"Happiness Is Just a Soup Away" [Open]

[Dante Taylors]

"Free food, free board and room, and all the Pokemon I can catch, provided they don't kill me."

[/b] Dante sighed, slurping a bowl of crimson red tomato soup. "For once in my life, I get to say this: 'This is the life, goddammit.'" [/b]

On the table near him were his two Pokemon, a timid Cubchoo named Glaciem, and a cheefully energetic Mawile named Accia. Glaciem seemed to be happily munching on a bowl of ice cubes, while Accia actually ate standard Pokemon food. Just like their trainer, they ate greedily and happily.

Reaching for a grilled cheese sandwich to accompany the soup he ordered, the black-haired, blue/green eyed trainer was actually glad this was a meal he didn't have to steal. Not that he didn't enjoy it, but it was much nicer not to merely subsist.

Taking a rather big bite from his sandwich, Dante couldn't help but sigh once again. He actually felt in a good mood for once, and that meant not being (completely) cold or sarcastic to whoever approached him.[/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Yumiko were once more going to the Dining hall. She were hungry, it was time for food. Aipom were hungry he could not wait to taste the sweet sweet taste of human food. He loved it! The both entered the Dining Hall, Yumiko clad in her usual casual get up, with the black belt and choker signifying what dorm she belonged to. She almost never removed it. Yumiko where in luck today. This time she were able to get some proper food, and in good amounts too. No longer did she have to eat the leftovers of what was left after all the others had gotten their fill. With the food firmly placed on a plate, and the plate on a tray she walked around trying to find a seat. She found that there was an available seat not too far away. She went over to it, and asked. "Is this seat available?" She looked at the boy whom she was asking. Aipom didn't wait for the answer, it placed it's ass firmly on the seat leaving only little space for Yumiko if she were allowed to sit there. [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

Dante raised a singular eyebrow as the Aipom made the seat mostly his own before even getting the chance to answer. Taking a quick sip of his soup, he realized he was in too much of a good mood to care.

"Go ahead, take a seat. Your Aipom seems to agree."

[/b] Dante said, doing something he's rarely been seen doing: smiling. It wasn't a sarcastic smirk, like it usually seemed to be, but it was a rather cheerful look. The power of eating properly just might end up doing that to you.

Grabbing a bite of his sandwich, Dante nodded. "The name's Dante, by the by. This is Glaciem, and this is Accia." [/b]

At the sound of her name, Glaciem snapped back into reality and stared at the girl and the Aipom who had just sit near her trainer. The timid Cubchoo just went back to happilly eating her ice cubes, making a cute nom-nom-nom growl as she consumed each one.

Accia, on the other hand, was too focused on her food to even pay attention. Eating the generic brand Pokemon food as if it were her last meal on this earth, Accia seemed more like a child with ADHD who had just found its parent's secret stash of candy.

"Doozo yoroshiku--nice to meet you."[/b] Dante added at the end, once he eventually swallowed his sandwich.[/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] The Aipom had been rather impatient and therefore claimed the seat without further care. Luckily for her the boy seemed to agree with the Aipom's decision of allowing her to sit there too. "Thank you." She replied after the boy had made his answer clear. She quickly took the seat before the boy could change his mind. The boy then introduced her to both his Pokemons, one of them where a cute little Polar-Bear sort of Pokemon. Yumiko got a strong urge to hug it. The next one were a Mawile. A pretty Pokemon but not instant hugging material. The Aipom greeting the ice pokemon with a simple "Ai!" greeting. However his reaction became quite different when it saw the Mawile. His heart started pumping and he quickly jumped up from his seat, grabbed the bread, with his tail-hand thingy, on his trainers plate and went over to the Mawile. "Pom pom!" Aipom said, which meant 'this is for you' of course it was some sort of gift for the beautiful Mawile. Yumiko couldn't help but chuckle when she realized what the Aipom was doing. Even from where she sat it was obvious that it was trying to flirt with the Mawile. "My name is Yumiko, and it's nice to meet you too." Yumiko replied after her attention had been pulled away from the Aipom and his attempted flirting. [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

Dante carefully eyed the Aipom as he attempted to make his move on Accia. Chuckling a bit before sipping on his soup again, Dante couldn't help but return to his usual smirk. Glaciem, on the other hand, looked rather confused as her best friend was given a piece of bread by the Aipom.

