[IC] Pokémon Rewind. Arc I [PG15/Started/Not Accepting]

[Master Red]

Medea looked at this new girl with confusion on her face, was she trying to greet her with a handshake? [i]"This girl seems most peculiar"[/i] she thought to herself and then bowed her head down casually in a greeting. She didn't shake, she was from Maiden's Peak, she greeted by bows, as did Maya... for the most part. Maya did shake hands when she was offered a handshake but bowing was the most natural to her and she would greet like that if she was the one introducing herself first. If the girl would've offered to shake Maya's hand it would've been natural, but offering one to a pokémon that did not have hands? MOST peculiar indeed. Medea didn't know whether this peculiarity would be good or bad though, but since the girl was a Yureist she guessed they'd get along. She wouldn't insult Maya's beliefs at least.

"She's not used to handshakes.. mostly since she's a bird I guess" Amaya excused Medea, just making sure that Lyla wouldn't take offence by Medea's choice not to shake her hand somehow. "But let's not hang around here, let's go to the harbor!" She exclaimed, and with that she exited the building.

[Hotaru987]

Noriko had to admit even if she wasn't into religion that much, it was very intriguing to hear what Lyla told her. Though, it seemed like a lot to try and remember - however it wouldn't be a problem for her - and follow. Noriko certaintly wouldn't want any ghost pokemon trying to haunt her down or curseing her just because she caught one that didn't want to be caught. [i]I doubt I'd ever catch a ghost pokemon. They give me the creaps with how they just stare at you.[/i] Amaya's sudden yell of heading to the harbor was Noriko's splash of reality as she replied with, "Yeah, lets go!" Throwing her fist in the air in excitement, and following after the two Yureist. "What pokemon are you two planning on catching?" Noriko asked after a while for the sake of making conversation. "I expect you'll be trying to catch a Zubat right Lyla?" She remembered when she told her that it was her dream to catch a Zubat.

[Naimo]

"Good morning Vector!" Jane trilled as she too arrived at the harbour. She dismounted her Tropius, waited for her Machamp to do the same, and then returned the bigger Pokemon to its Pokeball. "How are you doing? Good? Well, I for one am very excited about this year; you should have been here last year, it was so amusing! This poor girl - Melina Swift, I believe her name was - had this very unusual phobia of Electric Pokemon, and she panicked so badly when she ran into a Joltik - I know, imagine that! We didn't even know there were Joltiks available to catch! Fortunately, the bug happened to belong to a passing trainer, but she was ever so shocked, I thought we would have to call an ambulance. Oh deary me, these funny things [i]do[/i] happen on trips - I recall three years before, Pamela was thrown off board when we were making our way back, and she was ever so soaked and almost drowned! Just fancy that! It was lucky I had Kingdra with me then - he's no longer with me ... you see, between you and me, he's getting on a bit, so he's in the care of the local Pokemon Center." It was amazing that Jane could say all that without so much as drawing breath, but then again, she enjoyed talking, and certainly did a lot of it. "I do hope there are Tentacools out there, I can never quite - oh, yes, of course, there are, but we never tell the students that, they're normally too far out at sea anyway, and we don't want to see people diving after them; why, the last time we did that about two years ago, four people almost drowned, and we really did have to call for paramedics! I once had a Tentacool myself, you know, but when it evolved into Tentacruel, it suddenly stopped listening to me. Oh, what a [i]nightmare[/i] it was, he used to wreck my classroom even better than dear, dear Haunter." She allowed herself a little chuckle. "My Tentacruel's in the Pokemon Center too now; I used to use him as a role model, you know, but unfortunately I can't, and Kingdra really isn't very good with new trainers either. That's why I must catch some more Pokemon..."

Meanwhile, Regiana was also heading for the harbour; in front of her were Amaya and Noriko. She pondered on approaching them, but decided against it; her interests were solely fixed on Amaya, and she was still too grumpy to even make herself approachable.

