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@, The fact Cilla was expected to be with him caused quite some worry for Elias. But, he best not dawn on the subject. She was probably just catching up, or something. "Needn't worry! I'm sure she's just catching up and we'll all be reunited soon." Elias said, sounding forcefully chipper. He was mostly trying to convince himself nothing bad had happened to Cilla. Abi didn't seem concerned at all. Elias' thoughts of worry were swept away by the mentioning of teaching her Krabby new techniques. Abi must be a rather good trainer if she could simply teach her pokemon new moves on a whim in such a manner. Now that he thought about it, Elias hadn't battled with another trainer in quite some time. He was decent at battling, but had a severe handicap, making him subpar. Perhaps he would get better if he simply practised. "Ah? You did? That's rather impressive." The boy chimed. "Perhaps you'd like to try them out against me? I have a new pokemon I'd quite like to use." With that, Elias began to reach for Deerling's pokeball. Deerling would be optimum for a fight with a water type like Krabby, but his motion was interrupted by a loud noise. "ELG!" Elgyem suddenly exclaimed, tapping the hand Elias was attempting to grab Deerling's pokeball with. The tap was probably meant to be a slap, or something similar. "Eh? Elgyem? What's the matter?" Elias asked his pokemon, then remained quite for a moment. After a short pause, Elias brought a hand through his hair, then brought his attention back to Abigail. "I suppose if we are to battle, I'll be using Elgyem. I'll give you the first move." Elgyem had different ideas, however. Though Elias could have not possibly known, the pokemon began to glow blue, using Cosmic Power.

@@Umbreon, Since Stella now had a Helioptile with Surf, a Gyarados, and a Cubchoo, now would be as good a time as any to rechallenge Clair. There was no way she could lose, after all! Her team had grown very powerful very quickly, and she was honestly rather impressed with herself. Waving goodbye to the move tutor, the girl headed to Clair's gym, returning Helioptile to her pokeball. Upon arrival, a sudden wave of nervousness washed over her. Clair was a bit... intimidating. Plus her gym was an odd field to work with. Gyarados could deal with the hot water, as he probably was too big to fit in it anyway, but Cubchoo certainly couldn't. And if she intended to use those two, which she did, she'd have to rely somewhat heavily on Gyarados. But, best not let such things get the best of her. Taking a deep breath, the girl opened the doors to the gym and entered, hoping Clair was still there. @@Umbreon, @@Vaporeon, @, Thankfully, Cilla had actually told Elias where she intended on going. That was a nice change of pace. Such wouldn't be a problem if he had simply stated his blindness, but such a feat was not something he was particularly fond of. "Alright!" He called after her, momentarily taking his attention off of Deerling. Deerling was clearly one of two things. A, excited, or B, annoyed. The pokemon was jumping around quite a bit, it sounded, as it also bleated once. Suddenly, the hoof noises stopped, something seemed to tug on his bag, and a click could be heard. "Elg." Elgyem stated, picking up the pokeball now containing Deerling and placing it in on of Elias' hands. "Ah! Most excellent!" Elias said, realizing what was going on, then standing up. "Alright, let's head to Ecruteak, then, Elgyem." Upon arrival to the city of Ecruteak, Elias made his way to the pokemon centre, but not all the way. Elgyem instead directed his attention to somewhere further down the street. Elgyem had rather stellar vision, and the addition of the ability Telepathy gave the pokemon a firm grasp on it's surroundings. So, Elgyem led Elias further down the street, to where Abigail was. "Oh. Hello, Abigail." Elias said, upon meeting up with her. He wasn't exactly sure as to his location in regards to the pokemon centre, but Cilla must be around somewhere. They were probably just meeting up in front of the centre. "...Is Cilla around?"

@@Windbreaker, @@Umbreon, "Ah... Alright." Aolani said as Beth wandered away. She seemed a bit... clingy. Aolani didn't mind, of course, but such a clinginess to her of all people was a poor idea. She gripped her halberd a bit tighter. Aolani would have to protect Beth. She'd need some luck with that. As these thoughts were passing through the altaria morph's head, she noted Lhee acting... oddly. He had made a loud noise, such a noise that caught her attention easily. He then looked to punch a tree, and walk off. His fist was obviously bleeding, which seemed to cause his rings to glow a bit brighter. Odd, but didn't that hurt? Having nothing better to do, Aolani cautiously walked up to him. "Uhm, you alright Lhee?" She asked him. Though her voice sounded concerned, the girl gave him a warm smile.

