The once Navy blue color of the lab is now black as the sky blue lining now lights the halls "Guess I'll sleep in the park." She fixes her new black and red jacket and begins to leave.
"Uhm, we have room in the library. No one should be in there until late morning, so…" The short haired blonde Ava bumped into earlier makes her presence known while wearing a Togekiss one piece. She hands Ava a key card "Just don't bring "this" up in the future." The blonde motions to her one piece as she looks down with embarrassment
Ava turns around and makes her way to the door "Cool, see ya…" she stops. "Where is it?"
The blonde lets out a pft "Follow me." leading her up a set of stairs and to two doors. "First door to your right."
"Thanks. Goodnight uhm..hmm, we haven't done the name thing." She looks down and hums louder. "I'm Ava!" Ava lean towards the blonde with an extended hand
She snickers, "I'm Melia." She shakes Ava's hand and turns to leave "Goodnight!"
She's nice, a mix of childish and mature. I feel like there's a comparison to be made there, don't know to what. Ava tapes the card against a scanner before taking to a corner and balling up for the night.
"..hy…hey…Wake up!" A young male's voice pierces through Ava's unconscious mind
She purrs "give me..hrm.. Two minutes"
"Give her a break Ren, She had nowhere to sleep." Melia adds as Ava sits up behind the black haired boy
"Melia, you can't invite strangers to sleep in your house just because they say they have nowhere to stay." Ren's voice was rather whimsical
"My door has two locks." Melia adds with slight annoyance
Ava walks right up to Malia "Thanks for the key card." She hands it over. "If you think I'm a bad person -" Tosses her Pokéball out "-then check it for yourself." This is, trainer law.
Ren smirks with his grey eyes gleaming; and throws out his Pokéball "Alright! Froakie!"
Froakie looks at Char, both determined to win. "Beginners' luck runs out quick!" The two say to each other. "Char! scratch 'em!"
The little Eevee B-lines for his opponent and scratches them as they attempt to dodge. "Froakie! Pound now!" The Froakie clasps its glowing hands together and pounds Char's back.
"Double down, Char!" Char cries, jumping onto a bookcase closing the distance between them and the Froakie. Char vaults off the case and slashes at Froakie.
"Froakie dodge and growl!" The Froakie stares Char in the eyes and at the last moment; leaps back and growls.
"Tackle!" Ava blurts out quickly yet quietly.
"Dodg-!" Ren's words are cut short as he sees Char already landing their tackle, the force seemingly enough to end the match. The Froakie lies motionless on the floor, unconscious.
"Yes!" Ava's arms shoot up with a bit of force, but her giddy face reliefs any notion of it.
"You won? Well that is the first time I ever used my own Pokémon, maybe I should start training them." Ren says disappointedly; scratching his neck.
"Back peddling already?" [1]Ava mumbles looking at Melia. "You got any errands to do today?"
Melia turns around; her bright gray eyes exude innocence, "No but I was planning to go to Golden Wood Forest after checking on something."
"Mind if I tag along? I don't really have any money so beating some trainers might help." Ava points her thumb over her own shoulder
"Oh sure, you should probably grab your trainer card from my dad though. Amanda asked me to get it while you were asleep." Melia says looking at Ren giving Ava 87 Pokédollars.
"I'd ask to come with but I'm still tired from collecting data on the cave yesterday." Ren says with his arms hanging.
Ren starts to leave with Melia following right behind. "Ask my dad for a spare umbrella as well, it rains spontaneously sometimes."
"Yeah sure!" Ava shouts behind them before putting on her black and red jacket.
Ava opens the door leading to Prof.Jenner's lab to see him eating a cereal mix of marshmallow and raisin corn flakes. "Omf huy.. Ava?" he questions with a stuffed mouth.
"Yeah, I just need my card." The young girl reaches for her card apprehensively. He's evil! No sane person mixes Chewy with fuckin CRUNCH?!
"Isn't that Amanda's jacket?" Professor Jenner looks in his desk. Ava looks at him for a second before looking around the lab. "I put it in one of these drawers." he mumbles
'I hope Amanda doesn't ask for her jacket back, this shit is compy.' The Professor gets up from his desk looking shocked at the card. "Yeah, she said I could keep it for last night; ya know, nowhere to sleep."
"A female Pokébreeder?" He hands Ava her card, who of which wears a warry smile as they take it.
I'm marked as female because intersex people aren't a thing apparently. Her eyes go wide as she looks off to the side "Yeeaaaah! totally. I don't need anything to take the public transport right?"
