'Finally!'
With a slight shove and a jerk of his shoulder, Danny extricated himself from the crowd of people and looked around in a confused manner.
'So... Where am I now?' Not bothering to check where he was. He was just too excited to even find out when he got onto the ship, collecting his room key and number.
The messy brown haired boy sighed out as he just began to walk around aimlessly for a few minutes. Sighing out even more, he took a glance down at the leafeon that strolled along side him.
"I don't suppose you know where we are, do you?" the small leafeon pointed to a sign on the wall behind Danny that read "Ball Room" in letters engraved in gold plating.
"Oh... Right. I knew that." Shaking his head at his master's idiotic ness, Flash leapt into Danny's arms and the two of them took a seat near the wall.
"Where are the others? I should have seen them by now." He glanced around the room for a second before Flash leapt from his arms and took off, weaving his way effortlessly between the legs of people walking around. Hopping to his feet, Danny took off after him, apologizing to people he ran over before finally catching up to Flash and grabbed ahold of the little thing, whispering to him fiercely.
"What was that for?" Flash pointed with his tail at the bench on the other side of the plants and Danny finally noticed who was sitting there. Feeling a weird lurch in his chest, he took in the sight of the lavender haired girl with a jigglypuff sitting on the bench, looking as amazing as the last time he'd seen her. Her hair seemed to have gotten longer since the last time they met. Suddenly feeling a little bit mischievous, Danny walked up behind the girl, being as silent as possible and covered her eyes with his hands from behind her head.
"Guess who?" The girl jumped a bit, then her surprised face began to turn into a giddy smile and caused her to squealed slightly.
"Danny! Cut it out, your hands are cold!" she laughed, trying to pull away from the boys hands in a playful manner. She turned her head and smiled towards the boy before grabbing him into a hug, forcing him to lean over so that her arms could go around his neck.
"Christ, Danny! I thought you got left behind!" Danny gave a slight smile and rubbed the back of his head.
"Sorry, Odella. Got lost in the crowds and I didn't spot you or Eve." Odella just smiled back at the boy, punching him playfully in the shoulder before holding up her room key card.
"So, ya' got your room yet? Know who you're rooming with yet? I gotta warn him to not mess with you 'less he wants me barking at him!" Her eyes glinted a mischievous undertone, but Odella wouldn't really do anything to Danny's roommate. Unless, of course, he was a real jerk. Danny laughed as he held up his own key as well.
"Don't worry about me. I'm sure that I won't be roomed with a jerk." Danny said, giving the girl a slight nervous smile while still rubbing the back of his head "Besides, I don't think barking at someone is necessary to get them to stop acting a certain way."
Flash began to wave from Danny's shoulder, wanting to be noticed as well.
"Oh. Right. Odella, this is the newest addition to my team, Flash. I got him a few weeks after I went back home. He's one of my best pokemon I have." Flash puffed his chest out with a smug expression on his face and Danny smacked him lightly on the back of his head.
"Anyways what about you? Do you know who you are rooming with?" he asked the girl.
Odella paused to think about whether she saw her roommate's name or not, Eve hopped up onto her lap to get a better look at this Leafeon, Flash. Her head tilted slightly and she furrowed her brow. Odella knew what Eve was trying to do, but she didn't think it was so bad. Eve was studying Flash, to see whether he was worth any of her time. Odella didn't find any harm in that, considering that Eve has done worse things than study another pokemon. Finally, Odella rubbed the back of her head and sighed.
"I suppose I didn't see the roster. Everything happened so fast, I think that I was too preoccupied with finding room to breathe," she admitted. With that settled, Odella started to stand, allowing Eve a chance to climb up her shoulder back to her perch near Odella's head.
"Well, I suppose that we could check out each other's rooms! I had been sitting here to wait for the crowd to lessen, but I think we'd better go before our roomies have a chance to get all the good stuff, ya know? And then we can chat up and catch up. I've got a pokemon for you to meet too," she explained as she gathered her bags. Danny smiled and nodded, Flash hopping off of his shoulder to land beside his feet silently.
"Sounds like a good idea to me." Danny picked up his bag that he'd set on the ground. Deciding to be the gentleman, he knelt on the ground and picked up Odella's other bags for her without waiting for her agreement.
"Let me get those bags for you. Might as well make myself useful for something while I'm here."
