...Oh snap...It's Extreme...

[Jake]

"EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME!"
Splash!
Waves flew into the air and outward concentrically as Noah cannonballed into the Lake. His Delibird waddled over to the edge of the watter and patted it with it's little wing.
After a few seconds, Noah's head popped out of the water and bobbed up and down as he tredded the water.
"C'mon, Zane!" Noah called out as he flicked his head back to fling some wet hair out of his eyes. "The water's cool."
Zane looked at Noah and cocked his head.
"Why?"
Noah looked back at Zane.
"Why? Why not?!"
"Because it looks too warm."
"It's cooler than it is out of the water."
"Eh...."
With a sigh of annoyance, Noah swam to the shore and climbed out of the water.
"Fine, fine... Zane, use Ice Beam on this mother."
Zane nodded and opened his beak. A light blue ball grew in his mouth. After a second, Zane shot a beam out of his mouth. The beam, which looked as though it had blue electricity sizzling about it, hit the surface of the water and turned it to ice. In no more than ten seconds, the ice had spread over all of the surface of the lake, or at least as far as Noah could see. Zane stopped his beaming and looked up at Noah who, in turn, looked down at Zane.
"I don't know why you couldn't have just done that on your own, though..."
With nothing more than a sly smile, Zane ran at the Lake, flopped onto his belly, and slid across the surface.
"Well, wait for me!" Noah yelled after the Delibird before also running at the lake and hopping onto it, sliding over it's glistening surface with black sneakers at high speeds.
"EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME!"

[!ADMIRALsaturn]

“What are you reading…?”
"‘I Want To Be Your Starly’ by Lord…something. The text is faded.”

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“Mmph…what’s it about?”
"It’s a transcript I found tucked away in the Adule library that tells the story of a love that was doomed from the start. Quite interesting. I assume by this parchment’s age and wear that it is quite old. Shame; I wonder if anyone even remembers this…”[/b]
“…Transcript? It’s a play?”
“Yes.”[/b]
“Mm…cool.”
“You know, it wouldn’t kill you to broaden your interests. Talk to Cordelia, she can teach you how to read. You would be fairly surprised at how taken away you can become by a ‘worthless collection of ink and paper’, as you like to call them.”[/b]
“I’m sure it’s fascinating.”
“You were never this vain as a Skitty.”[/b]
"Hmph."

~*~

[Scene begins with King Leo coming out of his castle, laughing to himself.]

KING LEO: Tonight, I shall finally see my daughter Cornelia betroth'd to Prince Schneider! And then Prince Schneider and his kingdom will be mine! Gwahahahaha!

[Benero and Zenero bring Marcus forward.]

ZENERO: Your Majesty!

BENERO: We have caught an intruder!

KING LEO: Why, my poor Marcus! Hark, lad. No matter how much thou dost treasure Cornelia... No matter how deeply she might believe she doth love thee... Never shall I see her marry a peasant such as thee! When the bell strikes three... Under the ax thou shall be! [The bell strikes a second time]



KING LEO: Furthermore!

CORNELIA: [rushes in, accompanied by Zalane, and chased by Schneider.] Marcus!

MARCUS: [Breaks free from Benero and Zenero] Cornelia!

CORNELIA: Oh, Marcus! I missed you so! [Hugs Marcus] I wish never to leave thy side. Prithee, lead me from this place!

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~*~

“So is it good?”

Jaden sighed quietly and closed the thin book.

“It was.”[/b]
“What happened?”
“You.”[/b]
“Me– Oh, screw you.”

A light smirk touched Jaden’s lips as he retrieved his pack and returned ‘I Want To Be Your Starly’ to its designated mental slot within. Sebastien gave him a nasty look and thumped his thigh with his tail, showing his displease clear in bottomless blackish-purple eyes toward the effeminate trainer. He could not read, therefore, he failed to understand the level of concentration one would ever bother putting into such a worthless waste of paper and ink. Paper didn’t grow on tr-

Oh. Wait. It did…sort of. Whatever. But, ink didn’t grow on trees!

…where did ink even come from?

