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[in which the rich brat has to work for the first time in his life, probably]
Trip's sticking up flyers, apparently, as well as handing some out, advertising an odd assortment of skills, but he's also acting a bit shifty and has his hoodie up, like he doesn't want to be recognized.
"For hire.
Skills: photography, tracking, exorcism.
Prices negotiable."
Followed by some contact details.
Somebody has been too much of a spendthrift without regard for the future, refused to downgrade from his prior standard of accommodations (read: kept staying at expensive hotels), and hasn't made enough in winnings to support himself, so.
"For hire.
Skills: photography, tracking, exorcism.
Prices negotiable."
Followed by some contact details.
Somebody has been too much of a spendthrift without regard for the future, refused to downgrade from his prior standard of accommodations (read: kept staying at expensive hotels), and hasn't made enough in winnings to support himself, so.
[priorities: Alder, photography, safety, showing off knowledge--last two flexible!]
Lampent, who had been drifting apathetically as ever, also came to a halt, but turned and seemed focused in a particular direction, around a certain grave. The intense, negative emotions there seemed to draw in certain Pokemon.
Some sort of dark and heavy aura not like the rest was hiding among the graves. There was some kind of sick, disorienting feeling about the place, causing both fear and waves of dizziness.
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"...There's something over there."
His Pikachu also felt even more unease and took to hiding behind Ash, his ears folded and his tail tucked close to his body.
"Relax buddy, just stay close to me." Ash said reassuringly to his Pikachu. Despite everything, Ash tried to compose himself and maintain a strong front. He decided to come here for a reason, and he couldn't falter now.
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Trip glanced at Ash and Pikachu. Ash was a lot more sensitive to this stuff than he was, it was almost like looking at one of his Ghost types...
"... why don't you send Pikachu back into its pokeball?" he offered, not knowing Pikachu's aversion to it. "If it's too much, you can stay back. I have another light in my bag, you could use, so you don't have to stick close to Lampent. Are you feeling sick? Or is it... like before, with the Aura?"
He was just trying to cover all the bases, whether this was a reaction born of natural fear or Ash's sensitivity to the unseen...
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"Ah, about that..." Ash glanced at his partner, "Pikachu can't stand being in his Pokeball, and he wouldn't like it if I'd tell him to do so. Isn't that right, buddy?"
"Piii..." And Pikachu shook his head as if to make his aversion clear.
"Besides that, I'm totally fine! Don't worry about me!" He grinned, still putting up a strong, determined front as he fought back that crushing feeling. "Even a little heaviness in the air won't keep me down!"
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“Understood.”
He won’t ask why.
Something glinted gold in the dark, two eyes and a zipper-mouth.
“There’s a Banette.”
Something else gleamed in its hand. It was hard to tell what from a distance, as the sky continued to darken.
Lampent burned brighter, drawing in the same spiritual energy.
“Is it responsible for this? Some kind of curse…?”
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"Why don't we just ask?" Ash suggested, and took the first few steps -- slow and steady.
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"That'd be a good plan, just don't get too close," Trip warned.
With Ash going ahead, Lampent drifted to his side.
The Banette looked at Ash, confused at his approach, and tried to frighten him away.
The sound of chains rattled louder, and from every direction around him.
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"All that heaviness is coming from you, isn't it?" Ash smiled, "Won't you tell us why?"
[oh, good, I had a Banette icon for a previous thread]
It looked uncertain, clutching the needle close, and conflicted. It shook its head, refusing to speak with Ash, not trusting him.
"Banette!"
Lampent seemed to repeat what it said to Trip.
"... it doesn't trust us," Trip said, feeling a bit more tense at how the Banette was behaving and coming closer to try and hold Ash back. "Give it some space. You're not the target of this curse, so it shouldn't affect you too much, but if you scare it, it might try to curse you too."
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Banette, the Marionette Pokemon. A Ghost-type. It is said that this Pokemon was once an doll that bore a grudge from being abandoned. Banette would lay curses on anyone it sees by sticking its pins onto its body.
