Taking this as a open thread

"Sorry Simone, Yokan can be cranky if he's woken up. I think he woke up mainly due to me picking him up from lap, he's a light sleeper when it comes to things moving him around." Mochi apologized, glancing down at the squirtle. "You know that's rude, right?"

"Squirtile..." Yokan grumbly replied, the pat to their head was met with the pokemon just staring at Simone.

Mochi sighed, he was gonna have to work on their manners it seems. Mochi turned to look at Luna, giving her a smile.

"Yep, still dazzling. Oh, how's Applejack settling in?" Mochi asked Luna.

Though when Simone, Mochi tilted his head. What had the other seen that made him tell them to stay here? Well whatever it was, Mochi couldn't see it. So he was just going to put trust in the man. However he suddenly felt something touching his leg. Causing the boy to jump and raise his leg up. Revealing a elekid clinging to the fabric. Course, MOchi recognized it immedeatly.

"Oh hey, where's your mother little one?" Mochi asked in a soothing voice.

Yokan on the other hand, took GREAT ISSUE with this electric pokemon being attached to it's trainer's leg. Akame was horrible enough to deal with. So the water pokemon used Withdraw, pulling themself into their shell and strengthening their defense before launching themself out of Mochi's arm in a rapid spin!! The pokemon slammed into the elekid, causing the two to tumble to the ground.

"YOKAN!" Mochi snapped, what was with this squritle.

However it was too late. A battle was started since the elekid gave a angry huff, sparks dancing between the two prongs on their head. Summoning a collection of stars before thrusting them at the water type, causing them to hit the water type. Thankfully that move wasn't electric and Mochi gave a relived sigh.

"Alright Yokan, aqua tail!' Mochi instructed.

He new this wouldn't do much but maybe it would do enough for him to throw a pokeball. The water collected at the squirtile's tail and they swung it at the elekid. IT...missed?!! Mochi panicked for a moment as he watched the elekid trying to gather electricity. Baby pokemon and electric attacks were a BAD MIX. So Mochi threw the pokeball as fast as he could, hoping to catch it.
@luna !@simone

A few blinks left him as Mochi stood there. His kangaskhan scooped up the pokeball and brought it over to him, smiling with pride. As if she just watched a baby kangaskhan leave the pouch on it's own for the first time. Timidly, he accepted the pokeball and held it in his hand. It felt no different...granted he knew there was a pokemon in there. The happy sounds from his chansey reached him and he looked to see her bouncing about; just like how Luna was doing. Slowly, Mochi got over his shock of the whole situation. Taking note that Luna caught her own pokemon.

"Congrats." mochi told her, giving a smile.

Though he noticed the two new pokemon glaring at the two teens. Their sleep was probably disturbed, so Mochi went over to Luna, and tried to tap her on the shoulder.

"We...we should probably keep going...just in case." Mochi whispered to her and with that he'd slowly start to go further in.

Taking his time in order for Luna to catch up.

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Skipping as well

Mochi looked down at the flowers, taking in their beauty. They really did bloom well. No signs of wilting or damaged petals...they were pretty perfect flowers. It kept the smile on Mochi's face. Course he pulled his attention back to Simone when they asked the question.

"Oh...well honestly not that much I...I need to get better at doing things outside of the temple.." Mochi answered.

What would they think if he told them he sometimes put on a long haired wig and pretend to be someone else? To just roam around town feeling a little more free? Free from the great deal of uncertainty he felt and the gaping caverns in his memory? Truthfully..he didn't want to make Mr. Simone to think he was weird than..he already was.

"Uh what about you?" Mochi asks.

@simone

Purchasing:
6 pokeballs- 120
Total price- 120

Akame had finally made their way onto Mochi's lap, yawning slightly. It seemed the good amount of food was actually lulling them to sleep. That was good. It was nice to see Peony happy though Mochi's attention was still on the lovely flowers that were being offered to him. The laughter was malicious, Mochi could see that. Though the boy went another shade darker before he lightly smacked his hands against his cheeks, trying to get himself to stop blushing.

Though he ended up just holding his warm face as his face slowly lost some of the red, looking a little pink but that was at least a sign that he was snapping out of the reaction he was having to the kind gesture. His thin brows twitched above his eyes as he looked to Simone, listening to their words.

"It...it's just uh..." Mochi stammered, pulling his hands away from his face before shaking his head from side to side, still trying to get the deep blush to leave his face. "I..I know it's not a romantic gesture, I just...I just know that often it's...what flowers are given to someone for if not a get well thing....aaah sorry. I shouldn't...I shouldn't be a blushing mess, they're really pretty flowers."

Taking a deep breathe, he slowly exhaled. The normal color of his face finally returning despite him still feeling a little frazzled. His heart was pounding away in his chest though as he sat there. Why'd he react that way? He gave a smile to Simone, doing his best to not turn red in the face again.

"Th...thank you, I'll take them. Sorry about the...weird....reaction I had..." Mochi apologized.

@simone

"You're not interrupting, stay. Maybe you should take a seat to recover from the surprise?" Mochi suggested.

How else could he word it? Should he word that differently? He didn't want to upset Simone or Peony if he used a different way to describe what happened. Things seemed to be calm and staying that way though so Mochi let out a calm breathe. The squirtile slowly rose from sleep, a tired blink leaving them. As Simone offered the yellow flower to him, Mochi went a little red in the cheeks but he was able to accept it this time without turning redder than a beat.

"th...Thank you." Mochi stamemred out with a smile.

However...Yokan seemed to have another idea. With Simone so close now, the squirtile attempted to squirt the man in the face with a light water gun.

