my place in the world

[Birdybot]

Sulteron;;[/i][/size][/font]

♫ i've been crying for so long,
fighting tears just to carry on,
but now, but now it's gone away ♫

Sulteron looked at her feet as she concentrated on putting one of them in front of the other. She had been walking for so long, it seemed, and she was tired. Why wasn't she there yet? She wasn't lost- she had a map and everything it had been saying so far had been correct. She just supposed that the little gap between where she'd got off the boat and the lab was larger than she had first thought. Her mint green ears twitched as she listened out for any sign of humans, but hearing nothing. This walking was not only tiring, it was so very boring, too! She'd seen a few wild Pokémon on her way here, but she couldn't catch any without a Pokéball. When she had her own Pokémon, things would be more interesting, right? She'd better get used to the walking, but not the boredom. At least, she hoped the boredom wouldn't happen. If the walking turned out to be as great a distance as this and as boring and lonely, she'd probably just settle down in a town with the Pokémon she had.

Looking at the map since that was the only thing to do really, the shiny Espeon 'morph could see that the routes trainers tended to follow were much, much shorter than the way from the port to AB labs. Most of them, anyway. The towns were close enough together, too. She smiled. Just a little more, then she'd get her first Pokémon and begin her new life as a trainer. After she'd finished with being a trainer- she was bound to at some point, even if it took a few leagues to defeat- she would settle down somewhere nice and keep her Pokémon well trained. That would be a good life, she felt.

An hour later, a building came into view. Sulteron struggled not to get her hopes up since she'd seen buildings that weren't the lab before, but it did look very lab-like surrounded by the large amount of land filled with Pokémon and the map was claiming it to be AB Labs. At last! Brightening up considerably, the 'morph ran the last little way to the front door, buzzing with excitement. This was it! Her next step to her being a trainer. She was horribly tired, her legs aching and her exhaustion visable on her face, but still her knock on the door was fast and energetic. It was unmistakably the knock of an excited new trainer, and she waited impatiently for the Professor to let her in. She had an idea of what Pokémon she would like for a starter, but she wanted to see a few and decide on personality.

Charmander had been an option since she was very young, has had Eevee. Eevee was very cute, although they reminded her of her dead parents and twin brother who had disowned her. That might make things harder if she chose one. Charmander evolved into Charizard, and amazing dragon Pokémon she admired greatly. Then apparently Riolu were available for this month only- she liked Riolu and might choose one of those. Plus Cyndaquil were very sweet Pokémon. She had her options open, at any rate. Running things through in her head, she was still fairly sure of her decisions as she figited nervously on the doorstep of the lab.

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♫ everybody's gonna love today, love today, love today
everybody's gonna love today
anyway you want to, anyway you've got to ♫

[Avara]

OOC: Might as well take a crack at being one of our NPCs...

IC:

Professor Apple had her head buried in her notebook, she'd had this rather interesting idea about the habits of captured Zangoose and Seviper. Well particularly about the way they acted that differed from in the wild at least and... Wait was that the door? No it couldn't of been, who'd be disturbing her at this hour? Shaking her head she turned back to the notebook, before realising with horror why she'd be disturbed.

Rushing to her feet she knocked her chair over, fretting over her appearance as she went to answer the door. Quickly brushing her hair with her fingers she tried to give it some semblance of tidiness, although as soon as she stopped it just frizzed right back up. Sighing softly she answered the door, looking at the pokemorph before her with a smile. Oh a shiny espeon, makes a change to see a shiny 'morph.

Smiling again she pushed her glasses above her freckles and spoke.
"Why hello, do come in and do tell me what I can do for you today." Moving away back inside, Professor Apple glanced at the girl to see if she was entering. Then as she looked back into the lab she spotted a Starly nibbling on her precious notes.
"Hey! Stop that!" As she exclaimed that she pounced forward, startling the Starly. As it recovered from being startled she scooped it up, petting the silly thing before starting to move to put it back in with the others.

