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Closed The Sound's Specimens II

Zora of Termina

forget your high society
Pronoun
fucking guess
Drip.

A chilly breeze blew through a hole in the wall on the north side of the ruined Rocket laboratory. Water leaked down from destroyed pipes. Every so often, you could hear the snapping and crackling of a live wire chewed open by a Rattata.

Drip.

Rubble and dust coated the ground. If you were to look up outside of the laboratory, outside of the hole maybe, you would see clouds rolling in in the distance, but a sky coated in stars up above, highlighted by a bright full moon. The trees, standing tall and proud all around this place, were covered at the tops in the emerald green of late spring and early summer.

Drip.

From a stood-on-its-side, relatively undamaged table, a lone human peered up from the makeshift shelter. Green eyes peered over dark sunglasses. Following the human's head, was a Gardevoir's.

"...So it's done. You've got nerve, you do. Going against your superior."

"I can't let them do this, Hera." the human's voice was clearly that of a woman. "Especially not after they wanted to take you to do it. I don't care that they were gonna let me pick the song. No one hurts you."

"...Have it your way." A slight rustling was heard just a little bit away from the Gardevoir. "They'll be starting to wake up soon. A few might already be. If they see us, they might attack, and who knows what they're capable of. Are you sure they'll think it was the team of Trainers?"

"Quite sure. Let's go before we're caught." The woman rose up all the way, revealing bright sapphire hair, and a black jacket over a violet t-shirt and blue jeans. The jacket had a bright red R emblazoned on the left breast pocket. Clipped to a belt were six Ultra Balls. It appeared as if the Gardevoir didn't have one. She removed one and pressed the button on it. In a flash of white light, the proud visage of a Raikou apppeared. The woman and her companion climbed upon it, and before anyone knew it, they were gone.

Drip.

That rustling sound... if a closer look had been taken, you would have seen something resembling a Houndoom sleeping fitfully on the floor. It was covered in a sticky fluid, and four eyes were clenched shut. A tail resembling the bow of a fiddle thrashed about, eventually brushing up against the backs of its legs, and making a sound very much like that of a violin. Half it's body was red, and the other half was mahogany-colored and almost...wooden-textured. A pipe was leaking right next to it, and it did not look pleased about it, even in sleep. A multitude of horns scraped against the floor.

"Nooo... I don't want to steal sou-" she shot up abruptly as a drop of water finally landed on her face. This...wasn't where she fell asleep.

"...Where am I?"
 
There was a second, much smaller shape in the darkness. It blended in well, expect for the red markings. The shape resembled a bipedal fox with a red blindfold tied over it's eyes. It lifted up once, twice in time with it's breathing.

Finally, which a twitch of a nose, the shaped showed signs of waking. "Mama... Papa..." it said in a girlish voice, so quietly it was if she had never spoken at all.

The figure's eyes, as red as blood, opened slowly, first into slits, and then fully. It pushed herself up, blinking curiously. "Mama?" The voice was obviously scared. "Papa?" It belonged to a young Riolu named Luka.

It should be noted that, being a child and all, Luka didn't sound as frightened as she should have. The child was simply a little weirded out that she wasn't where she was supposed to be.

And that she didn't care as much as she should've.
 
Tap tap drip tap tap

Drip tap tap

In a relatively dry and clean corner of the lab, Raviel the Zoroark sat on the floor, his long blue claws tapping a steady beat on an empty and not-smashed glass tube, mixing with the dripping water to make something resembling a tune. The tune was going through his head over and over and over and over and it was absolutely maddening. He stared at his reflection in the glass. He had most definitely not looked this way when he was awake last, but now...well, it wasn't too bad. He didn't mind it; it was sort of cool.

The the sounds started. His right ear flicked slightly, and he turned his head to see the newly awakened ones. A Riolu-creature and...something that was probably a Houndoom, he figured. He frowned. As he stared at this odd Houndoom-but-not-a-Houndoom, he tapped the glass a bit too hard and it shattered. Oops. A thin blue liquid drooled from the tip of the claw and trickled down, matting in his fur. How odd. He turned his paw pad-up and stared at he wet spot. This was new. He wondered what it did.

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Nevaeh stirred on the floor, uncoiling from the spiky protective ball she had been in only a moment before. This place was new and scary, she noted as she blinked her sleepy eyes. Full of danger-predator smells. She wiggled her rear a bit, the spikes there swaying. How did she get here? And where was the rest of the swarm?

She crept in a small circle, head lowered, trying to find a useful smell.
 
"It's dark.
But why can I see so much?
It's quiet.
But why can I hear so much?"


Melissa tried to open her eyes, but every time she opened them, she closed them again, because it was bright, brighter then it should be, at least.

