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Henrietta stepped from the doorway, closing the door behind herself. She then turned and looked around the room. It was huge! She'd take a few steps until she was more visible, still standing awkwardly there. She gave Salieri a light wave before seating herself on one of the water beds.

"Eep!" She looked at it as she moved awkwardly on it, or rather, the bed moved awkwardly underneath her. "Wh-what is this?"

((My hotel room in Vegas has mattresses made of ******** stone. I dove onto my bed and promptly fell off it was so horrible. My Dad has a water bed, though. We weren't allowed to jump on it.))

((That Moze, always coming and going.))

Hitmonlee looked over, peeking open one eye to inspect the battle girl. He closed it again and said, [All humans look the same.]

"-no, not just some- all of it. Like, everything you got. And- yeah, one of each. Okay, thanks, bye," Wayne said before hanging up the phone, announcing, "Alright, they're gonna be a couple of minutes. I ordered all the ice cream they had, by the way. Trust me, it's not gonna seem like enough. Oh, and I got one pizza of each kind of topping they did since I didn't know what everybody liked."

Melty would ease up toward Petilil. [Hey there, you,] he said. He wasn't so much attracted to the urge to make her on fire anymore, now he was attracted to her power. More then that, the power they held together.

[What do you say we blow this joint and torch some Tympole?]

Moze's entrance caused Henrietta to jump up to her feet and tense up. Salieri, Wayne, Eunmi, she could be awkwardly comfortable about. Moze? He was too bright, Henrietta thought. So, she looked around for something to look at, while imagining herself very small. So small Moze wouldn't see her, wouldn't pay that energetic amount of attention to her.

((A wild bishonen appeared. Bishonen's Swoon ability activated! Eunmi became confused! Salieri used Inappropriate-to-hit-on-my-friends! Wayne's luck increased!

Henrietta loafed around.))

"Yeah, seems like it. So many pokemon," Eunmi said, realizing that this wasn't just a people party now. She was hesitant - not because she was embarrassed about being a novice trainer, but because Wayne said he ordered a lot of ice cream. She decided to take the risk, hoping D-Vee wouldn't end up eating it all as she let him out of his ball. She also let out Mochi and Dali.

"So Moze, you talked like you knew Henrietta earlier too," Eunmi said, sitting up, glancing over at the shy girl. "Was it a fateful encounter from her childhood too?"

((Being a college graduate doesn't mean you're intelligent. I know several people who graduated college/university and they're as thick as pig s**t. Thicker, actually. Like, this one guy, I can't even go near without thinking "Holy s**t, how can this blithering moron even live while being so stupid?"

I guess that's not a good enough example. Okay. Same guy: I had to stop him from putting an iron against his face when he tried seeing if it was up to temperature yet.))

((Wait til he meets Jump. Mot mot mot mot))

Moze forgot that Wayne probably didn't see his disguise get blasted off by Salieri in the tournament. "I, uh-" He decided it'd be less confusing to just go along with it, at least for now. "Yep, that's me. Totally. Nice to meet ya!"

He started to walk over to the beds and stood behind Eunmi, leaning against his walking stick. "Nah, we just met briefly yesterday when she was drunk. I'm glad I'm getting to meet See-Sal friends-are those water beds?"

Salieri, who was taking a cue from Wayne and making snow angel motions on her bed, sat up and nodded. "You better believe it, bro."

Without further notice, Moze jumped up and landed onto Salieri's bed, upsetting the balance momentarily before it settled again. In the process, Sal's Eevee was launched into the air and landed safely on her feet right in front of D-Vee.

[Hey, I remember you! Did you hear that there's gonna be ice cream?]

Chen Zhen's jaw dropped as Salem began to chat with D-Vee. Wukong, who saw the whole thing, snickered. [Oh now I see what's going on.]
[What? Whatdoyousee?] Chen Zhen blurted out nervously.
[You've got the hots for Salem.]
[Wha? No, I, I...] Chen Zhen's tongue was tied. Wukong leaned forward on the bed, tapping Liuye's shoulder.
[Does the chimp have the hots for Salem?]
Liuye nodded.
[Gotcha.]

