[PRP] Breakfast of Champions

[Tori Honoo]

Dove smiled, and nodded, though really there was no reason for it, then stilled and watched as Alder addressed his question to the little pokemon directly.

While the mew had clearly understood the man's first question, this new one seemed to take it by surprise, and it righted itself, tilting its head at the champion as if thoroughly confused as to why he would ask such a thing. Offering a loud, happy trill, it again zipped over to the girl and around her once more, before all but tackling her to the ground. Slightly embarrassed, the girl caught it against her chest as it attempted to bury itself in her arms, all the while wiggling happily as the girl laughed.

Duh, of course it was happy, it seemed to say.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Alder merely nodded, an amused smile on his face. "Yes, I figured as much," he said with a light chuckle. His tones turned slightly more interested as he tilted his head, asking one final question of the Mew, "How much have you trained so far with the rest of Dove's team?"  

[Tori Honoo]

The mew lifted it's head from the girl's chest and looked at him again, then to its trainer who slowly lifted it and stepped backward, allowing it to again float into the air, its head tilted at the man over its shoulder.

"Can you show Alder your tricks, Trill? I'll let you pick," she said, reaching to her belt to release two more of her pokemon, her Typhlosion and Rapidash.

Upon seeing the others of the team, the little pink mon squealed and circled around each, then burst into light, deciding then, to change into Thierry. The true Rapidash gave an amused look and snorted, shaking his head fondly, though he remained confused as to why his girl was allowing this unfamiliar man to see the little legendary. Sparky watched the younger pokemon as it now reared and stomped happily at the ground before facing the Champion, his eyes on high alert as he took up his post behind Dove.

Dove stepped forward and ran her hand over Thierry's neck, watching Trill as it trotted around the man. "It likes exploring other forms... We've been training since about a week or two after I bought it... It's learned transform...obviously... Protect, Psychic, and we're learning Energy Ball..." It had taken a while for the mew to actually want to learn anything but transform, but once it had begun showing improvement, it had become clear that it was eager to keep trying.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Tricks? He wasn't sure what she meant by 'tricks' until the Mew Transformed into one of the two newly released pokemon, and he watched it with a smile as he reached a hand out, palm up, towards the identical Rapidash. "That's good," he said encouragingly, "exploring is good. How much progress has it made in that time?" While he'd heard reports of uniquely colored legendaries being sold in the region, he hadn't heard many, if any, reports about normal colored ones being sold, so as yet he wasn't sure what to think of the Mew - whether Team Rocket had been involved with it or not.  

[Tori Honoo]

The man's offered hand drew a nicker from the new Rapidash, and Trill eagerly nosed at his fingers.

"It's done well... the transformations are much faster now, and it seems comfortable in most forms..." It was obviously more familiar with her team, but even on the few occasions when she had allowed it out and asked it to transform before moving into crowds, it had done an excellent job. "Protect is one of it's stronger moves... Psychic isn't too bad, and it's definitely still making progress with Energy Ball..."

She waited a moment, then watched as the mew reappeared in a flash of light, and then disappeared yet again, an exact copy of Sparky in its place. "I don't honestly want it to fight...I just want it to be able to protect itself if it has to..."

At the girl's words, the new typhlosion moved closer to Sparky, jokingly sizing it up--much to the elder's unamusement-- before moving around to see Alder again.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Alder nodded as she explained, letting Trill as a Rapidash nose his fingers before he reached a hand up to stroke its muzzle. Hmm, its transformations were slow before? And Protect was one of its stronger moves... Well, it at least sounded like they'd made progress, which was good, though her last statement made him rather curious. "So that's what you want it to do - do you know what it wants to do? Would it rather battle, or would it rather protect itself?" From the moves she listed, it sounded more like the former - a more defensive strategy would call for a more defensive movepool than the one she'd described.  

[Tori Honoo]

His question threw her off, and she looked to the pokemon itself, falling quiet for a moment or two.

Trill, as a typhlosion, only flopped to the ground and giggled up at Sparky, making the elder roll his eyes and huff a deep sigh.

"I think for now it just wants to play... It's never really shown any interest in wanting to fight competitively..."  

[BlackFireKitsune]

The redhead watched, too, as the Tyhplosion look-alike rolled in the grass, though he raised his gaze to Dove as she gave her answer. It made him pause for a few moments before he countered, "That doesn't really answer my question exactly, though. Well, let me rephrase it - have you asked it what it wants to do?"  

[Tori Honoo]

With a sigh, as it realized the older typhlosion wasn't at all interested in play, Trill sat up and moved back toward Dove, taking a seat beside her before poofing into it's little pink form yet again. "I guess not directly..." she admitted, looking down at Trill as it blinked up at her. "Did you hear Alder, Trill...? What would you rather do?"

At her question, the legendary lifted itself in the air again and looked at her quizzically, before looking to Alder as if for clarification. What did he mean? It already 'fought' with its teammates... that was kinda fun, it guessed.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

When the little legendary looked to him for clarification, he didn't do so. Instead, he offered it an encouraging gesture toward its trainer, to look at her for clarification instead, and added, "Pokemon learn best from listening to their respective trainers, and it's one of the trainer's duties to teach their pokemon. It works the other way around, too - trainers learn best from watching and listening to their own pokemon, rather than from anyone else's." Not that one didn't learn anything from observing or listening to others, of course, but for all intents and purposes he currently didn't voice such thoughts.