[Pokelandia] That one which isn't focused on Masanari

[rashness]

[ Rin has been on his Pokémon journey for the last five months. It's not exactly the longest journey ever, but for a teenager who didn't exactly have a plan when he set out other than wanting to catch up to his twin brother, with whom he's battled several times and still has a record that shows more losses than wins, it certainly feels like a long one. Certainly long enough for him to train up a reasonably strong team and to get used to things like sleeping outdoors when he's out of towns and cozying up in a Pokémon Center when he was in a town. The life of a trainer was being frugal, especially if you weren't a Pro.

Then again, there's still a lot you can do even without being a full Pro, which is shown by the fact that the teenager, through many hard battles, has probably seen a little more than half the country, hiked over a mountain, and earned three gym badges this far. In comparison to some legendary prodigies he's working at a moderate pace, but then he wasn't really aiming for the League Champion position and he wasn't really necessarily out to be the Best at first.

But he did want to be the Best in his family. But that's a whole other thing he's not really sure how to explain to anyone else. Rin's starter was a cute little Shinx who he began his journey with, and who in the aftermath of their climactic second gym battle actualized into a humanoid as a result of their celebratory bond. That was on of the proudest moments of his life. It's not necessarily rare for trainers to bond with a Pokémon to that extent, but it's also not necessarily common, and that gym leader had ruffled his hair and told him good job. Aside from here, he's caught maybe six or seven other Pokémon, of which three are in the care of the people running the academy he used to go to school in, his connected PC system. One of those Pokémon is Junko.

Junko is a beautiful and somewhat vain (or at least, he sees her as such) Sylveon who he caught after a fierce battle while hiking through a mountain range past a certain City. He wasn't able to fight the gym leader there who was supposedly away on business, but he did shake hands with the leader's son and promise to come battle them again some day. It's been about a month since then, and he's taken to sleeping against her as a pillow (at her suggestion) when they are camping outside, while many of his other pokemon prefer to rest in the comfort of their balls. I leave you to decide how Audrey sleeps

And so... one morning, following such a rest-- ]

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[prettiestremix]

[Junko, despite her looks and, yes, some of her preening, loved the mountains, and she spent a good amount of her free time up there, talking with the other Pokémon and essentially idling her days away, in a sense. Koji was off in the mountains, somewhere, probably causing blizzards and annoying the shit out of people, and Yamato was planning on starting his journey. Of the three Kida children she was the most aimless, oddly enough, though not for lack of trying. It wasn't her fault that she couldn't find a human that she both admired and also respected! If she was going to be someone's Pokémon she couldn't help living by her mother's advice - "Look for someone who puts a fire in you".

Rin did that. Sure, he was way too nice and he had lots of feelings but when they'd battled she hadn't felt at all bad about being caught. In fact she was happy! Not only to have finally ended up with a trainer, but because she immediately looked forward to the places they might go, the things they might do, and all that they could see. Finally, finally Junko was going to leave the safety of her father's town and his Gym!

She'd pretty much loved every minute of it, and become rather quietly protective of Rin. No one could help the sleeping outside part but she felt better serving as his pillow. She could wake up far quicker than him even if she slept with her head tucked in near his and this way Audrey could enjoy her Pokéball until the morning, when she generally asked to be let out and walk normally unless she had to battle.

It was just dangerous - stupidly dangerous, but she understood why he needed to do it. She'd always wanted to be as cool and as put together as her older brother, she wanted him to admire her even though she was a Pokémon and he was a human. Rin's journey felt entirely valid to her, and it was somewhere around dawn that she woke up first (as always) and just ... looked at him. He was such a great trainer ... Kind of a dork, but she liked that about him, too. Even though she missed her family awfully some nights, Rin was worth all of it. Her parents would probably love him.

That's how it happened, with that one thought, an incredibly warm feeling that had been building since the moment they met, expanded so thoroughly that it shifted her limbs and fur. With Rin still using her as a pillow Junko opened her unearthly blue eyes and felt ... Bigger. And weird. She tried to call out, but all that came out of her throat was a weird, moan-y sort of noise.]

.. in?

[That's a - A human voice???] R-i-n?

[HOLY SHIT.

And that's when Junko screeched sounding far more like a terrified Pokémon than she had any right to. Or Gijinka. Whatever the hell this new body was.]

[iridescenza]

[Veronica had pushed herself a little too far this time.

But it’s worth it - no matter what it’s worth all the pain and grit and sometimes tears because after all this time she’s finally got her eighth badge! It’s a hard won victory that was, as usual, attributed to her Glaceon, who had not only essentially carried her ill-picked team for this specific gym battle, but also managed to stay up on all four limbs until she was able to get them all to the Pokemon center. If she did her best then her memory recall would conjure up images of the Nurse Joy, of the different colored balls guided into her bag again. The life of a trainer is taxing, thankless, and utterly challenging and she’d just been so tired - was it really any wonder that she found them a place to stay?

After all of this work they deserved a nice room, and Veronica pushed off one shoe and gently set her bag down and then flopped onto her bed. The hotel was probably a little too expensive, even for all of her penny pinching it wasn’t as if she was made of cash and there were a number of things she needed to stock up on. But it was so nice to sleep in four walls and behind a door. They were safe and she could be tired and drop dead in the middle of the afternoon after two previous days of traveling without sleep.

No one ever talks about the awful parts of the journey, but then there’s no way to describe the incredible joy that comes with knowing she could actually make it to Victory Road now. It must have slipped her mind before she fell asleep because it’s as she’s waking that Veronica remembers looking at her Glaceon and smiling at him, thanking him …]

Hmm ….

[And then she’d been knocked out, and had now circled back into a wakeful state all over again. Rather than open her eyes or even get up and change into her sleep clothes her arm shoots out to try and find her Pokémon, who might be just as likely in his ball as he is to be within arms reach.]