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Where: Violet City → Route 32
When: October 26 (Tuesday noon)
Summary: Cocona attempts to help Misaki train his Pokemon, but first, they shall devour oranges. Mmm.
Rating: G
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It was a whole new day, but nothing really changed: the sky was gray as usual without showing any changes. Well, it wasn't going to get Cocona down! She's still the small bundle of energy she is, even from that freaky Xatu incident and getting her Pokegear partially broken, but both problems that were solved for now.

She stood in the fresh produce section which had many chilled fruits on the shelf and started staring at the oranges. The oranges weren't in their best condition, but it would help satisfy her craving for oranges for now. She grabbed a plastic bag and started to loom over the oranges once more, but stopped because her Pichu was about to fall off her head.

"Mr. Misaki, how many should we get?" She asked, tilting her head up to see his face since being more than a foot shorter does that to her.

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"Compost... Compost..." Cocona repeated to herself to try and think of what it was. Then she remembered a certain blacksmith saying something about it. "... Is compost something like after you use it, it disappears eventually if you put it on the ground?" Well, at least back in her world, there was a blacksmith who had attempted to make compost weapons and armor. Oh, the wonders of synthesizing.

After getting her mind off that topic, Cocona started thinking about a Balloon Pokemon. They were definitely real, since she had seen some around the network. "But Mr. Misaki! There are balloon Pokemon! I think it was small, purple, and had dot eyes! Or something like that..." Her memory started to fail her since she had never looked it up, but had only seen it as a glance.

Kuro peeked over to Sunkern. She knew that regardless of whether that Balloon Pokemon existed, she knew it wasn't the right one. She snickered and started scampering off Cocona's shoulder and onto the ground, searching for any wild Pokemon that may be in the vicinity.

"Sort of, yeah," Misaki chuckled, taking another bite of his orange. Okay, so maybe he did need to explain this. "More like, if it's a natural thing, it will return its nutrients back to nature." Throwing weapons and armor on the ground probably wouldn't make a good compost heap in Misaki's world.

"What? No way." Pffft, like he was going to believe everything he heard about this place. Pokémon were more like animals, sometimes like machines. They couldn't always be just anything. "The day I see a balloon Pokémon, I'll shave my head." It was easy to lie when he had so much confidence in his words.

Misaki watched Kuro scamper about curiously. Sunkern was content to remain on his shoulder. The wild Pokémon would come to them in time. That was more or less her approach to training.

"Like berries and the seeds, right?" If she had to think natural, then all she could think of was the stuff that usually grew on trees.

And so, Cocona whipped out her trusty Pokedex! She had seen the Balloon Pokemon before, so the information was already recorded in the machine. So there was just some several clicks here and there... and ah-ha! She pulled up the Pokemon's entry and held the Pokedex to Misaki.

"Here! It's called a Drifloon! Isn't it cute?" Although, Cocona will not call on Misaki's head-shaving statement. She would like it if he kept his hair.

"Yeah, that's the idea." She seemed to be getting it now, though he wasn't sure if the entire process had made sense. Oh well. It's not like it was important or anything.

"You're kidding!" He wasn't going to believe there was a balloon Pokémon. That was just... And there it was. Now that was just ridiculous. How was he supposed to know the people who concocted these things decided to make one like a balloon? That's just--"Well, 'cute' isn't the word I'd use..." Although it was a little cute, now that she mentioned it. Where did someone catch something like that?

He cleared his throat. A man usually kept his word, but keeping his hair was more important, so he was just gonna back off the argument. "A-anyway, we're trying to find Pokémon to train against, right? So, we should start going through some of the grass around here...."

"Yeah! It shouldn't take too long to find a wild Pokemon." Cocona started going through the tall grass and sniffled because the grass sometimes tickled her nose. Kuro stuck together with her as she started to search for some Pokemon in the grass.

A wild Pidgey appeared! There was a Rattata sneaking in the grass to take a bite out of Misaki's leg, but Kuro swiftly uses Thundershock at it, sending a stream of electricity right past Misaki's legs, frying the Rattata in one hit.

Cocona quickly turned around to see what the fuss was about and stared at the fainted rat Pokemon. She looked unsure because while it was a good thing Misaki was unharmed, the Thundershock was a bit too close to him.

