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Floaroma Town | Morning [11]

"Where do you think you're going?" Smile chuckled. "You don't want to be attacked like earlier, do you? There's other Pokemon around..." Sister flinched, giving out an angry tone in her reply, "I don't like them..." But nonetheless the Sandshrew stayed, it was true, she didn't want to be attacked like earlier. She kept her distance away from the strangers, trying to stay as close as possible with Smile.

In the corner of her eye, she noticed a strange color, it was kinda like the red flowers, except lighter. Quickly padding away from Smile, she hopped up towards the Pokemon who had the light red color, "... Being a bystander isn't fun..."

The Sandshrew wasn't frankly fond of anyone but Smile.

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{{Schnorfle's POV]]

My lighter purple eye cracked open, only to snap back closed again. It is as I thought, I thought with false cheer. Morning. With a few more seconds of dark, i snapped both of my eyes open and greeted the sun with a crooked grin. Schnoofie and I had become nont ...er, NON nocturnal, I guess, thanks to the epidemic. It was no llonger safe to shut our eyes at daytime and be loose at night. There were too many dangers. We had taken shelter in the attic of one of the few houses that still stood in the city. There was a shattered window and the only way in, unless you had thumbs, was to fly in. Sheltered enough. The only reason that I wanted to sleep there for the night was the pure irony! Imagine, two bat pokemon sleeping in an abandoned attic! It made me start giggling all over again as I opened my large wingspan and let go of my perch. "Oh Schnooooofiiiie~" I sang loudly, flying around her from where she slept. The much smaller female swoobat muttered but did not open her lime colored eyes. "Wakey wakey~" I sang again, hovering close to her ear as I smiled in a goofy way.

"Go away, Schnorfle," she finally growled, burrowing her face into her folded wings. I turned upside down so that we could see eye to eye and I poked her with my nose. But before I could tease her some more, there was a terrible roaring noise and then the crackling of burning. Burning. Oh Arceus. My demeanor snapped from playful to serious and I snapped, "Get up! Either the house is on fire or it will be soon! We need to leave now!" That woke her up. Schnoofie's eyes snapped open and she let go of her perch, flying next to me. There was fear in her eyes. "Don't worry," I soothed her. "Follow me, and stay close. There might be a Harbringer around." I growled the last part before shooting for the cracked and shattered window. I folded my large wings close to my furry body and made it safely outside, only waiting to make sure that Schnoofie was following before shooting up again. I forced my wings to slow down as to not abandon her behind me as I gained altatude. Schnoofie is so much younger than me and had mush less aerial skill.

What met my eyes ws more sad than scary, honestly. I had come to love the beautiful little town, no matter how empty and scarred it was, and watching the fire getting worse and worse hurt what little attachment I had to it. I saw the same emotions in Schnoofie's eyes as I glanced behind. She was struggling with the effort of rising higher, and I quickly straightened out, coming to a stop and hovering. We were easily several dozen meters in the air, and the fire was spreading rapidly. I watched with narrowed eyes as it spread, not only into town, but accross the trees just as fast. I searchd for life with my peircing eyes; I had seem a snadslash and sandshrew around a few times. I hope to Arceus that they are okay, I growled in my head, fear making my temper flare slightly. No one deserves to die in that.

"Schnoofie!" I called to the much smaller swoobat, not even bothering to turn and face her. "I am going to go look for survivors and help them. Do not follow me," I met her eyes with the last four words, my violet eyes uncharacteristically harsh and dark. I didn't wait for an awnser, just dove, folding my wings and dropping from the sky like a rocket, that young sandshrew in the back of my eyes. I hit the trees in seconds and opened my wings before pushing them harshly, making through the trees with incredible speed. "Sandshrew! Sandslash!" I called, my deeper voice not carrying well through the crackling of fire. Suddenly a shower of burning embers rained down on me from above. I looked up in horror, but I couldn't move fast enough. But a slash of wind pushed them into another burning tree. An Air Cutter?, I thought, whipping around to see Schnoofie hovering mutinously behind me. But despite her disobeying my orders and putting herself in great danger, I nodded to show that she could stay.

"Lets go," I told her gruffly and she followed me as we went deeper into the burning forest, calling for the sandslash and sandshrew.

