The Road to Indigo (Pokemon RP (Closed): Chapter 7: Dead Living On The Radio...)

[Lambi]

Aeris giggled when Mika nuzzled her neck. Once she, Blaze and Tristan finished eating, she put her bowl and spoon away and picked Tristan up to hug him. Blaze wasn't really jealous, but she thought Aeris was showing the Caterpie a little too much attention, more than her. Still, she understood it, since he was her new Pokemon. She'd show them both equal attention soon enough. "I caught Tristan here earlier." she said to Terinth to answer her question, showing her the Caterpie in her arms. Aeris let Tristan go to the ground, and wrapped her arms around Mika's midriff and rested her head on his shoulder. She gave a cute, little yawn. "I'd say a day or two, at least." she answered Mika's question.

 

[NeoAC]

Things were getting busy at the campsite with Fary announcing that there was food available. Jordan got in line as quick as he could be still was behind everyone else. He took the bowl of soup that Fary offered up and looked at it. He wasn't a fan of mushrooms usually. Anything growing out of crap in the forest wasn't really edible looking to him. Still the fish looked good, and Fary did cook it up. It would be kind of rude not to eat it.

He took his spoon and took a tentative bite, it was as he expected. The fish part was tasty, a classic beach staple, but the mushrooms didn't work for him. He wasn't stupid enough to say that though. "Mmmm, really good Fary," he told her. He took a couple more bites before calling over his Pokemon. "Here bros, you can have a bit." Vince was still with him but Spike was still staring at the fire. "Spike bro, stop doing that, that can't be good for you."

"Manman." Fire pretty... It remained unmoving.

"Here bro, come on get the food." He held the plate in front of Spike's nose and pulled it away from the fire.

The plan worked. Spike followed his nose towards the sweet taste of mushroom and fish. "Mankey! Man!" Food. Yeah. Give me food. It good.

Jordan poured some of the soup on the group for Spike and Vince to lap up. "There you go bro," The two went at it fairly quickly.

His Pokemon happy, Jordan walked over to the fire and sat down beside Fary as he heard Red mention the length of time it would take to get through the forest. "Another couple days? Oh Red, I hope that's not true. Being in the forest just reminds me we're nowhere near the beach."

 

[Lizmichi]

Fary smiled and got closer to Jordan. "Thanks everyone, I do what I can with what I have." Fary said finishing up her soup and cuddled up to Jordan. "Enjoy your walk?" she asked him softly.

Raven by then had jumped on her shoulder and was hopping around the camp site curious as to what every one was doing. Fary decided to let her Zorua out to enjoy the fire but instead of laying by the fair she cuddled into Jordan's lap.

 

[socialtangent]

Tyler smiled, seeing that Tank was already beginning to limber up. "Thanks, Mika," he said with genuine gratitude. Looking back down at Tank, he scratched the back of one of his ears. "You doing okay?" he asked his Pokemon.

"Ran...ran ran ran," Tank replied with a curt nod.

"Good. Glad to hear it".

Taking in a deep breath, Tyler could smell the increasingly appetizing soup that still sat in Fary's pot. Quickly serving himself a decent-sized helping of the concoction, he took a cautious spoonful and ate it. Huh. Not bad. He didn't necessarily care for mushrooms, but out here in the Viridian Forest, he wasn't about to complain about the food.

Setting his soup aside for now, Tyler pulled his sleeping bag out of his backpack and set it on the ground. Better to sit on that, as opposed to damp grass. Easing himself down on top of the sleeping bag, Tyler resumed eating while Tank searched for a place to get comfortable.

 

[CounterAttack]

"You spend so much time in one place and everything else in the world is almost completely new when you visit," Rochelle commented to answer Jordan between spoonfuls of soup. "Happened to me before I came to Kanto; I lived in Goldenrod City pretty much my whole life, so it was interesting to see how people lived in all the other places around Johto. Although there was one little town, Mahogany, I think it was called, where there wasn't enough accommodation. People had to sleep on the second floor of the Pokémon Center. Heck, some slept in the Gym there... Anyways, I'm talking too much. Shut up, Rochelle."

She gave Jordan and Fary a quick grin and went back to eating, quickly finishing off her soup and setting the bowl down away from her pack. Seeing that she was done, Phoenix hopped over to her and jumped up onto her knee; Rochelle remembered her Pokédex and how it updated itself. She pulled out the small device and the broken Poké Ball, stuffing the latter into a pocket of her backpack, and flicked the Pokédex on as she brought it towards Phoenix. The Spearow poked at the device with his beak, and it beeped, causing Phoenix to hop away in alarm.

"Oh, you silly bird, Phoenix, it's not gonna hurt you," Rochelle said with a smile, stroking his head with one finger as she looked at the new Pokédex entry:

Spearow. Tiny Bird Pokémon.
Height: 1'00". Weight: 4.4 lbs.
[color=#3399FF]Type: Normal / Flying[/color]
[color=blue]Techniques: Peck, Growl, Leer[/color]
[color=indigo]Ability: Keen Eye[/color]

Description: It flaps its small wings busily to fly. Using its beak, it searches in grass for prey.

