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Topic Started: May 17 2012, 02:26 AM (613 Views)
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There was little more than a hilly path for pedestrians to reach the next town over. There was a wide, busy road but there was also no way of travelling it on foot. Besides, Tina didn't want anyone to see her, so this crude footpath through the dense conifers was pretty much ideal.

It wasn't usually all that hot in Pestilice's Prong even in the summer months but Tina had been trying to move as quickly as possible up this slope. So in her tight jeans she was feeling sticky and constricted. She looked up the path, then back down behind her before slipping into the trees to take her clothes off and change into something more loose and comfortable.

When she returned to the footpath she would look quite silly to any onlooker. But to her, she was not only feeling more airy and comfortable but she also looked pretty cool. Such was her delusion. Her baggy pants with its many pockets would look good on anyone else, and it was the style (about 5 years too late, but still...) for them to appear big. But she took it to extremes, as always. Same with the attached chains - it was part of the style, but she wore so many that anyone could hear her coming from their jangling and they would often become tangled.

And if you asked her who the rapper was on her hoodie, she would probably mispronounce his show name and get flustered with embarrassment if you asked her to recall any of his works. Because quite frankly, she didn't know any. And that bandanna on her head, holding her hair in the most ridiculous position adequately finished the look of “clueless wannabe”.

On the plus side, anyone besides her father would have a harder time identifying her.

Tina reckoned that it was probably safe for Osvaldo to come out of his pokeball, so she freed him onto the pine-needle path. After the red energy from the pokeball faded into the physical form of Osvaldo, he rubbed his eyes and shook his head to get the sleep out of him, before looking up at Tina. He backed off in surprise at first before he recognised that babyish girl's freckled face.

He stood there with his jaw open for a few seconds before he started laughing so hard that he fell into a croaky laughing fit, rolling on the ground.

“Hey! What's so funny?!” Tina asked with a frown.

Osvaldo couldn't stop laughing - he could only point at Tina as he continued to roll about the ground with the giggles.

“Why are you laughing?! Stop laughing!” Tina stomped her foot. She tried to appear angry but tears started to well up in her eyes - she couldn't stand the thought of being seen as an object of someone else's amusement.

Osvaldo stopped for a second, seeing Tina getting teary-eyed. This was too much - he burst into another laughing fit. He grabbed his sides as they began to hurt.

Tina sniffled, wiped the tears of her face and rolled back her fist. “I'll... I'll hit you! Stop it!”

At that Osvaldo jumped to his feet, assumed a fighting stance and Leered at her seriously. There was no way this little dork was going to hit her. If she so dared, he thought, she was going to lose a limb. He made sure that the look he gave her made that clear, and it did. Tina, still holding up her fist, didn't dare move an inch closer, but she was unwilling to back down either. They were at a standoff where neither the pokemon nor the trainer wanted to be seen as weaker or more cowardly than the other. The only difference was that Osvaldo was sure he could take her if it came down to that. Tina, on the other hand, had a face plastered with fear and wet with tears.

The standoff was interrupted by the sound of rustling in the trees. Trainer and pokemon both turned their head to see what it was. It had stopped. Perhaps it was nothing? The trees rustled again. Something was there, and it was coming closer, but neither of them could tell if it was human or pokemon from the dense foliage.
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((Please write a RP post; it will help give an idea as how to start this. It could be a simple running from tree to tree, diving into bushes here and there, so long as it is something to be worked with.))
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((I got confused, but Reiki helped me figure it out. I've added an RP, and I've taken the mod request description and put it in the mod-to-play-with request post here.))
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There was another rustle in the bushes and depending upon Osvaldo's reaction time, the jade Totodile would either find himself scot-free or covered in a sticky, wed-like substance. The source of the fibrous slop and noise would seconds later be revealed as a lone Spinarak, sitting at the bottom of the bush and clicking its mandibles aggressively.

Overhead, well above Tina and Osvaldo, was a lone thread stretching from one tree branch to another. It would seem that the two had interrupted the web making process of the Spider Pokemon and it had apparently taken the Totodile's laughing as some sort of threat or challenge. As the single Spinarak sat there and hissed, several other clicking noises could be heard in the treetops.
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Out of the trees shot forth a string of sticky gloop, hitting Osvaldo right in the face. Tina could only watch in horror as her pokemon tumbled backwards before battling with the sticky, stringy stuff that Osvaldo was trying to pry off himself, but with no success. He tried to grab it but his arms only became stuck to and entangled with it.

