Change in the Air - (open)

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Nix paused at the outskirts of the city and looked over the entrance, she felt so small. Tain stood beside her, small and frail but a bold look on his face. Shadow sat atop his back with her tail flicking out from side to side, her ears moving o listen
to the people walking in and out. Nix shook herself and walked in to the city, her hand reached out to rest on tains front shoulders to keep the team from getting separated. The trio walked slowly against the people in the city, very clearly sticking out to anyone who lived or worked there. Nix knew this of course but her family had come from here, or so she thought, and so she wanted to explore a little. Shadow gave a little mew and nix turned to see what she had seen, a shadow disappeared down an alley way and nix felt her steps slow and head to the darker area but she paused. Not the best idea to follow shadows in to alleys in a new town, she turned and kept walking up the street before shadow mewed again. What now? Someone to battle? Something to see? 

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[Andrew]

Andrew was walking through the market, trying his best to not be noticed. Here in Olivae things were pretty nice. Not everyone had a dagger in their pocket, there weren't slavers and debt collectors at every door, and to top it all off, there wasn't the ever-present grit that found it's way into your clothes and hair in the desert province.

Of course, Andrew's clothes hadn't got the message yet, and he seemed to rain sand on the cobbles every time he moved. What made matters worse was Andrew's obvious Desert Province heritage. Every shop keeper Andrew passed turned grim and pulled his more valuable wares back away from the crowd. what's a thief to do? It's not like i WANT to take their stuff, but I haven't eaten in two days!

Andrew gave up on the market, and headed towards the outskirts of the town. Maybe he would get lucky if he wasn't in the more crowded areas, where people were more on guard...sure enough, Andrew spotted a potential mark. A slightly portly man with a mustache was walking along, detracted by a woman Andrew hoped was his wife, but given her clothing, he doubted it.

With practiced ease, Andrew stepped by the man and slipped his hand into his pocket, quickly pulling the mans coin purse. Unfortunately, the thing was fat and heavy, and the man noticed it was gone. As Andrew walked away, he heard the man cry out that someone had stolen it, and mentally cursed. Why'd this happen to me!?! Andrew quickly sidestepped into an ally, like a shadow, and hoped that no-one had seen him enter. Little did he know about the Eevee that caught him red handed, or that her companion was curious enough to chase a shadow in a dark ally...

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[Andrew]

"Crap! someone must have seen me!" Andrew turned to face his pursuer, only to see the girl pointing in the wrong direction. Andrew crouched in the shadows, curious. What does she mean, kid? She looks my age...Before the girl walked away, she coughed softly, and the Eevee following her jumped off his ride and slipped into the shadows with him. What luck! Although I wonder what this guy is up to?

"Hey, little guy. Remind me to thank that girl for this!" Andrew whispered, smiling to the Eevee, "What's the plan?" Andrew carefully slipped deeper into the ally, Preparing to loop around to wherever the girl waited for her friend...

In the street, the portly gentleman moved through the crowd trying to find the child in question, his date having already begun walking away, likely to find a less unfortunate portly gentlemen. The man's day had been ruined, and he was determined to make this phantom rapscallion pay for it...

[Natu]

A girl with pretty pink hair she had actually came with the thief, they were sort of a team for two, at least currently. Always looking for friends to work and be allies with. She had actually gotten separated from her partner, partially due to some pretty dresses. She just wanted to touch and basically steal one. She was currently wearing her least favorite arabian outfit, a nice change would certainly be the best. Besides her outfit was filthy, all those days in the desert, does things to women.

She observed all the possible stealing opportunities, her dark skin made her stood out, she would just have to be slick about it... She passed the fancy dresses and the more expensive guarded items, straight to the poor folk cart. One that was busy with all the poor trying to at least get the nicest shirt they could afford, all of them light tanned and by the looks of it starving. Walking calmly by the cart with some random pieces of shirts and pants, she slipped a random shirt into her outfit's fancy arabian belt. She was lucky that the shop owner was temporarily distracted, else she may have just gotten caught.

