Arisa's Birthday: The Giveaway

[Nyaa-Neko]

Arisa groaned, flopping back onto the chair. Next to her, Jynx looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "<You okay?>"

"Winter's over...ugh, spring's coming, then," Arisa grumbled, crossing her arms. Since she was not in the gym, the parka was gone. She, instead, wore more normal attire consisting of a shirt and a skirt...and flip-flops. Even Jynx thought it was odd to see Arisa in non-gym attire.

"<Well, cheer up. The people are coming in to celebrate your birthday.>"

"They're here 'cause they want stuff."

Jynx rolled her eyes. Arisa always got irritable around her birthday...after all, her birthday signaled the end of winter. Not a great thing for an ice-type gym leader.

On the desk in front of her, Arisa had a sign out, explaining the giveaway. She honestly didn't feel up to explaining it with exuberance - she was no Shing, after all.

The sign read: "Welcome to Arisa's birthday giveaway. Please pick a number from 1 to 8 (inclusive). The prizes you may receive are: one rare candy, two rare candies, three rare candies, an item, an ice-type TM, a Group 1 ice-type Pokemon, a Group 2 ice-type Pokemon, or a Group 3 ice-type Pokemon. Thank you."

[Ukesagi-tan]

Lawrance strolled up, looking around.

"Bouncy, how do we keep ending up in places like this?" he asked.

"<DONOTQUESTIONTHEALMIGHTYSCENETRANSFER!>" yelled Bouncy. "<Uh... I mean... I dunno...>"

Lawrance stared down at Bouncy, giving her a look of both 'WTF was that' and 'Okaaaaay...'

"<Uh... Uh... Hey, completely different subject time, look over there!>" shouted Bouncy, pointing to the sign. "<Another giveaway... Hosted by Arisa, appearently.>"

Lawrance strolled up to the desk and looked at the sitting woman.

"Happy birthday, Arisa." he said. "If I'd known, I'da brought you a gift... Maybe a Nevermelt Ice or somethin'... But uh... Seven."

(Woot for the kindness of Lawrance! *Crickets* ... [demonic]WOOT FOR THE KINDNESS OF LAWRANCE.[/demonic] Crowd: WOOOOOOOOT! Pleasedon'thurtus!)

[Nyaa-Neko]

Arisa smiled weakly at Lawrence. "Uh, thaaaanks. Hey, haven't I seen you before?...Oh yeah, you were the guy with the marill and the igglybuff who got the Freeze Badge a few weeks ago." She waved. "How've you been? Anyway..."

Jynx reached under the table, and pulled out two rare candies. She plopped the two level-giving goodies on the table, and smiled. "<Thank you! Have a nice day!>"

[Ukesagi-tan]

"I'm on my way to beating up the next Gym leader. In fact before I magically teleported here, which still creeps me out, by the way, I was crossing the river." he stated. "On a Gyarados..." He looked back the way he came and sighed. "If I live to be the champion of this region, I'm never coming back..."

With that, he walked back the way he came, hoping to wind up on the Gyarados and not in the house of a bunch of crazy Pokèmon that could kill him with a thought.

[MorriganFearn]

Tommy came into the pokemon center as Lawrence was walking out. <Er, Hey,> Pai looked over at the girl near the table, with the Jynx. <It says that she's a gym leader, Shihan!>

Tommy winced. He wished fighting types would master the art of subtlety eventually. "I think that the one I'm training you for, actually," he said.

<Really?> Shiri coming in behind them peered around his shoulder. <Let's go talk to her! Oh, randome number giveaway! Pai-niisan, let's go test my psychic abilities!>

She clattered over to the counter, Pai quickly following. Of course, as a young girafarig her psychic abilities were almost non-existant, but Shiri couldn't wait to develop them.

<I say 2!>

[Nyaa-Neko]

((You're getting a lot of Pokemon from these things. @_@))

Arisa waved slightly as Lawrence left, then looked up at Tommy (she was kind of slouching). "Two? Okay...Xi-Xi, what Group 2 Pokemon do we have?"

Jynx peered under the table. "<We could give him snorunt, sneasel, swinub...I think we have some spheal and seel, too. Oh, and hey, look, I think I see a shellder wedged in there...>"

Arisa glared at the boy. "Give him the sneasel, then. I don't trust him with something as rare as a snorunt."

Jynx nodded, and psychically lifted a Pokeball onto the table.

