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Clay laughs a little as he looks back at the others, watching their pokemon growl at one another as they move along down the road. Wrath flys over to the two dog pokemon and buzzes at them, staying just out of theit reach.

"Well, you guys look like you're ready. So, do you have any badges yet, or will these be your first?" He asks them curiously as he turns back in the direction they're going. "The good professor never actually told me I'd be looking after you three, so it was kind of a suprise, and he didn't tell me anything about any of you." And it was true, Professor Pine had just called Clay up about a week ago, asking him to return to Cape Town to help with some research. Knowing Pine, he had assumed it simply involved the pokemon he had encountered while faceing Team Circuit.

There was a main road that lead direction from Cape Town to Shelville, but because that wasn't their first stop, Clay turns them off the main road and into a simple dirt and gravel path. It follows along side the road for a ways, but then splits, heading more in a southern direction than the road, and diverging at an ancient looking pine tree where a large number of Pineco live. The tree can already be seen from where they are, and at it's base, where the gnarly roots rise up from the ground, a few other pokemon can be seen, things like Yanma and Oddish.

"I think you guys will fine that here, pokemon of all different types have learned to live together in peace. Alot more so than Kanto and Johto anyway." Clay mentions as the tree draws closer.