Unlucky start (Open)

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<"Grah! Does this place never end?!"> a lone Sandshrew cried out. He had been trudjing through the Canyon for what seemed like days to him, but was really only an hour. An hour since he got away from his home, an hour of uneventful exploration...The Sandshrew sighed deeply and kicked a rock as hard as he could. <"This is supposed to be an adventure, not a hike! Where's the non-boring stuff all hiding?">

As if on cue, a deep rumbling sound sounded from above him. The Sandshrew looks up just in time to see a rockslide comming down a cliff. With a yelp, he runs in the opposite direction, not paying attention where he's going...and running off a ledge. He swiftly curls up into a ball, bounces off the ground a few time, then begins rolling down a steep incline.

The rolling continues for two minutes before the incline finally flattens out, allowing the Sandshrew to unroll and jump into the air...and land on his stomach and skid across the ground for a few feet. He rolls onto his back and stares at the sky, trying to ignore the pain. <"...Now I sort of wish I never asked.">

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{"Now what? It's bad enough that I'm out here."} meowed a cat with a tail that look like a spring. He had wandered away from the safety of the forest and the city lights, padded carefully across a bare but slightly green land, walls towering above the young pokemon, nearly blocking the blue sky. It was Trouble, a glameow that once belonged to a Trainer but now wanders place to place in search for one.

The glameow was about to turn back, when he heard a powerful sound coming from the west and quickly started to run. Thanks to his trainning, Trouble bounded across the dusty landscape with ease and started to slow once he spotted a pokemon on the ground. Stopping just a few feet away, he took a breath before calling out to the pokemon.

<"Hello there! Are you ok?"> Trouble meowed, his curly tail waving in the air.

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The Sandshrew sat up quickly at the sound, and quickly spotted the cat. <"N-n-not really. I j-just had t-t-the m-most terrible s-s-s-streak of b-b-bad l-luck."> The sandshrew stands up and begins pacing back and fourth. <"If I d-d-diddn't know b-b-better, t-then I would t-t-t-think t-that r-r-rockslide was i-intentional."> He stops suddenly and turns to face Troubble, and begins speaking really quickly. <"S-so, w-w-what kind of p-p-pokemon are y-y-you? W-what's your name? D-d-do you know t-the w-w-way out of h-h-here? W-w-wil->" The Sandshrew trips on a rock mid-sentence, and gets a mouthful of dirt. It sits back up with a sigh, and forgot what it was about to ask.

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Trouble sighed, seeing that this pokemon was a little scared and scrached the ground with one of his claws.<"The name's Trouble and I'm a Glameow. Yes I know the way out and I think you better come with me."> He meowed simply, turned around and started padding back from where he came. It's funny...how is a sandshrew so scared in a place like this? The male glameow thought, glancing back to see if the pokemon was coming.

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The Sandshrew gets up with a quick jump, and quickly follows the Glameow. <"T-t-troubble? W-what an odd n-n-name. I'm Gurdjiff."> Gurdjiff feels a bit nervous arround the Glameow, probably because of his name. With a shrug, he picks up a rock without stopping and begins tossing it up and down repeditly. <"S-s-so, how f-f-far is the way out?"> Gurdjiff was about to ask something else, but the rock happened to land in his mouth this time - he quickly coughed it up and drop-kicked it into the distance. <"Gah...R-r-rocks s-still taste t-t-terrible...">

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<"My name was givin to me by my previous trainer, for the way I battle."> Trouble glanced at Gurdjiff, half closing one eye. <"Your name is odd as well. Anyway, its not far if you just follow this path down to the forest. The forest will soon lead to the city.">
The glameow added, picking up the pace and flicked his ears forward. <"Come on, the quicker we get there, the better.">

Right now, Trouble had to get to the forest before someone or something finds them first. But a thought still bugged him and to no end. Why does he studder?

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<"T-t-trainer? You h-h-have a trainer? M-my f-f-friends t-told horror s-s-s-stories about t-them, and h-h-how t-they eat p-p-pokemon who disobey..T-t-that's not t-t-true, is it?"> Gurdjiff stops walking at the thought, and shudders once before catching up with Troubble. <"And the c-c-city? Isn't t-t-that where h-humans live...?">

Gurdjiff became silent after that and followed Troubble, not displaying his normal hyperactivity. The stories all his friends told him about how terrible humans are were comming back to him, and he wasn't sure if they were true or not.

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<"Eat pokemon? Your friends are more dence then you think. Trainers are the oppoiste of those stories."> Trouble purred, seeing the forest come into view and smiled. <"Yes, humans live in the city, but I'm not taking you there. In Fact, I'm only showing the way out."> The male glameow stated, glancing at Gudjiff again before looking back at the path ahead of him.


