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Luke wasn't a stranger to festivals, or he at least wasn't unfamiliar with the sounds that reached his window or the intermittent sight of balloons rising into the sky. He had been inquisitive enough as a child that he understood the gist of it, but this was the first he had had the opportunity to experience one of the events directly. It was more crowded than he had imagined. Noisier too. The air was rife with the varying scents of food, a sweet odor dominating by a margin. Despite the veritable sensory overload, however, Luke had yet to feel any sense of regret for having accepted Rosie's invitation. He had grown relatively familiar with Camphoreon, and it was interesting to see it so different from how he was accustomed.

Mieu, for the time being, remained securely in his luxury ball as Luke maneuvered around people and structures in search of the individual responsible for his presence. It struck him as strange to wander around alone when he knew for a fact that Rosie was there somewhere. Sure enough, once Rosie had stopped moving to engage in conversation with Seraphine, it wasn't long before Luke stumbled upon her and her company.

"Hey, Rosie," he called in an effort to attract the girl's attention, taking note of the other present part as he approached. "And, uh..." It was someone he recognized; he'd met her before, the evening it rained. But what the heck was her name? Crap.

Sera seemed a little upset to have her purse dropped by the Beldum, she hoped that she hadn't gotten the pokemon into trouble.
but still, his reaction had been very cute, if not a little sad, Seraphine seemed to treat him differently than her other two. But maybe that wasn't always the case.

Opening her mouth to say something to Seraphine, she was stopped before she could finish forming her first word when someone called her name.
turning her head quickly and perking up when she saw Luke through the crowd.
"Luke!" She called to him, waving her free hand up. "There you are."

She turned back to Sera, "Come meet my friend," She invited the other girl her age, before she slipped through the crowd to catch up with Luke,

The blond was on her way over, when something lower to ground level caught the corner of her eye, directly in front of her, and in the way of her stride.
Rosie Let out a startled yelp when something heavy and hard caught her foot, and she started to tumble forward, She managed to catch herself before she fell completely though, and rather gracefully I might add.

"Oh my-" She breathed, putting a hand to her chest from the sudden surprise, looking down at her Charmander to see if she was alright, it would not have been good if she had dropped the newly hatched baby.
Turning around to see what she had nearly tripped on, her own blue eyes blinked when she saw a little Steel type, an Aron on the ground. it seemed to be alone.

Instantly Rosie felt bad for probably kicking the poor thing. "Oh, I'm so sorry little guy." she said to it, crouching down and holding a hand out in apology "I wasn't watching where I was going, Are you alright?"

Melody had thought that was pretty fun, and at the sight of a new pokemon she squealed and leaned forward with another hiccup.

As Luke called out to Rosie, Sera lifted her head to find the source of the noise - and a frown touched her lips. She vaguely recognized him from the cafe when it was raining before her birthday, but damned if she'd even bothered to remember his name. Luckily Rosie said it after a moment, so she followed the other girl after picking Isabella back up, only to stop short as the other girl tripped over a.. a pokemon. "...what's that?" She asked, eyebrow raised and one corner of her lip curled up slightly in case it wasn't one of her preferred types. It certainly didn't look like it, especially since it was all.. shiny and metallic-looking.

Mordecai floated down and hovered a couple inches from the ground, inspecting the other half steel-type with his one red eye. "Bel? Dum?" A series of curious whirrs and clicks emanated from his being. What was it?

Well then.
If Lestrade didn't object, and Dupin wanted to...
Jeremy, hands in pockets, strode off toward the sign-up area, dodgy people and pokemon as he went.
He wasn't too concerned over his pokemon walking along out of their balls along with him. He knew they might wander, but they'd always sniff him out easily enough; they always did. And it wasn't like one would leave the other too far away.
He took some time to examine and people-watch as he went; kids everywhere, of course. He had to admit he wasn't comfortable or particularly fond of being around kids; he just didn't understand children, but it was nice to see them with pokemon. It always seemed -right- somehow that the two should mix.
He chuckled as he passed a group where a Beldum seemed to have become an official bag carrier... and chuckled more as he caught some of the event that led to the dropping of the bag, but he had passed them and was slowly ambling toward the forms before the Aron had shown up.
He did catch sight of an incredibly tall individual... and twitched his lip, about to remark to one of his two pokemon, when he saw they hadn't quite arrived with him yet.
"Hm. Take your time then." He muttered, looking back through the crowd to try and spot where the two had gotten too. As long as they reached where he was before he had to battle, he wouldn't be too annoyed.

