Thread: Island Life *Alex64, That Guy & xelda57*

"I hope not," Jacob said. "...But you're probably right."
"Then surely it's unsere Pflicht to find out what for them wrong is, and helfen them!"
"That would have been so much more encouraging if you hadn't completely butchered our language, Derek..."
"Das ist mir egal. Are we going to help these people, oder was?"

Roy nodded. I guess we'll help them, as long as we're here.

"Yeah! Let's find what's scaring them! I'll fight! ...If I have to..." Jenny's last sentence was a little discouraged, but she still seemed very determined. What have I gotten myself into? I've hardly ever battled before!

"...Uh...yeah..." Jacob shared her fluctuating enthusiasm.
"That is kind of the spirit!" Derek said with a grin. "Na, where begin we?"
"Maybe...ask someone...or something? If they'll let us into their home to talk to them, that is..."

"Good idea!"Jenny ran up to one of the houses and knocked on the door with her trunk.
"Hello? Anyone home? Could you tell me why everyone is hiding here?"

There was a moment of quiet, and two indistinct voices inside the house discussing something with indistinct words, then a reply came.
"G-go away! You're one of them!"

Roy was immediately intrigued by this. …Who're 'them'?

"H-Huh? Them? What's that mean? Is that why everyone's inside? We want to know! We'll get rid of them for you, I promise! But you've gotta tell me what you mean first!" Jenny said. Her honesty shone in her voice, and, though the pokemon inside couldn't see it, her eyes as well.

The pokémon inside the house discussed for a moment more, opened the door slightly to get a look at the four on their doorstep, shut the door again, and discussed further for several moments.
"...Fine." The house's inhabitants opened the door, standing aside to let them in. "Come in, and quickly. They could show up any minute, and you don't want to be outside when they do..."
Upon entering the house, as Jacob and Derek were doing, one would discover a multitude of locks on the back of the front door, and that the owners of the house were a grave-looking male Staraptor and, presumably, his wife, also a Staraptor.

Roy quickly entered, wondering what was going on.

Jenny went inside as well. "So, who's they?" She asked curiously.

As his wife re-locked the door, the male Staraptor shook his feathers and began to explain.
"There's a large group of pokémon who come from deeper in the forest, and they come here and, without any good reason, start terrorising the people who live here, attacking people, destroying things, you name it. They even kidnapped one of the village children, once, too. But they are a powerful group; despite our best efforts, they keep coming back. Now we're all prisoners in our own homes, for fear of being attacked."
"And nobody said they won't start breaking into houses sooner or later, too," the female Staraptor added.
"That's...that's so..."
"...abscheulich!" Derek finished the sentence for his little brother.

Roy stepped forward, hitting his fist into his opposite palm. We'll take care of them.

Jenny, seeing Roy's determined gesture, said, "Yeah, we'll get 'em! Do you know anything about where they might be?"

"All we know is that they come from deeper in the forest, from an area they call 'the Underwood'. But if you really want to meet them, you'd be better off waiting around here in Emerald Village. They'll turn up, whatever the weather, whatever day it is, whichever way the wind's blowing."
Hearing this made Jacob more determined to right this wrong. As had become his trademark gesture, he held up his shell proudly.
"Then it's settled! As soon as they come to us, we'll send them packing and save this town!"