I walked inside the house, Asao walking beside, barely. It was really too bright in this place, I would say.
I helped Asao over to Dr. Kyuu and told the Doctor to take care of him.
"Would you mind if I take a look at that wound on your back, Shupple? I saw you wincing on your way here." Dr. Kyuu smiled kindly, so I turned around and showed him it.
There was a hole in my clothing from where the bullet singed the clothing and it only showed the wound, thank Pokemon. I felt him move his finger against it, and slowly put on a bandage. I winced as he put it on because of the medicine on the bandage.
"That should hold," he told me and I nodded. "You can come and check on Asao later." I nodded again, and headed towards the Girl's Dorm Side.
I headed to a part of the Girl's Side where the light bulbs were flashing on and off and you could see ghost Pokemon on the walls. I headed inside on of the rooms and liked it automatically.
There was one window and it was dark glass, so I didn't have to worry about the sun shining through. Everything was black around me and I loved it. The light bulb hanging down from the ceiling with a little chain hanging from it was swinging slightly. I didn't bother turning it on as I went over to the black boom box, turned on some soft rock and laid down on my new bed.
Once I looked at the ceilings, they were blank, but writing started to form on the walls and on the ceiling. All words from poems that I knew, or my own writing, or even just single words, like pain or vain, or some other word.
I felt at home here for some reason, even if I don't have much of a reason to exit my room.
It was lovely writing.
~Shupple
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Anybody can go and bother her if you want to~! XD
I walked down a hall and i started opening doors. I found an empty room and it got my attention. A flat screen TV on the wall. A king sized bed, and small kitchen, a night stand, a dresser and a love seat against the wall. I went in side. The wallpaper was like a 3 sixty wilderness. A pond on one wall, a deep thick woods on one a swamp area on another and a mountian on the same wall as the door. I looked up and the ceiling was a beautiful sky with a moon in the center. "amazing", i muttered. I check out the bathroom wich was amazing. The shower was made to look like a water fall. The whole room was made to look like a small pond wich was perfect. A bath and shower with a sauna room against the wall. I stepped out and shut the door. "DIBS!", i shouted. I hung a taken tag i found on the door and walked off to find some people. There was like a bridge going from the ladys dorm to the mens. A the entrance on one side of the bridge and the huge living room on the other. In the midal of the living room was a huge round fire place with a counter going around it. I saw hoom next to the fire place and i shouted down to her," YOU GOT TO LOVE THIS PLACE!". she smiled and waved to me. I Looked over to the girls dorm and i saw Melody coming toward me with a sad look in her face. She looked up and jumped at th sight of me. Andreas was behind her keeping silent. "whats wrong melody?", i asked. She smiled and said," oh its nothing, im just leaving". "what do you mean leaving?", i replied. she looked up at me,"I cant stay here. I dont know anyone and they dont know me. Im going to a nearby pond to live". she stated. I was shocked. "melody no, you belong here. we are your friends. we dont want you to go live a pond. you belong here with me.....", I paused to rethink what i just said but i couldnt think of a way to correct it.
Andreas seemed pissed in the background. Melody was wide eyed and i was redder then a and angry primeape.
HON HOUNDOUR
someone continue. ^ ^
Okay so it seems all the fighting of the robots is over. That kinda sucks but is good at the same time, 'cause you know it was kinda fun destroying evil robots. But anyway... Where did this random mansion come from? Oh well, it at least I might not be sleeping on the streets tonight. *evil grin* So I walk inside and guess what I find? A whole lot of other gijinkas there. I guess for once in my life I didn't feel like a freak. Okay, not really. I mean, even if I wasn't a gijinka I'll always be weird. But I'd rather be weird~ Otherwise life would be boring. Well anyway, I may as well introduce myself to someone. So I walk up to random (seems to be a lopunny gijinka) and just say
"Hiiiiiiii~~~~~!" But then I notice there were others watching me too.
So I only said what was natural-
"Nice to meet you all!" in my normal bubbly voice.
They all just stared at me, but I'm used to that "What the hell????" look so I didn't feel embarrassed at all.
Continue?
