After the teacher's speeches, Holly decided to go for a stroll in the woods. The auditorium had been cramped and muggy, so it seemed like a perfect excuse for a walk! The breeze was cool, reminding all it touched that fall was just around the corner. Pokemon cries could be heard about the forest, but Holly was hardly worried about her surroundings. After running for her life from Team Rocket in these woods only months ago, there wasn't too much that could bother her right now. Perhaps, just for once, they'd have a normal school year! That much was doubtful, even to her, but she found herself looking forward to what was to come nonetheless. Perhaps she was becoming too used to the Academy's odd ways!
Holly faintly smiled as she finally made her way into the clearing surrounding Phoenix Falls, finding the scene as beautiful as ever. The waterfall was loud as it ran into the pond below it, but the natural sound was far more relaxing then the hum of people chattering within the auditorium. She wasn't alone, though! It took her a moment to notice it, but the sound of a rock hitting the pond's surface brought her gaze to the sight of several Mareep. The last of them was coming from the woods; the bunch approaching the water and beginning to drink. They must have been thirsty if they approached the water's edge with her so close! Then again, it wasn't too surprising – they were mild Pokemon, after all. Who knows? Maybe they had a good look at Holly's hair, and figured she was just one of them. It wouldn't be the first time!
“Eh!?” Holly yelped as she felt the familiar feel of wool brush up against her; a Mareep coming from behind her and sticking it's head into her bag. It emerged with a candy bar only a moment later, and quickly began to mow down. Holly watched, unable to find words, as the greedy Pokemon ate the chocolate in a matter of moments, wrapper and all. That wasn't it, though! After it was done, the Pokemon made another attempt at sticking it's head into her open bag. She yanked back this time though, holding the bag to her chest defensively.
“No you don't!” She scolded. Not another one! She only had one left, and she was saving it!
Rather than argue, or attack, the Pokemon simply sat down and let out a cute cry. It cute, wide eyes bore into Holly's, and the two stayed locked in a staring contest for several moments. Holly couldn't stay this way long though, and was the first of the two to relent. It was too cute! Now defeated, Holly passed the the Wool Pokemon her final candybar. What a con-artist! That one quickly disappeared too, and after finishing, Holly was met with the Pokemon's cute gaze once more. Another cute cry followed.
Holly furrowed her brows. “I'm all out!” She explained, opening her bag so to allow the Pokemon to inspect. “Besides, you should get going! Your friends are leaving, you know.” Holly pointed to the flock of Mareep, who now began to retreat into the forest. The Pokemon looked back at it's flock, but quickly turned back to Holly. It let out a happy cry once more, and rubbed up against her leg. The rookie trainer sighed, defeated once more, and kneeled down to it's level. “Well now, were you thinking of following me home, you silly thing?” A final cry, this time enthusiastic.
Holly stood once more, and took a Pokeball out of her bag. “Okay then! Welcome to the team, Mareep!” Holly tapped the Pokemon's head, activating the capture device. The Pokemon was pulled into the ball with a flash of red light, and wriggled several times over before letting out it's trademark ping. It was a little early to be out catching Pokemon, but Holly wasn't about to object when the Pokemon made it so easy! Now, if she was lucky, she'd be able to find a good hiding place for her sweets.
It was then that Holly overheard distant cried, both human, and Pokemon. It sounded like a battle! Curiosity got the better of her, and Holly soon found herself making her way towards the ruckus.
Well,justcallme ßutlєг ♠ I am the Lord of Spades. ♠
Pray, I'll give you that much time. All the evil that you've done up to now...
“You know what Smear, I never thought I’d ever have to come back to this place. The nightmares…ugh...I don’t even know how awful my life would’ve been if I stayed here. Stupid teachers, stupid backstabbing students, stupid everything…” Butler said to his partner Pokemon as they walked by the famous waterfall near the Phoenix Academy campus.
Butler’s time as a student at Phoenix Academy wasn’t the most enjoyable experience. He spent a single year at the school. The year was lost in the depths of time due to a time rift created by Dialga at the end of his first year, recreating time. Yet the recreations didn’t change anything in his life. The girl he once loved left him for a teacher, he still had troubles with his family and Corpius, and his old friends were long gone.
They say that things happen for a reason. Everytime Butler thought of his past, he reasoned with the present. If it wasn’t for his troubles in the past, he never would’ve joined Basilius Imperium, which means that he also never would’ve met Savannah and Jason, two people he truly held dear to him, especially Savannah. He even had a tiny soft spot for Villon, as much of a b***h, primadonna, and narcissistic, Butler respected a dreamer, as he was one as well.
