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Annual Fireworks Log

Who: All of you
What: Fireworks!
When: The night of July 2nd
Where: Campus, but they're visible from the surrounding area too.
Warnings: Small cameos and standard Smash shenanigans.

There was a trespasser on the school grounds. A trespasser toting a large bag full of explosives that looked potentially dangerous. Oh no, he was setting them up! Such complex rigging! What dastardly plan did he have in mind?! The first deadly missile launched into the air, and...

Oh, wait, it was just fireworks. False alarm.

Well, it was obvious by the colourful display that this mysterious trespasser had spent far too much time planning this. What was he trying to do, create a distraction so he could go on a one-man panty raid? Tempting, but not this year.

In fact, now that the fireworks could finish on their own, mystery man vanished into the night. If one looked into the right area of the sky at the right time, they might find the silhouette of some weird spacecraft-looking thing against the bright lights. Could there be a connection?

Who even cares. FIREWORKS.

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"Yeah. Spectacular." Jon said, pushing himself up onto his elbows at least while she had him 'pinned'.

"And I'm doing all right. Glad they decided to have the festivities a day or two early, mind - full moon is coming up."

Jon had become rather good at reading the usually cheery Charmander, but anyone could see by the way her tail slacked that the subject of the full moon wasn't a very pleasant one when it came to Jon.

"Rite, Ah had forgot." she said trying to keep her cheeriness intact.

She rolled off Talbain and quickly rummaged through her bags for a few moments before pulling out a six-pack of brewed ale. "Dunno if these are tha kind yew like, but it was hard enuff convincin' tha clerk that they ain't fur me." And her attitude seemed to be on her side that day because it seemed to have given her enough trust to let the old man sell her the stuff.

Jon's eyes went a little wide at the sight.

"Oi, you bought these? Blimey, I'm a worse influence than I thought." he said, quickly pulling off his shirt and draping it over the pack of six cans. Even though it was summer holidays, chances were high that if faculty saw them drinking, they'd get in trouble. The last thing he wanted was for her to get expelled on account of having alchohol out in the open.

However, his hands were large enough to cover the logo on the can neatly. He unhooked one and opened it.

"....that was very thoughtful of you. Cheers."

She smiled at his expression, a small giggle leaving her lips as she popped the cap from a soda for herself. "Naw, Ah dun think yew should worry. Ah jus' got 'em fur yew Moonshine."

And it was true, while she had tried it already a few times with him, he had already told her that she should be drinking the stuff due to her age.

"Cheers!" she finally said, tapping her pop against his can.

He couldn't help smiling just the tiniest bit at the clunk of metal meeting plastic. "Cheers."

He raised the drink to his lips and took a long swallow before dropping an arm over her shoulders.

"So. Any plans for the rest of the summer, then?"

"Hmmmmmmm," she mused as she relaxed against him, looking up at the fireworks. "Ah was plannin' on studyin' a bit." she replied sheepishly with a goofy grin. "Been kinda doin' awful in mah classes except those that deal with physical work."

And it was one of the reasons why she had been so behind in graduation. "Otha than that, nope, nuthin'! What 'bout yew hun?"

"I was thinking, if you're not too busy with your nose in a book, mind - we could take on a Gym or two. I've been doing some looking into it like, and we've a few options for bug and grass type Gyms for a few easy warm-up wins before we opt for harder fare."

"That sounds lahk a plan! Ah'd more'n want ta get a few more badges fur our team!" Riwane seemed to have gotten excited really quick at the thought of not only taking on gyms, but the fact that their team would be on the move striving for more again.

"Good. There's a bug Gym in Johto which is renowned for starting off easily then getting brutally hard for non-fire types. And there's a grass Gym in Kanto. Apparently the leader used to teach Flowery Somethingorother at this school."

Riwane grinned and gave an excited thumbs up, tails swishing side to side behind her. "Great! We'll shure give em' our all an' take tha badge home fur shure!"

"There's not a Gym that we couldn't take." Jon replied, his arm over her shoulder tightening just a little bit.

