CLEOPATRA IS THE ONLY

Stormy had just made it through Rusturf tunnel and had followed Elinda all the way to Verdanturf city when her phone began to buzz. It was an older techy phone, nothing like what the older woman had had. Though she had been assured that she would get her hands on one of those PokeNavs. For now, though, her old age flip phone would suffice.

Elinda and Stormy had most likely separated at this point, exchanging contacts for the future, but otherwise leaving each other alone.

For now, Stormy had stuck around Verdanturf looking for a reason for being there. She had been on her way to Slateport earlier in the week, but had been told to fuck off basically by some blonde teenager who convinced her that the League had everything under control and she would just get in the way.

Of course, his remark wasn't going to stop her. She had just needed a vehicle to get to Slateport. Her travel through the tunnel had gifted her a Skarmory, and she was already planning her trip to the fallen city.

Well, until her phone rang.

Stormy looked at the caller ID, puzzled by who might be calling her. She hadn't given out her phone number recently, had she? She hesitated for a moment before answering.

"Hello?"

Turns out, it was Kim Cole. Someone on the council with her older brother. While at first irritated that, even though she had nothing to do with Fernando, she was still being pestered by political figures.

Stormy agreed regardless - she had nothing better to do. Well, she could fly off to Slateport and find out she was useless.. but talking with a fellow councilman who worked with her brother was probably more interesting.

So, she rode Rapidash between Verdanturf and Mauville, quickly reaching the bustling, mall-like city. She was immediately perplexed by the construction of the city. It didn't look anything at all like the cities she had recently visited. It looked like a shopping centre, not a place for people to live.

Stormy slipped off the back of her companion as she entered Mauville, looking up and down the streets or hallways in search of her new friend.

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With Rapidash's size, too many people were drawing attention to her. Not like it mattered, but it wasn't comfortable having so many eyes drawn to her. The city was bustling, but not really with Pokemon.

After a moment of quieting her anxious steed, she returned him to the safety of his pokeball. However, now she had run into a sort of problem. She was ultimately lost in the fray of streets and people and sign posts throughout the city. Everywhere she turned it seemed like she was looking up at some new signpost, and she couldn't recall where she was.

This lead to the young woman running into a Smeargle along one of the back alleys. It seemed forlorn and lost, rummaging around in dumpsters and moldy cardboard boxes. Emma seemed to have found one of the areas in the city that weren't kept pristine and glamorous for tourists and the like.

Wherever she was, she seemed to be in the part of the mall that tossed out plenty of food.

Stormy had, at the time, walked right past the hungry creature. She only stopped and turned around when she heard rummaging around and her hothead assumed it was someone stealing or attempting to steal. She came back around the corner and shouted, only to find a very startled and territorial pup.

"Oh! Sorry, hun. I thought you were a petty thief."

The Smeargle didn't look all that thrilled to have been called a 'petty thief'. It looked at her with disdain as well as fearm unsure of what she might do. The Smeargle was backed into a corner after all.

Just as Stormy began to make her way down towards the creature to comfort it, she heard the rapid footsteps of someone coming towards her. She turned, heat flashing in her eyes.

"Hey, watch it! You're gonna scare it away!" she barked. Kim appeared to have slowed his pace though, and waited off to the side; her earlier outburst was no longer relevant or necessary. The only person scaring anything was herself at this point.

Sighing, the young woman began to creep her way down the hallway/alleyway, holding her breath at the smelliness. It was probably the back end of some fast food restaurant that hadn't gotten around to tossing their trash. They really needed a better garbage system.

"Hey, cutie, it's alright. You don't have to be afraid, okay? I'm a friend." she said softly. However, it seemed that the Smeargle had caught onto some sort of negative energy from the girl, and promptly made a run for it between her legs. Stormy gasped in shock, turning on her heel to see the Smeargle take off towards Kim.

"No! Come back!" she gasped, sprinting after it.

Stormy stopped for a half a second next to Kim, rummaging in her bag for an empty pokeball.

In her other hand, though, she held a pokeball containing Skarmory. She let out the beautiful metal bird, pointing at the fleeing Smeargle.

"Go stop that puppy! It's adorable and hungry, I can't let it stay on the street like that!" she ordered. The Skarmory peeked around in search of the Smeargle, opening up her wings and zooming after it.