[Shadius]

It had been a long and interesting night for Blue, he had spent most of it reading his book on religion, slowly getting a grasp on the topic. "I swear... it's way to early for me to be getting back on a boat.." The young trainer was already showered, shaved, and dress. He was wearing a black dress jacket along with a dark blue undershirt that matched his black and dark blue pants. //Although, I guess I could always ask the other people on the trip about their religion. I'm betting that Regiana person knows quite a bit about her own...// But before all of that something had to come first, food. Going from his room to his kitchen, Blue had noticed a few of the others were already helping theirselves to breakfest. It didn't matter much, since he was really just there to grab a quick meal for the road, in fact he was doubting that he would be noticed. After all he was barely noticed in his home town, it's why he didn't really leave his own house.

Retrieving two pieces of bread from a near by loaf, Blue releases C.B. from his pokeball and gave him one of the pieces. The small blue pokemon rubbed his eyes slowly, grabbing the piece of bread with his free hand before he started to devour it. "Good morning buddy, today is a big day. After all today is the day we get us a new partner."

[Master Red]

"Well, I don't really care much what I will be catching, as long as it's from within the cave" Amaya stated and, seeing the questioning looks on the other trainers' faces she laughed a bit. "The cave, as you may know, has quite a lot of mysticism and legend tied to it, and owning a pokémon from a place with such mysticism connected to it is more important to me than catching a certain kind of pokémon" She explained, while feeding Medea more cereal every now and then. "I hope to be able to catch a Spheal though, I always liked the christmas cards we got with Spheal and Sealeo motives as they are just awefully cute!" She almost squealed a bit when she said the last part, that's how cute she thought they were.

[Hotaru987]

Noriko couldn't believe the fact that the cave is said to hold connections to the legendary Ice-pokemon; Articuno. Of course there hadn't been any actual sightings, but there have been legends, and speculations. "Yeah, I see what you mean. I'll be in the caves as well." She said smiling slightly, and almost laughing when Amaya squealed. Spheals were cute, but sadly they weren't at the top of Noriko's "To Catch" list. Maybe later, when the oppertunity of catching a Smoochum or Corsweet wasn't present. Then again, fiding any type of pre-evolved pokemon was pretty hard to do. "I'm hoping to catch either a Corsweet, or a Smoochum." Noriko eventually said, her mind once again on the diffuclt task of trying to get pass the Corsalas and Jynx.

[The Warden]

Lyla nodded at Noriko's question. 'Yes, my plans are to obtain a Zubat for my team, they should be plentiful in the caves, so I won't have to go far. I'm just glad that Yureists are allowed some form of freedom with their pokemon, save for....psychic types' she said, but cut off the end of her sentence, leaving it at that. There are some thing better left unsaid when it comes to religion, and the relationship with psychic types are something best not mentioned. She continued to walk silently after that.

[Hydra of Ages]

"Hm?" Blaine glanced up when he heard someone else ask for his eggs. There was a person there, certainly, but Blaine couldn't help but feel he had no idea who this new addition is.

"Err... well, sure I guess," he said after a second, pushing some of his hot-sauced spiced eggs onto a separate plate for the apparent new arrival. He himself, ate rather rapidly, almost not noticing the heat added to it- he'd been brought up on so much spicy food, you rather stopped noticing it after a while.

He spared little time after he was done heading over to the docks and managed to make up for lost time by arriving via car rather than his own two feet. He would have raced there, but unfortunately the path to the harbor was rather short and he passed no promising candidates on the road. By the time he got to the boat he'd fallen into a sort of funk that he couldn't describe- perhaps it was boredom. Ilia noticed and hopped up to curl around his shoulders, her morning energy already spent and returning to sleepy form.

[fenrir]

Cage ate 'breakfast' quickly, stopping to grab another malt. Blaine was not kidding when he said this stuff was hot, it was like downing a volcano. After changing into a different pair of cloths (he at least [i]tried[/i] to present himself decently) and returning Tyrant to his ball, he left for the harbor. At first Cinnabar seemed confusing to navigate, with the townspeople not being much help either. After a few wrong turns and dead ends, he reached the harbor. Already a few classmates were there, and he recognized two of the teachers as well. After avoiding Private and weaving his way through his classmates, he finally got to the entrance of the boat. So to speak...

[Naimo]

Regiana had arrived several minutes ahead of Cage, but she wasn't terribly eager to get too near Jane. The latter was still eagerly talking to Vector, and had only stopped to acknowledge Regiana.

