Project PS; The Pokemon shifter case, part 1:

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OOC: Well, the restaurant would kind of have been trashed if a hungry Snorlax came in. Maybe it was just digging around in the trash cans outside or something? It could have been piling up the good stuff somewhere as a special treat and then our Skitty friend would come in and steal it. The Snorlax would get mad and chase her away, which would explain why she's in the forest. She could be suggesting that the two go and snatch something from the Snorlax again (Maybe one of them creating a diversion or something?). As I said, she doesn't seem like the type that gives up before she gets her way. Other than that, it's fine though. ^^
 
Coran laughed. She could just imagine all these pompus diners suddenly becoming snorlaxes, or cyndaquils, or clefables, right in front of her eyes.
She then paused. "Better safe than sorry, I guess."

She began to eat, but extremely slowly. Rave had already finished his plate and was looking eager for more, but Coran was making it last. Despite the fact it was an all-you-can-eat buffet. When her head dipped forward, so did her hair, forming a sort of curtain. Through it, she observed them all one by one, drinking in every inch. She didn't want them thinking she was being nosy
 
"Yeah." Teioh replied, grinning slightly as he tried to picture what pok?mon the patrons looked most like before returning to his food.

The boy-Espeon ate fairly slowly as well, sticking to his systhematic way of dealing with the food. Sometimes he turned the plate without touching it to get to the ones he wanted, but his pace was, in fact, almost painfully slow. Limpy abesnt-mindedly followed the sight, snatching some food here and some food there from the others' plates as he was feeling too lazy to walk up and get his own. Biggs on the other hand had moved over to the buffet in his usual energetic but unarguably slow manner, shoveling up as much food as the plate could hold before walking back and beginning to gobble it up as fast as his present form would allow him. In all honesty, Teioh found such a way of eating slightly annoying, but he didn't comment on it and didn't really seem to pay much attention to it for that matter. It was as if Teioh's eyes had a will of their own, constantly seeming to move in Coran's direction until the boy-Espeon caught them doing so and turned them elsewhere. Come on Teioh... he thought for himself, calling upon another Calm Mind Pull it together...

Squirt was going to catch up on this, he was sure. And he could already hear her giggles and insinuations echoing in his own mind.
 
OCC: I guess that could work, but wouldn't it work if it happened a while back and they made repairs? if not I guess I could do your idea...
 

Mara & Squirt
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Squirt, watching Teioh, had to control another giggle outburst, and Mara even gave her a reproachful look before realizing that Squirt was no longer her pokemon to control.

To counterract the giggles, Squirt looked thoughtfully over to Limpy, who was looking at his meal with a digruntled expression. Squirt heard him mumble something about a being called a child when certain members could barely hold a conversation. She had a certain warm spot for the little rat, and she smiled nicely at him.

"Were you an old man when you were transformed, Limpy?" she asked him, "Or were you younger?"

Mara began to discuss things with Seth again. She found him very pleasant to talk to, and truly enjoyed the conversations she had with him.

Growlithe raised an eyebrow at his noodles, then looked over to Rave's plate.

{I think I'll have what he's got,} he said finally.
 
Coran dashed off to fetch it for Growlithe. She was a very obligiable girl, and she returned with growlithe's plate balanced on one hand, and had another plate of Rave's balenced on the other.

Only now, did Coran finally relax. She sat back on her chair... only to see Teioh sitting up uncommonly straight, his eyes crossed in concentration.
"Teioh... are you okay?" she raised one eyebrow at the espeon. "Maybe all this food's gone to your head..."
Coran turned back to her plate, and she began to eat with gusto. "So where did you guys all come from?" she asked, between mouthfulls. "This region?" She didn't know it very well. If they named a city, she'd just nod and smile, and pretend she knew it.
 
