Poke-people: Chapter 2: Your first Exam

[Ojama Yellow]

Lionel took Dray's Heal Ball out of his pocket. Please...please don't fail me... It's all about the trust between the Trainer and the Pokemon. Lionel shied. It had been some time since his Mime Jr. talked to him. Ms. Mime...do you think I will be able to bond with Dray? However, this time he didn't get a response. It made him a bit sad. "O-ok... I'm ready..."

[Chevaleresse]

"Let's do this, then." He waved Absolution forward. "Remember," he called out to Lionel. "Confidence. You're in charge." Sarcus took up his position at one of the ends of the field. "Whenever you're ready."

[Ojama Yellow]

Lionel released Dray out of his Heal Ball, and after a short consideration, he also called out Rebel and Tristan. Lionel put them on the sidelines, next to Ms. Mime. "G-guys, I want you t-to cheer on D-Dray. I-it will help to w-warm him up on us." Tristan, kind and forgiving Tristan, was happy to do so. He wasn't sure of Ms. Mime, but pretty sure that Rebel didn't want to after the incident.

"A-alright Dray, our opponent is t-that Absol! I know t-that two of your moves are D-Dragon Rage and Fire Fang, but would you mind showing me a-another one of your attacks?" The Druddigon looked at him, then turned around to the Absol. His face changed to a terribly scary one. Lionel knew that he had used Scary Face to lower the Speed of Absolution. "G-good job, Dray!" he yelled, but the Druddigon looked over his shoulder and gave him a depresiatingly look. Lionel knew that the Druddigon didn't use the move because he ordered him to do that, but because Dray thought it would be the best solution to do so. Lionel remembered how Sarcus was able to talk to him telepathically before, so he tried to create to do it himself this time. He concentrated...hoped the thoughts would appear in Sarcus' mind... I-if Dray is refusing to o-obey, don't be a-afraid to attack h-him at f-full power. He needs t-to understand that we c-can only w-win as a t-team.

Edited July 9, 2014 by Pineapple

[Chevaleresse]

Noted. Good job, by the way. Normally I would need to actively maintain the link for you to do that. Sarcus then returned his attention to his partner. "Absolution, Hone Claws." The white Pokemon looked at him questioningly for a moment, but proceeded with the move, scraping his claws together and enhancing both their sharpness and his focus. Don't worry, he told his Absol telepathically. We're going easy. I'm not losing my mind.

[Ojama Yellow]

I'll start off with long range. "Dray, use Dragon Rage, now!" However, the Druddigon refused to do what Lionel ordered him to, and used his Fire Fang to run to the Absol. Dray...why won't you listen?

[Chevaleresse]

Alright, Dray is disobeying. Make him reconsider with a Sucker Punch, and dodge that Fire Fang with Detect. The Absol darted outward with surprising speed despite the Scary Face and clawed the Druddigon sharply along his side, deftly avoiding the flaming jaws.

[Ojama Yellow]

"Dray! Are you alright?" The Druddigon slowly got up, pain in his eyes. He looked at Lionel, turned around a second time while his palms glowed reddish, and striked at full power. That attack is Revenge... Dray knows Revenge?

[grasssnake485]

Char, obviously pissed after the taunt, sent a shower of embers at Whisper. Sheesh, at this rate, Char's gonna grow to be a wild pokemon. "Char, get behind Whisper and use Ember again!" Sakura and Demon collided flat in the middle of the ember shower, but the flower pokemon didnt seem too badly harmed from the flames. Grace thought for a moment, and gave the florges a hand signal. Fairy wind, and make sure you get them both!

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Jake's eye sparked for a moment as he saw Grace gave a hand signal.

"Whisper, use protect!"

The sneasel didn't deny that was a good idea, and produced a shield around itself. Demon merely absorbed the flames char used to strengthen itself with flash fire, it's eyes burst into a red shade and flames exploded around it violently. When the fairy wind hit it, it took significant damage, and was sent flying backwards into char. It quickly scampered up, enraged, and dashed at the florges at maximum speed with fire fang ready.

(Flash fire and screech plus stab... I wonder how much that would do to a florges actually...)

Edited August 4, 2014 by Absol-lutelty awesome!

[grasssnake485]

//Cuts about 44% of HP//

Sakura crashed into the ground after taking quite a bit of damage from the fire fang. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Grace giving her another hand signal. Reflect.

"Char, Dig towards the houndour!" Grace shouted. "And dont miss this time!" Char nodded, finally obeying, and quickly burrowed a hole in the ground and disappeared far underground.

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"Demon, use odor sleuth to detect it! Whisper! Stop it quickly!"

Picking up char's scent after a good sniffing, it used smog to set a smokescreen while Whisper used ice beam on the floor to try to prevent char's attack.

Whisper watched Sakura with an enraged face as the reflect went up.

