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POSTED ON Feb 25, 2019 14:54:23 GMT

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"do we really
have to do this, leo?" asks a troubled younger rhian at her upperclassman. she hugs her happiny to her chest protectively, still hoping that leo will tell her this is all a joke and laugh it off and let them go back to their usual routine of discussing strictly theoretical hypothesis.

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because it is a joke, isn't it? rhian is used to jokes. this could be as much a joke as that one time her cousin told her that if she went inside the creepy old mansion near school and caught the ghost haunting it, he and his friends would stop bothering her for the rest of the year.

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something in his eyes, perhaps the sparkle she sees there now that she's never seen before, makes her doubt it is a joke after all.

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Leo cocks his head questioningly.

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"Weren't you the one who was curious about how reliable pokémon's understanding of the human language is? Of course we have to do it."

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She makes the oddest questions, this girl. Why ask at all if she didn't want to follow through with the experiment? Leonardo's not going to budge on his decision. He's actually curious about it, too.

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Their individual experience with training is evident at a first glance. Though Leonardo isn't the best trainer his age by far, he's successfully evolved his beldum into a metagross, and was on his way to getting the venipede all trained up as well.

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Rhian's nervous stance and her refusal to give her pokémon room to grow expose her as a very inexperienced one, by contrast.

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It's a perfect opportunity to show off.

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"Or are you scared?"

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rhian's slowly

getting used to the idea of her fragile little happiny engaging in a brutal battle with her upperclassman's pokémon. and although the venipede doesn't look all that nefarious (she's played with her multiple times now), the fact that she was owned by someone with leo's reputation has her feeling quite terrified.

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"of course i'm scared!" she pretty much screams at him.

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what else did he expect? leonardo vermilion was a name well known around the school. highest scores in his grade, a face of unconventional appeal, and an attitude that could match the regice of myth in coolness; she wouldn't be surprised if he was also an ace trainer.

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in her explosion of nerves, she ends up adding something she doesn't honestly believe and that she'd be too mortified to retract. "what regice, i think you're more like a crabominable!"

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That, Leonardo wasn't expecting.

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He laughs. It's not controlled, like the ones he'd been giving her, or sarcastic, like the ones he reserves for people getting on his nerves. It's not even one of those laughs he forces out when he's with his classmates. For once, Leonardo is genuinely laughing, and he has only the girl standing meekly before him to thank.

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"You better put your happiny down now. I'm not going easy on you just because you're a cute girl."

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Just like that, the battle begins. No further warnings, no countdown. Leonardo's venipede is already on her way to Rhian's happiny with a Steamroller, whether she let go of the pokémon or not.

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"So you heard those rumors too, huh?"

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POSTED ON Feb 25, 2019 23:59:53 GMT

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there are two

not necessarily independent events happening one within a short span of the other.

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first, there's the fact that only just dawned on her that she's developed hearing problems. after all, she's pretty sure she heard leonardo vermilion call her cute, which is impossible.

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second, she has a venipede rapidly rolling in her direction trying to kill her or worse.

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rhian's brain is having a hard time comprehending either of them.

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faced with her trainer's indecision, the happiny takes matters into her own hands— or, rather, toes. she can feel the sadness in her trainer even if she can't quite understand most of her words, and it makes almost as good a method of communication as language.

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the happiny moves to a side, making sure she's far away enough from her trainer that she wouldn't be harmed from the events of the battle, before she uses

copycat

to imitate the venipede's steamroller.

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If anything, Rhian's happiny shows more initiative than the trainer. It comes as a bit of a disappointment, but it fits exactly with what he was expecting.

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His venipede is met with a second Steamroller that stops her in her tracks. A momentary stalemate, it would seem.

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With a nod, he orders the venipede to return to his side. With another gesture, this time using his hand, he orders her to use Venoshock on the unsuspecting pokémon.

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On the other front, Rhian seems unfazed by his words. This makes Leo frown. Was she really completely unaffected by him? Well, if his direct advances don't work, he'd just have to stick with what did. He keeps pushing.

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