[color=FF8103]"Tor?"[/color]

"Well, we've been here about an hour, Jen, and nothing else has shown up. Maybe it's time we round up the others and push forward to the forest. Find a nice Grass-type to join the team for a while."

[color=805817]"Trra. Kest kest!"[/color] [i]What? Am I not enough?[/i] The newer of Alix's acquisitions flicked his feather-crest as he hopped about. Alix was already beginning to interpret the action as being similar to a human raising their eyebrows.

"Oh, relax, Kestra, you're fine. You just can't handle some types that I know we'll face later down the line." Kestra didn't respond, instead picking at a small clump of grass. Alix, however, stretched and got to her feet. "Okay, team, time to go. Can't sit around on the first route forever." At her words, Jen hopped up and dashed to Alix's boot, chirruping and picking at the laces. She was a cute sight, if a bit of a menace to the knots. Alix picked up the little Fire-type, but sighed all the same.

"Jen, I'm not gonna carry you the whole time. You'll get lazy if you don't run around a bit."

[color=FF8103]"Tor torchictor?"[/color]

"I get it, we're a new partnership, but once you get to be a big strong Combusken you'll be too big to carry."

[color=FF8103]"Rrr."[/color] Jen didn't seem to care. She was making herself comfortable. Alix just ruffled her feathers with her free hand and started off, beckoning to Kestra to follow. The little bird was quick at her heels, occasionally taking flight for short distances a couple of feet above the grass. The grass soon became the road, as Alix led the way further out from the city, towards the bridges spanning the river. She spotted several of the others along the way, waving to them as she passed.

Until she crossed one of the bridges, when she heard the sounds of a battle ahead. Ato, too, was hurrying to investigate, with his Mareep in tow. Alix, the faster of the two, was the first to find Robyn standing there with her Petilil in her arms, and a stranger standing nearby with what appeared to be a Water-type Pokémon of some kind on his shoulders.

"Well then. Looks like you took care of everything," she noted with a smile.

"First battle's always one of the toughest. I'll be at the forest's edge when you guys are ready." Ato excused himself, turning back to the road. He probably just wanted to get the trip with the older Trainers over and done with, Alix mused. Either way, the point that the group should get moving remained.