"Apart from money? No.." Jenner visibly contemplates something as the words leave his mouth. "Could you look after my daughter while she's out today? She's good with people but I'm scared some unusual Pokémon might attack her after reviewing the latest cave analytics."
"to grow up and enjoy the world"… I guess that goes double for fathers. I was already going with her anyway. Ava sighs "Sure."
Jenner gives her some PokeDollars "Thank you, this should cover your transport."
Ava steps through the door on her way out. 'There's no way a train ride is THIS expensive. Now my guts stirrin'. I should swing by the park, get a grass type so I can counter water types in the future. I actually thought of a good idea. Is this what happens when you lose your V card? Shit's cracked!
Ava turns the corner coming from "The Berry Emporium". "Wait WAIT! THE BEST PART OF THE SONG IS ABOUT TO COME ON!" A young female shouts from inside a purple house
"Veronica?! How many times do I have to tell you to not blast music like this?!" An older voice shouts back in fairly calm manner
"Ugh…. Mom?! Can't you wait three seconds? The beat is about to drop!" Veronica tells her mom in a rather angsty tone.
"NO.-"
"Rip Veronica." Ava put her head down
"-I've had it. Your incessant annoyance is too much for me! The neighbors have been complaining, and the police have warned us twice TODAY!"
"WHO CARES? EAT THE POLICE!"
"Err?"
"I SAID ENOUGH!"
"Wait! WAIT! STOP! W-why are you looking at me like that? Cool it!" Veronica's frantic voice booms to the street
"Veronica, I said I've had ENOUGH!" Veronica's mother throw's something
"Nooo!" Veronica shortly follows. Ava goes to the coughing purple haired devil " *cough* It looks like that wretched wench defiled things *cough* once again. cough cough She's gone too far this time.. I have been downed, fatally. This is. The end for cough me. I need you to.. do me a… favor. The Berry Emporium has Pecha Berries that are so… sweet. *cough wheeeeze cough* Please let me have one. Last. bite! *cough!*"
"S-sure!" Ava says with a pure smile
'Well that's a bold faced lie' Ava remembers what the cashier told her
The cashier laughs "Ah! Venam? Got you too huh, so the wasabi wasn't enough huh? That little shit's getting her due with this one." The cashier leaves for a second before bringing out what's definitely NOT a Pecha Berry. "Listen if you do dealings with her in the future note that she will take advantage of good naturedness." They hand the Berry over to Ava who accepts it with question. "It's on the house."
Ava stands in front of Veronica's house with the berry in hand. "I-I have your berry." She says as if she was holding tears
"Th-that.. Must be A fresh Pecha Berry from the Berry Emporium! So delectable, so tasty… So exquisite. The taste.. is unimaginably Delicious.." Ava rests Veronica's head on her lap, then looks down at her with sorrow.
Damn at least keep up your acting. Ava feeds the berry with her wet hands and as Veronica takes the last bite she covers her mouth. 'The dearest shopkeeper went through so much work for the SPECIAL Berry. "It'd be a shame for you to spit it out."
Veronica squirms as her tongue rapidly breathes into The woman's hand, almost warming it "MMM!!"
"Yes! Suffer!" Ava says jokingly. Once the victim of joint effort stops convulsing Ava removes her hand. "You good Slime?" Ava looks at the dazed victim.
"..." Venam starts laughing. "I can't believe I fell for that! You and the shopkeeper worked together-!" She laughs mid sentence "Y'all got me good! Maybe I should have learned from the wasabi one!" Venam chuckles as she gets up, with weakened legs. "Man I'm fuckin idiot! This one just tastes like shit!" She pats Ava's back roughly "Anyway, you probably heard my mom call me Veronica back there, but I would politely ask you to call me Venam." She tosses her hand up "Veronica's such a prissy name. I hate it. I don't wanna be called it. Venam is tough, and also scary."
"You're a poison type trainer aren't you?" Ava interrupts with a deadpan expression
"Hey! I'm not Any trainer, I'm the Gym Leader of East Gearen City. What about you? What's your name?"
"Ava. The wandering Trainer." I was going to say homeless but I can rough it out in the library, but when they start asking for rent…
"Ava huh? I like it. Hey, you should come meet my friends. They're cool peeps. We're going to meet at the abandoned sewers." She points towards an empty street. "You better show up or I'll have you buy me more food and I assure you that your wallet is going to be very pissed at you." she departs with this threat
"I Wouldn't mind taking you out!" Ava shouts to her leaving back. Guess I could look for Pokémon later.
[1] Ren heard that