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

[Crystal Tears]

Chase
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My glare ended as he turned away, I smirked to myself before turning to Emi who was already scouting out the food markets and plaza's. I felt myself feel slightly twing of regret at the rememberance at some of her shopping sprees. It was then is hit me, Seth wasn't coming along at all. We were dumping him here. I felt ready for the shopping spree, ready for anything the world could throw at me.
"Chase come on! Food this way!" I felt Emi tug me along as we fought our way to the front of the lines.
"Okay.. What do you want?" I asked.

[Gladiator]

Alright, I have to apologize for my absence, computer virus bogged me down.

Primal
Right in front of Viridian Forest
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"This is going to suck," I said to Novella as I peered into the dark forest, "Neither trainer seems to have packed a flashlight."

Novella seemed to shrug, or whatever it is that a thorny rabbit would call a shrug.

"Well, I don't know about you," I said, "but I do not want to be the seeing eye dog. I'm not even nocturnal."

"Well," Novella responded, "I am, sort of, but you end up being that way when your trainer is also nocturnal."

"Snap is practically nocturnal," I said, "but I am not."
"You just like to complain don't you?" he said, not so much in irritation of my habit.

"Well," I said in embarassment, "Snap is easy to complain about. He just doesn't seem to think about stuff. You know that voice in your head that tells you not to do stuff? He does not have it."

"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask: What kind of name is Snap, anyway?"
"That's how fast he changes his mind about things. His actual name is Agamemnon."

Mentioning his real name made me chuckle, it was just such an absurd name to give a modern boy. Let's add in that his siblings are named Hector and Helen. I just find it comical (and for that reason ironic) that his family is named after characters from a Greek tragedy.

Suddenly, Snap decided to speak.

"Well," he said, "It looks like we're going to have some trouble navigating that forest. Do you think our Pokemon could be able to find their way through? I mean they have better senses than we do"

"Good grief," I said to myself, "Really, just because I can hear, smell, and see better than you can doesn't mean I can navigate in the dark if I've never done it before."

Snap looked down at me. It took me awhile to realize that I was moving my arms as I was talking. My sign language was beginning to be instinctive.

"We've entered Viridian Forest before, Primal," he said, "If we can find a place that we recognize through your other senses, it shouldn't be too hard to orient ourselves from there."

"Damn," I said, realizing he had a point.

"And don't curse," he said annoyed with me, "What'll Mom think if she saw either of us cursing."

It didn't occur to us that the other two were listening to us. We were used to talking to each other like this, and it didn't occur to us that no one else would think that I was using some form of sign language.

Fortunately, you'd have to be dumber than a rock to not figure it out.

"Did you teach him yourself?" Lexis asked in some amazement.

Snap looked confused for a second "What?"

"The signing," she asked, "Did you teach him yourself?"

"Oh," Snap said in understanding, "No, Grandma is deaf so Mom taught the both of us. It makes communicating easier for Primal."

"As well as annoying." I said, making sure my hands stood still.

"Anyway," Snap said turning his gaze back to the forest and the ever darkening sky, "Do you think we should go in or should we get some flashlights first. I don't care either way, I just want to get a Weedle."

[SWAMPERT1]

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee - Magikarp
Location: Pewter City
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"We finally made it." I said to my pokemon. It was still bright outside, same as when I went into the forest.

I headed into the city and noticed a pokemon center. I noticed earlier that my pokemon were pretty tired so I decided to head in. I was greeted by another Nurse Joy who toke my pokemon and told me that they would be healed in a few minutes. So I walked over to a window and looked out of it.

I saw a few things in town; a gardener gardening, a pokemart and the Pewter Gym. I decided that there wasn't a whole pile of things to do and that I would go to the gym after my pokemon were healed.

Sorry its short but I have been busy lately. Also, I wont be osting for another 1 - 2 days.

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Pewter City

"I'll have whatever you're having," I said, trying to resist the urge to go on one of my shopping sprees.

We got our food and sat down outside to eat. I let Dimitri out to get some needed sun. "You're going to be my star player. I think I'll use you and Metapod." I looked up at Chase. "You think I should catch a Mankey? There are Mankey outside of Pewter."

He groaned. "I think Dimitri and Metapod will be enough."

I giggled. I guess hearing the word "Mankey" reminded him of Seth. "Yeah, you're right. I don't need a Mankey to get my badge. I'll get a Mankey after the gym match so I'll be ready for the next gym."

[Crystal Tears]

Chase

He kept cringing at the word, and eveytime, it would get Emi laughing, which he guessed his pain was wrothe it. He hadn't exactly been himself lately not with they're little fallower he had recently decided to annoy him until now. He smiled, and released Ryu, who bounded happily into his lap.
"Growlithe!" Ryu exclaimed, who turned to both Dimitri and Metapod, before poking Kiro's pokeball with his claw and releasing him. "Growl!"
I frowned, my team was types that didn't have a natural advantage against rock, I felt slightly weak.
"Whats wrong?"
"Well, you have two grass types. While I have A fire and a Poison. I don't have a type advantage on the Gym Leader, while you do." I sighed, resting my head in the palm of my hand which was supported by a well placed elbow on the table.
"Don't worry Chase." Emi smiled, nudging me, and in which case, caused my elbow to slip and my forehead to wham on the table with a thud. "Uh.." She manage to say while attempting to control her giggle. "You.. Alright?"
With my head still buried painful into the surface of the table a muffled.
"I'm Perfectly Fine."
She ended up laughing at me, as I lifted my head and rubbed it furiously to try and ease the pain. I just joined her in laughing at my own idiotic ways.
"Hey you!" We both turned to see double. Or twins probably, who were staring us down like we had just killed they're favorite pokemon. "Wanna battle?" One said with her to front teeth missing. "Yea battle!" Said the other, who had overly large front teeth.
I looked at Emi. "Want to?" I smiled slightly evilly. "Good warm up before your gym match."

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Pewter City

I smiled back. "Yeah. Let's battle!" I said. The girls nodded and threw two pokeballs, revealing an Oddish and an Eevee. I gasped. An Eevee! I so want one! I straightened my face and looked down at Metapod. "Ready, Metapod?"

"Metapod!" he exclaimed as he hopped away from the table.

"Let's go, Kiro," Chase said calmly.

"Oddish, Razor Leaf the Metapod!" the girl with the missing front teeth shouted.

Razor Leaf? Oddish don't know Razor Leaf! I was dumbfounded as Oddish swung her leaves at Metapod. The leaves were released and spun toward him. "Metapod, Harden!" I yelled. Metapod flashed and hardened. The leaves bounced off of Metapod like they were nothing. "Now String Shot!"

Oddish tried to dodge but Metapod caught her in his sticky silk. Oddish was completely wrapped up. "Metapod, Tackle!" I commanded. Metapod jumped forward and plowed into Oddish. She rolled around as Metapod tackled her again and again. Metapod was ruthless. I looked at the trainer. "Your Oddish definitely needs more training."

[Emotional Faun Chiko-sai]

OOC: Eheheh *sweat* between gorge-trekking in China and term exams, I didn't have any access to my computer... sorry for the not-posting.
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Yoshika Himura, F, Pallet Town till the forest
About to (hopefully) join Lexis and Snap
Has just the one (male) Gastly [Nishikaze]
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Yoshika was late. Not as usual, but it was expected. Mainly because she overslept in the Pokemon Center. Nishikaze wasn't a reliable alarm clock, because he tended to enjoy watching Yoshika suffering in minor ways, in an almost brotherly fashion. Conversely, if she was suffering in a major way, he would do something about it that would stop her from suffering in a major way.

The professor gave her a strange look when she arrived at his laboratory (very late; no one else was there), then appeared to understand as she started explaining.

"I knew there was someone left," he said, shaking his head. "There was a leftover set of Pokedex and pokeballs."

Yoshika goggled at the equipment in the lab, a far cry from whatever she'd seen on (very) occasional visits to Celadon so far. Oak handed her a red box-like dex and a fistful of pokeballs. "You don't look like you need a starter.. do you?"

[No, she doesn't,] answered Nishikaze, blowing a ghostly raspberry at the good professor. [Sucks to be you, old man.]

"Er, no," said Yoshika, after throwing a puny glare at the Gastly. "I'll stick with Nishikaze, thank you very much."

"I notice most Gastly are exceedingly rude," observed Oak. "It is possibly a behavioural pattern worth studying.. well, then, your first stop should be Pewter City. It's just through the trail in Viridian Forest."

As they left, Nishikaze commented, [I never thought I'd see a smaller town than Lavender.] He was right; Pallet was very small, a real one-horse town. It was a neutral shade of greyish-blue.

Yoshika tried making Nishikaze battle some of the wild pokemon, but he just laughed at the Rattata and paralyzed the Pidgey for kicks. It turned out he oouldn't damage them with ghost-type attacks, although Yoshika felt quite sure he could knock them out with a Psywave. He just didn't feel like it, that was all. And he was the most contrary creature she'd ever known.

They stayed in Viridian City's general area until the middle of the afternoon, when Yoshika started to feel hungry. She ate some of her packed onigiri, not bothering to feed Nishikaze, because he didn't need food, being a ball of annoying purple gas. The Gastly trailed over to the opening that led into the forest, a bright purple torchlight in the darkness. [Ooooh, so scary. Forests are boring. Bugs everywhere, little birds and sometimes yellow mouse things.] He proceeded to disappear into the forest. She ran into Viridian Forest after him, not wanting to be left behind.

Yoshika's open Pokedex confirmed Nishikaze's statement, saying that there were colonies of Weedle and Caterpie, as well as a smattering of Pikachu and Pidgey. Nishikaze stood out like a beacon, the forest's thick canopy eliminating most of the sunlight. He appeared to be reading a sign stuck in the middle of the path.

[You can cure Poison status with Antidote], he read. [Geez, which idiot wouldn't know that?] As he saw Yoshika approaching, he retreated still further into the gloom, then suddenly doubled back to the entrance of the forest.

"Aniki! Wait for meee!" Yoshika caught up with the grinning ghost, only to trip over a tree root and go sprawling at the feet of a Nidoran and a Mankey. Their trainers gave her odd looks, the second she'd received that day. She got up and started apologizing.

"I'm so sorry, I hope I haven't disturbed you in any manner, well, anyway I have already, sorry and I promise it won't happen again!"

The girl, who had short black hair and a certain sense of fashion that Yoshika couldn't quite pin down, raised an eyebrow at her and said civilly, "It's okay, we won't eat you for over-apologizing."

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine (with Asher and Kevin)
Party: Pidgey [F], Butterfree [M]
Location: leaving Pewter Museum
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Siderous kept quiet as Kevin pulled his arm. Asher had just left the museum, and Kevin was leading Sid after her as gently as he dared.
"Alright, I won't tell," Sid said, almost jokingly. Kevin looked back at him with an unbelieving grimace. Sid held up his hands in a surrendering position. "Not a word, I swear."

Fifteen minutes later, Kevin was sitting on the ground playing with the grass while Asher and Siderous were having a heated argument.
"I told you," Sid said, exasperated, "I want to catch a Spearow!"
"That's not my problem," replied Asher, her patience wearing thin with Siderous. "You already have a Pokemon that can be a decent match against Brock. Brock is a rock type; both Fray and Leif wouldn't stand a chance at the level they're at! I need a bug type, and there only way I'm gonna get a bug is if we go back into Viridian forest."
"You don't need a bug! There are plenty of other choices in the west; I hear you can catch a Mankey, or even a Nidoran."
Asher shook her head. "Sorry Sid. We go to Viridian Forest. End of discussion."
Kevin suddenly piped up, "Hey, here's an idea. Sid, you go get yourself a Spearow, and train there for a bit. When you get done, come to the Viridian Forest; Asher and I will be there. There's the two of us in the forest, see? It'll probably take longer to train and catch Pokemon with two of us, so whenever you get tired of training over there, you can come get us." Kevin was beaming. Sid figured that Kevin didn't really care about the training part; he was just happy to have more alone time with Asher.
"Good idea," said Siderous, cutting Asher off right as she opened her mouth to say something. "I'll see you guy in a little bit." With that, Siderous began heading towards the west end of Pewter.

"Let's go, Pidgey!" Sid cried, releasing his most trusted friend into the sky. "Use Gust!" He had encountered a male Nidoran, and was determined to catch it. Pidgey's wings screamed as she violently flapped a tremendous amount of wind towards Nidoran. With nowhere to run, Nidoran crouched low to the ground, but was soon swept off of it's feet. It landed a couple of yards back, hard.
"Now, use Quick Attack!" Pidgey lunged forward and smashed into Nidoran. Nidoran went sprawling across the ground and smacked into the far wall.
"Speeeeear!" cried a voice from the grass. Not wanting to be inturrupted, Sid pulled out a Rocket ball and tossed it at the nearly fainted Nidoran. A small, angry Spearow shot up from the grass and kicked the Rocket ball away. Of course, the Rocket ball swallowed up the Spearow, but Sid didn't have too much hope of catching it. The Spearow wasn't even damaged, and it was pretty mad, too.

wobble... wobble... wobble... dink!

"Huh?" thought Sid, amazed that he'd just caught the Spearow. Scratching his head, he pulled out another ball and tossed it at the sleeping Nidoran. Once caught, he put the Nidoran on his belt, but held the Spearow ball. After a few moments, he finally recalled what that Team Rocket man said about the Rocket balls- that the Rocket balls were a little more advanced than regular Pokeballs. "Ah," he thought, grinning. "Well, I'm sure it won't work for more grown up Pokemon. The littler ones perhaps."

It wasn't long before he'd grown accostomed to Butterfree's attacks. According to his Pokedex, since Butterfree knew Sleep Powder already, that meant that it also knew Poison Powder and Stun Spore already, too. It's Confusion attack was incredibly powerful as well, and was going to help tremendously against Brock.

Sid decided that he would train a bit with Spearow and Nidoran in the Viridian forest, so as to decide just which two he was going to use against Brock. He pondered this as he made his way back into town. Spearow and Pidgey were almost out of the question, and Butterfree was an obvious first choice. The next question was whether or not he should use Nidoran, or perhaps he should stick to Pidgey.

Suddenly, Sid felt his right arm buzz. It alarmed him at first, but then he remembered the phoning device Team Rocket had given him. He quickly looked around to make sure nobody was around; he then pulled up his sleeve, pushed the blinking red light, and held the small receiver to his ear.
"I've got something for you," said the voice at the other end. "Meet my assistant behind the PokeMart in Pewter City." Beep. The transmission was over. He pulled down his sleeve and continued into the city.

The man was very easy to spot; he was wearing a rather obvious black spandex shirt and pants, with a giant "R" on the shirt. It was a good thing nobody was around to spot them together.
"Boy, this isn't obvious or anything," Sid said sarcastically as he approached the Team Rocket member.
"Shhhh! Here. Goodbye," he said hastily, shoving a small, red CD case in Sid's hands and running away. Sid looked after him humorously, and opened the case.

