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Valorie had had her pokemon do various exercises whilst Selene's were training. Mostly aerobics, though in Dragonair's case she had Dragonair telekinetically lifting objects, occasionally including other pokemon. During this she found out that Dragonair seemed to have difficulty keeping things stable whilst lifting them. Well that was a problem. Being able to keep something stable was a key part of restraining pokemon with psychic powers. Perhaps she could work around this problem though... She abruptly found herself yawning. Perhaps she would try again later. She was tired.
Valorie had gone and tucked herself under the blanket, curling up against one side so that there was plenty of room when Selene had come.
Yet... she was not destined for sleeping well that night. In the middle of the night Valorie got up. She was able to crawl out from under the blanket without disturbing it too much so as not to disturb a sleeping Selene. She was of course, not actually awake. Once again her mind thought she was at home, but in this case there were no walls for her to run into. She proceeded to sleepily wander off. After a bit though, her brain failed to realize she was still on flat ground and she mistepped, tripping waking up to find the ground rushing at her. At this point she was quite a fair distance away from Selene, so much so that Selene wouldn't have been able to hear her even if she had been awake. She let out a light yelp as she fell face first, able to catch herself with her knees but not her hands. She quickly pushed herself up and groaned. Ugh. This again? Her body definitely did not appreciate being awake, so then why was she? She of course was not aware how serious a thing sleep walking was, being rather young and uninformed.
She had sighed, shivering in the frigid night air as she stood up. She had apparently remembered to grab her satchel in her sleep. Sometimes the things she did impressed her. She reached in and pulled out her phone, checking the time. It was only a few hours until morning. Ugh. What was the point of going back to sleep /now/? There was none, of course.
She supposed she might as well train. A normal person probably would've thought about how little her pokemon would appreciate training at this time of night, but not Valorie. Her pokemon were pretty much used to her absurd sleeping tendencies. As she stood there alone in the frigid night air holding a pokeball in her hand she couldn't help but experience deja vu. It was just like back at home, when she had been training to challenge the Iccirus city gym. She frowned at this reminiscing. She had been destroyed upon entering that gym in more ways than one. Both in a battle, and in her self-confidence. It was pretty much the sole reason she was so angsty about being the best. Because of that incident, her self confidence had been dashed to the point that she compensated for it by being so hard on herself and, to an extent, her pokemon.
She still remembered how upset she had been. Perhaps she had been naive, thinking she could just stroll in there after a bit of training, try her best, and win. At the time though, it had felt like her dreams had been crushed. She then reminisced a bit more recently, to her first battle at the academy with Selene. She remembered how it had felt like deja vu. Somehow, she had gotten it into her mind that she was going to be the best trainer ever, and facing the facts that maybe she wasn't was very hard on her. In fact, as it stood, she couldn't handle it. As the thought dawned on her that perhaps she wasn't the best, that perhaps she was just a sore loser, she became angry. She was angry at herself, angry at the conclusion she had reached, and part of her anger just wasn't directed anywhere at all. She was left to seethe. Even that wound up making her angry, however. Her bottled up emotions had sprung a leak. She was getting pretty upset She had nothing to take it out on either. Nothing she was /willing/ to take it out on anyway. She certainly had her pokemon, but she was not that type of person. She could've had a random stranger in front of her and still she would've preferred not to take her anger out on them.
Valorie was somewhat startled as a burst of white light emerged from one of her pokeballs, Dragonair emerging. Valorie looked up at her pokemon, who looked back down at her with an expression of concern. Dragonair seemed to be aware of the emotions Valorie was experiencing. For a brief moment this took Valorie off guard. Dragonair proceeded to lower her head down towards Valorie, and Valorie would feel rather indignant because of her anger. Yet, in Dragonair's presence the leak in her bottled emotions was plugged. She urged herself to calm down. Dragonair didn't deserve her anger. She wasn't just training Dragonair, she was raising her. She didn't want to be a horrible parent. Thus, she actually did manage to calm herself down, proceeding to hug Dragonair's nose. This lasted for a couple of moments before Valorie let go. The hug did her good, but training would help her feel better.
