KKD: Well, here we go. I'm working on this story a little bit more because, for once, I need a bit of a break from the Toku stuff. I mean, I'm left in charge of my Triple Super Hero Time stories, not to mention I'm trying to work on another project that's meant to be going on solo. So, maybe this can help me cool down or something. Sorry about that, Pika.
Pikatwig: You needing a break from Toku… never thought I'd hear those words…
KKD: Yea… been a long time since I thought I'd hear those words myself. I mean, this profile was originally DEDICATED to my toku stories, but now… jeez… oh well.
Pikatwig: Whatever. Anyway… shall you do the disclaimers so we may start this?
KKD: Right. Here we go.
DISCLAIMERS: Neither KKD nor Pikatwig own Animal Crossing. They only own the original characters and content within. The rest belong to Nintendo and their respective owners.
(Kaori's POV)
Today… I woke up with my back in pain. That's what happens when I sleep in a sleeping bag on top of some rocks… even though the tent somewhat cushions the blow. Anyway, I just yawned after waking up, stretching my limbs, and then I walked out to see that there was someone filling in my wooden mailbox, he happened to be a white male pelican in a green mailman's uniform, complete with the blue sack of mail.
"Eh? Who're you?" I asked.
"Just a passing through mail bird," he told me, "Name's Pete, and I deliver mail."
I simply yawned a bit before checking the mail, and seeing there was one letter in it, but the sender wasn't known.
"Hmm? 'Dear Ms. Mayor. I was going to take up the spot in Kyoryuda, but one thing lead to another… I hope you can handle this. By the way, keep this letter secret'" I read, "Huh? ...Who could've written this?"
Shrugging this off, I simply put it away and looked around. Should I tell Isabelle about this… no. I shouldn't. She would probably think I had something to do with the person who really was going to be mayor not showing… I really hope that kid that Rover told me about on the train is doing better than I am right now. I just sighed at this before deciding to walk over to Town Hall, not to talk to Isabelle about the letter, but just to try and see what I can do about that odd design on the town flag. As I passed through the trees, I saw a new place being constructed not too far from town hall… made me wonder if someone's moving in. So, I took a quick peek at the sign to see it read "Margie" on it. I simply gave a shrug as I walked off to the Town Hall to try and see what I could do.
After I arrived, I glanced down to see Isabelle… who was asleep. I looked over to the clock to see that it was hardly 6:30 in the morning. Poor girl looked like she worked herself hard throughout the night to be asleep like this. I walked up and gave her a small nudge, making her wake up with a start.
"DON'T HIT ME MR. MAYOR!" she screamed in an obvious panic.
"Whoa whoa whoa, hey! Chill out, Isabelle! It's just me, Kaori," I told her, the dog managing to calm down surprisingly quickly when she recognized who I was.
"Oh… Mayor Kaori. Glad to see ya, sorry about that…" she apologized.
"Hit you… what was the old mayor like anyway?" I asked curiously.
"...I don't really feel comfortable talking about that with you… no offense or anything Mayor Kaori," Isabella apologized.
"It's okay, Isabelle. And I told you to call me Kaori, no need to add Mayor in there at all."
"...right. It just feels more natural to call you 'Mayor' is all…" she informed.
"Right. So anything to report?" I inquired.
"Today is March 21st, 2014, the time being… 6:22," she informed. "So, how goes trying to pay off that home loan and get a real home?"
"Uh… Nook never told me the price for the home loan… and I'm still stuck in a tent right now," I sighed.
"He passed it onto me. But he said he told you yesterday it was 10,000 Bells," she reminded me.
"Oh yea… right… I guess I forgot with me sleeping in a tent," I sighed, truth be told, I forgot it mainly because I was used to having my parents pay for everything, but now… I was probably going to have to sell some stuff if I wanted to pay for anything…
"Don't worry. There're plenty of ways to get money around here," she reassured.
"Huh? Like what exactly?" I wondered… at least I didn't have to sell anything to get some Bells around here… at least what little I already own.
"Well, you can shake fruit from trees, catch bugs, fish, dig up fossils… lots of things."