Tina's head spun to the source of the disabling attack. Sat on the forest floor was a spinarak, a six-legged spider pokemon. Most trainers might have taken this opportunity to take a pokedex reading or attempt to catch it, but not Tina. No, Tina stood and screamed a scream that sounded so similar to a football whistle it was unacnny. She then turned and bolted before trying to claw her way up one of the sequoia trees. The bark broke away in pieces and she made no headway, all the while with tears running down her face and screeching “KILL IT! KILL IT!

The web-covered Osvaldo had managed to at least uncover his eyes and free his arms, and could hear the clicking jaws of more spinarak in the trees above. Even if Tina was too hysterical to notice, Osvaldo could at least make a guess as to what was going on. He looked up, seeing a web stretching between the trees. This was either a nest or a web for catching prey, at least, the beginnings of one.

As the spinarak hissed at Osvaldo, he couldn't refuse the challenge, and his pride wasn't going to let a swarm of spinarak get in the way of that. Fighting long-range with long-range, Osvaldo smirked before taking a deep breath and blasting a Water Gun attack in the direction of the spinarak on the ground.
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For being the one who instigated the battle and even throwing the first punch, the Spinarak wasn't very good at taking a hit. Osvaldo's Water Gun sent the spider tumbling backwards into the bushes behind it. It happened so fast that it almost seemed comical, until, of course, the clicking noises started to grow louder and louder. It seemed that every inch of tree above them started to rustle and eventually revealed Spinarak's clinging to them, all peering down at Osvaldo with beady, narrowed eyes. If it wasn't already obvious they were quite mad, the patterns on their backsides all seemed to be sporting a frown to get this point across.

Even the tree that poor Tina was attempting to climb had spiders slowly inching down their webs to get a better look at and keep the human in her place. In total, there were about twenty Spinarak. Each and every one of them then started to sporadically spit globs of web at Tina. They were aiming for her body but should the trainer try and make a run for it, the little spiders would block her way with a thread of super sticky web. They weren't trying to tie her up (not yet, at least) but rather seemed to be taunting her and laughing as they did so.

While the swarm tormented Tina, the lone Spinarak from before recovered itself and scurried out of the bushes, ready to start the battle with Osvaldo over. Staring at the jade Totodile, the Spinarak started to shake, then suddenly began spitting several, needle-like projectiles at its opponent. As it performed its Pin Missile, the other Spinarak cheered it on.
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Osvaldo's ego was inflated by his success. He could take them all on, he reckoned, and blast them out of the trees. The sight of dozens of spinarak emerging from the trees above with their combined clicking noises filled him with adrenaline. He took another deep breath and fired another continuous jet of water from his mouth at the many spinarak in the trees, having underestimated his first opponent. That spinarak that he had blasted away the first time still had a lot of fight left in it, and it was coming back for Osvaldo.

Meanwhile Tina had gone past the hysterics stage and had entered the frozen in complete and utter terror stage. The tree that she had been feebly trying to claw her way up was chock full of spinarak inching their way down towards her, clicking their mandibles menacingly and displaying their large abdomen with the frowning face pattern as a warning. A few of then even had a frowning smile pattern - they were clearly teasing her. Her legs wouldn't respond, they were going weak and wobbly. She couldn't even stay in control of her own bladder muscles and ended up wetting herself.

The spinarak above Tina furthered their attack of terror upon Tina and spat their sticky silk at her from their spinnerets. They took her by surprise - she jolted in fright but didn't have time to run and was pelted by the sticky silk missiles, the final one knocking her to the ground. She screamed in a panicked frenzy as she tried to get the silk off of herself but started to become entangled in it.

Osvaldo had more important things to focus on than the wimpy cries of his trainer, but he was also missing the spinarak on the ground that was preparing a new attack. It shot forth several glowing pins, each with their own energetic trailing light, which hurtled towards Osvaldo who was too busy trying to douse the other spinarak out of the trees. The first pin missile hit Osvaldo right in the side, the force sending him flying across the forest floor, before another and another hit him with accuracy. A few sped past him, but a reasonable amount of damage had been done.

