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So It Begins...; Cerb/Celeste Co-op
Topic Started: Aug 20 2012, 09:41 PM (784 Views)
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Nurse Joys could not afford to be easily scared, and it seemed that the job, after a while, would make it impossible to be surprised or made uneasy by much of anything. That said, the one working at this particular time seemed to be making a habit of looking anywhere but Celeste's direction, and she couldn't help but feel that it had, at least slightly, due to the fact that she had The Intense Stare Club with her in the lobby.

Hina was looming in the corner of the lobby they had 'claimed,' more of less, to the right of the bench Celeste was sitting on, wearing her usual Grumpy Dragon Face, occasionally rumbling at those she thought were getting too close; she was even grumpier than usual since her children were back on the ranch. This was joined by Irving's Grumpy Owl Face as the noctowl stood to the opposite side of the bench, radiating bird-of-prey severity. Peaches' Don't Come Near Me Or I'll Bite You glare would be witnessed by anyone unlucky enough to look under the bench, and there was the occasional crackle of electricity from down there.

Slightly less hostile-looking was Shilo, with her usual neutral expression and sharp, red eyes, sitting on the bench to her, and Spectre, with his haunting blue eyes, was laying on the floor, next to the three plant pots. Drosera was the only member of the current lineup who didn't fit the theme, the brown and orange bulbasaur dozing slightly in Celeste's lap.

For the moment, Celeste was just trying to relax, which admittedly was a little difficult with the sounds of electricity reminding her of the presence of her electrike. She'd normally just recall the dog, but she'd taken her off the ranch in order to let her enjoy some new surroundings, so just keeping her in her ball all of the time was counter-productive.

"You know, constantly giving off sparks like that is a good indicator you're trying to store too much at once..." she commented idly, flicking her eyes downward despite the fact that she couldn't see Peaches from where she was.

Peaches growled something in reply that made Spectre flinch. *Don't ask me to translate that, please.* Shilo flattened her ears, seeming to be thinking the same thing.

Celeste glanced down again. "Sometimes I wonder where you learned to talk like that."

Peaches huffed. "You wouldn't if you already had Grace," she mumbled to herself.

Spectre perked up, glancing over curiously. *Who's Grace?*

The electrike with scars criss-crossing her muzzle growled and crackled with more electricity. "You'll see, ghost-hound," she replied simply, content to be cryptic. He didn't need to understand. Though, hopefully he'd see sooner rather than later...She really, really missed Grace.
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Cerb had been to Corona a few ways. She'd been via Gyarados swimming, creepy boatman ferrying, helicopters, and teleportation.

But she'd never taken the train. So it was an experience to relax in a cushy, air-conditioned environment that whipped along the magnet train rails until they arrived in Ashdell. Cerb missed how comfortable the ride was. Sparky missed the complimentary bags of nuts.

"Phew, and it's hot as ever... I think I'm gonna have to change at the Pokemon Center," the teen muttered as they approached, tugging at the collar of her t-shirt. Before heading out into any incendiary environment, she was going to don her full Houndoom getup to avoid any potential burns. After all, she was out on a hunt for a fluffy little bug that could breathe fire. Such a situation screamed mayhem waiting to happen.

At least the Center was cool as Cerb walked in through the automatic doors, although she didn't get far into the lobby before she began to feel the charge in the air. Literally. Sparky's cheeks crackled as Cerb slowly let her gaze pan into the corner, where at least half the occupants looked ready to maul something. "Oh my," she stared from the giant dragon to the angry owl, down to under the bench to the angry little dog. "Fancy meeting you here, Celeste."
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The sound of Cerb's voice instantly made Spectre perk up and Shilo's feather-ear stand up in surprise. However, it also made a very loud, vicious snarl erupt from under the bench, followed by a series of snap-crackle-zap and a blur of green shooting out of the hiding spot like a bullet. The young absol easily leaped to his feet and out of the way as Peaches charged forward and then stopped a short distance away from Cerb, baring her sparking fangs with hackles raised in a display meant to be intimidating.