Inside was a small blue CD. It was a TM for something. Pulling out his Pokedex, Sid held up the TM to it to determine what it was.
"TM 3," chirped the Pokedex, "Water Pulse."
"That's helpful," thought Siderous, putting away the Pokedex. "Only problem is that I don't have a water Pokemon." Sid called out Pidgey, Spearow, and Butterfree.
"Well? Water Pulse, anyone?" They all shook their heads. Then he remembered...
"Nidoran, come on out." Nidoran looked very tired and bruised on the ground when it came out. Sid placed the TM on Nidoran's forehead, and they all watched as the CD liquified and absorbed into Nidoran's skull.
"That's so cool, yet so sick," he thought. Sid recalled all of his Pokemon and made his way to the Pokemon Center. After healing, Sid decided to start heading towards Viridian forest to check up on Kevin and Asher.


((There, I hope that makes up for my absense!))

[Bulbasaur4]

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Asher
Currently w/Kevin
Pokemon: Fray (Ponyta/F), Leif (Pikachu/M)

Asher was completely fine with Siderous. In actuality, she liked a verbal spare now and then and Siderous was game enough to match up to Asher's spite. Still, she actually wasn't to keen on getting any pokemon from the Viridian forest.
" A bug pokemon huh?" Kevin stated, following Asher as they headed out of Pewter.
"No." Asher calmly stated, focusing her eyes ahead of her as they continued to walk a little bit away from the city. Fray was in stride by the both of them, as if seperating them for a purpose barrier. Her mane was flowing of brilliant reds and yellows and it seemed to calm Asher some times. Just to stare into that firey balance... it was tranquil.
" Then what?" Kevin seemed rather confused, but Asher glanced at him and instantly withdrew a sigh. Approaching a pond which they had come across, Asher knelt down beside the water. She looked up at Kevin once again and gave a nod as Fray seemed to approach the water and sniff it.
"Isn't your Ponyta afraid of water?" Kevin stated, bewildered but Asher shrugged.
"No... she doesn't have reason to be afraid of it." Asher seemed to be the master and not giving out any more information as Kevin sighed in defeat, his Eevee rubbing against his leg happily as if all was right in the world. Asher took out her bag and reaching inside she grabbed a few strange pellets and then reclosed her bag and stood up.
" There is no way I want a bug pokemon... actually I was hoping to catch a water pokemon."
Kevin raised a brow as if bewildered, and Asher glanced at him and gave a nod.
"Yeah... there are more than just Magikarp in the water. You just gotta know how to draw them out." Asher then threw another ball upon the ground and instantly Leif appeared within a flash of red. His form slowly came to being as he shook his fur and seemed to be pleased to be released. Asher glanced at him and gave a nod.
" Alright Leif, we're going to be fishing today."
Leif turned his eyes towards the water and seemed to give a nod- as if this was some thing to be expected. Throwing two pellets into the water, they seemed to float there for a while and Asher sat down upon the grass and waited. Kevin shifted and stood akwardly, not knowing what to do.
"You might want to sit. This could take a while. "
Kevin gave a nod and sat down slightly close to Asher, but not enough to draw much attention. Fray gave a nicker and simply at some grass along the edges of the pond, as Leif perked his ears and stared intently at the water.
Time passed...

Kevin looked as if he were about to fall asleep with his Eevee upon his lap, until suddenly Asher grinned.
"Got one."
With that she looked to Leif and gave a nod. "Thundershock it!"
Instantly Leif sprang to life and darted towards the water. Touching it with his tail for magnification, suddenly bundles of sparking electricity erupted from his cheeks as the water instantly sprang to life with electric shocks. Movement was in the water... until suddenly it gave a cry and poked it's head out of the water.
A Dratini?
" What the heck... what's a Dratini doing in the water!" Asher suddenly exclaimed, getting to her feet and looking at Leif.
"Do it again... direct it straight at the little guy."
Leif narrowed his eyes and let out a growl as his cheeks fired up again and instantly a bolt was condensed together and licked at the air towards the Dratini. Instantly it seemed to incircle the pokemon, causing it to give a cry. In protest it retorted with a spray of water at Leif, which nailed him directly and caused him to go a few parts backwards. Dratini splashed into the water again, but Leif wasn't ready to quit. Running to the water again he seemed angry at being wet and instantly more electricity was zapped into the water. Another cry rang out as the Dratini lept into the air to try to free itself from the discomfort, and to that instantly Asher grabbed a pokeball from her pocket and threw it. The contraption hit the Dratini and instantly sucked the pokemon inside... the pokeball landed in the water and floated, giving a little 'ping' at the signal of being caught. Asher quickly took off her shoes and then instantly waded and then ended up swimming out to the pokeball. Grabbing it she went back and looked at it confused, her wet hair hanging about her shoulders.

"That was odd..." Kevin stated, and Asher nodded.
"Return Leif." She recalled her pokemon, and Kevin blinked oddly as Asher looked at him.
"what?"
"Why didn't you just have Leif go get the pokeball?"
Asher shrugged, " I want my pokemon to know that I'll sacrifice my body to do things too."
Kevin seemed to nod and look away awkwardly, as Asher squeezed her hair a bit to dry it off. Fray instantly bounded to her side with a bit of jubilance, giving a little whinny of happiness. It didn't last long however...

"Why, I want to thank you kindly for catching that Dratini for me."
Kevin and Asher whirled around to see two ... Rockets. They were dressed in obvious clothing attire, and they looked rather smug. Asher narrowd her eyes...
" Get away. " Asher snarled, seeming extremely hostile and more violent towards them in an instant.
" No. You see... we originally had that Dratini, but it got away from us and went into this pond. We were trying to figure out how to get it when you came along... and well, I'd like to thank you."
Asher looked to Kevin, who instantly shook his head.
" You're not getting that pokemon."
The two of them grabbed a pokeball and smirked.
" We'll show you two brats whose getting what!!"



(I figure with Siderous gone, it'd be convienent for them to run into Rockets. Samchu, when you post just to let you know and fyi- based on Asher's history, she absolutely HATES rockets. She'll probably be overly viscious and tends to try to beat them to a bloody pulp although she won't kill them. lol)

[Samchu]

Kevin
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The Rockets tossed their pokeballs to the ground and from them came a Golbat and a Raticate. "Shadow and I will handle the Raticate, are you and Fray gonna take care of that Golbat?"
Asher nodded, she looked eager to get this over with and I saw something there, that I had never seen before. Pure hatred. I had seen Asher look at me countless times with a look of disgust or dislike, sometimes even a tad bit of anger but I saw so much hatred there. I wondered what had caused her to feel this way about them. I noticed then that Shadow was acting strangely also and lunged into battle before I could even give a first command. I wondered what had gotten into her.

"Alright Shadow let's show these guys just what we can do. Use your quick attack!"
Shadow began darting across the grass, towards the Raticate.
"Raticate! Counter it with your own quick attack!"
I thought quickly. "Forget the assault! Dodge and tackle!"
Shadow darted quickly around the oncoming attack and doubled back on the Raticate, using its own quick attack against it to knock it off balance. The Raticate tumbled into the ground where Shadow proceeded to assault the rat pokemon with continous tackle attacks.
"Raticate! Tackle!"
The Raticate caught Shadow as she came again. The two colliding tackles errupted in a powerful clash in which Shadow, being the smaller of the two, was thrown backwards.

"Shadow? Are you okay?"
"Eevee! Eev!"
I smiled. "That's my girl."
"Raticate, use hyper fang!" the Rocket ordered.
"Shadow. Sand attack."
Shadow turned her back on her opened and immediately began to kick dust from the ground into the Raticate's face. It continued charging for a while but the burning dust quickly overwhelmed it and it stopped in its tracks.
"Shadow! Tackle it!"
Shadow charged at the blinded rat, knocking the undefended pokemon clear across the field until it landed with a thud on the ground unconcious.

The Rocket quickly returned his pokemon. "I'll get ya kid. Just you wait and see."
"Yeah, I'll do that." I replied calmly as he ran off, tail between his legs. I turned to see how Asher was doing and saw Fray stamping on the Rocket. "Asher what are you doing!?" I ran and tried to pull Fray off of the Rocket. He wasn't hurt badly, mostly scared of the crazed Ponyta attacking him.
As he tried to run Fray went for him again but I stopped the Ponyta in her tracks. "No Fray. Let him go."
The Ponyta gave a displeased snort and went to take her anger out on me instead. Asher called her off relatively quickly and I escaped with some minor burns. Though Asher's wrath, I could already tell, would be much more fierce.

"What the hell do you think you're doing!? You had no right to interfere!"
"Hey, I wasn't gonna let you mame some guy. I understand he's a complete idiot but there's no need to mame him!" I retorted.
Asher paused, surprised at my retaliation. "No. You don't understand."
"See? This is what I've been trying to say. I can't understand because you don't open up to me," I said, as calmly as I could.
"And you're completely open with me right?"
"Of course," I replied.
"Liar! You've been hanging around me for years and never once did you tell me that you were in a mental hospital."
I froze, startled. I didn't think anyone knew. They'd kept me there, for the therapy. It was supposed to be private.

"How do you know that?" I asked.
"The teachers told me. They were 'concerned' when you started to hang around with me. They said you weren't mentally stable."
"Well they don't know me."
"neither do I. So why is me not knowing you such a big deal?" she asked, eyebrow raised.
I sighed defeated. "Fine, you win." I'd rather give in then tell her about my past. I really didn't wanna talk about it. "Come on, let's move on with that training shall we? Now that our 'distractions' are finally gone."

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine (w/Asher and Kevin)
Party: Pidgey [F], Spearow [M], Butterfree [M], Nidoran [M]
Location: Ouside, in Pewter City
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"I shouldn't be doing this without them," he thought, standing outside of Pewter City gym. "What am I thinking. I just want to see the battlefield, that's all. I'm not going to challenge the gym leader just yet." He walked closer, and the sliding doors opened for him.

Inside, the ground was rough. There were jagged rocks coming out of the ground everywhere. As he made his way deeper into the gym, a voice called out to him.
"Hey, you!"
Sid whirled to his left and saw a young trainer approaching him. The kid had a grin on his face. "You're light years from facing Brock!" Immediately, before Sid could protest, the camper called out his Geodude. Siderous sighed, and pulled out a Rocket Ball.
"Go, Nidoran!" A beam of red light shot onto the ground and formed into Nidoran.
"Geodude, use Harden!"
"Water Pulse, Nidoran!"
The young camper looked shocked as a jet stream of water spouted from Nidoran's mouth and engulfed the unprepared Geodude. Seconds later, Geodude was on the ground, fainted. The camper was speechless as he called his Pokemon back.
"Go, Sandshrew!" he shrieked.
"Come back, Nidoran," Sid said, pulling out another Rocket ball. He whispered in the ball, "This is our first real battle against a trainer. I want you to be a part of it." Siderous heaved the ball into the air.
"It's time, Pidgey!" Pidgey screamed out of her ball.
"Piiiiiiii!"
"Sand Attack!"
"Scratch, Sandshrew!"
The Sandshrew ran forward, but was stopped in it's tracks when Pidgey began blowing huge gusts of sand at it.
"Pidgey, use Gust!" Pidgey continued to flap, only this time aiming at the Sandshrew instead of the ground. However, Sandshrew was able to hold it's ground; it's skin was nearly immune to wind burn.
"Use Scratch, Sandshrew!"
The wind actually seemed to have helped the Sandshrew, since the Gust attack seemed to have cleared out the sand from it's eyes a bit. Sandshrew ran at Pidgey.
"Pidgey, fly up!" Pidgey began to flap, but it's wings were tiring out. Fortunately, it seemed high enough to avoid Sandshrew...
Sandshrew suddenly jumped up above Pidgey, and came down hard. Pidgey was slammed into the ground face-down, with Sandshrew on top of it.
"That's right, Sandshrew! Keep scratching away!"
Pidgey was taking a beating. "You need to get up, Pidgey!" Siderous cried. With a massive, "Piiiiiidgeeeey!!" pushed itself up, and Sandshrew lost it's balance and fell. "Knock it away with Tackle!" Pidgey pushed itself off the ground as hard as it could with it's talons and right wing, and slammed into Sandshrew.
"Get up, Sandshrew, and use Sand Attack!"
Sandshrew stumbled a bit while getting up, but when it did it began scraping the ground furiously. Sand billowed up around Pidgey, but Pidgey seemed unneffected. Suddenly, Sid's Pokedex began beeping. He pulled it out and it said, "Keen Eye. Prevent's it's accuracy from being lowered." Siderous smiled as he put the Pokedex away.
"All right, Pidgey, let's end this. Gust!" Pidgey began flapping away again, and the sand Sandshrew was digging up was blown back at it with tremendous force.
"Now, before it can recover, use Quick Attack over and over!" Pidgey dove, and began smacking away at the poor Sandshrew. After the third attack, Sandshrew finally fell.
"Sandshrew, return," said the trainer gloomily. "I just remembered. Light years doesn't measure time; it measures distance." The camper walked up to Sid and handed him 220 dollars. He then walked out of the gym, probably headed for the Pokemon Center.
"Awesome," Sid thought, recalling his Pidgey. "That was almost too easy."

Sid exited the gym and went to the Pokemon Center. Sure enough, the camper was there.
"Hey," Sid said to the kid, placing his Rocket balls on a tray and handing them to the Nurse behind the counter.
"Hey," he responded, "good battle. You've got one heck of a Pidgey."
"Thanks," replied Siderous, watching his four Rocket balls glow on the healing machine. "You're Sandshrew's pretty tough too. I'm Sid, by the way."
"Liam." The Nurse handed Liam his two Pokeballs and bowed to him. Liam bowed back and said, "Well, I should get back to the gym. Good luck against Brock. You shouldn't have any trouble with that Nidoran of yours, and your Pidgey is tough to beat, even if it is a bird type against a ground type." With that, Sid and Liam shook hands and Liam left. Siderous got his Pokemon back and was on his way out when he bumped into Liam, who was coming back in.
"I almost forgot," Liam said to Siderous. "I wouldn't use a flying type against Brock. He's got a... a Pokemon that uses Rock Tomb." Liam stammered this; he'd almost told Sid just what Pokemon exactly Brock used.
"What's Rock Tomb?"
"Death to flyers, that's all you need to know," Liam said. "I'm not supposed to tell you that, but I thought maybe you ought to know." He finally left.

