(Open) A Nighttime Stroll

A crisp breeze blew through the treetops of Shadowhue Forest, rustling the leaves and causing some of them to fall, scattering across the forest floor. Passing by underneath, a mostly white shape seemed to dart around in different spurts of speed, zigzagging back and forth between trees and other such foliage.

Shintara stopped again by another bush, leaning in a bit closer and poking her nose around. When it came to plants, there was really only so much she could sense using the wind, so for things like that she had to rely on scents as well. It seemed...mainly like leaves, nothing else, but it was still interesting to her. After all, she had never really seen much of leaves back in the desert. It was all just so new for her, she couldn't help but be excited!

The Absol turned away from that bush and sped up her pace a bit, moving absentmindedly around the forest as she did so. Not having been paying attention, she moved forward and...
Thump!
She yelped slightly as she felt her horn collide with a tree, the impact somewhat annoying as she jumped back, ready to get on guard. However, upon paying closer attention to the breeze, she could make the shape out as just another tree. With a slight sigh of relief, her expression went sheepish, her face going a little red out of embarassment. Lifting her head up a bit, she pivoted around in place a bit, searching for any sign of any other pokemon around that might have seen her mishap.

Energy: 12/22(-10 for entering)

For the past few days, Joey had wanted to go into the deeper sections of pecha forest. What was actually called shadowhue forest, due to its immense amount of darkness from the tree's blocking out the majority of the light. Having previously gone there for a mission once, he figured he should go check out the area again.

He would have invited Jak with him, however it seemed that Jak wasn't around town for a few days. He had a note at his house left for Joey stating that he was out helping train a friend in black mist mountains. It left Joey feeling a little down, considering he still hasn't had the chance to inform Jak of his friend's disappearance.

That same day Joey was going out into the forest, a certain spiritomb had traversed there. Seeming to have heard about a pokemon that he was seeking, was supposed to go there. The spiritomb, being very deceptive. Managed to get this information out of others fairly easily, so long as they didn't know who he was.

Having already been in the Grassveil area Deimos had figured he'd take a look at an area that would be completely new to him, the one that he had heard be referred to as Shadowhue Forest. Even moments after entering he could see the major difference from Pecha... It was much darker here, with only strands of golden light coming through in small quantities here and there... It had already piqued his curiosity. "This place already seems as if it may hold secrets... Guess I'd best get started" Deimos muttered to himself before he began to walk throughout the treeline, acting relatively cautiously like he had now grown used to doing so.

Pausing for a moment and standing still, Shintara blinked, hearing the sounds of a few different sets of steps. Though, it was hard to tell how many other pokemon were around in the area, After all, some had two legs, some had four legs, and others moved around in other different ways. Curious, the Absol turned and began to head in the general direction of the two, starting to pick up their shapes as the breeze blew by, and she got closer.

It seemed like there were two of them, one of them being a shape pretty familiar to her by this point. It had to be another Absol nearby, though the other was a bit more unusual to her. She hadn't really met any other pokemon like that before, so it was a bit of an interesting find. Debating what to do, she made a decision on a course of action.

"H-hello? Anyone around?" Tara called out inquisitively, her voice stammering unintentionally at the start, though it built a bit more confidence by the end as she spoke, hoping to be loud enough to be heard by whoever else was around. Really, it probably could be seen as a horrible idea to call out randomly in the middle of a dark forest with strange pokemon around. But, she figured there was a bright side to either option. If they were friendly, she had nothing to worry about. And if not, well, she had an opportunity to get a bit of practice in anyways.

Joey stopped moving the second he heard someone call out in the distance if anyone was around. It seemed to be a bit of a ways ahead of him.

This seemed to grab the attention of the spiritomb also, as he had been waiting inside his rock for a particular someone to pass by if the information he got was correct. However, the voice was very distant.

Someone might be lost in here... hehe, though that didn't sound like the person I am looking for... Maybe a bit of fun is in order. the spiritomb thought to himself.