@@Umbreon, In all honesty, Helioptile was a tad confused as to why her trainer was attempting to teach her surf. Helioptile was an Electric/Normal type. In no way was she related to water, save the dry skin ability. However, Surf didn't hit the user of the move or anything, so what was the point? Maybe taking out pesky fire and ground types? Whatever. Helioptile would have to trust in her trainer. Helioptile had rushed out to the clearing a bit faster than Stella. Despite the fact she was confused about learning such a move, it was still a powerful move that would allow Helioptile to defeat her enemies much faster. Like that troublesome Zoroark, perchance. Magikarp wasn't too affected by Surf, after all. Stella joined shortly, curiously watching to see how a move tutor would work. Once Kingdra had used the move, Helioptile tilted her head slightly. She wasn't really sure as to how to use a water type move, but would try what she normally did. As her frills unfolding and face began to glow, Helioptile fired a similar move towards the cliff. The only difference was that it appeared to be slightly weaker, which made sense. "Great work Helioptile!" Stella called after her. ((Helioptile has now forgotten Charge, making her new movepool Surf, Parabolic Charge, Thunder Wave, and Grass Knot.)) @@Umbreon, @, @@Vaporeon, Before Alery got any time to respond, Elgyem had started to broadcast where he was to Elias once again. "Ah. My apologies, but I believe I know where my pokemon is now. I appreciate the gesture, though." Elias then began to wander to where he believed Elgyem to be, thankfully not bumping into anything on the way there. Before Elias had managed to arrive at the scene, Elgyem had been tapped on the head by Deerling with one of it's hooves. Elgyem faltered, forgetting it could hover temporarily, then began to hover once again. Not an attack, but that was weird for a Deerling to do. Elgyem didn't do anything, merely looked a bit disapproving. Soon after, Elias had arrived. "Ah. There you are, Elgyem." He stated. Though not knowing Cilla was there too, he was soon informed of the Deerling who was bouncing about. "Hm? Another pokemon? Yes, that'd be good, I suppose. We could use a good battler." As he said this, Elias walked up to where the Deerling was, though he didn't look at it directly. "You wouldn't want to come with me, perchance?"

@@Umbreon, @@Sylveon, Helioptile blatantly didn't care about the fact she had basically just kissed the Sneasel. In fact, if anything, that had been her goal. She didn't care so long as she got the heart piece. Landing gracefully behind the Sneasel, Helioptile let out a mocking cry, then raced off with the heart scale to find her trainer. This didn't take too long. Stella and Phanpy had wandered over to where Helioptile was. The electric type bounded up the back of her unsuspecting trainer. "Ah, Helioptile! There you are! You had me worried for a second..." Stella said happily, to which Phanpy nodded in response to. The girl then noticed the object in her pokemon's mouth, and gently grabbed it. "Hm... Is this the heart scale the move tutor was talking about? I mean, it's a heart, and a scale. Has to be, right?" Helioptile nodded, and grinned as she received a pat on the head. "Alrighty, then! Let's go back to Blackthorn then, hm?" Stella had completely forgotten about her company of Muna as she headed back to Blackthorn City. She had returned Phanpy to his pokeball, though left Helioptile out. It was the pokemon she was teaching the move to, after all. Quietly entering the house of the tutor, Stella cleared her throat before speaking. "Uh, hi again. Do you think I could teach something to my pokemon?" She asked, displaying the heart scale in her hand. "I believe Helioptile can learn Surf, right?" @@Umbreon, @@Vaporeon, As the Deerling Elgyem liked walked closer, Elgyem looked to portray some kind of positivety. Not too much, though. It was undetermined if Elgyem could even smile or not. Elgyem floated towards the brave Deerling and gently poked it's head with one of his censors. Elgyem was trying to radiate positive telepathy waves to the pokemon.

"What would I want?" Darin asked, grinning, and running a hand through his bangs. "Truth be told, nothing really. I often give those stones away for free. There is one little detail, though." As Darin said this, his Absol, who was now lying down with a Mienfoo on top of it, suddenly got up, and gently brushed Mienfoo off of it's back with it's left wing. "If you were able to beat my Absol in battle, I'd most certainly give it to you. Though, that wouldn't exactly be easy. But, since it seems both of the pokemon I've seen you own have the type advantage, I'd say we're about evenly matched. Meet me outside if you'll accept my challenge." As Darin finished his sentence, he walked past Lurele and out the door, his Absol following suit. @, @@Antismurf9001, The person Cecil put his hand on jumped slightly and spun around. "Oh! What do you want?" The woman asked him. Once the boy had asked his question, the lady tilted her head slightly. "You don't know? They sell the Casteliacone here! And they're not all out for once!" The Casteliacone is a famous sweet from Castelia City. It's known for often being sold out, as people will come from all over Unova to taste it. The woman selling them seemed surprisingly calm for the amount of people there, and was carefully making sure she gave out the cones in order of arrival.