Siderous thought about that for a minute, wondering what he would do if his Nidoran was knocked out. "I still have Butterfree," he thought, "but Butterfree's a flyer. What am I gonna do?" Siderous was thinking so much about this that he didn't even notice the two Rockets lurch out of the Viridian forest, one in physical pain. Sid walked into the Viridian forest opening, and saw both Asher and Kevin. Asher looked out of breath and pissed off; Fray was steaming, and Kevin looked a little defeated. It was an awkward picture. "Hey guys," Sid called out, waving his hand. "What's going on? You look like you've just been robbed," he joked.



((lol I don't know where all this writing energy is coming from, but I like it so far!!))

[Crystal Tears]

Chase

I smirked as Emi finished off the Oddish and I was just starting with the Eevee. "Nidoran! Tackle!" I called, Nidoran bounded outwards, at the small fluffy eevee, who quickly dodged the move.
"Eevee! Use Tail whip!"
"Poison Sting!"
Just as eevee used its cute tail whip, sharp poisoness pins shot from Kiro's mouth, striking the the creature directly on the forehead.
"Now! Tackle!"
"Stand Your Ground Kiro!"
As the eevee collided with Kiro, Kiro quickly caught onto the plan and swung around, erupting a fierce poison sting on the back of its head, finishing off the small pokemon.

"You Twit! You challenged experts!"
"I'm not a Twit."

I watched the pathetic sight argue all the way to the pokemon center. I frowned and looke at Emi..

"Thats was Easy."

[The_Missing_Link]

Aidan Stafford - Viridian City
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Retrieving our Pokemon, we headed into the Pokémart and stocked up on whatever we could find: potions, antidotes, etc. Leaving fully satisfied, we headed north into the forest, notorious for holding large amounts of bug Pokemon. Unfortunately, I wasn't interested in them, as well as the Pidgey and Pikachu that also inhabited the area. I wanted a rarer Pokemon, a Pokemon that would prove useful in almost any gym.

As soon as we entered the forest, the sky half-disappeared due to the amount of trees blocking the light. Although still bright out, it instantly became darker, which would force me to use Drake once it got dark out. Walking along a well worn path, it branched out into many areas but we opted for the straight road, hopeful to find any kind of Pokemon.
"What kind of Pokemon are you looking for, Aidan?" Michelle asked.
"Actually, I don't plan on catch-" I stopped mid-sentence to stare at a Pokemon right ahead. Propped up against a tree slept (or what looked liked sleeping) an Abra. It was a sight to behold, as Abra were a rare find due to the fact that they were almost impossible to catch if people or predators got near them.

As soon as we got closer however, it didn't budge and visible scratches lined its body. Flipping open my Pokedex, I scanned the Abra and information blipped back: gender, current attacks, types, etc.
"Is it ok if I catch him?" I pleaded with Michelle. "This was one of the Pokemon on my master list and I absolutely love Kadabra."
Thinking about it for a second, she eventually nodded and watched on as I unhitched a Pokeball and enlarged it before tapping it against his body. Turning into a red orb, it flew into the Pokeball where a few shakes and a much anticipated ding confirmed my capture.
"What do you think happened to him?" Michelle asked.
"Probably was ambushed by a group of Pokemon and only had enough strength to teleport to a safe spot."
I grasped the ball in my hand before cradling it with upmost care.
"It'll be hard to get you to a Kadabra but it'll be worth it," I murmured. "I think I'll name you Nightshade, mysterious yet deadly."

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Pewter City

"What are we doing again, Emi?" Chase asked me as we walked to the nearest pond.

"We obviously need a Pokemon that will help us beat the gym leader. Water-type Pokemon will do the trick. Now watch me. Dimitri showed me how to flush out a water Pokemon without using a fishing rod. Dimitri, use Vine Whip!"

"Bulba!" Dimitri said. Vines extended from under his bulb and into the water. They swished around and then stood still. "Saur! Bulbasaur!"

"Did you get something?" I asked him.

"Bulba!" He started to walk backwards, grunting from the work of pulling out something that wanted to stay in the water. Finally it just jumped out of the water. It was a Staryu! A shiny one! "Bulba..."

"Look at that jewel! Dimitri, Vine Whip that Staryu before it gets back in the water!" Dimitri slapped the Staryu silly with one of its vines, the other vine still holding onto it. "I think it's time to throw the pokeball." I took out a pokeball and threw it at the Staryu. The pokeball shook violently once, twice...

"You got it," Chase said.

"Yes I did." I handed the pokeball to Chase. "Here you go. Now both of us have something to use against Brock. Call it a gift."

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Seth looked over his two pokemon, deep in thought.
From what I know, the gym leader uses rock types. So ar I've got a fighting and a flying. Not exactly the best choice for this kind of battle.
"It's your fault!" screamed a voice.
"No it's not! It was yours!" screamed another. Seth looked up to see a pair of trainers (twins to be precise) walking into the pokemon centre and arguing about something. Normally, Seth wouldn't care, but he noticed one of the twins had an Oddish.
"Hey!" he called, walkign over to them. The twins stopped arguing and looked at the boy.
"Yeah?" one replied.
"Where did you get that Oddish?" he asked, getting straight to the point.
"In the forest outside of the city," the other replied, "why?"
"Could you take me there?" he asked. The twins shook their heads.
"We have to heal our pokemon." Seth knew it wasn't his business, but he had to ask.
"What happened?"
"My pea-brained sister challenged a couple of experts. We got creamed."
"You challenged them you moron!" A small smile appeared on Seth's lips. He knew how he could sweeten the deal.
"Girls," he said, "I'll make you a deal. I'll help you get back at these 'experts' if you help me find and Oddish. Deal?" The two thought for a few minutes.
"Deal."

[SWAMPERT1]

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee – Magikarp
Location: Outside of Pewter Gym
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I opened the door of the gym in looked in. I already knew that the gym leader used rock pokemon so the rocky terrain was not a surprise to me at all. I first went to the statue that was near the door and saw that no one had signed it yet so that must of meant… I was the first trainer from that group in Pallet Town that is going to challenge the leader!

I was going to walk down the main path to the leader but there was a trainer so I snuck quietly and quickly behind him so I could get right to the leader. While sneaking I realized that even though I had a water pokemon, it didn’t know any water attacks. I slapped myself in the forehead and cussed quietly. But it was too late to turn back so I just said, “Screw it, I am battling.”

I made it to the main arena were I saw the leader. I walked to him and introduced myself, “Hi, I’m Lee Kenta and I would like a gym battle.” While shaking the leader’s hand. The leader was a little taller than me, had a tan and spiky black hair.

“Nice to meet you Lee, I am Brock” The leader replied, “Now if you want a battle please go onto your side of the arena.”

So I turned around after saying good luck and walked to my corner. Once in place Brock told me the rules, “Ok Lee, here are the rules. Number one, there is no time limit, Number two, you may switch pokemon during the battle but I can’t and Number three, Each one of us can only use 2 pokemon each, got it?”

“Got it!” I yelled back at him and looked up to see a giant screen light up with a picture of Brock and I with a column under us that had two squares to show our pokemon.

“Ok Lee, If you win this you will get a Boulder Badge and a TM which will automatically teach the pokemon it is used on a move. Use it wisely though because it can only be used once, got it?” Brock told me.

“I got it, lets just start” I called out.

[VirtualPlay]

*pokes* did the owner(s) abandon this or something?

Michelle Randeth
Squirtle (Aqua - F)
In Viridian Forest
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After finding the beat-up Abra, whom Aidan caught and called Nightshade, I realized we hadn't seen any other Pokémon at all in the forest. It might have been we weren't yet deep enough, but I still wanted to find a Pokémon before I left the forest. I was looking for possibly a Caterpie, because they eventually evolved into Butterfree. Butterfree were so pretty and cute, yet they were also good to have in battle.

I was about to ask Aidan if I could go off for a few minutes to see if I could find a Pokémon when a rustling noise came from behind me. I turned around to see a bush slightly into the denser part of the forest stop shaking. I looked back at Aidan, gave her the "shh" sign and pointed to the bush, then stepped carefully towards the bush.

I grabbed Aqua's PokéBall, ready in case it was a Pokémon. Slowly I parted the bush, looking hard. I saw a spot of yellow move, and immediately started backing up. I didn't need to risk getting poisoned by a Weedle, and I really didn't want to catch one either.

I turned around, intending to go back towards Aidan so we could get out of the forest. I didn't get very far, though, before a loud "Pi!" and a sharper rustling made me turn around again. I saw a flash of yellow, and as I looked around for it, something landed on my head. Immediately I froze up, hoping it wasn't a Weedle on my head. Slowly I looked up.

"Pika!" the smiling Pikachu said atop my head, waving at me. It jumped off and landed on the other side of the bush. Immediately I pulled out Aqua's Pokéball and said, "Go, Aq-" before stopping myself. Pikachu was an Electric type, and Aqua was Water. If I sent Aqua out, she'd probably get beaten.

I looked out towards the Pikachu, only to find it wasn't in the same spot anymore. I felt a tap on my leg and looked down to see Pikachu standing there with a smile on its face still. Carefully I pulled out my PokéDex and scanned it. Her, according to the PokéDex. It gave her stats and I looked over them and gasped slightly. The Pikachu was smaller than average, meaning it was most likely a really young Pikachu.

Slowly I crouched down, getting a closer look at the Pikachu. In response, she went around me and looked at where I had put Aqua's PokéBall back on my belt. She sniffed it and seemed to smile even more. Taking the chance, I carefully picked off Aqua's PokéBall and released her.

"Squirt!" she said as she appeared. She looked around, smiled at me, then saw the Pikachu. Aqua looked like she didn't know quite what to make of the Pikachu that wasn't trying to attack her. Pikachu instead walked up to Aqua with a huge smile on her face. I would have liked to know what they said then, but unfortunately it was all "Pika pikachu!" and "Squirt squirtle!" to me.

"Making friends, I see?" Aidan said behind me, almost startling me.

"Looks like it," I said. I stood up and stretched my legs from being crouched. "Come on, Aqua, we really should keep going," I said, looking down at them. Another half-minute of Pokémon chatter and Aqua came over to me. I recalled her, and Aidan and I started walking through the forest again.

"I was kinda hoping to find a Caterpie there," I said, "but I guess I can live without one. At least Aqua had some fun. It was a cute Pikachu, too, I just didn't think it would want to come with me since it seemed so young."

"Well, you might want to think that again," Aidan said. I looked at her to ask why, except saw she wasn't looking at me, but back behind us. I turned to see the Pikachu following us, giving me puppy-dog eyes. When I stopped, though, she got happy again and came right up to me, giving my leg a hug.

"Think a Pikachu would be a good enough replacement for not finding a Caterpie?" Adian asked, and I couldn't help but agree.

"You really want to come with me?" I asked, picking her up off of my leg.

"Chu!" she said, smiling brightly again. I put her down, reached into my bag for one of my empty PokéBalls, then held it out to Pikachu. She smiled again, sparks suddenly flaring up between her ears. She pushed the button and disappeared into the PokéBall in a flash of red. The ball instantly dinged, and I looked at it with a smile.

"Well, it looks like this journey is off to a good start," I said, putting the ball on my belt and following Aidan further through the forest.
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[DaRk MeWtWo]

Name: Alexander (Alex for short)
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Appearance: click for pic Also, FULL black clothing (sneakers included) (truly sorry if link doesn't work)

Personality: very determined and skilled; usually cheerful but has a hard time "bouncing back" from misfortunate events--for example, gets very sulky after losing a battle; ambitious/righteous

Starter: Abra M (Alexis)
Items: (3 Potions, 1 Ultra Ball, 1 Revive) Sleeping Bag, Flashlight, First Aid Kit, an extremely thick book on battling techniques, a framed photo of his parents. Backpack is metallic blue, is essentially a rectangular prism with three compartments and pokeball pockets lining the inside.

History: Was born in Saffron City, but was raised up in Fuchisa, and spent most of his life there. His parents had grand expectations of raising him up to be a great poison-type grandioso trainer, but Alex always had a far greater interest in psychic types. The conflict between his parents and him kept raging on for many years. Just before his 15th birthday, his parents were abducted by Team Rocket, along with all their pokemon. Alex suffered a sever blow to his mental consience and suffered from a mild case of amnesia. He had to move in with his uncle and aunt back at Saffron. There, he studied for long hours day after day, hoping to eventually become a trainer of the hightest regard, so that he may somehow fullfill his parents' wishes.

Relationships: N/A
Other: has a silver "necklace" (doesn't remember where he got it)

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Hisss...
"Muk, Acid Armor!"
Hiss.....
"Now, use Sludge!"
Hiss!!
"One more..."
HiSS!!
"Pokeball, GO!"
The red and white orb wobbled back and forth for what seemed like eternity, but finally sat still.
"Finally! Muk, return! That Arbok was starting to really--whatever," Alex crouched over to retrieve Arbok's pokeball when he heard a familiar voice behind him:
"Alex, breakfast's ready!" yelled his aunt.
"Coming!" Alex yelled back, placing Muk and Arbok's pokeballs on the nearest shelf he could find in his messy room.
Alex quickly changed into his darkest outfit and leaped down the stairs. He found his aunt and uncle at the breakfast table with piles upon piles of mailed bills.
"Aunt Ella, I need a quick breakfast because I gotta go to training school early so that I can make-up for being late last time and I really need to get ready for today's exa-" He was suddenly cut off by Ella.
"Alex, I don't think you'll want to go to school today, dear..." She said, handing him a silver-and-red bordered letter with the letter O in the bottom-left corner.
"Huh? But why? And what's in this letter?" He asked, clearly bewildered.
"Just open it, dear." Aunt Ella said. From behind his newspaper, Uncle Lear seemed to show a twinkle in his eyes.
With trembling fingers, Alex silently opened up the letter and inaudibly gasped. He was truly shocked.
"No. Way. Wow. Kay...um, you guys do know what this is about, right?" Alex asked with wide-open eyes.
"Of course, Alex, and yes, you can leave within the hour, I ha--" Uncle Lear's voice trailed off as Alex thundered up his stairs and fervently backed the few items that would be of use to him--namely his flashlight, sleeping bag, and first aid kit. He also managed to stuff an amazingly thick book on battling strategies along with a treasured photo of his parents into his metallic blue backpack's three large pockets. He also somehow shoved an extra pair of clothes, also pitch-black, into his backpack.
"Arbok, Muk, thanks for helping me train. Hopefully our time together will help me succeed in the future. Farewell," Alex tapped their pokeballs and sprinted down the stairs to his aunt and uncle.
"Right, where was I? Oh yes, I have this compass for you, Alex, it's a family heirloom, and I'm supposed to give it to my son in Cinnabar, but I think it's better suited to your uses. Take care of it." Uncle Lear handed Alex an ivory compass with a brass interior and smiled.
"Oh wow, thanks Uncle! But I gotta go!" Alex was spiritually uplifted, but he couldn't wait to start his new journey.
"Well, I know you have to go, but promise you'll call home somtime dear!" Aunt Ella demanded.
"Of course, as soon as I get to Pewter City I'll give you a call, talk to you then!" Alex replied, and within a heartbeat he was off on a lightning sprint to Proffesor Oak's home back in Pallet Town.

