Barrel City Stories(INVITATIONAL)

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"Ah so you've heard of me then!" Kevin said happily, ignoring the part about him having already announced it. Sometimes Kevin had what some called "Voluntary Selective Hearing". It was a disease commonly found in people who were full of themselves.

Glancing at the boy with the accent and his newly hatched pokemon, and then down at his own egg, Kevin looked back at Ashley, "So, these really are pokemon eggs then? And when is mine supposed to--."

However, the egg seemed to be answering this for him, and it suddenly burst open. Kevin dropped it as he was not in the least bit used to things exploding in his arms. It fell to the ground and cracked open fully to reveal a small dog-like creature. Its wet fur as black as the midnight sky, and its eyes an odd and startling yellow color. It had small bony lumps that would grow into the armored plates that usually covered parts of a Houndour. Slowly the pokemon looked back up at its new master and managed a small bark that sounded like a low whistle almost.

To the baby pokemon, it meant 'Mommy'. It was only understandable to other Houndour or Houndoom though, as many names for their own kind were to dog pokemon. To Kevin, the whole mess of the egg looked disgusting.

He sighed though, figuring this was what he had to endure to bring glory to himself, and dug in his pack for a towel to grab the filthy thing with. Then once he had grabbed up the baby with the towel, he looked down at her cute, tired face.

"Well, it isn't that bad, is it? And Houndour are supposed to be quite strong pokemon. Surely an asset to me," he said placing his finger in the pokemon's vicinity to pet it.
 
{ooc| VSH? LMAO, Mel!}

Alex stared, dumb-founded, at this newcomer. "I haven't heard of you." he squeaked, thoroughly shocked at Kevin's entrance. At his clothes, too. Oh, and the dog pokemon that now sat in his hands, that too. He was obviously completely in control of the situation, unlike Alex. For the first time ever, he actually felt embarressed to be wearing a checkered farmer shirt and jeans.

The charmander was pulled herself completely out of the egg now, kicking in of the pieces out of the way. She gave a shocked little squeak and glanced up at Alex, something the boy knew would lead to her thinking she was Alex's daughter. Alex smiled at her, and lifted her up by her under-arms so she could get a good look at her new parent... only for the hapless boy to discover things weren't always as simple as he thought they would be. The charmander poked him in the eye defiantly, and stuck out her tongue.
Alex swore loudly.
"I don't know yet," he told Ashley, as the charmander snorted smoke in her trainer's face. Funnily enough, she hadn't burnt Alex yet - a good sign, he hoped.
 
Ashley was about to open her mouth to protest about Kevin's statement, but then thought the better of it and didn't interject, making a mental not for herself instead Patient suffering from severe VSH and swollen ego... she noted in her mind, briefly amusing herself by picturing herself in her father's place, listening to all kinds of pok?mon yapping, barking, screeching and whatnot and making witty notes on a small notepad, with Kevin in the place of the pok?mon. The girl couldn't help laughing just a bit at this image before dispelling it, it seemed simply too absurd to maintain.

The girl looked up again, watching as the egg in Kevin's hands began trembling, the boy instantly dropping it in shock and allowing to fall to the floor, its shell cracking to reveal the pok?mon within...a baby Houndour.

Ashley frowned at Kevin's reaction as the boy recoiled, apparently considering himself too important to touch the newborn, and rummaged for a towel from his pack. Had Ashley been in his position, she would have picked up the adorable little puppy without a second thought and hugged it silly.

"Of course it isn't bad." the girl replied at Kevin's comment, once again astonished by the boy's attitude, "Any pok?mon can become powerful with training. Besides, it's really cute too." she smiled at the Houndour, something which she had yet to do to the boy holding it, before she turned around once more as Alex reached out to pick up his Charmander.

"Erm, Alex..." Ashley began "You might not want to..." the lizard pok?mon poked the boy in the eye "...do that." the girl concluded with a sigh "Charmanders tend to be self-reliant." she said, hoping that she remembered her lessons correctly "It's quite common for Charizards to leave their eggs, so young Charmanders tend to know how to fend for themselves, sometimes they don't even recognize anyone as their mother."

