adamant | 6th roar [ video + action for violet ]

[ The feed starts with a very enthusiastic GOOOOO LEOOOON from a certain excited ninja. The first shot is of Lightning, who is glaring Yuffie down from the next seat over. Giggling and cheering, Yuffie turns the gear towards the match in progress. Noctowl and Honchkrow have presumably already been taken down, as currently Skarmory is facing down Falkner's Pidgeot. Both birds are in flight over the arena, but Pidgeot is slightly wobbly from poison; it's clear that Flood did a number on it already.

Yuffie is making ~~obnoxious commentary~~ a full play-by-play as the match continues; both pokemon have used Agility repeatedly, and the result is difficult to follow. One second Skarmory is diving for Pidgeot, the next Pidgeot is slamming its wing into Skarmory's head. Unfortunately for Pidgeot, its efforts are in vain: Skarmory has the type advantage. Skarmory uses Pidgeot's proximity to catch it in her talons, and unleashes a hideous Metal Sound at point-blank range. Pidgeot screams and flails away, causing Skarmory to lose her balance; their talons still twined, they go plummeting down in a cloud of blades and feathers.

Skarmory's metal shell means the impact doesn't bother her much; Pidgeot, on the other hand, poisoned and dizzy, is out. Yuffie gives a shrill whistle, effectively drowning out Lightning's own cheer. Skarmory shrieks triumphantly before she and Pidgeot go back to their respective pokeballs. The feed clicks out. ]

[ooc. Light and Yuffie used with permission! Thank you~]

[ Private text to radiantxsmile ]

I'll be leaving Violet at the earliest opportunity. I should be in Azalea by the end of the week, if all goes well.

[[ spoilers for bbs in thread with ventus. read at own risk. 8|b ]]

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[ And Sora would be the wisest fourteen-year-old in all the worlds. ]

I don't know. Skarmory seems pretty taken with you, too. Maybe you're just good with animals.

[ It makes him kind of want to ask what with fauna was like where she came from, but the question doesn't quite make it past his lips. ~~lol bodhum fishbird, the hell was that thing even~~ ]

I doubt that. It's only yours that do this.

[A quick shake of her head. Hope's Ursaring is...something else. To say nothing of her own Gastly. As for the Cocoon Fauna...well, that fishbird was the least of the critters.]

I'm lucky to have friendly pokemon, then.

[ Light's own Odin is pretty friendly; and Gastly is friendly in his/her own...special way... Leon's pokemon are just all derps. The only exception was Green, but he's gone back to Zack, now. ]

You sure that's luck?

[Odin is spoiled. Gastly loves to prank people, and Lightning still has to work that out of her. In a way, Leon's lucky to have gotten more derps in his life. After Sora and Yuffie, of course he'd attract more.]

[ He arches a brow at her. ]

Why wouldn't it be?

[ Leon is magnetically charged to attract derps. Also, Odin is going to be the most untractable, vice-ridden firehorse in the world when he evolves. ]

[A sideways glance is all he gets in return.]

Being too friendly can be a bad thing. Never know what kind fo trouble it'll bring.

[Poor, poor Leon. He just can't shake his derp attraction quality. And that is most likely going to be true. Lightning will be prepared to get thrown a couple times.]

I don't think Onix and Flood are too friendly. Skarmory...Skarmory just needs to learn what 'physical space' means. Besides, she's not exactly in any danger even if she gets too close.

[ Have you seen her ~~defense stat~~ metal skin? She can take whatever life throws at her. God help Lightning if Odin ever gets a rock or something stuck in his hoof. ]

She wouldn't be. And most people would think twice about messing with her.

[Have you seen her ~~sharp as swords beak~~ attack stat? She can kill whatever life throws at her. God forbid that happens, becuase wat do then? Chocobos didn't get stuff stuck in their..talons.]

Exactly. And if nothing else, they're easy to train.

[ If it does happen, Lightning will probably get kicked into oblivion. Arguably, Rapidash's hooves are harder than diamonds, so maybe it'll crush any rocks before they get stuck in the sole? ]

And all that training is paying off now.

[At least it would be quick. Though, with that sound argument, all Odin's going to get stuck in his hooves is rock dust.]

[ Training is the gift that keeps on giving, didn't you know? ]

Yes. They're good fighters, and they work well together. [ He glances sideways at her. She'd said she was a soldier, but never mentioned a rank. ]

Did you ever train troops, back home?

[It keeps on giving, so long as you keep on doing it.

Lightning shakes her head. She didn't have the patience to train people back then.]

I lead a patrol sometimes, but I wasn't involved in the training. That was the drill sargeants job, and I was just a regular sargeant.

Sargeant Lightning... [ He says it contemplatively; when he thinks about it, she doesn't strike him as the type to teach. The only fighter he's ever trained is Yuffie, and that was mostly because she was adamant about following him on patrols. Their fighting styles couldn't have been more different, and it had been an agonizing process. ]

What kind of patrols are we talking about?

Sargeant Farron. Lightning's just a code name. [Or something like that. She still wasn't ready to be Claire again. Wouldn't be for a while.]

Monster patrols, mostly. Sometimes creatures would get free from one of the nearby biolabs and head straight for town. Someone had to take them out before people got hurt.

[ He nods, briefly, and files away the name 'Lightning' Farron as something to perhaps ask about, down the line. ]

Biolabs? [ He has a mental image of the Heartless Factory, hidden away under Radiant Garden castle. He wonders, mutely, just how much similarity their worlds have. ] So you...produced...these monsters?

[A little sigh, and she leans her head against the wall. The wolf type creatures had been enough trouble. Forget the Behemoths.]

Yeah. They were designed to go where humans couldn't, but the training they used wasn't foolproof. They'd kill each other more than they'd do what they were trained to do.

What were they supposed to do, exactly?

[ It must have been important, if the people in charge were willing to waste all that money on genetically engineered creatures. ]

Keep the peace, like the rest of us. Sometimes there were people would put bombs at train stations during heavy traffic hours, others caused riots in the streets. It was easier to replace a creature that it was to recruit and retrain entire squads.

[ He nods. That makes sense. So it was all mostly internal, from her description. ] You never fought any outside threats?

[She shakes her head again. Up until the Purge, there hadn't been any outside threats. Even then, it had just been one Fal'Cie from Pulse.] Not until the day we were marked. I'd left the military just before that.

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