@@Umbreon, @, @@Vaporeon, Elias near completely ignored every word Alery had said in regards to his apologies. He did, however, pay attention when Al offered to help him locate his missing Elgyem. Of all the people in the group Elias was ok with knowing the fact he was blind, it was most definitely that of Alery. This was not for any sentimental reason, of course. The boy seemed trustworthy enough, good natured and the sort, but most importantly was not the kind of person Elias found a need to impress. So there was no worries in that regard. "Yes, that would prove rather useful." Meanwhile, Elgyem stopped flashing the lights on it's hands. Though Elgyem was not the kind of pokemon to emote, it did seem to have a much more pleasant aura. Now, there was two Deerling. One for Elias, and one for Cilla, presumably. Elias would most likely prefer the one who appeared braver. He needed a pokemon to battle with, after all. Cilla would probably prefer the timid, cute one. So, Elgyem extended one of his hands to the brave Deerling, doing not much else. @@Umbreon, @@Sylveon, Though Stella was still a bit anxious to find the location of her missing Helioptile, she couldn't not notice the interactions between Cubchoo and Audino. It was far too cute! Resisting the urge to make a variety of girl-ish sounds, she puffed up her chest and exhaled loudly. "Cubchoo, return." She said, returning the Cubchoo to her pokeball. Cubchoo put up no fuss what-so-ever, due to her lazy personality. "Phanpy, let's go." As Phanpy was summoned, the ground type trumpeted it's trunk happily. It then looked around for any possible enemy. Seeing none, Phanpy looked up to Stella for what the given task might be. "Well, we're gonna find Helioptile, since some people don't seem to want to help." She said, turning around, waiting for a response. Phanpy looked a tad upset that something bad had happened, as opposed to something good. ----- Helioptile grinned as the opposition began to charge at her. She lowered herself slightly, so the Sneasel may or may not hit parts of the rock underneath her. Not that it mattered. As Sneasel began to slash at Helioptile, Helioptile used Grass Knot in an attempt to tie the Sneasel's claws together. She then tried to pick up the Heart Scale with her own mouth, since the grass probably wouldn't hold.

@@Windbreaker, @@Vaporeon, Hm? The girl didn't use spells? Why did she carry a wand, then? Aolani had never gotten the pokemon Beth was, but it also didn't particularly matter to her. Intriguing how one could carry a wand that has no purpose. The peculiar-ness of Beth's item caused Aolani to lose focus and not notice what the ghost morph was saying. Beth seemed rather upset about his proposal, though Aolani didn't really know why. It actually seemed rather light hearted, despite his previous words to her. "W-well, you wouldn't have to turn into a Murkrow!" Aolani began in a poor attempt to be comforting. "You could disguise yourself as a lot of things with magic, I'd imagine."

@@Windbreaker, The question the fellow morph proposed perplexed Aolani slightly. Oh, it was adorable, yes, but still just a bit... odd. Aolani wasn't the kind of person to really ever consider people her friends. She either scared them away or couldn't hold up a conversation with them due to her timid personality. The only friend she really had wasn't exactly nice either, so she withheld her enthusiasm whenever the term was used. However, for the benefit of Beth, she would agree to the proposal. She wouldn't want to upset the girl, after all! "Why, of course!" She said in her normal sing-song voice. "Though, I believe we already are, right?"

@@Sylveon, @@Umbreon, This time, Helioptile was ready for the impending ice shards. About to jump out of the way, however, she was still hit by them, and thrown a whiles back, into an icy rock. "Heli...?!" Helioptile questioned, panting softly. That move was certainly quick. There was no way she could dodge it, and that meant being strategical. Jumping onto the rock she had bumped into, Helioptile glared down at the Sneasel. She refused to run away, but had quickly run out of ideas as to what to do. Spreading the frills in her ears, Helioptile taunted Sneasel to come closer. Hopefully it'd try to do that instead of using Ice Shard again, but Helioptile was ready to duck behind the rock she was ontop of at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, Stella brought a hand to her face and sighed. This trainer wasn't particularly smart, hm? This was an important manner! She didn't have time to look at adorable pokemon, now! Plus, she already had an ice type, and it was impossible to be cuter than Cubchoo. "Uhm, yea. No thanks. I need to find my-" Stella cut herself off as she noticed Cubchoo had suddenly disappeared. When had that happened? She looked around frantically, before noting where Cubchoo was. Cubchoo was trying to "help" the Smoochum and Snover with their snowy creation by lazily smoothing out the base. Her claws cut into the snow, however, causing the snow to have claw marks in it and be even less smooth. "Ah! Cubchoo! Stop that!" Stella commanded her pokemon, who didn't seem to acknowledge her. @@Umbreon, @, @, @@Vaporeon, Elias' expression, while not showing near any emotion before save a tinge of annoyance, suddenly shifted to exasperation. Though his face was not currently turned towards Alery, the expression was nonetheless rather obvious. A third wheel?! Perish the thought! He thought. What a conundrum this is! Am I really so imposing that someone would refer to me as such?! Hmmm... Perhaps I should try my luck elsewhere I suppose... As Elias regained his composure, he attempted to speak up, though his voice seemed a tad disjointed when compared to his normally fluid tongue. "I had never even considered it." He said, before extending a hand to where Elgyem had been before. Elgyem was clearly not there anymore, so such a motion looked rather odd. Ah. So he did leave. Darn. Wish he'd warn me sometimes... Elias thought, before returning his attention back to Al. "I don't believe you've seen my Elgyem, have you?" The confuse rays were easily dodged by Elgyem, who turned to Espeon to make sure she was alright as well. There wasn't much time for that, however. Elgyem began to communicate with all of the pokemon in the immediate area, consisting of Deerling and Stantler. Espeon as well, since Elgyem couldn't help that. Elgyem was trying to state the fact he meant no harm, and simply wished to see if the Deerling would have liked to meet his companion. Perhaps if they attacked again, Elgyem would simply give up and go away.