{Mama...} Kula whined, grabbing a tight hold of Ashley as the Charmander in Alex's hands began to spew smoke, {Mama, I'm scared...}

"It's allright my sweet..." Ashley replied in a soothing voice, once again turning her attention to comoforting the Snorunt, hugging it tightly and slowly rocking it back and forth "It's allright...no-one is going to hurt you...you're safe...I promise." she continued holding Kula, the ice type's crying soon coming to an end once more, although it still clung tightly to her neck. Ashley felt a slightly unpleasant chill as this happened but ignored it, allowing the Snorunt to have all the time she needed.

"It would be great if you got her to stop breathing smoke..." the girl said to Alex, nodding towards his Charmander "She's scaring Kula..."
 
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OOC: I'm a little lost...

IC: John lost everyone and slipped outside into the night air. He almost thought he could see a star, but to see one meant you were weird. Stars never appeared over Barrel City.
Ring, now asleep again, was dozing in his arms. John sighed.
"I wonder whats happening to my life," he thought.
Then he entered the bar again. The Feelingshippers had left and now a new band was on the stage.
"YES!" yelled John, upon recognizing his favourite band, Masterball. They were playing one of their best songs on their last album, as they had released two.
"All right! 'Focused!'," yelled John again as he heard the tune. Many people round the bar were singing along.
{Huh?} said Ring, roused by the music.
"Still sleepy, are you?" teased John gently and she laughed.
He looked around and saw a new kid by the others.
"What is Clay up to?" he thought and went towards him.
 
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Ack, I tried to post but ran out of time.. >_<

Don't go too far..
 
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Notice that all the baby pokemon are female...0.o
Or is Tessie's Seviper a male?Did Plushie specify yet??
XD

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"I'm Jinger,and this is my adorable Feebas,Beauhin."the girl curtsied gracefully before holding out the Feebas infront of Alex.Beauhin grinned,waving her fin at the boy and his egg before being pulled back to his 'mother'.Oblivious to the way Alex looked at her.

Beauhin yawned,she was feeling oddly tired all of a sudden.The Feebas wondered why she felt so sleepy.Jinger quickly noticed this,craddling the Feebas back and forth in her arms.

"Its natural for you babies to want to sleep,so don't worry."she told Beauhin,poking the Feebas lightly on her forehead.Beauhin nodded,before closing her eyes and cuddling close to the girl.

Jinger was smiling at the cute pokemon,before looking up and noticing that another boy with brown hair,marched into the club with so much pride.He wore such fine clothes,Jinger assumed that he was another rich tycoon's son.Just like her father,the girl thought,only that this boy seemed either worse of better,she couldn't tell.
As he announced himself to be a 'Kevin Hale' and got dragged away by Clay,and returning with one of her many eggs.He walked up to her and the rest,proudly clutching the egg in his hands.Asking if they knew who he was.

"I'm not deaf,you said that your name was Kevin."she frowned.Then,the egg in his hands started to hatch,showing that it was a Houndour egg.Jinger raised an eyebrow as the boy dug into his bag to take out a towel and proceeded to wrap the pokemon with it.

As Alex's egg hatched into a Charmander,Jinger clapped her hands.

"Yay for Alex!"she smiled as the boy tried to carry the newly hatched lizard.But only ended up getting poked in the eye and being covered in smoke.

"Ouch..."she flinched,coughing at the smoke.

"Don't think you should've done that."she smiled,listening to Ashley's explanation on Charmanders being independant.

"Wow,you know alot."she stared in amazement at the girl beside her as she shushed her Snorunt.Waving one hand so that the smoke would stay away form her and her clothes.
 
OOC: A strange coincidence about the baby pok?mon, ne? Well, Kula just had to be female cause' I didn't really happen to have any good names for male Snorunts at the moment. It's not my fault that you're all copy-cats. XP

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"Oh, it's just a little piece of trivia I picked up..." Ashley replied, smiling a bit bashfully at Jinger's comment and amazed stare over her small lecture on Charmander behaviour "Charmanders were one of the pok?mon species that we studied most, me and dad, back when I still lived with him..." she smiled wistfully, slowly cradling Kula back and forth. The Snorunt had now stopped crying, loosening her grip around Ashley's neck just a little bit and laying back in her arms. The ice type seemed to have decided to try not to see the scary fire type, focusing on the face of 'mama' instead, the Snorunt's previous smile soon returning, along with a wide yawn. All the commotion and crying had taken its toll on Kula, and she began to feel sleepy...but she couldn't bring herself to close her eyes yet. What if mama wouldn't be there when she woke up? What if she would be left alone? It was an all too scary thought for the little Snorunt to handle so she did her best to keep awake, despite fatigue showing.
 
