The SAFFRON Team

Helena, though she was incapable of showing it, was getting irritated with these pokemon. They yelled at her, were rude, uncouth, and the flower,... oh... the flower, dared to call her retarded. The spider was beginning to scuttle away it looked like, and she was beginning to feel down. Again, she had tried, and failed, to make friends. She could harbor them no ill will, but instead had that same smile stuck on her face as her brain continued to make her feel bubbly and happy when she knew deep down inside that it was a fruitless attempt to please these people.

"I tried... but magic can't solve everything."

The words came out sounding pleased, but were filled with anguish she couldn't express. Her eyes would be crying if she could feel sadness, but no. Helena just has to go on dealing with everyone despising her. Not only that, but they were all hurt from the noisy Galvantula, but it hadn't affected her. They really should've had their defenses up. With a sigh, Helena shuffled away, past all of them, and towards the PokeCenter.

"There will be nobody to make friends with in here I'm sure."

"Hey, you alright?" Leah asked. "My hearing is probably damaged... But, I'm OK." Yue slowly got up and brushed herself off. The rain fell everywhere, the glow of the lump of Silph Co. was going down with the rain. She climbed up, very carefully, into the broken window, into the Pokémon Center, and looked for supplies. "Hey, Forever? You know what human supplies look like? Or how to use them? I doubt we'd find any berries." The rain had washed away a lot of the blood from her attack on the Porygon, but some still remained. The water, colder than ice, was sliding off slowly. Yue looked in a puddle of water that slid off her. Who am I to think I should be around others? I am a monster. I killed the Porygon, and I thought it felt... good. Yue sighed. I suppose I should get away in the night, then... So the others don't need to face my eventual going crazy. I'm not the strongest... But, I'm my dad's daughter...

"Where is the light? Is it weeping somewhere?" The electric bug hisses as it tries to turn it's mutilated head to see where the yummy smelling purple thing had gone.
Too late.
Angel scurries over to the wreckage of the once great building.
Oh dear her poor mother.
She strokes her short fringed forelegs over the stones.
The galvantula knows what will make her feel better. Mother needs someone to look after her.
Another child.
Oh dear how will she get them to mother.
Angel strokes a blue toe point over the rubble.
She'll only be gone a moment, Angel mentally reassures the worn stone.
Only gone for a bit to bring her some nice new pokemon to play with.
The galvantula's fur bristles.
They will be punished for doing this to mother.

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Saffron City | Night (24)

Forever tripped over something that was near the window. She stumbled a bit, then got back up. There were a couple on new faces here. She shook herself off, making the water fly off from her fur. Finally she wasn't left in the cold, wet, rain. She shook her head one last time to get rid of the last of the water.

"Hey, Forever? You know what human supplies look like? Or how to use them? I doubt we'd find any berries." She heard a familiar voice call. She turned to face where she heard the voice. There was Yue, looking though more interesting human junk-which Forever had no idea what it was or what it was used for.
Looking for food here was a good idea. She noticed she was quite hungry.

"No. But I'll try to find something useful-or food. I'll check in the back of the center." She replied to her, and she quietly walked into the back rooms of the pokemon center.

((Please skip me, unless you all want Civ to be Singing In The Rain, i can not think of anything at the moment |D))

Leah leaned back against a wall, her arms crossed as she looked around. Aside from the two infected, she had Yue, who seemed nice as well as badass when she wants to be. Then there's Forever, whom she doesn't know really well, so she won't be too quick to judge. She wasn't even going to bother with the damn Espeon. She could drop dead any day.

Forever went to the back of the pokemon center, looking for human supplies to help them survive. Leah ran up to the Leafeon and said, "Hold on! Let me go with you. Safety in numbers, right?"

(OoC: Apologies for the short/crappy post.)

It wasn't fair... All she wanted was a friend. First, the poor spider ignores her, and the Nidorino runs off. The Snivy accuses her of drug use, and the flower curses and yells at her and calls her names. It was enough to make her cry. For the first time in her life, as she crawled into the Pokemon Center, Helena cried. She shook with trembles and sobs as she recounted just how much everyone seemed to hate her. All she wanted was to make friends, and show them her tricks, but no...

"All the ever want to do is yell at me. I'm not retarded... the magician never said I was retarded. He loved me... why does nobody love me?"

