Kaida watched as Kobe vanished and reappeared some ways away, silently stretching and puffing out a breath. If his reaction to her previous words was obvious, she hadn’t noticed it. She couldn’t notice most things. Not for strangers.

“I wasn’t aware we were racing.” A drawl escaped her maw, shiny enamel showing through her lips. It was not quite a smile, yet not quite a snarl. As if unworried, she let the Ralts make her way back, leaning back a little to not loom over the smaller Pokemon.

An image. Hello. An Ekans. In her thoughts, it seemed Kaida preferred the quickness of images, and she received such psychic connection in the same way. She attempted to make use of the Ralts gift, her mind bubbling with thoughts. Have he sent to make my dreams come true? She could only smirk at her own excitement as the little Ralts seemed to giggle at her. It was so unlike her.

On her shoulders, Ormr leaned down, shaking with anticipation. It appeared that she was not the only one who wished for ways to communicate.

An alien mind touched hers, and two beings that never walked apart talked for the first time. Ormr.

Kaida.

That’s my name, you know my name. I was worried you didn't.

An image drifted through the connection, a smaller her. A more rough her. A memory of when they were lost and together. It was a happier time. I always knew who you were.

She couldn’t help but to beam, the ghosts she felt all around her seemed to vanish at the feeling swelling in her chest. A brief, dark memory stabbed at her side, and she spoke freely. Maybe too free.

I’m glad I didn’t die before this.

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Her partner would not have such a merry time.

Sableye roamed the mountaintop, usually under the surface. Jewels and minerals were their trade and foodstuffs. Today was the day they came to the surface, prancing across the deathly dirt and rocks before coming to a halt. Many figures were on this mountain today, and the pack swarmed together, hissing and spitting. Their shy nature did not mean they were harmless and humans on their feeding grounds agitated them.

One was driven to fury by the situation, and pitched downhill, a crackling yowl ripping through the air. The quick movement and charge emboldened the rest of the pack, who rushed after the brave one, their precious jewels and minerals driving them towards the first human they saw. A man with a Yamask, seeming to be solo, their charge only frenzied more. A Shadow Ball charged and crackled in one’s claws, the Sableye snickering as it closed in on what it thought was easy prey.

And down the mountain, Kaida did not know the sudden change that shook up their situation. The previous offer to Teleport would soon become very important to everyone present, it seemed.

Mission: A Deadly Job

Pokemon: Ormr, Ekans, Male, Shed Skin. Bite, Glare, Acid Spray, Stockpile, Giga Drain, Swallow. Has Z-move Rattlesnake!
Hema, Seviper, Female, Infiltrator. Poison Fang, Venoshock, Gastro Acid, Night Slash, Infestation, Attract. Shiny!
Orvar, Yanmega, Female, Speed Boost. Ancientpower, Uproar, Detect, Bug Buzz, Air Slash, Double Team.

@kobalt

“Of course it isn’t.” Kaida’s teeth showed in a white flash, a spurt of laughter breaking through the barrier of enamel. “You know that isn’t true.” Humans got furious over the simplest things. They raged and raved over nothing. Pokemon and their homes got caught in it. It was always horrible. Kaida was less than interested in letting the protest go on and only adhered to Greyson’s suggestion because of his superior status in this situation. She had said it herself. His job was to work with humans, perhaps he had a plan in mind.

“Are we going to remove the leader?” Did people do that with their civilians? Had she been being too kind? Civilians tended to cause troubles, but she didn’t think she’d ever view one like an enemy.

Nonetheless, she looked forward with sharp eyes and narrowed them as she watched a human slip in and out of the crowd. He wasn’t taking part in the rage, she wondered if he was the one causing it all. She looked to Greyson, voice low and conspirative as she jerked her head towards the man in the crowd.

“He seems less angry than the others.” An excellent trait in a leader. To be able to rile their followers up and direct them towards a target. “Are we going to fight him or do something softer?” Considering that this man wasn’t an enemy, she expected no combat, but what did she know?

Pokemon: Ormr, Ekans, Male, Shed Skin. Bite, Glare, Acid Spray, Stockpile, Giga Drain, Swallow. Has Z-move Rattlesnake!

Greyson Connors

Kaida stopped hard as she felt a tension in the air, one common to her. Reading those in front of her was difficult, but repeated reactions eventually solidified. Ormr was scary. She had to remember that. Fright towards her partner shouldn’t surprise her anymore, but it reminded her to stand away.

