Besides, he was put out on two fronts with this little side trip. Not only had he missed out on an opportunity to get another pokegirl right off the bat, but he had to go out of his way. Doing something like this deserved a little appreciation, even if that only came in the form of saying 'thanks'. But he wasn't going to focus in on that. He had his own code of honor, and just abandoning a pokegirl who'd been separated from her trainer wasn't something that he could do. Neither the idea that she'd be left to wander the woods, or the concept that her trainer would be forever wondering what had happened to her seemed good to him.
So, he managed to walk along with little annoyance at his side trip. Getting into this sort of thing was part of why he'd chosen this life, and it was rather... interesting to not have things go quite right. Misty seemed to like it, as she was constantly looking around with avid interest in everything they passed. Every so often, she'd make a little circuit around him, seeming to put herself into action as his guard. That apparently interested Oriad, who looked at the both of them with more and more trust as they went along. She acted like she was feeling safer with as time passed, and she almost behaved as if she were seeking protection with him.
And so they went, heading through the forests, towards the hills of Boulder, planning on leaving Oriad where her trainer could find her.
It was when they walked along a curving path, with a rise above them, that they got a surprise.
The first sign that something was up was when Misty stopped and looked up at a spot on the rise, almost as if she was using her whole body to point at it. Her focus on it grew for a long moment as sounds of someone approaching from there came up to him. Then Oriad looked at another spot, and he realized that there were two things coming in their direction. He got into a ready position, prepared to handle whatever came their way.
A pokegirl came out first, rushing from a hiding spot when Misty darted forward for a bit. This one was clearly wild, as she didn't have any of the signs of having been with a trainer at all. Any reactions that she made to his pokegirl's actions were more instinctual than anything else, and he could tell that she was free for him to catch.
However, it was fortunate that Misty had the wild one under watch, as what Oriad had sensed came charging out right then. It was another feminine form, but this was clearly not a pokegirl. What he was seeing didn't have any of the characteristics, but he did recognize what she was. A guy would have to be blind to not realize when a cute member of his species was unintentionally parading around in her birthday suit. He got an eye full, and was able to tell that what she had was very clearly something to appreciate. Of course, he wasn't expecting her to stumble down the rise, and collapse at his feet, but then he hadn't expected to get a completely clear view of a pretty female trainer.
"Okay, this is strange," he muttered, glancing between the wild pokegirl to the trainer on the ground. By the directions that they'd come, he could tell that they hadn't been together, and he kind of doubted that they'd intended to wind up there like that. It wasn't like it'd been decided to give him both his first captured pokegirl and a girl to have in one fell swoop. One was a relatively simple bit of chance, and the other was... probably related to whatever had stirred up the forest.
So, at that moment, he knew that he had a lot to do. After all, he had a chance to get a pokegirl, which he would do for sure this time, and he had to take care of this unnamed girl. And the first thing that he had to do was to:
(Posted Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:30)
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