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Apollonia the Togekiss was nudging her trainer- she was flying! She would never crush her trainer with her weight! But the sun was rising and Dawn would forget to eat breakfast. Apollonia was being a good pokémon for making sure her trainer was taken care of.
Dawn thankfully woke up. Lightly swatting Apollonia before petting her, having realized what happened “Okay okay! I’m up. I’ll get dressed you oversized bird”.
Apollonia got the message and landed, waddling back into her pokéball. She didn’t know yet what her trainer was gonna do, but she had a good idea of one of her objectives.
Part of being on the champion’s team meant helping around with criseses.
She understood Dawn was for now given tasks the other humans thought would be easy. Which suited Apollonia just fine, her little human still needed to do a lot of growing and it wouldn’t do with her dying young. Cynthia, the human hers was so infatuated with, was titled “acting champion”, which she learned did more gorey missions and boring paperwork. Apollonia thought her trainer would do better with less paperwork herself, but for some reason this ‘homework’ was important. Maybe humans needed paperwork for stimulation?
Whatever the reason, they helped a group of trainers who were stuck in a cave. And currently Apollonia didn’t feel like getting in her pokéball for now (which Bernadette the Inferape agreed on actually). So they traveled with Dawn to a store (which wasn’t that close) to get, some weird drink that her trainer liked.
Dawn was ordering the sugary caffeine as a familiar figure appeared next to her.
Apollonia’s trainer noticed a moment after her and made yelp of surprised “Cynthia!”
The taller trainer gave a laugh as she got closer to Dawn “Hi there champ, I didn’t know you liked frappés”.
Apollonia didn’t exactly know what a frappe was, just that Dawn was insistant to like the drink after figuring out that Cynthia bought them often. Which either has succeeded or she was still determined to succeed.
Dawn patting the area behind her head “Well, I like how these guys make it”
“Not a bad choice, especially since you never drink coffee at the league”
“Hey I can try new things!” Dawn huffed, her arms crossing.
Cynthia petting Dawn’s head as she ordered her own drink (also a frappé), her trainer’s face was very flushed with what Apollonia knew wasn’t anger, maybe embarrisment? Definately attraction.
Ever since Apollonia was hatched from her egg, she’d seen her trainer swoon over the larger trainer despite Cynthia never using attract as far as she knew. Apollonia learned over the months she grew up that humans typically wanted deeper relationships, and that Dawn wanted to do something called a “wedding” with Cynthia. Though her mother had said she was too young to think of such things (Apollonia found it a little sad that humans needed so much time to grow up).
They sat down near a picnic table, with Dawn trying to be as close to Cynthia without sitting on her lap. They simply started chatting about whatever interested humans as Apollonia figured that this was a good time for a nap.