PEFE Goldenrod – Lounge Room; Some Days Ago
The two Pokémon stare at each other, they narrow their eyes and lean slowly towards each other just a bit. The Nidorina snorts, flickers her ears. The Staraptor wriggles a bit in his makeshift nest, swings his crimsom-tipped crest.
They fill their eyes with the sight of each other's stare, thinking of what is about to come.
«His advantage: wider and higher reach; my advantage: mobility and availability of techniques.»
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYHH4CcR9U8)
Roc waves crest, bristles chest plumage attempting to Intimidate Inka; she spreads arms, lunges at Roc, left arm aimed at the Staraptor's wing, Roc blocks with beak then pecks at the Nidorina's head as he stands up; Inka resists, continues attack with right arm; Roc shifts body weight to the left, moves closer to Inka's arm- «Here comes the response...» -causing Inka's arm to bump on Roc's chest ahead of time without necessary impulse.
Roc spreads right wing to slap at Inka, she retracts arm, jabs at Roc, who cranes neck and pushes forwards, slamming at Inka, she has to step back;- «savage yet experienced...» -Roc's wing slides in a diagonal cut, Inka paw blocks, allows wing to brush overhead, she falls to the right side reaching the back of the couch; Roc dives in for a peck, grazing the Nidorina's head. Inka falls belly to the couch, pushes herself closer to Roc, he lifts head for a lateral swipe, has attack aimed at his belly, blocks with a swift talon motion.
Roc attempts hallux attack at higher ribcage; from a Growl, Inka rolls on her back, raises back spikes at Roc who, sensing cryoenergy charging on the Nidorina's paws, smacks her flank and fans retrices out to speed up steering.- «With thin beak and no alula, all manners of attack require folding or curving...» -The bird's crest waves when he propels himself to tackle Inka, interrupting collection of Ice-type energy, she stumbles near TV remote then rebounds away, arm up high to try and swipe downwards at Roc's crest.
Roc cranes neck away, takes impact in chest feathers; slams Inka with left wing, spreads it up, Inka takes ground half turned away, flattens ears and swipes back, has view blocked by wing, swings secondaries away with paw, curls to spread poison stings at low range; Roc anticipates with beak strike at Inka's muzzle; Inka yells, drags herself forwards and attempts a Bite at the bird's belly, Roc hops back, right-wing slaps the Nidorina, attack is blocked by palm slash.
Roc takes advantage of position, arches body and leaps ahead at high speed, slices down, unfolds left wing blocking Inka's view as she endures and moves aside, completes motion with forwards-up slice of same wing, carpal joint hits Inka's face, completion of Aerial Ace; Inka steps back, walled by Roc's wing...
...tries to brush bird feathers aside...
...lifts muzzle to clamp wing joint and margin...
Inka, still sitting, rests her forelegs on the couch and raises her ears, assuming a more confrontational position; Roc tilts his head at the Nidorina in front of him, then spreads his legs a bit.
«Come now...» -the bird straightens his head and draws a faint smile- «you really think you are the only one who has thought out this skirmish?»
The Staraptor folds manus, shifts weight...
...traps the Poison Pokémon's arm forcing her down...
...forcefully pulls retracted wing closer, clutching the Nidorina with it,- «Trap arm, target weakness...» -the Nidorina bristles her back spikes in anticipation of pecking, Roc instead slams kidney area, the Nidorina endures the hit, tries to hop away; Roc aims talons at Inka's gut, lifts himself and kicks her, forces her to back off.
At the moment of a wing bat to gain thurst in Inka's direction, she half-flips on forelegs; Roc evades hindswipe to the face, retracts talons to Pursuit the opponent now forced to regain high-ground,- «neutralize lateral attack with swings...» -hits a couple of times aiming for neck and arms, avoiding Poison Points; Inka raises arm to swipe, Roc diverts arm with beak, next attack left side downwards, Roc bats wing at arm to prevent building of momentum; retorts with a pluck, avoided barely, Inka counters with front upwards slicing, evaded, then step forward with cross right, blocked with wing fold, outwards slice aimed at wing, cancelled with a peck to the elbow, finally an attempt at a bite, also blocked with beak move.
Inka hides paws together, covers room with head, pushes upwards before the bird can take advantage, Roc steers away and retracts left wing encasing it in Steel type energy,- «Ah there we'll find the technique passed down to the chick...» -Inka lifts arms, spreads small poisoned needles around, Roc turns down to the couch, one leg back, blocks most needles with steel-encased wing, tackles Inka's exposed head.
Inka flinches, hunches over and leaps, Roc blocks the bite, wingslaps; Inka pushes wing, swipes at Roc's chest, he answers trying to pluck her ear out, Inka lenas forward, attempts to push horn at Roc's head; Roc flaps, lifts himself to move back, Inka swipes up at wing joint and hops back.
Roc sees Inka arc up, fans rectrices to speed himself up with psychic power while Inka hones claws. Incoming Sludge Bomb, countered with Quick Attacks before Inka can fire; Inka uses the momentum change to swing and slash at her own attack with Electric energy, exploding the bubble and spreading poison all around;- «Unorthodox...» -she slides trying to reach Roc, he thursts out of the way and swirls to dull poison effect with secondary feathers, bats wings up releasing a ghostly wind to keep the Nidorina and the poison at bay.- «... but overreliant... now, allow me to reply.»