[Chevaleresse]

Absolution took the attack, but not well. He skidded across the ground before scrambling back to his feet. He didn't order Dray to do that either. Absolution, use Play Rough! Sarcus called out to Lionel. "You have to give him orders! Don't let him act on his own, at least not right now."

[Ojama Yellow]

The Play Rough made contact, and Dray was hurt pretty badly. "Dray!" Lionel called out to him, "If y-you keep battling h-him like you are doing right n-now, you'll n-never win! You have t-to trust me, D-Dray! We can w-win this, but only if w-we work together!" The Druddigon looked at Lionel with the same expression from before, but this time he didn't attack yet. Did I really...reach out to him this time? "Now, Dragon Rage, and really Dragon Rage this time!" Lionel was shocked by how powerful his voice sounded for that one moment. He didn't tolerate any denial from Dray. At that moment, he was the leader and Dray had to obey him. And much to his surprise, Dray did indeed use his Dragon Rage. I-I'm finally making some progress here... Lionel sent telepathically to Sarcus.

[Chevaleresse]

Alright, Absolution. Dodge the Dragon Rage, but pretend like it hit you and fall over. The Dark-type obeyed, flopping over with a pointed look at his trainer. Excellent, he sent to Lionel. I think our free time might be just about over, so let's finish this up.

[Ojama Yellow]

A-alright... Dray seemed quite happy about his victory, but he still remained his cool. "Y-you did great, Dray, now t-take some rest, o-okay?" Lionel said as he recalled the Druddigon. After that, he also recalled Tristan and Rebel. Ms. Mime climbed up on his shoulder. "N-now, let's go back to the school b-building, s-shall we?"

[grasssnake485]

Grace watched in annoyance as Char popped out of the ground, and missed again. Not sure if this is going to work, but.. Grace snapped her fingers, and pointed. Sakura gave a nod in response, and raised her arms to call out a sparkly wind that blew most of the smokescreen away. "Hey Jake, I bet you dont know what Char's fourth move is, do you?" Grace smirked. "CHAR!" she shouted. "You better not miss with the move Dad took so long to teach you, FOCUS BLAST! Towards the sneasel!" The tiny chimchar scoffed at her, as if to say, "you think Im gonna miss?", but obeyed. A glowing orange ball of energy appeared between his hands as Char dashed in close to Whisper, and sent the focus blast flying.

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"Hehehe, c'mon have you forgotten so quickly?"

Whisper's teeth shined at Jake's words and it used protect, while houndour flew at Sakura and used fire fang again, bursting with power.

The kings rock on its head was giving him more courage.

"CMON MAKE IT FLINCH! WE HAVE A GREAT CHANCE!"

Edited August 7, 2014 by Absol-lutelty awesome!

[grasssnake485]

"Gii?" A slender, black shadow appeared through the doorway of the gym. It slithered over to Alina and up her arm, and nipped the girl on on the shoulder.

"Giwira!" she grumbled. The serperior gave a dissatisfied glare in reply. "Yeah, thanks a whole million for waking me up. You know I hardly get any sleep these days" Just then, a flash of light appeared, leaving behind a small, folded note. Reaching out, Alina plucked the note from the air and unfolded it.

Alina--

Sorry about disappearing so much. Ive got a rough lead about what Team Shadow's plans are, so I went to stop them myself, indirectly though. I dont want to tell ANYONE where Im going, or where Im at in case this message doesnt make it to you, but I'll just tell you this: I took Rayquaza and Crystallia with me. Pass everyone in this year's class, and do me a favor, lend my pokemon to those who you think should have them.

And also, I want you to teach everyone the forbidden spell we discussed a couple days ago. Use it to seal off the temples, and the ruins. And just in case, lay some traps and mines there. Whatever you do, we MUST protect the palace's secrets. I sent for another group of recruits, they should be arriving sometime this evening or afternoon. I also want you to check up on our stores of berries, herbs, and apricorns, and make sure there is at least three guards on duty 24/7.

--Emerald

"Em..." Alina trailed off. Why wont you ever tell me ANYTHING?! Just then, the bell signaling the end of lunch period sounded. The bell sounds so hollow for some reason.. Or is it just me..?

~

Sakura flinched as the houndour grew larger and larger, to her perception. Its flaming fangs left behind red burn marks.

Grace clenched her teeth. "Char! brick -" The girl was abruptly cut off by the sound of the school bell. Mildly annoyed, she called her pokemon back, and turned toward the gym. "Hey, good game. But Im not losing next time, at least not until Char evolves into a monferno." With that, she turned and dashed toward the gym, even though she was nowhere near late.

~

As Tami dumped the uneaten contents of her meal in the garbage, the bell chimed, sounding the end of lunch. "Well then, Prisma, Petal, let's see what's in store for us in the gym, shall we?" The two pokemon trotted after the girl toward the gym.

~

"DONG DONG DOGN"

The chiming of the bell woke Harry from his partial slumber. After training all lunch, a nap was what routinely followed training for him. "Looks like exam part two is starting; you guys ready? 'Cuz Im going to knock their socks off!" the boy grinned determinedly.

