The route, in particular, was often filled with the scent of ash and it's one of the reasons Darius was in love with the smell. He often tried to emulate it at home as a child. He would light matches on fire and let the flames dwindle the stick down to dangerous proportions. The heat felt welcoming against his fingertips. He still did that for fun.

Lullaby shook his head at the other's memory. Darius deciding to take his three rare candies that he had hiding and chucked them over to the psychic type in quite the haste. As Lullaby's goal was to become an Alakazam, he caught each one deliberately and ate them slowly to show that he had more manners than his trainer did. with each bite, his levels continued to increase until it was at a point where he could feel the experience emitting from his body. "You're welcome, Lullaby! See !! And you thought I wouldn't be a good trainer." he half-teased, the Abra shaking his head until the vermillion blob landed onto his toes as the numel showed up with a stink face on ready to fight. "Oh boy. I'm sorry in advance for the pummeling he'll be receiving." The Abra warned his trainer as he lifted his left hand up into the air. The Numel tried his best and used a focus energy in waiting, mustering up all the courage and strength that he had within.

White energy began to build around the Abra's hand as it soon turned into snow and the psychic type teleported in with a haste, aimed his ice punch against the Numel and jumped backwards, seeing the Numel didn't take much damage. The fire turtle retaliated with a powerful ember, the harsh flames burning the teleportation pokemon's belly and taking some health from the pokemon.

"Just listen to me! Use Knock off!" His voice had a loud commanding boom against it, as Abra rolled his eyes at Darius' confidence. This time, obsidian orbs began to grow on both of the psychic-types hands as he teleported closer to use the attack, kick any items the other had on him and soon enough noticed that it was enough power to knock the numel out unconcious. 

an ivory light began to glow around the tiny abra, encircling the starter pokemon as his features began to move and build as the psychic type grew so swiftly into a Kadabra. Darius smiled a crooked smirk. "Told ya, it's those candies. Don't doubt me again, bruh. We're in this shit together." The pokemon's new limbs still felt uncomfortable to him, expanding his fingers a few times to try to get used to it all.

Lullaby felt his power grow immensely as the Kadabra decided to float into the air once again, psychic prowess glowing violet against the twisted spoon inside of his hand. "That was an easy enough battle." The faint voice of Abra as the two communicated telepathically seemed to grow even stronger. It still wasn't a booming presence in his mind for as if the faucet was turned just a little bit higher. "You're welcome, once again." Darius shot over a look. Lullaby wasn't afraid of Darius because of his attitude, it was moreso the gemini duality that brought him great concern. There was a calmness to his chaos, a flat line of sorts that seemed to propel him forward and these images of what he truly desires, Lullaby only hoped that it could be a sensible change with the least amount of ruckus in doing so. As he continued to grow, he would start to carve out a path and see if Darius could make those changes as well.

"Magmar, buddy!" His tone was sing-song as Darius took out his pokenav designed special from Team Virus to note where he spotted the flame body pokemon. "Barrier and Confusion, twist him to the ground." Concise and succinct. Lullaby may not have trusted Darius' vision but his strategy seemed to play into his favor last time. The antromorphic pokemon brought both hands up and began to lay in place the barrier increasing the Kadabra's defense against physical moves. 

The smokescreen that emitted from the Magmar's body escaped from its mouth but began to fill the route with the dark smoke but as it hit the barrier, it simply stopped and rose higher. "Move the smoke." 

Lullaby listened. Both hands rising up to his chest as the spoon twisted slightly to the left and a purple energy shot right through parting the smoke until Lullaby spotted a glimpse of scarlet of the wild mon. He then clutched his hands to force the Magmar onto the ground with his confusion attack, causing the wild pokemon to hit himself in the head due to confusion. The psychic type followed up a final confusion attack and watched as the Magmar's collapsed to the floor.

"And that's how it's done, keep it up Lullaby." That was the most celebration Darius would ever do, his eyes still scanning for the perfect second pokemon to add to his arsenal.

The route engulfed with the smell of sulfur and ash brought Darius to a place of euphoria. A strong inhale let the otherwise toxic fumes line his organs bringing such a wondrous memory into the team virus grunt's mind. a pyromaniac, an arsonist ready to set the world ablaze. it all felt right as he stood there, somehow his mind consistently bringing him back to this place until Lullaby used a confusion attack on his trainer to send him flying into the ground. "Not fucking cool." Crimson gaze shot a look over to the Kadabra who chuckled before sending a telepathic message. "Listen, the stronger I get, the more you're going to have to listen. Stop with those images. They stress me out." Kadabra simply shrugged, in his own mind deciding where the line of disrespect and respect intertwined. There was something about Darius that the psychic pokemon admired but it was shrouded in disgust and perhaps a little bit too much chaos for them to be at a good enough place yet.

That was, until the rambunctious ponyta slammed himself into Lullaby and used stomp. Apparently, some pokemon were very much into territory and the Kadabra seemed to be in his. "Decimate this pony." Darius's eyes bulged out of his head, the disrespect was too real for him not want to see Lullaby tear about the ponyta for horse meat. "Use Psychic." The Grunt gave his command as Lullaby floated himself up into the sky to gain some space from the other pokemon and used a psychic attack, letting all of the psychic energy sap away at the other's health and sending the beast onto the floor. 

A fire spin from the horse let a beautiful ember ride the psychic energy until it reached Lullaby and began to sap energy away from him slowly but with an intense heat. "Finish it off, Knock off." The spoon in Lullaby's hand turned black as the orb began to try, with a teleport over to the horse on the floor, the Kadabra struck with its dark energy right at the Ponyta's stomach excited when he heard the wild pokemon's final breath before fainting into unconsciousness.

Darius nodded, slowly winning over the Kadabra's trust as he continued to build the psychic beast up to become the demolition machine he had always wanted.