Then remembering she had a visitor, Professor Apple shook her head softly and sat on the edge of her desk. Waiting for the 'morph to say what she expected to be the pokemon she wanted to see.

OOC: Bleh, it'll do.

[Birdybot]

Sulteron;;[/i][/size][/font]

♫ i've been crying for so long,
fighting tears just to carry on,
but now, but now it's gone away ♫

Sulteron smiled as the door was opened, stepping inside the lab and looking about her. It was nothing like the lab she remembered, and that was definately a good thing. The fourteen-year-old felt much more relaxed than she had done previously, she flopped down in a chair, looking obviously relieved at finally sitting down after such a long walk. She giggled a little at the Starly. The little bird was quite cute; maybe she would catch one herself one day. They evolved into Starraptor, didn't they? Her long tail gave a slight flick as she considered what to say.

Well, first it was obvious. "Hi, my name's Sulteron. I can't believe how long it took to walk here from the port. I hope I'm not interrupting anything important," she introduced herself, considering her options of starter Pokémon. Charmander was one she would definately request to see. Cyndaquil too, it seemed like a good choice. Then possibly an Eevee and a Riolu. But some of the others were tempting; Torchic, Mudkip, Treecko... No. She shouldn't doubt things like that or she wouldn't get anywhere. Even if she wasn't totally sure, she had to do something in situations like this and make it work herself.

"I'd like to see a Charmander, Cyndaquil, Eevee and Riolu to consider for a starter Pokémon, please. Oh, and do you have any albinos or shinies? I've heard about them and would love to see one or two, if that's all right," she figited a little, nervous, as she waited for whatever it was the Professor would do next.

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♫ everybody's gonna love today, love today, love today
everybody's gonna love today
anyway you want to, anyway you've got to ♫

[Avara]

As Sulteron introduced herself Professor Apple nodded, then once the girl decided what she wanted to see Professor Apple smiled a little 'Well now, someone whose given it some thought.' Continuing to pet the Starly for a moment she rose.

"Well Sulteron let's see what pokemon I have for you." Turning with a flourish, Apple managed to cause her pen pot to spin on the desk. Not that she noticed of course as by that time she couldn't see it. No instead she soon vanished inside the other rooms in the lab, although the small Starly soon re-emerged and flew swiftly into another room.

The little bird was swiftly followed by a thud and a curse from the room it was in. From which a few minutes later came bounding an Eevee and Cyndaquil, the pair playing with one another as they headed into the waiting room. Neither of them really paying any attention to Sulteron, although soon after them came Professor Apple and some more pokemon.

Among them a shy little albino Cyndaquil which was insisting on hiding behind Professor Apple and a shiny Riolu that was enjoying shadow boxing as the Professor moved back into the waiting room. Settling down a couple of the pokemon she nodded before addressing Sulteron.

"Well, here's six pokemon for you I do hope their enough. Now then we have one female albino Cyndaquil," As she says that she gestures at the pokemon peeking out around her leg, which promptly vanishes back behind her.
"then we have a shiny male Riolu," As she finishes saying that the Riolu attempts to show off by doing a roundhouse kick, although it winds up spinning too hard and spinning on it's backside.
"then we have the playful pair a female Eevee and a male Cyndaquil." As she says that she looks fondly at the playing pair, who at the moment are rolling around with each other and manage to bump into Sulteron's chair, only then to promptly ignore it.
"Now finally we have a male and female Charmander, who... Now where did those two go."

As Professor Apple stops talking she looked around for the Charmander's, one of them had wasted little time in moving to Sulteron and was now staring at her tail pointedly with a confused look on it's face. While the other was hovering motheringly near the little albino.

OOC: I think I got carried away on the pokemon intro...

[Birdybot]

Sulteron;;[/i][/size][/font]

♫ i've been crying for so long,
fighting tears just to carry on,
but now, but now it's gone away ♫

Sulteron looked at all the Pokémon Professor Apple Blossom had just released, trying to judge each on their behavior so she might see whether or not they were suitable for her. Two Charmanders, two Cyndaquils, a Riolu and an Eevee were out and about, and now she took time to try and decide which one was right for her. Well, the Riolu be a shiny and rare, but he was also a little... well, a lot of a show-off. A bit violent, too. Probably not the nicest of Pokémon if he was acting like that, to be honest. The Espeon 'morph decided she didn't like the shiny's personality so she would not take him.

