He couldn't really believe it. Kai had been in the Kalos Region for just about five hours now and was excited and ready to go on his adventure. The plane ride over was his first ever and of course he was super pumped about it. There was a feeling in his gut that there was a chance of a fear of heights and flying, but he got over that after the first hour had passed. Now as he made his way through Lumiose City, the center for the five-pointed region, his body was pumping with adrenaline and excitement. By the time he had arrived in the city and Kalos though, time had gone by and it was pretty late. The blue skies that he was flying in were now darkening and the sparkling of the stars were beginning to show.

From the airport Kai had made his way to the hotel his parents had set him up in for the night. The next morning he was supposed to meet up with Professor Sycamore, the region's professor in charge of helping out the new, up-and-coming trainers. Candice had made a call to her friend Professor Rowan of Sinnoh who had then contacted Professor Sycamore for Kai in order to get started. He wanted to start his adventure badly, but the timing didn't work out. Still, the blue-haired trainer found something to keep him occupied for the time being.

"You gotta see this, Cole!" Kai said, holding out his partner's pokeball. A bolt of crimson lightning shot from the button of the pokeball and at the end of the bolt was the silhouette of his teddy bear partner, Cole. "This is such a pretty place!"

"So many lights everywhere!" The bear said, dazed by the street and building lights as he appeared out from his pokeball. "I haven't seen so many lights like these since the Volbeat and Illimuse came to Lake Acuity!"

The two Sinnoh natives were amazed by the big city as this was their first experience really outside of Snowpoint. Everything was new and exciting to them and with their naive and youthful attitudes things were going to be amazing for a long time. "I heard there were places that you can eat and battle here too, we should go find one!"

The Little Bear Pokemon threw up his fist and nodded confidently. Kai could sense that his partner was ready for some action and grub, as the two were always on the same page. Being new, lost, and confused, only having just settled into his room for the night, Kai ushered on through the city streets in hopes to find a cafe to test out his wits and grab a bite to eat.

Marie

"Gah!" Marie muttered as she pushed her way through a few bushes. "I'm so tired of this forest." It's been a tiring day, since there was a hubbub in the Santalune Forest on Marie's return trip home to Santalune City. A lot of the bug pokemon were running wild and if it weren't for the pure number Ralts would have been able to handle it well. "Alright. I think I'm back on the road now. I'm really hating Beedrill right now." Somehow, the girl found her near the exit towards Santalune. "As much as I love Aquacorde, I think I'm avoiding that forest for now. Alright, it's safe now Ralts." Marie continued as she released he small white-green pokemon from it's Pokeball.

The small pokemon replied with a soft Rrrrraalts. It looked around sleepily before turning to its partner and repeating it's name questioningly. "We're heading back home now. Mom said someone had a special delivery on the phone earlier. I think she mentioned Lumiose, so I guess we're going to the big city?" She didn't really know much herself, but that left itself for when she got back to Santalune. Which wasn't really a far walk from here. "Still, you look tired, Ralts. Did you want me to carry you back?" Ralts started to walk itself but drooped its head and turned back to Marie before nodding slightly. With a slight smile Marie picked the small Pokemon up and carried it in her arms back home, chatting as much as she could with the small thing.

Not much later and the two return to the town. "Finally back to town." Marie laughed and smiled. Ralts was delighted as well with a small smile across it's face. Marie turned towards her house-- FLASH-FLASH "Wha-what!" Marie stuttered as she jumped out of surprise. She hadn't really been paying much attention to her surroundings, or at least who was there.

"Sorry, sorry. You two just had the happiest looks on your face so I couldn't help but take a shot." A woman with a camera, cargo pants and a tank-top apologized. "It was just so nice, so it should be immortalized in film. . . Right? Hehehe." She was no stranger at the least.

"Geez, you should at least ask permission Viola. Some people'd call you out on that." Marie wasn't exactly angry since she knew what the woman was like. Always on a quest for great pictures. "Actually, did you just get back? You were out when we left for Aquacorde."

Viola nodded with her own smile, clicking through her camera for a bit, "Yea I got some good pictures. Look at this."

"Ugh." Beedrills. It just had to be Beedrills didn't it. Actually. Beedrills aside, this looked like a whole pack of them. "You didn't rile up a whole swarm of them to get that picture... Did you?"

"N-no. I didn't really." A slight blush ran over her face. "Not on purpose at least, I had a picture of a few Weedle. . . But I accident bumped into a tree and I heard the roaring of wings. Luckily I hid in time! No need to worry about me." She had a proud look on her face as she reminisced about the picture being taken.

