Ninth Flight. [mid-day video/action for goldenrod city.]

[newberktown]

[Anyone familiar with the gym in Goldenrod will know what's up. Because that sure is wailing going on in the background.

...Oddly enough, though, there are also the sounds of:
1 Charmander snoring,
1 Swablu chirping, and
1 tiny viking arguing with a giant dragon.]

What do you mean you can fly?

[Sorry, Whitney, but your blubbering is being ignored in favor of dealing with the most exasperated Salamence ever. This was so much more important than badges.]

Yeah, okay, I get that you can 'fly' fly, but you're telling me that you have the ability to use the move Fly. As in 'carry me through the skies' Fly. Why didn't you tell me?

[Adder huffs noisily before flapping her wings to shoot a hard gust of air at him. HICCUP, SHE'S BEEN TRYING TO DO THAT FOR TWO WEEKS. You've just been focusing on ~alternative flight methods~ with Carmen Sandiego. Really, though, she wouldn't be annoyed if you weren't making such a big deal out of it. Just be happy already.]

Yeah, yeah... [Hiccup sighs, apparently giving in for now, before wandering over to slide the gear out from under the drowsy Charmander's claws.] Just would have been nice to know... Wait. Stormfly, didn't you just turn this off?

[...So it wasn't the battle he wanted recorded that was broadcast. Great.]

[ooc: cr is welcome to have witnessed the battle! curious people studying up for whitney's gym are also welcome.]

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[newberktown]

[Hiccup...remembers someone telling him about dinosaurs a really long time ago. Creatures that were around before everything else... It was fascinating, especially since he'd been told that they may have roamed a different Earth than he had come from, and Carmen certainly seemed happy about it.

...Dragons were still better.]

I've heard of them! Giant lizards, right? [The lesson had been short and not particularly detailed.] I'd like to hear more about them, sometime.

[doitrockapella]

That's right. Though it's hard to say which creatures are really the descendants of the dinosaurs — for a long time, people assumed that they were most closely related to reptiles, but some scientists are postulating that they might be the ancestors of birds, instead.

[LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Meanwhile, the Baron is submitting pleasantly to this interest and examination, being the good-natured Dragonite that he is.]

You're more interested in the dragons, though, aren't you? This one was in the Foster Home before I adopted him, and I know he wasn't the only dragon they were taking care of. If you're looking to adopt, you might want to keep them in mind.

[newberktown]

[Birds from...giant lizards. Though...]

So...they were like the Salamence? Desperate to take to the skies?

[Mom, is he using your lessons correctly? While he pats your dragon? What a good boy, Baron Grinnit~ Here, have a dragon treat. Sneak it if that's not cool with thief mom.]

Huh... I'll definitely have to look into that!

[Because dragon envy... And must have all the dragons... Dragons should have homes...]

[doitrockapella]

It's believed that some dinosaurs could fly — pterosaurs, for example, whose name comes from the Greek term "winged lizard". That's the sort Donna most closely resembles. Though I doubt they did it the way the Salamence does here; I don't think our dinosaurs were quite so...inspired.

[SON, SHE IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM DISAPPOINT. WELL DONE. Also she sees you sneakin' that treat she sees everything but you know what, the Baron nobly got herself and Coop in from Olivine, he can stand to be spoiled a little.]

In the meantime, how are you planning to celebrate your momentous victory?