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A missing legendary? How odd. Charlotte had to think but she remebered that Kyogre was a water type. But that was all she could really recall about. She wondered if it was stolen by Team Rocket but then again wouldn't Team Aqua or something have wanted it? Aren't they the ones really interested in water types? Charlotte wasn't very well educated on those topics but she was pretty sure that Team Aqua would have more of an interest in it.

Guy had navigated over to Luke and...Seraphine, yes that was her name, was still standing at an unfriendly distance to them all. But where had Draco gone. Then Charlotte saw that he had moved to investigate the trainers now having lost interest in the other pokemon. He seemed to be making his way over to Luke and Guy. Hopefully no shoe chewing would occur. Luke's shoes were already covered in small bite marks. Charlotte allowed the umbreon to go over to the others, she wanted to hear what else Steven had to say.

Steven nodded his head solemnly at Rosie's words, his hands going into his pockets. There was silence from the Hoenn champ for a few moments until Luke rejoined the group, and he looked up to acknowledge the red head and his greeting.

A kindly smile returned to Steven's face as he regarded the boy thoughtfully before extending his hand to him. "Luke right?" He then side glanced at Rosie with a small grin, before looking back to Luke. "Steven," he then said, in case the red head hadn't been paying attention. Something about this kid just... screamed insecure to him. Thus he made a point of not ignoring him. "Just Steven, if you don't mind. Mr. Stone is my father." That last bit obviously being meant for Rosie.

However, he quickly went back to topic as Luke asked his question. It wasn't at all a stupid one, or at least not to Steven. There were plenty of people who were unfamiliar with legendaries, and he wouldn't dream of embarrassing the kid anyway.

"Kyogre is a water type Pokemon. Its a very important legendary, especially to Hoenn where it typically lives. It has the ability to expand the oceans. Some say its even the creator of the oceans." That was Kyogre in a nutshell anyway. "Ever since an incident involving Team Aqua and Magma years ago, I've been trying to keep tabs on it. But now its gone. Coincidentally, a friend and colleague of mine is missing as well."

Aron marched along happily behind his white counterpart! "Aron ron ron!" he chanted in unison, his expression one of joy as he was obviously having a good time. Steven stole a glance in the direction of the Pokemon procession for just a moment, keeping watch out of the corner of his eye.

Looking over to Luke and Guy when they came back over, she remained quiet while Steven made his introduction, though one comment was not lost on her.
She blinked at him a couple of times before eyebrows arched and her blue eyes widened, her fingers slipping over her mouth with a small "Oh." followed by an apologetic smile, and a slight, embarrassed blush. Not interrupting as he continued to explain what Kyogre was to Luke.

Most of what everyone knew about the Legendary was just speculation and myth. so to hear Steven talk about Kyogre like this was quite incredible.
At the mention of Team Aqua and Team Magma though, Rosie blinked and tilted her head slightly... "Team Aqua, and Magma?" She repeated quietly.

Head inclining downward for a moment at the last comment from Steven, "Kyogre and Lance..." This was... terrifying to her, if Team Rocket really was involved, just how strong must they be to take on a legendary, and a league champion.
Glancing over at Luke again when Steven was finished talking "Its been on the news a lot, there is strong reason to believe that Team Rocket has the champion Lance here." She explained, not sure if Luke watched the news when he was in the hotel room.
She shook her head softly, this broke her heart.

Guy offered a kind smile to Luke as they rejoined the group, even though the young man's behavior didn't fail to give Guy small cause for worry. He never really knew Luke as a 'social butterfly,' and he hoped that his friend wouldn't freak out over anything or something like that or that he wouldn't be recieved poorly. Much to his relief, it seemed like Steven was kind enough to accept Luke readily, and that was like a huge weight being taken off of Guy's shoulders.

He listened attentively as Steven explained the Pokemon Kyogre and his concern over it and his mission colleague. Guy's eyebrows raised as he told his story about the Pokemon's origins. It seemed somewhat unlikely that a single Pokemon could have created all of the vast oceans, but they were stories, after all; it's not like anyone really was supposed to take them seriously. Guy turned his attention over to Rosie as she began talking about something called... Team Rocket?

"Team... Rocket? What is that?" Obviously, whatever this 'Team Rocket' was, it was notorious enough that it was talked about on the news and nefarious enough to kidnap someone.

"Its a long story," Steven said with a sigh when Rosie asked about Team Aqua and Magma. "Basically they're similar to Team Rocket, except they're rivals. One wanted to expand the land, and the other the oceans, and they needed Kyogre and Groudon for that." But that was in the past. Everything had been over and done with for some time now. He doubted that Team Aqua and Magma even existed anymore.

His attention now went to Luke and Steven could see the boy's growing interest in the subject. "Yes, they can, I have witnessed some rather spectacular events involving legendaries, as have others. Kyogre is able to summon torrential rains, and given enough time, it could indeed raise the oceans I believe."