Marie sighed in unison with Ralts before telling the photographer about their experience earlier. "Oh my! I didn't think something like that would happen as a result. Well..." The woman reached into one of her cargo pockets and pulled out four red-white balls. "Seeing as you look unharmed, I'm happy. In any case take these Pokeballs from me. If I had to guess? I think you might need them soon anyhow." Before Marie even had a chance to ask anymore, Viola practically pushed the girl towards home. "Have fun!"

Marie was, of course, instantly confused. Ralts, sensing her emotions, followed her thoughts and felt confused as well. . . Though it didn't really understand. "Mom, I'm home." The girl announced as she entered through the front door. Marie's mother was cooking in the kitchen adjacent to the entryway.

"Welcome home, Honey. I've just about finished with dinner. Take a load off and we can talk while we eat." Marie set Ralts down where it wandered around a little bit before finding itself a spot on the couch. . . After climbing up. Marie's mother spoke again from the kitchen. "Your dad wanted me to tell you he's sorry that he can't be here right now. He got called away for work. Maybe you'll get to see him with your next request. Oh! And Ol' Jacques left the money he promised on the coffee table over there."

"Oh yay! Lesse'. Two, three, four, five!" How generous of Ol' Jacques. "5000! Oh, I've been wanting to get a hat in Lumiose! One of those riding caps." Ralts raised its arms up and cheered with a little bit of a noise, Raaaaalts. "I know, right?!"

Apparently her mother had finished cooking since she was bringing plates of food to the table. "Now, now. Just remember to budget your time, you have two deliverys. The first one is actually from Viola to her sister." So that's how she knew what was going on there. She said it'd be faster to send you than any other way." At the least Marie was happy someone was confident in her skills aside from Ol' Jacques. "The other. . . Well, the person handed it to me and said someone would find you in Lumiose."

"Well, I can probably make it to Lumiose before it's dark. I just hope that the second delivery isn't as sketchy as it sounds. . ." Looking at the two deliveries revealed it was just two letters. One to Alexa, Viola's sister and the other labeled to. . . L? How weird. "Like, this is really, really sketchy." She had one of the most unbelieving looks on her face as she looked the letter over. "Whatever, I guess a job's a job. Gotta' keep up my reputation I guess."

"This is true, now let's eat." Mother said as she started eating. The party of three chowed down, two of them more than the other. "My, my. You two are eatting really fast. Must be hungry." She giggled as she slowly cut up her food and ate. Marie and her Mother idlely chatted for a while bufore Marie realized the time and got up to leave with Ralts. "Love you, honey. Stay safe for your dad and I!"

"Gotcha' mom. Don't worry. Ralts'll protect me! Right?!" The tiny pokemon replied with a astounding cheer, making Marie smile as the two walked out the door, heading north towards Lumiose.

André Bellamy

"C'est fantastique!" André exclaimed as he entered the city with Jolie the Clefairy walking by his side. He was glad to be back home in Lumiose City. Unova was nice and all, but nothing would ever compare to his hometown. Especially at night, when all the lights were turned on. Everything literally sparkled. André whistled and hailed a taxi. Once he got in, the driver recognized who he was, and complimented him on his sense of style. That was the other the other thing he liked about Lumiose, everyone had good taste in fashion.

There was one thing André always did whenever he came to a big city. Even when working on film sets, he made a point to go shopping. The Taxi pulled up in front of a large boutique. André paid the fare, and stepped out. You could see the inside from all the windows, and the place was well decorated and well stocked. Whenever he went to a fashionable city, he just had to go shopping. After all, he had the money to spend, and one could never have enough nice things. Because he was in Lumiose, he got a discount on everything. Just for being himself. Of course, he had enough money to pay the full price for things, but it was still a nice perk. Immediately after finding the store, André raced inside to check out their wares.

Some time later, André came out carrying several shopping bags filled with a bunch of items André just had to have. Fancy clothes, new jewelry, some perfume, adorable plushies he somehow didn't already own, he even found some things for Jolie. Including a new supply of Pokepuffs, one of which the Clefairy was happily munching on. "Well, that was fun, non?" André asked Jolie, with his signature smile. His perfectly white teeth practically sparkled.

"Clefairy!" Jolie cheered happily.

André hailed the taxi again, and had it take him to one of his favorite Cafe's, Cafe Soleil. The place was known for Movie Stars patronizing it. It didn't take very long before people began to notice the pink clad young man with the Clefairy by his side. Word got around fast that famous Movie Star André Bellamy was in town. Once he arrived at the cafe, and stepped out of the taxi, It took even less time before André and Jolie were surrounded by screaming teenage girls, (and some guys) clamouring to get the young movie star's autograph, and have their picture taken with him. Something André was more than happy to do for his adoring fans.

