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Post by Robot on May 29, 2019 12:31:53 GMT
"Did I hear Kai's doohickey right, you can fly? That's mighty impressive for a bunch of little guys." Theodore propped his head up on his elbows. "I'm a wanderer too! A man can't let himself be tied down until the open road doesn't call to him anymore." The boy nodded gruffly, but with his baby face and easygoing tone of voice it was almost comical. For some reason, in that moment, his thoughts turned to Ayah and warmth spread across his face.
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Post by seraphflonne on May 29, 2019 17:38:04 GMT
Kai's ear perked up as he heard Theo's question, only turning briefly to answer it. "Oh... it's basically a doughnut"
After turning back to the Swirlix though, he noticed it looking and sniffing in one direction. He looked over, shrugging to himself before kneeling down beside the little cotton candy cloud. "Wanna head over there? I can carry you if you want?" He held out his hand, going to pet it to see if it was even okay with him touching it, especially since it was a bit sticky.
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Post by DataNinja on May 30, 2019 19:29:19 GMT
The Cottonee bounce up and down, and flap their leaves (probably in imitations of birds) but don't seem to really be able to leave the ground. They do at least float gently down, though, so that's something. The group seems enthusiastic about someone taking interest in them, and so keeps bounding around, squeaking.
The Swirlix doesn't seem to be interested in being carried, but it does at least let Kai pet it, licking his hand afterwards... both activities leaving his hand all sugary and sticky. Thankfully, there's water nearby to wash it off later. But, for now, the Pokémon bounds for the woods, though not at a breakneck pace, especially since it keeps sniffing. It doesn't go very far in before it arrives at a bush with a handful of blue berries on it, which it begins leaping for and gobbling right off the bush.
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Post by seraphflonne on May 30, 2019 20:05:51 GMT
Despite feeling weird with his hand as it currently is, Kai follows after the sticky Pokemon, stopping beside the bush he sees the cotton candy jumping into. He grabs a few berries higher up on the bush with his sticky hand, before kneeling down and holding them out for the Swirlix. "You sure are a hungry one! I bet you could eat one of them big malasada by yourself!"
He chuckles a bit at the thought of the little thing eating something bigger than it is. That'd be a sight. "...Wonder if Cole could make malasada sometime? It's probably not hard, Maybe you'd like to help me convince him, eh?"
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Post by Robot on Jun 3, 2019 18:22:13 GMT
Theodore gently hefts the Cottonee, one at a time and gives them a toss into the air, one at a time. An attempt is made at actually keeping them suspended in tandem, but his juggling skills are very much wanting. He can't help but laugh and have a good time of it, the little cotton balls are so excitable and good natured that he couldn't possibly do anything else. "If'n the open road is fer you, maybe we can make this into a regular thing, what do you say?" He addressed the spritely creatures.
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Post by DataNinja on Jun 3, 2019 21:10:01 GMT
The Swirlix eagerly wheels around, and quickly slurps up the berries. It looks up at Kai, as though hopefully expecting more. It seems to like the sound of food...
As he tosses the grass types around, they seem to laugh and giggle, flapping their leaves in the air to maybe drift down a little bit slower. At least until the wind picks up again. The two that are in midair suddenly get much farther away, caught in the breeze, while the one still touching Theo clings on with its tiny leafy hands. There's much squeaking between the group of cotton balls, but none of it sounds sad at all, even as the others are thrust away.
The Swablu seem to see Cole all alone and not really having fun, so, one a little more warily than the other, the pair comes over, seemingly to keep him company and cheer him up. One perches on his head and curls up, warbling, while the other one hops around near his feet, one of the shinies in its beak. It seems to be holding it up towards him.
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Post by Robot on Jun 4, 2019 9:19:18 GMT
A shocked expression settles on Theodore's face, wet beading in the corners of his eyes as he tried to process it all. He clung to the remaining Cottonee as it did to him. When the wind died and realization at last struck, he gave a hearty wave after the retreating balls of white. "HAPPY TRAILS FELLERS! BE SEEING YOU!"
