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The Crypt => Boulevard of broken dreams => The Sweetest Goodbye => Fandom => Topic started by: Namari on June 17, 2019, 00:20:08 am
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Satoshi Tanaka
age 24
Pokemon
Rapidash-female
typhosion-male
Ariados-female
Kommo-o -male
flygon-male
scolipede-female
Aurorus-male
Noivern-female
elektross-female
garchomp-male
Mienshao-male
Gyrados-male
Skarmory-female
Luxray-male
Skuntank-male
The near champion pokemon trainer had retired from exploring and competitive pokemon training years ago, coming home to work at his family pokemon ranch. His own pokemon roamed freely around the grounds, enjoying the fresh air and mingling with the pokemon his family raised and tended for a living, with one exception, his skuntank. That pokemon had a temper, and due to the odor he was kept in his pokeball. Regardless the former championship quality team enjoyed their home, and Sato rode his partner rapidash with skill, driving several tauros ahead of him as he moves them from the north pasture towards the barn. The light was fading fast, turning to night, and dark clouds rumbled ominously, heralding a storm coming.
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Dipper(Ben) Pines
28
Pokemon:
Yamper- Male
Dewgong- Male
Glaceon- Male
Sylveon- Male
Froslass- Female
Frosmoth- Female
Gardevoir- Female
Clefable- Female
Dedenne- Male
Dragonair- Male
Altaria- Male
Corviknight- Male
Ninetails- Male
Hatterene- Female
Lurantis- Female
Jay Taen
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Sex preference: As long as he puts his dick in something
Pokemon:
Tyranitar - M - is twice the size a normal Tyranitar
Salamence - M
Tyrantrum - M
Nidoking - M
Steelix - M
Dusknoir - M
Hydreigon - M
Pangoro - M
Beartic - M
Runerigus - None - Shows you horrific memories if you touch it
Guzzlord - None - Jay never brings Guzzlord out do to his inability to control the pokemon, however he got his idea of consuming weak pokemon to get stronger by discovering Guzzlord doing the same thing.
Akihiko Sato. Normally just prefers Aki.
Age: 21
Pokemon:
Dartrix [male]
Meowstic [female]
Lapras [female]
Zorua [male]
Lopunny [female]
Lucario [male]
Arcanine [male]
Azumaril [male]
Vulpix [female]
Cyndiquil [male]
Raichu [female]
Kirlia [female]
Pidgeot [female]
Froakie [male]
Espeon [female] {deceased}
Akihiko sighs as he looks up at the sky, "That looks fun. Lucario, think we can make it to the next town before that hits?"
Lucario stops walking and looks up at the sky. He gives a soft huff before shaking his head.
Akihiko drops his shoulders a bit and groans, "Aww man... Cant take pidge either. Too dangerous to be in the air with those clouds. How about if we hop this fence and try to take a short cut? I dont see any pokemon in the field so a straight shot will save us an hour."
Lucario looks at the fence before looking at his trainer giving a shrug.
Aki chuckles, "Good enough for me~" He runs up to the fence and hops over it easily, lucario already on the other side
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A thunder of hooves drowns out any sound, and Sato cuts off a straying tauros trying to break free from the group. As they get nearer to the house he sees a...person? He swears, seeing that they're heading straight towards him. He spurs rapidash forward, who also sees the danger and whinnies, charging towards the front of the group and turning them in time to miss the man. Sato reins the fire pokemon back as the tauros keep going towards the barn, looking at the redhead on the ground, " what the hell do you think you're doing? this is private land, and you could have gotten hurt!"
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Aki had given a loud shriek from the commotion, flinching and closing his eyes tightly, "I- I just wanted to take a short cut! I'm sorry!"
Lucario had immediately stepped between his trainer and the tauros, prepared to use close combat on them, however waited patiently when the rapidash stopped them. His eyes still glowed, ready to attack if need be if he felt aki was in any danger.
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Sato sighs softly, " sorry, just having that close of a call tends to make me a bit tense." he raises an arm as the wind whips into his face, " this is no time to be talking, we need to get out of this weather. hop on! i'll get these guys in the barn and get us to the house! we can talk about why you're out here after." he holds a hand out, obviously wanting to pull the other up onto rapidashs back to sit behind him.
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Feeling no immediate threat, lucario gives a soft grumble before backing off and crossing his arms, looking at Aki
Aki dusts himself off a bit before huffing, "Yeah, no thanks. Im not getting on that thing. I'm going to the town over and talking to you is wasting precious time. Im sorry i crossed on to your land but I just need to get to the next town."
Lucario rolls his eyes and shakes his head
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Sato rolls his eyes, " there's no way you're gonna outrun that storm. now don;t be stupid!" he reaches down and grabs the others arm, yanking him up.
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Aki gives a startled yelp and begins to panic when he gets way too close to rapidash, "NO!! No wait-! I- You cant be serious!! Im gonna be sick! Put me down!!"
Lucario watches, raising an eyebrow, "grrowleh...." He looks at the rapidash and begins explaining his master's deal
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The rapidish blinks and looks at the lucario, shaking which makes Sato let go of Aki, " hey, what are you doing girl?" she trots behind Aki and starts pushing him with her nose, heading towards the house while using her body to block to worst of the wind, which grows stronger each passing moment.
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Lucario takes aki's backpack and his hand and starts helping in leading him to the house.
Aki stammers and turns bright red, "He-hey lucario! What are you doing?!"
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sato grunts but lets the pokemon do what she wants, " alright girl, im trusting you. get us out of this storm in whatever way you think is best. i hope those tauros have the sense to get in the barn." soon the house comes into view and he jumps off the fire pokemon, pressing his forehead to her before taking her tack off and putting it into a waterproof bin outside the house, " get to shelter girl!" he grabs Akis arm and hurries him in the door just as rain starts hitting the ground in fat drops.
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Lucario steps inside and closes the door behind him.
Aki huffs, "Man, what is wrong with you!? You shouldnt be bringing random strangers into your house!"
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Sato rolls his eyes, " yeah and dumb kids shouldn;t be running around in the middle of a storm. i think a 'thank you for not making me stay out in that storm despite my own stupid stubbornness' might be in order here."
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aki snarls, "I aint a kid! I could be a serial killer and you wouldnt even know!"
lucario's expression drops a bit and he sighs before setting his backpack down on a chair gently
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Sato rolls his eyes, " yeah, and if you were rapidash would have run you through. not to mention your lucario seems to give lie to that. just settle down will ya? i took you in because it's the right thing to do, nothing more."
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Aki huffs, "Yeah? Well what if YOU'RE the serial killer?! I aint given ya the chance!"
Lucario huffs and heads over to the sink, quickly washing his paws to make sure he doesnt make a mess in the home, trying to be polite as possible
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Sato rolls his eyes, " oh no, you figured out my plan to lure you onto my farm and force you inside with a storm that somehow i created. whatever will i do." he sighs and goes over to the oven, putting some mitts on and pulling out a glass pan with food.
Meinshao wanders into the kitchen, curious about the ruckus.
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Aki huffs, "you'll never know. Adults can be insanely cruel. "
Lucario sees meinshao and gives a courteous bow before going over to sato and tilting his head, "gggrrr?"
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Sato sighs, " well we're not like that around here. just a family ranch, we give aid to travelers that pass through." he looks at the Lucario and raises an eyebrow, " yes?"
Meinshao eyes the lucario and gives a haughty huff before going over to Aki, looking at the new comer while trying to look disinterested.
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Aki snarls, "sure you ju-" he looks at meinshao and his eyes damn near sparkle, his personality doing a complete 180, "oh my gosh! Your coat is soo beautiful! Hello meinshao!"
Lucario looks at the glass dish and sniffs at it curiously before looking back at sato, curious if the man needed help with anything
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The meinshao pulls his head back, startled by the sudden change in attitude. He huffs and turns his nose up.
Sato blinks and smiles, " you hungry bud? there's plenty, here." he scoops some casserole into a bowl, handing it to lucario. He scoops another bowl and sets it in front of Aki.
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He chuckles and starts petting meinshao, "i knew a few meinshao that could never turn down a good pet."
Lucario blinks when he's given a bowl. It wasnt exactly what he was trying to get across but... he wont turn down a good meal. Especially since they hadnt eaten yet. He nods and sets it on the table before going back to sato for a utensil
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Meinshao pulls away and narrows his eyes, fluffing up his fur in indignation. Sato notices and raises an eyebrow, " don;t mind him, he's got an attitude problem. give him a few more compliments and he'll get less snotty." he hands a fork to the lucario and sets another in front of Aki. he dishes up two more bowls and sets them on the table, going towards some stairs, " Maya! dinner!" soon footsteps are heard running down the stairs and a little girl holding tightly onto a skitty comes down the stairs, " okay-...who's that?" Sato chuckles, " he's a traveler who's taking shelter from the storm. now sit down and eat." the girl nods and lets go of the skitty, who bounces over to a few bowls and starts munching the pokemon food there. Sato sits and starts eating his own portion.
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Lucario sits at the table and begins to quietly eat.
Aki chuckles, "meinshao is such an awesome pokemon! You really cant-" he hears the girl and looks at her briefly before his eyes dart to the skitty. He wanted to hug the skitty so bad but he also noticed everyone sitting down to eat and it was hard to ignore the food with his stomach growling so much. He hesitantly picks up his fork and slowly starts eating.
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Sato nods, " he's a strong pokemon, im proud to have him as a partner. however im not so blind that i can;t see his flaws, and he's more stuck up than most. i was not as experienced when i got him, i didn't realize how much effort i'd have to put into training him when he was a meinfoo. With rapidash, we've been together since she was born, our partnership has been built over much time. it was a learning experience, and we still make a good team even if he can be difficult at times. he's definitely not the worst out of my pokemon." he chuckles softly, taking a few bites of his meal.
Meinshao grabs his own bowl, picking daintily at his special food.
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Aki blinks as he listens to sato he picks at the his food a bit before closing his eyes, "yeah i hear ya. I've had lucario shortly after leaving my home back when he was a riolu. He's been my rock for a long time now. Dont know where id be without him."
Lucario chews his food quietly before swallowing, grumbling softly.
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He nods, " thank goodness for pokemon huh? i don;t know what i'd do without mine."
Maya looks up, " i can;t wait to get my first ponyta! and then when im ten, i can go on my pokemon journey too!"
Sato chuckles softly, " indeed. our little Maya here just turned 6, so she's old enough to pair up with a ponyta. we're just waiting for this seasons batch of foals. kind of a family tradition."
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Aki looks at her and does his best to hide his nervousness, "ah... ponyta's are pretty cute..."
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Sato nods, " yeah, and they're important to my family. we use them to herd the animals we keep. we all have a very close bond with a ponyta, or like me we've gotten ours strong enough to evolve."
Maya looks around, " mom and dad and big sister are still gone?"
Sato nods, " yeah, im guessing they didn;t want to risk themselves and the pokemon in this storm, so they stayed in town. no big deal, i bet they'll be back first thing in the morning. ponyta and rapidash may be great for herding, but like most fire types they don't like rain. without the tauros to herd on the way back they'll travel fast."
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Aki looks at them and sighs, "you still didnt have to let me in. Wouldnt be the first time i got caught in the rain."
Lucario rolls his eyes and finishes the bowl of food. He hops down from his seat and grabs his bowl and fork before going over to the sink and setting them in the sink
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Sato shrugs, " no i didn;t have to. but helping others is the right thing to do, and if i have something i can easily give to help someone else, then why not? there's plenty of food here for everyone, and we have the space to put you up for the night. don't fuss over it too much, there's no strings attached."
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Aki sighs, "i still feel uneasy though."
Lucario goes over to aki and pats his head, "grah."
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He shrugs, " you could stay out in the barn if you prefer. or i could let you have my room, it has a lock. or you can just trust your pokemon, they're usually a pretty good judge of character."
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Aki huffs, "i do trust my pokemon! I just... if anything happens to them i would never forgive myself."
Lucario chuffs and takes aki's hand and places it on his head.
Aki blinks and looks at lucario before sighing and starts petting the back of his head
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Sato nods, " i hear ya. well, the offer of the barn or my room still stands."
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Lucario leans into aki's hand and huffs.
Aki looks at lucario for a minute before sighing, "no i...I'll be fine. As long as lucario has the backpack i should be fine..."
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He raises an eyebrow and shrugs, deciding not to ask, " we'' get you settled in the guest room then." he gets up and gestures for the other to follow, heading upstairs. Meinshao finishes his food and follows after his trainer.
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Lucario takes aki's hand and follows sato.
Aki chuckles as he follows, "alright, alright im coming."
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Sato stops near a smallish room, plainly decorated, " here we are, all yours. bathroom is right down the hallway here." he walks down and points out the door, " and my room is just across from yours, wake me if you need anything."
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Aki huffs, "wont happen but uh... thanks."
Lucario looks at sato and does a brief bow before heading back downstairs to grab aki's backpack
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Sato shrugs, " just letting you know."
Maya bounces up the stairs, skitty running behind her, " g'night brother!"
He scoops her up and gives her a hug, " make sure you brush your teeth. sleep tight." he sets her back down and she runs into the bathroom.
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Lucario comes back up the stairs and goes into the room
Akihiko rubs his arm and huffs before going following lucario to his room for the night.
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Sato heads into his own room, Meinshao following and settling on his own pokemon bed. Ariados peeks her head out of the room to take a peek at Aki and Lucario.
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Lucario glances at ariados before looking at aki. After deciding that aki is too distracted he goes over to ariados and gives her a friendly greeting.
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She skitters back a bit when the other pokemon approaches before clicking her mandibles, hissing a hello and waving with one of her legs.
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Aki hears the hissing and blinks before looking over, "ah... she's a pretty big girl for an ariados... but.... i'm assuming friendly? "
Lucario looks back at aki before nodding
Aki hesitantly walks up to her and smiles, "hey ariados. Lets be friends, okay?"
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Ariados moves back again when Aki comes over, but after glancing at Lucario she goes up to Aki and gently nuzzles against his leg.
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Aki blinks before smiling softly, gently petting her, "how affectionate..."
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She chitters softly and the spines on her back wave a bit.
Sato notices her and chuckles, " come on girl, i know i taught you better than that. don't be pestering our guest."
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Aki blinks and his at sato, "i don't mind. She's a good pokemon and she's much better company. "
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Sato blinks and shrugs, " alright."
Ariados looks at Sato and chitters softly before going back to enjoying the attention.
"well if you're fine then i'll leave you to it. let me know if you need anything." he heads into his own room and changes into some pajama pants before walking down the hall to the bathroom to get ready for bed.
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Aki kneels down so he can reach around ariados and let her all over, "such a good girl~"
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She screes softly and rolls onto her back, legs waving around.
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Lucario rolls his eyes before going over to the window, looking out at the heavy rain.
Aki chuckles and rubs her belly, "best spider in the world right here~"
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Ariados is in heaven, her trainer takes good care of her but is often too busy to give her a lot of this sort of personal attention. she croons as she wiggles on her back.
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Aki chuckles before pulling away, "alright alright. I have to get some shut eye. You're always welcome to sleep on my bed if you want. I certainly dont object."
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She rolls over onto her feet again, shaking herself off. She tilts her head and churrs softly as she thinks about it, glancing back at her trainers room before deciding she can sleep there anytime, and happily climbs onto the other males bed, making herself comfortable at the end out of the way.
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Aki chuckles and walks over, giving her a few pets as he starts getting changed for bed
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She makes a nice little nest from the blankets, chirping to herself. She soon curls her legs under her and closes her eyes to sleep.
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Akihiko snorts softly, "gosh that has to be the cutest spider i ever met." He gets his pj's on and carefully crawls into the bed before passing out for the night
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Bright and early Sato gets up, the scent of food cooking drifting up the stairs as he whistles and makes breakfast for everyone, still in his pajama pants.
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Lucario wakes up next, checking to make sure his trainer is safe before going downstairs to see what sato is doing, "grah?"
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Sato looks over and smiles to the pokemon, " good morning. your trainer still asleep?"
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Lucario nods before looking around, "grah?" He starts opening cupboards until he finds cups. He nods and takes one before going over to the sink
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Sato nods, " help yourself. breakfast will be ready soon if you're hungry. we've got eggs, cheese, sausage and bacon, even some steak if you want it."
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Lucario fills the cup with water and takes a sip.
Aki stretches and yawns softly before drapping an arm over ariados, "...mmmornin..."
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Ariados stretches out and chitters softly, nuzzling Aki before she gets up, jumping off the bed.
Sato finishes makignt he food and puts covers over it to keep it warm before heading upstairs, knocking on both Maya and Aki's doors, " breakfast is ready!"
Maya comes bouncing out of her room, skitty close behind as she runs downstairs and fills her plate, sitting and eating. Skitty jumps on the table, and Maya starts feeding her some of her food from her plate.
Sato chuckles softly as Meinshao and Ariados head downstairs as well, both going to their regular pokemon food and eating. Sato heads down and holds a plate out to Lucario, " have whatever you like."
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Lucario sets his cup down before taking the plate, nodding at sato before taking a little bit of food and going over to the table and setting his plate down. He goes back into the kitchen and grabs his cup before setting it on his plate.
Aki gets dressed and grabs his backpack before heading downstairs
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Sato sits, " Maya, give skitty a plate if you want, but she shouldn;t be on the table." he starts eating his own food.
Maya pouts and gets up, getting a plate and putting some eggs on it before setting it down for skitty, who jumps down to enjoy her treat.
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Aki sees the set up and forces himself to not comment before going over to lucario, "you ready to leave?"
Lucario stops mid chew and turns his head to look at Aki, raising an eyebrow
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Sato also raises an eyebrow, " have some breakfast, your pokemon is hungry, you should eat too."
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Aki's face turns red and he huffs softly, "you dont have to give me any of your food."
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He rolls his eyes, " this again? just sit and eat." he shakes his head.
Hoofbeats outside are heard in the distance, and grow louder until they thunder outside the house. They stop and three dusty people come inside. The youngest grins, " hey bro, everything go okay while we were gone? who's this?" Maya runs over to her and she scoops the little girl into a hug, " hey Maya, did Sato take good care of you?"
Sato smiles, " welcome back mom, dad. yes everything went fine, and this guy almost got caught out in that storm."
The father nods, " well, glad we could help then." he fills a plate and sits, eating hungrily. the other two also get food and sit to eat, there still being plenty left.
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Aki looks even more apprehensive with the growing number of people and he hesitantly looks down.
Lucario finishes up eating and sighs, feeling aki's energy. He gets off his seat and fills his plate up again only this time getting a new fork and setting it back in his spot. He grabs aki and shoves him into the seat, "grah."
Aki huffs, "alright alright. I hear ya."
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Sato finishes his meal and gets up, putting his plate in the sink, " i'll go tend to the pokemon, i bet they need some tlc." he goes upstairs and gets dressed before heading outside.
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Aki nervously eats his food, now quiet since there are so many people here.
Lucario takes his used for and rinses it off in the sink before placing it in the sink
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Everyone soon finishes their meal and washes off the dishes, heading upstairs to their rooms to relax after the work they did that morning.
Meinshao wanders outside, where many pokemon are crowded around Sato as he feeds and grooms them.
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Lucario waits until Aki's plate is empty before taking it and going over to the sink and washing it
Aki watches Lucario before sighing, "You know you dont have to do that bud."
Lucario sets the plate down and looks at Aki shrugging.
Aki sighs before petting Lucario, "Sorry for being a pill... Come on. Let's get to that town already."
Lucario nods and follows Aki out the door
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Sato looks over when he hears the door, " hey, you heading out already?"
Rapidash looks over from where she's getting attention, walking over and nuzzling Lucario.
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Lucario blinks and takes a step back to catch himself since he was not expecting that. He holds his paw out and starts petting her.
Aki snorts and crosses his arms, "'Course I am. Cant run from your problems if you stay in one spot for too long."
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Rapidash looks at Aki, then look at Lucario and whinnies as she asks him what Aki's deal is.
Sato raises an eyebrow, " shouldn;t be running from problems anyway."
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Lucario sighs and explains Aki's parents disappearing, the creepy uncle, the running away, wanting to be a champion but the the trainer who is still at large killing his pokemon that his parents got him and how he is still trying to find his parents despite it being nearly a decade.
Aki shrugs, "Does it matter? Its not like standing still solves them anyway."
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Sato frowns, petting Aurorus's nose as the tall pokemon nudges him, " sounds like a sad way to live."
Rapidash frowns, considering things. She looks at the two and snorts as she gets an idea. she tells the other she thinks Sato can help Aki if she can get him to go along with, and plans to try and make him.
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Lucario blinks, "...graaaaahhhhh?" He sounds highly skeptical, 'How on earth could this man help my trainer? I'll have you know that my trainer is very... very gay.'
Aki was about to open his mouth to make a comment when he hears Lucario's weird sound, "What? Lucario what are you doing?"
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Rapidash snorts softly and tosses her head, ' i'll have you know my trainer is also, very gay. not that it matters. he and i made it to the semi-finals of the pokemon league championship, he's a strong trainer and he's very kind hearted. if he knew your trainers troubles he'd offer to help.'
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lucario snorts, 'i only mention it because he has sex. a lot. and he gets drunk. a lot. im just saying it will come as a inconvenience to your trainer.'
Aki shakes his head and takes lucario's paws, "Lets just go bud."
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Rpaidash snorts again, ' and my trainer doesn;t do those nearly enough. he's been so busy working he hasn;t paired with anyone in ages. i think it'd be good for him.' She goes behind Sato and uses her head to shove him into Aki.
Sato yelps and pulls away from the other, " im so sorry, i have no idea what's getting into her."
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Akihiko yelps softly and blinks, "What? On earth..."
Lucario looks up at Aki, "grah aahhgrrr grah."
Aki looks at Lucario and blinks in confusion, "Rapidash..." he frowns and looks at rapidash, "Do you want him to come with me?"
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Rapidash dances in place and nods her head, licking Aki's cheek.
Sato pales slightly, " are you serious? we have work to do here!"
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Aki yelps and backs up, "No dont lick me! jeez and i have to protest. My lifestyle isnt appropriate for another person to be around me."
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Rapidash snorts and shoves Aki towards Sato.
Sato catches the other quickly, " hey now! come on girl." he sighs, " there must be a good reason if she's being so insistent. i suppose it has been awhile since i've done anything except work..."
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Aki snarls, "Absolutely not! It's my life and I am NOT consenting to this!"
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Sato blinks, " what are you having such a cow about?"
Rapidash snorts, ' time to bring out the big guns. hey meinshao? he liked you, i'll get you some extra treats if you use the eyes on him.'
The meinshao debates for a moment before walking over in front of Aki. he looks up at him, making his eyes go wide and tearing up slightly as his lip trembles, " meeeein?"
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Aki huffs, "You wouldnt want anything to do with-" He sees meinshao and he stops mid sentence, staring at the pokemon, "Oh.... OH.... THAT is cruel."
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Sato blinks and chuckles, " well, looks like they've decided im going with and they'll do whatever they have to in order to make it happen."
Ariados scurries from the house, also adding as cute of a begging look as she can.
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Akihiko groans when he sees ariados as well, "really? You too? You're both traitors."
Lucario rolls his eyes and grumbles softly
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Sato shakes his head, " i'll start packing. if they want me to go, there's a good reason." he heads inside, quickly getting his things together and telling the others what he's doing.
Ariados nuzzles Aki's leg, chittering softly.
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Aki sighs and takes a step back from ariados so that he can kneel down without accidentally stepping on her. He absentmindedly pets her, sighing, "man things just got really complicated. Trust me, he aint gonna like traveling with me. "
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She croons softly, rubbing against him. Sato soon comes out, bag in hand. He straps it onto rapidashs back, " I need to get the rest of my pokemon, you can stay here or come with. " He holds out a pokeball to the tall blue fossil pokemon, who gives a singsong like call before touching it with his nose, going into the pokeball.
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Aki huffs softly, crossing his arms, "are you seriously doing this? You'll hate it and me quickly."
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Sato chuckles, " i doubt that. i guess i have needed to get out, and as i said, there must be a good reason. i trust my pokemon." he pulls himself onto rapidashs back, " so you staying put or coming with while i gather my pokemon?"
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Aki huffs, "waiting. Its not like i can run as fast as a rapidash to keep up with you."
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Sato rolls his eyes, " you'd ride with me obviously, but whatever." he clicks his tongue and gallops off. he gathers up the rest of his pokemon, taking a bit of time before he comes back. " alrighty, that's everyone but Meinshao and Ariados." he hops off and offers the pokeballs, each pokemon going in willingly. He looks at Aki, " i know i've held you up, hop on and we'll be at the next town before you know it. Rapidash is a champion racer." he pats her neck affectionately.
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Aki takes a step back, "id... rather not get on the horse... she's... very big..."
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Sato pets her neck again, " don't be scared, she may be big for a rapidash but she's very sweet and very well trained. i promise she won;t burn you. come on, she already showed she likes you, come pet her." he smiles at the other, trying to encourage him. Rapidash whinnies softly and extends her nose towards him.
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Aki shudders and hesitantly brings his hand up to her nose, looking slightly afraid
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She nuzzles his hand gently before licking it slightly, doing her best to seem unthreatening.
Sato smiles, " see? i can;t say all my pokemon are perfectly trained, but she's amazing. she won;t hurt anyone unless they try to hurt me first." he pets her neck, proud of how she's behaving.
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He huffs, still looking unamused. "Whats wrong with walking?"
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Sato blinks, " nothing except that it takes an awful long time. And she likes to run, so not only will we get there faster, but she'll get to stretch her legs."
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Akihiko huffs softly before looking at lucario, "will you be okay in your pokeball?"
Lucario blinks and raises an eyebrow, his facial expression asking aki if he will be okay without him.
Aki huffs, "its been a while since you've been in your ball so im not sure how i'll feel..." he looks at sato, "how long will we be on the horse?"
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Sato blinks, " until we get to the next town, i'd guess less than half an hour. unless you want to keep going after that."
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Aki shakes his head, "i havent been in that town yet so I'd like to do some research in there before leaving. "
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Sato nods, " we'll stay there for a bit then." he climbs up onto rapidash's back, holding a hand out to help Aki up, " we'll be there before you know it."
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Aki sighs and pulls out lucario's, letting it boop his snoot and bringing him inside of it before putting the ball away. He huffs softly and takes swings sato's hand, "just please don't kill me..."
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Sato snorts, " don;t be silly." he helps the other get up and settled, " hold onto me." he makes sure the other has a tight grip around his waist before he leans forward to pet Rapidash's neck, " lets go girl! whenever you're ready." she snorts and tosses her head, leaping into a gallop. the other rapidash and ponyta join them, running alongside until they reach the fence. the others stop, but Sato's speeds up and jumps the fence, heading along the road to the next town.
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Aki yelps and clings tightly, burrying his head against sato's back to keep himself from panicking. He's shaking hard, obviously not used to such speeds on such a large pokemon
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Sato doesn;t notice the shaking, the pounding of hooves drowning it out. he moves fluidly with the pokemon and in what seems like a very short time they slow, stopping in front of the pokemon center, " we're here."
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"Oh thank god!" He quickly lets go of sato and slides off of rapidash, "ground! Im alive!"
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Sato rolls his eyes, " drama queen." he climbs off, and Rapidash goes over to Aki and licks his cheek before nuzzling him.
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Aki steps back and holds his hand out in a stop motion, "no licking please..."
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Rapidash puts her ears back and pouts, bumping his shoulder with her nose before going over to Sato and smothering him with affection.
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Aki sighs and pulls out lucario's pokeball and lets him out, "alright bud. Come back out."
Lucario comes out and glances around before going over to aki
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Sato pets Rapidash for a bit before gently pushing her away, " go ahead, i'll call for you if i need you okay?" She snorts and truns before running off. He takes out a pokeball and lets out Meinshao, " always a good idea to have at least one pokemon out, never know with people these days."
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Aki huffs, "well you do what you want to do, but i had reasons to be here so i gotta head over to the police station."
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Sato shrugs, " alright. you do that, i'll go book us a room at the pokecenter." he heads into the building with Meinshao following.
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Aki starts walking to the station, lucario walking beside him
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Sato gets a room for them, heading in and checking it over before deeming it acceptable. He lays on the bed, relaxing as Meinshao wanders the room, sniffing every corner.
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After an hour aki sighs and walks back to the pokemon center. He finds out what his room number is from nurse joy before heading down to the room and opening the door.
Lucario follows behind aki, looking bored.
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Meinshao is laying on Aki's bed, looking up when the other comes in.
Sato is reading a book, looking up at Aki, " hey."
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Aki just gives a quick wave at sato before going over to his bed, "meinshao, mind sharing? "
Lucario closes the door before sitting down, watching it
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Meinshao snorts and gets off, going over to Sato's bed and climbing on.
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Aki rolls his eyes before getting on the bed and laying on his side, back facing sato as he sighs
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Sato looks over, " no luck with your little trip?"
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"No... i'll try the library in a bit...."
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Sato nods, " good luck. i can help if you wanna let me know what it is you're looking for."
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Aki is quiet for a bit before clearing his throat, "im... looking for any information on a man and woman who are scientists that have the last name Sato."
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Sato blinks, " well that's an odd coincidence. sure, i'll come help." he puts his book away and gets up, " come on Meinshao." the pokemon grumbles and gets up.
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Aki frowns and pushes himself up, "lucario."
Lucario stands back up and grabs aki's bag.
Aki heads out of the room.
Lucario follows aki, holding the door open for satoshi and meinshao
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Satoshi and Meinshao follow him out of the room, Sato making sure he takes his bag with his pokemon with.
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Lucario closes the door behind them and follows ahead to a pace that gets him by aki's side
Aki sighs and looks at satoshi, "you really dont have to waste your time on this. Its my thing, not yours."
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Sato shrugs, " i've got nothing better to do. maybe that's why the pokemon wanted me to go with. or maybe the reason is another, who knows. but it beats sitting around."
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Aki huffs, "you werent sitting around at your place though. You took care of the pokemon there and your family. Thats way more important than following me around."
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Sato nods, " yeah, but clearly my pokemon know something i don't. i trust my pokemon. they have a reason they want me here, and i'll find it out eventually."
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Aki scowls a but before rolling his eyes. He heads inside the library and goes up to a worker, "excuse me sir, can you point me in the direction of the computers that hold all the newspaper records?"
The guy nods and points to the stairs, "second floor, to the right, cant miss 'em"
Aki nods, "thanks dude." He goes up the stairs
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Sato follows him up, plopping in front of a computer and starting to search.
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Aki gets to the other computer, "keywords are of course the last name otherwise I've tried scientists, disappearance...just ignore anything that involves a kid with that last name."
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Sato raises an eyebrow but nods, searching through various articles/
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Aki starts looking through articles.
Lucario gets on the third computer and starts reading through articles
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Sato rolls his eyes when he sees a few articles pop up of his own attempt at the championship, scrolling past those.
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After about an hour aki huffs, "I've gone about ten years back and nothing... shit... "
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Sato leans back, " yeah, im not seeing anything with any promise either."
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Aki looks depressed as he just stares at the screen. He rubs his face before looking at lucario, "hey bud. Map please."
Lucario frowns and goes through aki's backpack, pulling out a thick square.
Aki takes it and unfolds it, revealing a large map of the region, "alright so we're right here..." he pulls out a marker and crosses it with an 'x' , most of the map covered in x's.
"Dang... at this rate i'll have to move to another region..."
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Sato blinks, " well, i've been to a few other regions. i can help you out."
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Aki snorts, "yeah? Like how?"
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He raises an eyebrow, " i know the land. plus my pokemon have made the journey before, we can do it again."
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Aki huffs, "yeah well I've been doing fine with maps so we're fine."
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Sato rolls his eyes, " and what if what you're looking for isn;t in a town? not to mention you don;t know the pokemon and gangs in the area... why are you being like this?"
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Akihiko huffs, "i have only been with my pokemon for years. I didnt need anyone then and i dont need a person then and i dont need one now!"
Several people look over at him, shushing him for being loud at a library.
Aki blushes in embarrassment and storms out of the library.
Lucario watches him go, sighing softly.
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Sato sighs and looks over at Meinshao who gives him a sidelong glance and rolls his eyes. Sato gets up and follows him out of the library.
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Lucario blinks when sato follows him, sighing and deciding to stay sitting in the library. They'd be back.
Aki quickly makes a sharp turn around to the back of the building and he rolls up his sleeves before going over to an innocent tree and doesnt hesitate in punching it
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Sato sees the other punching the tree and decides to wait a few minutes before speaking, " so, did the tree threaten to take your lunch money or what?"
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Aki pauses and huffs, "maybe. Too be fair i feel slightly bad about it. Normally when i beat things up they punch back..."
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Sato snorts softly in amusement, " you know, there's nothing wrong in getting help from others. you don;t have to go alone. that's part of why kids go on pokemon journeys, to make friends, and to learn to rely on themselves and others."
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Aki's quiet before sighing, "i aint kid and I've never been on a pokemon journey so i wouldnt know."
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Sato shakes his head, " no you're not a kid, though im surprised you never did. well, it's never too late for it. but that makes me wonder what you're doing, you're traveling the land with your pokemon, while it's not the cookie cutter standard earning badges and testing your strength journey it still sounds like one to me."
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Aki closes his eyes briefly before giving a long sigh, "i'm looking for my parents."
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Sato blinks and frowns, " im...sorry to hear that. i'd be happy to help if you'll let me."
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Aki crosses his arms and leans against the tree, "you already were. The scientists. They disappeared when... i was really young. 'Bout a decade now i suppose? Somewhere around there..."
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He rolls his eyes, " I figured. But I mean I'll keep helping. So they just vanished without a trace? Or what? "
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Akihiko's eyes narrow and huffs, "yeah i assumed so..."
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Sato nods, " just trying to figure out what you know. Where were they last? Did they send you any letters. "
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Aki wipes his face and gives a frustrated sigh, "i got on the bus to go to school and they went to work. I came home and normally they get home in time to make dinner and... no one did. I didn't know what to do so i just.... waited. The police came the next morning...and found me in an empty house with just an eevee. From what i found out they went to work as normal and then left work at their normal time... but just... disappeared. The police were called by their work when the both of them didnt show up that morning for their job. Thats... all i know. "
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Sato sighs, " that...sucks. Where did you guys live? "
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"Ecruteak city is where i was born and raised...ish."
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Sato nods, " well we may want to go there and check things out. Talk to your parents coworkers, and possibly try to interrogate any rocket or other gang members of the area. "
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Aki pales slightly, "i... dont really wanna go back there."
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Sato frowns, " well it stands to reason it's the best place to start looking. i can go in alone if there's something that makes you uncomfortable there, but you'll know what kind of questions to ask better and who might have leads."
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Aki rubs the back of his head, "I... I mean it might be fine... its just... I havent been there since I left. I was forced to gather up anything I wanted to keep in a backpack and go to the police station and wait for someone to pick me up. When I found out it was going to be my Uncle I ran. He was always a creep and he acted inappropriately around me so my mom and dad told him he was supposed to stay away from me and I was to never go near him so... when I found out he was the only family who wanted to take me in I panicked. Ended up being on the road for all these years trying to find any information I could about my parents. I just couldnt accept that the police claimed they couldnt find any evidence. People dont just.... disappear..."
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Sato nods, " well that makes me want to hurt the guy honestly, but you're an adult now, you shouldn't fear him. and i have your back. i really think we should try going there, it's got the highest chance of us finding something at least."
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Aki rubs his arm, "I... guess.... but i wont like it. "
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Sato shrugs, " since it's where you guys lived and where they vanished it's really the best place to look. i'll be there for you, i promise."
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Aki huffs, "Why?! I mean, dont get me wrong, its nice but honestly why help someone like me!? You have no reason to help me!"
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Sato chuckles, " it's just how i am i guess."
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Akihiko growls, "Thats dumb. You're dumb. This whole thing is dumb."
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He laughs softly, " maybe, but why are you bothering if it's dumb then?" he stretches, " well, im going back in to make sure Meinshao is behaving."
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Aki huffs and follows ren, "i dont think i'll be happy until i do."
Lucario is still at the computers, keeping an eye on meinshao
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He smiles, " then it's important to you, and therefore not dumb."
Meinshao pokes at an interactive screen made to keep kids and pokemon amused.
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Aki grumbles his face turning more red
Lucario yawns and picks up a book, boredly waiting for the humans
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Sato chuckles and makes his way to their pokemon, " thanks for waiting guys, wanna head back to the room?"
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Lucario sets the folk down and nods, "grah!"
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Sato nods, " come on Meinshao."
The pokemon looks up and grumbles before walking over to his trainer.
Sato chuckles and heads out of the library, going back to the pokemon center.
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Aki takes lucario's paw and they both head back to the pokemon center with sato
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He gets to their room and sits on his bed, " i think we should start planning a route ecruteak directly. we can plan where else to go after, but i really think we need to stay there awhile and cover every inch of ground there first."
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Aki huffs and sits down on his bed.
Lucario looks at ren, blinking before looking at aki, "grah?"
Aki looks at lucario and nods, "yeah bud. We're going back there."
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Sato blinks, " oh right, guess i better fill you in too huh? since that's where they vanished, and where you guys lived, i really think it's the best idea to head there and try to dig up some clues. it's been a long time, but maybe someone will remember something. and we can always try to infiltrate the gangs around there since they're likely to be more loose lipped."
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Lucario blinks and nods before looking at the ground. He stretches and yawns before going back to his spot by the door, watching it intensely
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Sato goes back to his book.
Meinshao lays on the floor and stretches out comfortably.
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Aki sighs and looks at the time. Still too early for him to go out to the bar. He lays down on his bed and stares at the ceiling
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Sato hums softly, " oh, i suppose i should get us a map. we're a ways away from ecruteak, but if we fly it shouldn;t take too long. couple days maybe. depends on weather and if you don;t mind roughing it."
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Aki nods, "yeah that sounds about right."
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Sato sets his book down, " i'll go get one then. be back." he heads out of the room, heading to the nearest mart and buying a map before heading back.
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Aki watches him leave and sighs, "this was a mistake..."
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Meinshao looks at Aki and rolls his eyes dramatically.
Sato comes back in and lays the map on the desk, " alright..."
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Aki sits up and looks over at him, "question. Are you going to be here all night?"
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Sato looks up and blinks, " uh, i guess so? i haven;t got anyplace else i plan to go."
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aki closes his eyes and nods, "Figured..."
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Sato blinks and tilts his head, confused. " uh, okay. well...im just going to chart a course for us then." he grabs a pencil and starts marking down a route that takes them around bad areas, stops by towns if they're close to the route, and selecting good areas to camp out.
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Aki pulls out his phone and starts playing games on his phone
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Sato finishes after a bit and nods, " there, even taking a couple breaks per day we'll get there in about 3 days with this route and if we can keep switching pokemon to stay on fresh ones."
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Aki glances at sato before looking back at his phone, "...Cool..."
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Sato sighs, " are you really sure you want to find your parents? you kinda seem like you don't."
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Aki is quiet for a minute before shrugging, "i do want to find them. I just also really dont want to go back to that town. And its weird to have a second person around. Throws me off."
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Sato shrugs, " well it's silly to not check the one place you knew they were. it's been a long time so there might not be anything, but it's the best chance."
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Aki huffs, "maybe but even the investigators couldnt find anything. Not even the car they drove. "
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Sato snorts, " perhaps they weren't looking. so they just wrote down they couldn't find anything."
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Aki frowns for a minute as he does consider Satoshi's words. The very fact that it could be possible for that to happen makes his face heat up and his eyes water. He gives a low growl before pushing himself off the bed, "Lucario. Stay. I'm going on a walk."
Lucario blinks and frowns but gets out of the way of the doorway
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Sato watches him go, sighing, " oops, guess he'd never thought of that. poor guy..."
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Lucario, knowing aki wont be back for a while, goes over to the now unoccupied bed and lays down, relaxing a bit
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Sato sighs softly, looking back at the map and making a few tweaks to the route, and adding notes of what he knows about the areas from his journey.
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Hours tick by, lucario now asleep, curled up in a ball.
Aki slowly trudges back inside the room, his face bright red and his eyes drooped and he stumbles a bit
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Sato was researching the areas where they were going using the public computer in their room, and starts when the other comes in, " wow, you look like crap. you okay?"
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Lucario jumps a bit and looks over, huffing softly as he gets up.
Akihiko looks at Satoshi and snorts, "i'M fiiiiiiiiine..." he stumbles over to the bed and lays down on it, face first into the pillow
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Sato blinks and raises an eyebrow, before he catches a whiff. " whew...are you drunk? you reek of alcohol."
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quiet mumbling can be barely heard through the pillow.
Lucario sighs and goes to the bathroom, getting a glass of water. He comes back over to aki and sets the glass on the nightstand
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Sato sighs, " wow, this is going to make things interesting. maybe i should try and schedule more of our nights to be out of towns... that'd avoid anyplace he can... do this."
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A muffled groan can be heard from the pillow.
Lucario gets on to the bed and carefully rolls aki to the side so he doesnt suffocate
Aki huffs, doing his best to glare at sato, "man fuck you man i- i told you you weren't gonna like me."
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Sato crosses his arm and raises an eyebrow, " well you certainly seem to be doing your best to ensure that. however considering the clearly fucked up situation you've gone through, im not going to abandon all hope just yet."
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Lucario looks at satoshi and sighs softly before helping akihiko into a sitting position.
Akihiko groans and whines, "lucaaaaaario... "
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Sato raises an eyebrow, " you want me to help you get that water into him?"
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Lucario looks at sato and nods, "grah..."
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Sato gets up and goes over, helping hold Aki up and put the glass to his mouth, " come on, you'll feel better in the morning if you drink some water."
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Aki gives a tipsy giggle and looks up at satoshi, "how do you fuck?"
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " i don't have sex with drunk people. plus i prefer to be dating anyone i get intimate with, so unless you're planning to commit, we're not a match. now, drink."
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Aki whines, "you're noooo fuuuuuuuuun...."
Lucario snarls and pushes the cup, tipping it so the water gets in his mouth.
Aki coughs and takes the cup, "lucario!"
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Sato snorts, " ask me when you're sober and i'll think about it." he grabs the cup to steady it, lifting it to the others lips.
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Aki takes a few sips before pulling away a bit, "whatever... its not there arent others that are willing. And you dont have to do this. This aint the first time. Heck i have something to help me fall asleep every night if i can."
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Sato snorts, " stop being obnoxious. that's not a healthy way to live. drink the water and go to sleep."
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Lucario sighs and pats aki's head, coaxing him to go to sleep.
Aki whines, "dont want water... want ta snuggle... "
Lucario sighs and goes over to aki's backpack and digs around before pulling out a pokeball and letting lopunny out
Lopunny happily pops out and bounces a bit looking confused but excited, "hhaaaaaa...?"
Lucario points at aki.
Lopunny smiles and bounces some more before going on to the bed and curling against aki, "buuun!"
Aki hugs lopunny and sniffles
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Sato chuckles and shakes his head, going to his own bed and settling down for the night.
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Morning soon comes and aki groans, hugging lopunny closer to him
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Sato gets up and stretches, " mmm, well that was refreshing." he looks over at Aki and shakes his head, " want me to get you anything? painkillers probably?"
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Aki slowly opens his eyes, his eyes glaring at everything, "....you dont have to."
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Sato rolls his eyes, " of course i don;t have to. im offering. so yes or no?"
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"...........y....yes...."
Lopunny pushes against aki, wanting to get up and explore the new surroundings.
Aki sighs and lets go of her.
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Sato nods and heads out of the room, going to the front desk and getting two trays of whatever they had for breakfast and some painkillers. he brings the simple meals up and uses his foot to open the door, setting one near Aki before sitting with his own.
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Lopunny hops over to meinshao and curiously sniffs the new potential friend
Aki slowly sits up and takes the painkillers, dry before hesitantly taking his tray, ".... thank... you. "
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Meinshao pulls away from lopunny, giving the rabbit an insulted look before batting at her.
Sato nods, " you're welcome." he digs into his meal.
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Lopunny gives an audible gasp when she's denied a new friendship
Lucario watches, unamused.
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Meinshao growls and sticks his nose up, clearly just being an ass.
Sato looks over, " alright, enough of your sass. return." he holds the pokeball up and puts the fighting pokemon away. " how about we bring out someone a bit friendlier hm? Ariados gets along with you all." he lets the spider out who chatters happily.
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Lopunny blinks and watches satoshi. She looks at the spider and blinks before going over to satoshi. She will get to the spider in a minute but at the moment she wanted to look at the new human, sniffing so close to him that her snoot is close to his cheek
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Sato blinks and pulls back a bit, surprised she's getting so close, " uh, hi there."
Ariados pouts and scurries over to Aki, chittering happily at him.
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Aki looks at ariados and smiles, "hey there girl." He scoots over and pats the now empty spot on his bed for to come up.
Lopunny keeps sniffing, moving around to his hair.
Aki looks over at lopunny and huffs, "Lola, personal space."
Lopunny blinks and backs up, "laaa~!"
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Ariados wiggles before jumping up, settling down next to him.
Sato chuckles softly, " you're a friendly one aren;t you?" he holds a hand out to her, to let her sniff or rub against if she wanted.
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Aki pets ariados as he eats, "sorry bout her. She loves everyone."
Lopunny's ears perk up and she quickly headbuts satoshi's hand, wanting to be pet
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Sato laughs softly and pets the lopunny, " very similar to my ariados then. she tends to be more shy at first, not many people like bug pokemon and so she's been... hit a few times by being too friendly."
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Aki's mouth drops when he hears that, "whaaaaat? I hope you kicked their asses! She's too cute to hit!" He looks at ariados and frowns, "poor girl. Dont worry, you're safe with me~"
Lopunny hums happily and she rubs heer head into the pets
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Ren snorts, " of course i kicked their asses. and had her leave them dangling from a tree. i understand a fear of spiders but that's just wrong." he scratches Lopunnies ears half mindedly.
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Aki finishes his food and sets the tray out of the way before laying down, "ariados get on me. I wanna pet you while laying down."
Lopunny's foot starts thumping against the ground as sato starts itching a good spot
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Ariados chitters happily and climbs onto him, keeping her legs on the bed to take some of her weight.
Sato blinks and pays attention, chuckling.
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Aki chuckles and uses both hands to pet ariados' head and body happily, "how anyone can find you threatening is beyond me. You may be an arachnid but deep down you're just a massive love bug~"
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Ariados chatters happily and nuzzles him, loving the attention.
Sato chuckles, " yeah, she's a total sweetheart." he keeps scratching lopunny's ear.
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Lopunny practically melts into satoshi's hand, "puuuuuuunnnnyyyyyy~"
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Sato chuckles, " well we've certainly got two attention hogs here."
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AKi chuckles, "certainly feels good to have some sweethearts on your team..." He's quiet for a minute before sighing, "Hey im sorry if i did anything weird last night. I'll... try not to drink as much as i did as long as im traveling with you."
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Sato chuckles, " well you propositioned me, but that was about the worst of it. i can handle myself, but yes i'd appreciate if you not come back shit faced every night."
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Aki's eyes widen and he groans, "oh my god im so sorry..."
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Sato laughs softly, " yeah don;t worry about it. i told you you didn't want to do that, since i don;t sleep with people unless im dating them. i've dealt with drunk people before, it's not a big deal." he leans back.
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Aki hugs ariados and sighs, "so embarrassing. "
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sato snorts, " that's why i don;t drink. makes people do stupid things..."
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Aki sighs, "im usually not near someone when i wake up so there's usually no need to be embarrassed..."
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Sato shrugs, " yeah, i just know i've done some things i regret when intoxicated. so im careful when i drink."
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Aki shrugs, "i suppose that would make sense for someone like you. A lot of people must know you."
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Sato shrugs, " somewhat. i was well know a few years back, i tried to win the pokemon league. got to the semi-finals. i doubt many people will recognize me these days, and they have plenty of champions to root for. no shortage of those each year."
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Aki shrugs, "i still remembered you. "
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Satoshi blushes, " o-oh, you recognized me huh? i didn't realize that... i figured you didn;t want me with just because you didn't want company."
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Aki shrugs, "people like you normally attract those who want to have pokemon battles and i... dont do those anymore. So yeah, thats why i didnt want you with."
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Satoshi nods, " that makes sense. why not battle though? It's usually just a friendly contest, even if we lose my pokemon enjoy trying."
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Aki glares at the ground and huffs, "because its not always a friendly fucking battle."
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Sato blinks, " well i know the gangs are assholes..."
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Lopunny looks at aki and whines softly before going over to him and rubbing against him, trying to make him feel better.
Lucario looks at the ground, grinding his teeth
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Sato frowns and leans forward, " something happened... you don;t have to tell me if you don;t want to."
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Aki closes his eyes and sighs, "there's a guy out there... somewhere... who has no issues with killing your pokemon if you lose to him in a pokemon battle. It doesnt help that he has some huge, intense pokemon that are just as cruel as him."
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Sato's eyes flash and he stands up quickly, " what?! i mean, i've heard of people like that, but to actually have faced one... no wonder you dislike battling. if i can ever find him i'll show him a thing or two..."
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Aki looks at him, knowing he'd have that reaction, "i wouldnt. He has a vicious tyranitar who will legitimately do whatever his trainer tells him to do. "
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Sato snorts, " well i have an ace in the hole i never showed in the league. i worked hard to train this pokemon well, and we work together nicely. he's strong too, and a rare pokemon. few people have one. though im sure some of my other pokemon could do the trick as well."
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Aki glares, "you don't get it! He fights dirty! You'd never win! you would lose one of your pokemon!"
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Sato snorts, " i doubt it. you've never seen a Kommo-o before have you?"
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Aki shudders and looks down, "no. I havent. But you also have no idea what kind of fucked up shit I've witness this guy do. It's best if we never see him again."
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Sato huffs, " guys like that give pokemon trainers a bad name. i want to take him out once and for all. give him a beating so hard he'll stop altogether."
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Aki shudders and hugs himself, curling onto his side, "ugh. Alright. Enjoy having his tyranitar eat your pokemon for lunch..."
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Sato looks hard at Aki, " i know you don;t think i can win, but i've got tricks up my sleeve. anyway, we should get moving. we've got a lot of ground to cover."
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Aki huffs, "maybe you should just go yourself. You seem more interested anyway..."
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Sato sighs, " i was going to help you look for your parents. but if you want me gone that badly tell me where you last saw that guy and i guess i'll go find him before i go home. i can;t stand by while someone like that is out there."
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Aki huffs, "last time i saw him was 3 years ago in the kanto region. But he moves constantly so who knows where he is at. And it's not like... i want you to leave but you seem more interested in fighting him then finding my parents. "
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Sato huffs, " well if we run across him or get any leads, yes i want to fight him. but your parents are priority. and obviously i don;t know where he is, it's not like i plan to drop the search for your parents to go look for him. it just pisses me off that there's someone like that..."
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Aki looks down and shudders, "don't say i didnt warn you... his pokemon are freaking ginormous."
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Sato nods, " i'll keep that in mind. but i have confidence my pokemon can take them. isn;t that right girl?"
Ariados looks over and chatters excitedly.
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Aki pales and he gets up, "i'm gonna be sick...."
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Ariados gets off him and makes worried noises. Sato blinks, " you don;t think i'd risk Ariados with a guy like that? she's strong, but she's too small for a fight like that. don;t forget i made it to the semi-finals, im no greenhorn trainer. i know how to fight."
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Aki doesnt look at him as he makes his way to the bathroom, "it doesnt matter if ariados would be in the actual battle or not. Hell, your pokemon dont even need to be out of their pokeballs. That fuckers tyranitar almost ate my whole bag just to kill my pokemon inside."
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Satoshi's eyes blaze again, " that monster... someone needs to stop him!"
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Aki gets to the bathroom and spashes cold water on his face, sighing, "its why i keep my backpack with lucario now. The others are safer with him."
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Sato nods, " i understand. and i understand your concern, if for some reason i do end up fighting him and i think my pokemon are in any danger, i would send skarmory off with them."
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Aki dries his face off and frowns, "and watch yourself too. It should go without saying but he will use his pokemon on you. Its awful."
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He nods, " i'll keep that in mind. i have no doubt my pokemon are up to the task, but i will be careful."
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Aki looks down and sighs before going back over to lopunny and hugging her.
Lopunny smiles excitedly when she gets hugged and she hugs aki back, "puuuun!"
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Sato sighs, " but anyway, if we want to get to ecruteak anytime soon, to look for clues and leads for your parents, we probably should get moving? we have a lot of ground to cover before we get there, and we'll be heading through some bad areas."
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Aki nods and puts lopunny back in her ball before tossing it to lucario
Lucario catches the ball and puts it in aki's backpack before slinging it on his back
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Sato puts Ariados away into her pokeball before pulling out another, " i can;t wait to be flying again. it's been awhile." he chuckles and heads out of the room and out of the pokemon center. Once they're in a clear enough area he lets his flygon out, who shakes himself vigorously before stretching his wings and calling out, " flyyyyyyyyy!" He headbutts Sato affectionately before crouching down to let him onto his back.
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Aki heads out as well and sighs.
Lucario grabs a pokeball and tosses it, letting pidgeot out.
Pidgeot stretches and flaps their wings before pecking at the ground
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Sato looks over at the pidgeot and nods in approval, it was a common choice but hopefully well trained. He gets himself settled on flygons back and takes into the sky, circling while he waits for Aki.
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Aki goes over to pidgeot and gently rubs her head, "hey girl. You okay to fly today? It'd help out a lot."
Pidgeot chirps and presses her face into his happily, stretching out her wings.
Aki chuckles and gets on her back, lucario settling behind aki, wrapping his arms around aki's waist.
"Alright girl, follow the flygon. And try not to do anything crazy."
Pidgeot shifts, getting used to someone being on her back before she launches herself into the sky
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Flygon calls out again, clearly loving flying with his trainer, and starts flying in the direction Sato directs, making sure to keep a pace that the other pokemon can keep up with.
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Pidgeot cant stop chirping loudly as she happily beats her wings to keep up with flygon.
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Flygon croons and flies in a loop around pidgeot, showing off.
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Pidgeot huffs, glaring at flygon, not enjoying being one upped. Her wings become erratic in her flapping
Aki nervously pats her head, "Hey now girl, its alright. Flygon is just built differently from you. nothing to get worked up about."
Lucario clings tighter to Aki, whining as he suddenly decides he'd rather be in his pokeball
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Flygon stops showing off, tilting his head. he hadn't meant to upset the other, he just wanted to play.
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ki looks over at flygon and gives him a smile, "You're alright flygon, i know you didnt mean it. Pidgeot just isnt that great of a flyer thanks to her past owner so she gets a little sensitive."
Pidgeot chirps indignantly, keeping her balance the best she can
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Flygon tilts his head, staying next to him.
Sato frowns, " will she be able to keep up? we've got a lot of flying to do. do you have another you can alternate her with?"
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Aki pats pidgeot again, "She's okay with endurance. As long as she keeps at an even pace and doesnt try anything silly she will be able to fly for a while. whether it comes as a shock to you or not almost all of my pokemon have some form of handicap because i rescued them from a less than ideal situation."
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Sato blinks, " well that is surprising, but i suppose that doesn't surprise me that much when i think about it. you're a good person. that sort of sympathy isn;t a beneficial thing for a competitive trainer, you aren;t so it's fine."
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Aki blushes and looks down, pouting, "Well.... i.... wouldnt say that."
Lucario blinks and looks at sato. he shakes his head.
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Sato blinks and shrugs, " whatever." he guides Flygon a bit away and flies in silence for a few hours before he waves them towards the ground, guiding flygon down to a ledge on a cliff. He pets the pokemons neck gently, " we're in some heavy gang territory right now, but few of them have flying pokemon. we should be safe here to rest for awhile."
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Pidgeot follows and gives a wobbly land, huffing a bit
Aki and lucario get off and he pets pidgeot, "You did a great job. Im really proud of you." He sighs and looks at satoshi, "So are we just resting our flying pokemon for a bit or are we sticking to the ground for a while?"
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Sato shakes his head, " ideally resting for a bit then flying again. as i said, this is a rough area. we want to try and stay in the sky. Flygon looks pretty fresh still, so if pidgeot can;t keep going you can use Skarmory."
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Akihiko moves back a bit, "Uh yeah no thanks. Skarmory is kinda a scary pokemon..."
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Sato frowns, " well if you prefer you can take Flygon. you're lighter than i am anyway so it'll be less strain."
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Aki continues to pet pidgeot, "if she isnt up to it... i'll ride flygon."
Lucario watches the area carefully, making sure to stay on high alert
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Sato nods, " alright." he pets flygon, who croons and nuzzles his trainer. Sato pets him before pulling a few meal bars from his pack, handing one to Aki, " something to tide us until we reach town in a few hours."
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Aki blinks and hesitantly takes the bar from satoshi, "you dont need to feed me..."
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Sato shrugs, " i figure you didn;t plan for the kind of traveling route im taking us on. if im leading, it's only right i make sure everyone is taken care of."
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Aki huffs and munches on the bar, still grumbling half heartedly not actually meaning it but having nothing better to do
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Sato snorts in amusement and pets Flygon to keep him calm and make him rest instead of zooming off like the pokemon wanted to, still being full of energy. After about half an hour he looks over, " you ready to keep going?"
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Aki looks up from feeding pidgeot and he stands up, petting her, "you feeling alright girl? "
Pidgeot finishes eating and chirps loudly, flapping her wings and getting ready.
Aki quickly puts his hand on her neck, "ah please keep your chirps down."
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Sato nods and looks at Flygon, who shoves his head between Satos legs to get him onto his back faster, causing the other to yelp and scold him, " hey now come on!" Flygon trills and leaps into the air.
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He and lucario get on to pidgeot and the bird quickly takes off into the sky again
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Sato shakes his head, " sorry about that! he's...excitable." he pets the flygons neck as he barely is able to keep the pokemon from darting ahead, wanting to fly all out.
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aki sighs, "Its alright. if it werent for pidge's weird wing she would also be flying like a maniac."
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Sato chuckles, " poor gal, i can;t imagine not being able to go all out if you want to. she's lucky she has you."
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Aki cant help but grin before looking at pidgeot, "i... wouldnt flat out say lucky but she is in a much better spot than before."
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Sato shrugs, " is say lucky. You're a good trainer. "
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Aki looks at satoshi and huffs, "you only just met me."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " doesn;t take long to see you care deeply about your pokemon, even ones that are less than perfect. most trainers would release those pokemon, or sell them to a breeder, or whatever. they wouldn;t keep a less than perfect pokemon to train."
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Aki huffs, "we dont give up on humans who have disabilities, so i dont understand why we would give up on pokemon. Its not fair."
Pidgeot chirps loudly and happily, knowing she has a permanent home and family
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Satoshi shakes his head, " well i can see it from both sides. trainers who are competitive need to have their pokemon in peak condition. disabilities give the opponent an advantage. and it's not like giving a disabled pokemon to someone who can use it another way is bad. a breeder can use a pokemon with an injury, that won;t pass down onto offspring. and pokemon can like in the wild usually even disabled. there's lots of ways a pokemon can still live a good life. we keep a wartortle at the farm with a really wonked out shell. he'd have issues as a fighting pokemon or in the wild, but he helps us keep all our plants and pokemon watered and he's great backup in case of a fire."
