~Destino Reale~ (It STARTS! LSUs Welcome!)

[Gladiator]

Primal (POV) & Snap
Outside Oak's lab
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With the crowd thinning out a little, Snap finally decided to stop his hand stand and walk inside. This was good, because he could have done that for hours and I was starting to feel really ill. With a queasy feeling in my stomach, I let go of his jacket and proceeded to follow.

When we finally entered, I decided to listen in to the conversation between Oak and the person in front of him. She was slightly shorter than Agamemnon, but a year older than him.* She seemed indifferent to whatever Oak was saying to her, though not in the way that Agamemnon can be indifferent. She was a lot more quiet.

My focus then shifted to the Nidoran that was standing next to her.

"Hey," I said, "Have you always been with her?"

The Nidoran nodded in response.

"So," I continued, "Has Oak summon you here, too?" Another nod.

"Huh," I said, surprised, "I wonder why he's called so many people?"

A stupid notion came to me that made me chuckle, "Perhaps, he wants us to avert the apocalypse." I did not know why I thought that was funny. It just seemed to stupid for it to be the case.

"So," I said, "Can I get your name? I'm Primal."

"I'm Novella," he responded. I then proceeded to shake his paw.

Eventually, Oak was done with Novella's trainer, and so I wished him luck before returning to Snap.

"Hey, Agamemnon," Oak greeted us with a smile, "I trust you'll be using Primal?"

"Yeah," Snap responded, "It would be a pain to teach someone else how to communicate with me."

"Alright," he said, "Then I'll just register you two and hand you your Pokeballs."

Snap busted out laughing, while I groaned in response.

"Anyway," Oak interrupted, "I'll just get you registered then."

[Samchu]

Kevin
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She really hates me...I can see it, the way she looks at me, the way she is around me. She hates me... I sighed, stroking shadow's fur softly. She seemed to sense me thoughts and licked my nose gently. I smiled at her lovingly and continued walking, with Asher following on Fray. We were completely silent. I knew what Asher thought of me, she had often mentioned it during our little spats. How she thought I was so demanding, how I felt I had to cover for her, how I expected things from her. I expected nothing from her, I just wanted her to open up a bit. She had a nice side - I had seen it. I just wished to see it more often.

I looked back occassionally, each time seeing the same loathing expression that would break my heart. I had feelings for her - I would be lying if I said I didn't - and that she hated me so much...it hurt more than I wanted to admit.
Truth was, that seeing her hating me right now was angering me more than upsetting me. We'd had a fight before she'd gone off to her meeting and I was still reeling from it. She'd accused me of not letting her be, which I had taken huge offence to as I respected her greatly and felt that she was the one who was lying to herself.
So in retalliation, I ignored her for the journey. Let her be alone with herself. I don't care. Problem was of course, I did care. I could only conclude that that is why she hated me so.

"You know Shadow..." I whispered quietly to my pokemon, "I think you got the better end of this bargain."

[SWAMPERT1]

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee - Magikarp
Location: Viridian City Pokemon Center
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“Here are your pokemon Lee.” The red headed nurse said to me as she gave back my pokemon.

“Thank You” I replied back to here.

During the short walk through the route connecting Pallet Town and Viridian City, I had put Eevee and Magikarp through a series of battles involving Pidgey and Rattatas. Eevee handled the battles well but Magikarp… lets just say it has come a way since its battle with Eevee but it was still in need of lots of training. Anyways, I grabbed the two pokeballs (I decided to keep Eevee in the pokeball for its safety), and walked out of the Pokemon Center.

It was a beautiful day outside; the sun was shining and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I decided to head north to Viridian Forest which would lead me to Pewter City and my first badge. So I walked to a nearby path and headed to the forest. On the way there I came across and old man who asked if I needed to know how to catch a pokemon. I said, “No Thank You” and moved on.

I had been hiking for a good hour or so when I got to a big building infront of the forest. I walked in and saw some people but non of them looked like trainers so I didn’t bother having a conversation with any of them, instead I just said, “Hi” If they looked at me.

I exited the building from a back door and was right in the forest. The trees were thick and lush green with life. Light streams shown through the leaves and they were warm when they hit your face. I looked around and saw that this place was packed with wild pokemon. None that I REALLY wanted but there was some cool looking pokemon like Caterpies, Weedles and some other bugs plus a Pikachu or two.

I spent the first 10 minutes or so getting pokedex entrys on all the pokemon I could see and once I thought there wasn’t anymore, I headed deeper into the forest.

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Between Viridian and Viridian Forest

I watched Dimitri walk in circles around the tall grass. I crouched low to the ground and held my breath. What is he doing? Suddenly Dimitri charged into the patch of grass, growling. I squeaked in surprise as a Rattata ran out of the grass and stopped in front of me. "Oh. You were flushing out a Pokemon."

The Rattata looked at Dimitri with a fearful look in its eyes. "Rat!" it screamed as it ran away. But Dimitri was not going to let it go. He ran after it, past it, and stopped right in front of it. He sprinted forward and crashed into Rattata. Rattata sailed through the skies and crashed in front of me.

"Wow. Nice Tackle attack," I said in awe.

But Dimitri wasn't done. He slammed himself into the Rattata repeatedly, each time cutting off his means of escape. Soon the Rattata was knocked out. "Bulba! Saur!" he yelled in triumph.

"Wow, Dimitri! You've done this before, haven't you?" I asked. He nodded. "That was cool, but I wish you wouldn't have KO'ed him. We need other Pokemon for our first gym battle and we can't do that with you knocking out every Pokemon that catches your eye. Now what can I catch around here?"

Dimitri once again charged into the grass. This time a Pidgey flew out in confusion. By looking at her beautiful plumage, I could tell that she was strong and healthy. Dimitri emerged but didn't bother with chasing him. He grunted until something tiny popped out of his bulb. "Huh? You already know Leech Seed?" I asked him.

Dimitri nodded again and released the seed. It landed in the Pidgey's feathers. The seed opened and vines poured out, binding the Pidgey. She, having her wings pinned to her side, crashed to the ground. The vines started to zap her strength. She eventually lay still, close to defeated. Dimitri turned to me and smiled. "Saur Saur!" he told me.

"Do you want me to capture him? Okay!" I pulled out a pokeball and threw it at Pidgey. The Pidgey lay still as the pokeball struck her and pulled her inside. The three shakes came, followed by the "ding". "Yes! I finally got a flying Pokemon!" I went to Chase. "Sorry for keeping you. Let's continue."

[Crystal Tears]

Chase

Ryu shook his head doubtfully at Emi, I lightly nudged him, as we continued forward. Emi now admiring her pokeballs and sometimes mentioning stuff of her pokemon. But I wasn't really listening.
Its how things went, when she started on her usually ranting on something, I kind of stopped listening, I caught important bits, and such, but nothing else. My mind was racing over everything.
"Lithe!"
I looked up, Ryu standing perfectly still. furr on his back rising up, teeth barred, Emi and I stopped.
"Nido!"
I blinked, as a pink creature bounded out of the long grass. A small horn on its forehead, and big emerald green eyes. I smirked.
"Nidoran Male.." I muttered to myself. "Ryu! Ember!" Ryu reacted immediately, as 4 small fire balls erupted from his mouth, colliding into the left side of the Nidoran. It squealed, and charged at Ryu.
"Ryu! Tackle!"
The charged at one another, but I quickly realised the dangers at charging head on at a Nidoran. "Ryu! Change of Plans! Ember!"
Ryu yelped, as he skitted to a complete stop, paws dug into the ground, and just at the last moment, 4 small fire balls erutped from his mouth again, slamming into the charging Nidoran.
I mindlessly grabbed a pokeball, and before realising exactly what I was doing, it tossed it, as it lightly tapped on the nidorans horn, and captured the pokemon inside it.
'Ding'
"Chase you caught it!"
"Growlithe!"
I could only smirk as Ryu brought me back the pokeball.
"thanks, and good job Ryu."

