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Who:

subvertio and ~~Adelboobs~~

usedfacade
Where: Sudowoodo crossing
When: The twelfth? Late afternoon/early evening.
Summary: Leon and Suzuki are meeting up for a trade. Vanitas needs to cross the tree. Shenanigans ensue.
Rating: PG for Vanitas idek.
Log:

[ Leon stands facing the tree, keeping a safe distance. It really doesn't look like much, he decides; just a regular tree, melting easily into the surrounding forest. But after seeing what it did to Fang, he isn't in a mood to take chances. If he focuses, he can see the bark isn't bark at all, as smooth as a pebble and probably twice as hard. Beside him, Skarmory paws the snow, occasionally nudging him for throat scratches. She's the only one of his pokemon out now, Onix tucked away in his ball and the puppies in theirs.

He checks his watch; he and Lightning made very good time thanks to Odin, but now he's a bit early. The wind plays with his hair; he hikes up the collar of his coat in response. Come on, Suzuki...

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Sussu, don't fall behind.

[Suzuki calls out to the big, purple ghost, who is rolling about in the snow as she walks. Meeting with Leon should be a simple thing. Get to the stupid not-tree, give him her ghost and continue on her merry way. She did find the fact that people had to stop at the tree and not go any further to be a bit novel. But apparently that thing was a force to be reckoned with if they weren't equipped with a lowly squirt-bottle.]

Leon. [She says upon seeing her friend, somewhat obscured by the tree.]

[An excited Sussu chirps right after~]

[A little further behind Suzuki, not quite following but not quite staying too far behind, Vanitas remained bundled in his snow gear with his hat more securely on, his face far more obscured this time around. No, he didn't quite know the man on the other side of this ~~fucking stupid god damned~~ tree would cause problems on finding out who he was, but either way, Vanitas only cared about getting past it.

Stalking enough on the network told him that he needed someone with a squirt bottle to spray the tree to let them go past. Pathetic. While he doesn't quite have such a thing, following someone who does proves a little more useful.

Besides, he doesn't care who they are; They aren't anything to Ventus, as far as he knows. Let him pass, he'll be on his way.

When Sussu gives that chirp, Swablu peeks her head out from beneath Vanitas' chin to chirp happily at another Pokemon being around that wasn't ~~her daddy~~ Murkrow or Minun; the sound wakes up Minun from the back of his scarf, who also gives a greeting sound to the Pokemon ahead of them. Thankfully though, Murkrow was staying in his pokeball so Vanitas wouldn't have more derping annoying cawing birds to deal with.]

[ Leon perks up at the sound of Suzuki's voice; he can see flashes of her, behind the tree, accompanied by Sussu's purple shape. Without approaching the tree too much, he calls back: ]

Good to see you. Care to get this thing out of my way?

[ Skarmory hears Sussu's cry, as well as two accompanying ones from pokemon she doesn't know. She returns both greetings with a raucous caw of her own, the sound reverberating into the trees. Leon gives her a look, mildly annoyed, thinking she's just answering to wild forest pokemon. ]

Gladly.

[With a slight chuckle, Suzuki retrieves that stupid-looking bottle of water and sprinkles some of it on the tree. The tree shakes for a second, flails, and then hops out of the way-- sure to return in a few moments. Suzuki crosses over and before she can even say anything, Sussu rushes over and hugs his new temp-master's leg.]

... I see he has no problem moving over to a new trainer for a spell.

[Eyeing that tree when it moved aside so easily, he frowned behind his scarf. It was really that ridiculously easy? Tch.

Vanitas' pokemon do give some happy sounds from the answer, and Minun even goes running around his trainers head to sit on top of the fleece hat and shoot out some delighted sparks from his cheeks. At least the little rodent is getting better at keeping his electricity to himself, since Vanitas tensed briefly at the sound of crackling before closing his eyes with a grunt.

Stepping through that opening with a mental 'finally', he moves to step past the two without a word.]

[ Leon picks Sussu up, letting the Gengar cling to his neck. ]

It's probably better this way. At least you know he won't be unhappy.

[ His voice tapers off when he sees another figure break the line of trees, coming through the passage. A hat, eyes covered in goggles, a scarf over the mouth--it's definitely cold, Leon thinks, but it isn't that cold. As the person--presumably male, from the height and the breadth of the shoulders--comes closer, he turns to Suzuki, curious. ]

Friend of yours?