"M-Ma?"

[/b] Accia's red eyes stared down at the piece of bread, then at the monkey Pokemon, then back at the bread. Setting down the piece of generic Pokemon food in her hands, she recieved the bread, and placed it down on her bowl, she then picked up another piece of food and handed it to the Aipom, almost as if responding to his flirts.

"Heh. Cute."[/b] Was all Dante managed to say, before sipping his soup one more time. "Accia seems to really like your monkey."[/b]

Pushing up his glasses, the succint shine of the light accentuating his mismatched eyes, the aspiring trainer directed his smirk towards Yumiko.

"I haven't seen anyone carry around their dorm belt out with them unless they're fresh off the boat... or proud Silvers."[/b] He reached into his pocket and took out his own, a goldenrod colored little thing that seemed to have been bitten frantically; Glaciem's fault. "Welcome to the Academy. If you're not dead within a week, you'll do fine."[/b][/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Aipom's heart beat like a racing horse as he gave the beautiful Mawile this bread. He hoped she'd accept this tribute to her stunning beauty, but he would understand if a mere piece of bread wasn't enough. Yes, he had come unprepared and he were simply working with what he had at hand. However something happened that he had not expected. The Mawile, a goddess in his eyes, placed down her own generic Pokemon food took the bread, and gave him some food in return. He was amazed and thrilled and beyond happy. She was responding to his flirts. Oh, he wished that this Mawile, this one, and ONLY Mawile would become his. They could have small baby monkeys and Mawiles. He gladly accepted the food she offered as he smiled in return and said. "Ai Pom." 'thank you' were what he said. Meanwhile the trainers were having quite the time discussing the events unfolding before their eyes. Dante made a comment about his Mawile liking her monkey. She chuckled slightly. "I guess. It's the first time I have seen Aipom behave like this. I was mildly surprised." Yumiko commented with a smile as she took a little bit of her food and ate it. Dante then made a statement about her dorm belt, and he also welcomed her to the Academy. She responded calmly with. "I think they should. I carry my belt to remind me just how awful I did at the entrance exam." Yumiko's voice were quite quiet when she spoke of just how awful she had done to at the Exam. "And thanks for the welcome" she finally remarked before turning her attention back to the two Pokemons. [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

"No worries."

[/b] Dante chuckled. "I didn't even get a placement exam. I'm sure if I did, I woulda screwed it up too, so don't be too hard on yourself. I'm just sure they put me randomly in Yellow."[/b]

The red soup Dante was eating was just about the best soup he had eaten in so long. Although a newcomer to Tomato soup, he was pretty certain he found a new favorite. After all, one could see it in the juvenile, and innocently happy look that the typically cynical Dante generally had.

"Waaii!" Accia 'curtised' happily as she picked up the piece of bread. It didn't take much to impress her. The hyperactive Mawile always found everything so fascinating, and this Aipom was no exception. Bumping the two food items together, almost as if they were two glasses, Accia gave the piece of bread a quick bite, before giving Yumiko's Aipom a quick glance.[/font][/blockquote]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Dante chuckled and told her that there was nothing to worry about regarding her entrance exam. He then went onto telling how he had randomly been placed in Yellow, without any placement exam. She found it peculiar that he had not been tested, but she guessed she had been unfortunate enough to get one of those strict teachers that loved beating down their students. "Well I guess i was just unlucky." Yumiko said to Dante's story of his placement match; or rather lack there of. Meanwhile the Aipom and the Mawile were getting along quite nicely. They were eating together. The Mawile had bumped food with the Aipom, which Aipom took as a sign of her being interested too. And this was around the time where Aipom realized it had no idea of what it were supposed to do or talk about? It didn't help that he could feel and see the Mawile's eyes glancing on him. She was looking him up, he knew it! It was about time that he said something funny. But his mind was blank. "Ai, Ai pom, aipom pom?" The Aipom asked. He were merely asking if the Mawile liked the bread. Aipom looked at Mawile with a look filled with hope. He hoped she liked it. While awaiting her response he also began to eat, however he barely noticed the taste for his other senses were occupied by the presence of the Mawile. [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

The bread Accia was eating was actually rather stale. She didn't hold it against Yumiko's Aipom, mostly because she knew well that he didn't purposely fed her something bad. Ignoring the old taste of the bread, Accia let out a quick cry, signifying that she was enjoying the bread. Which, secretly, she wasn't, but she didn't want to hurt the Aipom's feelings, since she seemed to like him.