She sat on the ground, that wasn't completely unusual. But something wasn't right. Everything was different, she noticed the presence of everything around her. The slightest noise, even as much as the water, slowly dripping, she heard it, and thought about it, almost analysed it. She could smell everything around her, there had been humans here, but what was important was those in the room right now. It was almost as if a voice was telling her what to do.
"Be on your watch, look at that Zoroark over there, doesn't he seem strange?"
She grasped her head, this voice needed to get our of her head.
"Be on your watch, look at that Houndoom, what will it do? Look at the Wurmple as well, it might not seem like it, but it might a threat as well! Don't forget the Riolu!"
Then she realized something her, she moved away her hands, and looked at them.
They had claws.
"Don't drop your guard! Said the voice, "Never do that, or you're dead meat!"
 
Pitter patter

Eh? Nathan felt himself on the ground.

Why though? It wasn't wet a while back...it was grassy. Here there were pebbles and grit. Lifting his neck and ignoring the various cricks and pain spots from being cramped up, he glanced around. Eyes landing on his own tail, he jumped back slightly. Well, that wasn' there before. A blue film covered the sleeping tail's eyelids, shiny with the liquid from the tanks. Just then he noticed that he was absolutely soaked, and Nathan licked himself in an effort to stay dry, slowly humming something..it almost sounded...melacholonic? Maybe, gieven the situation...hmm. He'll think straight once things stop being so..strage. Awkward, as it were.
 
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Tyblia sighed loudly. It wasn't like this surprised her; life generally tried to find new and amazing ways to bother her. Her skullhelmet felt heavy, and so did her club. The Cubone didn't feel like opening her eyes just yet. She really didn't wan't to know what new disappointments were going to pop up when she finally did.

***

Gupstach grinned in confusion. He was the kind of Toxicroak who grinned in confusion, which was an odd way to react to such a feeling.

Ah well, he was sure that things would work out eventually, like they always did. There was some sort of slowish, catchy song in his head that he couldn't seem to shake though... Whatever. It was a good song at least.
 
Drip... Drip... Drip...

V opened his eyes slowly. "Where... where am I?" he said, looking around slowly. His muscles were stiff, and he found it hard to move. He looked to his right and found himself staring into his shoulder muscle, which bulged to a disturbing size. What's more, he discovered that his fur had turned black, aside from some crimson red spots on his stomach. He groaned. His head was pounding loudly and he found it hard to gather the will to get up off the ground. When he finally did though, it was a pathetic attempt. His newly unevened muscles, his movements were awkward and looked more like a fish out of water flopping on the ground, than an attempt to stand up. Eventually, he gave up and took a deep breath. He wasn't going anywhere soon, so he decided he'd wait for someone to find him, if anyone would. "Hello! Anyone there?" he called.

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Lexia woke suddenly. "FIRE!" she screamed. She looked around. She had fallen asleep in the meadow but... "Where the hell am I?" she asked aloud. Looking around, she saw pebbles all over the ground. "This isn't the meadow." She looked down at herself. "White feathers?" That was weird. She ruffled her wings, humming a tune she herself had never heard. When she realized what she was doing, she stopped. "What was that?" she said. Again she stopped to think. "Why am I saying everything out loud?" She came to a horrible conclusion. "I can't think! Oh no!" she whined. "Oh well, might as well see if there's anyone else here." She got up and started wandering around a trashed lab, muttering to herself.
 
...My God, she just... she really couldn't believe she did that.

Hazel eyes gazed on aimlessly at the dull path in front of them, barely paying attention. No, those eyes were somewhere else... they were back in a classroom in Ecruteak City, where Ms. Johnson had finally lost it. As usual, one of those idiotic boys had pissed her off. Teenage boys, y'know, bunch of immature idiots. Nothing out of the ordinary...

But something had snapped within her head. It had been ten years since she had first started teaching, when she began with this bright-eyed look on her face, so optimistic and ready to share her knowledge! She had just gotten out of college. And thinking that now, she had become dull, uninspired... she really had changed. Just thinking about how much energy this job had snapped... the years of struggle...

She couldn't take their idiocy anymore. They got into a huge shouting match, her and the boy in question. One that had turned her entire face red, one that had been so much that even she could not smile or laugh through that. And then she just snapped.

And Ms. Johnson tossed an entire desk at the teenage boy. In that moment, she had relished the look on his face, how she had finally managed to get him to shut up. Then she just walked out, without another word.

She sighed, leafing her fingers through her greasy hair. She hadn't had a shower in days... had to work some real overtime at the academy. Ziva Johnson's eyes were dull and dark with the look of a long life of stress.

