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Abigail looked pretty focused on the battle now, although the challenging smirk she gave their opponents made it pretty clear she was pleased with how her move had turned out. It looked like Winston would be on his own for now, though, as the bird attacked him. He seemed to have taken a little damage in the collision, but he still had plenty of fight left in him that was for sure. Messing with the other team's plan that much was probably worth it.

Still, she had to focus on trying to keep her Pokemon active. His defence was down because of the Leer, which had caught him just as he was getting back up. Wow, that bird was kinda fast! Winston wasn't exactly the same way, though, which could be an issue. As the Peck approached, she looked at the bird. It wasn't very big, but she didn't want Winston to take too many attacks from it right now. But he wasn't really fast enough to dodge. Well, there wasn't really any other option - she'd have to hope his attacks were as strong as they'd seemed.

"Try and use your Water Gun to push the bird away from you!" she called, her Pokemon quickly obeying. Abigail figured it wasn't likely to stop the other Pokemon in its tracks, but hopefully its advance would get slowed down by the force of the water. If it wasn't moving too fast, it might not get as much power behind its Peck either. And the attack would hopefully do a bit of damage to the Natu anyway.



As Winston looked confused, Abigail listened to Dawkin's plan. It sounded good to her, but she wasn't sure Winston would be fast enough to get past the Hoppip by running - and he had to get close to block any of Magby's attacks. Pausing for a second, she thought - there was plenty of time for that, since it wasn't like the Hoppip would actually do anything excapt get in the way.

Okay, so going fast. What kind of things went fast? Cars, planes... rockets. With a slightly frightening look of inspiration, she pointed towards a nearby building.

"Hey, Winston, I need you to get close to that wall!" she cried, her Pokemon obeying the slightly confusing order. Once he was close to it, she called out another move. Making sure the angle seemed right, her smile widened. "Okay, now jump and give that wall your hardest Water Gun!" the Wooper obeyed, leaping into the air and firing a surprisingly strong jet of water into the wall.

Which sent him flying in the opposite direction. Although it was a bit faster and less controlled than Abigail expected, as seen by the nervous grin on her face as her Pokemon soared right at the Magby. Well, it was one way to move around the battle, right? Winston didn't seem too worried by it, anyway, continuing his water gun regardless.

Hey, they never really said what they meant by 'block the Magby'. Technically, she'd had to get past the Hoppip somehow. She looked at her teammates with a nervous thumbs up. She had this. Totally had this.


With a small nod towards Forrest and Tius - about as close to a 'thank you' as she ever seemed to get - Azura spoke. "Not Atlas, then. Well... I've never had Vacuo food. If you say it's good, we'll go with that." she wasn't exactly smiling, but knowing what she was doing at least seemingly lessened her scowl a little. As long as it wasn't too expensive, she'd be fine with it, and ham sounded good to her.

It probably seemed as though she missed Tius' question for a while, but she spoke without turning around. "I will. If no-one else wants to." she shrugged, glancing at the rifle currently strapped to her back. Of course, he'd probably win - it wasn't a matter of skill, but her fighting style didn't mix well with sparring. Winning at any cost and 'poor sportsmanship' in training wasn't good for improvement, at least according to a lectures she'd gotten after the first couple of incidents. Because obviously taking down the bad guys didn't count if you weren't nice about it. Ugh.

The other issue was the semblance. As far as her teammates were concerned, it allowed her to heal them with her aura, but that wasn't too useful in a one-on-one. The whole thing about draining people's aura? Well, she may have 'forgotten' to mention it when they'd discussed them. For good reason, though, since she didn't plan to use it anyway. The risk of overloading was too high, since with her limited power over it the rate it drained aura at was limited, and she couldn't judge how much she could handle. Not telling them was a good way to avoid the issue, but not using any of her semblance in combat wasn't helpful.

Spotting a bright-looking stall laden with food, she glanced back at her teammates wordlessly, looking for confirmation that it was the right one. Seemed like it. She'd actually been looking back at them quite regularly during the trip, partly to make sure she was going the right way, and partly to make sure Jin hadn't walked off to take a nap somewhere while they got food. She wouldn't have put it past him. No doubt he thought walking around the tournament was a complete waste of time.
I'm leaning towards AJAF mostly cause it seems to fit the actual team members more to me.


As the speech ended, Azura found she was surprisingly okay with the idea of the festival. At the very least, the somewhat shabby and rough-looking girl was curious about what it'd be like. Her expression hadn't changed much, but that was a given in most cases. It had been quite surprising for her to hear about, though - seeing as she'd never meant to come here, it wasn't like she'd done her research, so the whole thing was completely unexpected.

Time out of classes was always good though. She'd done pretty well in covering up her own struggles for a while now, but there'd been a few close calls. Any day where she didn't have to worry about people finding out how bad it was, that was a pretty good day.

Speaking of things she'd never intended to have happen, she glanced back at her team members. Her team members who'd apparently decided putting Azura in charge was a fantastic idea. Where that logic had come from she had no idea, but she supposed there were worse choices for the role. Not that any of them were exactly born leaders. As for her teammates themselves, her feelings on the matter were fairly mixed.