Celeste just looked annoyed. Not concerned, just annoyed. Peaches pulled this kind of craziness all the time. She never hurt anyone, just did this whole 'I hate you fear me' bit at random when particularly irritated. And Cerb was probably her least favourite BT person ever on top of it. "Oh, just quit it, already," she snapped at the dog, who rumbled back at her like a tiny engine.

Spectre, deciding that the best course of action was to pretend the little ball of snarly fur wasn't there, casually loped over and rubbed against Cerb in a cat-like fashion, his tail wagging in a leisurely rhythm. *Well, I'm happy to see you,* he said with a smile. Drosera hopped out of Celeste's lap and waddled over to Cerb as well, looking up at her cutely.

Shilo slid off the bench quietly and bowed respectfully. "Greetings Cerb, Sparky. A pleasant surprise to encounter you here." she said in her usual calm tone, a hint of what could be called warmth creeping in.

Celeste stood up as well, deciding to just follow the crowd in ignoring Peaches as she smiled at Cerb and offered Sparky a little wave. Hina and Irving were still severe-looking statues behind her, and the former snorted of smoke out of her nostrils. "Hi. We weren't expecting to run into anyone from the team out here." One could question what they were expecting to run into, but that hadn't really occurred to her. She had her own reasons for the current team lineup. "What brings you out here?"

Celeste brushed a strand of hair that had gotten loose from her ponytail away with her hand, possibly drawing attention to the fact that she wasn't wearing her usual gloves, having swapped them out for a fingerless pair. Her way of dealing with the heat, since she didn't have special flame-proof clothes, was simply not wearing much. Her trademark coat was nowhere to be seen, and the dark blue tank top she was wearing caused some of the black ink that made up her Fly tattoo to be visible, to say nothing of her scarring, both the arm ones Cerb was familiar with and the patch of scar tissue on her shoulder. She still had her bright green boots, though.
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Officially gonna pull my purple mystery and Sneasel eggs from my other threads and put them here, since I actually want them to hatch and all that.

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If Peaches hates Cerb this much, I wonder what she does when Yuri's around. >.>

Cerb slowly raised an eyebrow at the little snarling bundle, familiar with Peaches and her routine of trying to scare every damn thing on the planet. Behind her back, she carefully tripped a pokeball. There was suddenly a giant weasel head peering over her own, Agni's paws resting on her shoulders while he examined his surroundings. After a minute he snorted at Peaches and suddenly flared his back ruff into an explosive display of flames.

"Hey Spectre, it's good to see you too." Cerb rubbed the top of the Absol's head, taking a moment to ruffle his fluff. "And you too, Drosera."

"Pika," Sparky chittered, wagging his tail at Shilo. Agni opened his mouth in a keening weasel noise, eventually flopping down to the ground to sit on four paws as his neck ruff slowly simmered out.

Cerb grinned a little. "'m out here hopin' to run into a little fluffy bug like Aveline," she said. "Got myself stocked with my range natives, so with their help I should have some chance of success." Between Pixie and Elvan, free-roaming range canines, they could surely sniff out a Larvesta. There was also Alfred to sense their strange dual nature, and Agni mostly to just let him get a feel for a land he'd be comfortable in. "I was just about to change my clothes quick before I head out. What are you doing up in here?"
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Peaches eventually stopped her display, but not because of Agni. She was just bored, since no one was reacting, and she went back to hiding under the bench. Celeste sighed a little at her, then smiled and wandered over to gently scratch Agni's ears once his flames died down, listening to Cerb's plans, her interest piqued. She'd never seen wild Larvesta, having gotten Aveline as an egg, and she had to admit that she was a little curious about how well they had taken to the region.

As for the question, Celeste paused, resisting the urge to clench her left hand out of habit. "A...few things..." Her losing her position as a mere mortal wasn't exactly a secret anymore, at least not to her friends in the Black Tesla, but she had not told the full details to anyone. Not even Ben, though she told herself she'd fix that someday. After she faced Corporcana again and got what she'd first come there for.

She stopped petting the fire weasel and stood straight up again, shoving her hands in the pockets of her shorts subconsciously and trying to ignore the fact that Spectre was starting to stare at her. "There's a guy I know with a small ranch on the outskirts of town. Ex-OME. We met up and had lunch together." Of course, an uneventful visit just hadn't been in the cards, but that little mess was taken care of and a freeform for a another day when I get done with some of the other things I'm writing. "I was planning on doing some pokemon hunting of my own now, actually. Mostly in the tropical forest, but I wanted to see if I could find a houndour or houndoom in the mountains."