Valorie pulled out her other pokeballs and let her pokemon out. Axew and Frillish seemed less than amused. They weren't used to her sleep schedule. Yet, neither of them were annoyed enough to do anything about it.
"Alright you guys... How about some early morning training."
Charmeleon smarled, which is something between a snarl and a smile for those pokemon that have physical difficulty actually smiling. She was definitely up for it. The rest were more neutral.
Valorie first had her pokemon battling eachother. Seeing as she had an odd number of pokemon she simply had them have a free for all. Obviously, Axew and Frillish were at a disadvantage, and so she had to pull them out a bit earlier. In the end, Dragonair won. Valorie was not surprised. It was pretty much the most likely scenario by quite a bit.
Taking out a potion, she applied it to pokemon who needed it. Yet, perhaps she should tone down the training a bit for now. If she had them battle consecuitively, they'd probably be burnt out pretty quickly. She checked the time again. She still had plenty of time left. Abruptly a bright white light assaulted her eyes. She was momentarily blinded. What was going on?! After a moment though, she got enough focus to be able to see it was one of her pokemon. Which one though? It pained her eyes to look into the light. Whoever it was was short. Was that Axew? No, Axew was nearby, starring in awe. That must be Trapinch! After a moment the glow faded to reveal a Vibrava in Trapinch's place. Needless to say, Valorie was pretty happy.
Valorie then had her pokemon training their strength with some more aerobics, whilst Dragonair was left to train her telekinetic powers. She took a step back to watch, only to step on something that wasn't the ground. This was immediately followed by a pretty angry snort which startled Valorie so bad that she promptly made a rather pathetic squeak sound, quickly moving away. She turned around to see what in the world she had accidentally stepped on to find a Swinub there. The little furball had apparently been attracted by the smell of food coming from her satchel and had come on over to see if it couldn't help itself. Of course, it hadn't expected to find a human. Valorie blinked. It didn't look all that threatening, but it was a pokemon. Even the weakest pokemon could potentially kill a human being. She needed to take caution in approaching.
"Hey there..!"
The swinub snorted in response. It then promptly used a Powder Snow attack on Valorie, blasting her with a strong wind filled with, well, powdery snow. Valorie held up her arms to protect herself and was blown over and covered with snow. She shivered and immediately started to brush some of the snow off her. It didn't feel very good, and she knew her body heat would soon melt it, soaking her if she couldn't get most of it off. Dragonair promptly stopped what she was doing and floated on over, getting right in Swinub's face with a fierce expression on her face. All Valorie could figure is she must've hurt Swinub when she had stepped on it. It had felt like she had stepped on a foot anyway. Swinub didn't look like a predatory pokemon. That was for sure, which was why she suspected it must have some exceptional reason for attacking her.
Swinub made a warning snort sound which did not seem to phase Dragonair before blasting her in the face with a Powder Snow attack. Dragonair drew back a bit, the snow irritating her skin. She then cried out and promptly lit Swinub up with a Dragon Rage attack. That was all it took. Swinub was down for the count. Valorie walked over and kneeled down beside the twitching pokemon. Huh. She decided to take a chance by reaching down and touching one of Swinub's hind legs. Swinub promptly made a rather pained squeal. Valorie removed her hand and reached into her satchel, taking out a potion and promptly spraying it on Swinub. She sprayed most of it on Swinub's foot, but some of it was just sprayed all around. Swinub stopped shuddered momentarily before it stopped twitching and looked up at her. Valorie just sort of stayed crouched down next to the Swinub. Abruptly it pounced her like a dog who hadn't seen it's master in days. Valorie fell back with a Swinub on top of her, licking her face ... like a dog who hadn't seen it's master in days. She just sort of tried to turn her head away all like 'Blegh! Swinub kisses!'. Meanwhile, Dragonair hovered around them, a bit weirded out and frantically trying to decide whether to do something. After a bit, Valorie managed to reach into her satchel and pull out a pokeball, which she promptly put in the way of Swinub's affection and activated. Perhaps surprisingly, she actually captured Swinub doing this.
