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The Star in the Sky

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Ruya traced the several paths to Vermillion with her eyes. "I don't think we should go through Mount Moon. That's the longest way," she pondered then added, "I don't think we need to go through Pewter either." She placed a finger on the point on the map that was Viridian City. "If we go through Viridian Forest this way," she traced along the forest to a road that lead to Celadon, "we can skip Pewter all together. After that we go to Saffron then Vermillion. It'd be much quicker." Her eyes darted around the map once more before she moved her finger back to Viridian and said, "Or we could double back to Pallet Town, take a boat to Fuchsia, then either walk or take a second boat to Vermillion. That'd be the most expensive route, though, and I don't have very much money on me."

Ruya looked over the map again, trying to find another option but none seemed available. "So, it looks like we can go one of four ways. Of course, we could always fly there, but plane tickets are even more expensive than boat tickets so that seemed unlikely." The strain of not having Pokemon was becoming more and more apparent. If I had my Pokemon I could get to Vermillion so much quicker. Rapidash was always a help for long journeys.
 
"Alright... lessee, if we go this way, then it takes a while, and this way is easy but costs money, and this way is clogged with idiots..." Travis mused while tracing the routes on the table with his fingers. "Ah! It's no good! I admit it- I have no sense of direction! Why isn't there a map or something we could use!" he snapped, ramming his fist into the table in a fit of frustration. Unfortunately, the blow had a bit more power behind it then he had anticipated, causing the table to flip over and land on top of him. With a cry of surprise, he fell backward, chair and all, to the floor, borne down by the table.

A passing waitress stopped, and moved towards the trapped customer. "Are you stuck, sir?" she asked, sweetly.

"No, I'm just sitting here underneath a table because I happen to enjoy eating this way." Travis replied sarcastically.

"Ah. Well then, I hope you enjoy the rest of your meal!" The waitress bubbled, the slightest trace of offense in her voice, as she marched away.

"Wait! No! Come back!" Travis yelled desperately, trying to shove the table off of himself without success.
 
I was listening in on everything, meanwhile in my own mind, trying to decide what would be a good way to get to Vermillion. Heck, I wasn't even sure if Vermillion was the location of the Black Market central. It would take awhile to get there, a very long while without the help of Pokémon. But…how would an adventure be, one without Pokémon? That'd be some really strange adventure. I was the kind to go for anything and everything served on the table. There was no way I could say no to traveling a world without Pokémon. I do agree that I wouldn't like to find a world that exists that way, but it happened already. Why sulk here, in Viridian? I'd rather have an adventure than that.

I was about to answer with a 'I'm in' as Travis began speaking and pointing of points of travel, but then in an anger, he somehow managed with all his strength to hit the table hard enough for it to flip right in front of me, nearly hitting my face, and land right on top of him.

This wasn't something you see everyday. Not by someone of what Travis looks like. Maybe he could have the strength to do that, but the way the table flipped; it just seemed out of place. Something did this, not him. Because not even steroids could have helped him do that.

"Wow," I said, still slightly shocked. In the instant the waitress passed and left after Travis's attempt at sarcasm, I walked to his side and lent out a hand. "Need some help?" I asked the obvious question, while in my mind and expressionful all over my face I was thinking, What the heck?! How did that happen?!
 
Zaiku stared at Travis' performence of anger... Zaiku slowly backed away one step... As Travis was really steamed about something...
"Uhh... Travis, are you ok?" Zaiku asked uneasily...
Zaiku began to think... It must be the changes, it must of somehow altered his personality Zaiku had jumped to a conclusion...

Zaiku stepped back in...
 
Starting to feel hot again, Izzy reached for what was now her third of fourth glass of ice, calmly listening to the others and weighing out the options in her head. Considering the others' money issues, the Viridian Forest route seemed to be the best way. It was faster, cheaper, and now that the Pokemon were gone, presumably much safer as well.
There was still one problem, though, in her case. There was no way that her aunt and uncle were going to let her travel all the way to Viridian with a bunch of strangers. Not that Izzy could blame them: The idea did sound rather ludicrous. How would she tell them?

"Oh, hey Aunt Linda! Hey Uncle Tim! I'm gonna go with a bunch of strangers to find the Black Market, be back in few months!"

...Yeah. That wasn't exactly what you'd call 'convincing'.

If it weren't for her obsession with Team Rocket, she wouldn't even bother, but she just had to be involved in this. She just had to.
Izzy frowned, her slate-blue eyes gazing down at her glass. The whole ordeal was rather vexing, but there had to be some kind of solution.
As she began to ponder on more solutions, however, she was startled when, seemingly out of nowhere, Travis smashed his hand against the table, causing it to flip over and land on him.
The blond merely sat wide-eyed, having almost jumped out of her skin from the shock.