“Well excuse me for ruining the lovely play,”[/color] the feline muttered, shifting positions so that his back was to Jaden. Fingers skated down his furred back and that brought a purr from his throat, which, to not fall into another trap his trainer just loved springing, Sebastien cut off immediately.
“Oh, you know me too well.”[/b] Jaden touched his lips with a look of mockery flashing through his ocean-blue eyes, and Sebastien could have sworn that he could see the sarcasm rolling like waves in them. That was one of Jaden’s defining traits: you could stare at his eyes for hours if given the opportunity, for their appearance was just so…as the Delcatty once heard a lady-friend of his say, “Wonderfully mesmerizing.”

“Wonderfully mesmerizing” my ass, he thought.

Currently, the lovely Jaden and his beloved – Sebastien may have been an exception in this case – Pokémon were staged upon the shore of Lake Iris, but not in the same general area as Noah and his extreme modifications to the body of water. If he looked, he might have seen a hint of ice on the horizon, but he couldn’t care less for that at the moment, his gaze wandering over the Pokémon present. Moana and Kishiko mulled about the water’s surface while Cordelia sat upon the latter’s back with a thick novel, Narissa circling above them. The team’s addition for the day was Storm, the quiet Flygon that took to a hill near the water’s edge to watch over his friends, his trainer, and preempt any who dared cross into his temporary territory.

With his muse to further the play he acted out in his head impaled on the end of Sebastien’s rudeness, Jaden hadn’t any other idea what to do in order to kill time (that didn’t involve committing immoral acts in the more…questionable clubs of Adule) other than to simply lie back and watch the clouds drift by on silent winds. He wondered if, in this position and in this light, he would seem even more like a woman. No matter how emasculating to another man he may have seemed, it was always a genuinely laughable display when he who hit was met with a most…unsettling revelation on Jaden’s part after the fact.

It just further convinced him that none could resist his beauty.

He was such an arrogant bastard, and he absolutely loved it.
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[Song]

From the lush bushes that grew along the lake, two bright blue eyes peered through the leaves. The small Riolu had fled to this cramped hiding spot, and watched in confusion as a loud, boisterous, young human splashed about in the water.
With the loud, boisterous, and young human was a strange, pudgy looking bird. The Riolu studied the bird closely. Surely it couldn't fly with wings so oddly shaped.
But the splashing, loud, boisterous, and young human seemed to be having fun with the water.
Riolu was having fun in the water too, until this human showed up with his loud and boisterous ways.

The small blue colored fighting type watched as the human boy tried coax the strange bird into the lake. But the bird didn't seem to want to.
That was when the scary thing happened.

The loud human boy said something to the odd bird, and then it looked (to the Riolu anyway) like the bird was regurgitating blue lightening into the water. The Riolu slunk back out of shock, and watched in amazement as the water stopped being water.
Then the strange bird slid across the water like the Riolu did once in mud. But sliding on the water seemed a lot less messy and upsetting. In fact, judging by the loud squawks of happiness the pair were shouting, it was quite an enjoyable experience.

Carefully at first, the Riolu crawled out from it's tiny hiding spot and set a small blue paw on the ice. It was solid, and slippery, like the Rilou expected, but the most shocking thing was how cold it was. Slowly the Riolu crawled out and dug his nails into the ice, all four feet clinging to the surface.

With unguarded curiosity the baby fighting type watched the two slide across the ice with practiced skill.

[Jake]

"EXTREEEEEEME!" Noah yelled again as he slid on the ice at speeds of over nine thousand. Zane sped past him easily and stuck his toungue out at Noah.
"What? Oh, it's on!" Noah began running on the ice, shoes sliding with each step and increased his speed. In a few seconds, Noah zipped past Zane, who only watched on, out done. Noah kept on zooming across the lake.
"EXTREEEEEEEME!" Noah yelled to the heavens and threw his arms back, as if he was in "Titanic on Ice". Zane, still saddend by his defeat, didn't notice that Noah was heading towards the edge until it was too late.
"OH SHI-!"
Noah opened his eyes just in time to see a littl Riolu trying to stand on the ice. He instantly jumped up off the ice and the momentum of his sliding shot him right over the little pokemon.
And stright into a tree. Oh, how nobody saw that coming.
Zane simply slid to the edge of the ice and hopped off. He slowly waddled over to Noah, who was still attached to the side of the tree, and tapped him. On the third tap, Noah plopped to the ground with a 'thud'. Zane winced just from watching.
Carfully, Noah stood up and looked at the ice to see the Riolu. Instantly, he forgot his pain (as was easy for him because he was so used to it, being EXTREME and all) and walked over to the Riolu.
"Well, look at this little guy!" Said Noah as he bent down to get closer to it. Zane stood behind him.
"Aw, look, Zane! He's tryin' to be extreme!"
Zane only looked at it and snuffed. Trying was right. Failing was even more right. before Zane could utter this witty remark, Noah caught him.
"Shut it, Zane." He said coldly (lolpun) and tunred his focus back to the Riolu.
"Aren't you cute?"

