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Route 4 wasn’t good for much. Sure, there was an actual road on it now and the sandstorm had up and left, but it was hot. Though Kip dressed as minimally as he could without getting sunburn, sweat rolled down his back and beaded on his upper lip. Man, it felt like an oven. Sitting on a large Arcanine who still donned a winter coat didn’t help either, but Percy hardly appeared to mind.

       “I hate this heat,” he muttered, a forearm wiping perspiration off his face. He wanted to turn back for Nimbasa City but had greater reason to be here: the Relic Castle. “Let’s go!” he hooted and they ran off, Percy’s paws thudding on the pavement.

      It didn’t take long to arrive there. Kip slid off and patted Percy’s head, throwing a small treat up into the air. It arced for a moment and then went to land in his snapping jaws. Tourists were non-existent today, rattled by the high temperature. Good. It would be nice and quiet, the way he liked. There wasn’t much thinking needed to navigate the castle, already familiar with the passages. However, he had forgotten how easy it was to disturb wild Pokemon as he ran ahead of Percy. Kip suddenly yelped and sprinted back in terror. He’d awoken a rather angry swarm of Yamask and Cofagrigus.

      With expert skill he jumped on Percy’s back. The two approached the exit of the castle at a breakneck speed, hardly faltering when someone came into view. “Get outta here! There’s lots of mad Pokemon comin’ for ya!” Kip yelled as he flew past, hoping they too were able to escape. 

Regardless, she was finally back on schedule with her training. She stopped by the local thrift shop for some new workout gear. She stumbled upon a vintage addidas shirt and some daggy grey short shorts. Nora could make it work. She got Dime to snip the bottom half of the shirt to make a crop top and rolled up the bottoms of the shorts hide the frayed bottom. Nora redressed behind the Pokemon Center before hiding her bag in a bush and taking off for a jog around the area.

Mankey in tow and Aerodactyl flying high overhead, Nora only stopped to take a breather when she saw an overdressed boy atop an Arcarnine barreling towards her.

    “ Huh-- ah!! “ 

Nora stumbled back so she wasn’t taken out by the pair, yelling after the boy with a squint, “ WHAT DID YOU SA-- “

She turned around at the last minute to see a morgue of ghost Pokemon pour out of a nearby Castle. Idiot boy must have disturbed the Pokemon in there!

Nickel yelped in fear, immediately turning on his heel and breaking for it in he opposite direction. Nora’s lids halved in disappointment, rolling up her invisible sleeves.

    “ ALRIGHT IT’S JUST YOU AND ME, ZIP. “

Nora lowered into a defensive stance as the Pokemon got closer. She closed her fist and punched the first Yamask that got near her in its metal belly-plate. A pained grunt stuck in her throat as she punched another one. The bastards are surprisingly hard!

A prehistoric screech thundered from above and the Aerodactyl swooped magic boulders of Ancient Power landsliding across the entrance to the Castle, taking out at least a dozen Yamask and three Cofagrigus.

Labcoat left behind, Noah had started with a brief stroll around Striaton. If he was making an effort to go outside, might as well find somewhere better to take a break than lingering around the laboratory doors, right? Though his little walk had soon come to a grinding halt, as the Professor realized something fairly important.

The labcoat that was back in his office still had his lighter stashed away in it’s pockets. Shit. Groaning quietly to himself, Noah pat down the pockets of his outfit in a vain attempt to find a spare, but as expected, there was nothing. Belle, his Eevee – who was being used as a perch by his young Chatot – stared up with a look of concern at her trainer’s sudden shift in mood.

Great. Time to waste more of his breaktime and go back inside to fetch it. Or at least he would, if a young woman hadn’t approached with the offering of her own lighter’s flame, causing the Professor to sigh quietly with relief.

“What are you, some kind of guardian angel or something?” He jested, while managing to keep a look of total seriousness as he stepped forwards, placing the cigarette between his lips before leaning forwards to the flame in order to light it.

Inhaling deeply, Noah plucked the cigarette from his lips once more, letting the cloud of smoke fall from his mouth before he introduced himself.

Nora’s cool facade fell away as the man introduced himself as Hemlock and she breathed in too much smoke in shock. She ducked her head to the side to couch behind her forearm. “ Really?! “ she asked.

Zip rolled her eyes and sat back on the pavement causing a small tremor. The Aerodactyl was right as always.

  Luckily, despite the weather, some shops were still open. Particularly the ones that sold all the food he needed for his Pokemon. His hands were filled. Perhaps that was a bad decision, as it’d slow him down. But there were still some pretty good deals. As no one could get out to actually buy anything, they lowered the prices for him, causing Osvaldo to buy more.

  Packed down with a scarf and heavy coat, the full-armed male trudged through the snow, heading back to his shop/home. Well, that was until he’d heard someone calling out for him. Or, at least, he assumed they were calling for him.

  What someone was doing out in this weather was beyond him. Unless they were like him in the aspect of wanting a good deal. But, they were headed his way. It wasn’t until he heard what the female was saying that he actually reacted.