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Aki huffs and looks away, "Well born that way i could understand but a pokemon being mistreated until they get injured and then just thrown away is where I draw the line."
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Sato shrugs, " well if the owner is mistreating it, then they won;t care about tossing it aside. that's why there's places that take injured pokemon and give them jobs and places to live. it benefits everyone, people who need what the pokemon can provide get it, and they don;t need to go get the pokemon themselves. and the pokemon gets a new life."
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Aki snarls softly, "I dont understand you."
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Sato sighs, " i don;t like seeing pokemon mistreated anymore than you do. but just because some people care, doesn;t mean everyone does. what matters is that in the end the pokemon are taken care of even if their trainers don't."
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Aki huffs and hugs pidgeot, keeping his head turned away from satoshi
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Satoshi shakes his head and sighs, continuing the flight in silence.
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pidge is able to keep up for a few more hours until she starts making annoyed chirping sounds to get the humans attention
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Satoshi winces at the loud noise, " what's wrong with her? we have a little ways to go before we get to town and this is still a bad area! she's going to attract some unwanted attention."
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Aki flinches and sits up, "He-hey girl, its okay! shhhh! whats going on with you?"
Pidge huffs and glares.
Aki sighs and looks at satoshi, "How much longer would you say to town? She's getting sore."
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Satoshi sighs, " half an hour to an hour? there's no good place to rest out here." he mentally groans, this was why you kept healthy pokemon. then things like this wouldn't be an issue.
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Aki nods and bends down to look at her, "Hey there girl. I know we've been through a lot, eh? You have done so many amazing things that nurse joy said you would never be able to do again. So, what kind of face do you think she'll make when I tell her you you flew us from one town to another? You wanna rub that in her face?"
Pidge gives a quiet chirp before nodding.
Aki nods, "I'll make sure to check you out as soon as we land, okay?"
Pidge nods and keeps flying
Aki sits up straight and sighs, "Alright. we should be good."
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Satoshi nods, " if she needs a boost, i can let skarmory out. If she flies under pidgeot, then your pokemon can fly easier with the updrafts. plus she can take some of pidgeots weight too if need be, just gotta be careful since Skarmory's feathers are sharp."
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Aki looks at pidge, "What do you think girl?"
Pidge huffs and gives a loud chirp
Aki sighs and looks at Satoshi, "she's being stubborn. I'll just keep an eye on her."
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Sato sighs, " alright. we'll keep it for a backup plan. I can do a midair switch onto Skarmory and Flygon can carry you as well, it's tricky but i've done it before."
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Aki nods, "Yeah sorry. She has her own pride issues"
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Sato nods, " yeah...well those are some options anyway. we gotta get over this stretch and then we'll be at the next town."
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Aki nods and pats pidges side before looking at lucario, "hey bud. Hate to say it but gimmie the bag. I'll put you away and that will be a lighter load for pidge "
Lucario nods and takes his pokeball out and hands it to aki and the backpack.
Aki puts lucario away and stuffs the ball in his bag
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Sato watches and nods, patting flygon, " slow down a smidge bud, we don;t want to overtax our flying partner." Flygon huffs but slows his pace a bit.
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Akihiko sighs and concentrates on keeping his eye on pidge
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another half hour passes, and Sato points, " there. another 10 minutes or so, but you can see the town ahead."
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Akihiko nods and continues to pet pidgeot, "soon okay girl? You got this."
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Soon they've reached the outskirts of the town, and Sato guides Flygon down to land. He hops off once on the ground and pets the pokemon before putting him back in the pokeball. " alright. we'll stay here for the afternoon, see about digging up some information, and getting a good meal. i had planned for us to keep flying and reach a campsite tonight, but maybe we'll have to go on foot. I think if we take rapidash we can go fast enough to avoid any trouble."
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Pidgeot gives a rough landing and shakes herself off, chirping loudly again.
Aki sighs and gets off, "alright... luckily i have a pokemon thats a better runner than pidge is at flying. Let's get to the pokemon center asap. You can get us a room and i'll just give pidge a once over."
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Satoshi nods, " sure thing. you take care of her. after i book our room i'll see if i can find anything at the library." he waves and heads to the pokemon center.
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Akihiko gets pidge in her ball before following to the center
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Sato books the room and asks for lunch to be sent to their room, then heads to the library to see what he can dig up quickly. He researches for Aki's parents, as well as putting a few searches in for the murderous trainer.
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Aki pulls pidgeot out for nurse joy to take a look at.
The nurse sighs and looks at aki, "i thought my sister's told me you were done with involving yourself with pokemon and people."
Aki frowns and sighs, "yeah well that guy that checked us in just now has some pokemon that are pretty stubborn and they insisted we travel together for some dumb reason. "
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Sato sighs as he finds nothing new on Aki's parents, but puts together a few sheets he prints out on trainers who've been reported for undo violence. He prints those out and puts them away in his bag before heading back to the pokemon center.
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Akihiko smiles and puts pidge away before heading to their room and putting his bag down before sitting on his bed, staring at the ceiling
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Sato goes into their room, grabbing one of the trays of lunch that was brought, " i've got a few reports on pokemon trainers that might be your guy. if you can look over them later i'd appreciate them. i looked for info on your parents and didn;t see anything." he starts eating.
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Aki shrugs, "Im not surprised about my parents." he looked a bit uneasy about looking at pictures of the person who killed his partner and family member
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Sato sighs, " i know... it'll be uncomfortable for you to look at these pictures, but if i can figure out who it is, then i can probably locate him. then either after we find your parents, or at least check ecruteak, then i can see about finding him. or if he happens to be somewhere nearby i'd be happy to make a small detour. you don't have to look, but it'd make this go faster."
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Aki gives a hesitant nod and rubs hus arm, "y-yeah... go ajead and show me the pictures. I'd rather get this over with."
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Sato pulls the pages out and sets them in front of him, spreading them out so he can see them all.
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Aki bites his lip and looks at the pictures. After a minute he frowns and shakes his head, "none. Sorry."
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Sato collects them and nods, " fair. i didn;t spend long looking, but i was hoping maybe one would be it. at least i can discard any with these guys on upcoming searches." he puts the papers into his bag, " thanks anyway."
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Aki nods, "oh, trust me, if he just randomly shows up during our trek you'll know."
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Sato chuckles, " alright. though i doubt we'll just run across him. i'll keep looking through articles when i get free time." he finishes off his lunch.
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Aki shrugs, "well if we stay off the main roads maybe. He never engages official battles, whether its with a leader or if there will be a judge of some sorts. He tries to keep his battles remote and with trainers who are alone."
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Satoshi nods, " im not surprised, people like that know what they do wouldn;t fly with any officials. if we're traveling together he might not engage if he sees us. well i'll keep looking anyway, i don;t doubt there has to have been someone who has reported him. and any information on him will make it easier to find him."
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Aki shrugs, "we could stumble upon him terrorizing a kid who doesnt know better just like i did years ago."
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Sato nods, " if we get lucky, or unlucky i guess depending on how you look at it. but i don;t like relying on chance."
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Aki makes a face, "well i do..."
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Sato rolls his eyes, " well i know you'd rather not see him again. this is my goal, to find and beat him. but your parents are the primary goal, he's just a side quest." he chuckles.
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AKi frowns and raises his eyebrow, "a side quest? This... isnt a game ya know?"
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He laughs softly, " i know, it just seemed to fit. come on, have a sense of humor."
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Aki sighs and brings his knees up to his chest, "sorry, dont think i have one of those."
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Satoshi sighs, " you've been alone too long. we'll work on it." he give the other a small smile.
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Aki blinks and looks at Satoshi and blushes before quickly looking away, "I- i suppose."
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Satoshi blinks and laughs, " don;t read too much into it, i know you're not into guys like me. we have a mission to accomplish anyway, find your parents. or at least what happened to them."
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Aki pouts and huffs, "How do you know what kind of guy im in to? Or if i even have a type?"
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Sato raises an eyebrow, " i know you seem to not be into more serious relationships. which is what im into."
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Aki blinks and shrugs, "Alright, you got me there."
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He chuckles softly, " i get attached too easily, so i prefer someone i know is looking to try and build a long lasting relationship with me. but it's alright, people are different and that's okay. a relationship could complicate our little temporary partnership here, and we've got a goal to achieve."
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Aki shrugs, "yeah and to be honest i dont remember the people i sleep with. I just wake up the next day and head out."
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Sato nods, " fair... well regardless, it is what it is. we'll rest here awhile, then we should get moving again."
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Aki nods, "sure. Im just... gonna nap."
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Sato nods, " not a bad idea, if we sleep now we can probably get going earlier tomorrow." he sets an alarm in their room, " two hours should be sufficient." he lays down.
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Aki glances at satoshi before turning on his side and falling asleep
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Satoshi closes his eyes and soon dozes off as well.
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After a few hours aki slowly wakes up. He glances over at satoshi and sighs before pushing himself up and going over to the bathroom and going inside, locking the door behind him
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The alarm buzzes shortly after, and Satoshi quickly turns it off, sitting up and yawning. He looks over and blinks when he sees Aki gone, " hm?"
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Aki sighs and steps out of the shower, wrapping his lower half with a towel. He glances at himself and frowns. He wasnt... fat. Far from it but he didnt have abs and he wasn't toned... and sometimes he had a bit of flab when he bent over.
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Sato hears the water turn off and nods, the other took a shower. that was fine. he gets up and stretches, using the fact that he was alone in the room to do some basic stretching exercises. He wanted to keep himself in good condition, he had a pretty good body from working on the ranch, but there was no sense in letting himself get soft.
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Akihiko pinches at the 'fat' on his stomach and groans softly before drying off and getting dressed. He unlocks the door and steps out.
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Sato looks up from where he's on the floor, one leg stretched out in front of him as he bends over it to grab his foot and stretch his leg muscles, " hey, have a good shower?"
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Aki's brain flatlines briefly, his face turning red, "uh...i-uh... yeah."
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Satoshi nods and leans over his leg, chest touching his thigh with how far he's bent. After a minute he lets himself up, letting out a grunt, " whoo man that burns. alright, we ready to get moving?" he gets to his feet, rolling his shoulders.
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Aki clears his throat and quickly goes over to his backpack, "YUP."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, confused by the others behavior. " alright." he grabs his own bag, making sure he's got everything packed before pulling Rapidashes pokeball out. He heads outside and lets her out, the fiery mare tossing her head and dancing in place impatiently.
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Aki follows and sighs softly, pulling out a pokeball and releasing his Arcanine.
The giant fiery dog happily stands, panting with his slobbery tongue out
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Rapidash looks at the other fire type with disdain, tossing her head. Sato climbs onto her back and strokes her neck, " ready?"
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Aki climbs on to arcanine and nods, "bout as ready as i'll ever be."
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He chuckles and squeezes Rapidash with his thighs, the mare taking off at full speed along the path he'd chosen.
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Aki pats arcanine's side, his way of saying run.
Arcanine gives a loud bark before chasing after rapidash
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Sato manages to slow rapidash down enough to let the other pokemon keep up, grinning at Aki as they run side by side.
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Arcanine barks when he's next to rapidash and tries to lick satoshi's leg since its close enough.
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Rapidash snorts and kicks out at him, putting on a burst of speed to keep out of his reach.
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Arcanine whimpers and barks when he didnt get a chance to lick a new friend and he starts running faster
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Rapidash keeps herself just far enough ahead to stay out of range, but makes sure the other can keep up since her trainer was insisting on it.
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Aki does his best to hug close to arcanine's body to avoid any splash black of drool
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A couple hours of hard running and it's starting to get dark, but Sati slows the flaming mare near a small stream. " here's a good spot to camp."
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Arcanine doesn't immediately stop. Instead he gets into the water and starts messily sloppin up water with his tongue.
Aki grimaces and hesitantly looks at satoshi, "i'm stuck up here for a bit. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " good luck with that." Rapidash looks at the dog pokemon with disgust at his behavior, moving upstream before daintily having a drink herself, avoiding any slobbery backwash that way. Satoshi quickly gets firewood together and get a fire pit set up with rocks, making sure the area around it is clear of rocks and sticks. He pulls out a sleeping bag and unrolls it. Rapidash finishes drinking and walks over, touching the firewood with a hoof to set it ablaze at Satosho's request.
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Arcanine keeps slobbering away in the stream until suddenly he begins to roll into the water.
Aki gives a loud yelp and he scrambles to get off before he's completely drenched. He manages to make it back on land with soggy shoes and heavy pant legs, groaning softly, "seriously?"
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Satoshi blinks and laughs, " well good thing i've got a fire going. Rapidash, lay down." the mare does so. " there, lay against her facing the fire. you'll get heat off her and it and you'll be dry before you know it."
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Aki sighs and walks over, the squishy sound of his shoes making him wince. He gently sits against rapidash and sighs, "Maaaaan.... He is a silly dog."
Arcanine keeps rolling around before quickly getting up and trying to 'play' with the water.
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Satoshi chuckles, " you must have gotten the odd one out, normally growlith and arcanine are such serious pokemon, that's why they use them for police work."
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"He has down syndrome do to irresponsible breeding. "
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Satoshi winces and nods, " ah, gotcha. no wonder then."
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Aki nods and looks over at arcanine, smiling, "but... he's really strong and fast and a complete teddy bear if you don't mind the drool. He used to be worse when he was a growlithe if you could imagine. Couldnt run in a straight line to save his life. So, not only did i shut down a poke mill in the making but got a really lovable family member too. It was a win win for me."
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Satoshi smiles, " i'd call that a win-win. im not sure i'd have the patience for a pokemon like that. i only have one pokemon even close to that, and he's just an asshole. i only bring him out when absolutely needed, for multiple reasons." he makes a face and chuckles.
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Aki shrugs, "all i have in my life is pokemon and time. Might as well put it to good use yeah?"
Arcanine gets out of the water and shakes himself off before going over to the others still panting happily.
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Rapidash gives him a looks, hoping the dog gets the idea to stay away from her. She snorts softly and flares her fires a bit, to warm the smaller man sitting against her.
Satoshi chuckles, " well you're welcome to try your charm on my trouble pokemon. i doubt you'll get far though."
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Aki snorts, "i didnt say my services were free."
Arcanine plops down next to satoshi, still open mouth panting, a thick line of drool trailing on to the ground
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Satoshi laughs, " well i can come up with money, IF you mange to get anywhere with him."
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Aki snorts, "we'll see what happens first."
Arcanine sniffs satoshi, the air coming out of his snoot is warm and moist
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Satoshi raises a hand and scratches Arcanines cheek, keeping his hand up and out of the way of any drool, " well, if you want to give him a go let me know. he's been trouble since well before i met him."
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Aki hums, "what kind of pokemon is he?"
Arcanine gives a wide smile, his tongue hanging out as he gets pets
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Satoshi chuckles, " a skuntank. not a pokemon i'd choose, but he was terrorizing a small village, and none of the pokemon trainers that had been there had been able to beat him. he'd been relocated a few times by police from the closest larger city, but he came back each time. there didn;t seem to be any real reason for it, maybe he just didn;t like the place. i don;t know, but he does his best to be as stubborn and troublesome as possible."
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Aki makes a face, "uhhhh hard pass. Cant risk getting shot with stink for the rest of my life."
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Satoshi laughs, " yeah... that's one of the big reasons i don;t let him out much. he tends to make a stink when he is out."
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Aki shrugs, "if it werent for the stink id do whatever it took."
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Satoshi nods, " well he's better off with me than where he was even if i can;t use him. they were getting to the point they were debating having him destroyed. he was really being a terror. As it was i had trouble catching him, he's strong."
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Aki nods, "sounds about right. People are more for killing a pokemon then figuring out why it behaves the way it does."
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Satoshi frowns, " to be fair, if he wasn;t so strong and destructive they probably would have tried to figure it out. but when a pokemon is burning people and setting fire to houses it kind of turns the situation desperate. they tried just moving him further away, but he kept coming back. they tried to be nice to him. hell, he's tried to attack me more than once."
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Aki looks at him, "and im sure you've tried to just have a conversation with him, right?"
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Satoshi snorts, " kinda hard when he tends to start spewing poison and fire the moment he's loose."
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Aki shrugs, "well there could potentially be something wrong with him thats causing him distress or he's an asshole."
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Satoshi chuckles, " possibly. i think he's mostly an asshole who had some bad experiences with humans."
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Aki shrugs, "then we need to gain his trust."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, kinda tough with a pokemon who spews poison gas though. it'd take some special gear and an isolated area and a chunk of time to work with him."
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Aki leans back against rapidash and hums as he closes his eyes.
Arcanine rubs against satoshi, wanting more affection
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Rapidash keeps her head away from the dog, not wanting to get up and disturb the trainer against her but also not particularly wanting to be near the slobbery dog.
Satoshi goes back to petting and scratching the huge canine, " who's a silly boy huh?"
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Arcanine smiles again, panting loudly before he rolls onto his back to get belly rubs
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Satoshi chuckles and scratches the giant dogs stomach, " i'll admit i didn;t have time to work with him either. i caught him after i was in the championship. it had only been a few months after that they called me, so i headed back. i ran into him on the way."
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Aki hums softly, relaxed enough against rapidash
Arcanine's leg starts starts kicking rapidly as sato gets a good itch
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Satoshi chuckles softly, " don;t go stealing my partner there. you two look like you're getting awfully cozy." He keeps at the spot the dog seems to be enjoying.
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Aki snorts softly, "dont worry. That wont be happening any time soon."
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He chuckles, " nah, she wouldn;t do that to me. but you two do seem to be getting along quite nicely for you having been so freaked out by her before."
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Aki shrugs, "never been one for large pokemon. Dont matter what kind. "
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" and yet we have this drooling furball." He chuckles softly.
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"Well I've known him before the incident so i already have trust in him. Plus, honestly, he may be incredibly strong and fast but he isnt much of a fighter. He was typically the pokemon i used if i had no other option."
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He nods, " fair. well you can trust my pokemon, all but skuntank that is. speaking of which, i should put Ariados out on watch for the night so we don;t get any unwanted visitors." he pulls the spiders pokeball out and lets her loose, " Hey my sweet gal, would you mind setting up a perimeter?" She chatters and scurries off, setting up strands of web around their camp so if anyone tried to come near she'd know.
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Aki feels himself dried and he sits up, "alright. Fully dried. Thank you rapidash."
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The mare whinnies softly and gets up, shaking herself off to get any dirt off before trotting over to her trainer, laying down on the side opposite of Arcanine.
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aki chuckles and stretches
Arcanine whines and tries to squirm closer to rapidash
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Rapidash snorts and gets up when he gets close, purposefully moving away to the other side of the fire before laying back down. Sato chuckles, " don;t take it personally big guy, i think she just wants to avoid the slobber."
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Arcanine whines and presses his snoot against Satoshi's hand
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Satoshi sighs and keeps petting him, " he never gets enough does he?"
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Aki shakes his head, "Before me he only knew of a tiny wire cage not even big enough for him to stand in as a growlithe."
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Satoshi winces, " oof. yeah some people really shouldn;t be allowed to have pokemon. i mean they try and make sure everyone is licensed and whatnot, but a lot of stuff slips through the cracks. too many pokemon out there to keep track of them all. unless they put them all in parks and there weren;t wild ones anymore, but that'd be sad too."
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Aki nods, "Yeah, it doesnt help that they apparently used to be really good so they already had their license to begin with."
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Satoshi nods, " well shit happens. you got a good pokemon, if a little derpy, out of the deal. The world won;t ever be perfect."
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aki nods, "yup. and he actually is a great pokemon in combat if its just to quickly end the battle. He definitely can not focus on a battle for more than a few minutes. "
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Sato nods, " yeah i could see that." he pulls out some quick cook meals and gets two prepared over the campfire, handing one over and eating his own, " we should sleep after this, we should get going early."
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aki nods and takes the food, "Thank you. and yeah, that sounds fine. im always down for sleep."
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Sato nods and quickly eats before settling in his sleeping bag, laying next to Rapidash who curls around him somewhat to warm him.
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Aki finishes eating and gets into his sleeping bag.
Arcanine gets up and goes over to aki before plopping down on top of him.
Aki makes a soft, 'ooof', of pain from impact but doesnt bother moving the pokemon or himself
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Satoshi sleeps until early morning, ariados chittering and poking him to wake him up, knowing he wanted to get up early. He jerks and grumbles, " i will never get used to that... thanks anyway love, enjoy a rest." he puts her away and gets up, stretching before he mixes some powdered eggs with water, then makes them some scrambled eggs.
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Arcanine looks up from his spot on aki and smiles, panting as always. There's a spot thankfully a few inches away from aki's sleeping bag that is drenched and saturated with drool
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Sato sees the wet spot and grimaces, " okay, you're a sweet pokemon but that's nasty. Hey! wake up! breakfast time!"
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Aki groans and shifts as he slowly sits up, "god it felt like a snorlax was crushing me all night."
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Satoshi chuckles, " yeah im not surprised. here, breakfast." he scoops half onto a plate and passes it over, eating the rest from the pan.
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Aki blinks and takes the plate, "thanks." He starts eating
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sato soon finishes his breakfast and cleans the pan, putting it away. he then sets about cleaning up their camp and making it look almost as if nobody had been there. " alright, your gal recovered enough to fly? we've got some rough terrain ahead, so running's not really an ideal option."
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Aki nods, "she's been better since she got looked at back at the center." He gets the playe cleaned up before handing it to satoshi and grabbing his bag.
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Satoshi takes the plate and puts it away, " good. im glad she's doing well. lets move then." he debates before letting out skarmory, deciding he can save Flygon for the other trainer if need be, and to let him have a longer rest. He quickly pets the fierce pokemon, who looks around and fixes an untrusting eye on Aki, " settle down girl, he's a friend. you up to a good flight today?" She lowers her head and nuzzles him gently before crouching so he can climb up easier.
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Aki puts arcanine the away and shudders when he sees skarmory. He pulls out pidgeots ball and lets her out, "more flying pidge."
Pidgeot stretches her wings and chirps happily
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Skarmory fixes her gaze on the other bird pokemon and gives a metallic screech. Satoshi carefully climbs onto the sharp bird. She leaps into the sky, circling to gain altitude before starting on their journey.
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Aki gets on to pidgeot and clings to her as pidgeot takes off into the air
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Satoshi waves to the other as he guides the flying pokemon, her wingbeats carrying him swiftly towards their next destination.
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Pidgeot chirps happily and loudly as she follows the other pokemon, practically singing excitedly
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Skarmory looks over and calls to the pidgeot, her voice harsh but it was clear she was trying to be friendly.
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Pidgeot blinks before flapping harder to get closer to skarmory, still tweeting happily
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Skarmory tilts her wings to glide closer, screeching softly.
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Pidge keeps chirping, having a pleasant conversation
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Skarmory screeches back, pausing now and then to let the other chirp away and do most of the talking.
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Aki blinks as he watches the two, ....well mostly pidge, talk, "well pidge seems to enjoy talking to uh your pokemon. "
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Sato chuckles, " yeah, skarmory is really protective of me, but once she's decided you're not a threat she's pretty friendly. Looks like she's happy letting the other pokemon chatter away if it makes her happy. maybe we can leave the two of them out when we get to town, get to know each other. it's good for pokemon to make friends too."
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Aki nods, "yeah... and admittedly i havent let the others out frequently enough for my liking. So it'll be good for pidge."
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Satoshi smiles, " maybe at one of our nest campsites we can let them all out for a little freedom while we rest. well, with one exception anyway. But im sure they'd all enjoy mingling. and i promise you, though most of my pokemon are large, they won;t hurt you or your pokemon."
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Aki looks at satoshi briefly before nodding, "alright. I believe you."
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Satoshi smiles, " alright. i think they'll have fun, plus it'll be good for you."
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Aki bites his lip and looks down, "If you say so..."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well, do you really want to be scared of big pokemon forever?"
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Aki huffs, "I-I am NOT afraid! I just... I just dont trust them!"
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He raises an eyebrow and looks doubtful, " whatever you say dude."
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Aki blushes in embarrassment and doesnt look up."
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"Alright, well do you want to not trust large pokemon forever then?" he looks at Aki.
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Aki sighs and crouches more against pidgeot in order to try and hide himself
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Satoshi shrugs and urges Skarmory to keep going, a few hours going by before a town comes into view.
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Pidgeot had stopped chirping after an hour, concentrating on flying
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Skarmory flies under pidgeot, trying to not make it obvious that she was hoping the updrafts would help the other. sato sheilds his eyes and squints, " almost there it looks like."
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Aki nods and pats pidgeot's back gently, "you got this hun bun. This is nothing compared to the other flight we took. "
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Skarmory screeches and calls out encouragingly to the other flying pokemon. Soon they get to the outskirts and Skarmory lands, stretching her wings out to their widest before folding them back.
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Pidge manages to make a steady land, staying on her talons.
Aki smiles and gets off of pidge, "heeey!! Good job on that land!"
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Satoshi hops off, " alright, we'll take a short rest, gather some info, and be on our way in a few hours. sound good?"
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Aki looks at satoshi, "alright."
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He pats Skarmory's neck, " you girls have fun, we'll be back soon." he leaves her out and heads to the library to do some more digging."
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Aki gives pidgeot a quick hug before following satoshi
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Sato finds the computers, and starts compiling information.
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Aki looks at sato, "i'll head to the police station."
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He nods, " alright. good luck."
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Aki goes to the station to ask some questions
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Sato gets a few pages of possible info on Aki's parents, and another small pile of potential trainers for Aki to look over before heading out of the library, picking up some food for them both before heading back to the birds.
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Aki only gets a phone number from one of the cops and he sighs before heading back, feeling pretty defeated
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Sato looks over and grimaces, " no luck huh? well i got us lunch." he holds out the bag of food.
Skarmory looks over from where she's sitting next to Pidgeot and chirps.
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Aki blinks and rubs the back of his head, "ah thanks man. That was awfully kind. And yeah. No luck at all. In fact i think the number one of the officera gave me is his own."
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Sato blinks and snorts, " nice. and im not gonna get chow for me and not grab you some." he pulls out a burger and fries and hands the bag over, containing one each more of the same. " i got maybe a few small things, not sure until you look them over."
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Aki takes the bag, "i'm not picky. Id consider my day a win if i was alone but i'm with you so i'm going to do my best to not... hook up with rando's." He takes a burger and takes a bite
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Satoshi sighs, " if you wanna hook up with rando's that's your choice. stumbling back drunk off your ass at midnight, less ideal. But i plan for us to be in the next town by tonight, so i doubt you'll be hooking up with this one. if we can fly two more chunks before nightfall we can be just a town away from Ecruteak."
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Aki nods, "yeah well im trying to respect boundaries. Thats a thing, right?"
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Satoshi nods and smiles, " yes it is. and i do appreciate that. if you want to use our stops for a little fun though, that's your choice, and i have no right to tell you otherwise."
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Aki blinks and his face turns a bit red as he looks away, "maybe.... its been a while."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " you literally had sex just the other night, how has it been awhile?"
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Aki blinks and looks at satoshi, "no i didnt. I got wasted but i didnt fuck anyone. If i did you wouldnt have seen me until morning."
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Sato blinks, " ah... alright then. "
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Aki clears his throat, "let's uh, stop talking about my bad habits and focus on other things."
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Sato nods, looking away and blushing slightly, " well uh, if we got everything we need here we can move on after we eat. Skarmory can keep going, and if Pidgeot needs a break you can use flygon."
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Aki looks at pidgeot, "well pidge? Do you need a break? "
Pidgeot's beak drops open a bit before she angrily starts chirping.
Aki signs and looks at satoshi, "she can keep going. "
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Satoshi laughs softly, " alright alright. not doubting your ability, just don;t want to overly stress you." he quickly starts munching his meal, handing a few fries to Skarmory who delicately takes them to avoid hurting her trainer and eats them happily.
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Aki continues to eat his food, munching on some fries.
Pidgeot watches satoshi feed some fries to skarmory and she chirps quietly, hopping over to aki and gently pecking at his zip up hoodie.
Aki blinks and looks over at her, "...Yes?"
Pidgeot stares at him briefly before looking at his fries
Aki follows her gaze before frowning, "Ah no sorry pidge. You're on a strict diet. remember?"
Pidgeot just continues to stare, not letting up.
Aki huffs, "Hate it when you get creepy with your staring. Here, but it's all your getting." He holds out a couple of fries.
Pidgeot chirps happily and quickly snags them before hopping a few feet away
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Sato blinks and laughs softly, " strict diet? why's that? i mean i understand not too much junk food of course, but a few treats now and then is alright."
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Aki shrugs, "believe it or not but she can hold on to weight pretty easily which makes ot harder for her to fly. So if i can help keep her weight at a healthy, manageable number than it makes it so much easier for her to get around."
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Satoshi nods, " ah, fair point. i've had some experience making pokemon treats at the ranch, maybe i can see about finding something low calorie but also tasty, so she can have something that feels like a treat now and then."
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Aki huffs, "Well, you certainly dont HAVE to. You're already doing way too much for me in my opinion."
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Sato chuckles, " no i don't have to. i'll keep it in mind though if i get some free time and access to a kitchen."
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Aki gives a hesitant nod, "alright. Uh... thanks."
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Sato nods, " thank me if i ever get a chance to do it." he crumples up the wrapping from the meal and throws it in the trash, " fast food, cheap and tasty, if not all that healthy." he chuckles.
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Aki shrugs, "fast food is a staple for me. I usually don't get the privilege of eating a home cooked meal."
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Satoshi frowns, " well food at the pokemon center isn't as good as home cooked, but it's a step above fast food anyway."
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Aki makes a face, "taste or health because I've had plenty of fast food that tastes better than the pokemon center food."
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Sato blinks and laughs, " well it doesn;t always taste better true, but it's much healthier. Fast food is nearly pure junk, so of course it tastes really good."
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Aki chuckles, "I'll take the junk food."
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Sato shakes his head, " i'll see if i can manage to convince me to use their kitchen if we get there at a slow time, and whip us up something good."
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Aki blinks again, "You.... you dont have to do that dude."
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Sato chuckles, " well it's for me too.. i enjoy eating a good home cooked meal."
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Aki looks down and presses his pointer fingers together, "I guess.."
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Sato chuckles, " how about this, i make food for me, and since it's just as easy to make 2 meals as 1, i'll make enough for us both."
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Aki nods, "I... I can pay you back. at least chip in for cost of the ingredients you use."
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Sato nods, " if it comes to that perhaps."
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Aki nods, "I have plenty of money so dont hesitate to ask."
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Sato blinks, " oh? good to know."
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He chuckles softly, "Just dont make me pay for everything. Been a while since I had to spend money."
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Sato shakes his head, " of course not. i have funds as well."
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Aki nods and throws his trash away properly before giving himself a moment to relax
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Sato pets Skarmory and leans against her, " whenever you wanna go we can."
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Aki sighs and nods, "yeah... pidge, how ya feeling?"
Pidgeot stands up tall and happily flaps her wings, chirping loudly
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Sato chuckles, " lets go then." he hops onto Skarmory and they leap into the air, heading towards the next pit stop.
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Aki gets on pidgeot and the bird immediately follows after skarmory
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Skarmory slows down and eases so she's flying under the other pokemon, once again trying to subtly make the trip easier. She chirps to start a conversation to hopefully distract the other from the move.
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Pidgeot doesnt notice a god damn thing as she just starts happily chirping away
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Sato chuckles softly, patting Skarmory and whispering to her, " good girl." She chirps and screes softly at Pidgeot.
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Pidgeot continued to chirp about her life story, taking up all of the conversation
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Skarmory chips now and then to interject, but mostly just listens to the other chattering away.
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Aki blinks as he looks at pidgeot, "pidge what on earth are you talking about?"
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Sato laughs, " who knows what these girls are chattering about? maybe it's past experiences, maybe it's just gossip. either way they seem to be enjoying themselves."
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Aki sighs, "didnt realized what a chatterbox she could be..."
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" i guess she just needed someone who was willing to listen." he pets Skarmory, who croons softly at him.
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Aki sighs, "man i listen. But then again i was with her most of her life so its nothing new."
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Sato laughs, " yeah but you can;t understand her totally. Skarmory, another pokemon, can."
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Aki pouts, "id like to think im very good at knowing what they're saying most of the time."
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Sato shrugs, " alright. Skarmory is someone new too though, who's never heard everything pidge has to say."
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Aki blinks and sighs, "yeeeaaah."
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Sato chuckles, " seriously, who knows? i mean if you say you can understand her, ask her yourself later. im happy to just let them have their fun."
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Aki waves his hand dismissively, "she talks too fast when she's like this so it's hard to understand her. "
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Sato snorts, " hence why i said 'later'."
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Aki laughs, "She'l be 'like this' for a while."
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Sato laughs softly, " well at least she's happy."
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Pidgeot chirps happily and loudly
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Sato chuckles, " ouch, though taking the volume down a bit would be nice, you're a bit loud there."
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Aki sighs, "Yeah she likes making herself heard.."
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" well im sure they can hear you in Ecruteak dear pidge. Skarmory has sensitive ears, if you could lower the volume i think she'd appreciate it." Sato pats the bird who has an uncomfortable look on her face from the shrill noise.
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Pidgeot stops immediately, looking at skarmory apologetically
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Skarmory gives a soft scree to assure her she's fine, but confirms the loud high pitched was getting uncomfortable.
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Pidgeot starts chirping a lot more softly, trying to be cautious about how loud she is
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Skarmory tilts her head and chirps back, enthusiastic but keeping the volume to a normal level.
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Aki watches in amusement, "silly bird."
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Sato nods, " indeed. but i've never seen Skarmory this talkative or this patient with another pokemon. she was quite the loner when i got her, didn;t like other pokemon or people."
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Aki blinks before smiling, "well, pidge is a very positive pokemon. I could tell the second i saw her. Even then she didnt have the heart to say anything mean about her previous owner..."
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Sato pats Skamory, " and Skarmory, once she decides she likes you, you've got a loyal friend for life."
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Aki snorts and chuckles, "yeah but it must take quite a bit for her to like someone, right?"
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Sato shrugs, " seems to vary. normally, yes. here, she seems to have settled down and taking a liking to you two pretty quickly."
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Aki snorts, "i dont know why. Im such a weirdo."
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Sato shrugs, " yeah well, at least you're a kind hearted wierdo."
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Aki smirks and chuckles, "i suppose."
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Satoshi pets Skarmory, " we're lucky to have our pokemon, and our pokemon are lucky to have us."
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Pidgeot chirps happily, still doing her best to stay quiet
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Skarmory chirps back, beating her wings strongly to create an updraft to aid Pidgeot.
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Pidgeot still doesnt notice it as she keeps talking
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Soon enough Sato guides them down to a nice clearing near a small spring, " well, if we pressed on we could make another town by nightfall, but im thinking we've earned a longer rest, and we did talk about letting our pokemon out for some socializing. which we can;t do that well in a little pokemon center room. what do you think? call it an early day and relax here?"
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Pidge lands and flaps her wings a few times to stretch them out to avoid a cramp.
Aki gets off and starts rubbing pidgeot's wing to help her, "if thats alright with you. Its been a while since i had the whole gang together." He frowns slightly, "well... almost the whole gang."
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Sato nods, " fine with me. and... i understand." he pulls out all but one of his pokeballs, letting out the pokemon within. Elektross and Gyrados make do in a small pool a bit downstream, splashing a bit. The last to be let out is Kommo-o, and the dragon type stands tall, looking around warily before letting it's eyes rest on Aki, studying him.
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Aki tries not to make it obvious that he feels nervous with kommo-o. Of course someone like satoshi would have such a strong and rare pokemon. He sighs and lets his pokemon all out, most of the small ones play together happily. Lapras manages to find a decent spot in the water to stay cool. Lucario and Zorua stay at Aki's side
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Typhlosion notices the cyndaquil and leans over to sniff it, tilting his head.
Rapidash lays down near Sato, who starts setting up camp. Kommo-o leans towards Aki and sniffs him, shifting his gaze to Lucario and starting to shake his body slightly, making his scales rattle ominously. Sato looks up and frowns, " we're not here for a battle big guy, settle down." Kommo-o stops, looking over at his trainer before snorting and walking over to an open area and laying down.
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Cyndaquil looks up at the typhlosion and happily talks to him.
Lucario watches kommo-o carefully, not being that trusting of such a large pokemon.
Aki looks down at zorua before picking him up, "i see that look in your eye. Leave the new guys alone alright? Im sure no one wants to deal with your tricks today."
Zorua smirks and giggles as he tries to get a good look at all the new pokemon
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Ariados chitters and scurries over to Aki, rearing up to flail her front legs at him and nuzzle his leg.
Typhlosion talks with Cyndaquil, then playfully gets on all fours and jumps around, looking like the oversized fire ferret it is.
Kommo-o ignores the look directed his way from Aki, looking around at the other trainers pokemon curiously.
Sato looks at Aki, " don't worry about Kommo-o, he's a fighting type and likes to test himself. he would try and start a battle with a pokemon he thought was worthy, but he'd never pick on a clearly weaker pokemon, or force a fight if the other didn;t want."
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Aki looks at satoshi and sighs, "of course. He is your pokemon after all. I just worry about lucario. He is the most level headed of the group now and tends to take his self appointed job as care taker quite seriously. He wont hesitate to fight anything that he feels is a threat."
He sets zorua down so that he can kneel down and smile at ariados, "hey girl." He starts petting her.
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Sato chuckles, " well even if they did fight, it would be a fair fight. Kommo-o doesn't cheat, and he wouldn;t continue past having proved to himself he's the clear winner."
Ariados croons softly and enjoys the attention.
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Aki keeps petting her, "well lucario doesnt stop until he's proven his point so id rather no one start fighting."
Zorua runs over to kommo-o and looks up at him, still smirking before giving his usual giggle
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Koomo-o looks down at Zorua and tilts his head, leaning down to sniff him.
Sato nods, " true, though if the point is just that Kommo-o wants to fight, what's there to lose?"
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"If lucario pushes himself and gets injured and something else happens i wont have him to protect the others."
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Sato nods, " fair. though you do have me. and i guarantee Kommo-o would take over as protector if that was the case. he's a good pokemon." he looks over at the scale covered dragon, who looks at his trainer and rumbles softly.
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Zorua bounces back a few feet so he has enough room to change his appearance to look like kommo-o, the only difference being the shit eating grin on his face.
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Kommo-o looks unamused, snorting softly.
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Aki looks over and huffs, "ZORUA. Knock it off!"
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Sato chuckles, " Zorua huh? they're pretty rare. and little troublemakers."
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Zorua quickly turns back into his fox form, giggling before running over to aki and quickly changing his form again, two aki's in front of satoshi
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Sato shakes his head, " i thought about getting one, zoruark is a pretty strong fighter. they're not easy to find though, and are difficult to keep under control. Kommo-o was well worth the time spent finding him and training him, i think he's a better fit for me. can you imagine the trouble a zorua or zoruark would cause on the ranch?"
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Aki snorts, "terrible trouble. This guy alone likes to cause all the legal trouble he can."
Zorua snickers again rubbing his now human hands together. He turns around to look at the other pokemon, his zorua tail giving his appearance away easily.
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Luxray smirks and sents a mild electrical shock at the human looking pokemon to send him back to his regular form.
Sato nods, " yeah i heard they're a handful. Lux!"
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The zorua gives a sharp yelp and quickly turns back into his normal form, whining loudly.
Aki's eyes widen and he pulls away from ariados, quickly picking up the small fox and looking him over, "you okay bud? Are you actually hurt or are you fake crying?"
Lucario's eyes narrow and he goes up to luxray, snarling.
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Luxray blinks and lowers his head, growling back.
Sato quickly gets between them, " hey now. It looked like he barely did anything, probably more startled him than anything else. but still, behave." he looks sternly at Luxray who sits and licks his chest.
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When aki sees no signs of actual injuries he sighs in relief before setting zorua back down, "maybe just stick to playing with your family, okay? You know how much of a wreck i become when one of you gets injured..."
Zorua blinks and pouts, going over to lopunny.
Lucario stops snarling but doesnt take his eyes off luxray, knowing you never turn your back on an enemy.
Aki stands back up and sighs, turning to satoshi, "zorua is okay. He's just trying to get atten-" he sees lucario and frowns before going over to him, "lucario, thats enough now. Dont make potential allies an enemy just because of something so small."
Aki frowned and put his hand on lucario's head, rubbing gently to try to calm his pokemon partner down.
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Luxray keeps grooming himself, ignoring the other pokemon. When he stops he gives Lucario a uninterested look before flicking his tail and getting up, going over to Sato and rubbing against him, nearly knocking him to the ground, " woah, hey there."
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Lucario glares at the ground, grumbling softly.
Aki nods and gives a soft smile, "yes, yes i known. You were just doing your job. And you did a very good job. But there's a time and place to pick and choose your battles."
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Koomo-o gets up and goes over to Luxray, using his tail to smack the other pokemon and knock him down, who gets up and growls at him. Kommo-o roars, and Luxray backs down, grumbling softly as he goes and finds a spot to lie down.
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Lucario and aki blink as they watch kommo-o pretty much scold luxray.
Aki places his hands on his hips, "huh. Shouldnt have expected anything less from the community pokemon."
Lucario looks at kommo-o and gives him a nod, a simple token of appreciation towards the larger pokemon.
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Kommo-o sees the nod and snorts softly, going back to his spot where he can watch over all of the pokemon.
Sato chuckles, " yeah he doesn;t like too much commotion."
Aurorus makes his way over and dips his head down to sniff at Lucario and Aki curiously, his voice melodic as he makes a questioning noise.
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Aki yelps and jumps back, "waaaay too big for me, thank you. "
Lucario looks up at aurorus and sighs, introducing himself
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Aurorus tilts his head, making a soft sad noise at being rejected. He looks at Lucario and greets him, the sails on his neck changing to bright colors with joy.
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Lucario gives a brief explanation of aki's deal to aurorus
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Aurorus's sails change to a sorrowful dark grey, and he lays down to make himself as small as possible before extending his neck towards Aki, still trying to be friends.
Sato chuckles, " you don;t have to worry about him. he's big, but i've never met a more kind hearted pokemon. they're gentle and caring. you should have seen how he fussed over me when i was training him as an amara. amara can;t stand warm temperatures so i had to stay up in teh mountains while i trained him. he was always fussing over me and worrying if i was warm enough."
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Aki shudders and takes another step back, "i'll take your word for it."
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Aurorus's sails droop and he makes a sad whine.
Sato goes over and pets the large sauropod, " it's alright, he's just not fond of big pokemon."
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Aki frowns and sighs, "Yeah, sorry. its not you, its me."
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Aurorus looks pitiful, sails drooped onto the ground as he's still flattened on the ground as far as he can possibly go.
Sato chuckles and sits against him, petting him, " come on now, it's not that bad. you're still my sweet boy."
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Aki rubs his arm and looks away. He didnt like feeling guilty for something he couldnt help. He sighs and goes over to lapras and getting on to her back, immediately relaxing
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Gyrados looks at him from in the pool, rumbling softly.
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Aki shivers as he hears gyrados. He hugs lapras' neck and closes his eyes. He knew she would keep him safe
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Sato sighs softly, shaking his head. this was not going as well as he'd hoped, but at least his pokemon were enjoying socializing. He gets a fire going and starts cooking up some dinner, humming to himself.
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Lucario sits by the fire, sighing softly as he looks over at aki. He wished things could just go back before aki's partner was killed. Aki was so confident and fearless then.
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Meinshao plops down by the fire, holding his claws out to warm them.
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Lucario sighs and looks back at the fire, bringing his knees up to his chest
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Aurorus had gotten over his depression at being rejected and was playing with many of the smaller pokemon, gently picking them up and putting them on his back, or using his breath to make small piles of fluffy snow for them to play in.
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Lapras watches everyone on land in amusement
Aki lays back and stares at the sky
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Sato covers up the pan with their dinner slow roasting in it, having picked something that'll take longer since they had extra time to kill.
Ariados sits at the edge of the water, pouting that her new friend is too far to reach. she wasn;t super fond of the water either.
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Lapras sees ariados and blinks and before turning her head to see aki out of the corner of her eye, calling for him quietly.
Aki blinks and sits up, seeign ariados, "awww i'm sorry girl. Didnt mean to leave ya like that."
Lapras looks back at the spider and gently brings a fin close to the spider like a bridge to see if ariados would like to join aki
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Ariados looks at the water and the fin somewhat warily, poking at the water with her foot before securing some silk on the ground and climbing over, flopping onto Aki's lap sullenly.
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Aki chuckles and pets ariados, "hey hun. Dont worry, lapras will make sure you're safe up here and so will i."
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Ariados makes a grumpy sound and detaches her web and lets it fall into the water. She then uses her web to secure both her and Aki to Lapras.
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Aki chuckles and pets the spider, "whatever makes you feel better. "
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Airados chitters softly and cuddles against Aki, happy enough now that she and her new friend are secured to the other pokemon.
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Aki lays back down and hums softly, still petting ariados
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The bug type closes her eyes and yawns, happy to doze on Aki.
Sato lays against Rapidash, just keeping the fire going while their meal cooks but otherwise relaxing.
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All of the pokemon enjoy playing with each other or relaxing
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After almost two hours Sato pulls their meal out and opens it, checking to see if it's done, " hey! chow's up if you want it." he grabs a bag of pokemon food and pours it into whatever spare dishes they have for the pokemon to munch.
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Aki is startled awake and he gasps softly before sitting up. He blinks as he takes in his surroundings before petting ariados, "time to get up. "
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Ariados chitters softly and gets off Aki, clinging to her webs and lapras still as she chatters at the water pokemon to get them closer to land.
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Lapras gets them as close as she can, leaving a fin down.
Aki chuckles and gets up, "ariados i can hold you if it'll make you feel better. "
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Ariados chatters in indignation, releasing the webs so she and Aki are no longer lashed down and wiggling her butt before jumping to land.
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He snorts softly and shakes his head before going over to satoshi
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Sato smiles and dishes up a plate of tender slow cooked cured Tauros roast, along with potatoes, carrot and onions. " here you go. it'll be a bit salty, i washed off the meat before i cooked it, but the curing process still takes a lot of salt. but it keeps it from spoiling." he hands it over before taking the rest, once again eating his half from the pan.
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Aki shrugs, "thats fine by me. Im not picky. " he sits down and takes the plate
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Sato snorts, " this is good food, you better not be picky about it. just saying it'll be on the salty side." he takes a bite and chews, enjoying the flavors.
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Aki shrugs before taking a bite. He pauses and stares at his plate for a long minute, slowly rubbing the food around in his mouth before finally swallowing, "... that.... that's really good..."
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Sato snorts, " you probably like the extra salt, fast food tends to have a lot of it. But thanks, i'll take it as a compliment to my cooking."
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Aki blushes and glances away taking another hesitant bite as he gets really quiet
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Satoshi blinks and tilts his head, " you okay? i didn;t think that was insulting, you said before you liked fast food."
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Aki swallows his food and nods, "i'm fine. It's... it's not you. I just, like i said. It's been a long time since i had home cooked food. It's... really nice. "
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Satoshi smiles, " ah. well im glad you're enjoying it." he hums softly as he digs into his portion.
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Aki keeps taking bites, enjoying the flavor of the food
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Satoshi soon finishes his meal and sighs happily, " nothing better than home raised tauros meat. i have a couple more chunks so if we stay longer at a campsite like this, we have a few meals more like this one. i think i'll have to buy a couple more onions next time we're in town though, not that it's a big deal."
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Aki finishes his plate and sighs, "yeah that was really awesome... thank you."
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He nods, grabbing the dirty dishes and washing them in the stream, " no problem, my pleasure."
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Aki scratches his head, "anything i can do?"
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Satoshi blinks, " well, we can use more firewood? otherwise i've got things pretty much set up here."
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Aki blinks, "yeah i can chop a few trees down. Granted you look like you could get them down a bit faster than me, but its not something i havent done before."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well you don;t need to go lumberjack, try and find stuff on the ground first. if you need me to help just let me know." he puts the wet dishes on Rapidashes back, who looks annoyed at being a dish dryer but flares her mane and tail to dry the dishes faster.
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Aki shrugs, "alright. Lucario, do you want to come with or no?"
Lucario shakes his head
Aki chuckles, "fair enough. Lopunny, wanna be an extra set of arms?"
Lopunny quickly jumps up and hops over to aki happily.
Aki nods, "alright, we'll be back."
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Kommo-o heaves himself up, following them. He looks around warily, keeping his eyes open for any danger.
Sato blinks when he sees the dragon pokemon go with, but shrugs and finishes getting the camp set up, makings sure they had fresh water nearby and cleared areas for their sleeping rolls.
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Lucario sighs and grabs aki's back pack, holding it close to him as he watches satoshi
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Satoshi settles near the fire, looking over at Lucario, " im surprised you didn;t go with him. it's been a big change for him lately, hasn't it?"
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Lucario nods and frowns. He knew human language well enough to understand what they say and what they put on paper but he couldnt speak and convey what he wanted to with humans other than aki. Sometimes he wondered what the point was. He'd almost rather be ignorant to their language entirely than have a one sided conversation that left him feeling at a loss
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Sato sees the nod and smiles, knowing the other understood him. he lays back again, closing his eyes.
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The pokemon opens up aki's backpack and digs until he finds something to stare at inside.
After a bit aki and lopunny come back with plenty of sticks ranging in thickness, but surely a huge bundle
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Kommo-o also is carrying some under one arm, still keeping careful watch.
Sato looks voer and chuckles, " well, we won;t need to gather more wood tonight, that's for sure."
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Aki carefully sets the wood down and helps lopunny get her wood down, "would rather not have to get it again then have to collect it in the dark." He glances at satoshi, "your pokemon followed me for whatever reason. It was kinda weird but he did help so i appreciate it."
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Sato nods, " fair. and yeah he's like that sometimes. good job." he directs that last bit at Kommo-o, who snorts and carefully sets his load of wood down before curling back up in his previous spot.
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Aki nods before going over to lucario and sighing, "hey now, what did i say about that? " he gently pulls lucario's head away from the backpack before taking it and zipping it back up
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Satoshi blinks and tilts his head, " what's up?"
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Aki shakes his head, "nothing, dont worry about it."
Lucario pouts a bit but looks away
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Satoshi shrugs, " im sure it's not nothing, but i won't pry. oh, right. i printed off more possible candidates for your asshole trainer." he pulls the sheets from his bag and takes them over to Aki, " didn;t find anything on your parents."
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Aki sighs softly, "i'm not honestly surprised that you didnt find anything." He takes the photos and starts flipping through them, "im starting to believe that maybe they really did just up and disa-" his blood runs cold as his eyes land on a fairly attractive man, face having several piercings, a shit eating grin in the photo looking slightly older than a young adult.
Aki cant stop staring at the picture as the color drains from his face and he starts shaking profusely
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Sato notices and grabs the papers, looking at the one aki was looking at, " so, this is the guy then... good to know."
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He snaps out of it briefly when the papers are taken from him and his face goes from white to green quickly. He cant get on to his feet fast enough as he makes a run for the tree line, feeling bile build up in the back of his throat.
Lucario is quick to catch the backpack and set it a safe distance away from the fire before following aki
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Satoshi winces, " whelp...hopefully he doesn;t lose dinner."
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He gets to the first tree before his body violently vomits and he falls to his knees, gasping and sobbing between retches
Lucario walks up behind aki and starts rubbing his back.
His other pokemon notice and they all walk over to aki so he's not alone, expect for lapras who is stuck in the water although she lowers her head and sadly whimpers for her trainer.
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Sato gets up and goes over, grabbing some water on the way. He offers the water, " here, rinse your mouth out and drink. it'll help with the taste."
Aurorus walks over and gently blasts cold air at him, knowing coolness will often help with sickness.
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His body stops heaving and when he knows he isnt going to vomit anymore he sniffles and takes the water, still shaking. He rinses his mouth and spits out the water before taking small sips, trying to be careful, "i'm... sorry you had to see me like this..."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " don;t worry about it. it must have been horrible. im sorry to have caused you such pain, but now i know who im looking for, i won;t need to show you again."
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Aki gives a halfhearted nod, exhaustion quickly settling in, "it was... life changing thats for sure. Im sure my pokemon will all agree that i'm not the same person anymore."
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Sato nods, " yeah, i can;t say i blame you. you doing alright now?"
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Aki sighs, "i guess? I dont know... i thought i was doing well before but apparently the mere sight of that bastard still makes me react in such a way..."
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satoshi nods, " it doesn;t surprise me. well, hopefully when i run into him i do it away from you. i don;t want you involved if i don;t have to."
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Aki shakes his head, "you're crazy. Yeah keep it away from me. Im not interested in me or my pokemon getting killed by that maniac. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " i have no intention of allowing that to happen. but yeah i'll try and keep it away from you."
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Aki gets on to his feet and rubs the back of his head, "he'll attack you with his pokemon in hopes that your pokemon are bonded enough that they'll take the hit and keep you safe."
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Satoshi nods, " my pokemon are not stupid, and neither am i. i will have backups out that he's not aware of, just in case."
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The words stupid twinge in aki's gut, thinking back to his beloved espeon and he feels anger boil in his chest. He huffs and glares at satoshi, "dont say that..."
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satoshi winces, " what i mean is now that i know how he is, i'll be more careful. you didn;t know."
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Aki just shakes his head, not wanting to deal with his feelings as he gets back to the fire pit where his backpack sat. He grabs it and digs around a bit, frowning. He must have finished off his last bottle. He huffs and sits down
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Sato sits across the fire from Aki, " im sorry, that wasn't what i meant it to mean. your pokemon was brave and loyal for protecting you."
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Aki sighs and shakes his head, "enough already. I get it, okay? I just want to stop talking about it..."
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Satoshi nods, " alright. i just wanted you to know..."
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Aki lays down and turns on his side so that his back is facing the fire, along with satoshi
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Satoshi sighs, and Aurorus makes his way over to his trainer and lays down, placing his head onto Satoshi's lap for attention. Sato looks around and spots aridados finishing her dinner, catching her eye and nodding towards Aki. The spider happily obliges, running over to Aki and cuddling up to him.
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Aki blinks and sniffles as he pets ariados.
Lucario sits down by the fire and frowns, keeping an eye on the other pokemon as they settle back to their original spot, knowing there's not much help they can give their trainer at the time.
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Ariados squirms her way onto his lap and settles down, chirring softly.
Aurorus starts singing softly, the sound oddly melodic and beautiful.
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Aki keeps trying to awkwardly pet her as he begins to drift in and out, his previous actions exhausting him
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Ariados uses her webs to secure herself to the other, dozing off.
Kommo-o keeps the fire going, tossing fuel in now and then.
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Aki finally falls konks out, snoring softly.
Lucario glances at aki and sighs softly, knowing he'll have to get him in his sleeping bag at some point
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Satoshi keeps petting Aurorus for awhile before he makes the pokemon get up, getting a blanket and draping it over Aki and Ariados before climbing into his own sleeping bag.
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Lucario watches the both of them, keeping an eye on the pokemon as well
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Satoshi soon falls asleep.
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Morning comes as the sun rises. Lucario watches the sun rise before looking at the humans, "graah..."
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Sato groans as the sun wakes him, sitting up and stretching before he wanders off into the woods to use the bathroom. He soon comes back and yawns, stoking the fire and starting breakfast of re-hydrated eggs.
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Once lucario sees satoshi awake he curls up in a small ball to take a quick nap
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Satoshi blinks when he sees Lucario curl up to sleep, and makes a mental note to ask Kommo-o to work out watch shifts with him.
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Aki's eyes slowly open and he rubs them, "mmmm..."
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Satoshi hears that and looks over, " hey there. breakfast is almost ready. hope you're not too sore from sleeping on the ground, i put a blanket over you but that doesn;t do much for the ground..."
Ariados untangles herself from Aki, stretching like a cat.
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Aki shudders and carefully sits up, wincing slightly, "aahhahaha I've slept worse on worse things. Um.. thanks for the blanket. "
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Sato nods, " yeah no problem." he divides the eggs and sets a plate near Aki for him.
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Aki rubs his arm and takes the plate, "and uh... sorry for last night... the... the way i acted."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " no apology needed. you have been through a lot, and my selection of wording was... careless. im not upset."
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Aki gives a numb nod, his lip quivering, "my parents... gave her to me when she was just an egg...just a few years before they disappeared. She was so strong and smart... and i never lost a battle with her... i thought she'd be with me when i found my parents."
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Sato goes over and sits next to him, trying to comfort him, " im sorry you went through that. it must have been awful."
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Aki closes his eyes tightly and wipes his face, "I just wish i could... go back in time... stop myself from getting involved with him."
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Satoshi sighs, " yeah, i can;t say i blame you."
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Aki picks at the eggs, nibbling on some, "im definitely going to need a night out after this..."
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Satoshi winces, " well, ecruteak is close by, we can maybe make it today if we push it. otherwise we can make it to the next town in a few hours and you can uh, have some fun."
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Aki nods, "I wont push my pokemon. if we make it then we make it. if not then not the end of the world."
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Satoshi nods, " fair. im just saying the only town between here and ecruteak is not far, so we'd have to stay the entire day if we stay for the night."
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Aki nods and finishes his plate, "alright. I'll just play it by ear for now."
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He nods, " alright. well we should get going if we want to try to make it to ecruteak yet today. we may want to go by land or my flying pokemon though, no offense to your pidgeot, she does great but she's not the quickest."
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Pidgeot gives an undignified squawk, huffing softly
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Satoshi chuckles, " you're a great pokemon pidge, but you don;t do well for really long distances and you're a bit slower. it's nothing to be ashamed of. if i take skarmory and you take flygon we can probably travel another 50% further before needing to switch to land pokemon."
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Aki sighs, "its alright pidge. I'll take you out on a special flight once we have time, okay?"
Pidge sighs but nods, admitting defeat
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Satoshi goes around returning most of his pokemon, leaving out only Flygon and Skarmory.
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Aki returns his pokemon and glances at lucario, still sleeping. He sighs and goes over to him, gently petting him, "sorry bud.... " he returns lucario and secures his backpack on his back before going over to aki
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Satoshi pats Flygon, " don;t be too crazy now buddy. we can fly fast, but make sure Skarmory can keep up." he goes over to the metal bird and climbs on, waiting for Aki to get onto flygon.
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Aki looks at flygon and frowns before hesitantly climbing on.
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Flygon lowers himself down to allow Aki to climb on, flapping his wings a few times to make sure he's settled before leaping into the air, Skamory following after. They both set off at a fast pace, Sato leaning low over Skarmory to reduce wind resistance.
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Aki gives a soft yelp, not used to the sudden speed. He makes sure he has a good grip on the pokemon, nervous about falling off
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Flygon tilts his head so one of his compound eyes can see the man on his back, chirring softly to reassure him. after all, even if the other trainer managed to fall off somehow, he'd catch him. they were high enough that he'd be able to do that no problem! Satoshi and him even practiced a few times, first with a dummy, then with his trainer. He didn;t want anyone getting hurt.