Though there wasn't much happening in regards to battling, there were certainly quite a few people leaving the amusment park. According to the voices of them all, the gym leader had just put on a fashion show. A rather good one at that. She'd probably be up for a battle now that that was over. On the other hand, something looked to be going on in the Seekers building. A few people had stopped to peer into the stained windows. Darin swept his hand through his hair yet again, then brought it to his chin to appear somewhat pensive. "Oh... Let's see... I believe you would need Lucarionite to mega evolve a Lucario. Such a rock is rather hard to find, though it wouldn't be unusual if I possessed one." He said. "Furthermore, you need an activator of sorts. One that broadcasts the signals of both the mega stone and bond of the trainer and pokemon. Quite an extensive process I'm probably not explaining correctly. I have no idea where one would get such an object, however." As Darin talked, Absol allowed Mienfoo to tug on one of it's wings. It was rather fond of this pokemon, as it was rather cute. Absol would never let on to this like, however. Pumpkaboo sighed heavily, knowing that this trainer and his lovely Ghastly would never like it. It then floated towards Sawk, who was crossing his arms, clearly annoyed by the fact this trainer didn't seem to want one of the grass type pokemon as opposed to him or Throh. After Pumpkaboo had said a bunch of nonsense that roughly translated to "I'll fight in your place, if that's ok.", both Sawk and Throh nodded in unison. Pumpkaboo gave out an excited cry, before turning towards Revvy. It babbled yet more nonesense to the fellow ghost type. "I'm gonna fight in Sawk's place! If I lose, he or Throh will do whatever you want!" @, @@Antismurf9001, Comet tilted her head slightly. "Oh, well, the Truth Seekers usually give those out. I'm sure I could give you one if you head to the Castelia building. I'm gonna be taking care of it for a bit since the normal head there is sick right now. It's right near the gym, if you're interested." Comet said as Snivy continued to growl at Growlithe. It growled even louder as Growlithe licked Comet's face, causing the girl to giggle. As Comet got off the boat, she waved to Cecil and Jacques. "I'd love to come with you guys, but I really best be going. Tah-tah!" She yelled after them, before swiftly turning and ducking into an alley-way. She had basically disappeared before either of the boys could say another word to her. Castelia wasn't as busy as normal due to the early hour, but quite a few people walked around the main roads. ((I'd suggest checking the description for this one. I updated it a while ago.))

@@Umbreon, @@Sylveon, Stella, being so interested in her adorable Cubchoo's movements, didn't notice the man sliding towards her. She didn't notice until she had been knocked over and sent sliding on the ice as well. Before she could react, she was stopped by a rock sticking out from the ground. Thankfully, she hadn't been going very fast, lest she would have seriously injured herself. "Ow..." She muttered, standing back up slowly. "Are you alright, Cubchoo?" She asked her pokemon, who nodded, looking confused. Cubchoo didn't even really know what had just happened. "Ah, and Helioptile. Are you al-" Stella cut herself off noting that her electric type was nowhere to be found. She looked around nervously, seeing if she had been knocked down after the whole commotion. Of course, this was not the case, and Helioptile was no where to be found. She brought her attention to Muna when he began to talk. Oh joy. It was him. Clair had said he wasn't the best of people, right? She simply ignored his statements. "Sorry, but my Helioptile's missing. No time to chat." Meanwhile, Helioptile had now just recieved some Ice Shards to the face. She growled, then noted Sneasel's taunting gesture, and growled louder. She began to run towards the foe as fast as she could, stepping carefully onto bits of coarse ice. Helioptile then attempted to jump over Sneasel. While in the air, she used Parabolic Charge on it, creating a bright flash of light. @@Umbreon, @, @@Vaporeon, @, Elias regained his normal stature, though remained looking away slightly. "I'm from Kalos, myself. Despite the lack of as prominent an accent as the likes of Abigail." He said. Elias had spent most of his time growing up indoors, and watching television, most of which was from other regions (usually Unova). Because of this, his accent was a mixture of basically all of the regions, instead of sounding very Kalosian. As Cilla left, Elias rubbed the back of his head. He was now left alone with someone who didn't particularly interest him in the slightest. Furthermore, he wasn't quite sure if Elgyem had also run off, or if he had just simply stopped broadcasting his location. "Ah... Yes. I suppose that just leaves us then, hm?" Elias asked Al, giving a nervous laugh. Meanwhile, Elgyem looked up at the Stantler. He didn't like these pokemon. Not very pleasant. Elias would like a Deerling much more. Two of them looked to be using attacks of some kind, while Espeon had her eyes clothes. Was she stupid? That simply wouldn't help manners! Elgyem used Protect, protecting both himself and Espeon from the incoming attacks "Elg." Elgyem said bluntly, extending a hand to the Stantler who had not attacked. The multicolored censors on its hand began to flash a variety of colors. A warning. Elgyem was attempting to be peaceful by the display, but he'd squeeze each of the Stantler's brains if they became too mean!

@@Windbreaker, ((My apologies for the slow reply. I didn't get the notif.)) Aolani sighed, knowing there was no point in getting so worked up. She'd have to get out of here, or something. There was no way in Arceus' name she could hold her own on the battle field with people like these all about! This determination to get away from all these odd people was basically diminished as she heard Beth's voice from behind her. She hadn't felt the pool on the sleeve, as the feathers on Aolani's arms dulled most sense of touch there, but she certainly noticed the voice. "Oh, no thank you, but I appreciate the offer!" She said, cheerily, finishing her sentence with a soft hum. This 'Bethany' character was far too adorable for her to just abandon. Such an act would simply be a disgrace! @@Umbreon, As Lhee began to walk off, Aolani hesitated for a second, before nodding. She gently grasped one of Beth's hands and smiled at her, resting her halberd in her free hand. "Let's go, okay?"

