When the Wind Blows (Closed/Mod)

[Maid Melody]

Elayne trudged through the snow, Elly tucked away in her jacket. The day was crisp, not overly cold but not very warm either, but the hike had been worth it to see the gorgeous view from the top of the peak. The sun was just appearing over the horizon, flooding the valley below with its warm rays. As the sun rose ever higher, one almost had to squint to see without hurting your eyes as the light bounced off the snow that still lay thick upon the ground despite the fact that it was now summer.

"Wow Elly, isn't that a beautiful sight? And just think, they get to see this every morning." Elayne whispered in an awe-struck voice as she surveyed the scene.

Elly mewed quietly, agreeing with Elayne the morning was quiet, so quiet in fact that it almost seemed a crime to disturb it by doing so much as talking.

A gentle wind stirred through the trees as the small village below awoke to greet the sun's rays that now basked the town. Elayne smiled as the wind blew through her hair, loving the feel of it despite the cold it brought with it. Who knew what amazing adventures the day would bring...

[Ezio]

I'm just a lover of love

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Ezio took a deep breath of the crisp air, staring out over all the snow, with a large grin on his face. He loved the views that nature had to offer and if there was ever a chance to absorb it, he would take it. All was perfectly silent and tranquil until a loud, almost panicked, shriek came from just near his feet. As he looked down to see what happened just wrecked the moment, Ezio could only laugh as he saw his Togepi run around with his scarf covering his eyes.

"Hehe Luis, no need to worry, it's just your scarf that covered your eyes when the breeze blew." Ezio said in a kind tone as he picked up his Togepi and moved the scarf away from Luis' eyes. "Better now?" He asked as Luis just gave a happy squeal whilst pronouncing part of his name.

Ezio smiled back at the Togepi as he turned around to face the view again, with Luis in his hands so he too, could take in and absorb the view. Suddenly Ezio's attention was taken by a young woman, who looked around his age standing nearby. "Hi!" He called out.

[MCstorms]

Ari hiked up the mountain behind Blaze who was melting the snow with his wrists of fire making it easier to walk. “Times like these make me realize how important you are Blaze” Ari said with a smile. Blaze then turned to Ari smiling as if saying glad I could help. They had reached the top of the mountain Ari was awestruck by the horizon as he always is. It was warmer then ari expected then again it was summer time. Ari let out a sigh “we made it Blaze” Ari said proudly.

Then he turned to see a guy and a girl on the mountain to. “Did I come to a resort” he said confused. Wait they must be here for Pokémon to, he thought. “Blaze return” Ari said pulling out his pokeball then a red beam pulled Blaze in the pokeball. Maybe they won’t notice me he thought because Ari didn’t really like interacting with people. so he avoided them whenever possible.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne started and almost slipped when a shriek interrupted the peaceful morning. Placing a hand over her rapidly beating heart, she looked around to see what had happened to cause such a sound. Spotting a small togepi she instantly relaxed and smiled down at the baby pokemon wrapped up in a scarf. She couldn't possibly be upset over such a trivial thing as a baby shrieking for some reason or another. Realizing that the pokemon was in the arms of another person, Elayne's smile froze as her heart began to race once again as the young man spoke to her.
Elly looked up at Elayne and mewed softly.
"Calm down Elayne, I sense no ill intent coming from this person. It seems he only wishes to talk."she spoke telepathically to Elayne's mind, rubbing her head against Elayne's chin in a loving gesture.
Elayne smiled down at Elly and nodded before turning to look at the young man again, waving timidly at him before glancing at the valley below once again, she had been hoping to spend some more time gazing at the beautiful sight before she had been interrupted, but neither did she want to appear rude. Sighing, Elayne carefully made her way down the small ledge she had been standing on and over to the man with the togepi.

"I hope you're right about this Elly..."
"Of course I'm right, now stop worrying Elayne, the togepi is proof enough that the young one isn't bad."[/color]
"I'm surprised at you Elly, usually you're not this trusting, not right away. Usually I have to tell you to calm down."[/i]

Elly laughed mewed in an amused tone before locking eyes with the togepi, purring a greeting to the young pokemon.
"Good morning young one."she spoke to the young togepi's mind, curious as to what his reaction would be.

Elayne looked at the young man shyly and smiled, when another man around the corner caught her eye. Trying to appear friendly, she waved at the man even though in all reality she just wanted to get out of there. The young man seemed nice enough but Elayne had no idea about this other newcomer. Maybe she was just over reacting after all, not all people were cruel and mean after all...
"Get ahold of yourself Elayne, nobody will recognize you out here. These people probably don't even know your name, much less your history. Just be yourself!" Elayne scolded herself, feeling ashamed out of being so rude to the young man right in front of her,"I'm sorry, I'm Elayne. Gorgeous view isn't it? I haven't seen anything like it in a long time have you?" she asked in a kind voice, smiling as she turned back to the gaze at the valley below.