The bird then stopped promptly in front of the Pokemon, opening its wings. The Smeargle stopped, skidding to a halt in front of Skarmory - she was confused and startled to not only see a metal bird but to also see her own reflection in the bird's wings. She looked from side to side in a panic, unsure how to react.

Stormy eventually made her way up to the pair, throwing a thumbs up to her companion as she continued to dazzle and confuse the poor puppy. She held the empty pokeball in her hands, looking at the adorable Pokemon in awe.

"Don't be scared, cutie! I'm just tryin' to help!" she said softly. For whatever reason though, the Smeargle did not seem at all interested in pairing up and seemed anxious to run again. Skarmory seemed to be quite skilled at preventing its escape, however, and continued to hop from side to side and confuse it.

Stormy wasn't willing to let it go however, and cringed a little at her next command.

"Sorry, hun. Skarmory, use STEEL WING please," she said.

The Skarmory's dazzling wing hardened and thwopped the wild Smeargle on the head. It fell to the ground in a daze and didn't get back up again to run. Stormy took this as an opportunity to throw the pokeball at it. If it caught, she would run back up to Kim to properly greet him.

"Sorry about that, I can't pass up the opportunity for a cutie like that one."

attempting capture on smeargle.

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Good, her companion wasn't at all discouraged by her earlier rudeness. The woman reaches out with her free hand to accept his greeting and handshake, only to be left hanging in surprise as Kim takes off at a dead sprint. She turns to look at what he might possibly be chasing if not for herself, and sees a flash of brilliantly stylish clothes worn by a very cute green and white Pokemon.

Stormy blinks in surprise, her hand left hanging in the air. She drops it after a moment of awkwardness, before shifting her weight and waiting a moment before following after him. He shouts behind him eventually, asking her to meet him at the nearest elevator. The woman is stunned but seems too interested in meeting Kim to turn around and leave.

"O-okay, sure thing." she shouts back, but half-heartedly. Her voice doesn't carry very far as she didn't put much effort in to really call out to him.

Instead, she strolls casually towards the nearest elevator, window shopping as she goes. She stops short in a very abrupt manner as her eyes latch onto a candle shop. What catches her eye isn't necessarily all of the candles, its the fact that one particular candle is lit.. and appears to be moving?

Almost immediately after she stops to look, the Litwick opens its eye to watch her with equal curiosity. Unfortunately, one of the employees at the candle store comes up to shoo away the Litwick.

The tiny candle Pokemon immediately startles, running rampant through the store and effectively setting fire to all of the open lidded wicks. The smell of floral and scented wax fills the surrounding area, and Stormy is startled.

"Woah, wait a minute!" she begins, just as the employee takes a broom to the candle Pokemon and kicks it out of the store.

"Don't be a bully, it was just trying to fit in!" she says hotly, scooping up the terrified little purple Pokemon. It's wax drips onto her hand and she gasps a little bit at the sudden heat of it. But she wipes it off on her pants and holds up the tiny little monster.

"You are adorable." she gasps, turning it around slowly. "Are you a fire-type?" she asks, as if assuming it will answer her.

Suddenly remembering she was meant to meet Kim at one of the closest elevators, she looks up in surprise to make sure she hasn't already missed him. Stormy quickly approaches the elevator, still holding the tiny Litwick in her hands.

The employee shouts from behind her, threatening that if the Litwick comes back again, she'll have to pay for all the candles it ruined. Stormy throws back the middle finger in response.

When she approaches Kim, she holds out the Litwick to show him.

"Look what I found! Isn't she the sweetest?"

attempting capture of litwick

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Stormy beamed from ear to eat as Kim agreed with her earlier statement. The tiny little candle was absolutely adorable and she was more than thrilled to spend some quality time learning what it was later.

Now was not the time, though. Kim had called her out for a reason, surely, other than simply hanging out and catching wild Pokemon.

"I suppose it wasn't."

She laughed a little bit, almost forgetting that she had been abandoned earlier by Kim running after a Kirlia.

Her eyes widened in surprise and interest as he pushed off against the wall, nodding at her to follow him. Walking and talking was exactly what she had been hoping for.

The woman's eyes caught the flash of the cute Cinccino as it was chased by Kim's Skitty. In the back of an alley, she could see the bright flash of pink. It didn't catch her attention for long, however, and the Porygon had disappeared.

"What had you called me to talk about? It seemed urgent."

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