A Litwick, wonderful. Her Gengar reacted quickly, utilizing Mean Look to keep it from fleeing. Deciding to support him further, Eve further called forth her Swablu. “Good. Just like we practiced Sawblu. Very carefully, so we won’t have to hurt it.” She had been told that they could battle in this zone, sure, but she did not feel like they should do a lot of damage to the Pokemon just living there.
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Hence, they had come up with a simple solution, much like they had when babysitting those rowdy kids. With Gengar’s Mean Look, she prevented the Pokemon from just running away. And in the meantime, Swablu would sing to it, hopefully putting it to sleep for easy capture. At least she hoped that it would succeed as she flung a ball at the Litwick once it fell asleep.


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That had worked like a charm! The sleeping Pokemon was captured peacefully, which in turn put her concerns to rest as well. The two Pokemon grinned happily, Gengar picking the ball up for her while Swablu flew above them. This little tactic devised at the HST was surprisingly effective, really. Though more experienced trainers probably had always known about it all.
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Ultimately, she still considered herself a novice of sorts at best. Regardless of that, though, it was time to move on, so she did just that. The trio soon reached the courtyard of a mansion, where she noticed a Cubone poking a helmet with its stick, apparently uncertain if that was another of its kind. “Let’s try this again,” she told the two of them, and the Mean Look and Sing combo was swiftly utilized once more. Which, hopefully, would lead to another successful catch.


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Good, good, another one down for the count. “Good job again, like this we can – wha?” Eve has to backpaddle with her arms briefly as she is hit by something on the head. Or rather, something briefly jumped onto her head, then from there straight onto the floating Swablu. The Impidimp laughed out loud doing that, then hopped into a tree and back into the woods, while Swablu tried its best to not plunge to the ground.
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It did manage that, fortunately, leaving the three of them to glare and stare after the intruder, uncertain what to do. However, Eve ultimately decided that, yes, she’d wanted to go head into the mansion now, not be drawn back out into the woods. So, they forsook the Impidimp and instead headed up the stairs, right towards the spooky house.



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“Now that was…unexpected,” she noted, before recalling her Swablu before it hit the ground. The little one had fought valiantly against the sleepiness, but ultimately, both it and the Drowzee had fallen for one-another’s attacks at the same time.
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Something Gengar found hilarious. But she figured that Swablu probably wouldn’t notice that it was being made fun of, so she’d let it slide this time around. Instead, she flung one of her two remaining balls at the Drowzee they’d encountered. More Pokemon to put others to sleep were always useful. Even if this one looked a tiny bit…off.


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Ew. A spider. Just no. Despite Genger’s unbridled joy at the sight, Eve just walked away from the Dewpider, as it walked away from her. She could have maybe gotten into it if that was a cute spider, like a Spinarak or such. But those thin legs with the weird bubbles? They were just…..no good.

It was done. She was not going to go after this one, that much was for sure. Instead, Eve turned towards the attic of the old house, trying to see if there were more…amiable critters up there.


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Seeing the Noibat made for an easy choice. Even though Gengar was already gearing up to tackle this one on his own, she instead urged him back and called out another of her Pokemon. After all, she had a Noivern. There was no need to fight if they could communicate, which was what happened soon thereafter.
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The two bat-like Pokemon flew around one another first until they came down and simply sat opposite of one another, making strange noises and gestures that Eve could not fully understand. She didn’t have to, though. It was somewhat easy to tell what was happening here, after all.
After a bit of this, Noivern eventually butted its smaller counterpart in the head. However, that evidently was not a hurtful thing. Just something the two of them considered enough of a fight. They looked at one another once more, before turning towards her. Taking that cue, Eve tossed her last ball, figuring that it would suffice.


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