[PancaKe]

Lexis
Outside the Lab's again


Dragging my feet along the ground, Novella and I decided to head out of Pallet. I wasn't so full of energy, my lethargy catching up with me, but I figured that at least in Viridian we could grab some food. Viridian wasnt that far away to walk to, from what I'd heard.

However, Novella had other ideas. At first it seemed like he wanted to go and get something to eat from the Pallet shops. No problems with that, I would still be getting my youth allowence from the government, I could afford food.

We headed off towards the shops. I continued walking, listening to my ipod. Looking beside my feet, I noticed that Novella wasn't walking alongside me anymore. He hadn't run ahead either.

Turning around, I caught him in full conversation with some other guys pokemon. Goodness knows what they were talking about, but Novella seemed to be yacking away, more than he had been while we were seeing Oak. That was probably because he had been awake for more than five minutes now.

I walked back over, taking out my headphones.

The other guy looked up from watching Novella yack. "Hi, are you the Nidoran's trainer?"

"Yeah, I'm Novella's trainer," I shrugged. I tried to size up the guy, he was taller than me and he was tanned. His hair looked pretty okay for a guy. I'd seen worse.

"Hi, I'm Snap," he smiled, holding out his hand.

"I'm Lexis," I replied, shaking hands with him.

"Are you heading off to Viridan and Pewter today?" Snap asked.

"I was going to go get food," I shrugged. "Novella's hungry apparently."

"That's a good idea, I was getting pretty hungry myself," Snap agreed. "Mind if I tag along?"

I shrugged. "I don't care, you can come if you want," I smiled a small smile. "Besides, it looks as though our pets are getting to be good friends."

Snap looked down at them and grinned.

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine
Party: Pidgey
Viridian City; Pokecenter
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"We hope to see you again," chirped the nurse from behind the counter, handing Siderous back his Pokeball. He made his way out the door, and up town towards Viridian Forest. On his right, after declining an offer to learn how to catch Pokemon, he spotted a rather large gym. Curious, Sid decided to walk over and check it out.

The sliding glass doors loomed in front of him as he looked around. Some guy was out front, watching him. The man mumbled into his sleeve, then told Siderous, "This gym is always closed. I wonder where the leader could be?" Just then, the man held his sleeve to his face again. There was more mumbling. The man whispered, "Are you sure?" After a moment, he turned to Siderous again and said, "All right. You can go." Confused, Siderous opened his mouth to protest, but just then the doors slid open. Sid made his way into the darkness.

The quiet was starting to get annoying. "Come on out, Pidgey," he whispered. He felt the Pokeball open up in his hand, and there was the familiar beam sound, but he couldn't see Pidgey.
"Do you see anything?"
"Pidge." (That was no.)
"Okay. Well, stay close." Siderous found Pidgey on the floor, and placed her on his shoulder.
A small, whiny voice spoke up from the nothingness. "Welcome, Siderous."
Siderous froze. He could feel Pidgey's talons dig deeper into his collarbone. "Who are you? What do you want?"
"We's been watchin' yous for some time now." Suddenly, Sid spotted a glint in the dark; it was a Meowth, who had just lit a match. It was holding a candle, and was now lighting it.
"Was that...?"
"Yeah, I'm one a those talkin' Pokemon," droned the Meowth, finally lighting the wick of the candle. "But enough about me. I'm here to offer you a job."
"A job?" Sid wondered what kind of job a cat Pokemon could offer him. He could feel Pidgey tensing up; just like Pidgey, Siderous hated cats.
"Oh, it's nothing much... in fact, I tink you got it betta than da rest of us."
Siderous was beginning to lose his patience. "Just tell me what you want so I can go."

Meowth smiled, and flicked one of his nails. The lights flickered, and finally turned on. The lights were dim, but the room was still visible. Just like Oak Labs, the walls were lined with Pokeballs.
"Remember those hunters?" Meowth began, dropping his voice a bit. "The ones dat killed dat dere Pidgey's mommy and poppy?" Pidgey hooted quietly, and Sid's face turned red.
"How could I forget?"
"Well, those two are still out dere. dey're trainers, you see. Trainers dat started off just like you started today."
Siderous suddenly found himself shouting. "Shut up! If you're suggesting that I'm going to become someone like that..."
"No, no, I'm not sayin' dat. I'm askin' if you still wanna go in the path of that lame-o Professor Oak."
"Not if he's the one that started it," spat Siderous through clenched teeth.
"Good, dat's good," said Meowth maliciously. "I've got just the kind of friends who would love to meet you." From the shadows emerged some people. One very tall, very strong looking man came forward and said. "Join us, Siderous. We'll supply you with everything you need. We'll be your friends. Your family. Together, we will take down Professor Oak, and his little band of crusaders he's put together."
Siderous was speechless. This was his dream; to get back at the human race for what they'd done to him and his best and only friend, Pidgey. He looked up at Pidgey, and Pidgey looked back.
"Well, Pidgey?"
Pidgey hooted. Siderous smiled. The tall man and Siderous exchanged handshakes. "Welcome to Team Rocket," the man said.

[SWAMPERT1]

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee – Magikarp
Location: Viridian Forest
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“Ah, when am I going to get out of these stupid woods?” I moaned to myself.

All day I had been following the same path and getting aggravated. I had just been following the same path all day that seemed to be going in a zigzag pattern. There were no trainers in site so once again, I had spent the day training with pokemon to fairly weak to quite strong. I decided to stop training though because both of my pokemon were fairly weak and I wanted to be able to take on a trainer if I met one.

My stomach growled and I checked my watch, 12:00PM.

“Come out guys, time to eat!” I said while opening my two pokeballs. After the light faded I saw my two pokemon jumping (or flopping in Magikarp case) in front of me. I reached into my bag and grabbed some pokemon food. I opened the lid and put some food onto a paper plate and let Eevee and Magikarp eat. They were chowin down when I herd a person call for me, “Hay you with the fuzz ball and the stupid fish!”

I turned around and said, “Say that again smart ass.”

“Whatever lets battle” He replied with cockiness.

I looked down at my pokemon and asked if they were fully charged for a battle. Both of them seemed ready and we began the battle.

The trainer released his one and only pokemon, “GO... BEEDRILL!”

I was shock that he had a Beedrill but I was not undetermined, “Alright Magikarp, your up first!”

[VirtualPlay]

Michelle Randeth
Squirtle (Aqua - F)
On the boat from Cinnabar to Pallet
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"Wow, it's so tiny now…" I said to Aidan, looking back at Cinnabar, looking back at my whole life, now just a small dot on the horizon.

"I know, and look at how much larger the mainland is," Aidan replied. I looked; yes, it really did seem to stretch on forever like others had told me. We were close enough now to see the port in detail. Within minutes we were docked and making our way off of the boat.

I looked at my map while Aidan looked at her own. "Hm, Professor Oak's lab is not that far, we should be able to get there within fifteen minutes or so." I looked back out at the ocean, at the speck that was Cinnabar. I had just left, and already I was feeling slightly homesick.

Aidan must have noticed, 'cause she said, "Hey, it's not like we're never going back. It's just kinda like an extended vacation."

"Yeah, I guess you're right," I said, smiling again. Besides, I should be happy I was called to do this. Being asked by Prof. Oak himself to do something really meant something in the world. I turned back to start walking towards the lab…

…and stopped as I watched Aqua and Drake (Aidan's Charmander) running around happily. I suppressed a giggle when I realized they were playing Tag. "They're cute, huh?" I said.

"Yeah, and they're also delaying us from getting to the lab," Aidan replied, smiling as well. After a couple minutes we managed to get the two of them settled and we continued walking towards the lab.

As we were getting there, there were a couple people leaving, and it was obvious then that we weren't the only ones chosen to go. We cautiously entered the lab. An assistant greeted us and sent us deeper into the lab.

"Welcome to my lab," we heard someone say as we opened the door. "And your names are?" We stood looking at a man who was definitely old chronologically, but had a sense about him of brimming energy and excitement. "Michelle Randeth and Aidan Stafford?" He repeated our names after we had given them. "Yes, I have your things right here. I see you don't need me to give you a Pokémon either, but I do need to give you these."