The figure in the building continued to roam about the building. As it noticed the trainer, it let out a soft cry, before running away again. "Larvi..." It muttered, running away as fast as it could. Incidently, not very fast. Darin raised one of his eyebrows as Lurele summoned a Lucario. That was a pokemon also able to mega evolve, if he wasn't mistaken. "Well, it's a process known as mega evolution. It causes a pokemon to outdo themselves for their trainer. Quite an interesting process. Absol is only one of many pokemon who can attain such a feat. I believe Lucario is one of them." Darin shrugged, and displayed the Absolite on his hand briefly, before drawing his attention to what else Lurele had said. "As I mentioned before, such a team doesn't exist. That must have been a very detailed dream you had." Meanwhile, Absol finally acknowledged Mienfoo. It attempted to catch the fighting type with one of it's wings, but when that failed, Absol patted Mienfoo on the head with one of its feathery wings instead. @@Antismurf9001, @, "Eh...? Wasn't talking about that one. Comet said in response to Jacques' words. The Growlithe must have belonged to the other one, then. Her suspicions were confirmed when Cecil spoke up again. So it was his pokemon! Cecil then commanded his Growlithe to say hello to her. "Aw!" She exclaimed, happily, scratching Growlithe behind the ears. "You're pokemon is very well behaved! You should be proud to own such a pokemon!" Suddenly, a bright light flashed from the girl's bag, revealing an annoyed looking Snivy. It had apparently heard - somehow - Jacques refer to it, and looked to now be a bit upset by the fire type sitting on its trainer's lap. "Sniv." It growled. The boat had just approached Castelia, and was now about to dock. Nurse Joy looked confused for a moment. The trainer looked like she had slept out in the desert or something! She shook her head, and nodded. "Why, of course!" She said in a cheery voice, nodding at her Chansey, who wandered away into a different room. The Nurse then took Tiana's pokeballs into the back room, before returning shortly after. "Your pokemon have been healed and are now in tip-top shape. Please come again!" As the Nurse spoke, she placed the pokeballs back on the table. Chansey also returned, and extended a glass of water towards Tiana.

The Helioptile turned it's head around sharply to note the trainer. It growled in a low voice, very unfitting for such a cute pokemon. It then ran away, bounding up the stairs on the nearest unfinished building, surprisingly swiftly. @, @@Antismurf9001, Comet laughed nervously. The boy seemed to be... flirting with her? She was never terribly good at reading such things, so kinda just assumed it frequently. Because of this worry, she didn't reply to what Cecil had said, and remained fairly quiet. All this changed when she noticed the boy's Growlithe. Or rather, the barking sound it was making. "Oh? A Growlithe?!" She asked, overly excited about the discover she should have noticed earlier. "A fire type, right? I love fire types! Though, I guess that should be obvious. Though I don't have any. I meant to get a Tepig as my starter but... It didn't really work out." Comet cut herself off, realizing she was rambling, and laughed nervously again. She then turned her attention to Jacques, ignoring everything else Cecil had to say. "Is that one yours? It's certainly happy!" ((Welcome back, friend! We're on Day 2 now, but we shall just continue like it's Day 1, but actually Day 2.)) Both Sawk and Throh appeared to be outraged. This trainer was an idiot, wasn't he? Sawk and Throh turned their backs to the trainer, and looked to be conversing, though it was impossible to hear the sound. They then nodded, and turned back to him. This time, Sawk attempted to usher him to the grass types. Pumpkaboo continued to hover, not moving. It looked to be staring at Locke with a determined gaze. "Keldeo and Terrakion?! You mean the legendaries?!" Darin asked, his face showing a mixture of worry and surprise. He then sighed, straightening his black coat. Such a motion made his gloves visible, an odd stone on one of them. "No... That would not be possible for such a group. I would hope, anyway. Though... that would certainly help manners if their goal was control. They are powerful, after all. As for 'picking a bone with them...'" Absol suddenly stood up, continuing to ignore the Mienfoo making loud noises at it. The dark type shook it's coat, looking rather bored. "I suppose they would need to be just as powerful as anything they would possess. If they got a legendary pokemon on their side... You'd probably need the same. Which is near impossible. The next best thing would be closer in one's grasp..." The stone on Darin's hand suddenly began to glow, followed by Absol. The light was blinding. But, after a while, the light faded, resulting in an Absol with wings and some other adjustments. "Like that, I would suppose. Though... it's unlikely someone of such a young age could pull it off..."