...While that entire description sounded creepy, a certain part of the entry did make Ash feel a bit sorry for the Ghost-type Pokemon. Is that what that heavy depressing feeling he picked up on was? A strong grudge?
"Abandoned, huh..." He looked at Banette with sympathy as he put his phone away. "...I get it, you don't have to trust us right away. But I trust you enough that you won't hurt or even curse us."
And he smiled, despite the risk he's putting himself in by saying this.
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Seeing Ash be so patient with Banette actually made Trip smile a little.
“He’s right. We aren’t the ones who abandoned you, so don’t hurt us, okay?”
Banette shook its head angrily and rubbed away its tears, protesting. This hardly needed a translation, even Lampent only gave its trainer a side-long glance.
“It thinks humans are all the same. It can’t trust us not to lie to it.”
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"Yeah... It's true, there are awful people out there. A lot of the times I don't really get why they do these terrible things to others, and to the Pokemon even."
He clutched onto his shirt, as if he were grabbing onto his chest. And he thought of the times he encountered a Pokemon thrown aside and abandoned by people who they thought were their partners. It angered, saddened, and pained him to know that those Pokemon were suffering because of their former trainer's carelessness.
"But not all people are bad! I don't want all the Pokemon to think that way, that's why I try to better get along with them. Let them know there's someone out there who really truly cares for them."
I care for you. His heart whispered.
And once again, Ash offered his hand out to Banette. At the same time, his Pikachu peeked his head out as he watched the situation unfold.
[ow.]
Banette felt moved by how sincere Ash seemed, but still felt so afraid he would trick it too, this all felt too familiar, and it just curled tighter into itself, withdrawing from his hand, and the cursed energy may have taken visible (at least to Ash?) form, heavy chains rushing towards him from every side, as Banette tried to stab itself again, this time planning to curse Ash.
The faint glow of Psychic froze Banette's hands in place, the same glow surrounding Lampent. Banette struggled, sounding increasingly frustrated. Lampent's focus was on stopping Banette, Trip tried to drag Ash back and away from the chains, but Lampent could not hold off so many at once—
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Without thinking, Ash grabbed Pikachu and tossed the mouse Pokémon at Trip, trusting the other to hold onto his buddy for a while. Afterwards the chains snagged onto Ash's body, locking his limbs in place.
"Ggh!"
"Pikapi!" Pikachu cried out with immense worry.
[solution: add (even more) Ghost types]
"Lampent, whatever it summoned, burn it!"
Lampent protested, unable to both hold back Banette and burn whatever malevolent spirit's in charge of the chains.
He tried to give Pikachu a boost, so he could hold him over one shoulder (keeping his hand on Pikachu, in case the Mouse Pokemon tried to return to his partner.)
The rattling chains continued to pull, tightening around Ash.
"Frillish, go, disable Banette!"
He sent out Frillish, which immediately latched onto Banette, pinning it down, so it dropped its pin and couldn't move. It continued to struggle and cry out, however, while Frillish's paralyzing poison slowly took effect, to free up Lampent from having to restrain Banette.
ash: naze
"Pikapi!! Pikaachu!!!"
Ash on the other hand was still bound by Banette's chains. His eyes widened when he watched Trip's Pokémon try to fight against the Marionette Pokémon. But then what caught his attention were the cries coming from Banette. It was in pain.
He shook his head. This was not how it's supposed to happen, and wanted to get this right.
"All of you stop!" Ash cried out to Trip as loud as he could, "You gotta stop! Banette's just scared!"
And as if he were expressing the chains and everything didn't bother him, he smiled at Banette yet again.
"Isn't that right buddy?" His voice is softer, more compassionate in his tone. "You were lashing out because you're scared. You don't have to worry, everything's going to be fine."
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It nodded, sadly. It trusted him a lot more than the Frillish, who also, to be fair, stopped smiling as he listened to Ash's words.
Banette said something to Frillish.
Trip showed no sign of relenting, but moved to hold Pikachu with both arms to keep him still, closer to his chest now.