"Oh, hello Regiana," she had called out. "I see you have made it in good time - as I was saying to dear Vector here, I am eager to catch a few more from Seafoam, I do hope you want something? Good, well, I could probably be of assistance! Last year, I helped Melina Swift find a very appropriate Pokemon for her phobia! Did I tell you? No? Well, she -"

At that point, Regiana had heard enough, and making a polite excuse, took leave, thus lingered some distance away from them.

[Aesirson]

Vector was shocked that Jane could say that much without even breathing. He stood dumbstruck trying to come up with something to say.

"That's... Great, I guess." He said and chuckled a bit. "You know, I used to own some Pokémon too, except for Private, but I had to leave them. I'm okay with just me and Private, though." He threw a glance at the Deino. "Still, if I get the chance to catch a Pokémon I will, it's always nice to have more companions."

[Master Red]

Amaya had been lingering by the side of the boat, taking a long enough detour to avoid Jane as she heard her babble like she'd never heard anyone babble before. The amount of words coming out that mouth seemed impossible, and did she even breathe!? Amaya shook her head a little and then fed Medea yet another piece of cereal as she had been nudging the side of her head for a while now. She glanced down at her watch and saw that it would be 15 minutes until they made their departure for the islands- "I can just as well get on board then" she mumbled to herself and made her way onto the ship.

Donovan pulled up to the harbor in his car, an old blue convertible that was still in splendid shape, with his Machoke Bruce in the passenger seat, enjoying the sun. Donovan made his way out of the car and then ran around to open for the Machoke. He wasn't allowed to go in and out of the vehicle as he wished, he had dented it once on accident and after that they established that rule. Sparky was nowhere to be seen, so one could just guess that he was within his pokéball.

"Hello there, fine day isn't it?" He bellowed as he walked up to Vector and Jane, almost wishing he hadn't when he heard that Jane was in one of those excited moods when she just talks and talks and talks and talks and... you get the deal.

[Naimo]

"Oh [i]hello[/i] Donovan!" cried Jane enthusiastically. "You are just in time! Like I was saying to Vector, Seafoam is a great place to capture new Pokemon! I got half of mine by going to Seafoam - and I must own at least two hundred Pokemon, if not even more! Goodness, one does loose track of how much Pokemon one has as they get older - the last time I properly counted was ten years ago, when I was much younger than I am now. I would count properly, only I am so busy recently it's impossible to find time to go to the Pokemon Center. Well, I am excited about my Tentacool, it would be so lovely to have a Water-type for a role model again; I do dislike getting pupils to read from textbooks, but since Kingdra and Tentacruel were both out of the option, I have had no choice but to do just that. Oh my goodness, how [i]boring[/i] those lessons were! No enthusiasm whatsoever! And to think I had to teach two hours from a textbook! Goodness, very boring indeed. Oh look, Amaya's gone on-board already - such an eager girl! Now, I suppose we are just waiting for Samantha to arrive, and more students?"

Regiana herself also took the liberty to board, and seeing as Amaya was already on, approached her. Valena promptly curled up by her feet. Regiana then smiled at Amaya, and said, "Good morning. I do believe I have not yet talked to you. How are you feeling today?"

(OOC: aaah, I do love RPing as Jane xD)

[Magnet Soldier]

"Melina Swift. Ahh, I remember her." The final arrival of the teachers said, walking over to Jane. "Did cause a lot of trouble in my first ever lesson. Some guy with a Pichu or something accidently let the Poor thing out, and next thing I knew she was on the desk screaming." Samantha chuckled, musing over her first lessons. "And it seems everyone's arrived, doesn't it? No....we still got the lads to come, right. We've got Cage here, but There's that Blaine Guy, the Cinnabar lad and that Guitarist. Y'know, the one from that band. The Beedrills, was it?" Samantha stated, smiling.

