Backdated to February 14th

[ricericebaby]

[Action; Hanayo's house]

[Anyone passing by Hanayo's house in the residential district today will most likely notice a flurry of activity if they happen to pass by the slightly open window of the kitchen.  There is steam rising from out the window from a truly massive amount of rice being cooked, and amid the periodic sounds of running water and dishes being moved around, it's easy to pick out Hanayo's voice ringing out loud and clear as she cheerfully sings to herself.  There's apparently something special going on today, as she sounds much clearer and more confident than usual.]

[Action; around town]

[Throughout the day, Hanayo can be found around the city buying supplies for what she's up to at home.  Most noticeable is the twenty-pound bag of rice she's carrying over her shoulder like it's no big thing.  It's quite impressive for a girl as relatively petite as she is.  She's still humming as she goes, too.]

[Video]

[Late in the day, Hanayo appears on the Warp Band - utterly surrounded by rice balls decorated and flavored with everything under the sun, and looking a little embarrassed at how carried away she's gotten.]

Um... I lost track of things and made too many rice balls today.

[Understatement of the year.]

It would be a shame to waste them, so would anyone like some?

10th Action + Video

[makeitquick]

[ As she often does, Melaka is in the Habitat, holding her and hers with training - specifically, today, it's a single elimination tournament with all of them. The babies, of course, are going to lose, but as long as they do their best, that's all she can hope for. So you might come across some duels of Melaka and/or any of her pokémon getting into some battles with each other! This might not be strictly organized and devolve into playing around and/or exhibition matches.

Still.

This will go on most of the day, and it'll be a sweat-making thing that anyone could walk in on, popcorn about, whatever. And it's later in the day when Melaka is on the warp band to, sweating something fierce, ]

Hey. Remember when there was that tournament when Team Evolution showed up the first time? What if we did something like that again?

[ She doesn't have the means to organize it, but there's a lot of rich people here, maybe they could. Or she can find some other people who really want to be made stronger. ]

Double Log; I will wait

[missleadingquestions]

Who: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu and Maya Fey
What: Two logs; meeting after Kuzuryuu's injury and a string of letters
When: so many dates. Will be marked in each thread. Maybe. Depends on how lazy we are.
Where: The Fey Manor and through letters
Warnings: Discussions of grave injury

Starters in threads below!

009

[a_gentle_boy]

[Today is Train Your Pokémon to Battle Day! And having finally recovered slightly from his ordeal, Lucas is using the last few days of his requested vacation from work to get some of this move groove going. He's never been one to push his Pokémon to train until they drop or anything, but in light of the fact that new and unusual threats seem to be cropping up quickly, it's worth taking a few hours every week to do his part.]

[action 1]
[Early in the morning, Lucas is sitting on a bench in the city holding what looks to be a disc in one hand and a Castform in the other. Anyone who has borrowed a TM from the Rangers will recognize what Lucas is holding... and probably what he's unsuccessfully doing, too.]

Um.

[He scratches at the back of his head a little before gingerly placing the disc on Castform's forehead and staring at it expectantly for a few moments.]

Or...

[Now he rotates Castform every which direction and scrutinizes it carefully.]

Maybe...

[Castform's mouth is slowly eased open as Lucas peers inside.]

...I don't think it's going to fit.

[action 2]
[Having sorted out that TM business (why didn't anyone tell him it would play a video on his Warp Band???), Lucas is in the forest outside Union with a Mareep after lunch. He swings a stick energetically like a conductor while the Mareep disinterestedly wanders around eating every piece of vegetation in sight.]

Thundershock!

[Mareep calmly annihilates a pretty blue flower.]

Thundershock!

[One petal at a time.]

...OK, pretend I'm a bad guy and I'm going to hit you. You've got to get me away however you can! Like a real fight, OK? Count of three.

One. Two. Three --

[And as Lucas runs towards the Mareep with the stick held high, the formerly cloudless sky instantly materializes a bank of dark clouds and launches a massive thunderbolt that jolts right through the boy.]

eeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Down he goes. Mareep quietly meanders over and noses at his awkwardly twitching and spasming trainer on the ground. Was that a little too much?]

aaaaaaaaaaah........