~Ryley Grisdoe~
Route 29 is normally a very nice route. Some people compliment it for being more peaceful than other Johto locations. Its lush greenery tends to bring out the good thoughts in oneself.
...Unfortunately, their group wasn’t quite normal. Well, it was already down one musician, but that wasn’t the abnormality. It started about 30 minutes after they left New Bark, when Abigail brought up the topic of their destination. She voted for Blackthorn City, with Melody and Avery following suit soon after. Ryley thought they were headed towards Cherrygrove as Elm had suggested, but now it was almost guaranteed they would head towards Blackthorn. Not the Ryley minded, but still. He paused, thinking of their motivations behind the votes. Abgail’s reasons were unclear, Melody wanted a Zubat apparently (which did sound kinda cool), and Avery… Well, Avery was being Avery.
Speaking of Avery, he was the first to try and catch a pokemon. The group had already encountered some wild pokemon, and successfully warded them off. Fern, for her part, did fairly well herself. Tackle was a much more powerful move than given credit. It only took 2 or 3 hits to take out the wild ‘mons. Having recieved a couple of hits, she was resting in her pokeball currently.
Anyways, Avery started throwing rocks at something in a tree, which turned out to be an annoyed Pineco. Avery’s actions were confusing at first, as it seemed he was knocking down a normal pinecone. For those uniformed, Pineco looked like a pinecone, so the misinterpretation was completely justified.
After a failed capture attempt, Avery’s Phanpy, aptly named ‘Blue’, and the wild Pineco started an intense battle. At least, intense for a newer trainer like Ryley. Avery’s commands weren’t the clearest, but Blue seemed to understand most of the meaning. After the Phanpy had thrown the Pineco towards Avery, he caught the Pineco in another pokeball. This time the capture was a success.
However, not a moment later, Peggy was ‘viciously’ assaulted by a ball of fur called a Sentret. Despite Peggy’s Houndour being called out, the furball was able to steal her hat, quite deftly, if Ryley had to say. Though from there, Peggy and her Houndour took the advantage. It took a fall, a couple of bites and scratches, a burn, and two pokeballs, but Peggy eventually captured it.
The fun didn’t end there. Not a minute later, a scream erupted from Abigail. A cute little Spinarak had favored Abigail’s face as a new home. It seemed Abigail wasn’t the ‘landlord’ type of girl, as she tried to throw it away. It jumped off eventually, but not before throwing a web in her face. It was almost comical, the sequence of events. Stifling a laugh was hard, but Abigail’s break in sanity helped vastly. She looked 80% crazy, to put it simply. The bug type running off only made her… no, it worse. It wanted revenge.
That led to the current predicament. Abigail was burning rubber chasing the Spinarak into the forest. May sound harmless enough, but not in this situation. Melody seemed to think this too, and quickly raced after her.
Ryley contemplated leaving them to it for a good second. The optimist in his head told him they’d be fine. The rationalist told him they’d have a tough battle. However, he made a plan of action based around the moralist inside, as well as the want to do something.
“Dammit… This is idiotic...” The muttered swear preceded his acceleration into the forest. Before he entered the thicket, he called out to the others “I’m going to make sure those two don’t hurt themselves”. And with that, he was gone.
It took a bit of trekking Ryley to see where the two had stopped. In the middle of a group of Spinaraks. A cluster. A horde. A shitload of the tiny spiders. Oh Arceus... The first thought that entered Ryley’s mind was how this would be a arachnophobic person’s worst nightmare. His second thought was how the two girls were screwed. His third thought was how he should get the hell out of there as soon as possible. He fought the last thought, but still stood back, not being able to do much to help.
Ryley watched as Melody had Tesla use thunder wave repeatedly on the horde, but it didn’t affect nearly enough to make a big difference in their numbers. However, it succeeded in creating a slight escape route for them. Suddenly, inspiration struck Ryley. There was web on the ground. The Spinarak were on the web. The web was connected. Before he could stop himself, he called out to Melody.
“Use thunder wave on the web!”
Smart plan for Melody to use. Not so smart for Ryley to yell it. A few specks of green popped up near him. Time for him to listen to his third thought! He booked it, with a few Spinarak tailing not to far behind.
