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Faran bounded across the sandy beach, delighted at the feeling of the sand beneath his paws. "Come on!" he shouted back to Erinn, who carefully followed behind, his eyes on little Rivia, "Let's go let's go!" The Vulpix jumped eagerly up and down, trilled to be out of the Team Room; anything involving other people was exciting!

"You go on ahead Faran," the Paras called back with a smile, "You'll be alright on your own I think."

Faran's eyes lit up, "Really?" he said with delight, Thanks Erinn!" Without another thought he raced forward through the sand, enjoying leaving paw prints that followed after him. the Vulpix didn't know what to think of the sand, it was so new, so different than what he was used to. Grinning, he traced little designs in the sand, smiling as he drew the face of a Vulpix. "It's me!" he said with a laugh, before looking around curiously at what there was to do. He spotted a pair of Pokemon playing tag in the water and grinned, bounding over through the sand to watch. They looked like they were having so much fun! He bounded over to the edge of the pool, staring out at the two. "Hey!" he called out, a grin on his face, "Whatcha doing?"

Erinn followed Rivia as the little Sandshrew made her way across the sand, padding calmly on all fours and feeling the sand curiously. It was her first time outside the Guild, but this was a trip to the beach; she would be fine. It had only partially been his decision to bring her in all honesty, Sereni had told him to take Rivia out in order to give Era a bit of company, and to keep watch over Faran. Their Team Leader was in a strange state at the moment, and clearly the Lanturn was concerned if she went alone. With a sigh, the Paras look about for Faran, spotting the Vulpix on the edge of the pool. He smiled slightly, Faran was always one to jump right into the action. When he looked back he found that Rivia had traveled a bit further than he would have expected; the Sandshrew was pawing at a certain Misdreavus, seemingly puzzled by the hair-like tendrils that streamed out behind her. "Ah, Rivia, don't do that!" the Paras said, hurrying over to her, "It's not polite to do that." Rivia looked at him curiously for a moment and then back up at the Misdreavus, raising a curious paw at her again before Erinn gently stopped her. "Hello," he said slightly awkwardly; this meeting seemed a bit odd.

Era silently sat upon the beach, her gaze pensive and without its characteristic joy. Things were...absolutely a mess with her Team, as was rather obvious by the others who had come with her. Erinn, Rivia, and Faran had all agreed to come along to the beach, but Era secretly harbored the feeling that they'd been put up to it. Well, except for Faran, nothing could subdue that Vulpix's spirit. Her usual escorts were missing, there was no large Dragonair by her side, murmuring comments to her in passing, no cheerful Eevee with his playing cards ready to show off his magic, not even a little Phione to cheer her up and put a smile on her face. Ethfael was in the Hospital recovering from his wounds and Riley was back at home slowly trying to confront himself, to forgive himself for what he'd done. The others on the Team had seemed less than thrilled at the opportunity to go to the beach, quite likely because the moral was so low. It caused the Pikachu no small amount of worry to know what was happening and no be able to help, yet so it was.

The Electric Type lay quietly in the sand, even her glowing wings without much energy. She looked up at the clouds and disregarded the world for the moment. Era normally was the first to search out a friend in opportunities like this, but she just didn't have the energy to do so. She felt slightly reminiscent as she lay in the sun on the beach. That one looks like you... the familiar voice echoed in her ears as she thought of the Eevee. Cloud gazing was a funny thing sometimes. What she needed most right now was a friend, but Era just wasn't aware of it. Who heals the healer?

Blue was about to dip him and the egg in, but noting the entrance of a Plusle and Minun he decided it was safer to do something else. He jerked the egg away from the water and held it close to him, going back to where the team had set their towels. Once there, he put the egg down on his and took out a jar with...sunscreen? He scooped some of it up and began to coat the egg in it carefully, to which purple turned and raised a brow. Blue frowned, "We don't need any boiled eggs around here, do we?" he said, finishing up with the egg.

Once sunscreened, he gave the egg over to Purple. "Its your turn to watch...just be careful, okay?" he said. Purple nodded and Blue seemed hesitant to go for a moment, but ended up leaving anyways. He know what he was going to do - He was going to find himself a nice, old log or piece of driftwood and then he was going to find himself a wave. Wait, did this beach even have logs or driftwood? Maybe he could ask someone.

Purple closed his book and looked over to the egg, taking out yet another book from the teams bag. This one looked like a book to learn your alphabets, now why would a Rattata need to learn his alphabets? "I read somewhere that at a certain stage in the egg cycle, the baby inside can hear what is going on around him or her. When the baby hatches it is aware of its surroundings and quickly finds its mother but how? Well, the egg usually is protected by her, they can hear her heartbeat when she is giving them warmth and when they hatch he match it up to her. A baby is born knowing because it is influenced by what it hears around it. If an egg hears fighting, the baby might be a fighter, and if an egg hears water, they might like swimming. Now, if I were to give you lessons now, you might come out to be a genius!" he began to open the book, smiling as he addressed the egg. "The first letter is called 'A'..."

