The CELADON Team

The arcanine’s sudden bark had caught the pair off guard, Montague visibly jumping at the noise whilst Capulet had instinctively bared sharp, white fangs. They looked up in unison to see the great beast towering over them, face like thunder before one of its large paws plummeted down between them. The zangoose tensed, preparing to strike, whilst Montague’s eyes flickered to the target – the chain. Before he could react, the arcanine’s paw made contact with the metal and Montague’s head was propelled towards the ferret’s, Capulet’s movements following a similar trend. Their heads made contact with a quiet thud, evoking a hiss from both individuals. They immediately pulled away from one another, choking themselves in the process as they finally sat, silenced within a comfortable position from each other. The zangoose glared daggers at the retreating canine, whilst Montague’s frown reflected the throbbing ache on the side of his head.
“Why you arrogant, little sh-”
“Hey!” Montague hit the zangoose with his tail, not wanting to trigger any more aggression directed towards them. Capulet wasn’t great with humiliation, and the serpent had successfully predicted his companion’s inevitable reaction. They exchanged another harsh glare, silent insults ricocheting between the rivals before they both emitted a deep sigh, defeated.

"Well I didn't find anything to help. So count me out for now."

Montague smiled appreciatively at the charmander. What had he been thinking? Getting his hopes up time and time again, but it always had the same damn ending. He was going to be stuck with the ferret forever.
“Well... thank you anyway,” He turned his attention to the rest of the group, preparing a rather humble apology for their arguing, when he noticed their expressions. Capulet had seen it too. The bird and the two canines were glaring at something in the distance. That wasn’t a good sign. The zangoose walked forward, following the prehistoric bird’s line of vision – but he saw nothing. His eyesight had always been slightly lacking, but the survivors’ expressions alone confirmed that whatever it was wasn’t good.

”Urm... w-what is it?” Monty asked, his question directed at nobody in particular. He hadn’t really wanted to interfere, but if it was something monstrously powerful, perhaps there was safety in numbers. Even when the pair was functioning well, the chain wasn’t great at permitting fluent battle – there was always a risk of choking, tripping or snagging on nearby obstacles. “Climb on,” The serpent addressed the zangoose quietly, offering his neck to Capulet. The zangoose nodded his head, clambering onto Montague as the snake slithered around one of the drainage pipes on the side of the building to get a better view. It took a moment, but after some squinting, both Capulet and Montague recognised the figure in the distance as a monumental threat.
“Ah...” Capulet muttered, climbing over the snake to sit on the edge of the roof a short distance from Ari’s perch. He glanced to her, smirking slightly. “I suppose that won’t be a problem for you...”

Ari kept her eyes on the snorlax, the behemoth lumbering about on the outskirts of her territory. Her mind was not on the others, so Big Red Asshole's voice caught her off guard. "Bad?" he asked softly. She jumped a little, but quickly regained her composure.

"Maybe. This guy's been around my borders for a while now, but he generally sticks to the Bike Road. Guess all the game's gone and now he's broadening his search. Snorlax. Big one." She shifted and watched the others' reactions. While the charmander remained oblivious, the stupid leafeon was quiet, and suddenly, the weird ferret was beside her.

"Ah... I suppose that won't be a problem for you," he said with a malicious smirk. Ari smirked back and scoffed.

"I could drop a building on him, but I'm kinda running out of those. Still, he's big and fat, and all that gross girth could prove a problem."

The little Char came back, Kaiden could hear her coming even though he still faced Ari. That little thing needed to learn some stealth. "Well I didn't find anything to help. So count me out for now." And how to stop talking. He kept his focus on the dino-bird, waiting for her to tell him what the hell had her so paranoid. "Maybe." she answered after a moment. "This guy's been around my borders for a while now, but he generally sticks to the Bike Road. Guess all the game's gone and now he's broadening his search. Snorlax. Big one." Kaiden nodded solemnly, not quite sure what to do about it. Yet, out of the corner of his eye, he did catch something interesting.