Lifting heavy things. Finally she was given a task she could excel at.

Nora picked up the bags easily in both hands and glanced up with a grin to see the boy had already walked a hundred yards back in the direction of his ranch. “ Ah! ” She picked up her feet and double timed to his flank, keeping up with his pace while watching her Mankey, concerned lines creasing her forehead.

    “ Hey, watch the attitude, “ Nora said incredulously to the pinch victim with a scowl, “ Or I’ll leave him on there. “

Pushing her sunglasses onto her head, Nora leant down to get a closer look at the situation. She thought she remembered one of the Nurses at the Pokemon Center that if you pinch just here...

Before Nora could test her theory, someone bumped past her in the busy causeway and she was thrust forward, headbutting the man’s hip. The rookie stumbled back, hands to her forehead. Dime still being attached to this person’s ass was now furthest thing from her mind.

She started walking down the street and realized something.

      Whoever this woman was, he already found her far too boisterous. To avoid conversation he flicked through the images on it, pretending to be invested in the camera. The roll was currently filled with invaluable pictures of artefacts, documents and places ( along with several blurry ones where Aimé had decided to make himself the main subject, getting in the way ). When she squatted in front of him to peer at the camera, he ignored the biting urge to step back and distance himself. 

      Aimé, however, seemed to be over the moon around their new company. The Sableye neared and began to fiddle with the frayed ends of her shirt, tugging and stretching the material. One strand had almost ended up being chewed. Gabe cleared his throat and the Pokemon stepped back, waiting behind him. His pointer finger held down on a button and it emitted a small beep. 

“Holy– THAT WAS AMAZING!” bringing the other into a bear hug from excitement and relief that her egg was safe, but not tightening said hug in fear for her baby’s safety. Still, she hoped her actions spoke louder than her words.

Releasing the woman from her embrace and then hearing the stuttering of her name, a cheshire grin became plastered across her expression as a hand rested against her hip in an attempt to strike a cool pose.

    “That’s me. The one and only! How do you know my name? Battling or the sweet tunes I produce–” about to go into full audio auto-biography about her band before stopping dead in her tracks, the least she could was other this girl a chance to give her name to the champ. Taking the egg back from her and clutching it against her chest like a newborn baby, patting is as she spoke.

   “Thanks so much, you literally saved a life there! Rest in pieces my Crepe, but you saved this lil’ dude! I owe you one, anything, you name it I’ll do it!–” Alexine was a woman to her word, anything this lady needed now, she would do everything within her power to grant.

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Staying cooped up in the League all day definitely wasn’t Lexis’ style. Feeling slightly bad for the poor chumps who came to challenge her today, as they were going to met with some air and possibly an empty packet of potato chips.

The Champ desperately needed to get out of that stuffy place though! She was losing her marbles— And she really didn’t have a lot left. So today was going to be dedicated to her, her new egg and whatever Cafe she stopped by in Castelia City that was cheap enough for her, after all, despite having pretty much two jobs, most of her money went into those jobs…and food…and booze..ANYWAY.

Here she was, strolling the streets, her Hydreigon floating behind her as per usual, the partner never liked being cooped up ever since it was a young Deino, Lexis never blamed her. A fresh crepe was in her hand whilst a pair of headphones rested against her head and blasted some tunes into her ears.

Though she really should’ve been paying more attention to her surroundings. A swift corner was turning and bumping into an unsuspecting individual caused Lexis to panic dropping her beloved crepe…..and egg in the process.

Blood drained from Nora’s face and she nearly dropped the egg herself. This must be what people meant when they said Unova was the land of dreams because not only had the rookie run into a dazzling beauty, she had bumped headfirst into her idol. Nora tightly hugged the egg against her chest, desperately trying to stop the stuttering, blurting mess she was about to become.

      For almost an hour he and Aimé explored the ruins. It had several levels and was completely silent but at one point he thought he’d heard another’s voice. Both he and his Sableye paused to look in the direction of the sound but soon dismissed it in favour of a new finding. Gabe saw Aimé look back to where the noise came from again but didn’t hear anything himself, continuing to record notes and take photographs. He exited the ruins through an opening at the back of the structure and spied movement as he turned the corner.

      What he then saw was the impressive span of an Aerodactyl’s wings. Had a woman not shouted at him, something about a “future husband”, he wouldn’t have almost dropped his expensive camera in fright. After several curse words muttered under his breath Gabe willed himself to relax. Humour the woman, even. Better force a smile while he’s at it, or a least a more pleasant expression.

alright guys! modblog has officially approved the daycare egg operations so we are open for buisness. for any of you curious all information can be found on Des’ info page. there are some simple forms to fill out (seriously nothing complicated just pokemon you’re dropping off mainly), and all submitted forms will result in a thread (I will message you) and maybe and egg if you wish! you do not need another pokemon to breed yours against, the daycare has some options for you that can be seen here.