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The little Aron blinked as he was surrounded by people and Pokemon. "Aaaarron," he greeted back to the other Pokemon, his eyes turning to happy little n's.

However, there was a sweatdrop and a hurt look on his face as he was called 'weird." "Roooon." That wasn't very nice.

But when one of the girls knelt down and asked about his trainer, the little steel type blinked up at her. "Ron?"

Despite their varied reactions, Sera responded with a huff and turned away from the two men anyway, her cheeks turning a shade or two more pink than normal. Unfortunately she did take it personally even though Guy asked her not to, and the extent of her sympathy towards anything - even trailing off, floundering half-explanations - was pretty much non-existent, so his vague partial explanation was lost on her as well. She decided to refrain from commenting further.

"Breee?" Anastasia bumped into her trainer's hip, sensing her displeasure with the situation, and the girl reached down to stroke the dark-type's head affectionately. At least she had two good pokemon, even if the third was just a useless hunk of metal. Said useless hunk of metal continued to hover around his mistress, ever on the alert for a moment when he could indeed be helpful or useful.

Charlotte smiled kindly at Guy. Now at least she wouldn't have to awkwardly introduce herself to the others who already knew each other.

Apparrently the other girls were Rosie and Seraphine. Good now they all knew each other's names. Seraphine had approached Guy and frightened him off a bit and she seem annoyed but he did seem genuinely apologetic. Ha, now they both didn't seem to be starting off on a good foot with her, she thought dryly. She smiled sympathetically at Guy. It didn't bother Charlotte that he had a small, if apparent, fear of girls. Though it may sound childish, she wasn't too fond of the dark herself. The inherent absence of light was enough to rattle her bones.

Charlotte had stood up to meet guy but when the little Pokemon seemed to be tring to ask her something she turned back towards it. "What is it sweetheart?" she asked bending over "Do you need help?" Charlotte's umbreon started to struggle again when nearing the ground and leapt out of her arms to continue his investigation. "Be good," she said wagging her finger at Draco.

Folding her hands behind her back, tilting her head and looking down when Luke asked about a Charmander.
"OH! yes, that's Melody, she hatched out of the egg I was taking care of"
She beamed at this, still very excited about the fact that made her very pleased.

"Melody~ come over here baby, don't... chew on Luke's... shoe"
The Charmander, while hearing Rosie calling her, just stared at her trainer, weakly noming on the tip of Luke's boot.
She giggled, walking over to pick up the green Charmander, gently prying her off of Luke's boot before she stood back up, blinking at a new man who had stepped up behind Luke and Guy.

"So this is your Aron, Sir? We were wondering if it was lost."
Glancing back over at the Aron, smiling, relived.

"Thank you," Guy said in response to Rosie's offer. At least the blonde one seemed polite and pleasant. The brunette - Seraphine, her name was? - was much more... well, Guy didn't exactly want to say rude, per se... Conceited? No... Arrogant? She did seem that way, but that wasn't the word... Either way, all that mattered is that he didn't particularly care for her. She didn't know about his phobia beforehand, so it wasn't necessarily her fault, but the was she reacted about it wasn't called for.

At Rosie's query, Guy frowned slightly and rested his hands on his sword-hilt. "...No, it wasn't always like this. I never reacted like that when I was a child, but... After this one moment that's been missing from my memory, when-" He stopped himself, biting his lip to avoid saying any more on the matter. There was... no need to explain such things to a total stranger. Besides, he didn't want to burden them all.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind them, and Guy turned around towards it in surprise. He saw before them a silver-haired man, who appeared to be the owner of the stray Aron. Who was this man...? "Um, who exactly are you," Guy asked the stranger inquisitively.