They were excited for new adventures and new friends. The feel of the wind on their little bodies, with no fear or sadness. It was poignant and majestic on many levels that his heavier body couldn't quite follow. He looked down at the remaining Pokemon. "I decide where the wind takes me, little guy... You want to give that a go?"
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Post by seraphflonne on Jun 4, 2019 20:44:18 GMT
Kai picked a few more berries, sliding one into his hand and letting the cotton candy cloud eat them one by one as he tried to lead it back to Cole. "Come on little guy, we can ask Cole to whip you up something, bet you'd like that a lot!"
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Post by Breakthelevee on Jun 5, 2019 1:53:15 GMT
Cole freezes as the Swablu lands on his head and the other one comes up around his feet. He had hoped to avoid dealing with the local Pokemon too much, not wanting to get attached or get in any scraps. And yet now he had two of them paying close attention to him.
Trying not to disturb the one on his head, the chef looks down at the one at his feet holding something up towards him "What's this?" He says softly, the birds warbling almost drowning it out.
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Post by DataNinja on Jun 5, 2019 6:58:29 GMT
Clinging on until the wind at last dies down again, the Cottonee seems to bounce again - though much more carefully - making happy noises. It seems to like the thought of travel, and adventure. There's a good happy chittering. You caught a Cottonee! Level: 20 Nature: Quirky Gender: Male Moves: Razor Leaf, Cotton Spore, Mega Drain, Stun Spore, Leech Seed, Fairy Wind Abilities: Infiltrator, Windveiled
The Swirlix follows the lead of food, though by the end it seems to have eaten enough to whet its appetite, as there isn't so much a look of hunger on its face as one of contentment.
The shiny that the Swablu flutters up to put in his hand seems to be some sort of stone of some kind. It's very shiny, with a pearlescent blue-green and almost seems to be naturally faceted. It's hard to tell if it might be valuable, or maybe just some junk glass, though.
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Post by seraphflonne on Jun 7, 2019 0:57:29 GMT
Kai stops short of where Cole was, when he notices that the Swirlix seems done with eating, it would kind of be pointless to harass Cole for food if the little guy didn't want to eat. He knelt down beside the puff, using his sticky hand to pet it. "Guess you're full now, huh? Well, if you wanna try tasy food all the time, you could come with me and my friends! Even if you don't like the cooking, we're traveling all the time and you can find new berries to much on, how bout it?"He retracts his hand, reaching into his pocket to taks the ball out, holding it out to the little guy. His eye twitched a bit as he felt his hand stick to the ball, he was gonna have to clean the ball for sure. Charm: 16
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Post by Breakthelevee on Jun 12, 2019 4:13:02 GMT
Cole gently takes whatever is presented to him "Thanks for this buddy, but I'm not sure I have anything I could give you in return. I'll keep it crystal clear for you though" He says with a smile.
Part of him thinks he could use a little scrubbing friend, someone he could bring to help keep the dishes clean. But it didn't feel right to take a Pokemon with him for something so trivial.
He looked at the thing in his hand, trying to figure out what it was.
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Post by Robot on Jun 15, 2019 11:44:47 GMT
It was a quiet sort of thing to reflect on, the Cottonee in an apricorn ball he had made himself. Some event or circumstance comes along and just carries friends apart, but they didn't let it be an upset or a painful experience. Just accepted it with bliss, knowing they were off to bigger and better things. Theodore spent a long while staring stoically off after the two windswept Cottonee.
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Post by DataNinja on Jun 15, 2019 18:13:40 GMT
The Swirlix seems to mournfully whine in agreement at being full, before accepting the ball. You caught a Swirlix! Level: 20 Nature: Gentle Gender: Male Moves: Cotton Spore, Round, Fake Tears, Play Nice, Fairy Wind, Tackle Ability: Sweet Veil, Lunchbox
The birds, noticing that they're the only cotton left in the field, flutter back to their collection of shinies and take off, leaving the Trainers alone in the intermittent breeze, sun shining down. There's still plenty of time left to head out and look for more Pokémon, or just go back to town and relax a bit for the day. The shiny that Cole got looks to be a gemstone of some kind - probably not super precious, and not an evolution stone, but something that's likely from the Falls or mountains a little to the West. Cole got a Shiny Gem worth $1500 if he sells it.
