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Gather around everyone, For the pokemon carnival is in town! The carny fold are all around, handing out ballons and setting up stalls. Do you fancy yourself lucky enough to win a prize at hoop toss? or do you want to dunk the carny into the pool of water at the ball throw?

Or hell, theres always the huge roller coasters and yummy food to go!

Wandering about the carnival, Blade decided to give a hand at one of the many little games they had. So he went up to the closest one which happened to be the "get a ring on a bottle" game.

This is probably rigged... he thought to himself, but deciding to go ahead with it anyway.

Shaking his head to himself, he went and gave the game a shot.

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Sitting quietly at one of the umbrella tables next to the concession stands, a woman quietly drank a soda of some kind. Since she was in the shade, her face was slightly hidden. If the light was to hit it, the first thing one would notice is how... Beaten she looked. Otherwise, her body structure and features were quite pleasant to look at. She wore a jacket and a rather short skirt. There sat a hat shaped like devil horns on her head. Her hair was blonde, and her hands were gloved. Since she had the cat ears and seemed to blend in, one would assume she worked there. The guys couldn't help but turn and look. Some even whistled... But she payed no attention to them. She seemed more concentrated on her drink.. And whatever she might be thinking about.

"This breeze is killing me..." She mumbled, a frown overtaking her face. It had been a week since she'd seen any sign of daylight. She wondered how much more pale she could get before becoming translucent. Maybe she should just let them do their worst... Anything was better than dressing like a hooker. She wasn't a teenager anymore, even though she obviously looked it. Maybe it was his idea of a sick joke. Maybe he enjoyed seeing her squirm when he handed her the "Uniform". Either way, this was torture. She grimaced and tried to pull the skirt down, keeping her legs tightly together.

Then, a little pink ball of fluff peeped out of the hood of her jacket. It was a skitty. Lets go see the rides Riyo, nyuu!

"If that's really what you want to do.." She replied back, still a little confused as to how she could understand the skitty so clearly. Don't get her wrong, she understood it just fine before all of this... But now it was like fluent english. "C'mon then.. We'll go ride that ferris wheel or something..."

Even the skitty's attire had changed. It now wore a cute little hat shaped like horns just as her master did. She really missed the tophat.. But the bad men took it away. Just like Riyo's! She was afraid of those men.. Especially the one that made the rest cower.

Piece of junk, Sadie thought as she turned away from the game and wandered further into the throng of people that swarmed and gathered in lines to wait to get on the rides. Stopping she watched two small kids race past her, one knocking her to the side. Barely balancing herself, Sadie glared coldly at the kids' backs as they vanished, turning she kist about bumped into someone, someone she thought she had seen before, the cat that accompanied them certainly was familiar.

"you seem familiar." Said muttered out loud which was meant to remain within her head, but she had a habit of speaking out loud a lot.

Shaking her head, Sadie moved away from the person and off toward another section of the place. Razor followed, but always seemed to look back over his shoulder as if expecting something to happen... Paranoid much?

After awhile, Blade groaned and doubled over, not quite being able to keep up with the overly-excited Gouku in his current state. Huffing for a moment or so he glanced back at Fou-Gai who was following along nicely.

"Just.. keep an eye on him.. for me ok..?"

The small fire chicken nodded before hurrying off after the chimchar to make sure he wouldn't cause any mischief in the area. It wasn't exactly the easiest thing to do most of the time, but he'll manage with the task at hand.

"Ugh.. that monkey has way too much energy sometimes..."

Blade rubbed his side a bit before looking around for a place he could relax for awhile. While gazing around, he spotted a distinctly familiar green and black Arcanine far off from him. At first he had just saw it at a glance but after a second look, he was almost certain it was the same one he saw at the hospital. But he was also certain that he saw that Arcanine be captured by Team Rocket on that night.

Narrowing his eyes slightly he began to slowly make his way towards it, but another familiar figure caught his attention closer by. Turning towards he side, he saw a young woman dressed in clothing quite different from what he normally had seen her in. The Skitty with her mirrored her in this way as well.

Shaking his head as he wasn't sure if he was seeing things, Blade wondered what exactly was going on here. During his recovery, he had been planning on trying to find out ways to free Riyo and the other trainers from Team Rocket, but here he has already seen several of the captives roaming around. Had they all managed to escape already?

"Riyo?" he questioned before glancing at the other woman that was there at the moment as well, "How...?"

Frowning with this response, Blade watched her for a moment. There was no mistake with who she was, but he couldn't help but wonder why. Aside from the fact that both she and her pokemon were dressed strangely, there was how or why she was here in the first place and why she just tried to brush him off.

Something's up...

Walking to keep up with her, he reached out for her arm or shoulder to try and stop her from going off too far.

"Hold on..." he said softly, "What's going on?"

Gouku raced on through the carnival with Fou-Gai not too far behind. After awhile, he eventually reached the thing he had eyed from afar and hopped onto the counter, staring up at a white haired girl with red eyes and a tail momentarily before looking at the floating psyduck things.

"Oooo... "

Catching up with his teammate, Fou-Gai ruffled his feathers before shaking his head and taking the moment to recuperate. As long as the chimchar stayed put for awhile, he should be fine. Though... he didn't really like the looks of the fairly intimidating Arcanine standing nearby.