Dupin had decided that -everything- needed investigating. The little black and white Eevee had snuffled off, with some idea to investigate what that girl with the machine had been doing before... and had quickly gotten side-tracked by a different scent. She'd deviated from the vague Jeremy-following path to sit at the edge of the group gathered near to the Aron. It was a curious little steel type; she was sure she'd never met one.
"Vee." She greeted toward it, curiously, after a quick look around at the other pokemon and the trainers. She'd keep an eye on them too.

Lestrade had frowned as Dupin had suddenly ventured in a different direction. He hesitated, making sure he knew where their trainer was going- he knew the man would wait where ever he ended up- and then, satisfied he knew where Jeremy would be, he followed Dupin's scent as the Eevee had just gotten out of sight. Hrm. He'd thought she was going toward the machine-girl... but a quick look where he thought that was revealed... a giant human. He sat and tried to keep himself triangulated between Jeremy and Dupin.

Luke offered a half wave in reply, moving through the crowd to meet Rosie and... whoever that girl was. Name started with a... Z? An F? He really had no idea. This curiosity was put aside in favor of a mild surprise when Rosie stumbled, and he raised his brow in a manifestation of this surprise, closing the distance to join the two girls and the... uh... Aron, apparently, if Rosie knew anything about pokemon. She didn't sound unsure, so she was probably right.

"You okay?" he asked automatically, directing this faint concern towards Rosie rather than the pokemon - though the fact that he was expressing any concern toward anything could likely be categorized as a small wonder. He turned a cursory glance over the Aron, curious over its form but mostly disapproving that it should wander around like that tripping people and... whatever else it was doing. Probably nothing good. Weird thing.

"I've always thought hey were really cute, especially with those big eyes" Rosie added with a little giggle, watching Melody as she initiated interaction with the Aron and the new Eevee that showed up.
That was one thing Rosie loved most about events like this, all the people with all the different kinds of pokemon, and such unique beauties to~

Kiss Kiss had trotted over with Ana when the humans had moved away, seeing her trainer nearly trip quickened her pace, but nothing bad came of it.
Instead the Pikachu hurried over and stopped next to Melody, tail held high, and a smile on her face "Pika!" she greeted the other pokemon.

Rosie looked up when Luke came over, and nodded her head in reply to his question, a little embarrassed, but she just smiled through it. "I'm okay, it started me more than anything."
She couldn't turn to face him more fully because of the little Charmander having decided to sit down on her foot, but she faced him the best she could.
"Oh, let me introduce you to Seraphine, We go to the same school together," She said, with a gesture to the other, very beautiful young lady she was with.
"Seraphine, this is my friend Luke. He's visiting Kodo from off the Island."
She seemed very excited about two of her friends meeting one another.

"All pokemon are pretty weird-looking," Luke mused idly in response to the girl's observation, turning a momentary glance toward the Beldum. If they were talking about weird pokemon, that was one right there... He couldn't get used to the things.

Somehow it wasn't a surprise at all that Rosie found them all cute.

She introduced Seraphine - that was it - and he nodded in acknowledgment. "We met, actually," he said with a vague shrug. Not that he appreciated the introduction any less, because there was no way he could have come up with Seraphine, of all things. He'd been erring more towards something like Farah... Granted, Farah and Sera were pretty similar.

With a mild interest, he regarded all of the pokemon that had accumulated around them. He had the feeling that at least half of them didn't even belong to any of the three trainers. Another recent arrival was scooped up by... someone. This one Luke definitely didn't know.

"Don't think so," he responded, looking back at the Aron. It definitely wasn't his, but Rosie and Seraphine didn't seem familiar with the thing either.