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Who: Mayuri and Morigana
Where: Probably around Pallet Town
When: September 4th
Summary: Mayuri wants to see Morigana, show her the Super Bug and ask her about stuff.
Rating: G
Log:

Reaching Kanto and Pallet Town was a breeze for Mayuri. A Magnet train pass, her Altaria to fly her around and Luxray to ride on whenever the dragon bird needed to rest. What would have been a month long journey was cut down to just a little under a week. She also stopped by Pewter Gym in order to revive her now fossilized bird, because she couldn't leave the little ribbon thief trapped in stone now.

Now in Pallet Town, she asks around for Morigana. She skips along happily wherever she went and her Togekiss floating right behind her as always. She's also brought a little something from Goldenrod, a typical magician's wand, because she still believed the strange girl came from a world of stereotypical illusionists.

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It isn't all that typical to locate the girl; in fact, most people find her memorable since she walks barefoot and speaks in a strange manner, so they're all too happy to point in the right direction.

Morgiana takes notice of the other girl and approached her quickly, though that was more in due to the long strides she took with her legs than an actual run. Behind her trail four Pokemon who look as though they have never seen the inside of a PokeBall. Sprite and very energetic, the Plusle, Minun, and Azurill all follow behind the Pichu as if he were their leader.

(He likely is)

"Good afternoon." Having learned to properly greet someone, she raised an arm to wave. "It didn't take you long to get here?"

"Nope! Not long at all~" She greeted her with a wave. Travel times were just cut down to less than a quarter with her pokemon aiding her. Her Togekiss, still unused to this much larger body than when it was a Togepi, greeted Morgiana's mons by floating suddenly inbetween them all.

"Tutturu~ How've you been doing?"

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Naturally her Pokemon are all impressed by the one that can fly (seeing as none of her own currently can) and now all follow underneath the Togekiss' shadow. Meanwhile, Morgiana's shoulder stiffen at the question as she thought about just how she has been doing.

It never grew easy to talk about herself.

"Traveling. I've been looking for books that aren't about Pokemon for Al in case he returns, but I hear that a number of people here never do come back."

What a depressing topic.

"Who's Al? And did he go on a trip?"

Mayuri wasn't exactly sure what she was implying, still not fully grasping how this strange world worked and all.

Meanwhile, her Togekiss is making better headway by offering to be a shield under the sun and a piggyback ride to any pokemon who requests it.

"A man I met here." One who reminded her of her pseudo-patron Alibaba and therefore earned her loyalty within a few short conversations. "We had plans to meet and travel together. He disappeared suddenly to return home."

A simple explanation for a topic that continued to bother her. Being an individual who disliked being alone meant that she took her losses a little harder than she should even if they were complete strangers.

Naturally the Pichu will attempt to mount on the Togekiss, insisting to the others that he would be their leader and take charge into battle. What battle? Who knows.

"Aww, that happens a lot doesn't it? Maybe he'll come back someday." After all it wasn't that unusual for people to return here from what's she heard. But she has not lived in this world long enough to see it herself. "I wonder what it's like to come back home all the sudden." Like waking up from a dream? Or something else...

Pipi the Togekiss lets the tiny rat board her back. And they're off to a start by Pipi flying a few feet off the ground, but to a small Pokemon it can seem like stories high.

"It must be strange to." Morgiana found herself admitting out loud. "To suddenly be from one world to the next. There are those here who fall into a deep sleep and wake up with memories of home. That makes no sense to me."

How do they return home if they are here? Then when people really return home, why do their bodies disappear with them?

"There are many unanswered things about this world. Why don't people question it more?"

She paused only to watch the two Pokemon play, the rest of Morgiana's little team skipping after in an attempt to keep up with Pipi's speed.

"It's like we're in a video game isn't it?" Yeah she forgot that Morigana couldn't even read before, much less knew about televisions and video games.

"I don't think they know much either, nobody even knows if the Elite Four is around or not." Which was rather strange to someone who was familiar with the games. Nobody even seems to mention them much or the Champion.

Finding it difficult to provide any kind of reply to that, she paused once more to consider asking what she had meant. It would be alright to ask, wouldn't it? She came all this way to speak with her, to meet with her in person, so it should be acceptable to be honest.

"Forgive my asking miss, but what is a video game?"

