A kid yells about something from a couple yards behind him. "Is he talking to me?" AJ thought to himself. Confused as well, AJ and starmie started walking over to him. "Hi, sorry I don't know where everyone is. I was on the ship when a thick fog rolled in, and when we docked, all the trainers on board were getting off, angry at the captain. Were you on the ship to?"
AJ thought for a minute. "Why did I come out here?" Thinking back to before he left. He gazed off into a flashback.
"AJ, I'm afraid the Forest Green City Gym still can't accept your application for the next gym leader here." Said an old man, who worked at the front desk.
"Why Not!" AJ yelled back, he had repeatedly submitted it to them over the past year. The current gym leader was due to retire by the end of the year (being 72)! And very few plant trainers lived in Forrest Green. Most were girls, and they usually moved to Celedon City to work with Erika at her gym. Still, some remained.
AJ's wynaut popped out of it's pokeball. "WYYYYYY-" AJ grabbed it and held it's mouth shut.
"I'm afraid your wynaut is part of the problem," he said. "What?" AJ said, hurt a little. Since he won his wynaut egg, it's been the only pokemon he got as a baby. He felt a certain, Big Brother like bond to it.
"You need to be a plant trainer to work here. Obviously."
"I know that! And I pride myself on specifically being a plant trainer, see!" AJ released some pokeballs. A Bulbasaur, a Weepinbell, a Tangela, and an Oddish appeared. They all said their name in greeting.
"Mr.Halliwell, according to this...4 out of your 15 pokemon, are plant type. And you have other pokemon stronger then your plant types, this starmie, and this umbreon for example. We're afraid the ratios just don't look good on our records. Perhaps, if you caught more plant types we'd be able to reconsider your proposal. I'm sorry," the man handed the application back to AJ, and he returned all his pokemon.
AJ scrunched up the application. "Fine...then I'll just go out, and catch more plant pokemon..." AJ said, storming out of the building. On the door, was a flier, "Valencia Island Tickets-- On sale!" AJ took out his cell phone, and dialed the number.
"Hello?"
"Hello?" AJ looked back at the person. He blinked a couple times. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" AJ said, not listening at all.
OOC: Felt like a character-developing backround statement. Hope I'm allowed to do that?