"Only thing is… I don't have any material to catch, fish, or dig things up with," I informed.
"Oh… my apologies Ma-err.. Kaori… Maybe you can gather fruit from the trees and sell them. There's a couple places where you can sell them too. Right here in town you can sell them at the Re-Tail Center East of Town Hall, or you can head over to Main Street and sell them to the Nook Kids at the little shop they set up," Isabelle told me, "But I should tell you-"
I didn't hear what she said as I ran out the door, and got to work shaking trees and gathering peaches. I did have a small run in with a beehive, but I managed to hide out in Tia's house. I was able to pick up the (hopefully) empty hive. With the bees gone, I decided to head East to the pink building that had the sign "Re-Tail" above it. I smiled, glad to see it was there, but when I saw the sign, the times for the place were from 9:00am-11pm, and when I last checked it was only 6:31.
Great… I was about to get angry, but then I remembered Isabelle told me about another place. I think the name of it was the Nookling Junction… yea, that's it. So, I headed on up for Main Street, only to see that wasn't open either. Hours being 8:00am-10pm.
"You gotta be kidding me! There's no place open early?" I groaned, meaning, I would have to do something with my free time.
"ISABELLE! Why didn't you tell me neither store was opened yet?!" I demanded, as I returned to Town Hall.
"I was about to… but you… uh… ran out before I could," she informed, ducking behind her counter, "DON'T HIT ME!"
Despite my rage, I knew I couldn't hurt her… she'd been through enough problems with the last mayor if what she told me was true… so, I calmed down after a bit before I pulled her up. "Relax… it was my own dumb fault for running out…"
"You ran? Uh… our last mayor put in a rule you can't run…" Isabelle informed.
"...Well that's stupid," I noted, "Can I take it down or…"
"Not yet. You have to get a Town Building Ordinance. Meaning, you gotta get approval from your villagers." she informed.
"Nothing is ever easy! I used to get what I wanted, when I wanted it," I complained.
"Um… how you can get the ordinance… or approval up, is that you need a house, you need say from the villagers… and yea," she informed me.
I simply sighed, once again, I hope that kid from the train is doing better than I am right now… man, I've been thinking about him a lot lately, haven't I? Oh well.
"What can I do to kill some time?"
"Uh… there's someone new who moved in. I think a warm welcome from the Mayor is something that would make them feel welcome," Isabelle suggested.
"Someone new? I didn't think there'd be anyone moving in this soon," I noted, before I remembered the house I saw on my way over. Thus, I headed for the door to go and see this new person.
"I wonder who this Margie is," I wondered before seeing Tia by the front door of the new house, to my surprise, "Oh, Tia. What're you doing here?"
"I'm here to see my cousin," she smiled.
"Your cousin?" I gawked, a bit confused, as I opened the door to see an elephant who was moving around some boxes. While I was semi annoyed this person had a house already… I could only assume she already had the 10,000 Bells...
This elephant was a white elephant like Tia, but she had blue eyes, a hot spring shirt, some red, yellow, and white bands on her wrists and ankles, as well as yellow and orange hair on her head and on the tips of her ears.
"Hello Margie!" Tia smiled, getting the elephant's attention.
"Cousin!" she giggled, pulling Tia into a small hug. I could simply sigh a tiny bit, I wish I had some family… that actually cares!
"It's so good to see you again, Margie," Tia smiled, "I haven't seen you in years!"
"It's been far too long. So… who's the friend?" she inquired, gesturing to me.
"Oh, where are my manners. Kaori, this is my cousin Margie. Margie, this is Kaori Nomura, the new mayor of Kyoryuda," Tia introduced us to each other, making Margie gasp.
"You're the mayor? Where are my manners! I wish I had some tea or something ready for you," Margie said, looking around for something to give to me.
"Oh… well don't worry about it," I assured. "Mind if I help you unpack? Not like I have anything better to do with my time,"
"Oh no, you don't have to. It's not right for a guest to help me with my unpacking," Margie insisted.
