The wrong foot.

[zypher]

Justin opened his mouth and let out a loud yawn, opening his eyes he saw nothing, this wasn't really a surprise to him.

Zypher must still be sleeping. He thought to him self.

Suddenly he realized he had no idea whatso ever where he was, bolting up into a sitting position he started to feel around himself. After a few moments of franticly running touching everything within a reachable distance Justin deducted he was in someone bed.

"Zypher!" He yelped, slightly disoriented, " Where are you? Where am I?"

Then, as if someone had flipped a lightswitich on the inside of his brain, he could see. Zypher had been peacefully resting on a bedpost just above Justin head.

<Calm down,> Zypher responded drowsily < don't you remember? We had a surprise party, and then someone tried to devour you.> There was just a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

It was then that it all came flooding back to him

"Oh Mew, did we mess that up."

Feeling down his leg, Justin had Zypher examine his calf, it was tender but he could walk on it and the two puncture marks from Haru's fangs would make a pretty cool scar one day, Justin thought.

Suddenly the smell of eggs, bacon, and a whole parade of breakfasty smell came wafting through the air.

Food. the two thought in tandem.

Zypher hopped on to Justin's shoulder and the two exited the room being guided by the enticing smells.

(( Yay, this posts wasn't so horrible!)

[MorriganFearn]

The kitchen was a large room just behind the middle of the three doors in the Lab. It also had a stair case leading to the upstairs, which was three quarters attic, and one quarter spar room, not counting the thin hallway in between, or the closet-like bathroom. The kitchen itself had a antiquated range, oven, and yellowing refrigerator all smashed between a massive collection of cupboards, and framed by a sink by the door.

Professor Cherry was at the range, stirring scrambled eggs. Bacon was cooling on a rack, grease dripping onto a paper towel spread over the counter. Both Hana and Haru were eyeing the counter with the envy of the legless, and trying to gage what would be the easiest way to recieve bacon.

"Ah, good morning, Justin," Professor Cherry slipped the half of the yellow eggs onto a plate, and then appropriated the second half. "There's orange juice in the 'fridge and I've already put glasses on the table." He waved at a rickety card table in the corner closest to the lab. "Sit down. Now, I've been thinking about your starter choice. You said you were interested in nocturnal pokemon. Ratatta, sentret, and zigzagoon are fairly active at night," Professor Cherry informed Justin. "And we have oddish and zubat, as well. Both are confirmedly nocturnal pokemon. Other pokemon that are fine with either time of day are geodude, slugma, poochtena, and aron."

[zypher]

As the Professor was talking, Justin walked over to the fridge, retrieved the orange juice and, poured himself a glass. The Orange Juice was cold so the glass it was in started to condense water quickly, using his pinkie, Justin drew a stick figure drawing of Haru.

Then, Noticing the two ekans, he followed there line of sight and smiled. He moved a chair to the counter and figured that that would be all the help Haru and Hara would need.


"Ummm, May I meet the Oddish and the Zubat ?" he asked, for some odd reason momentarily Justin was unsure of himself. He sipped at the Juice and wondered what his life would be like now that he was so close to being a Trainer.

[MorriganFearn]

"Certainly. The zubat isn't asleep yet, so finish breakfast quickly," Professor Cherry advised, moving over to the table, and dug his fork into his scrambled eggs. "The oddish hasn't either, but it's less trouble we'll come to by waking up a plant, than waking the bat. My current zubat can err on the cantankerous side."

Over by the counter, Haru wound hit way up a chairleg, and the back of the chair, heaving his scaled body over the lip of the the counter. Muscles bunched, and then bacon flew down to Hana. She caught the first strip in her mouth with neat precision, and swallowed it whole.

[zypher]

Justin began to shovel food into his face like a starving Snorlax, forks and spoons clinking together in a fury, his hands a blur leading from the plate to him mouth, he was impatient to meet the Zubat.

<Slow down before you choke.> Zypher chided < I'm to small to do the Heimlich.>

Justin coughed and pushed his plate away, "Finished" he said triumphantly, Specks of egg carnage covered his face but he was unaware.