Misaki wasn't quite sure if he agreed with Cocona's jumping right in for a battle. He normally just let the wild Pokemon come to him. And speaking of, he barely even noticed that Rattata until Kuro was on the move.

The Thundershock scared Misaki more than anything. Jumping away, he felt a wave of electrical charge as it emitted from the Pichu's cheek pouches. Luckily, he was spared a direct hit, but his hair stood on end after that close encounter.

"K-kuro-san! Watch out!" He shook, a little freaked, but then remembered. He was supposed to be training Mareep, wasn't he? Grabbing out his Pokeball, he released the cotton-covered Pokemon with a burst of red light. She looked ready for action! Turning, and determined, Misaki pointed towards the Pidgey trying to escape. "Mareep! Use Thundershock!"

The sheep went straight to work and rushed forward with a charge, releasing the pent-up electricity in the Pidgey's direction. It looked like it had a good chance at meeting it mark!

Direct hit! Mareep had successfully gotten Pidgey on the spot and it went thump on the ground, its small talon twitching every now and then.

"Wow, that was pretty cool, Mr. Misaki! Do you train using type advantages and stuff?" Even though Misaki was lucky enough to get a Pidgey for the Mareep, she wondered what he would have done with a Wooper came instead of the bird.

Hells yeah it was a direct hit! Misaki was pretty cocky about that one, but in all honesty he had just used the first electrical attack that had come to his mind. Thundershock was a classic move, after all.

"W-well, I try. I already knew Mareep was of the electric type, and Pidgey are flying, and flying are weak against electric so..." His rambling trailed off. Electric beats flying was pretty much the basic of the basics, but he was still happy, nonetheless.

"L-let's find some more! Right Mareep!" The sheep gave him a vigorous nod. She was ready for more action!

"There should be tons of Pokemon in the wild though! It shouldn't be so hard. I bet those Zubats would be scared of you now, right, Mr. Misaki?" She asked energetically, while Kuro climbed up to Cocona's head once more and observed their surroundings for another wild Pokemon.

Misaki shuddered at the thought of that dark night a few weeks ago. Zubats. The bane of his existence. But like she said, he didn't have anything to fear anymore. Not now that he had an electric type like Mareep. Nodding, he gave her a weak smile.

Venturing out into grass himself was hard, but he had to get over this. Scanning the area, he pushed aside some more grass... and came face to face with an Ekans!

"Whaah!" Misaki tripped over backwards and began to struggle away. "Snake! Snake! Big snake!"

"It's an Ekans!" Cocona shouted. "Don't get too close to it, Mr. Misaki!" Even though she knew that she was stating the obvious, she just felt like she just needed to say it out loud. A warning was better than none, right?

"Hurry, call out an attack! Anything!"

Misaki heard all Cocona screamed and scrambled to come up with something. "M-m-mareep! Go... go do... something!"

Mareep jumped into action! But without orders, she was going in blindly. So she did what was most natural and tried a tackle. The Ekans slithered out of the way before she could make impact and turned its lazy gaze over to the sheep. Opening its mouth and hissing its name, it focused a dark Leer on the Mareep that sent chills down her spine.

"Go, Mareep! You can do it!" She tried giving Mareep some morale so that she wouldn't freeze up. "Go, go, go!" The Pokemon was a snake and she knew what snakes did, wrap around its prey and EAT IT.

With Mareep shivering, the Ekans moved in, about to use its Wrap on her. But Misaki had shaken off his terror (most of it at least), and stood up on his wobbly legs.

"Snap out of it, Mareep! Use... Thundershock again!" He called out the only attack he was sure of, but that was enough to spur her into action.

At this short range, the charged electricity had no chance of missing! Ekans, being of much lower level than Mareep, fainted on the spot.

"You guys did it!" Cocona gave Misaki and Mareep an applause to congratulate him on his victory. "You really are a good trainer, Mr. Misaki! You'll get that badge in no time!"

"Y-yeah! I guess we did, huh, Mareep?" He smiled down at his proud electric sheep. She regarded him seriously, and took the applause with quiet dignity. Now that he thought of it, she kind of reminded him of a samurai warrior in a good period piece movie.