She walked off minding her own business moving around with her head down like a typical female in the area. She reached an ally-way, this one quite different from the one her partner is currently hiding. She slipped her shirt into one of the trash pile ups. Then she slipped right back to the outfit shopping area, right back to the poor folk clothing cart. By now new customers were swarm in, and well time for her to steal the bottom piece of her new outfit. Slipping through the people she once more successfully slipped away a pair of pants. So well practiced at stealing clothing, that she was.

Reaching back to the ally-way she had hid her clothes, she grabbed the hidden shirt, went deeper into the ally then quickly changed. Lucky for her, the gang that usually hung out there was currently messing with another human elsewhere. Otherwise she might have just been captured to be their new "toy". With the new clothes she looked around for something to put her old clothes in... There seemed nothing laying about in the dark smelly allyway, but when she moved trash about she had found an old urine smelling bag with holes ripped all in it, but yet good enough to hold light arabian material.

Placing the arabian items into the bag she went out the allyway and toward the main center of the town. About halfway there she heard shouting. At first she thought nothing of it, until some guards ran by with blades. Worried for her friend she started to run in the same direction. Only to find a random girl pointing in a direction to where the guy seemed to have hid.

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Natu had slowed a tad down as the crowd chasing after whomever had gradually made it to the direction the random new girl had pointed. The girl gave a cough and then suddenly began to walk somewhere else. why the cough? Natu could not help but wondered. She started to follow the girl, her heart beat picking up... She began to feel nervous for her friend, what if he was actually still being chased? What if he was actually arrested right now? No... He could handle himself. He was the leader, her leader. He would not let himself be arrested for something petty like stealing.

Scratching the itchy outfit she felt suddenly the urge to just stop thinking... To just stop being this.. this thing... She felt her heart bump and her fingers sweat. She should not be thinking about such things, no she must do something she would not do. She must... be unpredictable... Or something..

A smile spread on her face as an idea popped into her head. She began to walk a faster pace, and attempted to blend in with the crowd, even with her pink hair. She went faster and faster to get ahead of the new girl. She watched the girl quickly making sure to be a step ahead.

When Natu felt the girl had noticed her, she turned a corner and began to climb on top of the buildings. Then from there she ran high above planning to just give a random drop on the girl. When she reached the right spot a platform above the girl's head, by this point. She hung down, her short hair falling around her, "Hey? What's down? Get it, because you are down there?" she said it in such a voice and giggle you would have believed she was trapped in the mind of a child, to never grow up.

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Nix knew her trade well. She walked slowly so those who had noticed her walked on past her and many did so, it seemed no one seemed to care about who she was anymore so she took her chance. She slid in to her own alley as she spotted something odd, a girl with pink hair seemed to walking Ahead of where she had been and trying to pull her gaze. Whatever, she was trying to meet back with her partner meet this thief. She planted her feet firmly in to the wall and then pushed herself up for the platform above her hanging out from the house only for the mentioned pink haired girl to swing down and speak to her. Nix gave a confused yelp and her hands slipped, she leaned forwards to roll and land on one hand and her knees and then turned. Falls were normal, she could recover from them easily.

"what the hell kid? she said with a raised eyebrow before she rolled her eyes, anyway. She gave a low whistle which was returned by a mew from shadow, the eevee should have been heading up to the closest red roof top anyway so this made nix late. It was just a thing they did to re-group, always had done. Nix pushed herself back in to her climbing position and pulled herself on to the girls platform before she looked up, she shouldn't really take someone to where she knew the thief would be. But how to lose her? She seemed to have followed the red head anyway, and she needed to get tain up with them too now. Urg, life was getting harder

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[Natu]

Natu gave a giggle at the impressive maneuvering on the redhead girl had accomplished. "So, do you always freak out when someone come near you. Or is that just a new fashion to be slashion." She rolled away from the girl, popped up and looked closely at her, pretending to be oblivious to anything the girl might show at this point. "I wonder... What would you look like in this!" She randomly pulls out her outfit from the Desert Providence and moved it about. "I bet it'll look good on you!" She swirled it around three times to show of the nice fancy smooth material that happened to be the color of red. The dress looked like it needed to be cleaned and seemed to be covered in lots of sweat and sand. If one was to smell it, they'll find it smelled horrible. Though considering the type of material even this dirty, when swung around it actually looked kind of nice.

