[0] The Magician's Assistant [Done!]

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Skyler had a smirk plastered on his face as he strutted through the Haven Area toward the Laboratories. The day was bright, pretty, really, and people were moving about around him, though he didn't pay them much mind. A few people stared, even, and he wasn't even surprised. I mean, how many kids that look like me do you see on a daily basis?

Man, was Skyler right. He was a sight to behold. Not because he was attractive or anything, but it seemed like just looking at him would send you into a rare form of neon color-induced shock. He was bright, alright, even brighter than that oh-so-pretty day. Hair so blue it made the sky envious, with no attempt to look natural. It flew about in multiple directions, with enough bangs of different sizes hanging into Skyler's face to obscure his vision if he turned his head the wrong way. Oh, one bang was a normal color, of course, the mega-pale blond that his hair was originally, before he went and lost a battle to a dye-bottle. Skyler laughed as an old woman walked by, giving him a totally unpleasant look.
"How'sit going, babe?" Skyler spoke playfully to the elderly lady, giving her a flirtatious wink to punctuate his sentence. Oh, she definitely loved that. The lady bustled off as if he had slapped her. Skyler chuckled again. Gotta love it when they stare.
He walked through the area as if he owned it, in his bright purple vest that only had one real sleeve, and even that looked like it had been sewn on by a one-armed monkey. A neon green belt led to Skyler's bright red pants, a glaringly loud color that made sugar-loaded fruit punch look like nothing. A pair of ratty brown gloves were on the teen's mid-sized hands, no fingers, of course.

Skyler's clothes did have one rule-of-thumb, however. One little detail brought the outfit together. All of his clothes were tight. Fruit-punch-pants looked painted on, the gloves looked quite a bit too small for his hands. The sleeve on his vest? The only reason it was apparent that his skin and the clothing were two different items was because they were two very contrasting colors.
Skyler's skin was super-pale, but an intense pink color around his eyes, nose, and lips. Even the tips of Skyler's fingers were a deep pink.

People stared. After a while, they didn't even try to hide the fact. Skyler just smiled at them, purple-eyes (contacts, definitely) gleaming above a knock-out grin. He came to the Lab, finally and knocked on the door a multitude of times, for some reason playing out the beginning of Jingle Bells on the wood. After he finished knocking, Skyler called out. "Hello-oo!" Cheerfully, a lopsided smile on his face. The teen rocked back on his old sneakers and waited patiently.

[Crazed Lapras]

Professor Apple Blossem stuck her head around the door, grinning sheepishly. The door moved back and forth as though something large were pushing on it. What was visible of the Professor's arm appeared to be struggling with something, and loud growling sounds were comming from the other side of the door. "Hello trainer." She said, out of breath. "Why don't you come on in? I'll be just a minute." As she opened the door wide enough to let him in, a Houndoom tried to lunge for freedom. The Professor had a firm grip on the collar around its neck, and with effort managed to hall it out of the way. Her face red with the effort, Professor A.B slowly dragged the Houndoom toward her desk where it pokeball was perched. She reached out and pressed the button, calling the angry fire-dog back to captivity. It dissappeared, and she heaved a sigh of reliefe.
That finished, she turned back to face Skyler, brushing a loose strand of hair from her eyes. "Sorry about that. What can I do for you today?"

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ooc;; Ugh, fail post is fail.


Skyler smiled as the Professor wrestled to bring the Houndoom to its pokeball. He entered the Lab and looked around, grinning like a loon. After he had had his fill of looking around, Skyler turned back to the Professor. "Hah, don't apologize, that Houndoom was really cute! It acts just like my mom's, always trying to get out."
Skyler chuckled lightly, running a hand through his hair. "Anyways, I'm just here to get a starter pokemon, y'know? I can't wait to get started on my journey!"

He looked up at the ceiling for a moment, talking more to himself than anybody. "We'll be a pretty awesome duo, and my first pokemon will get to be my assistant in magic shows!" The trickster rolled his shoulders and swept his blond bang out of the way before looking back towards the professor. "So, what kinda pokemon do you have here?"

[Crazed Lapras]

Professor A.B smiled at him. He seemed like a nice boy. "It's a bit of a list, so just stop me when you've heard enough." She said. "For fire types we have charmander, cyndaquil, tochic, chimchar, houndour, and numel. For grass types we have bulbasaur, chikorita, treeko, and turtwig. For water types we have squirtle, totodile, mudkip, and piplup. We also have pikachu and eevee." She paused to take a deep breath after listing all sixteen pokemon. "If you'd like, I could bring a couple out here and you could mingle with them and pick one that way."