“Sorry. He doesn't bite.” Another common reaction. She shouldn’t approach too quickly. Not without reason. She was talking to a stranger, and didn’t even ask if she could approach without permission.

Instead, she focused on the little Ralts, more than comfortable to assume actions in a creature she knew better than humans. She seemed to be a mischievous little creature, and one close to her trainer, if their interactions were any sign. She wondered if they shared emotions of some sort, many psychic-types were capable of connections like that.

“They pull on you if you were in lots of danger, I think.” Ghost-types weren’t her forte, they were too flighty, too unattached. She supposed death wasn’t a concern for those drenched in its influences.

“-What’s this!?” Kaida and Ormr jerked back, pushing against the sudden presence in their mind with a flurry of motion. An alien mind unused to contact, and a poison-type’s natural fear of psychic-types sent them reeling. Their abrupt fear dies down as Kobe explains his Ralts. Ormr relaxed and allowing the contact again, while Kaida fixed her eyes on Kobe. She probably looked at him for the first time.

“You can talk with your Pokemon?” Her eyes glittered, and forgetting that she had Ormr on her shoulders, bounced forward. “Amazing! How did she learn!? Tell her I’m very happy, or am I doing that right now!?” Whipping back to the Ralts, she had a different, bigger idea. “Can you let me feel Ormr? Talk to him!?”

She had forgotten about the mission in her thrill, and with a sudden jerk, trained her face back into neutrality. It was as if a canine remembered not to bark too long.

“I-uh-sorry… we do have a job to do.” She backed up, back into a safe distance, and clicked her tongue. “You heard him, Ormr. Have you smelled anybody else here?” Back in the less upfront hold of a job, she returned to stiffness, and nodded as Ormr turned in a direction uphill.

“Seems he went higher. Idiot. Shall we climb? My Pokemon will fly us if you get tired.”



Mission: A Deadly Job

Pokemon: Ormr, Ekans, Male, Shed Skin. Bite, Glare, Acid Spray, Stockpile, Giga Drain, Swallow. Has Z-move Rattlesnake!
Hema, Seviper, Female, Infiltrator. Poison Fang, Venoshock, Gastro Acid, Night Slash, Infestation, Attract. Shiny!
Orvar, Yanmega, Female, Speed Boost. Ancientpower, Uproar, Detect, Bug Buzz, Air Slash, Double Team.

@kobalt

“I’m a Ranger, I help Pokemon. You-you should be helping people?”

Kaida leaned forward like the scene might make more sense with proximity. Protests were becoming a more common sight these days, but that didn’t mean she understood them any more. Hoenn was a place of danger, and it never struck her to blame the League for it, but Rocket. It was baffling, but she wasn’t one to act like many things made sense to her.

The urge to release her Pokemon was maddening, her heart thudding in her throat as she gazed over the tense scene. Her job was not to take care of humans, though.

“What should we do? People tell me it’s bad to chase civilians away with Pokemon.”

Pokemon: Ormr, Ekans, Male, Shed Skin. Bite, Glare, Acid Spray, Stockpile, Giga Drain, Swallow. Has Z-move Rattlesnake!

Greyson Connors

Taking with @kobalt

pkmn-hoenn.boards.net/thread/6878/drakkas-garden?page=1&scrollTo=61089 Harvesting the three Passho Berries and replacing them with three Salacs! Will send the information for Z-moves to SHIV tomorrow! -150 PD

Kaida always felt that her presence was strange among others. Too quiet, too snappy, too judgemental. Here, the feelings rose into a fever pitch. She was last here with a woman. Their Charizards had played in the quiet air. She could only wonder if the dead were disturbing her over that, and superstition demanded she avoid any disturbed dirt. She was already strange enough without doing more to incur spirit’s wrath. Perhaps sensing her own unease, Ormr pressed like a comforting scarf on her skin. Pokemon didn’t speak as much as she wished they could. Furthermore, she had no means of understanding a poison-type.

To say that she was unheeding of his worry would be incorrect, however, and she patted the long serpent’s head, noting the way his head tilted suddenly.

“We found someone already?” Her face brightened, and she hurried forward. The Ekans pushed his head forwards, directing her to where he sensed movement.