[Song]

Riolu let out a squeak of shock and ducked down as Noah flew over him. Once the immediate threat was passed, the Riolu sat up to get a better view of the comical human who suddenly appeared to be in love with a tree.
He fluffed out his fur as the human approached him, eyes sparkling with mistrust. But his caution was quickly forgotten and replaced with curiosity as he slipped over to Noah. The tiny canine let out a half-hearted growl toward the Delibird, but it was clearly more interested in Noah.
Delicately he reached his head out and sniffed Noah's knee. His sent was extremely complex, and a bit sweaty. He leaned back and fixed the human with a quick blue-eyed stare, blinked once, and turned away.
Then, with almost no warning, the Riolu wiggled his hunches like a cat getting ready to spring, and launched himself into the air.
Landing ungracefully on the ice, he slid across on his stomach like a puppy on a newly waxed linoleum floor.

Then, fell into a fit of giggles.

[Jake]

Noah petted the little Riolu gently. Zane, however, just sneered at the blue thing and waddled away. Noah looked back at the Delibird.
"Pfft. Don't mind him," He said back to Riolu, "He's just mad cause he's fat." Zane turned and glared at the back of Noah's head.
Noah nearly fell backwards as the Riolu went and threw itself on the ice and slid away giggling.
"This little guy's EXTREME!" He said watching in amusement.
Zane saw Noah's joy at this and puffed out his chest. He would not be outdone! Getting a running start, Zane threw his own belly onto the frozen water and shot across it.
"Aw, c'mon Zane!" Noah yelled after the bird and also ran onto the ice and slid after the other two.


Zane quickly passed the Riolu and cheered for himself once he did. He kept sliding, faster and faster, until he was near the edge of the lake. Too busy cheering himself on, Zane didn't see this until it was too late. Much like his master, the Delibird opened his eyes a moment too late and, before he could do otherwise,
"OH SHI-"
Hit the edge.
But unlike his trainer, Zane did not fly into a tree, but rather just skid across the grass until the ground slowed him to a halt, at which point the Delibird jumped off the ground and started fanning his reddened belly with his pudgy wings.
While hopping around and trying to cool his ground burn, Zane did not notice the guy laying on the ground and fell flat on top of him.
With the contact on his burn, Zane jumped up again and fanned himself. Of course, he did manage to apologize to the guy, although it was said quickly and without eye contact, as if he was just saying it as a formality:
"Sorry, lady."

[!ADMIRALsaturn]

“Kishoko.”
“Yes, Cordelia?”
“I sense an unruly aura.”
“From where?”
“There.”

Cordelia flipped a page in her book and pointed off in the right direction without missing a beat, her aquatic friends glancing over in ‘that’ area. ‘That’ area being the place where the ice had crawled along the bank of the lake to end just near them, and upon that ice, there was a Pokémon. Red, fat, squawking idiotically, the three simply watched him until he crashed into the shore and slid rather painfully-looking across the grass toward Jaden. They did not take offense…

But Storm did.

The Flygon had watched Zane’s approach with growing displease, and coming within even a few feet of Jaden was enough to set him off. His trainer hadn’t seemed too concerned with the incoming noise, and paid the Delibird no heed. At least, he did until it clumsily hop-waddled over and fell onto him. You see, the bird was fat; therefore, the bird was heavy. The bird was also dirty, so with the air pushed from his lungs and the switch to rid himself of filth in his mind flipped, Jaden helped in removing the Pokémon by pushing it, before sitting up to brush his shirt off. How rude…!

Storm landed next to Jaden with a thud, his girth towering over him, the somehow still-sleeping Sebastien, and Zane, wings spread menacingly with a glower locked onto the Delibird. Jaden mumbled vainly and ignored them with a scowl on his face, plucking the small bits of grass from his shirt and trying to get rid of the dirt there with little success. He hadn’t even seemed to register that he’d been called a woman. He was used to it by now to not take offense, even completely missing it like that.

