[X] My Assistant

[flarp22]

Bunnying is a-ok and stuff.

The night before docking in Barley, Umbra didn't sleep much. In fact, she gave up on sleeping about an hour until sunrise. She let Dex, her Hoothoot, out of his Poke Ball so he could fly around for a bit, and waited on the deck, staring into the horizon until she could see the shore. The view was gorgeous, especially since she started to see most of it as the sun was rising. Due to her lack of sleep, however, she's pretty much forcing herself to stay awake and stick to her plan.

"Step one: get a map. Step two: ask around to learn where Dragons have been sighted..." She began to quietly recite her plan to herself both to double check that she has this all thought out, and attempt to keep herself awake despite the sun beating down on her. The forecast called for rain today, but her first steps into Furoh were accompanied by a clear, sunny day. To many people, this would be a pleasant surprise, but Umbra isn't very pleased. Her skin is sensitive to sunlight; she can't stay in the sun for very long without it starting to harm her. "...Step zero: find shade."

Dex was recalled to his Poke Ball for some rest, as he is a nocturnal Pokemon, and Umbra steps off the ship. Conveniently, someone was giving out maps to newcomers, so she took one and started to look it over. "This place is...bigger than I thought it would be...where to start...?" As she focuses on the map, she starts to walk forward, only vaguely paying attention to where she's going. She bumps into a few people here and there, apologizing immediately and attempting to get some info on Dragon Pokemon's likely whereabouts. Unfortunately, she had no luck in obtaining such information. She finds an empty seat on a shaded bench and takes a deep breath of the salty air she'd grown accustomed to while out at sea, letting it all out with a large sigh. She quietly mumbles to herself. "Maybe random people on the street aren't the best sources...I'll need to find someone else...the problem is I don't know who they could be and I don't know where they might be...what to do...?"

Umbra decides to sit and wait for now. In all likelihood, the person or people who have the info she wants would stand out in a crowd. She lets her Chingling, Mint, out of her Poke Ball, thinking that when she spots someone who might have a clue, she can attract their attention by having Mint use Wish. Mint hops around, making a quiet ringing noise and keeping an eye out for someone unusual among the small crowd of people while not straying too far from Umbra. She attempts to keep an eye out, but soon finds herself yawning, slowly shutting her eyes, leaning back, and dozing off. Mint turns around and notices, hopping onto Umbra's lap and attempting to wake her up by jumping up and down and making a somewhat louder ringing noise. Unfortunately, the sound Mint makes is actually quite soothing, and Chingling are very light in weight, so Umbra is hardly affected at all. Mint is getting visibly frustrated, and so lets out a Stored Power attack to wake her trainer up, successfully this time. What Mint didn't realize, though, is that some of her attack was released behind her as well...

This post has been edited by flarp22: Oct 29 2012, 02:56 PM

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

The girl with the Chingling seemed apologetic, and Jill realized that she was taking out her frustrations on this single mistake. This girl, unlike everyone else who was bothering her, actually did so by accident. So, Jill let that slide, but couldn't help but notice some kid having the time of his life enjoying Jill's misfortune.

"If you think that's funny," she said, calmly, as she approached the boy after having noticed the pokeballs he carried. "Just wait 'til we battle. That, right there, that'll be hilarious."

Typically, she wasn't one to pick battles with strangers, but everything just seemed different today. She was already pissed off at the world, this kid was actively laughing at her, she was covered in pixie dust or whatever. Aside from that, she needed to get some training in anyway. If she was going to collect all the gym badges on this continent, she needed to get stronger.

"So let's go, kid. I'll take your whole team." Even though Pele and Vinyl were already out in the open, her first strike in the battle was going to be Flare, her recently named Vulpix. In her left hand, she held Flare's pokeball. She wanted to wait for the boy to accept her challenge before revealing her secret weapon, which more or less held her team together.