A Ralts stood upon the dirt of the mountain, and she had the brief thought it was alone before Ormr shook his tail, the rattling directing her to the second presence.

“Ah,” she straightened out, pulling on her shirt to reduce wrinkles in a half-hearted way, putting on an air of professionalism that was about as awkward as a mask, “I thought I’d meet you at the bottom.” He wasn’t her target, but he was welcome.

Trainers were a common sight in Hoenn and were always present. It was no wonder that the League sometimes delegated jobs to them. Although she knew they didn’t train the way Rangers did, she trusted the Pokemon trained for hardships.

“I am Kaida. My partner here is Ormr. We don’t fail.” Her eyes wandered as she talked, looking anywhere but at her target. “Good to meet you.” She seemed to speak at the Ralts than her partner.

She noticed the make-shift grave and sighed. “I could have taken you to visit after the mission.” If she didn't find him this quickly...she wasn't interested in thinking about it. Graves went nowhere, but the living and lost did.

His partner Pokemon seemed to be a great interest to Kaida, her frown deepening at the Ralts.

“Will your partner be ok?” She tilted her head at the Ralts, knowing a psychic-type’s reliability, but nonetheless worried, “There are many ghost-types on Mt. Pyre.”

Mission: A Deadly Job

Pokemon: Ormr, Ekans, Male, Shed Skin. Bite, Glare, Acid Spray, Stockpile, Giga Drain, Swallow. Has Z-move Rattlesnake!
Hema, Seviper, Female, Infiltrator. Poison Fang, Venoshock, Gastro Acid, Night Slash, Infestation, Attract. Shiny!
Orvar, Yanmega, Female, Speed Boost. Ancientpower, Uproar, Detect, Bug Buzz, Air Slash, Double Team.

@kobalt

Mt. Pyre was the resting ground for many a Pokemon, beloveds laid to rest just like humankind. Kaida supposed burial was the kindest act many could do.

A lesser known fact was the many human remains unintentionally laid to rest right here.

Kaida climbed the mountain once more to prevent another body from joining the ghosts that populated the area. She had been here many times, but never to visit her own dead. She came to remind herself of ones that were lost (and her own failures to prevent many). Perhaps that wasn’t right, however.

Sometimes she came here to marvel at the dead and wonder. Wonder what made her so special to not be among them?

Before her thoughts could start fleeing down some terrifying halls, she released her Ekans, Ormr, smiling as he wrapped around her neck. Her always reliable partner.

“Our mission today is to save an idiot lost on the mountain.” Utterly stupid people strayed from the path many times, convinced of their skills. Explorers were lost and no matter how many Rangers came to the rescue, many never came back…jobs that she could fail, at no fault of her own, made her teeth grind in the most painful of ways.

“Please look out for life, Ormr.” Her order prompted the serpent to hold on a little tighter, forked tongue flicking as she shook out her feet and strayed from the path.

It almost felt like ghosts followed her here. She wished she wasn’t only with her team here.

Mission: A Deadly Job

Pokemon: Ormr, Ekans, Male, Shed Skin. Bite, Glare, Acid Spray, Stockpile, Giga Drain, Swallow. Has Z-move Rattlesnake!
Hema, Seviper, Female, Infiltrator. Poison Fang, Venoshock, Gastro Acid, Night Slash, Infestation, Attract. Shiny!
Orvar, Yanmega, Female, Speed Boost. Ancientpower, Uproar, Detect, Bug Buzz, Air Slash, Double Team.

@kobalt

Just using this to store any projects I make as I learn coding!

CatPhotoApp
CatPhotoApp
Cat Photos
Click here to view more cat photos.

Cat Lists
Things cats love:

Cats love lasagna.
Top 3 things cats hate:

Cats hate other cats.
Cat Form
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What's your cat's personality?
Loving
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"This is not shutting it down. This isn't it!" Kaida shrieked as the battlefield filled with smoke, attacks, blood scent...and then it somehow got worse. An Aerodyactl went flying into the barrier, and then it, it blew up for lack of a better word. Kaida's breath caught in her throat, threatening to immediately follow with the contents of her stomach if not for another, terribly prominent problem that was growing, quite literally, before her eyes.

"Goddamn...holy Arceus..." Unbidden, a terribly out of character curse left her mouth. What else was she supposed to say? Giant Ultra Beasts. It was like the contents of her nightmares were all becoming true lately. "Put me down, put me down now." She was already reaching for another Pokeball, mouthing a word, "Rattlesnake."

