Jai + Lab = Really Lame Title

[PBK]

Jai approached the lab quite slowly. She breathed deeply as her crutches made a "clack-clack-clack" sound on the gravel road. She hated them- hated them more than anything else in the world (at least for the moment.) They made her feel so confined. Jai wished she could fly, that she could soar through the air. But, it was like her wings had been clipped. The closest she could come to freedom now was to swim. And she had sworn never to set foot in the water again. So that was out of the question.

At this point, Jai stopped to take a breath. The steps up to the lab would be quite a challenge. They were steeper than normal. Jai positioned her crutches in such a way that allowed her to slowly creep up the steps to the lab. Then, she used one of them to push the lab door open.

"Hello?" She called. It felt weird to be in a lab again. She had been in many before, but never this one. It was a different time, a different situation, and this time, she wouldn't have to run if someone appeared. She was just here to get a pokemon and any other supplies that she would need for her journey.

Jai tapped her right crutch uncomfortably on the ground. She had a gut feeling that she shouldn't be here, as if something might jump out of the bush at any second and carry her off to who-knows-where. But Jai held her ground. How else would she get her Ekans. Anyways, the trip back down the stairs would be easier to get down if she changed her mind.

[Professor Gravon]

(Ooc: What pokemon do you want? Shiny? Shadow?)

Looked like noone was in...

A pokemon leaped out from the laboratories many gloomy shadow's

[PBK]

ooc||-normal ekans please-

bic||

Jai looked around. Maybe there were pokeballs somewhere. If no one was there, at least she could take a pokemon...or two. Jai stopped there. She was falling back again, falling back into her old character. She hated herself for that. She hobbled around a few steps and looked closer at her surroundings. She was in the middle of looking at a paper-like thing when the thing jumped out at her. She fell backwards in surprise, tripping over nothing in particular. There was a loud "thud" as she hit the ground.

"Who's there?" she asked quietly from where she was laying on the floor. Her arm throbbed. She must have hit it on something on the way down. But she had no time to tend to it. Someone or something knew that she was there. And all of her instincts told her to run, to get up and run. But for some reason, she couldn't move. So she just sat there, petrified.

[Professor Gravon]

<Sss-ss-ss!> Something laughed.
<Noone'sss here! Only me, and I'm bored! Take me with you, or I might ssscare the nexsst persson to work through thosse doorsss!>
The voice came from an ekans coiled up next to her.

<Make ssssure you grab a sstarterss pack before you leave! They are the front door!>

[PBK]

Jai looked at the pokemon uncertainly. What were the odds of that? She got up (with some trouble. Her crutches had become twisted in some odd fashion that made it extra hard to lift her right leg.) Then, she retrieved her cloak which had fallen to the side when she hit the ground.

"Okay," Jai said, trying not to sound too excited, "You can come with me." She motioned to the Ekans. "Now, what shall I call you?" She tried to make it look like she was thinking, but Jai had already selected the perfect name for her new pokemon. "Okay- Venom II. But I shall just call you Venom to make it easier."

Jai smiled for the first time that day and began to hobble towards the exit. She picked up her starter pack from beside the door and whistled for Venom to follow.

[Professor Gravon]

<You don't own me until you own thisss!> The ekans hissed, as it flicked a pokeball with it's tail into Jai's hand.



((Stats))
Nickname: (You choose)
Species: Ekans
Gender: (You choose)
Level: 5
Attacks: Wrap, Leer, Slam
Ability: Shed Skin
Persona: Sneaky

[PBK]

Jai nodded as she caught the pokeball.

"You're right," she said, "Now, let's get going."

With that, she hobbled out of the lab, and out to route one, Viper following close behind. Jai felt suddenly happy for the first time in a long while. This would be a new start. Nothing could stop her.