His return to the academy was going to be strictly business though - get the relics and then get the ******** out, quick and simple. Until that moment came, Butler was going to need an inconspicuous hideaway for the time being. What better than his favorite hidden spot - the cavern hidden behind the waterfall.
The man stood by the lagoon that the waterfall poured into, staring at the falls. He then looked down at Smear and held out his hand. “Seriously, you know where this is. I’m not taking my clothes off, jumping through that cascade, and then getting dry and setting up. Let’s be serious here,” Butler said to his Pokemon, who grabbed his hand and teleported the two inside of the cavern. The falls roared in front of the pair, concealing them from view. The time for action was not now, but it was rapidly approaching.
Once Battle Class was over, Athena decided to take Tabby from the Day-Care early and head out with her to the woods. Of course, her daughter was ecstatic about taking a trip through the pretty forest, and when the Phoenix Falls came into view the adorable little girl ran straight towards it.
"Careful little one! Try not to drown!" What else was she supposed to say? Besides, she didn't really think little Tabby was going to hurt herself too badly, and her several Pokémon were quite capable of keeping several extra pairs of eyes on the three and a half year old. Houndoom was the only one of her present team remaining inside of his Timer Ball for moment, given that he was a fire type and all, being by the water wasn't the best of ideas if she wanted to avoid triggering the pain-bond. Masquerain was fluttering around the area, Luxray sat at the water's edge and relaxed, Mightyena splashed around in the water with Tabby like a typical happy-go-lucky dog, Persian joined Mightyena in the water, and Lucario stood beside Athena quite dignifiedly. It was a good day to go on an excursion into the woods, besides, they needed to get some training in.
"Mama! Mama! The water's cold!" She giggled, only for Mightyena to jump on her and they tumbled around in the water in a fun game of play.
"You're not allowed to get hypothermia, either."
"Okay!"
From there on, the next half-hour went by pretty smoothly. Tabby, Mightyena, and Persian played in the water, Masquerain was the look out, and Luxray lounged around lazily also on look-out while Athena and Lucario practiced their hand-to-hand combat. The two of them were in the middle of their seventh round of sparring, with Athena having just jumped far above her Lucario and in the middle of mid-air tornado kick when suddenly a tiny voice squeaked out cutely, "Mama, mama! Jeg found big hole!" She blinked. Hole? Her foot came down upon Lucario's shoulder albeit both of them quite distracted and for now their sparring match would have to come to a close for now. Masquerain and Mightyena were already following the little girl through and behind the waterfall.
There, adorable Little Tabby found a strange cloaked man minding his own business. But she was too young to understand the complexities of the situation he was in, and so walked right over to him. "Hej mister! What er du (are you) doing back here? Er du playing hide and go seek!? It's a good hiding spot!"
Well,justcallme ßutlєг ♠ I am the Lord of Spades. ♠
Pray, I'll give you that much time. All the evil that you've done up to now...
Sometimes things don’t go exactly as planned. No matter how much effort and precautions one puts into place, variables that were never accounted for will always pop up and change the direction of things. This time that little variable was a little girl, a toddler at the oldest.
Butler looked at the girl and put his hand onto his face, touching it and then realizing that he didn’t have a mask on. He left his Basilius Imperium mask at base because Villon didn’t want Basilius Imperium to be publicly known. In the off chance that Butler had to fight, he was going to do it without the guise of the organization. God forbid someone learned of it before Villon planned on revealing his grande scheme; Butler would’ve been placed on door duty for the rest of his time there. A different mask, a different cloak, and a hiding spot that only he knew of - none of it mattered because a little girl found his hiding place.
Still in shock that his cavern was located, Butler took a tiny bit of time to answer the girl’s question about hide and seek. “Um...ya...I’m playing a game of hide and seek. Extreme hide and seek. Ya, that’s it, I’m playing extreme hide and seek. I can’t believe you found me, usually I win by hiding here,” Butler tried to say to the girl calmly.
He then glanced behind her and saw two very familiar Pokemon. He then looked down at the girl again and then back at the Pokemon. ‘No way...this can’t be her kid, can it...did the rift really change that much,’ Butler thought. ‘Well, only one way to test this hypothesis.’
Butler reached into a pouch and ripped off a piece of beef jerky from the Hoenn region and placed it by his feet. The second he did so, the Mightyena that was with the girl ran over to the hunk of dried meat and ate it quickly. The Pokemon then nuzzled Butler’s leg.
“What a coincidence...I’m guessing your mother’s name is Athena, isn’t it little girl,” Butler said while petting the Mightyena. “Your mother is a very good friend of mine. I haven’t seen her in a long time though. I didn’t know that she had a daughter,” he explained to the little girl.