Spectre looked from Cerb to Celeste and back again a couple of times, then at Shilo, as if asking if she was thinking what he was. The sneasel's eyes flicked from human to human as well, but neither said anything yet.
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Agni purred at the scratches he was receiving, wagging his little stub of a fluffy tail. Cerb watched him as she observed Peaches retreating back under the bench out of the corner of her eye. Good for the angry little dog, at least.

"Oh, hunh. Interesting." Cerb knew somebody else with a ranch on the outskirts of Tromante, but she sure wasn't about to go back and visit now. Getting a brick to her face wasn't worth the trouble. "Finding Houndour in the mountains shouldn't be too hard for you. Last I knew, they run pretty thick out there." Reaching to her belt, she tripped one other catch to spill another large Pokemon onto the tile floor. Elvan appeared, tongue lolling out of his mouth as he wagged his tail and woofed at Celeste. "'s where Elvan here came from. Havoc too."

The Houndoom looked around at the mention of his mate, tail drooping a little when it was clear she was nowhere to be found. Cerb patted him on the back of the head consolingly. "Mister nose here could probably lead you to another of his kind pretty quick. He's good about stuff like that."
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Celeste perked up when Elvan appeared, smiling. Peaches stuck her snout from under the bench, sniffing in the horned hound's general direction. Other dogs tended to inspire more friendly responses from her. 'More friendly' than her usual demeanor wasn't saying much, however, and snout soon vanished. Celeste pulled a hand out of her pocket and reached over to gently scratch at the base of one of his horns when she noticed him droop. "Hey, boy..."

She looked back up and blinked at what Cerb said next, and Spectre lit up, his tail wagging. *That's a good idea. More hunters is always better, right?* He actually did know that that wasn't always the case, but the childish enthusiasm was intentional. Or at least what he had that passed for childish enthusiasm, since he was still standing fairly calmly. *We could probably help with that larvesta, too. Bugs like Celeste.*

Celeste smiled, chuckling faintly at that last comment. To be fair, the vast majority of her bug types hadn't been wild. "Well...If you don't mind a tagalong..." Her voice became more cooing as she looked back down at Elvan, scratching some more. "And you don't mind me borrowing your nose..."
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Elvan whuffed at Celeste, tail wagging again as he tried to lick her gloved hand. Cerb smiled fondly at the giant hound. "Oh, he's always ready for anything. Prolly be happy to be visiting his old stomping grounds for a bit." The Houndoom looked up for a moment, his head tilting to the side before he whuffed again and pawed the tile floor. "And heavens know I don't mind a tagalong. Always much safer in numbers when you're going up against the unknown." The teen scratched the back of her head a bit. "And I really don't know much about Larvesta, except that they're fluffy. And they breathe fire."

On her other side, Agni snorted. He was also fluffy and breathed fire, and was immune to it too. Whatever little monster they were hunting couldn't be that bad, really. Elvan chortled at the Typhlosion, sitting down and letting his tail thump against the floor. Agni was surely going to learn a few things about range life from this expedition.

"I just gotta change before I do anything, okay? I'll be right back." Cerb picked up Sparky and sat him down on Agni's shoulders, motioning to the two fire Pokemon. "Elvan, Agni, stay." She scuttled away to the bathroom clutching her pack, leaving the two beasts and rat to sit and stare at Celeste with 'pet us' eyes.
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Celeste nodded and chuckled a little at the description of larvesta. "Well, I've got their battle info memorized, so I guess I'll be good for something..." She nodded as the other woman scurried off to change, though her expression turned thoughtful when she was sure Cerb wasn't looking.

But...mostly, if giving advice, I'd say don't go alone. Going after it alone...I wish I hadn't.

I've always gone alone, but I...maybe I'll see if there's someone who could come with me.

Safer in numbers indeed. Celeste wasn't sure if she wanted to drag Cerb into that place, but her conversation with Ben still played through her mind all the same. She didn't even know if Cerb already had Teleport or not.

