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Raskal awoke the next morning with the feeling of sea sickness. His head throbbed and his stomache churned. The groggy trainer placed a hand over his eyes and tried to wipe away the last remnants of sleep.

"Oh man I feel like I've been hit by a bullet punch!" Raskal complained. The Eevee at his side shook it's head in responce, also workng its way back into the realm of awareness. Raskal changed and pulled the fourth pokeball from his belt. "Time to go Eevee. I'll call you out later, I promise."

"Ee! Vee!" Started the small pokemon, and after a quick stretch it happily accepted the beam of light from the ball, dematerializing into an insubstantial light.

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A short while later, Raskal strolled out of the pokecenter and into the bustling streets of the town on the small ice-capped island. Everywhere he walked the youth could see posters or fliers dedicated to the festival and all depicting the same large blue-feathered pokemon. Raskal wondered if he'd really be able to see such a creature for himself. He thought back to the book in his pack and the dreams that visited him in the night.

(So for the people on the cruiseship, there's the Al/Lilly pairing, so, would that mean there could also be Czar/Vienna?)

Reefa ran as fast as she could, trying to remember which room Vienna was sleeping in. She hastily looked through all the open doors again, mostly empty bedrooms. Around five to sevens doors later, Reefa saw Vienna and the other pokemon sleeping. She skidded across the floor try to turn, and then charged for Vienna's bed. Reefa hopped on Lumi's back, then to Gold's tail, and then started jumping next to Vienna, who had left her SAC on her head.

"Woop! Woop! WooPAHH!" The Wooper had startled all the pokemon awake, quite LOUDLY, except Parley, who slumbered in his pokeball still. Lumi shot her head up, making Tal Tal fall off, and Gold jumped up.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!" Gold screeched, his hair on back raising up. He then held his tail. "What the excrement?! That HURT!"

"Hey! Who did that?" Lumi said, shooting daggers at everybody. "What about me?" Tal Tal whined.

"..Huh? What? What is it? Calm down, guys!" Vienna said, awakening from her bear-like slumber. Everybody did, except Reefa. "What is it, Reefa? Did something happen to you?" She asked, worried.

Then the janitor entered the room, ready to squish the Wooper with his Mighty Mop, but then jumped back at Lumi's intimidating presence. Lumi looked over to the janitor and growled. The man stayed at the door. Vienna sat up on the edge of the bed (she slept in her normal clothes), "Is something wrong, mister?"

The janitor stuttered, frightened, "Y-y-yeah! That....... LIZARD.. took my Leftovers!"

Vienna looked to her Wooper, holding the Leftovers with her tail. Vienna sweatdropped and held her Wooper, "I'm sincerely sorry, mister. But, my pokemon was only curious, you can't blame her for that."

"Well, I need it back, lady! My pokemon needs it for a Competition!" the janitor growled in annoyance.

Vienna looked to Reefa, "Reefa, can you give it back to the man, please?" Reefa shook her head no. "Now Reefa-" The Wooper pointed to the man with her head. A Leftovers was sticking out of his pants pocket.

"Umm, mister? I'm afraid that the Leftovers you were looking for is in your pocket."

He looked down and sweatdropped, "Oh, uhhhhh.... errr.... s-sorry about that, ma'am, I won't bother you next time," he said. Not with Vienna's Lumi around, that's for sure. He left the room and walked down the hallway back to that dark room.

"Now Reefa, what did I tell you about getting in trouble? That wasn't smart of you to just wander around while I was asleep!" Vienna scolded her. Reefa hung her head down in shame, "Sorry Vienna............. But I was bored! And look, I found this thingy!" Reefa said. Vienna grabbed the said object and said, "Though I am happy you found this, Reefa! This is a Leftovers, you can hold on to it in battle, and it will give you health every few minutes."

"Cool!"

"Now, I guess we should meet up with the others, right?" Vienna exclaimed.

"Right!" Her pokemon said at the same time. Vienna grabbed Parley's pokeball off the dresser. Hopefully, that wasn't too loud.. the pokemon waking up, haha.., she thought.

Al continued his exploration, before bumping into Shadow. "Sorry." He commented to the Lucario.

[~* MEANWHILE *~]

((SETTING SAIL NOW. To those who get left behind, just make a post about how you got on the boat on time.))

The loud ship's horn then started to blow and the earsplitting sound could be heard from way off the port itself. The boat was ready to leave. The anchors were raised from the sea, and the propellers began to work. Below deck, the engine started, and the feeling of being afloat had overtaken most of the trainers on board. At last the ship was moving, setting sail and destined to port at the Seafoam Islands.

A lot of the ship's main crew had assembled on the upper floors of the ship, while most of the regular trainers remain on deck - where a good view of the horizon could be seen, the upper deck - for the more fortunate as it had a bar, shade, a pool and a jacuzzi, and, for those who wanted to rest, at the middle levels. The engine ran below, on the lower levels where only authorized personel would enter, as well as security.

It was a sunny afternoon in Vermilion City that day, and with the ship moving at exactly noon, the sun was high up in the sky - the heat intense, but the cool sea breeze making up for that heat. Regardless, one would most likely get sunburned if he stayed on the main deck. Flocks of Wingulls soared beside the ship, singing and dancing in the skies, and on the sea, were schools of Mantine and Lanturn, and some other Water Pokemon who seemed happy about following the ship. Trainers and non-trainers alike enjoyed this show of nature...

"ATTENTION!" voiced the installed speakers on certain points inside and outside the ship - as well as inside the rooms. "Welcome to the S.S. Anne! We would like to request all our guests to please proceed to the upper and lower decks for the openning ceremonies to be led by our dear captain. Thank you,"

((If you want it Vienna, then I'm Ok with that.))

Czar

"The opening ceremonies? I guess I'd better head on over there. Come on guys." Czar climbed up the stairs to the upped decks and his team followed suit. While looking around, in one of the balconies of the First-Class, he saw a young girl in a magician's outfit. Czar looked down the shocked at the Witch he looked again, but she disappeared. Odd. . . Czar continued up the stairs until he ended up on upper decks. Then sitting on the one on of the plastic chairs as his team followed suit.

Lilly and her Pokemon heard the announcement coming from the ship. "Ceremony, huh?" Lilly thought out loud. "You guys wanna go? I think we had enough practice for now."

"Yeah we should go it will be fun!" Aurora said happily.

Float and Star nodded.

"Okay, how about one more dive? Just for fun."

"Okay!" all 3 said in unison.

"I love the way we all say everything in unison." Lilly giggled.

As Lilly, Aurora, and Float dove in to the water once again, they spotted a huge Sharpedo chasing after a Feebas.

Lilly and her Pokemon surfaced, "Isn't Feebas a rare Pokemon? And why is it here in the ocean? Usually they live in rivers."

Her Pokemon shrugged.

"Come on guys we will battle the Sharpedo for training and save the Feebas. Plus the Feebas seem hurt we can can help it. Actually, I want to catch it it would be awesome to have a Feebas. But if it doesn't want to be caught then i guess i won't. Okay Float! Show time! Sonic Boom!"

"I gotta go, the ceremonies are starting."Al called Pikachu by whistling and ran toard the main deck.

"Hey Al!" Lilly called running to catch up with him so they could head down to the ceremony together. "Guess what?" she said happily once she caught up with him.

"Hey, Pikachu!" Missy gave a high-five to Pikachu using her tail.