<i><b><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Pokemon: Yugen</span></span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 18px">Episode 5: Rumble at the Beach!</span></b></i><br/><a class="externalLink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5PWnM6AlA&amp;index=2&amp;list=PL2E1A2C12F3A3B7D3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Appropriate Theme</a><br/><br/><div class="ToggleTriggerAnchor bbCodeSpoilerContainer">
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<div class="SpoilerTarget bbCodeSpoilerText">Our heroes set out from Morobashi, the battle of Saisho and spirit festival of Utsumi now behind them! Along Route 7, they encountered a pesky Snorlax which had blocked the road after breaking into a food truck traveling to Senjo. With quick wits, the trainers roused the Snorlax from its slumber and drew it away, earning the appreciation of one of Yugen's police squad, Officer Jenny.<br/>
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They arrived at Senjo, the Pokemon Arena! The amateur and young trainers that frequented the fields of Saisho were no where to be found in Senjo for it was the seat of the Yugen Six, the greatest trainers in the Yugen Isles. The custom constructed arenas were host to many battles and veteran trainers. Our heroes joined the fray, testing their mettle! There, Naomi met an engineer from Silph Co. who was testing a new portable Pokemon healing station. With a little convincing, Naomi was given one of the devices.<br/>
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But all was not well, for Yoriko, Fighting Pokemon Master of Yugen took the new found confidence of Eleyna as challenge and goaded the inexperienced trainer into a battle. But even with all three of Eleyna's Pokemon squaring off against a single of Yoriko's, Eleyna had no chance. But in defeat Eleyna discovered the true will of a trainer, the will to persevere against all odds, to face anything that may come side by side with her Pokemon!<br/>
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United by that Stone will, our heroes stood together and turned southward into unexplored lands, into the unknown!<br/>
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</div><br/><br/><br/><br/>"Ahh..." Eleyna set her hands upon her knees so that her arms elbows were propped upwards upon her crossed legs. A serious and look of deliberation was etched onto her soft and feminine features, her eyes closed and chin lowered.<br/><br/>"We met a great adversary... We did not back down! Our battle was treacherous... and each of you fought bravely...! But..."<br/><br/>"We got our asses kicked ~" Eleyna's posture broke and she drooped pitifully, pouting. Scyther, Growlithe, and Tentacruel deflated as well. they were bruised, and battered, one of Tentacruel's tentacles hung in a sling which wrapped around his bulbous head.<br/><br/>"But it wasn't your fault!" Eleyna raised her chin, her lips screwed up. "It was mine. I allowed my pride to put you into danger." Eleyna took a deep breath and changed her seating so that she was upon her knees, then prostrated herself, bowing deeply and placing her forehead upon her hands which crossed on the ground before her. "Gomenasai!"<br/><br/>The brim of her hat touched the grassy earth and popped off her head. Eleyna straightened up and snatched the hat up, jamming it over the crown of her head before her insufferably untamable hair sprung loose.<br/><br/>Eleyna adjusted how she sat on her knees and heels, her hands resting on her half bare thighs.<br/><br/>"But we have learned something valuable." She looked across her three Pokemon. "All the enthusiasm in the world won't get us anywhere!" She sighed. "What I mean to say is..."<br/><br/>She bolted to her feet, pointing with a boiling rage in her eyes. "Tentacruel, what the hell was that Wrap!? Were you trying to Wrap the Lucario or give him a hug!?" The large squid Pokemon lifted his tentacles in shame.<br/><br/>"You!" She turned her finger upon Scyther whose eyes went wide suddenly and Tentacruel and Growlithe slid across the grass away form him. His head swiveled between the two, then drooped and pouted as Eleyna laid into him. "You call that Fury Cutter!? More like Fluffy Cutter!"<br/><br/>She turned her glowering gaze upon Growlithe who lifted his chin imperiously and narrowed his eyes at the trainer. Eleyna pointed at him, vein pulsing on her forehead. She shrugged and lifted her hand. "You were fine."<br/><br/>Growlithe nodded and barked in agreement.<br/><br/>Tentacruel and Scyther scowled at Growlithe, then recoiled as Eleyna turned her finger back on them. "But you two! Shape up!"<br/><br/>The trainer planted her hands upon her hips. "You're all four times the Pokemon that that Lucario is! And we're going to prove it! But we're not great yet! Hell, we're barely even good! But that won't get us anywhere. I won't settle for good. I won't even settle for great! I'll settle for nothing but the best! The very best! Like no one ever was!"<br/><br/>The three Pokemon looked at one another.<br/><br/>"So no more easy rides! From now on, we train! We cross this island in search of the greatest Pokemon to join our cause! And when we've got 'em, we're going back to take the stick that's up that bitch's ass and beat her with it!"<br/><br/>Scyther lifted his blade arm and declared, "Scy~!"<br/><br/>Tentacruel curled his tentacle into a determined fist and gargled.<br/><br/>Growlithe turned a steel look to the horizon and nodded.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Eleyna emerged from the tree line, clad now in shorts, a white v-neck t-shirt, and her laced up boots. Her thick hair was pulled through the back of her hat, save for two rogue curls which framed her face. On her hips was her belt which hung askew, a row of Pokeballs on it, and on her back was slung her bag.<br/><br/>She crossed her arms as she looked across the grassy field and undulant hills. From her flanks surged two figures whose wake blew strongly past the trainer, making her hair dance in the wind. Growlithe and Scyther, raced forward, the canine moving with great speed, and behind him the bug Pokemon's wings strained to move him quicker to catch up. Grolwithe's ear perked, turning as he heard the flying Pokemon catching him. With incredible agility growlithe shifted his weight and threw his paws to the side, turning his momentum and deftly evading a swipe of Scyther's blade.<br/><br/>The bug Pokemon grimaced to have missed and turned in the air to adjust his trajectory.<br/><br/>Eleyna barked, "It takes too long to turn in flight! Use the ground! Growlithes already gotten away!"<br/><br/>Scyther dropped, driving his feet into the ground and throwing grass and dirt into the air. As he slid instinct drew his arm downward, the blade cutting into the ground. He lunged forward, using his arm, legs, and wings as one to propel him back to speed.<br/><br/>"Good!" Eleyna yelled and nodded.<br/><br/>Growlithe watched Scyther pivot, and drew a sharp breath as he heard a sudden movement at his flank. He dove and rolled, diving through the air and across the ground as tentacles launched through the air at him, grabbing.<br/><br/>"Not good enough!" Eleyna yelled at Tentacruel. "Don't grab for where he is! grab for where he's going to be! You can stop a fast Pokemon dead in its tracks if you can get a hold of it!"<br/><br/>Growlithe skidded to a halt, and grinned, his stance low as he squared off with Tentacruel, panting. Scythe rolled in the air, diving over Tentacruel and landing beside him and taking a battle stance.<br/><br/>Eleyna grinned.<br/><br/>The sun shone brightly upon the Yugen islands, the air brilliant and clear. All around the trainers the world was alive with activity. Their course had taken them south along the coast and now to their east great forested mountains loomed, and to their west, the long beaches and blue waters of Yugen. The narrow strip of grassland between the mountains and beach was their route, carved from wilderness. Great flocks of bird Pokemon flew from tree tops and far in the distant horizon they saw the eastern tip of the southern Yugen isle.<br/><br/>Eleyna beamed beneath her steely and determined grin for there was no where in all the world she would have rather been.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>