Next the Eevee and Cydaquil playing around. Neither of them seemed very interested in her, but that just could be because they were so intent on playing. Still, they might continue to ignore and play during battle, which wouldn't be a good idea. They were a maybe. Then there were two Charmanders. One was looking at her own tail with a look of deep confusion on her face. Well... What could she say? Either this Pokémon had recently been in some other body, or she was just very, very stupid. She might be fun to be around though, so Sulteron decided she was a maybe as well.

The other Charmander looked protectove and motherly towards the timid albino Cydaquil, both of whom Sulteron had taken a liking to. She couldn't decide about these two, so crouched down in front of the motherly- or fatherly, considering he was a male- Charmander and timid Cydaquil, reaching out with the aim of gently stroking Charmander's head. "Hello, you two. My name's Sulteron. There's no need to be scared." she added for the Cydaquil's sake.

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♫ everybody's gonna love today, love today, love today
everybody's gonna love today
anyway you want to, anyway you've got to ♫

[Avara]

Professor Apple watched Sulteron with a smile and moved slightly to the side so there was more room for the girl and pokemon. Looking towards the other pokemon she wrinkled her nose slightly. It never did help when a trainer decided against a pokemon, as the responses were hard to judge from time to time. Still no matter for now it was up to her to watch.

Now the playful duo had began to realise their show had lost any audience it might have had, the Eevee bopping the Cyndaquil on the head with an authoritative yip. To which unfortunately the Cyndaquil responded by flaring up, although the look the Eevee shot it caused it to think twice about what it was going to do. On the other hand the confused Charmander managed to lose it's balance and stand on it's tail, which in the mean while stole it's attention again.

The Riolu was by now recovering from it's spin and staggered for a few paces before shaking off it's dizziness and muttering to himself, before he remembered why he was out here. Looking to the potential trainer he moved forward all thoughts of training for the moment out of his mind. He really had to make up for showing off if he wanted any chance of getting out and learning new moves. So for now he hovered near Sulteron just trying to stay at the edge of her vision.

The little albino Cyndaquil had taken sanctuary under the fatherly Charmander's tail when Professor Apple moved. The Charmander had without a thought lifted it's tail so the Cyndaquil could actually get underneath it, while letting Sulteron stroke his head. Perhaps it was his time, he rather did hop so. Although on the other claw perhaps it would be better for the little albino.. With that thought the Charmander gently pushed the little albino towards Sulteron, the poor thing however merely squeaked and buried more into the tail for a moment.

It wasn't scared, no if anything the poor thing was just nervous. It just didn't want to mess things up and it wasn't sure what to do, rto draw attention to itself.

Then from nearby a gentle clearing of the throat is heard, as a few of the pokemon looked at Professor Apple she smiled sheepishly and whispered. "Sorry."

[Birdybot]

Sulteron;;[/i][/size][/font]

♫ i've been crying for so long,
fighting tears just to carry on,
but now, but now it's gone away ♫

Sulteron looked back at the Cyndaquil and Eevee. The Riolu was acting differently, too, making it even harder for her to decide which Pokémon would be best for her. The Charmander who's head she stroked seemed pretty able, but then again going on a journey like this would probably do the albino some good.

As Charmander pushed the albino forward, she simply squealed and buried herself in the lizard's tail again. It also seemed that perhaps she was nervous as opposed to shy. Whatever the case was, it might cause problems later but be a bit of a challenge. The left this racing about her mind while she watched all the other Pokémon for a little bit.

The confused Charmander might have a nice personality, and it seemed that the playing couple had started argueing. The Riolu was now being less obsessed with training, but Sulteron could remember that the thought had been there at some point and she would keep that in mind when she made her final decision. They all kept appealing to her more and more! She turned back to the female Cyndaquil under Charmander's tail. Those two were pretty loveable. But she could only choose one. She needed to decide!

