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A wild lion appeared. Oh shii--

Who: Mathieu

colress and open to spectators.
What: Pokemon(?) battle.
Where: Orlea
When: Mid afternoon.
Warnings: ~~E for everyone 10+~~ Gratuitous violence.

He lay upon a stone bench along side the decided meeting place, the surface of his perch warmed by the sun. His fur, likewise, was absorbing the heat and in turn making him feel incredibly lazy and content. He hated being cold, but the climate was optimal enough. At least there wasn't any snow to contend with. He waits, surveying the area and looking for the man with the odd hair style. The poke-scientist.

On his hip, he had a satchel, filled with the devices he'd be using against Colress's pokemon, six little balls made to ignite a little fire for his own advantage. Everything else was in place, he thought. Plenty of shadows in the battle area for him to utilize to his own end.

Now all he needed was his opponent.

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Dr. Insano is looking around Orlea when he happens to see a familiar form. He debates briefly whether to approach the creature since they've had their ups and downs but maybe Shadow has something useful that he can get from him.

"Is this where you live?"

Shadow turned his head to glance over at the nutty super villain as he stretched his paws out. He gives his head a shake before addressing him properly.

"No, I'm in Whitewood." He says casually, not seeing Insano as someone he needs to get up for quite yet.

"We were supposed to have that pokemon battle today."

"By 'we' I hope you don't mean you and I," Insano replies with a nervous edge to his voice. He hadn't come prepared for any battles. He was merely looking for supplies.

"Nope. I think we already had our fun." Shadow replied.

"Don't you remember why I had you make those napalm bombs?" He seemed to look around before he said that.

"My opponent should come this afternoon, in the mean time I'm just hanging out."

"Yes, of course. But I don't know how many fights you have lined up and you might have just been waiting for the first person to come along to spring upon...," he rubs his hands together in an agitated manner.

"Only the one, and you don't have any pokemon do you?" Shad let his head lay back as he basked in the sun.

"You're blocking the light, Insano."

He glances upward. "Are you attempting to be a solar panel?"

"No, I'm just enjoying the sun. Why don't you join me?" He offers, scooting aside on the bench. The sun was nice. Nice enough to take a nap under. This cat was a lazy one.

"Well, if you insist...," Insano sits down but fidgets. He pulls a small metallic thing out of his pocket and starts twisting some wires on it.

Shadow just snoozes, his tail occasionally swapping against Insano.

"What're you working on there?"

"Some sort of time compression device," he says as if that were the most normal thing to bring out and fiddle with while enjoying the sunshine.

"How's it supposed to work?" He ponders this. "Does it accelerate the user or decelerate?"

"I want to make it do both! I was looking around here to see if I could find objects to make it work. I've done it before but this will be a new and improved version!" He yanks out a blue wire and frowns at it. "That shouldn't have done that."

He sticks it all back in his pocket. "But I have other projects to complete as well. I don't suppose you know much about liquid swords."

"It's a new concept. Liquid sword? Taking the atoms of water or something to construct a blade?" Is that what Insano means?

"No. Metallic - but fluid!" He enthuses. "A girl wants one and she promised me more cookies!

"Good luck with that. Have you had any luck with that impervium?" Because that might actually do the trick.

"I'm still working with it. There are so many things I could do here," and it's keeping him very busy.

"There is a lot to do here, but I wouldn't play your cards prematurely." He noted.

"The queen could be legit but I wouldn't anything past her. I'm all for challenging the status quo but until we know what she's capable of--"

He pauses. "That or you come up with something to draw her out and let us get a taste of it. Do it anonymously enough and you should be fine."

"Anonymously? What? You think I should be afraid of revealing myself after I've already announced at least three times here very publicly that I am taking over this world?!" He rants. "Including once directly to the queen herself!"

"Fear isn't the point. You don't jump into piranha infested waters before testing, do you?" Come on, Insano. He has a good point!

"Well, the best thing in that case would be to push somebody else in first and then the piranha will be distracted!" He lets out an insane little giggle.

