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Camphor's Lab[/sub][/right]

Once Chloe realized her welcoming committee consisted of nothing more than bare walls and empty halls, the click of her heels came to an abrupt stop, her free hand pressing against her hip. Really?[i] No one?[/i] Was she seriously supposed to believe that not only did they [i]not [/i]wait for her arrival, they left no one behind to look after an unlocked laboratory? Geez, their research must've not been very important. 

[color=f49ac2]"Ugh, come on Snuggles," [/color]she sighed to her still-sleeping companion,[color=f49ac2] "let's go ask the weirdos outside if— [i]HYAHH?![/i]"[/color]

At the sudden tug, Chloe spun around, eyes wide with surprise. She expected to find an assistant with no sense of self-preservation, or a runaway kid or... [i]a person[/i] in general, but what stared back at her was... a Pokémon? She blinked. The floating creature looked like a peculiar Misdreavus. Still pretty, as Misdreavus tended to be, but this one had weird, wing-like strands of hair and creepy looking eyes, mouth filled with... [i]oh.[/i]

Her eyes widened further, startlement dissolving into shock of a different kind. [color=f49ac2]"Oh my ARCEUS!"[/color] she [i]screamed[/i], so loud that even her Snubbull finally jolted awake. [color=f49ac2]"What do you think you're[i] doing?! [/i]Who told you it was okay to touch my [i]hair?![/i] Listen, I don't know who or what you think you are—"[/color]

She tried to yank the srands free and turn fully around so that she could point a lecturing finger directly between the thing's eyes.[color=f49ac2] "But just because YOUR hair looks like it's been pulled in four different directions by Tauroses doesn't give you the right to mess MINE up as well. What, did you die from [i]jealousy[/i]? Is that why you're a ghost?!"[/color] Not that she believed Pokémon were real ghosts, but that was a debate for another time.[color=f49ac2] "Now if you weren't [i]aware[/i]—"[/color]

Snuggles, having blinked away the drowsiness to quickly take in what was going on, realized her trainer wasn't going to stop her lecture in a while, and that she could probably take a second nap in that time. The Snubbull liked fighting many things, but ghost Pokémon had never been the most fun to bite, so she wiped her nose and closed her eyes, even as her trainer rambled on above.[/color]