route_1065 | Water meets Fire? SPARKS FLY. Probably literally. IDK.

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Water meets Fire? SPARKS FLY. Probably literally. IDK.

Who: Katara, Edward Elric, Alfons Heiderich, possibly Ieyatsu Sawada
Where: Cherrygrove City
When: April 20th, 10am
Summary: The day is finally here. It's the clash of the titans! Well, Katara and Ed. There are possible spectators ready to popcorn.gif this if it gets as cracky as their last conversation did. Oh dear.
Rating: PG-13 for now.
Log: ((Note: Alfons probably will not actually appear in this log due to hiatus, but is with the traveling party so gets mentioned anyway, with slight auto (With permission) from Ed-mun.)))

Katara was sitting on Jet, trying to get used to riding the Ponyta's back. It was nothing like riding on Appa, and she'd really never had the chance to ride any other type of mounts besides penguins. They were supposed to be really fast, though, so she was sure travel would be easier once she got the hang of it, and he seemed to like her well enough not to burn her.

"Ed, on the other hand, better not get too close." She chuckled, rubbing Jet's neck. She hadn't really missed the sad irony in naming the fire horse after her friend, but she couldn't help being reminded of him when she first encountered and caught Ponyta. Plus the name just seemed to suit him. He liked it and had refused to answer to anything else after when she tried.

But enough about the bond between a girl and her fire type. Katara could see figures coming down the road. She moved to ease off of Jet's back but let him stay out for the time, immediately recognizing Ed from their video swaps.

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Finally. Ed had wanted to get to Cherrygrove in two days. In the end, it lasted quite a bit longer thanks to the sudden heat wave and its effects on his automail.

He pulled out his pokegear to give Katara a call, but when he looked up, he could see her in the distance. He put it back in his pocket and went over to see her, Aurum having had found a favorite spot to travel by sitting on Ed's foot and holding on to his pants leg. Lazy bastard.

"You mind if we stop at the Pokemon Center first?" Whether or not Katara agreed, he was going there anyway. The burns he had gotten were minor, but they were still painful and very irritating.

Katara had forgotten she'd told Ed to contact her on the gear. Given what had just happened the day before she would have simply reasoned that it was allowed as she was only human, even if she had masqueraded as a spirit woman for a while once.

She blinked as Ed simply kept going after a brief pause, aiming for the Center. Well, knowing he'd burned himself she couldn't blame him, and just then she wouldn't have had the energy to argue anyway. She was surprirsed to see Ieyatsu and Alfons in the group though.

"Sure."

She smiled and waved at the other two.

"I didn't know you guys were coming. The Center is right over here."

She should have it memorized, after spending a good portion of two days defending it from psychotic, tortured bug and posion Pokemon.

Giotto smiled and nodded to Katara, "It's nice to see you in person." He greeted. Considering their first meeting it was also a relief to him that she wasn't actually trapped in his pokegear... He had thought that was the case for a few moments.

He would wait to tell her that he was unable to find any of the pokemon she had been worried about. While Ed and Alfons were busy else where, because he seemed to him more of a private mater. He watched as Natsu circled Katara as he checked the girl out. He nodded as the pokemon center's direction was pointed out. "Shall we head that way then? I would like to get my Pidgey checked out before I work with him." He commented absently as he eyed the flaming horse near by with intrest.

Ed led the way to the center, which didn't take long to get to. Cherrygrove might have been bigger than New Bark Town, but it was hardly so. He walked in an was immediately noticed by Nurse Joy.

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"Yeah, do you have anything to treat-"

"" Joy gave Ed a stern look. ""

"What?! Aurum's fine! I'm the one that needs treatment!"

Ed ripped off his coats, gloves, and shirt, and pointed to the outline of red skin along his automail. Nurse Joy just giggled and waved her hand. ""

Ed sighed and followed the nurse, Aurum still clinging to his leg and enjoying the ride.

She laughed, holding still as Natsu circled her. He seemed considerably smarter than Claire's Mr. Muggles.

"You too." Katara grinned back before turning to follow Ed, seemingly in better spirits than the day before. Really it was just that she was glad to have company again. Claire had already set out for Violet, so had Heiji, and save for a small handful that kind of limited the number of people left in Cherrygrove that she knew well enough to talk to comfortably.

She wanted to ask if he'd had any luck but asking right out would probably have been rude, and Ed did have those burns to be looked at. She introduced herself to Alfons as they went, Jet coming to her side to follow. Noticing Ieyatsu's look Katara decided to introduce him once they were inside and Joy had taken the cranky Edward to the back.