However, right now there were furry creatures that needed to be petted, and so she did. She gently stroked Sparky's ears and head first, since he hadn't gotten any attention yet, careful not to mess up any of his fur. Then she scratched Agni's ears again and along his neck, probably getting a little too close to the part that could erupt into flame but not seeming to have noticed. She then returned her attention to Elvan and tried to see if she could find a spot to scratch that would get him kicking his leg.

Spectre, meanwhile, was sitting and watching with his head cocked to one side and his tail swishing side to side slowly, not bothered in the slightest that he wasn't one of the three getting attention. Drosera flopped onto the floor next to him, all four legs sprawled out and looking bored.

Hina merely looked from Celeste to where Cerb had disappeared and snorted, her tail curling just a little tighter around the pair of solid-coloured eggs that were nearly hidden by the shadow of one of her massive wings.
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Hello I am a terrible person who bought BW2 finally and I will never do anything ever again. Except minecraft. *shot*

Sneasel hatched in my other thread through temporal wtf. I think that makes all my eggs sorted except this purple one. :C

I am, uh. Not sure of the rules regarding your power plants, so if you could tell me then I will roll for you? Yes.

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Sparky chittered, his tail wagging as his ears flattened and relaxed under Celeste's touch. Nobody tended to pet him much because his fur began to spit out sparks shortly after. Agni chuffed at him, rolling his shoulder muscles so her hand wouldn't scratch too close to the hotspots on his neck.

Elvan just dissolved into wiggles. All of the gleeful panting wiggles.

Cerb didn't take very long to change. It was mostly her yanking off her clothes, stuffing them in her pack, and yanking on the black-and-orange shirt and shorts. She carefully tucked her relevant emblems under the high collar and adjusted it, then pulled on the matching gloves and made sure they were snugly fitted under the sleeves. Her Houndoom clothes fit pretty well, for which Cerb was grateful. It exposed pretty much no skin in her vital torso areas for flames to burn.

Thus attired, Cerb grabbed her pack and trotted back out of the bathroom to see Elvan rolling on the floor and flailing his legs. "I see someone's having a good day," she observed as she went over to Agni and plunked Sparky back on her shoulder. The Typhlosion curiously sniffed her outfit, gently brushing a paw against the strange material. "Elvy, c'mon. Time to compose yourself so we can go hikin'."

The Houndoom slowly rolled over and shook his horned head, taking a moment to come out of scritching-induced glee before he whuffed and scrambled to his paws with much scrabbling of his claws against the tile floor. Cerb waited for him to gain his bearings, leaning on Agni in the meanwhile. "I dunno where you were thinking of looking exactly, Celeste, but I don't mind tagging along for a while if it gets us closer to dog and bug land."
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Celeste was giggling up a storm at Elvan's happy wiggles when Cerb came out in her flame-proof attire. She eyed the outfit curiously, her eyes flicking from the houndoom on the floor to Cerb as she noted the similarity between the two. She liked it. Spectre was eying it a bit more warily, but he eventually just gave a quick shake of his head and looked in the direction of the three grouches back at the bench.

However, as the sort-of question of their route came up, Celeste found herself shoving her gloved hands into the pockets of her shorts and biting her lip. "Well, I, um...Like I said, I was going to do some hunting in the tropical forest, and I'd love company, but that, well...I was going to look for eevee, and that could take a while. If you want to just cut through the Ash Valley and up toward the Mountain On Fire, that's where I'd expect larvesta to make their nests..."

Peaches, who had perked up and peeked out from under the bench at the word 'eevee,' let out a faint snort at her trainer's show of nerves. "Geez, just kiss 'er already..." she grumbled, rolling her eyes.

Spectre just stared at the little green dog. *Excuse me what?*

Celeste blinked and looked over at her pure white absol. "Spectre?"