After André was finally finished with his fans, he took a seat at a at one of the tables outside. A barista immediately came out and brought him his favorite drink.

@Crimson Flame

The sounds of cars over city streets rang through the air, not a thing was still over the glistening lights and excited chatter. People dressed to impress anyone's expectations of the Kalos region with spoiled pokemon at their side. Movie stars going over the grand billboards to show case a new show.
It was loud, and it was perfect.

"Oh wow, so what you say Amate? Think we can do something worth while to tell the fam?" The sound of clicking hooves echoed with her words. People moving out of the way as a red head riding on the back of a towering rapidash came forward. His neck arched and body nothing but muscle yet his gate was elegant with pride.
A snort was given in response, reaching down to pat the stallion's neck Lokota gave a smile, using her right leg to turn her companion down the street only to pass someone who could have been seen a mile away. Dressed in pinks and surrounded by others looking on in awe, Lakota found herself raising a brow in curiosity. "Wonder what the big idea is."
Passing by without a thought she felt Amate begin to shy away, his steps becoming higher in a prance as he tossed his head in disagreement. "Easy boy, come on its just a crowd." Hes never had problems with crowds before, so, with a kick of her legs she asked the Rapidash to continue, "come on boy the park is up ahead."

Yet Amate was not having it, her companion giving a small screech she found the ground rise as he took to his back legs in a rear. Tossing his head as flames licked the air, instincts kicking in Lakota hung on with ease, holding the chest harness and hugging his sides with her legs till he came back down. A nervous laugh escaping her the red head began to apologize with the horse beneath her pawing at the ground, turning his head from side to side till she spoke.
"Thats enough, come on Amate your being a dork, calm down okay?"

All she had to do was pat his neck, Amate turning his head to see her she reached on and ruffled the space between his ears, his flames feeling more like a blanket than anything. Gaze falling to the crowd she smiled, "sorry guys, he was just having a temper tantrum is all, new here and all that."

Amate only snorted again, looking over at the tables he slapped his lips, ears twitching as he began to act up again causing the rider to want to slam her head against something. The smell of sweets lingered to their noses and it only made the stallion stomp his hoof in patients. "I get it, I get it okay your hungry, sorry bud I didn't notice."

Wesley yawned as he walked down North Boulevard pulling a hand out of his pocket to check the time, it was night now, he recalled having trained with Luxio as soon as they arrived in the morning, it was past due time for some nourishment. He noticed Luxio was sticking close to him, wary and untrustful of the many people around him. Luxio walked purposefully, muscles tense, ready for an attack anytime, a fighting machine. Wesley dodged the passing people fluidly, dancing through the crowd. Having memorized a map of the entire city, he made his way to the Pokemon Center and stocked up on potions. Afterward, he went to Cafe Bataille, and got something to eat, sharing it with Luxio, taking it on his way back out of the city.

Wesley travelled to Route 5 with Luxio, deciding to get some more training in before going to bed. He noticed two girls as he walked and challenged them to a battle. They sent out a minun and plusle The air tense as their two pokemon stared his down, a seemingly unfair battle. The two pokemon came in for a tandem quick attack at a blinding speed, Luxio was however far quicker, dodging their attack and following up with a tackle, knocking minun out, as Wesley had trained him to do. Plusle managed to hit Luxio with a quick attack, Luxio rolled with the attack, springing to his feet and launching a tackle at the pokemon, causing to it faint as well. After the battle, Wesley and Luxio found a tree and climbed into it, resting on a thick branch for the night. Wesley made practice of sleeping in trees as part of his discipline training. Luxio curled up on Wesley and they drifted into a deep sleep dreaming only of what tomorrow may bring.

@Bigg Slamm

"You know Ralts?" Marie started to say while somewhat out of breath. Ralts looked up in the girl's arms and gave her a questioning look. "When I said you'd protect me. . . Well, I don't know what it is with us and swarms." Yes, again the pair seems to have been in a predicament. Instead of Beedrill, however, it was a swarm of Combee. Really, she had just wanted to try out one of her new pokeballs on something simple. What else could work out so well but a weak Combee? The thing she didn't consider was the swarm of the small Bug-Type Pokemon.

