Blue Lightning

Chapter Two: An Unpleasant Night

[Yesterday, 10:01 pm - Craigieburn Marshland]

Craigieburn Marshland, a small marshland completely surrounded by the Craigieburn Forest. Overlooked by the small village a straight dirt path passes through the land from the village to the nearest town, Pearson Town.

A Ralts pushes its way through a thick field of water reed. It soon reaches a small pool of water surrounded by Pokemon. A Wopper is seen popping its head out of the pond while a Budew stares at it. The Ralts waddles its way towards the Budew with a smile. The two start play with each other, both enjoying each other's company.

While playing together, a shiny Croagunk jumps out of a patch of reed and uses the move Poison Jab on Ralts, hitting it directly in the head. The Croagunk gave a cheeky grin while it grabs the beaten-down Ralts, picking it up and smashing three more times onto the ground. It then grabs Ralts and throws it towards the terrified Budew hitting it hard directly in the face.

Croagunk strolls towards the badly injured Budew and squeezes it in its hand, holding on to the Pokemon it stares directly at the pond. With his one hand, Croagunk dunks Budew into the crystal clear water several times, only giving it a small amount of time to breathe per dunk. Ralts was crying for forgiveness towards Croagunk, pleading to stop the torture towards his best friend.

Ignoring him, Croagunk places the choking Budew hard onto the ground and punches him several times. Filled with rage, Ralts body veins start to shine blue. It runs towards Croagunk and leaps forward to use Body Slam. Lifting his arms in front of him and aiming towards Croagunk he jumps up and tries to aim for Croagunk face. Failing miserably Croagunk dodges the move and counters with another Poison Jab, flinging Ralts backwards.

A drip of rain hits Croagunk, dark clouds start to pile up as the rain intensifies. Croagunk looks at the two Pokemon and decides to leave them and heads back towards the thick field of reeds. Ralts lies on the ground poisoned, it looks up and sees his friend laying across the ground near the pond. He crawls his way towards Budew hoping to see if his best friend is still awake, Ralts grabs onto Budew and shakes him in desperation.

"Hey! What's up with the rain?" A voice was heard out in the open on the straight dirt path leading towards Norsewood Village and to the rest of Craigieburn Forest. Ralts struggles to lift his head, he knew that he'd have to either decide to pull Budew into the thick grass in hopes to hide from the men... or to leave him. The poison was worsening by every slow minute, Ralts covered his mouth in hopes that he could keep silent.

The men were wearing a black hood which hid their faces in a cloud of darkness. The hood is connected to his long black thick sleeve cloak which has a rank colour rim, dark blue. A symbol of arrows pointing at each other creating a green man and a white necklace around the neck is displayed on the back of the cloak.

They have two thick dark silver shoulder plates and two thinner dark silver plates on the elbow. Their gloves are a dark grey colour with a glowing blue donut shape that has five outlets. Each outlet also has a donut at the end. The cloak is covering the top part of the dark grey longs with leather boots.

"The Admin wants to keep a low profile when out in the open, this rain should help to keep that low profile. Tell me, do you have a better idea?"

"What the hell are we looking for anyway?" His voice grew as he ignores the rhetorical question."A rare Ralts and Budew, they've been classified as 'special' by the Admins. I've got a picture of the two Pokemon that we need to catch, so don't worry."