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Who: Mimi Tachikawa + Skitty, Open to any!
Where: New Bark Town
When: November 11th
Summary: Mimi's got a week worth a travel to start on to get to her friends. She's not about to waste any time getting there!
Rating: G...PG if anyone who joins in has language.
Log:
It was around noon when Mimi Tachikawa took her first steps outside of the warm and cozy home she had woken up in. The nippy air hitting her cheeks playfully contrasted with the warm air she had just stepped out of. It woke her up, if she hadn't been before. Each breath gave her a new surge of energy.

Letting the crisply-cool grass crunch beneath her boots, Mimi set to the road with map in hand. If she didn't get started now, she knew the weather would only be cooling off the more time passed. She also knew she needed to get to the nearest rest point before sun-down. Her Skitty was still tiny, and what nurturing instinct Mimi had made it clear that she needed to keep the kitten-type Pokemon warm in order for it to stay healthy.

Mimi looked over her shoulder to her backpack. She kept an extra scarf and a medium-sized blanket on top of her manuals and belongings, just in case Skitty wanted to burrow beneath and stay warm. A sleeping Skitty is a growing Skitty--not to mention it would make traveling considerably easier if she didn't have to worry about what it was doing inside her backpack.

"First thing's first...as soon as I find someone who knows, we gotta find out if you're a boy or a girl!" Mimi cheerfully called back to her Pokemon. She didn't expect an answer--this wasn't Palmon, after all--but the lazy mew from the bowels of her bag brought her a joy reminiscent of when she first met her Digimon partner.

"You just rest then. The trip will be over all the sooner if you sleep through it!" Mimi spoke from experience, after all. With all her traveling on planes and buses and trains; Mimi learned at an early age that sleeping the trip away made the wait to your final destination all the easier.

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Natsu was walking with a Charmander following behind him as he blinked and frowned, looking to the pokemon as he said, "Man, you had to burn the guy who can give us directions! I don't know how to read a map and I'm not going to go on a ride!" There was no way he was going to think about it. No way. His motion sickness catching on real quick.

He stopped by a bench and had his knees on the seat and facing behind it with his arms just hanging over the back. This was going to be a long way, and the sun was unbearable, which was unusual because he was used to it back home. Now that he had no magic, it killed.

His pink head hanging as he said, "I hate this place already!"

Mimi noticed the distraught-looking boy dangling limply over the passing bench. His pink hair was striking, so it naturally got her attention. (Ah, she remembered her pink-haired days fondly...) Blinking a few times, she craned her neck a bit to see if his eyes were closed.

"...I wonder if he's asleep?" Mimi muttered below her breath. She then saw the Charmander patiently waiting beside him, and gave out a noise that was some odd mix between a squawk and a gasp. "Is..." She extended a finger accusingly at the Charmander. "...is that another Pokemon?"

Yeah, she was still getting used to seeing them around. There was something foreign about them, not like the Digimon would could announce their presence.

Too bad his hair color isn't dye, but he didn't care if it was girly. He wore it with pride. His gold eyes were closed until he felt like someone was staring at him. Well, it wasn't something good to open your eyes and see someone staring.

Natsu jumped a bit and looked down at his Charmander as he then said, "Yeah. He only says Charmander though, but I named him Igneel! After my dad!" Well, not necessarily a dad, but Igneel was close to one for Natsu. So, since Charmander was his buddy pokemon, he named it after the closest person to him.

Natsu looked up to the girl and then asked, "What's that?" He was pointing to her own pokemon.

Mimi jumped a bit, seeing as the boy wasn't asleep. He seemed friendly though, a bit like a certain goggle-boy she knew...She smiled and waved at the Charmander. "Hi Igneel! I'm Mimi!"

When the boy pointed behind her, she looked over her shoulder and saw that her Skitty was peeking out from her backpack. "Oh!" She giggled, and pulled her backpack to the front, opening it. "Isn't it a cutie?! I haven't figured out how to have my Pokedex determine its gender yet, so I haven't named it...but it's a Skitty!"

The Skitty mewed cheerfully, twitching an ear quickly before proceeding to clean it with a swift lick of its paw, it went to work.

Natsu grinned as Charmandar smiled and let out a happy He looked up at her and then said, "My name is Natsu!!!!"

The small boy stared at it and made a strange face as he looked up at her again and shrugged, "I didn't know you can do that." He was super excited at how this place worked.

"Neither did I, but according to some of the other people here, it's what you're supposed to do!" Mimi held up a finger to her chin. She smiled proudly. It wasn't every day she was able to teach someone something!

"So! Are you a trainer or a breeder?"

"Oh, I just named mine the closest person to me." Natsu blinked at the sudden question and shrugged lightly. Was he supposed to know what he was? Natsu shrugged lightly and then said, "I don't know. Does it matter?"

Mimi nervously smiled and shrugged. "I don't really know how much it matters, really! I'm guessing we have different things to do with our Pokemon, though!"

Mimi blinked a few times, "Oh yeah!" Her smile widened. "Did you get a book about how to breed Pokemon? If you did, that's a sure sign!"

Natsu shrugged as well and then said, "Well, if Igneel was a girl, he isn't making a fuss about having a boy name. So, I thought it was a boy."

He looked down at the bag next to him on the bench and went through it as he shook his head. Closing it back up, he then said, "No. Just some guide thing about trainers..." Doesn't help much, considering he couldn't do his reading lessons with Erza at the moment.

"Oh! So Igneel is a boy name? It can't be both?" She almost said 'like Natsu,' but didn't in case it would offend.

"It looks like you're a Trainer, then!" Mimi piped cheerfully. "Not that I really know all the difference."

Natsu frowns at her and turns to her completely, "Of course it is! He's not girl!"

He looks down, feeling tears as he got up from his seat as he looked away and put his bookbag on. He should go to Vivi so he can cry. He misses that Dragon so bad. The boy just ignores her completely as he fixes his scarf.

Mimi grimaced. Oh no, she'd offended the poor guy. "I'm sorry! I'm not from around here, so I didn't know..!" She held up her hands in defense, and waved them a few times.

"It must be really hard to be in some new, strange place, huh?" It was new and strange for her, too...but having been from Japan to the Digital World and New York during 9-11, this was far from Mimi's first rodeo.

Natsu frowned, continuing to look away, but he made sure not to look like was gonna cry. Igneel looked to his master and his tail went low almost feeling sad just seeing the boy cry.

The pinkette sniffed and wiped his eyes with his sleeves. His shoulders shaking as he didn't speak, but just nodded to her question. Knowing that he would sound like a total wimp.

Mimi gave a sympathetic smile, and rested a hand gently on the boy's shoulder. In some ways, Natsu struck her as a good mix of Taichi, Daisuke, and Takeru--when he was younger.

"It's going to be ok! We're going to head to Violet City together, and I'll stick around until you can find your friends!" She softly giggled. "Promise!"

Natsu looked up at her as he turned fully around, as he blinked and was surprised. She wanted to travel with a reckless, little pipsqueak that looked like he was three?

The boy wiped his eyes and nose as he blinked and asked, "Really? But, none of my friends are around..." The poor boy was alone right now.

"Then we'll make new friends!" Mimi cheerily countered. "You've already got me and Skitty over here!"

Mimi's Skitty mewed in agreement.

"Whattaya say?"

Natsu looked to her and then to her little Skitty, as he blinked... Wiping his face with his sleeve, Natsu just looked at her and the Skitty.

Giving a big smile at the sound of making a new friend, he spoke up, "Sure!"

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Aggh sorry for late tag. /flails

Don't worry! Mine's just as late!!

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