(Chapter Began: November 28th, 2016)
Pikatwig: *looks at phone and sighs at it* ...I got 450 and I need another 320 for that dumb pearl. Even then, I don't know how much Y-Money I'll need for the fusion.
Muk854: Trying to get the pearl for Mermaidyn?
Pikatwig: Yep. I got her my second try… and it cost me a bit of Y-Money, but I did it. If I didn't, I would've needed 925 points to get her and the pearl via the points. One of my buddies got super lucky and got the points he needed within a few days… and got Shadow Venoct his second try. Sean, you are one of the luckiest people I know… maybe even on par with the luck of Chugaaconroy.
Muk854: Wow that is some luck, as for me I got Mermaidyn and now I'm just constantly battling the bosses for the points… but all I'm getting are 2 and 4's!
Pikatwig: This is clearly the year the universe has decided there's too much joy in the world and is draining it away.
Muk854: I guess so.
Pikatwig: But joy has found its way into our lives through different means. We all got that satisfying conclusion to AmourShipping. ...why do I bring up Pokemon, you may be asking? Because the Sun and Moon anime… will actually be airing on Disney XD instead of Cartoon Network. I am not kidding.
Muk854: You know when I first heard it was moving, I kind of had mixed feelings. Cartoon Network has been airing Pokemon for such a long time and now it's being moved to Disney XD, so that's definitely new.
Pikatwig: It'll take some getting used to, makes me wonder the fate of re-runs of older seasons, also makes me wonder if the entire voice cast will get changed again… but hey, Disney isn't without some experience in Pokemon. They aired Pokemon 4Ever sometime in the past… that was where I first saw it. And I'm in agreement with that 'Cartoon Network has been airing Pokemon for such a long time' thing. I've been growing up with Pokemon on Cartoon Network and Boomerang. I did watch some of it on 4Kids, I'll comment. So… why bring this up? This now means that Pokemon and Yo-Kai Watch are airing on the same network.
Muk854: Yep, wonder how this'll go since these are some what rival franchises in Japan. I mean Yo-Kai Watch sales had far surpassed Pokemon in Japan, so this will be interesting.
Pikatwig: Yea. I actually stated something once that I heard from an official source that did their research, and an average episode of Yo-Kai Watch cumulated about 300,000 viewers, while an episode of Pokemon XY got over 1,000,000 viewers. ...and they better air the two shows in a Super Hero Time like format.
Jibanyan: *walking in with Blizzaria* I'm still not completely used to the idea that I'll be sharing a network with the mouse, y'know? *gets zapped by Pikachu* ...ow.
Muk854: Not surprised that you feel like that.
Pikatwig: So… I'll admit, I've fallen behind on both shows and will need to work on playing catch up with both. Another two anime to add onto my 'to watch' list. *takes out list, which simply read 'Sword Art Online' and 'Fairy Tail (2004)'. Scribbles on 'Pokemon' and 'Yo-Kai Watch'.* ...and Digimon too. *scratches on 'Digimon Xros Wars/Fusion' onto list as well*
Muk854: Yeah I need to catch up on them as well, also how is SAO on that list?
Pikatwig: Unlike Fairy Tail, I haven't watched it in Anime Club. Just got into it from good word of mouth and curiosity. Oh, and fun fact, the lead female of those two shows are both voiced by the same person, Cherami Leigh.
Muk854: Huh… well what do you know.
Pikatwig: I know her a lot better as Plutia from Hyperdimension Neptunia. ...which, ironically since I started to watch Sword Art Online today, released a game that has some similarities to that. Heck, there's one character who is clearly based off of Kirito. *gets looks* What, you don't believe me? *pulls up image of said character*
Muk854: Oh my goodness, this looks amazing.
Pikatwig: Oh, and before I forget, thanks for agreeing to cameo in my Justice League story.
Muk854: No prob.
Pikatwig: Let's get this going now.
Disclaimers: Yo-Kai Watch belongs to Level-5.
"Hi Nate…" Katie greeted as she walked into Nate's room in the hospital, "Good to see you."
"Hi back," Nate smiled.
She walked over and sat down, but neither knew what to say as they just stared at each-other. Silence had a tight grip on them as they just tried to think of something to talk about.
"So… uh… I won our contest that day," Nate told her.
"I got taken away from the contest, that doesn't count," Katie responded with a giggle.
"Fair enough," Nate commented.
Both were silent again as they thought of something to talk about.
