Pokemon - Soaring Legends - Part 2.5

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro of course, had gotten the next badge he needed from Ecruteak without a fight, due to the help he had done with bringing out Latias and of course his.. craziness he did with Unown Rayquaza in order to stop the other Rayquaza from Rampaging more than it should've.either way, after the mess was dealt with and the two were on their way next to Olivine City, Nightblade had made himself busy by appearing out of his pokeball and walking alongside his trainer, looking to Shiro who seemed a bit more at ease away from town and all, but he could also see the nervousness, due to the next city they were about to land in. "Shiro... are you okay?" he asked, Shiro just blinked, looking over to Nightblade while sighing a bit after, looking to the skies a bit "... somewhat. just a bit nervous going back to Olivine..." he said, clearly showing he was a bit troubled, probably because of the fact that it was there where this all started for him, where Team Rocket managed to kidnap him and all.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would nervously hum in thought over Crystal's words, thankfully much of his team hadn't changed, however he did switch in his own Larvitar to get more experience for the little guy (Gojulas), as well as work on training Black Blaze his Charmeleon too, while responding to Crystal's words "i know.. i just can't help it when it comes to Olivine..." he said, shivering "right now it's to me, the absolute worst place to be right now, second worst was Goldenrod." he said, while Nightblade sighed a bit, looking right at Shiro with a deadpan "if i have to, i will make sure to open Gaia-sama's pokeball to force you to sleep hypnosis wise to get some sleep before the Gym Battle." shiro sweatdropped, while rubbing the back of his head "... they haven't gotten worse, Nightblade..." the absol of course snorted, and pawed at the ground a bit "they haven't gotten better either." he commented, causing Shiro to give Nightblade a dirty look in response.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro nodded with a sigh as he continued following, training using wild pokemon to battle his larvitar and of course, his Charmeleon Black Blaze to get them ready for their battle against jasmine, the Steel Type gym leader "i know, i know.. don't want Raiden to try and kill me next time i open up his pokeball, much less the others." he said, cringing a bit lightly, clearly he was not looking forward to that reunion, and he fully expected to get thoroughly fried by Raiden... multiple times over. of course, the mention of Cianwood City and the Safari Zone actually perked Shiro right up, that was actually where he spent most of his time in Kanto after going as far as he did in the league challenges. Nightblade sweatdropped seeing Shiro actually act a bit more chipper at the mention of the Safari Zone, and chuckled in his own way to himself "of course.. Nature does appeal to Shiro moreso than fighting Gym battles..." Shiro of course looked to his Absol "what's wrong with being -far- away from populated areas as much as possible?" Nightblade deadpanned a bit "getting lost, getting into trouble without anyone nearby except yourself and your pokemon, not making new friends, you know, -human- things?" Shiro shrugged a bit lightly "... never been much of a sociable person." he said weakly, in his defense.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro of course was not actually having an argument with Nightblade, given that if it was one, it was one that Shiro was not really defending himself about. of course, before the two could go off topic and talk more about the Safari Zone the ground started to rumble, causing both the absol and Shiro to look to each other, before Nightblade actually jumped back just -seconds- before the sudden herd of Miltank's that started to pretty much dogpile (or is it Cowpile?) on top of him to give him heaps of affection, and cue sweatdrop while he stuck his hand out comically to be pulled out "heeelp~!" of course, once pulled out he'd huff and puff a bit sweatdropping lightly at the Miltanks and then looked to Crystal "yes well, i do love nature and pokemon a lot, but getting stampeded is a bit much, even for me." he responded, while Nightblade looked to the Miltanks, and then to Shiro "i think they sense your unease and nervousness about going to Olivine City, actually, as well as your other not so happy emotions and are trying to cheer you up." Shiro blinked, and looked to nightblade, then back to the miltanks, before smiling a bit in his own small true-smile way instead of his fake smiles he puts on in front of people. "thanks.. everyone..." he said, meaning the miltanks, and Crystal and Nightblade.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had looked away from the Miltanks a moment, before proceeding to stare off in the direction of Olivine City as well. of course he'd then just chuckle a bit, before working with Nightblade and Gojulas in getting the Miltanks back to the ranch so they could move on, of course, once they got closer to the city, Shiro would blink in confusion before smiling a bit wider as he felt a particularly familiar presence in the area using his psychic senses to feel things out "looks like we'll have a few old friends to see too." he said, while Nightblade raised an eyebrow a bit lightly "oh? and who would it be?" Shiro hummed a bit and just smiled "well, i'm gonna say this: wait and see." he said cheekily, before continuing on with amusement.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had given offa chuckle when he saw Red's Pikachu and chuchu, it had been a long while since he had seen Red that was for sure, longer than Yellow at least while he knelt down noticing the disappointment of clearly someone else not being here "sorry you two... but there's a fairly good reason as to why i haven't brought Raiden with me at the moment... this latest incident between me and Team Rocket's kinda.. well.. fractured our bond.. it's healable, and by no way will it be easy given i just know he's going to shock the living crap out of me for putting him in the PC this long, but i didn't want him to know or realize that i planned a bit of an apology and fixing something else that happened that if Raiden found out, well.. i don't think even Crystal could stop Raiden fast enough from trying his hardest to kill me." he would say, of course, this was during the time the two trainers were still running after their pikachu's, so he was already standing up after petting both of the Pikachu's with a chuckle "it has been a while, Red. and good to see you again as well Yellow." he then would comment about the Ecruteak City mess, and it made him rub the back of his neck laughing "Yeah, more or less, we didn't do that much." he said, clearly going to downplay and outright -not- take any credit that it was the two of them who pretty much handled that Rayquaza and all, the Unown Rayquaza of course was a different story if asked, but he'd still try to downplay that as well. Nightblade of course would move to continue talking to the Pikachu's and get them up to date more as well as tell Shiro's reasonings to them since Raiden was loopy/confused as heck before put in the pokeball and stored away both for safe keeping and to keep him away fro m Shiro until he had time to get all the badges and come up with an explanation that wasn't 'i lost them', which Shiro was at least forming some idea of an excuse, namely that the machine that was holding the unown held the badges so when that went critical and exploded, the badges unfortunately went up in flames as well, and they didn't know it at the time because it wasn't until later Shiro found out during the news of some of the wreckage that was found were melted badges.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had nodded lightly to Red's comments, even if he did blush a bit in embarrassment at the somewhat praise. of course he never was one to handle praise too well to begin with, he was at least somewhat glad as well that Yellow hadn't asked about how he was doing since the rescue from Team Rocket as that'd be a whole new can of worms opened and that's what he didn't want. of course mentioning Gold just made him eyetwitch a bit, clearly he did not -want- to be reminded of him at all, given he was the worst of the dex holders he had met on his journeys and all "...while true, Gold is also a guy that has a way to get under everyone's skin, and personally i don't like him for that." he said in a clipped tone, clearly not wanting to talk about Gold cause otherwise that'd get his blood boiling, and if it made him get a headache... yeah, not a good idea at the moment. Nightblade of course just sweatdropped at the Pikachu's running off mid explanation of why Raiden wasn't there, and just gave off an exasperated sigh of his own, before enjoying some idle pettings from Shiro who had heard the sigh.