[center][color=#d3381c][h3]~Claire Blackwood~[/h3][/color][/center]

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Claire's stop at home took barely ten minutes. In her usual fashion of trying to do everything at once, she barely took the time to say hi when she arrived. She showed Ralia to her dad, said goodbye to his Hawlucha and Medicham one last time and gave Ralia a brief tour of her room and then left. She honestly had hoped Erika would be able to keep up with her, but that was absurd wasn't it? Most people tended not to be able to keep up with her...of course it wouldn't particularly be any different. Well, it was the same old same old then. Claire left the apartment building, making a light jog towards Route 2. Ralia was sitting on her shoulder, arms wrapped lightly around her neck for stability so she wouldn't fall off.

Within minutes, she had arrived at the edge of Pureplain. She stood at the edge of the city and looking over the route. This was it, wasn't it? She was finally going to be able to go on a pokemon journey. Granted, she wasn't all that interested in doing the collection thing the professor wanted - she was more into battles and contests. She'd need some good teammates for both of those though, and she already had one...so catching a few more would be a must. The infested woods would definitely have something she liked...a bug type of some sort perhaps, or a grass type maybe.

[color=#d3381c]"Argh!"[/color] She shouted, rather comically throwing her arms to the sky. [color=#d3381c]"Alright, let's go Ralia! I'm not gonna wait around here for those other slowpokes!"[/color] With a quick pace, she took her first step out onto Route 2, quickly heading for the infested woods. She wished nothing would get in her way, but she'd just deal with it if it did.

[color=#d3381c]"Huh...maybe I should get a bike."[/color]