@Salenea
Lucian took a deep breath. Umbreon went to him for some support. he picked up his beloved shiny Pokemon, saying. "I-I ran away from my family. They are from the Tucker Trading and Manufacturing company located in the Kalos Region. They are a deplorable company led by deplorable people. They are abusive to their pokemon, workers, and me..." He starts tearing up. "I hope they do not know where I am, I left and I left forever. I have no intention of going back."

@JrVader

Gabe looked expectantly at Lucian. His eyes widend at the revelation before his brows furrowed slightly. But when Lucian started to tear up Gabe stretched to put his arm around Lucian to friendly comfort in him. "Doubt anyone will find you in this dull speck on the world map. I don't know Kalos, nor have heard of the company but I hate abusive people." He felt for Lucian, still young and already living a though life. "Don't worry,your house is remotely enough without nosy neighbours and I'll make sure to keep an eye around to see if people of that company set foot to Rhando." He grinned and winked. "You just have to give the right nudges to the right people without giving details and the local island nosy brigade is keeping an eye on everything."

Mareep walkee over to Lucian to.press her head against him. "You poor thing, don't worry, we'll help Gardevoir and Umbreon take caee of you."
Machop looked at Gardevoir. "That bad huh."

Ah, this one was straight to the point. And brave, being so calm in front of a much larger bird. No use dancing around the subject, then. "Oh, I suppose I am a little startled about something. I just saw a rather rough fight over a meal. Fighting is one thing, but I dunno if that one would have made it on his own. Do fights often get that intense?" The Staraptor knew he was lucky, having someone that would feed him if he couldn't get food for himself. Not like that was going to happen, though.

@Salenea

Lucian looks at Gabe and smiles, wiping a tear away away. "You got it, thanks a ton. If you ever need a place to stay, my home is always open to you." He starts looking for the bus

Gardevoir looks at Machop. "Yes, I despise his family. Umbreon and I were hatched at a young age by Lucian. He had to keep us a secret from his family, or else we would be taken away from him." She says. The elegant pokemon moves to Lucian and puts her hand on his shoulder. "When I first set eyes on Lucian, I knew he was special. The way pokemon are just drawn to him, and vice versa. I vow to protect him and Umbreon with all my will, even if it means I die."

Lucian is shocked at what Gardevoir says, quickly responding with. "You don't have to go to such extremes for me, Gardevoir. I am not really that special..."

Gabe grinned, glad Lucian could smile again. "Thanks mate, I'll be sure to visit you. Think you'd get very lonely all by yourself all the time. I know I would. Pokemon are great companions of course but having a human to talk to from time to time is a necessity in my opinion" Gabe glanced at his watch, the bus should be there any minute now. Gabe noticed a glitter when he looked down. He nudged Lucian. "Hey what's that?" he asked as he pointed to the side of the road.

@JrVader

@CitrusArms The Wingull titled her head as she looked up to the Staraptor. "That happens, yes," she said. "It depends on what food though. We Wingull tend to stay around the harbour, there is enough food to find for us there, especially humans tend to throw away perfectly good leftovers. But for two things we will fight each other: fresh berries and fries. We can't get to the berries in the forest because the Spinarak are really territorial when it comes to the berry bushes, and the fries humans make are delicious." She looked in the direction of the sea. "So yes, sometimes the fights get intense, that's the way of life."

Lucian looked down, noticing the shiny object on the ground. Once he picked it up, he noticed that it was a potion. "Sweet, but I don't usually battle..." He says

Gabe looked at what Lucian found. "Sweet, let's see that as a positive sign that you being here will lead you to glory and riches and mostly good fortune."
Gabe thought for a moment. "You know, I never found a potion and I lived here my entire life."

Gabe noticed the bus coming. "Ah, it's almost here. On to Lilan town and on to your new house." Gabe paused. "You have a map? Of the island? Unless you have a walking encyclopedia as sister it might be a good idea to have."

@Salenea

Lucian took out a small map provided to him by the real estate agent, marking where his house was. It was a map of the island. "Hmm, It should be about a fifteen minute hike to my house from Lilan town. I am kind of excited." Once the bus arrived, Lucian piled into the bus, Umbreon and Gardevoir following en suite. Umbreon took a seat on Lucian's lap while Gardevoir occupied the seat next to him.

//Wanna just skip the bus ride?

@BladeSS4
A woman entered the pokecenter. You could tell by her demeanor that she was, to put it simply, an entitled prick. She looked around with an angry scowl on her face. "What a stench, my garbage smells better than this." She walks up to the nurse, stating "You better handle my pokemon with the utmost care, if I find even just one scratch on their precious little bodies, than I will sue you!" She looks at Bakuto, stating "what are you looking at? Huh?"

//Yep

Gabe recalled his pokemon and quickly showed his pokedex to the bus driver before sitting down.

20 minutes later.

When the bus stopped at the bus stop in Lilan Town Gabe jumped up and quickly got off the bus. While he waited for Lucian to get off too, he stretched a bit. "Welkom to Lilan Town, my hometown and the place where all new trainers get a starter. The place to be." Gabe greeted some people passing by and gave Lucien a bit time to look around before he continued. "You know what? I'll show you my house first, that way you know where to find me if you need to be in Lilan Town. After that, we'll head to your place unless you can't wait and want to see your own place first." Gabe said enthusiastically.

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Sarah looked at Lorie. "Back away and they leave us be, they would have attacked otherwise." Sarah said as she moved away further. Saur and Gira followed suit and Abra Teleported back to Sarah too. When Sarah noticed the Spinarak retreating too as they backed away she sighed relieved. "Now let's continue." Following an often travelled path close to the road and keeping a good pace she found herself in Lilan Town later. "That big building is the lab where professor Maple is. I need to talk to her for an assignment for my study so let's go." Sarah went the way towards to the Lab.