...But they seemed to brighten up slightly as they saw something, up ahead, of rather peculiar note. Curiously, she approached these... ruins. Where... where was she, anyway?

As she got closer and closer, her mind temporarily forgot about what it had been previously dwelling on. It seemed... that there were... things that were... alive... the sounds of things moving, rustling. She stopped, and looked around cautiously, hearing a symphony of many different sounds.

...Whoa.

Many various Pokemon, ones who had... appeared quite differently than their illustrations in textbooks. A Wurmple with... was that a music note? Ziva rubbed her eyes, and then a Gardevoir with pants... well, that wasn't so-

...Even more WHOA. Her eyes were attracted to in particularly a rather disturbing multi-eyed, multi-horned demonlike creature, one which she could not even tell what Pokemon that was.

Ziva was frozen in astonishment, a nervous smile quickly making its way onto her features.

All she could do was stand there and stare.
 
Raviel got to his feet and started to wander across the ruined lab, his hind paws making shattered glass and scattered debris crunch against the floor. He gazed down at his wet paw as he walked, a bit more blue liquid dripping from the claws and dotting the ground. He was completely oblivious to most everyone else now, until...he came upon the little Riolu. He stopped and stared down at her, tilting his head. Riolu became Lucario. He knew a Lucario a long time ago.

"Hey kid. What's wrong?" He said, his voice low, silky, and sounding almost melodious. He keeled next to her, wondering if she was like that smug scar-eyed Lucario from back home.


Nevaeh crept along the ground warily, her tiny little legs tapping franticly as she moved. She was staring up at the destroyed lab with wonder, and...promptly smacked into something. She squeaked and skittered back a bit, and found herself staring at a funny dinosaur thing with a bone on it's head. It looked asleep, but she wasn't sure. She sniffed it.
 
Declan sighed as he turned a corner. In his left hand, he held a small black case.

I knew I should've taken my usual way. he thought, Ms. Foster's going to have my head if I'm late to rehersal.

He felt something small jump onto his back. He gasped and felt around his back. His head reached a hand-like appendage.

"Kay." he moaned, "I told you to stay home. Ms. Foster doesn't allow Pokemon at rehersals."

The Aipom responded by hopping onto his head.

"Okay....." he muttered, "She won't like it...but okay."

He continued walking, lost in his thoughts about how he was going to explain his tardiness to Ms. Foster. His thoughts were interrupted by a sharp squeak.

"Kay, what's the ma-"

And then he noticed. Pokemon that didn't look right. His eyes wandered around the wreckage. He spotted what appeared to be a demon and screamed.

Oh crud....I'm gonna die.... he thought.

He was paralyzed in fear. He could not move a muscle. Kay, one the other hand, hopped quickly off of Declan's head and ran into the wreckage.

"Kay, no!" he screamed, regaining mobility and chasing after her.
 
A strange Zoroark, who was talking to a Riolu... A Gardevoir with claws... But they... they were focused on themselves. There were others... This looked like a ruined lab. Joanna didn't recognize it at all. And everything seemed... to look different. Every so often the top or the bottom half of her vision would go dark, almost like she had more than one set of eyes, and one was blinking.

And then... well then she took a look into the broken glass next to her. If she could've screamed, she would've. A loud, canine whining emerged from the hellhound's throat as she stared at the reflection in the glass. Her beautiful blue fur... gone... She looked like something straight out of the underworld. And there were two sets of eyes...

"What happened to me...?"

A slowly swishing tail brushed up against the backs of her legs again. That same sound carried through the air, and it made poor Joanna jump. She whipped around wildly, and eventually she spotted two humans, both staring at her. Just her. In horror.

The Houndoom whined again, rearing back into the shadows where no one could see her.
 
Kay sprinted into the shadows.

"N-NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Declan screamed in horror, "That's where that BEAST retreated to!"

Declan ran so fast that he would put the star track-and-field atheletes at his school to shame. He grabbed the Aipom with so much force, he himself lost balance. He ended up doing a somersault as he fell. He felt something sharp dig into his left arm and he yelped in pain. A shard of glass had made its way into his arm when he hit the ground.
 
Luka whirled around to look at the Pokémon that had talked to her. A Zoroark? But it looks different... "I just wonder where my parents are..." she said quietly. But not as much as I should. she added mentally. From the corner of her eye she realized something else.

"W...Where's my arm?"
 
"Humans! Be careful!"
She could smell them. Where? Nearby, at least
"Humans are the most dangerous enemy you have, don't let them see you!"
A primal fear struck her, as if her entire body wanted to get away from the humans. Without really knowing how, she began climbing, climbing up the wall, and grabbed a pipe in ceiling, and then she sat there, hanging upside down, like a bat.
"Safe, for now, but don't drop your guard. They might see you either way."
Everything confused her, how could she do this? It simply wasn't natural. But she felt calmer now, for some reason, so she hung there, and waited.
 
