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[sealcdheart]

@snippyrocket​ - Found an Ex-Thief!

   Ilex Forest was bigger than he thought it was, but then given the name forest he should have perhaps not underestimated the depth of such a place. Cole had been warned before he even enter the forest by some crazy old woman carrying a basket of berries around about the “Voice of the Forest”. She told him that people tended to get lost inside the woods and never return, he almost wanted to ask someone else if she had a particularly illness that made her--sound fairly crazy but he hadn’t wanted to waste his time. 

   He knew from the old man in Agate Village that Ilex Forest was the true home of Celebi, who he assumed was the crazy womans Voice of the Forest. Johto also happened to be home to the legendary beasts Pokemon, Lugia and Ho-Oh, Pokemon he was vary familiar with after the Shadow Pokemon incident in Orre. He hadn’t hoped to get many answers in Johto about where Cipher had gone, though he had found trails of them that were left before the events in Orre, which was telling enough. After all, those legendary Pokemon had been taken from here. All Cole wanted from Johto was to leave an offering for Celebi.

   First he had to navigate these damn woods.

   ❝ Did you find anything? ❞   His attention diverted from the trees to the ground where Umbreon sat down a by his feet. They shook their head in reply and Cole flicked his gaze back up to the forest. He was tempted to start leaving markers in the trees but something about this forest seemed to turn you around easily. About to head forward, deeper into the woods once more, he paused when the sound of a branch snapping caught his attention. Umbreon leapt to his feet and Cole glanced over his shoulder. 

[sealcdheart]

@steelloved​ - Welcome to Orre.

   It wasn’t unusual that people got lost in the desert, Cole had passed by several people usually daily that were lost in the desert and needed just a little suggestion. It was, however, unusual to zoom by the ruins and see someone standing there admiring the stone. Stone was stone, very few people took interest in the ruins of the Orre region and one of those people were him. He had tried to understand the complicated history of the Orre region because there was a lot to it that was seemingly connected to Celebi, a friend of his, and then time which he wondered if it hinted at a governing Pokemon in the Sinnoh Region. Sinnoh technically wasn’t that far it could be possible he just had no further evidence than his ideas.

   He pulled his bike over toward the pillars and stopped a bit away from the stranger. He climbed off of his bike, tapped the cart connected to it and motioned for Umbreon and Espeon to stay put. Reaching up he slid his goggles over top of his head and took in the man still absorbed in the stone work of the ruins. They looked the same as the last time he was here, perhaps a bit more worn down from the sandstorms that ragged around here. Most of it was still there, what could be considered as most to hundreds of year old ruins. 

   Reaching the mans side Cole folded his arms over his chest and looked the stranger over. His skin was slightly pink, perhaps sunburned from standing here for prolonged amounts of time.   ❝ Are you lost? ❞

[sealcdheart]

@kibanafuji​ - Welcome to Orre.

  He wasn’t lost, no, this place was just so much larger than the Orre Region that he took one turn and ended up disoriented. Umbreon and Espeon were enjoying it, that much was for sure, especially when some woman stopped him and put a little top had on top of Umbreon’s head and a bow on Espeon’s tail. He thought it looked gaudy but he couldn’t bring himself to pull them off when his partners looked so happy. If someone did this in Orre they’d no doubt find a fist shoved into their face. Actually, a lot of what these idiots did would get them punched back in his home town. This place was so baffling. 

   He finally found himself back to somewhere more familiar, he was sure he knew where the exit to this town was, but someone chatting non-stop drew his attention away from the stairs. The stranger was tall, definitely taller than him if he got closer, and he was waving his phone around like a maniac talking to himself. Ah, he finally found the Sociopaths of the Galar Region. Umbreon, the more curious of the two, took a few steps forward toward the stranger and Cole twisted to try and see what caught her attention. It took a bit, some curious watching, and then he took a closer look at the phone. The box thing in the Pokemon Center was a Pokemon--were their phones Pokemon too? 

   ❝ Umbreon. ❞   He didn’t pause and Cole sighed.   ❝ Leave the man alone. ❞

[sealcdheart]

@pinkrival​ - welcome to Orre.

    It was so unsightly, incredibly bright and painful to look at. Cole tried so hard to not stare but he was sure the carefully crafted mask of indifference he wore cracked even just the slightest bit. He could feel his eye twitch, Umbreon bite onto his pant leg and pull. He should really keep his mouth shut, he really should, and yet the words that bubbled on the tip of his tongue fell right out. 

   ❝What’s with the pink?❞