She sniffled morosely, and curled up into a ball. Her mind could sense others nearby, probably the grass-types by how it felt in her mind, but she didn't care. They would get no hello or how are you from her, because they all had made her cry. It just wasn't fair. She sniffed the air, and smelled the flower approaching the Center. Just to prove she wasn't going to take insults without something to say, she stood, walked right out, and looked at the Roserade.

"I'm not retarded... I suffer from.. well, my trainer called it Autism, and he said it kept me happy and friendly, because it makes me like people... And.. I don't like how you called me retarded. I'm not retarded... All I wanted was a friend!"

She darted back inside, crying some more as she fell to the floor, curling up in a vain effort to feel secure and happy again.

The Espeon seemed to have a nervous breakdown now. She was sniffling and wailed, "All they ever want to do is yell at me. I'm not retarded... the magician never said I was retarded. He loved me... why does nobody love me?"
She got up and walked to Leah, and shouted, "I'm not retarded... I suffer from.. well, my trainer called it Autism, and he said it kept me happy and friendly, because it makes me like people... And.. I don't like how you called me retarded. I'm not retarded... All I wanted was a friend!"
AUTISM? Is THAT why...? Yue felt bad immediately, but an Autistic Pokémon probably wouldn't survive the Epidemic much longer. She opened her mouth to speak, but she just decided to stay quiet.
Autism... Autism... No wonder...

Angel keeps close to the stones, her yellow furred back scraping faintly across the stones with a sound like static electricity.
She had a rival.
A string of black tinted saliva hangs from her jaws.
That poor thing, trying to hurt mother's children.
It would have to be punished.
"You will not hear me say I'm sorry..." Angel hums pleasantly as she spots the purple thing from before out of her good eyes.
Sibling...
No lunch...
No it is mother's son.

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Saffron Pokemon Center | Night (25!!!)

She leaped into the back of the pokemon center, looking for supplies. She heard someone call from behind her. "Hold on! Let me go with you. Safety in numbers, right?" She turned around. There was the roserade that she saw with Yue earlier. She replied, "You can follow me if you want. It is safer for all of us." From all the ones that she had met, none of them were as helpful as her. Helpful, sure-but she did hear about what she said to the espeon-all of that yelling and cursing. No one should be yelled at for being happy, even like this. She made the poor espeon cry. "Hey, do you mind waiting here? I need to cheer up a friend." She told the flower and tuned back. Forever wanted to cheer her up.

(Yay! Badge! :DDDDDDD)

“Rain, why must you be so annoying.”

The rain only kept getting more annoying the longer he stood outside in it. He was now drenched, but the thought of shelter didn’t even enter his mind. He still had no clue of if he would be getting sick or not, if it was possible for his dead organs to be infected with the common cold virus.

Instead he took to walking, or more like wandering, his walk still embodying that stagger of his. After that horrible bug did whatever it did to him, Civ could feel his tiredness, but that need for sleep was more of a delusion to him. He needed to take care of his thirst first before anything else, he felt he may go mad(or madder) if he did not.

“Sweet Flower, Sweet Flower,
Sweet Blood, Sweet Blood.”

That mantra filled the cold dark streets he was wandering in.


((So sorry, didn't realize it was my turn >.<))

Leah was going with Forever to a backroom for supplies they could use for their survival, in case the spider and the Nidorino came back, which is inevitable. The Roserade was feeling pretty high and mighty until she got called out by the retarded Espeon. "I'm not retarded... I suffer from.. well, my trainer called it Autism, and he said it kept me happy and friendly, because it makes me like people... And.. I don't like how you called me retarded. I'm not retarded... All I wanted was a friend!"

Leah physically stopped. This whole time she thought the Espeon was a dumbass. Now, she felt an emotion she thought she would never feel for her; pity, and it didn't help that the Espeon curled up into a ball crying.

Leah's face became plastered with worry, but she still needed to go with Forever for supplies. Turning her face back into a serious one, she walked past the curled up eeveelution ((OoC: Did I spell that correctly?)) and kept going. Before she was completely gone, she turned back to the Espeon and asked, "Uh, hey, we're getting supplies, and we could use some help," she was trying to bring out the correct words, thinking before she acted for once in her life, "Do you wanna come with us?"

Thinking before acting did feel good. She figured that she would like to do it a bit more often.

Helena sniffled, and curled up a bit more. The flower was a damn liar. She could smell the nervous energy from her acting as she spoke. Nothing was going to fool her now. With a disgruntled sigh, she rose, her legs popping from the sudden shift from motionless to motion. She looked at the flower, and saw pity on its features. Maybe she felt bad for her?...