A tilt of her head to indicate her subtle curiosity, but at least her gaze is focused back on her.

"As for the Elite Four, I hear that they are in hiding. I'm not sure why they hide--are they scared of us? Maybe we should get together to introduce ourselves. If we do that, then they have little reason to be afraid."

Mayuri's more than willing to help for most. It's actually kind of a nice change of pace, since she's the one in the dark most of the time.

"Oooh, they're like games you can play on the television screens or by itself on a little game system. Maybe they have them in the store somewhere!" She hadn't looked. Much of her money went to inn fees and taking care of herself and her pokemon.

She puts her finger to her chin for the next question. "Mmm, I've tried asking around. No one knows for sure where they went. Who would know where they are?

Taking note of what a video game is, she would keep in mind to look for one later. If anything, it appeared to be a nice gift to send her in the future should an occasion arise to do so.

"Would it matter where they are if we just ask them to reveal themselves? If we get enough people in one place, surely they would come. A lord would do the same if his people gathered to demand answers from him."

"We could! And have a little party gathered up where we are too with lots sweets and activities." She's already daydreaming about the possible festivities right now.

But now that Mayuri thinks about it for a minute, something else comes to mind. "Actually I think there's a place where they're usually at.. I think it's called Plateau something?"

"So there already is a place..."

The next obvious course of action to take would be to pull out the PokeGear from her pack and try to load the map. Sluggish and a bit odd with her input commands (pecking one at a time with her index finger cautiously), she eventually gets the map on screen.

"Where?"

Mayuri points her fingers towards the area west of Viridian City on the map, if memory serves her right, that was the place. While she's a bit of ditz, her recollection skills are pretty ace.

"Right over there! There should be a path right outside the city."

Noting it for the future, Morgiana gave her a nod to show that she understood. For now, it would be unimportant information, but perhaps some day later on this year she could make use of the knowledge.

"Is this commonly known among the others or just yourself?" Though she would wonder how she knows that as well.

"Umm..." How to explain this to a girl who doesn't know about video games? It was weird enough meeting people who didn't know a thing about the video game series.

"You know what I said about video games right? Where I come from this place is a video game." She gave a sleepish smile.

"Does that mean our actions are not our own, but the cause of another?"

~~This thread suddenly got meta.~~ Pausing to consider the possibility, she found herself left with only one way to find out. Raising her arm, she punched herself in the shoulder hard.

"Nope... I don't think that's true..." That loud crack might not be good, but Morgiana doesn't seem to be reeling from pain, just confusion that she had been successful in her attempt to punch herself.

"Well, we might be trapped in a video game for real. Just like in a light novel World Mart Online! Dontcha think it would be co-" And Mayuri makes a surprised face from Morgiana hurting herself.

"Wah! What are you doing there?"

"It would be what?" Being trapped in a video game didn't sound like an ideal learning experience, but at least Morgiana confirmed that she's capable of hurting herself if she felt like it. "Oh, this?"

Rubbing her shoulder as she spoke, "Proving that no one is controlling me and that I make my own decisions. Nothing in a video game can do that, right?"

"Mm, yeah. But you aren't hurt are you?" She gives a look of concern, before turning over to a different topic.

"Oh by the way, Mayushii's got something to show you."

Tucking her arm back behind her, Morgiana perked up in interest at that.

"Something to show me?" She couldn't look any more attentive if she tried. "What is it?"

"I bought you somethiiiing~" She adds a little zing to the end of her sentence and pulls out from her pack... an ordinary magician's wand.

"Ta-da! Look, it's just like what magicians have to pull off magic tricks!"

A stick? She would wait for the explanation as to what it is before thinking back on how accurate it is. While Judal didn't seem to have one himself, Aladdin did have a magical flute and a staff.

"Do you think I can use magic if I use it?"

"You definitely can! A lot of magicians use them to do magic tricks." But this object looked normal and didn't appear to have any special proprieties to it.

Sticking the point of it near her eye, she studied it up close and intently to the best of her capability to do so. It didn't seem like a magical artifact, in fact it had the strange smell of most things in this world that she hadn't grown accustomed to.

"Is this plass-tick?" The word is drawn out to indicate her unfamiliarity with it. She had asked once what a material was and told it was that, so now she made the assumption that every strange-smelling object was plastic.

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