We found ourselves each holding a red flip-top computer he called a PokéDex as well as five PokéBalls each. Then he did something with Aqua and Drake; he said he was registering them since they didn't have PokéBalls or something.

"Alright, you two are set to go," he said finally. "I suggest heading towards Pewter City since you're looking for badges; it's the city with an open gym that's closest from here. If you have any questions, you have the lab number."

We said our goodbyes, then headed out. I could see other trainers and Pokémon both having fun and having…well, some fights. It wasn't until Aidan and I were outside and stopped on a bench when I thought on what he had said. "Wait, 'open' gym?" I said suddenly. "Gyms close? I thought they were always open…"

"Maybe there's no Gym Leader," Aidan suggested. "Or maybe they're sick or something and can't battle,"

"I guess," I said, but it still confused me. I took out my map and saw that Viridian City was next in the path towards Pewter City. "Well, it looks like if we take Route 1 north, it's a fairly straightforward path to Viridian City. But the only way from there to Pewter is through the Viridian Forest."

"I don't think we'll have too much trouble in the forest," Aidan said, giving Drake a small pat.
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[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Viridian Forest

"Dimitri, you should really take it easy. It looked like that last Weedle poisoned you!" I pleaded.

Dimitri shook his head furiously. "Bulbasaur saur!" he yelled at me.

"I don't think he wants to quit," Chase said while he leaned against a tree.

I looked nervously at Chase and then at Dimitri. The poor Bulbasaur was sweating up a storm, yet he was still chasing Pokemon. I pulled out his pokeball and tried to return him, but he jumped out of the way of the red beam. "Dimitri, return," I commanded. I tried again but he dodged again. I sighed heavily. "Dimitri..."

Then out of nowhere raced a Caterpie. He plowed right into Dimitri and knocked him out. I gasped as Dimitri rolled and stopped on his back, his eyes closed. The Caterpie laughed as he started to glow. A light bulb flicked on in my mind. "I get it! He was waiting for Dimitri to tire himself out so he could take him out easily and evolve!" I said.

I watched as the Caterpie hardened into a Metapod. I smiled wickedly. "You'll make a great Butterfree. Go, Feather!" I threw a pokeball, letting out my prize Pidgey. "Feather, Gust that Metapod!"

Feather flapped her wings at the bug and sent him flying. It slammed into a tree. I laughed and took out an empty pokeball. "You're mine." I threw it at him. The pokeball sucked the Metapod up and held him there, although Metapod tried its hardest to escape.

I picked up the pokeball and glanced over at Chase. He looked bored. I probably wasn't helping him with all of my talking. I walked up to him and Ryu. "Is something wrong?" I asked him.

[Mystic_clown]

Seth Maverick
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“So he wants me to be a trainer huh?” Seth said to noone as he stared at the pokedex in his hands, “Sounds like fun. But if it isn’t, I could always go back to crime.” Seth was surprised at first when Oak told him he wanted him to be a trainer. Since the guy didn’t have anything worth stealing in his lab, the dark skinned theif thought he’d go along with it. He looked down at Clyde, who was walking alongside him.
“You up for some adventure partner?” he asked.
“Mankey!” the pokemon replied, nodding. Seth grinned and put the pokedex in his pocket. He then put his bag on the ground and pulled out the two halves of his pool que. Connecting the two, Seth pointed the que in some random direction.
“Then let’s go my friend!” He announced, pretending to be a knight that was leading a charge into battle.
“Mankey mank!” Clyde laughed, making a pose. But before the two could take a step, the duo heard sounds of commotion coming from nearby.
"Whyat's happening over there?" Seth asked. Clyde gave his trainer a 'how-should-I-know?' shrug.
"Well then, let's go see." The two made their way through the trees till they found the source of the sound. The action had stopped, but the two could see two trainers, a boy and girl, as well as a Bulbasaur and a Growlithe. The two didn't seem to notice them, and since Seth wasn't one to hide in the shadows for long, decided to make his presence known.
"Well well," Seth said, cooly, walking out into the open, "What have we here?" The four looked at his direction, the boy giving him a suspicious look.
"Who are you?" the boy asked. Seth just smiled as he toyed with his cue.
"Just a guy who wants to make it big in this world," he replied, twirling his pool cue like a batton before giving them a formal bow, "Seth Maverick, at your service."

Hope I'm not interrupting anything.

[Crystal Tears]

Chase
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Okay.. So first I'm bored, now I've got some wierdo guy doing tricks with a monkey on my back.. Great just great.
"Hi! I'm Emi!" Emi exclaimed, jumping forward, smiling and acting all the more... Emi-ish. This Seth seemed pleased atleast one of his spectators liked his preformance, then his gaze turned to me.
"I'm Chase." i said simply, Ryu sitting down by my side, who also was pleased with his preformance, I couldn't believe this. Was I the only one who saw him as an idiot? "And this is Ryu."
"Pleased to meet you." He said, inching slightly closer to Emi. I could feel rage boiling up inside me. "And who is this?" He asked, looking down at Dimitri, who was slowly recovering from his faulter.
"Thats Dimitri!" Emi blushed slightly returning there almost dead pokemon into its pokeball.
"This is Clyde." He said, pointing to the mankey beside him.
"Growl!" Ryu exclaimed happily.
My god... I thought, looking at the Seth character in front of us. Why me?

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Seth smiled. He loved it when people liked his performance, as long as they didn't know what hjis other pasttime was. The girl called Emi blushed slighty. She must be reacting to Seth's smile, since he had that effect on women. He then looked over at Chase. He couldn't help but shake the feeling that he didn't like him. Seth thought for a split second that he may have guessed what he was, but that feeling subsided quickly.
"So, what do you do?" Emi asked. Seth turned back to her, trying to ignore the glare he was getting from Chase.
"Me and Clyde are street performer," he said, "Right Clyde?"
"Mankey!" Clyde replied, performing a blackflip.

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Viridian Forest

Chase was about to open his mouth to say something when a Mankey came running up to us and doing tricks. I clapped my hands, being easily impressed. Chase, however, didn't look as impressed as I did.

A boy came up to us and stood by the Mankey. His white hair hid one of his alluring eyes. He was kind of cute, although not as cute as Chase. He spoke with a calm voice. "Well well, what have we here?" he said.

"Who are you?" Chase asked, not exactly looking pleased to see him.

"Just a guy who wants to make it big in this world," he replied while he twirled a pool cue and then bowed. "Seth Maverick, at your service."

I smiled, impressed by his little trick. I've seen him! He was at Pro. Oak's lab! "Hi! I'm Emi!" I said happily. What can I say? I like meeting new people!

"I'm Chase," Chase said. He looked down at Ryu, who looked as impressed as I did. "And this is Ryu."

"Pleased to meet you," Seth said. He took a step closer to me, smiling. I wasn't able to hide my blush. It must be that smile of his. Seth's eyes wandered down to Dimitri, who was slowly recovering from his defeat by the Caterpie/Metapod. "And who is this?"

I looked down at Dimitri. "That's Dimitri." I took advantage of the situation and returned him.

"This is Clyde," Seth said, pointing to the Mankey. Ryu barked a greeting.

I took a quick glance at Chase. He definitely didn't like Seth. "So, what do you do?" I asked Seth and Clyde.

"Clyde and I are street performers. Right, Clyde?"

"Mankey!" Clyde replied, doing a backflip.

I wasn't exactly buying that, but I decided to go along with it. "That's cool. Are you on your way to Pewter?"

"As a matter of fact, we are. Are you going the same way?"

I smiled. "Sure are! Would you like to travel with us? The more the merrier!"

Chase glared at me. "Emi..." he growled.

I pulled at his arm and dragged him behind a tree. I spoke in a voice to low for Seth to hear. "Come on, Chase! He'll basically be following us anyway!"

"But we don't know him! He could be a thief for all we know!"

"Don't you think I know that? Look, I'm not a total flake, Chase. But we keep our friends close and our enemies closer." I held his hands. "Please? It'll be just until we get to Pewter. Then we can ditch him if that"s what you want."

