Dual Pokemon Quest

[Blacksheep]

Jaden wasn't someone to be easily frightened. He dealt with the world's biggest xatu! He had helped build a new island! And he had fought off a wild gyarados! The trainer went right back to the beach to celebrate their success with everyone. Zahra was more than happy to twist along the beach and claim it as hers. She was quieter with her roars, but still looked deeply satisfied with herself. Oliver almost immediately started digging a hole to roll around in, and Uri persuaded Roni to help in turning the dug up sand into a fortress to enjoy. Sam would be joining in, if he wasn't so very busy playing games of chase with Jaden. Jaden may not have the speed of a pokemon, but his reflexes were certainly sharp enough to make getting him a challenge!

Uri slowly dragged everyone into building the fortress. Even Zahra helped, though she also knocked down part of it for fun. When they finally left the beach Zahra and Roni were the only ones who weren't completely coated in sand. Getting it out of Oliver's fur would take true work.

After somewhat washing up Jaden went to watch a gym battle. It was lucky that Brawly was so open about his gym battles, there was enough space for Zahra to join everyone spectating. The challenger was going for his third badge, and had a solid team of mid evolutions. The real trick would be countering the weight Brawly's pokemon could throw around and getting out of the holds they could lock a pokemon in. Jaden was more than happy to bet that the dodrio would be the star of the battle, while Uri countered that Brawly looked likely to pull in a win with the trainer's nerves.

Jaden cheered extra loud when his bet came through. Sam huffed, puffs of smoke coming off him from his excitement. It had been a sharp battle. The trainer had clearly been anxious at points, but they'd pulled through despite that and brought in a win. Jaden would be getting everyone sushi tonight.

[ ]Visit the pokemon fan club and figure out what people do there
[ ]Visit the pokemon gym
-[ ]Challenge the gym!
-[ ]Take a martial arts class
-[ ]Take a class on Fighting type pokemon
[ ]Shop at the poke mart
[ ]Hang out at the beach
[ ]Practice psychic abilities

[ ]Train Sam
[ ]Train Oliver
[ ]Train Uri
[ ]Train Zahra
[ ]Train the entire pokemon team
[ ]Play with pokemon
[ ]One on one with Sam
[ ]One on one with Oliver
[ ]One on one with Uri
[ ]One on one with Zahra
[ ]Write-in

 

[Blacksheep]

Lee reached out and did his best to try and sense the power levels of the pokemon in the area. The abras abruptly vanished, and some of the other pokemon withdrew as well. It didn't clear up the psychic presence he was sensing, but Lee was starting to think he truly was simply sensing the intense concentration of psychic pokemon in the area. He could sense a powerful pokemon further into the area. The true problem was the intensity of psychic energy wasn't something he could read with ease. It wasn't aura, and that made it tricky. What he was sensing was too spread over the area, not contained to a single pokemon.

Lee shifted his attention to what Kai was doing. "What are you looking at with Gazer and the natu?"

"Look at how Gazer's responding." Kai gestured at his slowpoke. Sure enough, the slowpoke was at her most animated level of expression they'd ever seen from her. "Something about how the natu is communicating to her is getting through to her at a much faster speed than regular stimuli. I suspect that they are communicating on a psychic level that's allowing the natu to bypass Gazer's usual difficulties. Do you think this is an instinctive response, for the natu to be reaching out psychically? Or more of an active choice? Are psychic responses automatically encoded into what the natu says, and the majority simply aren't picking it up?"

[ ]Write-in

 

[Space Jawa]

While Lee still felt a sense of unease about the psychic aura, it was far easier to ignore now that he had very good reason to believe that it was most likely just a result the high concentration of Psychic Pokemon. Unless something gave him reason to do otherwise, he attempted to look past and otherwise ignore the aura.

Which in turn made it far easier to focus on Kai and what he was doing.

"Well, maybe that's something you could try researching." Lee suggested in response to Kai's questions.