Suddenly natu stopped, she felt suddenly worried for her friend, what was he doing right now? Was he truly caught... No.. no... He is not... Get him out of your head.. she thought to herself before randomly dropping the nice Arabian outfit to the plateform floor, then swirl a few more time. "Let's play! Oh! I got an idea!" she pulled a dagger this time out of the outfit she was wearing and swung it around. Then walked over to a near by wooden pole that had a rope tied to it. Covered in ribbon like material decorations. "I say we cut this here rope and swing across to the other plateform! Then try and do something really fun!" Once more pretend to be oblivious to anything the girl decides to react or does, while at same time watching the redhead's reaction to everything.

[Andrew]

The dark Eevee dashed through the ally, passing Andrew and circling around to a building with a red roof, which he then began climbing expertly. Andrew's eyebrows rose as he saw the small four legged creature climb the building's walls like it was nothing. "What are we going to do up there? Wait for me!" Andrew jumped up to the second story window, grabbing a hold of one of the windows as he did, not even realizing such a jump wasn't within normal human limits. It was then that he heard a familiar laugh from the other side of the building...

"Let's play! Oh! I got an idea!" Andrew let go of the wall in surprise, crashing to the ground painfully. Natu is here? great, I was starting to get worried she had gotten into trouble again... Quickly, Andrew clambered back up, and onto the roof, and crawled across to the other side, where he saw the girl from earlier and Natu, who had changed clothes at some point since they'd been separated, and was now wielding a dagger in the girl's direction.

"Natu! What are you doing with that knife? That girl helped me out a moment ago!" Andrew tried to stay quiet, but his worry and confusion made it hard to whisper. He wondered to himself how a simple pickpocket had gotten so out of hand that he was now having to save someone from his own ally...why couldn't anything ever go peacefully?

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Nix took a step back as the girl spoke and she raised an eyebrow, was this for real? This was so different to the life she knew and how she lived, to be honest it was actually fairly creepy. She rolled her eyes however at the comment and a smirk fell on her face, "I Dont like humans much" she said simply in reply before a mew caught her ears. Ah, the cavalry was here. Next came a clothing offer and nix tried, and failed, to hide a little noise of disgust. She wore her own clothes, they were simple and plain and the cloak was something she was just attached to. Other peoples clothes, well, she really disliked them. Many wore the same things to fit in and more wore odd fancy things to look better than they really were, she didnt get it.

So the next little offer just made nix sigh, this was maddening. "Yea......no" she said simply before she moved to one side and then jumped up to the edge of the platform with one foot before using the other to jump off the wall and grab on to the roof. she pulled herself up to see shadow sitting at the edge of the roof top with the thief behind her, "i see you made it then" she said before he spoke and she just laughed. Really? This scatterbrain and the thief? Now that was a weird mix if even there was one. "Dont worry about the knife, shadow would have been down there and fighting before she had made it three steps. Not that i'd go easy even on a child with a blade, though i imagine it would have been even seeing the known company" she said with a smirk on her face as she pulled herself up to a crouching position on the roof. No-one surely could hear them up here, it would be fine

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[Natu]

This person obviously did not like her, she did not care, life was meant to be lived. Though a part of her secretly was sad, why could she never fit in anywhere? The sadness just seemed to spread and eat her away, how she wished she could just blend in and be forgotten... Then, why do that? Just fade away? Just die like everyone she knew? Never to exist? No! That is not true, she is happy, and herself. The best number one Female acrobatic fighter within the Forty Thieves, well with the two of them anyway... She forced the joy and falseness to come out and in its purest forms she could create.

When she turned around she saw the girl she was creeping on climbing to a higher roof. "Hey, Come back!" She shouted with a serious false voice, while smiling all the same.

Then she noticed her best pal in the world suddenly showed up. She instantly dropped the dagger, "Andrew!! Pal! Hey! You are alive! My bombs didn't work, great job!" she shouted as loud as she could, probably alerting more guards than what Andrew had alerted. With a leap of joy she began to run up to where the other girl was climbing. Several feet behind she started to copy the exact pattern as the girl before her.