[Crystal Tears]

Chase

I sighed heavily before nodding, she smiled a sweet smile. I couldn't help be feel a bit better about letting this goof travel with us. At least we could dump him at Pewter, then no more problems.
We emerged from behind the street, to see Seth and his Mankey waiting patiently as they sat on a rock. I smirked, knowing he would be gone soon enough.
"You can travel with us." I said, the smirk disappearing before I grabbed his collar, I lowered my tone as Emi turned her back and was getting ready. "But if you so much as look in her Direction, you'll regret it." I snarled at him, before releasing him and turning back to Emi, who was ready.
"Lets go!" She exclaimed.
I sighed heavily before having to catch up to her, Ryu, Seth and his Mankey not far behind.

[Samchu]

Kevin
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Asher and I made it to Viridian without speaking a word to each other. It didn't seem to bother her at all and I didn't mind all that much. I came close on several occasions to asking her if she'd let me ride on Fray but it'd never happen. Not with the way she was right now at least. Maybe someday I could get her to trust me, to speak to me. Hopefully...

We stood outside the pokemart. Asher made a slight gesture which I assumed meant that she wanted to go inside and I gave a brief nod. "Okay then, I'll wait right here."

She left Fray waiting outside and I strolled over to a nearby patch of grass with a few overlying trees. Shadow was playing about in the grass when suddenly she disappeared. She ran out seconds later with a Pidgey biting at her tail.
"You up for our first battle Shadow?" I asked.
"Eevee!"
"Alright then! Let's do this."
Shadow squared off against the wild Pidgey. They stared each other down, Shadow eargerly anticipating my call. "Tackle!"

Shadow charged forward. The Pidgey used its ability to fly to avoid Shadow's attack but she was relentless and eventually managed to knock the Pidgey out of the sky.
"Quickly! Use tackle again!"
Shadow charged again, knocking the Pidgey back into the tree. It seemed more dazed than anything but I took the pokeball out anyway. There was always a chance that the attack had fazed it long enough to be captured.

The red and white ball knocked against the Pidgey and a red beam emitted from it as the Pidgey was sucked inside. I shook once...twice...three times...ping!
"Alright I caught it!" I celebrated, forgetting to hold my composure at the excitment of capturing my first pokemon.
Shadow gave a pleased cry and knocked the pokeball towards me with her nose. I picked it up and rubbed the top. "I'll call you Jet," i said, marking a J on top of the ball.

Shadow bounded past me and I saw Asher standing there. She's probably seen the end of the battle. I showed her the ball but she didn't seem all that impressed with my capture. I sighed, defeated.
"Alright," I said, as Shadow bounded up my arm. "Let's go." I attached Jet's ball to my waist and started walking.


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OOC: Lame I know but it's someting

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Seth shot Chase a cold glare as they walked along the road. All he did was be friendly to them, and all he got were glares and threats. His eyes softened as he looked over at Emi. She seemed to be a nice girl, a bit of a flake, but a nice girl. He looked back at Chase and mentally noted to rob him when they reached Pewter. Chase wasn't a fool, but then agin, neither was Seth. He had taken on much worse then Chase could probably dish out, so if the need arose, he could easily fight him off.
"So, where're you from?" Emi asked, who seemed to have materialized next to Seth. The white haired boy was surprised, but didn't show it. To be honest, Seth wasn't really from anywhere. He travelled from town to town usually.
"I'm from Saffron," he said. It wasn't a complete lie as Saffron was Seth's usual haunt.
"Spearow!" Out of nowhere, a ferocious bird pokemon dive bombed at Seth. he dark skinned theif ducked just in time as the bird flew overhead. It turned around and began hovering in one spot, eyeing Seth murderously.
"This one's mine," Emi said as she stepped forward, but was stopped by Seth's cue.
"This thing attacked me," he said, his lips curving into a mischievous smile, "so it's only fair that I fight it. Let's go Clyde!" The Mankey leaped forward and got into a battle stance.
"Let's rock!"

[PancaKe]

Lexis
Novella (Nidoran M)
Viridian Pokemon Center


I opened my eyes, guessing that I had fallen asleep again. Damn lethargy/fatigue. I wasn't sure which one to call it, but I had a feeling it would delay my journey. I didn't really care about time delay, but Novella was such a fast paced critter that I would have trouble keeping up. And if Snap was still around, I didn't want to slow him down either.

"You're finally awake?" Snap asked, leaning over, checking whether I was awake or sleeping with my eyes open. I yawned and nodded in response, groggy and tired. Snap handed me a plate. "I got you some food, in case you were getting hungry," he told me. "It's late, it's almost dinner, and I figured you'd be hungry seeing that you slept since we got here."

I grinned and accepted the food. "Thanks," I managed to mumble before beginning on my meal.

"Did you stay up too late last night or something?" Snap questioned.

I looked up, half a sausage in my mouth, confused. "Huh?" I asked through a mouthful of sausage.

"How come you're so tired?" Snap asked.

I swallowed. "I don't know," I answered. "It's some kinda thing. Not sure really. Mum said it was some kinda condition. It's not as if I've got some disease, I just get really tired and lethargic really easy. It just happens. I think its from an irregular sleeping pattern or something, but I fall asleep everywhere."

Snap nodded.

"Worst time I fell asleep was during my maths yearly last year," I continued, smiling. "Recieved 28%."

Snap chuckled. "That's still pretty good," he complimented.

"Yeah, it beat all my other marks, and I was awake for those tests," I ageed.

A ball of purple pounced into my lap, almost upending the plate of sausages and chips. "Novella!" I exclaimed. The Nidoran looked up with a devilish grin on his face. "You're so full of energy, you lost one," I laughed, handing him a sausage. He took it and bounded off once more. Snap gave his pokemon something to eat, and his pokemon followed Novella off into some part of the Pokemon Center.

"So, what about you, what do you usually do?" I asked Snap.

Snap shrugged. "Stuff," he replied.

"That's cool, I do that too," I grinned. I checked my watch. "It's only seven?" I asked.

Snap nodded.

"Damn, I'm going to be awake for hours," I sighed. "That's what happens when I fall asleep during the afternoon. I'm awake almost all night."

"We could always head to Pewter and get there before tomorrow, if you were up for it," Snap suggested. "Seeing you're going to be awake for hours."

"But won't you get tired?" I asked, concerned.

Snap shrugged. "I don't mind."

[Bulbasaur4]

Asher
~ At Viridian w/Kevin ~

Asher came out, having bought even more things for the journey as she placed them within her backpack. She had seen Kevin's battle, at least the end, and it really didn't strike anything with her. She just blinked lightly, and then gave a shrug and walked over to Fray.
" I got this for you."
Holding out her hand, Asher had merely bought a cube of sugar. They had sweets for pokemon that didn't do anything but taste good. Fray instantly gave a whinny of happiness and licked the sugar up out of Asher's hand and chomped upon it contently. Asher seemed to smile with her eyes, patting Fray upon the neck but the smile instantly vanished when she wasn't talking to her Ponyta.
" Alright, we should get going." Asher stated blankly, giving a little tilt of her head to Fray. She was going to walk for a bit, feeling the need for it.
" Are you not going to ride Fray?" Kevin managed to say, walking up towards Asher as they walked side to side. Asher turned her head to stare straight at him, and she shook her head.
" I don't feel like it now."
Silence seemed to ensue, and as if she was reading his thoughts.... with out looking at him as they walked, she commented.
"Don't even think about it. You're not riding Fray, and even if I let you... Fray wouldn't let you ride her either. Remember last time you decided to just pet her nicely when I was gone?"

Asher remembered that time- mostly because it was fairly humorous. Curious Kevin had gone up to her Ponyta and just went to pet her neck, but the Ponyta wouldn't have it. Instantly her fire had billowed about and licked his hand, causing a rather painful retort. Kevin seemed to remember it too judging by his facial expression.