*...Nothing. Absolutely nothing.* Peaches let out a cruel little snicker, and Celeste decided then that she didn't want to know.
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Cerb didn't seem to notice that she was being stared at from several sources, or that Peaches was a shipper on deck. "Eevee hunting, hunh? Good idea," she mumbled, pulling out her control hub and flipping it open to prod at the map on the touch screen. Cerb was mightily familiar with the tropical forest by now, thanks to traversing several different parts of it multiple times. "We could use more diversity 'round the ranch. Maybe we should look for one too, hunh Sparky?" She asked the Pikachu on her shoulder. Sparky snorted and rubbed his nose. "I bet Bit would appreciate not being somebody's great-grandfather's-uncle for once."

Agni opened his mouth and made a noise like a dying whale. Cerb whuffed and snapped her control hub shut. "Shush, Agni. We'll get going when we get going. The island isn't leaving without us." She snapped the device onto her belt and paused when something wiggled on her other hip. "Oh hunh, that purple egg finally seems like it's gonna hatch. Sure took its time."
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Celeste smiled when Cerb showed interest in eevee hunting, ignoring Spectre's continued 'does not compute' look on his face, and the fact that Drosera was looking from one woman to other in confusion as if trying to imagine what Peaches had just implied and failing miserably. "That's what I was thinking...I want a vaporeon and flareon and I figured it'd be a good excuse to introduce some new blood instead of bugging somebody for eggs." She really felt she had no right to bug either Steely or Ben for anything pokemon-related.

Agni's impatient noise seemed to call for more ear-scratches, though she paused at the wiggling egg. "The one from the rabbit?" she asked, and that was all she was able to get out before a huge owl flapped into their midst and Cerb was suddenly eye-to-eye with a noctowl who was staring straight at her with a gaze severe enough to burn a hole through a wall.

And I do mean eye-to-eye, since noctowl are listed as 5'3" in the pokedex.

Irving folded his wings, never blinking once or taking his glare off of Cerb, and Celeste rolled her eyes in irritation at the big owl, electing to leave him to make his grumpy faces, since she knew he wouldn't hurt anybody. "You need me to grab a towel?" she offered.



I don't think anyone's gonna smack me if I roll this now, since the next post's hatching time.

*rolls*

...It's an Illumise! Cue inevitable cooing from Celeste.
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"Although nobody would probably mind if you went asking for eggs anyway." Cerb paused too as she reached for the purple egg, prying open the pouch she kept it in and peeling back the blanket to expose flaking bits of shell. "And yeah, the one from the rabbit. No need for a towel, I'm... good... "

Sparky crackled warningly at the Noctowl as Cerb just blinked at suddenly being nose to beak with the gigantic bird. "... uh. A little personal space here, dude?" Cerb cautiously took two giant steps backward as Agni lumped forwards to fill in the space, the Typhlosion rearing up onto his hind legs and growling. Leaving the wolverine to be a roadblock, Cerb quickly plopped herself down on the ground and pulled out the rest of the egg, just in time to have it splinter in her hands. Shards went flying as the tiny bug in her hands tried to buzz damp wings and just sent goop spattering about again.

"Easy there, darlin'." Cerb pulled out the blanket and used it to wipe excess yolk off the wings, carefully pulling them straight so they wouldn't dry with crinkles in them. "It would be my darn luck that it's an Illumise. Bugger."

Sparky tilted his ears to the side for a moment, glancing from Celeste and her cooing back to the baby bug. "Pika," he chittered, trying to distract Cerb from grumbling about bugs under her breath. When that didn't work, he smacked her in the back of the head with his paws. "Pikapi pipi!"

"Ow!" Cerb almost pitched forward onto her face when she tried to get away from the pain, cradling the Illumise to her chest so she wouldn't smush the bug. "What in the hell was that f- oh. Ooooh." She looked up at Celeste, down at the baby bug, and back up. "Heeeeeey Celeste. Want an Illumise?"

The baby bug gurgled and fluttered her drying wings, trying hard to make her butt light up. Apparently finding the right muscle reflex was difficult.
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"...He just wants to help. I think," Celeste commented as Cerb asked for personal space from Irving. The noctowl remained in one place as the woman backed away, and when Agni growled the owl's harsh gaze snapped to him instead. He just stared silently into the fire type's eyes, not making a sound, and after a few moments his irises started glowing with psychic power. Agni may start feeling drowsy soon if he doesn't make a point to break eye-contact.

