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"You could've just knocked on the front door you know." Lyra said as she sat in the back of Archer's car with Carlos. All of the gangs were meeting up at the town park Friday night. The Rockets had volunteered to pick her up since she was in their neighborhood anyway. Carlos decided to throw rocks at her window to get her attention, but she just walked out of the front door when she heard a car door open and slam.
"I was trying to be dramatic. Like in the movies!" Carlos exclaimed and Ariana rolled her eyes up in the front seat. They pulled into Proton's driveway a few minutes later. Carlos was about to get out when the front door opened and Proton appeared. He got into the car and greeted them all. Lyra felt herself sigh as she was pushed between Proton and Carlos in the backseat on Archer's car. She was content though. It actually was nice. The music was good, they made conversation, and she wasn't nearly as scared as she was the first time she went out to meet all of them. (And who wouldn't love having an attractive boy on both sides of her?)
"My sister was so mad that I was going to the park without her." Proton told Lyra as Archer and Carlos argued about something weird. Probably something stupid, too. "She wanted to see you again."
"Awah, I would've come in to visit her!"
"If you went in you'd never come out. She'd hold you captive. She wants an older sister. She doesn't understand that Alex and I don't like to play dress up with her." Proton rolled his eyes and sighed. "I can handle tea parties, just not dress up."
"Tea parties? Ah, I gotta see that." Lyra chuckled. They arrived at the park and Archer pulled into a parking spot that was in one of the many parking lots around the park. She slid out as Proton held the door open for her. She stretched her arms and legs and looked around the park. It was a big grassy area. Off to one side of the park, there was a 3 foot wall that surrounded a big play area, with gates all around the area, so you could get in from any side. It was a concrete wall and had graffiti all over it. Nothing bad seemed to be written on it, but there was a lot of blue, red, dark red, yellow, and light blue markings over it. Outside the play area, there were swings, quite a bit of them, and then a tall slide. On the other side of the park, there was a park for different pokemon. Little fountains were squirting out water for water types, and there were swings and slides designed for pokemon, and other play things. There were streetlights on the side of a sidewalk that went all around the park and served as a walking path.
"C'mon." Archer said to them. He had his houndoom and houndor out and they wore leashes. They barked and look excited to be at the park. "We'll get there in a second." He told it, calming them down. They started over the pokemon side of the park as houndom tugged along on its leash.
Two houndooms and a mightyena were already running around an enclosed grassy area, both playing with a rope and tugged at it from both ends. Tabitha and Nate were leaning against the fence, watching them play. Courtney sat on top of a bench while Brodie sat on the actual seat part of the bench. Lyra noticed that Brodie and Tabitha had dark red hoodies on. Courtney and Nate had jackets that went mid torso and were also red. She hadn't seen it before, but Proton and Carlos both wore black hats, like the ones the paper boys wore in those old movies. Flat and black. Ariana and Archer both wore white shirts that had tiny buttons with red 'R's pinned on them.
"There, go have fun." Archer opened the gate and unhooked his pokemons' leashes. They ran off to play with the other pokemon. He rolled his eyes and shut the gate. "Where are the others?"
"Dunno." Courtney said and popped a bubble. "We got here a few minutes ago."
"Can't believe we're actual earlier than the Plasmas." Brodie said and smirked as he threw a small pebble at Nate's butt when she leaned over the fence to pet her Houndoom's head.
"Hey!" She squealed, turning to look at Brodie. "What the hell?" She asked and her pokemon growled.
"Sorry, it slipped out of my hands!"
"Bull.." She mumbled, and pet her pokemon again before it hurried off to join the others. "Don't throw stuff at me."
"It slipped." Brodie chuckled and Carlos laughed too, mostly at Nate's now red face. "Won't happen again." Carlos released his Swampert to go play at the water area of the park and plopped down next to Brodie, and also Courtney.
"We're not late, right?" Gabi asked as she approached the group. She had her hair up in a ponytail and it was tied with a light blue bandana. Shelly had a bandana on her head, keeping her bangs out of her face. Lyra looked for Cassius, but he wasn't around.
"Just on time." Courtney said and looked at her phone. "Others are late."