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Skyler tapped his chin with a finger pensively. "I really would get a houndour, but I've already been around one before, so that wouldn't be as interesting. So, rather than fire and dark pokemon that I'm used to, I'll go with something different!" Skyler held his bottom lip between his teeth, worrying it at it as he thought.

"Hm, well, I think Totodile sounds good! It's a water pokemon, so that definitely different, and I've heard that they're usually really energetic!" Skyler slammed a fist into his palm, nodding as he came to an ultimatum. "That'll be a wonderful pokemon for a magician's assistant!" Skyler grinned, running a hand through his hair even though there was no obvious reason to.
"So Professor, would you like to see a magic trick?" His purple eyes sparkled with hope that the woman in front of him would say yes.

[Crazed Lapras]

A slight blush crept across Professor A.B's cheecks. She was actually quite charmed by this young man. "Sure, I could use a break." She said, taking him up on his offer to preform for her. " She pulled up a plastic lab chair and sat in it, crossing one ankle behind the other. She took a quick peek at her watch, then settled in comfortably. "What kind of trick are you going to do? I should warn you, making pokemon dissappear from the lab would not be a good idea. I know how that one works."

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Skyler gave Professor A.B. a winning smile and a wink. "It'll be interesting, but don't worry, not one little pokemon will disappear from this lab." He smiled widely again before fishing around in his pants pocket, arm going into the pocket much farther than it should have, seeing as how, pockets can only be so large, you know. When Skyler's arm was up to his elbow in his own pants, he seemed to grab onto whatever he had been searching for, with a triumphant mumble of "Gotcha!".

Skyler began to pull the item out of his pocket, and chuckled to himself as it turned out to be the orange scarf that hung on the other side of his pants. On that side, the scarf seemed to be receding slowly into nowhere, right on time with Skyler pulling the scarf out of his other pocket. "Man, I need to really re-organize that pocket, don'tcha think?" The trickster grinned, the scarf now completely out of his pocket. "I'm a pretty handy guy, you know?" Skyler talked conversationally as he wrapped the orange scarf around his left hand, covering it completely. "But sometimes, it seems like I just can't keep those hands, y'know, where they belong." He waggled his eyebrows suggestively and laughed as he grabbed his wrapped hand. The material was clenched in his fist, as if there wasn't a hand in there at all.

"Crazy. I could swear it was just here. . ." Skyler held onto the cloth and looked around theatrically before facing the professor again and shrugging. "Maybe it'll come back if I ask nicely." The magician smiled widely, and leaned in towards his wrist, speaking earnestly. "Oh, Mister Hand, I do hope you'll return soon. I can't go around magicking with only one hand! I'd be ridiculed for years!" Skyler let go of his left hand, and shook his arm energetically, letting the scarf fall away. When he stopped shaking his left arm, the hand was there, as whole as ever.

"Oh, Handy! You've come back!" Skyler swooned, then giggled, turning back to Professor A.B and bowing low. "Well, I hoped you like my few tricks!" The teen brushed a hand through his hair, making a point of using his left one, then bent over and grabbed the scarf that had fallen to the floor. "Oh, I forgot! Look at this one!" Skyler shook the scarf around with his hand, watching it expectantly. After a few moments of agitating the cloth, a playing card fell out. "One . . ." He obviously expected more, and he definitely got them. The rest of the deck seemed to fall out of the cloth, though there was no obvious way that he could have kept them sitting in there without being see. "Tah dah!" Skyler bowed to his spectator again.

"Too bad the cleanup for this one is so bad." He gestured to the 52 cards on the floor of the Lab.

[Crazed Lapras]

Professor Apple Blossem chuckled at the appropriate moments, enthralled in the preformance. She applauded both tricks with gusto, and her eyebrows practically popped off her head when Skyler's hand dissappeared. She stood after the card trick, still beaming.

"Well, while you're cleaning up, I'll go get your pokemon for you." She said. She slipped quietly through a side door.
When she returned, she was leading a pack of five pokemon. They were all water types, but only four were totodile. The last one was a mudkip who had his large mouth clamped firmly around one of the totodile's tails. The Professor flapped her hand at him. "Sorry about the mudkip. He didn't want to be left behind."