Meanwhile, cute baby buggy! "Awwwwwwwwwww..." Celeste carefully stepped around Agni and Irving's little confrontation, trying to get a better look at the tiny purple firefly, at least until Sparky started to smack Cerb around.

The redhead blinked a little, looking from Cerb to the adorable bundle of utmost preciousness she was holding. "I...erm...Well, the species isn't exactly on my list..." The idea of getting an illumise quite honestly never occurred to her. The species really didn't have much in the way of battle potential, though she supposed the right training..."They can learn Moonlight," she commented quietly, more to herself than anyone.

She stepped a little closer, smiling gently at the baby. "Hi there..." She looked back up at Cerb, still a bit hesitant. "You sure you don't want her?"
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Agni woosily shook his head until his ears flopped back and forth, dropping back down to all fours to reassess his surroundings for a moment. The giant owl was still there, but Cerb had a baby bug in her arms and Celeste was behind him now. Turning his back on Irving with a snort, Agni promptly sat down and started staring at the things going on behind his back.

Not to leave the Noctowl out of things, Elvan began nosily sniffing at the owl's tailfeathers. Y'know, doing that doggy butt-sniff thing they're prone to. Cerb would have told him to stop, but she was occupied with grinning wryly at Celeste.

"Honestly Celeste, I own all of two and soon to be three bugs. Two of them are giant killer monsters." Well, Ventus couldn't exactly be considered a killer and Phalanx was about as squishy and cuddly as a giant centipede could get, but the redhead didn't know that. Cerb didn't feel like elaborating. "The last is going to be a flaming moth. I really don't think an Illumise is going to fit in with any of my crew. I caught one of these before, right Sparky?" She added, looking back up at the Pikachu. "In a catching contest. Didn't keep that one either."

Carefully gathering up the blankets and mindful of the almost-dry wings, which were beginning to hum, Cerb presented the tiny Illumise to the other woman so she could hold it. "If you want her, she's yours. Otherwise, she's ranch fodder. I somehow think the former option would be preferred here."
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Irving looked back at Elvan and his feather-sniffing with a look of irritation, but since the action was merely obnoxious and not threatening he didn't react beyond that. Hina may have rumbled a chuckle from where she was, and Drosera outright started giggling her head off from where she was sitting with Spectre, but Irving ignored them. There were much more important things to pay attention to, like the new baby.

Celeste, meanwhile, accepted the illumise and cradled her gently, smiling sweetly as she looked into those big infant eyes, clearly completely smitten. She glanced up at Cerb. "To be fair, most of my bugs are going to be giant monsters, that aren't already..." Looking back at the baby bug, she added, "Except Nightshade, I guess." Venomoth weren't exactly terrifying, at least not compared things like her mutant, black-bladed scyther.

Spectre was starting to wag his tail a little. *I bet Aveline would like having a little sister,* he piped up.

Celeste didn't directly reply, but she started to hum softly, no song in particular, but just a soft, lullaby-like tune made up as she went along. A few moments of that, and she broke off to look at Cerb again. "...What do you think of the name 'Merrill?'"
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"At least she'll have more of her own kind to hang around with." Cerb began to clean up eggshell shards from the floor, making a little stack out of the larger pieces and piling the smaller ones into it. "Elvan, stop that before you get your eyes pecked out."

The Houndoom looked up from his sniffing and whined, tail giving a few hopeful wags. Cerb lasered him with a look. "Either make yourself useful or go lie down, hunh?" Grumbling, the teen went back to sweeping up shards into the palms of her hands. Satisfied with her collection, she got up and went to dump the shell bits into the trashcan. Elvan slid cautiously into her place, leaning over and snuffling carefully at the little buggy. Next to the dog, Agni flexed his claws; ready to grab the Houndoom by the neck and yank him out of the way.

Coming back from her trash dump, Cerb hummed thoughtfully at the name. Her first reaction was 'reminds me of some financial bastards', but she chose not to say that. "... it's a bit of a lyrical name, isn't it?" She said finally. "Fitting of an artistic Pokemon."
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Irving quietly puffed up, looking offended at the idea that he would peck out someone's eyes simply for being annoying. When Elvan started sniffing at the baby, however, he tensed and clicked his beak. The infant seemed fine, though Celeste did shift the illumise a little closer to her body subconsciously. She wasn't really all that concerned, but the purple bug had officially been mentally filed as 'my baby' and thus protective instincts had fully engaged.