Alex flinched noticably as the next song started up. All the modern rock was beginning to give him a head-ache. The boy rubbed the smoke from his cheek and popped the charmander on the floor, where she growled and grumbled and looked thoroughly fed-up - but clung to Alex's legs all the same.

His grin widened as he saw the houndour - it was an adorable, floppy sort of thing, and looked incredibly vunerable without it's bones grown properly. However, Kevin still had Alex in awe, so the farm-boy decided not to comment.

Alex flushed scarlet. "Sorry.. I don't..." he bit his lip. Ashley seemed to know ever so much, and she seemed sensible, too. He glanced at the charmander. "...I don't know much about pokemon. ...I know lots about tropiuses, and how to make medicines from plants and how to check for wounds and how to keep their bodies healthy... but I don't know anything about their natures."

The little fire type was glancing about, still clutching Alex's leg with one paw. She didn't want to be babied, but she certainly didn't want to set off on her own just yet.

{ooc| ALSO, Alex is a slightly down-played reincarnation of my character Rod (I think I told you and LA about him...he used to be more stupid/crazy, but he is two years older now..) and he's always had a shiny female charizard called Sierra. I think he lent her to Maxie once, I'll have to check that...}
 
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OOC: Ohh...I knew there was something familiar about Tropius farming, especially with a Charmander in the picture, but I just figured it was coincidence. XD Anyways, yay for the reincarnation of Rod! *Wishes he had seen the original* ^^

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As she listened to Alex's embarassed comment, noting that his face had undergone a distinct change of colour, Ashley began to feel quite sorry for the boy. He really seemed to be uneasy in this new environment, the mere change of music causing him to flinch visibly, he clearly wasn't used to the city-life, although his attire should perhaps have been evidence enough of that.

"You've been taking care of Tropiuses all your life?" Ashley asked in response to Alex's last comment, smiling in approval "You must know a lot about them, then. I mean, working with my dad I learned about a lot of different species, yes, but I never got to spend very much time with any single pok?mon, or even species, like you have. Really, there's no need to be embarassed about something like that, I'm sure you'll get the hang of these things once you've get into it." she cast a glance at the Charmander "That Charmander seems to like you well enough." she noted "I mean, it doesn't look like she really wants to be separated from you. I think you two will get along fine, just as long as you don't baby her. She's not really the type for that sort of thing..." she stroked Kula again, continuing to rock her slowly in an attempt to make the Snorunt take the rest that she saw it so badly needed "Unlike Kula here." the girl added, smiling warmly at the ice type "It's allright my sweet..." she said in a soft, kind voice "You're still a growing girl and need your sleep...I'll still be here when you wake up in the morning, I promise."

The Snorunt looked doubtfull for a while, but she was far too attached to Ashley to ever even concieve the thought that she would lie to her and soon relaxed properly, giving of a small yawn before drifting of to sleep in the girl's arms.

Ashley continued smiling at the Snorunt for a moment before turning her attention back to Alex again. "What's it like?" she asked suddenly, "Taking care of Tropiuses, I mean. They look so big and strong, how do you...you know, herd them?"
 
OOC: Can't post now...
I'm seeing Arsenal V Reading in like... 30 mins. Anyway I would have been on here earlier just I couldn't log on, but for some flukey reason, I managed to log on. I'll post tommorow.
 
{ooc| Reading v Ars-... OMG PETE'S ENGLISH! *shock* Anyway, I'm a Saints supporter myself (we are soooo losing) but I've sort of.... got bored of footie over the last few months. *traitor to her heritage* ;;}


Alex's face was a picture of relief; now this was a subject he could talk about! He got the impression Ashley had asked that paticular question for his benefit, rather than hers, but boy was he glad! Ashley definetly a likable girl, she certainly was kind and thoughtfull. Her pokemon seemed to already adore her, too; Kula obviously trusted her, alllowing herself to be cradled in that way. Alex felt certain his charmander was just clinging to him because he seemed less scary than the others.

