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Luka delved into his bag and lifted out his Poképod and a small speaker. He plugged his Poképod in and smiled at his Pokémon. "I think this little song is gonna get us in the mood to look forward to whatever is going to come our way. I don't understand a word of it, but, I think it's name translates to 'The Flying One'. I remember hearing it at a concert whilst I was at college a few weeks ago."

He put the song on and the beautiful song burst out of the speaker. Tayla, despite living in Pinwheel Forest for her entire life had heard the song before somewhere and hummed along to it.

As the music played Luka saw the beautiful blue of the sea bounce as the wind blew white froth into the air. The sun caused the ocean to glisten beneath its bright rays. It felt as if he were just flying away across the water, at one with the world. Yellow tendrils made their way out of the speaker and intertwined with a clear white swirl. The swirl rose and fell. A series of deep blue circles started floating around the speaker and pulsing as the woman sang. Everything fell with the diminuendo but started to rise again with the song. Then as the final crescendo came towards the climax, Luka could see what appeared to be little beautiful fireworks exploding with electric fervour. Then everything fell again and the beautiful white spiral span round the speaker. As the song reached its final line, Luka joined in. "Flying to the star, faraway."

With that, the song ended and Luka's synesthesia faded along with it. He could feel himself grinning even wider and as he looked at his Pokémon he could see that they were all grinning wildly too. Only Luka had been able to see the visual spectacle, because, it was after all, all in his head, but, the emotions of the song still hit them all and so they looked out to sea with their renewed hope for the future.

((Well I never. Liberations has been going for a year. Good lord.

Happy Birthday Pokémon Legends: Liberations! biggrin ))

((What a quick year it was -Woot-
Happy birthday Liberations!))

((Have some of my pain pills, they also come with caffeine.))

((No, I don't do that.

I'm drinking tea surprised ))

((your comment made me do a double take to my post. My initial reaction was that my spell check some how trolled me. o.o))

Crofton paused when he looked into Takamaru's eyes. "Kid..."

The Ranger snarled and yanked back his arm to try and pull the whip out of Takamaru's grip. He'd continue to try snapping it back until Takamaru opened his mouth to let go or the trainer's teeth fell out.

"Get offa my JEEP!"

Sazu zipped over to the hood of the car to nudge at Takamaru with her body. She'd help try to shake him off. With no one on the gas or the brakes, the Jeep was slowly going to stop in the middle of the street.

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For a flash, a pair of translucent purple eyes blinked in midair next to N’s as he walked to the park. [You give her too much credit,] whispered Zero.
“I have high hopes for that girl. She could be an important variable,” N told his invisible Zoroark.
[Math this, math that. Fine. You look like you’re talking to yourself.]

N’s eyes darted around. Indeed, he approximated that 50% of the people within his radius had given him shifty stares. He tipped the brim of his hat down and hurried his stride to turn the corner.

When he did, he was at a grassy patch of Castelia’s central park. In the distance, he could see an Axew running down the hill parallel to a floating, flowing blue liquid that streamed like a river through the air. Behind them ran Salieri with her pokedex in hand and a girl with huge purple hair.

Intriguing.

Salieri leaped forward to try and get ahead of Iris. “Fire!” she yelled at the amorphous floating stream, throwing her hand out to the side. The Frillish used his Acid Armor boost to regain his usual jellyfish form, and steam began to rise out of his head.

He fired jet of Scalding water at the Axew from his mouth like machine gun fire. Axew darted side to side with elegant spin and flips, aggressively dodging with Dragon Dance as she got closer to Frillish.

Iris lowered her stance and powered forward to chase after the moving battle, catching up to and overtaking Salieri. “Dual Chop!”

The Axew spun in the air, barrel rolling to Frillish while her tusks lengthened and were wreathed with a green flame. Salieri growled and caught up to Iris. “Flow around!”

Frillish tried going to the side to avoid the first swipe, but was slashed on his side. He turned back into liquid form and bent his body around the second swipe. Axew was in the air between the center of a floating, liquid ring of water.

“Constrict!”

The ring closed with Axew in the center, momentarily becoming a spinning sphere that engulfed the tiny dragon. It then reformed into Frillish, who had Axew in the clutches of his tentacle hands.