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Meanwhile, Micky was noting all the people go by. He'd seen Amaya already, and had wanted to approach her, but had decided against it. Didn't want to seem desperate, right? Micky sighed though, regretting that. He watched as a few more people went by, and after Cage did he gave up waiting. He sighed again, packing away his Guitar and returning his pokémon, before standing up and deciding to walk to the Dock. It didn't take him long, he always seemed to remember routes he'd taken, so he just followed the roads he had the day before. He yawned as he walked out of the gates, noting that today wasn't as hot as the day before. Looking up at the Volcano, he noted that the large clouds of Smoke had Vanished, and so presumed that the Volcano had started to 'sleep'.
As Micky approached the Docks, he noted that the boat was already there, and so just walked straight onto it, ignoring the fact that there were still people on the Dock.

[Shadius]

//I don't have time to waste, I have to get to the boat...// Blue quickly returned C.B. to his ball only to walk out of the kichen and started to head down to the docks. On his way down to meet with the others the teen started to hum a soft melody, when he was a child he often sung songs and such while he was alone. It didn't take long for Blue to make it down to the Harbor, he wasn't even paying attention when he accidently bumped into Regiana. "Oh my, I am so sorry," he stated, rosy faced and startled. "I was humming a tune and wasn't paying attention to where I was going, I hope you can forgive me."

[Hotaru987]

Noriko had been quiet for the rest of the walk, only thinking about the trip ahead. She didn't even hear Jane as she babbled on, and it didn't seem like anything would be getting through to her. "I could always try a lure tactic...." She mumbled to herself still walking forward. She was so out of it that Noriko didn't realie she was about to walk right into the ocean.

"Vulpix!!" Pixie yelled to get her trainer's attention. "Vul! Vuul!"

"...Maybe it would be better if I just don't go after one..." Noriko said not having heard Pixie's warning. Pixie gave the impression of sighing before looking back at Noriko. Next thing Noriko felt was pain in her right hand, "Yoooww!!-Huh, Pixie!? What are you doing?" Noriko asked tears in her eyes, and pain in her voice. Pixie was currently hanging off of Noriko's hand by her mouth, having bit her to get her attention.

"Vuull." Pixie's voice was muffled by Noriko's hand. It was then Noriko noticed that she was only two steps from falling into the ocean. "...Were...You trying to warn me of this?"

"Vul..."

"Oh...Hey Pixie, coud you let go? This really hurts.." Pixie yipped before letting go, leaving Noriko to rub her now red hand. Luckily Pixie didn't use enough force to break the skin, just get her attention. Noriko - now paying attention - noticed that the four teachers were present; Jane - her favorite simply because of what she taught - Sammantha, Donovon, and his assistant Vector. "Guess I better get on board." She said walking up the ramp, and saw some of the other kids.

[Naimo]

Regiana could hardly bring herself to look annoyed at Blue. "I do wish everybody would stop treating me like I am a Gyarados." Irony indeed for the most aristocratic woman in the whole party. "Anyway, no need to look so terrified; I suppose I could do with some company."

This change in mood may seem surprising, given how she had been under some rainclouds since that morning, but she was trying hard not to appear as an overtly irritating person, and thus attempted to be sanguine and more ... "normal". Valena approached Blue and sat by him instead, before leaning her body against his leg, a clear sign that she actually liked him.

[The Warden]

Lyla cast a wary eye at Jane. It didn't seem legitimately possible that you could cram so much speech into one breath, it's just, inhuman the way she does that. Avoiding the onslaught of impossibly long hot air, she boarded the ship. Passing the others, she took her place at the front of the ship, also known as the stern (I think). Myst was floating about idly, before he was returned to his pokeball, so Lyla could enjoy the sea air. It was somewhat crisp, and yet somehow very invigorating to the body.

[Shadius]

"I don't think your a Gyarados, or anything like that" Blue took out his pokeball and let loose C.B., he figured the Wynaut would want to run around and have some fun. "You have a adorable Arctic, Regiana was it?" Blue asked as he kneeled down and started to pet Valena, smiling and asking the pokemon if it was ready for the trip later. "I'm sorry for not shaking your hand earlier by the way, I'm from a small island so meeting up with others is still something a bit... new to me."

C.B. yawned softly, it was still early for the little blue pokemon as he was used to sleeping in but he needed to get used to waking up earlier. In front of him was Regiana, and out of instinct, the Wynaut ran towards her and gave her a big hug. "Sorry about him too, C.B. likes to be... friendly."