@@Umbreon, Helioptile gasped softly as she promptly received a harsh, freezing wind current to the face. She had barely noticed Sneasel, but rather the scale. She needed one of those. Helioptile needed to get stronger, and with that she could, correct? So, she'd have to pry it away. "Heli..." Helioptile warned the Sneasel. Her head then began to glow brightly, firing a weak pulse of electricity at the ice type. Thunder Wave, to be precise. Hopefully that would paralyze the annoyance, so she could cleanly take the scale away. @@Umbreon, @, @@Vaporeon, @, "Hmmm...?" Elias mumbled to himself as he heard footsteps approaching, followed by a voice. The group had basically made it to route 37, but it seemed someone else had appeared. Judging by the words he said, the boy intended to have traveled with the two girls. Oh joy. Elias should have known the situation was far too good to be true. No use crying over spilled milk, however. "The name is Elias. Pleasure to meet you." He said, bowing slightly as to avoid eye contact. Meanwhile, Elgyem had wondered off again. It saw no need in accompanying his trainer while he was talking. So, the psychic type looked for pokemon that might actually be of use to his trainer. The first thing Elgyem came across that looked viable was a pink, deer-like pokemon. It hovered in front of the pokemon's face. "Elg...?" It asked it, trying to confirm if the Deerling was friendly or not.

The man appeared to pay little attention to Lurele. He was clearly waiting for her to ask him something, as he polished one of the statues portraying the legendary pokemon Zekrom. It was already rather clean. The whole place was ridiculously well kept, actually. He paused his motions at Lurele's questions, then turned to face her. He made direct eye contact with her, as if trying to judge her character After a while of intense staring, the man retracted his gaze, and leaned against the altar. His Absol remained in a statue like stance, not bothering to pay any attention to Mienfoo or Lurele. "I suppose I best give you my name. Tis a common courtesy, after all." The man said, glancing at Lurele through the corner of his eye. "The name is Darin. I'm a follower of Deep Black pokemon, Zekrom. You've most likely met followers of the Vast White pokemon, Reshiram, right?" Without waiting for an answer, Darin shifted again to look at Lurele directly once more. "That means there are followers of two members of the Tao trio. The third has no followers... Why would anyone seek to follow the Boundary pokemon, Kyurem regardless? It is not known to have anything it seeks." Darin said, in a cool voice. His pausing led on to knowing more than he was actually saying. "If one were to follow Kyurem, it would most likely be an underground group. A crime group, I'd imagine... One seeking control... But there isn't one, like I said." @, @@Antismurf9001, The girl with purple hair had appeared to be sleeping. Her head was pointed down, and her eyes were shut. She was obviously a light sleeper, as the voice of Cecil awoke her. A panic expression crossed her face, before she quickly sighed and tilted her head at Cecil. She didn't recognize him. There had been a lot of trainers, after all. The only one she remembered was the one with the black Furfrou. "Ah... Uhm..." She began, trying to think of an acceptable excuse for not being at her own abode without giving away too much. Then she realized she didn't have to. Hopefully. "Ah. Yes! That was me!" She said, with a warm smile. Soon after the girl had responded, the Captain yelled out. "Boat's leaving! Sit down!" And with that, the boat began to float away, and to Castelia. Thankfully, both Jacques and Cecil had made it on board. It would only be a short trip to the big city. ((There's nothing rustling in any of the bushes either. Could you try reading the descriptions instead of making up your own scenarios? Cos, if not, I won't bother replying to your posts.))

@@Umbreon, Stella giggled in delight. And with that, the cutest pokemon in all of existence was hers! Cubchoo might have been a pokemon that grossed out some with it's somewhat sickly nature, but Stella certainly didn't think so. In fact, such a sickly nature only added to the cuteness. She wanted to take care of it, after all. Phanpy trumpeted his trunk as the ball stayed shut. Looks like they had been successful. However, his happy expression faded somewhat as Stella returned him to his pokeball. Sure, there was a good reason for that - the floor was very slippery after all - but he still wanted to help her more. Oh well. "Alright, Cubchoo! Let's go!" Stella said, summoning her newest catch. The ice type looked around lazily, very much so confused to what had just happened. Had it just been caught by this girl? "Since you know this place better than anyone, how about you help us explore, ok Cubchoo? I think there might just be cool stuff around." The girl asked cheerily. Cubchoo tilted its head. She was currently being held by the trainer, and could do no more than point. Plus, she hadn't even been very far in the cave before. So, Cubchoo lifted her paw slightly towards the deeper part of the cave. "Alright. That way it is. Looks dark, though. Helioptile, let's go!" With a flash of light, Helioptile was summoned, perched on top of Stella's shoulder. "Heli..." Helioptile groaned. She was a bit upset about the previous battle. But, she had been asked to do something. Best do it. Helioptile let out a sigh, and began to glow. The light produced by Helioptile wasn't exactly needed, as the cave was not nearly as dark as the one Stella had caught both Axew and Gyarados in. So, Helioptile glowed very dimly, allowing her to look around as well. One of the things Helioptile noticed was a gleaming light coming from a hole. There looked to be claw marks leading to it too. Helioptile curiously hopped off of Stella's shoulder, and carefully walked towards the hole, trying to get at what was inside. Stella didn't seem to notice. She was far too enthralled with Cubchoo's adorableness. @@Umbreon, @@Vaporeon, @, Elias put away Bonsly's pokeball in his bag. He'd have to find a suitable place for it as soon as possible. The struggling it had seemed to have done probably meant the pokemon wasn't all that happy with the arrangements. Oh well. "Well, while we're on the subject of caught pokemon, I have caught a Bunnelby and Bonsly, I suppose." Elias said, quite indifferently. Bunnelby would be too hard to control, and Bonsly was only temporary. He'd have to continue to avoid battles in the meantime. "Though I'm sure they pale in comparison to pokemon drawn to beautiful women like yourselves." Elgyem sighed at his trainer's second remark. He really was hopeless. So hopeless, the psychic type was forced to look away for a second. This motion caused him to lay eyes on Espeon, glaring at him, then turning away in disgust. "Elg?" Elgyem asked, confused. Was the pink one still mad at him? She had scared him! What a meanie. Cilla's next question caused Elias' face to go blank for a second, before he swiftly reverted to his normal expression, though it appeared to be a tad panicked. This, was a slight problem. Kimono girls? They dance. Which is nice and all, but you know. Blind. I can't watch. What if they ask me what I thought of the performance? What am I to say? Elias thought, covering his face slightly as to hide any obvious panic. But, if I say no, they'll know there has to be a reason! And then they'll know! ...I guess I'll have to just wing it, then." Elias quickly perked up, running the hand that had been on his face swiftly through his hair. "That sounds like a great idea!" He said, overly chipper. It was clear he was lying, though hopefully the girls wouldn't pick up on that.