Valorie sat up and wiped at her face with her sleeve. Ick. Then she gazed at the pokeball, which was still.
"...Huh."
She then let Swinub back out.
"Go join the others exercising, alright?"
Swinub seemed hesitant at first, but then ran off after the others. Valorie placed her hands on her hips and watched. Meanwhile, Dragonair just sort of leaned in, kind of freaked out, and nudged Valorie lightly whilst staring into the distance at Swinub. Valorie just sort of glanced at Dragonair. What was with her? Then it occurred to her.
"Oh no. No way. No. /No/."
She made several different universal signs for saying no as she spoke. Regardless of the actual intent, kisses only meant one thing to Dragonair and Valorie wasn't going to have it. There was no way that she was going to have to explain this to other people. She could hear them laughing hysterically now.
Dragonair seemed to become confused and concerned. Valorie just sort of smiled awkwardly at her pokemon. Bless Dragonair's naive heart.
The sun was starting to rise. Valorie gazed at the sunrise for a few moments. She still had time for another battle, she supposed. Calling back her pokemon, she gathered them all around and introduced them to Swinub. Charmeleon just sort of looked over at the ice pokemon and growled, intimidating her. Valorie felt the abrupt urge to facepalm. Way to be a bully, Charmeleon. At least she wasn't outright fighting though. Valorie sighed. She was supposed to have gotten some training with the local fire specialist by now, but that seemed to have been postponed indefinitely. She vowed to get to it sooner or later.
This time, she split her pokemon up into groups for three seperate individual battles. Seeing as the pokemon would learn more from fighting foes around their own strength, and would last longer at that, she paired them up stragetically. Vibrava against Dragonair, Frillish against Charmeleon, and Axew against Swinub. She hoped that the Frillish and Swinub would be able to use their type advantage to make up for the fact that they weren't as experienced as their opponents.
Later, she wasn't surprised to find that Dragonair had beaten Vibrava. Dragonair was simply in a league of her own, even against Vibrava. The battle had gone pretty quickly because they had both had a type advantage against eachother. She did however notice that Vibrava didn't seem as strong as she had been as a Trapinch. That was odd. Meanwhile, Charmeleon didn't seem to care that Frillish had a type advantage. She was flamethrowing the heck out of that Jellyfish. Now, to be brutally honest. Frillish was not a very bright pokemon. Not every pokemon cold be gifted with incredible intelligence, but Frillish had been cursed with exceptionally low intelligence. Seeing as Valorie wasn't commanding her pokemon, Frillish basically just went nuts when attacked and flung random attacks at Charmeleon, rather than taking advantage of her water attacks and using those a lot. Thus, Charmeleon managed to beat her. It was really a rather pathetic battle. Neither of them really operated all that well without Valorie's guidance. She supposed not all pokemon could though. After all, that was why they had trainers! Swinub and Axew were having a stare down Neither could seem to get leveredge over the other. Axew took a powdered snow to the face the first time she had tried to attack and had quickly learned that hose kind of hurt, a lot. She was now doing a great deal of work to dodge attacks, even if it meant not getting attacks of her own in. Thus, they were both playing defensively, though they had been going at it just as long as the others, and had been working quite hard. It was clear to Valorie that Swinub actually had this one in the bag, seeing as Axew couldn't really get an attack in without getting hit. She decided to call them off, seeing as they'd both been trying plenty hard.
"Alright... you guys did good. Swinub, I'm really impressed!"
She reached down and patted Swinub on what she was pretty sure was his head. Swinub snorted cheerily. Axew seemed a bit let down though. Valorie promptly rubbed Axew on the head.
"You worked hard Axew. Good job."
