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((This RP is for trainers))

It was a warm and sunny spring day, the perfect day for a festival in the middle of Camphoreon City Park. There were signs all over the city pointing people in the direction of the first of many celebrations for the Spring and Summer; Booths with burgers, funnel cakes, bottle games, and various other carnival things were set up around a large roped off clearing with portable bleachers and seats positioned around it. Bright letters over one booth in particular drew attention, "Sign Up Here!"

A battle festival to celebrate the Spring's arrival, all trainers were welcome to enter, no matter the number of badges. There was a mobile pokemon center near by, as well as a transfer PC and trading machine. People flitted from booth to booth, signing up for the event, eating, waiting for the battles to start. Not everyone was a fighter, most of the people were just there to watch.

One girl with blue hair and tattoos wiped her forehead with a rag before stuffing it into her pants and standing up from behind the PC she'd been crouching at. "Alright... Everything is set up. Call me if anything breaks, I won't be far." She smiled at one of the nurses and walked off to explore the festivities, a white Beldum floating not far behind.

Rosie had a knack for being well informed when it came to events that were held in the City, visiting the parks often, she got a good opportunity to catch fliers about farmers markets, or celebratory festivals.
Many of then, like this one, were annual, so it was something that was easy to look forward to.

This yes though, Rosie was going to sign up for the Pokemon battles!
She had been putting forth more effort to train her team to be stronger, and she was looking forward to seeing what kind of progress they were making.

The trainer was dressed more casually today, part of her hair was pulled back into a short ponytail, leaving her bangs loose, still curling inward to frame her face.
Wearing a light blue tank top, and blue jeans with pink flats, a pink belt holding a collection of Love, and Heal balls, with a single luxury ball an outfit much more sturdy for the day, and appropriate for the weather.

Her Pikachu, Kiss Kiss draped over her trainers head as she peered down at the station Rosie was hunched over at, filling out the form to enter in for the battles.
She was ready for this!
In the crook of Rosie's other arm, was a small form of a baby Charmander. The pokemon having recently hatched from the Egg that Rosie had been taking such careful care of. She was much different from normal Charmander though, not only becasue she was a beautiful shade of emerald green with a tan belly, but becasue of the two nubbin horns that were already growing out of her head.

"There!" She said happily, pushing herself up straight again, smiling as she submitted the form. "We're all set Kiss," She told the Pikachu, who chimed in with an excited "Chaaa!"

When Rosie had found out about this event, she had contacted the boy Luke, to see if he had been interested in going and checking it out with her.
He had said he had nothing better to do, It was a reply that he usually used, and just usually meant "Yes" or at least thats how she took it.
She knew Luke was around here somewhere.
"Hey Kiss Kiss, we should go find Luke, huh? tell him we're going to battle today."

"Pika Pi!" She agreed perching up higher onto Rosie's head and perking her ears as she searched the crowd."Piiii!" So many people~

A fair. While to most it would be the obvious place to go on a day off from work or school, due to all the festivities and people, but not to Seraphine. She was perfectly content trying on her collection of shoes one by one (which would have made for a wonderful afternoon, and indeed it would have taken all afternoon due to the sheer amount of shoes this girl has), but her mother had absolutely insisted (read - driven her and then promptly booted her from the car) she attend the fair for at least a few hours to go meet new friends. Pfft, as if she needed any of those. Oh well, she was here now, so she might as well make the most of it. Maybe there'd be some cute boys running around...

So, with a swift flick of her wrist, she tossed a section of silky brown hair behind one shoulder before curling her arm back around the tiny shiny Absol in her grasp, who wiggled her hind feet at the contact. "Sol?" She squeaked, peering around with wide gold eyes at everything. An Umbreon with pink heart markings and a white leather collor trotted along at the girl's heels, while a red-eyed, black Beldum floated along after her, a handbag held carefully in his three hook-like claws. "Bel!" His lower shutter raised halfway in an obvious expression of delight, though what he was so happy about was anybody's guess.

Seraphine paused for a moment, reaching a hand to smooth her pink and white dress - the ribbon on her wrist and the one in her hair were both white to match, as were her shoes - then wrapped the arm around the baby Absol once more. A familiar head of short blond hair caught her attention, and she lifted the same hand - almost dropping the dark-type in the process - to wave. "Rosie!" She called, then seemed to suddenly remember the Absol and adjusted her grip accordingly to make sure she wouldn't fall before she started walking over to the other girl.

Sera made her way over just in time to see the charred flower, and a small giggle escaped her as she shifted the Absol in her arms a bit. "Looks like someone had the hiccups," she teased, noting the smoke curling out of the little Charmander's mouth. Cute. Definitely not her type though. "Did it hatch from that egg you had?"

The Beldum moved forward to hover near Sera, still clinging to the strap of her bag, and studied Rosie and her pokemon with its one red eye. A series of jovial whirrs and clicks emanated from its being after a moment, and then its lower shutter half-raised in what could be perceived as a happy greeting. The Umbreon by Sera's feet sprang forward with a delighted "bree!" before circling Rosie's legs, rubbing against one briefly before sitting in front of her. The dark-type in the girl's arms merely continued watching with large gold eyes, a wary yet curious expression on her features.

