I stored the cloth from my pants in my bag and we tinued into the forest in a dire we hadn't before. From the sun I guess it was northwest-ish but don't quote me on that as I could be totally wrong. There were a few other types of trees as we walked but most of them were pirees. I holy couldn't reize most of the pnts we passed so I had no clue if they were useful or not and thus left them alone. I did notice that the levels of the pokemon started to go up as we traveled with the highest we saw so far being level thirty five.-

  It was a Se with a scared over and closed left eye and otherwise grizzled appeara eyed us cautiously but seemed tnize me or rather what I was and then rexed. I immediately khat this okemon familiar with humans as only such a thing wouldn't feel threatened by me. For any of the others born out here they likely only had stories or a vague knowledge and thus were cautious of me at first gnce.-

  I had learned from the past few days experiehat most wild pokemon at least in this area behaved this way. The fact this one didn't meant that it had likely ied with humans before and khat only Gaia ossible threat to it. 'I doubt it knows about aura or else it would likely have a very differeion.' I thought with a chuckle. "You seem to know what I am uhe rest of the others around this area." I said and the Se didn't react much but nodded. "Did you live near a city or road?" I asked and it slowly nodded.-

  "Do you know where the one is?" I asked to get a hint as to which dire to head when I feel ready to find civilization again. The Seared at me for a moment before literally drawing and arrow on the ground pointing where I assume is south. I memorized that information before thanking the helpful pokemon and leaving it in peace. I don't know much about pokemon anatomy but I am pretty sure that the dull fur and greying face of that Se meant it was old and likely close to death.-

  In this pce were the w of the jungle seems tn that was impressive by several standards. It meant that it was either very powerful or very lucky and those scars hinted heavily at the former. A few miles from where we found the old Se Gaia an I were ambushed by a pack of five Pooa that was led by a level twenty six Mightyena. "Sandstorm , Double Iron defense!" I called out after Gaia batted the leader away just barely. She roared a up a sandstorm that was strohan normal which I had a sneaking suspi was because she hit journeyman with the move but I couldn't check at the moment.-

  The Mightyena growled and barked out something that I couldn't tra that made the five Pooa charge Gaia with three white glowing tackles and twrey bites. Gaia decided to ignore my previous order however and used rock slide to drop stones in front of the charging Pooa to dey them. It worked as the three using tackle stopped glowing as they dodged to the side of the falling rocks while the biting two slowed dowhough their move didn't dissipate.-

  'Does tackle need forward movement to be maintained or is it because they haven't traihe move enough to hold it while dodging?' I wondered as I noticed this difference from the game. Gaia avoided the first of the biting Pooa but the sed o her with the move causing a crack to show up on her carapace. It didn't get the ce to retreat however as she used her much faster than normal speed to catd dispatch it. The Mightyena roared angrily at this as it had clearly not expected a member of it's hunting party to be killed in what looked like an easy fight.-

  It assumed that like usual their number advantage would give them an easy win against the single pokemon and human. Iy after the first attack barely ihe pokemon it's pack mate had been killed. The Mightyena roared and rallied it's remaining pack to attack all together this time. "Double Iron defense! You 't take any direct hits from the Mightyena!" I called out and Gaia rumbled in agreement while a metallic silver energy shone from her. The moment it faded however it reappeared showing that her defense had been raised by the move twice.-

  The pack all chose to collectively use bite now that they khat tackle would be disrupted and Gaia had a stern expression. "Rock slide right o you! Crush them if they get close!" I ordered and Gaia's eye lit up as she reized that this was a good idea. The Mightyena snorted angrily when it heard this pn si meant they would be trading injuries even if they all mao hit Gaia. It was far too te to back out though so it pressed forward with it's pack while brown energy gathered above Gaia waiting to form the stoo be dropped.-

  Ohe pack got within range Gaia unleashed her held attack surprisingly causing way more stoo fall than normal. ' you make new moves if you manipute the inals like she did?' I wondered seriously. If it was true then it ged everything about battle in this world as it meant I didn't o see it as inflexibly as in the games. I had seen the hints of this being the case but this was the first time I saw a rge piece of evideo support it.-

  The pack clearly hadn't expected the shower of heavy stohat rained down on them as more than a few cries of pain came through the crashing sound of the stones hitting the ground. None of their bites went through as they all instinctively fled from the onsught of stones but Gaia was no so merciful as to not opportunistically capture the Mightyena by the left leg with her jaws. "RAAAAAAAGH!" The rge e screamed as she crushed the bones in it's leg but it still freed itself a away with it's remaining three legs when Gaia went for the kill.-

  I didn't react at all to the grizzly se as the Mightyena dragged it's mangled leg o it uselessly. If looks could kill Gaia would be dead many times over as the pack leader gred at her hatefully. The sandstorm also wasn't helping as it stung at the packs eyes , ears and noses causing them to grow ever so slightly weaker. "Triple up on the sandstorm don't let them rest!" I called out and awo brown pulses of energy came from Gaia causing the sandstorm to turn into a flesh tearih trap.