Joey then thought for a moment, whether or not to respond back or ignore it. After a few seconds he decided to respond back to the voice. "Umm, Would I count?" the little pichu responded back as he continued along the path. Seeming to spot the figure in the distance.

Deimos merely continued to walk, paying careful attention to what he could see and hear in preparation for if Feral Pokemon had realized his presence. Other than the crunching of leaves underfoot it seemed to be relatively quiet and peaceful to the point Deimos felt as if he could relax slightly. That feeling went away immediately as he heard a voice coming from nearby and moving Earth... Clearly it wouldn't be Feral but he didn't wish to drop his guard.

Quietly he advanced towards the source of the original voice, a second one becoming audible for a moment as he did so, was there some sort of meeting occurring here? Was this just some form of trap? Deimos couldn't trust it. Soon enough he was able to make out a black and white Pokemon from his position within the treeline... An Absol? Here of all places? Then again Deimos couldn't say much.

Immediately turning her head, the Absol blinked as she faced the direction the Pichu seemed to be coming from, a broad smile stretching out across her features. If he had spoke to her, Shintara figured that he would most likely be friendly. After all, why would somebody respond if they weren't? Wouldn't they want to stay hidden or quiet or something like that? Despite the various reasons she could be wrong in that way of thinking, it didn't really register to her at the moment.

"Oh, hey! Who are you?" The blind pokemon questioned excitedly, bounding over towards the source of the sound enthusiastically. Maybe it would have looked a bit friendlier to simply walk over calmly, as opposed to rushing the other pokemon, but it didn't exactly register to her. She wasn't one to really think things out ahead of time, after all.

[quote="coaster3000"]Joey's eyes widened as the figure in the distance spoke back again and started bounding directly towards him. This caught him completely off guard as he did not expect anything to attack him this early, yet it seemed excited to see him. He just didn't quiet realize any of it. "Wa-waaa WAIT!" he shouted towards it, hoping it would stop. However it seemed that happened, out of panic Joey let loose a bolt of energy in the pokemon's direction. "St-stop!!" he shouted as he let the energy lose.

At that moment, he immediately felt regret as he just realized that when the pokemon was dashing towards him, it didn't seem like it was attacking him at all. It just seemed happy.

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The spiritomb still in his keystone, heard something closely similar to crack of thunder, but on a much smaller scale occur. Possibly a weaker electrical attack from a pokemon. Heh... an electric type... I wonder... he thought to himself as he remained in his place.

Deimos had watched in relative silence as the Absol turned, called out and then ran towards the other voice... This Absol seemed... Different. For the moment Deimos decided to follow after her while sticking to the cover of the trees, he didn't want to reveal his presence if he didn't have to. Soon enough he caught sight of a Pichu, seemingly what the Absol was charging towards. He watched and listened as it unleashed a bolt electricity, crying out for the Absol to stop... Why must there be violence once more?

Deimos began to concentrate on the Earth in between the Absol and Pichu, he'd felt obligated to help the Absol for some reason, he didn't want there to be the possibility of any collateral. From the earth a large wall like stone erupted forth, easilly covering the area that bolt of electricity would be travelling through... He didn't realize She was blind. "Calm down, there is no need for pointless violence" Deimos commented as he now walked into plain view.

Shintara blinked for a moment as she ran over, though it didn't cause her to slow down or anything. Had the Pichu said something? Well, if they had, she hadn't heard it clearly. The air seemed to suddenly carry a sort of...well, charge to it. Kind of like if there was a rainstorm, or more specifically, a thunderstorm around.

Just as suddenly as the charge seemed to show up somewhere, a mass of ground rose up in front of the Absol. She didn't have enough time to completely stop herself as she let out a slight cry of surprise, skidding into the rock wall and feeling herself collide with it, knocking her head against something for the second time in the past few minutes. Staggering back a few steps, she shook her head, growling slightly as she found herself trying to shake herself out of another daze.