"You're noisy," he said coldly, not looking at Ash. "And naive. Don't you think I know that? Just wait."
Lampent's blue-purple flames burned louder, brighter, and the chains around Ash began to slacken, then disintegrate.
Banette did not appear to be remotely harmed, although the needle it had dropped seemed to be burning too. It struggled to sit up, but only managed to roll on its side, watching Ash forlornly, as Frillish finally removed itself. Its poison seemed to work more quickly on such a small Pokemon.
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The more Trip held onto Pikachu tightly, the more he squirmed. That is until he saw Ash's body moved, as if whatever held onto Ash had loosened. A sense of relief washed over him, but only momentarily. His ears drooped at the sight of Banette who laid on the ground.
Being told to stand still isn't something Ash was good at following, unfortunately. And when Ash took notice that the chains had disappeared, he knew he couldn't keep still and quickly rushed towards Banette's side.
"Banette!" His brows creased with worry. "You're hurt..."
With no hesitation, Ash lifted Banette's cold body into his arms before facing Trip.
"You didn't have to do that!"
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Trip's expression didn't shift, but he turned Pikachu around and loosened his grip while lowering him, so he can leap to the gorund if he wanted to. now that Ash was free.
"... are you done?" Trip asked simply, with cold detachment. "It shouldn't hurt, that poison is numbing, in addition to paralyzing. It can't feel anything now, physically anyway. It'll recover. Frillish did nothing but immobilize it. It should be easier to find out why it's behaving this way now.
"It said something to Frillish..."
Will Ash even listen to such an indifferent and dispassionate explanation?
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"...None of that would've been needed." Sure, Ash and his friends were safe. But he didn't like how Trip handled with holding Banette down. All that was needed was more time to let it open up to them. "Banette was so close to opening up to us."
Whether or not Ash will listen to Trip, he was much too focused on getting Banette better.
Finally freed from Trip's grasp, Pikachu immediately scurried towards Ash and stood closely by his side. Seeing that Banette was still in its poisoned state, Pikachu climbed onto his trainer and pulled up the zipper on his bag, he eventually fished out a Pecha Berry that Ash saved for his Pokemon.
"Thanks Pikachu." Ash nodded, taking the berry and pressed it onto Banette's zipper-like mouth. "Here, eat it. It'll help cure your poisoning."
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Trip sighed. "You could wait it off, it'll be fine... but if you want to feed it, so it'll recover faster, it'll have to be softened first. Crushed or chewed, that's basic, isn't it?"
This would be easier with Iris' pestle and mortar, wouldn't it?
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But he still wouldn't give up on it. Not when they were this close.
"I said that I trust it to not hurt or even curse us." Ash stubbornly replied, "I believe in Banette. And I still do!"
He held Banette closer, enough to feel or hear his heart beating in his chest. Maybe it might feel Ash's warm aura emnating around him.
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Ash's eyes lit up.
"That's it!" He exclaimed, and held the berry over Banette's mouth. "You can drink from its juice instead!"
Using all his might, he crushed the Pecha Berry in his one hand. Not too long after, the juices coming from it start pouring down and fall into droplets towards its mouth.
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[in which the delay makes it seem like I ripped off the new ep, but I had it in mind a while... ^^;]
heh heh it's funny how coincidences happen
[1/2; I don't think anything's just a coincidence! But it's still fun and reassuring]
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2/2 finally tagged... ON ASH DAY!!
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[good job, Ash, have some cookies]
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2/2 ash happily and messily monches the cookies
[so it was youuuu…]
[caught in the act /('o')\]
[greedy child]
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[a little daunting (haunting)]
spoooooky
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[we'll be wrapping up this (massive) thread soon~!]
yahoooo!
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[I Can't Believe My Rival Is This Weird (And Dense)]
1/2 dang that's my favorite light novel-
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[poor Ash xD;;;;;]
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[in which the delay makes it seem like I ripped off the new ep, but I had it in mind a while... ^^;]