@NewMoonGamer

Titania gave a sigh of relief and followed the girl into the storage room. Wow, there were boxes everywhere, there was probably some helpful stuff. Titania also began rummaging through the many boxes for any sort of helpful supplies. Lilith of course assisted her, careful peering through the boxes Titania opened. "So ah, um. What's your plan right now?" Titania didn't really have one except wander around and look for food and people. She'd been hoping this would be the start of getting together a group of people to be safe with, but she wasn't so sure. Heck, she didn't even know this girl's name yet.

@Eklispe


Emma paused her searching when she heard the question. She hadn't thought about any plan per se, and her only goal up to that point had been survival. "A plan... That would be a good thing to have..." she whispered to herself before saying to the girl making sure to keep her voice low, "I don't have a plan. Not in the long run at least."
She then pulled out a pack of hyper potions and pulled one out.

She let out her Gardevoir and began to spray it on his injuries from a recent fight. As he was being sprayed, Hiro wondered why there were two huge snowballs in there.

"What about you?" she asked as Kami re-entered. The Blaziken quietly got some food before sneaking it back out. He came back in again and stood next to his trainer, once again being a living heater.

Pristin City
Avary walked into Pristin City with Charizard and Umbreon walking beside him, his knife ready, in case They, give him any trouble.
"UMB!" Umbreon yelled running towards a building.
"What is it buddy?" Avary asked following him.
"Umb Umb Umbreon!"
"2 girls, one with a Blaziken? What do you think Charizard, should we go see what it's about?"
"Char." Charizard said nodding.
"Then let's go."
@NewMoonGamer@Eklispe

@NewMoonGamer

Titania shivered a little and edged a little closer to Blaziken as she talked, "Um, well I guess I wanted to meet some other people and get all in a group. Then we could be safe from the zombies and maybe clear out a town and stuff." Titania's voice was timid as she explained her idea. She wasn't quite sure how feasible it was, after all, it seemed like if it was that easy someone would've done it already. But maybe just nobody had thought of it yet. It couldn't hurt to try right? If they just let the zombies take over everything then they couldn't live anywhere! Lilith meanwhile had found a few potions and some other stuff, quickly stuffing it into her pockets.

Noirville

Finally, a breath of fresh air. Leon pulled himself out of the manhole, and was thankful he could leave the dark tunnels behind. The sun was slowly rising in the east, coloring the streets in light orange tones. The zombies would still be around, the boy knew, but at least there wouldn't be as many. He checked the street he was standing in, and spotted what seemed to be a PokeMart not too far ahead. Supplies were running short, so checking the place out wouldn't hurt. Packing away his flashlight, Leon made his way to the store, his Heracross still keeping up behind him.

@Eklispe


Emma sighed inwardly as she finished healing Hiro. "That's wishful thinking." she said as she stood up straight and turned back to the Titania. "Even if a group of people could somehow clear a town of the undead, there are other things you'd have to worry about like more undead, having enough resources, and—worst of all—raiders. The only way that could work is if a whole town of people like in Eon town were doing it." she explained.

Her pokemon looked at each other with saddened expressions. They didn't like how this situation changed their trainer into someone who saw what they couldn't do better than what they could.

Emma shook her head. She then realized she hadn't even introduced herself, so she decided to tell Titania her name. "Emma" she said as she turned back around and began putting potions into her bag. "That's my name. These two are Kami," she began, gesturing at her Blaziken, "And Hiro." she finished, introducing the Gardevoir who was now helping to gather supplies.

"It's because of him that we can't stay longer, you know that, ri-"

"Him is right here, and him can hear you, assbutt. You could have easily stayed behind, they don't want me. Not exactly a new feeling. I can survive on my own!"

I grit my teeth and continued to pack my bag. I'd been hearing this bickering all morning, and only wished I'd had a Psychic pokemon to forcefully shut their mouths for me. In my peripherals, I could see Cynder and Suicune laying on the floor beside one another, but not touching. Those two were a funny pair. They never liked touching each other, almost as if the two types were to touch they'd evaporate and cease to exist. From outside, I could hear Chris's Charizard pacing impatiently in the street waiting for us to come out from the guest house. I couldn't recall ever meeting a Charizard with such a temper, before. Chris's really set the scale high, in that area. Cian's Hitmonchan sat on the same bed as Grimm, holding Grimm's thick club in it's hands just analyzing it. Grimm stared at it with watchful eyes, keeping an eye on his prized possession.

"We need to get a move on. They were gracious enough to allow us to stay another night. If you boys are done moaning and groaning, I'd like to leave this place in good graces."

With that, both of them immediately stopped talking and exchanged a look before grabbing their pokemon and belongings before heading out the door. I immediately followed with my own pokemon falling in behind me, Grimm closing the door behind us. I pull Suicune and Grimm's pokeballs out, withdrawing them into their imprisonments. Not that I liked to, but it was much easier just keeping track of one pokemon rather than all three at once. Both Cian and Chris doing the same, Cian leaving out his Houndoom and Chris keeping his Arcanine for ground patrol and his Charizard to patrol from the skies while we traveled on foot. It then dawned on me that all of us were using Fire types, so I switch out Cynder for Suicune, who seemed more than glad to be out of it's sphere cage. I strap my pack over my shoulder and walk towards the edge of town to the gate, the human bear and karate kid following at my heels with our pokemon not far behind them.