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Aki huffs, "i dont care how good at this you are, its still a huge speed difference that im not used to!"
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Flygon makes a rude sounding snort, flying straight and ignoring Aki.
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Aki pouts, "oh dont give me that attitude! I can still just use pidge!"
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Flygon makes a chirring laugh and zips around Skarmory, showing off his clearly superior speed.
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Aki gives another terrified yelp before clinging to flygon for dear life
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, looking over, " settle down flygon, be nice."
Flygon gives a unruly chirp before settling back to fly calmly and keeping at the same speed as Skarmory.
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Aki doesnt let go, not trusting flygon, "this pokemon is nuts i swear."
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Satoshi laughs softly, " he's high strung, and energetic. Skarmory is far more mellow, but you preferred Flygon."
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Aki huffs, "flygon looked less intimidating!!"
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Satoshi chuckles, " well he's harmless, just a little reckless. that what you get by judging a pokemon by their appearance."
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Aki blinks before glaring and huffing, "Dont blame this on me!"
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Satoshi laughs softly and pats skoarmory, who gives a soft croon.
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Aki huffs and makes sure he has a good grip on flygon, muttering how he cant wait until they are done flying
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A town flies under them, the two strong pokemon pushing on and keeping going past it.
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Aki watches the town go by and he shudders as they were getting closer. He couldnt believe he was actually doing this.
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Flygon feels him shudder and looks back at him, chirping questioningly.
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Aki looks at flygon and sighs, "Im fine, dont worry about me. Just focus on getting us to our destination."
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Flygon gives a sad chirp, crooning to try and comfort him.
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"I said im fine! Dont worry about me. I aint falling off anytime soon."
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Flygon snorts, offended that the smaller trainer thought he'd actually drop him! He grumbles and his wings vibrate faster, showing his annoyance.
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"Oh dont get all upset and annoyed at me. I get that you may still think you're great but its not your life on the line here. Its mine."
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Flygon makes an indignant chirrr. He was half tempted to drop him and catch him just to prove he could do it, but Satoshi wouldn't like that.
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Aki grumbles and clings tighter to flygon, "all you're doing is making me not trust you all the more. "
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Flygon makes a bucking motion, not hard enough to toss Aki off but enough to jolt him, making angry sounding grumbles.
Satoshi looks over to see what the commotion is, " Hey! settle down, i don;t know what you two are fussing over but if you don;t behave i'll take us down!"
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Aki yelps when flygon bucks and he gives a cry, "Stop!!"
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flygon grumbles and flutters irritably.
Sato shakes his head, " okay, we're switching pokemon. clearly you two are having issues getting along." He guides skarmory down, and flygon follows. He gets off and looks at Aki, " take skarmory, i'll go with Flygon. we need to move fast, this isn;t a secure area."
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Aki gets off flygon and huffs, "Its not my fault. Flygon thinks this is a game." He goes over to skarmory and gives her a nervous look
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Flygon makes a rude noise and whacks him with his tail. Satoshi goes over, " stop that! i trained you better than that!" Flygon sulks, lowering his head and making apologetic noises.
Skarmory crouches to make it easier for Aki to get up, trying to reassure him.
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Aki is quick enough to dodge flygon's attempt to hit him and he glares at the pokemon. He takes a deep breath before carefully getting on to skarmory, shaking a little bit, "Please dont kill me...."
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Skarmory croons again, nuzzling his leg with her beak for a moment.
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Aki shudders and gets ready before sighing, "Okay.... i uh... think im ready."
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Skarmory chirps and launches into the air, flying steadily once she gets into the air.
Sato climbs onto Flygon and the pokemon leaps into the air, chirring as he darts around Skarmory and twists in the air.
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Aki keeps shaking a little bit out of nervousness
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Skarmory flies calmly, keeping up speed but making the ride as smooth as possible.
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Aki starts to feel a bit more calm and he sighs, "I appreciate you."
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Skarmory chirps softly, still trying her best to be as unintimidating as possible.
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Aki is quiet for a moment before hesitantly petting her, "sorry i found you scary. That wasnt very polite of me."
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Skarmory chirps softly, crooning happily at the trainer.
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Aki manages to calm down enough, enjoying the scenery around him as he patiently waits for them to get to the town
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After several more hours of hard flying the town comes into view, Satoshi glad to see it since they'd skipped lunch and he was more than ready to eat. He takes Flygon down, the pokemon drooping somewhat from the long flight. once on the ground he quickly climbs off, petting Flygon, " you did great."
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Aki frowns when the town comes into view and he quickly begins to look around nervously, not liking being back in the area
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Skarmory lands and crouches to let Aki off.
Satoshi looks around, " here we are. guess we should find the pokemon center and get a room, we'll be here awhile i would think."
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Aki gets off and sighs, "the center should actually be dead ahead through the gates. Not hard to miss."
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Satoshi nods, returning both pokemon and hesitating before letting Meinshao out before heading for it.
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Aki is quick to let lucario out, handing his pokemon his backpack before following Satoshi
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Sato makes his way to the pokemon center and heads to the front desk, booking them a room and placing an order for a meal. He takes the key card and heads to their room, " im famished, how about you?"
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Aki and lucario follow satoshi, "yeah i suppose i should eat."
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Satoshi nods, heading into their room, " which bed do you want?"
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Aki shrugs, "they're all the same."
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Sato shrugs and tosses his bag onto the nearest one. Someone knocks on the door and he opens it, taking the trays and thanking the person. He sets one tray on the desk and sits on his bed with the other, digging in.
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Aki grabs his tray and eats at the desk, lost in thought as he stares at the food.
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Sato doesn;t take long to eat through the meal and sighs, setting the tray aside and laying back, " i needed that..."
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Aki finishes his food before getting up and going over to lucario and petting his head before grabbing his bag, "i'll be back later satoshi."
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Satoshi hauls himself up on his elbows to look, " okay? are you alright?"
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Aki shrugs, "maybe? I dont know. At any rate im not going out out. Just going.... to my house. Visit my pokemon real quick..."
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Satoshi frowns, " alright. do... you want me to come with? im not sure if it's a good idea to go alone."
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Aki is quiet for a bit before shrugging, "doesnt matter to me if you come with or not..."
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Sato gets up and goes over to him, " i think i'd better. i won't mess with you, i'll just be there if you need me."
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Aki shrugs again before heading out, going towards his old home
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Satoshi follows.
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Aki gets to a large home, slightly dated looking but not in terrible condition considering it had essentially been abandoned. He pulls out his keys and unlocks the front door, stepping inside, "don't worry about anything gross around here. When i came back i hired a crew to professionally clean this place. A deep clean the first time and then once a month they come back to just touch up and report to me anything alarm that they find..."
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Satoshi nods, " ah, nice. it's a nice house..." he wanders along after Aki, looking around.
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Aki shrugs, "my parents could afford a lot since their job was government stuff." He heads through the living, going over to a sliding glass door. He unlocks a few dead bolts and opens it, heading through the backyard, "looks like old man travis is still kickin' since the grass is mowed..."
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Satoshi nods, " well, that's good then. maybe you should visit him?"
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Aki frowns and shakes his head, "I.... cant right now...he's a crier." Aki walks past most of the yard until he gets to the back where there's a blossom and kneels down, gently patting the dirt in front of the trunk, "hey there espeon..."
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Satoshi nods, " alright. well you do what you need to." he walks off to the other side of the yard, giving Aki as much privacy as possible."
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Aki stares at the dirt mound for a really long time before leaning forward and pressing his forehead into the dirt, shuddering softly before sighing and pushing himself up, "You really didnt have to come..."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " no, i didn't. but i know this is hard for you, and i wanted to be able to watch your back."
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Aki gives a numb shrug, "....well i certainly don't feel nearly as bad as when i had to bury her here... think i hadnt even showered yet and was still caked in blood..."
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Satoshi sighs, " im sure she understood. after all, she loved you enough to give her life for you, you being dirty would not have bothered her."
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Aki wipes his face before sighing and heading back inside. The living room left the way it was all those years ago. Plenty of photos of a loving woman and man with a much younger, excitable red head holding and eevee
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Satoshi glances at the photos and sighs, mentally promising himself he'd take down the fucker that killed other people pokemon. But they were here to learn what they could about Aki's parents, and that would be the priority. He selects one of the most recent photos and grabs it, " hey, mind if i take this? it's obviously out of date, but seeing pictures of your parents might help jog peoples memory."
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Akihito looks over and shrugs, "go for it. Pictures dont help me when they are always here."
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Satoshi nods and carefully places the frame and picture into his bag, " well hopefully it'll help."
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Aki shrugs and sighs, "i'm done here if you want to leave."
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Satoshi shrugs, " if you want to go sure. i don;t have a reason to stay, but im not in a hurry to leave either."
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Aki shrugs, "i mean, besides being down here i havent been anywhere else in the house. There's a flight of stairs that goes upstairs where my room, the guest room, my parents room and the second bathroom. Then stairs that go down to the basement where my parents office is. They always were down there when they were home and they always left that door locked."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " think we should check around the house? maybe there's something that could be a clue. especially in their rooms or that basement."
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aki frowns, "i mean... you can check their room if you want. im not going in there. and the basement is probably locked."
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Satoshi nods, " well, no offense but i might try and break it open with your permission. that's the most likely place to have any information."
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Aki shudders and looks nervous, "I-.... I dont know... that...i was told that i wasnt allowed down there."
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Satoshi nods, " correct, but they're not around anymore. this is your home, and yours to control since they are no longer here. if we want to find them, i think that room is our best bet. you don;t have to come with, but i think it would be good if you did."
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Aki rubs his arm and sighs, "I... suppose..."
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Satoshi nods, " lets get this done then. we can take everything that look promising and study it at our room so you'll be less uncomfortable if you want." he heads downstairs and finds the door, trying to open it first.
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The basement door is locked tight, several deadbolts on the door, all locked
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Sato raises an eyebrow, " that's not creepy at all.." he studies the door for a bit before letting Skarmory out, " alright girl, we need to be precise. Steel wing that door! cut it open!"
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Akihito's eyes widen and he takes a hesitant step back
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Skarmory tilts her head as she studies the door.
Satoshi takes a few steps back out of the way.
Skarmory lifts her wings and they glow before he releases a burst of slashing power at the door, aiming for the hinges and the locks to cut open both sides.
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Loud thunks of the locks are heard as the heavy metal hits the ground on both sides of the door.
Aki rubs his arm before hesitantly opening the door. He looks at the concrete stairs and pales slightly, "Can.... can you go first?"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah. good job girl." he pets the pokemon who croons softly, and heads into the room. He looks around warily, Skarmory walking in behind him.
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The larger room is dark, and crowded with metal tables, tubes filled with a green fluid, powered down super computers, wires, and large filing cabinets no doubt filled with information
Aki steps down after satoshi and squeaks when he sees the creepy room, "What... the hell... Did they bring their work home with them? What is all of this?"
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Satoshi shrugs and turns on as many lights as he can find, " well, there seems to be no shortage of things to look through, we'll just have to figure out what's useful in locating where they may have gone. we can take a few stacks of papers out with us, or we can stay here and try to go through it. up to you, but it'd be easier to keep organized here i think."
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Aki shudders, "Its creepy here... maybe... can we at least bring the papers upstairs to the kitchen? "
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Satoshi nods, " sure. the house is bigger than our room at the pokemon center, so keeping organized shouldn;t be too hard." he grabs a pile of papers from the desk, " lets try these first." he heads upstairs to the kitchen.
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Aki rubs his arms and quickly follows satoshi.
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Satoshi goes to the table and sets the papers down, dividing the stack in two and starting to look through the top page in his pile.
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Akihito goes through some files and frowns, "Ah.... this is work i think. It's all just genetic mutation shit. If I can remember correctly they were scientists that worked on how to close the gap between pokemon and humans."
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Satoshi nods, " alright. though we may want to write down any locations they talk about, or other peoples names they mention. got a couple notebooks and pencils? unless you don;t mind us highlighting or marking up the papers while we go."
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Aki frowns a bit and sighs, "i suppose....at this point this information would no longer be useful to my parents. Besides, they wouldnt be scientists if they didnt have back ups of everything they printed." He glances at all of the papers, making a face, "ugh. Thats right. They were obsessed with numerals. I could never get a grasp on any number above ten and it was everywhere. The clocks are numerals, the book pages are numerals, so annoying."
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Satoshi blinks and chuckles, " well i know some more than that, and we can look up others at the pokemon center unless you have a computer here. we'll just mark down the numbers so we can understand it easier as we go." he gets up and looks in a few drawers until he finds writing utensils, grabbing a few pencils and highlighters. " alright. highlight anything that looks important. try to keep the pages in order. locations and people should get highlighted for sure." he hands a set to Aki and sits, popping open the highlighter and starting to work on his page.
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Akihito takes the highlighter and frowns as he tries to decipher the notes, "...i... don't know what most of these terms mean. Good to know i'll never be a scientist." He looks over more pages, "Doctor Mandolin... that sounds important. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " that's why we're highlighting things that seem important. we can look up certain things later and try to look deeper into the information afterwards, but there's so much the best idea is to narrow down the search."
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Aki nods, "i think i can still get us clearance into the building where my parents work if you want to talk to any names that pop up. So far all i'm seeing are doctors names, numerals, and... something about the experiments failing in here."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " hm, that might be important later, mark those pages. yeah we'll see about talking to them, anyone who knew them is more likely to know something than random people."
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Aki nods and highlights the page, "Subject.... uhhh... an L a V two C's an X an L a V and... three I's... ooft. That's probably a big number. Anyway, it looks like this one lasted a few days before dying..."
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Satoshi leans over to look, quickly copying the numeral, " we'll look it up later. it died? what were they doing? were they experimenting on people? or pokemon?"
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Aki shudders, "I... i dont want to think that my parents were using.... people and pokemon... but thats really are only two options... umm no it doesnt say if it was or not... just says... that they cant tell if their experiments are a success until after they come out of the... tubes..."
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Satoshi blinks and frowns, " this sounds like some heavy shit...that alone would be a dangerous profession."
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Aki gets up and goes to the living room and sits down, needing a mental break after reading that
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Satoshi sighs softly, rubbing his temples before delving into the next page, highlighting a few key words.
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aki's eyes water and he wipes his eyes, huffing. he looks around the room, looking at all of the photos in the room. all of them were some variation of him with either one or both parents, sometimes with eevee. he sighs and goes back to the kitchen, "do you... think my parents are bad people?"
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Satoshi blinks and looks up, " huh? no? i don;t know enough about them to really judge. im not entirely sure what they were doing, but im sure they thought it was for good reasons."
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Aki nods, "okay. good... i just... i feel uneasy about the fact that they were... technically making something and then that something dies... that doesnt feel good."
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Satoshi nods, " not to mention they tried to make that thing over and over.... who knows how many survived awhile before dying? it's not a pleasant thought, but we don;t know why so i guess maybe there's a good reason."
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Aki nods and goes back to the packet, reading it over, "Dmitri and I were approached by our colleagues with concerns to our research. Dmitri has advised purchasing a home in a town over to hold our research. I am glad that he was chosen to be my research partner." Aki sighs and frowns, "Yeah... we're... going to have to go to their job..."
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Sato winces, " yeah that doesn;t sound as good. i think you're right, a visit is definitely in order. lets wait until tomorrow though, we've had a long enough day."
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Aki shudders, "but... may- maybe they just ran out of funding.... and decided to do it somewhere else to save their work some cash... i... i hope the house they mentioned isnt this one." Aki looked away, knowing damn well that this house was more than likely the home mentioned in the report
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Satoshi smiles, knowing the other was gripping at straws, " you're right, maybe that's what happened. it could be a different house, who knows."
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Aki gives a hesitant nod and bites his lip as he keeps reading and highlighting. The reports quickly giving aki a slight headache from the complicated jargon
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Satoshi shakes his head as he starts to get a headache himself, getting up and walking around, " maybe i should go grab us some snacks and drinks. want to come with? i could use a break."
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Aki quickly nods and gets up, "yeah i- even without all of the times I've seen the words 'experiment failed' it's too heavy. I might... skip all of this early stuff. Start from the end and work my way backwards maybe. "
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Satoshi nods, " assuming we can find the end. i only took one chunk of papers. this seems to be more in the middle judging from the high number of failures you ran across. but yeah we can take a look, put this stuff in a pile and try to find stuff that's from later dates." he heads out of the house and to the nearest store, grabbing a basket and starting to grab some snacks and drinks to keep them going, taking his time.
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Aki follows satoshi, keeping his eyes on the ground. He felt like he could take a long nap and never wake up.
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Satoshi glances back at him, " anything in specific you want? i know what i like, but i don't know what kind of stuff you like."
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Aki blinks and looks at Satoshi, "I tend to like sweet things. Or salty. sometimes i can find snacks that have both. otherwise im not too picky honestly."
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Satoshi nods, " well i've got a variety of both here, so hopefully that will suffice. i've got mostly sports drinks and flavored waters, if you want a different drink grab it."
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Aki shakes his head, "thats fine. Im honestly not picky at all. I just... just being out of the house is more than enough for me."
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" i hear you. those papers... it's some heavy stuff. i have a feeling it's going to take time to get through it. we shouldn;t wear ourselves down. your parents have waited this long, awhile longer won;t make a difference."
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Aki nods and looks down, "i just hope... that i still want to find them after we get through those papers."
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Satoshi sighs, " regardless of the mistakes they've made, they're still your parents. of course it's up to you, but the goal in the long run is not to find your parents, but to get closure."
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Aki blinks and gives a hesitant nod, "right... closure. And who knows, maybe they just experimented on plants. That could definitely be it."
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Satoshi nods, " maybe. we'll just have to wait and see." he lifts up the basket, " you ready to head back or should we go to the park or something? kill a bit more time."
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Aki blinks and gives a slight smile, "park wouldnt be so bad. Its been a while since I've been there."
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Satoshi nods, " park it is then." he pays for their spoils and heads out towards the park.
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Aki follows, sighing softly as he begins to relax a bit, looking around what used to be his home town
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Satoshi finds a bench at the park, taking a seat and cracking open one of the drinks, taking a sip.
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Aki looks around and takes a deep breath, "i win my first pokemon battle here..." he cant help but give a small grin
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Satoshi blinks and grins, " really? nice! lemme guess, your eevee? what were you up against?"
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Aki grins even more, remembering the battle, "An arbok. Some snot nose brat was picking on a kid and I told him to knock it off before I knock him out. He said only real men fight with pokemon. So eevee just looked at me and I knew right then that she also wanted to teach the brat a lesson."
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Satoshi chuckles, " oh i bet he was cocky with such a small opponent. wish i could have seen you wipe that smirk off his face."
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Aki beams, enjoying the feeling of smiling, "It was incredible. Eevee was incredible. Even I was pretty shocked at how well she did. Since that day her and I kind of... went looking for trouble. nothing big but just... keeping kids from picking on each other and keeping adults in line sometimes. Spending all that time battling leveled her up nicely so being on my own after my parents disappeared wasnt as hard as i thought it would be. Despite it just being me and her I never once felt scared."
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He smiles, " yeah, having a trusty partner can make you feel like you can face the world. i know i had that same feeling with me and rapidash. Though she was just a Ponyta at the time, we still made a great team."
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Aki sighs and looks down, "Pokemon are really amazing. So much better than people."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well, they are absolutely amazing. i've met some pretty amazing people though. people and pokemon are all unique, and that's what makes everyone special."
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Aki frowns and rubs his arm, "eeeh i dont know about that. Most humans I've met are boring."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " well that hurts." he smirks.
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Aki snorts, "most. Not all. You're an exception however i am being biased because of ariados."
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Satoshi chuckles, " she is a doll isn;t she? she wanted a friend so badly when i found her, i didn;t even have to fight her. heck, she scared the living daylights out of me by sneaking into my sleeping bag when i made camp and fell asleep. After i woke up and we had a little panic as im freaking out and she's freaking out from me freaking out, she seemed so sad i asked if she wanted to be my friend, and held out a pokeball. she hopped right in."
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Aki cant help but laugh softly at the image in his head, "poor ariados!"
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Satoshi chuckles, " she was a spinarak at the time, but yeah it was kind of a ridiculous situation. i have to add poor me as well, im the one that woke up with a giant spider in my sleeping bag." he pouts playfully.
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Aki snorts, "Scary for you. I would have loved to have her in my sleeping bag."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " oh? unexpectedly in the middle of the night waking up to a massive spider that was not there when you went to sleep? i love my girl, but she scared the living daylights out of me with that."
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Aki shrugs, "if i had eevee with me when it happened then yes i would be fine with it. She just had a sixth sense about that kind of stuff."
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Satoshi snorts, " well Rapidash is a plenty good judge of character but she couldn't help when being abruptly woken by giant spider. whatever, anyway it ended up well, even if she did nearly make me piss myself."
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Aki shrugs, "small price to pay. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " yeah, i got a lifelong friend."
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Aki is quiet for a bit before sighing, "we should probably get back to the house. "
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Satoshi nods, " probably. the sooner we get through the papers and get some solid information on what we're doing, the sooner we'll find answers."
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Aki nods and starts heading back to the house.
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Satoshi gathers up their purchases and follows, settling at the table and sipping at his drink as he gets back to work.
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Aki goes back downstairs. He glances around at the tubes and viles, grimacing slightly, thinking about all the failures his parents had. He begins opening more cabinets trying ti find something interesting
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Satoshi sighs softly, munching a chip as he scans the paper in front of him, taking the highlighter to a name and marking it.
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Aki finds some manilla folders with much more recent dates and sighs before heading back to the kitchen
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Satoshi looks up, " find anything?"
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Aki nods, "a bunch more green goo and some files from about 20 years ago or so. A few years after all of those files."
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Satoshi wrinkles his nose, " green goo? ew. but more recent information might help."
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Aki nods and sits down, "well all of the tubes are filled with the shit and apparently according to these papers all of their experiments were suspended in it to keep them alive. I figured when we go to talk to the other scientists i could bring a sample and see what they think of it."
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Satoshi makes a face, " that's nasty, but yeah i guess that's a good idea."
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Aki starts going through the files, "yeah this is much further down the line. They mention actual breakthroughs so there's that at least."
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Satoshi hums softly, " interesting. so that was before they had you."
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Aki nods, "this was all before i was born. Maybe they had me and decided to... stop. Focus on raising me."
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Sato nods, " it would make sense."
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Aki nods and opens up the first file. It did make sense. You have a child and you need to focus on taking care of that child. Do your work at your physical job and send your kid off to school. Although.... aki doesnt remember going to any form of school. He sighs and starts going through the small file, frowning slightly, "i think i found the files where they put information of all of their individual experiments... odd."
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Satoshi blinks, " well that's useful at least. well since they had a lot of failures, maybe skip towards the end?"
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Aki nods, "yeah im just flipping through these. Most of them are just describing eggs failing." He sets aside whatever file doesnt interests him until he gets to a file with an actual picture of something in a tube, "that... is disturbing." He looks through the information and frowns, "egg incubation is a success, however despite it finally accepting dna from our tester pokemon and growing to 2nd trimester the fetus shortly died due to... complications..."
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Satoshi frowns, " that's messed up, they were actually trying to grow something to full maturity? well we know it was part pokemon from that, i wonder what the other part was?"
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Aki looks through the other folders briefly before shaking his head, "well... considering all of this stuff talks about... making a bridge to fill the gap between pokemon and humans.... i can only assume..." He grabs a few more files, opening them, "Yeah... ah human.... from the looks of it. Says here they had at least one that sorta was able to... come out of the tube however it ended of growing a tale so they had to kill it."
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Satoshi blinks and pales, " they were making human pokemon hybrids?! and they just... killed one that wasn;t ideal? what the hell?"
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Aki flinches and frowns, "Well... apparently they knew things wouldnt be great if it looked like it wasnt human..." something clicks in his brain and his eyes start to water before he quickly gets up and goes to the living room
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Satoshi blinks, confused when the other wandered off, " Aki? wait what's wrong? im sorry i got upset, but this is just... it's crazy stuff we're reading."
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Aki stares at the photo's and bites his lip, "Of course im upset... but not at you...I..." he picks up one of the frames with a photo and grits his teeth, "They both have black hair and black eyes... I.... I look nothing like them."
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Satoshi blinks, then sucks in a hard breath, " oh shit... you don;t really think...or do you?"
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Aki quickly runs back to the kitchen and grabs the folder at the bottom, flipping the page open and staring at a picture of himself in the file, "I- I'm a... a monster"
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Satoshi hurries after him and shuts the folder, " stop that. you may not be totally human but you're not a monster. you're still the kind hearted man that i've been annoying for the last several days. nothing about the way you were made changes that."
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Aki drops the picture and he crumples against satoshi, a broken sob escaping his throat
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Satoshi grabs hold on him and hugs him, patting his back. He carefully guides Aki over to the couch and sits them both down.
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Akihito sinks into the couch and continues to cry, hiccuping now and then
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Satoshi keeps an arm around him, trying to comfort him. After a moment he smiles and lets Ariados out, figuring the sweet natured spider would help cheer him up. She climbs up and snuggles into his lap immediately, chittering.
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Aki looks at ariados and he whimpers before gently hugging the spider as he keeps crying
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Satoshi grabs a box of tissues, shaking some dust off the top from the thing that hasn't been used in over a decade. he tosses out the first one but the rest were clean so he passes one over to Aki.
Ariados nuzzles Aki, trying to cheer him up.
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Aki takes the tissues and begins wiping his eyes. After a few more minutes of heavy sobbing he begins to feel exhausted and he sniffles, curling up on the couch, snuggling ariados
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Ariados nuzzles his face and curls against him.
Satoshi sighs and gets up, going to one of the room and getting a blanket. he flaps it around to get rid of any dust, then brings it back out and covers Aki with it, " want a drink or any snacks?"
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Aki shakes his head, "I... dont want to find them anymore.... I want to leave..."
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Satoshi nods, " if that's what you want then that's what we'll do. you should take some time to think about it, there's no rush, you don;t have to decide right now okay?"
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Aki frowns, "What would i gain from finding them now? They're not even my parents. I dont.... have parents."
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Satoshi frowns, " well, someone was your parent. and regardless, they were the people who raised you. even if they are not your biological parents, you enjoyed your time with them right?"
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Aki sniffles again and shudders, "i-.... i guess... Maybe... I should find that guy that they told me not to go near. The one they called my uncle. Maybe he knows something."
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Satoshi nods slowly, " yes, i think he's someone we should talk to. I'll be right there with you. like is aid though, no need to worry about it right now, it's a lot to process."
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Aki rubs his face and shakes his head, "my file is so thick. Its so weird. I just... i wish i never knew this was all here."
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Satoshi winces, " well you can blame me if you want. but do you really think wondering and looking for them for the rest of your life is better?"
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Aki sighs, "i dont know... i guess i would have given up eventually..."
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Satoshi shrugs, " but you always would have wondered. and eventually could be a long time. at least this way, you know. And you can come to terms and lay it to rest if need be."
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Aki shakes his head, "why are you being so calm about this? I was grown in a tube. Im not human. Im... a freak..."
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Satoshi shrugs, " again, how you were made doesn;t change who you are. you're still Aki. Yeah this is crazy stuff, but you're still you."
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Aki huffs, frowning, "you dont know me though. We've only started traveling together so you have no idea what i'm like. "
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Satoshi shrugs, " doesn't really matter. i don't look at you and think 'monster'. that creep that killed your espeon is more of a monster than you'll ever be."
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Aki sniffles and wipes his face with his sleeves, "thanks... i... appreciate it a lot... Im pretty sure you wont but i just have to ask... you wont tell anyone right? That im some weird... hybrid mix?"
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Satoshi blinks then makes a face, " hell no! of course im not going to tell anyone, besides that being a super dick move it's really none of my business."
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Aki shudders and nods, hugging ariados close to his chest, "i'm going to pretend i never learned what i am and go on believing im all human. Just for my own sanity. But i have to say, i'm glad to at least have you around right now. I couldn't imagine finding out and also being alone."
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Sato rubs his neck, " to be fair the chances of you having found out on your own is kinda slim. you wanted nothing to do with this place. so you can blame me for that one."
Ariados tolerates the slight squishing, chittering and nuzzling into him happily.
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Aki sighs and shrugs, "well, considering a good chunk of these experiments died from some blood issue i suppose if something happened to me i'll know why now."
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Satoshi snorts, " yeah, but they all died pretty early on. i think since you've made it this far you should be fine."
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Aki smiles softly, "i suppose." He takes a deep breath and uncurls himself from the couch, loosening his grip on ariados, "sorry for the tight hugs. I appreciate it though."
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Ariados chatters softly, forgiving him. She nuzzles him again, happy to have helped.
Satoshi chuckles and reaches over to pet Ariados, " you're such a good girl."
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Aki nods, "she really is." He gently sets her down before getting off the couch, "okay. Thats enough moping and freaking out."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well i think we've done plenty today. we'll head back to the pokemon center for dinner and get some rest."
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Aki nods, "thank goodness. " he goes back to the kitchen and tidies up the files a bit
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Satoshi nods, hesitating before letting Luxray out, " stay here, guard this place." the pokemon growls an affirmative before laying down. He looks at Aki, " since we broke that door open, just in case."
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Aki frowns, "Are you sure its okay to leave him here?"
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Satoshi nods, " he's strong, and he can alert me if need be by charging up a lighting storm. he'd alert everyone in town, but it would suffice. he's not gonna destroy anything here. i doubt it'll be an issue but you can never be too careful."
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AKi frowns and rubs his arm, "Okay... will he be okay food wise? I can put down a bowl of water but i dont want him to go hungry."
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Satoshi chuckles, " he'll be alright. we're not going to be gone more than a day. i can leave some food for him if it makes you feel better, but as a big pokemon he usually has fewer larger meals." He pulls some pokemon food from his bag, pouring it into a travel bowl for the purpose. Luxray sniffs at it and grunts, going to the middle of the room and curling up.
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aki nods and gets a bowl of water on the floor as well, "Even if he doesnt touch it i'll still feel better."
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Sato nods, " alright. well he's all set, lets go."
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Aki nods and heads to the front door, pulling out his keys
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Satoshi follows, relieved to be getting out of the house. he heads to the pokemon center once they're all set, flopping onto his bed.
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Aki goes over to his bed where lucario is waiting and he hugs his pokemon
lucario blinks in a bit of shock from being hugged, giving satoshi the stink eye
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Satoshi glances over and blinks, " hey don;t look at me like that, it's not my fault. well kind of it is, but it's a long story..."
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Lucario huffs and growls softly.
Aki sighs, "Lucario, thats rude. I can hug you whenever i want so calm down."
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Satoshi huffs, " if you wanna know the details come with tomorrow. i don;t what to discuss the details here where there's people around."
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Aki shakes his head, "he's just being grumpy that im super clingy right now. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " can;t help you with that one buddy, except to maybe offer a more willing alternative. though ariados has already been cuddled a lot."
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Aki whines, "i love cuddling her but i wanna hug someone tightly and i dont wanna squishy her."
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satoshi chuckles softly, " she's got a good exoskeleton, but yeah she's not a stuffed animal. I'd offer aurorus but this room isn;t big enough and you'd probably not like him anyway, even if he is a giant sweetie that can handle it."
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Aki grumbles softly, "too big... besides, lucario was the pokemon i got shortly after i left the house as a kid so i wanna hug him right now."
Lucario grumbles softly before sighing and giving up
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Satoshi chuckles, " sorry bud, you're stuck with him."
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Aki keeps hugging lucario, sighing softly, "i'm glad i have you bud. "
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Satoshi settles back down, " man what a day..."
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Aki let's go of lucario and crawls on to his bed, laying down, "yeah i'll be honest, i could use some whiskey. "
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Satoshi snorts, " not happening. But, i can get us some food and some lighter alcohol. not gonna let you get smashed though." he sits up, " beer maybe, or some mixed drinks."
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Aki makes a face, "Beer tastes gross. At least get some wine coolers. or daiquiris. the super fruity ones."
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Satoshi nods and gets up, heading out. after about 20 minutes he comes back with some bottles of wine coolers and premade daquiris, and a big bag of hot food. He sets the stuff down and divides the food up into two meals, handing Aki one of the trays. He grabs a wine cooler and opens it, digging into his meal and taking sips of the drink.
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Aki calmly takes the food and begins taking a few bites, mainly focusing on downing a daiquiri
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Satoshi keeps an eye on him, making sure to note how much alcohol he's drinking verses the food to help keep him from getting wasted. he had every intention of stepping in if the other seemed like he was drinking too much.
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Aki takes a few more bites of food before draining the bottle and begins reaching for another
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Satoshi frowns and quickly blocks his hand, " hey slow down, eat a little more food or this stuff is going to hit you hard."
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Akihito blinks before frowning, "its not that big of a deal. Im not going out so at least i'll be hammered here..."
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Satoshi snorts, " yeah but i have to put up with you hammered."
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Aki pauses briefly before shrugging, "I suppose that would be a problem since you wont let me suck you off. I dont get handsy but i do crave dick something fierce when im hammered."
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Satoshi blinks then blushes, " you're pretty forward about that kind of thing huh?" he quickly drinks his own drink, flustered.
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Akihito shrugs and takes a few more bites of his food, "when you've done just about everything to forget the smaller things become easier to talk about."
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Satoshi winces, " well, im not going to just be a tool for you to use to distract yourself."
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Akihito frowns, "why do you think of it like that? You'll be getting something out of it too. The way I see it it's a win win."
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" it's not the first time i've had a fling, though i didn;t know that's how he thought of it. He got interested when i started winning during the championship, and as my partner he got the benefits they gave to me as a valuable contender. that's all he wanted though, the perks and the fame. as soon as i lost he was gone." He shakes his head, " no thanks, i'll pass."
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Aki stops mid chew and frowns, "Aw man. Dude im so sorry... Well, that guy is an asshole. He tricked you and while I am quite forward and transparent as to the fact that this wouldnt be a relationship kind of thing, as long as you say no im not going to do anything. I'm a whore, not an asshole." He sighs and goes back to eating, "I'd give that guy a good ass kicking though."
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Satoshi nods, " i was young and stupid, he was older and knew how to manipulate that. I haven't been with anyone since, after the championship i distracted myself by training and getting stronger until my family called me home, and i've been working there since."
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Aki huffs, now irritated, "next time you see him you should point him out to me. I have a perfect revenge for those kind of people."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " i'd just as soon not ever see him again. besides, i think he prefers to stay around where the championships are, easy prey you know?" he chugs another bottle, looking away.
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Akihito nods, "Got it. Championships." Aki goes back to drinking
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Satoshi shakes his head, " well i guess we're both stubborn about getting revenge." he swirls his drink around, gloomy. He finishes his food and lays back with another drink, not really caring if he got drunk at this point.
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Akihito shrugs, "Mine isn't so bad. Just is a bit tricky with execution." He frowns when he sees satoshi's expression and bites his lip, "I can always give you some space if you need it. I dont mind heading out for a bit by myself."
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Satoshi sighs, " nah, im alright. just...bad memories."
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Aki frowns and sighs, "Sorry. I didnt mean to bring up bad memories."
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Satoshi snorts, " lets just call it even then. i did it to you, you did it to me. shit happens."
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Aki blinks and hums, "Guess so..." he goes back to drinking
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Satoshi keeps drinking, letting the booze soothe his pains.
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Aki finishes eating and continues drinking, feeling buzzed
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Sato starts humming softly to himself, his brain feeling foggy.
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Aki sets the plate safely away before going for another drink, "cant wait for bed tonight. "
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Satoshi sighs, " then go to bed... just, sleep."
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Akihito huffs and snorts, "no need to be an asshole."
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Satoshi grunts, " sorry...didn;t mean it to sound that way. hnnn...heads fuzzy..."
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Aki snorts, "mister no drink has been drunked."
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Satoshi snorts, " yeah well...being drunk isn;t very productive...at home i just wanna sleep after working. drunked. i don't think that's a word..."
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Aki chuckles, "you're not a word."
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Satoshi laughs softly, " well if im not a word, then you're doubly not a word."
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Aki blows a raspberry in satoshi's direction, pushing his cheeks out, "dude i aint even human, much less a word. "
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Sato snorts, " more a word than some other peoples. human shumam, who cares..."
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Aki starts giggling, "shuman."
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" shuman. shoe-man. we're the shoe men!" he pulls a shoe off with some difficulty and waves it around.
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Aki blinks before laying down, "dude you're so drunk. What happened to you man..."
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Satoshi huffs, " am not...was just bein fun...killjoy." he tries to put his shoe back on and fails, dropping it off the side of the bed instead.
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Aki yawns and snuggles on his bed, "sooo sleepy~"
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Satoshi sighs, " me too, but also kinda not. like, i want to go run around the building. that sounds like fun..."
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Aki groans, "I... in no mood... to chase you...fuck.... i wanna fuck so badly..."
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Sato snorts, " who said chasing? been like... soooo many years since i fucked..."
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Aki huffs, "I know. you told me. you also told me i cant touch you. so not gonna. go to bed."
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Satoshi grumbles, " never said to...just sayin...it's been like....forever. that...that guy was my first one, and i've never done it since..." he pauses, the alcohol making him think, "....iiiiiiiii have a boner."
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aki huffs and mumbles a bit before snuggling his pillow, "Then go... jerk off in the bathroom..."
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Satoshi grunts and shoves his hand into his pants, not wanting to get up and he starts jerking off.
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Aki hears this and his eyes widen, his face turning bright red, "Are you- go to the bathroom!"
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Satoshi huffs, " only gonna take a minute....dun wanna get up."
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Aki turns to yell at him however he stops suddenly when he sees satoshi's dick, "Fuck... you.... have a fat cock...."
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Satoshi moans softly, " s'not that fat...." he strokes it faster, panting softly.
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Aki shudders and licks his lips. He cant help but crawl off the bed and scoot over to satoshi, resting on his knees, "Looks pretty fat to me~"
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Satoshi groans as he gets closer, "n-nuh. said...Raith said it was average..."
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Aki rests a hand on satoshi's thigh before getting close to the mans dick and licking the head, "he's an ass."
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Satoshi gasps softly at the touch, " ah~"
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Aki sucks the head into his mouth, slicking his tongue on the underside of satoshi's shaft
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Satoshi groans, unable to stop himself from bucking up slightly, " s-so hot...."
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Aki doesnt stop satoshi from bucking, in fact he pushes further until he's deep throating satoshi, the man's pubes tickling his nose slightly
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He moans, reaching up and twining his hand into Aki's hair, not thinking about anything but the sensations, " ah~ ah more~" he jerks his hips into the others mouth, panting.
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Aki groans, eyes rolling upwards in pleasure, humming softly to cause vibration as he sucks hard. He unzips his pants to let his aching member out, his underwear already damp from his pre cum
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Satoshi bucks up a few more times and cums, not having a ton of control being drunk. He moans, " f-fuck!"
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Aki pulls back, swallowing everything as he pants softly, "Fuck is right..."
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Satoshi groans softly, " felt amazing..."
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Aki shudders before standing up and stumbling to the bathroom
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Satoshi looks over confusedly, not quite understanding, " hmmmm? huh...tired now..." he clumsily stuff his dick back into his pants, leaving them unzipped as he rolls over and closes his eyes.
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Aki jerks off, cumming shortly after before zipping up his pants and going to his bed, laying down
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Satoshi mumbles softly and soon falls asleep.
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Aki passes out, not waking up until hours later, the sun slowly rising. He blinks a few times, rubbing his head as he tries to remember last night. By the way his mouth and jaw felt he knew he sucked dick last night... however he was in his room at the center instead of in an alley and... his ass and hips weren't screaming in pain either. He looked around in confusion, trying to grasp any bit of a memory that he could
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Satoshi groans as he wakes up, head pounding, " fucking hell..." he slowly gets up and winces, making his way to the bathroom and drinking down water and a few painkillers before going to the bathroom, noticing his unzipped pants with confusion.
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Aki scratches the back of his head and sighs. He reaches for his bag and grabs his toothbrush and toothpaste, "Well. this is a first."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow at him, pausing from washing his face, " huh?"
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Aki glances at him as he's brushing his teeth. After brushing for quite a while before spitting the extra foam into the sink, "Mmm the only time I have ever had such a sore jaw in the morning is from sucking dick, sorry about that by the way, but I also wake up somewhere in an alley with my whole lower half down for the count. This is the first that I woke up in a bed in next to no pain."
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Satoshi sputters and blushes, " wait what? well...shit. i guess that would explain why my pants were unzipped." he sighs and runs his hand through his hair, trying to keep himself calm.
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Aki sighs and wipes his mouth, looking upset, "i am sorry about that. I said i wouldn't do anything to you but I did anyway... although to be fair if you cant remember that means you became pretty drunk too."
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Satoshi winces, " yeah, i'd say so... well can;t really blame you or get mad, i can;t remember if i was even opposed so i guess we'll let bygones be bygones."
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Aki nods, "i wont let it happen again. Next time i'll just go to the bar like i usually do."
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Satoshi sighs, " no, if you usually wake up in a alley feeling... the way you explained then that's bad. i'll simply not go on a bender, that was a rare thing anyway. if i am not intoxicated then there will be no issue."
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Aki blinks and frowns, "its fine. I do it on purpose for a reason."
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Satoshi huffs, " well lets at least try and set you up in a safe and healthy environment. have you even ever gotten yourself tested? who knows what sort of things those creeps who leave you in an alley have..."
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Aki nods, "once a month i see a doctor."
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Satoshi sighs, " well that's good at least. but still, you really ought to be more careful. you could get seriously hurt doing that..."
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Aki frowns and shakes his head, "its fine. Really. The pain helps me forget. Makes me feel better. I wouldnt mind having an actual lover though.... but every time anyone serious found out that i'm a masochist they freak a bit and leave so options are pretty limited for me. "
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Satoshi sighs, "you shouldn't use pain and alcohol as ways to cope. i swear im going to take you to see a counselor soon, this is beyond what i know."
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Aki turns a little pale and he looks away, "i'm an adult so you cant force me to talk to someone about this. I'll just... not mention it to you anymore." He goes to his bag and changes clothes before grabbing his cellphone
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Satoshi sighs, " yeah you're an adult, but im your friend and while i can't force you, i really hope you'll consider it. what you're doing isn;t healthy, i want you to be able to cope with things normally, instead of relying on...well harmful habits."
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Aki shakes his head and sighs, "again. Its fine. Since you started tagging along i havent been able to do such things anyway so you shouldnt worry too much."
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Satoshi sighs again, " im not going to be around forever. i assume we'll go our separate ways at some point. do you really want to spend the rest of your life waking up in alleys with no memory of what happened?"
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Aki grabs his backpack and heads for the door, "i said its fine! And i'll prove it to you by separating now!"
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Satoshi quickly gets up and grabs the bag, " hold on, come on. i mean, go for a bit if you need to, but come back? we've still got a lot to figure out with your parents and such. just... think about it okay?" he lets go.
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Aki hesitates slightly before sighing, "... i'll stay in town. But i cant be around you right now." He leaves the pokemon center
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Satoshi nods and sits back down, sighing.
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Aki heads to his house, not knowing where else to go. He grabs the thick folder with his picture in it and opens it up. He barely knew anything about himself since his memories as a kid were all foggy so he figured he'd be away from satoshi, and learn about himself at the same time.
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Satoshi sighs and gets changed, then heads out of the center. He might as well do some training since he had time to kill. He goes to the nearest park and lets Kommo-o out, running him through some moves.
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Aki feels his stomach churn as he keeps reading his file. How could he not remember any of this? They purposely injected him with diseases and stds just to see how his body would react. Who the fuck does that? Is he diseased then? Is he a walking time bomb of measles, polio and the plague??
He sighs as he keeps reading because, no, he's fine... according to his blood work he apparently has a super immune system of sorts... that does explain a lot...
He gets up and goes to the living room and glares at the family portraits, snarling before grabbing whatever picture frames he can get his hands on and smashing them on to the ground, shattering them
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Satoshi puts Kommo-o through paces, the pokemon powerfully preforming moves and attacks.
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After an hour the living room is completely destroyed and aki lays on the tattered couch, staring up at the ceiling
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Luxray is off in one corner, evidently the other hadn;t noticed him. He gets up and stretches before picking his way around the broken glass to go over, huffing softly at Aki as he checks that he's still alive.
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Aki jerks a bit, startled, "ah... luxray... forgot that you were here... dont.... don't be in this room. There's a lot of broken glass that you could hurt yourself on ."
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Luxray huffs again, this time giving him a 'no shit?' kind of look. He uses his tail to sweep an area clean and lays down near the couch, stubborn.
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Aki sighs and lets his hand hang off the side of the couch so that he can pet luxray, "i... dont know what i'm supposed to do luxray. Im part pokemon apparently but i have no fucking idea what that means for me. I certainly dont look it, although apparently thats what my pa...thats...that what those two wanted. I cant use pokemon attacks... that i know of anyway. The most i can think of is that i know what my pokemon are saying to me. But i thought that was just because they're my partners. My family. "
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Luxray considers the hand for a moment and shoves his head under it, deciding Aki needed it instead of being aloof because he was a different trainer. He didn't really get what the big deal was, but since the other was distressed about it apparently it was an issue? He didn;t particularly care, and shows it by yawning.
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Aki blinks and smiles softly when he feels luxray, "really? Even though im not your trainer? Thanks. I appreciate it a lot actually..." he turns his body to the side so he's facing luxray's direction as he keeps petting him, "your trainer is a really great guy and it shows in his pokemon... i dont know why i keep snapping at him for stupid things that don't matter. I don't think i was always like that. "
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Luxray considers it and sighs, " Lux..." well if he had everything right then the smaller trainer here had dealt with a lot, so maybe that was partly to blame? Plus aki had spent a lot of time alone, now he had an overly reasonable guy stuck to his side 24/7 pretty much, that would be enough for Luxray to be about ready to zap the next person he saw.
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Aki pauses mid pet before sighing, "we were supposed to come here anyway so maybe i'll text him that im here. That way he can just come over when he wants instead of me doing all this walking." He opens his phone and goes to satoshi's contact number. He snagged the number shortly after they began traveling together just in case, its aki. Im at the house. I guess you can come over whenever you want to continue looking through stuff
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Satoshi pulls out his phone and blinks at the message, " guess we better go over there, it's odd that he'd pretty much ask me to come." he returns the dragon and jogs over, knocking before entering the house, " hey?"
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Aki hears satoshi and sighs before sitting up. He winces when he sees the living room again and remembers what he did hours before, "uh hey.... dont come in to the living room. Its not safe. Not until i get the vacuum out."
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Satoshi blinks, " uh, what? are you alright? what happened?" he walks in and peers into the room, " oh wow, you really did a number huh... geez."
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Aki's cheeks are tinted red as he looks a bit shamed, "i...read more of my profile and i..." he sighs softly, "i didnt like what i read and i got pissed. I couldnt keep looking at all of these lies."
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Satoshi shrugs, " well if that's what you had to do to work through your emotions that's what you have to do i guess." Luxray gets up and makes his way over to his trainer, rubbing against him cat-like. Sato chuckles and scratches the pokemons head, " hey Lux, did you keep an eye on him? you're a good boy, you do such a good job." he finds a broom and dustpan, as well as a bag and starts sweeping up the glass, going carefully.
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Aki blinks and frowns, "thats it? A shrug? I... did a lot of damage..."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " well yeah you broke a lot of stuff. but it's not mine, and it doesn;t affect me. it's surprising, but it's not like im going to get angry, it's yours to do with what you want."
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Aki sighs, "yeah but isnt this destructive behavior? Arent you against that?"
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Satoshi sighs, " i see this as more a release of emotion than anything else. if you were destroying things that were important, or weren't yours, yeah. but sometimes you can do a lot of good like this. chopping wood, releasing anger by tearing down a shed that needs to be taken down anyway, breaking old dishes or such. it can be good therapy. now, self destructive behavior is bad, that im against." he dumps a dustpan full of glass into a bag, " even here it's not super bad. you broke a lot of glass and a few frames, but overall most of the pictures are in good shape, if you felt like keeping them."
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Aki looks disgusted, "no. Absolutely not. They lied to me. They experimented on me. Im not their son to them. Im experiment 1-3-3 and i dont want to see these. "
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Satoshi nods, finishing sweeping the glass up and gathering up the pictures and piling them on the table. " well, we can put these away somewhere you don;t have to see them."
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Aki brings his knees uo to his chest and sighs, "they'd be good fire starters."
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Satoshi chuckles, " maybe. but lets hold onto them for awhile just in case." he puts them into a drawer. " alright, now what do you want to do? keep reading, or try and go to their workplace?"
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Aki sighs, "i dont want to keep reading. You can but if i find out that they injected more shit into me as a kid then the crap they already have i'll end up burning this house down."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " yeah don;t do that, you could still live here. or sell the house. i know you have bad memories here, but espeon is here too." he grabs some papers and hums as he looks through it, " wow... they did all that? well at least you're immune to most illnesses and diseases, that's nice at least."
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Aki makes a face, "yeah. Cool. Great. So great to know that these people just so happen to have such diseases on hand that they can just inject me with. On the downside man made things such as synthetics will apparently be worse for me. What a great compromise." His voice is full of sarcasm
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Satoshi sighs, " well we'll just be careful. at least you know now, and can say you have an allergy to synthetic drugs."
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Aki goes back to pouting, still pissed off. "I just...why me? Every time i think im over it i find something else the pisses me off."
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Satoshi nods, " and im sure that's gonna happen for awhile. the whole life you thought you knew? turned upsidedown. it's gonna mess with you."
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Aki gets off the couch, frowning, "i wish espeon was still with me. She'd know what to do. "
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Satoshi shrugs, " maybe she would, maybe she wouldn't. i think the main thing is to keep living. keep moving forward."
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Aki sighs, "For now anyway. Lets just go to the facility. Might as well get this over with."
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Satoshi nods, " sounds like a plan. lets go Lux." he heads out of teh house, the large pokemon following.
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aki heads over to a tall, large building on the other side of the town
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Satoshi follows, Luxray pacing next to them.
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Aki enters the building and goes to the reception, "can i get two day passes under the name akihito sato."
The girl at the desk blinks and looks up at aki, "sato? I havent heard that surename in so long. Is that really you kiki?"
Aki turns bright red and he clears his throat, "no one calls me that anymore."
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Satoshi snickers softly, " aw how cute. come on, lets go Kiki."
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Aki turns even more red before giving the girl a dirty look before grabbing the badges and tossing one at satoshi, "hush you. No one calls me that anymore." He heads to the elevator and uses the access key to open it
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" aw but it's cuuuute." he grabs the badge and follows Aki, Luxray looking carefully at the girl behind the counter before flicking his tail and making himself fit into the elevator with them.
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Aki grumbles and pushes the highest floor button, waiting for the elevator
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Luxrays tail smacks Satoshi over the head, " hey! okay okay i'll lay off. stubborn pokemon taking his side..."
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Aki cant help but smile softly.
The elevator makes a soft chine as the doors open to a large room full of scientists and pokemon happily walking around.
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Satoshi looks at Aki, " im going to let you take the lead here, but im right behind you okay?"
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Aki gets off the elevator and nods, "alright. It is kinda nerve wracking but at least you're with me. "
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Satoshi nods, " yup, right here with you. i know it's not easy." Luxray makes a soft grunt as an affirmative as well.
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An older scientist approaches aki and sato, "excuse me sirs, but this is a classified building and i'm going to have to-" he sees the name on aki's badge and his eyes widen slightly, "sato? My word Akihito! I havent seen you for a long time! What on earth brings you back in town!"
Other scientists hear that Aki is back and they all come over to happily say hi
Aki nervously takes a step back, "uh.. we-well...."
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Satoshi sees the situation and steps in front of Aki, " we're here to look for whatever information we can get on his...parents. im sure you're aware they've been missing? he's been looking for them."
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Aki silently thanks satoshi for stepping in.
The man blinks and frowns, the others frowning as well, "oh dear this again? Aki, its been over a decade. They're gone. Im sure if they were still around they would have shown up for you."
Aki flinches and looks away
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Satoshi sighs, " well we've gone through their paperwork from before and... learned a few things. anything you know would be appreciated."
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The scientist gives a slight scowl, "paperwork? From where? Everything they worked on stays here in this building."
Aki blinks and glances at satoshi, coming to the conclusion that these guys have no idea about the basement
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Satoshi shakes his head, " your colleges were working on some... other projects. it's not my place to tell, but again, anything you can tell us about when they were last seen, anything you may have overheard them talking about, places or people, would be helpful."
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The man frowns and scratches his head, "well... its not that weird... dna thing was it? They were acting pretty serious about it so we told them to knock it off and we thought they stopped."
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Satoshi hesitates and nods, " yeah, that's exactly what they kept doing..."
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The man gives an annoyed sigh before motioning them to follow him as he heads to a small office
Aki frowns and follows the guy
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Satoshi follows, " well at least they're willing to talk now. sorry i had to say so much Aki..."
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Aki sighs and shakes his head, "its fine..."
The guy closes the door behind them once they're in the room and he pulls out a couple of files, placing them on the desk, "thats everything we have on file about your parents. Including the write ups. Honestly if it werent for the fact that they disappeared they would have been fired."
Aki glances at the files before looking back at the scientists, "what does this place do?"
"Us? Well, we run experiments of course. Tests. Not anything grand of course but we have an ample amount of eevee's in the forest next to us that are always willing to be test subjects in exchange for food and attention. Just normal things like what their stats are and if those stats affect what they evolve into. Every so often a few eevee's will be more than happy to pair up with a pokemon trainer that we pick and every month or so that trainer will come back so we can examine the eevee to find out if its stats alter to coincide with its trainer. Just small things like that."
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Satoshi blinks, " well, that's certainly a lot less ethically questionable than what they did..." he hands the file to Aki, " here." e looks at the guy, " anything you might have heard them talk about might be a clue. maybe they went somewhere new to experiment, or maybe someone didn;t like what they were doing. or maybe liked it too much....wouldn;t put it past one of the gangs to take them if they thought they might be useful."
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The guy shakes his head, "i dont know too much of that stuff. All i know is they came over with a recommendation from Silph Corporation despite not having much on their resume."
Aki takes the file and frowns, "silph?"
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Satoshi blinks and frowns, "Silph...they have a questionable reputation. maybe we should go there next?"
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Aki nods, "that seems like a safe bet..." he looks at the scientist, "what happened that led to them getting caught with their... side project?"
"Ah well, not only were they stealing equipment and funds from the company but we also discovered that they would find women who were on the fence about keeping a child, typically not even two months pregnant, and offer to remove the cells out of the womans body and pay her for the cells. They told them that the zygote would be used for stem cell research. Im honestly surprised that they still kept their jobs after that."
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Satoshi's eyes widen, " wow...well that explains where they got...their subjects from."
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The man nods, "yeah the whole building had a heart attack when a young girl came in asking if this was the building where you could get an abortion from. Im honestly sorry kid. I thought they had stopped after they had you. They both mellowed out so much and never once mentioned their weird interests after that. "
Aki shudders and looks away, "its fine..."
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Satoshi snorts, " well i think we've learned what we need. Silph co is our next destination i guess."
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Aki looks at satoshi, "i plan on going to the forest first real quick. I want to see the eevee's. "
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Satoshi blinks then nods, " certainly. anything you want to do while we're here we'll do, it's waited ten years it can wait a little longer."
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The man rubs the back of his head, "well anything else ya need to know are in them files. If you have any other questions i'll be here."
Aki nods, "thank you." He turns and heads out
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Satoshi nods, " thank you." he quickly follows after Aki. " we going to check the forest yet today or are we calling it good? it's been a long day already."
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Aki turns around the to the back of building, "this will only take a second. Then we can go."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " don;t worry about it, we can take all the time you need." he follows.
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Aki gets to the small forest and climbs over the gate, not bothering to look for the gate door.
Dozens of eevee's jump out from the bushes in excitement and quickly begin crowding aki, a few going over to the fence, wagging their tails when they also see satoshi, "UUWEEH!!"
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Satoshi laughs and climbs over as well, " well hello all of you." Luxray jumps over and blinks as they start crowding him.
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Dozens more pop out, younger ones, now that they know its safe, "eee~"
Aki cant help but smile as he sits down, letting them climb all over him, "hello... its been so long since i came out here."
A few quickly climb on to satoshi and luxray, loving any amount of attention that they can get
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Luxray growls half-heartedly a few times to try and get them to go away before giving up and laying down, letting them crawl on him as he grumbles.
Satoshi shakes his head, " never realized they were so friendly even wild, saw a few with trainers but never saw any wilds ones myself." he sits and pets them, letting them do as they please.
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Aki pulls out a wallet and takes out a small photo of the two scientists, "hey you guys. See these two people? Im looking for them. Know anything?"
The eevee's on aki sniff the photo curiously before they start talking to each other
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Satoshi blinks and watches Aki, curious.
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One eevee huffs as he's talking to the others.
Aki blinks and frowns, "i see... i'm sorry that happened. Have they been around recently?"
The eevee's shake their heads.
Aki nods and puts the picture away, "got it. That sucks. Well, thanks for the information. I appreciate it." He smiles at them before picking one up and nuzzling its fur.
The eevee cant help but smile and make soft pur noises as it happily accepts the attention
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Satoshi blinks and tilts his head, " what was that about?"
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Aki blinks and looks at satoshi, "hm? Whats up? "
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " i don;t understand pokemon, care to tell me what they said?"
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Aki's eyes widen and he blushes, "Oh. Yeah. Apparently back when those two still worked here they stole a bunch of eevee eggs, which of course is not protocol and only the eevee's found out. It sucks since the eevee's cant really tell the other scientists about that. They said they havent seen them since."
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Satoshi grunts, " well at least they've been gone since. im sorry that happened to you guys. but if we tell them then it'll be odd, because how would we know? i think we better keep that one under wraps, it shouldn't be an issue anyway."
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Aki nods, "thats what they said. nothing to do about it now. I wish i knew earlier though..." He snuggles more of the eevee's before sighing, "Nothing better than fuzz therapy."
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Satoshi blinks, " do...you think that means you're part eevee then?"
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Aki flinches and his face turns red again, "i... dont know... i guess... it would make sense? They had ample eevee's at their fingertips and eevee's do have the most crazy dna. But i dont want to think about it right now."
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Satoshi nods, " sorry." he lifts up a tiny eevee and nuzzles it, tickling it's tummy.
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Aki shrugs, "its fine..." he scoops three eevee's into his arms and snuggles them, "i needed this so bad..." he sighs softly before looking at satoshi, "ready to head out when you are."
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Satoshi chuckles, " if you want to stay and cuddle the floofs longer im okay with that. Luxray might not agree, but we can stay as long as you like." Said pokemon grumbles from under a pile of eevees, a few younger ones enjoying playing in his mane, chewing on his ears, and tackling his tail.
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Aki shakes his head, "we can leave. These guys will always be here so its fine."
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Satoshi nods and carefully gets up, setting the protesting eevees down. Luxray gets up and shakes the eevees off before jumping over the fence to get away.
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Aki climbs over the fence and waves to the eevee's before oetting luxray, "thanks for putting up with all that."