She tried her damnedest to hide where she could away from the small pack. Somehow, it worked out. . . That is, until one showed up. The first thing she noticed was the small little dot on the top of the bottom face. "Doesn't that mean that's a female? Maybe it leads the others?" She wasn't the smartest about all the pokemon in the world, however, she was at the least knowledgeable of the local ones. "Maybe if we can take that one out they'll stop chasing us." It was at the least a strategy. Ralts agreed with the thought however and jumped out of Marie's arms before using Confusion on the female Combee. The Bee Pokemon was starting to call the others when it got hit by the attack. If nothing else, the opposing Pokemon seemed dazed. "That worked! Try again!" Ralts agreed and sent off it's second attack. It visablly affected the yellow pokemon as it started stuttering it's wing flaps. . . before crashing into a nearby tree.

"Good work, Ralts!" Marie cheered with Ralts. Thinking about her original objective, she took out one of the Pokeballs Viola gave her. "Well, might as well try it. Right, Ralts?" The Green-White pokemon nodded as its attentions went to the Combee. Marie smiled and threw a pokeball. The device hit and sucked the Combee up as red light. It hit the ground and started mildly shaking before acting up a bit before making a ca-ching sound. "Awesome!" The delivery girl exclaimed running to the ball and picking it up. "Look, Ralts! We did it!" It was exhilerating, the feel of a first catch. She just imitated what she saw Viola do in the past by chance.

Even so, it was something to put on the back-burner right now. The two needed to get away from the rest of the swarm. Luckily, they were audible enough and the trainer and pokemon tip-toed away. Soon, Marie found herself away from the swarm and by a fountain. "I think we made enough distance for now." Marie muttered out, feeling relieved. The emotion transfered to Ralts and calmed the pokemon down. "Let's sit for a moment." Marie sat and found herself by some guy with a. . . Well, admittedly she didn't know what it was. It looked like a rock at the least. The other was a Chespin. She was sure of that. "It was some T.V. show I think." The girl muttered. Still, she was curious now. "Hey-o. What's up?" She questioned. "Can I ask what kind of Pokemon that is?" Marie pointed towards Golett as she asked.

@Crimson Flame@CloseEnough



Both Kai and Cole had explored the city aimlessly in search of food and battles, hoping to test their wits in Kalos, but found themselves completely and utterly lost. It was getting dark and the night life of the city was popping. The duo had probably passed many cafes along the way, but they were completely oblivious to that fact. It wasn't until Kai saw a big crowd, with a girl riding a Rapidash out front, and hurried on over to see what the big commotion was all about.

He stood near the girl with her flaming horse and asked the question, "Is this one of those battling cafes? Because I totally want in!" The sign on top of the building said "Cafe Soleil," but it never said that it was a battling cafe. Though scanning and looking around the cafe, that's when he figured out what the crowd was all there for. People had cameras out and both teenage boys and girls were swooning over a man who was sitting at a table. He had a pretty face from what Kai could tell, but the pink was a bit much for him. But whoever he was, he was getting all the attention, not to mention he had a pretty strong looking Clefairy by his side.

"You think they're strong?" Kai said, patting his partner who had climbed onto his shoulder.

"I think we can take them!" The bear said cheerfully as he threw a fist into the air.

"That's the attitude I want!" The trainer laughed. "How about you?" Kai said, speaking to the Pokemon rider, "You think they look tough?"

@Denny

Sharing some food with Amate, Lakota was finally getting the stallion to calm down. He was just irritated because they hadn't eaten in a while. "There, no need to be a big baby now is there?"

Looking over though she saw a boy with blue hair running over with his own companion. Asking her what kind of cafe this was she just shrugged her shoulders. "No idea, just got here and we were heading to the park." Amate nodding in agreement he looked at his trainers hand for another puffin, nudging it only to get what he was looking for and greedily eating.

"Well, yeah I guess they look strong, wouldn't really know. Battling is kinda new for us." Shes always done trick riding, nothing in between and it was her life. But now it was time to expand on their abilities. "What do you think Amate? Think we should try our first battle sometime?"
The flames about her grew brighter, expanding like a dance of power in acknowledgement to her words. A braaying sound escaping the Rapidash he slightly reared in anticipation. "That a boy, I knew you were excited. Hey, name's Lakota, what's yours?"

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Logan and his gang had just finished eating and was about to laydown for their post meal nap when they were approached by a young woman on skates. "Hey kid your pokemon look tough! Wanna battle?" Said the woman doing a little spin move bringing out a pokeball. Logan sighed and looked to his pokemon. He really wasn't in the mood for battling, but if they were okay with it he couldn't turn down a lady. Oleg nodded and cried out, "Golett!" as he made a fist pump gesture. Rook on the other hand was a bit cautious smiling sheepishly and squeeked, "Pin~" as he weakly mimicked Oleg. Logan smiled assuring and patted the young pokemon on the head. "It's okay bud me and Oleg got this. One on one sound good to you?" He asked the lady on skates.

