Mabel eyes the incoming Murkrow and her tail got a blue glow around it. She waited until they were close enough and then rolled and turned to hit as many Murkrow as she could with her Dragon Tail. From the corner of her eyes she saw Charcoal flying with Ixia. That was a relief. 
With a few wingbeats she flew up faster than the Murkrow could follow her and she flew to Charcoal to pick him from the sky and return to the rooftop.

[i]"Where she prefers to be, somewhere high,"[/i] James replied, looking at the streetlights. [i]"I can't follow her up there, but she is closeby."[/i]
Penalopy waved to her guardian when she saw he was looking at him, seeming perfectly happy sitting there. 

Mindy looked around too, not that she knew who this friend was or what she looked like, but it was a reaction of sorts. She briefly wondered how beautiful this friend of Gavin would be. There were several people about, but no-one seemed to care about the Mime Jr. And Gavin didn't seem to react to anyone either, so the friend probably wasn't here. "We should wait until your friend comes back," she said. "I think he's a rather rare Pokémon, I would feel bad if someone would take him."

[i]"That's kind of you, miss,"[/i] James said, even though he knew Humans couldn't understand them.

Michael nodded and followed the road to the gym. "How many official gym battles have you done?" he asked as they walked. "I haven't done any, the one gym leader I faced back home was unofficial, just a friendly spar to see how strong Lytse was."
[i]"It was against ground types"[/i] Lytse sighed. [i]"But the gym leader took it easy on us, he didn't use any ground moves against me because I needed to practice my moves. His Diglett was a pain though, always hiding in the sand."[/i]
Michael laughed when Lytse recalled that. "Yes. Then he got tired of it and filled the arena with smoke. I've never seen him use smokescreen that long."

Upon the request Andy put Varina down and he looked at the Spiritomb. Something had his new Pokémon worried and he wished he could figure out what it was. The others had been a part of his team for years, decades, he knew what could upset them. But Varina, he definitely needed more time to get to know her.
Kim decided to smell the ground to see if she could find anything. When her nose touched a cold spot she recoiled. 
"Something wrong, princess?" Andy asked and walked over to see what had happened. He couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, but when Kim touched a spot on the ground with her paw, he did the same thing. "That's odd, that seems to be a bit colder than the rest of the floor." He rose to his feet again and watched Kim, who looked at him in return. 
"Varina," Andy said as he turned to his Spiritomb, "are you ready to go further?"