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"What he said," Dith nodded to the young girl, shooting Guy a smile. "The more the merrier, right? And Ty it is; your Fathom is very lovely as well!" She seemed a little bit shy but hopefully she'd relax before long; a big crowd of strangers had to be intimidating.


Viktor studied the water type carefully, wondering if it was being condescending or had just phrased things a little awkwardly. he replied without rancour, Teazer barely shut up about it,


Ah, and suddenly there was a ditto. Dith looked down at the little blob and grinned. "Hello there, lost your trainer?"


Viktor too turned his head to inspect the new arrival, blinking peaceably at the enthused greeting. he said with a bow of his head,

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Ahh Kodo, a beautiful land for the fact that it currently didn't contain anyone who wanted him dead or locked up, and did contain what looked like it could shape up to be a good party.

With the possibility of sitting on the grass he hadn't opted for the white suit today no matter how 'spring garden party' it looked with the right shirt and shoes. Anyway, he'd left the right shoes behind in Orre. Still, the red looked good (would he own it if it didn't?) and any grass stains it acquired wouldn't be nearly so obvious as on the white.

He didn't have to saunter around for long before he spotted something of interest. Coming to a halt the red-haired man smirked slightly studying the little gaggle of trainers with a faintly predatory air. Nice.

Guy beamed back at Dith as he agreed, and when Tymiko asked about the importance of today, he shrugged his shoulders lightly. "Mm, kind of, I guess. We all met each other more or less on this day, so in a way it is a bit of an anniversary. The actual festival is just for the coming of spring, though. That's why everyone's out and about today." Placing his hands on his hips, Guy took a cursory look around the decorated park. More people were already starting to arrive, with some familiar faces mingling among the unfamiliar ones. He could even see a darkly-cloaked young woman a short distance - one that he remembered distinctly from months ago. Before he was able to start over towards her, however, the sound of a very excited Tymiko made him turn and he saw the girl wrap her arms around Miss Rosie in a giant hug. Guy flinched slightly and shrunk away, hoping that Tymiko wouldn't want to express her joy like that with him.

Miss Kiss Kiss hugged Anonymes once more, and she told him that he was... sweet? She really thought that? His golden eyes widened and he wrung his handles bashfully. ["Kn-knights are s-supposed to be chivalrous to ladies, and you're a lady, Miss Kiss Kiss, so..."] Miss Kiss Kiss was so kind to say such a thing about Anon! He was only being polite toward a lady, just like Master had taught him, and Miss Kiss Kiss was a wonderful lady. At least, Anon thought so.

Paleman kept his squinted eyes locked on the ground as he inched closer to the Rapidash. The Pokemon greeted him kindly enough, not turning him away like a freak... That was promising, but Paleman still had to be careful. He couldn't be too weird. He had to try. ["...H-hi..."] he replied quietly to the other Fire-type, shrinking slightly as the large Pokemon lowered his head down to Paleman's level. This one... He didn't seem so bad. Maybe he would be nice, like Paleman's Lamp-friend. The abrupt appearance of a completely ecstatic white glob of goo waving its arms about and making a ruckus startled the Pignite completely, and with a terrified expression, he tucked in his arms and covered his face in fear. Why were there so many strangers?! He wanted to go home!

"Its that, and so much more." Rosie smiled "A year ago we made a very important decision, and started on a journey that's going to hopefully help make Kodo a better place."
The blond trainer explained with a tone in her voice that implied that this was important, to her if not to the whole group.

Ty seemed to be delighted that she was welcome to stay with them, and welcomed into their friendship, the hug was not at all unwelcome, and even returned with giggle and a loving hug of her own.

When Ty pulled away, Rosie let her hand stay on the girl's shoulder, as blue eyes spotted a familiar white blob.
"Oh! Opal! hi." Rosie smiled, reaching down to hold a hand out to the Ditto
That would of course mean that Ivory was around here. "Where is Ivory, Opal?" Rosie asked, looking around.

Before she could give much attention to finding the other trainer though, a new voice in the group caught her attention, and heads were turned toward a new person who had approached the group.
Rosie's eyebrows arched, as she pushed herself to her feet, (With Opal if she climbed on her hand)
The man was handsome, and very well dressed, but Rosie was sure she had never seen him before.

