99. [Text/Action for travel group]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[SO YEAH, UH. IT'S BEEN. A FEW DAYS. SINCE... YOU KNOW.]

[Since the whole thing on the weekend that they all remember now.]

[In those few days, Heather has been holed up in her hotel room like a dysfunctional pop star hiding from the paparazzi. What's she been doing in there? GOD ONLY KNOWS. Actually, the people IN that hotel room know and it's mostly being quiet and sleeping a lot, but there you go.]

[BUT LO AND BEHOLD: a text!]

[A text with a request.]</sub>


SUP PEOPLE

I have a mission for all of you


send me funny shit

any funny shit

I don't care if it's a joke or a story about the time your drunk uncle bill mistook your annoying aunt sally's drink for a spitoon or a video of that fat Meowrth that likes to get in boxes i forget his name it's like Maroo or something

1 2 3 GO

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[foolishwren]

<sub>[Although it's hardly Riku's intention, the mention of Sora sends a bittersweet pang through Heather's heart. Because unlike past years, this time she actually remembers meeting the one she knew. In reality, NOT in a dream.]

[And it's sad because she knows the one here in Johto is the exact same sweet, happy-go-lucky little kid that she always knew... but she still hasn't kept up with him as much as she should. After awhile, the lack of remembrance as he came back to Johto over and over had just gotten a bit disheartening...]

[But of course she doesn't bring any of that up.]</sub>

oh man let me know when to look out for THAT, cuz no matter what the result is I think I'm gonna have to tune in


that charmeleon sounds like a total badass too, surfing when it could fall in the water and totally get KO'd

any pics?

[islandshore]

Hah. I'm throwing up a post later today, so if you want to cook up some popcorn, by all means, do.

As for images, well...

[He attaches two images. One of a fierce fight in Cinnabar Volcano, complete with a Charmeleon chilling on the back of a Surfing Blastoise while a Hydreigon panics in the background.

There's also some snapshots of her using Pidoves as stepping stones on the way to the Training Center's roof and launching herself onto a Pidgeot's back and tugging his plumes.]

[foolishwren]

hahah awesome

for the record, I don't believe

I found the presents in the closet when i was seven

kept quiet for a few more years though cuz Dad loved keeping it going, didn't wanna let on that I knew the big secret

_{[The pictures get a good laugh, although obviously he can't hear it through text.]}

lol awesome

[islandshore]

Hey, I hear you. Finding presents ruins the 'magic,' if you can even call it that.

I stopped believing ages ago-- has to be nine years ago by now. I wasn't about to entertain kiddy ideas like that, especially after I caught my parents slipping gifts under the tree.

But Sora keeps talking about how he met Santa. That's what started this bet in the first place.

[foolishwren]

heh, maybe if i'd 'caught' him, it would've been different, but he didn't know i knew, sooooo

i figured why not let him keep having fun?

_{[For someone so determinedly not serious or grown up most of the time, Heather'd had surprising moments of maturity as a little kid.]}

and pffff...

man, that's such a Sora thing to think

[islandshore]

Guess that's fair enough. It probably is fun for the parents, but I just can't get behind lying to kids like that.

[As for the second part, sneeerk.]

And he's so serious about it, too. You should've seen the look on his face.

[foolishwren]

guess we see it differently

<sub>[Telling a kid that a jolly, magical man in a red suit puts presents under the tree every Christmas might not telling the truth, but after growing up with Dahlia Gillespie for a mother ...]

[Let's just say she wishes the lies she'd been fed for seven years had involved Santa Claus and not what they'd actually been.]</sub>

haha i can imagine it so clearly

[islandshore]

Fair enough, I guess. It's not like it's emotionally scarring them for life.

[As for Sora...]

Think he said something about a Halloween Town for good measure. But even that sounds more plausible than Santa.

[foolishwren]

true dat

and AHAH Halloween Town, huh?

you've been here awhile, have you talked to Jack Skellington yet?

_{[She asks because even if people do tend to get to know each other after awhile, she's hardly met EVERYBODY who comes to Johto. There's a lot.]}