[CLOSED] A Festival of Surprises

"I guess I just am a little wary of a pokemon that already has no type disadvantages and some pretty good speed, getting even stronger than it is normally," said Z, "if just one of the Sableye in the abandoned mine got to be that powerful, then they might be able to break out and infest the other mines, and that would hurt the town's economy as most of our income comes from our mining of precious stones and ores from deep within the earth."

Haxorus walked over to where Sparky was sulking and gave her a reassuring pat on the back, understanding how hard it was for her, as he had had to participate in the battle as well to keep the blasted ghost/dark types from fleeing into the town itself.

Finally, he hit the last mark. He had won. He would be panting if he were any other person, but the repetitive action of slamming the sledge hammer against the pressure plate was just like chopping wood, an action he had to do way more often than he’d like to admit. After winning as best as he could, he was faced with a tough decision; which prize to pick? There were so many… and after all he had just played the game for fun. He saw many oddly shaped pokemon and mostly eh pokemon. He leaned over to Kaname and instead asked him to pick.

Kaname looked around as he thought- a habit he had attained long ago. Almost immediately again, he saw Mariko wondering seemingly aimlessly about. He looked over and noticed her bird pokemon were guiding her around, almost escorting her. He even noticed her smoochum, but quickly pushed it aside when Tsubame startled him. Quickly he pointed to the giant plush pidgey.

”Really? That one? It’s so plain. So boring. What am I going to do with it…” He paused following the route Kaname’s other claw took. He turned his attention back to the booth manager. ”I’ll take the stupidly large pidgey please.” However, when he had received it, he realized that perhaps he had made a mistake as he and his partner walked away to where they last had seen Mariko.

”Are you sure she’ll want… this? Look at it! It’s not only bigger than you, but at least half of me!” His whining was cut short by the sneasel’s glare. ”If this doesn’t work I’m totally blaming you.”

Ah. There she is… oh man, I can’t tell if she’s talking to that nicely dressed man or not… is she…? I can’t tell… damn. The stupid festivals filling up… need to get closer-Kaname? KANAMENO!! His thoughts had riled into an uproar as Kaname easily slid through the crowd to Mariko. Stupid sneaky, ninja pokemon thing… He grumbled as he tried to shove past the massive swaths of people, which was made impossible by the ginormous, fat, happy bird plush that blocked his view.

When he finally got close enough to her, he realized what she was wearing… a traditional Ecruteak kimono. He knew he was trapped this time, but he was frozen in his place; the beautiful colors and patterns had ensnared him in her contrsting sapphire gaze, even if only for a brief moment that dragged on like the heartbeats that trudged on with their war drums in his ears. He quickly realized how idiotic he must’ve looked… a grown, overworked man, with a fat comic-book bird half his size and an expression of Oh holy hell I hope that’s not piss running down my leg. Only an expression.

Finally figuring it out, he began to use the plushy goodness of the pidgey to ram people out of the way, but they didn’t seem to mind because being hit by the plushie didn’t hurt them. Finally ramming his way over to her, he managed to break into the bubble around her the crowd created. Without thinking, he randomly burst out,

”Hey Mariko!” He hated how obnoxious he sounded when he spoke to her, so he tried to correct it. ”How are you today?” his voice was still off, but at least he sounded smoother… to him. Kaname basically face-clawed at his trainer, and pawed in the air at smoochum.

After watching the festival go on for quite some time and finding that no one else seemed to wish to speak with her while they could, Eira decided that it was about time that she wrapped up tonight's events. Her closing announcement did not mean that everyone had to go home, but it was growing late and she did not want too much commotion to bring wild Pokemon near her village. She cleared her throat before she called out to all of those who could hear her.

"Ladies and gentlemen! I would like to announce the end of tonight's festivities. I thank you for coming all the way to Silvertree in celebration of yet another wonderful contest," Eira called out, a smile coming her face as she readied herself for her big announcement. "I hope to see you all again. Possibly the next time we all meet, it will be in the newest city in Eirlys. I have begun work on a trade city on our border with Celosia that is now named Mistleaf. Please, once it officially opens its gates to travelers, make sure you stop there on your way between Celosia and Eirlys. Now, good night to you all."

Mariko couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the fact that Tsubame seemed to be out-of-sorts as he returned her response.  But she raised both eyebrows in surprise at the fact that he was holding out the gigantic Pidgey plushy that he had been holding on to since the beginning of their conversation.  "That is for me?"  She asked confused by the fact that he had thought about her when he had won the plush in the first place.  However what had her the most confused of all was the suddenness of the offer for her to stay at his cabin.  Celeste and Luka seemed to object to the offer almost instantly, the two letting out a series of tweets, while Snowdrop watched on confused.  Mariko moved to quickly calm the two bird Pokemon before giving Tsubame a small uncertain smile.  "Are you sure you want me to stay with you?  I mean, I don't have a place to stay, but the offer almost seems to be too sudden for you to actually mean it."  She asked finally moving to place Snowdrop down so that she could take the plushy from the other finally.  "I will need someplace considering that the festival was just called to a close."

Mariko stood there uncertain for a moment as she listened to the man in front of her stutter and stumble over words. The sight was slightly amusing, but at the same time, painful to watch. Sighing to herself, she moved one hand so that it was up in a stop motion. “Stop. You are over-clarifying some things that you have already stated before, and it is getting us nowhere. Let me say a few things of my own now. One, I don’t mind staying at your cabin, if you are alright with it. Two, Luka is a Fletchinder now, not a Pidove. Three, if you do get any ideas for funny business, I will allow my two, normally sweet and tame, bird Pokemon to do what they have been wanting to do for the whole time you never contacted me after taking me out to lunch, and attack. Four, you have a lot of explaining to do, starting with how you found it funny to play games of the heart and then just leave.” She said, starting calm before a small amount of controlled disappointment slipped into the words at the end. Yes, it was not classy to bring these sort of things up in public, but they had been bothering her for a while, and she wanted answers.

Mariko was slightly surprised by the others response. Well, that was something she had not expected to hear. “Is that… So…?” She said slowly before she took a look around where the two of them, plus their Pokemon were standing. “This is not something to continue discussing in public. We should move somewhere else to discuss this.” She hoped that the other understood that she meant. She didn’t want to make this any more awkward than it already seemed to be, especially in a public place such as this ended festival. There were still many people wandering around, and that meant that their conversation could be overheard, thus making Tsubame possibly even more uncomfortable. She wasn’t that cruel, she didn’t want to make him explain more on the subject in public.