Inka stands against the strong wind, fires some poison stings; Roc allows himself to fall then leaps aside to evade, lifts again talons retracted, Inka shields herself with an arm; curved left wing slash with slanted margin, blocked with poison-charged swing; right wing hook to the shoulder, followed with Quick Attack at upper chest, peck at ear forcing the Nidorina's head down, counters with back arm upper then a swipe at throat; Roc then fans wings out blowing out weakened feathers, greatly difficulting the Nidorina's motions. The Nidorina spreads arm, takes talon blow to the gut to clamp the bird's legs, Roc reacts with wing hook, Inka leans to the side, Roc following with wing slice from the other side, blocked by attempt at a Crunch, flaps and lifts talon breaking the Nidorina's balance, lands a wing cross at upper abdomen, kicking her back; Inka rolls and flattens against the end of the couch while charging Electric energy,- «Offensive dulling out, try other vector of attack...»
Roc lifts himself to fly backwards and gain some room as Inka swings from flank side forwards, blocked with talon lift. Roc swipes with left talon, cutting Inka's attack, lowers himself for right talon straight at belly and wing slap to the head, second blocked with arm swing, Inka pushed back towards the edge of the couch. Talon jab at face blocked still forcing the Nidorina to step back, she blocks hallux swipe from same leg by clamping paws together, jointed swing up at belly pushing Roc up then jointed left arc at face, answered with talon grab at elbow and downwards wing smack. Charged electric power in paws for an elbow hit then outwards slice, grazing wing, left hook stopped by peck followed by wing cross and talon swipe at leg; Inka is knocked back meeting the end of the couch, Sludge Bombs again which Roc blocks by folding wings in front of him...
...spreads out primaries and folds manus just in time to have them dug...
...by the Nidorina's claws in an effort...
...to regain ground...
«As I feared, loss of room and attack power makes resistance untenable...»
The Nidorina digs her claws on the Staraptor's plumage as much as she can, her own body weight pulling her off the couch while the Staraptor holds his place, wings folded...
Roc and Inka are still leering at each other, the bird's mantle and underwing feathers all puffed out, while the Nidorina's irises glow red and her claws are dug on the couch...
«Let's not waste each other's time...» -the bird resumes his resting position- «we both know how this ends...»
The Staraptor pushes his wings outwards only a bit...
Inka loses her grip on the couch and falls to the ground below, while the Staraptor...
...wings extended, looks down and then steps back...
...to resume his resting position...
...staring at the TV...
Inka stiffens her ears and growls softly at Roc for a while. After a while, she sighs soundly and turns around to grab her food bowl from the ground. As she faces away, Roc allows himself to gulp. The Nidorina's expression switches to a sort of contentment as she lifts it and pulls it to the seat, to whatever precious space is still available. Roc tilts his head at the Nidorina and, for no specific or obvious reason, decides to move just a bit to the left.
After a moment, Inka moves the food bowl nearer to the other edge of the couch, leaning it against the armrest, and climbs up to back of the couch to lie across it, ears perked up, she turns to watch the TV. Roc looks at her for a moment, then returns his attention to the TV and pecks the mute button on the remote to unmute it.
The two Pokémon stay there, watching a documentary on migration patterns. The host starts by commenting some of the recent migration trends detected in Angelan Marill and Mareep who have been moving towards Unova...
«Let's have it your way for the moment, bird... otherwise we'd risk the food bowl and the remote...» -Inka smiles slyly as she watches the remote under the bird's grasp.
«...Beats having to actually move out of this seat to defend it, I guess...» -leers back at Inka for a moment- «...considering I had not factored your alternate timeline training in my plans...»
The Nidorina loses her grasp on the couch...
...falls towards the ground below, clings...
...upwards-kicks couch with heightened Strength; the Staraptor, surprised at last, almost loses balance, looks down at the Nidorina leaping to safety; he fans out wings and rectrices to take off before the couch rolls forwards out of momentum.
Roc raises his sight, collects pinions and folds wings as Inka has rolled sideways and dispatches barrage of poison stings, Roc flaps down, manages to glide a short distance, takes poison stings on midwing feathers to dull damage; he tilts tail, dives forward to escape the falling couch, Inka slides on the ground and stands up, fires Ice Beam longitudinal to the couch.
Roc thursts himself away to outrun the Ice Beam arc, almost collides with the back of the falling couch, has to wing slap it away; swirls back to notice Inka climbing up the TV set and firing poison stings his direction, flaps to elevate, tries to steer towards the kitchen door and turns back to spread out air slashes as Inka charges up a Water Pulse and holds it in front of herself, she leaps from the TV set to the fallen couch crashes Water Pulse against it to dull some of the air slashes, which results on the couch being torn.
Roc speeds up to circle the area and release tracking energy stars when he sees something being flung in his direction, steers away evading a piece of the couch, Detects incoming Thunderbolt, brakes and flies back towards the window as the attack goes past him and crashes into the wall, then he looks down to see Inka leaping at a wall but not the couch. Blinks, cocks head to see a shadow below, steers away just as the rest of the couch falls down past where he was...
...turns head to the wall to see Inka propelling herself from the wall with tremendous Strength... grabs him before he can react...
...clamps his wing with and Crunches flank, circle-throws him as the two fall down the window...
...to the street below, in a makeshift earth throw...
“Thou hast forgotten the face of thy Lord. Remember, mortal, and fear pet me.”