"This is Jet, my Ponyta." She explained, smiling as she reached up to pet Jet's neck, flame and all.

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Giotto chuckled at the Nurse that came over to Ed, he couldn't help it. The smaller blonde almost reminded him of a younger G when he exploded like that. A wave of homesickness hit the blonde pretty hard as he wished his red haired friend was here with him. Shaking his head Giotto turned to Katara as Ed went to get treated.

He blinked at the horse and smiled, "He's lovely." Giotto complimented honestly. As boss he had owned a few horses him self, though he had a friend help take care of them. "Beautiful flames..." He smiled and offered a hand out to the pokemon, before looking to Katara, his smile falling a little as he said. "I'm afraid I didn't have any luck finding one of those pokemon Katara. I apologize, they seemed important to you."

It wasn't long before Ed came back out to the front of the Center. He was definitely in a much better mood, though Aurum changed locations to his left shoulder. He turned back to the nurse before joining Katara and Ieyatsu. "Thanks a lot!"

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"So," Ed looked back at his new companions. "What now?"

Jet whinnied softly. Seemed the flame horse Pokemon liked having it's ego stoked, pun not intended. When Giotto reached to pet it he simply remained calm and let him. Katara definitely took it as a good sign but was distracted from her thoughts by his admission. Giving him a small smile she shook her head a bit.

"It's alright... Thank you for watching for them. Sokka's my brother, so I just figured I should take care of them while he's gone."

Ozaisheep though... uhhh... well that one was more a matter of public safety.

"I really appreciate it. They'll probably turn up sometime in the next few days. One of them is kind of..." And there she looked a bit nervously wary. "... hard to miss."

Ed and Joy broke the moment with their return then so Katara looked to Ed to state the obvious. "Glad to see you're feeling better! I said I'd show you the ropes but you've probably gotten a lot of it down on the way here."

... She really was taller than him, if only by a few inches. Katara opted not to call attention to this.

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Giotto nodded as he pet the pokemon horse on the nose. "I see, well they can't have gotten too far right? Perhaps we'll find them soon." He said. Granted Giotto didn't know how fast any of those pokemon could travel on their own so he was only guessing that they would be close still.

When Ed returned Giotto gave the smaller blond a smile, "I'll let you two decide what we do next." He informed both Ed and Katara. Considering he was supposed to be enjoying retirement Giotto figured he'd let the kids he was with call the shots for now. Not to mention Katara seemed to have been here much longer then giotto had been, or it was only a matter of course to Giotto that he'd let her take the lead.

Ed took out his map. "Are either of you going to try that 'Gym Challenge' to collect badges? I'd like to try that, since it's the only lead I've got on getting back to Amestris. In any case, there's not much we can do here anyway."

Aurum perked up at the mention of the gym challenge. He hopped off of Ed's shoulder and threw a few punches at the air. Oh yeah! He could take on those gym leader's Pokemon! He couldn't help but laugh a bit. "Glad to see you're excited about it."

Ed's attention then focused on the horse. The horse that was on fire, but didn't seem to mind being on fire. He held his hand out to it. If Giotto and Katara could pet it without catching fire, then he could too, right?

"Yeah, we probably will." Katara smiled a bit. She thought about the Pokemon missing, realizing that of them, she probably had the one that would have made the fastest progress aside from Mareep.

And it was likely best if Mareep ended up with a trainer with more experience, but-- and here Katara resisted the urge to sigh and smack her forehead, resisted hard --if she still had it's Pokeball she could just be sure to return it.

Before Katara could ask Giotto if he was sure Ed had accepted it, so she reached up to place a hand against Jet's back before Ed's hand reached Jet. With both Katara and Giotto petting him too there was no way he'd burn Ed, but Katara gave Jet a look just to be safe. He could be temperamental around guys like Ed (and Sokka), she wasn't taking chances. Jet just snorted softly and let himself be petted. Ed could've at least complimented him first like Ieyatsu did.

"Yeah, I plan to take part. It seems like the best shot to get back home, and if nothing else it'll help us get strong enough to maybe help Zuko and the others deal with Team Rocket. You should have it pretty easy, Ed, I heard the first gym leader uses flying types and they're really weak against electric types like Aurum. The first gym is in the next town, but I think we should rest and train here for a few days."

She realized belatedly that Ieyatsu was still waiting to get his Pidgey checked and that she hadn't introduced Ed to Jet yet.