~Merri
Tense was not the word to describe how I was feeling at that moment. It was something a little more agitating that if I could think clearly at that moment, I would have found the word perturbed to be the best fit in this situation. However, in correspondence with my own mind, I continued to press up against the back wall as my eyes darted for an exit that would not be blocked by those that had just entered the house.
The way people moved around in the house had set me somewhat on edge. No. Once again my frantic mind chose the wrong word. It didn’t matter. I just had to get out. I’d get out, leave the house, and go on as I had just before fixing this place. What had started as a simple repayment had somehow evolved into something greater. I heard comments from people about the house and things and it only seemed to pour salt in my nervous system.
"Hey, you ok" Lupe’s voice said causing my eyes to shoot straight at where the voice had come. Sure enough, there was Lupe asking something to the effect of my health.
"I.... "I... I..." I tried but my speech had seemed to drop with my thought, and all I could do was stand there like a sinner in a church.
"I know. You type nervous aren't you?" Lupe said almost matter of factly. In that instance, my nerves transferred more to nervous energy than to what my brain had to say on the matter.
"So much people" I answered. Oh god…. My grammar had just been buried with my word choice. May it rest in peace among the graves dug by nervous energy. Still looking for an exit, I continued to debate whether or not just running straight through the front door would be the best course of action or some other means. Of course at the time, this thought process was not nearly as fluid as how I just explained it. More or less, the words ‘door’ and ‘exit’ were the only ones making any logical amount of sense in my mind at that moment.
"Hey, hey. Just calm down, will ya? We won't hurt you. We are all friends here. Trust me, there were a lot of Gijinka like you that were first nervous around us but now they are all pretty much like family" Lupe tried, but once again through the faucet of stressed thought, I had begun to ignore what she was saying completely.
Lupe made a motion of sighing and brought her hand up to her head as if to beat back an already growing migraine. I didn’t blame her actually… I couldn’t blame her for the rfatc that my mind was processing something completely at the time. However, in the after effects that occurred, I did get around to blaming her.
"Don’t be so scared. How old are you anyways? By your appearance you seem like a grown teen. Why so scared?" she demanded with a stressed voice that didn’t register in my mind at that moment. Finally after a few seconds of calm thought that sometimes accompanies stress, I managed to put the dice of the situation back into their bowl and comprehend what she was saying.
"I am 19. And I am not used to strangers, such as yourself, comforting me and giving me a place to stay. So, if you don't mind, I will be leaving now,” I answered. Yes. Finally a finishing thought. After a few more seconds, I forced myself to keep my words focused.
Taking a sided step, I moved around Lupe and headed towards the door. Suddenly, Lupe jumped infront of the door and stood there as if she were barricading it, and as I came to the door, she forced me back and blocked the door completely. I felt a growing anger that was catalyzed by my initial fears.
"Weren't you the one who built this house? How are you going to build a beautiful mansion and choose not to live in it? That makes no type of damn sense" she answered. This completely stopped my thought process. Lupe’s eyes narrowed as if she were trying to keep her face completely stern while saying this. Once again, I could not help but commend her for being able to hold such ground. A part of me later correlated this with members of the club somehow. I returned this look and them moved the hand she had placed to block me away. I kept my face calm and stern as I began talking again. It would make little sense if I let my agitation make use of my vocal chords without them knowing how to convey what I was meaning.
"This is simply a token of gratitude for your and Estelle's kindness. Thank you for noticing me but I really need to go..." I answered keeping my voice as level as possible.
"And where do you have a place to stay? Please tell me since you are just dying to leave." Lupe retorted. My hand tightened around the sketchbook that I still held under my right arm. What did she mean where was I going to stay? I’m a traveler….Finally the idea set in that Lupe believed that I would stay with the group. I wondered slightly what exactly this meant, but then after another moment, my thoughts ran to the numerous people that would probably be here. It would be too many. I would keep traveling. Finally, I sighed and tried once again to move around her. She blocked me once again, and I felt a strange amount of irritation starting to bud.
