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The scene with Dali was entertaining. Henrietta had no idea what he was saying, or what he meant, but it sounded absolutely adorable, so she looked interested anyways.

Then Eunmi came back and Henrietta nodded. "Right." She stood up and said, "do you want to count, or should I just go?"

((I twisted my ankle and proceeded to complete two shits of work on it, so I don't even give a ******** what my posts look like.))

Henrietta performed the snap kicks, side kicks, side turning kicks and rising kicks, one per each leg, with efficient perfection, as she was taught by Eunmi.

Henrietta, who had learned the last two times Eunmi had nudged her, had gotten her stance right and, in the end, did not budge. Because, to put it simply, she learned from her mistakes. That ad she didn't want to be totally lame, getting pushed into stumbles by single fingers, as was almost the case last time.

Henrietta did indeed remember. She had recalled the various words Eunmi had said, and while she could not think of their meaning, or even guess at it, she did know how she was intended to react when Eunmi said the words. At attention, in the proper stance that I'm not describing, Henrietta waited for Eunmi.

After a few intense battles between Steelix and Blitzle some of the area surrounding the area where they fought was chard and crushed and tossed around a bit. The two pokemon stand there in front of each other looking a bit exhausted as Kijin walks over to Steelix and pets it lightly,"Thanks for your help buddy now take a break." he says pulling the pokeball out and recalling the large pokemon and looked at Blitzle,"Ok Now that you have worked out a bit of your stress how about we get some trainning done?" He says walking over to the pokemon smiling lightly as he strokes the pokemon seeing it was too tired to fire off any sparks at the moment. He pulls out a bottle of potion and sprays the pokemon over a little making sure to get any cuts or bruises that it may have got from the battle. "Now then lets get your aim down."

He walks over to a nearby tree and pats it lightly,"Ok Blitzle I want you to try and hit as many leafs that come off this tree and try to only hit the leafs." He says as he kicks the tree knocking some of the leafs down, as they slowly fall down Blitzle launched a arch of lightning missing of the leafs but only hitting one. This would continue for a good while.

While Salieri trained Wukong and Liuye on their teamwork and combinations, Chen Zhen was off at the waterfall in the northernmost part of the route. Underneath the falling waters, his meditated with his eyes closed. While meditating, he entered a state of calm in which he was able to focus on controlling his spirit. Oddly enough, when he was in this state he could not talk, much like one of the three wise monkeys of legend.

As the waterfall cascaded around him while he sat on the rocks alone, he fell into a state of enlightenment, which was said to be healthy to the inner spirit. Peace and tranquility-

[Hey can I sit here with you!? This place is neat!]

The meditation ceased when Salem’s voice loudly rang through the cavernous waterfall in an effort to be heard over the crashing sounds of water. Chen Zhen opened an eye and looked over to her, trying to think of what to say but not able to formulate the words.

[This place is really cool!] she yelled while trotting over to him. The Pansage’s cheeks flushed pink as he undid his meditative pose for a more casual sit down.

[Uh, s-sure you can sit right here. I mean, if you want to.]

The Eevee plopped herself down right next to the Pansage, close enough that her freely swinging tail touched and tickled his side. His cheeks turned pinker.

[I like breaks like these. Salieri likes to take things up to the next level all the time. Which is nice, I guess but she needs to calm down.]

Chen Zhen said nothing, so Salem sighed and continued. [Liuye is cool, but he’s too quiet and kind of a loner. And Wukong is cool too, but he’s way too full of himself.] She picked her head up to look at Chen Zhen. [I feel like you and me are the only normal ones.]

Me and her? HER AND ME? Is she really saying that, she can’t be serious. Despite his inner voice telling him it was too good to be true, he couldn’t help but ask. [R-really?]

[Yeah, I guess.] She giggled, which sounded a little like a meow. [You’re still kind of weird though.]

The Pansage almost fell over, looking defeated as he let his head hang low. Salem now gave him a full blown laugh. [I mean in a good way, silly. You’re not like the others, you’re a leader. They’re always fighting and you’re always ready to fix things.] She stood up and got into his face, making him even more nervous as he tail slapped happily against the ground. [Hey, that thing you did with Recycle before was super cool.]

He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. [Well, I, uh, just thought it would work and it kind of did. But, uh, it’s not perfect or anything, I’ve still got a lot to work on-]

[Yeah?] She turned around, which made Chen Zhen’s heart sink a little because he knew she was going to leave. [Maybe you can show me next time?]

And then the pink faded away from his cheeks, and Chen Zhen genuinely smiled a more confident smile. [Sure, I’d love that.]

She smirked, showing off her sharp teeth before walking out of the waterfall. As soon as she was gone, the Pansage sighed loudly and flopped onto his back, rubbing the side of his face where her tail briefly brushed him.

[D-did I say I’d love to? I said love? Wow, I don’t know what’s gotten into me.]

He held up his hands to look them over. …maybe I could get really good at this.

After a few hundred shots of electricity Blitzle was now completely exhausted from the combination of the battle with Steelix and the aiming exercise, over the course of the training Blitzle got a little bit better but still managed to miss a good chunk of the leafs but managed to strike down some of trees near the river. "Uh ok Blitzle lets call your training done for the day, return." He pulls the pokeball out and recalls the pokemon back into its ball then sighs lightly.

"Hmm now which one should I handle next?", he says looking at the other two pokeballs looking at the two before choosing one and releasing the pokeball. The pokemon that appears was the recently captured Venipede, he looks at the pokemon and kneels down to the creature."Hmm I wonder what moves you already know and what I can train you on?", he asks before pulling out his pokedex then once out he presses one button and gets a listing. "Hmm so poison sting, Pursuit, Protect and Screech huh?" He soon closes the pokedex and taps his chin, well lets see what I can do with you but lets get idea for your power. He looks over at downed tree then smirks,"Alright Venipede attack that tree with poison sting." The pokemon looks at the tree and opens its mouth and fires a furry of needles to the tree hitting it with the purple colored needles causing a slight dent in the tree.

"Hmm not bad but lets try your next more, go use Pursuit.", he cries out and the pokemon quickly runs in the direction of the tree hitting it hard in the same spot as the poison sting making a bigger dent in the tree but not completely breaking through."Hmm your aim is really good but your power needs some work which I think we might be able to handle just need to find a boulder." he says picking up pokemon he would carry the Venipede a little of to the side of the Pinwheel forest finding a large boulder.'Here this is a good spot alright lets go Venipede." He sets the pokemon down and points to the rock,"Lets do this Venipede hit that boulder with everything you got."

Henrietta watched Eunmi move. Fists out in legitimate punches. She'd done it before, tried punching, but hers were likely laughable. She'd have to ask N about it. She watched and, hesitantly, mimicked the movements as Eunmi did them, trying to get them right the first time. No more embarrassing herself like she did when she learned to kick.

"I understand," she said.