For a good thirty seconds, Odella frowned slightly, contemplating whether bothering to object to his courtesy or not. It was nice, but she hadn't expected him to offer. Finally, Odella agreed, making herself useful by paving a path through the crowd for them.
"You'll regret offering to do that when I take you shopping with me, you do know that, right?" she chuckled. Danny's face turned pale, the corner of his lip began to twitch. Odella could spend a whole twelve hour period shopping... And Danny knew it.
"Ugh, shopping...That's the worst way anyone can spend their time... Ev-er." Flash shook his head in confusion, wondering why humans females felt the need to buy so many things.
Odella turned her head to stick out her tongue towards Danny, who apparently didn't understand her need of having to make good impressions, since first impressions were everything in her book and all, and continued to stride ahead of him. Danny could only smile softly towards the lavender haired girl as he continue to trail behind.
xxxx
"Oh! Your Pokemon are so beautiful!"
A group of young women were gathered around some of the lounge chairs in the pool area, cooing over a young man and three of his Pokemon. He smiled, standing up from the chair he had been sitting in, and bowed to the girls around him.
"Strength is only half the battle in any situation," he said, voice soft and velvety as he raised his body to his full six foot two height.
"The other half is how to exude grace and perfection while you clobber the opponent. Of course, such lovely ladies as yourselves must perform every action with utter charm and grace, I am sure." The girls around him sighed and marveled in unison, eyes locked to the silver-blue ones of the young man. He suddenly grabbed one girl's hand, raising it to his lips and kissing her skin like two soft feathers. As he let her hand go, the girl felt faint and had to excuse herself so that she couldn't black out in front of him. He only smiled and nodded.
Oh, how Raphael Vyoletta loved his adoring fans.
With one swift flip of his arms, Raphael reached for his suit jacket from his chair and slid it onto his frame, adjusting his collar as the jacket slowed to a stop.
"I am sorry ladies, but we must be going. My Pokemon and I are due for a rest. Tyler, Lola, Juliet."
His crowd groaned as he started to break away from the crowd, a dragonair, azumarill, and a persian following at his heels. As they neared the crowd of people exploring around the sailing ship, Raphael took out three pokeballs, returning Tyler and Lola first. He glanced at the persian for a second, then towards the crowd. Juliet looked up at him, then shook her head.
"Suit yourself. I'm surprised that you lasted so long with those girls, actually," he chuckled, returning the wary feline. He turned on the heels of his dress shoes, a smile playing on his lips as he walked away from the crowd.
Raphael's eyes tried to scan the crowds around him, gazing around for anything interesting. After all, if it is something to take note of, he certainly wouldn't want to miss it. As he causally made his way around, he noticed a lone boy hanging around the ships railing. Smiling brightly, Raphael felt the need to chat with him.
As he approached closer, Raphael started to stretch, then moved to keep up with the pace of his new target. The boy was leaning over the railing of the ship, dusty charcoal hair whipped around in the small breeze and deep dark blue eyes staring out at the horizon. Finally, he spoke to boy, jolly as he could be so early in the morning.
"Some awesome new challenge, eh? The tournament, that is. I don't suppose that a person such as yourself feels differently, am I correct, dude?" he commented off-handedly, running a hand through his hair. Personally, Raphael loved the smell of the salt water and the idea of sailing around the ocean in such a divine boat. He loved boats. Raphael often had parties on his father's many yachts before, so the youth had no qualms with riding on this oversized one.
The boy just raised an eyebrow up at him with an 'Aren't you just full of sun shine today?' look and then sighed before opening his mouth to speak. Raphael was eager to hear the boys response.
"Actually, I find this tournament on water to be a very stupid idea…" The boy said in a low voice, causing the end of Raphael's smiling mouth to twitch.
The young man gave a nervous chuckle, rubbing the back of his head slightly at the boys comment. However, he continued to chat with the anti-social-like boy as if he was chatting with an old friend.
"I suppose that some things about a tournament need not to transferred to the sea. However, what is wrong with being the one who creates a stupid idea?" he smiled, winking over towards the boy.
"It is usually the stupid ideas that turn out the most fun. It was someone's idea to create a moon bounce. I'm sure many found it to be stupid, but today, no kid can say that having a moon bounce at a party is stupid! Or the new bullet train that replaced the one that crashed last year in Johto. People debated about its technology, saying that the idea was stupid, using magnets to levitate a mass of stell that fast. Applying the principles of magnetism that Magnetons or Magnezones seemed too amazing to try. Stupid to attempt! Yet, what train is the number one train in the Johto region?" Raphael nodded to himself, smirking confidently and waiting for the boys reply.