No.

Nobody but her loving trainer ever cared about her... that, and this Leafeon who was turning back to talk to her. She looked kind, and she had never seen her before. Maybe she could make a new friend? She was doubtful that any such thing would occur, but who knows? Helena was unsure, and highly, highly apprehensive, but smiled her biggest smile, and looked at the Leafeon.

"Sure.... I can help you guys out. Helena Chessum is ready for any monster!"

(OoC: I got grounded and can't post... Sorry I'm such a bad leader. Oh, and The Big Cheese, Forever's a girl. *awkward silence of awkwardness* tastybob says 'she', not 'he'.)

[quote="Kaze"]
Angel quietly creeps along the road, keeping so low to the ground her belly almost scrapes the concrete. Her mandibles are twitching with excitement.
Soon.
So very soon.
"The wind, howling at the window..."
Angel could hear the voices.
So close...
Angel rises from her slumped position, braces her pointed legs on the Asphalt and once again calls down the lightning from the clouds up above and once again the sparks answer her call, bend and flow based on her will and streak down from the sky like the spear of a god of thunder.
It strikes the pokecentre, blowing a hole in the wall.
"So insignificant..."
Angel closes in.

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Saffron City / Night [26]

Forever tried to confort the espeon. Us eeveelutions must stick together, especially in a time and place like this. She thought to herself. It was nice to have another of her kind here. Then seemingly out of nowhere, the one that was trying to help her, the one that yelled at her fellow eeveelution, turned around to ask her to help with finding the supplies. Maybe the yelling would be over now. She replied, happy as ever.
''Sure...I can help you guys out. Helena Chessum is ready for any monster!'' She was feeling happy again. That was a good thing. Forever replies to Helena, ''You can come with us. We're going to look for supplies in the back.'' She turned around, and walked into the storage area in the back of the center.

Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter. The rain did not stop, leaving for a cold and wet Nidorino. Though that didn’t stop him, in his state, it was a miracle that he even took notice of the rain, he was too far gone without sleep or food for so long, that he was basically in a trance like state at the moment. Especially after that fear instilled into him from that strange bug. It caused him to think too much, and that was one thing he thought he was free of, from thinking also. One cannot be free if they are tied down by thoughts…

“Maybe if I cut my head open, the thoughts would escape and not be stuck inside in there…”

But he would need a sharp instrument to do that, and then there was the problem of what he was going to do with the part that he cuts off. Maybe make them into little house ornaments, that would be lovely….now he just needed a house.

Leah was suprised by how quick the Espeon's mood changed. "Sure.... I can help you guys out. Helena Chessum is ready for any monster!" The Roserade wanted to laugh, but she wouldn't. She was slowly making her way back to Helena's good side. Forever also supported Helena helping out.

And with that, they went to the backroom in the Pokemon Center to look for supplies. When Leah got to the backroom, she realized now that it was extremely dark, and the electricity was all dead with no humans around to maintain it. She turned back to the eeveelutions and called out, "Yo, anyone got a bright light? It's too dark to see in here!"

Helena grinned, and pranced in front of Leah cheerily. It made her giggle that they didn't have light.
"I got just the thing!"
She closed her eyes slowly, and the gem on her forehead began to glow brightly with psychic energy, which lit up the room with a bright pink light.

Right as the light filled the room, she jumped in surprise, as she saw some grizzly things. There was red splotches on the wall, and she could faintly smell something sweet. The scent of death. It was too faint to be anywhere close, but still it unnerved her. She backed behind Forever, and hid behind her friend with a apprehensive look. Still, she wasn't scared, it wasn't possible for her to get scared anyways.

"I don't know about you guys, but I don't think there's anything we need in here... it looks like an Infected had a party here!"

Helena's eyes wandered about, still apprehensive about the room, and the smell of death that still lingered in her nose, even as she stopped sniffing for it.

Yue shook the water off her body. It was cold, damp, and depressing tonight. She stood on a pile of junk and looked out the window. Her eyelids drooped as the rain brought their voices back.
--
"Mommy, what is it?" She poked it with a stick. "I don't know... But, it's not alive..." Her mother was worried. She paused."It's breathing..."
--
She sighed. She closed her eyes, and a full scene came back.
--
"Daddy! ... Daddy! Are you OK?!" She was worried. "..." There was no reply, but he got up and hissed. "Daddy...?" She asked, frightened. He roared and closed his jaws on her tail. She screamed.
--
Yue let out a small gasp. She checked her tail. It was the same as that day, except the edge had healed and was trying to grow back to its full size. She continued t look outside. There was a flash, and a loud noise. Yue jumped. A hole had been blown in the ceiling and rain was pouring in. Yue ran to the now-illuminated back room.
"I think I'll stay with you guys. Strength in numbers!" Her voice was shaky and nervous. Then again, who wouldn't be afraid if there was a zombie that could make lightning strike after your flesh?