Route 29 is normally a very nice route. Some people compliment it for being more peaceful than other Johto locations. Its lush greenery tends to bring out the good thoughts in oneself.
...Unfortunately, their group wasn’t quite normal. Well, it was already down one musician, but that wasn’t the abnormality. It started about 30 minutes after they left New Bark, when Abigail brought up the topic of their destination. She voted for Blackthorn City, with Melody and Avery following suit soon after. Ryley thought they were headed towards Cherrygrove as Elm had suggested, but now it was almost guaranteed they would head towards Blackthorn. Not the Ryley minded, but still. He paused, thinking of their motivations behind the votes. Abgail’s reasons were unclear, Melody wanted a Zubat apparently (which did sound kinda cool), and Avery… Well, Avery was being Avery.
Speaking of Avery, he was the first to try and catch a pokemon. The group had already encountered some wild pokemon, and successfully warded them off. Fern, for her part, did fairly well herself. Tackle was a much more powerful move than given credit. It only took 2 or 3 hits to take out the wild ‘mons. Having recieved a couple of hits, she was resting in her pokeball currently.
Anyways, Avery started throwing rocks at something in a tree, which turned out to be an annoyed Pineco. Avery’s actions were confusing at first, as it seemed he was knocking down a normal pinecone. For those uniformed, Pineco looked like a pinecone, so the misinterpretation was completely justified.
After a failed capture attempt, Avery’s Phanpy, aptly named ‘Blue’, and the wild Pineco started an intense battle. At least, intense for a newer trainer like Ryley. Avery’s commands weren’t the clearest, but Blue seemed to understand most of the meaning. After the Phanpy had thrown the Pineco towards Avery, he caught the Pineco in another pokeball. This time the capture was a success.
However, not a moment later, Peggy was ‘viciously’ assaulted by a ball of fur called a Sentret. Despite Peggy’s Houndour being called out, the furball was able to steal her hat, quite deftly, if Ryley had to say. Though from there, Peggy and her Houndour took the advantage. It took a fall, a couple of bites and scratches, a burn, and two pokeballs, but Peggy eventually captured it.
The fun didn’t end there. Not a minute later, a scream erupted from Abigail. A cute little Spinarak had favored Abigail’s face as a new home. It seemed Abigail wasn’t the ‘landlord’ type of girl, as she tried to throw it away. It jumped off eventually, but not before throwing a web in her face. It was almost comical, the sequence of events. Stifling a laugh was hard, but Abigail’s break in sanity helped vastly. She looked 80% crazy, to put it simply. The bug type running off only made her… no, it worse. It wanted revenge.
That led to the current predicament. Abigail was burning rubber chasing the Spinarak into the forest. May sound harmless enough, but not in this situation. Melody seemed to think this too, and quickly raced after her.
Ryley contemplated leaving them to it for a good second. The optimist in his head told him they’d be fine. The rationalist told him they’d have a tough battle. However, he made a plan of action based around the moralist inside, as well as the want to do something.
“Dammit… This is idiotic...” The muttered swear preceded his acceleration into the forest. Before he entered the thicket, he called out to the others “I’m going to make sure those two don’t hurt themselves”. And with that, he was gone.
It took a bit of trekking Ryley to see where the two had stopped. In the middle of a group of Spinaraks. A cluster. A horde. A shitload of the tiny spiders. Oh Arceus... The first thought that entered Ryley’s mind was how this would be a arachnophobic person’s worst nightmare. His second thought was how the two girls were screwed. His third thought was how he should get the hell out of there as soon as possible. He fought the last thought, but still stood back, not being able to do much to help.
Ryley watched as Melody had Tesla use thunder wave repeatedly on the horde, but it didn’t affect nearly enough to make a big difference in their numbers. However, it succeeded in creating a slight escape route for them. Suddenly, inspiration struck Ryley. There was web on the ground. The Spinarak were on the web. The web was connected. Before he could stop himself, he called out to Melody.
“Use thunder wave on the web!”
Smart plan for Melody to use. Not so smart for Ryley to yell it. A few specks of green popped up near him. Time for him to listen to his third thought! He booked it, with a few Spinarak tailing not to far behind.