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Gasping for breath, Alex finally stumbled upon Proffesor Oak's residence, but discovered, to his utter dismay, that most of the trainer had already left. His mind reeling, Alex rushed to the door and hurriedly rang the bell a thousand or so times. Cursing at himself he kept asking why this had to happen to him, and knew that it might be a while before he'd be jolly again.
Soon enough, the Prof opened up and introduced himself, but also had a sad look on his face:
"Sorry, Alex, I think you might be too late. I don't really have any pokemon left for you to take with you on your journey."
"WHAT?! No way! That can't be true!" Alex declared.
"I'm afraid so. You'll just have to come a month later or so, when my next shipment of pokemon for beginning trainers arrives," He replied, frowning.
"I won't accept this! Aren't there any other I could possibly use? I'll take anything, seriously!" Alex cried.
"No. There aren't, now I must really be going. You should head back to school too, Alex, we wouldn't want you to--wha?!" The Prof was taken by surprise as he was lifted high in the air. "Hey! Hey!" The Prof cried.
"Wow! What the-! That must be...a psychic pokemon!" Alex yelled.
"A--braa!" A tiny orange-and-black humanoid pokemon emerged from beneath the Prof.
"It's an Abra! And he looks kinda...cute!" Alex thought, running towards the Abra.
"No! Don't! That Abra's been rejecting trainers for a long time, I dunno if--" The Prof was cut off as he was abruptly flung on the floor.
"Aw...he looks a little distressed, like he wants some water--wait--he you go," Alex grabbed a glass of water from the nearest table and gave it to the Abra.
"Abra!" it cried in joy, "Ab-Ra!"
"Huh? The Prof's mean? He tried to give you away to scheming thieves? What? No way, you can't be serious!" Alex commented.
"A-ba-ra-ra-ra!" It replied.
"Oh my gosh, that's such a monstrous crime Proffesor!" Alex declared.
"What in darned heck is going on here!? How can you understand every word he says? I've been having trouble with him for months!" The Prof declared, getting off the floor with a bruised behind.
"I dunno, he just kinda...connects. Wow...what's going....on...." Alex asked, suddenly feeling a little dizzy.
"Ab-ra-ra....Abra! I finally got it! Wow! Can you hear me Alex?" The tiny pokemon was jumping for joy.
"Aaah! A-are you talking to me Abra?" Alex asked.
"Of course I am! Wow! My name's Alexis, the Prof caught me somewhere near Saffron City, what about you?"
"No one caught me, but I was born in Saffron City, it's a nice place," Alex replied, still kind of in shock.
"Alex! That's it! You've freaked me outenough, just take that Abra and get out of here, and here, here's your Pokedex, use it to collect--whatever, you know, just go, before I lose my mind!" The Prof babbled, handing Alex his Pokedex and backing away slowly from Alexis.
"He's such a loony," Alexis said, elevating himself onto Alex's shoulder.
"I...guess so. Wow. That was pretty quick. I gotta run, thanks Proffesor. Let's go Alexis!" And with that Alex and Alexis departed from Prof. Oak's house on their newfound journey.

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"Alexis! Swing it like you mean it! Yeah!" Alex cried.
"Silly bug, faint already!" Alexis gritted through his teeth, sending the Beedrill flying into a nearby tree.
"Bee-dri-ill...." The Beedrill fainted and promptly returned to its pokeball.
"Beedrill, return! Go, Butterfree! Give them your old lullaby!" The bug pokemon trainer yelled.
"Alexis, watch out for its Sleep Powder and Stun Spore! We can't afford to get disabled!" Alex cautioned.
"Sure thing! I'll use Teleport!" Alexis declared, avoiding the spary of Sleep Powder and grounding the Butterfree into the earth with his psychic powers. "Darn it, why can't I make them faint fast enough? Helllloooo?" Alexis's charms grinded the Butterfree till its trainer called it back.
"Sheesh, take it easy, man. Ease up! Whatever, I gotta get more bug pokemon," and with that the bug collector had left the building.
"OK Alexis! Up on the high-end!" Alex yelled.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Alexis asked, laughing for no apparent reason.
"I dunno," Alex said, and laughed with him.
The two of them had quickly bonded and had just stomped their way through the Viridian Forest. Now there were looking at the edge of Pewter City's Pokecenter and Gym.
"Let's see if we can cream Brock's pokemon without taking a break Alex!" The Abra said.
"Uh...maybe that's going too far. As good as we are, a gym leader's a gym leader. We gotta rest up and be at our hundred percent--all the better to smother him faster. Haha!" Alex laughed.
"So true. What the heck are we doing walking? Let's Teleport!" Alexis warped the two of them right in front of the Pokecenter and the entered quickly.
"Hello, may I help you?" A Nurse Joy asked.
"Yes, can you heal my Abra so we can take on Brock?" Alex asked.
"Of course, just a moment."
Sitting on a couch, Alex waited for what seemed forever, and was soon dozing off...

*Thwack*
"Hey! Ow! What was that for Alexis?" Alex cried, jumping on his chair.
"Yawn....I forgot to tell you that I like to sleep when we're not battling, but, anyway, I never thought a HUMAN could sleep longer than me...it's been almost four hours, and after my nap I could use a little battling!" Alexis cried.
"Huh? Yeah, sure. Sorry Alexis, I guess I didn't get much sleep last night or something rather--oh yeah I wake up early. Whatever, let's smack Brock," Alex stated.
With Alexis on his shoulder, Alex exited the Pokecenter and slowly walked over to the Pokecenter. On his way, he watched several rather...amusing sights...

First off, he saw two trainers near one of the few ponds in Pewter City. Upon closer inspection, he not only saw that there was jubilant girl gracefully handing over a pokeball to the other trainer, a thankful boy, but that the girl also had an energetic Bulbasaur by her side. The look on the boy’s face was a little amusing—it made Alex wonder what it would be like to get that kind of a…gift…from someone like….

Anyhow, he next set his eyes upon a sly guy next to the Pokecenter who was talking to two rather young twins and his eyes seem to say it all. Alex could almost tell of the bat that something mischief was going on—but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.
Wandering eyes soon moved his face in the direction from which he had entered Pewter City: the edges of the Viridian Forest. A smirking boy off in the distance was looking towards another boy—who, even from this distance, was definitely NOT happy. Along with that other boy stood what seemed to be his…who didn’t looked positively thrilled either.

His head spinning in all directions, Alex kept asking himself if he should go meet up with one of these three groups, but his heart kept saying no—there was a lot…issues going on.
“Very amusing, isn’t it? I bet I could tell you what they’re thinking—but that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it?” Alexis commented.
“Wha?” Alex was startled by Alexis’s sudden blurt of commentary and softly laughed, “No, please don’t, it’ll ruin the whole drama.”
For reasons not clearly known, the two of them began snickering as they walked back towards the Pewter City Gym.
“Alexis, are you sure you want to go this early?” Alex asked his Abra.
“Don’t kid yourself, I know my limits. I just want to have a go at that dumbfounded trainer in there…you know, the one who’s staring at his pokeball….No, silly, not the one who’s challenging the Gym Leader…whoa, he looks determined. Let’s see if we can get inside.”
The huge and intimidating gym was constructed entirely of stone—every single brick and tile—in fact, Alex wouldn’t be surprised if the bricks were being held together by sandstone. With just a slightly trembling hand, Alex opened the door to the gym, with Alexis still on his shoulder.
They came just in time to see a truly stunning battle between a yellow-spikey-hair trainer and the intimidating figure of Brock. As the pokeballs flew from the two combatants’ fingertips, Alex could tell this would be one hell of a battle.

Alex @ Pewter City Gym, w/ Alexis

PS—Good Luck Lee/Swampert1 =P

[Bulbasaur4]

Time to introduce my other charry!!! Heee!!I'll repost her form.


Name: Lyfai
Age: Unknown
Sex: female
Species: Vaporeon, with a hint of silver sparkle within her body and strange violet eyes. Her body color is blue, but it's a stranger more royalbluish all over... darker then the usual vaporeon and it seems to swirl with a hint of lighter, more violet blues.
Personality: Cheerful, rather pleasant and happens to seem a bit... 'confused' at times although she tries hard. Is very loyal to those she trusts, although she seems to be a bit shy around most people and pokemon.
History: Obviously her history is unknown... but it's obvious that she's not normal. She has slight telepathy (although no one will know this for a while) and she has odd colors that are not shiny-related. She seems that in one point... she was either experimented upon or tampered with some how.
Relationships: She's a vaporeon that will stumble upon some one... lol, and maybe follow them.
Other:

Lyfai
~ The Vaporeon ~

The Vaporeon walked about Pewter, dancing almost it seemed- she walked with a grace that seemed uncomparable to most. Her large doe-like eyes of violet seemed to glance about at the world with interest, curiosity and a hint of innocence that was unmatched. Her tail flickered about gently, her soft paws disappearing into the thick bladed grass. She had been traveling for quite some time, her mental state a bit damaged, but she seemed happy enough. After all... she had been wandering for so long, not knowing why.
She really didn't know much of why she was wandering... all she knew was that whereever she had come from, she didn't want to go back.
The bad place was there... she didn't want to go back.
Ever.

Dancing lightly, suddenly she heard something that caught her attention. Blinking gently, she gave a soft little cry before darting off with remarkable speed towards a rather crude looking building. It was there she saw a strange figure walking through doors... and she was familiar with doors. but there were strange noises coming from inside, and she was very curious. So naturally, she got involved. Racing behind the figure, she managed to walk close to his legs behind... so that when the doors closed, she was behind him. Tilting her head to the side, she saw that there was another figure battling a large rock pokemon. Fear usually would consume most pokemon when approaching intimidating creatures, but either the vaporeon was too niave to be afraid or she had remarkable confidence. She gave a swish of her tail while watching the battle, transfixed and not really caring if others saw her appearance. She actually stood by the figure who had entered (Dark Mewtwo's character.. hee) and perhaps it looked like she was his pokemon to any who might have glanced his way.

Strange... very strange indeed.
But yet, she had never been ... normal.

(Hope yah don't mind... I'll make a post for Asher later)

[SWAMPERT1]

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee – Magikarp
Location: Battle - Pewter City Gym - Leader Brock – Part 1
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It was time for me to start my first gym battle. I looked at both pokeballs and tried to decide which pokemon to use first. I came up with the decision that it would probably better if I saved Eevee for when things got tough.

I threw my pokeball, “GO MAGIKARP!” I yelled.

The pokeball opened as it hit the ground and my orange fish pokemon came out. Brock also threw a pokeball, “Go Geodude” he called. The pokemon revealed looked like a boulder with eyes and arms. I got a check on it with my pokedex and then put it away.
“Alright Brock, let’s go!” I called out.

I gave my first command, “Tackle.” Magikarp hopped up and down, getting closer and closer to Geodude when finally, it connected. I could tell that it did a little damage but not a whole lot.

“Pathetic…” Brock said, “Geodude show it a Roll – Out attack.”

Geodude started rolling fast and came flying towards Magikarp.

“Magikarp, dodge!” I called out to my pokemon. It tried to dodge but it was too late, Magikarp had taken a hard hit and was hurt. It tried to get up (per se) but it couldn’t.

“Return Magikarp” I said holding out Magikarp’s pokeball. As Magikarp was getting returned I was frantically trying to think of a strategy. I looked at the field and noticed an important factor, it wasn’t flat and the Geodude would have to role around the rocks to get to my pokemon. Those mounds could help beating the Geodude.

I switch pokeballs and sent out Eevee plus I decided to get to my strategy right away, “Alright Eevee, see that giant rock on the left side of the arena, hop on the top of it.” Eevee, looking very confused, jumped onto the rock as told and waited for another command.

“I don’t know what your doing Lee but it will not work.” Brock called out to me.

“Now Geodude, do another Roll – Out attack!” Brock told his Geodude. So once again the Geodude came ripping towards my pokemon. It kept getting closer and closer.

It was almost at the rock and I told Eevee, “Dodge it Eevee!”

Eevee dove off the rock and the Geodude hit the rock and went flying off the top. I was high in the air and I gave another command, “Alright, do a mid – air tackle.” Eevee jumped on the rock and then towards the Geodude. It hit the Rock Pokemon and sent it flying towards the roof, ultimately slamming into the roof. Geodude then fell a good 30 feet to the ground. It put it’s to hands on the ground and tried to push itself up but it couldn’t, Geodude had fainted.

“Good show Lee.” Brock said as he returned his Geodude, “But you won’t be as lucky with this next Pokemon.”

[Crystal Tears]

I apologize for my absence and for holding you up Classy_cat.
Stupid Hwk.. -_-

Chase
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She's giving me a staryu? no way... I thought, taking the pokeball and looking at her, I smiled thankfully before slipping the pokeball in my pocket.

"Thats them!"

We both looked over, there was Seth, he was standing there, looking at us both. He seemed rather confused, thats when I noticed the twins beside him. I smirked.
"Hey Seth."
"Hi... Did you two, beat them?"
"Yeah." Emi answered, leaning on my shoulder again.
"You beat them for us, and we'll show you where to get an oddish." Said one, utgging on his arm.
"You need an oddish?" Emi asked, tilting her head in confusion.
"Yes. To Beat the Gym Leader."

I couldn't help but shake my head and laugh at his stupidity, for someone who claims to be a good trainer, he doesn't even know the basics of the basics I looked up at him.
"Have you ever thought of using Mankey?"
"What do you..."
"Mankey's a fighting. Fighting has a type advantage of Rock." I smirked, Emi looked over at me, probably slightly amazed I knew something about a Type I hated.
"Well.. I.. It doesn't matter."
"Or what about being a real trainer and finding where the oddish are yourself?" I asked again. He was furious at me, I could tell. "And No. I'm not battling you." He just stopped, amazed at how a trainer as strongheaded as me refused to battle. Ryu looked up at me in slight confusion. "Lets go Emi." I said, walking away from the twins and Seth, with Emi at my side.

She stopped me when we were in the pokemon center, obviously confused about my actions.
"Why didn't you fight him?"
"I don't want to have a Rival. If he beats me, or I beat him. We'll be furious, wether we deny it or not. Besides, he should find the pokemon on his own. It's okay to ask for help, but when he has a mankey, and oddish arn't that hard to find.. It's slightly.. Un.."
"Trainer like?" Emi asked, finishing my sentence.
"Yeah."