Something moved up the side of one of the 'barely still standing thanks to psycho rampage' buildings. Chancing a glance he noticed that it was actually Cap riding Monty's back to get a better view. "Ah...I suppose that won't be a problem for you..." Kaiden allowed himself a smug smile. It seemed his little lesson was well received, they were working together rather than bickering like school children. Like he always told Adara, 'when at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.' A couple of good knocks fixes everything.

"I could drop a building on him, but I'm kinda running out of those. Still, he's big and fat, and all that gross girth could prove a problem." Kaiden barked out a laugh. After that last little over-reaction, she certainly was running a little low on standing buildings. Unless she wanted the Snorlax to get further into town, that is.

He shook his head and chuckled, trying to clear his thoughts of that welcome relief from the drama. Using his massive height, he easily jumped up a pile of broken buildings to get a good scope of Ari's 'turf'. It was then he noticed something...odd. "Problem." he called out to Ari, motioning her to come near. The infected that surrounded Ari's clear area where all gathering. But why? He tilted his head in the direction of the hoard. They were all piling near the Snorlax. Where they going to attack it? Or use it to attack them?

Either way, it looked bad.

When Eva had mentioned she couldn't find anything Morty had thanked for for trying; this made her decide that she liked Morty, he was nice.
"Why have you not evolved yet, bro?" Jude said, bringing her attention to him.
" Not strong enough yet, but I can't wait to evolve." Eva replied, thinking of herself as a Charmeleon. That would be great. Then I'd do less hiding.
Yet again her thoughts were interrupted when the pokemon started talking about a snorlax bing a potential threat. Eva had seen a snorlax before, and she was thankful it was so lazy. She didn't enjoy the thought of fighting one, even in a group.
Kaiden jumped up a dabree pile and looked around, "Problem." he said looking out.
"How bad?" Eva asked hoping that it was just a small group of undead, but she was pretty sure that wasn't the case.

Rei hadn't really been saying anything, she was just sitting aways from the group as they talked with the Zabgoose and Seviper. Thinking about who would be dumb enough to chain them together since they where natural born enimies. She turned turned her head as an infected Snorlax began to walk around at the ouskirts of the city, though it wasn't doing anything bad yet, it would be wise to keep an eye on it.

Rei let out a yawn, bored with what was happening. Nothing interesting was going on, and it was making her thing about leaving, though something finally happened what the Leafeon, Jude she believed his name was, shouted that there were undead behind them. The Delcatty quickly turned her head to see a flock of Fearow flying in fast, hoping for a easy meal she figured. To bad they weren't going to find it here. She let out a hiss before jumping in next to Jude. Her fur standing on end as she began to spark with electricity. She then fired her Thunderbolt in all directions, but she only managed to hit three of the infected bird pokemon.

She watched as the three she hit fell to the ground, twitching from the sudden jolt of electricity, before charging up for another attack. She could alwasy use her blizzard, thus freezing the birds, but she didn't want to risk freezing the first living pokemon she had seen in months, even if a few of them here just a bunch of idiots.

"I could drop a building on him, but I'm kinda running out of those. Still, he's big and fat, and all that gross girth could prove a problem."

Capulet smirked, amused at Ari’s reply and Kaidan’s accompanying laugh. That explained the sudden collapse of the building they’d wandered into earlier in the day. Turning his attention back to the snorlax, the zangoose soon saw that little dots had appeared to gather around the great beast – he didn’t need telling to know what those were. The arcanine had noticed too, the group gradually being alerted of the seriousness of their current situation.

“I don’t even wanna look,” Montague muttered to nobody in particular. He knew that whatever was accompanying the snorlax was only going to make their lives harder. Whilst Capulet stared out to the currently visible threat, Jude’s sudden outcry of more infected had the snake snapping his head around to face the source. The feline and the leafeon were already attacking the flock of fearow, but apparently one had managed to slip past. The diseased bird was headed straight towards Capulet. Thinking quickly, the seviper lunged to clamp his fangs onto the undead’s neck, but he missed, misjudging the creature’s speed of flight. Emitting a cry of shock, Capulet suddenly felt a weight crash against him, sharp claws penetrating his upper arms. It had happened all so quickly that the zangoose was temporarily disorientated, now that his feet left solid ground, hanging limply as his capture attempted to gain height. He was about to shout when the chain’s maximum distance was met, abruptly cutting off any passing of words. His legs twitched violently as he struggled for air, eyes wide as he desperately tried to free himself from the bird’s clutches.