It took Alex a minute or so to get his thoughts back on track. Eventually he stopped smiling aimlessly, and turned back to Ashley to answer her question.
"Since I was born, I've been raising them big ol' lumps." he voice seemed more certain now. "I know mainly what my gram'ma's taught me. She's got just over three hundred, but they mainly feed themselves, being clever like they are. Herding them's easy enough, you normally just slap one on the rump and they start walkin'. The rest normally follow, 'cos they're a bit dependent like that. 'Course, there's always one bozo that decides to stay behind. They're normally the girls, the lasses are more intelligent. And the guys normally stick with the girls, soooo..." he trailed off, grinning. He knew far more, of course, but he guessed Ashley didn't want to be over-run with details. Girls just weren't up to hard work like herding. His Grandmother frequently reminded him that she was a girl too, but Alex had come to what he thought was a rather educated decision, in thinking she was a different breed to Ashley, and his cousins.

"What does your Dad do, then?" he asked, "Is he a vet?"
Alex's mind wandered back to their own vet's infrequent visits. Alex's family remedies kept their own stock healthy, but they occasionally got surgeons in to do things a boy and his grandmother couldn't do alone. Like neutor a tetosterone-crazed male.

the shiney charmander wasn't listening; she was staring at the Snorunt curiously. She hadn't noticed the other pokemon yet.
 
Jinger just stood there,craddling Beauhin in her arms.Unlike Kula,the Feebas wasn't scared of her mother leaving her,most probbily because she had never thought of it.But,this were their mothers they were talking about,no way would Jinger leave her!The Feebas let out a small yawn,shifting her position to her side.

"Woah,Tropius herding?"Jinger repeated,listening to how the boy told them what they were supposed to do with the Tropius,though,still trying to get used to his accent.Truthfully,the girl wasn't exactly paying attention,she didn't like getting her clothes dirty and all that just because of darn pokemon.Maybe that was the reason why Alex was dressed in such a way.
 
OOC:

Thank gawd I finally caught up.. o.O

I might have missed stuff so I'll have to reread later..

By the way, Yibber, I did try to specify that Tessie's Seviper was female, but I think the group should at least have one male Pokemon, so I'm going to have to edit that. Plus, I'm going to have to edit one letter in his name.. Chaki just sounds too feminine for some reason. XD



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Tessie still hadn't moved from her spot by the pillar, ever since that whole incident with the biker. Instead she chose to observe rather quietly, stroking the top of her Seviper's head every once in a while the whole time. Even when a conversation really started going, she did not walk over.

Sure, she had managed a semi-decent conversation earlier, but that didn't mean she wasn't going to mess up if she tried again. Yes, so even when Kevin had loudly strolled in, then entered the conversation, she remained in her position.

"Chako, do you think we should go over there? I suppose since it's a good idea to stick around.." Tessie whispered, looking down at the serpant.

{Nyah..} He hissed, although it wasn't really a threatening kind of hiss. At this point, he had uncoiled himself, releasing Tessie's leg and slithering to the other side of his Trainer, in order to get a better view of the others.

Tessie nodded, somehow getting the idea of what he had said. Perhaps he had said something that sounded like 'no' on accident, but still..
 
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Yep,Yibber must've forgotten or something.
Anyway,
Do you guys know tha Sapphire's Blaziken's name is Chaka??XD
Actually,the Chunag Yi Version translated it into Toro.But another guy,Coronis I think,went and re-named the Blaziken,Chaka.
Would start on a random rant of all their nicknames..but...nah.XP
Just.....random manga knowledge for all.XD

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Jinger took a headcount,wondering if they were forgetting anyone.The girl pondered over it for a moment or so,placing one finger on her lips.The other hand continuing to rock Beauhin back and forth.

"Oh,right!Tessie!"she snapped her fingers after scanning around the room,noticing that the shy girl and her Seviper wasn't with them.Jinger turned around,trying to spot them.Finally,she found both of them at the pillar Tessie had decided to stop in the begining.Curiously or maybe,because of nosiness,she decided to go up and ask Tessie herself.

"What're you doing?Why aren't you with us?"she asked the girl and her Seviper.
 
OOC:

Chaka..

You know, in XD, I nicknamed me Arbok Kachaka.. What's with that? XD



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Tessie sighed, she had hoped that the others would have stayed over there.. Social disasters were things she liked to avoid.

"I'm over here because.. Well, let's just say conversing isn't exactly my thing. Besides, I asked Chako and he said he wanted to stay here, or at least I think he did.." She responded, in that soft voice of hers, glancing down at the Seviper.