"Mear, you are not leaving. I don't give a damn how scared you are. You have nowhere to go. So I'm not making you leave!" she said almost defensively. I couldn’t help but raise my eyebrow at this. The initial panic had drained into a tired after shock that often accumulates, and by that time, I was wearing somewhat of a composed expression. However, under this, I was trying to piece together just exactly why she would want me to stay so badly.
Silence grew and we were just staring at each other with a strange growth of anger between us. The contour of her angry visage would forever be burned into my skull, and this only seemed to irritate me more. Suddenly, Lupe seemed to flush red, and even more confusion started to snap through my mind. Before I could question her, she unlocked the door and just left. The feeling I was left with was a strange void in my system.
"Do what you please" Lupe continued as she walked away. "I shouldn't stop you from leaving. I'm not forcing you to stay."
I sighed and took the handle of the door. Turning it and then swinging it open completely. I took in a breath. After a moment, I swung the door closed and sighed again. I eyed the people still in the main room and headed towards the kitchen instead. I sat back in one of the chairs and placed my sketchbook on the table. Ignoring most everyone in the room, I flipped opened the book and started drawing in red ink as I always did. Looking up, I saw a few of the Gijika looking at me.
“Hm?” I asked.
I looked down at the picture and found that I had once again drawn the lake with both Lupe and Estelle standing there. Blinking for a moment, I sat back and sighed once again. Finding that there were also a few extra pairs of eyes looking at my picture, I finally just looked straight over at them.
"I guess this is your new home, then," Melody's longtime friend gaped at the towering mansion that had materialized from the ashes.
This is not my home, Andreas. It would be inconsiderate to intrude on these gijinkas' sanctum without properly requesting permission for lodging. I barely know anything about these people. Why should I barge in and take residence with people whose names are the only thing I know about them? Melody's thoughts whirled about in her head as she gazed uncertainly at the gleaming manor. She could see other Pokemon milling about through her peripheral vision as she pondered over whether she should go inside or not. I suppose it would not hurt if I took a quick tour of the place, she finally decided. "Let us see what this place has to show us," she told Andreas, starting off. The sound of feet falling into step behind her was his answer.
As the pair walked through the doors, they were instantly awed by the sheer size of the place. The ceiling was about twenty feet above their heads, dotted with gleaming chandeliers. The enormous room branched off into two equally large corridors. By each entrance was a sign. One read "MALES" and the second read "FEMALES". That Smeargle was smart, Melody thought to herself. Dividing the estate into gender-assigned wings was a lovely idea. It should keep trouble down somewhat.
Andreas interrupted her thoughts. "I may not be welcome here," he said, "but I would like to at least like to see your friends with you."
The she-Mudkip smiled. "Yes, indeed," she replied. "And I'm sure they will accept you here, at least for a short while. Now, I wonder where Hon went off to..."
The male scientist frowned, pushing his glasses farther up the bridge of his nose. "I just don't understand why you like that boy so much. He seems so... unconventional. Being around him seems to make you more rambunctious. I like you best when you're quiet and polite. It disguises your true potential, which is advantageous," he stated. Melody couldn't help but giggle at his rambling. However, she wondered why her seeing Hon agitated Andreas. He's just a really good friend, right? she thought. What's wrong with that?
"Hello!" a familiar voice exclaimed. Eva scampered over, the human boy she called "Daniel" following close behind. "Good day, you two," Melody greeted them. "You both look awfully happy. What has happened?"
"They're letting Daniel stay at the mansion! We're going to see Estelle to get him some clothes. Have you seen her?" Eva asked.
"I'm afraid not."
"Oh, okay! I'm sure she's in her room. By the way, you should go find yourself a room, Melody! I'm sure there's one you'll find just perfect!"
Melody's smile disappeared. "Oh," she said, "I'm not going to be here. There's a lovely pond nearby, so I'll stay there. You could come visit anytime, though."
"What? Why?" the young Eevee frowned. Andreas looked at her with the same question in his eyes.
"It is nothing personal," the Mudkip replied. "I just don't really know any of you. You don't know me. I'm not sure if I could belong." The statement had a bit more venom in it than she had intended, but nevertheless, she did not correct herself.
She turned to leave.
Continue?
Melody.
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Hope it fits.
