A thing exploded out of the grass, sending Adarsa falling on his butt, and Carnation sprawling onto his chest. There was... a thingie, pink and cream. Like a candy. It blinked at them.

"G- Get off!" Adarsa brushed the pokemon off his chest, and pointed at the candy thing. "Go on! Get it!"

Carnation shook his head, and then his whole self, and threw himself blindly at the audino.

The battle music was still going hard, and the battle absolutely was not. The pokemon were doing little more than gently tapping the candycane with his beak, and the candycane casting some sort of magic spell on him, which did not seem to be hurting him in the least. Adarsa sighed, and looked for a rock or fallen tree or something to sit on while he waited.

Adarsa woke up with a yelp as Carnation slammed into him, knocking him off the log he had fallen asleep on. "Hey- don't fight me!" He snapped. What was even going on? No one looked worse for wear. "Wh- Are you two even fighting at all?" He had no idea how long he'd been asleep- or what they'd been doing in the meantime! Fighting? Playing patty-cake? Who knew!

Adarsa stood, still a little sleepy, and pointed at the candycane. "Fight him!"

This time, Adarsa watched the battle closely. Carnation bit the candycane, and it lost five.... health... numbers... and then the candycane sprinkled something on Carnation. And Carnation was healed, the green color seeping over the edge of his health bar. By a lot now, actually. "Why is it... healing you?" Adarsa asked.

Carnation didn't answer, firstly because it would be pointless because Adarsa couldn't understand pokemon speech, and secondly because he was a bird. He pecked at the audino's toes, though.