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Ryu arrived in Azalea Town, leaving Ilex Forest, where his group resided, hidden deep in the forest where most people don't know, and haven't located. He stayed hidden from all the Trainers and people, not in the mood to be captured, or made fun of. He hid in a tree and sighed. 'Where should I go first. Should I leave Jhoto region, so my group doesn't find me anywhere?' He sighed, deep in thought, while making sure he would not be seen.

Ryu sighed, still thinking hard about what he should do. Then out of no where, a portal of a Celebi popped up. He hopped down and hid behind the tree, watching carefully. He seen a Celebi, but not a normal one. This one was like him, a Moemon. He then heard him speak, like he was looking for someone. Ryu stayed in the dark so the only thing seen from his, was his glowing blue marks on his head, ears, tail and the rings around his arms and legs. He'd come out, but the Celebi Moemon appeared a little to close to the town, and didn't want to be spotted by random trainers, but seeing as how there were no trainers in sight, he decided to come out for now, still in the shade of course, but he could be seen entirely now. "Hello Celebi." He said calmly to the Celebi Moemon, having no name to call him by, what else could he call him other then what he is, a Celebi.

Ryu watched as the Celebi Moemon got hostile and prepared a Leafstorm, causing himself to back up and start up a Dark Pulse attack, then he started to calm down and stop the Leafstorm. Ryu slowly dispersed the Dark Pulse. He nodded as the Celebi Moemon apologized, and had asked if his name was Ryu, which it was. "Yeah, I'm a Shiny Umbreon and my name is indeed Ryu." He replied calmly as The Celebi deducted everything about it. "Everyone in the group was attacked not long ago by some powerful wild pokemon. This time we barely managed to beat them back, I was beaten badly though, along with the rest of the group. Even the Flareons were beaten, but we still managed to fend them off. I decided to leave the group to improve myself, and to come back and properly defend them. They don't know I left yet, they probably think I'm off eating berries or something." He said, sitting down beside the tree still in the shade. "What about you? What is your name and what are you doing outside the forest?" He asked, curious to know.

Ryu nodded. "It's quite alright. No one is ever really prepared to be attacked a large group of Ariados and be beaten like that." He said, thinking back to the time of the attack, then looked at Valentin said he taught them all a lesson. "T-thank you so much sir." He said, smiling at the thought of the Ariados leaving them alone from now on. Though, that didn't mean the attacks will stop, atleast Ariados wont be a problem anymore. He frowned a little seeing as how Valentin was saddened that he didn't remember or know his name much like everyone else, but then quickly caught on. "Haha very funny. Well it's nice to finally meet you Valentin." He said, standing up and bowing back to him to show respect. He looked back at him, saying he was on the lookout for someone. "Sorry to ask, but who is it? If by any chance I run into this person while I'm out, I can alert you of his/her whereabouts." He asked calmly.

Ryu smiled and thanked him again anyway. He listened as Valentin told him about the person and nodded. "Well when I see him, I'll let you know." He said calmly. He then facepalmed himself, remembering the fact that he was one of their strongest fighters. "Well I figured that since most of the attacks are wild Beedrill and Ryhorn, I'm sure the group can take care of that easily without my help til I can get back. At any rate, I cant slack around with my training. I wont return until I can atleast repel a powerful pokemon easily like a Tyranitar or something along those terms." He said, now getting a little worried about the group.

Ryu looked over at Valentin, offering to train him for the time being, telling him he should be fighting someone much stronger then himself. "I agree, only way to improve is to take on something challenging for yourself." He said as he stood up slowly and dusted himself off. "I accept your challenge, but we should head somewhere so we don't cause a scene here in town and when one of us, most likely me gets weakened, I don't wanna end up being inside some kid's pokeball." He said calmly, noticing some trainers were flooding into the town to heal their pokemon and buy some potions and other medicines.

Ryu watched as Valentin chose Ilex forest to be the combat area. 'Oh lord. Hopefully I wont get caught by someone from the group.' He thought as he followed him into the forest.