Montague was suffering a similar agony. When the fearow had grabbed the zangoose, the serpent had tightened his grip around the drainage pipe. Were he to let go, he’d be left hanging – his death would be inevitable. He held on dearly, praying that Capulet would escape the bird before the chain’s length failed the pair, but unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be. The first jolt was the most painful, the seviper’s neck violently pulled to the side as his coils braced themselves for one hell of a struggle. He could see that Capulet was suffering too – the ferret’s entire body trying to fight off the gradual suffocation as well as the confused bird. The fearow must’ve been able to tell that it wasn’t moving, but it continued to fly against Montague’s weight, reluctant to sacrifice the prize of the zangoose in its claws.
“F-ucking...” Words were a lot harder to form. The metal collar was digging in to the serpent’s throat, threatening to cut off passage of oxygen altogether. “Kill... it!” Monty’s words were hoarse, clearly strained as he looked desperately to his companion. He was helpless. He wouldn’t be able to hold on forever; if Capulet couldn’t free himself then they would both lose their lives. Of course, he could attack the bird, but as much as the little rat annoyed him, Montague couldn’t bring himself to put the ferret at risk from his own actions.

Capulet couldn’t breathe. His body felt numb, his lungs practically burning as he reached out a claw. If he could just plunge it into the bird’s stomach, then there’d be a chance of freedom. But movement was a lot harder than he’d anticipated. With a final effort, he managed to slash the creature’s stomach open, the fearow emitting a hideous screech as a waterfall of a blood rained down. The grip on the zangoose’s shoulders relaxed into nothing, the pain in his neck fading as Capulet fell.

As soon as the chain’s pressure slackened, Montague burst into a coughing fit, breathing quickly until he realized what had happened to cause such relief. The zangoose’s body was limp, falling through the air before it hit the rooftop once more with a dull thump.
“Cap!” The seviper cried, his voice still fairly weak as he quickly slithered to the ferret’s aid. As he neared, he used his head to nudge his companion onto his side. He was out cold. “Shit...” Looking desperately to the other pokémon, he sincerely hoped that for the time being, they would cope okay against the undead. He couldn’t manage close-combat when dragging the weight of the zangoose around with him. Turning his attention back to Capulet, he nudged the creature gently with his tail, peering down at the ferret’s face with the occasional glimpse to the group of infected in the distance. “C’mon buddy. Not the greatest time to fall unconscious... Capulet? Wake up, damn it!” The panic was beginning to surface. He hadn’t had to deal with such a situation before, especially when such monumental threats were making their move. Cursing under his breath, he looked desperately to Ari and Kaidan, currently recognizing the pair as those that held most authority in the group.
“He’s not waking up,” The seviper was defeated, resulting to simply wait at his companion’s side. “How long do you think we’ve got until they advance? T-The snorlax and co, that is?”

Ari had flown into the air to take care of the flock of birds that had decided to show itself in her sky. As she was surrounded by fearow and spearow, she didn't notice that one of them had gotten away and gone after the ferret. She dropped them all, their once again corpses falling to the city streets as she turned to see the ferret drop from the sky as a fearow flew off and hit the roof with an awful thud. She flew back as quickly as she could, only to watch the snake attempt to revive his buddy... to no avail.

"He's not waking up. How long do you think we’ve got until they advance? T-The snorlax and co, that is?" Ari frowned as she looked back to the snorlax and his posse, who were in fact getting closer... It didn't look good.

"An hour at the most," she mumbled beneath her breath. "The department store's pretty defendable, as long as the big asshole doesn't do anything to the support beams. We can get high up, and he's too big to fit in the staircase. It'll give us some time for him to wake up and get a plan." She really wanted to just kill all the Infected, but with others, and trying to keep them from dying as well, it was proving more and more of a predicament...