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Luxray snorts softly, grumbling a bit more before flicking his tail. He didn;t know why he put up with it, it just seemed needed. Sato climbs over as well and scratches under Luxrays chin, which the pokemon tries to not show is enjoyable however a deep purr rumbles from his throat unbidden.
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Aki blinks before giving a soft giggling smile, "hee~! So under the chin scratches are best, huh? I'll have to remember that in case of an emergency." He puts his hands in his pockets and looks around, "did you want to head to silph today or what?"
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Satoshi shakes his head, " naw, we've pushed the pokemon a lot over the last few days, and it's a couple towns over. i say we stay and rest a day or two."
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Aki nods, "oh good. I didnt really want to do anything else today so im glad we're staying put."
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Satoshi nods and heads back to the pokemon center, glad to relax. " yeah, it's already been a long day."
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Aki sighs as he follows satoshi, "Yeah im definitely going to take a nice hot shower. just have a relaxing night."
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Satoshi nods, " that sounds great. i call it when you're done.
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Aki nods and once he gets into their room he takes off his shirt, humming softly
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Satoshi lays down, closing his eyes and relaxing.
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Aki heads into the bathroom and takes his shower, making sure he's clean but not staying in for long since he knows Satoshi will want a shower. He steps out and sighs as he feels a lot better before wrapping a towel around his waist and glancing at himself in the mirror, "aww sheesh i got a lil' pudge on the ol' gut. this is what i get for having terrible eating habits." He pinches the small amount of fat on his stomach before sighing. oh well. he knew he never looked great as a twig so at least he had a bit more cushion for the next person who plans on doing some pushin'
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Satoshi chills, not planning to rush the other. after a bit he gets up and goes to get some food, bringing back two trays since they hadn;t eaten much that day. he sets Aki's aside and munches his own, enjoying just relaxing.
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Aki changes into some fresh clothes before stepping out, "all yours."
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Satoshi grins, " thanks. brought you some chow." he quickly finishes his and heads into the bathroom, stripping down and getting into the hot water with a happy sigh.
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Aki blinks and goes over to his food and blinks some more before sitting down and eating it, sighing in content
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Satoshi lets the heat of the water sooth his muscles, cleaning himself up before getting out, drying off, and getting dressed again. he walks out and flops onto his bed with a sigh of contentment.
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Aki finishes eating and cleans up any garbage before laying on his bed and staring up at the ceiling. He subconsciously brings his hand up to his mouth and chews on his finger nails as he spaces out.
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He glances over and sees Aki, " shouldn;t chew on your nails you know."
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Aki snaps out of it and blinks before looking at satoshi, "huh?"
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Satoshi looks down at Aki's nails, " you're chewing your nails. it's a bad habit, and very germy."
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aki blinks again before he blushes and huffs, "I can chew my nails all i want."
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Satoshi shrugs, " yeah, you can. doesn;t make it any better for you."
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He gets up and goes to his backpack, grabbing a nail clippers and clipping his nails to keep himself from chewing them. Grumbling softly.
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Satoshi chuckles softly, amused. He sighs softly, " well im not tired enough to sleep, what are we gonna do with the rest of the day? not used to sitting idle, it's making me antsy."
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Aki shrugs, "Not sure about you but I could always go out to a club and unwind a bit. to be honest i think most of the things i want to do you would say no to."
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Satoshi sighs, " you're a grown up, you can go if you want. as for me... maybe Rapidash and i will go for a good run."
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Aki blinks and looks at satoshi, "eh? Really? You wont try to stop me?"
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Satoshi sighs, " like i said, while drinking to excess and sleeping with random people isn;t something that's healthy, you're also a grown up. i really don;t have a right to try and stop you. just to tell you i worry as a friend."
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Aki sighs, "i'll just have a drink or two. Not anything excessive okay? I can even text you or something to let you know im done or whatever if it makes you feel better."
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Satoshi smiles, " that would make me feel better. i'd rather you not end up in a alley again."
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Aki shrugs, "i only end up in the alley if i'm looking for sex. The guys buy me drinks until i black out. But i wont accept drinks from anyone. I'll just have a couple, enjoy the loud music, and come back."
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Satoshi nods, " alright, fair enough. try not to take more than an hour or two alright? i'll have my cell phone close."
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Aki gives a soft whistle as he nods, "got it got it!" He tosses his bag on the bed before heading out excitedly
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Satoshi chuckles and sighs, " guess i'd better stick around in case he calls. i'll take a ride later." he settles at the computer and starts doing some research on the asshole who killed Aki's espeon.
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Aki makes it to the bar and happily shows his ID to get in before plunkering down on to a stool and ordering a triple berry margarita. He said two shots, but maybe he'll just have one drink instead. Same amount of alcohol...maybe. He enjoys watching the people around him either act like idiots in their drunken stupor or dance in such a manner that even he cringed. He wasnt a very good dancer and he was going to keep that fact hidden. As Aki glanced around his eyes met an older man from down the table that caused him to inwardly frown. He quickly turned in his seat to look at the bartender, "Ah, just so you know, im not accepting drinks from others. If anyone tries then please politely turn them down."
The bartender nods and goes back to serving others.
Aki sighed when, as if on cue, the man gets up and walks over to him, sitting down, "Hey cutie. The name's Amadan. Whats yours?"
Aki glances at the man, 40's, hair slicked back in with so much grease you half wonder if he just dipped his head in a mcdonalds fryer, a poorly tailored suit. He huffs and sets his drink down, "How about, I tell you my name if you tell me your real name."
Amadan blinks before frowning, "Now what on earth is that supposed to mean?"
"Dont play dumb with me. You just gonna sit here and try to sell me the notion that your parents were either highly unfortunate with picking names or they could see into the future?"
Amadan snarls and grabs Aki's arm, "You dumb bitch! What the fuck are you getting at huh?!"
Aki yanks his arm away and glares, "Amadan is the Irish word for Dumbass!" Aki grabs some cash and waves down the bartender, quickly paying his tab and downing his drink before getting off the stool, "What a suitable name too. Damn, all i wanted was for an hour of fucking peace and quiet." Aki glances at his phone and huffs. he had time still but now he didnt even want to be here. He sighs softly in defeat. He at least got to have one margarita.
He glances back at the older man and rolls his eyes when he just sees him stand there, confused and shocked. Dumbass. He sighs and steps out of the bar and starts dialing Satoshi. Might as well let him know he was coming back after having one drink in case he's jerking it. Give him a warning.
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Satoshi grabs his phone and answers, " what's up? everything okay?"
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Aki picks at his ear with his free hand as he sighs, "Hey, I got a drink in so im gonna head back. Some chad is totaling getting into my business and its ruining the fun so im out, ya know? Just wanted to give ya a heads up."
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Satoshi frowns, " aw, im sorry some asshole ruined your fun. yeah come on back, im not doing much except some research on the computer."
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Aki nods, "Yeah I-" he feels a tap on his shoulder and he begins to turn his head, "Who the-"
Amadan strikes Aki with his fist and a pair of brass knuckles, the blow landing on his temple.
The redhead is instantly knocked out, hitting the ground with a hard thud against the pavement. His cell phone clattering only a few inches away.
Amadan looks around before grabbing Aki and dragging him in to the alley behind a dumpster
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Satoshi blinks, " Aki? Aki! what the hell?" he quickly sets the phone down and thinks before grabbing Aki's bag and letting Lucario out, " i might be over reacting but i just heard something weird over the phone with Aki and now he's not answering. help me find him!"
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Lucario's eyes widen before he gives a loud snarl. His nose twitches seconds before he dashes out of the room.
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Satoshi hurries after the pokemon, barely able to keep up.
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Amadan unbuckles his pants, "what an annoying bitch. Oh well. To think the name my college friends gave me years ago apparently is an insult. As a gift id tell you my real name but it wouldnt matter anyway." He lowers his pants enough for his dick to pop out, already hard, "im gonna enjoy this. And im going to make sure you feel this when you wake up." He grabs aki's pants and starts pulling the belt off
Aki's body is limp as he's still out cold, a pool of blood forming from his head wound
Lucario gets to the small bar before ducking into the alley, wasting no time punching the guy across the face as hard as the pokemon can, sending the guy a few feet further into the alley and away from aki, "Grrrraaahhh..."
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Satoshi's eyes darken when he sees the scene, " fucking hell..." he shakes his head and pulls out some paper, scribbling a note that says " im a rapist caught in the act, for more details please call this number or see the boys at this room in the pokemon center!" he lets Kommo-o out and sticks the note on the guys forehead, " Kommo-o, take this asshole to the police station will ya?" The pokemon nods and growls, picking the guy up none too gently and dragging him off. Satoshi quickly looks Aki over, assessing the damage. He take his shirt off and uses it to wrap Aki's head, then makes sure his belt is re-secured before picking him up and running into the hospital and up to the front desk, quickly explaining the situation.
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A few nurses come over with a stretcher and get aki settled before bringing him to a nearby room to assess the damage and get him hooked up to IV's.
Lucario follows closesly behind satoshi, going between growling and whining
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Satoshi puts a hand on Lucario's shoulder, " he'll be alright, don;t worry." he follows after and settles in a chair in the room, he wasn;t taken to a surgery room after all so it was just monitoring him to make sure nothing was really bad and getting him healed up.
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The nurses and doctor let Satoshi know that once Aki wakes up they could better assess if there was any damage that they couldnt see.
it's hours later when Aki's eyes finally open, groaning as he tries to get up, "wha...."
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Satoshi had been dozing but when he hears the other he quickly wakes, getting up and gently pushing him down, " hey now, you took a bad blow to the head. stay down."
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Aki blinks in confusion and looks up at satoshi, "Sa....satoshi...? Where am I? Agh... my head... fucking hurts..."
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Satoshi sighs, " you're in a hospital, some asshole cracked you over the head and was about to rape you. we got there before he got your pants off though."
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Aki groans and rubs his face, "Of course....Im honestly not surprised by the fact that now that i have someone who cares about me hanging around this shit happens. This could also be the consequence of me saying no to some sleazeball for the first time though...."
Lucario walks up to the bed and rests his head on the bed where aki's hand is, whining.
Aki looks at Lucario and cant help but smile as he pets his pokemon, "Hey bud. I'm alright now. I'm here. Sorry... I'm sorry."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " jeez... well, maybe we can try to imitate it at the pokemon center. music loud in headphones and a few good drinks. especially if you're not planning on finding a uh... partner anyway."
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Aki sighs and frowns, "Well finding someone to hook up with would be nice once in a while. I have needs. And it's kinda hard to find a fuck buddy anywhere else than the bar but... I... dont really want to go back to one any time soon." He looks around the room before looking at Satoshi, "How long have I been here?"
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Satoshi blushes, " perhaps we can find a safer alternative... you've been here for a few hours."
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Aki huffs and lightly touches the bandages on his head, "Dont worry about it. I'll just have to get reacquainted with my hands is all." He stretches before grunting and pushing himself into sitting up, "Regardless thats not my worry right now. Help me get this IV off me, I'm leaving."
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Satoshi blinks and shakes his head, " absolutely not. we've gotta keep an eye on you to make sure you don;t have a concussion. you were out cold for hours, you had a pool of blood under your head. you're not going anywhere."
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Aki looks at Satoshi and shakes his head, "Absolutely not. I'm in a crazy amount of pain and I'd rather be resting in my bed at the pokemon center. Either I wasnt given any pain killer in this IV bag or, because of my shitty existence, the man made drugs are not working. I really dont want to be in this room when a doctor gets my results back and sees my dna is fucked up." He starts trying to gently mess with his IV, "I am legit panicking over being in this hospital."
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Satoshi quickly grabs Aki and stops him, " okay okay settle down. you're gonna hurt yourself. fuck... um, okay, hold on..." he bites his lip and tries to remove the iv as carefully as possible, then puts pressure on it and finds some medial tape to keep it from bleeding all over the place. " well since you have pokemon dna maybe we ought to give you pokemon medicine."
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Aki winces when satoshi pulls the iv out and hisses softly. He looks around and frowns at satoshi, "You.... really want to feed me pokemon shit?" Aki shakes his head, "S'pose that wouldnt be the weirdest thing to happen. What floor are we on? Is this ground floor? I think I can do three stories. I jumped and survived a third story fall once but I dont think I can go any higher than that."
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Satoshi sighs, " well it's worth a try. if human medicine doesn;t work, maybe pokemon stuff does? worst comes to worst it'll be nasty and not work. we're on the second floor, but we're not jumping. that's stupid. flygon can help us." he shakes his head and goes to the window, letting the pokemon out who hovers outside the window waiting for them, " come on." he climbs out and carefully onto the pokemon.
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He gets out of bed and frowns, hugging lucario, "are you sure he can withstand both of our weights?"
Lucario doesnt even fight the hugging
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Satoshi nods, " he's pretty strong, and we don;t have far to go." he holds out his hand, " come on, lets hurry before a nurse comes back."
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Aki nods and wraps one arm around lucario and grabbing satoshi's hand with his free hand, getting on flygon
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Satoshi helps him onto flygon and gets them settled, the pokemon flying somewhat awkwardly away from the hospital and back over to the pokemon center, not moving with his usual speed and agility due to the encumbrance. He lands and is glad to let his trainer and the others off. Satoshi hops off and pets him, " i know that was a bit much, you did great though."
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Aki slides off flygon, nearly stumbling however lucario helps keep him steady, "thank god im out of there."
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Satoshi frowns, " im still not sure leaving was a good idea... but lets get you inside and settled at least. i think i have some potions in my bag, so we'll see about getting you one of those." he returns flygon and gently guides Aki inside and into their room, insistently getting him into his bed.
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Aki lays down and begins to relax immediately, "I just need to stay awake if this potion shit dont work out. That'll be easy. I do appreciate you getting me out of there. I've never been to a hospital before so it was actually terrifying."
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satoshi shakes his head and gets a potion from his bag, then grabs one of the healing sprays. " alright, you can take a few sips of this, and i'll spray a bit of this one onto the wound. might as well do all we can..." he opens the bottle and hands it over before carefully spritzing some of the other bottle onto the wound on his head.
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Aki crinkles his nose before taking a hesitant sip in case it tastes disgusting
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Satoshi peers closely, taking a rag and wiping away some of the blood, " well, it looks like this spray is getting it to clot up nicely."
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Aki takes a few more sips, trying not to show that he is actually really enjoying the flavor, "I certainly feel a lot better. I feel good enough to find that asshole and give him a taste of his own medicine."
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Satoshi chuckles, " oh he got his. i sent Kommo-o with him and a note to the police station. so i have no doubt he's in a cell. And Kommo-o is probably enjoying some time to himself."
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Aki pouts, "Awww he's already at the police station? Such a shame." He sits up and gently touches his head, "Feels pretty healed."
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Satoshi nods, " yup, so no revenge." he gently pushes Aki's hand aside and peers closely, " seems like there's new skin. but be gentle, it's probably thin new skin. so it's probably fragile. but yeah, that's pretty amazing progress." he puts the spray away, " well that's probably enough potion too since the wound is healed up nicely." he holds his hand out for the bottle.
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Aki's eyes look at satoshi's hand before darting to the potion in his hand then back at Satoshi, "......okay..." he hands the potion back to satoshi
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Satoshi blinks as he takes the potion, " did...you want more?"
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Akihito clears his throat and looks away, his face red, "I... it tasted good. I wont lie. But im healed so it should be saved in case I do soemthing stupid and get hurt again."
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Satoshi blinks and chuckles softly, " well, maybe we ought to take a stop by some berry farms then. im a decent hand at mixing up some pokemon medicines and treats, and im fairly certain potions are made from berries as well. speaking of which..." he puts the potion away and pulls out a small bag with shriveled objects, " here, dried berries. i keep them for my pokemon, but you'll probably enjoy them. most of them are too bitter or spicy for humans, but i've seen pokemon chow down on them quite happily. and i didn;t say anything in case i scared you off, but i've tried potions as a kid, the taste nearly made me puke. but if you liked it, i doubt these will bother you."
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Aki blinks and frowns, "The potions are supposed to taste bad? " He hesitantly takes a couple of berries and shrugs before popping one in his mouth, "Berries seem fine to me."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " it's not that they're supposed to, it's just that human taste buds seem to be different than pokemon ones. for example, that berry you just ate is so spicy that normally i'd use just a pea sized shred of it to add flavor and spice to a large soup pot. that whole berry would render the batch inedible unless you enjoy feeling like your innards are liquefying from how spicy it is. and yet you just ate it without any bother."
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Aki pauses mid bite, "okay, now im starting to feel weirded out..." he swallows and frowns, "its supposed to be spicy??? Its only ever tasted a bit warm but very nutty. Its nice. "
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Satoshi laughs softly, " well i suppose that explains why so many pokemon enjoy it. i guess they don;t experience the flavors the way humans do. and it seems you have that sort of taste buds. at least if you decide to live on a berry diet you could do so cheaply, there's not many fit for human consumption but you can eat any of them."
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Aki pauses briefly before looking at Satoshi, "I suddenly.... wanna try a bunch of them and tell you what they taste like. But if I did that im sure my system would hate me for eating all these berries."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well im sure we'll have plenty of time for that. as we travel i bet we'll find wild berries. we were just in a hurry to get to where we were going so we took the quickest way."
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Aki smiles and chuckles, "Alright, I guess I have to be a bit more positive about my situation. At least drinking potions gives me a faster heal time- OH. WHAT WOULD A REVIVE DO?!" He pauses slightly, blinking before making a face, "dont think I wanna hurt myself that bad to find out. Or a pokeball. Would a pokeball work on me? ooooo.... i dont want to try that out either."
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Satoshi laughs softly, " yeah lets avoid those. a revive... well im guessing it would just restore your vitality. guess if it gets that desperate i'll have to try it. as for the pokeball, some pokemon will refuse to be caught, so unless you're totally knocked out i'd think you could fight it, assuming it works."
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Akihito chuckles, "Dont let me get knocked out then." He sits up and gently touches his head again, smiling when there's no soreness
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Satoshi frowns, " i know you feel better but take it easy."
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Aki rubs the back of his head and gives a soft chuckle, "Dont worry, I wont be doing anything too crazy. Just gotta pee. Not used to having an IV full of fluids being pumped into me."
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Satoshi nods and helps him up and to the bathroom, " let me know if you need anything."
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Aki blinks when satoshi helps him, blushing a bit since he wasnt expecting to be helped, "ah uh tha-thanks." He closes the door and begins using the bathroom
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Satoshi sits back down to wait until he's done.
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Aki finishes and washes his hands before opening the door and stepping out, "ah man im exhausted. Think its safe for me to take the longest nap in the world?"
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Satoshi chuckles, " i think that'd be fine. i can set Ariados to keep watch if it'd make you feel better."
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Aki nods and gets back into bed, "yeah, i wouldnt mind my snuggle buddy."
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Satoshi snorts, " if she's cuddling you she wouldn;t be keeping watch very well. but i suppose if you want her out for cuddles we'll make do. Kommo-o should be back soon, he'll keep watch." a gently clanking sound is hear, " speak of the devil..." he opens the door and the dragon pokemon walks in, getting comfortable in the middle of the room. Satohi shakes his head and lets Ariados out who nuzzles her trainer for pettings before making her to to Aki, sensing his need for affection.
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Aki smiles when he sees ariados and he holds his arms out, "c'mere girl. I had a rough day and need some snuggles."
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She chitters happily and jumped up next to him before making herself comfy on his lap/stomach nuzzling him.
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Aki sighs and leans back petting ariados as he starts yawning
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Ariados settles in, comfy on her friend.
Satoshi chuckles and shakes his head, " you guys rest, im going for a ride. Kommo-o will protect you."
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Aki waves his hand dismissively, "go have fun. Im certainly done having fun for one night, thats for sure."
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Satoshi chuckles and heads out, letting rapidash loose and taking a long run with her.
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It doesn't take long for aki to fall asleep, snoring as he sleeps like the dead
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Satoshi takes a long ride, leaning over rapidash and letting her run as fast and where she wants. After awhile he turns her around and they head back, once back at the pokemon center he puts her away and heads in, quietly entering the room to avoid waking Aki. He settles into bed to rest.
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Aki is dead to the world, still snoring now and then. Lucario stays close to aki's bed, curling up on the floor
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Satoshi chuckles and settles in, soon falling asleep.
Morning arrives and ariados stretches on top of Aki, waking up.
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Feeling the spider move on him, aki's eyes slowly flutter open and he makes a soft grunt, stretching and yawning
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Ariados looks down at him and rubs her face against his before jumping down and going to her trainer, poking his face.
Satoshi groans and frowns, opening an eye to look at the spider, " really?"
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Aki cant help but chuckle as he gets up. He looks at lucario and pets him until the pokemon starts twitching and stretching, yawning loudly.
"Silly. You can always join me on the bed, ya know?"
Lucario blinks a few times to get the sleep out of them before giving aki a look, grumbling softly.
Aki tsks softly, "ruuuuuuude." He looks over at satoshi and smiles, "time to wake up."
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Satoshi yawns and gently pushes the spider off him, who bounces off the bed and back over to Aki, " yeah yeah im up im up..."
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Aki smiles and picks up ariados, hugging her, "morning ariados. Sleep well?"
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She chitters happily and snuggles against him.
Satoshi chuckles softly, " alright, i'll go get breakfast for us all." he gets up and goes into the bathroom, changing into fresh clothes and freshening up before heading out of the room, bringing back two trays of people food and a tray for the pokemon, setting that one on the floor. Kommo-o delicately picks up some of the pokemon food and eats it. sato hands one of the trays to aki and sits with his own.
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Aki sets ariados down before taking a tray, "thanks." He sits down and starts eating.
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Ariados sniffs at his tray before going over to the pokemon chow, digging in.
Satoshi chuckles and digs into his own meal, " no problem."
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Aki smiles and sighs, "so today we're going to silph right?"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, we can head out today."
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Aki nods and finishes his tray before sighing, "alright. I want to find out where those two bastards came from."
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Satoshi nods, " agreed. so we go as quickly as we can then? flying will be best in that case."
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Aki blinks before giving a soft groan, "I dont wanna ride your pokemon anymore. Flygon is an ass and skarmory is just too scary."
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Satoshi blinks and bursts out laughing, " what? skarmory is a sweetheart, and flygon... he's just a show off."
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Aki pouts, "No. he's an ass. not dealing with it. We could always go by land. Arcanine may be a bit drooly but he's incredibly fast."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " alright. though i've heard rumors of gangs dealing with silph co, and the activity tends to be higher there. be aware we may have to fight."
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Lucario looks at satoshi and nods, "graah."
Aki nods, "lucario understands. Normally I'd just fist fight them but its different now. I have you with so i know my pokemon are safe. "
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Satoshi snorts, " good to know im now your personal bodyguard."
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Aki shrugs, "you agreed to it the minute you decided to come with me."
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He shakes his head, " well, at least i have strong pokemon. we can handle whatever comes our way." he holds two pokeballs up, returning Ariados and Kommo-o, " shall we get moving?"
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Aki nods, "yeah. And hey, my pokemon are strong. Rude." He chuckles as he gathers his things
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Satoshi chuckles, " those small fry would struggle in the championship battles. all the willpower in the world won;t beat strength. and i hate to say it but evolved pokemon are stronger, that's just how it goes."
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Lucario glares at satoshi, grumbling softly.
Aki frowns and looks lucario, "enough now." He shakes his head, "lets just get going." He heads out.
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " if you say so." he gets packed up and heads out, letting Rapidash out who whinnies excitedly, prancing in place before kneeling to let her rider onto her back more easily.
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Aki lets arcanine out, smiling as the giant dog immediately sticks his tongue out.
"Hey there bud. Ready for runnies?"
Arcanine barks loudly before lowering his body for aki, his tail wagging a mile a minute in excitement
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Rapidash looks at the giant dog like pokemon with disdain, angling her head so she can look at her trainer with an expression that clearly disapproves of it and begs for another option. " sorry girl, he's more comfortable with arcanine than riding double. just bare with it." she snorts and paws the ground before taking off, setting a brutal pace.
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Aki gets onto arcanine, grabbing onto his maine to keep from falling as his pokemon starts getting excited
Arcanine pats his paws on the ground in a little dance as he keeps barking excitedly
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Rapidash runs ahead, even with Sato trying to slow her down and get her to wait for arcanine, " hey come on, ease up."
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Aki pats the dogs side, "go all out pupper."
Hearing the okay, arcanine bursts into a mad dash to catch up to rapidash
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Rapidash finally slow a bit to let arcanine catch up, only after much coaxing from Satoshi. Sato smiles back at Aki, glad to see him within sight.
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Aki chuckles as arcanine catches up and is panting loudly, not because he's tired, but because he is having fun
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Once they catch up Sato gives rapidash her head again, and she easily stays ahead of the dog remembering him trying to lick her and not wanting a repeat.
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Arcanine barks happily, thinking this is a game so he runs faster.
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Satoshi lays low against Rapidashs back, his body moving with hers. Trees flash by as they travel, eating distance swiftly.
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Aki is also as low on the dogs back as he can get, although its mostly to avoid the slobbery wind from arcanine's open mouth and tongue hanging out
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They get to the next town without incident, only running past a few started groups of gang members who shout and try to stop them but are too slow reacting to actually do anything. Once in town Satoshi slows rapidash and hops off, stroking her neck, " well done girl."
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Arcanine makes a startled yelp when rapidash stops running and he stumbles a bit in order to stop a few feet ahead.
Aki keeps clinging on, his eyes closed tightly for the most part. "A-atta boi..."
Arcanine pants and grins, his tongue still out before he goes over to a fence and starts licking it
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Rapidash looks at the dog licking a fence and snorts in disgust. Satoshi laughs softly, " well at least he's easy to keep happy."
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Aki hops off and quickly starts pushing arcanine away, "no! Stop licking everything! How many times do i-"
Arcanine happily moves his head before licking aki upside the head.
Aki freezes and closes his tightly
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Satoshi laughs, " nasty. glad he's yours not mine." Rapidash snorts in agreement and nuzzles her trainer before flicking her tail and walking towards the center of town.
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Aki pulls back and sighs before putting arcanine in his pokeball, "whatever. He's strong and loyal and a good boy. Just way too affectionate." He wipes his face and goes over to satoshi
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Satoshi chuckles softly, " well, regardless we're here. i say we get lunch for energy and then see about silph co." he holds up rapidashs pokeball, and she considers it before touching her nose to it and going into it.
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Aki nods, "yeah that sounds like a good plan to me," he grins at satoshi
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Satoshi nods and looks around, spotting a fast food place, " i'd prefer to get something nicer, but fast food will do." he heads to the building and orders a meal, handing over cash for it.
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Aki looks over the menu, humming softly in indecisiveness before ordering and paying for his food
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Satoshi soon gathers his meal and heads to a table, waiting for Aki before he starts to eat.
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Aki gets his food and happily goes over to the table, sitting down with his small hoard of food.
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Satoshi looks over the others meal and chuckles at the quantity before shaking his head and enjoying his own more moderate meal.
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Aki hums softly as he eats, enjoying his food, "dont think ive been anywhere that was nicer than a fastfood place. Those places are weird to go to when you're by yourself."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " yeah i guess so. foods foods when you're hungry though."
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Aki nods, "agreed. Thats why im fine with being in here for food." He's easily able to burn through his food, "where do you normally prefer to eat? Like, if you wanted somewhere thats nicer then fast food. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " well the pokemon centers usually have decent meals, real ingredients if made en-mass. my preference is a kitchen to make something myself. real home cooked food."
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Aki rolls his eyes, "well of course anyone would prefer to eat home cooked food. But like, i'm talking about cafes and such. Have you ever been to those kind of places?"
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Satoshi hesitates then nods, " a few times, back in my championship days. not since though."
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Aki nods, "i think we should go to one. Not anytime soon of course but eventually. "
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Satoshi nods slowly, " very well. perhaps i can remove the taint from those memories..."
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Aki stops mid bite and just blinks as he stares at satoshi, "....what?"
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Satoshi blinks and chuckles, " ah, they were back from...when i was with Raith. so while i guess it was enjoyable at the time, there's sort of a bad taste to those memories now."
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Aki blinks again, "ah. So thats the asshole's name."
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Satoshi blushes, " ah, yes. i would prefer if you leave it be however."
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Aki shrugs, "whatever you want. " he glances out the window and finishes eating all of his food
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Satoshi nods and finishes his meal, " well, silph co then?" he dumps his trash and places the tray on a stack.
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aki nods and gets up, putting his trash and tray away, "Yeah~ Lets get going~"
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Satoshi chuckles at the others excitement before heading out the door, taking a breath to steady himself before heading for the giant building.
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Aki follows behind satoshi, keeping lucario's ball in his pocket just in case
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Satoshi enters the building, biting his lip, " should... we just start by asking about uh...the people who raised you?"
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Aki glances at satoshi, "i.... don't think thatd be the best approach. Maybe we could play dumb. Im pretty good at that. Plus, people may actually know you so...."
The receptionist watches the two boys enter and she blinks, squinting briefly, before clearing her throat, "excuse me, can i help you two at all?"
Aki looks at her and smiles before walking over, "hi there! I was wondering what someone had to do in order to become part of the silph corporation family~ I've always wanted to join and after visiting the lab a few towns over fot me really excited. "
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Satoshi nods, " good idea..." he smiles as he walks over behind Aki, nodding along with Aki's explanation, " yeah, it seems like an ideal job!"
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The receptionist blinks, "well first you'd have to actually know something in the science degree. You can know about pokemon like the back of your hand and thats all fair and good but this is science here. With math. We dont let just anyone work here."
Aki nods, "well of course! Id go take college courses and get qualified but i want to know if its worth it. This place seems so prestigious that if you vould work here you'd be able to transfer to just about any other lab pretty easily, right?"
The girl nods, "yes this is the most advanced location in the field. Scientists that work here can easily go anywhere else however even if you're the best in another location its awfully rare to get a spot in here."
Aki makes a soft whistle, "impressive. Thats really something to be proud of."
The girl smiles, her shoulders relaxing a bit, "oh! Yes! We're all proud of our staff and the accomplishments we have made here."
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Satoshi nods, " we did come a long ways, we're both just so excited to be here. i don;t suppose... maybe we can take a tiny peek at the working areas? just to see what it's like. it would be soooo cool...."
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The girl hesitantly bites her lips before glancing at her computer screen, "Ummm.... Let me ask my boss. Stay right there." She gets up and heads to the door behind her, going inside.
Aki looks at satoshi and grins, "So far so good i guess."
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Satoshi lets out a breath, " no shit. though you've been the one saying everything right, i mean it'd be a boon if we do get in but that could easily have gone badly."
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The girl comes back with a taller man with hair slicked back and a purple suit.
The man sees them both and smirks, "so you two want a tour around the premises, is that right?"
Aki looks at the man and smiles, nodding, "yes! And just some questions so i know where to start with my journey to work here."
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Satoshi rubs the back of his neck, " we've love to if it's not too much trouble... i now you guys are awfully busy doing such important work."
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The man nods, "sure, sure! We always have plenty of time for those who are interested in this field." He pulls out his key card and uses it on the elevators, "now please, lets begin!"
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Satoshi plasters a stupid grin on his face, trying to look giddy and follows the man into the elevator.
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Aki gets into the elevator, "you need to use a key just to use the elevator?"
The man nods, "of course! The only public area is the lobby. Everything else requires a key card."
Aki whistles, "but this place looks huge. Isnt it a bother to have key cards for everything? For like, different security? Thats how the other buidling worked."
The man shakes his head, "each employee only needs one card and it is programmed to fit their title so that they can go into any room that they would need to use aside from the restrooms."
Aki blinks, "so... wait, are we only going to see certain rooms that you can go into then? Im fine with that, i just dont want to go somewhere im not allowed. "
The man chuckles, "dont worry, my key has access to everything since i oversee all employees and as long as you two are with me you wont be going into any unauthorized rooms."
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Satoshi whistles, " wow that's fancy. obviously we don;t want to go anywhere we're not allowed, but just out of curiosity what's considered unauthorized? have to admit that makes me curious."
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The man waves his hand, "typical science things. Anything with private information and areas in which you would need to wear special outfirs to be in. Chemicals and all that. But for the most part we can show you some basic assembly line products and we can talk to a few team leaders with any questions you may have."
A soft ding is heard as the elevator stops and the doors open. They are in a large room, on the upper half where its just a walk way against the walls with more doors. A metal railing surrounds the edge of the path so you dont fall off and there is no way down except for two flights of stairs on either side.
On the ground below are tall machines, assembly work, and scientists walking around as they examine what comes out of the machines.
Aki watches the guy carefully while also trying to look impressed
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Satoshi nods, " of course, i guess it just seemed so exciting to me." he leans over the rail slightly, looking extremely interested and amazed.
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The boss nods, "would you two like to go down? Its just standard smocks in this area so you should be fine."
Aki nods quickly, "sure! Nothing seems too exciting up here. Just a bunch of doors."
The man nods, "just the meeting rooms to hold conferences. Since its mainly business employees up here. All the good stuff is down the stairs. "
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Satoshi nods, " yeah! what are they making?" he heads down the stairs with them, trying to seem like he's barely keeping himself from rushing ahead to check it out.
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The man laughs and follows down the stairs, "eager. Well currently we're working on some pokemon snacks that should be able to also boost their abilities temporarily. And i mean an amazing boost! We want to see just how much we can increase. Safely of course." He goes over to a wall and grabs some aprons and gloves, "suit up boys."
Aki follows behind him looking around.
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Satoshi tries to look somewhat sheepish, " it's just so cool. wow, they really improve pokemons abilities? that's amazing." he hated the idea of messing with his pokemon like that, regardless of how 'safe' they claimed it was. but it was best to seem absolutely smitten. He suits up, seeming eager to get his hands dirty.
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The boss calls over a scientist and smiles, "This is mr. fugo. He is our top scientist."
The scientist comes over and gives a polite hello, "Hello, pleased to meet you."
The boss smiles, "Mr. Fugo, these boys want a little tour around the lab! I was hoping you could answer any of their questions they have since you're the expert."
Fugo nods, "Sure! I would love to!"
Aki blinks and frowns, looking uncomfortable, "Um... I need to use the restroom. Where did you say they were?"
The boss looks at aki and blinks, "There's a bathroom up the stairs, middle door."
Aki blinks and looks up at all of the doors and frowns, "Which one?"
"That one, up there."
AKi squints before frowning, "I think i need to get my contact lens prescription renewed. Can you quickly show me? I dont want to accidentally go into the wrong room. I can just head back down here and regroup with mr. fugo when im done."
The man sighs and shakes his head, "Kids bladders these days. alright. i have to go back up anyway. Lets go."
Aki nods and gives satoshi a big grin, "I'll be right back~ Go ahead and start without me since they wont take long."
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Satoshi's eyes go wide as suddenly he'd being left behind, " oh, uh yeah, sure. s-so, these are the um, pokemon snacks that boost their abilities?"
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Mr. Fugo nods and shows satoshi the buckets of pokefruit, "Yes, its a super food mash thats also has vitamins injected into it so it pumps up the good nutrition."
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Satoshi looks at it, " so is it just berries and vitamins then?"
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he nods, "Yes of course! My goodness, we wouldnt want anything else to be in them. Pokemon eat them, or will eat them. Hopefully soon."
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Satoshi nods, " well that's good anyway, i know i'd be a little nervous feeding anything to my pokemon that wasn;t natural no matter how amazing it is."
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he nods, "Exactly, here at Silph Corporation we pride ourselves in ensuring only the best for the pokemon and complete transparency for trainers to put their minds at ease."
Aki strolls up behind them, smiling, "Hey, sorry to be a bummer but I got a call from my folks. Apparently an emergency happened at home with the milktank and I gotta split. You coming with?" He looks at Satoshi, his eyes darting over to the elevator
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Satoshi blinks and looks worried, " oh no. yeah we'd better get going. sorry to cut this short, maybe another time? i'd just love to learn more!" he waves and hurries over to the elevator, taking his cue from Aki.
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fugo blinks and frowns, "O-okay, goodbye."
Aki gets to the elevator and quickly gets in, hissing under his breath, "Lets go, go, go, go."
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Satoshi hurries in, also hissing softly, " what did you do?!"
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Aki holds up the key card, smirking, "i got the key that lets us into everything. Now, there's only three buttons on this thing. First floor which is the lobby, up which im guessing where we are, and finally the basement level. I wanna go down to the basement. " he inserts the key next to the basement button and pushes it
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Satoshi sucks in a breath, oh we are gonna get in so much trouble... lets get this over with."
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Aki feels the elevator descend and he looks at satoshi, "i dont plan on coming back so i might as well get into as much mischief as possible, right?" He grins and shoves the card in his pocket
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Satoshi shakes his head, " you are a horrible influence. remind me to not let you near my sister."
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Aki snorts, "i doubt id be taking your sister on an adventure like this. We'd get into trouble but nothing that could potentially get her hurt. So no worries, right?"
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satoshi snorts, " id never let you take her on an adventure like this. anyway, lets get what we came for before they figure out we're not supposed to be here."
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The doors to the elevator opens and aki pokes his head out, making sure that the long hallways were cleared before stepping out
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Satoshi quickly follows behind, " so what are we looking for here? i assume you have a plan?"
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Aki smirks, "nope! No plan!" He keeps walking down the hall until he sees a couple of shadows rounding the corner. His eyes widen and he quickly grabs satoshi and drags him into a nearby room, closing the door
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Satoshi's eyes bug out a bit at the news there's no plan, then he chokes back a yelp as he's yanked into a room, whispering, " you're crazy!"
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Aki waits for the sounds of footsteps to fade before looking at satoshi, "its fine. We-" he looks passed satoshi and blinks at the wooden crates with hazard symbols painted on them, "that....doesnt look good..."
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Satoshi pales slightly, " yeah... that doesn;t look good at all."
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Aki hesitantly approaches the crates, picking up a clipboard with papers on it, looking it over, "this is.... something that they just got today. A shipment of... ugh i dont know. Some big fancy word, dibutyl phthalate, i think. Whatever that is. "
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Satoshi blinks, " i have no idea. but i don;t think we'll find that information here, unless it happens to have any info there and where it's going next."
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Aki nods and sets the clipboard down, "yeah, lets sneak into a different room. There's just these boxes in here." He goes back over to the door and presses his ear against the door, listening.
Its quiet and he cracks the door, taking a peek before sneaking out when the coast is clear
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Satoshi sighs and follows after, being as quiet as possible as they go. he whispers, " so we're just going to snoop around until we find something?"
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Aki looks at satoshi and nods, "of course." He snoops around the halls, making sure not to get caught. He takes a peek in rooms, finding nothing important until he sees a fancy door that says Administrative Office and he smirks, "bingo~"
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Satoshi pales further when he sees the room they're about to go in, " oh we're gonna be in so much shit..." he groans softly and sneaks over to the door, making sure nobody is nearby before trying the door.
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The door doesnt budge and aki glances at a small metal box next to the doors. He grabs the key card and holds it up to the pad, hearing a click as the door unlocks
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Satoshi opens the now unlocked door and peeks his head in before going inside.
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Aki quickly slips inside and locks the door before quickly looking around.
The room consisted of a small office desk, chair, and computer with filing cabinets lining the walls.
Aki goes over to the computer and turns it on, humming softly, "no password protection? They're looking for trouble."
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Satoshi snorts, " well people who aren;t supposed to be here normally don;t get here. and that's lucky for us." he takes up a spot near the window, moving the blinds just enough to get a view outside to watch for trouble.
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Aki clicks around and huffs as he checks multiple folders, "ah! Employee verifications...." he tsks softly as he scrolls through before his eyes widen, "there they are!" He looks at the profiles of the two people who raised him and looks over there information
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Satoshi glances over before looking back outside, " coast is still clear for now..."
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Aki pulls out his phone and starts taking pictures of the screen, scrolling through to anything that seems important and taking pictures of that too before shoving his phone into his pocket, "Alright, thats good for now. Let's get the fuck out of here."
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Satoshi sighs in relief, " thank goodness. hell yes lets go. so are they still alive or what?" he scans the area before heading out of the office.
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Aki nods, "yeah. They finished what they were doing, i guess? And relocated to another lab. Somewhere in a different region. I'll look at the pictures i took when we arent here."
He steps out and makes his way to the elevator, using the key card to open the elevator
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Satoshi nods and gets in the elevator as well, " i doubt we're going to be able to sneak out..." his hand goes towards the few pokeballs on his belt, the ones he kept handy for bad situations that he used the most, " rapidash is large, but her smokescreen will give us some cover..."
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Aki snorts, "i just plan on having lucario smash the side of the building and making a run for it with arcanine."
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Satoshi hisses softly, " don;t be stupid, they'll already be pissed off, do you really want to give them even more reason to come after us? such as damaging their property?"
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Aki huffs, "what, you think they'll just let us go through the front door?"
The elevator stops and the loud bell to alert the doors are opening chimes.
The lobby has several police officers, a couple taking statements from the boss who had shown aki where the bathroom is before.
Aki curses under his breath, muttering, "damn it, how did he get untied...."
Everyone had heard the chime and looked over, the boss snarling, "thats them officers! That brat with the red hair is the one that hog tied me to the damn toilet!!"
One officer blinks in confusion, frowning, "akihiko?"
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Satoshi huffs, " that would be what the smokescreen would be for..." he pales when he sees police officers there already, " ah shit..." he quickly lets rapidash out, " smokescreen!" The flaming horse fills the room with thick black smoke, and Sato tosses Aki onto her back before vaulting on himself, clinging to her as she charges out the door.
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Everyone in the room go into a panic when they suddenly cant see.
Aki yelps and clings to the pokemon as they make their escape
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Satoshi lets the pokemon take the initiative, since she could sense where she was going better than he could. Soon they burst from the smoke and he squeezes her sides to urge her to speed out of the town. They hadn;t settled into a pokemon center thankfully so there was no reason to stay, and he intended to get as far away while they could as possible. He guides her off the road after about 2 miles and into the woods, knowing the roads would be one of the first places checked. " you doing alright back there? we need to get into the air, they'll be able to track us like this."
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Aki shudders, still clinging to rapidash, "i- im fine!" He opens his eyes and frowns, "are you okay?"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, im good..." he races with the horse-like pokemon for awhile longer before stopping her in a slight clearing, sliding off and helping aki down before returning the pokemon, " we gotta get in the air, and im sorry but your pidgeot is too slow. we need to move fast, and flygon is our best bet." he lets the pokemon out and climbs on before holding out a hand to help Aki up.
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Aki nervously looks at flygon before taking satoshi's hand and getting on, "okay. Im on."
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Satoshi makes sure they're both settled before leaning forward, " lets go! get us out of here." Flygon screeches softly and jumps into the air, flying swiftly just over the trees, wings beating furiously as he goes as fast as he can with two riders.
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Aki yelps softly before instinctively wrapping his arms around satoshi's waist so he doesnt fly off
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Satoshi keeps the pokemon moving fast, flying hard until Flygon calls out exhaustedly, visibly drooping. He guides the pokemon down into a thickly covered area, " you did so good buddy, im sorry i had to push you so hard. you're the best, really." he gets off and hugs the pokemons head to him before returning him, " you've earned a good long rest." he sighs softly as he puts the pokeball away, " well, looks like we're camping here for the night. we flew past the nearest town and we're in a really remote area, hopefully this thick cover will hide us for the night. no fire though, just in case." he pulls out some travel rations, handing over dried fruit, nuts and jerky to Aki before stuffing some jerky into his own mouth, chewing as he unrolls their sleeping bags, zipping them together to make them doublewide. " it's gonna get chilly out here, and with no fire we'll be best off sharing body heat. sorry, it'll be a bit awkward i know."
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Aki watches and blushes slightly before sighing, "dont apologize. Its my fault we have to camp like this tonight." He sits down and brings his knees up to his chest, "i'm the one whose sorry."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " i mean, you're not entirely wrong, but it is what it is." he finishes setting up their beds and munches his remaining meal. " i wanted to know what was going on as well, i could have refused. so we both made this bed, and we will both sleep in it, as it were." he chuckles softly at his joke and lets ariados out, who sees Aki and chatters happily before Satoshi gives her a stern look, " you can cuddle with him after, but i need you to set up a wide perimeter of webs. can you do that for me?" She nods and scurries off, busily weaving a complex set of triplines around the camp that were all but invisible, and leads them back to the sleeping bag where she'd be able to keep a claw on the strands and be able to instantly tell if anyone broke one.
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Aki pulls out his phone, looking at the pictures he took, "we also... need to stop silph from making those treats... somehow."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " why's that? they said they only had berries and such in them, nothing unnatural. not that i really think they'd hesitate to lie but still."
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Aki hands his phone to satoshi, a picture of a report he took, " the stuff we found in the crates? They're adding that to the treats and its toxic. Not enough to kill, but would serious harm a pokemon over time. No one could stop them if all other pokemon became weaker than theirs."
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Satoshi pales, " well, glad they didn;t try and get me to let my pokemon sample some. that's awful."
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Aki nods, "its sad because they use high quality berries but im sure thats just so the pokemon want them constantly."
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Satoshi nods slowly, " well, im up for some chaos to get rid of it. though since you have those photos, maybe we can make up some fliers with the proof and start spreading them across the continent."
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Aki nods, "we could certainly try, and thats the safest option."
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Satoshi nods, " that's what i figured, and if we don;t get results before they start advertising it's release for sale, then we'll consider more drastic measures. lets hope it doesn't get to that though."
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Aki nods and sighs, "alright. As for the uh... um... other two i guess. They have been moved to some facility in the mountains. I didnt read it closely since it wasnt really a good time to read it which it why i took pictures."
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Satoshi nods, " fair. did... you want to try and find them?"
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Aki frowns and sighs, "i don't know. On one hand that was the original plan. Find them and get some answers but... maybe i already know what they are.... i don't think i could honestly handle hearing what they have to say anyway. "
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Satoshi nods, " i understand. well it's entirely up to you. and you don;t have to decide now. we can focus on the task at hand."
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Aki sighs, "the task at hand huh? Like surviving the night thanks to my idiocy? Sounds fair."
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Satoshi snorts, " that's being a little overdramatic but yes. anyway even should they find us, i have a few tricks up my sleeves to deal with it."
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Aki shrugs, "its not entirely wrong though."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " no, but it's also not a particularly productive line of thought. lets worry about what we need to do, not what's already done."
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Aki sighs and goes over to the sleeping bag
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Satoshi sighs softly and follows, settling in on his side of the arrangement. Ariados soon returns, checking that all the triplines have a trigger web ending right next to the sleeping bags before snuggling up to Aki and reaching out to place a claw onto the webs.
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Aki gets on his side and tries to keep himself as far away from satoshi as he can, figuring it was the most respectful thing he can do
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Satoshi turns away as well, figuring this was the best way for the two of them. the sleeping bag would help keep their body heat in, so even if they were apart they'd both be warm. Ariados nuzzles Aki, happy to cuddle with her friend.
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Aki gives ariados a few pets before falling asleep, trying to snuggle as much of himself into the sleeping bags as possible
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Ariados sleeps lightly, aware of their surroundings. Satoshi soon also falls asleep, the warmth from both of their body heat keeping the sleeping bags cozy. When morning brings the sun Satoshi yawns, grumbling as he sits up, looking at the frost on the ground around them, " good thing we shared...would have been too cold to sleep."
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Aki is already up, sitting a few feet away and looking at his phone
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Satoshi gets up and packs away their sleeping bags, " hey, you doing okay?" Ariados is next to Aki on the ground, just chilling.
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Aki looks over and shrugs, "yeah im fine. Just... still debating i guess. I think for now... i know they're alive amd for now thats good enough. You've helped me figure that out. We should find that asshole next since you wanted to kick his ass."
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Satoshi blinks and chuckles, " alright. well we'll find someplace to make up fliers, and then we can start trying to track him down. after all, we can distribute the fliers while we search, kill two birds with one stone."
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Aki nods and puts his phone away before getting up
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Satoshi pulls out his pokedex and pulls up a map, " so we're here... personally i'd like to get a few more towns away from silph co just in case, then we can start working on the fliers. i hope there's not a warrant out for our arrest..."
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Aki nods, "whatever you want to do i'll go along with it. I got us into this mess."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " that's all fine and dandy, but your input is important too. you know the police better than i apparently, do you think they'd go that far for what we did? or perhaps is it possible to clear our names somehow?"
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Aki swallows and looks at satoshi, "there's a station not far from here that is pretty high up and i know them pretty well. If we show them the information we have they may give us some help. "
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Satoshi nods, " that is useful information. we'll go there today. where is it?" he goes over and gestures at the map, " can we go by land? i can;t use flygon, he pushed himself hard enough yesterday. i have skarmory but she can;t take two passengers for long. There's... one other, but she's temperamental at best."
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Aki points a bit to the west, "by land it'll take an hour or so to get there. Kyoto station. They know me and it's probably the safest spot for us. "
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Satoshi nods, " that'll be easy enough. think your arcanine can manage it? otherwise i have Rapidash of course and Luxray, i know you and he bonded."
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"Arcanine is fine. He can handle a lot."
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Satoshi nods and lets rapidash out, returning ariados and climbing onto the horses back, " well lets get moving, personally i'd like to get a real meal in town instead of dried snacks."
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Aki nods and lets arcanine out and hops on him, "ready to go. "
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Satoshi strokes Rapidash's neck before urging her on, the pokemon leaping into a run and heading towards the station.
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Arcanine barks happily and chases after the horse
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rapidash tilts her head so she can give Satoshi a dirty look, she had to run with this slobbery creature again? ugh. she makes sure to keep out of reach, remembering how he's tried to lick her before.
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Arcanine happily raced the horse, running quickly to catch up to her
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Rapidash keeps out of reach, running easily until they nearly reach the station. Satoshi slows her down about half a mile out and hops off, " we probably shouldn;t go blazing in. if we do have warrants out, we don;t want them freaking out."
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Aki stops arcanine and puts him away so he won't slobber on rapidash before looking at satoshi and nods, "it should be fine. I know these guys pretty well. "
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Satoshi nods and puts Rapidash away, " alright. lets hope you're correct." he heads for the station, obviously tense.
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Aki walks ahead and opens the doors, looking around before smiling at the familiar faces, "kenneth! Stacy! How's it going?"
He goes up to a few officers and grins
Kenneth sees aki and smiles, patting him on the shoulder, "hey shorty! We saw you got into quite a bit of trouble. Figured you'd be swinging by."
Stacy nods and sighs, "its been all over the news. Honestly we knew you were trouble. But seriously, hog tying the ceo of silph? You're nuts. There better be a good reason for this."
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Satoshi steps into the building behind him, " we did have an extremely good reason. and we have proof of it."
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Kenneth and Sally look over at Satoshi
Ken nods, "Aki usually does. I assume you're the other one in the reports?"
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Satoshi nods, " i am." He looks at Aki, " care to show them before we get arrested? i'd really rather not have a record as a criminal..."
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Ken laughs and pats Satoshi's shoulder, "Relax! You aint gettin' arrested! Not here at least! A lecture about your safety? Mmmaybe not either. That might be reserved for Aki. I have a hunch what happened was thanks to him."
Aki flushes red and he grumbles, "Shut it old man. You dont need to injure me so much." He pulls out his phone and hands it to them, "The pictures are straight from Silph's own computer. You can check the time stamp since it'll match up to the report's records."
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Satoshi chuckles nervously, " well, we were there for information, however the method he used was... more than what i had in mind." he gets serious as Aki hands over his phone, " i swear that everything there is just what we found on the computers. we're only looking out for the pokemon."
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Sally and ken look at the photos and frowns
Ken sighs and nervously glances at the aki and satoshi, "yeah this doesnt look good... ah shit sally what are we gonna tell the boss."
Sally blinks and snorts, "you askin' me? Aint that a first. Ah well... is it any trouble to as you two to stick around for a while to figure this out? We can put you up in a hotel for a few days thats nearby while we figure out what there is that we can do."
Aki frowns, "you... want us to stay?"
Ken huffs, "normally i wouldnt give a god damn what you did however its an unknown if silph have their own dogs to sick ya with if they dont hear back from the police. At least this way if something happens this whole station will hear about it first."
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Satoshi nods slowly, " that... is a wise move. i have strong pokemon myself, but im only one trainer. we'll stay." he sighs, " well, at least we'll be able to get some decent breakfast." he snorts.
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Ken snorts, "now dont tell me aki's been having you do all his fightin' for him. He's always-"
Aki groans and rolls his eyes, "We actually havent been doing any fighting K. "
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Satoshi chuckles softly, " we haven;t had to fight really. though i would if i had to."
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Ken nods and goes up to the receptionist, "akli, make a reservation to the dipdon hotel. Put it under the bridgeton police department and set up that direct billing. Please and thank you."
Akli nods and grabs the phone, setting up the hotel stay.
Sally looks at aki, "mind if i borrow your phone? I'll need to send copies of what you found to our harddrive."
Aki sighs and nods, "yeah go for it. Not like i use it for anything else."
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Satoshi nods, " plus it will help rule out questions of tampering. we only stopped to sleep and have not been near any cities since last night that might have a computer we can use to mess with the information. i know obviously it would have been netter to go directly here with it, but we didn;t think of that..."
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Ken goes back over to them and puts his hands on his waist, "alright guys, let's get you over to the hotel to get you checked in, you can get settled while i talk to the chief on what we can do. Once we have a good idea as to what we can do i'll give your hotel room a call and you guys can come back over alright? "
Aki frowns, "we cant hang around here? "
Sally shakes her head as she puts aki's phone in an evidence bag, "unfortunately other officers from different departments could waltz through the front door so it wouldnt be safe."
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Satoshi nods, " alright, sounds reasonable." he heads for the door, gesturing to Aki, " come on, the sooner we get settled in the sooner we get out of a place where we might run into police that aren;t your friends."
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Aki sighs and follows satoshi.
Ken walks with them, heading in the direction of the hotel
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Satoshi follows after the officer, keeping his head down and hoping to avoid trouble.
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Ken gets to a tall, fancy hotel and walks inside. He sees a young girl at the counter and smiles, heading up to her, "hey Dayna, get my reservation?"
Dayne nods and starts typing on the conputer, "of course! Im guessing we dont know the departure date currently?"
"You got it. Hopefully not for too long but i really couldnt say."
Dayna nods and looks at aki and satoshi, "names?"
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Satoshi nods, " Satoshi Tanaka and Akihiko Sato." he glances at the police officer, figuring he was supposed to give their actual names.
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Kenneth sighs, "well dayna you have our direct bill account so i'll leave the rest to the boys." He waves at satoshi and akihiko, "we'll keep you two updated."
Aki nods, "i know you will. Thank you. Again. I appreciate it..."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah thanks." he turns back to the receptionist and gets their room keys, heading to their room, " so i vote for ordering food and having it sent here."
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Aki follows satoshi and nods, "agreed. And a hot shower. With any luck we got the suite. I had it last time and it's amazing!"
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " oh? and what were you here for that you got to stay in a hotel?"
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Aki hums softly, "it was when espeon was killed. It happened pretty close by so it was kenneth and the others who helped me. I was pretty useless for a while so i got to stay here until then."
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Satoshi nods, " ah... im sorry, i didn't mean to bring up bad memories."
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Aki shrugs, "it's fine. It happened. Nothing i can do about it. " they get up to their room, "307."
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Satoshi nods and opens the door, heading in and going for the folder that will have menus of nearby restaurants, " lets get food ordered first, since it'll take a bit."
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Aki nods and heads inside, smiling when he sees the fancy room, "ahhhh it is a suite~ two king beds, a separate seating area, ooh i bet it has a shower stall and a separate jet tub!"
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Satoshi chuckles softly, " way fancier than we needed, but im not going to complain. so, pizza sound alright?"
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Aki nods, "pizza sounds great. No pineapple though."
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He chuckles, " fair." he dials and orders a large, figuring they might be there awhile and leftovers were good. he hangs up, " should be here in about half an hour. guess not many people order pizza this early." he sits down, " well, now what?"
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Aki stretches, "i wanna take a bath. That sounds sooo relaxing! "
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Satoshi nods " go ahead, enjoy." he grabs a remote and turns on the tv, trying to find something to watch.
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Aki smiles and goes over to the bathroom and flicks on the light, "the tub has a privacy wall so if you end up needing to pee you wont have to feel bad about coming in."
He goes over to the tub and starts filling it, "this tub is so big."
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Satoshi chuckles, " alright. well i think i can hold it as long as you're not in there more than a few hours. and considering the pizza will be here in a half hour, i doubt you'll be in there longer than that."
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Aki snorts, making sure satoshi can hear him from the bathroom, "waiter~ I desire a glass of wine while i bathe and to be hand fed a slice of delivery pizza, post haste!"
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Satoshi snorts, " you aint payin me enough to wait on you like that."
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Aki laughs, "Considering you wont accept my form of payment I guess thats fair."
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Satoshi blushes at the mention of that, " well i'd only want that if you really wanted to do it because you liked me, and not because you felt like you owed me it or were just horny. and i don't think you're into anything serious."
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Akihiko shrugs, "no point in anything longterm. Everyone leaves eventually. No matter what i go through the one night stands are a lot easier to deal with than a fallout from an actual relationship."
He turns the water off and strips down. He grabs some of the complimentary items left for the jetted tub, smiling at the pleasant rose scented items
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Satoshi sighs, " well nothing lasts forever certainly, but i enjoyed the time i had when i thought that i was wanted because i was just me."
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Aki steps into the tub and sighs blissfully, "and you certainly seem like an amazing guy. All the reason more not to get into a relationship with you. I dont think id be able to handle us breaking up."
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Satoshi sighs, " fair. i suppose once this is all dealt with we'll both head our own ways. you'll go do whatever it is you do, and i'll head home to the ranch."
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Aki is quiet for a minute, frowning, "i... i guess. I mean...i don't know? What i'll do at least. This whole time has spent looking for my parents so i guess since thats kinda done. " aki trails off as he looks up towards the ceiling. What was he going to do? He no longer felt any ambitions to participate in pokemon battles despite how much it would make his pokemon happy. Especially lucario. He felt bad for his pokemon. He was always digging into his backpack, trying to take a look at the shiny badges they worked hard to get, thinking about how much fun it was to do with espeon and lopunny. Lapras, arcanine and pidge helped too.
Aki never did anything exciting like that in so long and he couldn't see himself picking it up again anytime soon.
".... yeah. Dont know what i'll do. "
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Satoshi hums as he thinks about it, " well, we can always use help around the ranch. of course we'd have to clear it by my parents since they're the ones that run the place, but we can always use more help and i see no reason why you wouldn;t be welcome to stay with us. at least until you figure out what you do what to do."
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Aki blinks and gives a soft smile, "yeah that... wouldnt be so bad. If they say yes of course. Lucario at the very least is a hard worker. "
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Satoshi nods, " and most of your pokemon would be welcome to stay outside on the ranch if they wish. even arcanine, the Tauros would likely not mind him. i don;t think we have much to worry about them accepting you, there's always work to be done."
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Aki nods, "we'll see what happens... a lot could change."
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Satoshi nods, " yes. but i think it's a good option to have."
