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Adene, with her Magmar Blaze, walked smoothly off the boat they had been the passengers of, and on to the pier. Adene had been to Castelia many times before, but every time she was blown away by the sheer size of the buildings. To her, the city never had that awful busy-city smell to it. The use of the piers made the entire city smell like the sea to her, and she loved it. Blaze, of course, being a fire-type, detested the water. The sight, the smell, all of it. Despite Adene having raised many fire-types in her day, she had never met one as hydrophobic as Blaze. She noticed him eyeing the water around the pier, seemingly disgusted, and she rolled her eyes at him. "Come now, Blaze. We haven't the time to sit around and waste energy hating some harmless water." The Magmar made a disgruntled noise, and trudged off with Adene towards the inner workings of the city. Adene, having grown used to the noise and bustling of the city over time, was hardly bothered by the large amounts of people running around. Blaze was awestruck at the size of everything; the buildings, the signs, even the ships docked at the piers. Adene kept her head down to avoid stares. Last time she was in town, many a person came up to her and pestered her for knowledge or tips on raising fire-types, and this visit, she wasn't really in the mood for that. Blaze kept a decent pace behind Adene, acting almost as a body guard and making sure no one approached her as they walked past the piers.

As Adene and Blaze walked by the nearby ports, Blaze caught up closer to Adene and began to tug at her coattails, pointing with his free hand to the piers nearby. She tried to shrug him off at first, but when he began to pull harder she turned to snap at him. "Blaze, what on Earth are you-..." as Adene turned, she noticed the decently ruckus coming from the pier Blaze was pointing at. "By jove..." She saw thugs running away from the pier, as well as a few trainers and Pokemon nearby, seeming o shout them off. Adene recognized the thugs, unfortunately. She had been around during the rise of Team Snagem, as well as their downfall. She knew they had joined up with Team Galactic to try and "liberate" Pokemon. Thieves, she thought, all they are, and all they will be. With Blaze close behind, she ran down to where the trainers were to see if all was well. She had seem a glimpse of one of the trainers fighting off the thieves with a Pignite, which she was obviously attracted to, because of her love for fire-types, and she tried to catch up to the trainer the Pignite was with. "'Scuse me, trainer? Was that the Liberation Front? Is all well here?" She knew the answer to one of her questions, unfortunately. She was hoping she was wrong about having seen the Liberation Front, but Adene had a bad feeling about what she saw. Blaze came up behind Adene shortly after she spoke, huffing and puffing as he came. He quickly noticed the other fire-type, and caught his breath seemingly fast and began to eye up the Pignite. "Mag... Mar."

Adene nodded, growing increasingly frustrated knowing she was right about the thugs she saw. That really ticked her off. "Drat... Well I'm sure they were after Pokemon, trying to take them and 'liberate' them from their owners. Thieves, I say. Don't blame you for not likin' them." She shook her head a bit, trying to erase the thought of the Liberation Front from her mind a bit. She was slightly surprised by the gesture, but firmly shook the trainer named Marcus' hand. "Name's Adene. Sorry we had to meet under these sorts of circumstances. Those thugs being around, and all." She smiled apologetically, and sheepishly, at him. Next to her she could feel a growing heat emitting from Blaze. She watched from the corner of her eye and Blaze's posture went from seemingly threatened to quite friendly. Once the Magmar decided the Pignite wasn't any danger, he happily stuck his hand out to greet the other fire-type. "Magmar!" (Hello, friend!)

Adene chuckled softly to herself, scoffing at the term 'liberate'. "Yes, my friend. Grew up in Opelucid City, actually." She smirked, "I'm this region's Fire-type expert." Adene reached over and patted Blaze on the head, drawing his attention from the seemingly annoyed Pignite and to her, and he pridefully puffed up a large black cloud of smoke from his mouth. "Magmar!" Adene kept a hand on the back of her Magmar's head, petting him to try and calm him down. "The Liberation Front is a conjoined effort of Team Snagem from the Orre region, and Team Plasma, from 'round these parts. They're trying to 'liberate' Pokemon from their trainers by taking them away. To them, they're trying to create a better world for the Pokemon to live in, so the Pokemon can be free... But they're jus' stealing Pokemon away from their trainers." The more Adene spoke of the front, the more fierce became the grimace on her face. "I've been trying to stop these guys on my own, mostly. Any time I get close, my cover gets blown, or they attempt some sort of 'liberation' again."

Adene giggled at Marcus and his Pignite. How cute they are, she thought. She was surprised when the Persian made an appearance, and seemed quite irritated, and hungry. "You guys hungry, huh? The Pokemon center isn't too far away, I can show you where it is, if you like!" Her Magmar nodded in agreement, as he knew his way around Castelia as well as Adene did. "Mag-magmar!" (Yeah, let's go!). Adene rolled her eyes at him as she heard a deep rumbling coming from Blaze's stomach, as well.

Blaze became so excited at the mention of food and heading to the Pokemon center, he dashed off ahead of Adene, sort of in the correct direction. "Blaze! Ugh." Adene hit her palm to her forehead in disappointment, but shook it off a moment later. "Sorry about him, you three." Adene pointed near the direction her Magmar had run off. "Pokemon center is that way." Adene took one of her Pokeballs from her belt, and lightly tapped the top. A short flash of light followed, as well as a large Dragonite that appeared before her. "Go make sure Blaze doesn't get lost, Burton." The Dragonite nodded in compliance, and flew off to find the Magmar, who subsequently did get quite lost. Adene grinned sheepishly at Marcus and his Pokemon, and began to head to the Pokemon center.