"Wait" Almond called, raising his hand to try and catch Haruki before she went into the tall grass where the danger was.  "Why is your first reaction to run into the danger?"  He didn't get a response and would've spent a few moments, not a lot, thinking about what to do next, but Walnut didn't, and hurried off after Haruki.  "Oh!  Et tu Brutus!"  He called, shaking his head as he rant to catch up to the pokemon who was supposed to listen to him.  It was like his huskies all over again, charging into a Rottweiler, St Bernard, Irish wolf hound or whatever potential threat chance had put in their path, or behind them, or around the next corner.  

As he ran he came into a clearing surrounded by tall grass.  There were scratch marks in the dirt, probably from the pidgeys.  Walnut's green eyes darted around.  He growled again.  This time his warning wasn't met with silence.  Something big didn't like them, and it was even angrier now that they had done some following of their own.  It was obvious because before Almond could say they should leave a flaming dog lunged out of the growth and spit a streak of flames right at Walnut