“Clumsy oaf,” he growled. “Cause irritancy elsewhere!” Jaden tried shooing Zane with his hand, unsettled by the bird’s mere presence. Did no one have the decency anymore to look where they were going?

[Song]

The Riolu swiped a quick paw out as Zane slid past, eying the speed the bird gained with amazement.
'Treme! he chirped, clumsily standing up again. He chased slowly after the Delibird, his paws grabbing no traction on the ice (though he worked furiously).
He sat with a huff, defeated as Zane clearly won the one sided race.
Well, the Riolu thought it was a race, he doubted Zane was aware of the sudden decision.
How annoying, Riolus were so slow when it came to running, and why were their back legs to much bigger then the front ones?
The small Pokémon scratched at his long ear, lost in sudden thought. One of his great problems: so easily distracted.
In fact, he was so interested with his own thoughts, he hardly noticed the scene that was playing out on the bank of the lake.
Until the large Flygon started moving. He hadn't even noticed it was there.
He stared at the angry dragon with wide eyed awe.

[Jake]

"Oaf? You're the one just sitting around!" Zane started yelling back and flailing his stubby wings. The nerve of some people. Well, to Zane anyway. He wasn't good in these types of situations.

Noah had now finished gently sliding across the frozen lake to the scene.
"Aw, no..." He sighed seeing Zane be an ass. He hopped off of the ice and walked over to the others.
"You'll have to excuse my Delibird." Noah said a tad embarrassed "He's just being a jerk. Isn't that right, Zane?"
"Shove it."
"Pull it our of your ass, Birdy."With a humph, Zane stomped off. Well, tried to stomp off. It's kind of hard to stomp off when you have stubby legs. Zane waddled away and plopped down on the grass next to a sleeping Delcatty. He glared at him. "Stupid cat." He mumbled.

Noah was a bit uncomfortable with the situation. He would have been really uncomfortable, but the fact that this was not the first time this has happened lowered the impact of it all. Trying to lighten the mood, Noah decided on some small talk.
"So, just relaxing by the lake, eh?" He said as he leaned against the tree and propped his foot on it. He gazed at the lake of ice as the heat of the sun finally began to melt the uncommon ice.

[!ADMIRALsaturn]

Moana and Kishiko spotted the daring little Riolu upon the ice and, like any female being faced with anything that could have possibly been labeled "cute", they took to him immediately.
"Oh my, how cute! Look at him, Cordelia!" Moana trilled, slithering onto the ice and offering the end of her tail as a lift to the Aura-sensing pup. Her attempts at prying Cordelia from her book ultimately failed so the Gardevoir stayed put on Kishiko's back as the ferry Pokémon wandered over to the ice's edge to join in the swooning.

Storm glared the Delibird down with a frighteningly stern face, snorting a puff of smoke from his nostrils as the soft hand of Jaden's touched his leg, lulling him down obediently. The lavender-haired man muttered a few words of consolation to his voice of the desert and stroked Storm's muzzle, allowing the beast to back away and lower his hackles. Satisfied, Jaden shifted so that his legs were neatly crossed and the ends of his hair barely brushed along the blades of grass beneath him, completely tuning out the small argument to his left. He didn't want to be caught up in it, so he minded his own. When they were done, he ceased blocking them out just to be queried by Noah. He caught Sebastien's ear twitch and tail flick Zane's pudgy form as a sign of annoyance, and sighed quietly under his breath, before giving his curt reply to the extreme trainer:

"I suppose."

To be honest, things had been quite nice until the boy and his obese bird showed up. Couldn't they just leave?

[Song]

<sup>Hi, hi! the Riolu greeted, standing up on all fours again. He looked from Moana to Kishiko and back again, not sure which one was more fascinating. Finally, he found the bright colors of Moana's tail more interesting then the massive ferry Pokémon, and climbed on. "I'm 'treme," he said in a matter-of-a-fact way, "That guy sayed so." His eyes turned toward Kishiko and the intelligent Gardevoir on her back. "Neat." He said simply, with a nod of his head. Then he looked up at Moana and let out a shrill of happiness. "You're pretty!"


