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Who: Enma Kozato, Ventus, and Adelheid Suzuki (possibly Hope)
Where: Violet City
When: Post-Drifloon Event
Summary: Enma introduces Ven to the Family.
Rating: PG?
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Enma is a little unsure about having these two worlds collide, but here he is, standing a little awkwardly with his second-in-command and his friend, one hand wrapped around a backpack with the dozing Drifloon he'd caught earlier that day tied to it. Turning to the older girl first, he starts the introductions.

"...This is Ven- Ventus. He's... one of the others I'm traveling with."

"This is Adelheid... she's part of my Family, the one I told you about."

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[freshbreeze.livejournal.com]

Ven hadn't been entirely sure of what to expect in this situation. What Enma had told him so far about all this family business seemed to be pretty confusing, and he's got his doubts that he know much about it at all. And he can live with that, it's just...

He didn't exactly expect to meet a girl who by all appearances can claim she towers over both Enma and himself.

All the same, Ven smiles and offers a hand. "Nice to meet you, Miss Adelheid!" She had to be older than he was if she was that tall, right? Aqua was, after all.

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"Likewise, Ventus," Adelheid's voice is stern, yet quite and somewhat composed as she reaches out to shake the young man's hand. She had told herself that she wouldn't be too quick to judge this 'friend' that her boss had been traveling with, but she naturally had her suspicions, "How long have the two of you been traveling together...?"

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"...I guess it's been more than a month now."

As long as there's no fighting, Enma figures things are safe. He sets the backpack down and looks at Ven for confirmation. "Has it?"

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Following that handshake, Ven lifts a hand to his chin and makes a thoughtful sound. "...Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's been around six weeks now." He half wishes Hope was around just to be sure he's not getting it wrong, but he thinks that's about right.

"People seem to show up here at the same time a lot, and that's what happened with Enma, Hope, and me." Although Ven isn't entirely sure Adelheid really wants that much information, he's pretty sure it doesn't hurt anything. Naturally somebody from back home would want to make sure that somebody wasn't traveling with weirdoes or anything.

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That last bit seems somewhat believable and she is reminded of the man she met in the first city she arrived at.... The one she left in favor of finding Enma.

Not that it was any matter to her. She could care less about him at this point and wasn't exactly fond of him in the first place. Just a hanger-on and not worth her time at this point anymore.

"It appears that many different people come here, regardless of what point in time or place they are from," she sighs a bit and crosses her arms, pressing her lips into a sort of frown.

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"...You came with someone too, Adelheid?"

And then Enma sets his backpack down and brings out a little plastic bag. Lunch, it soon seems, as Enma proceeds to hand out packets of bread from the Pokémart. They have little chocolate faces of pokémon printed on the surface, too.

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For his part, Ven thanks Enma but otherwise remains quiet, since Adelheid's been asked a question. He'd rather not interrupt before she's had the chance to answer, and if there's somebody else maybe the group they're traveling in will get bigger again.

Now if only they could track down Lightning and Snow one of these days.

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"I did," she says, "I left him in Cherrygrove City because he was slowing me down."

And that's the end of that.

"My original aim was to find you, Enma. I didn't need anyone to tag along with me," she sighs and glances to Ven, "Thank you for keeping an eye on him."

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"Ah..." And Enma will shift a little. He feels a little like a small child that had wandered off. But that's normal with Adelheid, so he'll just open a packet of bread for himself and turn to Ven.

"If it's alright, Adelheid'll travel with us. The Inn has an extra room, so she'll be staying there, too."

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It's a bit weird being thanked for traveling with a friend, so Ven fumbles a little for a response. "Oh, well...it's been fun traveling with Enma, and I'm sure Hope thinks so too." Really, it seems to Ven that he's gotten just as much out of the company as anybody else.

With that having been addressed, he looks to Enma. "Course it's alright, I don't see why anybody'd have a problem with it." Ven's pretty sure he's not in any position to tell anybody they can't come along. And besides, it seems like this Adelheid lady's been worried about Enma.

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Adelheid stands there, arms crossed underneath her chest and eyes following between the two boys as they speak.

Ven doesn't seem like a threat and, actually, Enma appears to like him quite a bit. Perhaps, he may be worth giving a chance.

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A corner of Enma's mouth lifts in a small smile while he starts getting his pokéballs out, a bit relieved that the whole thing turned out to be pretty simple, after all.

"I think it's about lunch time..."

His fingers fumble over the balls and they scatter onto the nearby grass- two flashes of light later reveal a Mareep and a Sentret, both of whom pause to stare at the towering lady a little away. Mareep wanders a bit nearer to see if there's anything edible over there, whilst Sentret sticks to Enma. His Drifloon seems content to doze where it is.

[ooc:Poképicnic is a go.]

[freshbreeze.livejournal.com]

"Guess you're right about that..." Which is cue for Ven to let his friends out too. Now that Vaporeon's a bit more settled she's let him put her in a pokéball on occasion, so he lets her out first. Then it's Skiploom's turn, but he decides he'll let Gastly snooze for the moment. After all, he's found out that ghost pokémon apparently do sleep.

...This reminds him that he's still got to tell Enma about that, but it can wait.

Drifloon of course is being just as lazy as Enma's, and Ven has to shrug his backpack off in order to poke at it. "C'mon, you've been at that all morning..."

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Lunch sounded pretty good right about now.

So Adelheid follows suit and fetches her own pokéballs. Much like Ven's own Gastly, her Misdreavus Stella seems to be a bit burned out when she leaves her ball, fluttering to the ground near her master's feet and snoozing softly. Stella is followed by Mori the Kakuna, who looks quite close to hatching into the Beedrill she had been working to get. Lastly, of course is her newly-caught Drifloon, Nuvole, who decides to float about near by.

"Stay close," she warns, taking a seat near Enma and looking over the other creatures now wandering about.

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A new pokémon Enma's never seen before! Watch him blink and reach out to touch Stella gently.

"Is she... sleeping?"

And now they have a set of three Drifloon. Almost made it seem like a party. But Enma hands Adelheid some bread, too (hopefully Adelheid wouldn't mind it, since Enma isn't sure what she would've liked), while he gets some berries out, turning to his and Ven's Drifloons.

"I think Nurse Joy said these help... but only if they're not supposed to be sleeping." He'll try to hold up a chesto berry to that X-shape that might be his Drifloon's mouth.

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"I think mine just likes sleeping all the time..." Ven glances up ponderously at his Drifloon, trying to remember just how much it's slept and how often. At the least the little balloon seems to get more active when it's awake...somewhat. It makes him wonder if some pokémon can be lazy just like people can.

It really wouldn't surprise him.

Of course when he looks back down, Skiploom is eyeing that bread in his hand. "That's not very subtle at all." All the smae he snorts and tears off a piece of bread to offer it to the eager little plant.