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Aki hums as he leans back, soaking in the hot, rose scented water, "yeah... i guess."
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A knock sounds at the door and Satoshi gets their pizza, paying the man. " chow's here." he grabs a few slices and puts them on a plate, biting into one.
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Aki blinks and sits up, pouting, "i dont wanna get out of the tub~ can you bring me a slice? Please ~~~? "
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Satoshi sighs and places a slice on a plate before bringing it to the bathroom, setting it on the edge of the tub by reaching around the privacy wall. He therefore keeps from seeing Aki nude, " there you lazy creature."
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Aki chuckles and takes the plate, "thank you~ im hungry but i didnt want to waste perfectly good hot water~"
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Satoshi chuckles, " well you could always have waited until after we ate for the bath, but oh well." he goes back and watches tv, enjoying his meal.
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Aki happily munches on pizza as he takes his bath, "i wanna smell like roses~"
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " if you say so." he finishes his meal and curls up in the bed, enjoying a real bed after last night.
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After a bit more time in the tub he gets out and gets dressed before going to his bed
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Satoshi is dozing, head to the side as he breaths evenly in sleep.
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Aki looks over at satoshi and blushes a bit. The very idea of having a romantic relationship with someone who wouldnt just abandon him would be nice. And he certainly wouldnt mind someone as good looking as satoshi. But he knew it wouldnt work. Satoshi is just with him to help him. Then he'll leave. So getting attached to him wouldnt be a good idea. Such a shame that satoshi cant just fuck him.
He sits up and sighs before going over to satoshi and gently tapping his shoulder, "hey."
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Satoshi wakes with a start, " huh? oh Aki, guess i dozed off. what's up?" he sits up, quickly rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
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Aki chuckles softly, "sorry for waking ya. Bathroom is free if you wanted to get the outdoors off of you from last night. Im sure your back would feel better."
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Satoshi chuckles, " no worries, i shouldn;t sleep this time of day anyway." he gets up, " yeah, a little bit of a soak sounds good." he heads into the bathroom and relieves himself as he fills the tub, stripping and sinking into the hot water for a bit of relaxation.
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Aki goes over to the pizza and takes a bite of another slice, his eyes trailing over to his backpack
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Satoshi sighs softly, it'd been way too long since he'd had a soak. and it's not like they had anything better to do while they waited, going out wasn;t a good idea in case they ran into any law enforcement not informed of the information they brought. once his skin starts to wrinkle though he gets up, drying himself off and getting dressed before going back out, " that was very relaxing, their tubs are huge here."
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Aki sits on his bed, smiling, "yeah, this place is awesome. And the people are friendly. "
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Satoshi smiles, " im glad, though we probably should lie low until things are sorted. i think it'd be best if we didn;t even leave the room, as boring as that sounds."
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Aki frowns and groans, "seriously? Thats so boring though!"
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Satoshi nods, " just for now. think if something happened where the police came in, and they saw us? we'd be arrested."
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Aki sighs, "yeah... yeah i know. Certainly wouldnt want that. Could i leave the room but stay in the hotel though? Like, at least walk around the halls. I dont like the idea of being cooped up. Makes me feel like the room is getting smaller..."
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Satoshi bites his lip, " you could, but i wouldn;t advise it. as i said, if say another guest calls on a disturbance or such, and they happen to see us, well that's it."
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Aki begins to feel uncomfortable at the thought of being in stuck in the room and it only makes him want to leave even more, "I see. I dont... like that."
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Satoshi sighs, " i know, but it's just for awhile."
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He brings his knees up to his chest and pouts. Looking around the room before getting up and looking out the window
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Satoshi sighs, " im sorry. but hopefully they'll get back to us today or tomorrow with some information. and hopefully at that point we'll be given leave to be a bit more free since they'll be investigating the matter instead of looking for us culprits."
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Aki leans against the glass of the window and sighs, "i get it, i get it. I'll be a good boy..."
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Satoshi lets Ariados out who scurries over to Aki, " screeeee?" she nuzzles his leg. " sorry. maybe we can find a movie to watch."
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Aki shrugs, "i guess. Havent seen a movie in a while." He bends down and gives ariados a few good pets
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Ariados tugs on his pants to try and get him to come away from the window to relax. Sato starts scrolling through the movies on demand, " how about...this one?" he stops on a popular dragon movie, " this one is really popular right now. it's got these dragony things that aren;t pokemon. or at least, if they are, they don;t act like pokemon, and the trainers haven;t figured out how to put them into pokeballs."
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Aki picks up ariados and snorts, "dragons that aren't pokemon? Jeez how cartoonish. Alright, alright why not." He goes over to his bed and sits so he can see the tv
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Satoshi chuckles, " i mean how unrealistic can you get? there's humans, and there's pokemon. random other creatures is just odd."
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Aki eighs and sets the spider onto the bed and starts petting her
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Ariados chatters happily and cuddles up to him on the bed, watching the screen.
Satoshi gets comfortable propped on pillows to watch as well.
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Aki keeps petting her absentmindedly as he watches the movie
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She settles in for a nap. Satoshi scoffs, " they're killing them? seriously that's so messed up. im glad at least one of them is figuring it out. maybe they are pokemon, just...not any we know of obviously."
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Aki shakes his head, "probably something a guy wished was real."
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Satoshi blinks, " i guess. i mean i guess they're kinda unique, but we have so many awesome pokemon, i can't imagine making some up because you're not happy with what we have."
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Aki shrugs, "you'll never know. After all, someone thought that pokehuman hybrids needed to be a thing..."
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Satoshi makes a face, " well obviously the company that encouraged that is more than a little messed up."
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Aki sighs, "yeah. Yeah it is. " he goes back to petting ariados
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Ariados is happily sleeping cuddled next to Aki.
Satoshi hums when the movie ends, " geez that big one was huge. so i guess the dragons are like, pets or something now? kinda like pokemon that are always out. if they were real i wouldn;t mind getting one or two of the different ones, they seemed pretty strong."
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Aki snorts and hugs ariados, "Aint no pokemon like that around. thankfully."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah that giant one is a little overkill. i don;t know of any pokemon who could beat that."
Ariados chatters sleepily, legs flailing a bit.
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aki laughs softly and grins, "Might as well just have rayquaza at that point."
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Satoshi pales a bit, " one of the legendaries...yeah no kidding. can you imagine the kind of trainer it would take to get a legendary pokemon to accept you as it's trainer? man..."
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Aki shakes his head, "haven't met one yet and i probably never will. "
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Satoshi nods, " i met the current champion briefly while i was competing. He's an impressive man, but im not sure even he could manage a legendary pokemon."
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Aki shudders a bit, "can't believe you met the current champion."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well, maybe 'met' is a bit of a stretch. stood in the same room while he gave an inspirational speech and internally died with all the other fighters is more like it."
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Aki chuckles, "thats still closer than what i'll ever get."
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Satoshi chuckles, " fair. anyway that was a long time ago, there's a different champion now. but still, it was cool, and being young i was extremely impressed."
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Aki snuggles into his blanket, being mindful of ariados as he sighs, "these beds feel amazing."
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Satoshi chuckles, " yeah, certainly a far sight better than the ones at the pokemon centers."
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Aki snorts, "certainly better than the ground too."
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Satoshi nods, " definitely better than the ground for sure. lot warmer too."
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Aki rubs his face into one of the pillows and chuckles, "pillows in a suite are so much nicer than regular hotel pillows."
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Satoshi chuckles and rolls his eyes, " yeah this is fancy shit. the only time i've seen stuff this nice was during the last rounds before i lost, of course the further in the rankings you got, the nicer the rooms they gave you."
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Aki looks at satoshi, "yeah? What were they like? I have... a few badges but that was for fun so i never got close to something like that..."
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Sato blinks, " what, the rooms or the tournament? i mean, it was all an experience, including getting badges. it brought me and my pokemon closer as a team. but there's more than one way to bond with pokemon."
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Aki snorts softly and grins, "the rooms of course. Tournaments aren't all that special. "
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Satoshi snorts in amusement, " well, the last one i was in was pretty lavish, probably twice the size of this one, and with a ton of perks. huge beds, 24 hour room service, hot tub in the room, electronic massage chair. and that's just in the room itself. there was a bar the trainers could use, actual massage beds and people to give you professional massages, a big pool, training rooms, everything and anything to keep their champions happy and in top shape. they spent a lot keeping us happy as the matches went on longer, to keep us from burning out i guess. they must make a killing off ticket sales and such to want to put that much into the trainers to keep them fighting well. of course there were lots of amenities for the pokemon too, special rooms designed to be like their natural habits, specially prepared foods, the works. most trainers just let their pokemon have free run to unwind and relax, most of mine did too."
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Aki hums and closes his eyes to imagine, smiling, "that sounds like it would be amazing... lucky for you."
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Satoshi nods, " though it only lasted as long as you were still in the contest. once i lost i was out."
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Aki nods, "yeah but at least you got to experience something that so few people do. Im impressed and a bit envious." He chuckles and sighs, "but i suppose i do have this hotel when things dont turn out so hot for me. It isnt nearly as great but its free and the staff are amazing so i cant complain."
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Satoshi blushes and nods, " yeah, it was amazing. but hey, there's new champs every year, always chances to see that high life. i could probably get in there again if i decided to compete again, i think i'd have a pretty good chance. honestly that kind of fighting is for the youngsters in my opinion though, i had my run."
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Aki snorts and chuckles, "youngsters? Pffft you aint old enough to get to use that word yet. Besides your pokemon do all the work so really it should depend on their age rather yours."
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Satoshi snorts, " yeah, but frankly unless you have a calling to be a gym trainer or such, only really those who are on their journey have the ambition for the league. My pokemon may still be in good condition, but we haven;t done any serious fighting in some time, not to mention pokemon put forth more effort when their trainers have passion for the fight as well. me, my fighting days for the sake of fighting are over, i don;t have that drive anymore. i'll fight, but i don;t seek it out to prove my strength. this journey is a good change of pace for us, but it's not like im going on my first journey again, things are different."
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Aki blinks and sighs, "yeah i suppose you would be correct in that sense. Just don't say the word youngsters. Feels weird hearing it outta your mouth. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " compared to us they are youngsters. i started my journey at the standard 10 years old, that was 14 years ago. i know if i saw someone my age back then i would have thought of them as being old." he grins.
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Aki snorts, "24 aint that old. Although you're right. Kids that age think anything over 15 is old."
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Satoshi chuckles and nods, " yup. regardless as i said, if i hadn't already gotten my badges and such i can;t say i'd have the drive to do so now. anyway, it is what it is. Hopefully they get things sorted out soon."
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Aki nods, "i hope so too. Im not used to being in one spot for so long. " he gets up and boredly walks around the room. He really wished he could jack off. Or have sex. But it seemed impossible at the moment.
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Satoshi nods, " im just not used to being idle for so long. we usually keep pretty busy at the ranch, never enough hours in the day to get everything that needs doing done. that's just how it goes though, feels weird to be sitting in here not getting anything done or being on the move."
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Aki leans against the door and sighs, "and you're positive that i cant go roaming the halls?"
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Satoshi nods, " i mean you could, but it'd be a seriously bad idea. like i said, one person who's seen wanted posters for us or a police officer and shits gonna get tricky."
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Aki pouts, "geeze what bad luck... i'm in a expensive hotel, no doubt filled with rich men, and i cant even go out and flirt with them. "
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Satoshi blushes, " jeez, is that all you can think about? just give it a bit until the officers come tell us it's safer anyway. with how complicated it is we might still get to stay here after it cools off."
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aki sighs, "i'll.... try... i just... " he groans and rubs his forehead against the door, "It feels good."
its quiet for a moment before the hotel phone rings, catching aki off guard and he jumps a bit
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Satoshi sighs, " well, there's always the bathroom." when the phone rings he jumps, quickly grabbing it, " um, hello?"
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Ken's voice comes through over the line, "oh good! Hi satoshi, i hope you and akihiko are doing okay? Sorry for not contacting sooner. We've been working hard on making sure neither of you would have a difficult time with other officers in the future. "
Aki blinks and goes over to satoshi, "is that kenneth?"
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Satoshi blinks, " ah, no worries, i know you guys are doing your best." he looks at Aki, " yeah i think it is, can;t say im positive on voices though." he puts his attention back to the phone, " we're doing alright, mostly just bored and a little antsy but that's it."
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Kenneth nods, "Thats completely understandable. I wanted to let you both know that tomorrow morning an few officers will come to the lobby, and will escort you back to our office. We've been able to contain any leaks so please dont feel trapped in the room. The hotel as a very good breakfast so please get a good meal in before your departure."
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Satoshi gives a sigh of relief, " that's good to hear, thank you very much. we'll see you tomorrow then." he looks at Aki, " you can go wander, we're in the clear for now."
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Aki gives a wide grin, like a kid in a candy store and he quickly heads out the door.
Ken nods, "see you tomorrow." He hangs up
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Satoshi hangs up and sees Aki go, sighing softly. He decides to go to the exercise room, starting to workout to keep himself occupied.
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Aki is gone for a while, obviously enjoying himself until it gets late before heading back to the room, extremely satisfied with himself
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Satoshi was coming out of the shower, having washed off after getting sweaty working out for a long time and wasn't really even expecting Aki back that night, wearing only a towel.
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Aki enters the room, "yooooo i'm back! Say, did you know-" he stops dead in his tracks when he sees satoshi. He pauses briefly before giving a loud whistle, "shit it's a shame im not your type cuz you are definitely mine. "
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Satoshi blushes brightly, " it's not that you're not my type, it's that we seek different things. ah, i wasn't excepting you back though, sorry." he quickly grabs clothes and goes into the bathroom, quickly getting dressed.
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Aki chuckles, "no need to apologize. I had dinner and now i'm given a show. Pretty good night for me~"
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Sato comes back out and blushes some more, " that's... not at all disturbing. anyway... i already had actual dinner, did you need anything? real food that is."
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Aki blinks and shakes his head, "nah. I got actual dinner from the guy. Kinda needy though. Ceo with too much money and not enough time on his hands."
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Satoshi nods, " fair enough i suppose..." he sits on his bed and turns the tv on, the thought of Aki's actions unsettling him slightly.
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Aki plops down on to his bed and stretches, yawning as he lays down, "yeah im good~ i'm not dumb enough to pass up a potential meal."
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Satoshi nods, " alright..." he settles in, " well at least tomorrow things ought to be settled..."
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Aki nods, "i knew i could count on ken. He's a great guy for someone being as old as he is."
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Satoshi looks over and raises an eyebrow, " i mean i know he's up there, but he's not decrepit yet."
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Aki snorts, "he's old enough to me. He turned down my advances a couple of years back so he's old to me. No wedding band on his finger either."
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Satoshi blushes brightly, " you seriously hit on him?!"
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Aki nods, "oh of course. He said he wasnt interested and that i was just going through some things so he wouldnt think of it again as long as i didnt try anything again." He frowns and shrugs, "probably straight. We havent brought it up since."
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Satoshi sighs, " i think it's more he didn;t want to take advantage of a kid whos clearly going through some issues... which i totally get."
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Aki blows a raspberry and waves his hand dismissively, "straight. Im calling it right now.."
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " just because someone doesn't sleep with you doesn't mean they're straight. not that it's bad if he isn't, i just think there's more to it."
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Aki shrugs. He gets up and goes over to the bathroom, quickly stripping down to his boxers and grabbing his toothbrush and paste so he can brush his teeth, "if you say so."
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Satoshi sighs and lays his head down, this kid had some issues, but he didn;t have a clue how to deal with it. maybe he could get him to talk with someone...but that would have to wait until after this current issue was dealt with, they'd see in the morning.
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Aki finishes getting cleaned up, his neck covered in hickies however he doesnt seem to notice as he gets into bed.
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Satoshi does his best to ignore the large amount of marks on the other, just closing his eyes to go to sleep.
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Aki curls up under his sheets and hums happily before falling asleep
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Satoshi wakes early, getting up and getting ready, brushing his teeth before getting dressed and heading down to the breakfast they put out, helping himself to a hearty meal.
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Aki is still in his bed, snoring loudly since lucario is still in his pokeball and not out to wake aki's ass up
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satoshi finishes breakfast and goes back to their room, seeing Aki still dead to the world. He sighs and opens the curtains to let the full glory of the sun wake the other up.
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Aki's face scrunches up when the lights hit him and he groans before rolling over and tucking his head under his blanket
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Satoshi goes over and yanks the blankets off, " rise and shine, our escort won;t be too long."
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Aki yelps and quickly sits up, "Aw man ripping the blanket off? How cruel can you be?" He's obviously over exaggerating as he gets out of bed, "Im gonna miss this bed."
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " i'd rather us be ready when they come to get us, instead of you still being in bed. if you hurry, you might be able to get some breakfast."
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Aki groans, "i like to be hurt but not like this." He chuckles softly before getting dressed and packing up his things, "i'll meet ya in the lobby, okay?"
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Satoshi blushes lightly again, " yeah sure, i'll see you there." he starts packing his own bag.
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Aki whistles as leaves the room, heading to the breakfast room to grab a quick bite
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Satoshi sighs and packs up his stuff before heading down with his bags, ready to meet up with the police officers when they come.
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After about 10 minutes two officers step into the lobby, one going over to the front desk clerk and talking with them
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Satoshi sees them and walks over, setting his bags down, " good morning."
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The officer not talking to the front desk smiles politely at satoshi, "good morning. Apologies for the wait. You can call me Bruce. My partner over there is Devin. I hope you managed to get some rest?"
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Satoshi nods, " don;t you worry, i understand it wasn;t exactly an easy situation to deal with. yes im well rested. Aki is in the breakfast area i think."
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Bruce nods, "there have been a few officers who have been working round the clock for this. Mainly Kenneth but thats to be expected."
Devin walks over and sighs, "did you say akihiko is in the breakfast area? I know where that is. I'll go get him." He turns and leaves
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Satoshi frowns, " you needn't have done that, we would have been alright waiting longer. i hope everyone has taken care of themselves as well..."
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Bruce shakes his head, "boss would have done it in a day even if he had a month to finish it. And dont worry, he's made sure everyone got rest."
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Satoshi sighs, " very well." he glances back towards where the other vanished, " the breakfast area isn;t that far, i wonder what's taking them?"
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Bruce chuckles, "devin and aki tend to argue a lot so im sure they-"
On cue, aki comes strolling out, hands in his pockets looking annoyed, "YEAH YEAH SURE. BE THE TOUGH GUY."
Devin huffs and follows after aki, "dont shout in the lobby you twink. You knew we were coming."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " wow, okay then. Aki, you got your bags?"
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Aki nods, "just my back pack. S'not like i got anything else. "
Devin looks at Bruce, "let's get back to Kenneth." He heads out.
Bruce gives satoshi an apologetic smile, "let's get going so that you guys can get back to your lives. "
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Satoshi nods, " im following you guys." he shoulders his bag and follows after Devin.
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Aki and bruce follow after devin, heading the short walk back to the police station.
Ken is at his computer, finishing up the last minute loose ends, looking exhausted
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Satoshi keeps pace, frowning when he sees the man at the computer looking totally wiped. He sighs and takes a seat to await the report.
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Bruce and devin pull two chairs out, both taking a seat.
Aki greetings when he sees Ken, "hey kenny, what's the good word? "
Ken rubs his eyeballs, "don't call me that. Makes me sound way too young for how old i feel." He gets up and goes to the printer nearby, grabbing some papers, "you two were never at the silph company. You got that?"
Aki blinks in confusion, "no, we were."
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Satoshi looks at Aki, " that was a hint, we're weren't there, and therefore have no ties to the issue."
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Aki frowns, "oh.... um well... there was some guards there that probably knew i-"
Ken shakes his head, "we took care of that. Dont worry. You two were never there. We sent your information, keeping you both unknown, to some journalists and they will be taking the credit. Two of their employees were there, snuck in, found the evidence and will be reporting it to the police in a few days. Dont step foot in that building or in that area ever again."
Aki looks down and nods, "understood."
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Satoshi nods, " well good thing i have no business there. I think i can happily stay out of that town for a few years at least."
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ken nods, "That would be ideal." he pulls out aki's phone and hands it back to him, "Here kid. I got the information you mentioned off your phone and then deleted the photo's so you can have this back."
Aki nods and takes his phone, "Thanks old man."
Ken rolls his eyes and looks at Satoshi, "You two are free to do as you please. If you stick around this trouble maker can i ask that you tell this idiot to call me every so often? I worry about him sometimes."
Aki pouts, "Ya know, despite you saying you're not interested you sure do act like you are."
Ken shakes his head, "See what I mean?"
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Satoshi blinks, " well im not certain how long we'll stay in contact after all this is said and done, but we'll see." he blushes on their behalf over the exchange, " Aki! seriously people are allowed to be concerned about you without it meaning something sexual."
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Aki snorts, "sounds fake but okay. "
Ken rolls his eyes and sighs, "alright, before this guy gets any more weird ideas you two are free to leave. Get him outta here." He looks at satoshi, looking slightly uncomfortable.
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " so what does that make me then? seriously you're obnoxious. and gladly." he gently shooes Aki out of the building, " where to next?"
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aki makes small complaining sounds when he's shooed out, "ahh.. not really thinking about that... i guess.... do you think it'd be... be a good idea to find the two that raised me? or should i just be thankful that im here and leave it at that? we could try to find that pokemon killing bastard. i know thats what you still need to do."
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Satoshi sighs and runs a hand through his hair, " it's up to you really. i've been trying to keep up with police reports and i think i have a rough idea where he might be. though with pokemon people can travel so quickly that he could be somewhere else by now. if you need time to think about if you want to find the people who raised you or not i get it, it's not an easy choice. you'll probably feel unsatisfied either way. If you don't, you'll always wonder, and if you do, it may disappoint you. but in my opinion, i think you'll find more closure by seeing them. i could be wrong though."
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Aki rubs his arm before sighing and nodding, "You're right.... and i do know where they are now thanks to the report from the lab."
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Satoshi nods, " you don;t have to decide right away. anyway, now that we're not being chased and we're in town, we should get supplies before we make our next move."
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Aki nods and stretches, "Yeah I need some stuff so thats a good idea. Lets head to the nearest town."
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Satoshi chuckles, " i know it's a good idea." he checks his map and starts walking towards the nearest town, " it's not far, we shouldn't need our pokemon to get there."
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Aki blinks and nods, following behind satoshi boredly before pulling out his phone and playing some simple games on it, "like, 10 minutes? Or 5 even?"
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Satoshi chuckles, " maybe a bit more than that on foot, but it's not far. depends on if i have to pick you up after you trip since you're not paying attention to where you're putting your feet." he scans the side of the road and blinks as he sees a fruit tree, " and if we were going on pokemon, we likely would have missed this." he veers off the road and heads to the tree, " these are pretty sour, but the pokemon will enjoy them at least." he hauls himself up into the tree and starts picking the ripe fruit.
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Aki blinks and looks over at the tree and the fruit. He puts his phone away and walks over to the tree, "I'd question you on the whole sour thing but clearly we dont have the same taste buds."
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Satoshi laughs softly, " too sour for me, but you have at it." he carefully wraps each fruit and puts it into his bag, getting as many as he can fit into the bag for the pokemon later. He ten tosses a few down to Aki, " here you go."
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Aki easily catches the fruit, eagerly taking a big bite out of one, "Mmmm~ Sucks that its sour for you~"
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Satoshi chuckles, " yeah, it's not really even edible it's so sour. Glad you can enjoy it though." he climbs down and whistles as he keeps walking, " everyone will be excited to dig into these tonight."
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Aki smiles as he keeps munching on the fruit, "such a shame~ like, imagine the texture of a watermelon but with the flavor of a raspberry! Its really interesting actually."
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He laughs, " makes me almost want to try it again to see, but i know for a fact that if i did my mouth would hurt from it being so sour. so strange how differently human and pokemon taste buds work."
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Aki nods, "if i...if im being completely honest with you. A part of me wouldnt mind having answers as to why that is. Like, do i have a combination of human and pokemon taste buds? If i do shouldnt my human taste buds get affected and think this is sour? If i only had pokemon taste buds then how do i know what a raspberry even tastes like? I wish i had some answers but to get them means I'd have to go to that base and find those scientists and thats way too dangerous. I mean, they wouldnt just tell me im sure..."
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Ren shrugs, " im going to say you have pokemon taste buds. it seems like pokemon taste humans foods pretty normally, from what i've seen. i guess there must just be some special enzymes in the pokemon fruits that interact badly with human taste buds, therefore making them taste weird. i dunno, i could be off my rocker."
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Aki snorts, "I wouldnt say off your rocker. You're just trying to help me. I appreciate it though so thanks."
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He chuckles, " glad you see it that way. but yeah, im just going to say it's probably something the fruit evolved to be a symbiotic thing with pokemon for seed dispersion."
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Akihiko nods, "Yeah i could definitely see that as well." he finishes eating his second piece of fruit before putting the rest in his side pocket of his backpack
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Satoshi keeps scanning near the trail for more bushes as they walk but doesn't find any that are ripe before they reach town. " well it's still pretty early, do we want to stock up and then try and make it to our next destination? or maybe hang around here a few days while we figure out what we want to do next?"
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Akihiko hums and rubs the bridge of his nose, "do you know where your destination is? You wanted to find that bastard I know..."
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Satoshi nods, " roughly. there's recent reports of attacks matching his style and description a few days travel away towards the west."
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Aki can feel his skin crawl and he shudders, "to think after all these years that bastard is still that active and he hasn't been caught by an officer..."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah it's hard to believe... part of it is he doesn't usually hang around towns, so anyone who he attacks has a long walk without pokemon to help them. by time someone checks the area he's long gone."
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Aki snorts, "aint gotta tell me that... i'm probably the only one to get away with most of their pokemon. "
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Satoshi nods slowly, " the reports are bad... anyway there's either him, or going after those who raised you. either option is good with me."
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Aki sighs and shakes his head, "finding the guy sounds a lot easier right now. And faster. "
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Satoshi nods, " fair. if you want to stay here while i go deal with this, you're welcome to. i know you don;t really want to be anywhere near the dude."
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Aki shakes his head, "i'll tag along for a little while longer. I wont get caught up in anything with him but i won't straight up leave. "
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" Fair enough. i'll try to keep you out of the fray. i guess we better get to it then, get supplied up and then we'll head out." he glances around to take in the area, " meet up at that park around noon? unless we want to do our shopping together."
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Aki smirks and pulls his phone back out, "no need to tag along for shopping. I'll see you at noon."
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Satoshi chuckles and nods, " have fun." he heads to the stores he needs and gets his own supplies, going back to the aforementioned park with lunch and sitting on a bench, munching his meal to wait for Aki.
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Aki gets what he needs and after a while he grabs some lunch and munches on it while he heads to the park
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Satoshi is glancing around while he eats and notices Aki, waving to him while chewing his food.
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Aki sees satoshi and grins as he walks over, "Hey! Got everything you need?"
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Satoshi holds up a finger and finishes chewing his mouthful and swallowing before he answers, " yeah im all stocked up. just wanna finish this then im set to go."
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Aki grins and quickly scarfs down his food, licking the wrapper briefly before tossing it in the trash, "Sounds good. lemme know when you're done."
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Satoshi digs into his own, taking a little longer than Aki and not licking any of the wrappers before tossing the trash into a bin, " alright, lets get moving. i think the terrain is fairly good for what we'll be doing today, so do you want to fly or go by land to start?"
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Aki hums, "weather looked great for a while so I figure we could go by land and save our flyers energy for an emergency."
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He nods, " sounds like a plan to me. Especially since you only have the one, no offense." he lets rapidash out.
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Akihiko rolls his eyes, "I usually dont fly. It never allowed me to help those on the ground back when I did that." he lets his arcanine out, watching as the giant dog happily lets his tongue out
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Rapidash looks at arcanine and clearly has a 'why me' expression as Satoshi hops on, " fair i suppose."
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Aki pats arcanine on the shoulder before hopping on the dog's back, "alright, ready to go."
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Satoshi gently taps her sides with his heels and she leaps into a run.
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Arcanine gives a loud bwoof of a bark before he excitedly follows after rapidash
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She makes sure to keep ahead of the slobbery dog pokemon, stretching her head out forward to her best running form and enjoying the exercise.
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Arcanine happily keeps running, his powerful hind legs helps keep him close to rapidash
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Rapidash pushes herself to make sure she stays out of reach, having no desire to be slobbered on by the other pokemon. She snorts and tosses her head, the fire of her mane and tail flaring up but not burning Satoshi.
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Akihiko cant help but grin as arcanine keeps up, the feeling of his large dog still being able to keep up with such a fast pokemon reminded him of the fun times he used to have
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Satisfied that she's keeping out of reach of the dog Rapidash starts bucking a little as she runs, playful and happy at the feeling of stretching her legs in running. Travel went fast, and they bypassed what Satoshi had meant to be a switching point since the pokemon seemed to be doing alright. It started to get dark however and he stops them near a stream, the fire pokemon lowering her head to take long drinks of water.
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Arcanine barks and runs in a circle quickly before jumping into the stream to play.
Aki yelps and quickly jumps off the dog before they get into the stream and he pushes himself up and dusts himself off.
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Rapidash snorts in disdain and makes sure she drinks upstream of the drooly dog mucking up the water.
Satoshi chuckles, " well this is as good a place as any to set up camp for the night."
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Aki watches arcanine and chuckles before going over to satoshi, "I swear that dog could run for the rest of his life and not get tired."
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Satoshi grins, " he'd make a great mountain rescue dog, if he didn;t drown the people he saved in slobber. Rapidash thankfully has great stamina, she and i have gone for days before. i prefer not to push her so hard though."
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aki chuckles, "Yeah he uh.... he certainly could be in races if he didnt love so much."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah... he looks like he'd be best in the sort of race where they time them individually. otherwise he'd be too busy trying to get all the other racers to play." he gets a fire going, starting up a simple dinner.
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Arcanine jumps out of the water and gives another deep bwoof before he starts wagging his fluffy tail. He jumps over to aki and happily nuzzles against him.
Aki yelps and and tries to push arcanine, "-ah-ah-ah! No! You are so wet!!"
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Rapidash snorts in their direction and keeps well away from the sodden dog.
Satoshi also keeps his distance, trying to make sure the food and their fire aren;t in the spray zone.
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Aki grabs a stick and expertly throws it far into the woods, "Get the stick!!"
Arcanine barks and quickly runs into the woods
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Satoshi laughs and dishes up a bowl of the simple meal for Aki, handing it over, " do you think he'll actually bring that stick back, or a log?"
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Aki takes the bowl and sighs, shaking his head, "he'll bring back anything honestly. Last time i did that he managed to drag back a wooden sign. Took me forever to figure out where it came from so i could put it back."
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Satoshi snorts, " lets hope he doesn;t do that one again, or take anything else important."
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Aki chuckles, "same because i cant really discipline what he does. "
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Satoshi nods, " you've got more patience than i, i don;t think i could deal with a pokemon like that. hell skuntank is more than i can handle. im a good trainer, but severe issues or behavioral problems are beyond me."
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Aki gives a hesitant grin and he chuckles, "i suppose... i suppose thats why i can handle it so well. Im kinda in the same boat as them. It also helps the fact that i know what they're saying too."
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Satoshi blinks, " ah right, i forgot that bit. yeah that must help a lot. i bet you could make make a killing working with pokemon rehabilitation. ones who've got behavior issues or other such things. obviously that's not helpful in arcanines case since he's... well not really normal mentally functional, but other pokemon who need help from someone who can understand them."
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aki sighs and starts eating, "arcanine is certainly a special case. but he's a good boy. so it doesnt matter."
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Satoshi nods, " well, just keep that in mind i guess, you have a unique ability and there's no doubt you can easily make a living off it. and the offer for you to stay at the ranch is still open too, heck you can combine the two."
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Aki snorts and chuckles, "yeah right, like you'd want me hanging around your home for that long."
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Satoshi tilts his head, " why not? you and i get along fairly well, and you're great with pokemon. we can always use another hand around the place."
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Aki nervously glances at satoshi and sighs, "because you wont like me for long. Trust me the more we hang out the more you'll end up disliking me."
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " that's bullshit. we've spent plenty of time together and i don;t like you any less than when we started. maybe more since you're not being obnoxious. regardless even if for some reason we were at odds, the ranch is plenty big enough for you to have a place to stay and work without us having to be in close contact. not that i think it'll happen, but still."
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Aki raises an eyebrow at satoshi, "Im an alcoholic who cant refuse sex. whats there to like?"
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Satoshi snorts, " well you'll have to ease up on the alcohol. drinking is fine, getting drunk out of your brains, not so much. As for sex, we're not super far from a town, you can find people to meet up with there. you're also a good person, amazing with pokemon, have a kind heart and good morals, and you seem to be a decent worker."
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Aki's face turns red and he looks away, scratching the back of his head, "a-ahhh... am i... really all that? There's no need to lie to me if you are. " he felt slightly bashful at satoshi's compliments, having not heard anyone's opinion of himself aside from his own self deprecating comments.
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Satoshi nods, " absolutely. i don;t bullshit on things like that."
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Akihiko is quiet for a minute before he clears his throat, "thanks i uh, i guess. Not really... not really used to compliments."
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Satoshi slaps him on the back before finishing his meal, " im only speaking the truth of what i see. nothing more."
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Aki grins and goes back to finishing his food, "if you say so."
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Satoshi chuckles and washes his dishes in the stream, " i think my family will be pleased to have you working with us. if nothing else you will provide valuable insight when our pokemon misbehave."
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Aki nods, "Most of the time its human error however it has been nice when you're able to get everyone on the same page. Plus, I have had a few pokemon look at me in shock when I've actually been able to understand them which was always funny." he chuckles and gets up, going over to satoshi with his dishes to also clean
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Satoshi nods, " i personally wouldn;t suggest talking to the tauros or the birds we keep, since they're livestock and all. but the rest we keep on as working pokemon would probably enjoy chatting with you."
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aki sighs, "yeah that would be.... hard." he gets his dishes cleaned before handing them back to satoshi. he's quiet for a bit before sighing, "i'll think about the offer seriously. things could still change but it wouldnt be bad to... stay in one place for a little while."
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Satoshi nods, " it'll just be a matter of staying away from those areas. and we won;t take you along for the drives to town, but other than that.... you'll fit in fine." He puts the dishes away after wiping them down with a cloth to dry them. " we should get some rest." he starts setting up with bedroll.
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Aki doesnt get up yet as he still considers what satoshi said. He sighs before getting up and goes over to his backpack, getting his sleeping spot ready
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Satoshi lets ariados out and asks her to form a web warning system, which she happily does before going over to snuggle with Aki, one claw resting on her web to detect any vibrations.
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Aki curls up and happily pets ariados for a little bit, "thanks girl."
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She chatters softly and nuzzles him before settling down. Satoshi chuckles, " i have to wonder if one of these days she's going to decide she likes you better."
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Aki chuckles softly and shakes his head, "Oh she definitely loves me, but no. It's easy to see that wont happen."
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Satoshi snorts, " i dunno, she spends more time with you than me these days. not that i begrudge her having a snuggle buddy. she's just been awful clingy with you."
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Aki smiles, "I'm just a new person so she's gotta get all the extra snuggles in that she can."
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Ariados chirps in affirmation and waves a clawed foot at Satoshi who laughs softly, " if you say so. well have a good night."
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Aki nods, "Goodnight Satoshi..." he curls up and starts to drift off to sleep
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Satoshi soon falls asleep and stays that way until morning, Rapidash nudging him awake with the sun and he yawns as he struggles up, " mmmm i know i know, time to get up..."
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Aki snores softly and rubs his face against his pillow, drooling
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Ariados wakes up when she hears Satoshi moving around, chittering softly before poking Aki's face.
Satoshi chuckles and gets the fire going, making some breakfast.
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Aki mumbles something softly under his breath before he yawns and stretches, "mmmmornin'"
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Satoshi glances over, " morning." he scoops a bowl of oatmeal out and sets it aside for Aki before taking his own bowl.
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Aki nods and rubs his face some more before taking his oatmeal and takes slow bites, still waking up, "aw man its so hard to get up the older you get without coffee."
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Satoshi snorts softly, " speak for yourself, im older than you and im not having any issues. but if you really want we can see about bringing with some instant coffee grounds. a small kettle would suffice for enough for you."
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Aki sighs, "yeah but thats just too much to bring along. I'll just enjoy my starbucks whenever we go into towns. Probably should be cutting back on those anyway..."
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Satoshi finishes off his meal and pets Ariados before putting her into her pokeball, " fair enough. it's an option though."
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Aki yawns and finishes eating before sighing. He gets up and goes over to the stream, shrugging. "Boiling the water, steeping it, washing the cup, the supplies to do so and the space it takes up is too much of a hassle. I appreciate it but its not necessary. Lets just clean up and get moving. You said you had reports of the guy supposedly being nearby right?"
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Satoshi nods, " fair point." his expression gets more grim, " yeah. he's probably still in the area, the last report is only about a week old. so we'll just move around nearby i suppose. If you want we can get you settled in the town nearby while i search, i don;t want you in danger again... Noivern and i should be able to find him, if he's anywhere nearby, she'll be able to tell."
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Aki nods, "yeah actually keeping myself in town sounds more ideal. I know i said i wanted to stick around originally but... the closer you get to actually finding the guy the more chicken shit i feel."
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Satoshi snorts, " gee, after having an awful traumatic experience you're not comfortable being around the guy, go figure."
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Aki sighs, "yeah but it's been years. I was hoping to at least be numb to it by now. " he finishes cleaning up his area and packing up before going over to satoshi, looking slightly uncomfortable
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Satoshi debates for a moment before letting Flygon out, " take it from me, it's not that easy to let the past go. And in your case, i can't imagine what you went through, it'll probably effect you in some way for the rest of your life. lets get you to town, it's only about an hours flight. i'll check on the police reports to see if anything is newer there and then get searching." he climbs onto the dragonfly-like pokemon.
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Aki nods and lets his pidgeot out and gets on her back.
Pidgeot glances around and makes a soft chirp as she gets ready for take off
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Flygon twists around as he waits impatiently, Satoshi making sure they've got everything before calming the pokemon and climbing on. " lets go." the green pokemon leaps into the air, wings almost vibrating as he gains altitude.
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Pidgeot flutters her tail feathers briefly before taking off into the sky, knowing she'd have to do her best to keep up with the green one.
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Satoshi does his best to rein Flygon in, keeping him at a manageable pace. the dragonfly pokemon occasionally flys a loop around the other pokemon to burn off extra energy.
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Pidgeot follows Flygon, not performing any tricks but doing her best to not drag the group
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Soon enough they reach the town, and Satoshi sets them down in a clearing nearby. " alrighty, im going to head to the police station and see if i can get any info, maybe get us a room at the pokemon center? i'll try and be back before dark."
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Aki lands and puts pidgeot at before heading to the pokemon center
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Satoshi heads to the police station, pulling out the reports he had and showing them to the officers, asking if they had any more recent reports on the guy.
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One of the officers informs satoshi that someone that fit that description was last seen a few miles west of the town.
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Satoshi nods and thanks them before heading out, letting Noivern out and climbing onto her back, the batlike pokemon complaining that she's out during the day before taking off with her rider, her echolocation combing the area that the guy had been seen in.
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Aki boredly sits in the main lobby of the pokemon center, munching on an apple. He got themselves a room but didnt feel like waiting in said room. He sighs and reaches over, petting lucario absentmindedly as he drifted off into daydreaming.
Lucario grumbles softly when aki pets him but otherwise doesnt move or anything.
Minutes go by, the patrons happily talking among themselves until a high pitch scream catches everyones attention.
A girl runs into the center, covered in blood and tears as she rushes up to nurse joy. She's sobbing and shaking as she holds.... something close to her chest.
Everyone else in the lobby are stunned silent briefly before they all curiously begin to walk over, trying to figure out whats going on.
Nurse joy is pale and a chansey quickly grabs a blanket and wraps it around the girls shoulders.
Aki stares, wide eyed and pale, unsure what the fuck just happened.
The girl lets out a loud wail, begging for her Raichu to be okay but its clear by the look nurse joy has that the pokemon is long gone.
Nurse Joy doesnt dare let go of the girl in her arms and instead looks up at the people, "Someone call Officer Jenny! The girl was close to the Daycare center north of here so the daycare may also be in trouble!"
Lucario snarls, his fur bristling before he looks at Aki. The redhead looks at his pokemon and bites his lip, "the... the daycare has a bunch of baby pokemon..." he groans before grabbing his backpack and his cell phone, "Alright we'll make sure the daycare is alright but I WILL be texting Satoshi."
Lucario nods and quickly runs out of the center with Akihiko following closely behind
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Satoshi scans the ground as they fly, Noiverns ears twisting as she searches as well, sending out echolocation bursts as she flies. Satoshi soon feels his phone vibrate, and pulls it out to look, his eyes widening as he reads the text from Aki. " Land! you're doing great but right now i need speed!" Noivern gives him a baffled and irritated look but complies, and he quickly returns the pokemon before letting flygon out and climbing on as fast as he can, " back to town as quickly as you can go!" The pokemon calls out and leaps into the sky, zooming at his maximum speed.
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Jay stands tall in front of the daycare laughing as his Tyranitar sinks its teeth into a Floatzel, the larger pokemon shaking its head viciously to finish its prey quickly.
Floatzel's trainer is shouting at Jay to stop, every attempt at trying to return his pokemon failed as Tyranitar keeps Floatzel's body away from the pokeballs aim.
The daycare workers were given enough time to coral the baby pokemon into their building and they locked their doors, terrified and unable to help.
Lucario and Aki run up to the scene, lucario not wasting a second and striking Tyranitar in the gut with a focus punch as hard as he can.
Tyranitar stumbles and drops Floatzel, blood dripping from its jaw. Aki looks at the other trainer who is collecting his pokemon, "Put your pokemon in its ball and get to the pokemon center!"
The trainer nods and does so, quickly running from a fight he knew he couldnt win.
Jay blinks and looks at Aki briefly before smirking, "Oh wow. Long time no see huh kid? Pretty interesting since this is how we first met all those years ago. And to think, I thought I'd never get revenge for what you did to my precious pokemon."
Tyranitar turns and glares at Lucario, snarling. His left eye closed shut for good thanks to a long scar that ran from the top of its head to the corner of its mouth.
Aki glares at Jay, trying to act tough even though he was terrified, "What I did?! I stopped you from killing that little girls skitty! And then you killed Espeon! Is that not enough for you!?"
Jay chuckles and runs his hand through his hair, "You kidding me? Its never enough! Just look at my Tyranitar now! He's TWICE the size he was back then! The more he eats the bigger and stronger he gets! And to prove it I'll take on your pathetic pokemon. He may no longer be a Riolu but its not enough to take on Tyranitar."
Aki huffs, "Im not here for a rematch! I'm just here to stop you from harming another pokemon!"
Jay blinks curiously, "Oh? Well how on earth are you going to stop me if you dont fight me?" He smirks and looks at his pokemon, "Tyranitar. Use Slam on that house and take down the wall. You'll have an amazing feast inside."
The giant pokemon roars loudly and begins charging towards the house.
Aki's eyes widen and he curses before looking at Lucario, "Lucario! Protect!"
Lucario runs in front of the house, quickly making a barrier in front of him just before Tyranitar slams into it. The barrier shatters quickly and Tyranitar takes a step back from the recoil. Lucario doesnt hesitate to attack Tyranitar, aiming a Low Kick for the large pokemons legs, knowing the bigger they are the harder they fall.
Tyranitar stumbles when he loses his balance and keeps stumbling backwards, starting to get annoyed.
Jay huffs, "Just as pointless as the first time. Tyranitar. Hyper Beam."
Tyranitar snarls and quickly takes a small jump to the side. He slams his tail against the ground causing it to shake and make Lucario stumble therefor making the pokemon unable to move quickly as it fires a Hyper Beam at it.
Lucario tries to catch itself quickly however he's quickly slammed by the insane power, breaking through a couple of trees before the attack finally ends and he's against the trunk of a tree that was spared, his body twitching.
Jay laughs and goes over to Tyranitar, patting his knee, "Good job! You definitely got way stronger than before. Finish the job and claim your dinner. Maybe if it's filling enough we wont actually have to eat all those baby pokemon."
Aki's knees shake, staring and pale. It all happened so fast.... less than two minutes even. The Tyranitar, despite it's size, moved incredibly fast. It knew lucario would dodge so it made sure Lucario was distracted. He snapped out of it as he saw Tyranitar run towards Lucario, its jaw drooling in anticipation for its new meal and Aki's legs moved before he could process what he was even doing.
Sprinting passed Tyranitar and getting in front of Lucario, and just in time as the other pokemon was about to bite down.
Aki grabbed Tyranitar's mouth, left hand on his upper jaw, right hand on his lower jaw, keeping the pokemon from getting any further, "Thats enough! I'm not letting you do this!" Aki snarls and glares at Jay, "Not again!"
Lucario opens his eyes, blinking a bit as he begins to come around. He sees Aki and Tyranitar and his eyes widen before trying to get up but failing. He was in too much pain to move and could only helplessly watch.
Tyranitar breathes heavily, more drool pooling as he tries to turn his head and take another step forward, determined to eat one of them or both.
Aki grunts when Tyranitar tilts its head but manages to keep his grip on the open mouthed beast. He's also able to keep his footing while the ground around his feet start to cave in and crumble a bit from the pressure.
Jay snorts as he puts his hand on his hip, "What the hell do you think you're gonna do? You can't win. Tyranitar is going to eat your filthy pokemon, all of them this time. And then I'll have him eat you. Havent tried human yet but he seems pretty int it, dont you think?"
Beads of sweat drip down from Aki's face from the stress on his body and he does genuinely believe he will get eaten, but he doesnt dare break eye contact with Jay, "I told you. I'm not here to fight you. I just needed to buy some time for someone who will kick your ass!!"
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Satoshi lays low against flygon to reduce the wind resistance, and as he comes upon the scene of Aki trying to keep a massive tyranitar from biting him he feels his blood boil. " Flygon, get low to the ground and use mud shot followed by iron tail!" The pokemon buzzes in affirmation and when he darts low to the ground Satoshi leaps off, tucking and rolling to keep from hurting himself. Flygon keeps going, flinging a massive blob of mud at Tyranitar to slow it down before his tail glints with the move iron tail and he slams himself and his tail into the pokemon to knock him away from Aki.
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The mud shot does nothing to tyranitar, however when it gets hit by the iron tail he quickly rears his head up to roar loudly, filling with rage to be hit by the same attack that espeon had done those years ago causing his permanent scar.
Aki gives a heavy sigh of relief when he no longer has to hold the monster back, his legs and arms shaking. He doesn't let his muscles rest, quickly turning around and grabbing lucario and ducking into the nearby bushes to hide.
Jay snarls and glares at satoshi, "now who the fuck are you? Bitch ass trainers are just crawling out of the trees."
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Satoshi frowns when mud shot does nothing, it was a ground type move, it should have been super effective against tyranitar. at least iron tail had done something, both attacks he'd picked for being extra effective against Tyranitar. Satoshi glares at Jay, " im the person who's going to put a stop to your madness. and his." he jerks his head towards Tyranitar. " This ends today. Bug buzz!" Flygon faces Tyranitar and vibrates his wings rapidly, sending waves of concussive sound towards the other pokemon.
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Tyranitar stumbles and roars loudly in the air as it takes the hit, his screams being loud enough to scare any flying wild pokemon out of the area. It's practically foaming from the mouth as it focuses on flygon, determined to stop the source of the attacks. It quickly turns around and whips its massive tail at flygon, performing the move Breaking Swipe.
Jay takes a few steps away from Tyranitar, glaring at Satoshi, "Funny. I get told that a lot. Never has happened though. Now that it seems Tyranitar has his focus on a new prey I wonder if you'll last longer than the others."
Aki shudders when he hears Tyranitar's pained screams before checking Lucario over and giving him a couple of potions, "It's okay buddy. You'll be okay."
Lucario whines softly and pushes himself into a sitting position, wanting to help.
Aki huffs and pets Lucario's head, "You did help bud. You bought the daycare and Satoshi time. Satoshi is taking over for now." He was upset he couldnt do more to help Satoshi but there was no helping now. Back then there was a chance to pull Tyranitar back and stop the damage done to it but its been too long now. By now all of Jay's poor pokemon were probably turned into monsters and that man had to be stopped.
Aki pulls out a pokeball and returns Lucario, knowing his pokemon will be safer inside and that it will decrease the chances of Lucario doing something reckless.
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Satoshi keeps his gaze focused, " we'll just have to see." Flygon stumbles back as the attack hits him, keening softly in pain. one more move left to choose...fighting would be ideal, wait, flygon did have a single fighting type move... " Superpower!" Flygon builds an aura of energy around himself before lunging directly at Tyrantar to slam him with the attack.
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Tyranitar hits the ground fully with a hard thud, the ground quacking on impact.
Jay stumbles and snarls, "Tyranitar! GET. UP."
Tyranitar roars and tries to get up, after being unsuccessful he tilts his head up and gives one final hyper beam, not aiming at anything but just moving his head while he fires his attack, leveling anything about 3 feet up in its path.
Aki sees the hyper beam and quickly lays flat on the ground as it passes over and takes out a good acre of the forest.
Tyranitar's last bout of rage finishes off before he passes out
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Satoshi lets a slight smirk grace his lips before looking serious again, " what was that about how long we'd last?" Flygon settles near his trainer and Satoshi pets his head, " good job, that was excellent." he didn;t want to have to kill that pokemon, but he doubted it was sane anymore, he'd have to put it down for safety... " Flygon, hit it once more with superpower." the flygon looks at his trainer and tilts his head, trilling in confusion. they'd won, the other pokemon was unconscious. " i know buddy, but we have to. please, to make sure other pokemon are safe..." Flygon hesitates but builds up the aura again, charging at the downed pokemon.
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Jay snarls and quickly returns Tyranitar before Flygon is able to finish its attack, "Taking a good old page out of my own handbook huh? Have to admit, out of everyone I fought you very well could be the only person who can take me down. Shame for you that Tyranitar isnt my only pokemon. That'd be stupid."
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Satoshi sighs as the pokemon is returned before he's able to finish it off, " i don't murder pokemon for the fun of it, but i won;t hesitate to put down ones that are too far gone insane to save. unluckily for you, flygon is not my only pokemon either. you'll have to really step your game up if you want to have a chance." Flygon returns to his trainers side and nuzzles him, Satoshi petting him gently, " you're doing great."
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Jay huffs and lets out Beartic, an Ice pokemon that has an advantage over Flygon's type, "Use Blizzard on Flygon! Brownie points if it also hits his trainer!"
Beartic snarls and quickly attacks them both with Blizzard
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Flygon leaps in front of Satoshi, taking the full force of the blow, struggling to stand as Satoshi quickly returns him, " good job, rest now." he hadn't expected flygon to be able to last another round anyway after taking that attack from the tyranitar. Pure ice type, that meant no attacks that were ultra effective. fire would be the obvious, and foolish choice. he knew this pokemon knew water type moves. " skarmory, shred this fool! flash cannon!" The steel bird screeches as she's let out from her pokeball and glows brightly before the light is released in a wave at the other pokemon.
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Beartic stumbles back and growls loudly, taking a direct hit.
Jay is about to call out the next attack when he clearly sees the flashing red and blue lights of cop cars. He huffs and grabs a pokeball, "Beartic! MAKE IT HAIL."
Beartic roars loudly and performs the move hail, the clouds in the area beginning to dark and cluster as sudden cold winds gust through and it begins to hail, the ice chunks massive and dangerous. Gold ball size.
Jay huffs and lets his Salamance out, jumping on and dropping Beartics pokeball on the ground and smashing it before Salamance quickly takes off into the sky and disappearing.
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Satoshi grits his teeth, damn he was getting away! " Sunny day!" Skarmory beats her wings and the sky clears. " Steel wing!" her wings glow and she lunges forward to hit the bear.
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The beartic blinks when Salamance flies off with his master and he turns to watch curiously, only to suddenly get knocked to the ground from steel wing. He curls up into a tight ball and starts blubbering loudly.
Aki hears the cries and he looks up quickly, seeing the Beartic and he frowns, "Wa-wait!" He gets up and goes over to the pokemon, "He's scared, Satoshi..." He sees the shattered pokeball and grimaces, "did.... did that guy really just abandon you?"
The daycare workers slowly open their front door, shaking in fear.
The 5 police cars stop a few yards away
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Satoshi grimaces, " i didn't see the pokeball, yeah this guy just got abandoned. i was just going to knock him out... Skarmory, you did great." he pets the steel bird who croons before he walks over to the daycare, " is everyone okay? im so sorry i didn't get here sooner, but he's gone for now." he shakes his head and looks over at the police vehicles, " damn... i kinda wish they hadn;t come, i might have been able to finish this..." he rubs the back of his neck.
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The day care man sighs, "no need to apologize... we're just thankful that someone strong enough showed up."
Aki sighs when he sees the officers. He doesn't really want to talk with them and instead starts petting Beartic, "hey now, its alright. Fights over. You okay?"
Beartic hesitantly unfurls himself from his ball and whimpers at aki.
Aki tsks softly before hugging beartic, "oh geeze im sorry to hear that..."
The daycare girl hugs a pichu close to her chest and shudders, "i'm glad you came when you did though. " she looks at satoshi, "that guy over there was an idiot. Grabbing onto that monsters mouth like that...he could have been seriously hurt."
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Satoshi nods then frowns slightly at the girl, " that idiot probably saved the pokemon here, i was out looking for that guy, and he let me know my quarry was here. i was a ways out though, had he not bought me time im not sure what would have happened." he walks over to Aki, " how's Beartic? He doesn;t seem to be so far gone that he cannot be given a chance at either living wild or having a trainer again."
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Aki looks up at satoshi, frowning, "he's only been with that guy for a month. This was only the second time he's been out of his ball. He just thought this was a normal pokemon battle." He looks back at the pokemon and continues to rub Beartics fur to comfort him, "Can't believe tyranitar is that big....he's damn near 15 feet tall... thats twice the size he should be..."
Aki shudders and looks up at Satoshi, "what are we going to do? He wouldnt normally go after buildings and people like that. Im worried maybe he is getting too confident... or he feels like he's running out of weaker pokemon trainers to go after so he thinks he can go for bigger targets."
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Satoshi sighs, " cripes, poor thing. yeah, he needs to be taken out sooner rather than later. i'll search for him again soon, but for now i think we should head to the pokemon center. Flygon took a pretty hard hit and i want to make sure he's alright. Your lucario should be seen as well." he looks over at the police, " if you want statements come find us at the pokemon center! we're going to have our pokemon seen to." he pulls out a regular empty pokeball, " here, maybe he'll want to go with you Aki, for now anyway. We can find a good place in the wild for him or a trainer later." he holds it out to Aki.
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Aki nods and takes the pokeball, "i know of a spot that is just filled with beartic so if we cant find him a trainer we can always see if those other pokemon will let him join their family..."
Aki looks back at Beartic, "also, i know you werent with him for long but if you know anything about your ex trainer we would appreciate it as well. But its up to you. Please come with us for now?"
Beartic sniffles and calms down with aki talking to him. He wasnt used to trainers actually understanding him which made him more intrigued than scared. He chuffed softly before gently pressing his snoot against the front of the pokeball, accepting aki easily as he goes into the pokeball.
Aki sighs and puts the ball in his bag for now, "yeah lucario needs to be seen as soon as possible. He also needs another lecture i guess." He frowns and rubs his arm, "also, thanks for showing up when you did. I know i said i was going to stay at the center but when that girl came in i... panicked. Especially hearing that bastard was so close to the daycare. S'pose the old me that always has to get in between a fight is still somewhere in me." He hesitantly chuckles, trying not to feel awkward about the whole thing
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Satoshi nods, " sounds like a plan. and don;t be sorry, you probably saved lives with your action. im sorry you had to get involved. next time i will leave one of my pokemon with you, just in case. Luxray maybe, he's good at fighting without me directing him, and you two seem to get along."
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Aki shrugs, "no need to apologize. Its not your fault. Lets get back to the center. I have our room and i really want to lay down. I feel drained."
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Satoshi snorts, " gee i wonder why." he returns skarmory and lets out Rapidash, climbing up before holding a hand out to Aki, " come on up, if you're that tired i don;t want you falling off arcanine."
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Aki was about to protest riding a pokemon that was as big as rapidash but he felt the strain in his body and he sighed before taking satoshi's hand and carefully getting onto rapidash
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Satoshi seats Aki in front of himself before clicking his tongue at the horse-like pokemon, gently nudging his heels into her sides to gets her running towards the pokemon center. His chest pressed up against Aki's back and his arms reached around the other male to grasp the pokemons mane as he guides her. The ride is short, and once they get there he dismounts and helps Aki down.
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Aki is thankful for the short ride, his face bright red the entire time as he felt satoshi pressed against him. When he's helped down he tries not to look at satoshi and just heads straight inside.
The nurse joy is back at her post, the lobby cleaned up of all the blood from before as she tries to busy herself instead of thinking of what just occurred in her center
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Satoshi leaves rapidash outside the pokemon center to keep watch and enjoy some freedom while he goes in, " im sorry to bring you patients at this time nurse joy, pokemon injured saving others from the monster that caused so much grief." he hands over Flygon's pokeball, " he took a bad hit, though i don;t think it's anything concerning."
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Nurse joy looks up at satoshi before giving a sad smile, "its.... quite alright. Gives me something to do..." she takes the pokeball and sets it in the machine to analyze and heal flygon.
Aki bites his lip and looks around, "where did that little girl go?"
Nurse joy is quiet before glancing at aki, "her parents came and picked her up. Im sure she's done with her journey. "
Aki frowns and looks down, "poor girl... i dont blame her..."
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Satoshi sighs, " i don't blame her but it's a damn shame. i need to find that guy and take him out, whatever it takes. this needs to end. i wonder if i can convince the police to help me, at least to locate him and then stay out of it while i take him on. he seems inclined to run when they get involved."
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Aki scratches the side of his head, "i mean, if the police are the ones that would get him in jail then i wouldnt blane him from running i guess..."
Nurse joy hands satoshi's pokeball back to him, "i understand your wanting to stop him just- please be careful."
Aki looks at nurse joy and nods, "oh trust me. We're doing our best to be cautious with this." He pulls out lucario's pokeball as well as the one with beartic, "i better make sure beartic is alright as well. Skarmory did hit him dead on after all."
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Satoshi nods, " don't worry, i have no intention of risking my pokemon, they're my partners." he takes flygon back, " thanks. anyway someone needs to stop him, and he himself said im the first one that has a chance." he glances at beartic's pokeball, " yeah, hit dead on twice with super effective moves, though i don't think the damage was too bad."
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Aki nods and hands over his pokeballs to Nurse Joy. He looks back at satoshi and hands him a key card, "If you wanna head to our room now you can take this. Room 33."
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Satoshi nods, " thanks... i'll see you in there soon hopefully." he takes the key card and heads to the room, immediately taking a shower. even attempting to kill that tyranitar made him feel nasty, but someone had to stop the madness and he doubted that pokemon could ever be rehabilitated.