 

[NeoAC]

"Was good enough, I guess," Jordan told her as she nestled closer. "Got some wood with the bro so yeah, good." As Rogue jumped into his lap, he started scritching her head softly, assuming it liked this.

As Rochelle started talking, he leaned back a bit, to better hear and to bask in the warmth of the fire better, wasn't good to have your head too hot. "Whoa, sounds like you've been all over the place. I haven't been anywhere, well except for Seafoam once. Parents finally took me on a vaycay, but they watched over me like a hawk on it. Couldn't do anything. Dunno why Dad figured he had to watch me there, when he just shipped me out here for some journey thing."

It's food gone, Spike turned its attention from the ground to the thing sitting in it's new owner's arms. It walked up and looked at the strange thing. "Mankey! Mankey! Mankey!" Holy fuck! What the fuck is that! What are you! Do you do things! Do things!

 

[CounterAttack]

"I wouldn't say I've been all over. Just Johto and Kanto," Rochelle answered with a slightly embarrassed smile. "In regards to the whole 'your-dad-shipping-you-out-here' thing, he probably assumed that there would be other people receiving their Pokédexes at the same time as you would. And hey, company beats travelling solo, I know that one for sure." That was true, of course, considering that Rochelle had spent most of her time alone on her journey between Goldenrod and Pallet. She'd found Kirsten and patched her up along the way, of course, and friendship had blossomed quickly between the two.

Looking up at the sky out of habit, Rochelle caught a glimpse of a couple of patches of the star-studded expanse, though most of it was blocked out by foliage. She checked her watch, and raised her eyebrows at the time:

09:55 PM

. The group had eaten later than she was used to.

"It's getting late, judging by my watch and the parts of the sky I can see," she noted. "Um... do you guys think one of us should stay up to keep watch, maybe maintain the fire? I'll go first if none of you guys want to, although I can't pull an all-nighter; I'll have to wake someone up sometime. It's just to be on the safe side, you never know what could happen."

 

[Lizmichi]

Rogue snapped at Spike and growled "Zoooor zooorua zor zor zor! Get the fuck out of my face.

Fary blinked and sighed. "Seems Rogue doesn't like Spike much." she said cuddling more to Jordan and softly kissed his neck some followed by a soft lick.

 

[NeoAC]

"I dunno, I don't think he really cared, I think he just wanted me out of the house," Jordan said, as he moved to separate his...overly inquisitive Pokemon from Fary's. "Spike bro, you're getting a little crazy. Think you better rest." He brought out a Pokeball and went to return Spike but accidentally ended up returning Vince. "Whoa...oops. Gotta get markers for these things...or something." He put that Pokeball back in his pocket and took out the other one. "Here, back you go Spike bro." This time the Mankey was enveloped in the light and returned to the ball.

Hmmm, if it's late like this, probably best I go to sleep. Then Fary licked his neck. Yeah, definitely should go to sleep. "Um OK, yeah if you want to do that Rochelle, totally, I can take a later shift if you need it, but yeah, I think I'm gonna go to sleep now. Fary you said I could crash in your tent, right?"

 

[Lizmichi]

Fary nodded. "Yea you can join me if you wish." Fary said "Besides I think I should sleep as well." Fary said returning Rogue to her ball and got up. "So umm anything you want to do in the tent Jordan?" Fary asked him quietly messing with her skirt some.

 

[NeoAC]

"Well sleeping is probably the top thing," Jordan said, well aware that everyone was still awake. "I dunno, we'll have to see what's in the tent first." He let out a loud yawn. "But yeah, that's where I'm heading, so peace out ya'll." With that, he climbed into the tent that Fary had indicated earlier. His sleeping bag had already been laid out by Fary after he had gave it to her, so he just crawled on top of it.

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

Mika yawned lightly as he finished his meal, leaning against Aeris and putting the bowl with the rest of the used eating-ware. He looked over at his Pokemon, and saw that Bones and Toxina were sleeping, curled up against each other, and Artemis was perched on a low branch, looking around at the surroundings, as she was a nocturnal Pokemon.

"This sure was an eventful day." Mika said aloud, partially to Aeris, and partially to no-one in particular. He yawned again, cuddling close to his new girlfriend, and then kissing her on the cheek. "I'm gonna set up my sleeping bag, before I fall asleep laying against you."

He unhooked his bedroll from his traveling pack, and unrolled it on the ground, shaking it thoroughly to make sure that nothing dangerous that had hidden inside was going to bite him in the middle of the night. He set his pack down, and smiled over at his sleeping Pokemon.

"Artemis, can you keep watch over camp tonight? Alert us if anything dangerous shows up." Mika asked his new Pokemon, smiling at the Flying-Type.