Tius, she definitely appreciated having around. She may be the one they put in charge, but despite his intimidating appearance the lizard faunus had shown himself to be the most level-headed of them all. Clear-headed and always ready to diffuse a situation when he had to, she'd found him to be the most reliable and understandable. If she was forced into a situation where she was relying on any of them, he'd probably be the one she'd turn to first. He'd certainly had to stop her from lashing out a couple of times. It hadn't like he particularly wanted to lead them, and his self-sacrificing tendencies were a little... Worrying, though.

Forrest was definitely enthusiastic. Which was nice, or would be if she didn't find the guy so impossible to understand. He was constantly going out of his way to help people out - nice of him, but completely illogical and reckless in her opinion. Didn't he realise that the more he opened up to people, the more chance they had to stab him in the back? In any case, she didn't exactly get it. He was helpful to have around, and she supposed he did add some much-needed energy to the group. All in all, he was nice enough. She just didn't get what made him tick.

And then there was Jin. He was difficult, to say the least. At this point, it seemed basically impossible to get him to do anything she wanted, which was frustrating. Apparently he must have had some kind of potential in him, though, since he was admitted to Illuminate in any case. For a variety of reasons, she found his attitude and actions incredibly annoying.

"We're getting food." she spoke to them bluntly, turning to head off into the festival. It was important that they were all prepared for wherever this thing involved - although as she turned back to look at her team it was obvious that she either didn't notice or didn't care about her own complete lack of manners. They'd probably have figured out by now that it was just how she was - Azura just liked to get to the point.

She seemed to pause for a second, before looking at Forrest - who generally seemed to be the best one to ask questions to. "Anything I - we, should know about this thing?" He was always offering them help with their studies, so she figured he might have enough useless information in his head to tell them something extra about the festival.

Once that was done, she turned to go, assuming that her teammates would catch up with her if they wanted. If they didn't it was no great loss - they could probably handle themselves without her, and she definitely could without them.
@Aquaknightif we are, then I'd vote for Azure, as Tius would find her better suited for the position,


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Well like what Lasrever said it was a toss between Tius and Azura, But I vote for Azura, and my second vote for Tius to be her second in command


So that makes 3 votes for Azura, and 1 for Tius, I think, if I'm allowed to count my double vote. I guess that makes Azura leader, if no-one has any objection towards the idea.
@Raijinslayer@Aquaknight@LokiLeo789 Well, it's still a toss-up between Tius and Azura for me. Can I vote for both? I think I'm voting for both.

Mostly because I think they're the only two with the motivation to actually do it as well as being tough enough to actually make decisions. I'll make a proper decision if I have to once you guys have all voted xD
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We should decide on Team leader before we work out the relationships.
I can tell you guys that Forrest isn't leader material, he's too much of a people-pleaser to put his foot down and lead a group with any assertion. He's more of a support and at most second command than a leader.

Jin can't be the leader, if he was the team would get nothing done. But it'd be funny if he was. So that's two down right off the bat.

So that leaves Azura and Tius.

Azura is very independent and a loner so she wouldn't be a good leader at the start but it could be fun to see her slowly fit into the role of the leader as the RP moves.

But Tius would be the best leader from the start without having to change much of who he is to fit the role, he would have the patience to deal with Jin's apathy, Azura's loner attitude, and Forrest's overly positive personality.

But that's my two cents what do you guys think?


It depends on what everyone else decides, but I pretty much agree with you on ruling out Jin, since I'm pretty sure they'd literally never do anything, and if you think Forrest couldn't lead then you're probably the best judge of that.

Tius seems like he'd find it easiest to lead them from the start, and he'd probably be the best equipped to deal with them. Definitely the most effective choice to be in charge right off the bat, and the best equipped to shut down any arguments etc. that happened in the team.

Azura, on the other hand, would be forced to start trusting them eventually if she ever wanted to be a good leader, which I think she'd struggle with initially. Learning to do that could be some good development for her, but the team would definitely be a much less effective one until she sorted herself out than it would under Tius.
Team 1:
Aurantius Draconus @Raijinslayer
Azura Smoke @Lasrever
Forrest Marigold @Aquaknight
Jin Quay @LokiLeo789

So team, relations ideas?


Well, as far as Azura's concerned, she's maybe starting to warm up to them slightly by this point - although it's worth mentioning she won't have actually told them anything much about herself.

She'd probably appreciate Tius' calmness, and I imagine he'd have had to stop her from picking a few fights.

Forrest she might find quite confusing and not get how/why he'd constantly try to do stuff for others.

Jin, she'd probably dislike instinctively, at least after finding out the whole businessman family thing and how he, in her eyes, is taking it for granted when she'd have killed for something like it.

Also, from reading the sheets, Tius isn't great academically, Azura can barely read properly and Jin's just really lazy. Other than maybe Forrest, our team sucks at classroom stuff.
Well, it makes sense to me anyway. Guess I just have to find a way for Winston to get past the Hoppip...

Hey, @PlatinumSkink, what kind of scenery/terrain are we working with here? Just to help me figure out how I can move Winston without the Hoppip getting in the way.
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