He chuckles. Valid point, he thinks.

Still... "And if you're the only one there?"

"Then I will distract the piranha with science!" He thinks that's the answer to everything.

"Funny, I thought that's what I was suggesting."

"Then it's a good suggestion!"

"You know, I think we're on the same page, just the wrong book."

"As long as it's a book about science we can't go wrong!"

"You look comfortable." Of course, with how warm it was outside, Duncan was feeling somewhat the same way. There was just something about nice warm sunlight that made the half dragon feel lazy.

Duncan moved to take up a seat on the stone bench with his friend and close his eyes for a few moments before opening them again and glancing around. "So, not that I'm complaining, but I'm curious why you're sunning yourself here instead of like a nice comfy patch of grass somewhere."

He turns his head, offering a small smile to his friend, flicking his tail about against the warm stone. He absolutely hated the cold, and he was thankful for Duncan, in that just physical proximity raised the temperature a few degrees. He sighed contently.

"Because I'm due for a little match up with a pokemon trainer. I've been telling them that I'm a legendary pokemon as a prank. This will make or break it, but it'll still be fun." He chuckles at that. Remember that bit about him being a pain in the ass?

What can he say? He's a good heater. It comes with the fire breath apparently. And somehow, he's not surprised that he's trying to prank one of the people with the strange monsters.

"You would think they would know what their own.. legendary? Monster things are." He shrugs and just shakes his head a bit. "Well, you're right, this should be fun. Or at least interesting."

"Well, when I was a little kid I had something that... Eh. It resembled pokemon. Alot. That said it's not out of line to suppose there's a new one every two years or so." Or a new several hundred.

"Well, good luck anyway. I just might stick around to watch this. It's not like I have anywhere else to be." Duncan shrugged and glanced out across the area. Hey if there could be small monsters like the ones he saw Cynthia having, why not.

It's not like any of them were the behemoths he was used to. So this fight might be fun to see just how others fought their battles.

"I have a little trick up my sleeve either way." He said, not planning on going on any details on the what that would be.

"I've grown to enjoy a good fight. Of course I was never fond of losing either, though I usually bounce back quickly."

He figured. The dragon boy nods slightly, having to agree with the statement about a good fight and loosing. Though, the loosing part he doesn't get to experience much. At least, not since he was little anyway.

"Then this should be good. Now lets see if your opponent actually shows up."

And shadow tends to avoid the losing part as much as humanly possible. Too many variables to contend with. For instance? He has a feeling Duncan would beat him to a pulp, no sense finding out.

"Only a matter of time, he did say he was interested."

He'd only beat Shadow to a pulp if they were the ones fighting each other. That was the annoying part about his blood lust, it just... didn't let up until he was nearly killing someone or there was more at stake. True, Duncan was getting better. It was just.. a work in progress. At least he was able to stop himself from killing his opponent.

"Interested and showing up are too different things. We really won't know if he was gonna go through with it until he shows up."

"Let's put it this way. If he doesn't show I'll have gotten in some cap napping in which is an ideal afternoon, hm? Mine anyway. Then perhaps you come back to white wood, find a nice maple and char it up for your supper." He nods sagely, as that was an optimal end to a day like today.

Assuming didn't have anything else to attend to.

Considering Duncan had been randomly wandering to begin with? Yeah, no. He didn't have any other plans for today. "Huh, alright then. Guess we can try that. Besides, I haven't been to any of the other districts yet. Who knows, I might like White Wood."

He leans back in his seat to soak up a little sun himself. Large cats aren't the only creatures that appreciate a little heat. "...Or accidentally burn it to the ground. One of the two."

"Will have to cut it down and isolated before that happens. Controlled fires are the way to go in this day and age. I presume you know how to do that." He grinned a bit, stretching out himself on the bench.

"I know the concepts. Was kinda living in the desert when I discoverd I had fire breath. So, it's not exactly tested around forests."

But, considering he does have control over it now it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Or at least, he hopes not.

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