At this point, the sun was up and people were starting to wake. Valorie yawned. It was a good thing she had built up a slight tolerance to being deprived of sleep. Otherwise she would be a wreck. Then her phone rang. Huh? Who could that be? Was that her Mom or Dad perhaps? It had only rang once though. Oh. Text message. Valorie was slightly let down until she oppened her phone. Oh hey it was Mark! And... he... had her hat?! Valorie flushed pink in the face reading his message. What were the odds of that?? After a few moments she sent a message back telling him that she was fine and that it had only been stolen from her. She then included an extra tidbit that read 'Miss you guys!'*
She closed her phone and stood there with her pokemon, bright and early, staring at the sunset... Charmeleon certainly seemed to enjoy it. She was almost glowing with--oh, wait. She /was/ glowing... with evolution. Valorie was suddenly alarmed. Crud! If this was anything like last time, Charmeleon's new form would come with an even worse attitude. What if she attacked someone?! She was /not/ looking forward to having another episode like last time. Charmeleon's size increased pretty radically. She was now finally taller than Valorie, though only by about a foot.
Valorie's eyes grew wide as the glow faded. She was starring at a Charizard. What she became aware of almost immediately was the wings. /Those wings!/ Charizard resembled a dragon much more than her previous forms. Valorie couldn't help but become awestruck. When had her pokemon become so /cool/?! This was quickly overshadowed by the fact that Charizard might have an attitude that could kill.
She cautiously approached, rather nervous, stopping when Charizard turned to look at Valorie. The look was mostly expressionless. Valorie felt herself immediately get anxious. What would happen?
Charizard proceeded to lift her arms and stretch her wings, yawning out loud. She then scratched her belly and regarded Valorie cheerily and without any sign of irritation, aggressiveness, or otherwise angst, the sort of things she would've already have expected from Charmeleon.
Valorie's mind just sort of blanked. Excuse me, what? Charizard was acting more like she had as a Charmander! Only, assumedly less naive. That was totally not what she had been expecting at all. She relaxed after a moment and let out a sigh of relief. Little did she realize that Charmander's evolutionary line was perfect symbolism for the aging of humans. Kids were normal enough. Then you had angsty teens, and then respectable adults. Course, Valorie was too young to actually pick up on that symbolism, but it was totally there anyway.
Valorie herself stretched, deciding that they had had enough for the time being and that she should wait for Selene to wake. She proceeded to head back on over with her pokemon, stopping not all that far away from where Selene was sleeping and turning to her pokemon. She pressed a finger to her lips, telling them to be silent so that the would not wake Selene. She then proceeded to turn and just watch the sunrise again. She wasn't sure why, but watching said sunrise somehow felt comforting.
Valorie had gone and tucked herself under the blanket, curling up against one side so that there was plenty of room when Selene had come.
Yet... she was not destined for sleeping well that night. In the middle of the night Valorie got up. She was able to crawl out from under the blanket without disturbing it too much so as not to disturb a sleeping Selene. She was of course, not actually awake. Once again her mind thought she was at home, but in this case there were no walls for her to run into. She proceeded to sleepily wander off. After a bit though, her brain failed to realize she was still on flat ground and she mistepped, tripping waking up to find the ground rushing at her. At this point she was quite a fair distance away from Selene, so much so that Selene wouldn't have been able to hear her even if she had been awake. She let out a light yelp as she fell face first, able to catch herself with her knees but not her hands. She quickly pushed herself up and groaned. Ugh. This again? Her body definitely did not appreciate being awake, so then why was she? She of course was not aware how serious a thing sleep walking was, being rather young and uninformed.
She had sighed, shivering in the frigid night air as she stood up. She had apparently remembered to grab her satchel in her sleep. Sometimes the things she did impressed her. She reached in and pulled out her phone, checking the time. It was only a few hours until morning. Ugh. What was the point of going back to sleep /now/? There was none, of course.
She supposed she might as well train. A normal person probably would've thought about how little her pokemon would appreciate training at this time of night, but not Valorie. Her pokemon were pretty much used to her absurd sleeping tendencies. As she stood there alone in the frigid night air holding a pokeball in her hand she couldn't help but experience deja vu. It was just like back at home, when she had been training to challenge the Iccirus city gym. She frowned at this reminiscing. She had been destroyed upon entering that gym in more ways than one. Both in a battle, and in her self-confidence. It was pretty much the sole reason she was so angsty about being the best. Because of that incident, her self confidence had been dashed to the point that she compensated for it by being so hard on herself and, to an extent, her pokemon.