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Post by seraphflonne on Jun 15, 2019 20:24:16 GMT
Kai takes a moment to decide who to send back, settling on sending Wela the Vileplume back so he can train with his newer Pokemon. He had Coronet just in case things went too bad, and worst case the group could always run away from a fight.
After getting that settled, he walks on up to Cole, giving a bit of a nervous chuckle. "So uh... I needed to talk to you anyways, and now's as good a time as any." Kai's nervous grin flattens just a bit as he scratches his own neck, pretty clearly feeling awkward. "S-sorry about how I acted yesterday!"
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Post by Robot on Jun 17, 2019 9:59:44 GMT
They could backtrack further, he'd come in search of a lotad, which was a very different Pokemon from the Cottonee he had found, but Theodore couldn't help but feel responsible, for good and ill, over the two Cottoned that now flew where the wind would take them.
Tumbleweeds were kind of like that too, cept they got bounced along the ground instead, rolling along in the dust till they got stuck somewhere. He cast a sideways glance at Cole and Kai, it looked like the islander was trying to have a moment, so he politely excused himself out of earshot.
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Post by Breakthelevee on Jun 20, 2019 18:52:47 GMT
Coles eyes widened and he sort of shuffled his feet in place "It's fine. Let's just pretend like the last couple of days didn't happen" That's what he had already started to do himself. They didn't need to know he still had control over the flames....sort of. It was weird and he still didn't want to talk about it. Not about any of it, especially because he still wasn't really sure how he felt about himself, let alone how they were going to treat him from here on out.
"I vote that once we make it out of Fallarbor, we just act like nothing between Petalburg and this place ever happened. We caught some Pokemon and that's it. Then on to the next gym and, hopefully, better memories."
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Post by seraphflonne on Jun 20, 2019 22:02:24 GMT
"I mean, that doesn't really resolve me being a jerk, but if that's how you wanna do it... no complaints here." Kai shrugged slowly, not entirely sure this was exactly fine. He had apologized, so most of the issue was out of his system.
"Once we're out of Fallarbor eh, guess if you wanna tell Devon Corp you should do that when we get back to the Center."
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Post by DataNinja on Jun 23, 2019 3:05:40 GMT
With things seemingly (maybe) settled between the two Trainers, the group collectively decides to head back to town, and take some time to rest. No sense in just going, going, going - especially after the last few days.
The next several hours are mostly spent just relaxing in the Pokémon Center, with or without Pokémon. There really aren't too many people in this town, so it's only a sporadic trickle of people in and out of this particular Center. So, nothing really noteworthy occurs, until three familiar people stumble in. The girls all look fairly tired, Ruby most of all.
"Oh, good, I see we've caught up," Evelyn says, grinning. "Looks like pushing it was worth it." She promptly moves over to a couch in the lounge and, taking off her bag, falls backwards into it. "Ahhhh… good to be off my feet now."
"Well, we're back on even footing, at least," Ruby says, nodding. "Hopefully next time, we can get that badge first try. Need to stop embarrassing myself." There seems to be a little more to that statement than just regarding the Gym Badge, though, judging by the tone.
"How was your guys' trip here?" Ayah asks. "We really didn't get to see much cool on the way, trying to make sure that we caught up as we were. Hopefully yours was a bit less boring." Theo notices that she seems to be wearing a pair of earrings now, with polished glass or gems of a familiar blue hue.
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Post by seraphflonne on Jun 26, 2019 21:45:35 GMT
Kai opened his mouth, about to just spill it all, before closing it as he glanced at Cole before actually speaking. "Uh, Well we caught a lot of Pokemon, though we doubled back this morning to look for more of them." He chuckled nervously to himself, hoping they wouldn't notice him avoiding details.
"Wh-what about you guys, catch anything on the way?"
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