Sal skidded to a stop, as did Iris. “Now slam him!”
“Dragon Rage!”

The Floating pokemon floated higher, spinning around while his arms stretched outwards. He heaved Axew, who was busy charging a glowing blue power inside of himself, over his head to throw him into the ground.

The Axew fired the blue shockwave at Frillish just as the jellyfish let go. Axew pounded into the earth while the Dragon Rage exploded in Frillish’s face. Smoke floated in the air from where Frillish was shot, and then a stream of Scald was fired directly downward from it.

Axew rushed to get out of the crater she sat in, jumped to avoid the blast. The Scald dropped into the crater, splashing upwards and singing Axew. The dragon yelped.

“Burn! Yes!” Salieri cheered through a cocky grin. “Don’t let up now! Fire everything!”

Frillish slowly descended downwards, flopping his arms around like noodles and making spooky ghosts noises while firing Scalds and Confuse Rays at Axew. She ran to get around Frillish’s side, dodging with Dragon Dance once more.

Iris grit her teeth. “It’s not over yet! Not by a longshot! Dragon Rage!”
“Scald!”

The two attacks collided in the middle, exploding in bursts of steaming rain and wisps of blue flame. Axew charged through the center, swinging her head at Frillish. Much faster than before.

The Night Slash curved a wicked black slash into Frillish, knocking the Floating Pokemon to the ground. He slowly levitated again.

Axew was panting, constantly in pain from the burn, but continued to charge at Frillish.

I’m not used to using a pokemon like this! He’s got no melee skills! But he’s still got some tricks up his sleeve! “Recover!”
“Dragon Rage!”

Blue sparkles floated from the bruised Frillish, slowly healing the wounds. But he didn’t get to fully Recover due to getting hit by Dragon Rage.

Axew, still running, leapt at him again as he regained his orientation. Iris pumped his fist into the air and Salieri took a step back. There was no time to dodge. This wasn’t looking good.

But the Night Slash never came, having been Disabled by Frillish’s Cursed Body. Salieri grinned and looked over to see Iris and Axew both stunned. How convenient.

“Hex!”

Two more eyeballs appeared in Frillish’s red pupils, and then began to spin around. Axew, who was looking at them, landed on the ground in a trance. Suddenly, she cried out in pain while shockwaves rocked the inside of her body as she stumbled backwards, about to fall out for the count.

“One more time! Dragon Rage!”

The blue orb flew forth from Axew’s mouth and blasted into Frillish, rocketing him into a tree that snapped in half from the impact.

He lay on his back with swirls in his eyes. Axew did the same.

The two trainers stared at each other.

"Alright." Salieri held out her hand. "Fork it over."
"What?"
"The cash. Fork it over."
"WHAT?!"
"Are you hard of hearing, or are you just dense? Your Axew fainted before my Frillish did."
Iris snorted. "HA! What a rookie analysis! Clearly your Frillish was out first thanks to Dragon Rage. Only an amateur would think otherwise."

Salieri turned her body to face the other girl, stomping her feet angrily. "Amateur? You're not even good enough to eat my dust!"
"You really think so? I only let you catch up to me back there in honor of fair play."
"Get real, kid. You're slower than molasses."
"Who are you calling kid?"

The two girls stared at each other for a few more seconds. Their eyes both darted to the top of the hill, before going back to each other.

And then without warning, the two girls started running back up the hill frantically, yelling taunts to each other throughout their race.

From the outskirts of the park, N folded his arms. That was definitely worth stopping to watch.

While Tk and crofton where having there little tug of war match, tk was hard pressed to hold on, the only thing he was aware of was the whip in his mouth and the rush of air around him as the car sped on wards. However, the wind started slowing down, More and more as the seconds passed. The car ws slowing. He had a chance.

It was about the time that Sazu started nudging him in him side, he'd release the fowl tasting whip, and role off the side of the car. He'd Land on all fours, and without missing a beat he'd swivel around to the front of the car before crofton could drive again.

"Give me back my Pokemon, NOW!" The last part came out as a roar. Takamaru stood in front of the car, arms out stretched, His breath coming in long slow drags. The Kid was pretty wore out, but this was nothing compared to the dream yard.

If the Pokemon Ranger attempted to Flee or attack him, he'd have Iron Hide to his defense.