Osvaldo, clearly aching, could not let his opponent see any weakness in him and struggled back to his feet before shooting the spinarak on the ground a furious, narrow-eyed Leer. This time he couldn't let his guard down. He made a mental note of that.
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As Osvaldo fired Water Gun after Water Gun at the Spinarak in the trees, each of the spiders withdrew into the safety of the branches and then came back out again once the barrage of water had subsided. Each time the Totodile missed, they would all click their mandibles and make hissing noises that sounded an awful lot like laughing. As excitable as they seemed, none of them attacked Osvaldo. They were simply cheering on the one Spinarak on the ground (and tormenting Tina any way they could). As their comrade's Pin Missile attack made contact with Osvaldo, the treetops erupted with shrill squeaks and cries of triumph - and quickly turned into hisses and clicking when Osvaldo countered with a Leer.

The Leer seemed to immobilize the Spinarak, its abdomen turning into a worried sort of face that signified a drop in its defenses.

After a moment, the Bug-type regained its composure and went in for another attack. Rearing back on its hind legs (all four of them), the Spider Pokemon proceeded to spit thin strings of web at Osvaldo. Unlike its normal thread, these tendrils were a bright green in color and were meant to suck Osvaldo energy upon contact. The Leech Life attack wasn't as strong as the Pin Missile attack, but perhaps it could help restore some the HP that first Water Gun had taken away.
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The green, living thread that the spinarak shot in Osvaldo's direction was too quick for the little crocodile pokemon. Although he saw it coming, his legs were too short and underdeveloped to be able to escape out of the way fast enough, and the string latched itself onto his skin and actually rooted itself into him. He tugged at the string trying to get it off but felt a sharp sting as he pulled at it, followed by the feeling of being drained of energy. The Leech-Life attack was successful. After Spinarak had drained as much energy as it could, the thread dropped out of Osvaldo's skin, leaving him with a little less vitality and Spinarak with a little more.

Osvaldo could no longer hide the fact that he was feeling a bit tired and even slightly intimidated by the spectators in the trees - this was his first real battle after all and with no guidance from his trainer - and started to hunch a bit though he tried his best not to. He shot Tina a quick glance, actually hoping she might be ready to help him come up with a strategy. Instead she was huddled into a ball on the ground, covered in sticky silk, smelling of pee, whimpering, and hiding her eyes waiting until it was all over.

Osvaldo gritted his teeth angrily realising he was going to have to do this himself. He decided to do what he did best - he charged towards the spinarak and opened his jaws, ready to bring the force of his Bite down upon the spinarak's brittle exoskeleton. If he was successful, he thought, the spinarak might just flinch for long enough for him to get another attack in.
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Once they saw that Tina was completely attenuated and was certainly no threat, the Spinarak swarm decided to leave the soiled trainer alone. Besides, what fun was it to torment someone who was already past their breaking point? The Spider Pokemon left the poor female to soak in her own bodily fluids and scuttered closer to the battle between one of their own and Osvaldo.

Once the spider had successfully ingrained its Leech Life into the crocodile's skin, the swarm all started to cheer and spit celebratory strings of web into the canopy. However, this came to an abrupt end when Osvaldo promptly latched his powerful jaws around their comrades abdomen. The way Osvaldo had its back end situated in his mouth prohibited the Spinarak from producing silk from either end of its body, essentially leaving it helpless. There was also an audible cracking noise as its exoskeleton started to rupture.

In an enormous amount of pain and unable to continue, the Spinarak let out a shrill cry, "Spiii!"

Immediately, another Spinarak jumped from the adjacent trees with the intentions of landing on Osvaldo. If everything went according to plan, the spider would then try and lock its mandibles down on the crocodile's brow to produce a Bug Bite. Meanwhile, other Spinarak would rope their injured comrade and reel it into the branches above. It would seem that it had 'tapped out' of the match.
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Osvaldo felt and heard the spinarak's exoskeleton give way under the force of his Bite. It was an instinctively satisfying sensation; pleasure produced from the primal part of his brain from a time when his ancestors would crunch up the bones of prey caught in their native swamps. The shrill cry of the spinarak as it was overwhelmed by the pain of essentially having its main body cavity impacted like a crushed egg was all the more satisfying for Osvaldo.

