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Gathering at "The Gateway", LA, Kam, Kitty
Living Arrow
post Apr 20 2014, 03:57 PM
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PANE: Darryn Kellor



Travelling back to Port Barley after the events at the Petropolis Grand Invitational had been a long and gruelling affair for Lori. Well, it had involved public transport which inevitably meant sharing elbow room with all manner of undesirable and social reprobates. If she was not worrying about her bag being stolen from off of her shoulder, the young Trainer was replaying the events of the tournament again and again to find the moment that had made her act so foolishly.

*Who really thinks they can play the hero and go down some stupid hole to save random people they’ve never even met before!?* She demanded of herself for the fiftieth time as the stench of body odour from her latest ravel companion drifted her way. Holding back a gag, she politely turned her head the other way and cried inwardly. *At least Cesc smelled good!*

*Hey! Stop thinking about him, dammit!* Lori blushed in spite of herself, heat rising in her cheeks to decorate her skin with blotches of ruby embarrassment.

The coach pulled up to a stop at the edge of the town in the later hours of the sunny morning, a couple of miles from her final destination, and freedom announced itself as the coach doors clunked open.

*Close enough!* Lori told herself, springing up from her seat without a backward glance for the stinking hobo next to the window. Cuddling her bag close to her chest with one hand while squeezing the length of her intensely red hair in the other, she hurried to the front of the vehicle.

“Thanks!” She smiled and bowed her head politely to the driver (a sweet old man who she doubted spoke any English) and skipped down the steps to the sidewalk. The coach pulled away with the hiss of its brakes releasing to leave her drinking in the fresh air of the coast. It had been a while since she had been in Barley, and the town hadn’t changed a bit, but she felt like a different person to the rookie that had picked fights with bullies on her first day in the town.

*Never again, Lor.* She reminded herself of the boys that had threatened to cut off her hair when she’d defended another beginner trainer at the bus station. She shuddered at the memory, pushing those thoughts down to her toes where they couldn’t plague her thoughts anymore.

“Pipster,” Lori clicked open the green-capped Pokeball of her Piplup and grinned as he materialised in front of her, “we’re back in Barley.”

“Lup, Piplup!” His cheery reply was a welcome change to the dismal mutterings of the ‘people’ on the coach.

“And you know what that means, right?” She prompted him. A blank expression was her response. She rolled her eyes and pumped her fists energetically, the infectious enthusiasm of her naturally bold demeanour finding its way back to the front of her otherwise woolly teenage brain. “It means we get back on a ferry and go to Fidona! That Gym badge won’t win itself, y’know?!”

“Lup!”

“So, let’s go!” Lori cheered, breaking into a run down the final slope into the town with her Penguin Pokemon close on her heels.


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Huntress Wizard
post Jun 20 2014, 03:30 PM
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It took Roxxy a moment to come out of her self-induced meditation (that is to say, she zoned out big-time) and notice the group had stopped dead. As such, she nearly crashed into Lori. Roxxy growled, taking a quick step back, and was about to yell at the redhead when she noticed exactly why they'd stopped. It looked like some friends of Tag's were here to meet them. Big guys, in dark suits. She snickered involuntarily when she remembered the Team Flare goons from Kalos in their safety-cone-orange suits, trying to act tough.

Her giggles abruptly disappeared when one of the grunts blocked their way with a massive, hulking Charizard. Roxxy's mouth went dry, and she swallowed, hard, taking another step back. Steady on, she told herself, balling her hands into fists so they wouldn't shake. This isn't his Buddy you're facing; this is a completely unrelated Charizard. Buddy’s back in Hoenn, probably. That calmed her down a little, but her anxiety immediately went right back through the roof when Tag's Flaafy summoned storm clouds after a very brief six-word pep talk from him.

Now, all her inhibitions dropped, Roxxy pressed her palms to her ears and squeezed her eyes shut against the brilliant lightning and terrifying thunder. It was only one strike, luckily enough, and the clouds cleared as quickly as they had come; her fear, not so much. Her breathing was fast and shallow, her heart a stampede in her chest, and it took all her willpower not to drop to her knees or run in the opposite direction. At least now it was easier to tell the grunt's Charizard was definitely not Buddy.

Somehow it had turned from an orange-and-tan dragon to a black-and-blue monster. How was that even possible? Charizard was a final evolution, there was nothing beyond it as far as Roxxy knew, and she knew a lot about Charizard. And yet, here was an evolved specimen currently fighting with Tag's newly evolved Ampharaos, who sent it flying backwards with a well-aimed Dragon Pulse. A steady stream of four-letter words unmentionable with company around passed through Roxxy's head like ticker tape. She managed to edge to her right enough to see around the battle and spot three more goons waiting for them.