The woman next to her nodded, then crossed her arms. "Okay, boy, you're getting an ice-type. It's Group 2, so yay for you...you get a type advantage against Botan and Corwin. However," she glared at him even more, "if I hear ANY sort of talk about you abusing or not using this ice-type correctly, I'm freezing you in your sleep. GOT THAT?"

Jynx smiled nervously, shaking her hands. "<Um, she's not usually this violent...please forgive my trainer...she gets in a bad mood around this time of the year.>"

((Here are teh stats of teh sneasel:

Sneasel
Gender: you choose
Level: 45
Group: 3
Notes: shiny (ph34r the pink)
Nickname: you choose
Ability: Keen Eye: accuracy cannot be lowered
Attacks: Faint Attack, Agility, Fury Swipes, Icy Wind
Personality: you choose

And if you wanted me to pick...then this is what I would do:

Gender: Female
Personality: Sweet, caring, nice, good at cooking (for some reason) and cleaning. Kind of like Tohru or Misaki. She always likes to do her best, and is optimistic. However (this is the Mary-Sue checker part), sometimes she gets depressed, like if she loses (she feels she let her team down) or if she scares anybody (she doesn't like being a dark-type).

I was gonna make her a shiny, since they're pink...but I didn't. -_-;; ))

[Ninetales]

William Hamlet looked around him.... "Okay? This is wierd, I turn my back and I am somewhere different... Oh, another giveaway?" He walked up to the Gym leader and looked at her. "So, what gym do you work for? Is it past route one?" He was more concerned about another problem he had so he wasn't all here. "Anyway, Happy Birthday..." He then reached into his pocket and pulled out 200 pokeyen, "Uh... some money my brother sent to me. I don't know you so well, but here you go, happy birthday."

HE then looked at the list, "I pick... number eight." He said with a smile.

[Nyaa-Neko]

"Eight? Okay then," Arisa mumbled as Jynx pulled out a TM 13: Ice Beam. "Use it wisely or die."

Jynx rolled her eyes at her trainer's bad mood.

[Ninetales]

William looked at the Ice Beam. "Oh joy... my first real TM that I get to save." He said that in a flat tone of voice, showing that he didn't have an ice type... "Thank you. I will use it very wisely when I get more Pokemon that can use Ice type moves."

He turned around, walked out the door, and promptly disappeared.

[MorriganFearn]

Tommy nervously took the pokeball containing the sneasel from Arisa. "No, Ma'am, I won't do anything bad to here, I swear."

With that squeak he ran out of the pokemon center, Shiri and Pai going after him.

[Kimishiro]

Dusty entered the room wearing an bright icey blue party hat. Although he had heard of the birthday party, it was the prize that honestly drove him into visiting honestly.

Not wanting to seem like just another greedy trainer, he had went about and bought a present for the trainer, though he wasn't sure at all what she would think of it. The present was neatly tucked under his left arm, wrapped in a misty oceanic blue paper with images of Articuno on it, tied with a pretty red ribbon.

Following behind him in a matching party hat and blowing a party kazoo, was his bulbasaur, Rowan. As usual, the grass-type rocked an egg within its vines. Dusty did not want his future opponent to know what pokemon he planned to use against her, hence his reason for keeping Suze in her ball.

Stepping up to the ice-type leader, Dusty slid the present over the desk. "You must be the guest of honor. Happy Birthday!" Having a bit of manners, he would of course not just belch out the number he wanted, which was one, but rather waited for her to ask.

[Nyaa-Neko]

Arisa stared at the present for awhile. "Thanks...um...what number do you want?" She poked the present. "What's inside?" People usually didn't give her presents...he wasn't trying to bribe her into getting, like, a shiny, was he?

[Kimishiro]

Dusty smiled, "Its a Smoochum plushie. Sorry if you don't like it, I wasn't exactly sure what to get you, afterall, it is your birthday" And, erm, I guess I'll pick number one."

Dusty nervously rubbed the toe of his tennis shoe into the floor. "And, just so you know, I plan on challenging you here in a week or so. I doubt I'm ready right now, but just don't be suprised to see me again so soon." His smile transformed into a competitive smirk, but still he was not bribing anyone. "So, don't take it personally when I leave your gym with that badge.", he said winkingly.

[Jason-Kun]

Jason entered with a gift. It was wrapped in clear and blue wrapping paper. Smiling, he popped it beside Arisa. "I pick number three."he said camly. Looking around, he smirked. "Happy brithday Arisa!"he said calmly.