After waiting for a couple of moments, he looked over to where the boy was, only to find out that he was gone.
"Eeh! Where'd he go?" he wondered out loud. The boy was just there a moment ago. Raphael let out a deep sigh out, guessing that he must of bored or annoyed the boy. However, he thought it was rather rude of him to leave during his epic speech. Guess nobody appreciated a good speech anymore these days.
He soon found himself staring out into the ocean himself, couldn't help but to think about a certain someone and where she might be…
xxxx
Wind blew against Akira's face and hair, causing stray hairs to invade her face and she leaned onto the railing of the ship. The spiked up hair in the back of her head also began to give slight movements. The boat hadn't taken off yet, due to the fact that people were still trying to board the ship. Already, it had felt like the ship was getting rather too crowded. Why on earth would someone let out their giant ass snorlax just as they board was beyond her. Guess some people were just not smart enough to see that people were trying to get things settled instead of having to find their own way around said snorlax, which decided to take a big nap on the deck where the passengers were still trying to board.
Luckily, Akira was smart and maneuvered her way around the crowd after receiving her key card. She couldn't remember the number of her room, other then the fact that it was somewhere on the west wing of the ship, just she could manage. After all, it was to only be a single room. The thought of rooming with anyone that could be potential competition was not something that Akira would accept.
Reaching into the pocket of her navy hoodie, she pulled out a small cube of sugar and placed it into her mouth. The cube dissolved instantly inside her mouth, not having to bother crunching it down with her molars. Even though Akira didn't express it well on her face, she was rather excited for this. However, she wasn't too thrilled that it was on water… But she would just have to manage, after all, a competition is a competition and she was going to win it. She didn't care for the prizes, the only thing on her mind was to win and that was it.
But Akira would have to wait until the competition actually got started. The wing began to slightly pick itself up in an off and on like way, blowing strands of dusty black hair into her face once more as she looked out at the horizon line. She didn't have anything to worry about, it wasn't like the ship was going to crash into an ice burg any time soon, right? Akira just pushed that thought out of her head and just shoved her hands into her pants pockets, continuing to lean back on the railing of the ship.
"Some awesome new challenge, eh?"
Akira looked to her side to see a boy with dark navy blue hair leaning up against the railing, smiling and being all jolly like. It gave Akira an annoyed feeling.
"The tournament, that is. I don't suppose that a person such as yourself feels differently, am I correct, dude?"
Dude? Oh, he probably thought that she was a boy, like most others did. Look at her. Baggy pants, baggy shirts, hoodies, spiked up hair, the usual appearances of the young males today. Akira couldn't help that she just had androgynous features, blame genetics. She could only raise an eye brow at the boys jolliness before turning back out to the ledge and sighing out. She was contemplating on whether or not to answer the guy's question. Maybe if she answered him, he would go away and then leave her alone. She finally opened her mouth to say something.
"Actually, I find this tournament on a cruise ship to be a very stupid idea…" she said in a low voice.
Truth be told, she was just saying that because she absolutely hated being on the water. But a tournament was a tournament, it needed to be won by someone and that someone was going to be her. Thinking, since the boy grew quiet, that he decided to just go off on his merry way, Akira turned out to be very wrong after he started up a speech of some sorts. Akira grew annoyed of the boy's voice, and she didn't even know him at all. To be honest, he was like a Chatot who wouldn't shut up at all. Didn't he have somewhere else to be to or someone else to annoy the hell out of?
Apparently not since he was acting like he was on friendly terms with her. But he was no where near friendly. A rock would of been closer then he was. Either way, Akira just decided to ignore his ramblings about bullet trains, magnetism, and all this other crap that he was going on about, but it was harder then it sounded. Finally, she decided to quickly take off with her bags that laid next to her feet without uttering a single word to the boy. The boy apparently didn't notice her walking off, which was a good thing. Guess it was time to find her room now, set her luggage down so she could go relax before lunch came around.
Wow! Another chapter out! And in one day too! ^^
By the way, I want to thank anyone who read and left a comment! Thanks! It was awesome to read your comment! I hope that you continue to read along! Hopefully, none of these characters turn out to be Mary Sues or anything like them! Thanks again!