"Well, I insist on helping out, Margie. After all, I have nothing better to do with my time," I insisted back, my reasons for helping are… partially to get my town rating up, but partially because I seriously have nothing better to do with my time… well… that and I sorta feel like I have to help out a relative of one of my residents whom I'd almost consider a friend out of common courtesy.
Thus, me and Tia got to work helping Margie with her unpacking, putting certain things in cupboards, certain things left, certain things right. This was… admittedly a lot of fun, with Tia and Margie both catching up, but I couldn't help but listen in on some of the things they chatted about, and making a few jokes here and there. Thus, in what felt like no time at all, we managed to help Margie finish unpacking.
"Thank you both very much. I doubt I could've finished unpacking today all by myself," Margie smiled.
"No problem," I smiled.
"Glad we could help, cousin," Tia added with a beaming smile.
"Here, in return for helping me out, I want you to have this," Margie replied before reaching for a specific bag and handing me a small book. "It's a spare Diary I have. You can use it to write anything you want."
"Wow… thanks Margie," I smiled, as I glanced up at a newly set up clock to see that it was 9:15am, "Well, I guess I'd better get going. Thanks for letting me spend time with you, girls."
"I need to get home too, see you later cousin," Tia smiled as we left, Tia heading back to her house, while I headed for Re-Tail.
And so, with a bunch of peaches in hand along with the beehive that I was glad was empty, I entered the small pink shop, revealing the first person to greet me was a pink Alpaca with a white face and a red apron. However, she was talking to someone who looked sorta like Tom Nook, only younger and wearing a blue apron around his waist.
"So Tommy, you brought a… tape dispenser?" the alpaca asked.
"I indeed did. Me and Timmy don't need it anymore." the kid, Tommy, told the alpaca.
"Oh, okay. I can probably take that off your hands for, say… 300 Bells. That sound okay?" the Alpaca asked. "Or, do you want to put it up for someone else to buy?"
"Nah, I'm fine with selling it outright," Tommy told her, as he got a small bag of Bells, and I couldn't help but get a giddy smile.
"Pleasure doing business with you, Tommy. Tell Timmy I said hi," the alpaca smiled.
"I'll tell him hi Mrs… what's your name again?" the kid asked.
"Reese," the alpaca told him in a reminding tone.
"Thank you Mrs. Reese," the kid smiled as he turned to the door to see me, "Oh! Are you the new mayor? Come on up to the Nookling Junction sometime."
"Okay, I'll be sure to do so," I nodded before letting the little Nookling walk past me, turning my attention to Reese shortly afterwards.
"So, you're our Mayor? ...please, let my husband sleep, he works super, super, super, SUPER, hard!" the alpaca, Reese, begged.
"Uh… okay… I'll be sure to do that, but… uh… that's not why I'm here. I barely have a house, so… I'm actually looking to sell," I informed.
"Oh. Okay, I can help you with anything!" Reese smiled as I pulled out 10 baskets of peaches, each basket having nine each (don't know how I managed to get the baskets, I don't know).
"I'd like to sell these," I told her.
"This is nice… I can give you 200 Bells for this all," Reese told me.
"It's a deal," I smiled, handing her the ten baskets as she handed me a bag of bells, and I smiled happily. Thus, I headed up to the Nookling Junction, simply for the curious mind.
Once I headed up to Main Street, I saw a small shack with the name of Nookling Junction. After entering, I saw who I assumed was Tommy.
"Good day. Oh… you must be our new mayor!" the kid smiled.
"Uh… yea, we just met at Re-Tail like half a minute ago," I pointed out.
"Huh? Oh no no no. You must have me confused with Tommy. I'm his brother, Timmy." he informed. Great, so there's two of them, they look, and sound, just like each-other… how am I gonna tell them apart? "I'm in charge of the shop on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. If you want to see Tommy, come back on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays."
"What about Sundays?"
"We both operate on Sundays."
"Wouldn't it be somewhat easier if you did… I dunno… night and day shifts or something like that?" I asked.
"...we should take that into consideration…" he noted, writing that down.
"Okay…" I muttered, looking around the small shack to find anything of interest, of which I saw some paper, a fortune cookie, a few pieces of furniture, and on the table were a shovel and net.