She missed the days where she could just obliterate everything in her path. So simple.

"Undead behind us. Coming in fast."

A flurry of feathers was upon them in an instant. Kaiden barked loudly and sent a Flamethrower at the evil freaks, burning a couple of them back to death in an instant. But still more got by, and the Arcanine watched in horror as Cap and Monty were attacked and Cap's unceremonious crash. Damn...Furious, he sent a Snarl attack at another creature and it fell, the canine lunging for it and crushing it under his massive paw. All too soon it was over, but not without consequence.

He was worried about the duo, after having watched their fight with the winged bastards. He jumped up to them and lay down beside the serpent caring for his injured companion, offering warmth and support even without his words. They were just trying to get by while being chained to their enemy. They were just kids, like...Adara.

Kaiden's ear twitched at Ari's less-than-charming remark about him and the store support beams. He just scoffed, irritated with her constantly acting like she was the shit and everyone else was beneath her. So she kept a couple of blocks free from the infected, big deal. All she basically did during all of this was hole herself away and screech like a bat at anything that came near her stash. Pathetic.

He looked to the pair at his side and knew that in his current state, Monty wouldn't be able to just drag Cap along. That would injure the Zangoose even more. Nudging Monty slightly with his large head, Kaiden craned his neck and motioned towards his back. "Get on," he offered with a grunt. Adara would ride him all the time, so he knew how to be careful with passengers. Especially sleeping (or in this case, unconscious), ones. If Ari thought the store would be safest then he was going to make sure they all got there safely. But he wanted to try and reassure them. "Don't worry."

Eva was was almost to the top of the pile Kaiden stood on to see what might be the "problem" when Jude sent out a warning of undead behind them. She quickly turned around and shot Ember at the closest spearow, then launched herself at it scratching and clawing it. She was able to finally kill it but she got a large scratch on her thigh. She winced as she got up but went to fight more.
Before she could fight another something caught her eye, a shimmering of some kind of metal, a dull dirty sort of metal. She looked over and watched in shock and horror as she saw Cap falling from the sky. He landed on a rooftop so she figured it wasn't enough to kill him, but Eva needed to know if he was alright. She ran to them as fast as she could forgetting the cut on her thigh. Her injury wasn't serious.
By the time she got to them all the birds were defeated and the two chained pokemon were on Kaiden's back.
She looked at Morty with a worried look, as if asking if Cap would be alright.

((Sorry, but I'm to tired to post right now, so just skip me please. Just say Rei nodded at Jude's thanks and then just followed everyone to wherever it is there going. Again, sorry.))

"An hour at the most. The department store's pretty defendable, as long as the big asshole doesn't do anything to the support beams. We can get high up, and he's too big to fit in the staircase. It'll give us some time for him to wake up and get a plan.”

Montague looked to Ari, concern plastered onto his face. He persuaded himself that he didn’t care about Capulet’s unconscious state, his feelings had nothing to do with the rodent – but he was in denial. They’d been together for just over a year. They were meant to hate each other, they often did, but despite the species’ rivalry, they had learnt to rely on one another. Capulet was always calm. Capulet was the one who snapped the serpent out of his panic, dissolved his paranoia with blunt words disguising his compassion. With a deep breath, Monty nodded his head in agreement.

"Get on,”

The canine’s gruff command caused the serpent to jump slightly, instinctively shrinking as Kaidan’s shadow cast over him. He was confused at the arcanine’s offer, having previously thought the pokémon to be particularly hostile towards them. But he wasn’t about to argue.
“Um... o-okay,” Monty muttered hesitantly. “Thank you,” With some effort he managed to drape the zangoose over the canine’s back, pleased that Capulet was lighter than he’d anticipated. With a quick movement, the seviper had loosely coiled himself around the canine’s midsection, moving his tail to rest atop the canine’s other passenger to steady the body in the case of a bumpy ride. “Not too heavy?” He asked quietly, feeling guilty to be such an inconvenience to the group. Glancing from the gathering’s current perch, Montague gulped, wondering exactly what already lurked about the city streets. A flock of fearow had caught them off guard, who knew what other dangers were already awaiting them...