[Bulbasaur4]

Asher

~ Viridian w/Kevin & Siderous ~ [Pikachu (Leif)] [Ponyta (Fray)] [Dratini]

Asher was shaking... fuming at the sight of the rockets leaving. During the fight, she had wanted to destroy them... to rip them a part like they had done to her. Fray was steamed as well, her wild mane rippling into the air and sending slight popping noises as it crackled against the air. Asher was shaking a bit, yet she didn't make a move. She had wanted to scream at Kevin, she had wanted to kick him and punch him... to push him away and tell him to leave her the hell alone. But... she understood why he would have stopped her. He didn't know, and he didn't have the rage... he didn't want her to mutilate them.

But she had wanted to. Then they had spoken... and Asher finally felt a great amount of anger rise with in her. He had continued to tell her how she didn't open up, yet he was keeping things too. She had felt a little bit of well-deserved revenge at spitting the words that he was a liar. Because he had lied to her. At least she hadn't tried to say there was nothing for her to hide, because there was.

At the sound of more footsteps, she saw Siderous had approached them. Kevin seemed a bit relieved to see Siderous come but Asher just gave a half nod as he came forward. He joked about being robbed, but a glare at Asher obviously sent him into a little uncomfortable state. Fray gave an angry snort as she came near Asher, and Asher quickly looked to Fray.
"Calm down... it's over now girl, it's over. We'll get them next time." Asher patted Fray's mane without worry, even if the fire was much hotter than it normally was for even Asher. Fray seemed to accept this a bit, and Asher looked at Siderous.

" Two rockets had stolen a Dratini." Kevin commented, " They lost control of it and we happened to stumble upon the Dratini in a pond. Asher battled and caught it... then the rockets came and demanded it back. So we beated them... " Kevin's eyes flickered to Asher, who ignored the odd look. Kevin wasn't about to go into detail how they 'beat' the rockets, but it seemed to be acceptable enough.

" I'm going to the pokecenter to heal my pokemon. Then I'm going to go to the gym." Asher stated simply, walking away as Fray gave a whinny and followed suit. The two of them walked ahead of Kevin and Siderous, either leaving them to chat or to follow her. Asher's mind was racing... racing to think of the Dratini and those rockets- not her past.

Don't think about it... Don't think about it...

Asher gripped onto her rage so she wouldn't think about it, as she reached the pokecenter. Instantly she went up to Nurse Joy.
"Here, heal." She said shortly, handing over her three pokeballs after recalling Fray. Nurse Joy seemed a bit caught off guard but gave a smile and nodded anyway. Asher withdrew a sigh until suddenly the Nurse came back. Asher noticed that Kevin and Siderous had entered the pokecenter, and Asher glanced at them and then turned her attention back to the Nurse.
"Excuse me, but you have a phone call."
Asher was caught off guard, but she gave a nod as she turned wide-eyed towards one of the video phones. Blinking she walked up to it, and picking it up she was surprised and a bit mortified to see Jared's face upon the screen. His thick, slightly curled dark hair seemed to accent his chiseled face slightly as he smiled back at her with twinkling eyes that even she could see from over the video. She was good at hiding the surprise a bit- although it hinted slightly in her face.
"J-jared!" She said offguard, to only hear a small chuckle of laughter.
"Yes yes... it's me! I thought you'd be in Viridian by now so I decided to check up on my project."
Asher instantly shot a glare at him, although she wasn't mad at him. It was a joke... and while she didn't smile- ever- she managed to show a bit of humor through her eyes that he seemed to be able to sense. Turning around, Asher looked at Kevin and Siderous and waved them over.
" So, catch any new pokemon?" Jared implied, lacing his fingers together as he leaned into the screen. Asher withdrew a gulp-like breath as she nodded.
"Yes... a Pikachu and a Dratini."
"A Dratini?" Jared seemed a bit disbelieving, but Asher gave a nod.
"Ran into two rockets and taught them a lesson... they some how brought the Dratini."
Jared gave a nod, "Well it's nice to know little Asher is doing some thing good."
Asher recoiled a fist.. " I'd hit you so hard right now for saying that."
Jared stuck his tongue out, "Nyah. Can't do it. Who are those two?"
Asher blinked an dlooked a bit behind her and saw Kevin and Siderous off to the side, and she immediatly pointed at htem.
"That one is kevin and the other is Siderous. They're traveling too."
Jared gave a nod to them, " Hope she isn't too much." He commented, giving a smirk as Asher quickly moved between the three of them.
" Stop it." She stated flatly, as Jared leaned back and merely shrugged.
" Oh okay... i guess if I HAVE to. Anyways, have you challenged the gym leader yet?"
" No... not yet. I am going to though, as soon as I aquaint myself with the Dratini."
Jared gave a nod, "Well good luck. I'm sure you'll do fine."
Asher nodded.
"Well... I'll let you go then. Feel free to contact me when you feel like it, sorta boring with out you here to bother."
Asher rolled her eyes, " Whatever... talk to you later."
"Bai!" Jared said, and soon the video screen transmission ended.

Asher collected herself for a bit before turning around, her blank face easily setting back in again.
" So what do you two want to do." Asher stated.

[The_Missing_Link]

Aidan Stafford - Viridian Forest
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The rest of the trek through the forest was rather brisk and uneventful. I was surprised we found any good Pokemon to begin with. Michelle's young Pikachu was interesting enough but an Abra in the middle of the forest was just plain cool. The fact that it was already hurt was just plain lucky but either way, I was excited at the prospects of a potentially great team.

The darkness of the hunkering trees soon dissipated into the brightness of the sun, although it appeared to be early to mid afternoon already. As the forest disappeared behind us, Pewter City came into view, a bigger town than Viridian but like Viridian not really justified to be called a city. The fact that a museum far ahead occupied our view perhaps convinced others it was worthy of such a name but even the same, it was small and gray.
"I want to heal Nightshade," I said absentmindedly.
Michelle nodded in agreement although she didn't have any business at the Pokecenter. Straight ahead we walked and entered the establishment, not surprisingly looking like the one before.
"Can I have my Pokemon healed?" I asked the nurse.
She quietly murmured something and took Nightshade's Pokeball, leaving us sitting on a couch. I looked towards the phone booths and saw two boys standing behind a girl, who was talking to an older, attractive looking man. I gave them another look before shifting my gaze back to my Pokebelt and unhitching the other ball. Enlargening it, I let Drake out and saw him stretch him.
"Hey bud," I greeted him. "I got a new member for the team and I think you'll like him. His name is Nightshade and he's an Abra."
The Charmander nodded solemnly but stared at Michelle's belt. Mock rolling her eyes, she relented and released Aqua, who was the victim of Drake's scary but somewhat cute stares. I sighed in shame and looked expectantly at the reception desk. Luckily, Joy caught my gaze and motioned for me to come over.
"He'll be fine but how did he end up like that?" she questioned.
"Honestly, I don't know," I admitted. "I found him leaning against a tree in the forest, completely unconscious."
She nodded thoughtfully but relinquished the ball over to me.
"Don't rush him in training all that once but I think it'll do him good in the long run."
"Thanks for the help," I nodded and sat back in the seat again.
Finally not staring at Aqua, Drake shifted his body in my direction as I released Nightshade onto the seat next to me. I expected him to be asleep, which was quite normal for an Abra's schedule but this one was quite awake. His eyes appeared shut, but his body shifted uncomfortably.
"Hi Abra, I'm you're new trainer," I said tentatively. "I saw you unconscious in Viridian Forest and I'm quite anxious to know what happened to you."
Before I had time to wait for his reply, moving pictures burst into my mind, like a story that blossomed when you flipped the pages rapidly.

An open clearing, right next to a crystal clean river. Abra tried to teleport away from a Beedrill's twin needle, but the barbs came hard and swift, cutting him off several times and likely poisoning him. Before the final blow, a burst of white light emerged from Abra and Breedrill stabbed into thin air.

I nodded sagely, clearly sorry for his inability to escape, but rather perplexed at his openness to share the vision with me.
"Well, unless I'm mistaken, I don't think you're refusing to join the team."
"Abra," it hissed softly.
"If it's ok with you, can I call you Nightshade? I think a Pokemon has a real personality with a nickname instead of a name that's constantly repeated when you speak."
It nodded in agreement, somehow pleased with these turn of events. I sighed happily and faced Michelle.
"I think I'm going to go train with the two of them before I challenge the leader. You feeling up to it or would you rather stay here?"

[DaRk MeWtWo]

Alex @ Pewter City Gym, with Alexis (Male Abra), Lyfai (Vaporeon), watching Lee Kenta vs. Brock

The spikey-yellow-haired trainer’s valiant efforts at raising a Magikarp had to be noted—Alex was also impressed with the fact that he had managed to come back so strong with his Eevee against that Brock’s menacing Geodude. His tactics were slightly daredevil are bordered on the edge of a gambler’s. When that Geodude had struck the gym’s floor, Alex had felt the ground beneath his tremble just a little—just enough for his feet to shuffle half a step. But this was enough to send sirens of alarm screeching in Alex’s head, for he knew Brock’s next pokemon would shake things up a lot more for the Eevee.

“Oh my GOD. Alex, don’t move, and don’t verbally speak! Not a word!” Alexis’s voice mentally rang through Alex so strongly that he couldn’t help but twitch his head a little.

“Ow…k, k, now what’s up?”

“There’s—ahem—there’s a Vapreon standing to your left side. And it…it looks, kind of, uh, different.”

“A Vaporeon in PEWTER CITY GYM? How in heck did it get here? Eevee are extremely rare as it is, and to have become a Vaporeon would have required exposure to a Water Stone—also quite rare. Even then, the Vaporeon would’ve been a prime target for trainers and scientists alike—how could it escape everything and get here…and why here anyway?”

“I have no clue…but you know, I’m a fledging psychic, so, I could find out how it got here if you’re interested…but then again the Vaporeon might find out that it’s been mind-read. That might not be such a good idea.”

Alexis was “perched” on Alex’s right shoulder, and the Vaporeon was right next to his left leg. Even a fast psychic pokemon might not be able to Teleport Alex out of harm’s way if the Vaporeon turned hostile and attacked Alex. It was a tough call. We could even catch the little critter….

“No. We’re not going to catch it. Huh? Sorry, Alexis, I’m still getting used to this thought-speak thing. I mean, yeah, go ahead, but just skim the surface.”

“Right…skim the surface…scanning…now.”

Alex noted nothing different in the air—save the undying tensions which kept building up between the battle ahead of them…and the situation right around him. Alex strained his eyeballs as far left as they would go, in order to get a better look at the Eeveelution without fully acknowledging its existence.

Woah…what’s up with that Vaporeon? It looks so different...from the other Vaporeons he saw in battle simulations and in real-life. This one looked so…defined…no, that wasn’t the right word…can’t find the right word…is it a guy or a girl…where did it come from…so…different…

Alex’s entranced thoughts were interrupted by the release of Brock’s second pokemon—and it wasn’t truly surprising to anyone that it would end up to a be a massive and daunting critter.

“Behold the greatest fruit of my labor! Onix! End this quickly! Earthquake!” Brock’s voice bellowed throughout the gym, echoing off the walls, a foreboding prelude to the Onix’s first attack.

Onix’s Earthquake was truly a horror—okay maybe that’s an overstatement. But it shook all Hell loose in the gym. As the Onix reared up for one of its most fearsome attacks, the spikey-yellow-haired trainer did his best to anticipate and adapt to his newest foe:

“Eevee! Get to high ground, now!” The valiant trainer yelled, and his Eevee gracefully dashed to the highest peak on the rocky terrain, a desolate top near the back of the gym.

Onix’s roaring voice struck must have struck fear into both the Eevee and its trainer, as the huge rock snake pokemon bashed its body against the floor of the gym. Both the roar and the sound of the Earthquake nearly broke the eardrums of Alex and the shockwaves were soon eating their way to his very feet.

“Dammit! Friggin’ showoff! I almost had the Vaporeon’s past in my hands! Hold on, Alex, I’m working on it.”

The Abra used its telekinetic powers to levitate itself, Alex, and…the Vaporeon. As for the Eevee, by jumping from peak to peak, it was able to evade the entire Earthquake attack. Alex was having a mind burnout right now, overwhelmed at how this situation had developed, but he was impressed nonetheless by the Eevee and Alexis. As the Onix shook its head in disgruntled approval of Eevee’s evade, Brock smiled at the yellow-spikey-haired kid.

“You adapt well, but I think it’s only a matter of time before one of Onix’s attacks hit, we shall see just how many moves your Eevee can evade.” Brock’s smirk could be seen a mile away.

With Alex still floating in the air, two things were running through his mind, now that it had somewhat recovered from the Earthquake attack:

1) Should he now acknowledge the Vaporeon’s existence, since Alexis had saved him/her from serious damage?
2) How in high heavens was that spikey-yellow-haired trainer going to survive the battle…what was his next move?

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Seth was using all the strength he could muster just to resist the urge to kill Chase. He had done nothing to him, and yet he had been a bitch to him all day long. The bastard even threatened him for no bloody reason.
"Are you going to take that?" One of the twins demanded.
"Yeah, he just insulted you. Aren't you going to do anything?" Seth just turned and began to walk away, silently fuming.
"Hey!" the twins called out as they ran after him.
"Take me to where I can find an Oddish," he replied bluntely. The dangerous tone in Seth's voice caused the twins to stop in their tracks.
"What?"
"Help me find an Oddish, and then I promise you, I will help you get your revenge against them." The twins knew better then to argue, so they agreed. Seth was going to make Chase's life a living hell. He didn't care if he had to kill someone. He was going to make Chase rue the day he pissed of Seth Maverick!

You hear that? I'm comin after you!

[Bulbasaur4]

Lyfai

Lyfai watched the battle with interest, her finned ears perked forth as she seemed to tilt her head to the side in curiosity. Of course, it didn't take long for her to notice that the figure she was sitting next to noticed her as well. She didn't think much of it- regular trainers never really frightened her that much. However, the Abra which Lyfai noticed... seemed to be doing some thing. A faint tingling sensation arose with in Lyfai, and with an instant reaction suddenly a recoil emerged in Lyfai's brain. Of course, she didn't know how it happened... or why it happened... but a mental barrier suddenly seemed to jut in her mind, rapidly arising with such strength and fierocity that the Abra's own mind was unable to get into hers.

There perhaps were a lot of new things that the Vaporeon didn't understand about herself. Because... of them.

Still, the Abra soon levitated her body upwards to avoid the little remnants of the EArthquake attack by the Onix, even though it was primarily focused in the middle of the gym. Lyfai gave a little cry of cheer- she thought it was great fun. Looking at the trainer, she flickered her tail lightly and gave a little cry as if to say, 'what fun!' As soon as the Onix had finished it's earthquake, the creature seemed to be using tackle attacks to try to get at the Eevee. With that, the Abra set both of them down. She coudl tell that the trainer and the Abra were communicating to each other... although she didn't understand how.
"Vaporr.." She said lightly, perking her ears forward and looking at the battle still. She felt bad for the Eevee out there, seeing the poor thing was obviously getting tired from trying to dogdge the massive rock-like creature which was so intent on smashing the fluffy brown fur ball.