This was soon followed by a nod as the questions now went to Lance. "Lance is champion of the Indigo League that's located in Kanto and Johto. He could tell you more about Team Rocket than I, he's the expert."
Luke went ahead and answered Guy's question for him, but Steven couldn't help but notice one thing, and blinked in surprise. "They stole one of your Pokemon?" The silver haired champion then asked turning towards Rosie, before looking back at Luke. "They're a criminal organization that does more than just steal Pokemon. They exploit them in whatever way possible, and it seems like they have now put their sights on legendary Pokemon. Lance was on a mission to find out what they're up to, and then we lost contact with him."

Aron continued happily marching along with Opal, doing circles around this girl he didn't know. He was having way too much fun to realize that he had wandered away from his own trainer again.

He gave a quick explanation about the two other Teams that Rosie had never heard of, what... what kind of person wanted to do such damaging things? this made no sense to Rosie.

He continued his discussion with Luke about the Legendary, saying he actually witnessed this, a look of amazement caught Rosie's features, he actually -saw- the legendary, she can't imagine how wonderful that must be...

Her wonder was soon cut short thought, when Luke mentioned the things that Team Rocket had done to them personally, bringing up his attempted mugging... and her pokemon.
Shoulders rounded slightly when he said that, blinking a couple of times.
But than Guy and Steven inquired about it as well, and her cheeks flushed a little pink.
Her heart sank, eyes lowering, bowing her head a little next to Melody who she held tighter, her bangs fell forward, curtaining most of her features.
She gave a hesitant nod before speaking meekly "They tried twice.... Kiss stopped the first Rocket, but then the second one, She..."

"Chuu..." Kiss Kiss tilted her head, leaning forward on Rosie's shoulder as she gave her trainer a concerned look.

It still hurt, it hurt every day, and it was something she would never forget, but she felt so odd bringing this up when so many trainers in Kodo had lost their pokemon, even Luke had been threatened... in the city no less. so many people were hurt... and now Legendary were missing, and Lance was...
She was a victim? yes, but this didn't mean she would act like one, not anymore.

Her head lifted again looking over at Guy. "Legendary and Champions fall to them..." She pointed out. but shook her head, glancing back over to Steven. "... Lance was trying to do something?" There was something of an answer to Guy's last question.
Maybe the biggest advantage to Team Rocket was how little there was actually known about them, any information Lance had might have... really helped, Lance was trying to do something.
He sounded brave.

"They're horrible, I don't understand how someone can do something like that, and these are the people who have one of our champions..."
Her blue eyes were starting to look on the verge of tears now, out of frustration for the hurt people and pokemon, worry for the champion who did try and stand up to Team Rocket, and some of her own fears starting to prickle up again. She held her Charmander close, one hand reaching up to touch Kiss' side.
She held back though, and despite what she was feeling her voice only got stronger.
"I don't know Guy, but the only thing I know to do is to keep trying, and working to get stronger, so that next time they come, we aren't helpless."
She looked to Luke after saying that. "Luke helped me see that."
She had been in a very dark place, she would probably still be hiding had it not been for him.

Seraphine was ignoring all of them - or rather, pretending to, she was still listening to the conversation - but she didn't miss the look Rosie gave her. She did her best to look as unhappy and reluctant as possible, but joined her friend's side regardless. There were many mentions and explanations of some guy named Lance, a champion or something, a pokemon named Kyogre - uninteresting - but both were missing, and a few other things. Mention of Team Rocket in regards to both as well as stealing pokemon did pique her interest, if only very, very slightly.

She couldn't help but notice Rosie's reaction to the mention of a Rocket stealing her pokemon, but since Seraphine was, well, Seraphine, she didn't really grasp the gravity and severity of the situation, especially Luke calling them 'bad guys.' While this was entirely true, it didn't help mature Sera's immature relation of Team Rocket to overgrown schoolyard bullies who would eventually be caught and turned into the principal and everything they'd stolen taken back and returned to their rightful owners. While this was more than likely as far from the truth and what would actually happen as it could possibly get, that was, unfortunately, the idea that was firmly stuck into the less-than-polite girl's pretty head.

She had no questions nor comments - she was still trying to seem entirely disinterested with the entire conversation - so she merely continued to hold Isabella in her arms while Anya sat next to her feet, and Mordecai hovered a couple feet from her as instructed.

The line moved forward a few times, and carefully the girl tried to step outside of the circle that was being formed about her. But every time, the Aron pair seemed to reform the circle so it was surrounding her.

"It is like dealing with kids hopped up on sugar..." she sighed as she neared the edge of the booth. The girl leaned forward, but held her parasol back a bit so it wouldn't be in the way.

"I'd like one regular funnel cake, but without any powdered sugar..."

The man in the booth laughed in a kind manner. This request wasn't unusual in all honesty. Many people preferred keeping clean when eating their treats. After the girl had paid, he signaled to her to move to the other side to pick up her funnel cake.

"Come on you two... this way now..." Once again, she moved out of the circle, only to have Opal remake the circle around her at their new spot.

"Aron ron ron!" The game had been so entertaining since adding the extra element of a moving target to circle. The white Aron seemed happy enough.