[Ezio]

I'm just a lover of love

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"Yeah it's amazing, I'm just wondering why I've never visited here before. I'm Ezio, pleasure to meet you. I also haven't seen a view this spectacular in what feels to be years." Ezio replied friendly, as he glanced back over the valley. "And this is my Togepi, Luis." He added, turning his body so Luis would face Elayne.

Luis looked around in surprise as he heard someone's voice. As he listened to Elayne speak, he realized it wasn't her and he knew that it wasn't Ezio's voice so it only made him more confused. "Hello?" He called out as he looked around confusingly, tilting his head for a moment.

"So do you come from these parts Elayne?" Asked, turning his attention back to the young woman. As he turned to look at Elayne, a soft wind picked up again, making her hair flow softly in the wind. With the bright light of the morning sun reflecting of her skin and eyes, Ezio began to realize that Elayne was actually quite beautiful. "You know you have really pretty eyes" Ezio said without really realizing it.

[MCstorms]

“Crap now I have to go over there” Ari said with an annoyed tone as he began to walk over to them, still looking at the amazing view of the horizon, a girl and a guy? He thought. They were both older by at least three years. Ari hated when he was the youngest around made him feel inferior. He waved at them to signal that he was coming to talk. I wonder what their intentions are he thought. Are they good or evil? Either way Ari decided that keeping his guard up was a good option.

As Ari trudged through the snow he heard the crunch of ice. The people grew closer it became apparent that they had already started talking themselves. As he got closer is heart started pounding but he didn’t know why? He was never like this what’s wrong with me he kept thinking. Then the boy realized t wasn’t them causing him to act like this. Ari just had an ominous feeling that something really bad was about to happen and he couldn’t shake it. He was literally shaking in his boots calm down he thought. Ari had finally gotten to them “hi” he said casually then shifted his eyes to observe them both in seconds.

Then looked at Elayne for an extra second she seemed so familiar do I know her he thought? No I don’t but something about her seemed so familiar.

[Maid Melody]

Elly chuckled and looked at the togepi once again.
"Right in front of you little one."[/i] she said in a kind voice inside the togepi's mind yet again, winking at him before finally speaking out loud,"My name is Elly, what's your name little one?"

Elayne smiled at Ezio's reply before finally relaxing at his kind tone of voice, realizing how silly she had been; Elly had been right after all,"Nice to meet you Ezio, and you too Luis." she said in a kind voice, tickling Luis' chin as she said that before meeting his trainer's eyes once again, blushing at his comment before looking down at the ground in an attempt to hide her colored cheeks.

"Thanks...that's nice of you to say...but...I actually don't live around these parts...I more or less came up here for a vacation, and to possibly catch some pokemon too. I found a cave close to here that we camped in for the night. It's not much, but I've stayed in worst places before." she said in a kind, quiet voice as she looked back down at the valley, almost not noticing the other man approach until he stepped on a patch of ice.
Startled, Elayne looked over to where the sound had come from and found the other man standing by her and Ezio. Elayne smiled and nodded at his greeting and waited for him to introduce himself. Instead, he seemed to watch them both, as if he were studying them. Elayne shifted uncomfortably when his gaze rested on her for a little longer and decided to break the strained silence.
"I'm Elayne and the espeon is Elly, nice to meet you." she said in a kind voice, holding out her hand in greeting.

Elly looked at the newcomer warily, not sure about what to make of him before turning back to Luis and smiling at him.

[Ezio]

I'm just a lover of love

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Ezio smiled at Elayne as she looked down over the valley. Ezio didn't experience that warm fuzzy feeling often so he tried to make the most of it. "Really? in a cave? The inn at the village is actually quite cheap and comfortable." He replied.

As Luis looked around a bit more, he eventually noticed the Espeon that was talking to him inside the young girls. A large smile appeared on the young Togepi's face as it jumped out of Ezio's arms and ran over to the Elayne, trying to jump up and reach Elly. "Hiiiiiiiiii! I'm Luis!" Luis exclaimed in excitement. He loved meeting new and different pokemon and this was the first time he had seen an Espeon. "What kind of pokemon are you?" He asked, tilting his head before his attention turned to the newcomer and then back to Elayne.