She still remembered how upset she had been. Perhaps she had been naive, thinking she could just stroll in there after a bit of training, try her best, and win. At the time though, it had felt like her dreams had been crushed. She then reminisced a bit more recently, to her first battle at the academy with Selene. She remembered how it had felt like deja vu. Somehow, she had gotten it into her mind that she was going to be the best trainer ever, and facing the facts that maybe she wasn't was very hard on her. In fact, as it stood, she couldn't handle it. As the thought dawned on her that perhaps she wasn't the best, that perhaps she was just a sore loser, she became angry. She was angry at herself, angry at the conclusion she had reached, and part of her anger just wasn't directed anywhere at all. She was left to seethe. Even that wound up making her angry, however. Her bottled up emotions had sprung a leak. She was getting pretty upset She had nothing to take it out on either. Nothing she was /willing/ to take it out on anyway. She certainly had her pokemon, but she was not that type of person. She could've had a random stranger in front of her and still she would've preferred not to take her anger out on them.
Valorie was somewhat startled as a burst of white light emerged from one of her pokeballs, Dragonair emerging. Valorie looked up at her pokemon, who looked back down at her with an expression of concern. Dragonair seemed to be aware of the emotions Valorie was experiencing. For a brief moment this took Valorie off guard. Dragonair proceeded to lower her head down towards Valorie, and Valorie would feel rather indignant because of her anger. Yet, in Dragonair's presence the leak in her bottled emotions was plugged. She urged herself to calm down. Dragonair didn't deserve her anger. She wasn't just training Dragonair, she was raising her. She didn't want to be a horrible parent. Thus, she actually did manage to calm herself down, proceeding to hug Dragonair's nose. This lasted for a couple of moments before Valorie let go. The hug did her good, but training would help her feel better.
Valorie pulled out her other pokeballs and let her pokemon out. Axew and Frillish seemed less than amused. They weren't used to her sleep schedule. Yet, neither of them were annoyed enough to do anything about it.
"Alright you guys... How about some early morning training."
Charmeleon smarled, which is something between a snarl and a smile for those pokemon that have physical difficulty actually smiling. She was definitely up for it. The rest were more neutral.
Valorie first had her pokemon battling eachother. Seeing as she had an odd number of pokemon she simply had them have a free for all. Obviously, Axew and Frillish were at a disadvantage, and so she had to pull them out a bit earlier. In the end, Dragonair won. Valorie was not surprised. It was pretty much the most likely scenario by quite a bit.
Taking out a potion, she applied it to pokemon who needed it. Yet, perhaps she should tone down the training a bit for now. If she had them battle consecuitively, they'd probably be burnt out pretty quickly. She checked the time again. She still had plenty of time left. Abruptly a bright white light assaulted her eyes. She was momentarily blinded. What was going on?! After a moment though, she got enough focus to be able to see it was one of her pokemon. Which one though? It pained her eyes to look into the light. Whoever it was was short. Was that Axew? No, Axew was nearby, starring in awe. That must be Trapinch! After a moment the glow faded to reveal a Vibrava in Trapinch's place. Needless to say, Valorie was pretty happy.
Valorie then had her pokemon training their strength with some more aerobics, whilst Dragonair was left to train her telekinetic powers. She took a step back to watch, only to step on something that wasn't the ground. This was immediately followed by a pretty angry snort which startled Valorie so bad that she promptly made a rather pathetic squeak sound, quickly moving away. She turned around to see what in the world she had accidentally stepped on to find a Swinub there. The little furball had apparently been attracted by the smell of food coming from her satchel and had come on over to see if it couldn't help itself. Of course, it hadn't expected to find a human. Valorie blinked. It didn't look all that threatening, but it was a pokemon. Even the weakest pokemon could potentially kill a human being. She needed to take caution in approaching.
"Hey there..!"