"Wouldn't have it any other way! Winner gets 250?" Asked the woman back. Logan simply smiled confidently as he stood and walked with Oleg to the middle of the path. The woman called out a Beedrill ironically named Drilby. Logan chuckled and ordered his Golett forward. Gesturing for ladies first the woman laughed at Logan. "You got guts kid. You're cute, but don't get cocky. Use Twin Needle!" She said before commanding her pokemon to attack. Logan just smirked and stood there as Oleg endured the hits unmoved. The woman growled and sneered ordering the move again. Once gain Logan just stood there cooly as Oleg took the hits. "Argh! You cocky brat! Use Rage attack!" Exclaimed the red faced woman. "Now Oleg! Rollout!" Called Logan as the Rage attack phased right through Oleg causing the Poison Bee pokmon's stinger's to become lodged in the ground. Oleg's arms, legs, and head receded into it's body as it rolled into a ball. It spun in place like a burn out before taking off like a speeding fastball. Bouncing off the fountain Oleg ricocheted off a nearby tree before plowing into the Beedrill.

As the Beedrill fell over knocked out he took out his pokedex and registered the pokemon. He then pointed it to Oleg. "Golett, The Automoton Pokemon. A ground and ghost type. It is said Golett was intructed to protect people and pokemon by the ancient civilization that created it." Said the Dexter voice. "See if you knew that before hand you may have won, but nice try really. If you hadn't have lost your cool you may have stood a chance." Said Logan genuinely. The woman just scoffed, tossed Logan his winnings, and returned her pokemon before skating off. Logan just sighed and shook his head as him and Oleg returned to the bench where Rook had been cheering them on. Sitting Logan pulled a Potion from his bag and began to spray Oleg. When he was done he finally got to rest a little.

But it was short lived as another female voice made him open his eyes. This time he was surprised to see a girl, few years younger than him, with white hair and a Ralts. She then asked what pokemon Oleg was. She seemed genuine enough. She did travel with a Ralts after all and it seemed as curious as it's owner. "This is my partner Oleg. He's a Golett. They're a rare ground/ghost type pokemon from Route Ten. I'm from Geosenge Town. You may have heard of Hotel Marine Snow. My folks run it. My name's Logan. Oh, and this is Rook." He said as Rook climbed on his shoulder waving to the girl.

It was such a nice day outside to be doing work in the fields. It was warm out, but not so much that Reira felt as though she'd pass out. She was currently kneeling down, using gloved hands to dig apart the dirt so that she could plant some berries there. The Daycare lady asked Reira to go and pick some berries for the Pokemon staying at the Daycare, and so she did. The people who owned the Berry Fields were just starting to harvest the berries from the trees when she arrived, so Reira kindly offered to help the man and his daughter out.

She carried a large basket filled to the brim with Pecha, Aspear, Oran, and many other different kinds of berries that she'd picked from the trees. Currently she was planting more berries in the bare spots in the dirt. She was almost finished with her work, and waiting for Coco, her Buneary, to come back and give her the berries that she had picked. Before that happened, the daughter of the man who owned the fields came over to her and poured her shirt full of berries into Reira's already overflowing basket.

"I think that's all of them!" the little girl chirped and smiled, sitting down next to Reira. "Woo I'm beat!" she said, wiping a hand across her forehead.

"Good work." Reira said in her naturally soft voice, taking off her gloves and picking up the few berries that had toppled out of the basket.

"Yeah but where's my dad?"

"And Coco..." the two girls wondered.

"Hey! There they are! By the house!" the little girl squealed as the two came over. The Buneary immediately hopped over and stood in front of Reira. The small bunny pokemon's mouth was smeared with the juice of berries.

"Coco... didn't I tell you? We're supposed to pick the berries, not eat them." she said with a smile, pulling the pokemon over and cleaning her face with the end of her apron.

"Oh don't worry Reira, she didn't eat all of them." the owner said, picking up the small pokemon. He held her over the basket of berries and started to gently shake the bunny up and down, smiling as berries started falling out of its fur. "I caught her trying to hide these." he explained, putting the pokemon down when all the berries were out. Reira threw a glare at Coco who looked apologetic.

"Don't be upset with her. We still have more than enough berries to share with the Daycare. Let me get you another basket so you can take some with you."

"Thank you. The pokemon there are going to be happy about that." she said lowering her head and giving a shy smile.

"Buneary!"