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine (w/Asher and Kevin)
Party: Pidgey[F], Spearow[M], Butterfree[M], Nidoran[M]
Pewter City Pokecenter (rp starts before they get to the center)
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Sid's mind was spinning when he and Kevin followed Asher. Rockets? he thought. Why are they in Pewter? And what were they doing with a Dratini? These thoughts kept going round in his head, until he finally spoke up.
"Hey, Kevin... so, what happened? I mean, how'd you guys beat the two Rockets?"
"Hum? Oh." Kevin was looking pretty dazed. Maybe something was bothering him? "I'm not sure if I should talk about it."
"What are you talking about?" Sid said jokingly. "You just beat two Rockets. What Pokemon did you use?"
"Well..." Kevin was stalling. He finally sighed. "Let's just say that Asher doesn't like Rockets too much. She hates them. Passionately," he emphasized at the end.
"Oh," Sid said, his face draining of a little bit of color. The rest of the walk, they were quiet. So, she's not a fan of Rockets... better not let my secret slip, or I could end up in a world of serious pain...


"So what do you two want to do?" Asher stated, once Asher got off the phone.
"It's time," Siderous said, his lips curling into a smile. He was referring, of course, to the gym battle.
"Don't you think it's a little late?" Kevin said. "I mean, it was getting towards evening when we got here, and then we went to the museum, and finally did some training. Just look outside," he said, pointing out the window, "it's late. We should get some rest."
Asher looked a little perterbed, but she nodded in agreement.
"Yeah," Siderous said, "we should get to sleep, especially after what you two have gone through today with those Rockets." At the sound of the word 'Rockets,' Asher's face suddenly looked distant, and pale. Nurse Joy came up to the counter with a handful of Pokeballs.
"Here are your Pokemon, miss."
"Oh," said Asher, snapping back into reality.
Siderous piped up. "Excuse me, Nurse? Is there anywhere we can sleep for the night?"
The nurse smiled. "Of course. Just grab one of those couches."

Sid pulled out his sleeping bag and threw it on the floor.
"Aren't you going to take one of the couches?" Kevin inquired.
"Naw, I'm used to sleeping outside," Sid said, unzipping the sleeping bag. "I spend most of my nights out with Pidgey in the Viridian Forest."
"Ah," Kevin said, picking out a couch for himself.
Siderous climbed into the sleeping bag. Kevin was just getting into his bag, but Asher was standing next to the window of the center. He considered getting up and talking to her, but decided against it. She didn't like Rockets, and he was a Rocket, although she didn't know it. Besides, he didn't know her that well.
"Goodnight, you two," Siderous said, before putting his head down and nodding off to sleep.

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Outside Pewter Gym, After Lee's Battle

"Here we are, Chase. The gym is close to closing, so I think one of us should battle now and the other one battle in the morning," I told him as we stood at the front doors to the gym.

"Are you sure?" Chase asked me.

I nodded. "Actually it's a good strategy. The one that doesn't battle today will know what Pokemon Brock uses and what attacks those Pokemon use."

"Good idea. So, which of us goes first?"

I scratched my head. "Good question. I have an idea!" I looked through the door. "As I thought. There's a trainer waiting for us. I'll defeat the trainer so you can get to Brock easily. Your Staryu should make quick work of his Pokemon. We'll go to the Pokemon Center for the night, and then Dimitri and I'll be ready for Brock tomorrow." We walked through the doors. "Maybe we could sneak around the trainer."

The trainer managed to miss us as we walked behind him. We came across a large rock filled arena. Brock was waiting for us on the other side. "Welcome to the Pewter City Gym. Which one of you is battling me? Or do you both want to battle me, one at a time?" he asked us.

"Um, I guess we could do that." I said. "Go, Dimitri!" I threw his pokeball.

"Go, Geodude!" Brock yelled, throwing two pokeballs.

"Dimitri, take the Geodude!" I commanded. "Tackle him!" Dimitri charged forward, ready to smash into the Geodude.

"Geodude, Defense Curl," Brock said calmly. Geodude curled up into a ball. Dimitri made contact but staggered backward.

"Like hitting a brick wall," I commented. "Time for harder hitting attacks. Use Vine Whip!" Dimitri shot out both vines and hit the Geodude. But then the Geodude grabbed those vines and pulled Dimitri closer to him. He thrusted his fist forward and slammed Dimitri with it. Dimitri was sent rolling.

"Emi, I think that was Focus Punch!" Chase told me.

I bit my lip. I didn't know Geodude knew those kinds of attacks. This is what I get for being into flying Pokemon all the time. And it looks like Dimitri was hurt badly. Another hit like that and I'll lose.

"Geodude, another Focus Punch," Brock told the Geodude.

"Quick, another Vine Whip!" I cried out. Dimitri sent out his vines again and whipped the Geodude's face. Geodude floated back a bit, holding his face. "Another!"

"Geodude, dodge!" Brock commanded, his voice starting to sound panicky. Geodude floated to the left, dodging Dimitri's Vine Whip. "Now Rock Throw!"

Geodude picked up a rock that was almost as big as Dimitri and threw it at his opponent. Dimitri tried to dodge but was hit a glancing blow. He fell to the ground. "Bulbasauuur..." he groaned.

"Dimitri, are you alright? Please get up!" I pleaded.

Dimitri opened his eyes and struggled to his feet. "Bulba...saur!" he cried out. He shuffled his feet and spun around.

"What's he doing?" I asked. Then I felt something on my head. I reached up and plucked it from my hair. "A flower petal?" I looked up. Hundreds of them were floating down from the ceiling! "Where did they come from?"

"Oh no..." Brock muttered.

"Geo..." Geodude agreed.

The flower petals suddenly spun around as if they were being picked up by a tornado. Geodude tried to shield himself but somehow these soft flower petals were hurting him. He dropped to the floor, his eyes closed.

"I think I won," I said quietly. "But what was that attack?" I pressed a few buttons on the Pokedex for an answer.

One of Bulbasaur's bred-on moves, Petal Dance, the Pokedex explained. Bulbasaur summons a storm of flower petals that strike the opponent. Use caution while using this attack, as Bulbasaur will be confused shortly after.

"I'll say," I said, looking down at Dimitri, who was stumbling around like he was drunk. "So you really are a special Bulbasaur!"

"Guess it's my turn," Chase said.

[Crystal Tears]

OOC: I'm a afraid.. Let me tell you....

Chase
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"Go Onix!"

Just figures my luck would be I got the bigger and badder rock pokemon... I thought, tossing the pokeball and watching it release my new staryu, it spun once before focusing on the onix.
I could see the worry in his eyes because of the sheer type advantage I had over him. I smirked, this battle would be extremely quick..

"Staryu. Water gun." I commanded, staryu started off great, in a spinning motion it flew up high and hovered there, firing off a stream of water that struck onix directly in the face.

"Onix! Rock tomb!" Brock commanded.

"Staryu! Evade and Hide." I Again commanded in utmust seriousness, just as rocks and a brutal bricks fell from the sky, seemingly from no where. Staryu had already evaded, and hid. Brock blinked.

"where..."

"Staryu, Water gun. It sound finish this." I clamly commanded, in irony, out from behind brock, Staryu emerged, violently using a powerful water gun and ending the battle.

Brock was silent for a minute before handing me a badge. "Congratulations." He said, then turned to Emi who was looking down at her pokeball that contained a beaten up bulbasaur, and handed her a badge aswell.

"Come on." I said, taking her hand and waving goodbye to brock.

We sat in the pokemon center, all our pokemon out, munching away on the food that Joy had given us, and formulating a plan at how we were going to get through Mt. Moon.
"It won't be that hard. Just Zubats, Geodudes, and the ocassional Clefairy." I assured her, she smiled, but then frowned.

"What about team Rocket?"

"What about them?" I asked, handing Ryu a small amount of food. Ryu barked happily before eating.

"Well.. What if they try and steal our pokemon?"

I was silent for a minute before looking up at her worried face. "I won't let them. And I doubt your pokemon would let themselves be taken away from their trainer. Especially one who cares for them as much as you." She hugged me, I smiled and whispered to her. "Besides, its just team rocket."

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Seth glared at the Oddish before him. This was exactly the kind of pokemon he was looking for, tough and with a fighting spirit. The battle between it and Clyde had gone on for a few minutes and it was already showing signs of fatigue. It was strong, but not when against an enraged Seth.
"Clyde!" Seth ordered, "Finish it off! Karate Chop!"
"Oddish!" The grass pokemon cried, as a couple of vines arose from it's leafy head and shot at Clyde. The mankey dodged the attack and struck the Oddish with a sickening thud. The Oddish collapsed to the ground, unconcious.
"You're mine!" The dark skinned boy yelled, throwing a pokeball. He didn't even wait for the light to turn white as he strode over and picked it up. He looked at his new pokemon with a bit of satisfaction.
Excellent. This will definately come in handy.
He then looked over at his weiry partner.
I know very well that Clyde was good against rock types, but I also know that Brock has TWO pokemon, and if Clyde was defeated, I'd be in big trouble. This little guy will greatly help me. And if I train him well, he'll be useful against Cerulean's gym leader as well.
His expression then became grave.
But then there's Chase. He has a fire and a flying type. This Oddish would prove useless against his growlithe. But I can worry about tha later.
He bent down and picked up Clyde.
First, I need to heal these two first.

[DaRk MeWtWo]

Alexander @ Pewter City Gym, with Alexis [M Abra] and Lyfai [F Vaporeon]

The Vaporeon’s tail swished back in forth in the air as Alexis set them back on the floor. As Alex looked deep into its eyes, he saw a spark of joy and hypothesized that the vicious battle was amusing the Eeveelution.

“Yeah, I know, isn’t it great? Haha…ha!” Alex was desperately trying to negotiate better relations with the Vaporeon, because somewhere in the back of his mind, his trained brain still thought it was a truly wild pokemon, and would pounce on him at any given moment.

“Vap? Pooo-reee—oohn.” The Vaporeon replied, a little startled that the trainer was trying to communicate with her. Then it nodded its head in agreement as they touched the floor gently—courtesy of a semi-exhausted Alexis.

“Don’t mind—if—I—doze off—for a while….Zzz,” pretty soon Alexis was snoring in Alex’s arms.

“What a critter. Ah well, it was only to be expected. Uh…let’s enjoy the rest of the battle, Vaporeon!” Alex was doing his best to act normal around the Vaporeon, and hoped to eventually kindle a friendly understanding with it.

“Vapy!” It responded. Not too far away, Brock’s Onix slammed empty rock as the Eevee jumped on its head, evading another would-be-devastating blow.”

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The yellow-spikey-haired trainer was fused out. The battle had sapped almost all his remaining strength, and, with his spikey-yellow-hair and dazed face, he didn’t look too different from a zombie that had arisen once more from the grave, only with more skin and bones. In any case, as Brock sighed and returned to his private office behind the gym, the yellow-spikey-haired trainer carefully made his way to the exit.

Alexander was truly impressed at how the battle had turned out—and doubtlessly so were the Vaporeon. Unfortunately, Alexis had missed all the action, and was still soundly asleep. Fortunately, this would save Alex journeying time in regard to the Abra’s sleeping habits.

“Vaa—po.” The Vaporeon looked a little tired too, from all this overwhelming excitement.

As the yellow-spikey-haired trainer neared Alex, he nodded the acknowledgement of him, Alexis, and the Vaporeon.

“Um. Hey there, name’s Lee Kenta. Did you see the whole battle?” He asked, still a little shellshocked from the ordeal.

“Allo, of course we did. Me name’s Alexander blahblahblah, long name—just call me Alex. And here’s Alexis, my Abra,” Alex replied, knowing what Lee would ask next—he didn’t have to psychic to know that he would ask:

“What about your Vaporeon?” He asked, eyeing the Eeveelution interestingly.

“Um…I…do…n’t…really…eh….” His voice trailed off—for he was a good trainer, not a good liar.

Suddenly the Vaporeon ran around Alex and cried in approval of him—as if he was her trainer. Lee opened his eyes in wonder.

”What is going—” he was cut off by a swiftly processed explanation from Alex.

“I mean, it—he—no, no, she originally belonged to a friend of mine, but she has gone to visit her…ah…”

The Vaporeon continued to encircle Alex and provided a temporary distraction for Lee’s suspicious eyes as Alex formulated the rest of his…lie:

“…aunt, in Lavender, so she gave her Vaporeon to me to take care of for a while. We live back in…in…Viridian City of course! Yeah that’s it.” Alex had stressed the word Lavender wrongly, as if he had made up the whole thing. Not to mentions Lee’s questioning eyes.

“Right. Okay. Anyhow, I gotta go heal my pokemon. You wanna meet up later, like, after your Abra—what’s his name again? Sorry.” He asked.

“’s okay. Alexis.” Alex replied.

“Right. Alexis, when and if he wakes up, meet me in the Pewter City Pokecenter. Ci-ao…tell then.” Lee yawned, waving at Alex as he exited the Gym.

As soon as he left, the Vaporeon let out what could be called the equivalent of a nearly inaudible, ye audible human giggle. The sound made Alex laugh off the bat, but he quickly shut up—and regretted doing so far later in his journey.

“Uh…yeah, that was kinda funny scene. Um, thanks for your help. Listen, I might visit the Museum soon before meeting Lee outside the Pokecenter, do you want to walk with me to the Museum?” Alex asked, opening the exit from the Pokecenter, and seeing two familiar faces faraway in the distance.

Alex @ Entrance/Exit of Pewter City Gym, with Sleeping Alexis [Abra M] and Lyfai [Vaporeon F]

[SWAMPERT1]

Finally got time to post. I am assuming that Alex and I will be traveling together. Also Alex, I used some of your posts for my battle so I could complete the battle that you saw.

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee – Magikarp
Location: Pewter City Gym – Battle – Leader Brock – Part 2
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I couldn’t believe it. The creature that Brock had released was a huge snake like creature mad of solid rock. The creature was an Onix and it raised its head high and roared.

“Behold the greatest fruit of my labor! Onix! End this quickly! Earthquake!” Brock’s voice bellowed throughout the gym, echoing off the walls, a foreboding prelude to the Onix’s first attack.

Onix’s Earthquake was truly a horror—okay maybe that’s an overstatement. But it shook all Hell loose in the gym. As the Onix reared up for one of its most fearsome attacks, I did my best to anticipate and adapt to my newest foe:

“Eevee! Get to high ground, now!” I yelled, and my Eevee gracefully dashed to the highest peak on the rocky terrain, a desolate top near the back of the gym.

Onix’s roaring voice struck must have struck fear into both Eevee I, as the huge rock snake pokemon bashed its body against the floor of the gym.