A momentary panic resulted from Rosie's words. He looked down, and sure enough, the Charmander was chewing on his shoe. Her trainer seemed to have things under control, but that didn't prevent Luke from frowning at the fire-type. "Don't just go around chewing on people's stuff," he scolded with an indignant huff. Especially not on people's shoes. Jeez. Not like those were his favorite shoes or anything, and they were a bit scuffed from all the walking he'd done lately, but now they were chewed on. Ugh. He regarded the footwear with a momentary scowl, but Guy's story drew his attention with an expression of earnest curiosity.

"Your memory? I never heard about that..." A certain enthusiasm hung in his tone, a familiarity of which Guy would likely understand the cause. It didn't look like he was going to talk about it anymore, though, and while Luke was a bit disappointed by this, he supposed he could always ask for details later...

Luke looked between the guy and the Aron momentarily, though between Guy's and that Charlotte girl's questions, they about had all of his curiosities covered. It was a little creepy how he'd just kinda... lurked up to them, but he didn't seem like a bad guy... Not outwardly, anyway. The redheaded boy regarded the recent arrival dubiously as he awaited his replies.

"Chaaar!" When she was scolded by Luke, her eyes grew wide, blinking at him with a puzzled look on her face.
"He's right Melody, its not polite to chew on someone like that." gathering the Charmeleon into her arms, lifting the newly hatched pokemon up and placing her against her chest, where she supported her with one arm.
Looking over at Luke with a small apologetic grin "I'm sorry Luke, she's still learning whats acceptable behavior and whats not, She'll learn."
It might not be a problem now when her jaws were still pretty weak, but if she didn't break that habit then it would become a real problem.

He heard what Guy had told her, and hearing about having a gap in memory was… actually rather alarming, she had never met someone like that before.
But at his pause she felt this was getting into territory that was getting uncomfortable for him, so she didn’t press the questions. Though seeing as the new man that came over had distracted most of them from the conversation anyway.
Rounding her shoulders a little when Charlotte tried to pick up the pokemon, knowing from her lessons on steel types that even though the pokemon was so little, it was incredibly heavy, and difficult to pick up for even a strong man.

The Aron walked over to its trainer anyway, Rosie watched it go, lifting her eyes to the man where she paused, blinking a couple of times as her lips parted gently.
He looked…
“Steven Stone...” She said with an air of realization followed by amazement, after he introduced himself. She learned about him in School, in the trainer’s class she took, he was a powerful pokemon figure in Hoenn, but… here? In Kodo? Wow!

Needless to say she was surprised, but he had asked who they were, she remembered to introduce herself.
She curtsied again as she introduced herself for a second time today, “I’m Rosie Ewell, I’m a trainer from Camphoreon,” she confirmed his question about them being trainers, at least on her end, smiling warmly. “ It’s an honor to meet you!”

The Aron's curious, child-like behavior brought a small smile to Guy's face as he watched it waddle about. He had never seen a Pokemon like that before. At first glance, he had thought it looked really strange, but after a little while, its cute behavior had gotten to him. That little thing is kind of adorable. Maybe I should catch one myself! It was then that Guy remembered his own Pokemon, and he glanced at the Litwick at his shoulder. "Why don't you go and play with them, Anonymes, and make some friends?"

The Litwick stared at his trainer blankly for a moment, then blinked and nodded his understanding. "Wick..." The little Ghost Pokemon floated down towards the Aron and the mysterious white blob that had seemed to have appeared from nowhere. The Aron looked friendly enough, but what was that white blob? Why was it here? Was it a Pokemon? Was it mean? Anon hovered beside the...now two Arons, a little smile visible on its face. "Wick-wick!"

Guy returned his attention to the mysterious man, who was apparently named Steven. Guy held out his hand to the man in greeting. "Nice to meet you, Steven. I'm Guy. And yep, I'm a trainer." He gave a small chuckle. This Steven must be a trainer, as well, considering he had that Aron. He glanced over to Rosie, who had curtsied again and was saying something about... an honor to meet him? Was he famous or something?

"Hey," he said quietly to Rosie, "is he some kind of celebrity or something like that?"