But then Misaki frowned. He reached down and beat at the dirt clinging to his worn jean, sighing. "It's kind of weird, though. It almost seems like Mareep is already much... much tougher than all these other ones out here. I'd almost say she's as tough as Sunkern."

He looked up at Cocona and quirked an eyebrow. "Just how much training did she get before you traded her to me?"

Cocona chuckled, having been found out. However, it was not really a secret to her, seeing that she merely wanted to help. But she had to admit, she didn't get to train Mareep as much as she wanted to.

"Not much, why?" Well, in a way, that was a truth since when compared to the other Pokemon, the training time she had given Mareep was tiny.

"Not much?" Hmm, this coming from the supposedly super-strong girl that fights bad guys and monsters back home all the time? Yeah. He didn't believe it.

"You're pulling my leg. She must be a much higher level than Bellsprout was when we traded." He frowned and looked down. Mareep was still on alert for wild Pokemon but she stood obediently at his side. Such a well-trained girl.

"That... kinda makes me feel like I cheated you."

"You shouldn't be though, because I wanted to help you! Besides, while Bellsprout isn't a powerhouse, I heard she can do all sorts of status effects and that's really handy for a drawn out battle, sooo..." Cocona looked up at Misaki and grinned. "I think we're even!"

"Hmmmm, I guess..." He frowned, still unsure. If Misaki was going to play this game with everyone, he wanted it to be fair. Cocona seemed adamant about it though, so he thought he could probably let it slide this once.

"Well, I know I can't complain on my end of the deal." He smiled down at his Mareep and scratched her behind the ears. She chirped back happily and rubbed against his leg, almost like a cat. Weird, but kind of cute.

"A lot of the Pokemon around here are just too weak to put up much of a fight against Mareep, I think." Misaki looked back up to the sky. Even more pink balls seemed to be hovering way up in the sky. Whatever Pokemon it was doing that had to be incredible.

"That's why it gets harder to train for Falkner as time passes! It took me tons of battles just to earn one level for my Pokemon, but I think it tests out your endurance and stuff!" She paused, looking a bit thoughtful. "... I think." She muttered, a bit more quiet than her usual volume.

Since she always had to tilt her head up to look at Misaki's face, she noticed the pink balls flying in the sky and slowly blinked. "... Remember what I said about Drifloons earlier, Mr. Misaki?"

"Ahh, yeah, I guess I get what you mean." But then again, he wasn't one to go out looking for fights. Normally if Misaki trains it's just because he happened to run into a feral Pokemon, not because he wanted to train voluntarily. Maybe he should change that if he ever planned to win a battle here.

"Yeah, I remember. What about it?" He also kept his eyes up to the sky. Really, they were just so round and pink. And... there might have been some green on them too, but he couldn't quite tell with all that blue, blue, blue around them. Maybe he'd imagined it...

Cocona points up towards the sky. "Drifloons are purple. Those look kinda... pink-ish. Right, Mr. Misaki? So weird. I wonder if Pokemon can be different colors."

"Yeah, they are pinker rather than purple." He considers the idea, but no, it just doesn't sit well with him. "Pokemon are usually one color only, I think. I've never seen a Pokemon that doesn't follow the same patterns of its species, anyway."

Not that he's looked all the much.

"Oh... You sure know a lot, Mr. Misaki! Is that because you played the game before?" Cocona was still very curious about how the world of Johto could be used as a video game... whatever that was.

"Ahh, it could be related to that. But, I don't know, even coming here you can see that Pokemon tend to keep the same coloring." Misaki has to think back, back, way back to before he was even in middle school for this. It seemed so long ago when those games were popular.

"I'm really very sure there was no different colored Pokemon. I think it's sorta like types of dogs and cat, as long as they're not mixed breeds, will usually keep the same types of coloring." Misaki didn't really know if what he was saying was entirely true, but it seemed that way to his knowledge.

Cocona tried to listen to all of that as if she was a student and Misaki was the teacher. It wasn't boring, but the words were a bit complicated for her to understand.

"Um..." That was all she could say before chuckling nervously.

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orz sorry, this thread gets forgotten more than any of my others for some reason

it's okay! i sometimes miss threds too ;3;

lol, I should be more careful though ^^;

no worries!

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