Right, she was going to do something about this all. She walked over to the Eevee and Cyndaquil, lifted the Eevee up, gave it a tickle, then said, "Hey, there's no need to get angry at Cyndaquil, he hasn't done anything wrong," to it before setting it back down again.

Next she gave the confused female Charmander, the male Cyndaquil and shiny Riolu a pat on the head on her way back to the albino Cyndaquil. She reached out to her, smiling. "Don't be scared, Cyndaquil. I won't hurt you. If anything, I'd protect you," she said gently, hoping the little Fire type would move towards her or something. She knew it was painfully shy, but she couldn't help but adore it. Turning back to the Professor, she spoke. "I know it's a little risky, but if I don't choose the albino Cyndaquil now I'll never be able to decide. I hope it's all right with you if I take her." she smiled.

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♫ everybody's gonna love today, love today, love today
everybody's gonna love today
anyway you want to, anyway you've got to ♫

[Avara]

As the other pokemon realised they had no chance of being chosen they began to wander back to Professor Apple, at least except the fatherly Charmander. He was still encouraging the little albino who finally found the courage to face Sulteron. In spite of having been scared and nervous about what to do the Cyndaquil had gotten her attention. So now it tapped it's little nose on Sulteron's hand, shyly resting it's head in her hand.

As the albino did that the Charmander nodded and gave an encouraging. "Char!" Before also heading over to Professor Apple, with someone finally chosen the pokemon just had to mill around until they were returned.

Now instead it was the Professor's turn and it took her a moment to realise a pokemon had been chosen. When she realised a choice had been made Professor Apple smiled.
"Okay, so you'd like the albino." Well she knew the girl wanted the albino she had said as much, once she finished talking Professor Apple moved over to her computer, entering some information and reading something. Then that done she checked the pokeballs in her pocket, finding the Cyndaquil's swiftly she peeled off the label on it. After all the trainer didn't need that.

Nodding to herself she then wandered off to a side room, returning with a little pack. Of which she offered both to Sulteron.
"Welcome to the world of pokemon. Here's Cyndaquil's pokeball and your starter pack."

#115 - Cyndaquil, Female, Lvl 5
Moves: Tackle, Leer, Covet

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#115 - Cyndaquil, Female, Lvl 5
Moves: Tackle, Leer, Covet


Pokeball x10

Potion x5

Antidote x3

Burn Heal x3

Ice Heal x3

Awakening x3

Parlyz Heal x3

Revive x2

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Pokeball x10
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Potion x5
[img]http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/rsitem014.png[/img]
Antidote x3
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Burn Heal x3
[img]http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/rsitem016.png[/img]
Ice Heal x3
[img]http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/rsitem017.png[/img]
Awakening x3
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Parlyz Heal x3
[img]http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/rsitem024.png[/img]
Revive x2

You may now head on to Route One

OOC: Gave you an egg move to make up for the delay in my response.

[Birdybot]

Sulteron;;[/i][/size][/font]

♫ i've been crying for so long,
fighting tears just to carry on,
but now, but now it's gone away ♫

Sulteron smiled as she was handed the Cyndaquil's Pokéball and the items, the whole starting her journey thing still not really sinking in. She looked at her first Pokémon happily for a moment, trying her best to believe that all this was happening. It was, and she knew it. "Thank you so much, Professor Apple Blossom!" was all she could say to convey her immense thanks to the woman who had given her this oppertunity. She looked at the unnamed Cyndaquil, who looked back at her.

"Well, I guess I'd best be off, hm?" she finished, turning round and leaving the lab, her starter hurriedly following after her since she didn't want to get left behind or lost or anything. Once outside, Sulteron took a deep breath, put one foot in front of the other, and started her new life as a trainer.

To be continued!

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♫ everybody's gonna love today, love today, love today
everybody's gonna love today
anyway you want to, anyway you've got to ♫