[Chevaleresse]

Sarcus turned to walk back to the building, waiting for Lionel to catch up to him. "You did good," he said to the other trainer. "It's hard to do this sort of thing, especially if you're not used to it. If a dragon-type is young enough, the best way to show that you're in charge is usually beating them one-on-one, but I always hated that. I've never been all that physical, yeah, but I felt like I was hurting them, even though they were fine afterward." The lanky teen shrugged. "Do you ever get the feeling that you get along better with animals than people?"

Max shouted to Grace as she dashed off, "I'll beat you there!" The trainer flew off as quickly as his feet could carry him toward the gym.

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Jake's sparkling face of great excitement at his certain victory sudden became the normal monotone "Jake stare", when the bell went off...

His fast beating heart felt as thought it would explode out of his chest with the great vibe he got from the battle, only to be buzzkilled by the bell that rang... His arms slowly lowered back to his side, brushed himself off, and stalked inside. He had no sight of Grace, Max, Lionel, or Sarcus anywhere around him in the huge crowd, He took a quick step forward to make his way to the gym when a girl blocked his way, as she

simply stood there in the crowd talking with a large group of people, they were all a little older looking than Jake. Jake's solemn stare changed as his mood swung into a far more hateful one.

Taking note of his surroundings he saw the crowd in front of him again.

"Move..."

The crowd of girls ignored him and Jake quickly became annoyed.

His breathing slowed and became far more noticeable as his anger grew and he gritted his teeth in anger.

Finally the crowd noticed him, and one of the girls spoke

"Wow kid, who stuck a d*** in your lunch?"

This comment made Jake snap, a dark red aura beam appeared in his hand and he fired it in the middle of the crowd, causing an explosion strong enough to throw all of them out of his way, and he continued to trudge to the gym as his mood swung into a more normal state, and his trudge picked up into a walk as he made his way into the gym.

Behind him the crowd of girls spoke

(#1) "Ow, That hurt a bit..."

(#2) "wow that little kid was mad huh?"

(#3) "YOU'RE CUTE :3"

Jake's calm and collected mood he was trying to build towards broke down like a Jenga tower as his cheeks turned red and he darted towards the third girl.

"Listen, I am many things but I am NOT CUTE!"

He crossed his arms and made a fast paced walk toward the gym.

"Humph, women."

Mark was out and about striking up a conversation with everyone he could on the way to the gym, talking about everything from animes to politicians.

He eyeballed the 3 girls as he was walking by...

And winked to all of them...

He kept triumphantly walking to the gym with a high head like usual.

"Man, women are great!"

[Jory]

Sonny was already in the gym by the time the bell had rang. He was waiting for Alina to arrive so they could begin conducting the tests for part two of the exam. During the recess, he had watched Lionel and Sarcus battling. And right at the end, he watched Sarcus's Absol take the fall. His expression had softened at that. A leader, he thought to himself. Someone who cares about everyone enough to do something about it. He stood near the bleachers, awaiting the next section as he watched the students begin to file in.

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Jake filed in as quickly as possible wondering what kind of event there would be today. Mark stepped up behind him and smiled, wondering how he and Jake would do today. When Jake finished he saw Sonny and approached him.

"So, what's the deal today? I'm not particularly happy about all this, but I've gotta wonder."

[Jory]

Sonny grinned as he saw Jake approaching him. Over the past few weeks, he'd seen a marked improvement in the student's behavior. While he was still headstrong as ever and clearly had some kind of issue with authority, his battling skills had progressed immensely and he was clearly dedicated to his studies. The scout held a lot of empathy for students whose biggest enemies were themselves, and there was no doubt in Sonny's mind that Jake was one of those.

"I really don't know, Jake. Alina's kept me in the dark about this just as much as she has you," he said, his grin curling into a dissatisfied frown at his own mention of Alina.

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"That's... Terrible. I hate how Alina can do that to us at that drop of a hat..... I'd love to know what we're doing-"

Jake noticed Sonny's strange expression at that moment.

"Are... You ok sir?..."

Mark stepped up behind Jake after filing in and spoke quite clearly,

"Jake, whatever it is, I expect you don't fail..."

He turned away and crept off.

Jake turned back to sonny,

"He expects a lot from me, as his student and all. Years ago him and I were working together in a mentorship with a strange team, I can't remember their names, but they certainly had legendary pokemon in their sights. I have no clue why however. I was given a fake backpack full of weapons to kill someone. For some reason I have no idea why... I believe I gained some sort of amnesia from somewhere.

(Smashing my head on the tree WAYYY back when the rp was young in chapter 1)

Besides that, I can't wait to see you out there sir!"

He saluted and walked off towards Mark.

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[Jory]

Sonny simply scratched his head at Jake's strange behavior. Well, I guess I can't say that's out of the ordinary. At least for him, the scout thought, still troubled by the lack of any clear instruction.