They continued to walk until suddenly a strange pokemon seemed to dash in front of them. Instantly Asher recognized it- a Pikachu.
"This one is mine." Asher stated, figuring that since Kevin got the Pidgey she should get the next.
"Fray, ready?" Asher stated, glancing to her hooved friend who gave a little snort of acknowledgement. Fray galloped ahead towards the Pikachu and stopped, and the little fuzzy rodent seemed to realize that a battle was about to happen. In protest, the little rodent tried to do a Quick Attack to perhaps dodge out of the way and escape, but Fray already knew that.

She had gone to a Pokemon school for a reason.

" Fray! Quickly summon your fire and block it's path!"
Fray instantly lowered it's head and with a whinny fire billowed from it's muzzle and poured upon the thick grass, spreading directly in front of the Pikachu. Frightened, the pokemon realized that running wasn't going to work. So the pokemon used it's electricity.
"Pikaaa..." The pokemon began and Asher quickly spoke, "Get ready Fray! Try to make your body warmer to help ease the attack." Asher had spoken quickly enough so that the electricity zapped into Fray. Fray was in obvious discomfort as it gave a little cry, but Asher now knew what to do.
"Stomp!" Fray gave a nod and shook off the after electric-buzz and then galloped at the Pikachu. The Pikachu stood it's ground, firing up for another round of zap but Fray reared up instantly at the last moment. Lashing her hooves down, she struck the pokemon so that it crashed and rolled into the ground. With out hesitation, Asher whipped out a pokeball and threw it. It instantly opened, the pokemon turning into a reddened energy and then magically was sucked up into the pokeball.

The ball pinged after a little twitch, and Asher smirked and approached the pokeball. Picking it up, with out a word she reached into her bag and pulled out a sticker with an "A" upon it in silver. Sticking it on, she then put away the pokeball and patted Fray.
"Good job girl." Asher nodded, checking Fray over to see that her pokemon didn't need a potion yet.

Asher then looked to Kevin and motioned for them to go.
"Well, let's continue."

[Samchu]

Kevin
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So both Asher and I had caught our first pokemon within minutes of one another and strangely enough, hers seemed to have a type advantage over mine, which seemed to reflect a lot about our friendship. I stroked Shadow's head and as Asher suggested we continued on. It was weird, walking side by side with her, concidering she didn't like me. I wish she did though, like me that is, even just a little a bit. It sucks to have feelings for someone who probably wouldn't miss you if you were gone.

As we walked, I watched the day changing over our heads. It was hard to observe it when we reached Viridian forest because the trees were so dense but the morning was starting to fade pretty fast. I was excited about going to Pewter, not just because of the gym there but because I hadn't been in a town since...since 'it' happened. I really wanted to explore every inch of every town I visited with Asher, but that was going to take a while...Only one way to fix that really...

"Hey Asher, would you mind if we stayed at Pewter overnight? It's gonna take some time for both of us to battle the gym leader and it might be cool to take a look around as well. Maybe we can...you know...get something to eat? Or we could just hang in general, I just would really like to be in a city - because I've been at the school so long," I added in quickly, to cover up my real meaning.

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yes ok, not very good but so tired right now

[The_Missing_Link]

Aidan Stafford - On the road to Viridian
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Considering it was early afternoon, there was nothing else to do but travel to Viridian. It was rather uneventful, the only excitement fueled by a few battle challenges from Rattata's and Pidgey's. Despite their best efforts, my training proved handy and a few embers from Drake dispelled them immediately. Even though I was in need of a few Pokemon to challenge the gym leader, I had a specific team already lined up but the percent of attaining the perfect team was slim.

We arrived in Viridian mid-afternoon and headed into the Pokemon Center for a rest. I handed over Drake's Pokeball and then went towards the soda machine while Michelle did likewise. I plopped down on the nearest couch and watched Michelle as she came over to sit next to me.
"I asked Nurse Joy about the gym and she said it was closed because the leader is currently on vacation."
"Sounds reasonable to me," I said.
I looked out the window and at the bright sky.
"So, you want to try to get through the forest or train some more around here?"

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine
Team: Pidgey
Location: Inside Viridian Gym

"We like to call them Rocket balls," said the man, trading Sid's Pokeballs for a new set of black balls. "They're just normal Pokeballs, only with a couple of perfected tweaks and a new paint job. They catch better." Siderous took the shiny black balls and placed them in his backpack. "You'll need a couple of these too," the man continued, holding out a few potions.
"Naw, I can afford that on my own," Sid said, waving the potions aside.
"Yes... speaking of affording things... you realize that if you need any more of those Rocket balls, or anything that Team Rocket provides, there's going to be a price tag."
"I'll be fine with money. My parents will give me what I want."
"Most excellent," the man snickered. He then pulled out a little device of some sort. "This is on the house. It's a communication device, so we can contact you at any time. Most people put it in their collar, or up their sleeve." He handed the device to Siderous, as well as a card. "This is your calling card; it has the numbers of all of us higher-ranking Rockets. Don't call us unless it's a dire emergency. Finally," he added, straightening up and placing a hand on Sid's shoulder, "I want you to remember this. You are not wearing the Rocket uniform, so nobody can tell that you are a Rocket. Usually, the Nurse's at the Pokemon Centers won't heal your Pokemon if they learn that you are a Rocket. That's why you're so special in this case. You need to pretend like you never met us. Understood?"
"Of course."
"Well then," he ended. "Glad to have you on the team."

[Mystic_clown]

Seth Maverick
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"Force it to the ground Clyde!" The Mankey had grabbed hold of the Spearow's leg and was trying to drag it to the ground. The bird pokemon flapped its wings in vein as it slowly descended to the hard floor. Both pokemon showed signs of wearing.
"Now Clyde!" Seth yelled, "Before it has a chance to take off! Fury Swipes." The Spearow pulled itself from Clyde's grasp, but it was to late for it to avoid the barrage of swipes from Clyde.
"Now!" the dark haired thief ordered, "Let's end this! Scratch!" he attack was dead on, stricking the Spearow in the head and stunning it.
"And now for the finishing touch," Seth said softly, pullign a pokeball from his pocket. The tossed it into the air, held his pool cue in position and smacked the pokeball as if it was a billards ball. The boy's aim was true as it hit the Spearow. The ball hit the ground with a thud, wriggled three times before the red light turned white.
"Good job Clyde," Seth said, as he picked up the ball and gave his pokemon a thumbs up. Clyde gave a happy backflip in response. Seth then turned to Emi and Chase, who were watching the whole time.
"So, what do you think?" Seth said, flashing another smile, "Not bad huh?"
"That was great," Emi said, giving him a small applause. Chase just looked away and muttered something like 'show off'.

[Bulbasaur4]

Asher
~ In Viridian w/Kevin

Asher blinked for a second, hesitating upon how she should answer this. Finally however, glancing at Kevin she gave a little sigh.
"Yes, I suppose we will have to rest anyway. It'll give me a chance to raise the ability of my new addition anyway."
Kevin seemed to accept this, and with that Asher began walking again with out showing much. However, just as they were walking suddenly Kevin stopped and poked Asher on the shoulder. Asher immediately recoiled away and was about to yell, but she saw that Kevin was looking at the Viridian gym.
" Hey... I've seen that kid before." Kevin said, and Asher saw that it appeared another trainer was standing outside of it. Blinking, she tilted her head to the side.
"He must have been at Oak's." She stated flatly, beginning to walk off but Kevin stopped still.
" Yeah... I swore I saw him coming out of that gym. Isn't it supposed to be closed?"
Asher sighed, and with out hesitation she looked at the boy and yelled, "Hey you! Come here for a second!"
With that the boy glanced at them, but Kevin didn't look threatening, and Asher just had that deathly blank stare upon her face.


(Asher will most likely tell Siderous to join them, but of course that might be surprising. I won't tell you why, because it's Asher here- she doesn't explain her reasoning. lol)

[Crystal Tears]

OOC: Err.. M_C and Classy Cat.. Where in the forest are we??? Or do you not know either?

