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((I wonder if he still wants to kill her.))

"M-mine's broken," she said as she held up her arm to show her xtransciever, the screen cracked. "Sorry."

"Y-yeah, take care," Henrietta said and she was off, back toward Castelia - after getting her Pokemon of course.

((ill post more after i use the bathroooom

have fun with your projects Jump!))

Back in Castelia city, Henrietta immediately went for the Pokemon center. It was time to clean up from the sand. A nice shower, she decided.

In the meantime, her Pokemon rested. Their own potions aiding in the process.

[And we met this guy and he was like, alwaysmovingandtalkingcouldn'tstop. I think he was on herbs, youknowlikepansageherbs.] Darumi went on about Jaiden.

[I wish I could've met him.] Frate, who had been the only one of the four to evolve so far, stared at Darumi. [He sounded nice - we should meet a lot of people like that.]

Scoant scoffed. [Yeah, humans are nice. Sure.]

[Socant-

[Human name.]

-you trained with us, and you help us fight. I don't see why you have to be so distant from them.] Frate stared him down.

[That girls helped save the forest, I watched it all. She's special, but we'll see how long that lasts..]

[Socant..]

Socant skittered away, hiding under the bed.

[Ahdon'tsworryabouthim, he'stotallygonnacomearoundeventually!] Darumi was running around the room endlessly.

[Yeah, I guess.] Frate sighed. [Say, where's Melty?]

[Sleepin' over there, on the bed.] He pointed to it.

It was on fire.

Melty, who appeared to have been pent up all day, was having a nice dream. His fires burned with the ferocity of not being fully used only trained to mold. And the result was..

[Crap!] The two awake Pokemon yelled in unison and they tackled the bag, attempting to put out the flame. The end result cost them a lot of item balls that were inside.

[Melty!] Darumi shouted, and tried to slap him. Didn't work.

[Melty!] Frate tried, and knocked Melty across the room.

[What the h-

And he phased through the wall.

Meanwhile.

***

Showers were amazing. Henrietta would've stayed until the hot water was gone if she didn't have so much to do. Luckily, it was still morning. Leaving the shower, she checked herself in the mirror. More of the pink had drained away.

And it gave her an idea. She turned on the faucet.

An hour later, Henrietta emerged from the bathroom, wrapped in a towel. Her hair was no longer patches of pink and blonde but she'd managed to get it into streaks. She was actually proud of herself, even if she looked silly. Not as cartoonish as the pink, more like some punk kid - not that she knew much about the punk scene.

She exited to find her bag hidden behind Darumi who stood on Frate's back who was in front of the bed. "Hey guys," she said and she approached and reached over when Darumi swatted her hand away. Henrietta made a face. "Darumi, I need to get dressed." She reached again and he swatted her hand again. Furrowing her brow she stepped around the bed. Boldore tried to follow, tripped and failed to obscure the ruined back.

Henrietta's eyes widened. "Wh-what happened?"

Before anyone could say another word Melty appeared through the wall. [You punks, that was a great dream!] He unleashed an ember, randomly.

It hit the bed.

And Henrietta would quickly put it out via her towel. The fire alarm was already sounding by this time and the door was kicked open by a nurse who immediately sprayed the room with a fire extinguisher. Henrietta screamed, hiding herself quickly in the burned and ruined towel and raising a hand to protect her face.

"What happened here?!" the nurse shouted. She observed the two fire types and glared. Her eyes fell on Henrietta. "Get dressed and get out."

***

We'll have to stay somewhere else tonight..

Henrietta, who had grabbed the fist thing she could and threw it on, left the Pokemon center with a face so red you could spot her from space.

You see, shy girls aren't prudes. Henrietta had clothing, sexy clothing, revealing clothing, but she'd never had the courage to wear it. Now she pretty much had to.

Red heels and hot pants, a red sort of high collared vest that started above her midriff. Low collared starting from the end of the high collar gave a nice view to those that looked. To complete the look, the vest came with sleeves that started off on Henrietta's upper arm, below her shoulder and clung tightly there before widening as it went down to her wrists, the cuffs of the sleeves wide and open, like the wide end of a funnel.

