I chose you! Or you! Or you! (Private)

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Ian was getting more and more annoyed with the others. For one, he didn't even know how that girl with the ringmaster outfit knew his name. He'd just showed up here, wherever here was, only what, five minutes ago. For another, no one seemed to be even trying to calm down the weird psychic boy. Finally, Ian looked back at the others.

"Could you all please be quiet?" Ian yelled. It took a lot to get him to lose his temper, even a little bit. He looked back toward Yosh and looked very confused as Yosh continued.

"Of course I'm really a human," Ian said with a bit of a laugh. "Oh, but I am a trainer! See?" He pulled a Pokeball from his back pocket and held it out. The Pokeball was for the only Pokemon Ian had ever met that didn't hate him at first sight. He pressed the button on the Pokeball, and out came a Nidorino, who shook himself upon exiting the Pokeball.

"Nido?" The Don asked hesitantly.

[shiftyPotentate]

Miyori was forced to rely on her sense of hearing. She listened intently, trying to make her way back toward the boy who had conjured that wave of water. She picked out some key sounds, namely "trainer", a strange noise she had never heard before, and some unidentified creature speaking a word in a foreign language.

What in the hell is going on around here? she was forced to wonder. Still unable to see, she nevertheless drew her bow and strung it, having done it enough times to not need to see. The red-haired archer pulled an arrow from her quiver, cursing under her breath as she realized that most of them had fallen out in the wave.

Then she nocked an arrow and aimed at where she assumed the psychic boy was. In reality she was aiming directly at Celebi.

"You think it's funny?" she said, spitting sandy water out of her mouth. "Washing people away like that when they're talking to you?" She deliberately did not pull the arrow back very far. She only wanted to scare, not kill.

[B gal]

Dippy sighed at Ian's frustrations. Well, he didn't detect anything piratically strange about her, just confusion, which was good enough for her.

Shade looked up at the master wanting mentioning. He was going to helped out, but Ian's yelling prevented that, but only temporary.

Dippy walked towards Miyori and tapped her gently on the shoulder.

"Um, your pointing at the wrong target," She calmly stated.

[sleepZombie]

Upon seeing the other Pokemon Yosh's attitude changed slightly. Still put on edge by Ian's presence and that of everyone else who had taken to shouting at him, he crouched down to wrap his arms around his knees, looking up at the Nidorino instead of down at it.

"Peh... Pi." He hunched his shoulders a little bit, trying to just ignore everyone around him as he slowly brought one hand away from himself to hold out to the Nido. "I don't know what happened... I was lost and then I was here and now I'm... Do you know what's going on?" He spoke directly to the Pokemon, a little bit nervous. What if the Nidorino thought he wasn't a Pokemon anymore? WAS he still a Pokemon, anyway?

Yosh's shoulders hunched, glancing briefly passed the Nido's shoulder towards Ian with a wary, tired expression. Was this guy really a trainer? Every vibe that Yosh got from Ian screamed of 'STAY AWAY' to him. Surely every other Pokemon could sense it as well... how could he ever dream of working with any. Why did the 'Dorino like him in the first place, even?

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Don Ran seemed confused by Yosh. The boy smelled of Pokemon, but he smelled of human too. It wasn't the same way Ian did, because Ian just smelled a bit off (though the Don only knew this from what Ian's other Pokemon had said). Yosh simultaneously smelled of human and Pokemon. And that was what was confusing the Nidorino so much.

<"I'm not really sure. I wasn't out of my Pokeball when Master Ian appeared here. This place is an island, and that is all I know,"> the Don said in Poke-speak.

"If you're wondering where you are, you're on this place called the Dimensional Island... I think. I just got here about twenty minutes ago myself..." Ian admitted. "I'm kinda confused too..."

He was still going to try to be friendly toward Yosh, though he could tell the... whatever he was didn't like him much. Now that Yosh was crouched down, Ian could see the markings on Yosh's lower back, but Ian didn't recognize them as Togepi markings. He really couldn't recognize them; he'd never seen a Togepi or any of its evolutions in his life.

[sleepZombie]

((Getting tired of waiting for people to reply so I'm stepping this up. It's pretty much gonna be a you snooze you lose from here on out. I apologize to anyone who might not have been present when I came to this decision.))


Yosh completely ignored Ian, or rather, what he said. He POINTED towards the human but he continued to talk to the Nidorino. "HE'S your Master?" It was... completely hard for him to believe. Yosh paused a moment, glancing over the Pokemon.

If that guy was this Pokemon's trainer... it had been a Nidoran at one point, and he'd helped it to evolve...

Yosh finally looked up passed the Don, pinning Ian with an intense stare. He weighed all possibilities in his mind, the cons... what few pros there seemed to be. Really there only had to be ONE thing that would convince him. Slowly the Togepi stood up, unable to regard Ian with anything more than a wary side-glance. He set his jaw firmly, arms coming up to cross over his bare chest.

