<b><span style="font-size: 15px">Round Primary<br/>
</span></b><br/><br/>Eleyna huddled against Naomi, shrinking beneath the thundering booms of falling rock smashing through the trees amid the staccato of thundering blasts above. In one of the bright flashes she saw Steven sprint by, trying to get clear. Eleyna had no idea how safe the two girls were with their backs to the slope, but running in the darkness felt even more dangerous.<br/><br/>She didn't see Naomi fighting to get something from her pack. She was scared, hoping that some great tree wouldn't come down on them - but she was curious. She rose only as far as she dared to let her eyes peer over the edge of their small shelter up the cliff. As she had felt so many times before in her brief time on the island, it was unlike anything she had ever seen before.  It was a battle;<i>no, not a battle</i>. Battle was too simple a thing, a clash, a skirmish; what was happening above was something else entirely, something upon such a scale as she had never been witness to. It was something she had<i>never even heard of</i>!<br/><br/>Those Pokemon, whatever they were, were not some random wild Pokemon, the attacks that cut through the night were coming from Pokemon that were at the top of their game! Any one of those lines of brilliant light that cut across the night sky would decimate whatever it hit. The dark figures flying above, the unseen Pokemon on the cliff below, they were moving in patterns, in formation.<br/><br/>Eleyna gasped as a flurry of thundering waves rolled through the ground, shaking the earth - there was a flash above, and suddenly a retraction of light into a single point in the sky, and a blast of such magnitude that it drowned the flashes out and was like a new sun had spontaneously been born for a few brilliant seconds. Eleyna shielded her eyes and cried out in surprise and the entire mountainside shook as the blast wave rolled down it, tearing limbs from tree with its magnitude.<br/><br/>Eleyna dropped and pressed herself against their little cover, gasping.<i>What in he world was that?!</i>She huddled for a moment, darkness fell back over the forest and the punctuation of bright flashes came to end. The sound lessened,   as well, only a few thundering blasts followed, and among them Eleyna realized she could hear the cries and roars of Pokemon above, so distant and tiny compared to the calamitous cacophony they could summon.<br/><br/>And then the sounds became fewer still and the forest grew still. Hesitant, Eleyna peered over back up to the cliff. She couldn't see what was transpiring, only a few bright lights flashes against the cliff face from far above, a point upon a ridge which she determined to be the source of the battle. She could hear it though, far off, the roar of something large, something angry, the light cast upon the cliff was not a brilliant white, but a red and orange of fire. Eleyna stood, staring up at the cliff, eyes wide, her heart still pounding in her chest and making her limbs tremble.<br/><br/>A jet of fire cut across the cliff face, up into the sky and Eleyna saw a small black figure crossed its path, evading. Another figure flew from the cliff, marked easily by a bright red and gold point of light. The dark figure stopped, turned, a bright glaring bead of light appeared, but before the attack could be launched at its pursuer, the two points collided, a burst of fire, and the black figure went catapulting back down toward the cliff. The Pokemon marked by the flame followed.<br/><br/>Another flash, and another - and a long pause, and then there was another bright white flash and thunderous boom that rolled through the night.<br/><br/>Silence.<br/><br/>For a long moment Eleyna didn't dare move. She expected at any moment the entire forest might be assailed by terrifying shrapnel again. But there was nothing. no thunder, no booming report, no trembling earth. As suddenly as it began it was over.<br/><br/>It was stillness.<br/><br/>The stars shone above them, brilliant against the backdrop of night. Eleyna looked around, finding that without the cover of trees shadowing the forest, the terrain was more visible beneath the stars. On the slope, not much forest remained, either. Shattered and broken trees, ancient and firm, were splinters, felled.<br/><br/>Eleyna looked at Naomi.<span style="color: blue">Its over...</span>She said, a tremble in her voice.<span style="color: blue">I think its over. Are you alright?</span><br/><br/><span style="color: blue">Hey! Can anyone hear me, is anyone there?</span>She yelled into the night, hoping that everyone else had found safe haven. Even with the starlight she couldn't see a damn thing. She squinted, looking for a little light, perhaps from a charmander's tail.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>