Jake purred at Matt's touch, and simply sat down to wait out the inevitable. Bella ran over and changed as she stood next to her pet. Then she knelt down to hug him.

"I'm so sorry about this." She told the guy apologetically. She was still half persian at the moment, with the ears and tail."He's been running off a lot lately." Jake just purred, not seeming to notice how upset his trainer was.  

Bella nodded. "He is most of the time." She looked dow sheepishly. "But apparently he has a thing for bird people. As long as you don't have feathers, you should be ok." She glanced over at him, but she was careful not to make eye contact. Salamence. He should be fine.

"Come on, Jake. Lets leave the nice guy alone. " She looked over at Matt. "Sorry. I really don't know whats gotten into him. He usually minds me." 

Ooc; Gaia's having a seizure on me, Bella...T^T Oh wait. Nevermind. It's back.

Bic; Matt nodded once again. "It's fine. Really." Despite the gentlness in his eyes, and voice, there was still a twinge of sadness, and though subtle, it was still there and it was still a little obvious. He gave Jake a quick, gently pat on the head, and went to go back to his corner before it was stolen form him.

Jake's ears drooped. He looked up and meowed at Bella.

"What?" Bella put her hands on her hips, looking down at him. The persian took his as a sign that she was going to follow him. The cat walked over and plopped down next to Matt, yawning.

Bella let out an exasperated sigh and threw her hands up in the air.

"Fine. We'll sit were you want to sit." Bella rolled her eyes and sat on the opposite side of her cat and sat down against the wall, trying to make herself look as small as she possibly could while still in her human form. She fell silent now, half hoping Matt didn't notice her. She hated bugging people. 

Jake purred.

Bella completely ignored him. She had no idea what to say; she wanted company, but it seemd like her pokemon was better at making friends than she was. Closing her eyes, she morphed again, this time taking the half form of a pidgeot. She had the wings, the tail, the clawed feet, and streaks of red and gold going through her brown hair. She curled up and rested her head on Jakes side and used her wings to wrap around herself to keep warm since her jacket wouldn't fit over them. 

Matt glanced over at her. "Are you alright?" he couldn't help but ask. He had no idea who she was or even what her name was, but something about her begged him to at least ask that of her.

Linuon let out another squeak when the Haunter's face was suddenly upsidedown and coming closer. He scrambled back, huggin on of his Linoone's to his chest as his Charizard let out a low growl and stepped forward, showing that he would protect his Trainer.

"A-ah...yes... I-I'm fine..." he said in a rather flustered-sounding manner as he stroked the Linoone in his arms. He pulled his ears back, a faint blush dusting his pale cheeks as he slowly stood back up, his tail moving to curl around his waist. He'd just made himself look like an idiot...!

Bella nodded.

"Just m-missing my friends." She said quietly. She shuddered a little, cold, and then gave in and morphed half charizard.Then she added,

"I'm just a little nervous being around so many people that I don't know." she said. Her vouce was almost a whisper at this point, and she snuggled up close to Jake. 

Nyx blinked and stared at the Charizard, turning himself rightsideup again and crossing his arms over his chest, watching it closely. Flare, seeming to have the same nature as the Charizard, moved over to stand slightly in front of his trainer, baring his fangs and letting out a warning growl. Despite his size, he could still be a formidable opponent. Jolt also moved over, ears perked up curiously.

A small chuckle escaped Nyx when he saw the Linoone morph on the ground looking flustered. He ignored the Charizard as his body turned solid again, dropping to his feet back to the ground and moving over to the Linoone and held out his hand. "Need some help getting up?" he asked with a friendly smile, "We wouldn't want that pretty fur of yours getting dirty, now would we?"

((The Charizard is Brisinger, and the Linoones are Eli and Streak, btw. xD))

Linuon reached out to take the Haunter's hand, blushing furiously at the comment. Being the shy kid he was, he skittered over to his Charizard, who wrapped his wings around him just enough for the small Linoone morph to peek out from around it. He then let out a soft series of chitters and squeaks like those that Linoones would use, both of his Linoones nodding before the slightly larger one skittered to the floor and moved over to the Haunter, getting up on his back legs with his ears perked up and head tilted. He squeaked at him, then looked back at his Trainer curiously.