Celeste smiled at Cerb's reply regarding the name. "It does have a musical sound to it..." She gave a small, sheepish-sounding laugh as she added, "It's, uh, also from the same video game I got Aveline's name from. And Donnic's." She would have tugged her ponytail were her arms not occupied with the illumise. "Merrill was this little, elven mage...Seemed sort of appropriate."

Having now showed exactly how much a geek she was, she gave baby Merrill another adoring smile as she added. "Thank you. Really. This is, what, the fourth baby pokemon you've given me?" Two of them were still eggs at the time, but still. Antonia, Drosera, Spectre, and now this darling. Not to mention Cerb had also given Celeste Veralidaine, too.

That was moment that there was a sharp howl and something glowing white raced out from under the bench. As the glow faded, there was an manectric standing in the Pokemon Centre lobby, and Peaches looked down at her much larger self with absolute glee. "Oh, hell yes. Check me out." A few flames briefly licked around her teeth before vanishing. "Five freakin' feet tall with fangs of fire. Yuri's ass is roasted."

Celeste slowly blinked at the evolved canine as if still processing what had just happened.



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Cerb tilted her head to the side a little, grinning at Celeste's admission of being a nerd. "Don't feel bad. I get a lot of my names from books. And movies. And games." She glanced in the direction of Agni and Elvan, the latter having sat and making pouty dog faces. "And mythology. And geology." She poked Sparky in the cheek, the Pikachu giving a grumpy crackle in response. "And car parts. Lots of car parts."

Also the weather, natural phenomena, my old college counselor and my cat. Anyway.

"Ah, you're welcome." Cerb laced her fingers together behind her head and rocked back and forth slightly. "I don't mind passin' 'em along to people who will treat them better than I do. The ranch helps for the ones I don't see much, but sometimes having the right person is better than having good PC care."

Her entire party paused and slowly looked over when Peaches streaked out from under the bench, her flaming jaws making the two canid fire types (well, canid and a weasel) emit puffs of smoke from their fur. Cerb was not entirely sure what just happened, but she had a feeling Yuri might be in for an asskicking the next time Peaches 'ported to the ranch. Perhaps somebody had better warn the Zangoose of his impending charbroiling. "At least she sort of matches him in size now," Cerb muttered, reaching for her control hub so she could send Merlin a text. Ah, the glories of having a good butler to take your messages.

"So if you and Merrill are situated... what say you we get going?" She suggested as she hooked the control hub back onto her belt. "I think all our glorious hounds here can keep your little bug safe from harm."

Elvan yipped and jumped to his paws, tail beginning to wag hard again.
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Celeste gave a small chuckle. "If I felt bad about it, I wouldn't name them that way in the first place..." With mythology and noble titles eating up the majority of her pokemon's names and four cat pokemon with card puns for names, what were a few video game names tossed on the pile? She just wasn't used to telling people.

Peaches just gave Cerb a big, toothy grin, as if she knew exactly what she was doing with her control hub and clearly didn't think it would save him. Celeste continued to stare at the huge dog. She didn't know the story of why her manectric wanted to make Yuri a charbroiled chew toy, but her mind had gone to roughly the same place Cerb's did all the same. Hopefully getting the electric dog out and exploring the island would take her mind off mauling zangoose.

Celeste looked over at Cerb when she mentioned getting going, then down at Merrill. She frowned a little. "I'm not sure if she'll like the heat, much," she commented. Sure, illumise lived in the tropical forest, but the tropical forest and the mountain were fairly different. It might just be a better idea to put her in a pokeball before they left.

A brief, chilly breeze started up in response to that, and Celeste gave a small shiver and looked at Shilo, who walk over calmly with a Watmel berry in her paws. "I can assist with keeping the young one a comfortable temperature, if you would like," she said, offering the round berry to Celeste, who carefully took it as she cradled Merrill with one arm.

Celeste offered the berry to the youngster. "That could work, if you really don't mind..."

"I do not." Well, that was that, then.