[quote="Kaze"]
"Are you hiding away lost?"
The galvantula hums as she scuttles towards the smoking building.
There is light oozing from the cracked walls, a tiny sliver of pink but light meant life and life meant...
The galvantula scuttles closer, holding her body higher from the ground to reduce the sound her pointed toes made on the asphalt.
"Perhaps you're happy without me..."
The Galvantula doesn't care if her mournful tune can be heard as she strikes the wall with the tip of her forelegs, tryin to break her way in.

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Saffron City| Night (27)

Forever and the others walked into the storage rooms in the back of the pokemon center. It was dark. You couldn't see anything."Yo, anyone got a bright light? It's too dark to see in here!" Leah called out. Helena giggled and skipped around from behind them. "I got just the thing!" the gem on her forehead began to glow brightly with psychic energy, which lit up the room with a bright pink light. the light filled the room, but then she wished that she couldn't see anything in the darkness. It was a mess. The infected had came and attacked here before. It smelled nasty, like something had crawled in here and died.
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She bent down to sniff the floor. With the smell of death, there was another scent. It was like...something had been here before them-and recently. It might still be around."I don't know about you guys, but I don't think there's anything we need in here... it looks like an Infected had a party here!" She was right, but there might be some things still here, covered in all the other stuff. She walked around the pink room. She found something. The window-it was broken. Glass was everywhere. That thing that was here recently went out thru that window. It could still be around.

((Sorry, did not realize it was my turn, a bit busy for today and tomorrow, so pleas skip))

"I got just the thing!" Helena pranced in front of Leah and shined a light onto the room. The sight made the Roserade jump slightly. It wasjust a huge ass gore fest. "I don't know about you guys, but I don't think there's anything we need in here... it looks like an Infected had a party here!" Helena was right. It doesn't look like anything here would be needed. "Helena's right. Let's just rest in here for a bit." She hadn't noticed that Yue joined the group.

Through a hole in the Pokemon Center's roof, she saw three infected bird pokemon fly in. A Fearow, an Xatu, and an Altaria. As the latter two just flew around, getting really close to the group, Leah couldn't help but notice that the Fearow looked a bit familiar. Almost as if she--

Then it hit her like a ton of bricks. This was the same Fearow that killed David. She gritted her teeth, readied a Poison Jab attack specifically for him, and yelled, "TIME TO FUCKING DIE, YOU MURDERER!!" And attacked him with the jab.

(OoC: Yep, Leah's gone a bit psycho. Also thought I'd bring in some more undead.)

Helena giggled at silly Leah. Poison probably wouldn't work on creatures without heartbeats. Without proper blood-flow, poison is basically useless gunk hitting them. The head and brain is where you want to attack these brutes, and the ecstatic Espeon did so. Concentrating her power, she jumped onto the Xatu. When she heard Leah say murderer, she remembered watching a movie with her trainer. Something to do with slaying vampires and werewolves... Van Helsing she thought it was called... The battle made her think of other movies...

"Pokemon! Tonight we dine in..... oh darn I forget that part... gimme a second here...."

As she thought, the Xatu thrashed about, attempting to shake her off, but she gripped her claws into him, and hung fast as she slammed him down with telekinetic energy.

"It's rude to interrupt people while they're trying to think! Didn't your mommy teach you manners?"

With a giggle at being a silly pokemon, she back-flipped off it, and smiled triumphantly. Prancing around the unconscious Xatu, she laughed outright at her victory. It was too easy.... TOO easy. She was interrupted ever-sp-rudely again when she was tripped by the wing of the Xatu as it got up. This made her smile huge, and jump up excitedly. So they wanted to play? Leaping at the Xatu, she wrapped her tail around its throat, just before blasting it with more psychic energy, which sprang forth in a rainbow beam, which made something rather odd happen... The Xatu's head crumpled on itself, making Helena jump away from the blood and gore.

"Eeeeewwwwwww... this is so icky!!"