Ari frowned as she watched the snorlax wander into her territory, not listening too much to the conversations below. Looked like Fire douche and Grass douche were giving rides to the less fortunate and less speedy. Good. Because the tower of fat was beginning to close in on them.

She opened her wings and looked down at Whats-his-face Fireguy. "You know the way, right? Get the others to the store and I'll make sure he won't spot you... or at least care. Just don't... mess things up." She frowned at herself more as she thought about that. "You know... more than they already are."

With a agile flap, she heaved herself into the air and soared to the snorlax now near the fountain. She needed him to NOT be looking at the city so he wouldn't spot the others... Thankfully, her discarded buildings provided apt hiding spaces as opposed to the used-to-be courtyard. "HEY ASSHOLE!" she called as she circled above the snorlax and his little posse of doduo, "UP HERE! GOT A LITTLE BONBON FOR YOU!"

She flew back toward Bike Road, trying not to look directly at the snorlax. Rotting fat and intestine were poking through the thin, bulging, bloated skin of his stomach. His face was agape, allowing the stench of his previous meals to perfume the air around him. Giant tub of lard. Er, excuse. Giant ROTTING tub of lard. Hopefully, she wouldn't have to touch it.

Kaiden quietly nodded at the thanks Monty expressed for letting them get a ride. He couldn't help it, when he saw the pair and the look of pain on the serpent's face, his big brother instincts took over. He needed to take care of them. They needed him. He also noticed the freaky leaf-dog giving the Charmander a ride, and the faint scent of blood reached his nose. So...another was hurt. Damn. They were in no shape to fight off the horde, so it seemed they would be forced to hide. And Ari told them to get to the store.

"You know the way, right? Get the others to the store and I'll make sure he won't spot you... or at least care. Just don't... mess things up." Kaiden gave her a glare at the obvious sarcasm she threw in there, bringing up his earlier escapade. "You know... more than they already are." He muttered under his breath and just walked past her, giving her the brush off with his tail. 'At least I'm not a raging B who tore down half the city in a tantrum...' he thought to himself.

He looked towards Jude and nodded his head. "Let's go," was all he told the rest of their group, leaving Ari to handle the behemoth. He was determined to protect them if he could, especially the pair on his back. He may not have his sister by his side, but he was not going to let others suffer if there was anything he could do to prevent it. Kaiden was, and always would be, a protector. A guardian. A brother.

Eva climbed on to Jude's back, grateful for the ride because her wound made it painful to walk. She clung to Jude's back and kept her tail up as to not burn him.
"If I become too much for you and you have a chance of dying, for goodness sake just leave me. I'm not worth the trouble, believe me." Eva muttered. She wasn't going to let other people die for her, because she probably wouldn't die for them.
As Eva rode on Jude she kept an eye out for any trouble, ready to fend them off with ember. She wasn't going to be completely useless, or she hoped not at least.

((Ooc; Please skip me. Just say that Jude nodded to Eva and followed Kaiden))

Rei watched as they all started to go to the store, before looking at Ari. "Don't die." She said to her before running after the others to the store. She wondered if she should have helped her, but she didn't feeling like getting her tail bitten off by the aditued of that flying reptile.

(Short post, but I coudn't really think of anything else to place :/))

Montague listened to Ari’s word with concern growing on his expression. She seemed like a strong, stubborn girl that wasn’t about to take shit from anyone, anything for that matter – but there sure were a lot of infected. He frowned as she took off into the skies, gliding away to provoke the snorlax to allow them time to escape to the store. Watching her disappear into the distance, Montague felt a pang of guilt for not being able to help. He didn’t particularly like fighting, but he was always there to help someone in need. Even the rather intimidating bird could do with some back-up.