@@Umbreon, @@Aerodynas, @@Tricksters Pride, @@Windbreaker, @@Vaporeon, @, Aolani listened quietly as people begun to introduce themselves. So, the leader was Lhee, the overly flirtatious one was Naomi, the cute one was Beth, the one who had just killed a powerful fire type and was presenting it as a present was Gal- Wait. What?! Some man of the most intimidating stature she had seem yet had entered the fray. He was ridiculously tall, and had quite a few scars. These scars only visible due to the lack of shirt he wore. Quite barbaric, really. And, what was that on his chest? Was it... blood? No, no. It was most definitely paint. Furthermore, he had fins protruding from his arms. Meant he was probably a water type of sorts, though she couldn't be sure. Aolani was clearly intimidated by the man, gripping onto her halberd tightly. The man with the mustache - apparently called Merric - didn't seem to be very surprised by this. Nor did Shade, though he was most likely already familiar with the antics of the scarred man. Lhee did seem a bit shocked, however. At the very least, her leader was sensible. Oh. She best tell everyone her own name as well. "Uh. I'm Aolani." She said, not talking very loudly at all. She then nodded to confirm the fact she had heard what Lhee had said. She'd follow the group once most of them had gone...

((There's no Cacnea on Route 4. Please be more specific.)) There didn't appear to be anyone in the building. Well, any human, anyway. A lone Absol sat in front of the altar, on top of which lay three eggs. One was of a yellow and brown colouring, another of a orange coloring with a few black markings as well as darker orange markings, and finally, one was orange with sky blue markings. The Absol appeared to be guarding them. When Lurele asked her question, the tilted its head at her. "Sol." It said, bluntly. Whether this was a yes or no answer was unclear, though not too much time later a man wearing a sleek black suit entered the room. He had long, black hair that had been neatly braided, and bright brown eyes. "Ah. A visitor." He said to her. "Welcome. Make yourself at home." @@Antismurf9001, @, The ports weren't very busy this morning. Furthermore, the crowd was far nicer than the usual people from Virbank. When Jacques had asked his question to someone who sat atop a barrel, the man lazily pointed to a random boat. Said boat was about to do the regular trip to Castelia. As it was the most common trip, it looked to be departing in give or take 5 minutes, with only a few people on it. One of the people on it was a girl with purple hair and a white dress. She looked familiar, somehow.

@@Vaporeon, @, "Uh..." Elias began, about to explain the concept of flirting to Abigail. She was a bit daft, wasn't she? Though this daftness did make her adorable, it also made it extremely hard to get any closer to her. He'd have to find a way to change that in the near future. Before Elias could explain his words, Cilla entered the fray. Good. All of them were together again. "Ah. You needn't worry, Cilla! I needed to follow my Elgyem anyway." Though Elias said this in his normal charming voice, he had actually been a bit upset that both of the girls had left. No matter, it wasn't really an issue. "And, well, I'm ready to go to Ecruteak, but I fear this Bonsly may be lost!" As he said this, Elias held up Bonsly in front of his face, despite how pointless such an endeavor was. "A rock type like this should live in an arid place after all! But I'd hate to keep you two waiting..." Elias thought for a second. The boy surely didn't wish to be any more of a burden on the two. "Ah! I know! How about I catch you, then release you when we come across a suitable environment?" Elias asked, pulling out a pokeball and tapping Bonsly's head with it.

@@Umbreon, @@Vaporeon, "Eh...?" Aolani said, as she heard a voice coming from behind her, lecturing her on the proper ways of holding a weapon. Or, at least, the fact she was doing it wrong. The altaria morph could most certainly hold a halberd correctly, though she had let her guard down, so this guy's lecturing was not something she payed much attention to. Where had he come from, anyway? When the girl heard what else the boy was saying, she froze and tensed up. What was he talking about? The description the man's words had painted was grotesquely clear, and quite frankly terrified her. Aolani's grip on her halberd suddenly got tighter, and she brought it up slightly as to point it at the man, not acknowledging the last bit he had said. Furthermore, he had already walked away, so she was pointing her weapon at the air. Aolani dropped her halberd into one hand, and rubbed the back of her head. That was odd. She didn't see him walk away. The events of this caused Aolani's face to go blank, completely ignoring what the Umbreon morph was saying.