"May I meet them now?"

Zypher turned to the ekans noticing the bacon incident < I bet you both with you had hands, huh?>

[MorriganFearn]

<Who needs 'em when you have tails?> Haru questioned, causing Professor Cherry to look over.

"Hey! Get down from there! My bacon!" the old man exclaimed, rising, and stomping over to the counter.

<Whoop,> Haru commented, slithering away from Professor Cherry's outstretched hands, and slippiming swiftly from the counter to the chair, befor winding down a leg.

<The boy needs to clean his face,> Hana commented, completely unperturbed as her mate slipped past her, and headed into the lab area.

"Don't you start," Professor Cherry shook a warning finger. "I know that you were in on it."

<On what, dear professor?>

"Bacon thievery! Well, come on, Justin, might as well go back to the lab. The zubat and oddish are in their pokeballs after I fed them early this morning, but I left them out on the table. On the right is the oddish, on the left is the zubat. You can choose to release one or the other or both to talk to them," Professor Cherry said, walking over to the door that lead from the kitchen to the lab.

((You may also choose both pokemon's gender when you release them.))

[zypher]

Justin stood up quickly and followed the professor out of the kitchen. Zypher sat heavily on his shoulder glaring at the bald spot at the back of Professor Cherry's head.

" Stop that!" Justin whispered to Zypher

<But its so SHINY!> Was Zyphers response

As they reached the lab, Justin noticed a sterile looking table with two red and white orbs sitting on top.

"Finally." Justin said as he reached for the pokeball on the right,Upon grabbing it Justin released an Oddish

<Its a Boy!> Zypher screamed with enthusiasm

[MorriganFearn]

<So was your father,> the oddish commented, raising what amounted to an eyebrow. <Is the psychic rat always so crazy?>

<From what we've seen of him?> Haru inquired from the floor. <Yes. Very much so. Bewaaaaaare.>

<You two make a perfect pair,> Hana commented dryly.

<Aw sweetums, don't be that way,> Haru teased, his tongue flicking out in the air.

Professor Cherry coughed. "So, anyway, this is one of my oddish. I thought that his more sensible temperament might help balance some of your more impulsive decisions, Justin."

[zypher]

<Bah.> said Zypher <What did I expect from a glorified onion.> Upset that the Pokemon had common sense.

Justin on the other hand was mulling over the possibility of having someone else to balance out Zyphers personality, that was slowly but surely becoming his own.

"Well, um, mister Oddish." Justin stated unsure "is there anything about you I should know?"

<Ya, like can you fight, or do you just stand there and photosynthesize?> Zypher asked, for some reason he was a little moody today.

Suddenly, without warning, Zypher teleported over to the table and released the Zubat, a girl this time.

[MorriganFearn]

<Photosynthesize,> the oddish smirked. <And I'm level five, so I can use sweet scent to make you smell like flowers. Betcha can't top that, yellow face. Whoah!>

Zubat find something religiously objectionable about flying in a predictable pattern. Once released this zubat had flitted under the table, come out upside down, and then buzzed the tips of the oddish's leaves as she zigzaged for the ceiling.

<Right, right already, I'm awake!> she cheeped grumpily. <Stop the freaking racket. What'd do you want?>

"Uh, I chose this zubat because she's not as irritable in the morning as my normal bats," Professor Cherry sighed. "She's really --,"

<Let's put it this way,> the oddish cut across the professor. <One of the other zubies calls himself Vlad, and tries to write depressed poetry about how much he craves leech life.>

<Mmm? Vladdie-bladdy? He gives bats a bad name, all his crappy creature of the night stuff,> the zubat said, contemptuously.

[zypher]

Zypher was watching the zubat fly around all helter skelter, which caused both him and Justin to feel a sense of vertigo. Looking down at the ground to to try and regain a sense of balance.

<You know, with sweet scent, I'll never have to take a bath again...>Zypher spoke aloud.