Of the totodile, two were male and two were female. One of the males, the one with the mudkip on his tail, seemed to have a goodly nature. He flapped his hands at the mudkip, trying to shoo him off, but only half heartedly. Instead the mudkip licked his fingers, earning a chortle from the totodile. The other male was the most inquisitive, walking around the room and poking things at random.

One of the females was obviously bored. She plopped down on the ground and began to chew on one claw, her eyes averted from everything. The last female was a lovely turqiose shade, her skin glimmering in the light. She walked up to Skyler and presented him her hand, making the Professor smile.

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Skyler had picked up all of the cards and put the deck back in his pocket by the time the professor returned. He ran a hand through his hair, smiling absently because the Professor had liked his performance.
As the four Totodile came in, Skyler chuckled at the Mudkip that had attached itself to one of them. "Hah, looks like a really determined 'fella!" Skyler laughed again and the Mudkip, and grinned as one of the females approached him with a hand to shake.

Skyler took the small hand graciously, giving the pokemon a winning smile and a "How do you do?". Skyler looked at the curious and bored Totodiles, frowning a bit. Can't have them as assistants, they don't even want to meet me! Skyler made his way over to the Totodile with the Mudkip attached to his tail, giving it a grin. "Hiya! You seem awfully okay with that Mudkip on your tail."

[Crazed Lapras]

The Totodile with the mudkip grinned up at Skyler, obviously pleased to meet him. The mudkip yawned, and the totodile took the chance to rescue his tail. While the mudkip blinked, confused, the male totodile looked Skyler over. The shiny female had walked over to stand by the trainer. She crooned in a friendly fashion and subtly stepped closer to Skyler than her male counterpart. She obviously wanted the human to pay attention to her instead.

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Skyler laughed as the male Totodile retrieved his tail from the Mudkip's maw. Hearing a sound next to him, Skyler looked down to see the female shiny Totodile, obviously wanting more of his attention. "Hello again," Skyler spoke good-naturedly, a happy look bolting across his countenance. "You are awfully pretty, indeed." Skyler complimented the pokemon, chuckling a bit. "Do you want to come with me on my journey?" Skyler ran a gloved hand through his hair, sweeping a blond lock out of his face. You seem like you'd like to! Skyler smiled inwardly.

[Crazed Lapras]

The shiny totodile batted her eyelashes at him and smiled, nodding her head vigorously. The Professor chose that moment to step forward, a starter kit in her hands. "Is she your choice then? I think the two of you would make a good team. Perhapse you could even train her to be your 'lovely assistant' for a magic trick..." She smiled and the Totodile bounced up and down, clearly excited by the idea.

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Skyler chuckled. "She could indeed be my lovely assistant." He gave a wink to the Totodile, and grinned. "I'm sure she'd also love to learn to make random items disappear into thin air, as well?" Skyler laughed wholeheartedly, sweeping his blond bang with a gloved hand. "So, Professor, since I've officially picked a pokemon, what do I do now? Surely you're going to give me some sort of supplies, am I right?" Skyler rocked back on his heels idly, a smile on his face.

[Crazed Lapras]

"Of course. This is for you." She said, handing him the starter kit along with the Totodile's pokeball. "By the way, if you happen to come across any legendary pokemon while you are traveling, I would like to hear about it. Of course, I want to hear all about your adventure anyways, but if you find something that might help my research..." she trailed off as she realized she was babbling. "Anyways, good luck to you."
(Sorry gotta run. Will post stats as soon as I can.)

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Skyler accepted the starter kit and the pokeball gratefully, a grin spread wide on his face. Skyler stuck the pokeball in his pocket, with a bit of difficulty, even with the orb shrunk down to its miniature size. "Dang tighty-pants." Skyler chuckled before retrieving the items from the starter pack one by one, and proceeding to make them disappear into thin air. Once he had finished that, Skyler gave Professor A.B. a winning smile.

"Now, just to think of a name for my new 'lovely assistant'." He said the title like you'd say "3 million dollar prize", a few simple words that seemed to suggest a whole lot more than they described. The teen bounced a few ideas around in his head. "Susan? Too normal... Nothing too showy." Skyler pensively pulled his very pink bottom lip under his teeth. "Oh, I know! Carmen. You are now Carmen, my beautiful assistant." Skyler smiled down at the Totodile. "Now, Carmen! Let us leave the Lovely Professor to her work, and start this journey!" Skyler smiled at Professor A.B., blowing her a kiss before giving a kind "See you some day again, Professor Babe." and making his way out of the Lab.