"Let's go,"

The serpent turned his head as Kaidan’s body began moving, prying his eyes away from the feathered dot in the sky. As Monty glanced about him, he realized that Ari would be alone. Jude was carrying an injured Eva, the unmistakable pang of blood flitting into the reptile’s nostrils – and the feline was running along beside them.
“You think she’ll be okay?” He asked Kaidan quietly, glancing down to the unconscious zangoose to check he hadn’t slipped from the arcanine’s bulk. He had every faith in Ari’s strength, admittedly being somewhat scared of her, but he would have rather her accompanied the team than risk her life in such a way.

Ari was having the time of her life. She had never had such an adrenaline rush from a fight, her heart going as fast as her form as she raced through the air, dodging attacks by a hair's breadth. She laughed triumphantly as she nimbly dodged another attack, the giant, bloated snorlax corpse missing with his ham of an arm. The posse of doduo beside him squaked and ran after her in circles, their minds too far gone to understand that there was a very simple pattern to her flight.

In essence, she could do this for eternity and they still wouldn't figure it out. It made her wonder why, exactly, the Undead managed to overrule as much as they did in such little time, but that wasn't her main concern at the moment. The snorlax roared in anger, his gaping, decaying maw revealing half-chewed bodies, human and pokemon indescernable. The smell alone was enough to kill a donphan. She turned sharply away, wanting the stench out of her nostrils. It was just fucking gross. As much of a man as she thought herself to be, some things never changed...

She arced higher, but did not anticipate that the snorlax had a long-ranged move. After all, it had settled for simply swinging dumbly at her for near half an hour. She only saw the bright light before the Hyper Beam hit her square in the chest, ejecting her higher and higher into the sky until it faded, leaving her to gravity's mercy. Disoriented, she fell, the wind whipping past her, her body tumbling over thermals. A building caught her, the roof caving a little when she hit.

For a moment, she had blacked out. But her adrenaline pumped through her, and her eyes, though blurry, opened. Sounds were muted, colors were odd and she tasted nothing but her own blood. Her current position escaped her, but the moment her eyes lay on the blurred form of the snorlax, she knew she had to go.

Ribs hurt, her leg throbbed and her wing was probably broken. But now was not the time to stop and whine. She willed her vision clearer, blinking rapidly to improve her sight. While it only helped a little, it was good enough. She made her way down and off the building, a residential home, and ran on foot away from the snorlax.

She heard his roar behind her, but paid no heed. She needed healing... or at least just time to stop and rest a little...

They made it to the department store Safely enough, but Eva was worried all was not over yet. But she gulped down her fear and climbed off Jude. She immediately started to lick her wound to clean it up and to slow the blood flow. As she cleaned her leg would twitch every so often at the pain.
Finally she looked up at Jude. "You all right?" she asked him quietly. She then turned to the others and asked them the same thing.
"And how is Capulet doing? DO you think he'll......" she asked Morty pausing to find the best words, "He'll wake up soon?"
Eva realized she started to care about these pokemon and she was a bit confused and agitated about this. I never cared about other pokemon's safety before, what is it about this group that makes it different? She shook that thought away, it wasn't the main concern at the moment.

It didn't take us too long to reach the store. I glanced over my shoulder at Ari as she took off in the direction of the undead hoarde. I frowned disapproving at her, but I was actually gaining respect for the Dino Bird. She was a bro all right, if only for her thick head. But as Kaiden led the way through the city I found it a little difficult to keep up with him and those tall legs, not to mention Eva. She was sure to be getting blood all over my pelt. But as they finally entered the front doors of the store, the Charmander jumped right off. I frowned at her but she was licking her wound clean. Ew. I tried not to make a face.

But then her gaze snapped up and met my eyes. "You all right?" I forced myself to give a carefree smile her way. "'Course bro, but we really should go to a higher floor. Ground level won't be very safe." I glanced at the Tiger Dog as I spoke.  

"And how is Capulet doing? Do you think he'll......" I looked at Eva in supprise as she adressed the viper, pausing as she seemed to try for thinking of the right word. "He'll wake up soon?" Hmm, she had not seemed much like the caring type. I turned my head to lick the blood off of the back of my pelt as the others talked.