Ezio laughed as he saw Luis run over to Elayne when his attention turned to the sound of ice crunching as a young teenager joined them. "And hey, I'm Ezio" Ezio added after Elayne in a friendly tone, also extending his hand out. Ezio didn't mind more people, in fact he always preferred when he would travel in a group rather then by himself. That is one of the reasons why he would always travel with at least one pokemon out of their pokeballs

[MCstorms]

“Hi” Ari said unenthusiastically while shaking both their hands, he also kept a straight face. “My name is Ari” he said trying not to come off as scary. “Cute togepi” he said to Ezio with a smile for he loved a baby Pokémon, human’s anything small and cute Ari liked. He looked at Elayne again with a wondering eye. I know her he thought but why where have I seen her face before? He pondered the question because he hated when he couldn’t figure out small things. “So you to a couple?” he asked in an innocent tone and smile on his face.

And just as he said that the ominous feeling came back. A chill shot straight down his spine like a speeding bullet. His entire body started shaking like crazy, “what’s wrong with me?” he thought. Ari used all his power to shake this feeling but just couldn’t. In that same instance the feeling was gone he looked at Elayne then at ezio a look of panic on his face. Ari turned and ran as if a giant Pokémon was chasing him with intent to kill. “What the hell is going on with me?” he thought and then stopped dead.

Ari turned his head to see the two people who weren’t far away his facial expression was that of a mad man. He glanced at Elayne for a second before he dropped like a two ton bolder of a cliff. Ari hit the ice hard enough to start bleeding and be knocked out cold.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne let her hand fall back to her side after Ari shook it and smiled at the jumping togepi, laughing as she unzipped her jacket for a brief moment and set Elly down on the ground with the little pokemon.
"I actually prefer nature Ezio, but thanks for the offer,"she said in a kind voice before turning to Ari to find him staring at her once again. Shifting uncomfortably, she looked down at the ground, blushing deep red when Ari asked if they were a couple. Elayne looked up in shock, struck speechless by the question.

Elly sat down and mewed at Luis, still keeping a wary eye on Ari. Something didn't feel right about that man...
"I'm an espeon little one." she chuckled, licking the top of Luis' head.

Elayne stared in shock at Ari as he started to shake, her heart beating a mile a minute as he started to run away from them, looking back at the with the look of a maniac on his face.
"Elly!" Elayne practically shouted in her mind.

Elly immediately rushed in front of Elayne in a defensive crouch when all of a sudden Ari stopped and hit the ice with a loud CRACK.

"ARI!"Elayne screamed, already running down the hill to where Ari was and kneeling beside him, rummaging hurriedly through her bag before finally finding the leaves she was looking for,"Elly, find his pokeballs and open them, they might be able to help."

Elly nodded and searched through Ari's pockets, finally finding four pokeballs and proceeded to paw open all of them.
"Your trainer's hurt, please help us!" she mewed frantically to the pokemon that just appeared.

Elayne lifted Ari up enough to apply the now mashed leafs to the wound that would stop the bleeding before looking at Ezio with a wide-eyed fearful expression after noticing that Ari's lips were quickly turning blue.

"Ezio! My cave is just around the corner, we need to get him there and start a fire, do anything to get him warm. He doesn't have much time!" she called out in a frantic voice, grateful that the herb paste at least had done its work.

[Ezio]

I'm just a lover of love

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Ezio's eyes nearly popped out of his eye sockets when he saw Ari collapse. It all happened within a matter of seconds and was all very sudden. After he had shaken Ari's hand, he continued to watch him with a raised eyebrow, something just didn't seem right about this kid, something just appeared to be quiet suspicious. However Ezio's suspicion quickly changed to confusion as Ari began to shake.

Luis began to laugh as Elly licked the top of his head. "That tickles!" He called out, "I'm a Togepi" Luis proudly stated, with a smile, "But I don't know what type of pokemon Ezio is though." Suddenly Luis' and everyone else attention for that matter turned onto Ari who had just collapsed.

Ezio froze for a second, not exactly sure what just happened and what to do before he began to sprint towards Ari just after Elayne began running. After Elayne had applied the leaves on Ari's wound, Ezio quickly took off his jacket, putting it on Ari to help keep him warm, and quickly called out his Flygon. "Fly we have to get this boy to her cave quickly! Elayne lead us to the cave!" Ezio called out, pointing first at Ari then at Elayne. Fly nodded and gave sort of a grunt before she lowered her back. Ezio quickly lifted up Ari with both arms and placed him carefully on Fly's back and returned Luis to his pokeball just to make sure the Togepi would not go wondering off at a time like this.

Fly flapped her wings, hovering a couple of meters above the ground, producing a beautiful, harmonious sound. Ezio lead Fly quickly as they followed Elayne to the cave.

