An Adventure of Some Sorts

[Ren]

The strong yet small flareon paraded into the familiar territory once more, happy to be home. It had been far too long. She smiled up into the bright sun, eyes closed and enjoying the warmth.

After that moment of bliss, she turned to see that the pups were no longer behind her. Her blood suddenly ran cold.

"Aisa? Artemis?" she exclaimed, desperately searching for her children.

[Sephalesh]

A combusken waltzed out of the grass. For a combusken, he was small, but his eyes burned with fiery determination. He was picking his beak with a long blade of grass. "I'm full. I haven't had a meal like that for a long time, and young meat too." He said, sleepy over such a full meal.

The chicken pokemon stopped as he saw the flareon. "Aww shoot. Was that their names?" He exclaimed cooly, letting the blade of grass fall from his beak. It never boded well on finding the parents of whatever you ate.

(Hope you don't mind me joining for a little bit. Hope Aisa and atermis show up quick, or else your going to have one very deep fried chicken in your spit.)

[†Grovyle†]

Artemis rolled towards his mother in a tight ball. "Artie here! He found berry." He looked back to see Aisa, but he couldn't find her. "Mommy....I scared. Place smell funny. And fat birdy look like her want' to eat Artie. Artie no like...now way, no way."
((You can never eat Artie.... he too smart for puny brained chicken.))

[mintchan]

A scream echoed through the air as the small bundle of fur crashed through the grasses. Aisa winced, but tucked into a ball so that she would roll to her feet and hid behind her mother. "M-M-Mommy! B-Bird! A-Ate them!" she cried, shaking. It had only been a few minutes earlier that she and Artemis had been play-wrestling (or rather, Artemis trying to play with Aisa, though she still wasn't sure what play was and didn't take to the sort that he liked to do) that they had come across a small group of cleffa in the grass. They had stopped for a moment, only a few seconds...when the bird had sprung on them. Aisa had only barely gotten away from that sharp beak, poised to strike... she buried her face into her mothers fur, choking back cries of fright.

[Ren]

Eriko ran to both her pups and made sure they were safe. After checking both over multiple times, she turned and growled at the combusken. If the children weren't there, the chicken pokemon would get a piece of her mind.

"Touch them and I swear on the pokegods that you'll be my meal!" she threatened, standing protectivly in front of the eevee. Mistake number one: messed with a new mother.

[Sephalesh]

The combusken did a double take of the two eevee's. "So the other two weren't yours?" The chicken pokemon stuck the piece of grass in his beak, and wiped his sweaty brow. "That's a releif. I don't have the time to deal with an angry mother."

Now, he smiled, and took a menacing step forward. "Now that I've eaten. . ." He said with a menacing glare. The combusken fell to his knees and looked up at them. "Could ya tell me where I am? I'm kinda lost, right now."

[mintchan]

Aisa peeked out from behind her mother, still shaking. The bird was close to them again...she squeaked and buried herself into her mothers fur, remembering how he had just snacked on the cleffa with no remorse. She also remembered that ravenous look in his eye as he had stared at her greedily...

"Mommy, make scary bird go!!" She begged into her fur, quivering.

[Ren]

"You're in the West Savannas," Eriko replied curtly to the bird pokemon. Leave it to a bird to get lost.

She stepped back one step before letting out a warning growl. It was simply to tell the cumbusken not to get any closer, or there would be problems.


((Neh! Sorry it's short! >__<))

[†Grovyle†]

Artemis, determined to protect his sister, pounced and tried to bite the bird in the hind. His jaw was formed differently. When he want to bite hard he had to do something like unhinging his jaw so it'd open wide. "Artie bite, ugly birdy! YOU MAKE SISTER SCARED!" He said, before being about 5 inches from the hind. Nearly enough time to counter, though contact wouldn't hurt because he was still teething.

[Sephalesh]

The combusken gave the three of them a flat stare, for a few moments, before he was surprised by a (surprise) surprise attack. The combusken jumped up into the air, did a backflip, and landed farther away from the family, unsteady on his talons. The chicken looked ready to take on a charging tauros.
"Hey, Kid. I'm not food." The combusken said, seeing the little pup. He didn't know that Artie didn't have teeth, so he looked a little hunted. "I eat kid's like you for breakfast. Don't make me come over there" The combusken threatened cooly, blade of grass in beak.

[Ren]

In a moment, Eriko was next to Artemis. She bent down and bit the pup gently by the tuff of fur on his neck and walked back towards Aisa. She then placed him down.

"We don't want trouble," she said, turning back to the cumbusken.

((Technically, it's not power-playing since Eri-chan is the "mother". But if anyone has problems with that, I'll fix it. But I've seen my dog do that, so yeah...))

[†Grovyle†]

The young pup hated being lifted..Artemis snarled at the bird before slightly lowering his guard. "I still don't like him..." he muttered, baring his teeth at the bird, showing he disliked him. Artemis trotted towards Aisa. "Is sister okay? Birdie no hurt no more. Mommy beat up like other birds."

[mintchan]

Aisa shivered, glancing up at her brother with a mixture of fear and gratitude in her eyes. The scary bird wouldn't get to them...not with her mommy and brother around to hurt it. Still...she found herself wishing that Papa was still around...Papa would've gotten rid of it right away..."Aisa is okay..." she whispered softly, slowly rising up from her timid position. "Aisa wants scary bird to go though...scary bird a-ate Cleffa...."

[Sephalesh]

The combusken brought one of his feathery hands to his head, sighing, "Just my luck, to be stuck with a mother and some brats. I don't want no trouble, either, so if you would step out of my way, I would be going now." The bird walked closer, apprently intending to go through them.

[mintchan]

Aisa saw the bird coming at her, but didn't hear the words. She had been talking to Artemis at the time of the explanation. Now he was growing steadily closer, and she remembered just how he had eaten up the Cleffa, strutting towards them as so. He was coming for them now, she was sure of it. She screamed, burrowing herself into her mothers fur and crying.

"Don't l-let it eat us!" she begged. "Don't, don't! Mommy!!!"

[Ren]

Eriko growled. "It is not neccessary to go through us. There are other ways to get out of the Savannas. Don't get closer," she warned, getting in a defensive position. She wouldn't strike unless the bird did. But the fire-pokemon getting too close to the children was something she simply would not allow.

[Ren]

((For those who care, I sent Eri-chan to the Foothills. Simply because this thread kinda died. So, Aisa and Arti can go there, if you guys so wish it.

~Ren))