"So…"
"So…"
They were still silent as Katie noticed a cart being pushed along that had various books in it and a topic quickly formed in her mind, "...are you enjoying the books here?"
"The books… yeah they're good I guess," he responded.
"I found this one book that I enjoyed. Uh… it's about a girl joining a magic guild and the misadventures that guild goes on," Katie commented, "I don't remember the title, but it's owned by the same company who owns Dragon Sphere,"
"Ok…" Nate nodded, "I found this one book about these people who get trapped in a virtual reality MMORPG and the romance that forms between the two lead characters."
"Sounds interesting," Katie commented.
The two soon got silent again as Katie proceeded to walk off to her room. Nate simply looked at a calendar with an annoyed look on his face it had been three days since they had gotten taken into the hospital, but it would be quite a while before they would be allowed to leave to go home.
"Is something wrong?" Katie asked, turning around before she entered her room, noticing Nate's expression.
"Just annoyed at the fact that we still have days, probably a week, before we can leave," Nate informed.
Katie just nodded as she walked back into her room and sat down.
"So good looking…" Katie smiled as she looked at a small chocolate cake her mother had brought her, "I can't wait…"
"Hi Katie," Nate greeted as he walked into her room, "Oh wow! Where'd you get that?"
"My mom got it for me," she answered.
"Can I have some?" Nate asked.
"Sure," Katie nodded as she cut a part out for Nate.
Nearby the aroma of chocolate soon reached the nose of a certain Yo-Kai kitty. He looked over and gawked at the cake that the two humans were enjoying, "Chocolate!"
He was about to run into their room before he was stopped by Blizzaria, "You can't have any Jibanyan-kun, it's for them."
"Aww man…" he sighed sadly.
Silence befell Nate and Katie as they ate their cake slices, but they soon both tried to think of another thing to say.
"So… uh… have you heard that the Capujin anime is moving to the same network as the Specter Catcher anime?" Nate inquired.
"Aren't those two franchises big rivals?" Katie blinked.
"They are. I personally prefer Specter Catcher if I'm honest,"
"I kinda like Capujin more, but I'm slowly changing my mind with the game I got on my portable system here," she commented.
"Glad we can agree to disagree and not start any huge wars about it," Nate laughed.
Katie simply gave a head-tilt in confusion, "What do you mean?"
"I read this book once where these two guys went to war over a doughnut to give to their… uh… king, I guess is the right word to put it?" Nate responded, 'Can't let her know it was a Yo-Kai War that my grandpa had to help stop…'
"A war… over a silly doughnut… seriously?" she giggled.
"Yeah... I know… pretty dumb if you ask me," he stated.
Both laughed a little at the silly prospect of the idea of a war about doughnuts, while Whisper simply stared a bit.
"A war over doughnuts? When did that happen?" he blinked.
"While you were sealed up in the Crank-A-Kai," Blizzaria said as she watched Jibanyan slowly sneak over to the cake, "Jibanyan-kun, you better not be trying to steal that cake…"
The red nekomata then slowly snuck back over to her side with a nervous look, "What? Nyo… I uh… saw Peckpocket trying to get it and scared him off… yeah that's what happened."
The yuki-onna rolled her eyes a little bit at his weak attempt to lie about going over to the cake, 'I better keep a very close eye on him.'
"Hey USApyon, whatcha up to?" Inaho asked as she saw USApyon working on his tablet.
"Somebody recorded the battle, and Whisper requested I edit in this one song from one game… Laws of Nature the song was called…"
"Never heard of it," Inaho admitted.
USApyon gawked a bit, "How can you have not heard the awesomeness of Laws of Nature?"
"It took you a bit to remember what it was called, idiot,"
USApyon glared at Inaho before he just sighed and went back on the video.
"...hey, USApyon?" Inaho began.
"What?" he groaned.
"...should I go and visit Nate and his not-girlfriend?"
"Why… what does it matter to you?"
"I'm hoping to date one of Nate's buddies, so maybe getting on his good side can help out with that?"
The Merican Yo-Kai blinked a bit before bonking his head on the ground, "...you are selfish, you know that?"
"...says the otter cosplaying as a rabbit who gave me a Yo-Kai Watch for his own selfish machinations."
"Teme…" he growled before he pressed the buttons on the side of his helmet.
=VADER MODE!=
"...I should patent this as an exercise routine or something," Inaho muttered before she began to dodge the blasts from USApyon's gun.
