Birds of a Feather
Oh look! They’re finally meeting properly! Well how about that.
I chose Jayden’s name without considering Jay’s bc by this point I mostly thought of her as Blue oops
Everyone gets a laugh out of it, it’s fine.
Oh, and since this is the first instance of a pokemon doing thought speech - I use <> to say they’re just speaking to one person, and {} when they’re speaking to all.
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The sudden silence after the wind is almost deafening, but it means I hear something hit the ground. Something that screeches in what sounds like pain. It might be a challenge, but that didn’t... sound threatening enough for that.
I jerk to my feet, glancing for Brith and Pie. “Can you-”
<A male and a bird> Pie closes her eyes. <I do not think they are a threat>
As I stand, the two of them do as well. It’s not that they think I’ll be in danger, but maybe it’s a trainer looking for a battle.
“Hello?” he calls out as I reach the top of the steps, Brith in front of me. “Can you – oh!”
Gar’aq dives in from over the sea, screeching a warning.
“Gar’aq!” I yell, following it with a sharp whistle.
He pulls back, circling away.
“Sorry.” I glance at Gar’aq to make sure he’s keeping back.
“It’s alright, he’s just protecting the nest, right?” The man has flight goggles perched on his forehead and his hair is wild with the wind. He’s wearing a quilted jacket and thick, falconer’s gloves, so clearly some kind of bird trainer. Probably not too hard for Ray and Glace, then. Or Gar’aq, if he feels like listening.
He looks familiar. Like an ‘I’ve-seen-you-a-couple-times-before' sort of... totally can’t remember.
“Have we met?” He studies my pokemon. “I... feel like I recognise them.”
“Maybe?” I shrug. “Are... you here for a battle?”
“Not unless I absolutely have to.”
I relax my guard. “Nah that’s cool. People don’t normally land here otherwise is all.”
“It was an accident, the wind...” He glances back to the huge bedraggled braviary behind him. “We thought we could outrun it.”
"I didn’t think even Suicune could outrun that one.”
He smiles. “We’d say Tornadus was travelling and didn’t want to be disturbed.”
Unovan, then, as if the accent didn’t give him away.
“Where are we?”
“North of Fiore,” I reply. “No man’s land.”
“It’s yours, then?” He smiles. “Do I have to pay a toll?”
“Nah, it’s fine.” I snort and wave my team away. They’d gathered, apparently expecting our usual activity.
He smiles. “I don’t suppose you have somewhere I can stay for a while? At least until Sayri – my braviary – is rested enough to continue.”
“Sure.” I beckon him to follow me back down the steps. “They aren’t too slippy.”
Vulp raced up and down them often enough to dry off any rain that did fall on them.
“Oh!”
“What?” I twist to look up at him, worried he might have fallen.
He’s staring down at my ship. “That’s where I’ve seen you before. Castelia.”
“Uhhhh.” I shrug and enter the cave.
Soise darts back from the fire, taking up residence in the shadows near the back.
“You were taking a shipment of... bugs? Burgh was coming off your ship.”
“Oh! Oh, right. Yeah, the larvesta.” I don’t say that I remember him as a potential threat to Sesser. That would be rude. “Sorry.”
“It’s been a while.” He shrugs easily.
We fall silent as he settles by the fire.
Brith sits in the entrance of the cave, Pie beside her.
<Manners, Blue>
I try not to jump as Pie nudges my thoughts. “Do you want anything to drink? I... might have tea or coffee lying around. Diluting juice and hot chocolate and water is a definite though.”
He tilts his head, considering that. “Just some water, if that’s alright.”
“Perfectly." I grab a cup on my way to the cold cellar at the back of the cave. “Anything for your bird?”
“Nothing at the moment,” he replies. “She'll find what she needs up in the trees.”
I nod, crouching down as the ceiling dips, to where the spring runs clear.
“Do you... live here?”
“Sort of?” I offer him the cup as I come back. “The ship, that’s my real home. I come here to clear my head.”
“And attack any trainers that come crashing in.” He smiles over the cup, taking a drink.
I shrug. “As it goes.”
“So, if you’re being hunted down because you’re that good a trainer... I might know your name?”
Pie snorts.
I throw a glare her way. “Jay. The NightGale. Occasionally Blue.”
He crooks a smile, letting out a small huffing laugh. “I’m Jayden.”
Pie snorts again, and I can hear Soise cackling. Even Brith is hiding a smile, looking out to the sea.
“I’m sorry, my pokemon are terrible.” I’d throw something at them, but I don’t have anything close to hand.
