The group disembarked from the pully elevator onto the pavement, and Prof. Luno apprehensively looked from side to side before scratching the back of his head. Hoivea squeezed her nose and shook her head at her dad.
"You're not lost... are you?" Hoivea said as she leaned in front of her father.
"Course not... it's just... I just realised when I saw Nova and Luna out the window they went towards Myst- the erm... isolated swamp." Prof. Luno stated.
"Isn't the swamp in the complete opposite direction of the post office?" Hoivea asked.
"Indeed..., wonder what could've caused them to ignore my in-"; Prof. Luno was interrupted mid-sentence by a magenta mist slamming into his face. Hoivea and Olyzian couldn't help but snicker at Prof.Luno as the mist swirled together and formed into a castform(Mystical Form: a castform with a dark purple polygonal spheroid-shaped crystal encasing their body while a magenta mist swirled around their body).
"Cast ca-cast form!". The castform frantically and repeatedly exclaimed their own name as their mist formed into hands and flailed about. Prof. Luno audibly groaned and rubbed his orange hairpin as he glanced upwards.
"Gallade! Can you go after Nova and Luna.". Rapid crystalline footsteps echoed from the treehouse before a pale yellow, white, and blue blur arced out from the pully elevator hole and soared off towards the swamp area.
"What's the matter, Professor?" Lux said inquisitively.
"Nothing much... just some hooligans going to places they shouldn't be, so just follow Hoivea to the post office, and then come find me once you chose your starters, sound good?". The three nodded in agreement before Prof. Luno had castform lead him away.
"Well... didn't expect Prof. Luno to have to skedaddle before we even got our starters," Olyzian said as she curled some of her hoodie's fur around her finger.
"Agreed... but does he really need a Gallade to deal with some hooligans?" Lux added.
"I see what you mean... but other than Nova and Luna, my dad doesn't have any combat-orientated Pokémon," Hoivea mentioned to the others.
"Oh." the other two said in unison.
"But enough of this chit-chat; we should hurry to the post office," Lux stated. Hoivea agreed and instructed the duo to follow her. The trio hurried their way through the streets of the town as Olyzian and Lux gazed at the greenhouse/Aztec-inspired buildings.
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"Kalseria sure has interesting architecture and building designs; you don't see structures like this in Galar," Olyzian said aloud, watching the flock of Starly in the distant shallow pool pretending to use Splash on each other.
"They sure are, but architecture like this is way more common in the neighbouring Mazah Region(the fan region made by the youtube channel Subjectively group), right cous?" Hoivea said snarkily as she glanced over at Lux, causing him to scoff.
"Don't call me that; I'm not even your cousin.". Lux crossed his arms before Olyzian giddily skipped in front of Lux.
"So Lux, you're from the Mazah Region? Say, is it true special Lunatones appear in Mazah on Halloween?". Lux exhaled pessimistically and lowered his head as he walked.
"Beats me, I was never in the region long enough to know.". Olyzian frowned and slumped her arms at Lux's uninformative response, muttering to herself until the trainer trio arrived at the small house with a large grey Eevee (with ring-shaped ear tips and wearing small old people reading glasses) sign.
"Wait, this is the post office? Could have sworn this was a vintage antique shop," Olyzian said as she cooed at the Eevee sign.
"It says here the post office is inside," Lux said as he looked at his Rotom Phone. The girls gathered around the phone and looked at the chibi version of the Eevee sign on the phone's map.
"You got a rotom phone 4DV?" Hoivea said as she stared at the map.
"Yeah... but let's focus on getting the starter Pokémon.". Lux let go of his phone and it transformed back into his rotom before he and Olyzian followed Hoivea into Eevee Antiques.
The store consisted of a single room decorated to look like an Arabian palace-themed tent, and it was adorned head to toe with expensive/ancient-looking relics.
"Eevee, we're here," Hoivea exclaimed. Rustling emanated from the back room of the store and after a few seconds of constant rustling a female Kalserian Eevee (a grey Eevee with rings shaped ear tips, two tails one with a ring-shaped tail tip, larger chest fur, small old people reading glasses, three fur strips with ring-shaped ends on each side of their heads) popped their head out from behind the counter.
"Eevvee~," K.Eevee said with a flamboyant inflexion in her voice as they placed a thick book with a Pokédollar symbol on it down on the counter vertically and rested a paw on it. K.eevee's wagged her tails as she watched the trainers approach her counter.
"Eve?".
"Yeah. Dad had to go deal with something so he couldn't come.". Hoivea quickly gave K.Eevee a summarised version of the situation before K.Eevee ran across the room-encasing U-shaped counter and jumped behind the section of the counter with a suspended sign above it labelled post office.
"I didn't think about it earlier but can you and Prof. Luno understand Pokémon?" Olyzian asked.
"Huh? Well yeah, most people in the Kalseria Region can," Hoivea replied; she also mentioned people from outside Kalseria develop the ability after spending enough time in the region, causing Olyzian to giddily knocked the middle joints of her fingers together at the thought of properly communicating with her starter.
After a few minutes, K.eevee hopped back on the counter while carrying a briefcase and hurried over to the trainers. K.Eevee set the suitcase down on the counter and quickly unlocked it to reveal the three special Pokéballs(a light green and dark green one, a grey and pale golden one, and a purple and lime green one). K.Eevee swiftly tapped all the Pokéballs and released the Pokémon stored inside.