((Ooc; Long post is long @__@))

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Floaroma Town | Morning [12]

"Awoh! Ah! Don't scare me like that!" the red Pokemon jumped, "I mean, no hard feelings or anythin'." The pokemon looked in to Sister's eyes, the Sandshrew felt like this pokemon was some sort of pedophile of some sort, he introduced himself shortly after the thought, "Th' name's Harley. W--What's your name?" Dear Arceus it was a pedo. Sister simply stared at him, barely whispering, "None of your concern." The ground type knows Smile's rules, 'Never share your name with anyone'. Did he mean their real names or their alias? Nonetheless, Sister would never say anything that would hint her real name.

Before the twosome could react, a burst of flames came in, a wildfire began to spread, Harley pushed Sister out of the way of incoming flames, before long, she was somewhat on top of the damn pokemon. ON TOP OF A PEDOPHILE. Everything was going by so fast, then it ended up to Harley leaning over her, "Sorry." he said in embarrassment, and smiled awkwardly. He sat up, glancing around, Sister somewhat disgusted that she let a Pedophile do that to her, 'Take a bath once this is over...', Giving herself a mental note.

"Aw.... Such a pretty forest had to be burnt down like this.... Shameful...." The Fire type commented, the Sandshrew looked around frantically in realization, her home, burned, ruined, destroyed, her heart dropped, tears formed in her eyes. Where's Smile? Did he leave her for Sabi? 'I thought we were going to live together... All three of us.' Her heart raced, she didn't want to be left alone, not after that incident, no, she wanted Smile's protection, at least something that would keep her comfort, not some pedo fire monkey.

She glanced at Harley, then back into the flames, then back at him, before she could make a simple decision, she heard someone calling for a Sandshrew and a Sandslash. Sister blinked, Smile would be smart enough to reply to the call... Right? "OVER HERE!" Sister called out, her voice in frantic.

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Floaroma Town | Morning 2
[[Shnorfle's POV]]

Schnoofie was right behind me, a smart move on her part. She wouldn't last very long on her own, not with her low level. I gritted my sharp teeth together with agitation. We need to get out of here, as soon as possible, I thought, sweeping my sharp gaze through the burning landscape again. The smoke stung my eyes, making them water, and each time I called out it ended with a dry cough from the smoke. We won't last too long. I was about to call out again for the two pokemon, but was interrupted."OVER HERE!"
"Come on!" I called to Schnoofie in a rough voice, diving through two trees into the direction of the voice. It was a loud call, but I was pretty sure that it was the sandshrew. I was proved right as I flew straight into a clearing, Schnoofie right behind me, stopping midair next to me. I saw the sandshrew, looking distressed but who wouldn't be? And I easily recognized the other pokemon from my homeland as a Semesear. I growled under my breath, he was almost curling up on himself in what looked to be self pity. That won't save you! I mentally scolded, but instead called out, "Hey! Sandshrew! Semesear! We can help you out of here!"
I glanced at the two, both smaller than myself, and back to Schnoofie. She was barely taller than the sandshrew and much saller than the fire type. I turned back to the two. "Sandshrew, would you allow me to carry you to safetly? Wait, where is the Sandslash?" I added, looking around with no luck.

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"Come on!" It was the first voice Sister had heard, two figures revealed themselves as two Swoobats. She remembered reading up Unova Pokemon as she trained at Windworks, "Hey! Sandshrew! Semesear! We can help you out of here!" The Sandshrew nodded as her red bow fluttering on her tail, "That would be brilliant, thank you." She bowed her head in respect. Sister glanced back at the pedo monkey, who seemed like he's all sad or something. The Sandshrew was pretty sure that she said nothing that would offend him. The 'none of your concern' being her wanting him to not be so nosy about names. She glanced back at the Swoobats, "Thank you..." she said again, "But I must stay. You get the Simisear."

She padded up to him, "Get on them. I'm off to find Smile." Before anyone could do anything, she immediately went off to the direction of where he was suppose to be, probably in a good distance away from that tree, "Brother?" She called out, "Smileeeeeee?" Flames were everywhere, she threw Sand-Attacks at it to prevent it from coming closer, "Brother?"

I don't want to be alone...

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Floaroma Town | Morning 3
[[Shcnoofie's POV]]

I was not supprised as the two pokemon both seemed to refuse our help. What was the point in helping those whom didn't want it? I gritted my teeth, but,of course, Shnorfle was always stubborn in situations like this. "Look, they aren't coming with-" I tried to convince him to leave, the flames were getting worse by the moment and my wings were tired from being pushed so hard, but his expression stopped me midsentence.