Once at the gate, the guard gives us an acknowledging nod and opens it up for us. The mayor stands a few yards away with her hands connected in front of her, watching us as we show ourselves out. I raise my hand in a goodbye gesture, but get nothing more than a slight smile before we pass out of sight and hear the creaking of the old gate doors shutting once more. Now we were on our own, the three of us and our faithful companions. I took a look around and noticed that there was still a bit of remaining early morning fog hanging thick in the air, and it was a little too quiet. From within the camp, you could hear people calling out, sounding like they were shooing something. Suddenly, a loud flap! sounded off causing Cian and I to turn and look as Charizard takes off like a bullet from inside the town's border, taking to the skies. Chris, obviously knowing his Charizard too well, doesn't even have to look. A smug smile on his face.

"Ty is a hypocrite. Rushes us for taking too long, but is the last to leave.

"Why you gotta judge Ty? He was just saying bye to his girlfriend," Chris chuckled.

I gave a confused look to Chris who neglected to speak further, looking to Cian for an answer, raising my eyebrow. Cian's eyes meet with mine and he smirks, as well.

"Who am I to argue? A man's gotta get some when he wants some!"

The image in my head that Cian provided caused me to cringe, shaking my head in attempt to rid of the memory.

"You guys are disgusting."

"No, we're guys. It's literally encoded in our genes. We need physical-"

"Ah ah ah! Stop - I don't wanna hear it."

Chris and Cian fist bump and laugh between each other. I allow myself to fall behind and walk amongst the trio of pokemon, laying a hand on the back of Suicune's neck tenderly. It was calming to me to be surrounded by pokemon, I'd always loved it, even as a child. I didn't have to have a set place to stay, anywhere my pokemon were, I felt at home.

@NewMoonGamer@Eklispe
Avary slowly opened the door to the building, so as not to let those inside of his presence. Hopefully they weren't raiders, Avary had met some before, and they weren't on good terms.
He tries to call Charizard back to his pokeball, but he wouldn't listen, so he just had to go in with a 7 foot tall dragon walking beside him.
When he got in, he hid behind soem boxes, and saw the 2 girls and the Blaziken, just as Umbreon had told him.
Then, Umbreon smelled some berries from behind where the girls were talking, and ran out to get them yelling, "UMBREON!"

@Overlord24@Eklispe



Hearing the sudden sound, Emma was quickly on her feet with her blade drawn. "Who's there?" she asked, forgetting to lower her voice. She side stepped a little away from Kami and his blazing wrists. Hiro saw an Umbreon and pointed towards it, causing Emma and Kami to look at it as well. He could also sense two other presences that seemed to be close to a stack of boxes. He used psychic to move the boxes aside to reveal a boy and a Charizard.

Emma narrowed her eyes at the boy. "Just who are you exactly?" she asked, still having her blade drawn just in case she needed to use it.

@NewMoonGamer
Pristin City
As Umbreon ran out, I knew stealth was no longer an option.
"Just who are you exactly?" One of the girls asked.
I came out with my hands up. "My name is Avary, I came in here because Umbreon smelled living people, and I hoped to create an alliance."

@Eklispe@Overlord24



"Alliance?" Emma lowered her blade a little as she closed her eyes. It looked as though she was thinking something over as her pokemon continued to watch Avery carefully. She kept a good grip on her weapon although she was in deep thought. She remembered how Titania had said something about forming a group earlier. "Maybe..." she muttered, but then shook her head. She then frowned. "Actually..."
Kami glanced at her, seeming to get a read on what his trainer was thinking and a glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes.

@NewMoonGamer
Pristin city
"Actually what?" Avary asked, putting his hands down, but putting one hand on his knife, just in case.
Charizard then nudged him, being himself, and Avary fell on his face on the cold concrete floor.
"Charizard! Really? Ow."

Titania wilted at little at Emma's rebuttel of her idea. Well she was just being a pessimest. Titania knew it would work if they got the right people and tried really hard! However her thoughts on this were quickly interrupted by someone showing up with a Charizard and an Umbreon who said he wanted some sort of alliance. Titania saw this as the perfect chance to expand on her idea. "See! Other people want to make groups too! With the three of us alone we can do plenty of stuff. Charizard can fly, Lilith can teleport, and Blaziken can jump really good right? We can go anywhere we want! And-and we can find other people and we can get rid of all these stupid zombies and life can go back to normal!" She slowly got more excited as she spoke ending with nearly a shout of triumph as she expectantly waited a response. Maybe it would have been more impressive if she didn't look like an animated bundle of coats but still!

