Chapter 02: The Road Goes Ever On And On

The breeze-turned-headwind carrying Claire's basket, or more like carrying Eden, carried them northward along a line of trees. The same breeze fluttered in the loose, light pink blouse Claire wore today. Well, loose near the stomach. Those Pokemarts just didn't make clothes for gals with big boobs. Guess they were still used to kids barely in their double digit ages. Still, it was a nice enough asset to go with the tight jeans she found, tight for the same reasons. It was easy enough to modify for her tail though.

She held her sun hat on her head as she looked over the rim of the basket, giggling at all the sights. She'd been wanting to read a new book she had gotten on pokemon food and poffins, among the other supplies she had bought, but instead found herself captured by the full weight of the sights around her, "Wow... Eden, this region is so darn pretty!"

The Drifblim only bobbed slightly in confirmation, shifting to and fro as the wind made minute changes. Thankfully, it had been going in the same direction all day. Fly gave her some control, but not much. She made a brief, pleasant hum and squinted forward, looking for a landing spot. Years of traveling had given her a pretty good measure of when her trainer wanted to go down for a rest stop.

The breezing headwinds had been doing more to fight against Quiver than to help her. She hadn't any real experience with flying in such strong winds before, and it had been making her flight a bit erratic. Soon the dragon had come into it however, having realized not to fight against the winds, but to use them to soar. The realization had made the travel much easier and far less tiresome than flight would be in more normalized conditions.

Daisy had been rather lost in thought while holding tight to the reins she had secured to Quiver's collar. She was wearing arm warmers snuggly on her forearms and a thick fur collared knee-length dress over her short pants and hiking boots. It had been but a few days since they had left Vardent town and Professor Hazel, with her updated pokedex and a digital map of this region. Really less than a week since her and her new companions had even met, yet, here she was flying over this new region with them. Life is such an oddity sometimes isn't it?

The Eevee-morph's ears perked up when she heard Claire's voice over the winds. Those words urging her to look around at their surroundings. If she had been walking, as she usually did, it would just look like any old mountains and forest. But from above, it looked spectacular. The sight might have been more pronounced by the fact she'd never experienced flying so high before, but that didn't really matter, it was beautiful. "It really is rather awe-inspiring! Think we're coming up on the Ishya Ruins!" She yelled towards the balloon pokemon's rider, hoping she'd get heard over the strong winds.

Following up in this trio was Ian, wearing a leather cap (picked up in vardent town) a jacket, and other gear to make flying easier on his body as they traveled. He clung tightly to ace's harness, looking over the land as they flew, keeping close to his two new found friends Claire and Daisy.

It had only been a few days since Vardent town and he already was enjoying this new found partnership more then he ever had in making a friend. I mean, its not like he met two really cool people who wanted to travel with him every day was it? Well it was more like they were happy to let him tag along, but still!

He could hear Daisy trying to talk over the roaring winds, only catching small parts of her speech. He got the gist of it and smiled, flying closer to Claire and daisy to give them a thumbs up.

"Did you guys want to land any time soon?" he asked, trying to yell over the wind.