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victory_road2022-11-13 05:13 pm
nimbuster) wrote in victory_road2022-11-13 05:13 pm
[text | @strife] + action! intro post!
Who: Cloud Strife
Where: Network + Route 29
When: mid-November
Summary: Cloud arrives in Johto.
1. Network - text
How do you catch a Pokemon if you don't have one to battle with? Can I just throw balls at it until one of them works? Feels like I'd run out fast.
2. Action - Route 29
Fortunately, Cloud is used to trekking around in the boonies, so the three-day journey on foot from New Bark Town to Cherrygrove - traveling through a forest filled with wild Pokemon, unarmed and alone - is no big deal to him. But Cloud's never been afraid to get scrappy when he needs to, and wild places don't scare him...and, well, he's used to being alone. So none of this really bothers him as much as it might bother someone else, even when CJ insists it's time to go hunt berries and takes Cloud literally when he tells the Swablu fine, go ahead, see if I care.
Which is why, when someone runs into him on his way through the forest, they'll find a 16-year-old blond in a military uniform squaring off with a Heracross. He actually holds his own for a brief bit, fighting with a style that's part military CQC training and part tenacious cornered animal, until the Heracross manages to slip its horn under a punch, scoop Cloud up with it, and toss him into a tree.
Where: Network + Route 29
When: mid-November
Summary: Cloud arrives in Johto.
1. Network - text
How do you catch a Pokemon if you don't have one to battle with? Can I just throw balls at it until one of them works? Feels like I'd run out fast.
2. Action - Route 29
Fortunately, Cloud is used to trekking around in the boonies, so the three-day journey on foot from New Bark Town to Cherrygrove - traveling through a forest filled with wild Pokemon, unarmed and alone - is no big deal to him. But Cloud's never been afraid to get scrappy when he needs to, and wild places don't scare him...and, well, he's used to being alone. So none of this really bothers him as much as it might bother someone else, even when CJ insists it's time to go hunt berries and takes Cloud literally when he tells the Swablu fine, go ahead, see if I care.
Which is why, when someone runs into him on his way through the forest, they'll find a 16-year-old blond in a military uniform squaring off with a Heracross. He actually holds his own for a brief bit, fighting with a style that's part military CQC training and part tenacious cornered animal, until the Heracross manages to slip its horn under a punch, scoop Cloud up with it, and toss him into a tree.
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"You're really back....Oh Spike I'm so happy!" To say he was a little lost without Cloud was an understatement. Sure he made some friends along the way but if it weren't for his pokemon he would have been so incredibly lonely. Cloud's back and he is going to spend as much time as he can with him now. The threat of losing him again is too real for Zack.
He eventually puts Cloud down but takes his hands in his, tears almost threatening in his eyes. "I...I thought I lost you."
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...and what comes next after Zack puts him down gets him blushing a bit more. He looks up at Zack with wide eyes. "You...you really did miss me that much?" Then he blinks. "Um, well, I'll...try my best not to leave without you this time. Promise."
How, he has no idea, but the will is certainly there.
"Long as you try not to leave without me, either," he adds.