Pokémon battle! And we'll see who is the better trainer! And we'll see who has the bigger Pokéballs!

[mischiefbreeder]

Who: Gold (mischiefbreeder) and Silver (tsuntrader), plus any spectators!
What: Silver issued a battle challenge to Gold, who accepted.
When: Saturday afternoon
Where: The Battle Dome
Summary: Gold and Silver have been in Luceti together for a year and yet have never had a single Pokémon battle. Deciding it's time to rectify, they head off to the Battle Dome to throw down!
Rating: PG? I mean, it's Pokémon...
[Gold had been anxiously waiting for this day. Sure, the standard format for Pokémon battles involved just battling whenever your eyes meet, but if they did that, there'd be constant battles all day, every day. Therefore, these things had to be planned.

...Besides that, Silver was his rival. Always has been, always will be. That makes this battle special. A battle to settle old scores... No, a battle to determine who's the best trainer out of the two of them, and furthermore... To show everyone just how it's done.

It was time. Their battle lies ahead.]

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[shamelessness]

[The only other recently hatched Pokémon that Skarmy has encounter has been Pichu. Skamry tilts her head to the side, studying Soren. Because of Gold's naughty nature that imprinted on her...

She's trying decide if she wants to battle this other bird or not.]

[dogboy]

[Soren shares both those, and he's sizing her up right back. Size difference or not, he's pretty sure he can take this bird down.

Wanna go? Right here, right now, aerial battle.]

[shamelessness]

[Oh. Skarmy can do that. No problem. She's been training. Everyday. In fact the skarmory uses taunt. COME AT ME, BRO.

-Shiemi knows that sound. She turns to her Pokémon.]

Sk-Skarmy, what are you doing?

[dogboy]

[While Soren hasn't been training all that much - Chien's fault, not his - he's good to go and will strike right at the other with a quick attack.

-- which catches Chien's attention, because that bird is gooone.]

Where're you going?!

[shamelessness]

[Skarmy takes that attack to the face like a boss, because skarmories are physical walls. Sure she was injured, but now that she didn't have to block she retaliates with swift.]

[dogboy]

[This is why Pokémon battles were in large areas, huh? They seem destructive. Especially with that swift. Only which Soren's barely dodging, because being that close to the enemy and trying to escape is pretty damn hard for an ill-trained bird. So he's got hit, yeah, but in response he'll growl at the other. Lower dat attack with his fearsome trill.

... How do birds growl, anyway.]

[shamelessness]

[Despite the attack being lowered, Skarmy swoops in to use peck. It may not be the most effective since they're both flying types, but it will still do damage because she's more experienced than Soren.]

[dogboy]

[Definitely more experienced, and Mister Big-Shot thinks he can take it no problem and

well

he ends up in Shiemi's lap due to his foolishness. Hello pretty lady, mind helping a bird out? Battles don't matter now, 'cause you already won his heart ♥]

[shamelessness]

[Skarmy flies back and lands on the back of Shiemi's chair. She's about to attack again when Shiemi calls her off. The bird sort of pouts and glares down at Soren.

Speaking of, Shiemi picks him up and pets him a little.] I'm sorry she's so rough. Are you all right?

[dogboy]

[Soren winks at Skarmy, hahaha loser. He'll give you hell once he's all nice and evolved whenever.

Trilling his thanks to Shiemi too, he's fine. Look he'll even hop around and prove it-- oh no ow okay Skarmory pecks are kind of damaging wow. Okay. No. He'll just sit here and look handsome until Chien starts over with a little yell.] Stupid bird, you can't just fly off like that! If he's bothering you, just flick his head and he'll go off.

[shamelessness]

[Skarmy squawks. Yes, flick that dirty little coward's head! But Shiemi doesn't. Instead she just pets him some more.]

N-no, it's okay! My Skarmy probably started the fight with him anyway.

[dogboy]

[Soren really likes you, Shiemi. Your pets feel wonderful and mocking your bird is fun.]

I'll bet a meat bun it was Soren. He's a troublemaker. [Protesting chirp! Excuse you, Chien, but he's definitely not one!] A serious troublemaker!

[shamelessness]

So is Skarmy. She enjoys taunting other Pokémon. And people.

[Skarmy gives Shiemi a look. Hey, it's fun.]

[dogboy]

[Soren agrees, it does look pretty fun. Diving at people's heads is way more fun though.]

... Shimei, right? You're one of the people that weirdo mentioned. All of these Pokémon are pretty badly behaved.

[shamelessness]

"That weirdo"?

[dogboy]

The one who talks too much and is pretty full of himself. He's a fool. ["Fool" as in the "clown" sense. Respects him kind of otherwise.]

[shamelessness]

Gold?

[dogboy]

The other one. [Sheesh, most people didn't deserve to even be mentioned by name.] Masaomi.

[shamelessness]

Masaomi mentioned me? [Weird. But okay.]

[dogboy]

Told me the names of the other people who had these guys, that's all. [Not that he wants to get to know you guys, but...] What's your sword-bird?

[shamelessness]

Skarmy is my Skarmory.

[dogboy]

[Skarmory. Still looks more like a sword-bird to him.]

Does it... uh, "evolve" or anything like that? This guy does, so. [Teach him bird buddy--]

[shamelessness]

N-no, but Silver did say she'll be big enough to ride on one day.

[dogboy]

So you could actually fly around this place, huh... [Soren chirps from Shimei's lap, and Chien rolls his eyes.]

When he evolves, he'll be strong enough to carry me around. I think. He'll be twice the trouble too though.

[shamelessness]

Evolves? Into what?

[She scratches Soren's head.]