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"No trouble! Now go away!"

Renton said, backing his things up and looking down the distance. There was route one and a sign that said 'Cove Town' And an arrow and directions through Route one. His Teddiursa, jumping on on Renton's shoulders as the trainer stood and took parth through Route one, slowly without looking back at the stranger trainer that had commented on his Charizard's behaviour in the most sarcastic way and Renton did not approve.

As Renton was walking through the path that took him in the middle of the woods, he began seeing flying Pokemon go from tree to tree. This appeared to be their territory of what appeared to be... Taillow's.

"Taillow's... no way!"

He said, giving a wide smile as he looked up at the flying robin like birds that flew freely in the air and some disappearing as they entered parts of the woods. Taking this chance, Renton decided to try and catch one as he liked having a Swellow on his team. Of course he'd have to train and evolve one of these Taillow's first.

"HEY! DOWN HERE!"

He yelled, attempting to get the attention of the Taillow's, but no answer, but one Taillow did arrive, seemingly angry as it charged and attacked Teddiursa who was now knocked off of Renton's shoulders.

"Teddiursa!! Oh you'll pay! Ready Teddiursa?!"

"Teddi!"

The Pokemon replied back, standing up as the Taillow flapped it's wings, staying a float. Renton had one hand ready on a Pokeball, ready to catch this Taillow if it were to go down.

"Teddiursa! Use Scratch!"

The teddy bear like Pokemon, charging up and spriting toward the opponent Taillow, draw back his hand that held the sharp claws and attempted a scratch, but it missed as the Taillow's switfness and ability to fly out-did the Teddiursa of Renton.

"Dammit!"

Suddenly, he heard the voice of the girl and quickly he turned around, unknowing that his conceration was broken and then Taillow, seemingly sly and clever in nature took advantage and flew down, striking Teddiursa and knocking it down with intense force again.

"Teddiursa! Ach... you broke my concentration!"

He said, looking at the girl, who seemingly looked attractive. Of course Renton wasn't one to fall for anyone straight away and he certainly wasn't interested in her or any girl for now. All he wanted was to be a great trainer.

"Teddiursa! Use Tackle!"

His Teddiursa, obeying, attempted to use tackle but the Taillow dodged, again flying into the air and snickering at Renton who was now getting irritated by the Taillow's mocking. Growling in anger at the wild Pokemon's tactics that very far too much for Teddiursa who could not fly.

"That's it! You want to fly?! TRY TO OUT FLY THIS!"

Renton said, quickly reaching for his other Pokeball for the almighty Charizard, but Renton hesitated, knowing that if Charizard came out, not only would he knock out the Taillow easily, he would also attack Teddiursa, the girl and the the other Taillow's around the woods. It was risky. But suddenly, Teddiursa make a signal to Renton, urging him to not use Charizard and that the bear Pokemon had a plan. Catching on to this plan, Renton grinned at the Taillow as Teddiursa ran up Renton's shoulders and eventually onto his head, smirking at the Taillow.

"Hey Taillow! This isn't an official battle! ANYTHING GOES! TEDDIURSA! SCRATCH!"

Teddiursa used Renton as a jump pad, leaping into the air as the stunned Taillow was eventually struck by a powerful scratch that knocked it down hard. As Teddiursa landed, Renton ordered a tackle and charging, the cute bear hit the target on the mark, damaging the Taillow.

"GO POKEBALL!"

Renton said as the red, white and black lining Pokeball flew toward it's traget, the Taillow, striking the pokemon and capturing it. A wide smile came across Renton's face as he went over and picked up the pokeball and turned to face the girl.

"Well well, who has trouble now?"

Smirking, the cocky attitude of Renton was showing. He was also from Kanto. From Viridian City infact.

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"Flattered. Really." It wasn't often such a tone, laced with sarcasm and a mockery of politeness, found itself into the blue haired trainer's voice. Ropin N. Riden, as lazy as the clouds that laxly travel the skies in clumps of fluffy muteness, but as unpredicatable as a building storm. After that little incident with the charizard she had made her way back home, with the intention of finally cutting the suffacting scenery that was Smallwave town from her being. Having lived here all her life, Ropin was finally begining to feel the crushing need that most pokemon trainers got. The urge to travel. To move around. To grow and to see more of the world. And so she did the sensible thing any teenager would do, according to Ropin that is, and went to tell her parents that she was moving on and that to wish her luck with the world. Such a simple response of glee and possibly pride she had expected, such a warm fairwell that had been making its way into her hopes; but so far from the truth. Perhaps this place and made her naive. Perhaps it blurred perception and created false dreams. But such a warm fairwell was far from what the blue haired trainer had received.