[MCstorms]

Ari fell off the flygon and on to the ice and as soon as he hit the snow his eyes opened wide. With his back to the snow he was looking straight up. His eyes had turned from an ocean blue to a snow white. “Oh no!” he shouted “that’s why I had an ominous feeling” he said as he pointed to the top of the mountain. Then the ground started shaking but ari didn’t do anything instead just layed there not knowing fully what was happening, but he did know there was an avalanche coming.

Ari looked around at the other two people didn’t he run away from them he thought confused. Why are my Pokémon out of their pokeball’s are they Pokémon thieves? He thought, they can’t have mine he thought ferociously. “Blaze use overheat! On flygon!” Ari exclaimed Blaze then looked at ari in a shocked manner at his trainer. “Don’t look at me like that, do it!” blaze then turned to flygon with a sorry expression on his face and unleashed an overheat. As the avalanche begins Ari is only concerned with keeping his Pokemon safe.

[Maid Melody]

Elly leaped in front of Flygon and used protect, hissing at Ari.
"You idiot! Flygon was just trying to help you when you were knocked unconscious. I opened your pokeballs so they could help you!"Elly practically yelled in Ari's mind before turning to the ralts and blaziken,"I need your help getting your trainer to the cave, and quickly, or the avalanche will kill us all. Use psychic on him together. Blaziken, stand under Ari just in case he falls, psychic isn't a fail safe move but it's all we have since he doesn't trust flygon to carry him."

Elayne jumped up and was beginning to lead them to her cave when Ari rolled off of flygon, heart beating rapidly she doubled back, watching in horror as Ari commanded his blaziken to attack. When the ground began to shake, Elayne clung to a tree to steady herself, hoping that the quake would end when she heard a rumble from behind her. Immediately recognizing the signs of the avalanche, her pulse quickened as fear overtook her mind. Would they make it to the cave in time?
"Ari! Ezio! My cave is just over the ledge, we need to get there quickly or we'll all be swept away...or worse!"she exclaimed, still holding onto the tree for dear life until the tremor stopped,"Elly, show them the way if they lose sight of me!"
With that said, Elayne took off at a fast walk, leading the way to her cave.

Elly nodded, used psychic to lift Ari up into the air, and began following Elayne, although it was evident that she was using most of her concentration to keep Ari in the air, hoping that the trainer's ralts and blaziken would listen to her.

[Ezio]

I'm just a lover of love

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Ezio's eyes just widened as Ari commanded his Blaziken to use Overheat on Fly. "This kid just gets weirder by the second" he thought to himself as the Blaziken prepared to use Overheat. Just as Ezio was about to command Fly to counter attack, Elly jumped in with Protect to block the attack. Ezio and Fly were both impressed with the quick thinking of the Espeon.

As the ground began to violently shake, Ezio just stared at Fly with a look that only seemed to ask, "Did you use Earthquake?" Quickly realizing what the look meant, Flygon furiously shook her head in response before they both turned their attention to far up the mountain, only to see just snow, pouring down, gradually getting bigger and bigger, slowly picking up speed.

As they listened to Elayne explain that her cave was just nearby, Ezio and Fly wasted no time. As they quickly followed after Elayne, matching her speed, Ezio ordered his Flygon to stay and help the other pokemon with Ari, just in case. "Fly stick with Elly and the others. If something goes wrong just quickly scoop them up and fly them to the cave so also keep an eye on us."

[MCstorms]

Blaze was no fool the heat from the attack had warmed ari up to normal temperature again curing the hypothermia. Ari turned to blaze and then to his other Pokémon. It took all he had to break free of the psychic espeon had on him .Then he looked at the avalanche “Damn it” he said angry “Blaze use over heat towards the cave everyone else return” all the other Pokémon went back into their pokeball’s for they could not help in this situation.

Ari then ran as fast as possible towards the cave. He ran as fast as possible he caught up to Elayne and her espeon . He then pushed Elayne out of the way so the fire didn't hit her. Then jumped out of the overheats path it had melted all the snow in a straight line towards the cave. Ari then jumped back into the same path because it was easier to run through the melted snow and the avalanche was coming fast. he then returned blaze to his poke-ball before realizing his arm was on fire. "shit" he said aloud before he turned to look at ezio to makes sure he was ok.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne was leading the way to her cave when all of a sudden she found herself landing in the snow just as overheat raced by. Heart pounding by the realization that she had almost been burnt to a crisp, she looked around to see if Elly was all right.

