Zandrophin's Arrival

The sun was out which meant the trade port would be busy today. Akane's work load was surprisingly light today, but after a week long mound of work she had to sift through, she deserved a break. She knew she didn't have much of a break so she couldn't wander too far, she would go see one of her favorite sights. Her guards at the gate offered her a rapidash to ride out there, but only royalty and military rode them around in her kingdom. Not that it was illegal to, just a common quirk of her cities.

She always loved the beach. The sand rubbed off excess skin on her feet, making them soft. She noticed slowpokes and slowbros, kinglers and krabbys, sheldur and squirtles all roaming the human beaches. She watched as people played with them. It was always funny to her to see that on just the other side of the tiny peninsula was half of her kingdom's warships and trade ships. She laughed at the thought of anyone attacking her people.

Akane hated people, but she never knew why she was so protective of her kingdom's people. She always did what was right for them, even at the expense of herself. She ran her fingers over the wooden sign that told anyone who bothered to read it that this was the port of Pyron City, a city, like all her other ones, whose name happened to mean fire in some language or another. She laughed to herself when she saw AKA The Red Lady etched on the sign. That's new.



Her simple dress and braided mane of hair allowed, her to blend into the crowds. She had removed her crown for fear of losing it, and because this is the best way to get to know her people. She had noticed before they certainly flocked to the beaches on their days off, and therefore she devoted more land to human/pokemon beaches. She wondered if any discoveries like that would be made again today. She wandered away from the sign and noticed a man with a sleeping abra around his neck like a scarf.

"A little hot for a scarf, isn't it?" She chuckled, her emotions were pleasantly subdued besides her general happiness. She noticed him going down the beach towards the center of the port, just like she was. She just hoped she wasn't bothering the probably busy man.

The man didn't seem to notice her presence, but his abra certainly did. The man didn't change his pace, but Akane did. She was walking on her toes, now she was gliding across the sand; on her toes, her foot took most of the shock from walking on such a hard surface. Nobody can sneak up on an abra. She approached the man's side and looked up at him with her today sea-green eyes.

"My, what a cute abra you've got there. I've never seen an abra so loyal to a trainer before. You must be close." She smiled sweetly, not meaning to bother him if he was busy.

"We are. What's it to you? Forget that question....where can I find Lady Akane of the Red? I can gather from your complexion and your dress that you are from Celosia, though not originally. Perhaps you can assist me in finding her."

She smiled sweetly again. His gruff exterior was a little off-putting, but Akane had dealt with many people like that over her years. "Wow, you sure did guess right!" She giggled. "I'm originally from Hoenn. Little town called Fortee if you have any idea about where that is." She intentionally dodged his question for the time-being. She wanted to get just a little bit closer to him. She didn't really understand why, but something about closed doors always made Akane want to open them, even a little.

Nobody lives anywhere else in Asemon really. But he's too pale to be anywhere except from the north and that placed has been uninhabitable for years. He must be from the mainland.

"I'm going to offer a guess you're from the mainland?" She figured even if he didn't respond, his body language would give some subtle hint she was right. "The beach sure is nice this time of year. Hot." She let the sun's ray dance across her somewhat pale skin. Royalty doesn't get out as much, I shine through anywhere foreigners aren't common.

Enough games. He will get annoyed and ask someone else.She looked him over again. He was trying hard to conceal everything from her. Okay, maybe one more little game. "If you're looking for the Red Lady, she's in Ignacian Palace, over in Ignacia. It's up north a little ways, on the other side of the bay. You can't miss it. Takes only an hour or so walking wise. Ten minutes on running, flying, or surfing pokemon." She giggled.

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I made your color shamrock green ^-^ I hope you don't mind.

The blonde haired man acknowledged her comment and began walking away. Akane quickly caught up to him again.

"I'm going there too. Mind if I join you?" She trotted alongside the fast-paced walking man. "It might work in your favor to have someone who knows how to get there." The duo passed a well marked sign to indicated exactly where they were and exactly where they could go. She laughed awkwardly "Well I guess this place is marked up fairly well." She continued to follow him.

"I'm surprised you're not using your abra to teleport you there." She loved the mystical powers of psychic pokemon. "So why don't you? Can he teleport numerous people?" She hoped her barrage of questions about his pokemon weren't too intrusive.

She looked as though she was stunned. When he turned away, her smile she was holding back could be held back no more. But he never saw it. She turned to look at her pokeballs around her tiny waist.

"At least hes polite to my civilians." She paused imagining what her pokemon would say if they could. "He can stay." She mused. After he was long out of sight, one of the civilians who did recognize her asked her about her day and what was she doing among the people.