Of Quiet Things (Open/Mod)

[Maid Melody]

Elayne looked over at Jay with a surprise as he turned a bright red after announcing that he wanted to be a poke-doctor.
"That's great, I think Era is in need of kind-hearted doctors like yourself...it seems this world is getting more and more chaotic and there is nothing we can do about it but try and make a change where we are..." she said in a kind voice, looking down at Elly before continuing,"I want to be a pokemon breeder...unfortunately my parents didn't share the same enthusiasm I had...I want to prove them wrong, that being a pokemon breeder is a worthwhile job.."

Elly purred comfortingly and rubbed her head against Elayne, knowing exactly what she meant. The espeon shared Elayne's enthusiasm for her becoming a breeder; Elayne was good at what she did, and Elly knew it, even though Elayne's parents were blind to that very fact.

[Jay]

"That's cool," Jayme answered back with a light smile on his face. "Being a Joy, my family was ok for me to go after being a poke-doctor. My mom is a Nurse Joy, and she's showed me a lot about taking care of pokemon." After a moment, a thought hit him. "You said you were looking for a Shuckle right?" Taking out a pokeball, he released his recently caught Shuckle who looked around rather surprised for a moment before smiling lightly at the pink haired boy. "This is Setsuo," Jayme smiled happily.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne looked at the shuckle with a smile on her face and knelt beside it.
"Hello Setsuo, you sure are a handsome shuckle." she said in a kind voice as she reached out to gently rub the shuckle's head.

Elly eyed the shuckle curiously before hopping down beside it.
"My name is Elly, nice to meet you Setsuo." she said in a kind voice, bowing slightly in greeting to the shuckle.

[Jay]

The Shuckle appeared to appreciate the petting and nodded to himself with an easy smile. "Shuckle shuck," he said aloud in the words of 'hello' and 'nice to meet you'. He was happy to receive attention and was ready for it at any time. Jayme smiled happily and put his hands behind his head. "I actually caught Setsuo here at the zoo yesterday," the pink haired boy smiled lightly. "I want to try making herbs and things with the help of Set..."

[Maid Melody]

Elayne looked up at Jay and smiled, nodding.
"I know how to find herbs and berries pretty easily, I could actually give you some pointers if you wanted me to. What do you say to that Setsuo, do you want to help us look for berries and herbs?"she asked in a kind voice, looking back at the shuckle before pulling some common berries and herbs out of her bag.
"I think there are some of these nearby, can you help us find some?" she asked the shuckle in a kind voice before turning to Jay,"I'm getting low on my supply anyway so now would be a great time to show you how to find some, if you don't mind that is..."

Elly smiled at the shuckle and stretched before turning back to look at Jay with a content expression on her face, there was no danger at the moment so she might as well relax.

[Jay]

"R-r-really?" Jayme asked all but with stars in his eyes. "That would be amazing!" he said grinning a huge grin before putting his hands together and addressing his Shuckle. "Hey Setsuo! Let's try and make some medicine! You can have berries too!" The pink haired boy was more than ecstatic to get more pointers on potions and things. The Shuckle appeared rather surprised for a moment before finally smiling and nodding his head.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne smiled at Jay's excitement and led the way into the forest where they could search for berries and herbs.
"Now, different berries prefer different types of soil. Since this is a lush forest, berries that prefer dry soil won't be found here. Over here is an herb that you can use as a pain reliever, very useful when it's a minor injury..." she said in a kind, informative voice as she pointed out different herbs and berries that could be used as medicine, putting the herbs in small bags as she came across them for future use.

Elly walked beside Elayne, helping her find the herbs that she so often used to help her team. The espeon knew Elayne was enjoying teaching another person who was excited in what she knew, it wasn't very often that Elly saw her trainer as happy as she was now.

[Jay]

Jayme nodded as he took in the information quickly and easily. He picked different herbs and different berries recognizing a few and realizing how really limited he was in knowing what to use. He had always seen his mother use expensive techniques, but these appeared to be more natural methods to healing pokemon, and the pink haired boy was enjoying learning such techniques immensely. "So how did you learn all about these?" he asked holding up a few of the herbs.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne stopped explaining when Jay asked the question and blushed, looking down at the ground for a moment before looking back at Jay.
"I spent quite a lot of time in the library, devouring any books I could on the subject. I even have a sketchbook with what the berries and herbs look like as well as their uses," she said in a kind voice, pulling out her sketchbook to show Jay what she was talking about,"I spent a lot of time outside familiarizing myself with the herbs and berries and even committed the books on herbs and berries to memory. I still have a lot to learn, but I do what I can with what I know. Being a pokemon breeder isn't all about herbs and berries, but it does help when you spend as much time outside as I do."