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{Well...} Limpy replied slowly, limiting the conversation between him and Squirt {...you do seem to be a bit sharper than the others here, so I suppose I could give you the whole theory; First of all, I was much younger when they caught me. About the same age as our little Romeo over there.} he grinned at the boy-Espeon, obviously having noticed the same signs as Squirt did. {Secondly, from what I gather, and there's very little definite in it you understand, they used an experimental formula on me. It was apparently meant to bring forth unusual colouring or some other collector nonsense, and in a way it did I suppose.} he gestured at his greyed furr {It seems like I'm aging at the same pace as a Rattata would. This is, of course, just speculation.} he added, chewing thoughtfully on a piece of noodle {I used to be a student of biology though, so I'm fairly confident that I can read the signs.}

"Yeah, I'm fine." Teioh replied, fortunately having finished calming his senses. "Yes, it must be the food. And I came from this region, yes. Suncrest city." he added at the second question, maintaining his own eating pace, although he had the distinct advantage of not having to wait for his mouth to be empty before he spoke, unaware of his friends' geographical knowledge he decided to elaborate "It's a fairly large coastal city down south, lots of commerce, not to mention tourism. But it's not a bad place to live really."
 

Mara & Squirt
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"Really? Wow... I feel so sorry for you. If you ever got changed back into a human again, like me, would you be old or young again?" Squirt paused, "Probably old I suppose."

Growlithe began to eat his meal much more enthusiatiscally. {Ah, this is much better than those wet strings called noodles,} he said, slurping up his meal.

Mara leaned over, "Oh, I'm from Intertwine City. It's an interesting place. Lots of surfing, lots of guys with heads too big to fit on their shoulders. But I love walking by the ocean with a sunset on the horizon. After all, it's where we found Squirt; washed up on shore. All confused." She smiled at Squirt.

The lavender-eyed girl suddenly remembered something as Mara smiled at her. "Oh!" squeaked Squirt, "Coran, I never answered your question... I don't remember anything no. I think it's best though. I just have this feeling that nothing in my old life was worth living for."

Growlithe suddenly looked up at Squirt. He had a weird feeling of deja-vu. He couldn't quite figure out what it was about, so he shook it off for the moment and continued to eat his dinner.
 
Coran grinned. They were both from the seaside, and she could see a few free holidays on the horizon. "Sounds cool," she told them both, "I love the beach. Especially at night...during the day it's always busy." she frowned darkly, as if remembering a paticular boshed family holiday.

"I," she announced, "was born in Fushia city. In Kanto, you guys know it?" She ran her hands through her hair. "I loved it there, all the greenery. Then, when I was about seven, my family went to Celadon to be closer to my Dad's work. What fun!" she said sarcastically. "But...I did get Rave there, so it wasn't all bad."

She half-smiled at Teioh. There was something up with him, she just wished she knew what it was! Feeling disgruntled, she turned back to her food, and began poking her noodles.
 
{Yeah, old as the sky.} Limpy concured with Squirt's statement, taking another bite and settling to listen to the conversation for a while. {Well, I was born in Balautenos city if anyone cares.} he stated as the others had finished their explanations, not really seeming to care that much if anyone commented. Biggs didn't join into the conversation, being too busy with fetching himself a new platefull as he was. Apparently his jogging routine took quite a bit of energy.

"Yes, nighttime is definitely better." Teioh concured, remembering the many times he had slipped away from a family argument to go and stare at the nightly sea, admiring how peacefull everything was when there were no people to shun him and the only noise that he could hear was the rhytmic crashing of the waves as they struck the shoreline. "Not that it would have been healthy for me to go to such places in daytime." he added, his expression darkening slightly "...but that is beside the point. And yes, I think I've heard of Fuschia city. Isn't that the coastal town with the safari zone? One of my mad plans was to somehow get myself a ride over there and catch one of the safari pok?mon as a starter." he chuckled slightly, shaking his head at the absurdity of it "Foolish dreams..." Teioh concluded, resuming his eating again.
 