Hearing the shrill cry of the spinarak and tasting the coppery body fluids leak into his mouth, Osvaldo knew the spider pokemon was beaten. He let the bug pokemon go to writhe in its pain, hoping it would now think twice before challenging a totodile again. Osvaldo was high on victory, shooting his fists up over his head and shouting a croaky war cry, not realising that he was repeating the same mistake he had made earlier.

Something hit him from behind, though he couldn't see what it was, it floored him with enough force to knock the wind out of his lungs. Stunned from this unexpected attack Osvaldo struggled before throwing the new attacker off himself, not before his attacker attempted to latch itself onto his bony, scaly brow with its mandibles. The force of throwing off something that had attached itself to part of his body caused that part to rip right off, leaving a gaping missing chunk just above his right eye.

The deep, exposed wound from the Bug Bite felt like it was on fire, and Osvaldo couldn't contain himself. He was exhausted, low on energy and now infuriated. He let out an agonizing cry and flew into a blind Rage, flailing and snapping at the attacker, who still had a piece of his eyebrow between its mandibles.

Meanwhile Tina was still crying in a heap on the ground, feeling sorry for herself, but not without pangs of guilt itching her from the inside. She made a gap between her fingers for one eye to peek through, but seeing how she had neglected to help her new pokemon who was now in trouble she started to feel sick. Her panic-filled mind tried to come up with some kind of escape plan before something terrible happened to Osvaldo and herself.
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With both Spinarak and Totodile blood littering the dead leaves on the forest floor, it was becoming obvious that this was getting way out of hand. At first, it seemed it was just a sort of teasing and taunting by the Spinarak swarm as a way of protecting its territory, but now that one its comrades had been severely injured, it had gotten quite serious. As the spiders tended to their wounded and bleeding member in the treetops, they were all screeching insistently. When they saw that a chunk of Osvaldo's brow had been taken off, the screeching grew even louder. While a couple of the spiders tended to the wounded comrade, the rest of the swarm inched down the trees and towards the Totodile and its owner. They didn't seem to be playing anymore; a couple of the spiders rounded on Tina a second time, firing the same strands of Leech Life Osvaldo had seen moments prior.

Then, without warning, a gruff howl sliced through the sounds of screeching and silenced the Spinarak. A Growlithe entered the melee from the direction Tina and Osvaldo had traveled from, barking and spitting small fire balls to try and break up the brawl. The spiders were wary of the puppy Pokemon and backed off into the bushes, hissing cautiously. The sound of someone running up the trail followed, as did the shrill sound of a whistle blowing. An officer arrived on the scene seconds afterward, panting and pointing accusingly with his whistle.
"What's going on here?" He demanded breathlessly, motioning towards the dozens of glinting eyes in the treetops and to the maimed Totodile.
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Before Osvaldo could land a hit, his opponent was blasted away by a fireball. Looking around he could see that several more spinarak had been ready to join the fight but they too scattered as the fireballs got dangerously close. Osvaldo was surprised to see a fire type pokemon jump in to save his life, but prideful Osvaldo could not tolerate the idea of someone having come to his rescue.

Still under the effect of his Rage, Osvaldo growled and shouted at the growlithe, “To-dial!” I had it!

Tina was still too afraid to move until she saw the man approach from down the path. The closer he got the more she could make out his uniform and the sound of his whistle, followed by his voice. In a split second reaction Tina wailed loudly before scrambling to her feet to seek refuge in the authority figure. However she soon started to come back to her senses - she had been trying to avoid the police this whole time. No doubt her father had sent them and he won't have put in any good words about her pokemon.

She stood awkwardly before the man, legs tight shut in an attempt to hide the fact that she had leaked out of sheer fright earlier, before slowly stepping back away from him and his growlithe.

“It wasn't my fault...” She said before sniffling back the tears. “I didn't *sniff* do anything wrong. *sniff* Osvaldo didn't do anything wrong!”