Elly had just found a rare berry a few branches above and had jumped to the branch where the berry was, snapping the branch off of the tree and showing setsuo the berries proudly as she trotted over to Elayne.

Elayne's eyes grew wide when she spotted the branch Elly was holding and immediately bent to examine the espeon's find.
"These are...lum berries! Elly, where did you find these!" she said in an excited voice before looking up at Jay,"Lum berries can heal any status ailment a pokemon has, but they are extremely rare to find, especially in the wild like this. More often than not I'm forced to buy them from a shop because of this."
Taking the branch out of Elly's mouth, Elayne carefully picked the berries off of the branch and placed them in a bag.
"I can show you how to grind these into a powder to make it easier to carry, but we'll need Setsuo for that." she said in a kind voice before looking back down at Elly, waiting for her to show them the way to the berries she'd found.

Elly purred happily at Elayne's reaction, trotted back over to the tree, and looked up.
"The berries are up there, but it'd be better if a pokemon got them, they're pretty high up..." she said in a kind voice, looking at Jay and Elayne.

Elayne nodded and looked up at the tree, studying it to try and figure out the best pokemon to get the berries.

[Jay]

Jay thought about the words Elayne had said and nodded to himself. He did that too, for the most part... take everything readable and went after it. As they continued to search for berries and as Elly showed some Lum berries, Jayme recognized them but let Elayne speak about them. I used to have a Lum tree... he thought to himself. Setsuo watched both Jayme and Elayne for a moment before nodding to himself and thinking about the tasty berries he could get with making other berries into juice.

As Jayme transitioned and looked up at the tree, he thought over his pokemon and shook his head. "I don't have any pokemon that can really climb up trees...." he said with a frown.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne thought about the pokemon she had and smiled, Lily would be able to snap the branches easily enough, and Elly could make sure that they didn't crash onto the ground. Taking out a pokeball, Elayne released Lily.

Lily appeared in a flash of white light and looked up at Elayne with a happy expression on her face before seeing the other pokemon and Jay. The chikorita seemed to get excited at the sight of other people and immediately ran over to Jay and his shuckle.
"Chi! Chika chi!" she said in an excited voice, saying hi to the two newcomers.

Elayne smiled at Lily's enthusiastic greeting and looked at Jay.
"This is Lily, I think together, Elly and Lily should be able to get enough berries for us down."

Hearing this, Lily nodded and looked over at Elly before nodding, they knew what to do. Lily jumped into the tree and started to use vine whip to shake the branches of the tree.
Elly started to use psychic to stop the berries as they fell, letting them rest in a small pile at the base of the tree. After a few moments, Lily jumped back down at beamed at Jay and Elayne.
"Chi! Chika!" she said in a proud voice, standing up to her full height.

Elly finished piling up the berries and rolled her eyes at Lily before sitting next to Elayne.

Elayne giggled and smiled down at both pokemon.
"Good job you two, I think we have more than enough berries now." she said in a kind voice as she knelt to put the berries into the bag.

[Jay]

Jayme watched for a moment with rather large eyes as the berries came down. "That looked almost like a contest move," he said aloud thinking about pokemon contests. After a moment, he blinked again and looked down at Setsuo. "Ready to make some juice?" the pink haired boy grinned at his Shuckle who nodded back. Taking a few berries and placing them in a hole in the Shuckle's shell, Jay stepped back and watched as Setsu seemed to suddenly disappear inside his shell for a moment. Jay blinked waiting to see what would happen. In another moment, Juice seemed to start coming out from the hole where Jayme had placed the berries. Taking out a jar, the pink haired boy began to take in the juice before setting one jar to the side and getting out another one. He had originally been using the jars for poke-medicine, but he had used so much on Lio the night previously that it was all but out anyways.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne turned to Jay with a smile on her face after she had finished placing the berries into bags.
"I've heard of contests before, but I've never really seen one. What are they about?"she asked in a kind, interested voice as she watched the juicing process with interest.

