What kind of Pokèmon are you? (Corax)

[Usagi-Zakura]

"Wow this place is great! Isn't it Niko?"
"Totodile!"
The young girl sat down and petted the smiling Totodile on his head.
"We might even come across some rare Pokèmon we would never see in Jotho! Not that there's anything wrong with the common Jotho-Pokèmon" the girl said, and grinned up at the Rattata sitting on her white hat, who almost looked offended.

It wasn't an impressing party she had.
It consisted of a shiny Totodile, a Rattata and an egg, not even its previous owners could identify.
But they were her friends. Niko had been there from the very beginning, and Tatta came along not long after. Earning HER trust wasn't quite as easy as it had been with the starter, but they came to an understanding. Tatta was happiest on her trainer's head. Up there she had a nice view of everything around her, and if her trainer didn't look where she was going the rat was soon to remind her.

"Alright guys, lets go exploring!" the girl said. She stood up, straightened her hat (trying not to make the rat fall of) and ran into the forest, Niko the Totodile following at her heels.

[OmniMaster]

Meanwhile, some distance away from the female trainer and her pokemon, an oddly-coloured Sneasel was sitting in the branch of an apple tree. This Sneasel was, of course, Corax. He sat on the branch with both 'hands' behind his head and one leg hanging off the side. His ear twitched when he heard someone say something about exploring, which was followed by running. He lazily looked around to seem a trainer running into the forest. Realising that most of the trees in this forest was growing fruit, he smirked. Time for some mischeif. Corax jumped from tree to tree, until he found one that was in the path of the female. He then waited, until...

"Heads up!"

Seconds before he yelled out, he jumped up and cut the stem linking an apple to the tree, in order to make it fall. He tried to make sure that he cut it when the female was vulnerable to it falling on her head. Heck, it wouldn't be fun for her, but it'd be fun for Corax.

[Usagi-Zakura]

"Heads up!"

Usagi heard the cry, but didn't really see where it came from, not before something hit her on the head...or more precisely Tatta's head.
"Rrrattata!" the rat screamed, and jumped of her trainer's head and faced the pokèmon facing them.

"A Sneasel!" Usagi said. She recognized it from one of the books she had read in the library, while waiting to get her first Pokèmon. "But... I've never seen one of that color before... maybe its a shiny! Like you!" she added with a look to Niko.

Tatta however wasn't paying much attention to what her trainer said.
All she cared about was that the Sneasel had just thrown an apple at her! Without even the slightest order from Usagi, Tatta charged at Corax, in an attempt to use Quick Attack.

"Whoa! Tatta! I didn't say attack!" Usagi said quickly. "But since you've already started... How about we try to catch this guy huh?" she said to the Totodile next to her.
Totodile jumped up and down excitedly, as Usagi pulled out a Pokeball and proceeded to toss it towards the wild Sneasel.

[OmniMaster]

Corax pointed down and laughed at Tatta, who had been hit by the apple that was intended to hit the female. However, what he didn't expect was the Rattata to hit him with a Quick Attack. It happened so quickly that it caused him to fall out of the tree and land on his back on the ground.

"Oof!"

Corax jumped to his feet, only to have a Pokeball bump into him and absorb him. Inside the Pokeball, his temper flared. There was no way he was going to be captured that easily! The Pokeball reopened, and from the resulting flash Corax emerged. With a smug smirk, he spoke out to the trainer.

"You're going to have to try better than THAT to get me."

Corax stood still, preparing himself for the following battle. His plan was to use Agility and get behind the Pokemon the trainer decided to use, which would be followed up by Fury Swipes. For now though, he waited.

[Usagi-Zakura]

As the pokeball hit its target, a low "yes!" escaped Usagi's lips, but she was soon reminded not to celebrate too soon as the Pokèball reopened.
Tatta's attack HAD succeed in knocking the Sneasel out of the tree, but neither the attack nor the following landing had weakened it enough for capture.

"You're going to have to try better than THAT to get me."

Now both Usagi and Niko's eyes widened.
"Y-you can talk? How?" she said in surprise. Never had she ever seen (or read about) a Pokèmon that could talk, at least not as good as this one. She knew some bird Pokèmon could mimic human speak, but those books never mentioned a word about Sneasels.
Then again they didn't mention that they could be white either.

"Rattata!" Tatta cried, trying to remind her trainer she was still fighting here. Usagi looked from Corax to the rat in time to see her get ready to do another Quick Attack.
"Tatta wait! Try Hyper Fang instead Usagi said.
Tatta looked up, almost surprised that Usagi was finally paying attention, but then smiled and nodded. She had only recently learned Hyper Fang, and had a tendency to forget about it.

She opened her teeth and readied herself to charge when... Sneasel was gone! Where...?
"Look out!"
A sharp pain in the back and she knew he must have gotten behind her by using agility. She jumped in surprise, and thus prevented another hit.

Damn he's fast Tatta thought to herself.
Behind Corax she saw that Niko was jumping up and down waving a pair of leaves like pompoms... as if he didn't look ridiculous enough already as he was just jumping previously.
Don't give up!" Usagi shouted. "Just... try again!"
Tatta charged again, her big rodent-teeth bared, determined to make a hit. If she didn't, she would try again.
No one was ever going to say that Tatta was a Pokèmon who gave up easily.

