[CLOSED] Fall Festival [Nicole] [Z] [Tsubame] [Mariko]

Z walked into the town wearing a black winter coat under his usual cloak and with Tsurara, Kit, and Ruby at his side. Ruby was flitting about, looking at the new environment and also looking to hopefully cause a bit of mischief while exploring. She was new to the team, and had issues with some of Z's other pokemon due to her previous history with them, but Kit was always there to keep her in line with a moonblast attack. At least now, the sableye were working to help the miners dig as opposed to eating the ore and stones.

Zandrophin was dropped into the snow near the landmark tree of Slivertree Village. He shook his head to clear his vision from the teleportation. He had foregone his thick jacket for a long-sleeve shirt and pants. The white shirt and light grey pants helped him blend into the snow a bit better...not that he could really blend in...most people in this area knew who he was already. In all honesty, he was unsure if he wanted to perform at all; he may just want to observe..whoever else had shown up.

He headed towards the center of town. Though he had mixed feelings about returning here, he put a confident look on his face and kept walking.

Eira waited patiently at her perch at the edge of the stage in Lapras Lounge, knowing that there would be someone here soon. She had made sure to advertise as much as possible all over Eirlys and Celosia about this festival, so she had high hopes for the amount of people that was to show up. In particular, she hoped to see some of her friends again since the summer had been quite the busy season and she had been pulled away with so much work.

The cold breeze swept his raven hair both in and out of his silvery eyes. He almost couldn’t bring himself to go in, but he had already registered. ’This is for Kaname…’ He looked back to his companion who seemed excited to finally test his skills in a contest. After Kaname went inside, he submitted to the fact he had no choice now and followed.

Once inside, he realized he must’ve been the last to enter. Everyone else seemed to be congregating around Lady Eira-Tsubame froze instantly. Wearing a gorgeous kimono, he couldn’t be mistaken. Mariko! She’s here! Again! He couldn’t tell if he was happy, sad, nervous, or just sick. Kaname noticed something was obviously wrong, and tugged his hand and mind back into reality.

”I’m fine bud. Let’s go find Lady Eira and thank her for welcoming us.” He shook out his hair and tried to focus his attention elsewhere. He couldn’t help but notice the standoutish blonde hair of the man he had once met, and once saw in Mariko’s clinic. ’Mariko…’ His eyes flicked back to her kimono. It was beautiful, especially how it contrasted with her brunette locks, oh how he wanted them to drape over her shoulders and really melt into the exquisite gown.

A few people had entered the contest so far and had even come to say hello to her, but Eira was trying to wait for everyone to gather together before she introduced what the contest would be like. She hoped people would gather around her soon since she was waiting to let the audience in until everyone was there. "Go round everyone up, Meta."

She took out the Ditto's ball and let it roll across the stage before a shiny Pidove flew from the light it gave off. Meta flew high in his transformed state and decided to circle around to each of the gathered competitors, chattering with their Pokemon so that the Pokemon could get their humans to start gathering around his queen.

Nicole finally found herself in the area she needed to be within the Lapras Lounge and found herself looking around the interior. “A building made of ice… Careful not to sneeze in here Nero.” She said looking down at the Pokemon who was still attempting to mother hen her. Said Pokemon merely scoffed in his own personal way and looked around at their surroundings with a slight grumble, still not a fan of the cold. Giving a small laugh at the expense of her best friend, Nicole then looked towards where she was sure she had seen Eira, knowing she still had her greetings and thanks to give for being allowed to join the contest. However, the queen seemed to be popular today, and thus, Nicole found herself standing back, waiting for the others to go first before she gave her own greetings. It would do her no good to walk over and interrupt someone else.

It wasn't until she saw the Pidove, that she realized that the contest was about to start.  "Well, the greeting can wait I guess.  Come on Nero, let's go."  She said moving to where the Pidove was trying to lead people.