"Romeo, leave her alone," Lockon called his Growlithe back to his side before waving in the direction they were headed. He had pondered asking the rest of the people around to come with, but the girl with the Lapras seemed pretty content with trying to swim off in another direction entirely... It would definitely save his Pokegear from being broken, in any case.

"Let's go!" With that, he started off, just walking and quite sure that everyone else would follow suit. Romeo pranced along next to him, dragging a stick along with him, "So some of you guys have friends here, right? Are you meeting up with them in the next town?"

There was the likelihood that at least a couple of them had friend, but he was unaware of the fact that he was the only one without someone else looking for him here...