"Urgh...really? Again? Come on, what was that for?" Tara whined, sounding a bit annoyed and disappointed as she turned her head, glancing back and forth between the new Absol and the Pichu. Well, it wasn't like it benefited her any. She couldn't see him whether she was facing them or not. But, over the course of her life, she had found that pokemon tended to get less unnerved when she was actually facing them while speaking. That, and it just seemed to be more polite. Still, she didn't know which one of them had done what exactly, so she didn't know who to focus her complaints on. Thus, she settled with both at the moment.

The little pichu was even more startled as the wall of stone erupted from the ground. He nearly jumped out of his skin as this happened, quickly stopping all electricity he was producing and jumped backwards.

"wh-who di..." he was going to ask who did that, however he got a response fairly quickly. He turned towards the second pokemon, that seemed to have similar colors to the one pokemon he saw running at him. He didn't realize it at first due to him reacting so quickly to the pokemon darting at him. But the two pokemon were of the same species.

"I, I am sorry about that. I... I thought you might of been hostile..." Joey apologized. He truly didn't realize that the person running at him was not hostile. He also didn't recognize the pokemon behind the wall was blind, however he did hear the sound of something running into the wall. He thought maybe they might of slid into the wall though. Which sort of was true....

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As the ground had a slight tremor to it, the spiritomb got slightly annoyed. What is going on back there... he thought to himself as he popped out of his stone. However, he did not see anything of interest at all. Nothing was visible to him from where he was. Nor was he visible to others. He was actually quite a bit a ways, however the ground shaking had to come from somewhere. He then heard in the distance some chatter. It was way to low sounding for him to distinguish what was going on.

He figured that it would be best to wait there still, as at some point... They had to come down this path anyways... right?

He then slunk back into his stone, waiting.

Deimos watched and merely shook his head as the Absol hit the wall headfirst... Well that didn't go as well as he hoped for certain. Still, it probably would be better than potential paralysis... No matter. "Charging at someone at full speed isn't always the best idea, for precisely the reason the Pichu said. Miinterpretations are common after all." Deimos commented, paying little heed to the question, it wasn't for anything technically speaking.

"Either way... I wasn't expecting to encounter another Absol, especially not here of all places" Deimos added, though he shut himself up right afterwards, no need for massive amounts of needless socialization.

It took another second or so for the blind Absol to realize that she was still behind the newly made rock wall. Quickly stepping out from behind it, she looked at Jak with a somewhat confused expression, her head tilted for a moment before she finally got what both he and Deimos were suggesting.

"O-oh!" She stuttered out, chuckling sheepishly as she did so. "I-I'm really sorry about that, I g-guess I didn't really think that one out very well...h-heh..." As she spoke, Shintara lowered her head and fidgeted her paw around, poking at the ground before deciding to change the topic.

"W-well...I guess some introductions are in order. I'm Shintara, I'm sort of new around here." She introduced herself, bringing her head back up and smiling slightly.

Joey let out a light sigh as he remained in his spot. I almost made a mistake... he thought to himself. Joey then heard the gentle sound of paws walking across the ground just at the edge of the wall. The same pokemon that had charged towards him had come out from behind it.

Joey glanced back and forth between the two pokemon... Another absol? They aren't common around here... he thought for a moment. The one decided to introduce them-self. "Shin... Shintara? My name is Joey! And you?" he said in a mostly calm but happy tone, directing his last question towards the other absol.

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The spiritomb still waiting for something to come by, was growing tired of waiting... Maybe I should... urgghh... Patience... The wait will be worth it...

Deimos had closed his eyes for a moment in thought... This Absol was completely different to those he had otherwise encountered... he'd only encountered territorial Absol so far on his travels. If anything, it was a nice change of pace. "Deimos" He answered in order to respond to the Pichu, his tone making him seem relatively calm and collect for the moment. He note the comment this 'Shintara' had made about being new to the area, which somewhat helped explain why he'd not caught sight of it before.