Friends of Foes [Skirmish]

[/style]Rui looked up from the children huddled around her as soon as she heard a voice. The young man the voice belonged to approached quickly and moved closer. Despite the initial wave of mistrust that came from him, her senses told her otherwise. ”Yes…please…” she murmured to him, looking into his green eyes, attempting to scour them for any hint that he may put forth anything less than an earnest effort. The children curled up towards Rui when the Gardevoir approached, but she calmed them with quiet words, ”It’s alright…Gardevoirs are friendly pokemon…” The second Heal Pulse released noticeably relaxed them, and Rui inwardly sighed, casting a grateful glance to both the trainer and his pokemon. ”They don’t need to be caught in this…”

She was cut off by a concerned shout from someone else a short distance off.


”Yes!” Rui called back, having seen the flashing hints of fighting pokemon. She didn’t need to see the flaring and dimming auras of the pokemon to know what was going on – she could feel it already. ”I think he’ll be able to help!” She glanced at the green-haired young man, ”Focus on staying safe! Otherwise who will be able to keep innocents safe?!”

As she spoke, the sound of something exploding made Rui flinch and close an eye, curling her arms tighter around the children that flinched. Rain came from almost nowhere, and the red-haired girl shivered. She could feel and hear so much at once it was practically overwhelming.

She looked once more to the green-haired boy. ”We should go before this gets much worse…”

The arrival of a man with a Metagross provided her an opportunity she needed. Rui glanced at the green-haired boy and nodded. Just one person may not have been enough…more people was smarter, especially in the case of children. ”You heard him, children..” They looked up to her, eyes wide with worry. ”They’ll protect you, I promise.” They quickly crossed over to the Metagross and scrambled on top of the steel-type.

Rui looked to the two men that had come to her aid. ”I can trust them with you, right?” She could vaguely sense the auras of people being interrupted by more than simply aggravation or the thrill of battle, or being killed and flickering out instantly. ”I’m going to try to quell some fighting.” It was a dangerous move, yeah, but it was something she needed to do.

”Guard, come!” She released her own Gardevoir from the pokeball on her belt and clasped the pokemon’s hands. ”You can sense that, right?” The pokemon nodded. ”Teleport to it!” Rui glanced once more at the two men she was temporarily leaving. ”Thank you again – I’ll make it up to you in this battle.”

She vanished in a flash, reappearing in a different part of down, beside a still-standing building. The first thing she could see was the feet of civilians being frozen to the ground. What the --?

”Lucky Chant, Guard.” The Gardevoir closed her eyes and stood still, beginning to pray quietly behind the safety of the solid wall. Rui ran from her pokemon, arms at her sides as she stepped around the corner of the building, looking at the person and pokemon she assumed to be responsible for attacking civilians. ”Stop this at once!”

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