[Naimo]

Regiana paused, and then said with swiftness, "Oh, that doesn't matter." She smiled as C.B. hugged her, and even bent down to return it. It felt a bit odd; never before had she actually hugged a Pokemon. Nonetheless, it was getting her on good terms with Blue and C.B., and despite their flaws, she actually liked them, and in a very different manner to the way that she liked Blaine.

Valena purred at Blue's question, and then decided to lie on his toes. Regiana stood upright again, and then added, "So, are you looking forward to the trip?"

[Master Red]

"Oh I'm feeling great Regiana! I mean, we're going to check out the caves at Seafoam so how can I not be feeling great?" She chirped happily, feeling like spinning around and laughing just because she knew they were going to the caves. She decided not to act on this urge, it would make her seem... weird, very weird. "How're you then?" She asked, knowing it was the polite thing to do.

[i]"Oh Arceus..."[/i] Donovan thought to himself as Jane shot her word diarrhea his way, but he did keep a straight face anyways. "Well, it's nice that you're so excited about this trip Jane" He laughed, it was a bit nervous though, perhaps because it probably wouldn't surprise anyone if Jane blew up from excessive speaking or something.

[Shadius]

"I am, I am hoping to catch me a Horsey while we are out there. How about you? Looking forward to catching anything?" Blue continued to pet Valena, he always enjoyed making pokemon happy even if he didn't always succeed. "Um... that reminds me, you have a religion don't you? I am trying to find myself one but it hasn't exactly been easy... do you think you could explain things for me, that's if you don't mind."

C.B. jumped out of Regiana's arms, something was amiss to the Wynaut. Looking around the docks he had noticed that Cage was close-by, meaning he was with the Larvitar that tried attacking him earlier. "Hmm, I wonder what's up with C.B.. He's acting quite out of character."

[Naimo]

"I'm very well," said Regiana to Amaya. "I'm hoping to catch a Feebas; Miltocs are ever so pretty, and they would certainly be more efficient to travel across the water than ferries." To those who still remembered Regiana's opening post, this would come as no surprise; to those who did not/weren't in the RP back then, Naimo would like to refer you to page 1.

Regiana then blinked in surprise at Blue's questioning. "You wish to know more about Regism? I suppose I could fill you in." She explained to him the legend, and as she recited it, she spoke the version which Gigagases believed in, that Arceus had been fair during the fight. "I happen to be the daughter of the Ice Master, and according to our religion, the Ice Master is the only person worthy to receive Regice. Thus, the Rock Master would be the only one worthy for Regirock, and the Steel Master for Registeel. Once all three Regis are reunited, then the three masters must present them to the Neutral Baron, who will then perform the duty of Regigagas' rebirth.

"We also restrict ourselves as to what Pokemon we do and do not catch. Ice, Steel and Rock are highly favoured, but Fire, Electric and Flying are not. You will never find a Regist who has any of those types of Pokemon; however, you will find that most Gigagases have part-type Fire, Electric or Flying, for we are not so extreme in our views as Regists; if you wish to be involved in the Regism religion, you must learn the basic divisons between a Regist and a Gigagas. Luckily, that is the only real divide."

[fenrir]

Cage had boarded the ship with Tyrant in his ball, which was great, otherwise he would have assaulted the Wynaut from earlier. He decided to avoid the guy from yesterday, especially considering he was talking to Regiana. Amaya and... Lyla was it? Were also aboard, except the latter happened to be at the bow. He decided to follow suit. Maybe later he could let Tyrant out so the Larvitar could stare at the sea, but he should be cautious. With the Wynaut and it's trainer on board, Tyrant would probably throw a fit. Cage, personally, would rather not watch others flail in a sandstorm. At least not on a boat. As funny as it was, it wasted quite a bit of time.

[Shadius]

"So you are technically royalty? That's pretty interesting, I've never met anyone important before." Blue couldn't help but to smile, it wasn't often that he could have a conversation with someone, let alone someone important. "Well, if what you said is true that means I could actually join your religion couldn't I? C.B. is a pure psychic type so he falls under the guidelines in a sense." As the two continued to talk C.B. decided to run off on his own, running on to the boat only to turn around and start calling back to Regiana and Blue to get on to the boat. "I think he wants us to follow him," Blue said laughing "He can be quite forceful when he wants something."