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Post by oddeyes on May 1, 2018 8:55:29 GMT
Tiki tosses out what she owes in money, and leaves the battle area. Didn't think there could be anyone more annoying than that. She would have to destroy her next time. She is ready to turn in for the day. Beating up Clay, and losing to dumb gimmicks was weighing heavy on her shoulders. Rei would be due home soon, and Tiki's future depended on that battle. She didn't wanna add onto her headache anymore, so it was bed time for her unless someone wanted to visit. She hoped that wouldn't be the case...
In the morning, Tiki sits in bed with her head in her hands. She has to fight off a bout of depression before she can get ready for the day. It was getting hard thinking about everything that was coming up. She could feel that this fight, regardless of winner, was going to lead to another emotional or psychotic break. Until then, she had to cram all these emotions into a black little ball of misery, and tuck away deep inside herself. With her repression done, it was breakfast time, and hopefully Clay was still her friend.
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Post by carnackiArdent on May 2, 2018 5:09:54 GMT
Well, Clay is still sitting at their usual table at breakfast, feeding Sandy with a sigh. "No, c'mon. You don't get to eat all the bananas. I want some too. You've got teeth, I know you have teeth, I've seen your teeth. Have some lettuce." Sandy accepts this with a small amphibian grumble.
He looks up when Tiki comes in and waves at her again. And, quite shamelessly, calls across the dining hall, "Morning, Tiki! Want a banana?"
Of course they're still friends. Clay provoked that fight on purpose, even if he wasn't quite expecting to get beaten that thoroughly. He's not sure if Tiki knows they're still friends yet but he's hoping to work on that.
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Post by oddeyes on May 2, 2018 7:54:40 GMT
Tiki waves, and accepts the banana. "Hey...Thanks." She silently eats her banana, and fights to break through the anxiety of apologizing for doing something wrong. "Sorry about yesterday...I might have fought harder than I needed, and I hope I didn't hurt you guys to badly." Success, and now back to the banana.
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Post by carnackiArdent on May 2, 2018 18:14:34 GMT
Clay waves it off with a smile - then the smile vanishes for a moment as he tries to be serious. "I guess I gotta apologize, too. The 'I don't care, it doesn't matter' thing got me upset and I tried to push you into it." He lets out a low sigh. "I guess I can't blame you that much, when I think about it. Being stressed out all the time is exhausting, and that's on top of... everything causing it."
He chuckles wryly. "I didn't expect you to beat me that hard, though. That was kind of embarrassing. I didn't manage to take any of your team down. Maybe if Star hadn't gotten that lucky dodge in right at the start it would've been different." He pauses for a moment. "And Sis is a little ticked off 'cause she went in to avenge me and still didn't manage it, but that's kinda her fault for going two-on-one when one of the two was a big Water-type so I'm not all that upset about it."
Sandy puts his hands on the edge of the table and looks over at Tiki solemnly for a moment before sticking his tongue out at her. Apparently this is all the comeuppance he thinks she needs.
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Post by oddeyes on May 3, 2018 8:44:24 GMT
Tiki sighs, and shrugs. "Yeah. Alright then. We are getting closer to the important date. Any day now, she's gonna be coming back.....Until then, more training. What are you gonna be doin'?"
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Post by carnackiArdent on May 4, 2018 2:12:50 GMT
"Probably training, too. Most of the stuff I wanna do is gonna wait 'til all this is settled..." He's going to have to apologize to Kalani for that when he goes to see her again, probably. He'd initially planned to explore the canyons east of Cerulean while Rei was at Rock Tunnel, but that was before all the drama happened - right now he doesn't really want to leave Tiki all to herself.
"You kinda showed me I've got a lot of training to do, anyway. I'm gonna want a rematch sometime, you know, so don't think going to Celadon if you win's going to get you out of that." This is about as subtle as Clay is going to get about the fact that he's not planning to let Tiki off the hook quite so easily even if she leaves.
Though a nice city like Celadon might have rules about where they can have battles. He'll need to be sure to find that out when he goes.
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Post by oddeyes on May 4, 2018 4:22:59 GMT
Tiki merely shrugs again. "Hm." She gets up from her seat, and looks to Clay. "Alright then. I'm off to do training. See ya around." Thinking about training already made her feel exhausted, but she went out for it anyways. She still couldn't shakes all the worries, and anxiety she had, but she tried her best to ignore it.
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Post by oddeyes on May 7, 2018 7:15:29 GMT
The next morning, Tiki is actually feeling pretty good. After a surprising ok night of sleep, Tiki feels like she has some more energy today. Those things should be a normal, everyday thing....at least it was before that one day. She heads out to get some breakfast. Might as well spread the good news about her opportunity to Clay.
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Post by carnackiArdent on May 8, 2018 0:45:08 GMT
Clay heads to breakfast around the same time, and gives Tiki a wave. "Morning, Tiki! How's it going?" She certainly looks better to him.
... He's gonna keep the thing with the fire-breathing Magikarp to himself for now though. Talking about an embarrassing defeat to the person who defeated him is one thing, especially if it's a friend and he knew he was in for an uphill fight going in. Admitting he got his tail kicked by a mildly-crazy guy with a Magikarp is another one.
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Post by oddeyes on May 8, 2018 0:54:14 GMT
"Mornin. It's actually going alright. You won't believe what happened yesterday. I was going to my usual training spot, when I ran into 3 rich looking boys. They talked super weird, like finishing each others sentences. But, they were looking around for a talented performer. I mentioned I could sing, and they took me to this super fancy, expensive place to eat lunch. They then want me to play at a private venue for some important people, and if I impress them, it may spread my name around Celadon!"