“Now, I’d love to see your mommy, but as you can see I’m really busy with hide and seek. Also, can you not tell her about my hiding place, we’ll keep it a secret between you and me, okay sweetie,” the cloaked man said with a genuine smile on his face. Butler always had a soft spot for kids, he could never fathom hurting them. “Now you get going now, you and your mommy’s Pokemon. And remember, you can never tell anybody about me being here or this hiding spot or I’ll lose my game of extreme hide and seek.”
Tabby blinked and smiled obliviously. What a nice man!”'Extreme Hide and Go Seek? That's a weird name for a game!” She giggled and squeaked adorably. Mightyena, being his always friendly self, went straight for the beef jerky that the familiar face/smell tossed to him. "Silly, Mightyena!"
Honestly, the only friend's of her mama's that she knew were staff at the academy. Of course, she knew that all as "auntie" and "onkle"/uncle" instead of as friends of Athena. To her, since everybody was always nice to her, she thought everybody was her friend and family. The mind of a three year old was so innocent, even one that was the spawn of satan Athena. She giggled somemore at the strange man, thinking it to be so exciting to have a secret to be kept from mommy. She'd never held a secret from her mama before! Mama was always so good at knowing what was going on, even without telling her! Mama's were magic like that. They knew everything.
So how was little Tabby supposed to keep a huge secret from her loving and magical mother? Simple! (Not really) Just pretend it never happened. Should be easy! If she wasn't three. But then again, this was Athena's child believe it or not. Adorably, she put her left pointer finger to her mouth. "Secret." Then, with Mightyena and Masquerain with her, whom were both already familiar with the strange man, they left the cavern behind the waterfall.
Tojuro returned back to his dorm he change his clothes and headed off. headed into town and bought a pokeball and returned back to school. Tojuro did some research in the library, he was researching many types but mainly pokemon that were strong or big enough. After that was done with he began to head off campus.
He wandered around for hours with riolu on his right shoulder. Riolu kick his legs playfully as they hunted down a certain pokemon tojuro thought it be useful in his goal of making something extremely big. He just couldn't help but wait to find it. Tojuro was looking for another fighting type or psychic type to help riolu out to carry a cake.
As the wandered around for what seemed like hours they spotted a cute little pokemon. Tojuro pulled out his pokedex and found out it was a aron. Even tojuro had to admit he was a cute little guy, so why not. "Riolu go! Use force palm on aron!" Riolu nodded and jump off tojuro shoulder and charge at aron. Aron took up a stance and quickly used iron defense as riolu palm hit aron.
Riolu jump back as aron staggered a bit. "Riolu keep it up! Lets use that once more! Riolu charge at aron, while aron iron claw. Aron clawed at riolu gut as riolu hit aron on the head. As a result sent them both flying back. Aron rolled on the ground and got back up on its feet as riolu flew in the air and landed on its feet but shortly after landed on his right knee. "Riolu just use it once more, ok buddy?"
Riolu stood up as aron did the same. They both charge at each other till finally they clash again sending both flying. Tojuro ran and caught him so he didn't hit the ground. Tojuro quickly threw his pokeball at aron while he was down. Both riolu and tojuro watch the pokeball bobbing back and forth. Finally a beeping noise could be herd as riolu and tojuro smiled happily
"Looks like a new member to our team huh riolu." Riolu nuzzled tojuro happily as he pick it up he placed it in his pocket. Later they would have to go and deposit it in storage since he already had a six pokemon.
-Lv 23 aron caught!-
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Athena, Damian, and Tabby decided that Phoenix Falls would be a great place to hang out. All of Athena's Pokémon had been returned from Contest class, and Mightyena was looking well-groomed... Too bad he was going to go jump in the water! Luxray was still feeling grumpy, but he was always a grump, not that Athena could blame him really since he was always having to deal with some level of electrical build-up.
”Think we should stop here?” She asked, looking over at Damian, whom was giving little Tabby a piggyback ride.
"Ja! Ja!" Tabby jumped up and down atop Damian's shoulders, and he laughed.
"I guess this is fine~!" He sat down beside the water and let out his three Pokémon, then set down little Tabby. She went straight towards the water, Mightyena following her, and together the two hams splashed and played around in the water. Damian, though, pulled out some lunch and opened it up for them all to eat.
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Absol[M] hp: 100/100.
Ninjask[M] hp: 100/100.
ShedNinja hp: 100/100.
Marshtomp[M] hp: 100/100.
Riolu[M] hp: 100/100.
Shellder[M] hp: 100/100.
Unkown egg.
Aron[M] hp: 100/100.
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