Even now, after having the door slammed in her face by her explosive father, and walking away with the heavy thud of her boots scrapping against the ground, Ropin remembered what had been said. The way they doubted her, tried to break down her confidence and shatter her will for leaving the tightly-knit community. Flustered, her lips shown in a single line across her face, serious and ambitious for once in her life, but those blue-tinted sun glasses hid her emotion well; with just her frown giving any hint of how she might actually be feeling. Her appearance hadn't change from before though, still in those rough black jeans that held tight against her thin strong legs, that black leather top that showed quite a bit of mid-drift, and short blue hair that covered one side of her face; after all that was the image that Ropin had created for her self. The dark colors and the shades for once seemed to reflect her inward appearance. Dark. Bitter. And just a little bit explosive herself.

There it was, the path that she had picked to bring her away from familiar things and away from her parents wishes. Route 1. So there the trainer trudged forth, without any clue of exactly where she needed to go or what to do for that matter, but it was a thought drown out by the ill-feelings she harbored now. In her raw angst she tried to regain some of her composure, but still her only outword expression was that frown, a rather outword change compared to her usual lazy personality. While Ropin walked forward, heavy boots scraping against the dirt road on route 1, a certain noise happened to catch her attention.

Bzzzzzzt

Beeeeeeeeztzz

She realized then just how close this noise actually was, and where as she had heard such a thing since she was a child, Ropin remembered a certain event that had kept her from straying to far. How could she be so stupid as to forget? It was memory brought back souly by the sound of such buzzing, and one that didn't exactly thrill her. As a child Ropin had been playing to close to this route, and had heard a similar buzzing sound before seeing the giant bug pokemon. That day had changed her in more ways then one, despite being saved by her cousin and his machoke while they were on there way to Smallwave town to visit her father.

"Not this time", she muttered to herself, her serious frown turning into a morbid smirk that plastered itself upon her face. The buzzing grew closer, angry even as she took her stance. With a single finger Ropin pushed the blue-tinted sun glasses up her nose and moved her hand down to her belt, resting it on a certain pokeball. For this she would need a certain cunning, a plan if you will, and despite the fact she had little to no experiance handling this certain pokemon, her temper brought forth a certain... confidence. The wild buzzing pokemon, a beedrill now appeared from the tops of the trees. Ropin doubted it was the same beedrill from before, but to the blue haired trainer that mattered very little.

Right then her lazy attitude was pushed aside, and the ambitious- no, an almost reckless cunning to an unpredicatable edge shown through. There was a reason Ropin N. Riden had become a trainer. A reason why she trained in the dawn and the dusk. And a reason why she spent most of her time alone. Her battling style was a bit unique, and she'd rather not have spectators watching her every move and judging every decision she happened to make. Picking the pokeball from her belt she sent forth the being inside, wordlessly, and watched as out popped her bulbasaur. The little devil Raiz. She needed his devious nature right now. Ropin kept her eyes on Raiz as he shook off the confusion and glanced around towards her, it wasn't a matter of obeying that had her worried most of the time about him, but rather his own need to improvise and create certain calculations within her own stragety. Sometimes they just weren't compatable, but with her serious look she hoped the bulbasaur would realize the situation. Without much time to figure out what was going on the beedrill was on the attack, leaving Raiz uncomfortably at ease. For now Ropin gave no instruction, rather then to dodge the attacks, allowing herself and her pokemon time to come up with a strategy for such an opponet. Despite how little time they had before Raiz would tire out.

Sulia stepped into the well worn path just well...wandering! With a dazed look she somehow managed to step over a fallen tree branch, but her dress was snagged on a smaller branch and she stumbled down spooking the cheerful chargyne on her shoulder.

Chargyne then jumped off and try to lift her trainer to no avail. Stumbling up Sulia looked at her precious chargyne speaking," Sorry hugs... this place is so...new. We have to be more careful." At which point the cheering pokemon just gave a blank stare.