After getting the basket of berries, Reira bid farewell to the owner of the Berry Fields and continued on her way to Route 7. Coco was perched atop her head squealing at the occasional pokemon that popped their heads out of the water or the tall grass that surrounded the Daycare. When she approached the door, the Daycare man smiled at her as he rocked back and forth in his chair. She waved to him and watched as Coco jumped off her head onto his lap just before she stepped inside.

The air conditioned building was a cool relief after she had been outside most of the day. The always smiling face of the Daycare Lady greeted her when she stepped inside and set the basket of berries on the counter.

"Welcome home Reira. When I sent you to get those berries, it never crossed my mind that you would be gone all morning. You missed breakfast and everything. What happened? Did they give you a hard time?"

Reira gave a small smile and shook her head. "N-no, it wasn't that. I offered to help them harvest all their berries and plant some more. I guess it did take all morning."

"Oh well that's good. I left your breakfast on your desk in your room. Oh... that reminds me. Are you still going to get your haircut today?" the woman asked.

Reira just nodded and ran a hand through her hair. It was getting quite long, and she wanted to get it cut short again.

"Well, my husband and I have been thinking, and I figured it's a good time to tell you. We think you and Coco should go on a journey together!" she said excitedly.

Reira blinked.

"A what?"

"You know, a journey! See the rest of what the world has to offer."

Nervously, Reira rubbed her arm. "That's a nice thought but, I'd rather just stay here and-"

"Ah ah ah! You can't refuse. My husband and I already decided. Unless you go on a journey, your rent will be tripled. No... quadrupled!"

"B-but-"

"Now I know it's sudden but... we think it would be the best for you. My husband and I are old. We've gotten our chance to see the world. Now we want the same thing for you."

"What am I supposed to do? I love living here and working here. I don't want to leave.

"It'll help you break out of your shell. Meet new people, make friends, live a little before it's too late."

"But-!"

"Now now, I don't want to hear it. You go upstairs and pack some things. You just got your allowance so that should be enough to get you going. The next time I see you, I expect to see a better person in front of me."

With that, the Daycare lady walked off, going to the back to feed the pokemon the new berries Reira had brought in. With nothing left to be said, Reira sighed and did what she was told, going up to her bedroom and packing some necessities in her bag to take with her on her journey. She counted her money, thinking it was a good amount, and stuffed her wallet inside her bag too. She got Coco's pokeball off her desk and headed downstairs.

As soon as the door opened, Coco lunged at her and jumped up onto her head.

"So, I guess we're going on a journey now." Reira said, reaching up to take Coco off her head and place her on the ground. "I need you to behave and protect me, okay? Can you do that?" she asked the little bunny pokemon.

"Buneary!"

"Good. Well then, let's start at Lumiose City. We're bound to meet some nice people there."

Somewhere on route 4, interacting with @Bigg Slamm and @Pyromania99

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The weather was lovely as usual in the garden by Lumiose City, bird pokemon sang softly, and green grass made for a lovely background to the many colourful flower patches. Wesley watched the young trainer with the ground/ghost pokemon, pretending to relax by one such patch of flowers with Luxio, Wesley had awoken at an unholy hour, starting his training with Luxio early, They'd battled several trainers and done a long jog, and decided to take a break at a peaceful place. That was until he noticed Logan battle with some trainer, his calmness in battle was commendable, as was his knowledge of his pomemon, he had to battle this trainer. He made special note of the move that phased through the Gollet.

Wesley was just about to get up and challenge the trainer when he noticed another female approach him. "Quite the ladies man." remarked Wesley. After a moment of thought, he decided to approach the young trainer, which is precisely what he did. "You there, with the Golett, I challenge you to a Pokemon battle, 1v1, winner gets 500." Wesley believed with all his heart that he'd win this battle, there was no doubt about it in his mind, it was a matter of fact. Besides, he only had 64 pokedollars.

Marie looked at Oleg for a bit, studying the Golett as his human described it's location but only after giving a cute little waving response back to Rook. "I see. Never been out that way nor have I heard of Hotel Marine Snow." She giggled a little bit. He seemed to be trying hard at whatever her was doing. "But, Golett's seem like interesting little guys. I just escaped from a swarm of Combe--."

It didn't seem like it was intentional, but she was interrupted by this random boy that arbitarily decided he wanted to challenge the boy with the Golett. It seemed annoying, so Marie really just wanted to get out as fast as she could. Pokemon battles weren't necessarily bad, Marie just didn't feel Ralts was up to it after the Combee incident. This new boy also didn't seem like the type to take no for an answer. "Well, looks like a friend arrived. Catch you around later maybe." The girl picked up Ralts and ran off in the direction of Lumiose but not before turning around, "Name's Marie, by the by." With that she made her quick escape.