"Lori," she snapped, going straight to strategy mode, "you take the guy on the left. Marwan, the right. I'll deal with the middle." Marwan had moved before she talked, but he had gone for the one she'd assigned him to, by some miracle. Roxxy stepped forward, swinging her pack to her front so she could grab Zeta and Mutt's pokeballs from inside. As soon as they'd left the center, once Mutt started wriggling too much for her to carry him, she'd put both of her partners back into their pokeballs and those back into her satchel. The middle grunt snorted, also stepping forward, and tossed his pokeball to the ground. From it burst a very runty-looking Farfetch'd, its leek wilted and browning at the edges. She eyed it, then the man.

"What, your Pidgeot finally wise up and fly off, Jared?" she spat.

The man looked surprised that she'd recognized him, but she pushed on, "Oh come on, you don't think I'd forget that piece of work, did ya?" She made a slashing motion with her thumb under her left cheekbone, mirroring the nasty scar Epsilon had left on him last time she'd met this son-of-a-gun. Nervous, angry energy surged behind her ribcage and up her throat as she kept speaking: "I think it was back in Kanto, yeah? You were working for Team Rocket. Trying to clone Mew or whatever. And now look at you, ambushing teenagers on the docks for Acreus-knows-who. Oh how the mighty have fallen. If I had Epsilon, I would so beat you to a pulp, but lucky for you, you get to meet his daughter instead. Plus a little something-something I picked up on the docks on the way here."

Roxxy threw down both her pokeballs at once. From the left one, Mutt materialized, all waggling tail and floppy ears. From the right one, Zeta appeared and immediately turned and flew to hide on her shoulder. Jared laughed, and Roxxy's ears went red. She held up a hand to Zeta, signaling it was all right if she stayed there for now. "Mutt, you're up then," she said, struggling immensely to keep her voice level. "Howl, and make it quick."

"Fury Cutter, Farfetch'd!" said Jared. Mutt raised his snout to the sky and let loose a Howl for the second time that day. This, however, left him open to the bird pokemon's slash with a green-tinted stalk. He yipped, stumbling away, but recovered quickly enough. She bit her lip; if the dumb bird knew a Bug-type move, that could make things more difficult. Especially if Zeta continued to cower like this, which Roxxy didn't blame her for of course. Maybe Mutt could paralyze it, stop it from attacking consecutively and increasing the power of the move. It was worth a shot; even now the Farfetch'd was warming up another Fury Cutter.

"Thunder Fang on the Farfetch'd's wings, Mutt!"

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Living Arrow   Gathering at "The Gateway"   Apr 20 2014, 03:57 PM
Kamaitachi   To Taggarty Lee, Port Barley had been nothing more...   Apr 20 2014, 04:55 PM
A Kitty Cat   Marwan had just stepped foot off his boat a few mi...   Apr 20 2014, 09:06 PM
Huntress Wizard   In Roxxy's humble opinion, the sun got too muc...   Apr 27 2014, 08:21 AM
Living Arrow   “Luuup!” Pipster’s strangled squawk snatched L...   Apr 27 2014, 01:03 PM
Kamaitachi   Much to Tag's chagrin, no trainers had stepped...   Apr 28 2014, 12:57 AM
A Kitty Cat   Marwan shifted his way through the crowd, Natu per...   Apr 29 2014, 05:54 PM
Huntress Wizard   "No worries! Pipster's fine - it...   Apr 30 2014, 03:11 PM
Living Arrow   Lori gave a deep gulp. If it wasn’t bad enough tha...   May 3 2014, 10:33 AM
Kamaitachi   Tag and his Pokemon lined up to face the two girls...   May 4 2014, 08:18 PM
A Kitty Cat   “Sorry. It's just...” Marwan stumbled over him...   May 5 2014, 12:31 AM
Huntress Wizard   “There’s gyms in this region?” Roxxy asked, though...   May 5 2014, 03:57 PM
Living Arrow   From the moment tag announced his own intention to...   May 7 2014, 11:47 AM
Kamaitachi   Piplup. Snivy. Water. Grass. Two mono-typed Pokemo...   May 8 2014, 12:41 AM
Living Arrow   Lori hissed through her teeth as the Mienfoo manag...   May 12 2014, 12:01 PM
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Kamaitachi   Arms crossed and standing passively, Tag calmly wa...   May 13 2014, 01:46 PM
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Huntress Wizard   Roxxy sighed in relief. The Natu had gone down in ...   May 14 2014, 02:17 PM
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Huntress Wizard   The Gust flew apart into nothing as the Flabebe cr...   May 18 2014, 10:35 AM
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Living Arrow   “Th-that’s…” Lori whispered, her gaze transfixed u...   May 20 2014, 02:06 PM
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Living Arrow   *Learn what I can. Catch a Fairy-type. Get two Gym...   Jun 18 2014, 12:03 PM
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