She loathed to use such a move in such close-quarters to teammates. A powerful sound attack would likely effect everyone present, but with the size of these Beasts, there was no way they'd avoid it, she was sure.

The signaling word spoken, her Ekans Ormr emerged already preparing the move, the woman kneeling to better allow the serpent a perch. "Make it louder." She ordered Svart, the other Rangers were doing their best to hold the Beasts down and press the attack. The least she could do was protect the survivors...she had already failed to protect their teams...

The tremors of Rattlesnake and Yamega's Bug Buzz screamed out, dulling her own hearing, and impacting hard. So hard, she blinked in surprise as some kind of barrier around the Beasts wavered and...broke? Perhaps their attacks were actually working!?

Her brief hope lasted only a second, as the insectoid dragon lurched its huge head at her, pulsing with the mysterious power. She didn't even notice the ground reek with poison until it erupted against her, and anything near her. A Z-move, tossed out so casually, flung her and her team away. Her Yamega thudded against the ground, already fainted...perhaps mercifully, she thought. Purple sunk into her skin as she clawed against it, poison...and an Ultra Beasts poison at that. Even her Ekans writhed, hissing furiously from the burns, even if he couldn't be poisoned in a conventional sense.

Her body was still moving though, survival instinct demanding she stay awake and as far away from any danger as possible. "Hurry...it's working." In a dose of irony, the Beasts new gigantic size might have eliminated some of their greatest advantages. Even a Beast went down from enough attacks, "They can't get out of the way, keep going!"

boruta maher Pace Mahmoud Elaine Highland DEREK HOFFMAN @akila

TLDR: Kaida is a part of the Ranger's group, and is freaking the heck out. She is reluctant to use such moves in close quarters, but has her Ekans released and uses her Z-move Rattlesnake at the two giant Ultra Beasts, also having Yamega use Bug Buzz. The Nagedenal has its barrier broken, but responds with Z-move Acid Downpour. Kaida's team is caught in the attack, including her. All are injured and burned by poison, and Yamega faints.

Pokemon: Ekans (Released! Uses Rattlesnake Z move!), Yamega (released, uses Bug Buzz Fainted by attack), Snubble

Kaida felt her vision waver as the unmistakable horror appeared before them...and it didn't come alone.

Nightmarish imagery appeared all about the group, and Kaida gasped as a white tree springed up, dripping poison from its roots. Despite having no face, it sneered at her. The monster too, it's eyes were of one that cared...of a Pokemon, she could have sworn she was looking her leader, Lars, in the face...and a face that looked so unmistakably disappointed with the beast in front of it. A lowly beast, one covered in scars and wounds before the other's even took a blow. The reason for the polluted tree before her.

A root slithered closer. Poison dripped, and yet it radiated heat, and her sides throbbed in a pain remembered from death. Her Onix clung closer as a wavering yelp escaped her lips, but the frost clinging to their bodies prevented them from moving...a good thing, perhaps, because despite her fear, she wanted to throw herself on this beast's claws. She couldn't even be sure if the thoughts were her own, or some blood deprived hallucination, but she shrieked for her Pokemon nonetheless, "Ulf! Odinsdottir! Help!"

The tree sneered more.

Somewhere beside her, Odinsdottir Howled, the Shinx boiling her blood with the gallant sound. If only she could be such a creature, she'd never fear death, or of causing death. Upon the beast's eyes, she thought she could see something like a Pokemon, something thinking. Certainly not something like her.

Another movement. The newly radiant Ulf charged forward, realizing too late her short tail was no longer sufficient to whip with, and changing strategies to stab at the beast with her Iron Tail.

All the while, the tree sneered, and Kjoll defended her with a hurried Ancientpower. Their frozen bodies didn't have much strength left in them, not anymore.

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TLDR: Kaida is here. She and her Onix are frozen fearfully as her nightmares, white roots covered in poison, come to burn her. She sees Lars in the beast's eyes. Her Houndour races in furiously and uses Iron Tail as a makeshift dagger to stab the beast. Shinx let's out a radiant Howl to pump up the party. Onix uses Ancientpower to protect Kaida from her nightmares.


(Shiny!)
(Shiny!) (Now a Houndour!)

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