Really, it didn't take as long as she thought to reach Lumiose. She'd been to the city before, but the incident before must have made her travel further than she thought. "Well, I just glad we're at a place where we're not going to be chased by some flying Bug pokemon." Ralts mumbled a reply with a slight sigh, feeling its trainer's thoughts. "Well, we just need to deliver these letters I guess. Since I don't know who this mystery 'L' character is, I can't exactly report to them can I?" Ralts shook its head, "To Alexa's place I suppose."

It took a little walking around to get her bearing, but soon enough Marie found herself in familiar territory. "Right! If we take a right here and walk a little. . . "There!" Marie excitedly shouted with encouragement from the Ralts sitting in her arms. Lumiose Press was on a giant sign signaling the end of their journey to Alexa.

Before they could enter the building though, a man in a brown coat walked out and stared at Marie for a few seconds. "Would you happen to be Marie?" His accent was slightly off, but nothing that sounded too weird.

The girl nodded, confused. "That would be me. Why do you ask?"

"I need that letter addressed to 'L' you have there." Marie looked at him skeptically for a second, prompting him to give her a confused look. Apparently it didn't take him too long to figure out why, "Well, I sure you were told that someone would know you would have the letter. I even know the name on it." Marie kept her stare on him for another few seconds before simply sighing and handing over the letter. "Thank you. For you. . ."

Marie recieved a small envelope from the man before he slipped away. Curious now, she opened up the little thing to discover quite the sum of money. Rather than happy, her face was utterly dumbfounded. "Ralts, did I hand over the key to some new car or something?" Ralts stared at its trainer for a little bit before shaking its head. "No, you're right. That was just a letter. . . This isn't dirty money. . . Is it." Shaking that horrid thought away she pocketed the envelope and heading into Lumiose Press with as much a happy face as she could.

Throught the front door one could see there were a lot of desks and people working at about half of them. Amongst the entire group there was one Marie recognized. In fact, the one had bags under her eyes as if she'd been up since the night before typing. Carefully, Marie walked over the the woman, "Alexa. Hello? Do you remember me?"

The journalist tensed up for a second before coming out of her heavy focus. "Wha-? Oh, is that Marie from Santalune? Long time no see! What can I do for you?" The woman pushed her wheelie chair out from under her desk and moved it so her computer-screen were not in the way of seeing Marie. Common courtesy things.

"I don't want to take up much of your time, but your sister wanted me to deliver this to you." Marie informed the journalist. "And your sister will pay me when I get back so don't worry much. . ." In a whispered tone she added, "My other job payed much more than I anticipated."

"Sorry about this. If I were any more awake than I am, I would show you around a bit." Alexa added pulling her chair back into her desk setting hands to the keyboard. "Catch me next time!"

"It's not a problem." Marie offered as a kind remark before heading out the door. "Now then. I don't think we could make it back to Santalune before the sun sets, so maybe we should wander around town for a little bit before we find Dad's place." With agreement from Ralts the two set off exploring the Big City. Still, Marie was surprised at how calm the city was. Sure, Santalune was calm, but pretty much everyone knew each other and it was rather small. But this city was quite large. With little else to do, she wandered around for a bit.

@Denny@CloseEnough

André Bellamy

As André was busy having his drink, enjoying the view, and being admired by his many fans, he took notice of a redheaded girl riding a Rapidash. He had to ride them for film roles a number of times, so he was familiar with the species. He wasn't sure how well this girl had trained her Pokemon however. The Fire typed horse was having a 'temper tantrum' as the rider so eloquently put it. The Pokemon was screeching and kicking up it's legs for reasons nobody knew. It made the people around nervous. Some of them were begging André to do something.

André gestured for the crowd to calm down. "Do not worry Mesdames et Messieurs! I will have a word with this girl!" With that, André picked up Jolie, much to the Clefairy's annoyance, as she was still enjoying a PokePuff, and proceeded to stride over to the Rapidash rider. The fans swooned as he walked.

Before he got a chance to do so, the rider was approached by a cute blue haired boy, with an even cuter Teddiursa by his side. André had to admire him for having the courage to dye his hair such a bold color. He had wanted to try dyeing his hair pink, or at least putting in pink highlights, but he just could not be bothered with all the maintenance that required. He much preferred wearing wigs whenever he wanted to try out a new hairstyle.