@Eklispe@Overlord24



Emma ignored Avary as she continued to think. She opened her eyes and turned her attention to Titania as she spoke. She took what the other girl had said into consideration. She still believed that it was a bit of a stretch to try to take out the zombies, and she could survive on her own. Though if both of these people wanted to form a group, perhaps they didn't think they could survive? They weren't raiders, and they seemed harmless enough. Perhaps she could help them. "Hmm..." she sheathed her blade and looked at each of them with the steely look that had become her resting face before saying, "Alright then, if you guys want to form a group, I'll join you and help you survive." She then went on to say, "Don't do anything stupid though. I take it neither of you are idiots."

@A Tattooed Girl

A little farther ahead from their group a boy in his early teens with long white hair was standing up in a tree and looking down on a small hoard of infected people and pokemon that seemed intent on getting him down from there. He glared at them a little before beginning to reach for one of his pokeballs. Unfortunately, he had to return the hand he was reaching with to the trunk of the tree when an infected Mightyena used tackle on the tree, shaking it a little. He frowned knowing that he'd have to get down from there one way or another. He chose another. He looked over the hoard for an opening before facing forward on the branch and preparing to take a leap of faith. He bent his legs, making sure to balance himself using the trunk before jumping over the hoard. His jump fell a bit short of the back of the group of undead, but he got lucky and used a human's head as a platform to perform another jump, breaking its neck and landing in the clear area before taking off running. He let Shadow out of his pokeball as he ran. The Gengar floated alongside him as he sprinted before turning around and seeing the hoard of undead chasing them. The pokemon began sending barrages of Shadow Balls at the hoard as they tried to escape, hoping to hit some and slow them down. It didn't seem like they were losing those guys anytime soon.

Up ahead, Tyler saw silhouettes getting closer. They weren't walking strangely like the infected ones back there. He turned towards the hoard and could see they were a distance away, but were still chasing them. "Why?" he asked quietly to himself before coming to a realization and looking at Shadow. Seeing the expression on his trainer's face, the ghost pokemon curled up into a little shadow ball. The infected tended to go after ghost pokemon since they couldn't kill them. It was a pretty smart virus indeed. He returned Shadow and sent out his brother's Juby. The Houndoom glared into the light fog before dashing off towards the hoard. Tyler followed her, not only to help her out but also to keep the infected away from that group back there, whoever they were. Juby began using flamethrower on the hoard, burning the zombies and setting some on fire.

Noirville - 2 days later

Houndoom was covering his escape by creating an imprenetrable wall of flames. Leon had to laugh at his current situation. He knew that hunkering down in a building would turn out to be a bad idea, but he couldn't find a better place to hide before night covered the city. The building was empty, at least then, meaning Leon could lay down for a bit and catch some sleep hopefully. Houndoom would keep him safe he knew, and the boy fell asleep as soon as he laid down. Peace and sleep wouldn't last for long however, as a few hours later he was awoken by barking.

So here he was now, on top of a building, no more floors above him to run to. There was only one point of access, and since it was blocked off thanks to Houndoom, the boy had a few seconds to calm down and think of a way out of this mess. There were no ladders to get down, and a drop would be deadly. Running out of options, Leon figured it might be time to say goodbye to Noirville. Taking out another Pokeball, he signaled Houndoom to come back. Skarmories didn't look like the best method of transportation, but Leon had gotten used to traveling with Ace. The Skarmory was ready to go, and after Leon had made sure he had everything with him, the duo took off into the night.

Titania let out a grin and a little yip of excitement. "Yeah we're a group now. What are we going to do next? We already got all the stuff we can from here, do you guys want to go look at another town or try to find some more stuff here?" Titania of course wanted to leave as soon as possible because it was freaking freezing here but she would suffer through it if the group wanted to stick around a little longer. Lilith did one more sweep of the room and nodded confidently, there was little more to be found here so there was little point in staying.

@Eklispe @Overlord24


"We've gotten what we need. Now let's leave this place before..." Emma stopped her sentence short when she heard the sound of something hitting glass. "...we get some unwanted company." she finished although it seemed their little friends outside wanted to play. She unsheathed her katana before leaving the storage room and looking towards the entrance to the pokemart. There were two cubchus tackling the glass door, trying to break it down. A few seconds later an infected Weavile came crashing through the door and knocked over a shelf. Emma frowned a bit, knowing that the rest of the hoard outside would have heard that, and soon this pokemart would be overrun by them. She didn't make any sounds that would expose her location to the pokemon. She looked around for something, something to throw maybe and distract them.

@NewMoonGamer
"Shit," Avary said stepping back from the Weaville, he grabbed his knife from it's sheathe, and ran at the Weaville, stabbing it in the head.
"DIE YOU INFECTED SCUM!" Avary yelled in it's face after he'd killed it, with some traces of tears on his face.
"Come on, these guys aren't going to die a second time by themselves."

@Overlord24@Eklispe



"Calm down buster brown. We won't be able to take them all out, so we'll clear a path through the horde and escape. Titania, you may want to lose some of those coats. We'll be out of this place soon anyway." Emma said before quickly heading to the entrance of the pokemart after Kami incapacitated the two cubchus with flamethrower. The infected undead appeared to have the store encircled. "Let's go." she said before heading outside. She quickly sliced an infected human's head off before going to do the same to a beartic. Kami and Hiro provided back up for her, trying to make sure no zombies would sneak up and harm her.