"Okay! I will, don't worry!" I said over my shoulder to the rest of my friends as I walked out of the clearing. They had sent Estelle on some shopping, to get foodstuffs, but at the last minute they remembered they also wanted necessities for the house. I wouldn't be able to get them at the market, so I headed for a small town just a little bit farther ahead. It was around 2:00pm by the sun.
I looked over my shopping list, the money banging against my leg in my pants pocket, as I walked. 'Toilet paper. Soap. Lightbulbs. Big cooler. Plates and utensils. Pots and pans.' I had covered up my Meowth ears with a big beanie-hat, and I had taken my longsleeved shirt off and tied it around my waist--as nerdy as that sounds it covered up my tail effectively-- and kept my t-shirt on.
After I had bought the items, I had to lug them all back to the house. Most of everything I could fit into the cooler except the toilet paper, because it came in one of those 24-packs that are bigger than your torso. After a brief struggle, I found a comfortable position to carry the cooler and the TP, and I headed back.
On the way home, the road from the town and the road from the market converged, and I met up with Estelle and another gijinka whom I had never seen.
"Hi-Estelle-!" I panted, taking breaths between every word. "Did-you-get-all-the-food?" I resettled my burdens to hopefully get her attention.
She looked down at me. "Oh! Nyarth, you poor thing! You have to carry all of that stuff back to the house??"
I gave her a sheepish grin.
"You DO know, I'm a Psychic type, right? I can use my Confusion to carry those things." Her eyes glowed purple for a second and the cooler and the toilet paper hovered in the air.
Exactly what I wanted her to do. Estelle's so nice!
She gestured with a free hand to the gijinka following her. "This is Mel. Mel, this is Nyarth."
She looked possibly like a Milotic. Yeah, I'm pretty sure about that. "Hi!" I said to her, smiling widely.
"Hey Nyarth, you know, I just saw a flyer for a Pokemon Contest that will be held soon! I got the flyer right here." She handed it to me and I read it.
"It sounds really fun! I wanna go, Estelle!" It would be super easy for us gijinkas to disguise ourselves because everyone else will look like a Pokemon. The three of us headed back to the clearing to tell the others.
~Nyarth
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