The red faced girl wasn't looking where she was going when she was busy panicking about how to get money to get a room at a hotel to be able to change, and that's when she walked into Crimson.

((Finaly caught up blaugh ))

[/Earlier this morning]

The first few rays of sunlight shone through the window, there rays reveling the half naked frame of Hiba Hinomura still asleep in naught but a pair of black boxers. His Face turned away from the window to keep the sunlight from his eye's, a small stream of drool leaked from the corner of his mouth as his snore's filled the room.

"There, all dressed and ready to go." Tk said exiting the bathroom, clad in a pair of black cargo shorts and plain blue T that compliments his wild silver hair nicely. Upon seeing his friend sprawled out on the bed, the silver haired youth would out a snort of laughter.

"Ne ne, C'mon sleeping beauty, Time to wake up" Tk called, patting Hiba on the face. It took a moment but Hiba's eyes eventual opened. "W..whaaaaat time is it?" Hiba asked sitting up, stretching and yawning. using the back of his fist to wipe the sleep from his eye's

"just a little past seven" Tk replied looking at his Blue trimmed Xtransceiver. "Then why are you waking my up so early?" Questioned the larger boy, standing up to go to the bath room, closing the bathroom door on the youth who was following him.

"Cause Today's a good day to go train!!" Takamaru called through the bathroom door. "yea.... but why so early?"

"well..its not just training that i wanna do. I also wanna go look for Lancer..." Takamaru mumbled, "I miss him.." the last part was a whisper just loud enough for Hiba to hear through the wooden door that separated them. "Ok ok, dont worry, well go look for him" Hiba called from the other side of the door, shaking his manhood from any excess pee.

Takamaru silently pumped his fist into the air as he heard the faucet running. ' that's just like Hiba, Beg and you shall receive' Tk thought as he placed his three poke-balls on his waist, put on his shoes and strapped on his sling pack.

"Right, so how do you plan on finding your missing Karrablast?" Hiba asked opening the wodden bathroom door and exciting. walking over to his own sling pack to produce a pair of brown cargo shorts and a red long sleeve shirt made of cotton.

Takamaru shrugged, "Dunno, they usually find me" the youth replied as Hiba Dressed. Once they were both ready to go the duo excited the Pokemon center, making sure to sign the sign out slip on there way out.

Just after the electronic sliding doors closed behind them a red blur rushed Hiba, knocking him to the ground. "Ok ok, down boy, down" Hiba called pushing the over excited Arcanine, blaze, off of him and getting to his feet. "Morning Blaze" Tk called patting the large canine Pokemon on his side, earning an excited bark in response.

"right well i think we should split up" Hiba said. Takamaru nodded. "Ill head this way, you the other, sound good?" Hiba asked. again earning a nod from Tk. "i say we meet at the center park around lunch time."

Takamaru nodded "Sounds good to me." and with that they parted way's with a wave.

[/Current time]

"Man, where's a good place to get some grub at around here?" Hiba groaned, rubbing his very empty belly as he walked. it was only when he felt Blazes cold wet nose on his hand did he look in the direction that the canine Pokemon was facing. and what he saw made he mouth water with anticipation. it was an eating contest.

Hiba could feel the saliva collecting in his mouth as his stomach roared in demand of food. "alright" he said, pounding his fist into his palm, his voice ripe with determination. "Lets go see if we can find any plasma agents in this contest." the muscled youth made a bee line for the registration booth, hardly paying mind to his opponents.

the man in the booth eyed Hiba's muscular frame. "Uhhh, kid, you sure your at the right place? this is an eating competition, not a body building competition."

Hiba waved the mans comment off, "Yea yea, im in the right place. Just sign me up" he said licking his lips. The man in the booth just rolled his eye's before giving Hiba his seat number.

"seat number four" Hiba repeated to himself as he walked to his seat, taking his place.

To Hiba it felt like an instant, half way through his 20th plate of food the stud blacked out. See, in the beginning Hiba had only planned on eating his fill than politely conceding defeat. But once the competition picked up, so did his urge for victory. and so he pushed himself as far as he could go and with a mighty belch he was out, only 20 and a half plates later.