"Umm Proffers, I like both Pokemon, but I wouldn't be able to handle Zubats flitting around too well." Justin said feeling sorry for the flying mammal. " I think I would like the Oddish instead."

<Did that Oddish just say Zubie?> Zypher added.

[MorriganFearn]

<That's the lab slang,> the oddish replied. <You can call them zuby with a "y" when it's singular. "I-e-s" with the plural. But this is great. I can't wait to see who the other two starters are. I'm ready to start journeying, but I hear Arisa is tough on grass types, so maybe it'll turn out to be better to start off on a different route.>

<Arisa, tough on pokemon with type disadvantages? Perish the thought,> Hana commented dryly.

"Well yes, the first group one gym leader is rough on the "noobies" who challenge her gym," Professor Cherry sighed. "But you don't have to start off on the route to Sapphire City. You could choose to go to the settlement of Nga through the Sunstone Tunnel -- that's the route heading north from the lab. Or you could go to Florak Town, using the Plainwood Cliffs. Here, wait a moment, let's find this oddish's starter pack. Hana? What was it again?"

<Shiny tentacool in group three and a growlithe in group two, remember?> Hana sighed worriedly. <I still think we should trade the tentacool in for a different group three water type.>

"Hana! Justin, you go over to the box in the corner, and pick out a pokedex color that you like. I'll go into the back and grab your starter kit," Professor Cherry told him. "There are green, red, orange, yellow, and purple pokedexes left to day, and I think one or two copper ones. Anyway, they're all in the box, pick out a color that you and Zypher like."

With that the wild haired professor swiftly moved to the back room to organize pokeballs, pyen and potions.

[zypher]

Justin walked over to the box full of sifted through it, not really paying attention to them, Something Hana had said nagged at him. Turning around he looked at the ekans and asked " Whats up with the shiny tentacool?"

Trying to come off as non-chalant but failing miserably as he accidentally knocked over the the entire box of pokedexes and sent them skittering all over the lab.

He hurried to go pick them up, upon grabbing the last one, a shiny looking copperish model, he put it in his pocket.

"It is dangerous, or do you still think I'm a bad trainer or something?" Justin followed up his question acting as if nothing had happened.

[MorriganFearn]

<I think it's ridiculous that someone should get rewarded for breaking and entering. Besides, everyone knows tentacool are difficult to deal with,> Hana pointed out, flicking her tail. <I mean it is group three, so it may be able to float through the air without trouble, but still, touchy personalities, I'm not certain you can handle.>

"Lay off, Hana," Professor Cherry sighed, coming back in. He had a bag which was vauguely lumpy under his arm. "So, that is your offical Jentan pokedex, complete with interdexal e-mail, and GPS. Impossible to get lost with this baby. This," he held up the bag, "is your offical starter set. One growlithe, level 25, and one tentacool, level 45. There are also five pokeballs in there, a berry bag, and 5000 pyen, a currency which works in Jenta, Tejan, and Miteinjan, thanks to progressive Imperialism."

Haru rolled his eyes. <Speaking of getting lost, you didn't seem to have a mep on you when you broke in, so I'd better explain the lay of the land before you traipse off into a briar patch, or something. Jenta has been split into three separate mini regions, each containing pokemon of certain levels. If you take route one, you'll be in the region filled with group one pokemon, who are leveled from level one to 24. The first gym in this region is Arisa's ice type gym in Sapphire City. I wouldn't recommend starting off with her, unless you want a real challenge. Arisa doesn't like people who try to face her with pokemon that are weak against her pokemon, and often will destroy them with the water/ice types she favors,> Haru explained, as he slithered over to a map by the door, and jabbed his tail at a wooded route following a stream.

<The route that leads you into the group two region is route three. The pokemon found here are all between level 25 and 44. Route Three as quite a lot of variety in terrain, so you can catch some interesting types if you want. The first gym leader in the area is Botan of Florak. She is a grass type trainer, which means that you'll have an easy time of it with your growlithe. On the other hand, you'll need antidotes. Botan loves poison type moves. But her weakness is that she doesn't have pokemon with very good defense, and pokemon that are strong attackers should fare very well in that gym.> Haru explained, before pointing at the mountain ranges that slopped up to the north of the region.