[X] Suggest that Kai consider seeing if one of the Natu wants to come with him and Gazer.

 

[Tascion]

[x]Practice psychic abilities
-[x]Playing on the beach was fun. Spend a day goofing off. Well, get some practice in too. This time, practice pushing sand around psychically
-[x]Try to find Zahra while she's underwater and swimming about
-[x]Try to shape sand for Sam to try and carefully melt into glass. Try to make a glass key for Roni
-[x]Try hiding a shell or other little treasure under the sand for Oliver to chase and find. Maybe that'll be too hard to push something through the sand. If that's the case, Uri can try hiding something while Jaden tries to figure out where it is and guide Oliver to it.
-[x]Practice psychically communicating with Roni, perhaps do a easy-going battle in which Jaden works with Roni and Uri helps Oliver. Sam and Zahara can be mildly disruptive gremlins by creating environmental hazards of fire and water.

 

[Blacksheep]

"It's something to focus on," Kai agreed. He thought for a while longer before tossing out a pokeball and offering it to the natu.

The natu promptly flew off, crushing Kai's spirits. Thankfully he barely had time to hug his slowpoke for comfort before it flew back with another natu. Kai perked up, and quickly caught the new one. "Yes!" He released it back out, and watched as the two natus and Gazer continued to commune. He once more began to jot down notes. "I can't wait until I can start asking them directly."

[ ]Write-in

 

[Blacksheep]

Jaden decided to spend some time working on his psychic abilities. He knew there was plenty he could do with them. There was the constant link he had with Sam that let his charmander follow him into dreams and shield him from all the noise that had given him headaches when younger, and the ability to understand what his other pokemon wanted. He knew that wasn't all he could do either. Just look at Uri and everything he could accomplish!

So off they went to the beach again, this time Jaden focused on trying some new things out with his abilities. He knew he could do them, he just had to try! First, he warmed up by tracking Zahra as she swam around. He could get a vague sense of the ocean as she swam through it by linking up with her. It was cool, if not something he could make particularly a lot of sense out of yet. Then he practiced directing Roni psychically in a battle. The klefki was delighted by this new game, especially with the disruptions from Sam in bursts of flame and Zahra in waves of water that challenged their focus. Roni's connection with Jaden was still the weakest of the group, but that would change with time.

Then Jaden had the entire team working together with him on making a new sand castle, even bigger and better than the last one! Except Jaden had to try and use his psychic abilities to move what he wanted to. He ended up doing far less work in making the castle than he'd expected to, half exhausting himself as he worked. It turned out moving sand around and holding it in place was more tricky than Uri made it look.

Jaden's idea to have Sam make flames hot enough to make glass also fell short. Sam was more than enthusiastic about it, and his flames were getting hotter and stronger, but he was only able to get up to a bright orange, and not the white hot they needed. Perhaps buying something from the store, or actual craft tools, would be better for making keys with.

[ ]Visit the pokemon fan club and figure out what people do there
[ ]Visit the pokemon gym
-[ ]Challenge the gym!
-[ ]Take a martial arts class
-[ ]Take a class on Fighting type pokemon
[ ]Shop at the poke mart
[ ]Hang out at the beach
[ ]Practice psychic abilities

[ ]Train Sam
[ ]Train Oliver
[ ]Train Uri
[ ]Train Zahra
[ ]Train the entire pokemon team
[ ]Play with pokemon
[ ]One on one with Sam
[ ]One on one with Oliver
[ ]One on one with Uri
[ ]One on one with Zahra
[ ]Write-in

 

[Space Jawa]

[X] When people are finished in the Psychic area, move on to one of the other zones.

 

[Blacksheep]

The group started heading towards the water zone in the Safari. Kate glanced at Lee as they went. "So how do you talk with your pokemon? Just normal figuring out body language? Or anything extra? I'm not lucky enough to have any psychic links with my babies."

"You manage to understand them just fine without it," Jasper pointed out mildly.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I don't want something deeper!"

"Could we survive that?"

[ ]Write-in