Before she knew it, Julia had lead the group all the way to Cherrygrove, which was quite a relief to some extent. She was glad to know that they were away from Elm, and free to discuss any happenings.
"First thing's first, we're staying here for the night, got it? We're gonna get a room at the pokemon center, by some pokeballs, and talk this over, once Jake is… Uh… Able to speak…" She looked over to find Jake panting to catch up with them ( Sorry for the PP SL, but I needed to do something XD It was just a little bit… *innocent* ). She lead the group to the pokemon center, making sure that they were all together,
"We'll need the biggest room you have, and… Yeah!" Julia sweat-dropped, expecting to need some more things but actually didn't, ruining her reputation of being the 'big boss lady'. After checking into their room, they took only a few steps to get to the mart. She dug through her wallet to find 15000 pokedollars in a plastic hard-cover.
"I knew it'd be worth keeping…" she thought, remembering her doubts of being able to transport them back to the real world… Of course they were only blank pieces of paper with Binary code written on them in the real world… Seeing the kids gawk at all the things on the shelf, she pulled apart the hard-cover, and threw the 15000 PD on the counter.
"Alright, we'll need 10 of the cheapest bags you have, and 52 pokeballs… That's 2 for me, 2 for Jake, and 6 for the rest, right?… And we should have enough bags…" The shop-keeper said nothing, and gave Julia 3 large bags of pokeballs, and 10 shoulder bags, no change was issued, however.
"Alright guys, there are enough of these bags for each of us…" She said, pulling one over her shoulder as Abby and Conner both did the same. Pandy did so as well, but much more cautiously. Before she distributed the bags, she put 6 pokeballs in each, except for 2, which she put 2 in-her's, and Jake's.
"Mom… How'd you know that the pokemon centers rented out rooms here?… And how did you afford all this stuff!?" Pandora asked, opening each of her empty pokeballs with curiosity. Julia looked down at her with an awkward expression on her face.
"… I DON'T WANT ONE!" She shrieked, flailing her arms in the air before her mom got a chance to say anything.
"I'll tell you all during the evening when we're settled in, okay? Until then, we should go check out our surroundings… We'll all meet at our room before sun-set…" Abby agreed, seeing how the bag was the perfect size for her Cleffa.
"You should just stay in here!" She stated happily, patting the Cleffa's silky head. Conner had yet to even see his Meowth, so he headed to the pokemon center alone, hoping no one was going to follow.
"You can come out now…" He whispered softly, watching the large streak of light run across the room, revealing a soft meowth.
"Meoowwtthh…" He purred, gently walking up to Conner on all fours, and rubbing his side up against his leg. He seemed to develop an immediate liking towards Conner, but whether or not that was normal for the pokemon was unknown to Conner…
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Pandy ran outside the mart with the group inside. She saw the same Feebas from New Bark swimming in the sea in front of her.
"EWW THE ZOMBIE-FISH IS BACK!" She squealed, running up the stairs back to the Mart, but she ended up tripping over the second step, having one of her pokeballs fall out of her bag. She turned around on her back to find that the Feebas was gone, and her pokeball was in the water. She ran to the shore, and tapped her foot against the water to see if there were any pokemon. After a few minutes of calm waves, she took out her pokeball. Taking it inland, she saw the pokeball open up, revealing a Feebas, flailing on the land in front of her.
"EWW EWW OH MY GOSH I HAVE ONE!! NOOO I DON'T WANT ONE NOO!!" Pandora flailed her arms in the air, unconsciously in Synchronization with the Feebas' flailing fins. Out of nowhere, a seemingly older trainer (although not too much older than Pandora) Approached her.
"What are you doing with that Feebas!? IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MINE!" She viciously exclaimed, throwing her rod in a case attached to her back.
"NOOO TAKE IT TAKE IT I DON'T WANT IT!" Pandora shrieked, not knowing what to do. She tried returning the pokemon back into it's pokeball, but it kept flailing around.
"Pfft, reverse psychology doesn't work on me…" The girl stated, she now introduced herself as Noel.
"NOO REALLY—UH—NOEL, TAKE IT!" She screamed, now her mind was boggling with bizarre thoughts.
"Fine, I'll BATTLE YOU FOR IT!"
"NOO JUST TAKE IT!" Noel shook her head in amusement,
"You REALLY think I wanna just take it from you?"
"NO I DON'T KNOW WHY ANYONE WOULD WANT A ZOMBIE-FISH BUT APPARENTLY YOU DO SO TAKE IT!" Noel continued to shake her head, she threw out a pokeball.
"GO, MAGIKARP!" Pandora sweat-dropped. She was never a fan of the pokemon series, but she knew for a fact what that pokemon was, and it wasn't a good one. The two girls stood opposite each other, watching the 2 water pokemon flail aimlessly on the ground. Julia peaked her head outside the door of the mart with a blank expression on her face. After almost 10 minutes of random movement, the Magikarp stopped moving, and Pandora was wrapped around a tree, ready to climb it at any moment if the Feebas were to turn and even look at her. Noel returned her Magikarp, and threw 200 PD on the ground.
"Fine, take it! But I know I'll see you again, that's when I'll get your Feebas!" Pandora walked slowly to Feebas, who also now stopped.
"Feebas… That's what you're called… Kind of an ugly name… I wonder if anything could make you look more pretty… EWW I'M TALKING TO SUSHI!" Pandora quickly returned the pokemon to it's ball, now that it stopped moving.
"If all battles involve no movement, I could start to like this place!" She picked up the PD, put it in her pocket, and watched everyone in the mart.
"… I still don't want you though," She stated, peaking into her bag and whispering into it.