Reaching the very top, she pulled herself up, then went straight for Andrew. When she reached them she made an attempt to leap right on him not even caring if they both fell off the roof upon impact. "Where have you been! your wife, missed you so dearly!" She began to cry, but more of a fake tears, which was sort of obvious with the huge grin on her face.

[Andrew]

Andrew smiled when he saw that the other girl had been in no real danger, and scooted over to give the other two room. He turned to the girl as she joined him and her dark companion. "I would assume so, but it's more the shear idea. Natu can be..." It was at this point that Natu yelled about the bombs. "BOMBS!?! NATU! Where did you put bombs!?!"

Andrew rushed back to the edge to look down at his companion, only for her to reach the top and jump on him, knocking him backwards onto the shingles, several of which slid off the roof. Andrew and Natu would have followed suit, but Andrew grabbed the roof in panic, not realizing he'd pushed his fingers right through the shingles and into the battens underneath.

"Gah! Careful, Natu! You're going to knock us off the building!" Andrew carefully pushed the girl off of him, taking care to not push her off the prominent edge they were now next to. "What are you talking about? I'm not married! I don't even have a girlfriend!" Andrew pushed Natu and pulled with his now embedded hand until he was separated from his friend, and turned to the girl who'd helped him earlier, grinning sheepishly. "Sorry about Natu. She gets...excited easily. My name is Andrew, nice to meet you!" Andrew offered his hand to shake, ripping a hand-sized hole in the roof of the house as his hand came free. "Thanks for the help earlier!"

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Nix smiled as she watched the humans, they were so strange to be around. She heard the female shout out to the male and jump across and all over him and nix raised an eyebrow before shadow gave a mew and nix's eyes were drawn to her sister. Shadow walked over to the red head as nix leaned back on the balls of her feet and rocked back until she was sitting, she watched as the male spoke and she grinned before she rolled her eyes a little. This was so weird, humans are so strange. Though the male turned to her and spoke and nix nodded, so the odd female was named after a pokemon. Well she was odd and that seemed odd of a name so maybe they fitted. "Nice to meet you both, my name is Nix and this is my sister shadow. We are traveling around all over the place, but being young and female the only way to make good cash is battling. And most wont, so we have become well trained in the theiving arts. " nix said with a smile as she waved a hand over herself and shadow, what with tain now to feed it was harder and harder to keep from stealing. And she didnt like to steal, but she and her team would never have got along this well.

Oh bugger, Tain!

Nix's eyes suddenly snapped open wide and she pushed off the root with a start, her body spinning over and her hands latching down on the roof edge. She couldnt see her little grass type down there, though it was a dark alley. Suddenly a figure caught her gaze and she gave a hiss, she pressed herself down against the roof as the guard walked down in to alley way. what with roof tiles falling off and the word bombs be shouted, she was not shocked to find a guard close to her but she wanted her pokemon back with her and safe! she turned and looked over her shoulder to look at the duo and smirked a little, "My third team mate is down there, rather close to the guard methinks. He isnt going to be coming up here so im going down to him" she said with a little grin. She would have to head down there, behind the guard and take him out and see how far she could get away before then

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[Andrew]

Andrew dropped prone and leaned carefully over the edge, trying to see what Nix was looking at. When he saw the guard, he pulled back quickly, and signaled Natu to be quiet. Please let today be one of the times she listens! Andrew listened as Nix whispered about her own partner, and Andrew noticed for the first time the girl's thinness: she was worse off than they were.

Andrew decided right then and there that he was going to help her. His face became serious, and he checked over the edge carefully, seeing that there was now two guards, the first one's backup having arrived. "Wait, Nix. The guards will probably be looking after the bombs Natu was yelling about. They won't just throw you in jail for that." Andrew whispered, the plan already forming in his head, and he pointed north. "There's an abandoned shack just outside town in that direction. If I drop down first, he'll chase me. then you drop down and help your friend out of here. I'll meet up with you back at the shack after I lose this guy." Andrew didn't wait for a reply, and slipped up into a crouching position. "Oh, I almost forgot, take this: you deserve a share anyway, and I don't need the extra noise. Natu; after the guard's buddies start chasing me, help Nix get out of town. I mean it, I'm counting on you to stay out of trouble until I get back!" Andrew handed Nix the coin purse, then jumped from the roof, landing lightly behind the guard at the back.

