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[pokeboy]

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[ Nothing interesting on the video feed here, just a black-haired boy with his pikachu's head poking from the bottom of the screen. ]

Hi, my name's Red. I've got a couple of questions... I wanted to ask about first aid and the battle dome, and also if there's anybody that knows about fixing things? [ He looks away ] I don't have anything broken, but I wanted to have something looked at.

[ Right, anyway. Back to the screen. ]

But with the first aid... I was wondering if anyone had the time to help me see if I know what I'm doing? I got taught how to put on bandages a long time ago, but I don't think I was doing it right the last time I did it.

[ Maybe it had been fine, but a refresher would be good either way. ]

Anyway, then the battle dome - I wanted to know about what fighters train against in there. [ This was going to be hard, but ] I know people here have different abilities, and what we can handle is different too. I've tried creatures not from my world, but I guess...

[ What does he guess? He thinks, pinching his bottom lip in. ]

...I guess I just want to know if there's something better me and my pokémon can do. Everything's still challenging in the battle dome, but I want -- more? [ Um.

That sounds... bad? He fidgets, then shrugs. ] I don't know. I thought it'd be interesting to know what else we could fight on there. That's about it really.

Well... that's it. Bye.

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[ Private voice to Caius (accepted) ]

Hey, Caius. [ He pauses, trying to think of how to continue... ] You fight with a sword, right? I want to practice with you sometime, if you've got the time.

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[pokeboy]

[ Wellll... ]

No, it's okay. [ He shakes his head, smiling. ] I'll have a look around here. If you want me to put up stronger pokémon let me know.

[ Imagining Helios - a person - throwing that fireball at a pokémon is a funny feeling, only really happening during the draft, but. It's fine. Is it really any different than sending a charmander after a pidgey or rattata? ]

[folklorist]

Ah alright! Do take your time looking around, there's loads of places to explore here.

[ That fire in his palm flares upward and curls like a snake in the air. If Red doesn't stick around Helios will get to work on dispersing those rattata first. A blast of fire will be aimed at the high grass to draw them out. He'll then attack the pidgey in the air with bolts of lightning and blasts of powerful wind magic. ]

[pokeboy]

[ He doesn't move completely from sight, but he won't be in the way of Helios. For the pokémon that he gets the hits on, their forms will disappear in a flicker of light, no corpses littering the ground.

But once the attack begins, the pokémon - both pidgey and rattata - take notice of the man. The pidgey take into the air where some meet the lightning, though the wind they have some ability to push back. Even for small pokémon, they have a good grasp on such control of wind themselves.

And there's plenty of pidgey that come to try and show that, if Helios isn't quick to notice as the rattata scurry around, coming out of the grass but not keeping still after the fact, with a few deciding to aim themselves for the man's legs to bite on with their large front teeth!

As for those pidgey, sharp gusts of winds created by a flap of their wings hit the ground, kicking up the dust into the air to add as a distraction. ]

[folklorist]

[ Helios will counter those rattata by throwing up a barrier around himself. They'll be thrown back when they collide with it, but it doesn't do much damage. His first order of business is to take out those pidgey, since aerial attacks are more troublesome than ground attacks. The dust makes Helios hold up a hand to his face, but his barrier also helps disperse some of it as he runs towards the pidgeys in his field of vision. He'll use a light based attack this time known as sancti fusis. Threads of light will appear from Helios' fingertips as he lashes out at the pidgeys with those threads. It'll wrap around their wings and pull them closer to Helios himself, before he's able to let off another lightning attack to finish them off for good.

Helios' attention will turn back to the rattatas then as he lets off a power, ground shaking, earth spell that cause spikes to shoot up from the ground. ]

[pokeboy]

[ The pidgey try to struggle when grabbed by the lengths of light, companions not restrained attempting to peck and free them, but only assuring themselves to be caught in the bolts that come crashing down around them. The rattata too don't fare any better, those of who thought to begin to create dirt holes - while others still tried to break down at Helios's barrier through bashing at him and with their large teeth - get caught into the spikes that erupt from underneath. All around Helios, the creatures disappear in a white light. All goes silent.

When he's had time to breathe and to know that there's no danger to come, Red walks back forward onto the scene, though calling out before getting too close just in case. ] Helios!

[ Trainers and pokémon could at times still have their head ready for a fight at the end, after all. Good to be careful.

Despite viewing much of what had happened from afar Red can't help but to eye the ground surrounding Helios, though he looks back to the man before he speaks. ] What did you think? Did you want stronger pokémon? Or I could turn up the difficulty. Some more will appear soon, but they looked too easy for you.