Then the Linoone nodded and the Charizard seemed to relax, though his blue eyes were still focused onto the Haunter in a wary fashion.

"Streak, you can come back now..." Linuon said softly. The Linoone shook his head before he skittered over to the Flareon and crawled up on his back, chittering at him in a rather friendly, cheerful manner. He pricked his ears forward when another squeak caught his attention, looking over at Linuon as Eli, the smaller Linoone, crawled up to curl around the Charizard's neck.

((c: Yup. Charizards have blue eyes~!))

"I'm Bella." She sat up and put her back against the wall, hugging her knees to her chest and then wrapping her wings around herself.

"How long have you been in this place, Matt?" She asked, glancing over. She herself had been has been changed for about a year now, but it was only recently, in the past week, that they had managed to capture her and throw her in here with the others. And even then, it hadn't been bad with Luna as a mentor. But now that she'd been abandoned.... 

The girl grinned, two sharp incisor teeth showing as she willed them out, uncrossing her teeth. "Usually girls have first move I assume, Mr. Knight. You are after all named after people who follow that princible." With that she glanced down at her belt that was wrapped around her waist and took off all her pokeballs, rolling them to the edge of the battle-field where they popped open, letting her pokemon out.

She turned to the Lucario quickly as he stood there, arms crossed just like she had been a moment ago. "Feel free to watch, you might learn something.Keep the others around though, we don't want them antagonizing anyone else like last time." It was a teasing tone though, not meant to offend him and he knew it due to the wink that resulted.

Turning back to her partner, she slowly began to walk foreward, eyes intent on him, changing glances between his eyes, shoulders and anywhere else she might find a week spot in. The shoulders were always a good place to watch because if it came down to him either using his fists or feet, the shoulders would always move first. "Hm... Unlike most girls, I would like to go second if you don't mind. So go ahead, attack me."

Nyx blinked at the Linoone morph's odd behavior but didn't question it. Instead, he just watched quietly and stared slightly at the Linoone that seemed to observe him. Apparently they were making sure he was safe, or something like that.

When the Charizard relaxed, so did Flare, but the Flareon still kept a wary eye on it. He was just as cautious about protecting his master as the Charizard was, and even though he knew it wasn't exactly wize to take on a giant dragon Pokemon, he'd still do it in a heartbeat to protect Nyx.

The Flareon blinked in surprise when the Linoone then climbed on him. He sat down then turned his head to look at the other Pokemon. After a moment, he gave it's nose a gentle lick in a friendly manner. One of his ears tilted slightly towards the Charizard, just to make sure it didn't make a move. 

Jolt and Nyx on the other hand, seemed a bit less concerned about the massive Pokemon. The Pikachu darted over to Charizard and hopped onto his leg, staring up at him with a rather cute and innocent ex
pression, and Nyx also approached, although it was to get closer to the Linoone morph.

"My name's Nyx," the Haunter morph said, his voice relaxed with a hint of charm.

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Knight nodded slightly, watching her closely as he took a moment to do the same with the Pokeballs on his belt. Only one popped open, for Zero and Thief were already out of their Pokeballs, revealing a rather large Scizor that seemed aged, but also experienced. He could still very well hold its own in any fight. He crossed his arms over his chest area, watching Knight critically in the same way his grandfather did. In a way, this seemed to relax the Choroneko morph a bit. His grandfather was still watching out for him, even in a place like this. Zero also moved over to stand near the Scizor, watching his master.

There was a bit of stillness around Knight as he prepared to attack, watching Rose closely and waiting for the right moment. His muscles were tensed, but not tight, and his eyes seemed to gleem a bit. His whole body was still.

Then suddenly, he just disappeared. Reappearing a few seconds later above Rose. He flipped in mid-air, his tail glowing white as he slammed it down at Rose with all the force he could muster.