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There were lots of people around the stalls, some looking at all the cute pokemon plushies, others talking to each others and even more showing off their pokemon, weather it be how beautiful it was or how strong it happened to be. And some were even trading pokemon cards.

poke had managed to find herself in the pokemon battling arena, having wanted to fight some new trainers for ages. This proved to be the perfect opportunity.

"Jupiter, use Aqua jet on that slugma! Swift you use Fury attack on the butterfree" poke called in a loud voice. Her buizel jumped forwards in a jet of water towards her opponent and, in one swift motion had KO'ed the pokemon. Her swablu however, was having a little more trouble with the butterfree as it dodged her attack and used sleep powder. Her swablu fluttered to the ground and was now sound asleep. "Dam.." she muttered. No matter, Jupiter would be able to help out soon

Aria was excited. A Pokémon convention? Weeell! This was all new to her! She looked around, eagerly, Darkstar following next to her, and Mileta in her arms. Bella was bouncing at her feet, almost tripping her but not quite. "What should we do first, guys?" Aria asked as she took in the many many people, all the exciting stalls, and more. She wondered who she'd meet.

"Let's see if there's anyone selling snack, hmmmm? I'm hungry..." Rumbled Darkstar, his eyes darting about as he took in deep breaths, hoping to find the scent of a food stall. In fact, his belly growled, showing he was serious. "Snacks are always welcome."

"Hah! You always want snacks, Darkstar!" Came the cheerful voice of the plusle darting around the large Typhlosion' feet. "It's a good thing you walk so much or you'd be as plump as a Snorlax!" The pink tail tip flickered around as she darted out of the way of a gentle kick from the larger pokémon.

With Gouku a little calmer now that he had his balloon, Blade took a better look around the convention before snagging one of the papers that had the map and whatnot on it. As he walked around with his pokemon, he heard a familiar voice shouting out an attack.

Turning about, he spotted Poke duking it out with another trainer. He noticed a few others as well, but he didn't recognize who they were.

"Hey Poke," he said as he came up, grinning weakly, "Nice win there."

Blade raised an eyebrow at the offer. It had been quite awhile since he's actually been in a battle that didn't involve him nearly getting killed, captured, or anything else that would cause him serious harm. It might be nice to have a friendly 'spar' more or less for once.

"Sure, I'll take you on," he said with a grin, "How about we use three pokemon each?"

A short distance away from all the hustle and bustle, one trainer was taking time away from it all in order to take everything in without being overwhelmed by it all.

Okay, so she was hungry and enjoying a pretzel. Same thing.

Battles and stands and food and games...good lord, there was so much to do here, there was no way any one person could possibly take part in everything! Didn't stop her from trying though. With a smile and a sigh, Tei leaned back against the bench, still happily chewing on the soft pretzel while contemplating her next move.

Or she would have been, if not for a distracting pair of dark eyes attempting to stare into her soul. Glancing downward, she rolled her eyes at her newest friend's attempt at deception. "Cut the cutesy eyes, Samantha. You are so not starving and we both know it."

Rather than 'cutting the act', the Vulpix blinked a few times, seeming to pout and pouring all she had into the the distraction ploy...she knew the human wasn't going to fall for the 'cute act'...and that wasn't the point.

Tei snickered a bit, shaking her head. "I'll give you points for effort, Sam, but it's not going to wo-- HEY!"

In a flash, a monochromatic blur had snatched the pretzel from the distracted human's hand and fled. Breaking from her act, Samantha dashed after Warren with a snicker, quickly following the Growlithe into the bushes beneath a tree to share their ill-gotten snack while the irritated trainer proceeded to smack herself in the forehead for falling for such an obvious trick.

"Oh, heck with it..." she muttered, standing and stalking off to buy another pretzel.

"Kick Poke's a**, Blade!" called a feminine voice from the sidelines. Riyo was sitting at one of the tables nearby with a drink from the food stand close by. She wore a plain red shirt, a fedora, and plain jeans. It seemed like her clothing continued to downgrade every time she was spotted. Ri-chan sat across from her abnormally normal trainer, watching with little interest towards them and more toward her own drink that was in the chair beside her.

Meanwhile, close by the entrance, a small squeal could be heard from just inside the convention. "Oh boy!" came the booming voice of a child. A small girl with a lime green dress, bright blonde hair, and a plusle at her side looked around at all the trainers with endearment smeared on her face. This! She wanted to be like these people! "C'mon Ace! Lets go watch how other trainers do stuff~" She wouldn't admit that these were older, more experienced trainers. She didn't think of herself as little... Just metrically challenged.

The small pokemon followed her with the same childish aura she had surrounding her, looking for any trouble they could possibly get in.