First, André walked up to the blue haired boy. "Bonsoir!" he greeted him the same way he greeted nearly everyone he found attractive. With a kiss on both cheeks. He was positive the boy was not from Kalos, and foreigners tend to not react positively to his manner of greeting, but André always found their reactions funny. "My name is André Bellamy. I am sure you have heard of that name before, non?" He took a bow, then turned his attention to the redhead girl riding the Rapidash. "Excusez-moi, mademoiselle. The people around seem to be a little concerned about your Rapidash." He pointed to the crowd. "Is there a problem here?"

@Crimson Flame

Amate enjoying his snack the stallion seemed to have changed completely, his head lowered in a relaxed position Lakota found herself swinging her leg over his head, sitting side saddle so that she could speak to her friend some more.

Yet the strange, well, person decided to approach. A brow raises at his manner of greeting she found her cheeks turn red at his explanation. Shaking her head she patted the rapidash, his ear twitching in question waiting for a command. "Oh no, we're new here and I kinda spoiled him as a ponyta. Just got here and he hasn't eating, smelling the food inside causing him to get irritated and he was throwing a temper tantrum cause he wanted food, nothing more."

She herself looked pretty relaxed, legs crossed she rested her elbow on her knee as she watched the two. "Trust me, hes safer than he looks, I trained him myself as a trick rider. Rearing is a normal and vary controlled move in the shows we do, its nothing different from a pikachu sparking it's cheeks."

@CloseEnough@Crimson Flame

"You can call me Kai," the trainer answered. The girl said she was new to battling, which made Kai wonder just what kind of potential the Rapidash had since that meant it still had a lot of growth to do. That made things exciting. Before he could get another word in though, the blonde haired guy who was the center of attention walked over to the pair and greeted them. He approached Kai first, giving him two pecks on both of his cheeks. His face blushed bright red as he let out a nervous chuckle. Attempting to mouth the words of a greeting, all that came out was air and a laugh. He had never been greeted like that by another guy before, maybe his mom or older female relatives, but no men in his life. Cole's reaction to his trainer getting two pecks on the cheek was laughter as he watched him fluster about.

The pink favoring man gave his name, André Bellamy, as he also gave the word that his name was a household one, but honestly Kai had never heard of him before. Lakota mentioned that Amate was hungry, and that reminded the blue haired trainer that both he and Cole were looking for food and that's how they came to be at the cafe in the first place. "I'm looking for a place to eat with Cole too," Kai said, patting his Teddiursa on the back. "Maybe we should grab a bite to eat together?" He offered this invitation to Lakota and then turned to his new friend, "Not sure if you're still hungry, but you wanna join us too?"

Kai was oblivious to the fact that André still had a group of people following behind him, watching as he spoke, but nonetheless maybe the popular guy wanted to get away from all the attention. Kai new he would hate all the eyes that came with whatever popularity or fame André had.

@Denny

"Kai it is than" a smile on her face she noticed Amate nod his head in greeting, his leg extended he pawed the ground a bit of a snort escaping him.

Tilting her head at the offer she thought it over, only to notice the flicking of her partner's ears. If she said no than the stallion would have been throwing a fit like no tomorrow. "Yeah, that sounds great actually." With practised eased she dismounted, the rapidash shaking his head at the freedom. Even if he never had a bridal in his life it he still acted as if he had one on at all times.

Looking over her shoulder though she raised a brow. The group behind the male in pink did not leave, almost as stubborn as Amate she gave a sigh. "Well it seems you're quite the known face around here. You do shows to?"

Marie almost wsihed she had insisted on having Alexa guiding her, since she got lost in the back alleys. "Well, you can blame your brilliant friend for this one Ralts." To which Ralts did what it could to show that it was fine, to which Marie was thankful. "Well, we can definitely find our way around eventually."

Still, she wasn't finding anything. Well, she was finding the more thuggish types, but she just ignored them and kept walking on. Luckily, they didn't seem to find her an interest to try mugging or anything. It felt like it's been hours the two were walking through the alleyways, but it really had not been all too long. Just when she was thinking she'd lose hope, Ralts made an enthusiastic noise and pointed in a direction. There was the way out! "Finally!" Finally, out of the alleyways, the two made their way out into the open appriciating the lack of walls all around her.

That being said, there was quite the crowd over there. "What the heck is this crowd about?" She asked herself. It was directed at someone in the crowd, but their were so into whatever they were crowded around that they did not even notice. She did her best to get a look but she was just a little short to actually see. Well, it couldn't have been to amazing could it? "Well, Ralts. Where should we head to next?" Ralts just gave a confused look. "Right, well, let's just sit on this bench over here and figure it out." She sat down and set Ralts on her lap, contemplating what to do next.