Her voice was getting more quick and hysterical with every word that she spoke. Between the incident with her father and the spinarak attack, she didn't know where to start trying to defend herself and her pokemon.
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The trained Growlithe ignored Osvaldo's remark with and responded with nothing more than a meaningless bark and wagging tail. It then proceeded to chase the remainder of the Spinarak off until the all the glittering sets of eyes in the trees had vanished. The officer meanwhile was a little put off by Tina's broken speech and sighed loudly, raising his hand in an attempt to calm the young woman down so he could understand.

"Calm down, I can't even understand what you're saying. If you didn't do anything wrong, then you shouldn't be crying like this, now should you?" The man turned his attention away from the female for a split second to listen to his radio. It could clearly be heard on the radio a woman mentioning to be on the lookout for a female and a green Totodile. Hearing this, the officer looked from Tina to Osvaldo, no doubt suspicious of the two (after all, how many green Totodile were there?).

"It looks like you're in a lot of trouble." He said sternly.
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Trouble - that word never sat well with Tina. While she often (badly) tried to make herself look tough as a defence mechanism against school bullies, trouble was never something she sought. Everything she ever did was to avoid trouble and to get people to leave her alone, or get people to see she isn't so weak and actually want to be friends with her. These thoughts interfered with her attempts to calm down, because she felt it was so unfair.

The police officer seemed less of a saviour and more of a threat now. She took more steps back and then glanced at Osvaldo, who was giving everyone angry looks - even her! But despite the fact that he was upset at her cowardice during the spinarak ambush, he walked over to her side and stood facing the officer and the growlithe, ready to do whatever he might need to.

For some reason having Osvaldo close to her seemed to help Tina compose herself a bit better. “I *sniff* was told to come out here.” Her voice was a lot calmer now, though her speech sounded like she had a blocked nose. “...By Professor Redwood, *sniff* to fill the pokedex for him. Dad wouldn't listen, and he grabbed me! And Osvaldo... he thought dad was hurting me! Then we got attacked by these spinarak pokemon!”

Osvaldo, though tired and wounded and with his eyes drooping, readied himself in case the officer didn't accept her explanation - he didn't want to end up in trouble just as much as Tina didn't want to. Though it looked almost as though he might pass out at the slightest shove.
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The officer looked from Tina to Osvaldo, clearly trying to decipher what was happening and what he needed to do. The girl obviously didn't seem like a threat and her Totodile hadn't attacked him without provocation, so perhaps the duo wasn't as bad as they seemed. The man with the Growlithe groaned to himself, seeming to understand that the best thing to do was to just let Tina go though it was going against his orders.

"Just make sure you take that Totodile to a Pokemon Center," He said. "I should be taking you back with me, but the nearest Pokemon Center is in Brevis. So, for the sake of your Totodile, continue on your way and let's hope I don't run into you again."
With that said, the officer and his Growlithe started back down the trail from which they came, ignoring the second radio broadcast about being on the lookout for Tina and Osvaldo.
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Tina nodded her head timidly and acknowledged the officer's instructions, before he turned around with his growlithe and walked off. She looked down at Osvaldo who, upon seeing Tina's miserable expression, winced and looked away from her. It pained him that he had such a pathetic trainer even more than his wounds did. However, he didn't have any energy left to mock her and just tried his best to ignore her now that the danger had passed.

“I'm s...” Tina started, but apologies never came easy to her. “I'm sorry. I really didn't know what to do, though. I mean it, it wasn't my fault...”

Osvaldo put his palm on his face and sighed heavily at Tina's lack of guts to even apologise properly.

Tina reached for Osvaldo's pokeball and hesitated before returning him to it. If she could only manage to do one thing right, she decided she would make sure Osvaldo got the medical attention he needed. She considered sneaking back into the trees to change back into the tight yet dry jeans in her bag, but the thought of encountering any more spinarak put her off. The thought of those beady eyes peering down at her from the trees gave her the chills and she started moving briskly towards Brevis Village.

((Completed. Thanks, Nichole! Should I post in the approval thread, or do you give approval rewards?))
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(( No need; I'll just go ahead and approve this.

One BP for Osvaldo~ ))
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