Elly was surprised to say the least when Ari managed to break out of her psychic and looked back to see a huge overheat coming her way, mewing in alarm she dashed out of the way of the attack, just barely making it out of the way before it reached the spot she had been moments earlier. Heart beating rapidly, she looked around for Elayne and dashed over to her, helping her to her feet with psychic before the both of them ran for the cave.

Finally reaching the cave, Elayne called out Skye and immediately told him to use ice beam over outer rim of the cave just in case the snow reached them before the others could reach the cave.
Elly immediately started to use psychic to try and keep as much snow out of the entrance to the cave, mewing frantically to the others to hurry before she lost control.

[Ezio]

I'm just a lover of love

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Ezio just stared wide-eyed as he watched the white fire with a red-orange flame spiraling around it just narrowly missed him. Ezio turned around and glared at the Blaziken and then at Ari, not saying a single word before just shaking his head. "Seriously what is this kid's problem?" He thought to himself.

Fly quickly ran up to Ezio to make sure he was alright before shooting the Blaziken a look that said, "Don't you dare try to do that again".

Ezio nodded at Fly and gave her a thumbs up before looking over to Elayne to make sure she was ok as Elly helped her up with Psychic. Seeing that they were fine, Ezio and Fly quickly continued into the cave.

Seeing the Dratini come out and use Ice Beam, Ezio quickly remembered his Castform. "Viento! Help Skye cover the outer rim with Ice Beam" He called out as he threw a pokeball near the Dratini, with Viento coming out and nodding before it also fired and Ice Beam.

"Fly return, I'll call you out when I need you." Ezio said as he returned his Flygon to her pokeball. Putting it back in his bag, Ezio turned to look at Elayne. "Are you ok?" He asked, with a concerned tone in his voice.

[MCstorms]

Making sure that the other two people were ok he then began to run towards the cave for that seemed to be the best way to survive. As he was running he saw something out of the corner of his eye so he looked while running only to come to a dead stop.

Ari saw a man on the mountain near where the avalanche had started. Ari squinted to get a better look and then uttered the word “dad?” with a questionable tone. The man had looked like Ari’s father then he came back to reality he turned his head to see the avalanche.

As he got his head have way around the avalanche hit him at full throttle covering him up and kept advancing Ari had vanished from any line of sight.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne screamed when Ari got swept away by the avalanche and was about to try and go after him when the ice beam broke and the snow collapsed in front of the entrance to the cave.

Seeing that the group was in danger of being buried, Elly used psychic to try to pick up Ezio and his pokemon along with Elayne and Skye before they were buried by the initial cave in and set them down a few feet from the entrance before immediately turning around and ordering Skye to stop the avalanche from getting in the cave with ice beam.

Skye nodded and shot an ice beam at the snow that was quickly sealing off the cave entrance, preventing anymore from getting inside the cave. After finishing the job, he went over to Elayne and looked up at her with a concerned expression on his face.

Elly sighed with relief and ran over to Elayne, already sensing her trainer's rising panic after seeing Ari get swept away by the avalanche.

As soon as Elly had set her down, Elayne had brought her knees to her chest, staring at the now sealed off entrance to the cave with wide, frightened eyes. She was so lost in thought that she almost didn't hear Ezio ask her if she was all right.

"Huh? Oh yes...I'm fine..."she said in a quiet, automatic voice, although it was clear that she wasn't all right, in fact, she was scared out of her wits.

Elly looked up at Elayne and mewed in a concerned voice before jumping into Elayne's lap and licking her face comfortingly.
"It'll be all right Elayne...we'll find him..." she said in a concerned voice, knowing that her trainer's frantic state wasn't on account of the avalanche still rumbling over their heads, but because she was worried about the fate of Ari, the trainer that had, in so little time, turned their world's upside down.

[Ezio]

I'm just a lover of love

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Ezio looked at Elayne, with eyes full of concern. Even though she had said she was ok, Ezio was still doubtful. He slowly walked over to Elayne and crouched next to her, putting his arm on her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her. "Look I know your worried about Ari, I am too but we have to wait until the avalanche stops, its too dangerous right now. The minute it stops we'll go searching for him, I promise you." Ezio said firmly as the snow rumbled above them.

Although he didn't what to think of him, Ezio did in fact, worry about Ari. Ari was super confusing to him but he was still a kid, his own brother would have been not too much older then him around this time. Ezio was forced to shake away memories of that night of his brother's death but they still lingered at the back of his mind.

Viento quickly came over to the group. "Cast." it simply said, with a determined look on its face, "Tell her we will find that kid no matter what" Viento added, speaking to Elly to translate that to Elayne.

The minutes seemed hours as the group anxiously awaited the end of the avalanche, with each slow and agonizing second, seeming to increase in time. However the rumble from above eventually seemed to die down.