"Oh yeah, Ed, this is Jet, my Ponyta. Jet, this is Ed. He's a--" She JUST remembered to avoid using the words little and short with a fast sideways glance at Ed. "--bit of a hot head. Ed, he won't burn you as long as he likes you."

They'd probably be making for the

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A gym challenge being the best way home? While it sounded interesting Giotto had yet to decide if he wanted to go back. It occurred to him that he might just want G and Cozart, and even Asari, to come here with him. Listening to the younger two talk about the gyms he nodded, "Then I should get my own little ones checked here if we will be battling. I'll return shortly." He said excusing him self.

Though he wondered about this Team Rocket that Katara mentioned. Were they like some sort of mafia group? He would have to ask about that later. Seeking out one of the nurses he handed over his pokemon for their check up. "If you'll just wait a moment, I'll have them right back to you." Nurse Joy said with a smile. Giotto nodded back watching the woman take care of his pokemon. Sure enough a few moment later Giotto had his pokemon returned to him. Thanking the Nurse he took the pokemon back, and then returned to his travel companions.

"Katara, who are these Team Rocket people you had mentioned?" He asked curiously when he was back with the two.

Ed had barely touched the side of Jet's face when he took his hand back and gave Katara a sour look. It didn't last long though, and he eventually laughed. "Yeah, I guess I am a hot head." Al and Winry would certainly agree with her.

He was just as curious about this 'Team Rocket' as Giotto was. He was about to ask about them when Giotto had come back and asked it for him.

"Sure." Katara smiled at Giotto, then looked at Ed.

Jet could see that Katara and Ed were friends, so he nudged his face against Ed's hand after he drew it away. Katara grinned at Ed.

"Just a bit."

She continued rubbing Jet's neck until Giotto returned, looking serious for a moment.

"Team Rocket? I think they're the group that's responsible for dragging us here to Johto somehow. Tohru's heard of them too, apparently they also go around stealing people's Pokemon. They pretty much sound like trouble no matter how you put it. My friend said they were in Goldenrod when I first got here, but that's been about a month now. I haven't heard anything else about them in a while."

Giotto frowned hearing about Team Rocket. What an unpleasant group, but if they were the ones that were responsible for bringing them here then... Well wouldn't it be obvious that confronting them could take them back home sooner? Though Giotto doubted that he had the strength to do such a thing, being so new to this world.

"A gym challenge then? It sounds interesting." He said turning back to the previous suggestion of what they do next. With out his own friends Giotto didn't want to try to tangle with this Rocket group, it didn't seem like a good idea to him.

This was news. Ed put his hand to his chin, thinking along the same lines of Giotto. If they confronted the head of Team Rocket...

There were three options now in Ed's mind. Ignore the Gym Challenge, and go straight for Team Rocket, Ignore Team Rocket, and pursue the Gym challenge, or both. Either way, he'd have to train his Pokemon for them to become stronger, especially since Ed just couldn't take care of it on his own without alchemy. He pulled out the map, and saw that they were pretty far from Goldenrod...

"If were able to corner the head of Team Rocket, we might be able to get home. Though, we'll need to train our Pokemon to get stronger. I think we should still take the Gym Challenge. It'll help us train our Pokemon if we decide to pay Team Rocket a visit."

He looked down at his Pichu. "There's some stuff I wanna teach you anyway." Aurum cocked his head and gave him a curious look. Ed might have had his ass kicked by his teacher back in Dublith, but he wasn't about to put Aurum through that kind of torture.

"Yeah. That's what I figured. We'll have to get stronger one way or another, and if nothing else it's a way to pass the time. My brother was the one that came up with all the plans for the war stuff." She frowned, but then exhaled, relaxed, and looked at the other two in her company. "Well, Kishi's about strong enough to take on the first gym by now, my others don't have that far to go. What about you, Ieyatsu? Will you take part too?"

Jet curiously eyed the other Pokemon in silence.

Edited 2011-04-29 21:42 (UTC)

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Water meets Fire? SPARKS FLY. Probably literally. IDK.

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Got the affirmative from Ieyatsu-mun, so maybe Ed, Katara, Ieyatsu?

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Sorry for the wait, had a bit of muse fail. XD

It happens to the best of us. <3

Indeed. <3 No worries and welcome back!

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Short tag is short. D:

LIKE ED? PFFFT.

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Realized that post was kinda sucky by itself. FIXING NOW.