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Post by carnackiArdent on May 8, 2018 1:34:21 GMT
"Oh, cool! That's great, Tiki!" It might be suspicious, he guesses, but all he has to go on is what Tiki says so it might just be the vagueness. And it's good to have her be happy about something. "I don't think I've heard you sing anything that wasn't battle screaming for a while, come to think of it." Not that she's had a lot to sing about, lately.
"Only interesting thing I ran into yesterday was a weird fisherman guy. I, uh, don't wanna talk about it." That is definitely an embarrassed look on Clay.
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Post by oddeyes on May 8, 2018 1:46:54 GMT
Tiki nods. "Uhh...Yeah. Not really feeling like singing lately. But, this is a chance for something big, so I gotta prepare for that.....After the big fight. Any idea on when that is?" Tiki shifts uncomfortably.
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Post by carnackiArdent on May 8, 2018 1:50:49 GMT
"Not sure. I... think she said up to a week? It's been, uh..." Extended periods of time with Clay's friends being emotionally wrecked doesn't seem to have done his time sense much good. "I've lost count. But probably any day now."
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Post by oddeyes on May 8, 2018 1:55:36 GMT
"Yeah...Sooner better than later I guess...Don't want to meet Celadon people while all bruised up." Tiki starts feeling anxious again, and just after feeling pretty good. "Well...I'll have to set that performance in the back of my mind for later....Got other things to worry about. What are you gonna be doing today?"
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Post by carnackiArdent on May 8, 2018 2:11:29 GMT
"Probably just head out training. Try to break this stupid losing streak I've been on. Did a little better yesterday, but I think losing to you jinxed me somewhere." He sticks his tongue out, mostly to show that he's not serious. "How about you?"
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Post by oddeyes on May 8, 2018 3:00:14 GMT
"More hard training like always. I guess I'll see you around. Can't let up for a minute. Bye."
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Post by Raven on May 8, 2018 4:00:49 GMT
As Tiki heads out of the Guild, she thinks she spies something odd out of the corner of her eye. A red.. stripe? just sitting against a wall. When she blinks, it's gone though.
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Post by oddeyes on May 8, 2018 4:09:03 GMT
Tiki feels like she's seen stripes just hanging around....She shrugs, and gets back to training.
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Post by lichlord on May 8, 2018 4:53:54 GMT
Rei sighs. She really wished Holly would have been nice to come home to. But it seems Clay may not be the only one in need of lessons in the written word, as Rei can really only make out that Holly misses her and that she's gone to visit her sister. So she has no idea of when she'll get back.
At least her pokemon miss her as she's tackled by the more affectionate ones as soon as she returns. She's tackled to the ground with an 'eep!'. And after, the more sleepy Yagami just walks over near Rei's head and just sits and gives off a small mewl and a happy look. Rei just laughs.
"Hi, you all."
Rei stands, in particular trying to get Hikari off of her (who keeps zipping around to different parts of Rei's body before she can get to her until he can't do it anymore), and brings out her more weary team.
"Ok everyone, I have a few more friends from Rock Tunnel I'd like you all to meet."
Rei releases all her new captures so all her pokemon to meet. (And Duch and Gryz are also showing off their new forms.) Platek, the Glalie; Kolo the Klang; Oko the Sableye; Piesc the Riolu; and...
"Wait where Weid go?"
Rei looks around for Weid the Teddiursa and sighs when she sees her bag moving. Probably eating the other jar of honey. Rei moves over to get him out of the bag when it starts shining the now-familiar shine of evolution! Weid's form grows HUGE, and at the end, an Ursaring stands before Rei! The big bear slumps down into a siting position... and then continues to eat the jar of honey happily as if nothing had happened. Rei apprehensively approaches him before finally moving closer and decides the big belly with the circle seems like a good target for pets! And it quickly seems to be a good idea as Weid lays back and gives a content gurgle between the belly rubs and the honey.
He's so huge now. Hope I can find enough to keep him fed...
All her new pokemon do quite a bit of conversing and getting to know their pokemon fellows while Rei slips out. She has a couple things to set in motion. First she supplies up on stuff to cook up more snacks for use during the fight. Her supplies ran low after Rock Tunnel. Then, she approaches Tiki's room. When she feels like the coast is clear she approaches and leaves a note under her door.
Tiki. I've returned from Rock Tunnel. At first light, I'll be waiting outside the eastern gate of Saffron.
-Rei
And with that, that's everything she wanted to do. She quickly goes back to cook up what snacks she may have needed, and is a little lost at what to do. While she's able to concentrate on what to do still (Something she may not be able to do tomorrow depending on how it goes), she decides to head to the psychic branch to give the book back and see if there's any more as Clay mentioned. As Clay can't read yet, having a book based on dream/nightmare legendaries is probably not a good place to start. So there's no need to keep it now she's gotten all the useful information from it.
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Post by Raven on May 8, 2018 5:12:39 GMT
It takes a minute to remember as she's walking there, but by the time she reaches the correct hallway, Rei has remembered how to locate the "side/mundanes door" into Psychic Branch that leads directly to their Library. Most of the people within don't really pay her much mind, preferring to keep to themselves (as per usual). She browses the relevant section for a bit, finding some tangentially related content, but most of that is just theories on oneiromancy (dream magic) and oneirology (the study of dreams/nightmares). Not especially helpful, but perhaps interesting reading if you're into the subject matter.
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