Kaos Kaos



They weren't armed, at all. They didn't think they'd need it; perhaps their idea of those like him were of confused freaks that knew neither what they were, why they were, or what they should do about it.
Koe was neither. He wasn't one of the first cases, having only gained a tail on the thirteenth of December, 2004. Today was the second of February, 2006; cases were documented right up from April 2002. And to Koe, these people looked like they'd decided how they dealt with his kind.
"I tell you what. Enough horsing around. You can turn round and walk. Or you can be carted away in a casket, stiffer then frozen soil on Christmas Eve." This was the guy who's son Koe had supposedly 'threatened'. Koe, however, couldn't care less really. He'd just started thinking of something, and so he said nothing.
~I wonder why no-one came up with a name for us..~ the rai pondered. He'd never had to refer to it before, but usually if you were to meet people like this, you'd expect them to throw all sorts of derogatory names at you. Here, they just called them 'your kind'. Like they were different. Which they were.
"Answer me, you damned rat." The King of the Drink Beer gang was getting rather impatient. So, too, was whatever raichu part of Koe's mind was the one that liked a good fight. Koe, however, couldn't care less for it. So, he shrugged once, and then headed off left, towards a path that most likely led somewhere new.

However, the men really were interested in starting trouble. Now he'd gone and refused, they were more annoyed then they were in the first instance.. One of them went back to the truck, to get something..
~Wait it off for a while, and then I can go around. Either way, I'm getting into this city before nightfall.~ said he to himself. Looking at the sun, it was fairly low in the sky. And that's the last thing he noticed. He heard the whiz through the air, but his hearing not as it might otherwise be, he didn't have any sort of chance to move.
He examined his arm. Stuck in the side of it, barely piercing, was a yellow shafted dart, with a red plumage.
~Tranquiliser. Damnit.~

And that was that.


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When he woke up eventually, it was dark. Something rather weird had happened overnight, though. It seems that the sky and the ground became swapped with each other. Seeing a waning moon below him was not an everyday sight.
Until whatever controlled his balance kicked in, and told him that he was upside down.
~Well.. This is something most probably don't like to wake up to...~
He recognised the area. He had been tied to the low tree outside, probably by his legs. Looking up, a pair of light-adjusted eyes could see that indeed, some crudely tied cord was around his legs. And then, suddenly, pain ebbed down his back.. It felt like the skin had been dragged a way..
~You know, I bet they just tied the cord into a lasso, and dragged me on over here, rather then touch me..~ He sighed, out loud. And he just hung there, swaying ever so slightly, waiting for his sapped strength to slip back, so he could right himself, and set to untying his bindings.
However, he felt really tired at that point.. The tranquiliser probably knocked him cold for a good number of hours.. So he had a while to wait until morning. His body told him he should be asleep, and so his consciousness quickly faded, as he slipped into an induced sleep once more..

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It was morning when Koe woke. He was still tired, feeling like he could throw up any second.. He'd ben upside down now for almost half a day. And he just sat there, and swung, while he awoke properly.. But he ended up swinging so much, that something gave up above him, and all of a sudden, the ground was much closer then it had been a second ago.
"Owch...." Koe shrugged, righting himself to proper stance.. Today obviously was not his day, and his tail agreed with him.. curving in the semilight of early morn like a writhing snake..
Something else caught his senses.. A smell on the air.. Of burning? He turned an arc, but it didn't take him too long before he caught sight of the sity that, half a day hence, he had looked at, and wondered if it would welcome him.

While he wasn't any sort of expert on matters like this, what was smouldering of the city told him those fires had been raging for several hours. He wasn't quite within it.. but all he could see of it was blackened buildings, the odd lick of flames peeping from within a broken window.. And the smoke, that was settling in the air in the manner of a dense fog..
~Guess I'm not staying here for tonight then..~ And he continued his arc around, looking for some other way he could travel..
The endless grasses of the Kanto plain were not things he liked a whole lot.. A couple of large paths were all he had; one which he had come from, and one which went off left. He had started to take this left one, yesterday. There was a third, but Koe didn't feel like traversing the city ablaze..

Something caught his eye. Something white, against the bark of that very tree he'd been hanging from.. With curiosity, he ventured up to it.. and seeing something was etched onto it, he pulled it from its mooring. Before reading, he eyed it. A sharp, yellow, needle.
"Well, I didn't see this when I was awake last.. So, it's probably meant for me.." he reassured himself, before reading.

--To the raichu that was hanging from this tree
(~Yep, definitely for me..~ thought he. On he read..);
The wreckage you see of that city, where they would stand by and see someone be hung up in that manner, sits in flames as this is written. Sorry, but that knot was an annoying one; I think we loosened it a bit, and we didn't want to go too much in case we ended up causing a fall.
Until we meet again..
-kaos

"Kaos.." Koe said, out loud.. "Fitting.. perhaps.." His travels around the plains brought with them the rumours of there being numbers of his kind.. that went around, keeping alive, and opposing any bigotism with strong action. "But.. For my sake..? That's wrong.."

Of course, he remembered then, that while travelling yesterday, he'd left his holdall, his supplies, in a bush somewhere, along a line of them that cornered one end of the large area. Why had he done that again..?
~Because I thought I was being tracked.. They were probably just going the same way I were.. and so I stashed it away..~ Koe thought to himself a while.. and then headed off, back the way he'd come. He needed that holdall.

A while later, and he found it, in the bush where he'd left it. It was a simple black holdall, designed for carrying over one shoulder; it was brown on the inside, and the attachments of the strap to the bag itself were yellow circles, with raichu-ear shaped drapings coming from those. It hadn't been touched, it still contained what it had last time. The contents were simple; five bottles of water, fourteen one-day rations, a map of Kanto, and a compass.

And, tucked away to the left, a red ball, with several turns of black tape around it, keeping it shut. Koe shuddered involuntarily. He then slung the bag over his shoulder, and headed along the line of bushes, going left when it's corner came. He avoided getting back up close to the city then, which he could still see, emitting smoke every so often..

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The rai followed the path along. A large, wooden post sat at the side of the road, and as he got up to it, he looked at the name. Over the original post, there had been nailed another, lighter, board. And on that was etched; 'Selenia City'.

A quick check by Koe, of his map. He had originally been heading through Celadon, but he couldn't do that any more.. Selenia was a new city, sided off along the route. Koe estimated he could make it there in around a couple of hours.

"No time like the present.." is all he said, as he placed the map back to his holdall, swung the bag back to his shoulder, and continued on.


A pair of eyes, skittering across the grasslands, keeping out of sight. It had come across the rai hanging from a tree, and decided to see what it was up to. After watching it go around in circles for a while, he saw some paper be produced, and then he headed off.

A city meant -people-. But it didn't want that just yet. Still, it followed on, just out of curiosity.


Or maybe because it had nothing else to do.


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