Lily and Elly were sitting on both sides of Elayne, happy with the job they had just done. No berries had been squashed after all, and Lily had been able to make the ripe berries fall. Of course it helped that lum berries especially wouldn't break free from the tree unless they were ripe.

After a while Lily started to get bored and walked a little ways away to practice magical leaf, making it swirl into different shapes that seemed to shimmer like glitter. Elly lay down by Elayne and watched Lily with interest.

[Jay]

"Poke-contests are where coordinators show off how well they can present their pokemon to crowds," Jayme answered back. "But there is a lot more to it than that. Moves can be used in certain ways to make different effects, and it's all up to how the coordinator wants to show. If they get the judges' approval as well as the crowd's approval, then a person and their pokemon can move on to higher rounds, and in the end it leads up to a large scale contest battle...." Jayme answered back as he continued and finished up a few more juicing processes. "There..." he finished. "I think that's good for now...."

[Maid Melody]

Elayne continued to watch as Jay finished juicing the berries before nodding at his explanation of contests.
"It certainly sounds like something Lily and Elly would enjoy, but I don't know where these contests are held. Besides, learning to become a breeder consumes a lot of my time," she said in a kind voice before turning to watch Lily's brilliant magic leaf display,"Not to mention that I don't like being in big cities...but maybe I should give my pokemon a chance..."[/color]she thought as the magical leaf continued to form different shapes.

Elly looked up at Elayne and mewed encouragingly, she knew that Elayne was interested in contests but wouldn't say anything about it now.

[Jay]

"Before the kingdom was having problems, my mom used to help judge contests," Jayme said after a moment as he poked Setsuo a bit. The Shuckle poked back and half grin. The pink haired boy grinned lightly before picking up the Shuckle in his arms. Taking up two of the jars and handing them to Elayne, he smiled lightly. "Here," he said after a moment.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne blinked in surprise and took the jars from Jay.
"Thank you Jay..." she said in a kind, quiet voice, placing the jars in her bag carefully so as to not break them,"Would you like to find more herbs now or do something else?"

Elly purred her thanks to Jay and looked over at Lily who was now trying to create a tornado with razor leaf.
"Jay, Elayne, look at Lily...I think she'd be good in contests, don't you?" she said in a kind voice, turning to look at the chikorita once again.

Elayne looked at Lily once again and saw Lily attempting to create a tornado with razor leaf, interested now to see what Lily could do with some guidance, Elayne spoke up.
"Lily, try to make the razor leaf spin individually then use aromatherapy to blow the leaves our direction."

Hearing Elayne, Lily started throwing the razor leaf with a little more force, causing them to spin in mid-air, appearing to be little ballerinas. Without skipping a beat, Lily used aromatherapy to blow the leaves towards Jay and Elayne. The leaves rode the breeze and as they approached the Jay and Elayne, they seemed to shimmer in the aromatherapy as they passed over their heads and into the nearby trees.

Elayne and Elly watched in delight as the move passed over their heads and looked at Lily, smiling. Lily as well seemed enchanted by the combo she had just done and couldn't take her eyes off the shimmering leaves.

[Jay]

"Wow that's really cool," Jay answered back with a grin. "You'd be great in contest! I'm sure of it." He smiled again before thinking of something. "Well you said you needed to find a Shuckle, right? Well we could look for one of those..." He thought a minute remembering where he had last seen the Shuckle that he had caught. "I'm sure there are more around..." he said turning his head and looking around the zoo area.

[Maid Melody]

Elayne nodded and beckoned Lily to follow them as she picked up her bag and put the straps around her shoulders.
"Thanks Jay...that's right...I was looking for a shuckle,"she said in a kind voice, smiling at the shuckle now in Jay's arms,"I think a shuckle will really help me make medicine, especially after seeing what Setsuo did. That was really cool Setsuo."

Lily trotted over to Elayne and Elly and waited to see where they would go next.

[Ezio]

Nearby under a berry bush, a yawn could be heard. A brown, sloth-like pokemon could be seen resting, a slakoth. As one looks closer it can see that it is not asleep but more as if it was half awake. An eevee is also seen walking around proudly.