Schnorfle's multicolored eyes were narowed as the Semesar ran after the Sandshrew whom had fled, looking for a 'Smile'. My heart seemed to skip a beat. I loved it when he got all determined like that. My eyes stared to glaze over as my breathing quickene. Oh, Schnorfle... "Come on," he suddenely growled, pulling me out of my near swooning. I blinked my eyes and nodded, just hoping to Arceus that he would not be able to see the red that had crept over my ears and face. I didn't think that I could speak, so I just followed Schnorfle as he added, "And stay close. They might not want it, but we will be backup if they need it."

I followed him, ignoring the slight pain in my wings, and only able to think I would follow you to the ends of the earth...

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Floaroma Town | Morning 3
[[Schnorfle's POV]]

Things were not looking good for us. I tried to keep the Semesear in my sights, but we were flying theough the treebranches, high above the ground, and the smoke and heat was rising right to us. The smoke burned my eyes making them water until I could no longer see. But when I slowed to a stop midair, turning to speak to Schnoofie, the smoke rushed down my throat. I ended up spluttering and coughing right into her face. The spasm was so harsh as it assaulted my lugs that I almost dropped from the air. "Need....get....out..." I managed to croak out, my multicolored eyes looking desperately at the smaller swoobat.
Thank Arceus that she understood, quickly turning around and leading us through the bburning forest. 'I'm sorry, Sandslash,Sandshrew,Semesear...' I thought saddly as we emurged to clean air. I opened my mouth and drank in gulps of air. Still high above the trees, I lead the wY down to a tree that was not burning. Honey was oozing out of the side from a hole in the tree.
"Will help throats," I explained to her as we greedily licked up some of the sweet stuff. Refeshed and energized, I glanced around the clearing that was untouched by fire on one side but charred and burned on the other. My eyes widened as I saw the pokemon from earlyier!
Schnoofie also noticed and mutter, "Great. They are back." but I ignored herr, flying in close to the semesear from where he leaned against the tree.
"Semesear," I greeted him with a nod. "We are swoobats. I am Schnorfle and she is Schnoofie," I added before she could try to lie about her real name again.There is honey in that tree over there. It will soothe your throat after the smoke."
I figured that the best approach could be to help him, maybe he could help us.
Schnoofie flew in close to where I suddenly noticed was the uncontious sandshrew. I gasped in horror while Schnoofie merely commented disapprovingly,"She looks messed up."

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Floaroma Town | Morning [14]

Sister felt consciousness regain her, she blinked open her eyes, seeing the Harley in her line of sight, the Sandshrew looked around, dazed, noticing the Swoobats had a worried look on them. Sister felt weak, she noticed herself a bit wet, probably from that huge water she had saw before she fell unconscious? She felt her muscles strain themselves as she tried to get up, she noticed some random Flareon come in, but she didn't respond to it.

That was when it hit her.

She whirled around, looking for signs of Smile and Sabi, where were they? Did this fire cause it? Sister felt her chest all piled upon, one by one, she felt like everything was her fault, she left Smile in his place, and she let Sabi down when Sister couldn't help her. Pools of tears started to form in her eyes, finally managing to choke up questions, "Sabi...? Smile...?" The Sandshrew's anxiety rose as she had no response, "Sabi? Smile?"

No response.

She made a dash from the group, she didn't care if they thought of her as weak, or useless anymore. Sister wants Sabi and Smile back, her friends, her family. Tears started to drip from her face as she made a dash for the flower shop, the one that always had red flowers, "Sabi! Smile!" She cried out through her chokes, distress and anger at herself flowed in her mind.

It was her fault that Smile wasn't happy lately, it was her fault Sabi ran off, it was her fault that she had caused everything. This epidemic was HER fault. The Sandshrew stopped in front of the store, looking at it with such sadness. It was Sabi's and Sister's favorite place to be, especially when she was sad, or Sabi was sad, or even both of them. Sister opened the door gingerly, hearing the bell chime like nothing was going on outside, thank Arceus this store is no where near the fire.

Sister picked up a red rose between her two paws, noticing it was watered recently, she blinked in curiosity, she didn't water them this morning though, and Smile rarely does so, she felt like someone was here, someone that would always water them.

"Sabi?"

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