Chase

'Arggg.. Why can't he just go away?' I thought, we were resting again. giving the pokemon a break, aswell as our feet. I felt slightly happy that Emi was leaning on my shoulder and playing with our pokemon, and not paying attention to that idiot Seth.
"Nido!" Nidoran squealed, as Emi tickled its under belly, I smiled for the first time in a while ever since Seth had joined us. He just gave off a bad aura or something.
"What you going to name him?" I had to think, I had always wanted a Nidoran, but I had never really thought of what I would name one. I frowned. "Uhh.." I answered is slight fustration.
"Growl!" I looked over at Ryu, who was attempting to write a name in the sand. I had taught him a few letters, but not much, and his writing wasn't all that good either. "Ki.. Kiro.. Kiro?" I asked him, Ryu happily nodded.
"You like the name Kiro?" I Asked, looking over at the Nidoran, who smiled and nodded, before going off to play with Ryu.
"Emi."
"Yeah?"
"I need my shoulder back for a bit." I joked, she smiled and sat up. I rolled my shoulder as it had once again become mine, and not a pillow. "I'll be right back." I said, jumping up into one of the trees. I could hear them talking, but about what I wasn't quite sure. I could feel myself becoming angry again.
'Oh grow up Chase.. Emi likes you, not Seth. Thats why shes YOUR girlfriend...' Great, it was like I was talking to myself.
I didn't really notice myself playing blankely around with a small knife until I almost dropped it. I cringed at myself as I stared seemingly mindlessly at the knife.
'Cold hard metal..'

[SWAMPERT1]

Please note that I may get another post today in tonight but after that I will be gone for another 2 or so days.

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee - Magikarp
Near end of Viridian Forest
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The battle had started and I had sent Magikarp out first.

"Ok Magikarp, use a tackle attack." I called out to my Magikarp.

Magikarp started flopping towards Beedrill still angry frop being called a stupid fish, and hit Beedrill right in the face.

"Ya Magikarp good shot." I called out to Magikarp trying to keep its spirit up.

"Beedrill, lets show a real attack, us poison sting." the rival trainer yeld.

Beedrill pulled its stingers back and all of them turned a bright purple. Beedrill then came rushing to Magikarp.

"Magikarp, dodge." I yelled desperatly to Magikarp but it was to late. Beedrill hit... hard.

I watched as Magikarp fainted while trying to not and new he was out. "Magikarp, return." I said while pointing Magikarp's pokeball at him.

"Thats was easy eh Beedrill." The rival said to his Beedrill.

I was now P.Od and called to Eevee, "Kick that bugs ass."

"Alright Eevee, Quick Attack!"

Eevee ran so fast it was hard to see it and it gave Beedrill a hard shot to the gut.

"Alright Eevee, do it again while the Beedrill is on the ground."

Once again Eevee hit the Beedrill hard again and this time the Beedrill fell to the ground. The beedrill put its right arm stinger on the ground and tried pushing up but it couldn't, it had fainted.

The rival trainer looked surprised that Beedrill had lost and returned it to the pokeball.

"I am going to see you and your Eevee again one day and when we do, we battle and you lose."

With that the trainer ran away.

[classy_cat18]

OOC: Oops! Don't worry, CT. I'll clear this up.

Emi Tajiri ~ Near End of Viridian Forest

I reluctantly lifted my head from Chase's shoulder and watched him jump up into a tree. An uncomfortable feeling washed over me. I was alone with Seth, someone I didn't even know. What if he tried something? I tried my best to concentrate on the Pokemon. Dimitri was still in his pokeball, but Feather and Metapod were happily playing.

"Nice Pidgey," Seth said without warning.

My uncomfortable feeling disappeared. I could talk to just about anybody about flying Pokemon. "Thanks. Dimitri helped me catch her. Doesn't she look strong and healthy? You could tell by her plumage."

"Really? How do you know that just by looking at her?"

"My mom is a flying Pokemon breeder. If it has wings, she knows all about it. And, of course, she passes on her knowledge to me." I looked at the Spearow. "But something's odd about your Spearow."

"What is it?"

"For one thing, it's in Viridian Forest. It's very rare to see Spearow around here. Maybe it's because it's hungry." I read Seth's confused expression. "Spearow's plumage is kinda dull, and it looks a little scrawny. I can tell that it's been having trouble finding food in its former home, which is why you caught it here." I suddenly decided to change the subject. "The lighter side is that I'm pretty sure that we're almost out of this forest. We can head into Pewter City, heal our Pokemon, and find a place to sleep before nightfall."

[Crystal Tears]

Chase

I jumped back down from the tree, Emi and Seth looked over at me, but surprisingly I didn't feel anger. Maybe it was because of something else. I smirked, and quickly slipped the knife into my pocket, seemingly going un-noticed by the both of them.
"Hey Chase, what were you doing?"
"Eh, just looking around. We go that way to get out." I said, pointing at the dirt path that turn away from the catching grounds.
"Okay." Emi said, as she got up. I looked over at Seth who stared at me slightly, before turning to his pokemon and things.
'He wouldn't know...' I thought, ressurring myself this. I smirked and returned Both Kiro and Ryu.
"Shall we?" I asked, surprisingly both of them. Seth seemed slightly shocked, but noded all the same, along with Emi. Who ran up beside me as we continued down the path.

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine
Party: Pidgey
Location: Viridian Gym
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"Pidgey, return," Siderous said, holding out his new black Rocket ball. He had just attatched the communication device he'd recieved earlier to himself, and was now preparing to leave. First he recalled his Pidgey, and then he hefted his backpack. The unknown man smiled one last time, and held out his hand again. "Good luck," he said, taking Sid's hand firmly and shaking it.
"Thanks," Siderous said. He turned and walked out the front door.

The old man from before wasn't there anymore. He was probably on break or something.

"Hey, you!" called a voice far to the right of him. It was a girl. "Come here for a second!" Sid was slightly taken aback; he had no idea who this person was, and she was obviously calling out to him. She looked impatient, and demanding. Her face was very unemotional; that made it difficult for Sid to read what it was exactly she wanted. One thing was clear- the tone of her voice made it sound like a demand, not an option.

Although Siderous usually didn't associate with people, he decided it would be rude if he didn't at least answer her. Not that he cared. "Yeah?" he called out, as nonchalantly as possible. He began to walk towards her, and finally noticed the scrawny-looking boy close to her.

Suddenly, Sid had an idea. "I could spy on them," he thought to himself, still watching the scrawny kid. "They're both probably trainers from Oak; I could make them think I'm their friends, and they will help me make it as a top trainer, and in the end, I will crush them first." He smiled at this thought. "Let the show begin."

[Samchu]

OOC: SCRAWNY!? WHY I OUGHTA...

Kevin
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I sighed as he started heading over, it was just a curious thought that I had stupidly expressed out loud and now Asher had called the guy over to talk. Probably wouldn't be able to get him to **** off again now...He came up to us, seemingly unsure of what to make of Asher's expression which I have to admit was practically impossible to read. God knows what was going through his head.
The second he arrived Asher blurted out, "Kevin wants to know if you just came out of that gym and was wondering why because it's supposed to be closed."
I smacked my face with my hand, I couldn't believe she just blurted it out like that. How embarassing...
The boy laughed at us and said it was merely a trick he had been practising, there was no way he could have come out of a locked building.
I immediately found that I didn't trust this guy, there was just something about him that was just...not right, I couldn't put my finger on it though.
"Anyway," I said, trying to lay down some lines of communtication so i didn't appear rude, "I'm Kevin and this is Asher."
"Siderous. Nice to meet you."
"Yeah, a pleasure," I muttered. "Well we'd best get moving, the sooner we get to Pewter the better, 'ey Asher?"
Asher didn't reply but merely looked at this...Siderous, as he was supposedly called. "Why don't you come with us?" she suggested.
My jaw dropped, I'd known Asher for a while now but she'd never openly ask me to come with her anywhere, yet she asks some guy she's only just met. I'll never understand that girl...
"Sounds good to me," replied Siderous. "So, on to Pewter then?"
"Let's," replied Asher and we set off. I walked behind the two of them, glaring at the back of Siderous' head. Just because Asher had invited him along didn't mean I had to be happy about it. I didn't trust this guy and I knew he thought little of me already. Not even 10 minutes and I hated the guy already. "Great..." I whispered to Shadow, "just what I need right now. This is going to ruin everything..."