@simone @luna

"Right! Sorry, not sure why that escaped me for so long." Mochi replied. "I ended up looking up all the starter pokemon when I was little trying to learn more about Yokan. Only reason why I know your friend Bear, normally originates in Johto."

The offer to team up to deal with the cave was a good idea. His kangaskhan shook her head slightly, somewhat disappointed that Mochi wasn't going to end up doing this on his own; to a degree. Welp, so much for a self confidence exercise. Sakuramochi went over to the other pokemon, gently patting them on shoulder to soothe their partner.

"Yes, that would be great." mochi agreed. "This place is creepy..."

Swiftly enough, things kicked off as Luna pointed excitedly to something behind him. Mochi turned though his eyes went wide as he spotted the large elephant pokemon rather than the small donkey Luna had been pointing out. The large trunk of the elephant pokemon swung it's trunk as it let out a mighty bellow.

"Oh inscense sticks..." Mochi muttered nervously as the color left his face.

Course, Sakuramochi was quick to pounce over to her trainer and pull him to the side. A might swing of the Copperajah's trunk just missing him due to that. His heart sped up as this was also his first pokemon battle. It wasn't something he partook in a lot, so...now he was just terrified.

"KANGA!!" Yatsuhashi yelled as she rushed over, gesturing with her head at the large elephant to try and get him to focus.

"Uh....righ..right!" mochi stammered as he shook his head, trying to get his head on straight. "Double hit just...just becareful!!"

Yatsuhashi adjusted their stance before they rushed the elephant pokemon. It let out another loud bellow as it noticed the kangaskhan approach it. It reared up onto it's large hind legs, using HEAVY SLAM to try and crush this opponent. Yatsuhashi. thankfully noticed the adjustment in it's own stance and moved to the side. The ground cracking underneath the pure steele type as it hit the ground. With her tail glowing, the kangaskhan swung her tail once. The blow hitting the pokemon's face and swung a second time, once more hitting it's face. A normal type move wouldn't do much. However the elephant found itself stuck; as it's leg had broken through the ground.

Sakuramochi tugged on her trainer's coat and pulled out a empty pokeball for her trainer. Taking the item, Mochi had a pale face still as he glanced at the large pokemon. Watching it raise it's trunk to prepare a second attack. Not knowing what else to do, Mochi threw it at the large beast.

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attempting to catch Copperajah

Mochi gave a smile along with a light chuckle.

"Hey it's a small town, and besides I do need to...get outside of the temple for non-work related things more." Mochi replied. "Oh, I talked with the head priest and priestess about your shop and they were..."

Mochi went quiet as he heard someone else calling his name. Causing him to look and he spotted Luna. He waved to her and once she was closer he would respond.

"This is Mr. Simone, he runs the flower shop in town." Mochi introduced.

Now what swiftly unfolded caught him by surprised, even though he had heard about the sad beginnings that both of Simon's pokemon seemed to have gone through. Course, seeing a pokemon ready to attack a human sent...a stronger chill through him. He knew he couldn't blame either one in play here. Peony was startled and reacting the way she knew, Luna didn't know the information that Simone had.

"IT's okay,Peony was just reacting the way she knew best. Are you all okay?" Mochi asked as he scooped up his squirtile and went over to Luna and Simone.

The question was directed at everyone involved, including Peony. Mochi gave a kind look to the grass type. Hoping that the kind expression could help soothe her.

@simone @luna

"No problem." Mochi replied, his smile growing a little bigger.

Akame had finished their food, looking very pleased and they heard the sound of Mochi putting some food onto their own plate. Causing the small rodent to go over to their trainer and tugging onto their pant leg. Causing them to look down at them.

"I think you've already had a big breakfast Akame, better let that settle before you go in for seconds." Mochi suggested, the pichu narrowed their gaze though. "Last time I gave you a second helping immediately you got sick. You're stomach is sensitive to amounts it seems."

"Pichu..." Akame grumbled, folding their little arms and Mochi gave them a kind smile.

Course he was pulled back into the conversation with Simon.

"Oh there's quite a few I like, I can ask the heads of the temple if they need any flowers for future events?" Mochi offered. "I know some celebrations they've lacked some but they also are very cautious due to the amount of pokemon there. SOme flowers aren't good to have with humans or pokemon around sadly."

Thankfully, he never had to deal with a scare of a pokemon eating a flower that was hazardous to them. Same with human children. It was sort of sad though, the daycare area only able to have artificial ones out of paranoia to keep infants of both kinds safe from any arm.

"Morning glories are rather pretty. Funny enough though, I do like dandelions, I know they're not...technically a flower and they're a dime a dozen in any lawn." Mochi added.

@simone

"Maybe I'm not overracting with the whole 'it's a day scary cave, I don't want to go in'?" Mochi respods as he looks to his kangaskhan, the normal type folded her arms as she narrowed her gaze at her human.

"Kanga, skhan an." Yatsuhashi commented, whatever she said made Mochi straighten somewhat and fiddle with his fingers.

"Thanks. This is Yatsuhashi." the young man pointed to the kangaskahn. "And this is Sakuramochi."

With the second name, he pointed to the chansey. Sakuramochi gave a smile, happy to see that the young lady was doing much better now; having overcome whatever it was that made them scream. Mochi was surprised by how fast she changed gears but he knew better than to point that out. When she showed off the fire pokemon, Mochi's eyes lit up slightly.

"Oh! I know this one!! It's uh...uh..." Mochi started though he was blanking on the species name. "Oh I know this...it's the fire starter from Jhoto..."

Sadly he couldn't figure out the name and he sighed, giving up slightly with a weak shrug.

"I'm Mochi, it's very nice to meet both of you." Mochi answered.

@luna