"Breeee," Anya churred happily, leaning into the hand before dropping into an excited play stance in front of the Pikachu, displaying her similar feelings at seeing the similarly marked pokemon again. "Eon!"

"Oh, really? That's cool, you've had it for a while, didn't you?" Or at least, she thought did. She couldn't really remember little details like that. "Melody, hmm? Pretty name. Oh! This is Lady Isabella," she said, her tone taking on a hint of self-importance at the grand name for the Absol, who shrank a bit in her owner's arms at the sudden appearance of big blue eyes and blond fur on this human's head, her golden eyes widening a bit. Her large paws were sitting on top of Sera's arm while her lower half dangled freely, and she curled her hind feet and tail up a bit. "Brr?" Who was this human? Sera seemed to know her though, so she couldn't be too bad. "I got her as a birthday present! They said she was a week old when I got her. Isn't she just so precious? She's a real shiny too," she couldn't help but boast, completely unaware of the fact that her Absol was not, in fact, a legitimate shiny pokemon. Not that this would be obvious to anyone but the humans who created her, of course.

Anya squeaked in surprise when she suddenly had a Pikachu on her head, then quickly dropped down and rolled over, pawing at her playfully. "Breonn~"

Isabella slowly extended her nose just a bit to get a better whiff of the girl's hand, not taking her eyes off her face as she did so. "I didn't know I was coming today either," Sera replied with a roll of her eyes. "I was planning to go through my shoes and try them all on, but Mother told me I should come here and socialize or have fun. Shoes are fun," she whined. Why didn't her Mother understand that? "Oh well. And I don't battle," a dismissive wave of one hand accompanied this statement, "I don't see the point." All it was were people standing around telling their pokemon to jump at each other. In her opinion it was a monumental waste of time; time that could be spent elsewhere doing other things, like going through her shoes to see which still fit or needed replacing, or shopping, or -- oh! Shopping for shoes!

The Beldum continued to hover in the air, completely ignored. Still, he didn't complain, though he watched a bit enviously as the two humans interacted and cooed over all the other pokemon. At least he was outside with his master! That was good enough for him, right? Right. Certainly. Of course.

Anastasia stared at Kiss Kiss as if she had performed some inconceivable act of magic, complete with extremely wide eyes and an open mouth in awe. "Breee?!?" How did she do that?!

"Thanks," the teen said, doing a little twirl to show off her outfit. If there was one way to get on Seraphine's good side, it was with compliments. Especially compliments on her clothes. She dressed impeccably and had the best clothes money could buy, she knew this of course, but it was nice when other people recognized it too. "It is! This outfit just got shipped to stores last week, it's brand new." And that was why she had it. Well, that and it was amazing. She wasn't one of those who followed whatever fashions just came out whether they looked good or not. She wanted to look gorgeous, thank you very much. "I still don't think battling is worth my time," another dismissive wave before she huffed and cradled Isabella in her arms more, "there's so much other stuff I could be doing with my time. And I know my pokemon very well just by having them around, or playing with them and stuff." Or at least she knew Anastasia well.

The Beldum looked like it was about to faint from Rosie's touch. He tipped backwards with his shutters mostly closed, just leaving one slit of his red eye exposed, and slowly floated down. He stopped before the bag touched the ground though, and immediately floated back up. He bobbed up and down briefly, his lower shutter as high as it could go - leaving at least a third of his eye visible at the top - and made a series of delighted clicking and whirring noises. "Bel! Beldum, bel!"

"Mordecai," Sera said with a very displeased frown, "be careful with my bag. It's brand new and I don't want it to get dirty."

The Beldum, Mordecai, bobbed up and down again, this time only a tiny bit and his upper shutter lowered as well. "Bel.."

Whoa! That was so.. so... cool! She rolled over with a grin and batted at one of Kiss Kiss' ears.

"They're a little expensive," Sera informed the other girl in a matter-of-fact tone, not that that little fact bothered her or her wallet in the slightest. However, she visibly lit up at the mention of shopping and completely missed anymore Rosie said on battling. "Oh! We should go together! I love shopping!" And she was damn good at it, too.

She shrugged as Rosie apologized, and then... kissed Mordecai on the--

The Beldum suddenly made a high-pitched whirr and his bottom shutter slid up before he hit the ground with a dull, metallic thunk. Sera's bag fell as well, but as least Mordecai didn't squash it. Beldums weren't light pokemon. "Mordecai!" She said with a glare, leaning down to put Isabella down and pick up her purse to brush it off, then inspected it to make sure it didn't have anything dirty on it or any stains or something. With a huff she carefully slid it over one shoulder, not wanting to trust that hunk of metal with her precious bag if he was just going to drop it.

By now Mordecai was on his feet - or, well, his three claws - and was staring up at his master with an apologetic, sheepish look, his bottom shutter raised again. "Bel..." He had lost his only use and had expected to be swiftly returned to his ball, but when he found that this was not so he perked right up again, eye opening fully before he hovered a few feet up again, making content clicking noises. He was still out!

Isabella, on the other hand, was staring at the grass between her large paws with wide gold eyes.