Lexia heard a shout from somewhere nearby. The only word she heard was "Beast", but she could tell it was a human. No pokemon would ever use the word beast. "It must be a human," she said, still quite agitated that she could not think to herself. She flapper white and blue wings, and flew in the direction of the scream. She soon saw two humans looking terrified in front of a cowering... pokemon? One of the humans was attacking an aipom, and she could only guess that the poor thing had the same thing done to her as Lexia. "It must have been you!" she screamed at the humans, "You did this to us," and then dove at the humans, screeching loudly as she lost altitude.

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V groaned, hearing no response to his calls. In the time that he lay there, he continued to call, while at the same time attempting to get to his feet. After a few minutes he stopped. He heard two voices, but as far as he could see, there was no one else there with him. He called again, and was disturbed to find that he was making both calls. One was medium-pitched, and incredibly loud, while the other was a deep moaning that, he guessed, wouldn't carry very far. He lay there thinking about what he had been doing, but his memory was foggy, and it was hard to recall. Suddenly, he felt very angry, and screamed, "IS ANYONE PLANNING ON HELPING ME OR NOT?!" at the top of his lungs. He licked his dry lips, and waited once more.
 
Hotch walked along. Well, crap. Library's closed, folks aren't home...damn job. I should get myself one of those though, it probably beats wandering a town like this. His mind was elsewhere, like it usually was these days. Focused, sure, just not on the path in front of him, nor even vaugely aware of the soft buzzing near his ear. Dowd escaped his ball again, quizzingly hovering next to the brooding youngster.

"Hmm? Oh."

Mentally berating himself for not seeing this problem of his coming, it dawned on him that there were no dirt roads in his little sleepy neighborhood. Then a loud screech hit his ears, and he ducked. Crap, crap, a Pidgeot, he'd know that anywhere. He was probably gonna get killed by it too, because the thing wwas charging. Trembling, Hotch got down on all fours and made a run-crawl for it, finally ducking under what seemed to be part of a test tank. The liquid dripped over his face but that mattered naught.
 
(Question! Can humans and Pokemon understand each other in this RP?)

But the strange creature had been the least of Ziva's problems.

Before she could even react, a loud screeching white and blue blur which she soon identified as a Pidgeot, albeit like most of these Pokemon, rather different from the normal depiction of such, was diving right for her and a young boy she just noticed. Ziva just completely lost her nerve, her strained smile becoming more prominent. She was so nervous that she began to laugh in fear. The woman's hand soon darted to her large purse, and she pulled out a Pokeball. It had... been so long...

The sphere was tossed, and out in a burst of crimson light materialized a small red fox-like creature. As Natielle saw her trainer being attacked, she impulsively without thought opened her mouth, and unleashed a small burst of flames at the screeching bird.
 
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Tyblia groaned inwardly as she felt some other creature sniff her. The nerve... The Cubone's eyes snapped open, and she glared angrily at the newcomer. It appeared to be one of those wretched Wurmple... But this one was even more wretched-looking than normal, if that was possible.

Tyblia sighed quietly and gave the worm a look that seemed to say, "What can I do to get you to leave me alone as quickly as possible?"
 
Lexia was beyond angry now, she was furious. The human had laughed at her. When she saw the light coming from the pokeball, she immediately rolled to the side, narrowly missing the flames. She looked to the side, and into the flames, and suddenly found herself entranced by them. She was unable to look away. She missed her cue to level off, and smashed into the ground. Everything went black.
 
Raviel patted the little Riolu on the head, frowning, and looked up at the loud yell. Humans. How odd, what were those doing here? He abandoned the fighting type and started to approach the human who had screamed, but was distracted by the floppy floor-thing. He gauged it to he an Arcanine, or at least something like it, from a distance, and took a tentative step closer. It was very odd looking, and he didn't know if it would be dangerous. But it looked weak and possibly in pain; perhaps he should terminate it.

After creeping up from behind the floppy creature, he extended a paw and shoved his long claws downwards into it's neck. It wasn't deep enough to kill, but something in his head told him it would help. Oblivious to the Zoroark, however, his claws were injecting a powerful painkilling drug into the Arcanine's system. He withdrew his claws after a moment, shaking his paw and sending tiny droplets of blue liquid flying. He hoped that helped.


Neveah squeaked when the bonedinosaur snapped its eyes open and glared down at her, and she withdrew a few inches. It was...staring at her all creepy like, and the Wurmple waggled her front legs nervously for a moment. She then creeped closer again.

"Hi!" She chirped, waving a tiny pointed leg.
 
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