"Oh, no, we're not guest of honor or anything special like that, we're just a group of friends, and trainers."she said, a little bashfully, and a wave of her hand. "Dith was only joking."

Pastin was familiar with most of the other Trainer's pokemon, Paleman, while he didn't come out very often, was one of Guy's a troubled and skittish. Pastin lent a lot of that to the pokemon's... odd appearance, and how he would generally be treated because of it.
the arrival of the Ditto seemed to startle the other tire type, Pastin snorted lightly in his own surprise, ears fanning forward as he looked over to the white Ditto.

Yuri just smirked with a casual shrug of his shoulders at Ray's observation of him not knowing anything about training. It wasn't really a priority for him to learn, especially since it wasn't a huge deal in Grande Ile like in a lot of other countries. Plus he didn't really have any interest in it anyway.

Repede looked up at Ray as she greeted him and gave a bark in return before seating himself on the grass. It looked like the two humans would be talking for a bit, so might as well make himself comfortable. Yuri seemed to have the same idea as he too sat himself down next to the Growlithe.

"We were just passing by, and thought we'd check it out," was Yuri's explanation as to why he was here.

Scanning the crowd, Yuri's sights fell on a group of trainers that were huddled nearby. He recognized a couple of faces, but was in no hurry to go greet them.

Ray remained standing, though she took on a more comfortable posture, settling her a hand oh her hip, while the other hooked a thumb into the belt strapping on her thigh.
Eh, it was a good thing he didn't accept the battle, how that she thought about it, she didn't even have any Pokemon.

"Haa haa, hard to ignore something like this going on. Man they make a big deal out of it." she grinned, then followed his gaze over to a group of people who were unmistakably trainers. Ray had noticed a few of them earlier, but it seemed that their numbers were growing in that gathering.

her notched eyebrow arched as she nodded toward one of the people in the group.
"Hey, his clothes." she said, talking to the blond man with them. "He's go a sword too."
She turned back to Yuri, and grinned.
"Looks kinda familiar."

She nodded at his statement. "Everyone does it." The former trainer had lost track of how many celebrations she had attended, from all different towns and cities too. They were all pretty much the same, and they were all pretty darn fun regardless.

Heavily shadowed eyelids slid down over her mossy eyes, but her eyebrow arched as intrigue slipped over her.
So Yuri wasn't too surprised by that, huh?
"HAH, looks like Kodo's the hip place to be after all."
In a swift movement, she crouched down, reaching out her fingers to the Pokemon with Yuri,

Far from put off by the pokemon's reaction and Yuri's explanation, instead ray seemed pleased by this, as a wide slightly eery grin spread over the rugged women's face.
"Oohhh ho ho ho. Awesome."
She flexed her fingers then pushed herself back up. "It is on, little pup." She finished in a playful laugh.
Weakness assessed, commence tactical long term pokemon pestering of affection.

Camphoreon's annual spring festival - despite the steadily turning weather, Luke hadn't been expecting it to be upon them so soon. Had it really been more than a year since he'd arrived in Kodo? The single thought led many others, among them memories both good and bad. He supposed he'd probably changed a fair bit since first arriving in the region; it would have been hard not to, given the vast difference between what he knew a year ago and what he knew now. In the end, the only conclusion he could really reach on the subject was that he didn't want to think about it all too seriously. Rather than that, the matter at hand was a festival, and festivals were meant to be enjoyed... or something.

The streets were busy with the energy of the event, but Luke was confident he would find his friends amidst the crowd - Dith generally stood out like a sore thumb, after all. Mieu, who kept pace at his master's side, was the first to spot the trainer group, darting ahead of his trainer and wiggling through feet to stand in the rough middle of the gathering and gaze up at everyone with an excited "fieuu!" There were a lot of people and pokemon there he'd never met before. How exciting!

"Ah, there they are." Normally Luke's first instinct would have been to shout after the Flareon and call it back to him, but under these circumstances the fire-type's tendency to run off was actually kind of useful. It wouldn't be long after Mieu joined the others that Luke did as well, appearing in the general vicinity of Guy, Rosie, and Dith - those that he knew - with a hand raised in greeting and a nonchalant "hey." He scrutinized the unknown individuals; they couldn't look more different, it seemed.