Coran smiled sincerely, her grey eyes full of remorse. "They're all fools, remember?" she whispered, leaning closer so only he could hear, "We're past caring what they think, anyway. Just us guys against the world."
She sat back up, answering Teioh's question.
"There's no beach there - not really, anyway. It just...backs down to the sea from the cliffs. It's only for hardcore swimmers, really. And the idiotic girls that try to impress the guys." She tutted, apparently not approving of this paticular activity. "I liked the zoo, though. I wanted a Tauros for ages, but my Dad soon ruined that plan." she sighed irratably. "He had the biggest say in my life. Didn't matter what I wanted, as long as it followed his rules. 'You can have any pokemon,' I remember him telling me, 'as long as it's a houndour.'" she made a disapproving 'tchah' noise.
 
At Coran's whispered statement Teioh smiled back as well as his current form would allow him, managing with some effort to control his artificially calmed thoughts and steer them away from the course that they seemed so eager to set out on. Although his expression didn't betray it, the boy-Espeon was beginning to get rather annoyed with himself for continuously interpreting things like he did. In an attempt to get his mind back on track, he focused his full attention on the rest of Coran's words instead.

Teioh pictured the scene as Coran described it, imagining what it would look like, how it would feel to stand on the top of one of those cliffs and follow the sea's crashing so far below. Then the image was spoiled by the addition of pro swimmers with their goggles and caps performing warm up exercises by the cliffs and letting out peculiar noises as they practiced their breathing technique. It was a rather disturbing picture, and Teioh decided to erase it before the 'idiotic girls' would make an entrance and drive his thoughts back to discomforting territory.

"To each their own I guess." the boy-Espeon commented on the dissaproving sound that Coran made at the mention of said girls "At least that way the idiots will find each other. Although it is perhaps debatable wether that is a good thing. And I'm sorry that your father got to control your life like that." he added in a far more sincere tone "Maybe we'll find a Tauros somewhere along the way though. I've always wanted an Espeon myself, although I suppose that's not really hard to guess." he indicated his current form.
 
Coran didn't answer at first; she ate a few more mouthfulls, cleared her plate, and put her knife and fork in the middle of her plate before she spoke again.
"It was in the past, I hardly care any more. I haven't seen him for four years; msot of the time, I succeed in forgetting his existence." she forced a smile, and cuddled Rave. "I'm quite glad he did force me.. I mean, Rave's a great friend." she cooed, as the canine looked noncommitent.

"Well... maybe we'll find an eevee, as well. How come you didn't get a pokemon? I mean, you're about sixteen, right? Surely there was plenty of oppurtunity to pick one up on the way..." her eyes flicked to his face, but she returned her gaze to her plate before he could see. "Sorry, I'm intruding again.."

Coran couldn't help it any more than Teioh could, not that she realised his situation; the espeon-boy was a tantalizing (sp? I don't have Word to check...) person, and she longed to know everything about him. Especially his human side. He eyes constantly found his, and she was beginning to feel silly
 
"Oh, you're not intruding." Teioh replied, taking another pause from his eating even though his plate was almost empty anyway. "And yes, you'd undoubtedly expect someone wanting to become a trainer to already have a pok?mon at the age of seventeen and goodness knows I tried. I applied to every institution and laboratory I could reach in the hopes of getting myself a starter, any pok?mon would have been fine. But of course, in such circles they research their applicants quite properly, and the name D'Argent is well known. I'm sure I don't need to tell you the results." he sighed a bit.