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Aki waits patiently for nurse joy to be finished before letting Lucario out immediately. He sighs and pets Lucario's ears, "I told you not to give that beast direct hits like that. I know you want to avenge espeon but thats not the way to do it, okay? I dont want anything to happen to you."
Lucario huffs and looks down, grumbling softly. If his trainer had proper pokemon battles again he would have been strong enough by now.
Aki runs his hand through his hair, "I know you want to fight again but its dangerous. Maybe.... with Satoshi here we can give it another try but lets not get into a fight about this. "
Lucario looks up at Aki and sighs before nodding. This was the close he ever got when talking to aki about fighting so he'll take it for now. Perhaps this new friend of Aki's will really help his trainer go back to the way he was.
Aki puts his hands on his hips and smiles, "Alright. lets go back to the room." he takes Lucarios paw and heads to the room, lucario next to his side
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Satoshi is just coming out of the bathroom when Aki gets back, loose fitting sleeping clothes on as he towels his hair dry, " Looks like Lucario is alright, good. Rapidash is outside and will keep watch, but i'll let a pokemon out in here as well. Meinshao maybe, since he's smaller. Ariados too if you'd like."
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Aki blinks before shrugging, "i'm not entirely sure thats necessary." He goes over to his bed and sits down, sighing heavily.
Lucario watches aki and huffs softly, knowing his trainer was exhausted.
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Satoshi shrugs, " probably not, but i like to be prepared. that guy will probably have a grudge against me, and we know that he'd love to take you out." He lets the small fighting type out and Ariados, who climbs into bed with Aki for cuddles. Meinshao snorts at the spiders behavior and settles on Satoshi's bed.
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Aki looks at ariados and smiles, petting her gently as his arms shake a little, "well if it helps to know, it seems that tyranitar obviously cant handle iron tail. That was espeons last move on him which gave him that massive scar on his face. It's an easy move to get him unfocused it seems."
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Satoshi nods slowly, " good to know. and seeing as fighting type moves have ultra effectiveness, flygon's a good pick for fighting him. not to mention tyranitar specializes in a lot of ground types moves, which are ineffective against flygon."
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Aki stops petting ariados and lets his body flop back on the bed so that he's laying down, "...dont ever let me grab onto tyranitars mouth again. That was fucking stupid. I cant believe i did that ooohhhhhh my god im so dumb!" He rubs his face, the adrenaline wearing down enough for him to realize just how reckless he acted, "fuuuuck i need a shot of booze or something."
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Satoshi blinks and chuckles, " i wasn't there remember? that's why im not leaving you alone again, i'll leave luxray with you, and he ought to be able to hold them off until i can get there, just keep in mind that he's weak to ground types so he'll just need to play the keepaway game until i can get there. Scary face and double team ought to keep tyranitar at bay, swagger and substitute are moves he can use as well that will help. it's pretty amazing though that you had the strength to hold him off, that was insane."
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Aki is quiet for a moment, "He was gonna get Lucario. I couldnt let it happen again. I kinda... moved on my own. I think all of that was pure adrenaline. A flight or fight response. I'd do it again too, as stupid as it is. If thats my only move to make then I'll do it."
Lucario huffs softly, not really liking his trainer putting himself in harms way. He couldnt complain though. He was alive thanks to Aki.
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Satoshi nods, " well lets hope it doesn;t come to that. like i said, i'll leave luxray with you and just keep him busy for a bit until i can get to you. luxray is fast and clever, he'll manage despite the disadvantage. We maybe ought to work with Lucario though, try and get him up to fighting condition. Beartic might not be a bad idea to work with either, since he's with you anyway."
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Lucario quickly looks at satoshi, eyes wide and his ears perked.
Aki huffs, "i don't... do pokemon battles anymore. "
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Satosi raises an eyebrow, " really? because pitting Lucario against Tyranitar sounds an awful lot like a pokemon battle."
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Aki huffs, "that was an emergency. For the daycare."
Lucario looks back at aki and whines softly. He hadnt been in a battle since the incident and he was BEGGING to be in battles again. He wanted to be just as tough as espeon used to be so that he could protect aki and the others just like she did.
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Satoshi nods, " and if another such emergency happens, i'd really like you to be prepared. you don;t even have to be part of it, Lucario can come train with me and my pokemon. Beartic as well and any others you want. But i think it's a good idea."
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Lucario glances at satoshi before giving a soft grumble and going up to aki's bed and shoving his nose into some of aki's bare skin thanks to his shirt getting hiked up a little.
Aki yelps and quickly sits up, rubbing his side, "fucking hell- did you really have to give me the cold nose?!"
Lucario nods, crossing his arms.
Aki groans softly and rubs his face again, "alright fine... i'll...try to do some stupid battles... but it's been literal ages so dont get mad when i suck or freeze up..."
Lucario's ears perk up again and smiles, finally getting somewhere
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Satoshi blinks and laughs softly, " hey that's why you're training, to get better."
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Lucario grins and grabs aki's backpack, digging through it again and pulling out several small cases and putting them on the bed in front of aki, looking ecstatic.
Aki blinks and gives a deep breath before petting lucario, "alright, alright. If you think i can be that good again then i'll actually try." He picks up the cases and sets them aside before looking at satoshi, "not today though. I've had enough for today."
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Satoshi blinks, " what are the cases? and yeah im not saying tonight, im done for the night as well. tomorrow is soon enough."
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Aki hesitantly picks up a case and opens it, five shiny badges from the kanto region, "They're all badges from the different regions i've been to. I got up to five from each current region for the fun of it and thats when I battled that asshole and gave up after. I could never seem to throw them away since espeon always got super excited getting another badge." he tosses it back on the bed before petting lucario and looking at him, "Im sorry I havent been the best trainer lucario... I know you miss espeon just as much as I do."
Lucario's tail wags ever so slightly as he tries to hold his excitement.
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Satoshi smiles, " well im glad you didn;t get rid of them anyway, and you will be eventually as well. as painful as the memories are, they're proof of your past and your victories, and i don;t mean pokemon battles. "
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Aki looks at Satoshi and nods, "yeah....thanks for helping me out so much. you really dont have to, but you are. even if i sometimes act like a little shit."
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Satoshi laughs softly, " we all lose our way sometimes. don't fret. im lucky that i had a family to kick my ass and set me straight."
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Aki shoves the cases back in his bag before laying back down, "hear that lucario? You havent kicked my ass enough."
Lucario raises an eyebrow at aki, "graah?"
Aki chuckles, "yeah you're right. That wasnt your job."
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Satoshi snorts softly, " lets just get some sleep yeah?"
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Aki nods, "yeah im exhausted."
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Satoshi settles on the bed with Meinshao, yawning. " i think i'll talk with the police first thing tomorrow to see if they won't try and help me track this guy down, and if i can;t convince them to leave him to me. afterwards we'll get some training in."
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Aki has already fallen asleep, almost immediately.
Lucario goes over to the lights and turns them off before getting ready to watch the door
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Ariados snuggles with Aki.
Morning soon comes and Satoshi gets up and stretches, heading out and getting two trays of breakfast from the center and bringing them back to their room.
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Aki is still sleeping, curled around a sleeping lucario
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Ariados chitters softly at her trainer. Satoshi sets the trays down and walks over, gently shaking Aki's shoulder, " wake up. it's morning."
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Aki blinks and slowly opens his eyes. He rubs his face and sits up, "morning..."
Lucario blinks and sits up quickly before rubbing his eyes and quickly gets off the bed.
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Satoshi smiles, " sleep well? i've got breakfast." he takes his own tray and sits, digging in. Ariados climbs off the bed and peers out the window.
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Aki stretches and yawns, smiling as he gets out of bed and grabs his tray, digging in, "I actually did sleep well. Beds are always better than the ground."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah no kidding. beds indeed are nice, and while travel food is okay, nothing beats a well cooked meal." he soon finishes his off and gets dressed in regular daytime clothing, " im going to go speak with the officers real quick if you wanted to come along?"
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Aki is quiet for a moment before shaking his head, "nah. I think I might... clean myself up. Make myself look more approachable if im going to eventually start... " he moves his hands in a circular motion a bit, "battling."
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Satoshi snorts, " alright. i'll be back soon." he gets up and glances at Ariados and Meinshao before nodding to them, " stay here with him." before he heads out and takes Rapidash over to the police building, going in and explaining what he wanted to do to the person at the desk.
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The officer at the desk raises his eyebrows at Satoshi before sighing and humoring him by bringing the chief over to listen, however these guys didnt seem as pleasant to deal with as Ken and his team.
Aki gets in the shower and cleans himself up quite a bit by even giving his bangs a quick trim so that his bangs weren't covering his eyes that much.
Lucario smiles and his tail wags as he watches Aki actually makes himself looking decent
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Satoshi explains himself again to the chief, and trying to support his case by mentioned he had actually koed the offending tyranitar and therefore had a chance at taking the threat out.
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The chief asks his own questions over the situation, getting snarky and raising his voice
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Satoshi manages to keep himself calm, but not by much, " with all due respect sir, your forces are too good, which is why he flees when he sees you. He was willing to take his chances battling me, so have a better chance at taking him down than your forces do."
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The chief waves satoshi off, "This is police work kid. Let the professionals handle it. We dont need any vigilantes thinking they're big shots and doing our job just cuz you think your pokemon are strong. Go back to whatever pokemon center you came from, cry to that freaky nurse, and let real men work."
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Satoshi grits his teeth, " the work you guys have been doing for how many years? this guy has been out there for literal years, killing pokemon and terrorizing people. the professionals aren't cutting it, and i'll be trying to find him with or without your help. i had simply thought you'd want this to end sooner rather than watch the body count go up, because this guy seems like he wants to move onto people next."
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The chief snorts, "we take care of it until he's out of our division. Then its no longer our problem."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " right... and this is why im going to take care of it myself. thank you for your help, and sorry for wasting both of our time." he gives the officer a disgusted look and heads out.
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Aki gets his new clothes on and takes a deep breath before looking at lucario, "how do i look?"
Lucario smirks and gives aki a thumbs up
Aki nervously smiles, "got it. Feels weird to care about my appearance."
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Satoshi goes back to the pokemon center, going into the room and not even looking at Aki, " those conceited heads up their asses morons with no actual concern for the people they're supposed to be protecting! oh man i want to bring that guy to this station and see the looks on their smug ass faces when the 'big shot vigilante' who's apparently not a man brings in their their guy!" he growls. " Meinshao, Ariados, lets get going. Aki, lets get you some training in before i start searching for that jackass."
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Aki blinks and frowns before grabbing his backpack, "that bad huh? Sorry about that. Not all cops are great like kenny's station." He turns to satoshi using his teeth to tighten his glove on his hand
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Satoshi growls, " they don't have any right to call themselves protectors of the people with how they behaved." he turns and looks at Aki and his mouth hangs open, making a few movements like he's attempting to talk but mostly just looking like a dying fish.
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Aki blinks when Satoshi stares at him. He looks behind him in case Satoshi was looking at something past him, however when he sees nothing he looks back at Satoshi, "Um. Are you okay, dude?"
Lucario watches them both in amusement
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Satoshi blinks then flushes a bit, " um, nothing. i mean im fine, everything's fine. lets uh, lets get going." he quickly turns and heads out of the room, going towards a park they can train at.
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Aki looks at lucario and shrugs before following satoshi.
Lucario snickers and follows his trainer
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Satoshi gets out to the park and stops, " alright, lets get down to it." he digs through his pokeballs before selecting one, " lets go Elektross." the eel like pokemon rears upright and faces lucario.
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Aki shudders a bit, feeling very nervous about starting a battle, "lu-lucario stay away from his mouth, got it?"
Lucario grins and nods before getting into position and waiting for further instructions
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Elektross hisses softly and coils her body. " Wild charge!" He wasn;t looking to beat Lucario, just train, so there was no reason to try and go after super effective moves. The eel like pokemon shudders as electrifying sparks from her body, shrouding it before she lunges towards Lucario trying to slam into him.
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Aki flinches when he sees the electricity, "protect!"
Lucario quickly throws up a barrier to protect himself from the attack
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The electricity dissipates, not really doing anything much. She hisses and glances at Satoshi. Satoshi smiles slightly, " swagger!" the eel pokemon puffs herself up and screeches, swaying back and forth to confuse the other pokemon.
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Lucario blinks and shakes his head, closing his eyes tightly as he rubs his temples, groaning.
Aki nervously brings his hand up to his mouth, chewing his nail. He forgot that magic bounce was espeons ability and that lucario was susceptible to status affects. He didn't know what to do, "lucario hang tight, okay? No need to get yourself hurt. Just do your best to focus, dont even open your eyes right now."
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" wild charge!" Elektross charges up again and lunges at Lucario once more.
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Aki panics as he sees eelektross charge up again and he resists the urge to run to lucario's side. His mind ran through scenarios of what he could do to keep lucario safe but it was fifty-fifty chance of them working, "Lucario! Dig!"
Lucario's ears perked before quickly digging straight down into a hole to avoid being hit.
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elektross skids to a stop and hisses angrily, peering into the hole with irritation. Satoshi thinks, two more moves to select... " protect!" Electross gives him a dirty look, she hated having to use moves like this, but puts up the barrier anyway.
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Aki blinks when he notices the dirty look.
Lucario breaks through the ground at elektross, however protect cancels out the move.
Aki bites his thumb a bit, "lucario, get closer to me. How are you feeling?"
Lucario jumps back a bit to get some distance before giving aki a thumbs up, his eyes open.
Aki gives a soft sigh, relieved that lucario seemed alright.
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Satoshi notes that Lucario has already shaken off the confusion, and Aki was playing a defensive game..." Discharge!" elektross slaps her tail onto the ground and elecrifies the area.
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Lucario gives out a sharp cry as he's electrocuted and he falls to one knee, his fur standing on end from the shock
Aki flinches and he shudders, "lucario, are you okay?"
Lucario quickly stands back up, barking out a reply before quickly flexing his claws.
Aki blinks and nods, "if you say so, we'll do it your way. Shadow claw!"
Lucario grins and his claws turn black as it absorbs dark energy and he charges at elektross to strike her.
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Satoshi grins slightly, " Elektross, bite onto him and use discharge again!" Elektross lunges at him and screeches when the claws hit her, but uses the change to latch onto him and deliver the charge of electricity directly to Lucario.
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Lucario cries out in pain before quickly dropping to his knees
Aki's eyes widen and he turns pale, "st-stop! No more!" His legs shake a little as he keeps himself from punching elecktross
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Satoshi blinks, " enough! return." he holds up his pokeball and puts the eel-like pokemon away. He crosses his arms and tilts his head, considering the situation. How could he train to help the others pokemon get better with this trauma still bothering him?
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Aki runs over to Lucario and checks on his pokemon, making sure he was okay.
Lucario blinks and pouts, giving an annoyed expression. He could have kept going but satoshi had returned his pokemon already and lucario didnt feel like getting into an argument with aki. He was lucky he even got a few minutes to battle in the first place.
Aki finishes rubbing some ointment on lucario, sighing softly, "sorry.... i couldnt do it anymore... i was doing everything i could to keep myself from rushing in and clocking elecktross across the face..."
Lucario blinks and snickers softly, knowing how hilarious that would be
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Satoshi winces, " yeah, please don't punch my pokemon. this is going to be tricky. maybe... would you be more comfortable if your pokemon battled against each other?"
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Aki blinks and looks over at satoshi, "ah. Yeah i used to do that a lot actually. Espeon used to teach Lucario a lot back when he was just a riolu."
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Satoshi smiles, " well, i think that's probably the way to go then. you'll trust your own pokemon more than you trust me. I can go ahead and start searching as well."
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Aki blushes when satoshi smiles at him before nodding, "alright... I'll practice battling... do some bonding in that aspect."
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Satoshi nods and lets Noivern out, " alright, i'll be back later, call me if anything happens okay?" he climbs onto the batlike pokemon who's once again very unhappy to be out during the day, but leaps into the air anyway.
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Aki watches satoshi leave before looking at lucario, "satoshi should give noivern some treats as a thanks or something cuz boy she seemed annoyed."
Lucario tsks softly and nods before they grab another pokemon and start training a bit
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Satoshi scans the ground as they fly, Noivern clicking softly as she uses echolocation to try and locate the trainer they sought.
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Aki and his pokemon spend most of their day in that same spot, working together.
Aki cant help but give a bit of a smile as he watches the smaller pokemon begin to learn
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After a long day of nothing Satoshi turns Noivern back, landing in front of the pokemon center and giving the pokemon some treats for her work before putting her away.
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Aki is on his bed at the center, snoozing a little with lucario napping next to him. In aki's hands is a pokeball that he is holding to his chest, obviously he had been waiting for satoshi before he fell asleep
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Satoshi goes in and sees Aki, smiling slightly when he sees Aki looking so cute. he walks over and gently shakes Aki's shoulder, "hey"
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Aki's eyes slowly open and he blinks before yawning and stretching, "hey, you're back."
Lucario stirs a bit before waking up and he slowly sits up, rubbing his eyes
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Satoshi nods, " yeah. no luck today, but that's just how it goes. you had dinner yet?"
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Aki shakes his head, "No, I passed out almost as soon as I came back. I wanted to show you!" He holds out the pokeball he was holding and lets out Dartrix, "We all practiced together and Rowlet evolved! It's been so long since one of them evolved that I forgot how exciting it was."
Dartrix flaps his wings briefly in excitement, also proud of himself
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Satoshi blinks and smiles, " well that's awesome! good job Dartrix! well, we gotta go get something good for dinner to celebrate this one, your first pokemon evolving in years."
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Aki chuckles and picks up Dartrix and gets the pokemon on to his shoulder, "Dont feel obligated to. I guess I just... felt tired of letting them down. I'm still not great but I promised them that I would start working on it."
Dartrix chirps softly and rubs against Aki, letting him know that he never let any of them down
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Satoshi snorts, " nonsense, you were just doing your best to protect them, you haven;t let anyone down. withe the shit we've dealt with lately, this is a good excuse to go out and have a good time. come on."
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Aki smiles and sets Dartrix down on the bed, "Alright, alright. Lucario, watch the room."
Lucario nods
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Satoshi digs in his bag for a minute and pulls out a treat, setting it in front of the owl pokemon, " and here's your celebratory treat. good job." He grabs his wallet and heads for the door, " lets goooo."
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Aki makes sure he has everything he needs before heading out of the pokemon center, looking at satoshi, "so what place did you have in mind?"
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Satoshi hums, " well there's only a couple good places in town that i know of, an Italian place and a Chinese place, plus a kind of weird new exotic fruit place but that's really new and im not sure how good it is. im up for anything, it's a celebration for you after all."
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Aki hums, "we can do the Italian place. Chinese you can find commonly and i already can eat a bunch of pokemon fruit so thats as exotic as it gets."
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Satoshi snorts, " Italian it is." he heads out of the pokemon center and to the restaurant.
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Aki chuckles and happily follows satoshi, "hey so I've been thinking. We know some things about each other but we kinda skipped that awkward small talk that normally occurs. Like the classic list of favorites and all that shit. I know its a little late for it but i wouldnt mind getting to know you a little more besides the fact that you were almost a pokemon champ and that you work on your families ranch."
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Satoshi blinks as he looks at Aki then chuckles, " uh, sure, why not? what do you want to know?"
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Aki blinks and hums softly, "I guess....whatever you want to tell me? Umm... do you prefer a sunrise, or a sunset?"
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Satoshi hums softly, " sunrise. it's the promise of the start of something new. um, i suppose my favorite color would be blue, and while i do enjoy some sweets, i prefer them as a rare treat. And how about you?"
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Aki grins and puts his hands in his pockets, "sunsets. They're full of energy and when i see one i know I've lived another day. My favorite color is orange and im a sweet fiend! I also love the rain. The worse the storm, the better i feel."
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Satoshi snorts softly, " can;t say im a fan of storms, but that's partly thanks to life on the farm. storms tend to cause trouble, not to mention trying to herd in mud and rain kind of sucks."
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Aki hums softly, "i get that. A life of a farm boy. But doesnt everything feel so refreshed afterwards? Like, nature is so fed up it has its own tantrum and when its over it feels better for letting their feelings out. I guess thats just how i see it since I've felt that before."
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Satoshi thinks it over, " i guess so. not that i usually get to enjoy the feeling, there's a lot to do after a storm. branches to pick up, fences and buildings to mend, making sure everything is safe and in order for the animals."
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Aki nods placing his hands behind his back, "your parents help with too right? Or are they doing other things?"
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" Oh of course they help if they're at the house. Sometimes of course they're off selling some of the animals or crops in town and aren't back in time to help, storms can blow up fast sometimes, and the work can't wait until they get back. But we all pitch in and do everything we can." Satoshi stops and opens the door when they get to the restaurant, "after you."
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Aki blushes a bit and chuckles, "Uh thanks." he heads inside, not used to someone opening the door for him
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Satoshi follows him in and heads to the host, " a table for 2 please. booth if you have it."
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Aki follows the host as well, sitting in the booth once they get to their table
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Satoshi takes a menu and starts looking it over, " looks like they have some pretty good stuff. im not going to have any alcohol, i want to keep my head clear in case we run into that dickwad, but you go ahead if you want to."
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Aki blinks and looks through his menu, biting his lip, "i.... i'm not at a bar looking to get drunk so I'll have to decline. Also you're here. I dont want to do anything silly in front of you."
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Satoshi snorts, " im not telling you to get piss drunk, but they do have some rather nice looking mixed drinks. I just want to keep my head perfectly clear. And even if you do something silly, it's fine, it's a treat for you, enjoy it."
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Aki is quiet before he bites his lip, "i think... for a short while i think.... I want to not drink. "
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Satoshi blinks and smiles, " alright." he decides on a soda and a meal, telling the waiter what he wanted when he next came by.
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He also tells the waiter what he wants, happy to stick with just water since he doesn't drink it much and his body would probably thank him for it. He wasn't sure how long he could go without alcohol but he wanted to try
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Before long the food is set in front of them with a basket of fresh breadsticks and satoshi grabs one of the sticks of crack to bite the end off, " mmm, fresh warm bread."
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Aki's nose twitches as he breathes in the smell of the breadsticks and also grabs one, "These smell really good. Something about baked bread just smells so good!"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, and fresh out of the oven is the best, that yeasty scent." he inhales deeply before munching the rest of his breadstick and starting on his meal.
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Aki finishes his breadstick and hums happily before he goes to his own meal, "thanks again for bringing me here. The food is really good. "
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Satoshi nods, " i've never been here before but this is really nice, thanks for giving me an excuse to bring you here." his eyes glint with humor, laughing softly.
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Aki chuckles and takes a sip of his water before looking at satoshi, "Well then I hope in the future I give you more reasons to take me to new places."
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Satoshi grins, " i look forward to it." he takes a bite of his meal, savoring the melody of flavors that burst on his tongue.
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Aki hums and keeps eating his food.
The waitress stops by their table after a bit, refilling aki's water, smiling, "how is everything tasting so far? Anything that i can refill for you two?"
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Satoshi smiles at her, " everything is fantastic, though i wouldn't mind a dessert menu to look at?"
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She nods and reaches into her apron to pull out one of the many dessert menu's and hands them to Satoshi, "There you are. And I would just like to let you know we are having a special on the strawberry and passion fruit crepe's for couple's. two for the price of one."
Aki looks at her curiously, enjoying the idea of a good deal, "Are they good? We've never been here."
The waitress nods and smiles, "We are very well known for our crepe's and the strawberry passion fruit flavor always gets sold out."
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Satoshi grins, " well im sold. we'll do that then. guess i won;t need this after all." he holds the menu back out to her.
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She smiles and takes the menu back, "Excellent, I'll put in an order." she writes it down in her little notepad before heading to the kitchen.
Aki looks at Satoshi and grins, "Cant help a good deal huh? Good thing she thinks we're a couple."
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Satoshi smiles, " thanks." he chuckles softly once she's out of earshot, " what can i say? it was a pretty good deal and it sounds pretty tasty. We are a couple, couple of dudes enjoying a good meal." he grins. " technically not lying, she never actually asked if we were involved romantically."
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Aki nods, "also we dont need to be a couple to be romantically involved." He gives a half hearted chuckle before taking a sip of his water.
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Satoshi chokes a bit on his drink before setting it down, " that's... true. regardless, we're not doing anything wrong, plus a free dessert so...yeah."
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Aki keeps chuckling softly, smiling happily.
Soon the waitress arrives with two plates full of beautifully arranged crepe's, topping and filled with cream, strawberries, and passion fruit. It's the fanciest dessert Aki has ever seen
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Satoshi looks at it amazed and makes a soft 'oooooo' noise while looking amazed, " oh wow that's fancy. thanks so much." he smiels at her and grabs his fork to dig into his portion. He takes a bite and sighs softly around the crepe, swallowing before he jabs his fork at Aki, " it's so good, have some!"
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Aki snorts and sets his drink down, "As if you need to tell me~" He digs in as well, smiling on reflex from how good it is, "Oh holy shit! Thats incredible! I can see why this dessert gets sold out so quickly!"
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Satoshi nods, " right? im glad we got in here before it was gone." he tries to take small bites, but the dessert vanishes rapidly.
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Aki sighs happily when he finishes eating, licking his fork clean, "Alright.... next time we're nearby we have to eat here again."
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Satoshi nods, " we gotta make sure to come before the dinner rush as well, so we can get this before it sells out." he looks down at his empty plate with a bit of regret but lifts a hand to flag down their waitress.
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The waitress quickly swings over after giving a table their food, "hey again! All ready for the bill~?"
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Satoshi nods, " yes, everything was excellent, thanks so much for recommending the dessert it was awesome." he grins.
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She nods happily, "its a personal favorite so im glad to recommend it whenever i can! Now, is this bill separate or together?"
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Satoshi nods, " well I'm glad you did. It's together, and I'm taking it. " He pulls a card out to cover the meal.
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Aki snorts softly, "you better take it."
The waitress gently takes the card, disappearing for a brief moment before coming back with the card, a pen, and the receipt slip, "thanks for stopping in, and have a good night!" She sets the items down before leaving
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Santiago grins at Aki and makes sure to leave a decent tip for the waitress, putting his card and the receipt away as he gets up, " shall we call it a night? "
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Aki gets out of the booth and stretches, "Yeah I think that'd be a good idea. Kinda just wanna be lazy tonight now. food coma ya know?"
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Satoshi nods, " oh yeah, im with you there." he grins and heads back to the pokemon center and their room, flopping onto his bed with a groan.
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Aki flops on to his bed and hums happily, "Thanks again for taking me there. that was great."
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Satoshi nods, " im glad i took you there, that was awesome. good food... and you earned it, im proud of you getting back into pokemon training."
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Aki cant help but smile, "It was... fun. everyone had a lot of fun. maybe eventually i'll be able to have a actual battle without punching someone's pokemon..."
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Satoshi snickers softly, " yeah that was... interesting."
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Aki curls up on his bed and yawns, "If i fall asleep, dont wake me."
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Satoshi chuckles, " alright." he sighs softly as he relaxes.
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Aki is fast to fall asleep, snoring softly and will likely be asleep until morning
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Satoshi lets a few pokemon out to keep watch and soon is also asleep, not waking until the light shines on his face, "nnnnngh...."
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Aki is already up, freshening up and brushing his teeth
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Satoshi grumbles and gets up, rubbing his face before he stretches and gets up, heading into the bathroom and seeing Aki, " morning." he grabs his own toothbrush and stands to the side brushing his teeth.
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Aki hums in response, not exactly able to talk at the moment. He spits into the sink and rinses his brush off before wiping his mouth, "Morning."
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Satoshi does the same shortly after, " well, i'd better get moving to get on the search again. though i feel like he's probably moved out of the area if you'd rather try and find the people who raised you."
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Aki nods, "Yeah i'll probably be doing some digging around. we'll probably do better to move before noon to somewhere else if we arent getting anywhere here."
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Satoshi nods, " alright. i'll be back in a few hours if i don't find anything."
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Aki nods, "Same. " he grabs his backpack and heads out
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Satoshi lets Noivern out and takes her to search, using her ultra sonic to try and detect anyone as he scouts around near the town.
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After a few hours of coming up empty handed aki returns to the pokemon center, disappointed but not surprised
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Satoshi returns at about the same time, guiding Noivern down and giving her a treat before returning her, " i didn't find anything, you?"
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Aki shakes his head, "dry as a desert."
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Satoshi sighs, " alright, guess we're moving on then."
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Aki nods, "yup." He pulls out a map of the area, "where do you think we should go to?"
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Satoshi hums, " well, they're supposed to be over here right?"
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Aki nods, "according to the files from the lab. It mentioned a hydro damn for energy so somewhere with a lot of water would be my first bet."
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Satoshi hums and looks over the map before point to a spot, " looks like there's a river there, that would be my first guess."
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Aki nods and sets the coordinates in his phone, "alright. We got ourselves a destination."
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Satoshi nods and packs up his things, " might as well get moving."
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Aki makes sure he has his stuff together before giving his room key back to nurse joy
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Satoshi lets skarmory out and waits for Aki.
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Aki lets pidgeot out and hops on before taking off into the sky, knowing satoshi will be right behind
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Satoshi does indeed direct Skarmory to follow, keeping close.
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Pidgeot happily chirps as she flies, enjoying how sunny it is
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Skarmory calls out as well, her voice metallic.
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Aki smiles at how happy his pidgeot is, "this really is a nice day~"
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Satoshi smiles, " yeah, a perfect day for flying."
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They fly for a while, pidgeot still able to keep up.
Aki takes this time of silence to daydream, thinking about if he actually let himself 'date'
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Skarmory keeps to Pidgeot's pace, chirping at her to make small talk as they fly.
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Pidgeot happily converses with skarmory
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Skarmory seems happy to chat with Pidgeot. satoshi chuckles, " wow, those gals are really talking up a storm."
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Aki blinks and looks at satoshi, "Ah. yeah pidgeot loves company."
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Satoshi nods, " skarmory does too, she's just not great at making friends isn;t that right girl?" he pats her neck and she croons happily.
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Aki chuckles, "well she can count pidgeot as her friend, right pidge?"
Pidgeot nods, chirping happily.
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Satoshi smiles, " hear that girl? you've got a new friend." Skarmory chirps and looks extremely pleased.
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Aki chuckles and keeps petting pidgeot as they fly, " how much longer do you think we have?"
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Satoshi hums softly and checks his map, " it's a ways, im not sure we'll reach it today. especially since pidgeot tires out easily, though we ought to be able to use land pokemon for the later part."
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Pidgeot pouts a bit when she hears satoshi's comment
Aki pats her side, "it's okay pidge. He's kinda right although it's not entirely your fault. "
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Satoshi looks over, " of course it's not your fault, it's simply how things are. all things considered you do great."
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Pidgeot chirps, a bit happier at the compliment.
Aki nods, "Exactly. but dont let it get to your head and push yourself. If your wing starts to feel strained then please land."
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Satoshi nods, " there's no reason for you to injure yourself. im sure Aki would be quite upset if you got hurt."
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Pidgeot nods, chirping in acknowledgment. she may have enjoyed the praises but she was still an adult pokemon who knew better!
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Skarmory adds her own comments about being responsible and making sure to only do what they're capable of.
Satoshi chuckles, " well, it looks like we're reaching the flatter area where we can take land pokemon soon. should we set down and switch to give these ladies a rest?"
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Aki nods, "Yeah lets land, maybe get a quick snack in since its been a few hours and then go by land for a bit."
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Satoshi nods and guides Skarmory down where she starts taking a dust bath, kicking up dirt, " oh come on girl!" Satoshi exclaims and moves away waving his hand in front of his face.
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Pidgeot safely lands and lets aki get off before pecking at the ground
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Satoshi shakes his head and moves upwind to avoid the dust blowing at him and pulls out some of their easy foodstuffs for snacks.
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Aki grabs some snacks from his backpack and happily munches, "Man they are enjoying the dirt."
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Satoshi nods, " skarmory loves it when i get a handful of sand and polish her feathers with it."
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Aki snorts, "pidge just likes the feeling in her wings."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well it's good for them, smothers any mites they may have. not that skarmory gets that issue, being a steel type. but normal flesh and blood bird pokemon do."
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Aki blinks and shudders, "pid fb e you dont have mites, do you?"
Pidgeot shakes her head no
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " they're tiny, she wouldn;t even know she had them except that they would make her itch a little."
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Aki is quiet for a minute before shaking his head, "i dont think she has mites. Im pretty anal about everyone's care and she's never complained about being itchy before."
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Satoshi shrugs, " well regardless that's why they have the instinct to dust bathe."
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Pidgeot chirps for a little bit and Aki's expression falls to a deadpan, "Are you..... are you serious Pidge? Thats not a good reason to get dirty!"
Pidgeot looks away innocently and begins pecking the ground away from Aki
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " what'd she say?"
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"She purposefully gets dirty just so that I clean her with her favorite brush."
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Satoshi laughs, " why am i not surprised.
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Aki shakes his head, despite the smile on his face, "man, what am i gonna do with her."
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Satoshi grins, " that's your issue, i have nothing to do with it."
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Aki sighs and grabs a brush meant for birds out of his backpack and goes over to her, "Well she does have me in a checkmate since i obviously dont want her to be dirty."
Pidgeot sees him and quickly stops moving, chirping excitedly to get some good brush pets
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Skarmory looks up from her enthusiastic dust bath and chirps softly, head tilted.
Satoshi shakes his head, " you've got metal feathers hon, you're not wrangling me into this. a rinse off will have you back to perfect condition."
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Aki chuckles, "sometimes its less about the brushing and more about the attention."
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Satoshi nods, " uh huh, and im not letting mine get so spoiled. come on, away you go." he holds up the pokeball and Skarmory considers it for a moment before returning.
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Aki pouts, "so what if i spoil them a bit~? My pokemon are unique and i need to make sure they know i love them"
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Satoshi raises his hands, " and that's fine for you! i work on a ranch, there's too much to do and too many pokemon to give them all that kind of extra attention. and you know if i do it for one, they're all gonna want it."
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Aki flinches a little, not used to that and he frowns and looks away, "I...wasnt saying you had to spoil them..."
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" i know, and im just explaining why i don't. sorry, this turned into way more of a thing than i intended. lets just drop it okay?" He finishes his snack and packs the trash away in his bag.
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Aki quietly finishes brushing pidgeot before putting the brush away and sitting down away from satoshi. He could go for a long island right about now...
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Satoshi sighs and lets Rapidash out, letting her stretch her legs while he waits for Aki to be ready to go.
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Aki lets pidge go back in her ball and lets arcanine out. He pats his side before getting on and arcanine eagerly starts running towards their destination
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Satoshi blinks as Aki takes off, quickly mounting up and urging Rapidash to follow after. cripes, he really hadn;t meant that to turn into an argument or upset the other. well, that was part of why he was staying away from the whole relationship thing, he didn;t exactly have good luck with it.
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Aki lays down on arcanines body, hugging his neck a little as he sighs. This is why he didnt do relationships. He just could never get it right. He wasnt used to having someone long term near him.
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Satoshi checks his map to make sure they're on the right trail, and seeing that they lets Rapidash do what she wants, which is to immediately run past Arcanine and stay ahead of him to avoid the flying slobber from the massive dog pokemon and to stay out of licking range.
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After a few hours Aki stops arcanine as they come to a large and busy bridge that rests over a large river, a dam a mile down
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Satoshi eases Rapidash to slow down, " where do you think, upstream or down? i doubt they'll be in a place this busy."
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Aki hums softly, "....downstream. where the dam is. I want to gake a closer look. See if we cant find any pipes or something weird that could lead us to a facility."
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Satoshi nods, " good idea." he pats Rapidash's neck, " alright girl, get us closer?" the horse pokemon snorts and starts off the path downstream, picking her way across the rougher terrain carefully.
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Aki looks at arcanine, "be careful of the water, okay?"
Arcanine boofs softly and does his best to actually focus on a task
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Rapidash snorts and startles when she finds a trail, glancing back at her trainer. Satoshi looks down at it, " looks like an atv trail, i think we're on the right track."
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arcanine follows rapidash, doing his best to not lick the horse pokemon.
Aki feels nervous as he glances around, the trail going lower towards the river
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Rapidash keeps far enough ahead to avoid getting licked anyway as she follows the trail down. When they reach the river concrete and structures greet them, hidden from the main roads.
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on his way down the path arcanine stops following rapidash and instead starts sniffing the ground, getting closer to the rushing waters of the dam
aki blinks and huffs, "Arcanine, you're getting too close to the water. You need to follow satoshi."
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Satoshi looks back, " maybe he's got a trail, lets follow it and see."
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Aki looks at satoshi, looking slightly worried before nodding and turning to look at arcanine, "okay uh... okay i guess follow whatever you got bud... just... just uh. Watch the water..."
Arcanine wags his tail and doesnt stop following the scent. He pushes past some tall and thick bushes and the rushing waters of the dam are loud enough to drown out all other sounds.
There's a metal door hidden behind the vegetation with a key card swipe device on the side.
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Satoshi has Rapidash follow and grins when he sees the door, hopping down and walking close to Aki so he can shout over the water " well we can't get in, but that's definitely suspicious. i think we're on the right track."
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Aki looks at satoshi and nods before getting off arcanine and going up to the door to investigate to key swipe closer.
He's frowns and looks back at satoshi, "do you think-" his eyes look past satoshi as he notices a cctv camera positioned high in a nearby tree, the lens pointed straight at them, "shit you think thats a bad thing?" He points to the camera
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Satoshi looks and quickly looks away, " yeah, i'd say that's a very bad thing. shit. it's probably being saved somewhere too."
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Aki starts looking a little nervous as he looks down, "Um... what do you think we should do? Go big, or go home and hope a bunch of men in black dont show up for us?"
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Satoshi hums, " im not sure there's much we can do. i don;t know how to get into this, do you? we can try to break it, but im betting it's pokemon proof."
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Aki takes off his backpack and digs through before pulling out the key card he had taken back at silph, "do you think the master key card from silph would work here? "
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Satoshi blinks, " im not sure. worth a shot anyway. we're already going to be in trouble." he hops off rapidash and returns her, " may want to have combat pokemon out." he lets out Typhlosion, who growls and flares the fires on his neck.
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Aki goes up to the door and swipes the card through the slot.
after a while when nothing happens aki deflates a little and sighs, "okay...wishful thinking on my part..."
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Satoshi nods, " it was worth a shot. back up." he waits until Aki moves back and nods to Typhlosion who squints at the pad before carefully aiming a thin stream of fire onto it, steadily pouring fire on it.
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Aki stumbles back with a yelp, "jesus christ satoshi!"
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Satoshi chuckles, " well we're already in a shitload of trouble, may as well try everything we can. keep at it buddy." he tilts his head as he watches the pad turning cherry red.
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The light to the door suddenly turns green and opens, leading into a narrow hallway with the same kind of door a few yards down.
Aki snorts, "a windowless tunnel.... do you... should we go through now that its open and get to that other door?"
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Santiago blinks and shakes his head, " that idea gives me the rain creeps. This screams trap to me. "
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Aki nods, "glad we came to the same conclusion. Let's beat it, yeah?"
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Satoshi nods, " definitely. " He puts explosion away and lets rapidash out, backing away from the door and mounting up.
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Aki goes back over to arcanine who had been waiting patiently and hops on his back before quickly taking off to get out of the immediate area
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Satoshi urges rapidash after the dog pokemon, letting him lead as long as they're getting out of there.
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Once they get away from the area aki slows arcanine down before turning to look at satoshi, "um what should we do?"
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Satoshi slows once they get away, " im...not sure."
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Aki hums softly before looking at satoshi, "Maybe we should go to the other side of this river and see if they have anything similar to the other side?"
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Satoshi nods, " might as well before they come and check out the area."
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Aki nods and pats arcanines side and the dog starts heading towards the bridge
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Satoshi guides Rapidash after him and starts snooping around.
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After a few minutes of snooping Aki doesnt find anything and he sighs, "maybe we should just do something else for now. that door back there had me way too spooked."
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Satoshi nods, " i'd rather not stay in the area for too long, who knows who they'll send to check out the damage, or look for us?"
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Aki shudders, "maybe we should go to a nearby town or something? I have chills." he looks around, trying to see if anyone is near him
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Satoshi frowns and nods, " probably... lets move." he guides rapidash back to the road and urges her back towards town.
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arcanine quickly follows after rapidash and aki clings to arcanine
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Once onto the road Satoshi lets Rapidash have her head and she starts running along the road.
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aki sighs, "That place overall has weird vibes. i dont really wanna go back."
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Satosi nods and keeps urging Rapidash onward, not stopping until they reach town.
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aki looks down and sighs before hugging arcanine
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Satoshi slides off and returns the pokemon, " lets stay the night here. we can think about what we want to do next..."
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Arcanine stops and aki gets down, "Okay."
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Satoshi heads inside and gets them a room, taking their key card and going to their room, sitting on a bed, " well that was a disaster."
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Aki follows suit and shudders, getting on his bed, "i feel weird about that whole thing..."
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Satoshi nods, " it was definitely not an ideal situation. lets just hope they didn;t get a good look at us."
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Aki is quiet for a minute before sighing, "what an awful situation. Im sorry we even went there."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " you couldn;t have known. we're just trying to figure all this shit out about the people who raised you."
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Aki sighs, "Maybe we shouldnt bother for now then. I dont want to put us in danger like that."
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Satoshi nods, " i suppose not. especially since we just stirred up that beedrill nest. best to let things settle before we even think about trying again."
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Aki nods and sighs, "I dotn know whats worse. that feeling I had while being near that door or any time I have ever been near that cray tyranitor."
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Satoshi sighs, " that pokemon needs to be put down, that's not something i like to say but i don't think it can be rehabilitated."
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Aki looks down, "I dont think its even.... there anymore. So dont feel too bad if you do end up.... killing it. "
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Satoshi nods, " i tried, and i won't stop trying. that's the only way we'll win."
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Aki grows increasingly uncomfortable and he gets up, "I-im taking a shower." he goes to the bathroom and closes the door
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Satoshi sighs and lays on his bed.
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Aki washes himself, letting the steam relax him a bit, sighing and feeling a little better. Its been a hot minute since he's had either alcohol or sex and he was starting to feel mentally fatigued.
He shudders before stepping out of the shower and wrapping a towel around his waist
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Satoshi is laying on the bed on his back with his arm over his face. He was going to have to kill a pokemon in cold blood. but it was for the best, to save others.
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Aki steps out of the bathroom and goes to his bag and changes into pajama's since he sure as hell wasnt going outside for the night. he should ask satoshi if he was hungry but damn he could barely stomach food right now as it is
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Satoshi sighs and sits up, blinking when he sees Aki. He hadn;t heard him come out. "ah. i suppose i ought to get us food..."
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Aki goes to his bed and sits down, "i suppose i should get something in my stomach."
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Satoshi nods and gets up, " i'll be back." he heads out and goes to get them two meals, coming back and handing a tray to Aki.
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Aki waits until satoshi comes back and takes the tray, "thanks." He slowly eats the food
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Satoshi sits cross legged on his bed and slowly eats his own meal.
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Aki glances over at satoshi and clears his throat, "Hey uh.... if i still feel nervous before we go to bed can i.... can we maybe push the beds together or... something? I just- have a weird feeling in my gut so i kinda want to be near someone."
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Satoshi blinks and smiles, " sure, we can do that if you want."
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Aki sighs in relief and nods, "Thanks."
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Satoshi finishes his meal and gets up, shoving his bed up against Aki's.
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Aki sets his tray to the side and sighs, "I do appreciate you letting this happen. im sure once we get farther away i'll feel a bit better."
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Satoshi nods, " no problem. it's not a big deal. do you want Ariados out?"
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Aki quickly nods, "Yeah. i think lucario is resting in his pokeball so i dont wanna bother him"
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satoshi lets the spider pokemon out from her pokeball and she shakes herself off before blinking up at Aki and screeing softly in excitement, clambering up onto his bed and nuzzling him.
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aki hugs her and pets her as he tries to calm himself down
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She croons softly to him to comfort him, nuzzling him and enjoying the petting and hugging.
Satoshi lays down, getting comfy.
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Aki starts to fall asleep and humming a little as he drifts in and out
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Ariados just stays snuggled against him, letting him do whatever he needs to for comfort.
Satoshi falls asleep decently quickly.
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hours tick by and soon the moon is high in the sky when aki slowly opens his eyes. He blinks and pushes himself up, curiously looking around before getting out of bed.
He normally didnt wake up so easily... he goes over to the window and carefully unlocks and opens it to get a bit of fresh air, sighing softly.
Aki rests his arms on the window sill, taking in the quiet night when he noticed a set of footprints trail from the forest and end at their window, with no footprints showing that anyone that approached ever left.
He gasps and scrambles to close the window and lock it again and he scrambles back onto the bed, past ariados, and grabbing for satoshi in a bit of a panic, "Satoshi! Satoshi! Someone was at the window!!"
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Satoshi jerks awake and blinks, " well that's creepy. we could head out to the main sitting room of the pokemon center if you want." he yawns.
Ariados stretches and chitters concernedly.
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Aki whines softly, "no its weirder than that! no one was at the window when i woke up but there are no tracks leading away from the window!!"
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Satoshi blinks and frowns, " that's... weird. the window was locked?"
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Aki nods, "I had to unlock it when i wanted to get some fresh air."
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Satoshi hums, " maybe they climbed up onto the roof? that's odd for sure. i suppose it could be a ghost pokemon playing tricks."
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aki whines and hides under the covers, scooting against satoshi
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Satoshi blinks and looks down at Aki, " ah... okay. so... do you want to stay in here and try to go back to sleep? or see if anyone is up in the common room?"
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Aki pokes his head out to look at satoshi, "Ye-yeah sure- I- maybe we can figure out if they have security camera's around."
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Satoshi nods and slowly gets up, " lets go then. come on Ariados." the spider pokemon chatters and hops off the bed.
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Aki gets out of bed and keeps himself close to satoshi as they start to leave the room
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Satoshi stays close to Aki to keep him comfortable. Ariados follows after, staying at Aki's side. Satoshi get to the common room and looks around.
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The room for the most part is empty since its the middle of the night, a chansey is at the nurses station, watching the lobby and making sure everything is going alright
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Satoshi heads over to the nurse station, " hey, you guys don;t have cameras outside the buildings do you?"
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Chancey blinks, "chaaance?"
Aki nods, "yeah i thought... maybe i saw or heard something outside and i get nervous easily. "
Chancey tilts her head before nodding. She grabs her little keycard and heads around the station down the hall, "chance! Chanseeeey!"
Aki looks at satoshi, "this way to the security room." He starts following the pokemon
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Satoshi nods and follows. Ariados chitters excitedly and scurries after.
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Chansey lifts her tiny arm to the door, pressing her card against the door and it beeps open. She turns on the lights and goes over to a desk where a computer and a few monitors and cutely climbs on to her chair before she starts tapping on the keyboard, "chan chansey?"
Aki blinks and looks at satoshi, "whats our room number again?"
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Satoshi nods, " we're in 136." he looks at the screen curiously.
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Chansey nods and starts tapping on the keyboard until a screen pops up outside, showing the side of the building where there are indeed footsteps coming from the forest up to the window
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, that's it. can you rewind it so we can see what the hell made those?"
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Chansey nods and some more tapping on the keyboard is heard.
The tape rewinds a bit and stops when something appears on screen.
Chansey slowly rewinds it a bit more before hitting the kaeru button.
On the screen you can see someone walk from the first towards the window. Its hard to see who it is since their wearing a long hooded trench coat.
The figure pulls out a pen and notebook, writing for a few minutes before it slowly starts walking backwards, making sure to step in his own tracks as he goes back into woods.
Its only a few minutes later that you see aki open the window and lean against it for fresh air.
Chansey frowns and the creepiness of it all, "chaaaansey....."
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Satoshi blinks, " ooookay.... well that's fucking creepy. Guess i'll have Ariados set up some tripwire webs to let us know if he gets close again... Or maybe Noivern can stay out there, she'd like to scare the crap out of someone."
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Aki shudders, "ye-yeah that wouldnt be a bad idea. Also you can sleep on that side of the bed since its closer to the window."
Chansey looks at aki, "chansey, chansey, sey, chansey?"
Aki blinks and looks at satoshi, "chansey wants to know if we want her to write up an incident report."
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Satoshi nods, " that would be excellent if you could? it's probably just focused on us knowing our luck, but hopefully if that incident is already out there they'll take us more seriously if we do catch the guy."
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Chansey nods and opens up a word program and starts typing.
Aki blinks, "smart chansey."
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Satoshi nods, " no kidding. they must have some rigorous training. either that or the nurse joy here is one of the less bright ones and this chansey has had to pick up the slack." he chuckles.
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Chansey looks at satoshi, looking a little upset
aki quickly picks up on it and looks at satoshi, "I suppose any jokes involving nurse joy are out of the question."
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Satoshi rubs the back of his head, " ah, sorry. my apologies chansey."
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Chansey nods and glances at the time before looking at the boys, "chansey Chansey?"
Aki looks at satoshi, "yeah we uh. Should probably get back to bed. "
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Satoshi nods, " yeah. we'll put the blinds down and curtains and make sure there's no creepy shit happening okay? thanks a lot chansey." he heads back to their room, ariados scuttling behind.
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Aki quickly follows behind satoshi, "you think this is because we went messing with that weird passage way? "
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Satoshi shrugs, " im not sure honestly." when they get to the room and opens the window and Ariados scuttles out, working on a complicated web system that was nearly invisible to be an early warning. Satoshi lets Noivern out as well before shutting and locking the window, " sorry, but to be effective she'll need to be outside where she can feel her web." he pulls the blinds and curtains to obscure the window as much as possible. Noivern settles herself in a large tree nearby to watch hidden, and Ariados hides as well, a clawed foot on her web.
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Aki frowns and rubs his arm, "that sucks... i really like to hold her in my sleep..."
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Satoshi nods, " i know, but she's the only pokemon i have that can set web traps like that."
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Aki curls under the covers and pouts. Really he could just hug his own pokemon but he liked hugging ariados
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Satoshi settles between Aki and the window, sighing as he closes his eyes to try and go back to sleep.
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Aki bites his lower lip before getting closer to satoshi, wanting to be even closer
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Satoshi feels Aki scooting closer and mentally debates saying something, before just letting it go. If Aki was that spooked and wanted comfort he could deal with it. especially since Ariados wasn;t here to be Aki's cuddle buddy.
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Aki listens to satoshi breathing and soon he falls asleep
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Satoshi waits until he hears Aki's breathing even out in sleep before he lets himself drift off.
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The rest of the night goes uneventful and aki sleeps for the rest of the night
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Satoshi sleeps until mid morning, yawning as he gets up and and grumbles softly to himself unintelligibly.
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The movement causes aki to stir awake and he yawns before stretching, "Mmmmmmm~! Mornin."
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Satoshi smiles, " good morning." he goes to the window and opens the curtains and unlocks it, opening the window.
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Aki sighs and gets out of bed, "every thing seemed fine last night."
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Satoshi nods, " i didn't hear anything." Ariados chatters happily as she climbs in through the window and snuggles up to Aki.
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Aki smiles and hugs ariados happily, "i'm sorry you had to be outside all night!"
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She chatters softly, not upset about it in the slightest just missing all the snuggles.
Satoshi sticks his head out the window and Noivern flies down, and he reaches out to caress her snout affectionately before returning her to her pokeball.
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Aki smiles, "thank you for doing all of that for my benefit."
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She nuzzles him and chatters happily, talking about the pokemon she saw outside even though she didn;t see any people.
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Aki hums, "yeah? How many of them? "
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Satoshi looks over and raises an eyebrow, " huh?"
Ariados thinks, she hadn't counted, but quickly lists off all the nocturnal pokemon that had been out in the woods she saw.
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Aki chuckles, "Yeah that is a lot. I suppose thats a good thing though. an active forest means there isnt a disturbance." he glances at satoshi and blushes a bit, "ah. ariados is just telling me of all the pokemon she saw last night."
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Satoshi blinks and chuckles, " ah, i forget sometimes. i'll go get us breakfast." he gets up and heads to go fetch them both meals.
Ariados nods in agreement and tucks her legs under herself as she lays down on the bed.
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Aki watches satoshi leave before getting up and getting dressed
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Satoshi grabs two trays of waffles and eggs which was the breakfast that morning and comes back, knocking on the door with a foot as his hands are full.
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Aki perks up and he goes to the door and opens it for satoshi, "welcome back! Smells good. "
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Satoshi grins, " yeah, looks pretty good too." he steps in and sets one of the trays on the table, " fresh made waffles." he sets his own as well and pulls a bag of pokemon food from his backpack, pouring some into a dish, " and breakfast for the good girl who kept watch last night." Ariados chatters excitedly and jumps off the bed, enjoying the chow.
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Aki goes over to his tray and takes it, "man my mouth is watering. i need this after the night we had."
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Satoshi nods, " no kidding." he grins and sits with his tray, digging in.
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aki starts eating and hums happily. he glances at satoshi before quickly looking away, stuffing his face
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Satoshi is busy also stuffing his face and does not notice.
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Aki finishes his food before heading to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face, hoping the cold water will also help him
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Satoshi finishes his and sets the tray aside, waiting for his own turn in the bathroom.
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Aki stretches and exits the bathroom, his hair no longer styled and pretty since he wasnt feeling.... well enough to want to do anything to it
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Satoshi gets up and heads in, getting himself ready to go.
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Aki starts packing up, making sure he was ready to go when satoshi was ready
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Satoshi comes out when he's ready and sees Aki packing, " so what's the plan?" he starts packing his own stuff away.
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Aki hums, "Unsure. definitely dont want to go back to the dam and I also want to get away from this location. want to try to locate Jay and his Tyranitar."
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satoshi nods, " that's not a bad idea. sounds like a good plan for now. lets things cool down here before we think about coming back."
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aki nods, "yeah i really want to get out of the area haha..." he swings his backpack on and rubs his arm. he was so ready to head out
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Satoshi nods, " understandable." he grabs his bag and returns Ariados. " lets move then."
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Aki nods and quickly heads out of the pokemon center, looking at satoshi, "this means we're going to have to go back to areas with police stations to see if anything has popped up on their end, right?"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah. we don't really have anything to go off right now."
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Takana nods and frowns, " thats unfortunate, but its the best thing we can do right now."
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Satoshi nods, " next town over has a police station i think. should we go there? or go further away from here?"
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"Next town is fine. It may not be our last stop for the day so we could go a little farther after."
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Satoshi nods, " alright." and lets out skarmory, climbing onto her back, " in that case lets move fast. plus we're more likely to avoid anyone trying to find us after yesterday if we fly."
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Aki lets pidgeot out and gets on her back as well.
Pidgeot chirps and stretches her wings out in excitement
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Skarmory chirps excitedly at Pidgeot, happy to see her new bud again. Satoshi chuckles and carefully pets her neck, careful to not cut himself on her feathers, before urging her into the air. She leaps up quickly and flutters as she waits for the other pokemon.
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Pidgeot takes off after skarmory, her chirps sounding more like singing
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Skarmory is happy to listen to the other pokemon, her own voice was harsh and metallic.
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Aki gently pets pidge as the pokemon sings, "you sure love to be heard, dont ya pidge?"
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Satoshi chuckles, " well skarmory seems to enjoy listening. we should leave these two gossiping gals out together sometime, though maybe away from us so they don;t keep us awake all night with their chattering."
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Aki looks at satoshi and smiles, nodding, "yeah i think pidge would like that."
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Satoshi nods, " and i know this lady would enjoy it as well." Skarmory gave a raspy croon in affirmation.
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pidge looks at skarmory and tweets happily, enjoying the feeling of having a new friend
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Satoshi chuckles and pats the steel bird, " alright miss, lets focus on our flying."
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Pidgeot keeps flying, not getting nearly as tired as she used to.
Aki takes this opportunity to look around the area as they fly
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Satoshi smiles, noting pidgeots extended stamina. Soon the buildings of the town come into view in the distance.
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Aki sighs in relief when he sees the town, "i'm glad we're almost there. This town is pretty busy so people can't just sneak around at night. "
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Satoshi nods and guides Skarmory down to the police station, " we may not stay the night here, we'll have to see what information we can get." he heads in and starts asking for whatever information he can get on his quarry.
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Aki follows, quickly spotting a lone officer doing his work and aki happily walks over to start flirting
the chief at the station answers any questions that satoshi has. There hasnt been any kind of suspicious activity that satoshi specifically is looking into. They were dealing with something else but it did not involve a tyranitar killing any pokemon
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Satoshi frowns, " there's been no reports not even in this area? and what is the other thing you're dealing with?"
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The chief nods, "no reports on the guy you're looking for, but we've been having weird instances of pokemon disappearing but only for a week. Then they come back however they are all startled and the trainers say they act differently. We have no idea where they go and since they come back we xant really figure out whats going on."
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Satoshi frowns, " that's... definitely odd...have you considered setting a trap? place a tracker on a pokemon and leave it out in a yard for bait? Obviously the pokemon would need to be willing."
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The chief nods, "we've tried but any time we put a tracker on one that pokemon is never affected. So we tried just waiting and following them but as soon as they get to the forest line we lose them. Like they just disappear."
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Satoshi hums, " that's odd. i wish i could help, i've got nothing though."
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The chief nods and sighs, "its a predicament. we're hoping its just another pokemon pulling some weird prank."
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Satoshi debates mentioning the facility not far, but as he had no evidence that there was anything illegal going on there he decides to keep that to himself. " well, thank you for your help."
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"Sure thing kid. good luck and stay safe out there, okay?"
Aki stops flirting with the rookie officer, happily stuffing the guys phone number in his pocket before going over to satoshi, "So, learn anything?"
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Satoshi walks over to Aki, " not what i was looking for. though pokemon have been vanishing around here."
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Aki's eyes widen and he blinks, "Jesus. seriously? where are they all going?"
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Satoshi shakes his head, " they don't know and haven't been able to figure it out. something tells me it might have something to do with that facility, but that's only a hunch."
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Aki blinks, "Have.... any come back or...?"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, they come back but the trainers say they're skittish and act different than they did before."
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Aki blinks and shrugs, "Okay. I'll talk to them then. Problem solved, right?"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah i keep forgetting about that. but it's worth a try anyway."
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aki nods and stretches, "Anything other than that?"
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satoshi shakes his head, " nope, except that they've tried to put trackers on pokemon as bait but those never get taken. it's weird."
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Aki hums, "so it sounds like maybe they're being watched before hand so they know which pokemon have what trackers?"
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Satoshi nods, " that's what it seems like. well, lets see if we can locate a few of these pokemon and see what they have to say i suppose."
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Aki nods, "Yeah let's go find some of these trainers." Aki starts looking for some trainers to talk to
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Satoshi nods and starts asking around, trying to find someone who's had a pokemon taken.
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A petite girl, about 14 is one of the pokemon trainers who was dealing with the aftermath of having one of her pokemon abducted and she frowns when satoshi approaches her, "i... don't really want to bring up the past."
