WITH A GUST OF WIND (STARTER)

I AM WHO I AM

Hadlee was quickly ushered in by the professor, her eyes rolling at the lady when she wasn't looking. She could feel the scolding she was going to get. She could sense that this lady was not too fond of her outfit. It was light weight, and definitely built for spring, summer, or fall. But it was the only good pair of clothing that Hadlee had brought, and she was just glad to be out of a school uniform. It was better cold than ugly in her opinion.

Despite her thoughts on her outfit, she had never been the type to judge others by appearances. Or at least she liked to think so. But she again had to catch herself from pretending to hurl the moment she saw the thing. She made a face instead, taking a step away from the pokemon. The poor corphish also stepped back, appearing to have been offended by the girl's reaction. The pokemon seemed to have no idea what caused this girl to act in this fashion, so it stared back at her with the saddest looking eyes that it could muster. Hadlee was not impressed, however, and chose to step right past the darn thing to get to the other two pokemon. The corphish tittered after her on it's hard, pointy legs, it's eyes still displaying how devastated it was.

Hadlee no longer cared about the crab-like pokemon now that she saw these two cuties. She had to stop herself from running up to hug the little things. The minum was absolutely to die for, it's little hands reaching out to stroke the swablu's cottonball feathers. The bird whisked it's wings away, and the minum was pushed away lightly. The weakness of it's small legs did not catch the pokemon, and it fell down. Minum had tears welling up in it's eyes, but managed to stay strong. The swablu made a small noise of amusement and gave it's fluffy wings another flap before settling back down in it's spot.

Hadlee looked between the two pokemon. She had heard stories of hard to deal with minums, and she didn't like the fact that what you saw was what you get in the way that they had no evolutions. Her mind flashed to alterias, flying through the sky like big chunks of cotton, blowing through the wind. Were they big enough to ride? She gave the swablu a glance, and the bird gave her a nasty look before looking away in distaste. She changed her mind immediately. She would not stand for a pokemon that would treat her in such a way. She turned to the minum who was still on the verge of tears. She didn't want a cry baby either...

She slowly turned back to the ugly orange thing behind her. Corphish gave it's body a shake and then looked back with all of it's little crabby might, it's eyes changing from sad to stubborn. She wanted a trainer, and she may not get a chance in a while if this purple and pink human chose her. The looks didn't matter much to Hadlee, she had already made her choice. A decision that she knew would turn out to be a poor one, but a decision none the less. "I'll take the corphish."