Books, Cubone and a chair (Lorelei)

[Bradley Mandara]

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    Bradley shook his head, in an almost ashamed manner. "Yes, he tends to make sure my day is never boring... even if it means he's getting yelled at by random trainers or something." He listened to her go on about her grandpa and the prices of stamps. "Nah, they're relatively cheap." When she brought up being a steel type fanatic, and saw that twinkle in her eye, he chuckled at her. "Then you'd pass out at the size of my father's Steelix. He's free-range, so he's constantly growing in size. If we need him to watch the house, he can curl up around it and still survey the mines."

    Bradley reopened a book and looked through it some, trying to stop his self from getting homesick. Both his sister and him were very fond of Stal. Their Russian father had raised that monster since he was a kid and since Stal was an Onix. Then he remembered his mother, and her Nidoqueen "Dog". That Nidoqueen didn't live long after the death of their mother. According to their father, Dakota, Dog had pined to death. The Pokemon had missed their mother so much, she starved herself next to her grave. Also according to his father, she had raised that Pokemon from a Nidoran as a child herself, just like he had with Stal. Freezing some, he rubbed his neck some and turned back to Lorelei, smiling and sitting there for almost a good minute before his jaw dropped. "Oh.. uh.. don't know where to go from here." He said, laughing.

    Sabishii went cross-eyed at Panzer licking his skull and flopped on his butt, looking at him. His feet were spread and his tail wiggled some while he sat on the ground, watching the normal type. Even though he'd been alive for quite some time, he wasn't a battling Pokemon, and there fore got very tired, very quickly. Sleepily, the Cubone stretched some and gave a sleepy and playful swat towards Panzer, flopping onto his face in turn, to tired to get up.

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Word Count: 352
Translation: Stal (Steel" In Russian)
Dog (Poison" In Korean)

[Lorelei Virgo]

Nantosuelta looked at the shiny Eevee. The Eevee agreeded, berries were delicious, and this made Nanto click happily. "The Safari Zone?...Hmmm...I might have been there once! But the time I did, there was a Steel bird that really disliked me! It made me nervous, but maybe I can get Lorelei to take me." Nanto clicked happily at the idea of her and Lorelei going on an adventure together. Nanto rarely left Lorelei's side, and if she did, it was hardly for a long period of time. Because Nanto knew that Lorelei would get lonely if she wasn't there...and the firebug never once thought of Lorelei as anything else but a friend. That's why she refused to call Lorelei her "Master" or "Trainer". "Oh! I was wondering...do you know of any place where there might be a good place to dance? Would that be in the Safari Zone as well?" The Firebug tilted its head curiously.

Lorelei looked at Bradley, and he went on to say that Sabashii makes sure that his day is never boring. "Well, then that's good. Boring is not fun, no matter what day it is." She laughed a bit. It was reassuring, to hear that stamps were fairly cheap. "Well, I will probably send a letter to my Grandpa soon, then. It would be nice to hear from him." He chuckled at her when she mentioned a fascination for Steel type Pokemon. Apparently, Bradley's father had a Steelix, and the Steelix was constantly growing in size. "Well...one of these days, I'm going to catch a steel Pokemon! And I will raise it...I only hope that you'll help me when I do? I've only seen most Pokemon in books...Heck, I didn't even know Nanto was a Pokemon until I caught her with Grandpa!" She laughed quite a bit, smiling. She felt better when she was around Bradley, as he seemed to make her smile. She watched him reopen a bit, and she opened the Rock Pokemon book she had gotten earlier. She would look up from her book every once in a while to Bradley when she noticed him rubbing his neck, smiling at her. She smiled back, and he seemed to be at a lost for words. "Don't know where to go? Well...we can read something together, or we could just sit at the same table and read separately." Her hand would slowly intertwine with his, as long as he did not resist it or push her away.

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Word Count: 420
Tags: Bradley, Nantosuelta, Miko
Notes: Sorry, took me a while

[Christof Drescher]

   Panzer certainly hadn't been expecting the little 'mon to fall face first. Ears folding back a bit, he stretched out to sniff at the Cubone.  It seemed that he was ready for a nap. So, this left him with a pretty obvious choice in actions. At least for now, Panzer decides to curl up with the ground type, resting his head over the other 'mon's back.  He didn't go to sleep, however, keeping an eye and ear on things.  Likely he wouldn't stay there long, and getting him to move if Bradley so wanted wouldn't likely be difficult. 

   Miko, for his part, was facing his own moment of perplextion, albeit less brief. Nose twitching in thought, he tried to decipher this matter of 'dancing'.  He was aware of what it meant to humans, though only vaguely.  Christof wasn't the sort to dance, and had never really been the overly social type.  However, he wasn't sure if maybe Nanto also 'danced' in some way. If that was the case, he supposed a different sort of place was needed?

   " I'm not sure.  We don't dance... What sort of places did you want?" Maybe with a bit of information from her, he would be able to help.  At the very least, it couldn't hurt to see if he could.  It was probably better if he asked directly too, Panzer was likely going to get fidgety before too long, or the trainer of the Cubone might want to take his sleepy pokèmon 'home' to  continue his nap. 

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Word Count: 276
Tags: Chlori (Leafeon-shiny), Panzer (Eevee), Miko(Eevee-shiny)
Notes: Miko's for reals color doesn't work on this background  

[Bradley Mandara]

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    Kicking back in his chair he tilted his head towards Lorelei. "I'd be more than happy to help you out with a raising a steel type. They're an absolute pain, but they're powerful and have their own personalities." Stopping and sitting back upright in his chair, he nodded his head towards the collection of books about psychic types. "Both me and my sister love Abra and Alakazam.... Kadabra... not so much, but we're fascinated by them... maybe we could sit down and learn about psychic types?"

    Bradley was renowned for his braininess in their old mining town. He loved to read, any second he could and that always made him seem boring. Only a few people knew that he loved to do EVERYTHING he could. Bradley's motto drove him to do all those things as well, besides drugs and stuff. "In order to expand your mind, you have to open yourself to knew experiences." With that in mind, Pokemon types that he wasn't to familiar with were considered new experiences and he wanted everything to do with one and as much as possible as well.

    Sabishii napped quietly underneath of the Eevee, and actually enjoying the warmth given to him from the other mon. It was when his master picked him up, he stirred some, only to cuddle onto his master.

    After picking up Sabishii, he reached down and gave Panzer a couple of pats and a scritch behind his ear. "Thank you friend." When he got back to Lorelei, he sat down and wrapped the Cubone in his hoodie. "Sorry about that."

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Word Count: 265