Eevee jumped from rock to rock and dodged the earthquake. Brock looked at me a smiled.

“You adapt well, but I think it’s only a matter of time before one of Onix’s attacks hit, we shall see just how many moves your Eevee can evade.” Brock’s smirk could be seen a mile away.

Brock than made his second command, “Onix, tackle.” The huge snake like creature came flying towards Eevee with its head down. There wasn’t a whole lot of options here. The Onix was too huge to attack so their was only one way to do, “Eevee, run to the wall.” I called. Eevee then ran to the wall and turned around. The Onix kept getting closer and closer when I gave another command, “Eevee, Jump over it.”

Eevee jumped as high as it could and the Onix ran right into the wall. It was a hard hit and did a noticeable amount of damage. By noticeable, I mean that the Onix looked dazed and it looked kind of confused.

“Good one Eevee!” I called out to Eevee, “Now, let’s make Onix more confused, use a quick attack to run around it really fast.” Eevee than began to run extremely fast around the rock snake and our strategy was working. The Onix kept following Eevee with its eyes and got a case of confusion.

Brock was getting to his boiling point and gave out a command, “Onix, Body Slam!” The Onix raised its head as high as it could and came down towards Eevee.

“Eevee, dodge to the left!” I called out.

Eevee jumped to the left and the Onix slammed its head on a giant rock. It tried to curl back up but couldn’t, the beast was down for the count.

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Party: Eevee – Magikarp
Location: Pewter City Gym – After Battle with Leader Brock
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“I can’t believe I lost” Brock said returning his Onix and walking towards me. He dug into his pocket and pulled out the Boulder Badge and the TM. He then threw them to me as he turned and went into his office.

I looked over to his office and then shock my head, “Poor Sport” I mumbled.

I just forgot about him and saw a trainer. I approached him, nodded and said,
“Um. Hey there, name’s Lee Kenta. Did you see the whole battle?”

“Allo, of course we did. Me name’s Alexander blahblahblah, long name—just call me Alex. And here’s Alexis, my Abra,” Alex replied.

I then looked down at the Vaporeon and asked, “What about you Vaporeon?”

“Um…I…do…n’t…really…eh….” His voice trailed off

Suddenly the Vaporeon ran around Alex and cried in approval of him. I opened up my eyes in Wonder.

“What is going-“ I got cut off by Alex.

“I mean, it—he—no, no, she originally belonged to a friend of mine, but she has gone to visit her…ah…”

The Vaporeon kept going around Alex and I got distracted as I watched it.

“…aunt, in Lavender, so she gave her Vaporeon to me to take care of for a while. We live back in…in…Viridian City of course! Yeah that’s it.” Alex had stressed the word Lavender wrongly, as if he had made up the whole thing. I looked at Alex with a bit of disbelief

“Right. Okay. Anyhow, I gotta go heal my pokemon. You wanna meet up later, like, after your Abra—what’s his name again? Sorry.” I asked.

“’s okay. Alexis.” Alex replied.

“Right. Alexis, when and if he wakes up, meet me in the Pewter City Pokecenter. Ci-ao…tell then.” I yawned, waving at Alex as I exited the Gym.

I signed the entrance statue as I exited the building and I went right to the Pokemon Center. I gave my pokemon to Nurse Joy and decided to go get a chair and give myself some rest aswell.

[Bulbasaur4]

Lyfai

Lyfai seemed to cheerfully smile up at this trainer, taking notice that the Abra was sleeping quite soundfully. Lyfai listened to the trainer, and for once she didn't feel like she needed to really run around. Giving a light little wag of her finned tail, she gave a little cheerful approval. Why not go? The trainer had seemed nice enough...

Soon Lyfai and the trainer with the sleeping Abra headed over to the museum. She liked to hear him giggle, it was a pleasant sound that she hadn't heard from a human before. He seemed to stop short however, which caused Lyfai's brilliant violet eyes to stare oddly upon him but she ignored it soon enough. Soon they had reached a rather plain looking building, and opening the door they entered inside. Lyfai remembered the trainers introducing themselves, and this one was named Alex with the abra named... Alexis? Their names seemed so similiar, that it only made her give a soft giggle to herself. Such oddity, but Lyfai didn't know humans very well to begin with.

As soon as they had entered the museum, Lyfai darted about the place. Alex seemed to watch her energy unfold before him, obviously shocked that any pokemon perhaps could show such abundance when his abra was sleeping in his arms. Still, she pranced about while Alex finally gave a slight sigh and began to look at various things. Soon Lyfai had settled down a bit, and she began to glance about as well. There were many interesting things... rocks, stones, pictures of strange places and pokemon. Lyfai had stopped shortly, staring at one of the pictures for a moment. It was a picture of an odd pokemon... and Lyfai wagged her tail slightly. She had seen that pokemon before, although she couldn't exactly remember how or where. Much of her past or her history had been forgotten, not by choice... but because of... them.

Shivering lightly, Lyfai chose to forget about that for the moment as she bounded over to Alex and sat by him. He seemed to be browsing as well, and Lyfai simply blinked and glanced about the area as she waited- showing a sign that she could remain patient.

[Samchu]

Kevin
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Curled up on the sofa of the pokemon centre was a far more pleasurable experience than I had imagined. It was surprisingly comfortable and felt relatively soft and new. So, I couldn’t blame the sofa for my lack of sleep that night.
Once again, I was plagued with the images that haunted so many of my dreams. The flashes of my memory trying to re-establish the things my eyes had seen and coming together to form one horrendous nightmare. It never played in order and was always a jumbled mess that made to me little or no sense at all.
I heard the sounds of a door bursting open, followed by a barrage of running feet and muffled shouting. I heard the voice of my father and I crawled through my hideout (ventilation system) to investigate. After all, I was a super-spy and it was my job.

* * *

There was blood scattered across the floor, my father laying dead with a hole in his head. They moved to the room where my mother was screaming. They wore black and had ‘R’ painted on the front.

* * *

Mom was telling me to play in my hideaway with Violet and Ivy, mom and dad’s pokemon. I told her I always behaved and she promised me a treat when dinner was finished. The words ‘ice cream’ were floating around in my head.

* * *

They were leaving. I watched them scamper out of the house in a hurry. I snuck out to find mom.

* * *

A loud scream pierced the air followed by a shattering bang of a bullet exploding from a loaded pistol. Behind me, Ivy and Violet were being mauled by savage pokemon I had never before seen. I hid in my corner and cried…

To my great fortune, I was quickly pulled from my sleep by the vicious shaking of my arm. I opened my eyes and saw Asher standing over me, her face as stern as always.
“You were shouting in your sleep. I didn’t want you to wake Sid.”

“Thanks.” I muttered, getting up quickly and moving to a window. It was very dark outside. Shadow and Jet were asleep at the foot of one of the sofas; they appeared not to have been disturbed by my rantings. In fact, aside from me, only Asher was awake. I wondered if she’d been up all this time. “Look Asher, about earlier…I know you’re mad at me for not letting you have your way with those Rockets earlier but you have to understand it wouldn’t have made you feel any better, it never does.”

“How would you know? You don’t have the hate for them that I do.”

“And how would you know that?” I challenged. “I hate them with a vengeance and I’d love nothing more than to grant the filthy rats a one-way ticket to the darkest depths of hell.”

“So why didn’t you let Fray trample them like I ordered?”

I sighed. “Because for whatever reason you hate them, taking action against them only makes it worse because you know that there are still more and that the ones directly responsible for everything are just hiding behind someone else.” I smacked the glass and it shook slightly under the impact. “I caught on of them once, breaking in a short distance from where I was staying. I made him regret it.” I sighed again. “I felt terrible afterwards, taking action just made me feel like one of them. I would never be so inhumane as to do the things they have done.”

“Different people react in different ways to different situations,” replied Asher. She sounded the same as ever, completely lacking in any type of emotionally response. Maybe she was just really good at hiding it or perhaps she just genuinely didn’t care. “Is that what your nightmare was about?” The question took me completely by surprise.

“No. It was much worse. They murdered my parents one night and I saw them do it but for some reason I can’t remember it clearly enough. They shot my father in cold blood as he pleaded for his life and they raped my mother in the kitchen before they shot her through the heart. I only saw them murder my father but that was enough. Shadow’s parents were torn apart protecting her, she was still only an egg back then, and I stayed hidden until it was all over. The rest is practically a blur…I was put into care but I had these horrible nightmares and no one could cope with it. So, they sent me to a…well a mental home basically so that they could try and ‘cure me’. I hated it, locked up with no real freedom, and treated like some kind of disease on humanity. Regular appointments with men in white coats who kept telling me that they ‘understood’ what I was going through…Eventually they put me on these drugs and they helped suppress the nightmares but they made it hard to focus and left disoriented and easily tempered. They didn’t seem to care about the side effects because they were quick to send me off to the academy with an updated dosage. The teachers kept treating me like some sort of…freak…and I quickly abandoned my ‘medication’. I’d rather have the occasional nightmare than go through the side effects. It made no difference though, I was still something that they clearly didn’t want to have around and naturally that feeling seemed to spread through the academy and I quickly found myself pretty lonely with only Shadow to keep me company. That’s when I met you. You weren’t like everyone else, you judged me purely by your own terms, and were the only one who seemed to recognise that I was just like everyone else. That’s why I stuck with you despite the fact that you didn’t care much for my company, because you were the only one who would hang around long enough to actually have some form of conversation. I thought that maybe I could help you open up a bit because you just seemed so distant, especially after watching you with Fray…I figured it was my way of thanking you for being there, even though you didn’t know it.” I let out a small laugh. “But it appears that I have been the one who has opened up first.” I turned to her and let out a saddened smirk, “guess that makes me some sort of hypocrite, wouldn’t you say?”

[Bulbasaur4]

Asher

As Siderous and Kevin slept, Asher had walked about the pokemon center. At one point she had gone outside... sitting next to Fray who had been released outside. Fray prefurred it that way... and the two of them sat beneath the beautiful, sparkling stars in the night sky. Fray's brilliant mane seemed to reflect a beautiful firey glow, as Asher leaned slightly against her Ponyta friend. They were in silence... and finally Asher grabbed her other two marked pokeballs and let them out. Leif and the Dratini appeared, Leif letting out a yawn as he twitched his ears about for a bit. He then decided to lay next to Asher, obviously opening up a little bit to her. The Dratini seemed frightened however... recoiling away, to which Asher frowned.
"You don't have to be afraid of me... I'm not like the others."
The Dratini's eyes fixated upon Asher, as if unsure how to react.
" Those Rockets were horrible to you... weren't they? Well I won't be that way... I'll treat you nicely and if ever find out where you belong, I'll let you go back. Sound okay?"
Asher held out her hand gently, pausing as the Dratini seemed to ponder and then slowly came over to her hand. Sniffing it gently, the Dratini glanced to Fray who seemed to smile with her eyes and give a gentle whinny. The Dratini then came closer to Asher, allowing her to stroke his soft skin gently and pat him behind the little white ears.
" You need a name... I don't suppose you have one, do you?"
The Dratini seemed to shake it's head a little bit, although it still was quite timid and obviously shy.
"Hmm... well then can I give you one?"
Silence insued, before the Dratini gave an agreeing nod. Asher then contemplated for a moment, before looking at the timid male Dratini.
" I think that name 'Aries' is nice, do you?"
The Dratini seemed to close it's eyes for a moment before giving a light little nod and a timid, "Teee..." Asher withdrew a breath of relief that he had liked the name, and slowly she leaned back and closed her eyes briefly.
After a few passing minutes, Asher felt she heard some thing coming from inside the Pokecenter so she quickly picked up Leif and Aries, looking to Fray.
"Will you be alright for the night?"
Fray gave an approving snort, and Asher nodded and entered the Pokecenter. She heard Kevin shouting some thing, and quickly she sat Leif and Aries upon the couch and rushed over to him. Shaking him awake... she withdrew him from his nightmare.

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Asher had listened to Kevin, understanding a bit now of his past. It was a bit remarkable to her that he turned out the way he did, after expeirencing some thing rather rash like that. She remained silent, listening and understanding a bit of his past and where he was coming from... but then when he finished, she shook her head.
"You're not a hypocrite... besides it doesn't matter. Opening up to some one isn't a weakness... and I bet you feel a bit better now."
Kevin seemed to blink and he nodded, glancing to her as if expecting some thing but Asher shook her head.
" I'll tell you that my past... well, it's got a lot of bad things in it. Things that no girl ever wants to expierence, and things that haunt me constantly. Yes... some of them do have to do with rockets... others have to do with... other things." Asher sighed and stood up gently, looking to Kevin again as she glanced to see her two sleeping pokemon.
" Things define us... the past does. I might be cold, but...it's who i am. No one has given me a reason to trust them... in fact the only people who really give me chances are you and Jared. Jared was kind enough to enroll me into the academy and provide me some housing."
Asher glanced to Kevin, a soft look with in her eyes.
" I'd probably be worse with out him. Maybe i would have really beat you up too... of course, perhaps I'll admit that you've affected me too. Made me perhaps learn how to tolerate others. " It was a joke, perhaps not tha tfunny but it was her way of lighting the mood.
" I'm not ready to say anything to anyone. I don't know why you hang around me Kevin... I'm not a good person. "

With that, Asher slipped off her shirt and perhaps it gave Kevin a bit of a heart leap, but underneath she had a simplistic white tank top as she undid her belt and then went to her bag. Opening it up she managed to grab a sleeping bag and she rolled it out on the couch. Leif seemed to wake up from this disturbance, giving a yawn as he looked to her. Asher slipped inside teh bag, letting most of it's top hang off of her for she was rather warm.
" Good night Kevin. "
With that, Asher closed her eyes and it wasn't long before Leif gently walked upwards and curled upon Asher's body, towards her arm and chest where she naturally seemed to have her delicate hand rest upon his body as the two of them slept, Aries remaining by her feet.

[SWAMPERT1]

Lee Kenta
Party: Eevee – Magikarp
Location: Pewter City Pokemon Center
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I was awoken by Nurse Joy by a light tap on my shoulder. I looked up at her and she was holding two trays. One had my pokeballs on it and the other had possibly the biggest sandwich I have ever seen.

“Here are your pokemon.” She said sweetly with a smile, “I thought you would be hungry after your battle with Brock so I also made a sandwich for you.”

“Thank You very much.” I said as I grabbed the two trays, “But how did you know about me beating Brock?”

“Well I saw your badge when you came in and you and your pokemon were extremely tired so I put one and one together.” She replied.

“Oh I see.” I said while putting the pokeballs on my belt. “Um could I also give you a letter after I finish my sandwich?” I asked.

“Sure. The paper and pens are on that table beside you and you can bring it right up to me.” She replied.

“Okay, Thank You” I said as I took a bite into my food.

Nurse Joy then turned around and walked back to the front desk.