@@Tricksters Pride, Aolani froze somewhat when she heard a new voice. It belonged to a man, one of fairly intimidating stature. In all fairness, the Altaria morph found most beings intimidating. She might have been a dragon, but Altaria weren't exactly known for their ferocity. Infact, Altaria were commonly known to be one of the cutest dragons, save Goodra. Regardless, Aolani acted like a flying type far more than that of a dragon type. "Ah..." She began in a soft voice, trying to reply to the man's statement. He looked to be a regular person. Was she missing something here? "Alright. Thank you... sir." Aolani felt terribly out of her element. All these people scared her. Joy. @@Windbreaker, Then something bumped into Aolani. Something that was much less intimidating than the other creatures about, to be precise. She was so obviously a morph, as the girl who had bumped into her had quite a lot of fur, a tail, and even ears of a pokemon as opposed to a human. However, the bump caused Aolani to lose grip of her halberd, causing it to fall out of her hands and onto the ground. Fortunately, it didn't hit anyone. Also fortunate, it hadn't been sent flying too far away. "No! It's fine!" Aolani said, in a surprisingly happy voice. She then went to pick up her halberd. She liked this girl. If she was here due to Shade as well, then this might not be as bad as she had originally thought.

@@Umbreon, When Cubchoo fell over, Stella could no longer control herself. She had been trying to remain as calm as possible, as to not frighten the pokemon, but this was too much. She quickly picked up the Cubchoo and spun around once, letting out a soft squee. A sound Phanpy tilted its head to. "Ah! You're absolutely adorable!" She exclaimed, her movements stopping. "You simply must come with me!" Stella normally would let a pokemon decide for itself whether it would like to come with her or not. But this was time for exception. She couldn't let something this cute get away so easily. Stella pulled out a pokeball, and gently tapped Cubchoo on the head with it. @@Umbreon, @, Elgyem cautiously picked up the pokeball when it had stopped shaking. The psychic type wasn't fully sure if the Bunnelby had been captured. Perhaps it was just faking it out. Fortunately, this was not the case. Elgyem dropped the ball into Elias' only free hand, as the other one was still holding Bonsly, who had been oddly quiet during the whole ordeal. "Ah, yes. And now everyone remains unharmed. Most excellent. I would hate for a pokemon owned by such a beautiful young lady to be hur-" Elias cut himself off as he had been talking. He just realized that he had caught a pokemon who would dare not listen to him. Furthermore, if it didn't listen to him and used a move he didn't know was in use, his calls would be all off. Elias most certainly wouldn't look very competent telling a Bunnelby who was underground to use Agility. "Ah... whatever." He said, not bothering to state what he had been thinking. Elias then turned his attention to Abigail. "So I guess this means you can catch that Vulpix now, right?" He said, in an unusually happy tone. Elias clearly didn't know that Vulpix was now inside a pokeball. Again, the whole blind thing. "I hope after that's done you'll help me find a suitable environment for this Bonsly here."

@@Umbreon, @@Aerodynas, Aolani wandered up and down the streets of the town she was supposed to find someone in. What was the town's name again? Iselia? That sounded right. Needless to say, Aolani was rather lost. The Altaria morph, despite being a flying dragon, had no wings to speak of. The odd, fluffy feathers rested on her arms, and were therefore covered by her outfit. Not like she could do much with them anyway. The girl looked far more human than pokemon. One would only know she was a morph due to her tail and head feathers. As well as perhaps the fact she blushed in a white colour, as opposed to a red one. This was most likely a bad idea. Many people had looked at her funny as she passed. This was most likely due to her extravagant outfit as opposed to her feathers and white turning cheeks. It was indeed a bit... odd. A long, fluffy dress colored in sky blue and white. Not to say it didn't look pretty on her, of course. Aolani was a rather beautiful specimen. She'd never admit to it, however. What was even odder than her get-up was what she carried. A halberd, apparently. She held it wrong as well, obviously inexperienced. Aolani had never really fought anyone before, except for a few times that were all fuzzy for some reason. When she was asked to join a rescue team of sorts by an Absol morph, the girl had been completely dumbfounded. She had accepted, quite too docile to decline something to someone's face. It didn't help manners that her "friend", a Bellossom morph, had been egging her on at the time. Eventually, the girl had managed to find Shade. The Absol morph she had met quite some time ago. He seemed nice enough, but two other people were there. Both looked to be morphs, with their pokemon features far more evident than hers. It took her some time to speak up, as the other two were rather intimidating, one even sporting daggers. Her trust halberd could do nothing against something like that. "Uh..." She began, clearing her throat. Aolani spoke with a somewhat musical voice, not bizarre for a morph of a pokemon known for their amazing voices. The skin on her cheeks began to turn a bit paler, almost white. "Excuse me, but... this is where I'm supposed to be for the 'rescue team' right?"