Chen Zhen buried his face into his hands, his face too red with embarrassment for him to show it to anyone else.

"Moze, what were you doing in the hotel before?" Salieri asked. Moze suddenly froze up.
"I...well you see...errr..."

~~~~

[Three minutes ago]

"Oh, no way!"
"What?
"See-Sal, I'll get right back to you, I gotta go!"

Moze turned off the xtransceiver on his wrist. The light of the screen turned off, and the room became pitch black once more. "Sorry, I have to go. My sister has something she has to show me."

"You have a sister?" came a female voice.
"Yeah, Sasha. She's great, I hope you meet her one day," he said to her while getting off the bed and rummaging around for the light switch.
"You sound like such a good older brother. You're just too cute."
"Aw shucks Renee, you're gonna make me blush."

The lights went on, and the room lit up. Moze somehow already had his pants back on and was beginning to toss on his sage robes quickly. "Do you have to go so soon?" came a third female voice from the bed.

"Sorry Sara, I can't leave my sister hanging...hey, where's Katie?"
"Still under here!" came a voice from under the bed. "Does this mean we tried this out for nothing? I didn't even get a turn on the bed!"

Moze leaned down so he could see under the bed. "My bad, Katie. But hey, you guys are all troopers for trying this. Kinda kinky, but it works." He sounded like a teacher praising his students for a good job at the end of class. "I personally liked the thing with the sponges, that felt all tickly? That was great. Good job under there, Katie. You really brought it all together."

"That was my favorite part too!" cooed Sasha as Moze picked up his walking stick and violin and made his way to the door.

"Err, sorry this is so sudden. Hey, hit me up whenever. The open road might bring me back here someday!"

The girls all said bye and Moze exited the hotel room.

~~~~

"I...uh...are these water beds?"
"You already asked-"
"Boy are water beds great!" Moze flopped onto his back, sighing happily and looking up at the ceiling. "See-Sal, what movie are you in? Oh, is it a comedy? I feel like watching a comedy."

"No, no, it's a montage!" she corrected. "Hey, are you guys all ready to watch this? Or should we wait for room service?" She was anxious to see how the montage played out, and so was Wukong. He felt that he got featured prominently in it. His first big role.

During the evening, the only light in the Pinwheel Forest came from the moon and the stars. Even with that, the forest floor remained dark because of the canopy. Tonight however, there was a small light coming from a paper lantern atop a tree stump Sitting in front of the stump on the ground was N across from his Zorua.

"Have you ever heard of Virizion?" N asked Zero. The Zorua looked up from her dinner –assorted berries on top of a large leaf- and perked up her ears.

[What’s that?] she asked with a mouthful of food.

“There exists a legend about three pokemon that have existed for a long time, protecting pokemon from humans,” He paused to take a berry off of his own leaf plate. “It’s only a rumor of course, but some say that one of them, Virizion, resides in this forest.”

[A Legendary pokemon? Aren’t those all just myths?]

N shook his head as he finished swallowing his food. “The thing about myths is that there’s always a percentage of truth to them. While those pokemon might fade into obscurity over time, I believe that they are still out there somewhere.” He chuckled lightly. “I wouldn’t be on this journey with you if I didn’t believe it.”

Zero stood up, her leaf plate now devoid of food. [So why are you telling me this? I thought we were going to train more, not tell stories.]

“Because while we’re training, we need to make sure that we do not disturb the forest or the pokemon in it.” N stood up and grabbed the paper lantern. He held it in front of his face, and in the darkness his facial features were eerily illuminated. It made his expressionless appearance unnerving.

“And if we don’t watch our step, we might incur the wrath of Virizion. And it will be very, very angry.”

He blew out the light.