"I'll trade you belts, if you want."

[/b] Dante chuckled, before tossing his mildly ripped belt on the table across from Yumiko. "Hell, you can even go squat in one of the empty dorms. It's not like anyone pays attention anyway. If I had 50 yen for every time I sneaked into Black or Silver, I'd probably be able to buy my way in. Silver has such nice beds."[/b]

Noticing that his soup had eventually finished, Dante still had a reason to stay, and a rather nice one too. He was amused by the behavior his Mawile and Yumiko's Aipom were displaying. Dante took off his glasses and wiped them clean, as he set his eyes on the flirtatious Aipom, Accia, and eventually the trainer, giving her a warm, amused smile.[/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Aipom was happy. In fact he was only this happy when he was fighting. Fighting was a thing he enjoyed, as well as doing pranks, and then of course Mawile. He loved Mawile, he had to admit that to himself, right? That's what humans did, admit their feelings to themselves, or something like that. Once again he found himself in a pickle, he had no idea what to talk with the Mawile about. Seriously? Was it now that the humans would confess their feelings to one another? He didn't think so, but what else could he do? He had to drag it out, he had to see if she felt like he did! "Pom, Ai Ai, pom Aipom" Aipom said, asking about how long Mawile had been with her trainer. What Dante said surprised Yumiko quite a lot. "Oh no no, you don't have to do that." She said as if what he was suggesting were something illegal and outright dangerous. Of course it wasn't, but if she were to get a belt that signified her belonging to somewhere else, then she would be lying, right? "Really?" Yumiko said questioning. She had assumed they would be stricter with the enforcement of the dorms, however maybe he was right. None the less it didn't matter, Yumiko had a principle, she would have to work her way into the other dorms, not simply sneak in; Besides the bed in the black dorm did nicely for her. Meanwhile the Aipom were conversing with the Mawile. "Aiiiii pom, Poom pom AI?" Aipom said, he had accidentally called the Mawile beautiful while he had simply intended to ask if her trainer allowed her to partake in many battles. So what he said would be something along the lines of 'do your trainer allow such a beautiful Pokemon as you battle a lot?' obviously he became rather embarrassed when he noticed the b word which he had used. He had not intended to use that word, he had wanted to stay cool and win her over with his charm. This was soo uncool. [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

Dante gave Yumiko a quick wink, combined with his devilish smirk. "Ha, well, if you're ever up for it, it's fun to see the higher dorms. Really convinces you to try to rank up, or something. Although nothing's more fun than living in a treehouse."

[/b] He added a slightly ironic twist to the last sentence.

Yawning softly, began to twirl his spoon and fork around like if it were his drumsticks. Twirling them expertly, Dante gave a quick look to the two Pokemon who seemed to have been kicking it off quite nicely. Dante picked up a piece of bread and handed it to Yumiko, smirking playfully.

Accia seemed a bit flustered by the Aipom calling her beautiful, and blushed softly. "M-Mawaaa, w-wa-waaiiii." She tried her hardest to answer the question, but her voice was getting shaky and nervous. She explained to him that she had already battled once, and that her trainer and her were going to go exploring a haunted house later today.

