George "Buster" Leggingsteele
Episode 1:
"I'm George Leggingsteele, but you can call me Buster!"
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It was during the evening. The sun was on its way down the horizon and people started to go inside their houses to just relax. Well except for one in particular. At first, he seemed like a black shadow. But as he grew closer and closer, George's full shape could be visible from a few feet away. The young man was pouring with sweat, and the Umbreon that had been by his side a few hours ago was now keeping its distance. Buster turned his head at Penumbra and asked:
"What's wrong Penumbra? Are you not feeling well?"
"Umb, umbreon, umb."(Geore, you literally REEK with sweat. I can't go near you.)
Looking at his Pokémon and then at his clothes, George realized he was very sweaty. Strange, he hadn't been like that a few hours ago… Guess that you never knew how running could affect you. Just for good measure, the young man took a slight whiff under his right arm and almost flinched at the smell.
"Yeesh! I really reek, don't I?" He said with a disgusted tone. Penumbra just nodded as a response.
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But finally, after traveling for quite some time, George had reached Fuchsia City. Feeling both extremely excited and extremely dirty, he headed directly for the docks to see if the ship was there. To the young man's great relief, the giant cruiser S. S. Anne stood there, emitting a prideful aura. Or at least Buster assumed that it was the S. S. Anne, he had never seen the ship before so…
With a victory-howl so sudden that even Penumbra jumped straight into the air, George entered the luxury cruiser. Seeing some people in there, he looked around confusedly for where he was going to stay. He quickly spotted what looked like a maid, and decided to ask her.
"Hello!" He said with the same cheerful tone that he always had, and tapped the maid on her shoulder since she was facing away from him.
"AAAIIIIEEEEE!!!" She screamed loudly. George was taken aback by this sudden reaction. "Don't scare me like that!" She said and looked at the young man angrily, "What is it?"
"Y-Yes, I was wondering where my room is for this cruise…" George said carefully, not knowing what to expect from this woman.
"Your room?" The maid asked.
"Yes. I got this ticket, but I missed the ship in Vermillion…" George said.
"Oh! Of course! Let me show you to your room Mr…?"
"Leggingsteele. I'm George Leggingsteele, but you can call me Buster!"
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So George was shown to his room by the maid. She was holding her nose, disgusted by the smell, probably like everybody else.
"Edjoy your sday here!" She said and quickly hurried away.
"Well Penumbra, looks like it begins here!" George laughed. The Umbreon looked at him for a moment before breaking out in a smile himself.
After unpacking and putting all of his clothes and various nicknacks around the room and letting his two remaining Pokémon out to inspect the room, George decided that it was high time to take a shower, so he did just that. After a long and (according to himself) well-earned shower, Buster stepped out in the room to find Penumbra loyally waiting outside the bathroom, Eliza standing in the middle of the room without doing really anything and Jarvis happily rolling around in the bed-sheets. With a broad smile on his lips, the young man walked up and took Jarvis in his arms.
"So," he asked the Duskull, though the question was being aimed at all of his Pokémon, "What should we do now?"
"Skarr, skaaaar, skaaaa!"(Well I know what I wanna' do, I wanna' battle!) Eliza screeched loudly, you could see that she was restless after not getting much fighting done up until now.
"Umbrreee, umbrrr, um?"(Violent as always Eliza, why can't we just stay here?) Penumbra said in a docile tone.
"D-Duss… Duskull…"(I wanna'… I don't know what I wanna' do…) Jarvis said quietly.
"I know!" George shone up after a while of thinking, "We'll go to the Safari Zone! There you could get some fighting-experience Eliza, and maybe we'll get a new team-member?"
"Skaaa… Skarmory, ska."(New team-member… Well, it's certainly been a while since I got someone new to terrorize.) The Skarmory said sarcastically. However, she still liked the sound of getting to kick someone's sorry butt.
"But then again… It's late and the Safari Zone might be closing soon… So, maybe we can challenge someone on the ship? I mean, the trainers here have got to be stronger than any Pokémon out there, right?" George pondered.
"Skar, skarmory."(I'm fine with whichever.) Eliza said calmly.
"Umbreon, umb."(I don't really feel like leaving the ship.) Penumbra said.
"Duskull."(Me neither.) Jarvis quietly said.
"Well then, what're we waiting for? We have battles to battle!" George said enthusiastically and quickly got into his usual pair of clothes. He didn't bother to put up his hair, instead he let it be loose and fall to his shoulders.
Well outside of his cabin, Buster returned all of his Pokémon to their Pokéballs and started walking until he came to the staircase that led up a floor. He stopped for a moment, thinking about how to get somebody's attention. If he wanted a quick and efficient way of asking multiple people for a battle, he had to come up with something else. Then, as a lightning-bolt from clear skies, George got an idea. With a bright smile he quickly went up the stairs. As he entered the "lobby" of the ship, George cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled as loudly as he could:
"HEY, ANYONE WANT TO BATTLE ME?!"
After a few minutes of people staring awkwardly at him, George decided to head somewhere else. Having heard of a battle-facility earlier from the maid, he decided to go there.
As the young man entered the room, he saw two people going at it already. Man that looked like an AWESOME battle, oh how he wished to have one… But wait! There seemed to be someone else on the battlefield, someone without a battle partner… Buster's eyes shone up as he ran down to the fields themselves.
"Hey you!" He shouted, "You with the Sableye, wanna' battle? 'Cause I'm ON!" George stopped before the guy, his face beaming with excitement.