Findlly, they reached the forest line and the male glameow slowed his pace to a walk. Purring at the sight of the trees and bushes, his darl blue eyes locked on to Gudjiff for a moment before meowing,<"So where are you heading? Do you plan on going anywhere?"> Trouble glanced away from the sandshrew, here a sound that only he could hear and confirmed what it was. Pokemon...and their trainning. Trouble thought, easing his gaze back onto Gudjiff and still standing, waited for his replay.

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Gurdjiff stops and stares at the forest when it comes into sight, eyes wide and jaw dropped. He had never left the Echo Canyon before, let alone seen a forest, and was amazed that something like it could exist. Troubble's words fell on near-deaf ears at first, so Gurdjiff didn't comment at first. However, when the shock of seeing the forest wore off, he had to run to catch up with Troubble.


When they got to the forest line, Gurdjiff was quick to trip over a tree root in his haste. To his relief, grass tasted better than rocks. He sat up and just simply stared at everything, from the trees to their branches to the grass...it was all new to him. Determined to see more, he climbed the nearest tree and searched the surrounding area with his eyes. He nearly fell out of the tree when he saw Troubble in the distance, as he had forgotten all about the Glameow. He quickly jumped down and ran after him, barely catching her question. Out of breath, he replied while trying his best to gin."N-no, I'm n-n-not going anywhere in p-p-paticular...I d-d-don't even know w-where anything is out h-h-h-here. I'm j-j-just h-happy to be s-s-somewhere new!"

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<"You can hide better here then out in the open."> Trouble mewed, sitting down with his tail standing straight up and started to lick his right paw. Slowly, his gaze tracked a shadow that was lingering around the bushes and slowly started to make its way to Gudjiff. Even thought Trouble could hear pokemon trainning not far off, a noise that was made closer to them caught his ears and snapped his head to a hissing noise.
Crap. His dark blue eyes widen to an Ekens, pulling itself back with its fangs shining in the dull light.

Trouble quickly jumped to his feet and hissed low, a warning sign to the snake it step off but the snake was too focused on Gudjiff to hear him. His hiss turned into a yowl, his tail started to shine and soon ludged at the Snake that was behind the sandshrew in a quick leap. <"Move! A snake's behind you!"> The glameow yowled in mid air, spinning around and slammed the snake with his glowing tail, knocking the snake backwards.
Iron Tail, one of his most fastest moves.

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((OOC: Just realised the forum ate the post I made on Sunday... ))

Gurdjiff wasn't really paying much attention to Trouble at the moment. He was too busy picking at, touching, climbing, and inspecting everything in the area, from bushes to berries to trees to everything inbetween. This was the first time he had ever been in a forest, and he wanted to experience everything about it that he could. He was so distracted that he didn't see the shadow, nor hear the hissing noise that Trouble saw and heard.

When the Trouble Yowled, Gurdjiff was in the process of climbing a tree. The branch he was on broke, and he fell to the ground, bouncing off it once before rolling behind Trouble (He obiously curled up into a ball to protect himself on his way down.) This is when he heard Trouble's warning - however, his curiosity overcame his caution. He stood up and began looking arround frantically, for he missed the sight of Trouble knocking the Ekans back. <"Snake? What's a snake? I want to see what this "snake" look like!">

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Trouble didn't have time for Gurdjiff's questions, attacking the Ekans again with another Iron Tail and was able to scare off the snake as it was knocked into a tree. Calming down, Trouble licked his right paw a few times before turning to the sandshrew with a calm look in his eyes. <"Well, It was nice meeting you but I have something to do which needs tending to."> The male glameow mewed, moving forward a few paces before bounding past the sandshrew in a quick leap.<"Hope we meet again!!!"> He meowed, vaishing into the trees and toward the sound of other pokemon.

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Gurdjiff had his back turned to Troubble at the moment of the 2nd Iron Tail, so he missed seeing the Ekans...again. He heard the sound of it hitting the tree, and turned arorund quickly, but missed the sight of it - again. He silently cursed his bad luck just before Troubble spoke. <"H-huh? L-leave? Allready..? But you d-d-didn't tell me w-what a s-s-snake is!"> He took a few steps to try and follow Troubble, but realised he didn't see where he leaped, so he sighed. He was about to become depressed, but then noticed something interesting about the forest he had not seen before... He quickly pushed Trubble out of his mind and became lost in his own curiosity of the forest around him.

{Gurdjiff has left the thread}