"W-w-w-wile?" Accia asked Yumiko's Aipom if he was interested in maybe hanging out some time, her voice as shaky and flustered as ever.[/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] She nodded acknowledging as he spoke of how fun it actually was to snoop around the higher ranking's dorms. She hadn't done that before but she certainly wouldn't be opposed to take a quick look around, she would however not attempt to sleep there unless invited by another member of that dorm. However the faintest of comment caught her attention. Something about a tree-house. She looked at him, her eye-brow slightly raised in confusion. "You live in a tree-house?" She questioned right back at him. She had to say he certainly didn't look like one who did. But then again, maybe he had groomed himself for this special occasion of being among the people that did not live in such natural comfortable houses. Dante then handed her some bread, just as Aipom had done. And she reacted almost like Mawile. She blushed slightly, not because she was embarrassed but because some (her) might take that as a sign of something close to affection. Of course she knew that would be silly, they had known each other for nothing more than what? Five minutes, no ten probably? No way man, it wasn't that long. Anyhow, she humbly accepted the gift as she said. "Thank you." The Mawile were telling Aipom some interesting facts, one of those being that she had already been in a battle, maybe more. Aipom found it hard to decode what she was saying because she was all flustered, he took that as a sign that his manly Aipom charm worked, even though he was probably as nervous as the Mawile was. "Ai-- Ipom, Pommmm Ai." Aipom replied saying that his trainer hadn't allowed him to battle more than once, and that it seemed to him like she didn't want him to battle. "AaaaI Pom!" Aipom then replied when Mawile said that her and her trainer might be visiting a haunted house. Aipom wanted to visit one of those too. And then she asked it, that one question that threw away all manliness the Aipom had worked up. Mawile asked if he wanted to hang out with her, of course he did! However he had to remind himself that she said hangout, not go on a date. But hanging out could become a date, right? Aipom was almost sure of it, and if not, well, he could just go consult Yumiko's secret diary, surely it would have some answers. "Ai-Pom. Ai!" He replied to her question about hanging out. His head nodded agreeing as he said that he would love to hang out with her. [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

"What? Never been offered bread before?"

[/b] Dante said coolly, the gaze on his eyes never leaving Yumiko's. His opposite hand continued to twirl his pretend drumstick. In one swift movement, he sent the fork flying into the air, and paid no attention to it. As gravity did its part and lowered the spinning fork, Dante's quick reflexes grabbed a hold of it at the perfect moment, without even looking in the general direction. For a drummer, the young aspiring trainer had more or less the confidence of a front-man.

"So I live in a treehouse. You seem surprised... almost like if I was a hobo, hm?"[/b] Dante said, eventually setting his silverware down. Despite his fake feelings of offense, his playful smirk remained. "It's this academy's way of being ironic or something. They made the Yellow Dorms treehouses. You ever go to Fortree City? Yeah, like that. A couple months ago, I got my neck stung by a bug-type and everyone who saw it thought it was a frickin' hickey. Embarassing, really."[/b]

"Maaaa~" Accia nodded, reaffirming her statement that she indeed want to hang out with him some other day. She suggested that perhaps they could somehow convince their trainers to let them free sometime.[/font][/blockquote]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Dante inquired into her not ever having been offered bread. Sure she had, just not by boys all that often. In fact she couldn't remember the last time a boy had offered her bread, or any food of any kind before. "Sure I have." She replied as shyly as she could before her eyes quickly moved onto the movements that Dante were performing with the fork. "Woah, nice trick." Yumiko said attempting to divert the topic from the bread and onto Dante's epic drumming skills. They then went onto talking about the tree house. Dante made a comment about Yumiko thinking of him as a hobo of sorts. "No, no not at all. I did not think you were a hobo of any sort." She said nervously trying to make sure she had not offended Dante by anything she said. She had never been to Fortree city, however she had seen pictures of it and therefore knew how the city was built. It was a pretty city none the less, however it surely would be an inconvenience at times. Dante went onto explaining about a bug bite that was thought of as a hickey. She couldn't help but chuckle at that. "And I cannot imagine anyone would have any reason to think you would have gotten hickeys of any kind, would they?" Yumiko said almost teasingly. Meanwhile Aipom was making what he presumed would be some sort of Date with Mawile. And what a date it would be, they'd totally go to all the cool places around here there and everywhere! Only thing that was needed was to make their trainers allow them to be free somewhere without them having to be around. "Aipom, ai! po I aipom!" Aipom said as he explained that that would be no big deal, at least with his trainer. He couldn't say if it would with her trainer however. [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

"Eight years of drumming does the dexterity good."