"I knew we had time for food." Carlos grumbled. Courtney offered him gum, and he took it immediately, very pleased now that he had something to break the ice with Courtney. Shelly released her Mightyena into the play area and he ran off to play with the others. The area kind of looked crowded with three houndooms, a houndor and now 2 mightyenas, but, they had tons of things to play on and they all looked happy. Lyra had no clue they all had such scary pokemon.
"How can you tell them all apart?" Lyra asked Tabitha as she leaned on the fence next to the two Magma members.
"You just know." He said with shrug as his mightyena ran over for some attention.
"Like your children." Nate told her and smiled at her houndoom. "They're your babies, you would know them anywhere."
"Oh..." Lyra watched the two. There was a strange calm about it all.
"Hey, hope we're not late!" Minuet called out as she and her group appeared. "We stopped for food." She let her absol out to the play with the pokemon and sat down on another bench. Touya joined her and N and Touko stood behind them.
"Where's Cassius?" Nate asked as she looked at the Aquas. "He sick?"
"Right here!" Cassius jogged up. His bandana was around his mouth, like all the gang members in the movies wore theirs'. He pulled it down so it would be around his neck and flashed a smile. "Sorry, had stuff to take care of." Lyra caught the faint smell of paint in the air, but she ignored it and greeted him anyway.
"I'm so glad it's finally nice out." Courtney said.
"It's hot." Jupiter said as she and her gang approached the group. She had metallic looking pants on, while Saturn had a metallic looking shirt on and Mars looked like her skirt was metallic. Emilie trailed behind, wearing black shorts with metal strips in them that seemed to cover any holes or rips she had on the shorts.
"Maybe you shouldn't be wearing pants then." Courtney shot her a glare, daring her to have a snide comeback.
"We can't all go around in skirts 24/7 like you." Jupiter crossed her arms as she said this. Lyra noticed the scowl on all the magmas faces', and on Carlos' face too.
"We should let our pokemon out so they can play!" Lyra interjected before either side could say anything else. She let her mareep and cyndaquil out of their pokeballs. No one else made a move until Proton called out his koffing and slowpoke. The rest soon followed, much to the relief of Lyra. "Thank you." She whispered to Proton as he picked up his slowpoke. He shrugged and carried his pokemon to the water fountains and the other water types. His koffing trailed behind him, floating right by his head.
Lyra felt a gush of wind beside her and saw Carlos' charizard flapping its wings, lifting it off the ground. She turned back to the water area and saw a splash in one of the bigger fountains. A milotic peaked its head out and cried out before diving back in, making Lyra wonder how deep the fountain actually was.
"Misdreavous." A calm voice right next to her head said. She jumped back, startled, which made the ghost pokemon cheerfully float around her head, happy she had scared the girl. The pokemon quickly took Lyra's hat and floated off with it.
"Give it back!" She shouted running after it. The pokemon was too fast though and Lyra knew she couldn't catch her. "Uh...Whoever gets my hat back first gets 40 points for their team!" She shouted. Everyone look towards the misdreavous and moved all at once towards it.
Lyra moved out of the way before they ran her over. They pushed and shoved one another, trying to catch the ghost pokemon. It was actually sort of entertaining. "Damn!" Minuet growled when she could stretch her arm far enough to grab the rim of Lyra's hat. "Soooo closee!" She whined.
"Misdreavous~!" The pokemon cheered, having tons of fun with the chase. She dodged an ice beam attack from Gabi's Milotic and a flamethrower attack from Carlos' charizard, Tabitha's houndoom, and Archer's houndoom. It also dodged an ember attack from Touya's pansear and a psychic move from Saturn's kadabra.
"Hey!" Nate shouted after getting hit with a water move. She glared at Gabi as she shook water off of her, but it was no use since she was completely drenched. "Misdreavous!" She shouted, recalling the pokemon to its pokeball, and grabbing Lyra's hat in the process. "Here." Nate handed the hat back to Lyra while a few people groaned.
"Not fair!" Cassius whined.
"I wasn't going to do that, but since I got soaked, I decided I didn't care if I played fair or not." Nate spat, taking her jacket off and ringing the water out of it.
"I might have an extra jacket in the car, here." Tabitha tossed his car keys to her and she caught them with ease. She stormed off with her houndoom right beside her.