The swinub snorted in response. It then promptly used a Powder Snow attack on Valorie, blasting her with a strong wind filled with, well, powdery snow. Valorie held up her arms to protect herself and was blown over and covered with snow. She shivered and immediately started to brush some of the snow off her. It didn't feel very good, and she knew her body heat would soon melt it, soaking her if she couldn't get most of it off. Dragonair promptly stopped what she was doing and floated on over, getting right in Swinub's face with a fierce expression on her face. All Valorie could figure is she must've hurt Swinub when she had stepped on it. It had felt like she had stepped on a foot anyway. Swinub didn't look like a predatory pokemon. That was for sure, which was why she suspected it must have some exceptional reason for attacking her.
Swinub made a warning snort sound which did not seem to phase Dragonair before blasting her in the face with a Powder Snow attack. Dragonair drew back a bit, the snow irritating her skin. She then cried out and promptly lit Swinub up with a Dragon Rage attack. That was all it took. Swinub was down for the count. Valorie walked over and kneeled down beside the twitching pokemon. Huh. She decided to take a chance by reaching down and touching one of Swinub's hind legs. Swinub promptly made a rather pained squeal. Valorie removed her hand and reached into her satchel, taking out a potion and promptly spraying it on Swinub. She sprayed most of it on Swinub's foot, but some of it was just sprayed all around. Swinub stopped shuddered momentarily before it stopped twitching and looked up at her. Valorie just sort of stayed crouched down next to the Swinub. Abruptly it pounced her like a dog who hadn't seen it's master in days. Valorie fell back with a Swinub on top of her, licking her face ... like a dog who hadn't seen it's master in days. She just sort of tried to turn her head away all like 'Blegh! Swinub kisses!'. Meanwhile, Dragonair hovered around them, a bit weirded out and frantically trying to decide whether to do something. After a bit, Valorie managed to reach into her satchel and pull out a pokeball, which she promptly put in the way of Swinub's affection and activated. Perhaps surprisingly, she actually captured Swinub doing this.
Valorie sat up and wiped at her face with her sleeve. Ick. Then she gazed at the pokeball, which was still.
"...Huh."
She then let Swinub back out.
"Go join the others exercising, alright?"
Swinub seemed hesitant at first, but then ran off after the others. Valorie placed her hands on her hips and watched. Meanwhile, Dragonair just sort of leaned in, kind of freaked out, and nudged Valorie lightly whilst staring into the distance at Swinub. Valorie just sort of glanced at Dragonair. What was with her? Then it occurred to her.
"Oh no. No way. No. /No/."
She made several different universal signs for saying no as she spoke. Regardless of the actual intent, kisses only meant one thing to Dragonair and Valorie wasn't going to have it. There was no way that she was going to have to explain this to other people. She could hear them laughing hysterically now.
Dragonair seemed to become confused and concerned. Valorie just sort of smiled awkwardly at her pokemon. Bless Dragonair's naive heart.
The sun was starting to rise. Valorie gazed at the sunrise for a few moments. She still had time for another battle, she supposed. Calling back her pokemon, she gathered them all around and introduced them to Swinub. Charmeleon just sort of looked over at the ice pokemon and growled, intimidating her. Valorie felt the abrupt urge to facepalm. Way to be a bully, Charmeleon. At least she wasn't outright fighting though. Valorie sighed. She was supposed to have gotten some training with the local fire specialist by now, but that seemed to have been postponed indefinitely. She vowed to get to it sooner or later.
This time, she split her pokemon up into groups for three seperate individual battles. Seeing as the pokemon would learn more from fighting foes around their own strength, and would last longer at that, she paired them up stragetically. Vibrava against Dragonair, Frillish against Charmeleon, and Axew against Swinub. She hoped that the Frillish and Swinub would be able to use their type advantage to make up for the fact that they weren't as experienced as their opponents.