[/b] Dante said, picking up the fork, and slowly twirling it. He felt impatient and jumpy if he didn't have anything in his hands. Looking at Yumiko He smirked confidently. "This is nothing, really, it's one of the things you learn at the beginning. Drumming 101, even."[/b]

As he saw Yumiko get slightly flustered after Dante pretended to be offended, he pushed up his glasses and chuckled. "Relax, relax. It's all in good fun, hm? Even if I was a hobo, I'd be the best damn hobo ever."[/b] He chuckled once again. "It's not like I'm easily offended, anyway. I don't mind taking a verbal punch or two."[/b]

Dante tilted his head, and lowered his hoodie's collar slightly, revealing a small red bump that seemed like it was almost gone. "Thankfully, I'm not allergic, or that would be quite a deadly hickey."[/b] Dante laughed, and placed his hoodie back to normal, then uttered a small chuckle when he heard Yumiko's statement. "Well, I don't know what would lead anyone to believe so. It's not like there's anyone to give them to me."[/b]

Accia nodded, and whispered some words into the Aipom's ear. "Psst... Ma, ma, wiii. Psst." She basically gave him instructions on where to meet next, and to not worry, that she knew how to sneak out from her trainer's house, if it became a problem, which she was sure it wouldn't be. It's not like Dante was a total hardass on his Pokemon. [/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Yumiko nodded understandingly as Dante commented upon his dexterity being caused by eight years of drumming. It sounded plausible for as far as she knew drumming required a lot of dexterity simply to do decently. However she was kind of unsure if it was right the whole drumming 101 and learning THE trick that Dante had just been performed, to her it just seemed quite hard. Then again, she did have the dexterity of a five year old blind baby. However she wasn't about to tell him, the drummer, wrong because she did simply not have the knowledge to do so. Dante told her to relax as soon as she began to become flustered by the possibility of her having offended him. It was only natural for one to react strongly when they found themselves possibly having offended someone, right? "Oh, okay. It's not like I did it on purpose or anything." Yumiko said attempting to confirm that her intentions had not been ill. In fact she had not even noticed that it could be interpreted in a way that could be offensive until he had made her aware of it. However she couldn't help but chuckle slightly when he joked about the potential lethal capability of such a hickey had he been allergic to the bug Pokemon's poison. "Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to... It's not like I am finding it fun that you could possibly have been allergic." Yumiko quickly said as she forced herself to stop chuckling. She was becoming overly conscious of the possibility that anything she said or did could be offensive. "And, well I wouldn't know if there was. I am still quite new around here, so I don't know all the Gossip that is going around." Yumiko assured, she felt the heat rushing to her cheeks, however she didn't blush, there was no reason to blush from merely talking about this kind of thing, right? Meanwhile Aipom listened intensely to what Mawile had to said. As soon as she was finished with speaking, he nodded slightly to show he understood and said. "Poom Ai, Ai Pommm" Which basically were simply him saying, 'awesome I will be there'. The promise had now been made and he intended to be there no matter what. He would not break the poor Mawile's heart! No, in fact he would win it! Hopefully... [/style]

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[Dante Taylors]

"I'll take your word for it.

[/b]" Dante said, petting the Cubchoo who had now eaten all her ice-cubes and fell asleep, head first, on the bowl they were held in. Since everyone seemed to have forgotten about her, Dante decided to give her some attention.

"Hah. It's okay. Laughing's the correct response."[/b] Dante smirked, a faint, barely visible red hue on his cheeks. "You shouldn't apologize so much, as cute as it makes you."[/b]

Dante sighed internally, scolding himself for such a forward remark. But of course, on the outside he was still smirking and softly blushing. On the inside, well... he was slightly flustered, almost as much as her Aipom. Not that he was going to show it. "Uh... yeah."[/b] Was all he managed to say.