<Finally, we have the group three area. The pokemon here are very strong, level 45 to 100. You would do very well against the first gym, there, I think. Bahti's a steel type trainer, but all of her pokemon are weak to water attacks due to their dual types. Your tentacool with a strong fire type and a back up with good stamina would be very likely to win in that gym,> Haru nodded, and then breathed out, his speech over. <Well, do you have any questions? I think I've covered all your options.>

<You forgot about the Altering Mansion,> Hana prompted. <Basically, there are some weird areas on Jenta where time doesn't really seem to exist, and you kinda stumble upon them when you're not looking for anything. The Altering Mansion is the most obvious one. Trainers say that the building just appears, and they could swear that they've had days where they are training both on route three, and in the mansion at lunch time on the same day. The Underground Maze has obvious entrances all over Jenta, but again, it seems as though you can be on the regular routes and towns, and inside the maze at the same time. Finally, people say the same might be true of Sankaku Island, although the Abras of Jenta hotly deny the possibility that any time is duplicated when they teleport you there. Most trainers use this weirdness as a way to train twice as hard, although some say they feel funny knowing that there are two of them running around at once.>

~~~

((Now for the stuff that you can copy and paste into your application about your pokies. If you have any questions Justin or Zypher should ask them now, 'cause the next post is basically going to consist of Prof Cherry saying good bye.))

YOUR POKEMON:

Group One
Oddish
Name: ? ? ?
Gender: Male
Level: 5
Attacks: Absorb, Sweet Scent
Special Ability: Chlorophyll - Speeds up when its sunny.
Personality: He's on the level with a sense of humor. He's got a bit of a "tough guy" attitude, but that's really just an excuse to poke fun at himself. Despite his light sense of humor, he is always going to be advising caution, and holding back when it comes to confrontation.

Group Two
Growlithe
Name: ? ? ?
Gender: Male
Level: 25
Attacks: Bite, Leer, Flame Wheel, Reversal
Special Ability: Intimidate - Cuts opponents attack power on being sent into battle
Personality: This growlithe is aware that he's powerful. Perhaps a little too aware. He's very proud of himself, and thinks he is not only the best on the team, he is the leader.

Group Three
Tentacool
Name: ? ? ?
Gender: Female
Note: shiny
Level: 45
Attacks: Poison Jab, Barrier, Supersonic, Hydro Pump
Special Ability: Clear Body - Stats cannot be reduced
Personality: Hey, what's wrong with you? Yeah, I'm talking to you! This girl is pushy, and very aggressive in her dealings with everyone. She really likes it, however, when people stand up to her.

[zypher]

Justin stared at the map for a while and then turned to the professor " I think I'll start off at route three and see what happens from there." Then he turned to the Oddish and scooped down to pick him up. " You ,little fell ,are coming with me."

<Oh great, A talking plant, what an adventure this is going to be.> Zypher Mumbled to himself.

"I'm going to call you Tybalt." Justin said thoughtfully

Mulling over the name, the Oddish replied <Tis not as wide nor as deep as a church door, but it shall do.>

With that Justin grabbed his pack and walked up the prof. and shook his hand.

"umm thanks for not calling the police." he said with a slight blush " and I promise to call you when ever I get to a town."


((OoC: whoot random pointless Shakespeare. sorry for the short post I've gotta go to work soon))

[MorriganFearn]

"Good, then," Professor Cherry smiled. "I'll talk to you later."

As Justin walked out the door, Haru asked: <Didn't Tybalt try to marry his cousin and then get killed, after killing Romeo's best friend?>

<Well, that was how they did things in those days,> Hana said.

((More pack stuff I forgot in the post of doom))

1 pokedex (copper)
1 Magical ever-filled berry bag (try to pick up a few berries off the ground every now and then for realism's sake)
5 pokeballs
5000 pyen