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Satishi kneels down to look at her, " i know it must be tough. i have a friend who's really really good with pokemon, he might be able to help yours. will you let him see your pokemon?"
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Paige frowns and sighs, "that's what a lot of people said. Raichu has been in nurse joys care for months only for nothing to come of it. What on earth makes you think your friend is more capable at helping pokemon than an actual pokemon nurse? "
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Satoshi sighs, " im sorry you've had to go through that. my friend is pretty special, he has an uncanny way of being able to guess what a pokemon might be trying to tell him. I'll tell you what, i'll bring him over here, and we can ask Raichu if he's willing to talk with him? after all we can all understand if he nods or shakes his head."
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Paige sighs and digs into her front overall pocket, pulling out a glittery pokeball, "if you're sure..."
Aki is down the block, talking to some other trainers
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Satoshi pulls his phone out and sends a quick text to Aki, telling him they might have a possible lead. " well im not sure, nothing in the world is certain. but it's something you haven't tried yet, and i'd want my pokemon to be as happy and healthy as they can be, no matter what it took to get them that way." his thoughts go to skunktank and he quickly dismisses them, he's trying his best to make sure the pokemon has the best quality of life, and for now that meant he stayed in his pokeball which had everything the pokemon could want.
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Aki gets the text and he says goodbye to the other he was talking to before heading back, looking around until he sees Satoshi, "Oiii~! You got a lead?" he sees the girl and blinks, "she's tiny. how old is she?"
Paige blinks before turning red and huffing, "im 14 you stinky adult!"
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Satoshi shakes his head, " not the best impression dude." he looks at her, " rude though he may be, this is the friend i was talking about. will you let Raichu out so we can ask if he's willing to talk to him?"
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Paige raises an eyebrow at Satoshi, "talk?"
Aki looks at Satoshi before shrugging. he leans over paige and sighs, "I am really good at knowing what a pokemon is saying. really good. like, you could say i know what they are saying. so, if you could please allow me the chance to talk to your pokemon, you'll be grateful."
Paige's eye twitch, "know what they are saying? i dont believe."
aki shrugs, "well, one way to prove if im telling the truth or not. your choice since i can just find someone else."
Paige blinks before huffing quietly, "yeah. it is my choice." she lets her raichu out, watching as the pokemon quickly flinches and curls up into a tight ball.
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Satoshi chuckles, " well, even if he just asked yes and no questions for the pokemon to respond to, technically that's still them talking. And i did say he was really good at understanding pokemon." he frowns as he sees the Raichu, " it's alright buddy, nobody here is going to hurt you."
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the ball doesnt move, doesnt even make a sound as raichu stays a tight as possible.
paige frowns, "He's been like this ever since. not even his favorite treats will calm him down. i cant even hold him to make him feel better."
Aki blinks and frowns, studying raichu for a second before casually picking him up and tucking him under his arm like a basketball, "got it."
Paige blinks, her eyes widening slightly, "H-hey what are you doing?"
Aki turns around, "Just gonna have a talk with him alone. give him a neutral space without anyone around."
Paige sputters slightly, "you cant just take him! you could just leave and not come back!"
Aki groans softly at the child assuming he'd steal a pokemon, however, instead of arguing he just turns back to satoshi and holds out the balled up pokemon, "hold this for a second."
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Satoshi gently takes the pokemon, " we're not going to steal your pokemon. here, i'll let you hold onto one of mine until we get back okay?" he holds out a pokeball to her. " this is Ariados, you can let her out if you want, she's one of the sweetest pokemon you'll ever meet. i promise i won't let anything bad happen to your raichu okay?"
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Aki snorts and grins at Satoshi, "You little shit i was going to do that. i gave you raichu so i can grab my bag and pull out my lapras. she's pretty important to me and wont cause any trouble in case."
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Satoshi blinks and laughs softly, " well you can go ahead, then she'll know we're doubly serious."
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aki pulls out a pokeball and hands it to paige, "here, double insurance. i just need some one on one time with raichu." he looks at satoshi, "just me and raichu."
paige blinks when both balls are handed to her and she holds them close, not wanting to lose precious pokemon that belonged to other people
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Satoshi hands Raichu back to Aki, " here you are. good luck." he takes a seat on the grass, laying back to wait. " might as well get comfortable, im not sure how long it'll take. guess it depends on what Raichu has to tell him. So, is he your only pokemon?" he turns his head to look at her, looking rather silly as a grown ass man laying on the ground, which was intentional to get her to relax hopefully.
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Aki takes raichu and walks off
paige frowns as she watches her pokemon leave, "um.. n-no he isnt my only pokemon, just my first pokemon. i got him from my brother and his then girlfriend after their two pikachu's had an egg. I was given the egg as a gift and the day they got married my egg hatched into a pichu. I've raised him since... he's very important to me..."
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Satoshi nods, " i hear ya, pokemon like that... well they're family. most of them are anyway, but it'd be like losing a sibling to lose one like that."
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Paige looks down and she sniffles loudly, "I just want my raichu to be okay...."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah i know. i can't promise my friend can help him, but we're gonna try anyway. we want to see your Raichu happy and comfortable again so you and he can be a family."
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Paige sighs, "well thank you for helping, even though your friend is weird and rude."
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Satoshi covers his mouth to muffle a laugh, " yeah, that he is. we want to try and stop whatever is happening, nobody deserves to go through their pokemon being taken away. but we have no leads, so seeing some of the pokemon is the best chance we have."
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paige hums, "and he apparently knows what pokemon are saying? what a weirdo. was he raised by pokemon?"
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Satoshi shrugs, " just a gift i guess. he's always seemed to know what my pokemon are telling him. not that most of mine are difficult to understand, he spends most of the time with Ariados, and she mostly wants snuggles." he nods to the pokeball in her hands.
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"You're both weird. But then again you're boys and boys are just weird in general. "
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Satoshi laughs softly, " that's alright, you'll find out that being the cookie cutter definition of 'normal' is pretty boring when you get older. i tried when i was younger, but it just made me miserable. "
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Aki comes back, holding an unraveled raichu, "got him to unball."
Raichu looks frazzled and that it might look like he'll start crying but otherwise is overall fine, "raaaiiiiii....."
Paige looks up and jumps up, "raichu!"
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Satoshi smiles, " told you he was good with pokemon."
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Raichu tries to curl up again but can't with the way aki is holding him.
Aki looks at Satoshi, "we're going to stick in this town for a few days. Thankfully it's not humans doing this, just some really awful and bored ghost pokemon who are getting a kick out of terrorizing closely bonded pokemon."
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Satoshi frowns, " well it's not humans at least. hey buddy, don't worry. well, hopefully we can give those ghost pokemon a lesson."
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Aki sighs and looks at Paige, "I think it's best if you went back home for a while. Give your little adventure a break for a bit and keep raichu somewhere that might feel safe. You're still in the town that he was attacked in, trying to find some answers even though being here is freaking him out."
Paige's eyes water, "but... I don't want my family to see that I failed being a trainer... I tried really hard..."
Aki goes down on one knee so he can look at Paige at her level, moving raichu so that the pokemon is under his arm, "what happened to your pokemon doesn't make you a bad trainer. You even tried to get him help. But he clearly wants to go home and I think it would be in the best interest of both of you to take five steps back together and try again when you're both feeling better."
Paige sniffles softly and she looks at raichu, "do... you actually want to go home? "
Raichu looks at Paige, and nods and starts crying, "rai! Rai raichu rai rai. Raichuuhh rai..."
Aki holds raichu out for Paige to take, " 'I want my mom and dad, and I want to sleep on your bed and I don't want to have anymore nightmares.' Is what raichu said."
Paige takes raichu and hugs him tightly, "o-okay.... we'll go home... I'm so sorry Raichu..." she gingerly hands aki and satoshi back their pokeballs
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Satoshi puts his pokeball away once he gets it, " well see? he just wants to feel safe." he smiles, " nobody is going to think you're a failure for taking a break after something so traumatic."
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Paige nods and keeps hugging raichu, "thank you. Both of you... you boys aren't so weird after all...." she turns around and pulls out a pokeball, letting a ninetails out and climbing on to its back, "ninetails. We're going home. Okay?"
The ninetails nods and sprints out of town
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Satoshi chuckles, " oh im not so sure about that, but im glad we could help."
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Aki watches Paige leave before looking at satoshi, "this whole town is surrounded by bored ghost pokemon who seem to target pokemon that are closely bonded with their trainers. Bonded enough that they are usually just out of their ball. I wouldn't be surprised if these ghost pokemon are jealous or something."
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Satoshi hums softly, " interesting. how do you propose we deal with them?"
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"We pick our most closely bonded pokemon to have out, stick around for a few days to make ourselves a target and then pretend to sleep at night. When our pokemon are taken we follow to figure out where these ghost pokemon are. I can try to talk to them and figure out why they are doing this, and if that doesn't work then I guess we just kick their ass."
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Satoshi hums, " well i guess that's rapidash for me. sounds like as good a plan as any."
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Aki nods, "lucario for me. Do you think we would be a more tempting targets if we were in separate rooms or no?"
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Satoshi sighs, " probably, though i'll be honest i'd really rather not do that."
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takana hums, "Well.... lets stay in the same room for now and see what happens. a part of me thinks whatever crept up to our window last night could have been one of the pokemon scouting out new victims. he could have just had a sheet on it while it was floating to make it appear tall..."
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Satoshi nods, " sounds like a plan. we'll give it some time and see what happens."
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aki nods and stretches, "so what do you want to do while we're stuck in a literal ghost town?"
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Satoshi hums softly, " well i guess training during the day. or maybe just relax for awhile since we've been on the go awhile. might see about some odd jobs."
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aki nods, "odd jobs sounds like a good idea just because having extra cash on hand is good. honestly while we're having a mini vacation it would also be a good idea to still kinda ask around town for more information like when did this all start and the like."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, alright, guess we have a plan then. should we let the pokemon out we plan to use? since they seem to be ones that are left out constantly?"
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aki doesnt hesitate as he pulls lucario out, "licario. stay close but stay loose. we're sticking around this town for a little bit."
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Satoshi lets rapidash out and lets her know what the situation is, stroking her nose. She whinnies softly and nuzzles him.
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Lucario glances at satoshi before looking back at aki, nodding, "grahh."
Aki smiles, "good. Ah, maybe this would be a good opportunity for me to have my pokemon practice training some more? I do still need to get better at that."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah. i'd offer to let them spar with mine but... that's probably not the best idea."
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Aki glances at satoshi, "Yeah and we already agreed that if you don't want me punching your pokemon that I will stick to just my pokemon."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah.... probably a good idea." he debates for a moment before nodding, " im going to find a clear area where we can do some training. me and Rapidash anyway, you can come with if you want."
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Aki shakes his head, "thanks but no thanks. I'll stay in this area for a while so I don't get distracted."
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Satoshi nods and leads his pokemon away to find a quiet place to train.
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aki takes a couple of his other pokemon out and spends the next few hours having little mock battles with his smaller pokemon.
he doesnt realize just how cute he himself was being, acting as a little cheerleader to his pokemon
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Satoshi is a little more aggressive with having his pokemon battle, his pokemon doing some serious damage to the area where they were practicing. But that was why he picked a spot a ways away.
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After a few more hours aki wipes the sweat off his forehead and sighs, deciding to go back to their room at the center, making sure to heal up his pokemon with nurse joy on the way back. He felt that he was getting better at thinking faster but he still didn't feel comfortable with other people....
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Satoshi heads back once the sun starts to set, getting his pokemon healed up and bringing rapidash into the pokemon center to most peoples surprise. He manages to get her into the room and settled, though she did take up a good amount of floor space.
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aki and lucario look over as satoshi comes in and he chuckles softly, "welcome back."
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Satoshi nods, " thanks. we worked hard, didn;t we girl?" Rapidash whickers softly, laying her head down.
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aki grins before laying back down, sighing softly.
lucario goes over to satoshi and his tail wags ever so slightly, "grahh."
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Satoshi settles down, rapidash lifting her head long enough to rest it on the bed with her trainer.
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aki glances over and frowns, "Lucario, get back over here. No need to bother satoshi."
lucario snuffs softly before climbing into aki's bed, getting ready for bed.
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Satoshi chuckles softly, " sorry, just tired. and i don't understand pokemon talk like your trainer does."
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Aki hugs lucario, petting him, "it's cool. He is just excited that something is happening now instead of the usual."
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Satoshi snorts in amusement, " dude, you might get kidnapped by ghost pokemon and you're excited?"
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Aki shakes his head, "ah not that, but you bugging me to train again. He is happy he gets to train."
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Satoshi nods, " ah, right. well most pokemon do enjoy testing themselves against each other. especially a fighting type like him. im glad he's happy."
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Aki nods, "it's actually kinda cute to see his tail wag a little considering he's always trying hard to not wag it."
Lucario growls softly, clearly not enjoying being called cute
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satoshi chuckles, " you can be both cute and fierce at the same time."
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lucario grumbles some more, crossing his arms and huffing
aki chuckles and pats the top of lucarios head, "alright, alright. no more teasing the loyal, brave and totally cool pokemon. lets get some sleep."
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satoshi nods, " fair. have a good night." he rests his hand on Rapidash's head, who sighs softly.
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aki snuggles into the bed and falls asleep.
hours tick by before the window to the room is slowly pushed open, the ground outside is unseen thanks to a dark, heavy, low fog
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Satoshi had made sure he was not asleep, keeping awake with Rapidash. He'd made sure to let her know to keep her mane a little warmer than normal, enough to be uncomfortable to keep him awake. So When the window makes the slight noise as it opens he's aware of it, and keeps his eyes shut as he waits.
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aki and lucario who had not been aware of satoshi's plan to stay awake had actually fallen asleep, and when the window opens lucario's ears twitch, a sound unheard to humans obviously travel's into the room.
Aki slowly sits up, the sound of his bed creaking, his eyes open yet lifeless as its clear he is in a trance
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Satoshi slowly cracks an eye open a hair, watching this. why go after Aki? wasn;t it the pokemon they went after?
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Aki gets out of bed and goes to the window before climbing out of it
lucario's eyes slowly open when aki got out of bed, rubbing his eyes briefly before covering his ears to ignore the weird music he's hearing before looking over in time to see aki leave through the window. His jaw drops and his eyes widen before he scrambles out of bed himself.
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Satoshi quickly sits up and gest out of bed, " this is odd. lets go." Rapidash scrambles to her feet as well and paws the ground, and Satoshi returns her. " Sorry girl, we'll be going out the window and you're a bit big for that."
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lucario jumps out the window and yelps softly when he sees the amount of dark fog covering everything, being high enough to go up to the pokemon waist.
some of the fog swirls around, taking the form of an espeon who is hopping about in front of aki, leading him into the forest
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Satoshi clambers through the window as well and follows after, " keep sight of him!"
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lucario whines softly as he keeps himself close to aki, confused at the cloud creature in front of them
deep in the forest their is almost a circle of pokemon that consist of five Gengar, a Drifloom that is wearing a loose hooded cloak which is probably only staying on with psychic abilities, a drowzee, a misdreavus, and in the center a Musharna who is emitting the dark, foul mist.
one Gengar laughs and gives musharna a nasty look causing the dream pokemon to give a startled cry, making more dark mist come out of her. The other Gengar laugh obnoxiously.
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Satoshi pulls out two pokeballs, tossing them. " Luxray, Noivern!" he steps forward with the two towards the pokemon, " release him. now." he eyes the musharna, " if you wish to stop being used by them, come to me. this ends tonight."
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the gengar jump and look at satoshi confused before the drifloom touches one gengar and points towards aki. the five gengar look over and their eyes widen slightly before they all start talking to themselves, confused as to why they have a human.
drowzee steps in front of musharna, blocking her path as he glares at satoshi.
lucario grabs aki tightly and yanks him away from the espeon, "Grahhh!"
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Satoshi stands his ground, " enough. im not sure why you all are behaving this way, but it needs to stop. either you can release him from his trance so we can talk this out, or i can kick your asses. either way works."
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One of the gengar's go up to drowzee and starts talking to him, the other gengar are rubbing the back of their heads, looking bashful. The drowzee snorts softly and pulls away from the gengar before crossing his arms and looking upset.
Musharna happily floats over to satoshi, the fog on the ground disappearing and the dream mist coming out of her turns to pink like it should be.
Aki's body crumples on to the ground as he is released from his trance and he continues sleeping.
Lucario gives a sigh of relief when aki starts snoring again
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Satoshi nods, " i appreciate you being cooperative." he goes and gently shakes Aki's shoulder, " hey, wake up."
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aki's face scrunches a bit before he slowly opens his eyes. he blinks a bit before shifting and looking up at satoshi, "satoshi? what..." he looks around and frowns, "why... am i outside?"
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Satoshi chuckles, " long story short, we found our troublemakers." he reaches out to gently pet Musharna. " so if you'd have a chat with these guys, that'd be helpful."
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aki pushes himself up and looks at the pokemon for a minute before his eyes widen, "wait what?! IM the one who got caught up in this?! I- I guess that explains the weird ass dream i had...." he looks at satoshi and gives a tired grin, "thanks for saving this damsel in distress for like, the third time now." he sighs and pets lucario to comfort his pokemon before going over to the others, "Alright. Who the hell runs this posse?"
the drowzee glares at aki, snarling softly
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Satoshi chuckles, " i thought the idea was to stay awake but pretend to sleep. i made sure rapidash kept me awake. regardless..." he glares at drowzee, " i suggest you cooperate."
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aki looks back at satoshi and pouts, "I got tired, i cant help it. it also doesnt help that i get cold when i sleep so the fact that the room got so warm only made it easier for me to fall asleep. but regardless. i suppose we still ended up finding these guys." he turns and looks at drowzee, "now then. you and i are going to sit down and have a talk." he sits down next to drowzee and before the pokemon can even move away aki grabs him and holds him in a hug.
drowzee lets out a startled cry as he's grabbed and despite struggling he's unable to get out of aki's hug
the gengar jump a little and they watch in concern, not knowing what to do
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Satoshi blinks and watches, tilting his head, " im going to guess that he lost his trainer? or was he abandoned?" he looks at the gengars, " that's what makes the most sense when we know you guys have been targeting closely bonded pokemon."
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the gengars blinks and look at satoshi before looking at themselves, back at satoshi and then shrugging.
Drowzee stops struggling, panting slightly from struggling
aki hums, "maybe. we'll see." he turns drowzee to make the pokemon look at him, "i know what you're saying so talk to me okay? i want to help you but i cant if you wont let me."
drowzee blinks before glaring at aki, grumbling and snarling at him
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Satoshi sighs and sits, " might as well get comfy."
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aki nods, "yeah this drowzee has been hurt by someone pretty bad.... but he's not outright attacking me so he knows better."
drowzee begins trying to struggle again but aki just holds him close in a tight hug
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Satoshi nods, " figured as much. trainers can be kind and wonderful, and they can also be cruel. im so sorry you went through that."
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Drowzee glares at satoshi before spitting in his direction
The gengars all look at each other before taking a hesitant step back, not wanting to be a part of this
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " im not the one that hurt you. but sure, be bitter at me. anyway if you want us to help you, talk to the one hugging you. he can actually understand exactly what you say. i can only guess." he glances at the gengars, " you'll all stay put for the moment please, until we get this sorted." Luxray growls to back up the statement and Noivern yawns. This was boring, if she was going to be brought out it should at least be exciting.
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Aki hums softly, "He's telling you to shut up and stay out of it and he's telling me where i can shove my concern. its been a while since i met such an unwilling pokemon. This might be more than a one night thing if we want to actually help him. but we can at least for sure explain to the gengars that what they're doing is wrong and maybe they'll just keep their distance from drowzee. they certainly cant pull this stunt now that musharna is away from them, but we should find somewhere safe for her to be so she cant get used like that again."
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Satoshi nods and gently scratches Musharna's chin, " do you want a trainer? i'll take you with me and i can find someone who will cherish you. my little sister would love you im certain."
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musharna makes a soft trill sound
Aki smiles, "She's asking if your sister is nice."
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Satoshi smiles, " she's very nice, and she absolutely adores Pokemon. You'd be very happy at my home, we have a big ranch where our Pokemon can roam freely."
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musharna makes more sounds
aki chuckles, "She says she'd be more than happy to go somewhere where she can finally get some sleep."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well you'd certainly get that." He pulls out an empty pokeball, " you can go ahead and hop in if you like, you can rest in here until I get somewhere I can send you to her. Or you can just follow us if you prefer."
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musharna hums and boops her forehead against the ball, quickly going inside, she was thankful to also be away from her bullies
aki sighs and looks at satoshi, "Hey, can you hold drowzee for a bit? since he doesnt want to chat I was thinking of talking to the gengars and get their side of the story. they seem more interested in talking then this guy."
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Satoshi puts the pokeball into his bag and walks over, grabbing hold of Drowzee, " alright, you do your thing."
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Drowzee makes a pissed off sound, grumbling and struggling
Aki goes over to the gengars and starts talking to them, the gengars getting more and more curious with aki
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Satoshi stubbornly holds onto the Pokemon, " might as well give it up."
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Aki nods and smiles at the gengars before getting up and going over to satoshi, "hey, they apologized. they wont be listening to drowzee anymore and would like to leave. that okay?"
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Satoshi nods, " if they promise not to cause anymore trouble, yeah i guess so. though if any of them like, they'd be welcome at my family's ranch."
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the gengar talk quietly before looking back at satoshi and shaking their heads no
aki hums, "Yeah i get it. ya'll like this area. just no more trouble making okay?"
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He nods, " yup, stay out of trouble and we'll have no reason to come back and scold you. i hope you live well here."
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the gengars nod and wave before heading out.
Aki sighs before looking over at satoshi and drowzee, "alright..... the last problem."
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " what about drifloon?"
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Aki looks over at drifloon, and shrugs, "it was also just following orders. If anything it just seems to be confused." He goes over and takes the cloak from it, "ah... this looks familiar.... " He blinks before looking at drifloon, "did you open our window the other night?!"
Drifloon looks away, "driiiiiffft..."
Aki sighs, "well I'm taking this. There's no reason for you to have it."
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Satoshi chuckles, " fair."
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aki looks at drowzee and hums softly, glancing at satoshi, "so what are we going to do with drowzee?"
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Satoshi sighs, " well, i don't think letting him go is a good idea. we might need to catch him and take him with until he can settle down. my older sister might be able to work with him, but with me gone she'll have her hands full with the ranch."
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aki sighs, "so regardless it sounds like we're going to be heading back to your place."
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satoshi shrugs, " well, we can catch him and just hold onto him for awhile, not sure how much time i'll have to work with him, but at least it'll keep him out of trouble."
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aki looks at drowzee in satoshi's arms and hums, "You think he might need more than a pokeball? He's going to be fighting us the whole way so i wonder if a great ball or something would be easier."
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satoshi nods, " yeah, maybe even an ultraball. if we had a luxuryball that might get him to relax a bit faster."
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Aki nods and hums, "I might actually have an ultra ball. it was given to me as a thank you but since i kinda dont catch pokemon i havent used it. i'd need to get back to our room for my backpack though."
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Satoshi shifts Drowzee so he's holding him with a single hand before pulling out another pokeball, tossing out Meinshao, " go get Aki's backpack please." The pokemon sniffs in disdain before scurrying off.
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Lucario looks at Drowzee and huffs, "grah.."
Drowzee snaps his attention at Lucario and hisses at him, going back to struggling
Aki huffs at Lucario, "Dont call him pathetic bud. Or at least dont do it while satoshi is holding him."
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Satoshi quickly wraps him with both arms again, " come on now, cooperate."
Meinshao soon comes back and drops Aki's backpack near him, then hops over to his pokeball and bumps it with his nose to go back in.
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aki blinks as he watched meinshao, "Well, they certainly wanted to get back to their beauty rest." he grabs his bag and starts digging through it until he pulls out an ultra ball, "Here we go. Do you think he'll still need to be weakened? if so maybe i should hold him for a second so you can get a better angle at him?"
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Satoshi hums as he thinks, " if you wanna back off i can have Luxray use thunderwave to paralyze him."
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Aki nods and takes lucario's hand and backs off quite a bit, "Is this back enough?"
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Satoshi nods, " Luxray, thunderwave."
The pokemon steps forward and sparks fly as he charges up before sending the paralyzing electricity at Drowzee.
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Drowzee yelps in shock of having an attack land on him before he's paralyzed completely
Aki frowns a little, sad that they had to do it this way, before tossing the ultra ball at Drowzee and successfully capturing him, "That'll do..."
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Satoshi nods, putting Noivern and Luxray away.
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Aki puts the pokeball away, sighing and taking lucario's hand, "I'm fucking tired. Let's try to salvage some sleep before the sun rises."
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Satoshi nods, " sounds like a plan." he stifles a yawn, walking back to the pokemon center and their room.
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Aki gets back to their room, goes over to the window, grumbling softly as he closes and locks it, before going to his bed, "if I'm still asleep by the time you wake up then let me sleep in."
Lucario gets on the bed next to aki and curls up
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Satoshi snorts, " i haven't slept at all yet, i doubt i'll be up first."
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aki chuckles before passing out, not waking up until its at least 9am, groggy and slightly grumpy and hungry, "mmm"
lucario is already up and waiting for aki, "grahh."
aki stretches and sighs before petting lucario and going to the bathroom to take a shower
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Satoshi settles in and soon falls asleep, and is still passed out when Aki gets up.
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aki gets out and gets dressed, not really planning on making himself look decent until lucario pushes his snoot against him. he blinks and looks down at lucario before chuckling, "Alright, alright." he goes to his backpack and grabs some products and goes back to the bathroom to use the mirror, working on making himself look good.
Lucario smiles and his tail wags when aki puts effort into his appearance.
After aki is finally done he heads to the lobby to grab some food, coming back to the room with a couple of trays of lunch. he sets them on the table before going over to satoshi, gently shaking him, "hey~ wakey wakey."
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Satoshi groans and slowly cracks his eyes open, " too ear- woah. uh, morning." he blinks slowly, Aki looked GOOD.
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Aki snorts, "Its almost lunch time so its not too early. Sorry if i got too close to your face. I got you lunch since i saw they were serving roast today." Aki backs up and grins, "We figured out this towns mystery so we'll be heading out right? Gotta get decent food in us first."
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Satoshi blushes a bit, " ah, right. lunch, got it. thanks." he sits up, trying to settle himself down.
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Aki grabs his tray and sits down at the table, enjoying the food, "mm! It's really good."
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Satoshi nods, eating the meal and trying to focus on the food instead of the fact that Aki was looking amazing next to him.
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Aki glances over at satoshi and hums thoughtfully, "did I wake you up too early? You're kinda quiet."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " just waking up and enjoying the meal. oh, and uh... you look really good today."
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Aki blinks and blushes, not used to a genuine compliment, "oh uh thanks. Um.. Lucario uh... h-he insisted I make an attempt today."
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Satoshi nods, " well, it looks good. so yeah." he looks down at his food to focus on that instead of being embarassed.
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Aki clears his throat, "um... thank you. I appreciate the compliment." he goes back to eating, his cheeks still bright red
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Satoshi nods, also blushing. he soon finishes off his meal and grabs his clothes, " i uh... im gonna take a shower and change." he heads into the bathroom.
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aki gives a numb nod as he finishes his food. Once satoshi is in the bathroom he shudders and grabs the empty trays and heads back to the lobby, returning the trays before heading back to their room and laying on the bed, playing with his phone as he waits
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Satoshi showers and shaves before getting dressed, coming out and seeing Aki on the bed, " so, i guess we move on then? should we head back to my family ranch to drop off those two pokemon?"
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Aki looks over at Satoshi and sits up, "Ah yeah if thats alright. The sooner we get the pokemon dropped off the better."
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Satoshi nods, " sure thing. my older sister is gonna have her hands full, but if he learns to cooperate, we could use a psychic type around the place. his sort in specific. and while my little sister isn;t expecting her first pokemon quite yet, well i guess ponyta won't be her first. breaks tradition a bit but i think she's gonna love musharna."
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aki nods and gets off the bed and starts packing up, "Musharna seems to already be pretty strong too so i feel like your sister will be in good hands."
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Satoshi nods, " seems like it, though i get the impression she's not much of a fighter. which will be just fine for my sanity."
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aki chuckles, "thats fine, she'll still be a really good pokemon to have. especially at night."
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Satoshi nods, " indeed." he starts packing up his things, humming softly.
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Aki gives lucario a quick pet on the head before smiling at satoshi, "I'm ready to head out, how about yourself?"
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Satoshi tucks his dirty shirt into his bag, " that's the last of my things, we can do laundry while we're at my place. flying to start? i think we'll be heading over some mountains, then we can run after."
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Aki nods, "flying sounds good. I'm sure pidgeot is dying to be back in the air again."
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Satoshi nods, heading outside and letting Flygon out, " if we want to get there quicker you can take Skarmory for the next leg and i can take Noivern. she'll grumble but she'll be alright."
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Aki shrugs, "we'll see. Pidgeot is pretty prideful so who knows."
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Satoshi nods, " yes, though she can;t fly all day without tiring. and we can tell her if she doesn;t rest then she'll be too tired to play with Skarmory when we get to the ranch."
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Aki snorts, "oh she aint a kid that is trying to eat cookies before dinner. She's always been good about not pushing herself too much after all."
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Satoshi chuckles softly, " right, but we also don't want her pushing herself too much for pride."
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Aki shrugs, "sometimes the hard way is how you learn so as long as it doesn't put their life in danger I kinda let my pokemom learn that way since it shows consequences."
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Satoshi nods, " fair. well, we'll just have to see. if she does push herself too far home is a good place to recover."
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Aki nods, "I'm sure she'll be fine. She tends to also be a complainer so I'll be able to tell if she needs a break." He chuckles as he returns his room key to nurse joy and heads out, grabbing pidgeots ball
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Satoshi pets Flygon and hops onto his back, the bug-like pokemons wings starting to buzz excitedly.
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Aki let's pidgeot out before going on her back, "now take it easy today hun. We're going to satoshi's place and it'll be nice for you and skarmory to play if you don't exhaust yourself. "
Pidgeot puffs out her feathers and flaps her wings
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Satoshi nudges Flygon and the pokemon leaps into the air, circling as he waits for the other pokemon and trainer.
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pidgeot eagerly takes off after flygon, chirping loudly as she does
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Flygon churrs softly and flies circles around the other, zipping around.
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pidgeot watches flygon zip about and tries not to look too jealous. she knows she'll never be able to do any cool maneuvers in the air but she could help to wish for it. She keeps at her normal speed, not wanting to be exhausted later
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Soon Flygon wears off his extra energy and settles into a steady flight, tilting his head to keep an eye on the ground below as they fly up and over some rough terrain.
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Aki gently pets pidgeot as he is lost in thought. He couldnt help but consider if having a relationship with satoshi was possible. Satoshi was fucking hot, no doubt about that but the guy was more into an actual relationship and not a fling which is what aki was more used to. A shame he couldnt just have one fuck with satoshi. he'd give it a shot if he knew the man was also a good lay
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Satoshi scolded Flygon softly as the pokemon spots some wild bird types and harsses them, utterly unaware of Aki's thoughts. He thought the other was attractive, and had certainly reacted that morning.
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Aki glances over at satoshi, watching him scold flygon and he chuckles softly before looking back at pidgeot
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Satoshi gets Flygon back down next to pidgeot, " sorry about that, he's got too much energy for his own good really."
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Aki smiles at satoshi and shakes his head, "you're fine. He always has energy."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, typical of him im afraid. Means he can be a bit mischevious." he scratches the pokemons neck, causing the flygon to drop a bit in the sky as it churrs in pleasure.
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Aki chuckles and shakes his head, "a shame arcanine can't fly. He is so hyper he would chase flygon for hours. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " well even without flight im sure those two might enjoy some chase play, flygon would be willing to fly low i think. we'll let them meet and see if they want to play when we get to the ranch. i let most of my pokemon out when im there anyway."
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Aki nods, "if he can handle slobber better than rapidash then I'm sure arcanine would love a new playmate."
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Satoshi pets the pokemon, " we'll see, im not sure how he'll react to it. if nothing else he's able to stay out of reach, and scales is easier to clean than fur and hair."
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Aki chuckles, "a dunk in some water would clean him up great. "
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Satoshi chuckles and Flygon buzzes his wings, not finding that amusing.
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Aki hums, "don't worry flygon. I'll try to get arcanine to understand not everyone loves dog spit." And he will try. It works for a few hours but.... well it is arcanine
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Flygon looks skeptical but settles in to fly next to pidgeot more calmly. Satoshi pulls out his pokedex and checks their location on the map, " we're making good time, if we keep this speed up we can be there by mid day tomorrow. we probably ought to switch pokemon in a couple hours though."
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Aki nods, "sounds good. I'm sure your family will be happy to see you too."
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satoshi nods, " yeah, my little sister hasn;t ever had me gone this long in her life so far so im sure she'll be ecstatic to have me back."
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Aki blinks and hums, "how old is she? She must have been incredibly young or not even around during your pokemon journey right?"
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, it was before she was born. When my mother was pregnant that's when they contacted me and i went home to help out. then i just never continued it."
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Aki nods, "well that was very kind of you to return home for your family's sake."
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Satoshi nods, " i had just lost the championship anyway. i felt like a failure. it was a good way to keep my mind occupied."
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Aki sighs, "probably for the best that I never got into that. Hundreds of trainers lose the championship and thousands more before they even get to the elite four. I know I'd lose for sure so why even bother."
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Satoshi shrugs, " i got close. it doesn;t help that i had a complicated relationship during it."
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Aki makes a soft grunt sound, "a really uncomfortable relationship is what I'd call it. I seriously hope that person isn't still trying to hang around for new potential champions considering he'd be a lot older."
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Satoshi shrugs, " hard to know. he was already older than me, and he liked younger guys. though it's quite possible he only goes for older contestants these days, there's a wide age range that competes."
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Aki sticks his tongue out and huffs, "he's a predator. I'm definitely going to kick his ass."
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Satoshi chuckles nervously, " well hopefully we never run across him."
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Aki snorts, "for his sake I hope you're right. "
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Satoshi sighs, " i don't intend to try for the championship again anyway, that's the only place i can think of he might be."
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Aki retches a bit and shudders, "God how creepy."
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Satoshi shrugs, " i don't think he was the only one who did things like that. just happens to be the one that fooled me."
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Aki huffs, "then I'll kick all of their asses. They shouldn't be preying on people."
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Satoshi shrugs, " it's an entire economy around the championship. some parts or more moral than others. there's plenty of people who sell pokemon to give trainers a competitive edge, drugs, boosting items, services, such a large gathering attracts all sorts, honest businessmen and predators alike, which are often difficult to tell apart."
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Aki tsks softly, "I don't care if trainers get scammed out of their money or whatever so who cares about those predators. I just mean the ones who actually prey on naive kids. The secual predators. "
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Satoshi nods, " yeah i guess so."
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Aki sighs softly and shakes his head, "Sorry, that kind of thing just really bothers me. I'll.... just keep my mouth shut though."
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satoshi rubs the back of his neck, " just not something i like to think about ya know?"
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Aki nods, "that's fair, I don't blame you for not wanting to talk about it." Aki gets quiet as he pets pidgeot, trying to keep himself from talking about it
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Satoshi keeps flygon going for awhile longer before spotting a good spot to land and gesturing to it, " looks like a good spot for a rest!"
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Aki nods and has pidgeot land, checking her wing out briefly, "Yeah I think just to be careful that a switch will need to be done. Proud of you though. Flying for that long isn't something you're used to."
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Satoshi pets Flygon before returning him, pulling out two pokeballs and letting out Skarmory and Noivern. Noivern starts complaining instantly about it being bright, grumbling. Skarmory walks over to Pidgeot and nuzzles her happily.
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Pidgeot chirps happily and returns the nuzzling. She was a little out of breath but otherwise seemed okay.
Aki reaches into his bag and pulls out some water for pidgeot
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Skarmory settles next to her friend to wait while they rest up.
Satoshi soothes Noiverns metaphorically ruffled feathers with treats before pulling out some protein bars, handing one to Aki before eating his own for lunch.
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Aki sets a bowl of water for pidgeot, making sure there was enough in case skarmory wanted some. He looks at satoshi and he brushes some of his styled hair out of his face and taking the protein bar, "thanks!"
He smiles at satoshi
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Skarmory settles down next to Pidgeot, makign sure the tired pokemon drinks first before taking a bit for herself, chatting softly with the other pokemon.
Satoshi blushes a bit, " ah, no problem."
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Pidgeot does drink a little, happily listening to skarmory talk.
Aki unwraps the bar and munches it, trying to focus on something else other than pidgeot and skarmory's conversation.
They weren't talking about anything secretive but it was still their conversation and he didn't want to listen in on it.
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Satoshi sits with Noivern and watches the two pokemon chattering, obviously not understanding any of it, " those two really seem to get along well huh? im glad."
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Aki nods, "Yeah, they really like each other. I'm glad that pidgeot has someone mellow enough to have idle chat with her."
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Satoshi nods, " she may be a fierce fighter and a tough looking pokemon, but she's got a heart of gold. i know when we fly those two together she tries to fly so pidgeot gets some extra lift from her."
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Aki nods, "oh im aware. I'm sure pidge notices it too but doesn't say anything since skarmory doesn't make a big deal about it."
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Satoshi nods, " yep. told you she was a good girl and not all that scary."
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Aki blinks before blushing a bit, having a little scowl on his face, "well- i- a- um a lot of people say what they want to say when it's convenient. I'd rather be shown proof than given false promises."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, though i know my pokemon and i have no real reason to try and fool you." he scratches noiverns head as she settles on the ground next to him.
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Aki shrugs and sighs, "Yeah but at the time I didn't know that. I don't trust anyone right off the bat. Especially the overly friendly ones like you. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " yeah, true. still, im glad i was persistent."
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"You AND your pokemon. Although I guess they wanted you to come with for your sake of getting out of the house."
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Satoshi laughs, " yeah, while home is nice and they like it there, they'd been getting some wanderlust. guess it's been too long since we'd done anything exciting."
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Aki snorts and shakes his head, "well they sure picked you a winner to travel with."
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Satoshi glances over at Skarmory, who's laying leaned against Pidgeot. " well, my pokemon certainly seem to think so."
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Aki looks over and blinks before sighing, "Well arent those two being all cutsey."
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Satoshi chuckles, " yeah, we probably ought to get moving though. they can snuggle and chatter all they like when we get there."
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Aki snorts, "what? And break up the happy couple?" His tone obviously teasing as he stands up
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Satoshi chuckles, " like i said, they'll get plenty of time for that when we get going. Skarmory! you'll be taking Aki."
The metallic bird looks over and chirps, getting up from her spot against Pidgeot and walking over to Aki, lowering her head so she can carefully nuzzle him.
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Aki takes a hesitant step back when skarmory approaches him suddenly. He sighs softly before letting his hand carefully rest on skarmory, "Uh. h-hey girl."
Pidgeot perks up and chirps curiously at satoshi, tilting her head
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Satoshi smiles at Pidgeot, " she's just gonna carry aki so you can take a rest, alright?"
Skarmory chirps softly, tilting her head as she looks at him. It's not like she was gonna hurt him. yeah her feathers were sharp, but she'd never intentionally hurt someone. She crouches so Aki can get up easier, telling him to be careful with her feathers.
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Pidgeot chirps some more and looks down sadly.
aki sighs, "you're not carrying anyone hun. You did an amazing job getting to this point so you're just getting a break, okay?"
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Satoshi nods, " even flygon is getting a break, we have enough flying pokemon to switch and make sure nobody gets injured or exhausted."
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Aki carefully gets on to skarmory, heading her warning of being careful of her feathers
Pidgeot looks at skarmory, then aki, then satoshi before she starts chirping at satoshi again.
Aki sighs and looks at satoshi, "She wants to know if im on skarmory then who are you riding."
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Satoshi pats the large batlike pokemon next to him who grumpily opens an eye, " im riding noivern. even if i wasn't, i wouldn;t let you take me. no offense, im heavier than Aki and i don;t want to strain you. especially since you already flew for awhile." Noivern heaves herself up and crouches, and Satoshi climbs onto her back.
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pidgeot droops a bit and looks down, feeling frustrated with herself
Aki hesitates before patting skarmory and getting off of the pokemon, going to his bird and petting her, "Hey, hey. you're fine hun. I know you want to be the best but even the best need a rest from time to time."
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Satoshi looks over, " that's right, i'd never make any of my pokemon go so far without a rest, even though flygon could probably do another several hours just fine, there's no reason to risk it. just think, if you rest up you'll be fresh and ready to have some fun with Skarmory when we get there."
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Pidgeot sighs and chirps softly.
Aki nods and returns her to her pokeball. he sighs and gets back on skarmory, "Ready."
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Satoshi nods and nudges Noivern into the air, the pokemon reluctantly gaining altitude and taking the lead. Skarmory carefully takes flight and flies after her, trying not to jostle Aki.
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Aki shudders a bit as skarmory takes off since he still wasn't used to her.
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Skarmory looks back at him and croons softly in concern.
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Aki gives an apologetic smile at skarmory, "Sorry... just uh... just not used to being on a different pokemon..."
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Skarmory nods, doing her best to keep her flight smooth and steady.
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Aki sighs softly and holds on to the best of his abilities. He glances at Satoshi, "Um. how long is this second half of the flight?"
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" gonna be a few hours. you'll be fine, i promise." Satoshi glances back at him.
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Aki shivers and holds onto skarmory a little more, "Sure....i- im sure i will be..."
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Satoshi sighs, " skarmory won't let you fall, she's a good pokemon."
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"I- i know she wouldnt on purpose! its just different for me to not be on my own pokemon."
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Satoshi nods, " i know, but we'll get there much faster this way! My pokemon are well trained, just hold on and she'll do the rest."
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Aki's eyes narrow a little at the 'well trained' comment. like, yeah he gets it, he's terrible for not training his pokemon but you can only train someone who is injured so much without straining them. He huffs and looks away from satoshi. normally he'd start a fight about it but he wasnt in the mood to. he'd rather just cool down before opening his mouth
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Satoshi doesn;t notice Aki's expression, looking ahead and focusing on their path, glancing at his pokedex now and then. He hadn;t meant it that way however, he was simply trying to reassure Aki that he wasn;t in any danger and Skarmory would take care of him.
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Aki stays quiet for most of the ride, having not much to say anyway as he focuses on not freaking out
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As the sun starts going down Satoshi takes them down to camp for the night, " alright, we're getting close, a few more hours tomorrow and we'll arrive. i'd rather not travel at night."
Skarmory carefully lands and crouches to let Aki off.
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aki carefully gets off of skarmory and he sighs, "Thank you." he gives you a hesitant pet
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She nuzzles him before going over to Satoshi. Satoshi pets her as he puts Noivern away, letting Ariados out and quickly getting a little campsite put together.
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aki lets lucario out and smiles at his pokemon, petting him even when the dog growls in annoyance
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Ariados starts spinning webs around the camp, making a network which will be able to detect any intruders.
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Aki patiently waits for ariados to be finished so he can give her plenty of pets
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She finally gets it all arranged to her satisfaction before scurrying over to Aki and wiggling in excitement for pets.
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Aki chuckles and quickly starts petting her all over, "Its been a while so I owe you a LOT of pets huh?"
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Ariados agrees enthusiastically and enjoys the attention while Satoshi laughs softly and makes them some dinner.
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Aki happily secures the spider in his grasp before picking her up and rubbing his face against hers, "you deserve all the pets and attention. the fact that you dont have a huge line of people waiting to give you pets at any given time is a crime!"
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Ariados is a bit surprised when she's picked up, she's a big gal after all, but doesn;t squirm and happily snuggles Aki. All the attention!
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Aki laughs and twirls around with ariados, never losing his balance.
lucario watches and shakes his head. His master always forgot his own strength when his emotions were strong.
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Ariados chatters excitedly.
Satoshi finishes putting together a rough meal, " chows up!"
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Aki slows a bit before stopping when he hears satoshi. He chuckles and sets ariados down and gives her a final rub on her head before going over to satoshi
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Satoshi dishes up a bowl and hands it to Aki before taking one for himself. Ariados stumbles a bit from being spun around but settles down next to him.
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Aki takes the bowl, "thanks." He looks at ariados and chuckles, "did you enjoy that? I bet you're not used to that. "
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Ariados chatters excitedly, she had very much enjoyed that! it was fun and she was so excited that she got to spend time with him.
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Aki chuckles again and pets her a little more before going back to his food.
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Satoshi pulls out a bag of pokemon chow and pours some in a bowl for Ariados, setting it in front of her. She chows down happily.
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Aki hums softly, "we're getting close huh."
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Satoshi nods, " yeah, we should get there after another stretch of flying tomorrow."
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Aki nods, "sounds good. Thanks for the dinner."
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Satoshi nods, " no problem, you were busy and you'd had a stressful trip so i don't mind cooking."
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Aki snorts, "Yeah but you're always making dinner. But maybe thats for the best. I dont know anything about cooking so i might burn down a whole forest."
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Satoshi chuckles, " yeah... i think i'll keep cooking."
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Aki smirks, "you'll be doing the environment a service." He stretches and yawns a little before leaning back on the ground, "how can one do nothing but be on a pokemon and still be tired."
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Satoshi laughs, " you'd be amazed how much work it is to shift with the pokemon and keep the balance correct and all that."
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Aki snorts, "not nearly as much work as the pokemon has carrying my fat ass."
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Satoshi chuckles, " true. regardless, we had a long day."
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Aki sighs, "we've had a long couple of weeks. "
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Satoshi nods, " it'll be nice to simply relax. or rather stay put for awhile, since idle hands are rarely tolerated at home."
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Aki blinks before pouting, "Awwww does that mean i'll be put to work too?"
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Satoshi chuckles, " probably. you'll like it though, and your ability to communicate with pokemon will be invaluable. if any of the pokemon aren't feeling 100% we can just find out what's wrong instead of guessing."
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Aki nods, "i suppose so. im just not great at carrying heavy stuff."
Lucario stares at aki dead in the eyes, praying his master was joking
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Satoshi blinks and raises an eyebrow, " says the guy who just swung an over 100lb pokemon around like it was nothing? gotcha..."
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Aki blinks before turning red. He looks away only to catch lucario's stare and he turns even more red, "i- I have no idea what you're talking about. She's not that heavy."
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Satoshi blinks, " dude, the average Ariados weighs about 75 pounds, not sure if you noticed but she's a bit larger than average. last time i weighed her, which was awhile ago, she was about 105. im fairly certain she's gotten bigger since then."
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Aki games a bit as he stares at satoshi before stuttering, "y-your kidding me."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " not in the slightest. she's a hefty girl."
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Aki rubs the back of his head, "how.... how did I lift her?"
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Satoshi shrugs, " im guessing you're stronger than you realize."
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Aki sighs and shakes his head, "Damn it... why am I such a freak..."
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Satoshi rolls his eyes, " oh shush you're fine."
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Aki pouts, "but isn't that weird? That's totally weird! "
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Satoshi blinks, " i guess a little? it's just part of who you are, stop fussing."
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Aki looks down and huffs a little, "easy for you to say. It's not happening to you."
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Satoshi sighs softly, " well you made Ariados extremely happy." Ariados looks at Aki and chitters concernedly, grabbing a bit of her pokemon food and trying to offer it to him.
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Aki blinks and looks over at ariados, and he can't help but smile, "hey I'm sorry if I worried you girl. I uh, I'll be okay. Thank you for the offer though. " He starts petting her
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She puts the bit back and snuggles against his side, trying to make him feel better.
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aki sighs and keeps petting her, "Sorry girl, i dont mean to get you all concerned over me. Thanks though. I appreciate it."
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Satoshi sighs, " we all like you just the way you are, so don't fret okay?"
She settles back down and goes back to nomming her food.
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aki chuckles and grins at satoshi, "oh? you like me?" he was obviously teasing.... partially.... if satoshi reacted in a way he didnt want the other man to then he would claim he was teasing
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Satoshi blinks and blushes, " uh, well yeah. personally i think you're an awesome person."
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aki sees the blush and cant help but turn a little red as well before quickly looking away, "alright, alright, no need to call me awesome. i get it."
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Satoshi grimaces, " well you asked..." he quickly goes back to his food.
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aki shrugs and scratches the back of his head, "i figured you would have acted more flustered giving me a chance to tease you but you're just way too nice."
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Satoshi blinks, " oh. okay?"
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Aki sets his bowl down and stands up, "im gonna go for a walk."
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Satoshi blinks " alright, just be careful. Ariados, go with him will you?"
She chatters a confirmation and follows after Aki.
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Aki nods at ariados and goes further into the woods, just needing a bit of air for a bit, "sorry to drag you along girlie. I'm sure I would have been fine by myself for a bit."
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Ariados makes a rude noise, happy to skitter along after Aki.
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aki chuckles and sighs, "Alright, alright if you insist. " he gets a little deeper into the forest and sighs softly
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She follows along and looks around, enjoying the scenery.
Satoshi sighs and gets their bedrolls set up, " i guess i upset him somehow. jeez..."
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Aki looks over to his right and hums, "a river is nearby us. I can hear rushing water." He heads in that direction and soon sees some rapids ahead, "oof those look dangerous. "
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Ariados goes to the water edge and peers in, dipping a claw in and shaking it before chittering an agreement.
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Aki pets her and sighs, "normally I wouldn't care about an area like this but as long as I have you with me I don't want to hang around here. Let's head back, maybe grab some thicker wood for the fire. I saw satoshi got some sticks and limbs but it feels like it's gonna be cold tonight. "
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Ariados nods and scurries after him. She climbs a tree when she sees some large dead branches and ties some silk around it, bringing a rope down so the limbs can be pulled down.
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Aki takes the rope and makes sure ariados isn't on any of the branches before he gives them a good yank and they all snap off and hit the ground
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Aridos stays out of the way and chatters excitedly, going to the fallen branches and tying silk around them to make them easy to drag.
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Aki smiles, "thanks ariados! Damn your silk is super handy."
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Ariados puffs herself up, looking proud.
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Aki begins heading back, hauling the branches with him
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Ariados follows after.
Satoshi was getting the final details of the camp put together, and wrapping some things to bury in the coals to slow cook overnight for breakfast. He carefully tucks them into a pit and covers them with hot coals. He looks over, seeing Aki coming back with wood, " oh nice, i was thinking i should get some more. that'll be great."
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aki nods, "there's an odd wind in the air and its making me nervous about temperatures so i figured i should bring some back with ariados' help of course."
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ariados chatters excitedly.
Satoshi nods, " that's my girl. good job."
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Aki chuckles and pets her before untying the silk from the pieces of thick wood they dragged back
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Satoshi gets up and helps stack the wood nearby for ease of access, " Might need to get Skarmory out to cut these into a little smaller chunks, but this ought to last the night. thanks."
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Aki sits back down and sighs, "there's also a river up ahead with some rapids. It was pretty interesting. "
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Satoshi blinks, " yeah? we'll have to be careful when we go to get water, rapids can be dangerous."
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Aki nods, "I didn't stick around for long. Especially since I had ariados with me. "
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Satoshi nods, " i appreciate that. she's a good girl and is usually careful, but she's not the best swimmer." Ariados whines a bit at that, and Satoshi pets her, " sorry but it's true. i wouldn't want anything to happen to you."
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Aki nods and reaches over, petting her as well and chuckling, "yeah and if she did fall in, which i would avoid at all costs, I would without hesitation jump in after her to try and grab her. ah but that will never happen. I wouldnt let her be by such a dangerous river."
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Satoshi grimaces, " i'd rather avoid the situation entirely, even if you would jump in after her. regardless lets just prevent it, unless im nearby and can use my water types to help."
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aki snorts, "well if i had my bag then Lapras would also be able to help but yes, lets change the subject."
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Satoshi nods, " good point."
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Aki looks over at his sleeping bag and blinks, "oh you got our bags all ready?"
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Satoshi nods, " figured might as well get things set up while you were talking your walk. i got some chow buried in some coals for breakfast too."
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Aki nods, "nice! That's a really good idea."
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He nods, " well gives us something a little different, so might as well use what we have right?"
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Aki nods, "still, it's a good idea. I'm glad one of us uses their head around here. "
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Satoshi rubs the back of his neck, " im just trying to take care of us."
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Aki laughs softly, "Well again, im glad one of us is. You know how bad i am at taking care of myself."
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Satoshi chuckles, " good thing you're with me then, i know how to survive on the road."
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Aki nods, "despite the bumps here and there I have genuinely enjoyed traveling with you."
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Satoshi nods, " i have also enjoyed travelling with you. it wasn't planned, but i think it's been good for me."
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aki chuckles, "Maybe thats why you're pokemon were so adamant about you coming with me."
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Satoshi chuckles, " probably."
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Aki stretches and yawns, "im starting to feel kinda tired... and the sun is dropping. So i might curl up in my sleeping bag until i pass out."
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Satoshi nods, " alright. i think i'll stay up a bit longer."
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aki nods and kicks his shoes off before curling into his sleeping bag. he pulls out his phone and mindlessly plays around on it as he relaxes
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Satoshi gets up and walks a little ways away from the camp, trying to puzzle out Aki's behavior.
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aki notices satoshi walk away and he sighs before curling up more into his sleeping bag.
lucario watches satoshi get up and leave, his tail twitches a little as he contemplates if he should make sure this human stayed safe. he decides that satoshi is intelligent enough to not babysit
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after about half an hour he walks back, settling into his own sleeping bag.
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aki is now dead asleep, lucario still up and about as he watches the area. he glances at satoshi as he comes back from his walk
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Satoshi nods to him and closes his eyes to sleep.
Ariados is cuddled with Aki.
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soon its morning and aki has a death grip on ariados as he snores loudly
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Ariados fully does not mind, sleeping soundly with one claw hooked onto her webs.
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lucario yawns and stretches perking up as he looks around, bleary eyed. he rubs his eyes and sighs before getting up and going over to aki, nudging him with his foot to get up.
Aki groans softly and whines, "five more minutes."
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Satoshi walks back from the river with fresh water, putting it on to boil over the fire that's already going before digging up the food he'd buried under coals to cook.
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Lucario looks over at satoshi before poking his master some more with his foot
Aki grumbles, "so unfair lucario, I'm tired. "
Lucario grumbles and growls softly
Aki opens an eye and huffs, "you must be exhausted if you're telling me to pound sand." He yawns and let's go off ariados before sitting up, "alright, alright. "
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Satoshi glances over and grins, " well look who's getting up. breakfast is just about ready."
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Aki whines softly, "the ground makes me sooo tired."
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Satoshi snorts, " well, we'll have beds to sleep in tonight, don't worry. we ought to be there for lunch."
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aki nods and stretches, grunting as a few joints pop before he gets out of his sleeping bag and scratches his head, "maybe i should hide somewhere when i get to your place and take a nap."
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Satoshi chuckles, " barns a decent spot for that. i make no promises though, i have a curious kid sister, and there's a lot of pokemon and im sure they're gonna be curious about you when they learn you can talk to them."
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Aki chuckles, "Im sure more than just the pokemon will be curious about my whole talking to pokemon thing."
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" well, we don't have to tell my sisters or anyone else if you don't want to. you'll be welcomed regardless." he looks over at him.
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Aki sighs, "Its still a very new thing for me to come to terms with. I used to just think my ability came from the fact that I raised myself alongside pokemon."
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Satoshi chuckles softly, " i wish. if that were the case i'd probably be able to as well, i was practically born in the barn with the ponytas, and i've spent more time with them than with my own family."
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Aki hums softly, "A shame it isnt that easy. Im sure the pokemon would appreciate that."
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He grins, " right? that would be so awesome."
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Akihito stretches and yawns for the final time before packing up his sleeping bag. he couldnt wait for breakfast to be done, he was hungry
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Satoshi uses a sturdy stick to roll the food he'd buried in coals last night out, adding the now soft apple slices to their breakfast before handing a bowl to Aki.
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Aki sees satoshi hold out the food to him and he grins, giving a soft and excited 'yay' as he takes the bowl, "thank you~"
His appearance was back to his old style again. If he didn't have a proper bathroom then why did up his appearance?
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Satoshi smiles and nods. He didn;t really care that the other wasn;t all dolled up, he himself looked pretty mussed since he wasn;t going to fuss over how he looks when they have actual work to do to get themselves fed and taken care of.
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Aki happily eats, humming softly. He felt really good about today. Woke up on the right side of the sleeping bag even!
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Satoshi tucks into his meal, getting it all down and sighing softly as he sets his dish aside. He starts packing up the camp, making sure to smother the fire as he gets everything settled.
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aki stretches and finishes up his food and helps satoshi pack up, humming softly, "feels like it could be a pretty good day today."
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Satoshi smiles at the other as they pack up, " i think so too. my family will be happy to see us."
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Aki laughs softly, "I mean, you more than me but yeah im sure they will be happy." Aki gets his backpack on and glances at satoshi, "We still just taking your pokemon?"
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Satoshi chuckles softly, then blinks, " well, you can take pidgeot if you want, it'll take a bit longer but im okay with that."
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Aki nods, "Sounds good, i just know we were making sure she didnt over do it and get too tired to play with skarmory."
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Satoshi nods, " she'll probably be tired, but since she got a good rest yesterday she ought to be fine. if she starts getting tired we can stop and switch her out so she can be fresh when we get there."
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Aki nods and lets pidgeot out of her pokeball
Pidgeot chirps as loud as ever and stretches her wings before puffing up and starts preening
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Satoshi hums a bit as he considers who to bring out and decides to use flygon in case he needs to let Aki use skarmory, knowing the other wouldn't like flygon or Noivern as much. The dragonfly like pokemon chirrs and beats his wings, kicking up dust.
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Pidgeot chirps in slight annoyance when the kicked up dust runs her hard work with her wings.
Aki pets her side, "it's alright girl. You'll have plenty of time to clean yourself up when we get to the farm. "
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Satoshi chuckles, " sorry girl, he's just energetic." he gets onto the excited pokemon and flygon leaps into the air, circling above while he waits for Aki.
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Aki hops onto pidgeot before she takes off into the air
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Flygon darts ahead before Satoshi gets him to slow down, getting him to burn off his extra energy by flying around Pidgeot as they go.
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Pidge eyes Flygon cautiously, making sure to keep her distance from what she considers a hyper child
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Satoshi chuckles softly at the interaction between the two, flygon settling down to fly more calmly after he burns off his extra energy.
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Aki gently pets Pidgeot, "you're doing a great job hun, just think, soon enough you'll get to hang out with skarmory and take a break."
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Satoshi pets Flygon, too far to hear Aki. He pulls out his pokedex and opens the map, checking their path.
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Jay watches both trainers and their pokemon fly through the air from his vantage spot and he glances up at his Tyranitar, you see that little green thing? The one that gave you a wallop? Take 'em down, I bet they'll be real tasty."
Tyranitar snarls, foam dripping from his mouth before he takes a step back to steady himself and fires off a hyperbeam at Satoshi and Flygon from behind
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Satoshi hears the noise and pulls Flygon to the side, the hyperbeam clipping the pokemons wing. Flygon cries out in pain and starts to lose altitude. Satoshi grunts and quickly pulls out pokeballs, sending Noivern out, " go distract them!" The large batlike pokemon looks and spots them, hissing softly before winging towards the two.