Speaking of Chako, the Seviper had slithered in front of Tessie rather protectively at Jinger's approach, but he didn't hiss or anything that suggested 'back off', instead watching the girl very closely. He just wanted to make sure she hadn't come over here to harm his beloved mother..
 
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Niah,nothing's up with tha,its a unique and nice name I say!^^

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"Right..you're really strange you know that?I mean,we're just talking."Jinger said in an honest,yet rather annoying tone.Staring at Chako before looking up to Tessie.

"Did we agree to travel together?I mean since we've got the same goal."Jinger drifted off for a moment,hugging the sleeping Beauhin before turning back to Tessie.

"Shouldn't we get to know each other better and all that?Just..make sure that that thing doesn't hurt me."she pointed at Chako,holding her Feebas closer to her.
 
Tessie merely tilted her head at the other girl at first, but then folded her arms in a 'hmph' kind of way when Jinger referred to Chako as 'that thing'. Eventually, Tessie let it go, deciding that Jinger had every reason to be a bit afraid, after all, the Seviper was still poised in front of Tessie, still staring intently at Jinger.

"Don't worry about him, I won't let him hurt anyone." Tessie replied, stroking Chako's back so that the serpant would calm down and stop staring at Jinger. "But anyways, I guess you're right. I was just thinking.." She paused. "Well, if you haven't noticed, I'm not exactly Queen Social. But whatever floats your boat I guess.." She concluded, sighing.
 
Ashley couldn't help smiling as Alex described the Tropius herder's job, even though the boy did seem to be skipping most of the details, probably deeming that she wouldn't be interested. The girl didn't mind too much, though, it was reward enough to see Alex's face split into the very incarnation of relief, and to hear the sheer enthusiaism with which he spoke, this was obviously a subject that the boy knew more of than Ashley wagered she ever would.

At the question about his dad's job, the girl shook her head, "Nope, not a vet." she replied, grinning slightly at the picture of her dad, who had an almost phobic fear of going anywhere near a doctor, wearing the attire of a vet and preparing to operate on a live pok?mon. She knew he could never do it, Oliver had always been very sensitive to the emotions of his patients, a good trait for a psychiatrist perhaps, but definitely not for a vet. He would probably never recover if he lost a single patient "He's a kind of psychiatrist for pok?mon, tries to teach people how to understand them better, even wrote a book about it. He's pretty famous for it too..." she took a pause "Have you ever heard of Oliver Fairlight?" Ashley kind of doubted that the boy had though, after all, Alex really didn't seem to be the type to be reading books quite that...heavy.

The girl cast a quick glance to her side, just to check what the others were doing, and soon noticed that Tessie was still standing on the same spot where her egg had hatched, although Chako had now let go of the girl's leg, taking up a position in front of Tessie instead, ready to guard her against any possible treaths, which in this case basically meant Jinger who had walked over to ask something from the Tessie, Beauhnin still fast asleep in her arms.
 
OOC: Um... sorry to do an all-OOC post and all, but I just wanted to let you all know that I haven't forgotten about this RP! XD Just that I've got to go to English class in like 10 minutes, and I won't be able to catch up AND post in that much time. You shall be getting your post in appoximately an hour and a half. ^-^
 
{ooc| My arbok was called Pakka. Sorta similar names, eh? Anyway... I've nearly finished my Maxie pic. I gotta shade her face, then she's done. Then I'll post it, and then work on the background. It's very distracting! And the new censors are reeeally sensitive, it's driving me mad!}

"Yup!" Alex told Jinger cheerfully, "I've done it since I was old enough to walk!"
"Psychiatrist?" Alex turned to Ashley, his head tipped to one side. There was no doubt it was a trait he picked up from his tropiuses; a famous poster for fortree city portrayed a paticularily quaint looking tropius with her head to one side, with rolling hills behind her. The poor beast was probably thinking 'What the hell is that?' - they very frequently saw humans over than Alex and his grandmother, and they certainly weren't interested in tropius' photogenic traits. "Aren't they the people that sit you on a coach and get you to talk about your problems?" Alex strained his memory. His grandma had told him about them before, he just couldn't think why. She never told him anything without a reason; she thought too much information damaged a young man's muscles. She had informed Alex of this repeatedly for the last five years. Bless her, she was getting senile.

"Well... I've never heard of Oliver Fairlight... but we don't have many books. Only big reference books about ailments and remedies. Still, it sounds quite interesting. Do you help him a lot?"
 
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