oo5 [Video/Action for Saffron Pokémon Center]

[freezetheskies]

[Hi, Johto. Enjoy the sound of a heart monitor breaking your otherwise quiet night, along with a rather bright blue glow before the camera on this end can adjust. That is what happens when a gear gets turned on from relative darkness and is soon faced into light, so what can you do? Not much besides wait for it to clear and reveal a room in a Pokémon Center somewhere, with a tank of water in the center and a chair nearby.

There's also a tiny Horsea floating in the tank with what can only be an oxygen mask attached to its snout and leads attached to its body. That must be the source of the sound, but the source of the feed isn't so easily traced back right away. It takes a moment, but a sound that can only be a Dragonair humming soon breaks the monitor's steady beeping, and the feed shifts a bit to reveal that it is instead a Dragonair, coiled in the corner of the room and in control of the gear with his tail. The Dragonair looks looks up, shifting the camera back towards the tank as his trainer enters with a nurse right behind him, taking a seat while the nurse does her checking, then looks to the boy who...looks about ready to fall over.]

"Mr. Hitsugaya, are you sure you'd like to stay? There's nothing we can do but wait--"

Thank you, but I'm sure.

[The nurse sighs at his stubborness, but doesn't bring up the issue again as she notes down the changes on the chart in her hand, looking to the clock on the wall then back to Hitsugaya.]

"I suppose there are worse places to be spending your birthday. Call for us if anything changes."

[With that, the nurse leaves him staring at the clock, and after a moment, he sighs and looks back to the tank. Yeeeep. Guess who's spending his birthday in the Pokemon Center and just doesn't seem to care. This guy, that's for sure. He only sits, watching the Horsea for long moment and saying nothing while Shiryuu squeezes the gear and shuts it off. They're in for a long night.]


[Private to: Rangiku Matsumoto]
The egg you gave me hatched. I thought you'd like to know.

Comments

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Hmm... how about both of them, then?

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

[Now he sighs. Both, huh? Fine. He did ask.] Here, supposedly thirteen. On my homeworld, somewhere between eighty and ninety. I stopped counting a long time ago.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Sounds kinda complicated... so you're both younger and older than me at the same time. Although, I guess if you've lived ninety years then technically you would be ninety everywhere, right?

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

Technically, yes. But being human here would throw that idea off quite easily.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Ohh, so you're not originally human, huh! I've met some other people like that, too.

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

There do appear to be quite a few of us like that here. I doubt this place cares who or what it brings in.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Probably, yeah... a lot of people I've met here live really interesting lives compared to me, it seems.

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

Interesting isn't always a good thing; it often leads to trouble.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

I guess that's true... but I'd still take interesting over boring, at the very least.

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

A lot of people would, at first. But there's only so much interesting someone can take before they get tired of the excitement.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

But you could say the same thing about boring too, right?

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

You could, but boring generally doesn't end in swordfights and with people in hospital beds.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

... Is that something that commonly happens where you're from? The swordfights part, at least.

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

[nod.] Almost daily. It's part of my job.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Geez - that's pretty intense! What kind of job is it...?

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

Crossing human spirits into the afterlife, and dealing with the monsters that prey on them. They tend to be stubborn creatures.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so you're a shinigami too, then? Like Byakuya?

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

[Another nod, even if he's surprised that Byakuya would be the first to mention it.] Like Kuchiki and the others from our world, yes.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Ah, so there's more of you, huh - ? Do you all do the same kinda stuff, then?

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

It's what we're trained for, though we all see varying levels of combat. Some never have to use their swords.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Ah... sounds difficult. I mean, from what I know about the stories I've heard about shinigami, I never knew it involved, y'know. Swordfighting and stuff like that.

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

It isn't as hard as it sounds, once you're used to it. Nothing is.

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What sort of things to the shinigami on your world do?

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Uh, well... all I remember is, they're death gods, right? And they collect souls... or something like that.

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[freezetheskies.livejournal.com]

[A quick headshake; at least the translation is the same, but...]

Then there is a difference between the ones on your world and mine. We protect souls, not collect them.

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[attrites.livejournal.com]

Ahh, that sounds way less intimidating than collecting them.