"How about we head out after this next full moon?"

"Sounds good to me! Ah jus' gotta do sum work fer Mr. Warren an' then Ah am totally free fur tha summer!"

Granted, the summer was still young! Which she loved, this season was best season! She hoped that she'd be able to see some beaches, because that's just how a water obsessed Charmander rolls!

"Eh? Work?"

That was news toi him.

"Yeup! He didn' tell me tha full details but Ah think Ah'll be doin' sum delivery work, which really ain't that bad! 'Sides, a bit'a extra cash won't hurt rite?"

"....no, it's not as if it's a bad thing."

In Jon's experience, the sorts of people willing to pay for delivery work numbered three. The sort who was too weak to lift or cart something themselves. The sort who were too lazy and had too much money. Or the sort who didn't want to be there when their delivery was accepted at it's final destination. He hoped for her sake it wasn't the latter because thast could be... problematic.

"Rite then! It's settled! Once Ah'm done with work, we can hit up tha ol' dusty trail for tha summer!"

Even more cheerier than before, if that was even possible, Riwane nuzzled against Jon's side and settled to watch the fireworks with a bright smile.

"Yeah. That's that, then - it's sorted."

However, he was going to look into this delivery job. He didn't want her thinking he didn't trust her to make her own decisions, but it was in his nature to be cautious. Well, alright, paranoid.

"In any event, I suggest we start intensifying our training. Even if our first two Gyms are planned to be easy, I want to leave them in ruins. Um. Figuratively speaking."

....he was sure he didn't want to have to pay for property repairs.

Riwane got up and raised her fist in determination!

"Yeah! Ah was wonderin' when we were gunna step it up! Ah am totally ready fur this Moonshine!"

She was a lot less cautious, but then again she was already well known for being just a bit gullible... Okay, so very gullible but that wasn't the point!

"That's going to mean earlier mornings, double helpings of protein in the form of what we can kill in the forest only, and evening trainings four times a week." Jon replied. "Two evening trainings as a Charmander and Wolf, two as Humans and we'll start concentrating more on Kung Fu and some other Eastern disciplines. Is that going to be workable around your employment? I'm probably more flexible than this other fellow so we can work out the details of which evenings we train around your schedule with him, but mornings are every day."

It was a signifigant climb in workload, but he knew she was up to it. And it wasn't as if she was doing it alone - he would be there for every minute of it, after all.

"Ah grew up on a farm, people think Ah got three stomachs and sumtimes Ah got more energy than Ah know wut ta do with it. So that covers rite 'bout all of them." she said with a confident smirk.

"Ah'm shure Ah'll be able ta manage Moonshine."

"I know you will. Or I'd not have suggested it."

He gave her a rare smile.

"I'll make travel plans for Johto, then."

She returned the smiled with a little jaunt and a thumbs up. "Woo! Ah can't wait to get there! Ah've only lived in Kanto so Ah'm really eagah ta see them other regions!"

"I'm looking forward to it too. I hear there are a lot of small towns out that way that should make for interesting stops along the road. Some with ancient ruins and the like. I'm no archaeologist, but they sound worth a look at the very least. And, I hear tell of a Legendary Pokemon said to live in the region called Suicune.... from the accounts I've read, it looks a bit like a great honking blue wolf and is called the Spirit of the North Wind." His smile became slightly devilish. "I would like to show all and sundry that there is only one large blue canid to be compared with the wind and sadly, it is not a Pokemon."

Riwane shoved him playfully before shaking her head.

"There yew go again, tryin' ta show everyone jus' how strong and cool yew are. Not that you ain't of course! An' yew should show em a thing or two 'bout who tha alpha is." she mused with a playful grin.

Turning to look back at the fireworks, she smiled, a small smile before dropped onto his lap once more with a pleased sigh.

"Ah can't wait." she said simply.

"Me neither. Should be one hell of a time."

He would take the time between now and the full moon to do a little more research on the region and it's native Pokemon. See where the best places to train were, and maybe somewhere fun they could go together.

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