Katie sat with her book, simply unable to put it down for even a moment.
"You enjoying that series?" Punitrance asked as he jumped up to Katie's side.
"Yea," she nodded, "I like this Joy kitty, he's so adorable…"
"...and it hatched from an egg? That's weird…"
"I guess, but he's not an ordinary cat," she informed.
"I'm some sort of a Yo-Kai, yet a winged cat is weird to me…"
Katie tensed up a bit, but simply went back to her book, "...heh. This is a good book…"
"Guess she's in denial about Yo-Kai," Inaho shrugged as she had been listening in.
"Well you can't really blame her," USApyon stated, "After what she just went through, of course she would have some doubts on Yo-Kai being real."
"Yet she can clearly see Punitrance and talk to him. What could she think he even is?"
"A figment of her imagination," Nate commented as he walked over, "What are you doing here?"
Inaho danced around that question, "I'm here because there was something I left here."
The otter disguised as a rabbit in a spacesuit simply groaned and walked away, "I'll just be off while this trainwreck occurs…"
"...you two make no sense sometimes…" Nate groaned, "Why did you have to come and ruin my day further?"
"Something happen?"
"This one book I was reading… not allowed to keep reading after a certain volume since it's 'not age appropriate' for me.."
"Age ratings exist for a reason you know…"
Nate simply rolled his eyes at her and walked into his hospital room, "Just try not to make any more messes here."
"No promises,"
USApyon sat with a DIW Specter Catcher comic book, "That actually went better than expected."
"Be quiet," she retorted.
Katie tossed a ball along against a wall, let it bounce towards her, caught it and tossed it again. She was waiting for the next book in the manga she was reading to arrive and was simply bored. After the tenth toss and catch, she slipped off some socks and began to toss it with her foot and catch it rather skillfully.
"Oh mah swirls…" Komasan gawked, "She sure got some skills."
She blinked a bit and looked around, "Is somebody there?"
Komasan tensed up and saw that he was missing his disguise leaf, quickly putting it back on as Katie began to tense up a little bit. The white komainu simply pulled her into a hug to comfort her.
"It'll be ok…" he assured her, "Everythin's alright."
Katie began to calm down from his words, but slowly turned towards Komasan's general direction. She squinted, seeing a purple shadow around Komasan's figure. She rubbed her eyes for a moment and Komasan appeared as himself instead of the plush toy she had been seeing him as.
"...what?" she whispered.
"Komasan… I think she can see you…" Punitrance whispered.
"Oh… oh…" he gulped, "Oh mah swirls…"
Pikatwig: I apologize for the long wait for this chapter.
Muk854: As do I, we've just been busy with other stuff.
Pikatwig: Indeed. I can assure you that things won't stay this slow, but we ended up needing to break from this and focus on other work. Regardless, we're nearing the conclusion of this story, I promise.
Muk854: Yeah, how many more chapters do you think we got left on here?
Pikatwig: Uh… *blows out air* I dunno, three, four more?
Muk854: Alright.
Pikatwig: Regardless, we have worked on another collab story, 'Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Bonus Level: Kamen Rider Kirito', a Kamen Rider Ex-Aid/Sword Art Online crossover. ...and yes, the manga that Nate was reading is a reference to SAO… I was only on the first arc when we began to write this chapter.
Muk854: Cool, it's a good manga isn't it?
Pikatwig: ...I only saw the anime. Regardless… the ending has to be my favorite part, just the way that Komasan and Katie interact is adorable.
Muk854: Yeah, that has to be my favorite part as well.
Pikatwig: Sorry if it seemed like nothing really happened in this chapter, but it was purposefully meant to be slow for the sake of having character interaction.
Muk854: Yeah but pretty soon things will get more intense.
Pikatwig: ...maybe. I dunno. Sometimes I plan out some chapter ideas, but some of it is improv and we just go with a flow.
Muk854: Same with me sometimes.
Pikatwig: Also, Muk has posted a story on DA. Just saying that before I forget.
Muk854: Oh my gosh where do I begin with that, let's just say that story is something I've been working on for so long but with Yo-Kai Journey I never got to put it up here, so it's on Deviantart until it gets here.
Pikatwig: And I'll act as a sort of proof-reader and consultative advisor. Basically, that means I help with ideas.
Muk854: Yep, thanks for that by the way.
Pikatwig: No problem. Alright, end off time. Just Live More.
Muk854: Sain'ofu