"Wha... What the hell was that!?!"
 
OOC: Basically we've all decided to head off to Vermillion to track down the Kanto Black Market and retrieve the Rainbow Wing that Team Rocket stole from Travis. Travis, however, has managed to flip the table everyone was sitting onto himself and is stuck.

IC: While listening to what Travis was saying about the different routes and trying to decide what she felt would be the best way to go, Ruya found herself rubbing her temples, trying to alleviate the headache that had returned with new strength. Stress wasn't helping. A loud bang and the fleeting image of something whooshing past her gave her such a jolt of shock that she completely forgot about her discomfort.

"What the?!" she began, looking wildly around for a minute. Her eyes fell on Travis, pinned underneath the table they had all been sitting at. She blinked. How did he manage that? He doesn't look like he has enough strength to flip the table over on himself. But I guess looks can be deceiving.

"Err, do you need some help?" she asked tentatively, around the same time Tom asked the same thing. It felt like a pretty stupid question as Travis's sarcastic remarks to a waitress and failed efforts to push the table off him were a pretty good indication that he did need help.
 
Zaiku laughed again... But quickly stopped in case Ruya would notice.
He grabbed an end of the table and helped pull it up, when pulling he realised how heavy the table was.
"Woah Travis... You're pretty strong to flip this table alone with one arm..." Zaiku commented, as they were struggling to lift it, but finally the table had been lifted.

Now that everybody was done lifting, Zaiku went to talk again.
"So I guess the best option was to go through Viridian Forest, right?" Zaiku asked. The others seemed to still be thinking about it, so Zaiku grabbed his Pokenav and called his parents.

"Hello?" His mother answered.
"Hey Mom it's Zaiku." He replied.
"Oh hi, you've been gone a while, but I know these things take long." SHe replied seeming to understand.

"Well, Mum, I need to travel to Vermilion with some other trainers who wanna rescue the missing pokemon, I got a lead, can I go?" Zaiku questioned.

"Honey, you've beat the Pokemon league and travelled all around Kanto... Of course you can go, but be careful..." She replied.
"Thanks Mum, so do you know where Dad is?" Zaiku asked.

"Yeah, he went with Brooke to Vermillion to go looking for the Pokemon as well. She wanted to come along, because she thinks that if she finds Erureido she will impress you." His Mum replied laughing at that last sentence.

Zaiku sighed."Ok, bye." And he hung up... He turned back to the others awaiting their answer.
 
Travis aparently flipped a table. This astonished Cain very much. So then to break the mood he asked

"Without pokemon people will eventualy start Rioting. We must leave soon. It may be to late."

Everybody aparently lifted the table and Travis got up. Then Cain asked Travis

"Where do we go after Vermilian again?"
 
I felt some feeling's around me, it was so strange and I just felt like a weirdo for feeling them. I had one feeling that felt like humorus doubt towards me, and all kinda of other ones. But when Travis flipped the table I laughed so hard I thought I was going to wet my pants, " Your such a loser...." I stuttered my voice choppy from laughing. I saw everyone start to help him up and I had to ask him, " How stupid can you be to flip a table on yourself? or how clumsy?!" I asked him with a smirk as if I had never done anything embarrasing. " I mean, how embarassing!" I said starting to laugh again.
 
Zaiku interupted and answered the question first, "We don't know yet, all we know so far is that we gotta get the Rainbow wing from the Black Market that was stolen from Travis, apparently it can help restore Pokemon back to our world or something."

Zaiku, then remembered something, he rememered that Brooke's father owned a cruiser that travelled People from Pallet Town to anywhere, and they could take it to Vermillion for free, and rather quickly and easily. But what if she wanted something from him in return. Zaiku shuddered at the thought of what she would ask from him in particular in return... What she had been after since the 4th grade... Him...

Zaiku grabbed the attention of the others and told them of this way... But he also told them of Brooke's obsession... He grabbed out his Pokenav...
"Ok guys, I did say I'll do anything for the team, so should we do it?" Zaiku asked disdaintfully, yet willing to if it were to get back his Erureido...
 
Travis turned his head. A kid, maybe seven years old, was laughing at him. Just standing there, laughing at him. What gave him the right to do that? And calling him a clumsy loser in the bargain. If he wasn't so young.... then again, all was fair in love and war...

