Cain happened to be sprawled out on the floor the first time he met Edea Crowe. He felt her eyes travel from his monstrous fruit hat - still perfectly in place with fake plastic apples, grapes, and pineapples - to the fake breasts he was laying on. They didn't pop or tear which the girls would have probably fined him for, but having this new girl looking wide eyed at his fake cleavage made him insanely self conscious.
He did vaguely know who Edea Crowe was, not because she was insanely popular at the school they went to, no, he knew her from a mutual friend. Kimi, the red headed production crew manager that had tried to save him from the flock of girls that attacked him earlier, but there's only so much you can do when your bestfriend is developing breasts.
Kimi arranged for the two and herself to go to some event she neglected to inform him about, and they all agreed to meet at the end of the practice that day, but no one anticipated how things would turn out.
"Those are some sturdy rubber bags." This was all Edea had to say on the matter. She started walking towards the crew's exit door, not looking back at the crumpled mess that was Cain.
Rosaline's favorite place was the outdoor marketplace. It was easy to snare deals and pickpocket cash. That being said, it was Eric Callico's least favorite place. It was crowded and he was very tall. He looked like a girafarig among a herd of blitzles, and he always managed to lose Rosaline among the waves of people. He knew that she could handle herself, but he didn't like acknowledging it.
The only clues he had to relocate her was her massive cloak and a murkrow scaring the small children that came near her.
Today, she was standing between two stands. She was examining a young charmander while simultaneously sliding oran berries into the pockets of her cloak. The berry seller either did not see her or did not care, although Eric suspected it was the former of the two options. He waded through the crowd over to his sister and stood by her.
"You could just buy those, you know." He said, though for their own sake he pretended not to notice her theft. She shoved a last handful of berries into her pocket and turned to him.
"I could." She agreed, shoving even more berries into her pockets. Eric sighed and removed a few thousand pokedollars from his pockets. The old man didn't pay much mind to if the money accounted for the berries missing, and instead shooed the two away from his small stand. Rosaline giggled as she fled through the crowd, and Eric ducked his head.
Suddenly, something short and determined hit his midsection. He looked down to find a very sturdy redheaded girl holding an eevee, looking intensely at the berry-selling man. "Sir!" she called out, as if she had not even ran into Eric. She dropped the eevee and ran past him. Eric suddenly felt Rosaline appear at his side and pick up the eevee, holding it between her arms clumsily.
Eric watched the other girl race towards the stand. He opened his mouth to call out to her, to remind her of her eevee which now remained squirming in his sister's arms, but then he stopped as he saw the man point towards the two of them. The girl took a moment to write something down in a notebook she had, and then started towards them. She called out, "Thieves!"
Before he himself realized what was happening, Rosaline had taken hold of his wrist and was dragging him through the crowd. She had the eevee in a bag she didn't come into the marketplace with and was hurrying towards the nearest exit.
Cain felt the need to cover his breasts. He had on a windbreaker and a t-shirt underneath that hid his frontal body with it's baggy folds, but every time Edea looked at him he felt awkward.
The three were walking through the market area to wherever Kimi wanted to take them, but they got sidetracked at the traveling merchants stalls. Kimi disappeared for several minutes, leaving him alone with a silent Edea, and when she came back she seemed rather deflated. Her eyes were puffy with recently shed tears, and a swift glance from Edea told him to wait it out for a little while.
After several minutes of walking, she excused herself, heading towards the police station near the library.
She tried keeping it cool at first, but broke into a full out sprint halfway through, making Cain instinctively run after her, Edea already ahead of him.
He ran towards the small garden between the two buildings, leaping over the hedges proved faster than walking around the whole thing. There was a pink haired girl reading some sort of runic book with a strange stone-like pokemon with glowing fingers, but Cain didn't pay the too much mind when leaping over the intricate maze of knee high shrubs.
After a couple more minutes of sprinting over things and past people, he reached the police station. He found Kimi sitting inside the waiting room, using her sleeve to dry her face. He sat down next to her, and Edea burst in the door. She looked concerned for a mere second, and then her face returned to it's natural nonchalant state when she saw that Kimi was relatively okay.