Later, she wasn't surprised to find that Dragonair had beaten Vibrava. Dragonair was simply in a league of her own, even against Vibrava. The battle had gone pretty quickly because they had both had a type advantage against eachother. She did however notice that Vibrava didn't seem as strong as she had been as a Trapinch. That was odd. Meanwhile, Charmeleon didn't seem to care that Frillish had a type advantage. She was flamethrowing the heck out of that Jellyfish. Now, to be brutally honest. Frillish was not a very bright pokemon. Not every pokemon cold be gifted with incredible intelligence, but Frillish had been cursed with exceptionally low intelligence. Seeing as Valorie wasn't commanding her pokemon, Frillish basically just went nuts when attacked and flung random attacks at Charmeleon, rather than taking advantage of her water attacks and using those a lot. Thus, Charmeleon managed to beat her. It was really a rather pathetic battle. Neither of them really operated all that well without Valorie's guidance. She supposed not all pokemon could though. After all, that was why they had trainers! Swinub and Axew were having a stare down Neither could seem to get leveredge over the other. Axew took a powdered snow to the face the first time she had tried to attack and had quickly learned that hose kind of hurt, a lot. She was now doing a great deal of work to dodge attacks, even if it meant not getting attacks of her own in. Thus, they were both playing defensively, though they had been going at it just as long as the others, and had been working quite hard. It was clear to Valorie that Swinub actually had this one in the bag, seeing as Axew couldn't really get an attack in without getting hit. She decided to call them off, seeing as they'd both been trying plenty hard.
"Alright... you guys did good. Swinub, I'm really impressed!"
She reached down and patted Swinub on what she was pretty sure was his head. Swinub snorted cheerily. Axew seemed a bit let down though. Valorie promptly rubbed Axew on the head.
"You worked hard Axew. Good job."
At this point, the sun was up and people were starting to wake. Valorie yawned. It was a good thing she had built up a slight tolerance to being deprived of sleep. Otherwise she would be a wreck. Then her phone rang. Huh? Who could that be? Was that her Mom or Dad perhaps? It had only rang once though. Oh. Text message. Valorie was slightly let down until she oppened her phone. Oh hey it was Mark! And... he... had her hat?! Valorie flushed pink in the face reading his message. What were the odds of that?? After a few moments she sent a message back telling him that she was fine and that it had only been stolen from her. She then included an extra tidbit that read 'Miss you guys!'*
She closed her phone and stood there with her pokemon, bright and early, staring at the sunset... Charmeleon certainly seemed to enjoy it. She was almost glowing with--oh, wait. She /was/ glowing... with evolution. Valorie was suddenly alarmed. Crud! If this was anything like last time, Charmeleon's new form would come with an even worse attitude. What if she attacked someone?! She was /not/ looking forward to having another episode like last time. Charmeleon's size increased pretty radically. She was now finally taller than Valorie, though only by about a foot.
Valorie's eyes grew wide as the glow faded. She was starring at a Charizard. What she became aware of almost immediately was the wings. /Those wings!/ Charizard resembled a dragon much more than her previous forms. Valorie couldn't help but become awestruck. When had her pokemon become so /cool/?! This was quickly overshadowed by the fact that Charizard might have an attitude that could kill.
She cautiously approached, rather nervous, stopping when Charizard turned to look at Valorie. The look was mostly expressionless. Valorie felt herself immediately get anxious. What would happen?
Charizard proceeded to lift her arms and stretch her wings, yawning out loud. She then scratched her belly and regarded Valorie cheerily and without any sign of irritation, aggressiveness, or otherwise angst, the sort of things she would've already have expected from Charmeleon.
Valorie's mind just sort of blanked. Excuse me, what? Charizard was acting more like she had as a Charmander! Only, assumedly less naive. That was totally not what she had been expecting at all. She relaxed after a moment and let out a sigh of relief. Little did she realize that Charmander's evolutionary line was perfect symbolism for the aging of humans. Kids were normal enough. Then you had angsty teens, and then respectable adults. Course, Valorie was too young to actually pick up on that symbolism, but it was totally there anyway.
Valorie herself stretched, deciding that they had had enough for the time being and that she should wait for Selene to wake. She proceeded to head back on over with her pokemon, stopping not all that far away from where Selene was sleeping and turning to her pokemon. She pressed a finger to her lips, telling them to be silent so that the would not wake Selene. She then proceeded to turn and just watch the sunrise again. She wasn't sure why, but watching said sunrise somehow felt comforting.
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