A blur of blue and yellow shot toward the door and out of it. "Well come on! We've got things to maul and shove in pokeballs!"

Spectre hopped to his feet in alarm. *We are not going to maul things!* he called after her, but she didn't seem to hear him.

Hina quietly gathered up the capsules belonging to the berry trees nearby and recalled them, then gathered up the two solid-coloured eggs in her forelimbs and stomped over to the two trainers.

Celeste sighed and shook her head. "All the electrike the breeder has and I pick the meanest one they've got," she mumbled. She noticed Spectre trot over to grasp the strap of her pack in his jaws and start dragging it over. "Better go before she starts setting things on fire."

And we should probably make a trade thread or something for Merrill.
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"'Bad' maybe isn't the right word. Embarrassed?" Cerb picked up her pack from the floor and tossed it over one shoulder, before she gave Peaches a look. It was the one that said not to eat her Zangoose, because Yuri was level fifty and capable of holding his own.

The cold breeze made her jump and look down at Shilo for a moment, as if remembering that the Sneasel was still there. "I'm sure between her and sprinkler rat here, we could whip up snow cones if we wanted," Cerb joked, poking Sparky in the cheek. The Pikachu crackled and whapped his trainer in the head with his tail. "Ow. C'mon gentlemen, let's hit it."

Elvan streaked out the door after Peaches, barking his head off and releasing smoke from his jaws. Cerb raised an eyebrow as Agni snorted next to her. "Y'know, I bet Delphi and Peaches would be great friends," she commented, extrapolating from Spectre's comment. "If they didn't kill each other first."

Agni raised a paw and planted it in the middle of Cerb's back before proceeding to shove her out the door with it. Cerb stumbled out into the sunlight, blinking a few times and shielding her eyes with her arm while she glared at Agni. "Hey, that wasn't nice. Now you don't get a ride." Cracking open a pokeball on the road, she released Epona in front of the Pokecenter. The Arcanine whuffed and looked curiously about while Cerb made great attempts to scramble onto her back, eventually getting up there. "We've got Celeste with us this time, Epona," Cerb announced, patting the fire dog on her fluff. Epona barked and wagged her tail. "Gonna find us a whole buncha stuff."

Agni was pacing slowly up the road, sniffing Elvan's trail to find where the dark dog had gone bolting off to.
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"I don't think Peaches wants to be friends with anyone..." Celeste mumbled in reply to Cerb's comment. There were some pokemon she sort of seemed to respect, and others she just plain knew not to be her snarling ball of hate around for the sake of self-preservation, but someone she actually liked? Celeste honestly couldn't think of anyone.

After her and her horde made their way out behind Cerb, Hina and Irving instantly took to the air. Merrill's eyes lit up upon seeing this and started to furious buzz her wings to fly up a bit as well. She hovered close to Celeste, however, rather than trying to follow the other winged things. Her arms now free, Celeste took her pack from Spectre and gave him a grateful scritch before slinging it on her back.

Epona's appearance prompted her to smile and walk over to scratch the arcanine under the chin and behind the ears. "Hey, girl..."

Celeste suddenly winced and shot a look upward. Irving had just caught sight of Peaches and sent a message her way. Unfortunately, he wasn't adept enough with his psychic powers to speak telepathically, so be just shoved the information in her direction, and trying to translate the chunk of feedback into something she could use wasn't automatic. Where she was relative to him and where she was relative to Celeste were different, after all, not the least due to the variable of altitude.

"...Well, she's running in the right direction, at least," she said after a moment of said mental translating. She took a step back and reached for her travel ball, and Jane the Black Tesla rough terrain mount materialized in a flash of light. Jane wagged her tail cheerfully at the sight of the other arcanine, and just looked all the happier when Celeste got on her back. Shilo hopped up there as well, settling down behind her trainer.

That left Drosera and Spectre, and the little bulbasaur soon climbed up on the back of her fuzzy white 'brother' as well for a ride, since her legs weren't nearly long enough to keep up. *She'll probably stop at the outskirts and wait for us,* Spectre commented.

He hoped, at least.



Feeding Merrill that Watmel berry I mentioned last post. She's 4 :happiness now.

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