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pidgeot had shrieked slightly from just the sudden shock of a hyper beam nearly knocking out flygon and satoshi and she nervously backs up a bit from them, her wings flapping extra hard in panic
Aki had yelped softly as well, quickly looking at satoshi and flygon, "What the hell?! Is flygon okay?!"
Jay smirks a bit, "You missed Tyranitar. Stay on guard and ready to pounce in case we do get someone on to the ground. hydreigon! Ice Fang!" he lets out hydreigon and quickly hops on before the dragon makes a beeline straight for Noivern, his mouth opens up revealing sharp icy fangs ready to take a bite out of the bat
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Satoshi grimaces, " he'll be alright, he can;t carry me with his wing injured though! we gotta get down. Noivern! supersonic!" Flygon lists to one side as he flies down towards the ground, angling to try and get distance between them and tyranitar.
The batlike pokemon hovers and opens her mouth, sending ultra sonic waves to confuse Hydreigon.
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Aki nods, "Pidge, land."
Pidgeot nods and quickly lands, not wanting to be in the air with that scary pokemon
Tyranitar aims for flygon again as he blasts another hyperbeam, he doesnt need to try to catch them. he just needs to get them on the ground first
Jay lets Salamence out and jumps onto that other pokemon to avoid Noiverns attack
Hydreigon lets himself get it by the attack as he kamikaze's straight for noivern
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Flygon dives to try to avoid the hyperbeam, failing and crying out as both he and Satoshi get hit by the attack. Flygon quickly lands, crumpling and Satoshi falls off, struggling to his feet.
Noivern dives to avoid Hydreigon, looking bewildered as her attack apparently has no effect on the other pokemon.
" Noivern! dragon pulse!" Satoshi manages to croak out, the batlike pokemon obeys, sending a powerful pulse of energy towards the enemy.
Satoshi scrambles, getting Flygon's pokeball and putting him away, and quickly grabbing a few more pokeballs and letting the pokemon out. Kommo-o looks around and sees the situation, eyes narrowing in anger. Satoshi grimaces, " aura sphere! Get tyranitar!"
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The attack did affect hydreigon clearly as once noivern moved out of the way the pokemon stumbles and hits the ground, squaking in pain when it gets hit with dragon pulse
Aki runs over to satoshi, "shit shit shit! Satoshi! Are you okay?!"
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Satoshi sways a bit on his feet, " not sure... but you can't beat him, so i gotta. get out of here, i'll catch up when i can." he pants softly in pain.
Kommo-o puts his hands together and charges up the attack, launching it at Tyranitar.
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Tyranitar gets the direct hit and tumbles, roaring and snarling loudly before pushing himself up and slamming his body into kommo-o
Jay sees Tyranitar get hit and huffs before letting Salamence land farther away from the group, "Salamence, hide in this brush and charge up power, got it? Dont get discovered and when you cant hold onto your power any longer I want you to use Draco Meteor."
Salamence blinks and grumbles softly before nodding
Jay grabs his bag and nods, "I'll do my best to buy you more time." he runs back to the main fighting and lets out more of his pokemon, "Dusknoir! Nidoking! Steelix! LETS GO!"
the three said pokemon pop out, Dusknoir quickly setting his sites on Noivern and uses Ice Beam while Steelix and Nidoking both assist Tyranitar in pushing Kommo-o back
Aki hisses softly and shakes his head, "Leaving you here is dangerous and you're clearly injured!"
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Kommo-o roars as he's slammed into, smacking tyranitar over the head with his tail. Satoshi quickly pulls out several more pokeballs, "Aurorus! Typhlosion! Scolipede!" the three pokemon are confused by the chaos, but quickly see they're needed. Noivern gets hit and cries out, and typhosion's flames flare up on his back, " flame charge!" Typhlosion's flames erupt from his back and he launches himself at Steelix. " venom drench!" Scoliopede hisses and rears back, before spraying a deluge of poison at all the enemy pokemon. " Aurora beam!" Aurorus cries out as he charges up the attack, the beam aimed at Nidoking. Satoshi glares at Aki, " im not asking im telling you to go. your pokemon aren;t strong enough for this fight, his attention is on me so if one of us is going to make it out it'll be you." He pulls out another pokeball and lets skarmory out, " Skarmory, take him to the ranch. fly as fast as you can, and don't listen to a word he says until you get there. don;t bring him back here, okay?" he rests his forehead against skarmory's face, " fly like you've never flown before." The steel bird makes a soft sad sound, then lifts into the air, grabs Aki in her talons and starts flying.
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Aki shrieks when he's grabbed and he starts cursing, "NO! FUCK NoNONONONO! Skarmory what are you doing?! He's hurt! Satoshi got hurt he needs us!!"
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Skarmory hesitates slightly, then shakes her head and beats her wings faster, telling him that her trainer told her to take him to the ranch and she was going to obey him. He had good reasons for what he did, and she trusted him.
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As they get farther Aki struggles harder, tears rolling down his face, "NO!! FUCKING GOD DAMN IT!! SATOSHI!!!!!!" He screams for Satoshi in both fear and anger.
Jay smirks when he sees how many pokemon Satoshi has brought out, knowing as long as Salamence isnt discovered the chance of getting all of these pokemon crushed at once is high. He calls back Hydreigon since that pokemon is out of commission before bringing out Pangoro and Runerigus, "Pangoro, go after Scolipede, Runerigus, sneak to Aurorus and use Destiny Bond."
Runerigus' body slithers against the ground as it slowly makes its way towards the bigger pokemon, groaning as it moves.
Pangoro charges at Scolipede, using Hammer Arm
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Skarmory tightens her grip, not wanting to hurt Aki but also not wanting to drop him.
" Venoshock!" Scoliopede ignores pangoro to hit Dusknoir as the enemy pokemon was poisoned and it would deal double damage. Aurorus hits nidoking with another aurora beam. Satoshi growls when the extra pokemon are let out, " we end this here. Kommo-o! Clangorous Soulblaze!" Kommo-o grins maliciously and slowly starts shaking his body, scales rattling and increasing in volume until he jumps and slams onto the ground, a shockwave echoing out to hit all the enemies on the field, including those he cannot see.
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Runerigus approaches Aurorus and uses Destiny Bond. Meanwhile Pangoro's temper rises when he's ignored and he growls at the pokemon, insulted before quickly using the move Beat Up on Scolipede
Dusknoir winces and grumbles slightly at the attack, his type being resistant to poison, he turns to glare at Scolipede before using the move will-o-wisp on him.
Salamence took the hit from the attack, focusing on the plan since he knows this attack will probably take himself out as well.
Nidoking stumbles back and roars loudly, panting before using Poison Jab on Kommo-o
Tyranitar aims at Kommo-o since he's the closest and blasts off a Hyper Beam now that he's rested it
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Satoshi looks around, hand pressed against his side where the blast had hit him. He felt dizzy from the pain, and when he lifted his hand it was bloody. He returns Noivern and Scoliopede, " damn... Kommo-o! take tyranitar down!" there was so much going on, he could barely keep track of it all. Kommo-o takes the hits and stumlbes, charging another aura sphere and launches it at tyranitar. Typhlosion keeps his flames on Steelix, trying to take out the pokemon weak to him. " hail!" Aurorus lifts his head and cries out, a mournful and heart wrenching sound as clouds gather above them and hail slowly starts falling from the sky.
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Aki struggles a bit more in Skarmory's grasp before sniffling and looking up at the pokemon, "Skarmory, please. Please im begging you put me down now. Regardless if you bring me all the way to the farm or put me down now i AM going to go back to Satoshi so please just put me down! He's in danger and he needs help!"
Steelix hits the ground, groaning and Tyranitar hits the ground, roaring loudly.
Jay huffs and returns Dusknoir and steelix before looking back in the area that salamence is hiding, "Salamence! Any day now!"
Salamence hears his owner and lifts his head. He hadnt collected as much energy as he could but he did store up a lot and hopefully that should be enough.
Jay looks up at the sky as the clouds that Aurorus gathered for their attack start to give off a purpley hue
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Skarmory shakes her head stubbornly. She knew he was in danger, but he wanted Aki far away, and while it was painful to leave her trainer she'd obey. She soon reaches the ranch and sets down, letting go of Aki. She tells him he should stay here, to be safe.
Satoshi looks up and pales when he sees the hue taking over the clouds. This was bad. He couldn't keep this up, and if he kept fighting he feared what would happen. He had to protect his pokemon, whatever happened. " Blizzard Aurorus, i need some cover!" he releases rapidash, " Rapidash, i need you to take my bag home. run as fast as you can, don;t stop for anything. i... im not going with, but i want you to go home okay?" She whinnies worriedly and he quickly hugs her, strapping his bag onto her. " when i tell you, run." he pulls out the empty pokeballs from the pokemon out, returning each of them and putting them in the bag. Lastly he puts aurorus, away, the blizzard dying as he does so. He shoves that last pokeball into the bag and slaps Rapidash's haunches, " go!" The fire horse pokemon rears and leaps forward, speeding away at speeds few other pokemon can match.
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As soon as aki reaches the ground he pulls arcanines ball out and releases him, "No can do Skarmory! I know Jay better than Satoshi does, I need to help him." He hops onto Arcanine's back and grabs onto the main, "Go!"
Arcanine barks loudly before sprinting back towards the action
Jay blinks when the blizzard obscures his sight although it does nothing to stop the large meteors falling from the sky, pelting the ground around them
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Several of Satoshi's pokemon get knocked out before he can return them, but Rapidash is able to dodge them as she runs, leaving Satoshi behind.
Satoshi slumps to the ground, clutching his side. This was it then, at least he got his pokemon and Aki out safely. He looks over to where he'd seen the other as the skies clear to show the destruction around them.
Skarmory cries out in distress and flies after him.
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Jay hums softly as he looks around, "must have sent them off. I suppose thats fine. You're the first trainer who has made me pull out almost all of my pokemon. Not every day that happens. Maybe i should cherish this moment a little." he returns his pokemon except for salamence who comes over when the damage is done, "Salamence, pick him up and lets go somewhere a little more private for some fun."
Salamence pants softly, exhausted, and goes over to Satoshi, grabbing him
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Satoshi scrambles back from the pokemon before he's grabbed, grunting in pain. " they're long gone.... you wont get them. you might have beat me, but only because you're a coward."
Rapidash runs towards the ranch, hooves pounding on the ground as she covers far more distance than she can with a rider slowing her down.
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Arcanine is running as fast as he can, sensing that his owner is in distress.
Jay snorts and starts to walk deeper into the forest, salamence following, "I mean yeah you lost but ya clearly aint weak. not since i almost lost that fight. If anything im fucking horny from that fight and you're a perfect prize for this."
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Satoshi blinks, " what the fuck? ah." he groans as he's jostled and clutches at his bleeding side.
Rapidash sess Arcanine ahead and swerves to the other side of the path to pass them by, she had no instructions regarding them and planned to keep going.
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Aki's eyes widen and he pulls on arcanine's maine, "Ah! wait! Rapidash! Wait! Arcanine, go to her real quick!"
Arcanine barks and quickly turns around and chases after rapidash, barking to get the horses attention
Jay gets to his little campground and salamence sets satoshi down while Jay works on tying his hands behind his back
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Rapidash hesitates, slowing and tossing her head. Skarmory sets down next to them, looking worried.
Satoshi struggles a bit, " what the hell. can;t you see im injured thanks to your cowardly ambush? if you're gonna kill me just do it already!"
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Jay snorts, "Shut up. god i hope you're not this annoying during sex." he digs around in his backpack before pulling out a bottle of lube
Aki jumps off arcanine and goes over to rapidash, "Im going back for Satoshi! Please let arcanine smell his backpack! He is a police dog technically so he should be able to track satoshi down." he knew rapidash wouldnt want to be close to his slobbery dog
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Satoshi blinks, " the fuck? sex? what the hell are you talking about you sick freak? im injured, thanks to you. either kill me and get it over with or get me some damn medical attention!" he struggles to get his hands loose despite the pain.
Rapidash looks at the dog with distaste, looking at Aki and sighing before sidling closer to let the drooling dog get a sniff.
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Arcanine sniffs the bag before taking a step back and sniffing the ground, his tail wagging.
Aki nods, "He has it." he looks back at rapidash and smiles, "thank you. head back to the farm with skarmory. I'll be back with satoshi" he hops back on to arcanine
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Skarmory flutters, but Satoshi wanted Aki to be safe!
Rapidash snorts, she had orders to follow, and she planned to do so. she kicks up her heels before continuing on her path.
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Aki grabs onto arcanine's mane again, "Lets go boy"
Arcanine quickly sprints back through the tree's, following the scent
Jay hums softly and undoes his pants and starts lubing up his erection, "Im going to fuck you since you're not as weak as the other trainers i've fought. You're actually worth the fucking. But if you're going to keep talking then i'll have to shut you up."
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Satoshi growls, " fuck off, keep your nasty dick to yourself."
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Jay chuckles, "oh hush you'll enjoy this." he pulls down Satoshi's pants and underwear and lubes up his fingers before shoving one into Satoshi
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Satoshi tries to move away, yelping as suddenly a finger enters him, " ah, fuck. fucking rapist." he curls as the movement makes his injury shoot with pain.
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Jay smirks and pushes in a second finger, massaging Satoshi's insides and stretching him
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Satoshi squirms a bit, panting in pain, " so you're seriously just going to rape me while im bleeding here."
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Jay snorts, not stopping as he talks, "Of course. If you're going to die then you're going to die but to be honest I would prefer to not fuck a corpse. I'd prefer it if you were still warm."
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Satoshi snarls, " you're really a sick fuck."
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Jay shrugs, "so i've been told." he pulls his fingers out, knowing that while it might not be enough for satoshi, it's definitely enough for him, "hope you enjoy-"
Arcanine jumps through the tree line and slams his entire body into Jay, causing the man to get tossed to the side a feet away.
Aki jumps down from arcanine, snarling, "Arcanine. Protect."
Arcanine's fur puffs out and he stands dutifully over Satoshi, as his master commands of him.
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Satoshi's eyes widen when suddenly arcanine is there over him, " Aki! get out of here! your pokemon aren't strong enough to fight him!"
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Aki snorts softly and rolls up his sleeves, "Dont need pokemon to kick his ass."
Jay gets up and quickly puts his dick away, "You shitty fucking brat! I'm gonna make you pay for that!!" He zips his pants up and make a run for his backpack where his pokemon are however before he can open it up it gets kicked away by aki followed by Jay being grabbed by his hair and repeatedly slammed into the ground as hard as Aki can.
Arcanine sniffs Satoshi a bit, softs whines emitting from his throat before he locates the ropes that have satoshi tied up, gently biting and pulling at them to get the human free
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Satoshi grimaces at the wet feeling of slobber on his arms and back, but as soon as he's free he carefully gets his pants and underwear pulled back up and takes his shirt off, ripping it into strips and wrapping his side to try and stop the bleeding.
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On one of the pulls upwards Jay manages to twist his body and punch aki across the face, getting the upper hand and shoving aki down while sitting on top of him and quickly grabbing aki's neck, squeazing tightly
Aki struggles as much as he can, clawing at Jay's hands before reaching out around him, grabbing a decent sized rock and slamming it against Jay's head.
The older man is quickly knocked off of aki, blood dripping down his head. He notices how close he is to his backpack and he snarls before scrambling to grab it and run. He was injured, his pokemon hadn't recovered from their fight with satoshi so even aki's pokemon could probably win if this turned into a pokemon fight. He wasn't going to waste his time sticking around.
Aki didn't stop him. He was too preoccupied with gasping for air when Jay fled. Hopefully that would teach him a lesson for now.
He coughed softly, wiping his sore face before stumbling to his feet, "ugh... and... and stay out motherfucker..." He looks over at satoshi and grimaced, "oof... we... you need help..."
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Satoshi Is sitting and catching his breath, " i'll be alright...you have good timing, but god damnit i sent you off for a reason."
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Aki snorts, "what, and lose the only human I care about? I think the fuck not. And what do you think was even going to happen after I was brought to the farm? Stay there like a good boy? Have I EVER done anything to make you think I would just follow your plan?" He scratches the back of his head and winces slightly, "i... sorry. I'm still heated. Let's just get you home. You're seriously injured and need help. "
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Satoshi sighs softly, " well i had hoped maybe you'd be smart and stay put. but hey, i learned something. apparently that was pretty much all his pokemon. i assumed he had more, so i tried to save mine. but i still had several pokemon fresh and ready to go, next time i'll be able to beat him."
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Aki bristles at the comment about being smart. He snarls softly, "Well maybe if you were smart and decided to just flee instead of using your pokemon to have them run off to the farm we'd BOTH be okay. But sure. call me the idiot." He was still mad and his blood still felt like it was boiling
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Satoshi sighs, " Flygon was injured, im injured, he wasn;t going to simply let us go. i could have left a pokemon behind to distract them while we escaped but there's no way i'd sacrifice my pokemon like that."
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Aki angrily gestures to arcanine, "disability or not he was bred for police duties, and he can keep up with rapidash despite her best efforts to keep the drool away."
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Satoshi sighs, " and im not certain she could outrun his flying pokemon with me on her back, even if we had the time to strap me on which we didn't have time for, and im not sure i could have held on at her fastest with my injury."
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Aki snarls, "so you were content with whatever hell you were going to go through with that creep?! What if he was going to kill you?! You were okay with that?!?"
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Satoshi looks at him calmly, " if it meant getting all my pokemon out safely and you as well? yes."
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Aki has his jaw dropped for a split second before he glares, "And you didnt think about how i would feel about this at all, did you?! Do you even know how I would feel if something terrible happened to you? Do you even care?!"
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " of course. but im not going to let you kill yourself for your feelings. one death verses many? it's an easy choice."
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Aki sniffles and shakes his head, "Fine... fine i guess thats fine for you... Arcanine. take him home and then come back here okay?"
Arcanine perks slightly before sniffing over satoshi
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Satoshi sighs, " it was a shitty situation okay?" Skarmory peeks around from a tree where she'd followed Aki, chirping. Satoshi looks over, " if you don;t mind i think i'll go with her, it'll be a smoother ride." He goes over to skarmory and mounts up, wincing.
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Aki snorts, "Fine. whatever you want mister smarty pants." he returns arcanine before taking a few steps back so he's not in the way of Skarmory taking off, showing no signs of following them
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Satoshi looks at him, " you coming with?"
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Aki crosses his arms and looks away, "No. I... I think im done here. get home safe."
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Satoshi blinks, then climbs back off Skarmory with a pained look, " ah, come on. i can ride on Arcanine with you if it means that much, it'll just be a lot bouncier. we need to get your neck looked at as well, i know we have stuff back home that'll help. and you have musharna for Maya."
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Aki shakes his head and digs through his bag before pulling out musharna's pokeball and holding it out for satoshi, "i.... I cant be by you if you make those kinds of decisions again. I was terrified and it felt like i couldnt breathe and knowing that you would just force me away in a sad attempt to sacrifice yourself is something i cant mentally handle. Sorry...."
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Satoshi looks down, " im sorry, things were happening fast, and i didn't consider your feelings. can we go to the ranch so we can talk this over?"
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Aki looks over satoshi's wounds before sighing, "fine, we'll talk once you're healed up but this isn't over. I'm still upset at you. " He puts the pokeball away and hops on to arcanine, "get on skarmory."
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Satoshi nods, carefully climbing onto the bird before she takes off, flying as smoothly as she can once she's airborn, heading back to the ranch.
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Aki sighs, "arcanine, follow the birdie."
The dog boofs loudly before sprinting after skarmory
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Skarmory stays just high enough that she stays out of reach while leading the other pokemon. soon they reach teh ranch where a few people are standing outside the house looking in their direction, rapidash standing next to them. skarmory alights next to them, and the elder woman hugs Satoshi, " we were so worried when we saw Rapidash come back with your pokemon. you're hurt, lets get you taken care of." she looks at Aki, " come in, come in. Arcanine can have run of the pastures if he'd like." Satoshi slowly makes his way inside where they start tending to his injuries.
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Aki gets off of arcanine, following them inside. He didnt feel anything so he wasnt sure what everyone kept talking about. Maybe it was the adrenaline still pumping through him...
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The older man grabs a jar and gestures to a chair for Aki, " looks like you're gonna have some nasty bruising around your neck there son, this ought to help." he hesitates, " do you mind if i apply it? otherwise i can let you do it yourself, i'll get you a mirror. but it'll be easier if i do it for ya."
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aki blinks before sitting down in the chair, "its fine, i dont care if you do it,"
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He carefully starts dabbing the salve on and gently rubbing it in, " some people are uncomfortable getting touched, always best to ask first. looks like you boys had a helluva time. you can tell us later though, lets get you taken care of, then we can get ya fed and set down to rest. any of your pokemon need tending to?"
Satoshi grimaces as a painful wound salve is put on his side before being bandaged, " his pokemon are fine i think, there's a good number of mine that need some care." The woman raises an eyebrow, " someone who took out several of your pokemon? must have been a strong trainer. Maya, go make sure the guest room is ready."
the little girl runs upstairs, a skitty following her. She soon runs back down, " it's all clean momma!"
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Aki snorts, "just some jack-" he pauses briefly and glances at at Maya, "a bad person that unfortunately has a bone to pick with us."
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Maya blinks up at him, not understanding what he meant to say. " some jack? was that his name?"
Satoshi chuckles, " something like that. Hey Maya, we have a new friend for you. i found a pokemon who wants to be your friend."
The older man raises an eyebrow, " is that so? well, i suppose we can overlook that a ponyta won;t be your first."
Maya looks at her brother wide eyed, " they want to be MY friend?"
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aki blinks before nodding, "yeah hold on, " he carefully removes his backpack so he can rifle through it before pulling out Musharna's ball, "a pokemon who needs a very nice friend." he holds the pokeball out to her
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Maya's eyes go wide and she gently takes the pokeball. " i can be a nice friend." she sets the pokeball down and pokes it, " come out new friend!"
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Musharna pops out of her pokeball, making a loud yawning sound, keeping herself curled up as usual, "shaaarrr...."
Aki chuckles, "well good morning to you too."
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Maya stares wide eyed at the pokemon, " wow.... pretty!"
Satoshi smiles, " that's musharna."
Maya blinks, " moosh...ana."
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The haze that emits from the pokemon turns to a light, sweet pink, "shaaaarrrna!"
Aki smiles softly and pets the pokemon, "you can call her moosh for now."
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Maya grins, " moosh!" she slowly walks over over and gently pets Musharna.
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Musharna is patient and waits for Maya before leaning into the pets, she uncurls briefly and opens her eyes to get a proper look at her new friend and trainer before curling back up and closing her eyes, content with what she has seen, "musharna."
Aki hums, "that settles that then. Musharna make sure you keep your new friend safe. Make sure she only has good dreams from here on out, okay?"
"Shaaaaar~!" Musharna floats as close as she can to Maya
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Maya giggles and hugs Musharna, " comon moosh! i wanna show you my room!" she lets go and runs upstairs to show musharna her new home.
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Musharna follows Maya up the stairs
Aki sighs and shakes his head, "Well at least thats one pokemon."
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Satoshi looks at him, " hm? one pokemon that she has or what?"
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Aki glances at satoshi and frowns, "I have more than one pokemon that need a new home. Or did you forget?" His tone his sharp, obviously still upset at satoshi
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Satoshi blinks, " ah, right beartic. Hey, where's Emma?"
The man looks over and raises an eyebrow, " should be in the barn, one of the ponyta took a bad step and came up lame earlier so she's probably taking care of it."
Satoshi nods and looks at Aki, " im not sure im up to going right now, but my older sister ought to be a good match for beartic."
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Aki hums, "right. Well I hope so. Beartic is a bit of a crybaby." He gets up. The sooner he took care of beartic here the sooner he could slink out
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Satoshi nods, " she can be a strong trainer when she needs to be, but she can also be very compassionate. i have no doubt she'll be able to work with him."
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Aki nods, half listening as he pulls beartics pokeball out of his bag and tosses his bag on his bag, "cool. "
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " alright..." he sighs and slowly makes his way upstairs to lie down.
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Aki steps outside and looks around until he spots the barn, making his way over there
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The door is open and in the entrance of a stall a woman kneels next to a ponyta with a foot held up, applying cream to the leg and rewrapping it, " alright, that should help. i'll see about getting those hooves trimmed later okay? you just sit tight. should heal up fine."
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He gets to the entrance and knocks on the frame of the barn doors, "excuse me, miss?"
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she looks up and tucks some hair behind her ear, " hello. oh, you're that guy that Satoshi went with. is he alright?"
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Aki nods, "He needs to rest up but yeah he's fine. My name is Aki and if you dont mind, I kinda wanted to ask a favor of you."
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Emma leans against the wall of the stall, " Aki, got it. and what's this favor then?"
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Aki rubs the back of his head, "Well satoshi and I rescued a pokemon from a grade A asshole. same guy that put the hurt on satoshi, and he seems to think that you would be a good fit for the pokemon. He's Beartic and he's a bit of a cry baby but he's a nice enough pokemon." he holds the pokeball out to her
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She blinks and takes the pokeball, " huh, well i can see about working with him. beartic huh? those aren;t found around these parts. well, he's welcome to stick around here regardless if he doesn;t cause trouble." she lets the pokemon out.
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As soon as Beartic is let out he whimpers softly and sniffs the air, not used to the new smells. He turns and sees Aki and Emma. He leans over to Emma and he nervously sniffs her.
Aki smiles at Beartic, "Hey buddy. You're still okay."
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Emma lifts her hand so he can sniff it, " hey there, this guy tells me you need a new partner. we work hard around here, but we're also a family. that sound like something you want to be a part of?"
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Beartic sniffs her hand before dipping his head low enough to tuck the top of his hand against her hand, wanting pets
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She snorts softly, " i guess you're willing to give it a go then." she rubs the top of his head and moves her hand to the side to scratch at his ear. " big ol softie huh?"
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Beartic's soft grumbling is of that as a cats pur, leaning into the scratches
aki smiles softly, "yeah he is. I'm glad he'll be in good hands here. thank you."
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She nods, " you're welcome. glad to see you back too, wasn;t sure how long it'd be before you and my brother came back. im not tickled he came back injured, but i suppose some excitement is probably good for him. he's been working too hard. i'll bet being out with you has been good for him."
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Aki snorts, "well he seems a little too gung ho to toss me to the side but sure, being with me is good for him. "
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She raises an eyebrow, " that doesn;t sound like him. wanna tell me what happened?" she scratches beartic under the chin
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Aki sighs and scratches the back of his before explaining Jay's deal and what happened.
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Emma makes a rude noise, " well no wonder. he's got a little bit of a hero complex, when we needed him he dropped his whole future with pokemon to come home and help. he's self sacrificing, he sees everyone else as more important than he is. so of course he'd send you off where it was safe and risk himself. that guy he screwed around with fucked up his self worth."
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Aki huffs, "Yeah well i didnt ask to be sent off and im not some damsel in distress."
beartic makes soft huff sounds before plopping onto all fours and rubbing his face against Aki.
Aki almost stumbles back a bit but he chuckles and pets beartic, "sorry, i know, i know. you would have helped out if i called you out. But I was afraid of having you fight against your previous trainer. I didnt think that was fair to do to you so soon, okay?"
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Emma shrugs, " he's an idiot. was it fair? no, but he wanted to protect you. Men aren't known for thinking in the heat of the moment, and he's especially stupid when it comes to people he cares about."
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Aki grumbles, "well if he's going to be dumb like that then I should tell him I'm done doing this whole adventure thing with him."
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She rolls her eyes, " yeah, you could do that. kind of harsh to do to someone who tried to protect you with his life but i can see it."
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Aki huffs, "well if Jay shows up again and satoshi tries to send me off again then what am I supposed to do? What if next time satoshi actually gets- " aki struggles a bit before shaking his head, "if satoshi is going to 'sacrifice' himself when it's not wanted then I'm going to make sure he at least can't do that for me."
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Emma raises an eyebrow, " that's not a conversation you need to be having with me honey, that's something you need to talk about with him. From the sounds of it i doubt my brother will back down so easily next time, knowing his strength compared to this other guys, and also knowing that death isn;t on the line."
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Aki sighs, "trust me. The only reason why I'm here now is because he promised we'd talk about it here. Otherwise I was ready to hand him the pokemon that were gonna stay here and just leaving. "
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She nods, " sounds like he realizes there's something not quite right then. you two will figure it out. trust me, everything seems so complicated when you're as young as you are, it's not as bad as it seems."
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Aki sighs, the anger subsiding a little, "y- yeah I guess... anyway I'll guess I'll check on him. Thanks again for taking beartic."
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Emma nods, " i know you're feeling hurt, but seriously, he wouldn't have done it if he didn't care about you."
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Aki shakes his head, "thanks but that doesn't make me feel better. But again, I'll be talking to him about that." He heads out and goes back to the house
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Emma nods and waves him off as she gets back to work.
Satoshi is settled in bed resting. Maya is running around the house with Musharna, giggling.
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Aki gets inside and goes upstairs to find satoshi. He frowns and sighs softly.
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Satoshi opens his eyes and lifts his head, " Aki?"
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Aki sits down, "don't lift your stupid head. You'll cause any unnecessary damage." He stares at satoshi after sitting before sighing again, "Yeah so beartic has a home now. You still need to figure something out with drowzee later. How are you feeling?"
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Satoshi lays his head back down, " i've been worse, not by much though. im glad beartic and Emma are getting along, i thought they might. drowzee... not sure about him. we can try to work with him here."
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Aki huffs, "you can. There is no 'we' here. Not until this talking thing happens."
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Satoshi sighs, " sorry sorry. jeez. that wasn;t intended to be a landmine."
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Aki tsks, "you're lucky I even came to check on you. I was so half tempted to just leave after talking to Emma, but I was promised a conversation. "
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Satoshi sighs and rubs his hand over his face, " well i was hoping to give it a bit of time but i guess it's now or never huh?" he sits up, wincing, as carefully turns so he can rest his feet on the floor and look at Aki.
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Aki crosses his arms, "well the sooner this happens the sooner I can leave and let you rest."
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Satoshi sighs, " i...im sorry. there was so much going on. i wasn;t sure if i could beat him, and i didn;t think i could get away..."
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Aki huffs, "i was terrified during that whole thing.. terrified that I would find you dead. I don't want to feel like that again so if we are to continue this whole adventuring thing together then I expect that you never do something so stupid and dangerous again. I may not have a huge stack of strong pokemon but I do have a couple that can help. I want us to work together on this and not treat me like some baggage."
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Satoshi nods, " i know now my strength against his, i can beat him next time. I know im not going to be hopelessly overpowered." he looks at aki, " i never thought of you as baggage. i just... you already lost one pokemon, i didn;t want anything to happen to any more of them..."
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Aki huffs, "it sure doesn't feel like I wasn't baggage. You didn't even let me argue my case. You just sent me away before I could even bounce ideas about how to deal with him. I don't want to be with someone who is just going to sacrifice themselves the second things get tight."
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Satoshi rubs his temples, " i shouldn;t have done that. i... look i don't know what you want me to do. i freaked out at the thought of you getting hurt, and i was in pain, and flygon was hurt..."
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"what i WANT is to know you aren't going to do that again! What i WANT is to not get attached to you only for you to essentially throw yourself off a cliff just for my benefit! Why should I open myself to anyone when I'm just going to get tossed to the side again?!"
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He growls, " i've already admitted it was a bad move and i shouldn;t have done that. quit yelling at me. and last i checked, trying to save someone's life isn;t tossing them aside!"
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Aki huffs, "If you know it was a bad move and you shouldnt have done that the just say you wont do that again!"
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Satoshi glares, " i won't, for more than one reason. i know i can beat him, and clearly i was wrong to value you enough to not want to see you hurt."
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"The only thing that seems to be clear for you is that you dont want me around. I get it. We're done here." He turns away and leaves the room, quickly heading downstairs
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Satoshi shakes his head, " i wouldn;t have tried to save your life you ungrateful ass if i didn;t want you around!"
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"UNGRATEFUL!?" aki freezes right at the bottom of the stairs in shock over such an accusation. he storms back upstairs, very much in rage, "EXCUSE ME IF IM SUPPOSED TO BE GRATEFUL OVER SOMEONE I LIKE ESSENTIALLY KILLING THEMSELVES. YOU DONT GET TO SAY THAT TO ME."
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Satoshi snarls, " KILLING MYSELF WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL INTENT SO FUCK OFF."
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"FINE I WILL." he storms back down the stairs and out of the house, whistling loudly for arcanine.
the large dog curiously runs over to his master.
Aki grumbles softly as he hops on to arcanine, "We're going back." he ushers arcanine off the farm
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Rapidash lifts her head and watches them go, whinnying as they leave.
Satoshi runs his hand through his hair, this was better anyway. He'd gotten too close to the other, and clearly that was a bad idea.
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about a week later a guy walks down the road, glancing up from his phone as they pass the farm perimeter, "Oh boy thats a lotta of runnin land. You'd best not get trampled on out there eh Yamper?"
Yamper is at Dippers feet, barking happily as he stares out towards the farm fields
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Satoshi leans low over rapidash's back as they gallop across one of the fields, several tauros running ahead. Satoshi sits up and twirls a lasso over his head before tossing it, the rope setting over the bull-like pokemons horns. Rapidash skids to a stop and Satoshi holds on to her tightly with his legs as they try to get the pokemon under control.
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Dipper can hear the tauros and he blinks before picking up Yamper and continuing down the road a little fast until he can see Satoshi, "Oh wow! He's good!" he grins and watches in interest, "I bet he'd know a thing or two about the area around here huh?" he looks down at his pupper and chuckles
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Satoshi pants softly and gets Tauros tied and on the ground, " im looking at your hoof whether you like it or not." He grabs the foot, pulling out a small tool and using it to scrap at the hoof carefully, soon removing a sharp looking stone, " see? i knew you weren't walking right." he unties the pokemon before quickly stepping back, " go on, git!" the Tauros, much offended, runs off. Satoshi mounts back up onto rapidash and wipes the sweat from his face before noticing his audience. " uh, hello?"
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Dipper smiles and waves, "Hellooooo~! That was pretty impressive! My names Ben but mostly everyone calls me Dipper. Whats yours if I may ask?"
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Satoshi raises an eyebrow, " Satoshi. what brings you to these parts? we're pretty far out."
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"I venture about, looking to study pokemon in different habitats to see how that helps them grown and all that. Professor in training kind of activities. Oh but i used to be a pokemon trainer when i was just a brat, thankfully i dont seem to be too rusty neither."
Yamper yips excitedly from Dippers arms, grinning and panting happily
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Satoshi hums, " gotcha. well uh, this is my families ranch." Rapidash walks closer and lowers her head to sniff at Dipper, very clearly a large and very healthy specimen.
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Dipper hums and holds out his hand for rapidash to sniff easier, "Your rapidash is beautiful. She looks like a queen in comparison to some of the others i've seen."
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Rapidash sniffs his hand, then looks doubtfully at Yamper.
Satoshi chuckles, " we're well known for our ponyta and rapidash here, they're all a cut above wild type you find. She and i have been partners for years, and she's been mine since she was just a foal." he rubs her neck affectionately.
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Dipper hums, "Is it alright if I pet her?" he puts Yamper down, not wanting his excitable pup to upset the larger horse
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Satoshi nods, " she might let you. only way to know is to try. worse case she'll just pull away."
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Dipper hums and smiles at Rapidash, "Hello Queen~ May I pet you?" He holds out his hand to gently pet her neck
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Rapidash snorts softly, a little off put by being called queen. She tosses her head before deciding to tolerate it for now and leaning into the touch.
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Dipper had waited until rapidash made her choice and when he feels her leaning in he smiles and pets her, "how smooth~ her coat even feels amazing."
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Satoshi nods, " we make our own feed mix tailored specifically for ponyta and rapidash for them to supplement their grazing. you won't find better ponyta and rapidash anywhere."
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Dipper nods, "I can tell." he pulls away and smiles, "I dont think i'll find a better rapidash for as long as i live thats for sure."
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Rapidash tosses her mane, enjoying the compliments. Satoshi snorts, " don't go getting vain on me girl. Well, my family would hang me out to dry if i didn't invite a visitor for dinner so consider the invitation officially extended. you'd of course be welcome to see the pokemon around the ranch as well."
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Dipper looks up at Satoshi, "Really? That would be awesome, thank you so much!"
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Satoshi nods, " well the fastest way is to ride, hop on up." he kicks his foot out of the stirrup and holds a hand out to help him up.
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Dipper smiles and picks up Yamper before taking satoshi's hand and successfully getting himself up behind the other trainer.
Yamper scuttles on to Dipper's back and hides into the man's backpack
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Satoshi helps him up onto rapidash behind him and waits for the other to get settled before clicking his tongue. Rapidash turns and jumps into an easy canter towards the house.
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Dipper looks around as rapidash heads to the horse, enjoying the sights
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Satoshi stops when they reach the house and slides off rapidash, holding his hand out to help dipper down if need be.
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Dipper happily takes satoshi's hand and carefully gets off of rapidash, "Thanks!"
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Satoshi nods and heads inside, " we have a guest!"
The mother glances over from the kitchen, " oh hello. nice to get visitors. Maya come set the table!"
Maya runs running down the stairs, " comon mush! i gotta get the table ready!" she quickly starts setting out places, carefully arranging silverware.
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Dipper smiles and nods to the mother, "Hello! Nice to meet you ma'am!"
Musharma follows closely behind Maya to help the child set the table
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She nods to him, " now i expect you to make yourself comfortable, you hear? dinner will be ready shortly." She walks to the door and rings a metal triangle, the sound carrying.
Maya finishes setting the table and pets Musharna, " thanks for helping me!" she gets onto her chair and wiggles a little in her seat with impatience.
Satoshi grabs a pan out of the oven and sets it on the counter.
Emma and their father walk in after a few minutes. Emma glances at Dipper, " looks like we have another city boy who wandered in. Dinner smells wonderful." she sits. The father sits and Satoshi and the mother soon serve everyone up. The father looks at Dipper, " so, what's the news from the cities?"
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Dipper blinks as he sits in an empty spot, "Another? You guys are really nice, um." he looks at the dad, "Rocket activity went down a little so there's that."
Musharma happily hovers next to Maya
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Maya takes a few bites and holds some out for Musharna.
The father nods, " now that is good news. last time we tried to bring our tauros in for sale those blasted thieves scattered the herd and ran a week of graze off them. stole a few to boot. only good rocket is a dead rocket."
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Dipper's eyes widen, "Oh my gosh thats awful! how long ago was that?"
Musharma trills softly and takes a gentle bite out of maya's hand
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" couple months ago. We've been holding off on bringing this new group in, but with that news in mind it might be time to take them to market." he stabs a chunk of potato and eats it.
Maya smiles, " it's good huh?"
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musharma makes a gentle cry sound, excited for the delicious food
Dipper nods, "If I knew when i'd even stick around to help ya guys out in making sure the travel went by safely. Not that ya cant handle your own but more numbers is always a good thing."
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The father looks him over, " i suppose that's not a bad idea. we need to leave someone here with Maya to keep an eye on the place."
The mother looks up, " i can stay this time, i know Emma wants to get a few things in town."
He nods, " it's settled then. i'll call ahead and let them know we'll be bringing the herd in a few days. Satoshi, get this city boy a ponyta that'll tolerate him and make sure he can at least keep his seat."
Satoshi blinks, " of course."
Maya sighs softly, " soon i'll be old enough to go too. and then you can come with me Moosh!" she hugs the pokemon briefly, then lets go and goes back to alternating between eating and feeding Musharna.
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When Maya hugs Musharna a little more pink fog escapes from her body however she doesnt seem to mind much, "Shaaaar!"
Dipper smiles, "Excellent. And if the ponyta doesnt work out I have my ninetails. He is pretty fast and big."
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Satoshi nods, " well it has a decent chance of keeping up."
Maya giggles, absolutely adoring her new pokemon.
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Musharna curls up into a ball like she normally does when she goes to sleep for a little bit
Dipper nods, "yeah ninetails is pretty fast but its just in case the horse thing doesnt work out. I'm just glad I can help!"
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Satoshi nods, " well hopefully it doesn;t come down to that, our ponyta know their work, so if we can find one that'll tolerate you, we'll be able to put you on one of the cutting sides in case any pokemon try to break off from the herd. you may not know what to do, but the ponyta will, give it it's head and it'll do the rest."
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Dipper nods, "Well i certainly boosted your rapidash's ego slightly with compliments so im sure i can win over a ponyta's heart."
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Satoshi chuckles, " getting one full of themselves is one thing, getting them to let them ride you is another entirely."
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Dipper hums, "I love a challenge. especially if the reward is friendship and trust."
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Satoshi nods and goes back to eating, digging into the meal.
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Dipper does the same, not wanting the food to get cold.
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Soon they finish dinner and Emma grabs the dishes and starts cleaning them.
Satoshi gets up, " i'll show you the guest room."
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Dipper quickly thanks emma before getting up, "Sounds good!"
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Satoshi nods and leads the way, opening the door to the guest room and raising an eyebrow when he sees Ariados on the bed. " we have a guest girl, off." Ariados chitters and jumps down.
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Dipper jumps a little seeing ariados, "o-oh wow.... you uh... might have a spider problem." he gives a nervous chuckle
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Satoshi looks at Dipper and raises an eyebrow, " spider problem? oh, her. she just likes to steal the guest bed sometimes when im out working and nobody is around. she's extremely friendly and well trained, she won;t bother you if you don;t want her to."
Ariados scurries out of the room and chitters at Dipper curiously.
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Dipper takes a step away from her, forcing out a polite smile, "ah. i-im sure she's fine. I just- its so many legs."
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Ariados droops visibly and tucks out of sight into Satoshi's room.
Satoshi sighs, " well not everyone likes bug pokemon. she'll stay away if i tell her to."
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Dipper nods, "Im sure i'll get used to her slowly I just am not used to spiders. and spider pokemon."
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Satoshi shrugs, " you're allowed to not like certain pokemon. Anyway my room is the one Ariados went into, the bathroom is two doors down. If you need anything you can wake me."
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Dipper looks at satoshi and nods, "alright thanks for all of this. It's very kind of you and your family."
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Satoshi shrugs, " it's kind of a rule out here, where there's not much around. Not only can it be dangerous to have people wandering through our land, but this way we get the latest news from the city too."
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"Its certainly a smarter way to think thats for sure!"
Yamper pops out of Dippers bag and happily barks before scrambling out and letting himself plop onto the bed, his tail wagging
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Satoshi chuckles, " well let me know if you need anything." he goes to the bathroom and gets ready for bed.
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Dipper nods, "will do! have a good night." he lets his backpack plop onto the bed and he gets his pajama's out
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Satoshi goes to bed.
Maya also goes to bed, pulling Musharna under the blankets with her.
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Musharna does her best to emit the best pink smoke so that Maya has the best dreams.
Soon it's morning and Dipper is already up, happily petting Yamper, "morning bud."
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Maya sleeps peacefully.
Satoshi gets up with the sun and is downstairs making some breakfast, frying a heap of hashbrowns in one pan and some sausage in another, with pancakes on a griddle.
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Yamper sniffs the air and excitedly jumps off the bed, running to the kitchen and tripping over himself a little bit.
Dipper blinks before chuckling, getting dressed and heading down himself, "morning."
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Satoshi glances over, " morning. breakfast is just about done here."
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Dipper nods, "I could tell. smells really good~"
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satoshi nods and goes back to cooking, soon setting large platters of food on the table and ringing for the family. The other adults soon come in from outside, having already been up and working, and Maya comes from her room with musharna in tow. Satoshi sits, " dish up as much of whatever you want as you want. nobody goes hungry here."
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Musharna has opted to float just centimeters about maya's head, making it look like the pokemon was catching a ride.
Dipper happily sits down and grabs some food, "dont have to tell me twice~ thank you very much for making food!"
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Maya serves herself up and starts eating, giving musharna some now and then.
Satoshi nods, " enjoy." him and his family sit and start serving up, and start chattering about the chores they'd gotten done and any update on the pokemon.
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Musharna uses her trunk like nose to grab any food that Maya holds up to her. Anything particularly tasty that she liked made her puff out a bit more pink smoke and she uses her nose to gently pat Maya's forehead in thanks.
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Maya giggles whenever Musharna pets her head, not minding the bit of grease undoubtedly gotten onto her.
Satoshi smiles as he watches them, " well, those two get along even better than i thought they would. looks like Musharna is very happy with her new trainer."
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Dipper glances at musharna and hums, "new trainer? How recent of an addition is musharna?" He did find it odd that such an uncommon pokemon was hanging out here and not hiding somewhere. Sleeping.
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" bout a week. that Musharna was in a spot of trouble with some ghost types picking on it, once i got that all settled she agreed to come with me to meet Maya and see if she'd like her for a trainer." Satoshi keeps his eyes down on his food as he eats.
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Dipper hums and smiles, "Thats amazing! You're really good with pokemon." he keeps happily eating
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Satoshi shrugs, " im decent."
Emma snorts, " what mr modest over there isn't saying is he was a semi-finalist in the championships awhile back."
" that was years ago. im just a rancher now."
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Dipper's eyes widen and he looks back at satoshi, "Wah- Really?! thats so cool! you're incredible!"
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Satoshi waves a fork dismissively, " there are plenty of other semi-finalists out there from over the years. it's not like i won or anything. i have strong pokemon and we work together well, but im not anything special."
Emma rolls her eyes, " anyway... so what do you do city boy?"
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Dipper looks at Emma, "ah I'm currently studying pokemon so I can be the next professor in my family. They let me be a trainer when I was younger but now that I'm older and my grandpa is retiring soon they told me it was time to get serious so that's what I'm doing. When I'm done studying and feel I have learned enough I'll go back and take over my grandpa's facility."
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Emma nods, " well, you'll get some good information here, feel free to check out any of the pokemon, just be careful. And if you can convince my brother, he's got quite the team with him."
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Dipper looks at satoshi and brings his hands together in front of his face, in a praying motion, "pleeeeaaaseee can i see your pokemon sometime? No! nononono i would love to battle you as well! It would be so much fun!"
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Satoshi slowly raises an eyebrow, " you know im probably going to wipe the floor with you right?"
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Dipper smiles, "Yeah totally but I can learn so much from watching your pokemon fight!"
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Satoshi shrugs, " your choice. we can battle after the shores are done and we see if any of the ponyta will work with you."
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Dipper grins and nods, "Heck yeah! Work hard and play harder."
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Satoshi nods, finishing up breakfast and taking his plate to the sink. " i'll get the Tauros moved to the northern pasture to get ready to move them to town."
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Dipper scarfs some more food down, "Do you need any help with that or no?"
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Satoshi shakes his head, " they're still fenced, so it'll be a lot easier than moving them to town. besides, you still don;t know what you're doing. i'll be a few hours, try not to get trampled." he gets up and heads out the door.
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Dipper snorts, "Still gotta offer, im that kind of guy." He gets up and brings his dishes to the sink to wash
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Satoshi chuckles, " you'll have better luck helping in the barn. this is work for someone who knows what they're doing." He whistles and rapidash gallopes from where she'd been grazing and skids to a stop in front of him, tossing her head.
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Dipper nods before looking at the other family members, "Anything I can help with? I don't mind doing some work. "
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Emma hums softly, " your best bet is probably in the barn with me. we've got some pokemon to tend to that aren;t feeling the best, and we have some rapidash that will be foaling soon."
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Dipper nods, "Sounds good to me. as long as i can help you guys for all of the hospitality."
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Emma grins, " well it's not needed, but it's appreciated. come on city slicker, we've got some stalls to muck out."
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Dipper whoops softly, "I'm a city slicker!" He chuckles to himself before stretching
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Satoshi mounts up and heads out to move the tauros.
Emma grabs a bag of supplies and heads out to the barn, working on feeding the pokemon and using a pitchfork to clean out the dirty hay. She makes sure to toss a few fish into a bucket for Beartic and gives him some scritches.
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Dipper follows Emma and blinks when he sees Beartic, "whoa. Hey big guy. Where did you guys catch this guy? "
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Emma shakes her head, " Satoshi and a guy he'd traveled with for awhile apparently got this guy from a bad trainer who abandoned him. so im not sure where he was caught, but he seems happy enough here now." She gives the giant bear a few more pats, " would you give the water troughs a good cooldown later beartic? everyone will enjoy a cool drink during the heat of the day."
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Beartic makes a soft grumble as he leans into the pats, enjoying the attention. He nods happily at Emma's request.
Dipper hums softly, "I see. I'm glad this guy is in a better place. "
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She nods, " yeah. this one is a big softy, so honestly not having to battle suits him i think. yeah there's work to do, and i certainly use his muscle, but no fighting." She looks voer, " if you want you can grab those buckets and put one on the hook in those stalls over there, it's a feed mix for the expecting mothers."
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Beartic rubs his snoot against Emma's hand, knowing a moist nose anywhere else might earn him a scolding
Dipper nods, "of course. " He rolls up his sleeves before grabbing the buckets easily, "well it's obvious that beartic likes getting attention that's for sure. "
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She chuckles as the pokemon begs for more attention, " yeah he does. he was wasted on whoever had him before." she playfully grabs his head in her hands and ruffles his fur and ears, " you big ol lump."
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Dipper gets the buckets properly hooked and looks over at Emma, "done with that."
Beartic grumbles, purrs?, happily, giving one large, cooling huff. His breath causing a thin layer of frost on the ground that quickly melts
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The rapidash are at the buckets, muzzles in as they enjoy their meal.
Emma backs away from Beartic, " gotta work now bud." She grabs a pitchfork and gestures to a wheelbarrow, " well, follow me. i'll do the cleaning if you do the wheeling." she steps into the stall of a rapidash occupied with eating and uses the pitchfork to scoop up any messes and places it into the wheelbarrow.
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Dipper grabs the wheelbarrow and follows her, "Easy! im pretty good with heavy lifting. I like to pick up my pokemon when i snuggle them so I had to do some weight lifting."
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Emma chuckles, " it's less that's it's heavy lifting and more that it's kinda gross and a pain to do with one person." she tosses a few more scoops of soiled hay into the barrow.
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Dipper watches her and shrugs, "I can see how with just one person this could take longer then necessary."
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Emma nods, " not that i'd complain, taking longer is fine as long as it gets done, and we all do our part around here." she tosses one last pile into the barrow. " alrighty, that'll do it. wasn't too bad today. set that down and i'll take it around back. If you want to grab a curry brush you can see if one of these ladies will let you give them a grooming."
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Dipper nods and sets the barrow down, grabbing a brush, "might as well try to get me on their good side~"
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She chuckles, " well you won't be riding any of these gals since they're expecting, but it'll be good practice for the others who are going to be less willing to be pampered."
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Dipper smirks, "Im a gentlemen! Of course i wouldnt ride them! But words travel ya know? im hoping them being happy with my presence will come in handy for the others."
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Emma nods, " fair." she grabs the wheelbarrow and takes it out of the barn, dumping it in the compost bin with the rest of the waste.
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Dipper goes over to one of the momma's and smiles, holding out the brush towards her, letting the rapidash have the chance to say no if they didnt want to be brushed, "hey there momma, you wanna get brushed?"
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She eyes him, sniffing the brush before moving her muzzle past it and sniffing him, starting at his head and sniffing down his body before she finally decides he's tolerable and stepping forward to put her side in front of him for brushing.
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Dipper smiles happily and starts brushing her, "im tolerable! this is one step closer to being liked~"
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Rapidash closes her eyes and leans into the brushes, letting her head hang low towards the ground.
Emma smiles as she comes back in, staying quiet so as not to break the moment, grabbing another brush and going to beartic to give him a brushing.
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Dipper hums softly as he keeps brushing her, "what a good mother. I bet you could still kick my ass if you wanted to. im so glad you and I have an agreement right now."
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She snorts softly, of course she could kick his ass. But brushes felt good. She shifts slightly to guide the brush where she wants it. Once she's satisfied after a lengthy brushing she lifts her head and walks away from him back into her stall, head held high like the queen she is.
Emma works on beartic, giving him a good brushing.
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Dipper blinks when she turns and just leaves. He chuckles softly and goes to the next rapidash he can find to see if they want brushes
Beartic is less interested in the brush and more interested in pets
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The next one refuses to let him near her, but the one after allows herself to be groomed.
Emma brushes him anyway, he may not like it as much but she had no desire to deal with matted fur.
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Dipper doesnt push any of the rapidash to get brushed but he certainly does an amazing job brushing those that do want to be pet, "so many good mama's~"
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Emma takes care of the fussy ones once she's done with beartic and once they're all brushed she nods, " not too bad for a city slicker. now we just gotta get you on one."
Satoshi comes trotting in on rapidash who shoves her muzzle in the water trough once she gets to it, taking a long drink as Satoshi gets off and pats her neck, " good job, i know they were being stubborn today."
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dipper grins and puffs out his chest, "These interactions will be handy for me when I become a professor so i am trying to really take this seriously."
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Emma chuckles, " nothing like getting your hands dirty at a ranch to get some good hands on interaction with pokemon." she glances at Satoshi, " get those pokemon moved?"
Satoshi nods, splashing some water onto his own face and rubbing it onto the back of his neck, " yeah, they're settled."
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Dipper glances over at satoshi, his eyes lingering for just a little bit before he looks at emma and smiles, nodding, "and i appreciate the chance to get some experiences with your pokemon. thank you for that."
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Emma nods, " i'll put you to work anytime you like." she grins.
Satoshi glances over, " well, feel like meeting some of the ponyta and seeing if any will tolerate you?"
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Dipper grins at Satoshi, "Hell yeah I am!" he looks at Emma, "as long as im here im free labor~"
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She chuckles, " that's what i figure."
Satoshi shakes his head with a smile on his face, " alright, lets go." he heads out of the barn and towards a nearby pasture where several ponyta are grazing. Rapidash walks behind him, keeping up with her trainer easily.
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dipper follows satoshi, humming softly, "hopefully the ponyta take a liking to me."
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Satoshi makes his way to the fence and leans against it, " hard to know, they're finicky. They only obey people they find worthy. We only need one to find you acceptable." He whistles softly and the horse Pokemons heads lift, looking over before they start Nov ng towards the two men at the fence.
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Dipper leans on the fence, "aaaahh...well hopefully one does like me. Not sure what I could do to make any of them like me if I get turned down the first time. These polemom are all about consent and I'm not the pushy type."
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Satoshi shrugs, " we'll see. there are ways to prove yourself if they don't reject you outright."
Most of the ponyta go to Satoshi, sniffing at him curiously and only giving Dipper passing glances. a couple Ponyta however take more interest in the new man, shuffling near the fence and bumping into each other as if hesitating to be the first to go forward. Eventually a smaller male gets kind of shoved forward and he edges closer, tossing his head and reaching out to sniff before he gets close enough to touch Dipper, sniffing his hands before sniffing his hair.
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Dipper obviously doesn't move, waiting for the horse to figure out if he's friend or foe, "hey little guy. Just here hoping to make a new friend. "
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The ponyta snorts a bit, looking back at the others and nickering softly. The group that were contemplating soon come over to sniff him and check him out.
Satoshi chuckles, " first hurdle jumped. here, bribery would only put them off if you'd offered it before they accepted you, now you can give out treats." he walks over to rapidash and pulls a bag of treats from her saddlebag, opening it and taking a handful out. He gives one to Rapidash and hands the bad to Dipper before using the ones he has to draw the ponyta who are uninterested in dipper away from him into another paddock.
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"Oooo! Treats! Thanks." Dipper happily takes the bag and starts offering the treats to the ponyta that sticks close to him
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Satoshi closes the others into a separate area to keep them from getting int he way before coming back. " there, you'll be able to go in if you want without the others pestering you."
many of the ponyta take treats from Dipper, clearly warming up to him at least somewhat. The small male shoves a few others as he tries to get most of the treats.
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Dipper laughs as he enjoys watching the ponyta go after the treats. he looks up at Satoshi and nods, "In a bit. these guys are all over the treats so it'll be hard to get in."
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Satoshi nods, " i think that male might be our best candidate, or at least the biggest treat hog. hard to tell. he's always had a bit of an attitude."
A few of the ponyta wander off, the excitement of a new person wearing off as they go to find good spots to graze.
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Dipper chuckles, "Sounds good to me. I'll just have to make sure I have plenty of treats then."
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Satoshi chuckles, " well it'd be one way to get him to tolerate you."
The male sniffs around for more treats and shoves his nose into Dippers chest.
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Dipper makes a soft 'oof' sound before chuckling, "alright, alright." He pulls out another treat from the bag that he hid, holding it out for the ponyta, "but no more for a hot minute okay? You'll make yourself sick."
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The ponyta takes it and crunches it with satisfaction, he knew he'd smelled another one.
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Dipper smiles before going over to satoshi, "he's a treat fiend that's for sure."
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Satoshi shakes his head, " well, he seems to like you, at least somewhat. hopefully that'll be enough to get you on his back. That's the difficult thing about ponyta, they're picky about their riders. and ours are no different, we breed them for speed and agility so they're in demand regardless. it's easier when you bond with them from birth, that's why my family has each of us bond with a foal when we're young, so we grow up together. makes for a bond that's nigh unbreakable." he scratches rapidashes neck affectionately. " anyway it's looking promising that he'll accept you for the drive so that'll be good. they know what to do, so just let him have his head and he'll get the work done."
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Dipper nods, "gotcha. I'll do my best." he watches satoshi pet rapidash and smiles a little
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Rapidash reaches up and grabs Satoshi's hair in her mouth and tugs it playfully, Satoshi shoving her muzzle off, " stop that, that's nasty." he grins. " well, good luck with him."
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Dipper nods, "I'll do my best. Anything else I can help out with?"
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Satoshi hums softly as he thinks, " suppose you could take the scrap bucket to the swinub and give that to them. Maya probably already took care of feeding the pidgey and collecting eggs, that's her job."
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Dipper nods, "Yeah i can totally do that. where is the bucket and where is the swinub?"
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" bucket would be in the cupboard under the sink, we empty it daily so it shouldn't stink. the swinub are in a pen behind the barn. after you can see about spending more time with that ponyta."
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"Bucket under the sink, pen behind the barn, got it. Are the scraps by the pen as well or do I fill up the bucket somewhere else."
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Ren chuckles, "nah, the scraps are already in the bucket. peelings, leftovers, any food waste from when we cook and eat goes into that, and that gets fed to the swinub."
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Dipper nods, "got it~! I'll be back!" He gives satoshi a wink before heading back to the house
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He blinks and watches the other dart off, shaking his head slightly before taking rapidash into the barn and brushing her down.
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Dipper eagerly dumps the scraps off to the swinub, putting the bucket back when he was done
Musharna floats by maya's side as usual, keeping her safe
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Maya carries the basket heavy with eggs back to the house, concentrating carefully on walking without dropping it.
Satoshi takes care of a few more chores, noting the sun getting low he heads back to the house where his mother is working on dinner.