Regan grabbed a couple of brochures whole she was waiting, sitting about in the lobby while she waited for the status report from Nurse Joy. It would do to learn more about her surroundings while she had the time. From what she could gather, she'd have to catch another ferry to get over to the rear island, where the HQ was. That was... Evoru, also the smallest island. She felt like Jenny might have told her that. Ah well. She might have to make a few different landings on the way there. Rapier could carry her, but... She doubted that was comfortable for either of them.

Well, she should keep moving. If she let herself get stopped like this all the time, she'd never get there. She confirmed with the coordinator that he was comfortable seeing the Wingull back into the wild on his own, before going to find herself a bus. She had to go through Lilan Town, and she should stop to visit the professor while she was there. They'd probably be working together in the future.

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She'd just managed to make the bus. Rapier reported nothing of interest, just a shrugging ruffle of his feathers. She gave him a few pets before getting into the bus, which he would follow from a comfortable distance, moving from roost to roost or simply circling lazily above. She climbed down off the bus, that brochure in her hand as she tried to decipher where should could find that professor. Maybe she'd have to stop by the Center and ask. They might even have another brochure.

@JrVader @BladeSS4 An old man sitting in the Pokémon Center looked at the young woman who seemed to think she owned the place, the Houndoom laying beside him watched her movements in silence. He giggled as the young man responded to her and the Houndoom looked at the growling Absol.

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@Salenea @CitrusArms There were brochures with places of interest available in the Pokémon Center, but close to the busstop was also a sign showing the most important places. One of the arrows pointed in the direction of the Rorie Laboratory.

The building itself had off-white brick walls and a black roof. A silver plaque next to the door showed the streetnumber and the name of the building. While the city stretched out to the left and the right, there seemed to be no building behind the lab, just trees. The area behind the laboratory had a fence around it and several Pokémon could be seen in the grass.

Inside the lab where several rooms dedicated to research or storage, and a few offices for the senior researchers. Professor Maple was in laboratory 1, where she checked some data in a computer. Two assistants were with her, one of them copied all the numbers she read to the clipboard he was holding.

Regan saw the sign quickly enough. "Aah, this way, huh," she murmured softly to herself, following the directions given by the sign. She took her time, peering in this shop or that on her way, but made a point not to meander. She knew she was getting close when she saw the fenced in wilderness. Who else would need that, here, but a Pokemon Professor?

She found the front of the compound shortly, "guess I'll try the door." The Ranger found it open and let herself in, poking around before finding the person that looked like she was in charge. "Professor? I was wondering if you needed a Ranger for anything today. I'm on my way to HQ to report in."

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@JrVader

Gabe looked expectantly at Lucian to see if Lucian wanted to stop by Gabe's house first or wanted to go straight to his own property.
Gabe hoped the property was in good shape and had some basic appliances at least, Lucian didn't look like had a lot of stuff with him.

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Sarah walked to the research facility, although most just called it lab. It was time to get an assignment from the professor. If she wanted to graduate as a pokemon researcher she needed to do several pieces of research. Assignments given by teachers or professors would give her the points needed.

She walked inside and looked around, she heard someone asking if the professor needed a Ranger for anything. Since the Ranger had already asked for Professor Maple's attention Sarah supposed this was the best moment to ask for the assignment too. By the sound of it, it was laboratory 1 they were in. Sarah had been in the lab a few times before, helping with small bits of research for her study, so she knew the professor a bit.

"Professor Maple? Sorry to disturb you but I was wondering if you have an assignment for me for my study?" Sarah asked politely while she glanced at female Ranger.

@Salenea

Lucian pondered for a moment. In one hand, he really wanted to let his pokemon rest, they did just get off a boat, after all. But on the other...
He smiled, looking to Gabe, "It would be my honor." He says while bowing. "Which direction is it?"

//Sorry it took so long to post!!

@BladeSS4
Alexandra was shocked. This was one of the few times that anyone has stood up to her. "Commoner filth." She murmurs under her breath. Once the nurse is done healing her pokemon, she snatched th epokeballs from the nurses hand and stormed out, in a worse mood than she already was in.
Once she got outside, she opened her nearlu empty pokedex. All that did was fuel her hatred toward her brother, Lucian, more. "That waste probably already has more Pokedex entries than mine, how than that be?" She growled to herself. She switched through her pokedex, trying to find a certain application. "Ah, here it is." She murmured. What she opened was a tracker application. She looked around on the small map until she found what she was looking for, Lucian's pokedex.

//Sorry it took so long to post!!

Professor Maple looked up when someone talked to her. "Ah, a ranger," she said. "Jolin will like that. I do have some things you could look into for me." She paused when Sarah entered the room and nodded. "I do have an assignment, but it is a dangerous one, so I can't let you do it by yourself." She glanced to the ranger. "Unless miss ranger here will be willing to assist you. There is supposed to be a giant Onix in the rocky area up north, but it hasn't been sighted for a while. Please seek it out and register it to the dex if you find it."

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@BladeSS4 The old man turned to the young trainer with the Absol when he was being addressed. "Thank you," he said, putting a hand on the head of the Houndoom. "Welcome to the islands. I do know where the gym is, yes." He gestured to the door. "When you leave the Center you go straight until you can turn right. Follow that road and you will reach the gym. You will recognise it when you see it: the walls look like they were made of mud, with a red curved roof on top. And on the door is the symbol for Ground."

He nodded to the counter. "Are you waiting for your Pokémon to treated by the capable nurse Joy?" he asked.