"Intrepid and I are doing a gym challenge. There's rules with the formal matches, pokeballs and that, but if you don't want to deal with that there'll be plenty of informal training stuff like today."

"I was fine with pokeballs with my human, but I haven't been with anyone else, but - I didn't like anyone else."

"I like you."

"We can test it out later. No commitments."

Headbutt.

Ear scritches.

Purr!

Cute!

And some for Intrepid, as well.

Yes excellent. No forgetting the best girl! 

Too many of those around for that to be possible.

She giggles and flops into Ellie's lap enough she can also be curled up by Umbreon.

Hee.

What a pleasant way to spend the evening.

Her pokemon quite agree.

The next morning - could Intrepid and Umbreon both do training stuff at the same time? Or maybe bring books...

Both are possible. Perhaps a practice battle between the two of them? Though Intrepid may have to go a bit gentle, considering the type advantage. But Umbreon's experience might help there too.

Sounds good to Umbreon.

Yeah! Fighting is fun! Though Intrepid doesn't do 'going easy.'

Umbreon wouldn't want that anyways. 

Ellie will just be on standby with the potions then, hmm?

Sure. 

All right then, clever girls. Let's go.

Intrepid's going to win, of course. 

She's welcome to think that! 

(They fight each other to a pleasantly exhausted standstill, of course.)

They both did well. Good job.

Smug wiggle! 

If they're both up for it, the other major area the team needs to work on is incorporating pokeballs, release and return.

Intrepid is.