Gladly, Mika. I'll make sure you are all safe.

"Thanks, hun." Mika said with a giggle, sitting on his bedroll and laying on his back. "Mmm... I'm beat."

 

[Lizmichi]

Fary walked into her tent and quickly changed into shorts and a tank top not caring that Jordan was around to see her change. She didn't care really and she was use to undressing around others. She crawled into her sleeping bag and cuddled in some then looked over at Jordan. "Oh sorry forgot you were here." she giggled.

 

[NeoAC]

"Uh.....yeah," Jordan said, still struck a little dumb (even for him) at how brazen a girl who already stated she wouldn't be sleeping with him tonight was being. "I uh, forgot I was here too." He had already gone down to his t-shirt, but he wasn't sure if he should have taken off his jeans or not, he didn't want to feel like he was forcing things. Still.

"So...uh...yeah, here we are I guess," Jordan made his way under the top part of his sleeping bag. "Um....yeah."

 

[RBMidknight]

As luck would have it, Simon did in fact have a small container of sailor's rations (bread, cheese, and salted meat) buried at the bottom of his pack. An addition his father had apparently made without his knowledge.

"Good thing you found that before some wild Pokémon, bud. Here." Simon tossed Shadow a small chunk of the cheese and then began improvising a sandwich with the rest of the supplies. Before taking his first bite Simon glanced over at the fire. It had started to die down a bit but it was still cheerfully burning through wood.

"Someone should probably put that out." He commented. The words were slightly obscured by the mouthful of food. Shadow pawed at Simon's knee, whining softly for more food. The cheese had been devoured in a second. "This is mine." Simon said with a shake of his head. "But hold on a minute..." He carefully gripped his sandwich in one hand and began rummaging around his pack with the other. After a few quiet grunts of pain, due to contact with the sharp edges of his bike, Simon withdrew another small container. This one he'd packed himself.

Shadow's head rose and he made a show of sniffing the air eagerly. Simon would have chuckled if he wasn't busy trying to open the container and keep hold of his sandwich. Shadow was not helpful. The Poochyena alternated trying to reach the sandwich with trying to stick his nose in the plastic container. After a few failed attempts and a clumsy elbow nudge Simon triumphed over the box. "Here you go, this is yours." he told his Pokémon. Simon set the now partially opened container down on the ground. Shadow immediately darted to the box and began eating the Pokemon food. Which left Simon able to eat his sandwich in peace. And so he did.

 

[Lizmichi]

Fary cuddled to Jordan and kisses him softly. She felt warm already but she wanted to be close to him. "So still no idea what you feel like doing. I know you've checked me out Jordan and I want to be your girlfriend. So any thoughts?" she asked.

 

[NeoAC]

Well, if things weren't already clear for Jordan before, (and they weren't), they were now. Fary just came right out with it, a style that hadn't been used much on the beach, and Jordan wasn't really ready for it. Whoa, already? I mean, I know I'm good but whoa! Picking up a GF already? I dunno, haven't really done the steady route in a while. Not since that thing with Becs kinda blew up in my face.

Course, what other option do I have? Not going with Red or Blondie for sure, Rochelle, she's all right, but she seems kind of serious. All on about her name and stuff, so really Fary's the only option. Unless I meet someone on the road, but that's so risky. And skeezy if the wrong girl shows up. And if it don't work out, who cares? I go back to Fuchsia, don't see her again, perfectly fine. Yeah, this can totally work. Totally.

Jordan looked into Fary's big green eyes and smiled. "Well, I think you look totally awesome, and if you're up for it, then totally. Let's do this." He sealed his response with a kiss on Fary's lips.

 

[CounterAttack]

"I'm staying up for another few hours, so I'll need the light from the fire to see properly," Rochelle answered Simon, a slightly amused smile on her face as she watched his Pokémon harass him for some of his food. "I don't think I have a way to get any more wood to put on it, though. I'll take a look around sometime, see if there's any dead wood we can use. Oh, and Kirsten can try to put the fire out when we move on from here tomorrow."

She shuffled a foot or so away from the fire so as not to get too hot. Phoenix immediately hopped over to her, jumped up onto her knee and settled down as if to go to sleep. "Aww, did you tire yourself out? So cute," Rochelle said to the little Spearow.

 

[Lizmichi]

Fary smiled softly then kissed Jordan back cuddling more into his arms. She was happy and was willing to try something with someone one the road. Hell if it didn't work she'd never see him again. She might get something worth while out of this. Yes and another win for me.

Fary put a bit more power into the kiss and giggled softly but yawned.

 

[NeoAC]

Jordan was enjoying the kiss until Fary yawned, it kind of took him out of it just having her mouth randomly open like that. Of course it might have been a sign, both on the speed on which the relationship should be going, and of what time it was. He pulled back a little from Fary's face, but kept holding her close. "Well, should probably get some sleep and stuff. For tomorrow and all that."