(Behold my short post! x.x)</sup>

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[Jake]

"I see."
...
Well, that certainly was some small talk. Very small. Noah looked around awkwardly with the occasional, "uh," "um," and "so..."
Time seemed to ooze by slowly while Noah tried to fight this social battle. Sure, he could just leave, but wouldn't that be rude? Noah may be EXTREEEEEEEME, but he wasn't one without manners. He eventually resorted to putting his goggles over his eyes, taking them off, putting them back on, taking them off, and repeating as a way to release some pressure that was building up. He looked over at Zane, who had replied to the tail flick by glaring at the cat. The Delibird had half a mind to break the ice, stuff the Delcatty in his bag, and drop it through the hole.
Noah just rolled his eyes and kept looking around. He saw the Riolu and his fan club.
"They seem to like the little guy, don't you think?"
Noah was sure that if the reply was an "I guess," he was going to explode.
In an extreme way.

[!ADMIRALsaturn]

"...'Treme'?" Moana asked in a thrown off manner, her smile faltering in confusion as if the small pup had suddenly turned green. Cordelia, ever concise and consequently rude, offered her input:
"He means 'extreme'. He's a pup; speech impediments are common occurrences in young Pokémon."
"Oh hush, Cordelia," Kishiko chided, her admonishing gaze torn from the uninterested Gardevoir too Moana, who lifted the small Rilou from the ice and across the small-her-large-to-him distance to let the tip of her tail hover just above her head, dipped invitingly.
"Want a ride?"

Jaden watched as his dearest Pokémon mingled about over the none-too-fascinating Rilou, then switched to Sebastien and Zane. The former, in response to literally feeling the Delibird's glare, growled deep in the back of his throat warningly. His lashing tail picked up speed and ferocity, seeming dangerous on its own, and the effeminate trainer decided it was going to end there.

"Get up, you insufferable idiot, and move somewhere else if he bothers you," he snapped, swatting the Delcatty's back in a painful manner. He was rewarded with a hiss, drawn ears, and bristling fur. Sebastien jerked away, scrambled to his feet, arched his back, then stalked off saucily. Jaden had said that the moment after Noah asked about the Riolu and it never crossed his mind to stop and reply until now, his triumphant little bastard smirk fading away swiftly as he glanced up and over.

"It would appear so," he said with an edge, giving Noah a wary look as he carefully pronounced the words, adding on suddenly with a light, almost annoyed tone: "Is there something you wish to ask of me? Or are you going to sit there like you are and babble nonsense to yourself?" Storm lumbered on up behind Jaden and sat down, as if he were just daring the extreme trainer so say something harsh in his defense. Jaden didn't quite appreciate his over-protective disposition, and often tried to break him out of it, but always failed, and accepted it. It was going to save his life one day, Storm just knew it.

[Jake]

Well, Noah didn't get an 'I guess so,' but the 'It would appear so' was close enough. He thought he was going to explode and he hoped this guy got the most guts over him. All of this effort trying to be kind and friendly for hardly any effort from this guy. It was very irrataing.
Oh, but wait. More words were coming! There's hope!
...
Wait what?
Did... Did he just actually say that? What was with this guy?
From all of the things that had happened in this little scene of Noah's life, Noah experienced an EXTREME change of personality.
"Now listen here, you," Noah said as he stood over Jaden, not even noticing the Flygon, and pointed an excusing finger at his face, "All I have done is try to be nice, but dude, you're getting on my nerves."
Zane heard his partners remarks and stood up. Noah's anger rarely showed itself. The Delibird waddled over and stood beside Noah, also glaring at Jaden. 'Like trainer like pokemon,' Zane thought to himself as shot a quick look at the Delcatty.
"I dunno what your problem is, but you had better as hell fix it and fast," Noah continued, keeping his finger pointed angrily at Jaden's face. "Because nobody, especially me, wants to take your attitude, you got that guy?"
Zane was bobbing his head as Noah's "Yeah!" man while Noah talked.
It was then that Noah noticed the Flygon behind Jaden.
"And tell your fat bug to stop looking at me."

[Song]

Riolu hesitated for a short moment, before jumping onto Kishiko's head and clinging to the Lapras' horn. "Wow. . ." It was clear the small Pokémon had never had the joy of riding another one before. Peaking over Kishiko's head, he gave Cordelia an enthusiastic wave. But he paused and sat up, clearly not wary of the height he was on. "Oh no. That guy and that other guy are mad." he looked from Mona and back to the two annoyed trainers on the bank of the lake. " See? That guy and that other guy!"