[OmniMaster]

Corax smirked slightly when he hit Tatta the first time, but that smirk shrunk when she avoided the next swipe. Corax bared his fangs as the Rattata charged him again. However, he allowed himself to get hit. He winced as the rat's teeth bit into him.

"Grr..."

Now he took his chance. As Tatta pulled away from her Hyper Fang attack, Corax lunged at her with his Bite attack. It was a tactical decision from Corax. Sure, he would take damage, but a few Oran berries later would fix that up. The important thing is he had positioned himself for an upfront attack from himself. If the attack hit or missed, he would jump back and grin in a taunting manor and raise a hand, waving it towards him in a 'bring it on' manor. Taunt. It was a move that truly suited Corax's personality.

[Usagi-Zakura]

Strike one Tatta thought excitedly as her fangs touched the Sneasel.
But just as she was about to attack again, Corax bit her! He BIT her.
Tatta despised being bitten, it reminded her too much of Niko's annoying habit of putting those giant teeth of his into anything.
On top of that, the moment he let go he started taunting her.
That's it! Now you're really pissing me of! she thought.

"He seems pretty strong Tatta, try a tail whip to lower his defenses" Usagi said.
Tail whip? Tail whip??
This was no time for a defensive move, so instead she started running for yet another quick attack.
This guy was going down. So what if he was way higher level than her?

[OmniMaster]

Corax grinned at Tatta. His taunt had worked. He had got Tatta to the point where she was ignoring her trainer's orders. That was his plan all along in this battle. Pokemon, in general, were not good at making decisions for themselves. Which is why he stood directly in front of a tree. When Tatta was close enough, Corax used Agility to flip over Tatta as she used quick attack. She was likely to slam into the tree, but even if she didn't, it didn't matter.

"Better calm her down, or she'll end up making HERSELF faint."

Corax crossed his arms and watched the Rattata, trying to predict what move she would use next. He was almost certain she was going to use another Quick Attack, so he used Agility to jump up into a tree and waited. He was formulating yet another plan.

[Usagi-Zakura]

Tatta could see the enemy in front of her, he just stood there! What an idiot!
She moved in for an attack and.... crashed right into a tree.
Usagi groaned. Tatta really had to do something about that temper of hers.

"Better calm her down, or she'll end up making HERSELF faint."

He was right. As strange as it was, the talking oddly colored wild Pokèmon was completely right.
Just as both of them expected (Niko was apparently too busy cheering to even notice that Tatta had crashed) Tatta turned around to charge at Corax once more. She wasn't as quick anymore, obviously being hit by two attacks and crashing head first into a tree was starting to affect her.

"That's enough Tatta! Return!" Usagi shouted, she took out Tatta's Pokèball and recalled her. The ball was still shaking violently as she put it back on her belt. "Stop complaining, you're only going to get yourself injured." she muttered to the rat.
This Pokèmon was strong, not to mention clever.

"Okay I give up" Usagi said, and held out a hand to keep Niko from trying to attack.
"But still... Would you mind telling me how you learned to talk? Are you a shiny?"
Not that she expected that to be the reason for him to talk, Niko was shiny, and all he ever said was Totodile.

[OmniMaster]

Corax jumped down from the tree when Usagi returned Tatta. He leaned against the same tree he just jumped out of. And then Usagi asked him how he learned to talk, and if he was a shiny. He looked at her, and decided to actually tell her.

"I know how to talk because scientists taught me how to for bragging rights. The same scientists also captured me because of my colouring. I have a rare gene mutation, which causes Pokemon to be what is called an 'Inverted' Pokemon."

Corax remained leaning against the tree, in case Usagi wanted to ask anything else. He wasn't actually sure why he remained, maybe because she deserved to know anything that she asked him. Mainly because he tried to drop an apple on her head.

[Usagi-Zakura]

"Wow that's pretty amazing" Usagi said.
"To-to dile?" Niko said, in pokèmon-talk he was wondering if it was hard.
"Can you speak to other Pokèmon too then? Or only other Sneasels?" Usagi asked. She considered herself to have a good connection to Niko and Tatta (well not so much Tatta all the time) but she often found herself wondering what they were saying when they were "talking" among themselves.
"And what happened to the scientists? Did they let you go?"

[OmniMaster]

"I can talk to anything. Other pokemon, other Sneasels, you name it."

Corax looked at Usagi when she asked what happened to the scientists. He sighed and then spoke again.

"They didn't let me go. I escaped. They took me to this scientific gathering, and showed me off to a room full of other scientists. Being angry, I told them to bite me and ran away. I think they're still searching for me, I don't know. But I avoid cities, in case they're there."

Corax moved away from the tree, but stayed in the area. Maybe this Usagi person wasn't so bad after all.

[Usagi-Zakura]

Usagi couldn't help but giggle slightly.
Now that she thought about it, it didn't sound that fun to be used as a research-project.

"Well if I see any researchers I'll make sure not to tell them where you are" she said with a wink. "I better get Tatta to a Pokèmon center. Maybe we'll met again some day."

[OmniMaster]

Corax nodded when Usagi said that she had to get Tatta to a Pokemon centre. She may seem not as bad as other humans, he still wasn't ready to allow himself to get caught. Corax stretched his arms and yawned.

"Maybe we will."

With that, Corax jumped into the tree and started jumping from tree branch to tree branch. That was enough to entertain him for a bit, but now he had to find a new source of entertainment.