"Hey, you looking for me?" As the guard turned around, he found himself introduced quite violently to Andrew's fist, powered up by a glowing blue layer of spirit energy. The guard flew back, slamming into the wall behind him, and crumpling to the ground, unconscious. The other guard yelled for him to halt, drawing his blade, but Andrew was already running out the alleyway and down the street towards the nearest town gate, his legs pumping with enough force to kick up a dust trail behind him...

[Natu]

She was not really shocked by his words of "not married", she's pulled this stunt many times, it was just bound to happen. They are practically with each other every where, she was not going to let him go. He pushed her off of him and onto a safe spot near by, she gave a tad giggle at his touch. He then picked himself off the ground, then of course turned to the "other girl". Why was it always the "other girl"? She wasn't upset or even a tad jealous, she actually felt excitement pump into her system that he actually knew the girl and that she may actually become an ally and friend.

That was when she noticed that the girl was really skinny and obviously not used to the life of constantly stealing from the rich to have a fun healthy living life. She began to wonder if the girl was willing to join the gang, even if it was a few weeks, or enough to eat healthy and recover a tad. They could hide out in their secret hideout and maybe even become sisters. She wanted this girl, this person that travels, to be truly happy.

Suddenly the girl seemed to get suddenly wide aware and active, like she had seen some sort of ghost. Natu watched her closely, highly interested in the stranger and this situation. What is she up to... The girl suddenly jumped showed off a fancy move then landed with her hands holding onto the latch of the roof, then dropped down to the ally below. Natu was oddly quieter than normal, how embarrassing that her own husband did not notice her silence. As to dare and tell her to quiet down, what horror. She wanted to rebel and jump on him, or pull a random thing out of thin air, something.

She approached to where Andrew was speaking with the girl in whisper, she leaned over listening. Her hubby was serious, she understood he wanted to protect this girl, this meant she must as well. That she must be serious and careful as well, of course not too serious. Well with the swipe of the hand to sneak a bomb into her boss's pocket, a small minor pink smokebomb. No idea where she gets these little tools, especially considering they are not really known in this era yet. May just be her magic power leaking out to the world producing random objects in her hands, pockets, and sometimes even hair.

She gave a nod to the girl once Andrew ran off, She picked herself up and jumped down to where Nix stood. Then gave her the signal that she would follow her. The guard by this time was chasing after Andrew.

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Nix turned her head as the male human spoke, no, andrew she mentally corrected herself. Shadow moved from where she had been beside her sister and hoped on to nix's shoulder and looked down from their perch on the roof. Andrew offered a place to meet and a distraction to pull the guard away and before nix could even tell him it was her problem and he didnt need to get involved, the kid was off. Though of course not before handing her the stolen money from before, or some of it from the weight of the purse. If she hadnt been so worried about tain, she would have snapped at him for thinking of her as Charity but tain was more important. The boy was on the ground and causing trouble in seconds, pulling the second guard away as he turned to run and nix took her chance. She pushed herself off the roof and dropped down to her hands and knees as she came down to the platform, only to find the weird girl coming with her. Oh, yea, Natu it was. Nix found herself actually a little happy to have company in this but still, tain came first.

She looked and down the alley before she jumped off the platform and pushed off the wall beside it to land half way down the alley, she was a street raised child but that didnt mean she didnt have skills. She spent as much time as she could managed working on jumping from roof to roof or tree to tree. She looked around only to see tain cowering in the corner behind one of the house and she sighed in happiness, he was ok. She walked over to the deerling with a hand out and he spotted her and gave a happy mew before running to her side, burying his head in her cloak as shadow mewed back to him. He was safe and next came the same for the humans, nix turned to check on where her freind was. Wait, what? Had she just thought freind? She didnt have freinds......Well never had done before. She shook her head and then looked around for the other girl. She would have to lead the way now, nix had only ever been to this city in this far. This was her first time in and all

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