With a roar of pure anger, Travis pushed straight up, causing the table to fly into the air momentarily, before landing in the exact same place it had been in before. Leaping to his feet, he rushed forward, grabbing the kid's shirt. "Did you say something?" he hissed, his eyes flashing. A moment later, he regained control of himself, releasing his grip on the child's shirt. "Sorry about that, I don't have any idea what came over me." he apologized, brushing his shirt off.
 
" Oh all I was saying is that your a badly dressed clumsy loser who could use some tips on being a teenager." I said smiling and accepting the challenge. I lifted up my sippy cup and remembered it was empty, " err... duck" I mumbled rather loudly replacing the D with an F. I grabbed those bills out of my pocket and started to look them over, deciding how much I needed to travel to Vermillion city, Considering I had about thirty something bucks and everyone else had money, should be simple enough to live on shakes, fries and salads.
I went into deep thought of what to bring, Cloths... Games... some toys... No wait I gotta be serious about this... I thought to myself.
 
Personally Ruya wouldn't have blamed Travis if he had knocked all of AJ's teeth out. Still, picking a fight with someone half your size was a pretty cheap thing to do, even if they did deserve it. She said nothing, however, and a moment later the teen released the younger boy who instantly started mouthing off again. The kid has absolutely no brains in his head, she thought irritably, if he were smarting off to me like that I'd have decked him already.

Her eyes shifted to the money AJ had just pulled out. She thought he was going to refill his drink as it was apparently empty, but instead he counted it and became engrossed in thought. "You don't think you're coming to Vermillion with us, do you?" she asked coolly, giving him a cold stare. "You're not even old enough to be a trainer."
 
Aj as it apeared offended Travis. This made Travis go into some unparaleled rage. He lifted the shirt of AJ. Then quickly apologised. Aj then made another smart remark. Cain felt as if he needed to get involved before something bad happenes

"Okay guys break it up. We dont want to have a fight here."

Feeling some sort of bravery in this Cain kept going

"Come on Travis. This kid is like 7 years old."
 
"And he also needs a class in manners." Travis grumbled in response to the older trainer. "What was your name again? Ah, who cares. At this point, I think I've gone nuts. I'm acting like- like-" Travis paused for a moment, as realization dawned on him. "Like Ryota..."

Something exploded in his head. Now everything made sense! His declarations of undying love, his burst of anger at someone completely defenseless, everything! He was acting like Ryota! "Well, that explains a lot," he grinned, before turning to the toddler who had insulted him earlier. "Watch your language kid. Do your parents let you play a lot of video games?" He answered his own question. "Of course they do. Listen, this isn't a game. This is real. We're about to steal back a valuable object from a black market, and it isn't going to be safe. Or easy. The only thing we have going for us is that none of the rockets have Pokemon, and I'm apparently on some kind of bizarre testosterone high. A little kid like you would be a fifth wheel. You dig?"
 
I smiled and said " I like the number five" Very layed back I added " Plus, I'm not a little kid or nothin, I'm seven for goodness sake and very mature for my age." I smirked. " I don't need a class in manners and I've always wanted to go to Vermillion" I said getting up.
" I've got transportation, money and important skills, I can distract people very easily and not to mention I know my way around thieving" I grinned, " And that's why I'm coming.
I went and got another drink making sure they gave me a regular cup this time and started to drink it, " Mmmm very good." I mumbled licking my lips.
 
"Travis I dont think bringing a seven year old to vermilian is a good idea. Firstly he might offend a sailor or something. Plus he could steal from someone important. Vermilian is a port town full of important people."

Then Cain turned to AJ. He had a drink in his hand, Cain said

"Aj watch out. You could spill that"
 
"Y'idiot! You do realize that manners are something completely alien to you, right? And thieving isn't something to be proud of. Whaddya think this is, GTA?" Travis fumed. That little jerk! He had no right to be acting like this. Travis made up his mind- if there was ever a time when he could fight that little kid fairly, he would pummel him into the ground and eat his liver. "And seven years old, might I add, is what we call a kid back in Hoenn, where I'm from. I'm fairly sure that Kanto has the same ideals." Taking a sniff, he added "But you don't smell like you're from Kanto. That's odd... I've never caught this particular scent in my life. Hmmm...."
 
Travis apparently entered some strange sort of roid rage. Cain felt his need to stop him enter

"Whoa, Travis calm down. Hes a 7 year old Kid. Why do you need to bother with someone who doesnt know what Attitude means".

Then Cain turned to AJ

"Aj stop encouraging him. I think that soon he is going to really do something bad".
 
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