He was finally woken up by the registration booth worker, "Told ya' buddy, not your place" he said smugly before departing. After finaly standing, with some help from Blaze, the muscualr youth trudged away, only stopping to heave the contents of his stomach into a near by garbage bin.

"uhhhhg, wish i had some Tums" Hiba groaned, wiping the vomit from his lips.

---

Meanwhile, a Silver haired youth could be seen sliding across the pavement on his Roller blade's, a searching look plastered to his face as he skated along the streets of Castelia city, what he was looking for, he wasn't quite sure. Anything if it could mean finding his missing karrblast Lancer.

And so Tk skated on, though just as he was passing Narrow street he noticed a Green pony tail. Tk didn't know why but it struck him as familiar. in any case he'd make an attempt to converse with the person, boy or girl he wasn't sure from the back.

((I accept the challenge.))

Crimson attention was caught by a girl in all red clothing. She appeared to be a trainer, as far as Crimson could tell. Challenging a girl isn't a bad thing. It just depends on how well the girl can battle. He quickly inspected the girl, hoping she would be a challenge.

"Um excuse me?" He asked as he got the attention of the girl.
"My name is Crimson, would you like to have a battle?"

Crimson and Zeus were hoping that this would be a great battle. However, without Gale, Crimson is down to three Pokemon, and he wasn't sure how many Pokemon this girl had on hand. If the odds are against him, he may have to take on more than three, which would throw Crimson in a disadvantage. So he thought of a small agreement that hopefully the girl would agree to.

"I have only three Pokemon on me at the moment, so would a three on three be ok with you?"

Crimson was curious as to what new Pokemon he would see from this trainer.

Henrietta's head was diverted, eyes downcast and head turned to the side. Her arms rose, meeting in the middle of her chest, pressed against the skin as if to hide the cleavage. Her hands, fingers curled, were against her chin, the curve of her fingers ending on the line between her lips.

"S-s-s

She began to stutter when Crimson spoke. She was initially going to refuse when she realized she needed the money. To get a motel room, but now she was also going to need money to heal her Pokemon, right? How else was she going to get money?

Well, better to ask them. She released Melty the Litwick first.

Melty eyed Crimson, he looked cranky - the Litwick did.

"M-m-melty, would you like to battle?"

"Lit!" He sounded determined.

"O-one on one," Henrietta negotiated the terms. She couldn't risk hurting three of her Pokemon if the guy couldn't pay up. She needed a lot, you see. To fix her xtransciever, to get a room at the motel, new clothes, and potions for her Pokemon, as well as the money to pay someone to get them from the center she was now banned from.

"Alright then, a one on one it is."

Crimson nodded to the terms she had mentioned. A one on one would be perfect for Crimson, since it wouldn't matter now on how many Pokemon each person had. The only thing now was who to choose for the battle. Zeus has no advantages against that Pokemon who appears to be a fire and ghost type. Loki, Crimson's Eevee, has a few advantages over a ghost Pokemon, however the lack of experience and training was what worried him. Anehta, the Kirlia could take some damage, but didnt have any useful attacks to beat a ghost, nor fire type. He then decided.

"Zeus, you're going to participate this time, you ready?"

"Pika!" Zeus said as it jumped off of Crimson's shoulder and charged up. The electricity that surrounded Zeus was blue.

"I'm ready whenever you are."

It struck Takamaru like a train, N, that was his name. The guy he battled in Nacrene infront of the museum. Takamaru remembered this guy had asked him a handful of questions as they battled. Tk pegged this guy as pretty weird, not a weirdo cause he usually talked about the well being's of Pokemon which made him a nice guy by Tk's standards, but weird none the less.

"uh-huh" Takamaru Nodded, signaling that that was indeed his name.

Tk stayed quite as he took a moment to join N in looking up at the skyscrapers surrounding them. he made a valid point, "...a lot." was all Tk could reply with, not actually having a numerical number as to how many Pokemon were affected by the building of the city. "but do you think they found new home's?" it was a childish question that Tk unknowingly hoped would be given a fairy tail answer like, 'Of course they did!' or 'i bet they all ended up living very fruitful lives elsewhere.' unfortunately that was probably most definitely not the case.