I quickly finished my food and began to write the letter. It was for Alex and how that I had unfortunately changed my mined about traveling with him. I wrote that I would love to travel with him but I want to do lots of things on my journey and don’t want to slow down for anything. I finished off the note with, “See you later friend.” And signed it. I then got up, got my bag and walked to the front desk.

I asked Nurse Joy to give it to Alex and I described him and said he had an Abra and Vaporeon with him. She said she would and I left the pokemon center.

I took a path that lead to the far east of Pewter City. There was a path with a sign that said, “Mt. Moon and Cerulean City--->”

“Sweet.” I said to myself, “On to my second badge.

[Siderous]

Siderous Peregrine (w/Asher and Kevin)
Party: Pidgey[F], Spearow[M], Butterfree[M], Nidoran[M]
Location: Pewter City Pokecenter
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Dreaming...



"Weee!" The cry of a Weedle screamed in Sid's head. "Weeeee...."

His eyes opened. A bunch of Weedle, Caterpie, Kakuna, Metapod, and others were crowding around Siderous. He'd been sleeping on the forest floor. "What's going on?" he called.
BANG!
"Huh?" Sid leapt to his feet, confused. "What was that?"
BANG!
"Speeearow!" Sid heard in the distance.
Instantly Siderous took off deeper into the Viridian Forest.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The gunshots sounded closer. Finally, Sid came to a clearing in the woods. He stopped to catch his breath, and hid behind a bush.
Two men were standing there, grinning. They both had camoflauge pants and a white coat on, and both carried a hunting rifle.

The first man spoke with a strong, deep voice. "Let's get out of here, I've got my share."
"Not yet," said the smaller of the two. His voice was quite the opposite; very high pitched and squeaky. "I want to pick off a Pidgey."
Sid's heart skipped a beat. 'Poachers,' he thought. He suddenly realized where he was; this was the clearing where Fawkes, his best friend (a male Pidgey,) lived.
"Hey, look up there; that's a Pidgey nest, that is," said the older man. The younger one started to lift his rifle.
"NOOOO!" cried Siderous, bursting through the brush and slamming into the smaller man. The older man watched, surprised, as Siderous began beating on the younger one. Once the shock receded, he finally bent over and lurched Sid off of the younger counterpart.

The young man fingered his face, and found that he was bleeding from his mouth and nose. He fired a disgusted look at Siderous. "You'll regret that," he said, picking up his weapon and pointing the muzzle towards Sid.
"Piiiiidgey!" cried Fawkes, suddenly diving out of a tree and headbutting the younger man. He fired, but his shot was lost in the woods.
"I'm gonna get you!" exclaimed the older man, pulling out a pistol. He began firing precise shots in the air at the flittering Pidgey, who was flapping circles in the sky. The bullets were missing by millimeters. As he was shooting, Siderous managed to call for help:
"Piiidgey!" Sid cried, putting his excellent bird calling talents to use. "Speeearow!"

A few Pidgey and Spearow began gathering overhead. The younger man started looking rather nervous; the older man, however, looked pissed. "You!" he exclaimed, shooting a dangerous look in Sid's direction, "stop that!" Siderous didn't stop, and more and more birds flocked to the scene. Fawkes was squawking like mad to the gathering birds, probably telling the others what was happening.
The older man looked furious. "I warned you," he hissed, and raised the pistol in Sid's direction.
There was a flash of brown...
BANG!
...and Fawkes slammed into the ground at Sid's feet. Immediately, the birds overhead swarmed the two hunters. They threw off their white coats, attempting to throw off the onslaught, but to now avail. Eventually they ran screaming out of the woods. Siderous, who'd closed his eyes and said a little prayer when the gun was pointed at him, now opened his eyes and saw his little guardian angel lying at his feet.

Siderous knelt down and gently picked up Fawkes. He was dead. There was a bullet wound near the center of his stomach.
"Fawkes..."
Sid looked up with tears in his eyes, and saw something even more horrifying. Fawkes's mate was lying not too far off. Sid could tell; she had a missing talon, and her tail feathers had been burned by a passing trainer's Charmander a while ago.

Siderous wept. For the first time in his life, he wept. He put Fawkes down, and turned away; he couldn't bear to see Fawkes like that. That's when he noticed the white coats that the hunters had left. Siderous sniffed, and wiped his face with his sleeve as he got up and went to the coats....

Suddenly, everything became blurry... the lettering on the white coats... he couldn't make them out well, but he was sure they said something like "Ook Alde," whatever that meant... Sid finally fainted.

Next thing he knew, he was in his bed... his mother was trying to explain that she'd found him in the woods, and she took the coats and destroyed them...

Siderous woke with a start. He was sweating all over his body. Quickly, he sat up, got out of the sleeping back, and grabbed his backpack. Sid tore through, looking for clothes to wear for the day, and went to the bathroom to change.

When he returned, Asher was stretching and groaning- she'd just woken up. She looked surprisingly good in her white tank top. Kevin was still snoring away.

[classy_cat18]

Emi Tajiri ~ Pewter City Pokemon Center

Chase and I slept peacefully in the Pokemon Center, our Pokemon in their pokeballs. While I was sleeping, however, I had this crazy dream. I was being chased down hallways of some unknown building. Loud alarms rang in my ears. People everywhere were shouting. The weird thing was that I felt like I was running on all fours.

Chase shook me awake in the morning. "Wake up, Emi. We should've been up an hour ago," he said.

"Ugh. Five more minutes," I groaned, turning over.

I felt something poke my back. "Bulbasaur!" I heard Dimitri shout. He sounded a little ticked off.

I turned back over and smiled at Dimitri. "You don't want to wait either, huh? Okay, I'm getting up." Then I remembered something. "We can't leave yet! Mom said that she wanted to see us about something!"

As if on cue, Mom walked through the front doors holding two pokeballs. "Hi kids! I was afraid I would miss you."

"You can thank Emi for that," Chase said.

My eyes locked on the pokeballs. "Is there something in there, Mom?" I asked her.

She nodded. "As you may know, the next gym will be filled with water Pokemon. I got something that may help you two." She opened the two pokeballs, revealing two Pikachu. "I know this electric Pokemon breeder that owned these Pikachu. These two are quite the handful so he thought that they might benefit from trainers like yourselves."

Dimitri looked at me pleadingly. "Bulba..."

"Thanks Mom, but I already was planning on using Dimitri to battle the gym leader. He knows Petal Dance!" I said, defending Dimitri.

"But what about Chase? Who was he planning on using?" Mom asked me. "Maybe you won't need the Pikachu for Cerulean City but you'll probably need them later on. Please take them. My friend already has more than he can handle."

I looked at the two Pikachu. They looked completely identical. Both of them had a collar of some sort around their neck. One said "A.C." and the other said "D.C." "They're twins. Isn't it cute?" Mom asked me.

"Yeah." I looked up at Chase. "What do you think? They look like they're pretty young. You think we should take them with us?"

[Mystic_clown]

Seth
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Seth had been awake since dawn. He was used to waking up this early, you had to if you wanted to survive. He looked down at his three pokemon. Clyde was awke while Nomad and the Oddish (which he had named Ochu) were sleeping soundly.
"The Gym wont be opene for another few hours," he said softly to his partner, cautious not to wake the others, "So how about we grab somethin to eat?" Now, when he said, 'grab somethin to eat' he usually meant steal some food. Leaving Monad and Ochu to sleep, the two left the pokemon centre and walked down the street.
"There's a supermarket not far from here," said Seth.

A few minutes later...

"These pineapples are great!" Seth exclaimed as he bit into it, "I should steal exotic fruit more often." Seth had managed to swipe a couple of pineapples, a bottle of soda, a bottle of milk, some bread and a bag of pokemon chow. Clyde was munching happily at his food. Clyde glanced at a watch he had stolen a few years back.
"The others should be waking up," he said, getting up and putting the left over food in his bag, "We'd better head back." Clyde swollowed the last of his food, nodded and followed Seth back to the pokemon centre.

Sorry for the crappiness people.

[DaRk MeWtWo]

Alexander @ Pewter City Museum w/ Alexis [Abra M] and Lyfai [Vaporeon F]

Alex had hope in his newest friend. For the first time since he had met Alexis back in the Prof’s house, he felt that he was truly capable of getting quite a few if not most the badges. The Vaporeon’s acceptance as an ally in his quest was truly heart-lifting for the new trainer—hopefully he wasn’t overestimating their friendship.

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What the heck is that pokemon? I know I’ve seen it before in those synthetic pokedexes. They said it was heck fast. I like heck fast pokemon like Alexis. Dammit what is that thing?! Alex was staring at the fossilized structure of an ancient rock-head pokemon, with an unbelievable wingspan attached. Its massive skull seemed to large to lift for the body and Alex marveled at the skeleton’s design It must have been ruler of the skies. I need to find out its name.

Meanwhile, the Vaporeon had been sitting patiently by him this whole time and wasn’t really interesting in the massive skull of some extinct pokemon. Nevertheless, she was sitting right there.

“Huh? Oh. You’re waiting for me? Hehe. Sorry for that. I got kinda absorbed in this fossil. Did you get a good look around?” He asked, looking right into the aquatic pokemon’s captivating eyes. The Vaporeon only nodded its head and cried as if in a “Yes.”

“Cool stuff, right? Oh man, I’m sorry, I’m probably boring you. Uh, hey look why don’t we look to see if Lee is done at the Pokecenter? I’m sure we can hook up with him and later, we can crush Brock.” Alex proposed.

“Vapi.” The pokemon could only respond in “yes” and “no,” and as far as Alex could tell, she was glad to leave the museum.

Darn. If only it was easy as it was with Alexis. I’ve even bored her...just when I thought we were getting to know each other.

“WTF? Are you talking to yourself, Alex?” Alexis’s sudden blabber froze Alex rigid

“Ssh. Quiet. Yes, I mean, no. I’m not. Whatever. You look like you’re still asleep. What’s going on?” Alex asked him mentally.

“I am. Well, I’m sleepwalking. I dunno. I’m asleep, but I can talk with you still. I need 16 hours of sleep, but only 8 real hours of full-sleep. Kinda confusing, but basically I can talk to you 8 out of those 16 hours. Should make for a more interesting journey, eh?” He commented.

“Sure would. Anyhow, look. The Vaporeon we met earlier. I think it favors my presence. WTF? I can’t word my thoughts right. Whatever, it likes me so far. If you need to take a longer nap, I can battle Brock with…her? I dunno if she still thinks we’re just friends or if I’m her trainer. I’ll see if I can find out. Is that okay with you? I really wanted you to smash that show-off’s Onix but—” he was mentally slapped by Alexis, as if he had a shockwave.

“Dude. You talk, okay you think waaay too much. Don’t worry about the Vaporeon. I think she’s cool. I couldn’t read her mind. Something was pushing me back—that’s good—that means she’s got strong mental capabilities. We’ll need that for Brock and the future. ‘s okay with me if you abandon me and use only her for the battle.” Alexis mentally yawned, but on his shoulder, it still looked like he was fast asleep all the same.

“Thanks man. I hope you understand that…” Alex suddenly realized that the Vaporeon was staring at him as if he was crazy—and that Alexis was back to “Full Sleep Mode.”

“Eheh. Sorry about that. Um, let’s just go, shall we?” Alex asked. The Vaporeon nodded again and they began to walk out of the museum, when Alexis caught light of a shiny stone near the entrance of the museum.

“What in the heavens is that?!” He rushed to the spot and picked up a brown-and-yellow stone which faintly made him remember the fossilized skeleton of the “ruler of the skies” he had seen minutes ago.

“Oh my god. This must be…op!” He quickly shut up and put the stone in his pocket. The Vaporeon, for once, hadn’t noticed him, as it was still proceeding to the entrance of the museum while glancing at another pokemon’s painting it had seen earlier. Alex looked her way and was floored by its beauty. Wow. K, I’ll never get my hands on that critter. No way I’ve seen it before in the synthetic pokedexes.

Alex was caught in the picture’s beauty as he smacked his forehead onto the museum’s door and cursed himself for not looking where he was going. The Vaporeon noticed this and purred softly—almost as if it were a giggle. Alex noticed her laughing and began to laugh again as well At least I can crack her up

He opened the door for the Vaporeon and quickly followed her to the Pokemon Center to see if Lee was ready for him. This is so rad. I’m finally making human friends for once! But he was soon to be disappointed. When he got to the Pokecenter, the familiar-but-not-so-familiar face of perhaps-the-same-Nurse-Joy-perhaps-not looked upon his entrance and gracefully walked to him.

“Hello. Welcome to our Pokemon Center once again. This is for you, from a young boy named Lee Kenta. He has just departed for Cerulean City via Mt. Moon.” Nurse Joy smiled and handed Alex a neatly folded letter.

With trembling hands Alex tore upon the letter:

Dear Alex,

Dude, it was nice meeting you back there at the gym. I’m so glad you watched my battle with Brock—I think your presence somehow supported my victory. Seriously, I appreciated your “attendance,” if that’s the right word.

In any case, I’m writing this letter to tell you that I’ve changed my mind about traveling together. I’d loved to journey with you—but you see I want to do lots of things, and I just know we’ll have conflicting schedules, so I don’t want there to be a time when you’re slowing me down or where I’m slowing you down. I hope you understand.

See you later, friend.
--Lee Kenta

Alex had very mixed feelings after reading this letter. It was good to know that Lee was so thoughtful, sincere, and realistic. Those qualities were essential in a good traveling partner. Nevertheless, Alex felt a slight pain in his heart—he had, after all, been somewhat cast aside. Even though that wasn’t the case, and even he knew it wasn’t so, it was just human instinct and feelings that depressed him a little.

“Vapy?” The Vaporeon jumped and eagerly tried to pry the letter from Alex’s grasp.

“Wha? You want to read it that badly? Hehe.” He started playing games with the Vaporeon, running in circles as the aquatic pokemon chased him down. People started looked at the duo in the Pokecenter and some were smiling. The Vaporeon suddenly leaped in the air and bought Alex tumbling to the ground. Alex panicked and managed to preserve Alexis’s delicate body before it was crushed by his weight. The Vaporeon laughed once more and Alex’s spirits arose yet again.

“Whew…you’re fully of energy, aren’t you? Hey, look, Alexis is still asleep. And…I was thinking…do you want to—to—to battle Brock with me?” He finally managed to get the words out of his mouth and the Eeveelution just sat, there, thinking. The air was rather tense, at least around Alex’s face, for her reply would decide their future as partners forever….

Alex @ Pewter City Pokecenter, with Alexis [Abra M] and Lyfai [Vaporeon F]

Swampert1! You abandoned me!! Youthinkyou’resosmartandwantogetsofaraheadthatnoon ecancatchupwithyou,youwiseguyyou. LOL j/k ‘s cool. Thanks for using my posts in your own. =)

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