"Oh, you fancy the shovel? We're selling them for a modest 150 Bells, can I interest you in one?" Timmy asked.
"Yea, I'll take it," I smiled, handing him 150 of the 200 Bells I had and taking the shovel, "I could use this to find all kinds of fossils."
"By the way, do you need to know how a shovel works? If you want, I can teach you," Timmy offered… and… come to think of it… I never actually used a shovel before in my life…
"Uh… will it cost me anything?"
"No,"
"Then yes,"
"Like you said, the shovel can be used to dig up various things, such as fossils which you need to take to the Museum, Gyroids, and PitFall Seeds,"
"What's a… pit-thingy?"
"A Pitfall Seed… you'll know it when you see it," Timmy informed, "To find these items, just look for cracks in the ground and use your shovel there to dig them up. Just be careful not to walk over them,"
"I got ya," I nodded, as I headed out, and took out my new shovel, with a marker I brought with me, I wrote my name on it, "That way I know for sure this is mine."
And so, I began my search for fossils, I couldn't see any cracks in the ground, so I continued to walk, I was over by Hopper's house when suddenly, I fell right into the ground, stuck up to my waist!
"What the?!" I gasped, trying to squirm out, and it took a long time to do it, but I managed to get out, and I felt nervous, when suddenly, I heard Hopper's annoying voice… laughing at me… "Oh no…"
I groaned as I turned to see the red-eyed rock hopper penguin laughing at me, before I finally managing to get out.
"That was just so funny… what dumb luck it was for you to fall for a pitfall right in front of my place," Hopper laughed, "Need to look out for some Pitfalls Mayor-Girly!"
I was about ready to hit the jerk with my shovel, but I managed to calm down, and I walked off, but not before filling that hole up. And so, I decided to keep looking for more cracks in the ground before I dug up five fossils total, and two of what I assumed were Gyroids. But by the time I managed to do all of that, it was getting kinda late, with the clock by town hall reading almost 10:58pm. I couldn't get to the museum and back to Re-Tail before it closed, so I figured I would turn in for the night and try to get some rest. So, worked out exhausted, I retired to my tent, placing my cash of items next to me, turned off the lamp, and got as comfy as I could in my sleeping bag.
But before I fell asleep, I wrote about what I did today in my new diary, simply because I could. As I tried to sleep, I honestly couldn't, with nothing better to do, I looked at the letter from the mystery sender and wondered… who could've sent this? And… why did both Isabelle and Reese seem so scared about me doing mean things to them? I could only try to imagine what the old mayor was like. I simply imagined an old coot hounding at them, forcing the two girls to do things very unpleasant for them. But… that was a guess…
Pikatwig: The old Mayor… wonder what he or she was like. We know in all games prior to New Leaf, the mayor was a guy named Tortimer.
KKD: Yep, that's the case. But this story sure is making the old turtle out to be a bad guy… at least… if Tortimer really is the old mayor of Kyoryuda.
Pikatwig: *shurgs* Also, fun fact, if the player moves their avatar from Wild World to City Folk, the old guy will actually recognize the player.
KKD: Interesting. I never knew that. Still, this is chapter 2 of Tales of Kyoryuda, meaning it's caught up with Life in Orville at this point.
Pikatwig: I know… I was working on Day 3 when I lost my old laptop… I'm going to try and see if I can get back to work on that. Not sure if I want your help or if I want to try and continue on my own.
KKD: I'd be willing to help out if you're willing to accept the offer.
Pikatwig: I'm just not sure right now s'all.
KKD: Okay then. So… is there any favorite part of yours in this story?
Pikatwig: It's when Margie arrived. She's actually a villager in my personal New Leaf town, and someone who appeared in the Animal Crossing movie.
KKD: Interesting. Also, seeing how Margie and Tia looked similar, I figured why not have them be related. ...Yea, if it isn't obvious, the scenes with Margie moving in, and Tia and Kaori helping out, are my favorite scenes, too.
Pikatwig: Neat. Anyway, wrap up time. Just Live More.
KKD: Jaa ne!