"So, 40 points to the Magmas!" Lyra announced. "Don't worry, I have something else for you all to do!" She said quickly, so they wouldn't get into another fight. "Whoever can run around the whole perimeter of this park and get back to me first, wins. Second and third place also get points, but, you can't cheat, I'll be watching!" Lyra told them with a serious look. "If you're going to race, line up rightttt here!" She walked over to the sidewalk. Carlos and Proton stepped up, along with Touya, N, Touko, Saturn, Archer, Brodie, Tabitha, Shelly and Cassius. "On your mark...get set...GOOO!" She yelled and they took off running.
"Yeah, definitely not doing that.." Courtney muttered, chewing on a piece of gum. "Too much competition there."
"I don't do running." Minuet said and sat on a bench next to Lyra. "Definitely not with those guys. "
"What are they doing?" Nate asked. She had another hoodie on, most likely Tabitha's. Her shorts were still wet, but she wore them anyway. Her hair was up in a wet, messy updo, and she looked irritated.
"Racing." Gabi said and received a glare from Nate, who blamed Gabi for soaking her.
"You okay?" Courtney asked and Nate shook her head.
"I'm heading home. It's kinda cold out here now and I don't want to get sick." She said.
"Well, Tabitha will be back soon, so he can give you a ride." Courtney started blowing a bubble with her gum.
"Ah, well, I've got another ride actually."
"Who?" Courtney's bubble popped and she gave Nate a suspicious look. Lyra felt like they were invading a private conversation. Minuet felt the same way as well and started to talk with Gabi and Emilie.
"Just...you know.." Nate trailed off, digging around in her pocket for Tabitha's car key. She tossed it to Courtney who caught it and twirled it around her finger, still looking at Nate for a more direct answer. "Volkner." She answered and Courtney's expression turned to one of slight disgust, much like Jupiter's and Mars' face. A car pulled into the parking lot as the group started to reach the final stretch. "Look, I won us 40 points and I got soaked in the process."
"Fine, go." Courtney waved her hand and motioned her to leave. "But, Tabitha won't be happy."
"Yeah well, he's never happy with me anymore." Nate grumbled. "Later." She waved, mostly to Courtney and Lyra, and ran off, her houndoom on her heels. She jumped into the car and shut the door after houndoom jumped in and the car sped off.
Saturn reached Lyra first, with Carlos and Touya right behind him. "Okay, 100 points to Galactics, 50 to Rockets, and 25 to Plasmas!" Lyra announced and all the runners collapsed to the ground, regretting doing the run.
"That's why I don't run." Mars said, looking down at the people laying on the ground. A phone started to ring and Carlos reached for it but the phone was in his jacket, laying on a bench and clearly out of his reach. Lyra grabbed his jacket and reached in the pockets, looking for the phone. Once she found it, she handed it to him and he smiled at her and murmured a thanks as he answered it.
"Yeah..." He said, still panting. "I just went running...well you don't have a body like mine by just sitting around you know...I should have stretched though..my legs hurt..I can't move..." The person on the phone must have said something mean, because his face scrunched up.
"Did you have fun?" Lyra asked as she stood by Proton.
"Tons.." He groaned, sitting up. "Horrible idea."
"Well I had to get you guys to do something." Lyra smiled.
"Where's Nate?" Tabitha asked, already standing and walking towards Courtney.
"She was cold so she left." Courtney said simply.
"With who?" He asked, irritation already on his face.
"Who do you think?" She replied and crossed her arms.
"Oh, I gotta go." Carlos said, standing and brushing himself off. "Sorry." He said to his own gang. "But at least I won us some points!" He smiled. "Bye!" He waved and smiled at Courtney before he jogged off with his Swampert and Charizard right behind him.
"Where the hell are you going?!" Ariana yelled after him, but he didn't reply. "Urg!" She growled, rolling her eyes. "He just jumps up and goes whenever he pleases."
"That's Carlos for you." Archer dusted himself off and watched the retreating figure of the Rocket member. Lyra could tell the Magmas and Rockets were irritated that they had each lost a member and she wondered where Carlos ran off to and what did Nate mean when she said that Tabitha was always mad at her lately? Other than the Rockets, Carlos didn't seem to have any other friends, and Nate and Tabitha never looked mad at each other, and wasn't she basically in love with Tabitha? She wouldn't do anything to make him mad, right?
What was going on?