"Come on Torchic, let's go!"<br/><br/>A voice could be heard calling to a small orange fluff ball of a chick wearing a blue and green striped scarf around it's neck, which seemed to be chasing after someone, or rather, trying to catch up to it's owner. Most would be rather annoyed that they were being left behind, but not this one. In fact, it looked quite happy, surging forward and speeding up to finally lunge up into the air and land on the shoulder of a young brown haired boy, who laughs. The boy's name was Hideyoshi Oibara, but most of the time he just went by Yoshi. It made things a lot more simple, easy, and fast when he was challening someone to a battle. Yoshi wasn't the type of person for long introductions. "You sure are slow Torchic." Which to respond, said Torchic ruffles it's feathers and a sad expression forms in its' eyes. "You know I'm just kidding..." Yoshi nudges the tiny bird's side gently with his forefinger, causing it to squirm, as if being tickled.<br/><br/>After a moment, Yoshi then pulls out his Pokenav, pressing on the part for the town map, trying to figure out just where they were at that time. From what he could see they were on Route 111, and were just a few hours or so ahead of entering the deserted area of the Hoenn region. He'd noticed that it certainly had gotten warmer, and the air was a lot drier as well. It meant that they were much closer to their destination than he realized, which was Fallarbor Town, where he wanted to see if he could find any cool new stones or meteorites. He'd heard from his mother that there was a lab of some sort there, and maybe if he was lucky he'd be able to look around and learn some stuff. But he knew there was still a ways to go, and as impatient as he was it would take a few days still before reaching the goal.<br/><br/>For now he'd just focus on having fun, not too long ago he'd battled a whole family who called themselves the Winstrate's, and managed to clear through everyone. It'd been easy, and since that big win he felt pretty good, going on to battle a couple of others and winning those as well. As was custom, the losing trainers paid him a bit of cash, and now his wallet weighed a bit more due to his big wins.<br/><br/>Walking slower now, he looked around at the sights, on either side of him were large boulders, and some even larger ones that seemed to be entire hills made of stone. Despite that though there were plants that grew as well, mainly pine trees and such. A path was worn in to the ground showing the way to go, and though he normally took his own way, he decided for once to just go with this route instead. He'd rather not have another repeat so soon after the last incident, when he'd decided to take a short cut and ended up getting lost for three days in the Petalburg Woods. That had not ended well, at all. Just thinking about it made him cringe.<br/><br/>So, for now, sticking to the path would be his main course of action. Though, it didn't take long for him to get bored, maybe ten or fifteen minutes had passed since he'd passed that last trainer, and following that nothing had happened at all. Nada. Zilch. Zero. "I'm so bored!" He groans out loud, making the Torchic on his shoulder jump from the sudden sound of his voice. "Whoops, sorry bout that buddy." Yoshi laughs, patting it on the head. Making a turn around a cornered area, he spots someone up ahead, and a grin forms on his face. It looked to be an older guy, and in his eyes that made it a lot easier for him to win. Picking up the pace, he breaks in to a run about fifteen feet away from the other and shouts out to him. "HEY! WANNA BATTLE ME?" Right before he gets to where the other was he comes to a sudden halt, dust flying up from around him as his heels dig in to the ground. His eyes were gleaming with excitement, and was nearly jumping up and down with anticipation. "Come on, let's go!"