"...Will you be my master?" He looked away as he asked, unable to meet the human's eyes. He'd never been able to say it so straightforwardly before, no one ever understood him. He'd always either been taken on by a human and joined their party in it's travels or he'd simply started following one until it realized he wasn't going away.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

The Don didn't really react much to Yosh's surprised yell. It wasn't like the Don wasn't already used to things like this. He just gave a little nod to Yosh.

Ian flinched as Yosh started to stare at him. He was glad when Yosh went back to just looking at him with aside-glances, it was creepy the way Yosh had stared at him. He blinked at the question. Be Yosh's master? Ian didn't think he could really be anyone's master. And it seemed a bit odd to be a person's master, even if said person was a very confused naked albino with weird markings on his back. Finally, Ian made a decision.

"If I will, will you put some pants on?" Ian asked, holding up the boxers again.

[sleepZombie]

Yosh quietly considered before giving a shrug and reaching out to snatch the boxers out of Ian's hands. He didn't want to touch him if he could help it at all.

"...I guess..." He spoke sulkily, holding up the garment and stretching the waist band with his thumbs. "That's what you do when you're a master, anyway... tell us what to do. Help us to get better... stronger. Take care of us. If you don't just stick us in some box storage and forget about us forever..."

He pressed his lips together thinly, dropping that line of thought as he awkwardly bent down to step into the boxers and tugging them up. He stopped short as it halted at his knees and refused to go any further. He looked up at Ian a bit peevishly - why would he give him something that didn't fit? What was the OTHER hole in the thing for anyway? The second pant leg flapped uselessly in the wind as Yosh gave the boxers another tug, both legs through just one leg.

[shiftyPotentate]

Trying to fix your vision by rubbing the part of your head that had blinded it didn't seem to be helping. Still, Miyori kept a listen, and something didn't seem right.

"Now hold on a minute," she said sternly, trying to look toward Yosh, failing her directionality once again. "Why would you ask to be someone's servant? Having to do what someone else orders you to do is the most horrid undervaluing of yourself!" Speaking from experience, she absolutely abhored subservient roles. "Why on earth would you ever do something so foolish and wrong??"

Even if she was furious with Yosh for the Surf attack, she still had her values.

[B gal]

"Like I said, he's a poke-morph. And your looking at the wrong person again."

This time, she helped Miyori in pointing at the direct place of where Yosh is.

"There ya go."

The three other girls under her Rpers control looked at each other.

"Well, morality on slavery aside, I do need some help on my quest on complete wizard training." Shade said.

"Well, pokemon does interest me," Edd said.

"I do need some help at the circus," Dippy said, though in reality she didn't care on who Yosh ended up with.

".... I don't feel it's right," Isabella commented.

[shiftyPotentate]

Miyori quietly thanked Dippy for the help.

"But I don't know what the heck a..." She tried to pronounce the word, and did, slowly. "Poke-morph... is, or why that allows for slavery. It sounds just like the issue between beorc and laguz to me."

[B gal]

"He's basically a fusion of pokemon and human. This pokemon is looking for a master, since in the alternate relems of pokemon have the similar concept of catching animals with mystical powers, cramming them into tiny balls, and train them like pets, sort of."

A slight pause.

"Yes, I am aware that it won't justified the implied slavery subtext."

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Ian was still kinda ignoring the others for the most part. They all bothered him, and until he got his bearings, they would seem extra suspicious to him. Especially since that girl over there kept going on about alternate realms of "Pokemon", which he didn't understand. Catching animals with mystical powers? Pokemon were just Pokemon. They didn't have mystical powers to Ian. The cramming them in tiny balls bit? Well, Ian didn't know how Pokeballs worked, but his Pokemon didn't hate them. And then the slavery subtext part... well, that just pissed Ian off. Pokemon were his friends.

"Shut up already! Stop talking like you know what you're talking about!" Ian yelled at Dippy. He started to concentrate on ignoring the girls over there.

He looked back over at Yosh and blinked at the predicament he'd managed to get himself into. "U-Um, you're wearing them wrong. You're supposed to put your other leg through the other hole, like this, see?" And then, not caring that he was in the presence of several females due to his attempts at ignoring them, pulled off his pants and held them out. He pulled his leg through one pants leg, and then put the other one in the correct pants leg as a demonstration to Yosh. "Now you try."

[B gal]

"Well, you should talk," Dippy said with a shrug.

Shade walked over towards Yosh.

"Um, excuse me sir, but do you need any more help," she asked the poke-morph.

[sleepZombie]

"...But..." He wasn't sure exactly how to respond to all the uproarous rebellion against him wanting Ian to become his Master. He frowned, brows furrowing upward in perplexity. "If he helped Nidorino evolve... maybe he can help m-" He was cut short as more people began to speak, talking over him, until finally Ian erupted at them all and caught his attention again. Yosh focused towards the human again, still on edge at his general presence.

Yosh stepped back out of the clothing, watching Ian before looking down at the boxers he held. Awkwardly he mimic'd the procedure and finally stood with clothing on. A voice to the side of him chirruped and he turned to look at the girl who had approached him. Did he need assistance...?

Yosh shook his head in the negative, back and forth. No... he didn't really need any help.