As Rei entered the store she walked away from the group and sat over on her own. She wasn't much into crowds, and she preferred being on her own anyway. She looked over her shoulder at them all before over the the stairs. She wasn't paying much attention to what the others where saying, so she just started to climb the stairs all on her own.

The lights where out on the next floor, leaving the place dark except for the sun that shone in through the window. It didn't look like there would be much here, and Ari would have already eaten any food they could have stored, or snap at them. Sure she had already eaten, but that was before the fight, and now she was hungry again.

He raised her head and began to sniff around for things, but she smelt nothing but decay, and the kind of decay you smell when something was dead, not the dead but still walking decay. She put on a confused face as she didn't really get what just went through her head, but soon shook herself back to reality.

"And how is Capulet doing? DO you think he'll...... He'll wake up soon?"

Montague turned his head to the charmander, touched by her concern for the zangoose. Ushering a weak smile, he sighed, glancing down to Capulet still draped over the canine’s back.
“I don’t know,” Montague spoke softly at first, true fear in his tone before realizing how he must sound. What did he care if Capulet died? It’d just be an excuse to decapitate him to remove the chain’s dead weight... What am I thinking? I’d be lost without Cap. “Can’t say he looks too good...”
“Speak for yourself,” Capulet had stirred during the conversation, listening to the snake’s words as he regained control of his limbs. His voice was hoarse, croaky, but soon loudening into a sort of ‘wah’ sound as he slipped off the arcanine’s back. Capulet’s voice had scared the living daylights out of Montague and it was only natural that he’d jump, accidentally knocking the now conscious creature from Kaidan’s back.
“Oh, Cap!” He exclaimed almost excitedly, slithering from his perch on the arcanine to wrap his coils around the zangoose in a quick hug.
“Easy...” Capulet coughed slightly, embarrassed, fidgeting in the snake’s grasp before being released to stand shakily on his hind legs. He turned to the rest of the group, feeling a little light-headed. He smiled, unsure how to thank these strangers for assisting him in his time of need, but soon rested on a polite tilt of his head. This wasn’t the same place as before, and he soon noticed both Rei and Ari’s absence. He rubbed his head, confused but reluctant to admit his utter disorientation. All he could remember was the unbearable burning of his lungs and the moment of weightlessness that followed.

Peering around the corner of the department store’s entrance, Montague scanned the area for signs of both the infected and Ari. Surely she wasn’t taking that hoard on all by herself? He frowned, soon realizing that no form graced the skies. Worry hit him. It’d be a death sentence to fight that many creatures on the ground, besides, Ari was bound to have an advantage in the air – it just didn’t make sense.
“G-Guys, do you think we should go find Ari?” He called back to the group, knowing that the feline had already slipped away to higher floors of the building. “There’s no sign of her...” Capulet was already up and ready. He wasn’t the sort of pokémon to take bed rest after an injury; he would let nothing stop him carrying on with everyday life and already seemed willing to help out in any way he could. The ferret didn’t need telling to know that in his unconsciousness, the world had become a whole lot nastier.

The only sounds that reached her ears were the wet slaps of her quick footfalls, her labored panting and the roars of the infected bastards behind her. Her body complained, but all pain was ignored as she pushed her broken body further and further. She looked back momentarily to see bloodied footprints and cursed loudly. Even if she had managed to lose them, they would just follow the pretty red breadcrumbs she had fucking laid out.

Ari kept her speed up, knowing that if she slowed down, she wouldn't be able to run again. Maybe if she laid out a complicated path, she could actually lose them and head back to her lair to pass out. She wondered vaguely if the others had made it, but her mind was quickly ripped from the thought when a sharp pain went through her leg. A hiss escaped her as she careened into the asphalt, her body screaming. For a moment, her legs refused to comply, but she pushed herself up, scooting and pushing her way into a small crevice of debris. She couldn't keep going... "Dammit," she cursed. She was trapped...