Another visitor!

A young man in his late twenties was waiting inside at the entrance with a blue rucsac on his back with a girl about age 4 at his side, Ashley noticed them and gave them a wave "uncle steph!" she shouted to him to catch his attention.Stephen waved to her,the little girl noticed her and her eyes lit u,she ran to her. Ashley chuckled a bit and knelt down with open arms "hello gorgeous!" she said,lifting her up and spinning her around "you've certainly grown!" the girl giggled as her father walked to her and gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek "so,where's this friend of yours?" "oh tala? uh..." she looked around for her

Tala was riding on Stripes's back down the hall with Band and Zoe on her lap when she spotted them. "Hi Ash, is that Stephen? Who's the kid?" she called getting Stripes to jog over.

the girl buried her head into Ashley's shoulder,she's very shy. Ashley held her hand and waved it about "this is Elidh,stephen's daughter!" Stephen recognised her "Tala Shinju am i right?"

"Yup, Darcy's niece! Hello darling, would you like to see a kitty?" Tala said making her voice gentle as she spoke to the young girl.

Elidh shrugged and buried her head deeper into Ashley's shoulder "sorry about her! i honestly DO NOT know where on earth she gets it from! " she said looking at stephen. Stephen chuckled "definetely not me anyway!" he said,taking his rucsac off "you might not remember me Tala,after all,you were only Elidh's age when i last seen you!"

"i'm fine thank you very much!" he said with a grin,he then looked throught his rucsac "it was you that wanted a torchic right?" Ashley Let Eldih down for a minute and Elidh walked over to Zoey and Bnd

Band jumped down and looked at the girl and Zoe stayed on Stripes's back as Tala hopped down. "Yup! Torchic are so cool I wanted one for a while then I seen a Blaziken and now I want a torchic even more!" Tala exclaimed.

Stephen chuckled "you sound just like Jane!" he took an orange and yellow egg and gently handed it to Tala "voila! take good care of it!" Elidh gave the three pokemon a little wave

Band and Zoe gave a wave back and Stripes gave a bow. Tala gave a grin "I will!" she promised.

Elidh giggled and petted stripes a bit. Stephen looked through his rucsac and took another egg out,he stood up and held it out to ashley "what's this?" "consider it a present from me, Jane and the kids,at least,that's what Jane told me to tell ya!" Ashley put her hands out "i dunno..."

"Ah just take it and say thanks!" exclaimed.

Ashley chuckled as she took the egg and gave stephen a hug "thanks uncle steph!" he stroked her hair "anytime gorgeous!" Elidh petted stripes

Stripes nuzzled the girl's hand. Tala gave a grin as Zor hopped on her shoulder looking at the egg. "(What's that Mama?)" Tala gave a smile "This is going to be your little brother or sister!"

Ashley stroked the egg. Rikki was walking past when she seen them "STEPHEN!? STEPHEN BOYCE!?!? no way!" Stephen chuckled and gave Rikki a grin "oh yes way!" Elidh ran straight into Rikki's arms. Rikki picked her up "so then?" she looked at Tala's egg "stephen gave you that i take it?" she asked Tala,pointing to the egg

Taka gave a nod. "(I'm goanna be a big sister! I'm goanna be an Onee-chan!)" Zoe chanted.

Rikki petted zoey "d'aww,that's sweet!"

Tala gave a giggle "Yeah then if it evolves Zoe will be the little sister again!" Tala giggled.

Tala grinned as Stripes came over and nuzzled Tala and Band hopped up onto her other shoulder.

"oh! i almost forgot!"Rikki let her zorua,portia,out of her pokeball "Zoey hasn't met portia yet,has she?"

Tala shook her head, Zoe hopped down to see the older Zorua "(Hibthere I'm Zoe who are you?)"

"(Do you wanna play?)" Zoe asked making Tala giggle at her happy attitude.

Portia smiled "zo! (sure!)" Ashley got a cloth from her pocket and started rubbing the egg gently