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine
Party: Pidgey
Location: Viridian Forest
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"This is almost too easy," Sid thought to himself, walking through the forest beside a rather intimidating Ponyta. The Pokemon's name was Fray; it was walking between Sid and Asher, and Kevin was taking the rear. Kevin didn't look too happy that Siderous had joined the group. "Maybe he thinks I'm competition for him," Sid thought. "Maybe he likes this chick, and he thinks I'm gonna steal her from him. Or maybe they're already dating. Hee hee."

Suddenly, Kevin began to yawn. His Eevee, Shadow, did the same. "Say," spoke Kevin in the middle of the yawn, "is it just me, or does it seem like we've been walking for a long time?"
"It's not you," Sid said softly, feeling a little woozy himself, "it's sleep powder." Having grown up in these woods, Siderous could sense the attacks of any bug Pokemon around.
"Go, Pidgey!" he called, and Pidgey appeared flapping in midair. She suddenly began to drop under the influence of the powder.
"Quickly, Pidgey, use Gust to blow away the powder..." Sid was very groggy now. Obediently, Pidgey began to flap weakly, but as soon as the powder began blowing away, Pidgey was flapping stronger. Soon all the powder was gone.
"Where did that come from?" Asher snarled, just coming out of her half-awake state.
"Shhh," whispered Siderous, putting a finger to his lips. They were all silent for a few seconds, and finally Siderous said, "Pidgey, to our left! Top of the tree!" Pidgey screamed, and thrust itself into the tree.
"Beeeee freeeee!" yelped a Butterfree, storming out of the tree top.
"Use Tackle!" shouted Siderous to his Pidgey. Pidgey quickly emerged from the wood, and rammed right into the Butterfree. It slammed onto the ground, but was up quickly. Fray whinnied in excitement, and Shadow squealed. The Butterfree's eyes began to glow a strange purple.
"Confusion," thought Siderous. "Quick, Pidgey! Use Sand-Attack!" Pidgey landed softly, and began blowing gusts of dust into the Butterfree's eyes. Butterfree yelped again, and tried scratching the sand out of it's lidless eyes.
"Tackle it again!" Pidgey once again hit the defenseless Butterfree. "Finish it with a Quick Attack!" This time, when Pidgey smacked the poor Butterfree, it flew through the air and crashed into the trunk of a tree. "Here we go," he thought to himself, pulling out a Rocket ball. He tossed it at the Butterfree, and watched it bounce off of the Butterfree's wing. The Butterfree turned a brilliant red, and was sucked into the ball.

Wobble... wobble... wobble... DINK! went the ball. Butterfree now belonged to Siderous. He walked over picked up the ball, and turned to face his two companions. They were staring at him. "What?" he said, pulling out his ball for Pidgey. Just then he realized that it wasn't him they were staring at- it was the ball he was holding.

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Something's wrong. I just know it.
Seth gave Chase a suspicious look. There was defenitally something going on.
Why is he being nice to me all of a sudden? I know he's hiding something.
Trying to take his mind off it, he looked over at hs new Spearow, who was now perched on his shoulder.
"Hmm," he muttered to himself, "You do seem a bit dull and scrawny." The Spearow obviously heard because it gave it's new master a sharp peck on the forehead.
"He, it's true you know," The white haired boy said, trying to defend himself, "Now, what should I call you?" He then remembered what Emi had said earlier.
It's very rare to see Spearow around here.
"How aout Nomad, because you're a wanderer." The Spearow thought for a few moments before nodding, agreeing with his new name.
"Nomad it is then."

[Bulbasaur4]

Asher
~ Viridian w/Siderous & Kevin

Asher had watched Siderous, and while she wasn't sure why she had invited him to come along, she wasn't about to show any emotion about her decision. Why did she ask him? She wasn't really sure about it herself.... could have been the fact that having Kevin alone was rather ... different. It also could have been a defense mechanism of some sort. In any case, ASher was staring at the black pokeball.

"What's that?" Kevin stated, blinking as Fray gave a rather retort snort. Asher's eyes remained calm and inexplicit, but it was obvious that she wasn't exactly thinking such a thing was normal.
"They're... pokeballs." Siderous explained, "They're just differently colored."
Asher seemed to hesitate for a moment, speaking carefully. Her voice was calm and some how had a melody to it that remained beautiful, just restricted or perhaps restrained.
" Most pokeballs are not black. Quite the oddity..." She let her voice trail off, as if it were some thing to be left unsaid.

Asher wasn't sure about Siderous, but reguardless she wasn't going to hold anything against him as of yet. ASher really didn't trust anyone to begin with, so this little sign wasn't going to change much. Kevin was about to say some thing more, but suddenly Asher walked ahead of both of them. An exchange of words perhaps were passed, but Asher continued walking.

"let's get out of this forest... all that are in here are bugs, rattatas and pikachu. I for one, want to get to Pewter to rest up my pokemon."

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine (with Asher and Kevin)
Party: Pidgey [F](battle weary), Butterfree [M](nearly fainted)
Location: Viridian Forest

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"The clearing's not too far up this way," Siderous said, hastily clicking the Rocket balls on his belt. "That was stupid," he thought to himself. "I've got to be more careful."
"I grew up in this forest," he called to Asher, catching up to her. "I know it pretty well. If you'd like, I can lead us through a shortcut..." Asher stopped and turned, and gave him a cold look. Siderous gulped. "Look, we can knock off a few hours if we cut through here."
Kevin seemed to be looking at Asher for a decision. Asher grunted. "You better be right about this," she grumbled, starting in the direction that Siderous was pointing to.

Half an hour later, they emerged from the forest and approached Pewter City. Just in front of them lay the Pokemon Center, and a little more northeast was a PokeMart. Sid wondered if he could buy Rocket balls there; perhaps he needed a secret password or something? He shook his head, no, if the Pokemon Centers won't let Rockets in, the PokeMarts probably wouldn't either. He'd figure it out later; right now, the trio was concentrated on getting to that Pokemon Center.

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"Thank you!" chirped the red-haired nurse from behind the counter. She gave a little bow. "We hope to see you again." Sid, Asher, and Kevin gave a little bow back, and started making their way out of the Pokemon Center.
"Wait," said Kevin, stopping right before reaching the sliding front doors. "Asher, it's getting late..."
"Oh, that's right," remarked Asher, "you wanted to stay the night here."
Siderous raised an eyebrow. "But we're already here. There's probably nobody in the gym right now. We can take him on, and when we win, we can move on tomorrow."
Kevin looked a little desperate, and Asher stepped in. "I promised that we would stay for a while. Besides, it would be nice if we could check out the museum or something," she added, as Kevin grinned.
Siderous wasn't about to give in. "Well, if you guys don't want to battle today, fine; I'll go, and you can watch, if you'd like."
"That's not such a good idea," said Kevin, daring to disagree with Siderous for the first time. "I mean, you haven't even battled with your Butterfree yet. You might want to spend some time training with your new Pokemon before you go galavanting off to a gym expecting to win." These were pretty tough words to use. Asher and Kevin waited silently to see how Siderous would react to this.
"All right," he said, finally. "Well, the night's not over yet. What should we do first? The museum? Or maybe some shopping? I'm all up for training."

[Samchu]

Kevin
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I was going to say that I really wanted to go to the museum first but my stomach rumbled loudly and I cringed slightly. "How about we eat? I'm starving and I haven't eaten since leaving for Pewter." I turned to Asher, "plus you promised me you would."
Asher sighed and Siderous answered, "it would probably be a good idea, We'll need the energy."
We went to a small place and sat down at a rounded table, all three of us. In my mind, I found the whole situation kinda entertaining, this was probably the closest I'd ever get to a date with Asher. I had to stop myself from laughing.

We ordered some food four ourselves and for our pokemon, who chowed down happily on the warm food. When Asher finished she went to take some food to Fray, who was too big to get inside. I watched her go, silently telling myself that she was the most beautiful creature that I had ever seen on two legs. I would have given anything at that point to switch places wih Fray, I wanted that caring attention that the Ponyta got because it was such a sweet side of Asher, she just never showed it to humans. If only I could change all of that, how different things between us might be.

