]

Ryan chuckled a little bit. "He's been a real help, with my broken ankle and all of that. I'm glad Professor Cadmus let me use him for the trip. The name's Ryan by the way. But, you still haven't given me the pleasure of knowing yours. I'll treat you to a ride on Flygon if you tell me." Ryan grinned. The girl was very pretty. "So what do you say?"

[Sutoratosu]

"Huh...oh...um, hey there..." Mareek said in surprise when the bird landed atop his shoulder. He didn't know where it had came from exactly, but it seemed to just want to watch what they were doing. So long as no hostility started, he didn't mind in the least bit if the three of them had an audience while they worked. Erce however, did not share his calm leniency, taking her attention of the statue, the head of which was in the beginning stages of being carved, and growled at the Swellow, parring her scythes against one another defensively. Java simply rolled his eyes at the Mantis's overreaction.

"Calm down, Erce," Mareek sighed. "It's fine, see? It's not hurting anything; just wants to watch. Java understands, right, Java?" The porygon nodded simply, a bit taken a back at his inclusion in this discussion. Erce looked back and forth between the boy and the swellow, glaring at the latter suspiciously... then she herself let out a sigh and went back to work, making sure to keep an eye on Mareek and the bird as she did so. Anything happened to the boy, anything at all, and she would be slicing up that swellow... but for now she'd just keep watch.

"Sorry about that," Mareek said, turning his attention back to the swellow. "It's nothing against you yourself, Erce can just be a bit overprotective of me at times. Anyway, like I said, you're free to watch us if you want."

[Chevaleresse]

Kage giggled at the attention he was getting from the Pokemon. He was starting to really love how the little Rock-types acted, if the ones he had met so far were any indication. He rubbed the snout of one of the Tyrunt pulling on his shirt as he sat down and asked it a question. "How's it going, buddy? I take it I'm at least a little interesting to you."

[Zephyrus the Priestess]

Astonished, flustered, then enthralled, Raiza reached a hand down to pet the one tugging at her shirt. "Aren't you all sweet, pon?" Raiza couldn't hold back a big smile, evidently delighted. When she turned, however, she noticed that Slade and the other fellow-- Shiro, it seemed-- weren't getting too much attention. Gesturing towards the two, she coaxed the little Tyrunts, "Hey sweeties, do you want to meet my groupmates, pon? They're really nice and friendly, and I'm sure they have some tasty snacks." The last one, she guided to Lana. "Hey Lana, say hi to this cutie, pon."

Lucifer on the other hand stuck close to Raiza, not too fond of the little things clinging to his Trainer.

Edited November 4, 2014 by ZephyrEnyalios

[Chim]

Somewhere in the forest the sun was reflecting on a small mirror signaling the location of four hooded characters. The smallest one, under suspicion for being a female, put the mirror away as soon as a steel bird landed not too far from them. The Skarmory had a camera around its neck. “Get the laptop,” the leader ordered. He removed the camera and plugged it into the small laptop one of the other members had in his bag. The images showed a group of students splitting up in four different directions. The camera, soaring high above their heads, managed to catch the faces of each and every one of them before heading off towards the next group.

“What now? Our target is in the perfect spot to launch the Donphan’s. That sandbox is close to their current position.” The one who spoke up had a deep and heavy voice. “This is our chance!”

“No,” the leader said. “He has two guardians with him. We wait to strike until he’s with Devin Cadmus.”

“Are you insane?” the last guy spoke up. He had a frail build. “Attacking them when the strongest person out of all of them is around?”

“You really are stupid, aren’t you?” the leader asked. “In case you didn’t notice; all groups have two guardians with them except for the elite four member. Probably because he can handle it all himself but he’s in the mountains where accidents happen… And he doesn’t have that annoying Flygon with him. Not even he can stop a Donphan stampede without an effort!”

The remaining members shut their mouth for a moment before the suspicious one asked another question. “What about our second target? He’s in that group right now. Do we strike?”

“No!” the leader replied once again. He couldn’t believe how dumb these guys were when it came to such an important mission. “The stampede will only work once so we’ll use it when they are a little more tired. Cadmus has to do that excursion 4 times and has to be on guard all the time. The first time around we can’t move. We’ll wait until our second target receives more freedom.” He pointed towards the screen where images of Rebecca and Brendan were playing. “We wait until he’s with them!”

[Commander]

You know, it's a bit boring without Shiro being around. Call me crazy, but I kind of miss the chaos he created already. Henry looked around and noticed Evan playing with the Gible. I should probably thank him for what he did with the Hydreigon...Henry's though was interrupted when he heard a red haired girl talk to smack to Danielle. And trouble never seems to avoid me. May as well have a little fun.

Henry made his way over to Danielle. "You must tell me how you do it. Even I couldn't make enemies this quickly."