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This place was both familiar and not, and that fact unsettled her. She had to deal with it, though. There was something she needed, and this was probably the easiest place to look for it. She wanted to be a Pokemon trainer more than anything, but she’d been encouraged to give breeding and coordination a try while she was here. Her training team was all set up, for the most part, so now she needed Pokemon to help with those other aspects of her studies. Right now her focus was on breeding, since her roommate would easily be able to help her if she had a question or concern and she knew a bit more about that than coordination at this point. To start with, finding a Pokemon with Flame Body would halve the time it’d take her to get her emblems, and from there she just had to collect a bunch of different species. She could go ahead and find a Flame Body Pokemon for now, and maybe a few random-species males since her team was nearly all female, and that would give her time to figure out the best contest Pokemon. Maybe by that time she’ll have inadvertently gotten a good start on that. Perhaps she could even use some of her battle team to earn her ribbons. That would save so much time and effort…

Toni shook her head. She was letting her mind wander, and that could be dangerous in an area like this. Not only that, it could make her miss out on a Pokemon. She couldn't have that!

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((Magby or Slugma?))
((+1 Sandile hatch count {4/10}))

[Kitten4u]

Behold!



Species: Magby
Gender: Female
Ability: Flame Body
~Moves~
Sunny Day
Fire Spin
Fire Blast
Clear Smog

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It didn’t take long before the very thing she’d been seeking came into view. The little Magby wandered about in front of her, and Toni sat down to watch it. Since this wouldn’t be a fighting Pokemon, she really didn’t want to battle it unless that became necessary, and she didn’t want to risk scaring it off, either. It was pretty tiny, compared to her. Maybe she should send a Pokemon out?

Yes, that might be best.

She pulled a pokeball from her bag and opened it, releasing Tourmaline. The Ralts looked from her to the Magby, seemed to study it a bit, and then walked to it. The two stared at each other warily for a couple moments, but then they started talking, and seemed to be getting along. Toni waited as patiently as she could until finally both Pokemon approached her, and she gave each a piece of fruit from her bag.

“I don’t know what you and Tourmaline talked about,” she told the Magby as the two ate, “but we’d love it if you joined us. There are more friends waiting back home, and plenty of food.”

The Magby responded to her, but all she could hear were the repeated syllables making up its name in a seemingly random order. She tried to be polite and wait for the Pokemon to finish, but she could only stay out so long before she got tired, and the little fire-type was still talking away when the empty pokeball was thrown.

Well, that had certainly been something.

The ball shook a few times and fell still. Toni retrieved it, called Tourmaline back into her own pokeball, and headed home.

Magby was caught.

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((+1 Sandile hatch count {7/10}))