[Serena Miller]

Serena really needed to get more serious about training her pokemon.  Most of them didn't listen to her, and she didn't know why.  It was frustrating.  She took really good care of them and always gave them what they wanted, so why did they seem to have so much disdain for her?  Even Natalia, who was one of her best friends, seemed annoyed when she had to battle.  She wasn't quite sure what to do to make it better, so she decided she was just going to try her best to build a better relationship with all of them, one at a time.  Both Natalia and Noelle seemed to like her at least, so the next one to focus on was Tear.  Even though Tear did seem to like the pond in the Garden of the Sun, Serena figured she might like the actual ocean even better.  So, she was heading towards Harmonia Beach.  However, the Garden of the Sun was on the way, so she decided to go through there first.  It might have been a little faster if she avoided it, but not too much, so it was okay in the end right?

((Prefer Lillipup, Teddiursa with Pickup is looking at you too))

[Bena]

Doggy Heaven



Species: Lillipup
Gender: Female
Ability: Pickip again
Moves: Baby-Doll Eyes | Bite | Take Down | Roar

[Serena Miller]

Serena wasn't exactly taking her time to go through here.  As much as she wanted to, she had places to be and she couldn't keep letting herself get distracted by this place.  It was hard, but what she lacked in confidence she had in self-control.  It didn't even take her 30 minutes to reach the edge of the garden, and she didn't get distracted at all.  There weren't any wild pokemon blocking her path or attacking her this time, which helped.  At the edge of the garden, she allowed herself to get distracted by one thing.  There was a cute little lillipup sniffing some of the flowers at the edge of the garden.  Serena definitely had to battle it, but taking a little bit of time to make new friends was never a bad thing.  ...Right?  She was at a loss about who to send out though.  She didn't think she had anyone that would be particularly effective against it, so rather than think like that she thought about which of her pokemon the lillipup would be least effective against.  There wasn't one clear choice, but there was a pretty reasonable front runner.  Hesitantly, she released Peony, who just stared at the lillipup for a moment.

"Um...why don't you try Wood Hammer?  Um...if you're okay with that."

Serena still felt a little weird telling her pokemon to use moves that would hurt them a little.  It seemed mean.  The phantump just stared at her for a moment.  Serena was always a little creeped out by Peony's empty eyed stare.  The worst part is that he seemed to know that, so he did it often.  After a moment, he stopped staring and beat his head against the wild pokemon.  It was clearly hurt, so Serena hoped that was enough.  After throwing a ball and waiting, it clicked and she did indeed have herself a new friend.  Hopefully.