“It’s quite the coincidence.”
I narrow my eyes at him. “If you’re going to start laughing, I can still throw you off the cliff.” It’s not like we could help our names.
“And Sayri is in no fit state to catch me,” he replies. “So I won’t.”
“Thanks.”
Soise’s still laughing, but at least she’s quieter now.
I feel like there should be conversation. What the heck do we talk about. Like... what can I-
<Where was he going, Blue> Pie prompts. <Must I do everything for you?>
I blink. “Where were you running?”
“I’m sorry?”
“Before the wind dropped you. What was your heading?” Most people aren’t running, I remind myself. They just have places to get to, not things to get away from.
“Oh - Sinnoh.” He smiles now, understanding that. It’s not his crooked smile, but a more genuine one.
I think I prefer the crooked one.
I shake my head to get rid of that thought (it’s unnecessary and I don’t like it) and chance upon a new one. “If you’d like to rest your bird some more, I can give you a lift that way.”
“Are you sure?” He blinks.
I snort. “I don’t exactly have a plan for where I go.”
“That’s mighty kind of you.”
I shrug. “There’s space enough, and Brith’s all-star-snark gets tiring sometimes.”
“Well, if you can’t keep up.” Brith grins.
Jayden doesn’t quite startle at that, but I think he’s surprised. Not many people meet talking pokémon.
“So yeah, if you reckon you can keep with that,” I say, shooting Brith an amused look, “Then you’re good to come with us.”
“I don’t want to... cut your time short here?”
I tilt my head, make a decision. “Nah, we’re good.” I stand, rolling my shoulders. “I’m almost out of like... pastry or something.”
“Pastry.” Jayden stands, too, his eyebrows slightly raised.
“It’s important.” I clap my hands against my legs to brush them off.
Brith gets to her feet, going to call the pack.
“Which port is best for you?”
He shrugs. “Suny... shore?”
I nod. “That’ll work. Good tourist port.”
“Oh, I’m looking for birds, for different flying types. I study them, to help my sister expand her fighting style and team, introduce new pokemon to the roster."
"Your sister trains flying types as well?" Talk about keeping it in the family.
"She's the gym leader."
I close my eyes to run through them. "Skyla. Mistralton."
"That was..."
"You're Unovan, I've barrelled through them all." I shrug. "I don't remember you in the gym, though."
<Oh, you would have remembered him?>
I throw a handful of pocket rubbish at Pie. Scraps of paper, a pen. Ticket stubs.
Jayden raises his eyebrows. "I'm... not a trainer. Not like that, anyway. I research, I don't... battle."
"That's fair." I let out a sigh. Definitely not going to be challenged by this one, then. I couldn't always tell. Some of them liked a bit of a chat first, as if I might let slip some big battling secret that they could then use against me.
Morons.
"But you do, right? That's what you were expecting?" He ran a hand through his hair. "Do people... really look you out for battles?"
"Yeah, I'm like... like Red. Except Blue."
"You should make a club."
"Soise's been telling her that, too." Brith appears in the entrance of the cave.
He jumps as Brith speaks again.
"I've never met the guy, but when I do," I say, grinning. "Is that everyone alert?"
Brith nods, the pack slipping past her and down the steps. "The wind isn't quite in the right quarter, but we can just about set. The tide's on the turn, though, so we'll want to make it quick."
I nod. "Thanks. If you want to get your pokemon and meet us on the deck...?" I gesture for him to head out first. "Pie, I assume-"
<I will stay here> She inclines her head. <And if anyone comes calling, I'll tell them you're out>
"Thanks." I swing my small pack onto my shoulder.
Jayden ducks out and heads up.
I punch Brith in the shoulder as I pass her
"I didn't say anything."
"Continue that way," I reply, as Sesser lands on my shoulder. "It's unnecessary."
"Words are irrelevant," Brith says, which is... sort of an agreement.
The ship is tugging at her headrope already, the sails unfurled but flapping loose against the masts.
Sharranth bursts from the sea and glides alongside the ship for half its length before disappearing under again.
"How can I pay you for this?" Jayden's caught up more quickly than I'd expected.
I jump, but cover it (I think) in the swell of the ship under us. "It's fine. Uh - fourth cabin down. Is free, I think?"
"I'll show you," Brith says, gesturing for him to follow.
"You'll cast off," I tell her. "They're not hard to find."
"No - Jay, really, I can't freeload."
I tilt my head, hand on the railing up to the bridge. "Alright. How much Unovan folklore do you know?"
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