2nd Book Read A Accidental Video/Action for Cherrygrove Ω

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Click.

A big paw is batting at the Gear.]

Yang, stop playing with that.

[The Gear is showing the ceiling of an inn in Cherrygrove. A slender hand comes down on the camera briefly, and then the Gear is set on a table, and it shows Spencer Reid (considerably more calm now than he was on Sunday) walking back to the bed, where a very cranky Absol sits with a Munna egg wrapped in a warm towel next to him.

Also, there's half a library's worth of books piled around the room. No, seriously, if you put them all in one stack, it'd nearly be Reid's height.

Absol makes a irritable grunting noise.]

I know, I know, but we'll go out for some fresh air soon, promise. I just need to get through some more of these.

[He picks up a brick-sized book seemingly at random, sitting down on the bed with his legs crossed before placing the wrapped up egg in his lap. In retrospect, he probably shouldn't have taken one before he knew what he was doing, but he doesn't really trust the textbooks here that much and wants to make observations of development by himself.

Yes, someone has started to consider the possibility that he's not completely insane. Since he might not be insane, he wants to learn about where he is, and he wants to learn everything.

He opens up the book and started fanning through the pages, as if he were trying to find his spot, but he doesn't stop. He turns the pages so fast that he can't possibly be reading them, so it's unclear what he's doing.]

Give me half an hour. We'll go out then. And if you really want to, I guess we can go into the woods and find something for you to fight.

[...No, he still hasn't noticed that Yang turned on the Gear. People who told him this wasn't a prank should feel free to gloat and say they told him so.]

Comments

[leftinbasketforfbi]

I haven't seen Yang demonstrating any kind of new attacks. I... guess he hasn't been getting enough battles. [...And now he feels a little guilty. Whoops. He's a bad trainer. He'll make it up to you, Yang. ;.;

Hey, wait, back up--] Predicting disaster? [That doesn't sound ominous at all. Reid glances down at Yang, grimacing. Normally, he'd be skeptical, but after the last week, this seems like a very mundane thing to be skeptical of.] Is that what you're worried about?

[Yang gives him a hard stare, then shrugs his shoulders as best he can. It's not a concrete prediction, per se. He cannot say when and where it will happen like he usually can. He just knows that Reid is carrying an aura that invites evil and harm, and Yang has been around long enough to know that those auras attract disaster.

People will try to hurt his trainer. Yang isn't going to sit by and let that happen.]

[friendyousohard]

[Of course, this whole exchange between trainer and Pokemon just confounds Twilight, who doesn't have any idea what Reid means by "that", and isn't really sure what that approximation of a shrug is supposed to mean either. She glances back and forth between the two of them for a bit, just trying to think of what she should say here.]

Um... so anyway, what you should try to keep in mind is that Pokemon aren't just pets, or regular animals at all, even though they have a lot of the same characteristics. A real Pokemon and Trainer connection is one of trust and friendship, a lot closer to equals than any ordinary master and pet one.

Yang... Whether or not he's actually sensing danger, he knows as well as anyone who's spent time in Johto that this place is dangerous, and doubly so for a newcomer. And you're his trainer. He cares about you, and wants to protect you. But right now he doesn't think he can do that. It's up to you to make sure he gets the chance to grow and strengthen into the kind of Pokemon he wants to be, the kind that can take care of you while you're in this kind of world.

[She's not quite sure how accurate her speaking for Yang is, but having spent as much time in Johto and around Pokemon in general as she has by now, she's willing to bet that it's pretty close.]

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Well, by 'that', Reid just means disaster in general. It seems to follow him around.

Reid turns his attention back to Twilight, though he seems a little concerned now. He's really hoping his terrible luck hasn't followed him here, but it probably has and he'll probably end up getting attacked by a serial killer or something. That just seems to be a constant in life.

Yang turns to look at Twilight and nods. Yeah, she's close enough.]

Well... You know, normally, I'd say that I could take care of myself, but this place sort of took my gun away... [Which is a problem. Reid looks back at Yang, frowning. He doesn't really like the idea of depending on another creature for protection, to be honest, but what else can he do in this case? He doesn't have a gun, and he has no legal means of getting one.] Twilight, are all Pokemon as intelligent as Yang is? I don't know about your world, but in mine, animals can take weeks to learn how to follow basic commands, and that's after domesticating them over generations.