"What happened?" Edea was the first to ask.
"Some kids stole my eevee," Kimi replied, her voice small. She tried to straighten herself out for a moment. "and they stole some berries from a local salesman." She sniffed, wiping her nose on her sleeve. "The situation demands justice."
"Did you catch up to them?" Cain asked. He immediately felt a hand hit the back of his head. "Ow!"
"That's a stupid question." Edea said emotionlessly. "Of course she didn't catch up. If she had, she would have her eevee beside her right now." Edea then turned back to Kimi. "Did they take your other pokemon, or just your eevee?"
Kimi, with another sniff, removed two other pokeballs from her bag and released her pokemon. A doduo and chatot appeared in the waiting room with them, looking confused as to why they were in a building and not on a battlefield.
"Good." Edea said. "Do you remember what they looked like?"
Kimi nodded, looking a little more hopeful of the situation.
"Fantastic. Then we'll report it and see what happens."
"Kimi," Cain said gently, not wanting to get hit again. "tell the cops what they need to know, than we can help you look for them on the open roads."
He winced expecting a sharp wake to the head, but Edea just kinda ignored the comment, as did Kimi painfully. Kimi was giving the discriptune to the cops, and his statement remained unheard.
When Rosaline took the eevee from the ginger at the market, she wasn't aware of just how much a problem this eevee would create.
Her brother Eric seemed to be a particular hardass about this one theft. Because this time it actually was a theft he couldn't pay back. He was used to shoveling out money borrowed from their parents to whomever Rosaline descended upon, but he was whining nonstop about the squirming mess in Rosaline's hands. It was still connected to its owners pokeball, and they would need to see a specialist to get that removed, and the whining coming from Rosaline's brother made it whine even louder.
"You can't do this, Rosaline."
"Shut up."
"Rosaline."
"Shut up please."
"You know I won't shut up about it until you do it."
Rosaline wheeled around on the heels of her shoes, moving her face directly in front of her brother, even though he was almost a head and a half taller than her.
"If you don't want to support me right now, then by all means go back to the town and cry to all your self righteous little girls and police officers and get yourself arrested. This eevee right here will be much happier with the rich old man who buys it for their lover or daughter or whatever. All the girl would have done is raise it as a house animal for some lower to middle class home. I'm doing this little guy a favor, and if you dont want to help both me and it, then just go. Go!" Her shouting got progressively louder and louder through her triade, and several bird pokemon ascended to the skies when she screamed the last go.
She wheeled back, grabbed the now trembling eevee who she might have dropped somewhere in the shouting, and marched further on to the woods.
After an indecisive moment, her brother followed whistling a tone shockingly familiar to "Agony!" whilst heading into the woods.
Every single person in the Kanto region needed a basic degree from highschool to get anywhere in life. There was no days of old anymore, where any kid could just wander around uneducated throughout the nation after the initial confusion of war and the various crime and government syndicates that popped up afterwards.
Though students of any age could take a leave of absence if they had parent and teacher permission. Standard lessons would still need to be completed within the time frame through various methods of books, computers and the such.
They couldn't go on the hunt right away. It was actually a week and three days before all three friends could get all the signatures and course work.
Kimi had three panic attacks, and a severe depression throughout that week. Cain and Edea helped all they could, but the ginger girl placed most of the blame on herself.
The three eventually found themselves staring at the sign that indicated they were leaving the town limits. The world outside the large perimeter surrounded by several watchmen would be life threatening if something went wrong, but this was something every person needed to do once in their lives.
"Who's taking the first step out." Cain asked staring at the large archway. They each had permits to go in and out of towns at scheduled hours, and the doors wouldn't stay open forever.
"Why are you making this a huge symbolic thing?" Edea asked with a huff of annoyance.
"Its the first step in our journey! We could get famous or something. Discover a new breed of pokemon, unearth fossils millions of years old, or laaaaaaahhhhhh!" He was cut off mid sentence when both girls shoved him forwards, forcing him to take several of the first steps of the journey to the sounds of highfives.