"Of course...there was one time I could have gotten myself one..." he added wistfully "Pok?mon that is. Not an Eevee perhaps, but a pok?mon. You see, one evening when I was walking by the beach after an argument with my parents, I heard a strange squealing sound from a nearby pile of sand. As I rushed over to inspect I found...well, I didn't quite know what it was I had found at the time. The poor thing was so battered and covered in dirt that I thought it was a Magikarp. We get such things from time to time you see." he added, remembering that he wasn't speaking to a person from Suncrest "Sometimes the waves overpower a marine pok?mon and toss it onto the shoreline. The fishers usually get them though, although apprently this one had been ignored. Well, the pok?mon center was closed at that hour, funding restrictions you see, so I settled for the next best thing. I still remember my parents' expression when I rushed home, all covered in sand, with a wounded fish in my arms." his eyes seemed a bit distant for a moment. "Well, as I mentioned my dad has a good bit of experience with pok?mon and after some incessant whining, shouting, begging, negotiating, cajoleing, and blackmailing I finally managed to get him to wash of the dirt and check the pok?mon up. It was no Magikarp." he took a brief pause "According to my dad it was a Feebas, apparently a very rare breed of fish pok?mon that like to live by large waterfalls. Still don't know how it ended up in the sea. Anyway, I was excited of course, and my next question was naturally if I could keep it..."

Teioh's mindvoice became bitter as he continued "I should have suspected something when my dad gave me the clear straight away and told me to get to bed. Of course when I woke up the next morning, the Feebas was gone, released back into the wild. There was to be no pok?mon training for me, so my dad told me. In fact, he didn't want me to have anything to do with pok?mon at all. I was to become an engineer and that was the end of it." his face contorted into a frown for a while, "The one big chance I had to realize my dream and dad just had to ruin it. I was so mad with my parents that I refused to speak to them for the rest of the week. And a few days after that, I fled from home."
 
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Coran stared at her hands for a moment. bite it down, she told herself, Don't hug him again, resist the temptation...bite it down...He's not an espeon, he's a boy, don't hug him!

Her eyes found Teioh's, a haunted look in her eyes. "I'm... really sorry..." she shook her head, as if trying to rid her head of that terrible image. She couldn't stomach even the thought of a life without her pokemon.
When she was hungry, they found her food. When she was cold, their bodies warmed hers. When she was lonely, their voices were always there, comforting. "That was a horrible...way to grow up." she told him, steadying her voice. "But why? Why did he try to isolate you?" she asked, her head cocked to one side again. It was a very 'Coran' expression, and was strangely reminiscent of her pokemon. "He taught you loads about pokemon but never let you ahve one? Isn't that a bit like dangling a carrot in front of a donkey?" her voice rose slightly; it was now strained, and strangely high-pitched.

Rave's head turned, hearing the warning signs in her voice. He didn't make a sound, though, and just kept watching.
 
"I don't know..." Teioh replied, regaining his composure best he could and beginning to regret having told this tale as he saw the haunted look in Coran's eyes. "The things he taught me...that was when it seemed like our cover was holding up, when he thought he had got rid of his past. Maybe...maybe when word of our original family name spread, I was about seven years old then as I recall. Maybe in some twisted way he was trying to protect me, maybe he thought that if I didn't have anything to do with pok?mon at all they wouldn't persecute me for it. But I certainly didn't think that way at the time...but for all I know he might as well have been deriving some kind of sick pleasure from the thought that I wouldn't succeed in life either." he shrugged. "Anyhow, I shouldn't be dumping my problems on you like this, you've got enough to deal with as it is. I'm sorry."
 
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OOC: Wow, you guys sure are angsty! ^^ Though, it is fun to play someone with a troubled past. Hopefully you don't connect them with any real-life experiences...

And where'd Clow go??


Mara & Squirt
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Mara looked away a bit from the conversation that Teioh and Coran were having. It seemed a bit too personal, and she really had never had any of the kinds of experiences they had. Her parents were very loving and supportive, and to imagine what all that must have been like... she didn't really know what to say.

Squirt, on the other hand, continued to look concerned for her two friends. She found herself reflecting on her own life, and shook herself out of it. 'No, she thought, 'The only times that matter are the ones with Mara and Growlithe.'