[Nyaa-Neko]

Arisa opened the package, and took out a soft, plushie smoochum doll. "Cute," she mumbled, letting her "OMG IT'S SO ADORABLE" thoughts stay in the inside. "And yeah...they all leave with badges...it's one of the annoying things about being a gym leader." She then looked up at Jason. "Thanks, kid."

Meanwhile, Jynx reached under the table, and pulled out a Pokeball labeled "Group 2" with a blue sticky note and a rare candy. She plopped the Pokeball in front of Dusty and the rare candy in front of Jason. Arisa glared at Dusty. "If I here any sort of complaints from that Pokemon, you're dead, you got that?"

Jynx smiled weakly. "<Thanks for coming, you two...>"

((So Jason gets a rare candy...and this is what Kimi gets:

Swinub
Gender: you choose
Level: 25
Group: 2
Nickname: you choose
Ability: Oblivious: cannot be infatuated
Attacks: Tackle, Odor Sleuth, Powder Snow, Endure
Personality: you choose

But if you wanted me to choose the gender and personality, this is what I would choose:

Gender: Male
Personality: Kind, forgiving, and strong-willed. He is always willing to help or defend his friends, and isn't easily persuaded or tempted to do bad things. He does, however, get angry when anybody hurts his team (he's super loyal).

But that's only a suggestion - if you want to do something completely different, that's fine, too. ^_^))

[Jason-Kun]

Jason smiled calmly. "You're welcome."he said. Bending to whisper to Jynx, he smirked. "it's a snorunt plushie. But don't tell her that."he whispered. Taking the rare candy, he fed it to Flama as he headed back to route one.

[Kimishiro]

Dusty accepted the pokeball gratefully, "Oh, he'll be fine, it'll be fun. You'll see for yourself later on. And, cheer up. I'm sure not 'everybody' leaves with a badge. You need to be more confident. Cause when I come knocking, I'm hoping for an all-out battle, not just some push-over, kay?" Smiling, Dusty continued, "Anyways, I've got a lot of work to do for now. Hope you continue to have a happy birthday."

[Lee]

Zach hated being sent to all these wierd places. At least this one didn't have a well for Jasmine to dump them both in though, and the birthday girl wasn't half as crowd-pleasing as Shing had been. Plus, he wouldn't be seeing Arisa for a while. Not until after Shing.

Jasmine pulled Rapheal along with her in order to stand below Arisa and smile. < Hello! It's your birthday? Happy birthday! Why do you gym leaders give things away on your birthday? Isn't it annoying? Why aren't you happy? You don't look happy. >

Rapheal tried to shush Jasmine, offering apologetic glances at Arisa. Zach sighed, "Sorry. Jasmine's...Curious. Happy birthday, Arisa. Mmm. S'posed to ask for a numer? ...Has six been picked?"

[Nyaa-Neko]

Arisa raised one eyebrow as Jynx withdrew a Pokeball. It, like the one given to Dusty, was labeled "Group 2" with scrawled writing on a sticky note.

The ice-type gym leader glared at the boy as she pushed the ball towards him. "You hurt the Pokemon inside, you die, you got that?"

Jynx rolled her eyes. She should really be less moody on her birthday...

((Aaaand...statuses!

Spheal
Gender: you choose
Level: 25
Group: 2
Nickname: you choose
Ability: Thick Fat: Fire and Ice attacks do half damage on Spheal
Attacks: Water Gun, Encore, Body Slam, Aurora Beam
Personality: you choose

But if you wanted me to choose...then...

Gender: Female
Personality: Hyper-happy. Like on a permanent sugar high. She's always spouting random happy thoughts, jumping around (even though that's sort of impossible), rolling around, and laughing. It's almost impossible to get her sad...just like it's almost impossible to get her to be serious.

But, again, you can change it if you want. That's just a suggestion. You don't have to actually use it. ^_^))

[Lee]

OoC: Zohmygosh! ...I'm haunted by Spheals. XD And I'm so going to use it, even though it reminds me of Gunnar from Delmara. XD

BiC: Zach's face lit up. Like, he was practically as happy-hyper as his Spheal would prove to be. It was a group 2 pokemon! GROUP 2! That meant he didn't have to worry about the Third route anymore, because he had a safe GROUP 2 pokemon.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! I won't hurt her ever, I promise! Never! You won't regret giving her to me! You won't!" And then he hugged Akriso, which even silenced Jasmine. Neither she, nor Rapheal, had ever seen Zach so...happy. He was supposed to be the quiet, sullen, frightened boy. Not the happy, hug-everyone-nearby, boy he was now.