"Maaa~" Accia sat down on the table, and instructed the Aipom to do the same, her steel maw was getting a little heavy, and she had gotten so relaxed from eating so much. She felt like resting, and resting next to the Aipom would be just a neat thing.[/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Yumiko sighed in relief as Dante went as far as to say laughing was the right response. Of course it was! Yumiko were simply putting too much thought in her actions. But really, could she be blamed for that? Dante were still very much a stranger, so she were pretty much walking a minefield right now. "Okay, I will try not to." Yumiko replied as she looked slightly downwards for no more than a second before her eyes moved back up to Dante, out of politeness. She could feel the blood rushing to her cheeks though, she were blushing she knew that. Why'd he have to go and say she were cute? Why! It was so embarrassing right now, here she were blushing at a stranger who probably hadn't even had any deeper thoughts with said comment. And with the last 'uh, yeah' comment the conversation pretty much died on their side. It seemed that Yumiko simply couldn't think of anything remotely intelligent to say. Aipom was getting along with the Mawile easily. In fact he hoped he was winning the heart of the cute Pokemon. How lovely it would be if he could become an Item with the Cute Mawile. However Aipom did not let his mind get clouded by fantasies. His head was down on Earth listening to the Mawile made of flesh, blood and possibly steel. She said that they should sit down instead of standing here. Aipom nodded agreeing as she found a place on the table to sit. His legs immediately felt like they were easing up and relaxing, it was a lovely feeling and it was only made better by the presence of Mawile. "Ai, Ai Ai pooom, Ai Ai iiiii a Aipom." Aipom began to speak, asking how Mawile met her trainer. He was certain that would be a fairly interesting tale, as well as a good way of keeping the conversation going. [/style]

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"Waaa!" Accia began to explain the story on how she met Dante. She told Aipom all about how several rocks and boulders had collapsed inside the Gravity Cave, and that she was trying to help out her friends, who had gotten caught in the fallen rocks' path, but couldn't move the boulders out of the way. Then she explained how Dante had come in, and helped push rocks out of the way, almost single-handedly. "Ma, ma ma wile, waaa! Ma, ma. Wile wile!! Waaaa!"

Meanwhile, in the human side of the table, Dante sighed, his composure returning to him quickly. Realizing he had been showing emotion once again, by flirting just a little bit, he shook his head and whispered to himself. "Sore yarunara... <Screw it.>"

[/b] He said to himself, and stood up. Getting this close to someone else would be problematic, or so he thought.

"Yeah. I think we should be going now."[/b] Dante said, pushing up his glasses. "Come on, Accia. You can hang out with the Aipom later."[/b]

Accia growled softly, not wanting to leave, but she listened anyway. As she stood, she moved her maw out of the way, and gave the Aipom a hug, before jumping off the table to her Trainer's side.

Dante nodded quickly, and sighed. "See you later, Yumiko."[/b] He said, before turning around and walking out of the Dining Hall.[/blockquote][/font]

[Yumiko Tokugawa]

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[atrb=style, width:450px, bTable][atrb=valign,top][style=line-height:13px; font-size:10px; text-align:justify; padding-left:8px;] Aipom listened with great interest to the story of the heroic deeds of Mawile's trainer. He definitely sounded like a decent person when she spoke of him. Aipom would chose to believe that he was, for he must have been if he chose to help a damsel in distress. For some odd reason it seemed that Dante was displeased. Yumiko caught on to this quite quickly but she couldn't quite hear what he was mumbling to himself. So, she had no idea what he was saying at first. But she grew kind of concerned for a moment. She grew a tad more concerned when the trainer wished to leave. She nodded as she could not stop him from leaving, even though she may have wanted to do so. Aipom became quite sad at these news. He wanted to spend more time with Mawile, however he knew they would later on. There would be no way he was going to be kept away from her! She hugged him, and he hugged her right back before allowing her to leave. "Aiiii!" Aipom said his goodbyes, and see you later. Because they would, there was no doubt about that. "See you later, Dante." She replied back nodding and sending him a smile. And then they were gone. She patted the Aipom who now had a sad and reassuringly said. "You'll meet her again." She smiled at the Aipom, and Aipom nodded in return, she then finished up what she was supposed to be doing here, and with that they were on their way too. [Finished for Yumiko and Aipom] [/style]

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