Growlithe sniffed a bit at Limpy and snorted. {You need a bath,} he said flatly, {You smell like garbage.}

Squirt blinked, "Growlithe! Limpy, don't get too mad, Growlithe's just rude and blunt... oh, you know what, get mad, he deserves it." She smiled though, because she had witnessed Growlithe's blunt talk many times before.

Mara pulled herself back into the discussion though as she heard Teioh's apology.

"Oh come on now Teioh, if you were burdening anyone we would have found a way to shut you up a long time ago," she said with a smile.

Seth looked up too. "Would we have? Seems like he was on an unstoppable roll to me," he joked, stuffing noodles in his mouth and then getting burnt by them.
 
Coran giggled at Seth and Mara's comments, but couldn't think of anything else to say. Instead, she called over the young waiter/cashier, who came hurrying over, hoping they wanted the bill.

"Glass of water, please." Coran told him, and watched as he scurried off, looking dejected. She laughed, and when he returned a moment later, a tall glass balanced hap-hazardly on his tray, Coran burst into a sudden fit of giggles. He expression was a mix between interest (as was many of the diners, who had never seen anyone treat their pokemon quite like intelligent human beings before) and annoyance (that no, they weren't paying the bill yet).

He had just about reached Coran's table, when a pompus looking young business man, probably in his late twenties, coughed loudly. "Excuuuuuse me, sir," he said, in a low drawl, glaring at the waiter dirtily, "I believe I ordered a glass of water ten minutes ago. She ordered," he gestured to Coran, pointing his little finger in her direction, "only a moment ago. So that water is mine."
The waiter didn't argue. He put down the water beside the business man, and wandered off to the kitchen, no doubt to get Coran another.

The girl couldn't help but smile at the whole situation; humans really were funny, self-important creatures, weren't they?
 
OOC: Nope, no personal experience of it on my part. I'm nearly always making my chars have angsty, tragic pasts though, wonder what that says about me? o_O

Maybe I need to balance out the litterature I read...

As for Clow, dunno. Maybe his internet connection is down again? Man, he's going to have serious difficulties staying with us if this keeps up.

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{Oh, do I now?} Limpy asked, cocking his head as he looked at the fire type {Well at least my mouth is clean unlike yours which, I might I add, is breathing a bit too close. Have you been chewing garlic lately by any chance? I would bite you for that remark of yours} he added {but I would have to disinfect my mouth afterwards. No if you'll excuse me, I'll just go stand upwind from you for a moment.} he strode dramatically to another place of the table, although there wasn't really any wind to speak of, and resumed eating.

"That's right, I'm unstopable." Teioh concured with Seth's comment, his serious and bittered expression breaking into an appreciative grin. He had really needed something like that, something to break him free of his brooding. As Coran called in the waiter, who was clearly wishing that they would take the bill already as Biggs was already getting pretty far into his third platefull, only to ask for a glass of water, his grin widened and he broke into a hearty laugh instead. The way people acted, it was simply too precious. They were all obviously itching to point them out as freaks but none would dare to be the one to throw the first stone as they were afraid of being thought of as close-minded.

"Thanks." Teioh 'said' to his gathered friends "I really needed that."
 
Coran looked to the others. "I think we're starting to take advantage fo their hospitality now," she told her friends, raising her eyebrows hintingly, "Maybe we should call for the bill?"
She glanced to Rave, who had just finished his second plate and was ow laughing at Limpy, and Biggs, who was on his way there with his third.

{Limpy!} Rave called, {What was your human name? Don't tell me your were a biology student named after a mobility problem.} His tail wagged happily, apparently feeling a good deal more sociable now he had eaten. Earlier on, Rave probabler would have bitten off Limpy's head rather than look at it.

ooc| I'm a very angsty person *cries*
lol, not really. Coran just happens to be one of my Emo characters. Maybe one day I'll introduce you to Rod, a weird skinny teenagers that breeds tropiuses for a living. He's the sort of guy that sings 'turn your frown upside down' to anyone that even DARES look unhappy
 
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