He was around to about "F" when a bit of sand was kicked in his direction. He brushed it off and continued, but the sand was kicked again. Again, he didn't seem to mind, but it happened a third time. Closing the book, he stood up to see what was causing all this sand to be kicked in his direction. Red was there, digging at the ground as she made a pile of sand behind her. Purple was curious, "Red, just what in Arceus's name are you doing?" He asked. She didn't stop digging, but still answered him. "Well, I just got out of the water and decided to make a sand castle is all." she replied. He tilted his head, "Then why are you digging so much?" "Oh, I'm making the moat first"

Purple shook his head and sat back down once he saw that she was kicking sand the other way. Sometimes she really looked quite cute...a sandcastle, that was sweet. He'd seen how she colored things, maybe the sandcastle would be little and pathetic but she's like it. At least, he thought it would be like that.

She feverishly began to dig in the ground, making a huge pile of sand behind her that she use to make her sand castle.

((Just getting this out of the way before I follow up with an actual social post.))

Erinn smiled at the Misdreavus in return. "It certainly is," he replied, intrigued by her curious accent. "It's a nice thing Solaris did, taking us all to the beach. Everyone needs a chance to unwind, right?" The Paras was generally very easygoing, if a bit timid, and now was no exception. This Misdreavus seemed nice though, even if ghosts frightened him a bit. Rivia looked up at Ren expectantly, fascinated by this strange being that her paw could go right through. Erinn grinned a bit sheepishly, "Oh, that's right," he said, "My name's Erinn and this is Rivia, we're from Team MistMelody." He might as well make some friends while he was here right? Era was always saying to meet new people, that you were better off with more friends, so it couldn't hurt. The worst that could happen was...No, better not think about things that way.

Era scarcely noticed Ivy coming up to her as she lay there, her thoughts on other things. However, when she heard the Glaceon's voice she sat up, drawing herself out of her thoughts to address whomsoever it was who'd come over. Her expression changed slightly as she realized just who it was she was being addressed by, after all you weren't frequently addressed by royalty so whether you were down on your luck or not it deserved special attention. "I'm alright," the Pikachu responded in a soft tone, touched by the concern that she saw in Ivy's eyes. "Just a bit lonely." She didn't really want to talk about why she was lonely, but if the Glaceon asked she would indulge her curiosity. Era's attention was drawn to the surrounding area and all the Teams who seemed to be enjoying herself. It made her happy to know that they were happy, but it would take a bit more than that to really cheer her up. "And how are you?" she asked politely, forcing herself to make conversation. Come on Era, you're better than this, she thought with irritation. Why couldn't she feel more into this? She didn't entirely understand herself.

The Plusle stopped for a moment as someone addressed them and he broke out into a wide grin.

"Spark-tag!" He announced proudly, just as his sister cried out happily and leaped towards her. The Minun slammed into the Plusle's back and her brother fell face-first into the water. A small ball of electricity exploded outwards from the Minun, most of it going into his brother.

"Rojo it!" She declared and with a gleeful shout jumped off her brother and bolted for the opposite side of the pool. This entire exchange lasted less than a second. The Plusle was back on his feet almost immediately, seemingly unharmed from his forceful dunk into the water and started going after his sister before skidding to a stop, having a sudden idea.

"Tag!" He yelled, hopping towards Faran. His hand barely brushed the Vulpix's fur, causing a small spark to jump between them before he ran off in the opposite direction, giggling madly.

"Vulpix it!" He declared.



"Yeah, we've been getting great weather!" Melissa responded happily. "It's nice to be out. I've been doing pretty good, how about you?"

She watched as an Ivysaur approached the water with a surfboard. Well that'd be interesting to see the result of...

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Atra glanced back at the voice and then looked down under him before shrugging.

"I'm not that hot." But he checked to see if the rock was getting soft or not anyways. He's had bits of molten rock get between his fur before. It's not comfortable. After checking to make sure that he was indeed not melting the rock he glanced back up at the speaker. It was the Leafeon he had met at the carnival. He glanced at the her as she took a seat beside him, and then figured it probably wouldn't hurt as long as she didn't get too close.

"Yeah, it was fine. Suppose it was better than a fight." He remarked boredly, looking back towards the water and the paw he has just barely touching its surface. A steady stream of steam was issuing from that spot for obvious reasons. A moment later though, the water glistened and small white lines crisscrossed it surface. Atra let go of the magic and watched the small piece of white ice melt quickly under the heat of his paw.

"I've always liked the ocean. Water in general really." He gave as a vague excuse for why he had come. He preferred the Crystal springs, but this was nice too. Not that he could enjoy taking baths anymore after his evolution. Water tended to be painful to fire-types.



Crescendo twirled in the water with a single flick of his tail. He loved the freedom water gave him.

"The pool makes my skin itch...I think they put something in it. It's not natural." The Milotic explained with a smile, looking all around him.

"I was born on land, so I never really got to live in the Ocean, so this is really great..." He turned back to Claire suddenly. "Ah, right. I'm Crescendo from Team Polaris, I work at the Hospital. You're from the guild as well right?"

He was a lot more talkative than he usually is. Maybe it's because talking underwater didn't dry out his throat like it does on land.