It was a difficult hike for Naomi, even though she'd come out fairly well. The bruises she'd gotten two days before and the bumps and scrapes she'd gotten in the night were making themselves known that morning.<br/>The restless, uncomfortable sleep she'd had on uneven ground did not help matters at all.<br/><br/>Still, they needed to stick together and get to Utsumi, so she set out with the others. And she was curious to know what happened up there, what had caused the.. war.. in the night.<br/><br/><span style="color: #6495ED">"'He doesn't want to keep going because I think he smells something unpleasant up there."</span><br/><br/>Knowing there would be casualties above was not the same as actually seeing them, seeing the dead bodies strewn around, discarded and fallen like the trees. It was the sight of the ATV, crushed and crumpled like a wadded up piece of tin foil, and the humans...<br/>The trainers. The ones with so many badges between them, indicating years of experience in pokemon battles. The smell was.. horrible. She tried to suppress the urge to retch. And all the pokemon... were the companions. None of the bodies seemed to belong to any of the local field ones.<br/><br/>Could it have been an argument? A fight between trainers to establish which one was 'supreme,' unrestrained by the League's rules? Or had it been an attack by something even greater?<br/>There were no words. Silence was the answer to her questions. There was no way to take in the enormity of the scene. So many dead, giant corpses laying like pebbles thrown by an angry god.<br/><br/>Eleyna's scream and fall drew Naomi's attention instantly. She ran over to see what was the matter, 'Tai in nervous, wary tow, and saw a hand under the Charizard. A human hand, fingers moving, covered in blood.<br/><br/><span style="color: #6495ED">"Tai. Wrap and roll the Charizard's body that way. Let's get him out from under there."</span>She directed the Dratini, hoping that her companion was strong enough to manage without getting the man behind the dead Charizard hurt any further. She didn't know what else she could do. And even if they got him free, she wasn't sure she could actually do anything for him. Though if he was alive this long after, he probably hadn't been fatally injured. Probably.<br/><br/>She looked to the others, wordlessly asking for their aid.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>