watering can in hand and duckie by their side they were working as a team to get these big berry plants all watered up. there had been a few plants like this in kanto but it seemed like hoenn was a lot bigger on growing them all over the place instead of in nice neat gardens. not only that but apparently the people here would give you a berry for free if you were willing to do some watering for them! it didn't seem like that hard of a job really.

dumping some of the water out of the psyduck shaped pail onto the ground she realized it was empty. of course the only solution for that was to have duckie fill it back up... instead of course of having the psyduck do the watering herself. because that wasn't what the job was. the job was to use this can to do it instead.

open mission!
berry patch kids!

when they got back to the shore, tachibana recalled their pokemon. knowing that they couldn't really follow them on land very well. well, gemmie could. but coolie wouldn't be able to follow them. and that made them kind of sad. how would coolie ever know how to walk if it couldn't hang out on land? sad. "gum?" they gently took the old ladies hand and followed her to the store, certain that since she was with the league it meant that it was fine to follow her around.

@eden

gemmie was a very capable pokemon, all of tachibana's were really since they had to look after the twelve year old. so a rapid fire power gem attack to the hull of the ship was easy enough for it. to cause further issues coolie managed to use surf in order to stir up some waves. to make the little boats more difficult to get into and stay inside of for the pirates.

their disruptions and ship wrecking mostly completed tachibana followed where gemmie and the old lady went to retreat to. this job seemed pretty easy. they wondered why it was such a big deal when they had adults do these things. after all grown ups were supposed to take care of bad guys. but they'd sent them here to do it instead.

"now we get paid?" they could use the money to buy some more gum.

@eden

gemmie did in fact follow homura as they approached the pirate's ships. after all that was the whole point since they were going to the same place together. but they were confused when the old lady said to attack from two fronts. "why not just have gemmie sink their ships? and then they can't fight at all. there's more of them than there are us so not being noticed is important." after all at the moment between the two of them there were three pokemon, two of which were being used as flotation devices. it would be silly to give away their position.

"when the ships are all sunked and the pirates are all gone then they can come in with the wailmers and scoop it all up! that way we won't even get caught." they were very convinced that the league obviously had a lot of wailmers if they were going to be taking on all the pirates.

@eden

the old lady seemed nervous for some reason. that was shady. perhaps she was a pirate in disguise. but she didn't have a peg leg... as far as homura could tell. "do you have a water type? to get to the cave?" obviously homura was floating, holding onto their tentacool. but releasing another water type was easy as gemmie the staryu came out.

"you can use gemmie. let's go." urging coolie forward they kicked their feet while using the water type as a flotation device. if the bad people were stealing from others then they would just have to stop them from using their boats. gemmie had an attack that could help with that. probably. if all went well they probably wouldn't have to battle at all. just sink a bunch of boats to make the pirates stop being bad.

@eden

wires had severely gotten crossed when homura had been sent out to dewford in order to help take care of things. more like they had intercepted a message from someone on accident looking for a very different person with the surname tachibana and decided to see what it was all about. and now reading back on the message realized that once more they were put in a dangerous position. but that didn't matter. floating along on one of their pokemon, coolie the tentacool to be exact, they were waiting on someone who was supposed to be helping with all this. or they were supposed to be helping them. either way they didn't really know.

"hello?" they approached eden, still floating gently on the tentacool. after all pirates were in the water so it made sense to be in the water too. "are you here for the pirates?" if they were a pirate then they would probably not say yes. probably.

@eden

tachibana shakes their head whenever eris asks if they are from around here. they're not. but they suppose this is where they live now. surrounded by water much like when they lived back home. they wondered if their parents would like this place or not. maybe one day they would show up. mama had said that they would follow behind soon as they could. but they knew better than that. they'd seen the fire. "it's different than the oceans at home." no matter the fact that they were all connected. this one was still different.

taking eris' hand they pulled themselves up to a standing position instead, brushing more falling sand off of their legs to try and stop the eventual itching on their legs that would happen. mama had explained there were lots of mites and bugs in sand, too small to be seen. and that's why their legs itched sometimes. "i'm looking for boats, coming from kanto." the last part was mumbled a bit, because mentioning home was hard still. there wasn't a major port here but they hadn't been allowed to stay in slateport. apparently it was dangerous or something.

"ecological?" it was a strange word to hear considering they never really thought about the pokemon that lived in areas. just that some lived in the sea and some lived on land. a few went into the sky even. that's all they'd really cared about. speaking of pokemon, coolie was on the hunt as it's trainer was distracted. a break in the waves as a large pokemon began to swim towards the shore where the young children were playing caused tentacles to lash out at it, wrapping around the crocnaw as coolie sunk venom into it's rough skin.

"coolie no! don't eat it!" the tentacool had a bad habit of attempting to dissolve pokemon with it's acid attack. absorbing them much like a spider did with the insides of its prey. the crocnaw flailed about wildly as tentacool tightened it's grip on her. her body slowing down as the poison continued to seep in. tachibana waded into the water, stomping their foot and sending a splash up. "i said, no!" finally their voice sounding firmer than it had as coolie released the crocnaw. they pulled the tentacool off of the other water type and gently tossed it back into the water a little bit away.

"i'm so sorry... coolie has no manners..." and obviously they couldn't just leave the poor crocnaw to drift in the water like this, poisoned and weak. something bigger and stronger would come along and gobble it up if they did. so reluctantly they pulled a pokeball from their pocket and gently tapped the water type with it. frowning at coolie as they did.

Eris Halla

they were surprised that anyone had found them out here. after all, not a lot of people really came out this way from what they had seen. though they had only been here for a couple of days. gently falling back into the sand out of surprise, homura looked up at the other child that had been wandering around here. "hello." their voice cracked just a little bit from the quietness. after all they had gone quite awhile without talking while floating on the sea. they'd been told to be careful who they spoke to, because there were still dangerous people in this region. but how dangerous could another child be?

sitting up they brushed some of the sand from their legs and looked at eris. "tachibana homura, and that's coolie." they pointed to the tentacool still bobbing in the waves, albeit a little bit closer than it had been before. wariness in it's eyes that seemed to be a permanent fixture for the pokemon.

Eris Halla

there were many sandy islands outside of sootopolis. some of them closer to the city and others requiring a pokemon to ferry you out to them. homura sat on the edge of one of the closer ones, not wanting to go too far out to sea again for fear of for some reason needing another rescue. not that she had really been that afraid the first time but she also didn't want to worry too much the people who had rescued her. it would be a hassle if they had to come after her again or if they thought she had disappeared.

so instead she sat on one of the walkable beaches, watching coolie bob in the waves as they came in and out. the tentacool she guessed was staring at her, as it often did. it had been her babysitter of sorts back when she had hung out in kanto and the process had continued now here in hoenn. not that she needed a babysitter. she was twelve after all. twelve year olds that had been set out to sea didn't need babysitters especially.

Eris Halla