Siderous was watching me with a questioning look which I didn't notice until Asher starting to come back and I had to avert my daze elsewhere. I mouthed to Siderous 'don't ask' and contnued eating just as Asher sat back down with us.
"The museum's still open for a while so we can go before it closes and then do some training," it sounded to me, much more like an order than a request.
"Okay," agreed Siderous and I simply nodded and shifted my eyes back to my food. [I/] She can never know...[I]

[Bulbasaur4]

Asher-
PA (Pokemon Aquired): Fray-F-Ponyta, Leif-M-Pikachu
Currently in Pewter w/Kevin & Siderous

Asher had walked outside, Fray instantly giving a little whinny of appreciation as she sat the food before her hooved friend. Fray instantly gave Asher a nudge to the shoulder, nipping at the clothing softly as Asher shook her head.
"I guess you were hungry... eat up." A nice plate of food was set down, and Fray instantly began to snarf the food down. The pikachu, appropriately named Leif by Asher, had actually followed her as well. He seemed to be a little stubborn, a protest look in his eyes, but he followed Asher as if by some instinct. He obviously would be a protective type in the future.

As soon as this was finished, Asher got up and stared at the building for a little bit. Back inside she had to go...
Asher found that she didn't mind being with the two guys much, although some times she felt a bit tideous- as if there were tension. Of course there would be however, Siderous didn't seem to be the type to trust and he actually reminded Asher of herself. It was rather ironic, but it didn't really bother Asher much... she wasn't going to care about how others acted. Kevin was more of the oddball out of all of them, which Asher wasn't sure what to think about that.

Entering again, Leif by her heels, she sat down again. Kevin was in the middle, Siderous to the left and Asher now to the right. She began eating again, and she couldn't help but feel some thing had been said when she was outside. She didn't care though... she wasn't one to press any questions.
"Pikaaaa..." Leif let out a rather rough growl-like noise as he ate slowly, glaring at Kevin's Pidgey and strangely not Siderous's.
"Leif, stop it." The Pikachu looked defiantly at Asher, as if daring her to question again but Asher surprisingly took her hand and scratched Leif behind is left ear, just barely but enough to completly bewilder the rodent.
" Stop now." Leif seemed to nod lightly, as if understanding and he ate again.

After they were done eating, Siderous immediately seemed to recall his pokemon and then get up. Asher was a bit slower, but soon Leif had been recalled and Kevin's Pidgey was as well.
"Let's go to the museum.." Siderous said lightly and Asher nodded.
" Yep... fun." Her voice wasn't thrilled, and Kevin glanced at her oddly.
"You wanted to go, didn't you?" She said rather shortly, and Kevin gave a bewildered nod.
"Then hurry up.."

Soon all three of them exited the building after paying, and then approached the museum. Fray seemed happy once they exited, but at the sign of the museum, Fray let out a snort. She didn't like being left outside all the time..
"Fray, when we're done we'll do some training... sound good?"
Fray blinked... as if thinking... and then gave a snortish nod. Asher seemed to smile with her eyes as she patted her horse's forehead.
"Good, we'll be back."
So the three entered..

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Pewter City

"Here we are! Pewter City at last! Let's get to that gym!" I shouted as we entered the city.

"Emi, you need to heal your Pokemon first," Chase reminded me. "Remember? Metapod knocked out Dimitri to evolve."

I slapped my forehead. "Oh yeah, I forgot! Okay, to the Pokemon Center first!" I walked quickly there and ran up to the front desk.

Nurse Joy smiled at me from behind the desk. "Welcome? How may I help you?" she asked me.

I nodded. "I have Pokemon that need healing." I gave her my pokeballs. "Could you hurry up? I have a gym match to go to."

"Be patient. It takes time to heal your Pokemon."

"Could you heal my Pokemon too?" Chase asked as he approached the desk. Seth stood beside him and also offered Nurse Joy his pokeballs.

Nurse Joy gave me my pokeballs and took Chase's, then Seth's. "All of your Pokemon are healed. I hope you have a good gym match."

"Thank you!" I said happily. Then I heard my stomach growl.

Chase eyed me. "Don't tell me you got so excited that you forgot you were hungry."

"I guess so. Let's eat first and then go to the gym!"

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Seth chuckled as Emi and Chase began to go find something to eat. He remembered the number of times HE forgot he was hungry due to excitement. Well, being a thief would do that to you.
"Hey!" Emi called, breaking Seth from his trail of thought, "You coming?" Seth took a quick glance at Chase. His eyes were clearly saying 'hell no!'.
"I'll just stay here," he said, "you two go ahead."
"Okay." The two trainers left the pokemon centre, leaving the thief all alone.

Damn this Writers block to hell!!

[VirtualPlay]

Michelle Randeth
Squirtle (Aqua - F)
In the PokéCenter in Viridian
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"Your Pokémon should be healed shortly," Nurse Joy said, bowing slightly.

"Thanks," I said, then a thought struck me. "Um, do you know why the Gym is closed?"

To my surprise her expression turned rather thoughtful, and she said, "Well, I've heard a lot of people say that the Leader is on vacation. Odd time for one, though…" she added, her voice dropping in volume slightly.

"Okay, thank you," I said, and walked over to the couch where Aidan was sitting, drinking a can of soda. I went over and sat down on the cushion next to her.

"I asked Nurse Joy about the gym and she said it was closed because the leader is currently on vacation," I told her, plopping my sleeping bag on the couch next to me and moving my bag up and onto my lap.

"Sounds reasonable to me," Aidan said, looking out the window. I reached in to pull out one of my reading books when she continued, "So, you want to try to get through the forest or train some more around here?"

My arm stopped pulling the book out and I thought for a moment. "Well, if we stay and train, Aqua and Drake would get stronger and we might even catch some more Pokémon. It would be good to train up in case we encounter stronger Pokémon."

"But," I continued, "if we go through the forest, we'll also encounter more Pokémon that we can train against and we'll be getting closer to the nearest open Gym. And worst comes to worst we won't get through the forest in one day and we'll have to camp out. But it's supposed to be really nice tonight anyway."

"So you want to go through the forest?" Aidan said bluntly, giving me a wry smile, and I realized that I had been rambling again.

"Eh, yeah," I said, smiling sheepishly and putting my hand behind my head. "Sorry."

"It's okay," she said, then smiled genuinely. "It sounds like a good idea anyway. We should probably stock up a little at the PokéMart before we go, though; there are Weedle in the forest and we don't want to be stuck out there with a poisoned Pokémon."

"Sounds good," I started, but at that time Nurse Joy came over to us and said, "Your Pokémon are ready," giving us a warm smile.
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[Samchu]

Kevin
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The museum was pretty cool, loads of cool artifacts to be seen and ancient pieces of architecture to behold and Asher to drool over...GAH! God, I must stop thinking about her! Let's be honest Kev, it ain't ever gonna happen, no way on God's Earth are you ever going to pull someone as beautiful as Asher. Be honest Kev, she's hot and 'not' would be a compliment to you. You haven't got a chance...
Siderous came over and tapped me on the shoulder, making me jump slightly.
"Look, why don't you just tell her you like her?" he suggested.
I sighed, "She hates me."
"How do you know?"
"She's told me often enough," I replied.
"Maybe she doesn't mean it. I mean, you two hang out right?"
I bit the inside of my cheek, "it's more like, I'm her follower. She doesn't want me around really and she sure as hell doesn't need me. I have to do everything I can just to make sure she doesn't leave me behind. She has no respect for me, she doesn't trust me, she barely even achknowledges I exist and yet...I just can't walk away. I want to be with her because she's all I have, even if it isn't great."
Siderous smirked, "talk about lovesick, although that could be interpreted as stupidity."
I punched his arm. "Just don't say anything. If she never knows then..."
"Then nothing will ever change."
I shot him a stern look. "Not all change is good okay? So just leave it alone."
I saw Asher hewading for the door and I grabbed Siderous' arm, "let's go. Before she leaves both of us behind."