En Route North

-The Trapinch tries to leap to reach the Lunatone for a first attack, but... well, with the shift sand, he doesn't get anywhere high enough-

Wild Trapinch? (lv21): <...Oh bugg->

-And as it falls the Trapinch is hit with the psy 'stuff' and falls to the sand again-

Wild Trapinch? (lv21): <...Ow! W-what even was that?>

-The Trapinch then attempts to move vloser and circle around for a Feint Attack-

En Route North

Ichtacya♀ -ears down: <No heart? That sounds so sad...>

-Silent meanwhile observes the battle and takes the advantage to check on his Pokégear the locations of some of his mons, raises an eyebrow at the indicator with a [Nidoran] face that says "Orange Islands".

"He really shouldn't be going there..."

-The Trapinch doesn't seem to really understand how psychic powers work, and attempts to physically brace him/herself then is hit by the Psywave-

Wild Trapinch? (lv21): <...Gah! Weird monster! Take THISSSS!>

-And charges up all his power, casting it on the ground, to release...-

-A Sand Tomb.-

En Route North

-The Trapinch just stares in disbelief when he/she sees the moves not affecting the enemy moon-thing-

Wild Trapinch? (lv21): <...Hey! I'm the one with a house here, why don't->

-And bam! Blasted with a Psywave, causing it to fall back in its back, confused (not Confused!), with its legs flailing-

Wild Trapinch? (lv21): <...brebrebrebrebre...> @.@

Ichtacya♀ -waves her leaf: <I guess I'm happy to not be on the end of that.>

Slateport Center, Maggie's Room, Sometime In February

-Maggie has begun to stir. Molly has been keeping Shahinne at bay for a good while (though as Python makes clear, that tends to not work), and now that the Ekans has noticed the sudden movement, he decides to leave Molly to deal with Shahinne however she can while he slithers up to Maggie's chin and STAAAAAARES down at her-

Python♂: <
while (Maggie.status() & _SLP_ ) :
     lock.acquire()
     self.rattle()
     self.yield()
     lock.notifyAll()
     lock.release()
>

-And starts rattling softly (if incessantly)-

-Shahinne meanwhile circles around the door outside-

Shahinne♀: <Is Python there? I want my food. Don't make me call my mom~>

Mid-Early February, with Maggie

-Python wiggles, stares at Maggie for a bit, then rattles again and happily announces-

Boss!Python♂: <false:>

-From the outside, Shahinne can be heard  doing... something, and then for a moment her voice is doubled-

Shahinne♀: <Go bring mom! Someone has our food! ...And Python!>

Notification Shahinne #4209: <Okay~> -- and flies away.

Shahinne♀ -to the door: <You sound like those [old] ladies that don't give back one's toys. But I am going to get our food back!>

-...-

-...-

-more pacing-

-...-

-...-

<And Python, too!>

Slateport Center, Mid-Early February

-Python doesn't seem to mind much what Maggie thinks about having a snake keeping watch on top of her, but seems to notoriously change his mind once he hears Squealer might be in trouble-

Python♂: <...Hiss? Problem?>

-He slithers off to one side of the bed, observing Maggie at every moment-

Shahinne♀ (outside): <...The food? Oh noes... That's bad food! We bought it with our money and it just went away!> - starts pecking again -- <You have to help us get it back!>

-Meanwhile the sounds of what is presumably a couple of birds approaching the door can be heard-

Slateport Center, Maggie's Room, Mid-Early February

-Python nods and slithers off to the edge of the bed on the pillow side, from where he manages to junp to a nightstand or something. From there, he attentively watches Maggie's actions - though he hisses an attention call to Molly to point her to the [food bag]-

-Some (harder than before) poc poc poc poc can be heard at the door-

Slateport Center, Maggie's Room, Mid-Early February

-A certain Honchkrow and Fearow stand at the door, looking a bit surprised-

Copahue: <Uhm, oh!> -- looks up -- <S-sorry, a-are you Maggie?>

Harriet -peeks in cautiously: <Uhm... we are looking for our Trainer's [Ekans]... is he around here?>

-Shahinne peeks out from in between the larger birds-

Shahinne: <Hey!> -- notices the bag of food -- <There's our food!>

...

...

...

<And Python!>

-Copahue looks down at her for a moment, turns to Maggie-

Copahue: <S-sorry if our teammate caused trouble...>

-Python doesn't look very happy at that and rattles the (at least in Ekans terms) universal "trouble around" signal-

Slateport Center, Maggie's Room, Mid-Early February

-Shahinne shrinks and goes behind her parents-

Harriet -blinks: <Er, yes, we'll talk to her about that...> -- she turns to Maggie and points her wing to the food bag -- <Excuse me, I, uhm... our food.>

Shahinne♀: <See? We get our food back. Now we->

Harriet -sternly: <Shhhh.>

-And walks in to fetch the bag, taking it back to the door while Copahue and Shahinne watch-

Copahue: <So... uhm, yes, I guess you have other things to do...>

-The three birds move away from the door; Python meanwhile simply stays there on the nightstand observing and not minding the three birds any much-

Fortree Gym, Now-ish

-Winona sits in a sofa comfortably placed atop a small platform; she notices that a new challenger has arrived and gives him a cursory examination-

Winona: I see, so you have breezed through the challenges of this Gym to try and take a place in the clouds. Beware though, this is no mere squall that shall hinder you. I am Winona, leader of this city's Gym, and I accept your challenge! Three on three, switchouts permitted, no items, FINAL DESTINATION, and the sky's the limit!

-She readies her first Pokéball and motions for Shade to move to a platform the opposite side of the room-

Winona: Please stand there and we'll be ready to begin our graceful dance in the skies!

Fortree Gym - Top

-The battle commences with Shade's Pokémon starting with an Ice Beam; Winona quickly instructs her Pokémon to spread out damage. After taking the hit, which seems to have slowed the bird's circling a bit, the Pelipper flies up and towards Jiraiya, stops at a given distance and summons Flying energy.-

-Pelipper then flaps her wings four times for an [Air Cutter], sending four thick but slow walls of energized air after Shade's Pokémon-