A/N I do not own Pokemon. There, I said it.
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The first door was Inu. He knocked on the door, and after a minute a purple, dog-like Pokemon answered the door.
"What." Inu said.
"Well," Ryuu started, "I'm just trying to get to know everyone here. So what are you doing right now?"
"Resting. Tomorrow is a big day, so I would like to get some sleep." Inu said, agitated that he had been woken up by Ryuu.
"Umm, right…then bye." Ryuu hastily said, trying not to create any bad relationships with anyone.
He looked at the next door. It was Kinesis's. He knocked on that one.
"Who is iiiiit?" Came the voice from inside the door. It had a slight echo.
"Ryuu."
The door opened. However, Kinesis was on the bed, listening to rock music, her head bobbing rhythmically. She looked at Ryuu, and telekinetically pushed the headphones down so they were now hanging on her neck. The actual CD was floating.
"Yeah, what's up?" She said, still half-listening to the punk rock.
"I'm just trying to get to know everyone here," Ryuu said, "what are you listening to?"
"Uh! Uh! Uh! It's Punk Rock, YEEAH!" Kinesis then started dancing and doing guitar imitations. "Get out of here, man! This is like, my break off, you know?" Ryuu felt telekinetic energies pushing him back. Kinesis put her headphones back to their original position and continued doing guitar imitations as the door closed.
The next door said "Infinity". He didn't want to talk to her, mostly because she might have another nervous breakdown. If he was going to talk to her, it would be last. So he moved onto the next door. It said "Kamaitachi". He knocked on the door, and a large, green bird answered it.
"Yes?" He said.
"Hi. I'm Ryuu." Ryuu said.
"Okay."
There was silence for a dozen seconds.
"Well, did you need something?" Kamaitachi said.
"I just want to get to know the people around here," Ryuu said. "So what do you like doing?"
"I don't know, I haven't done much. There's some television in my room, it's fun to watch. I also love flying." Kamaitachi said, his tone and mood still unchanged from the very beginning.
"Can I try it?" Ryuu said, still not knowing what Television was.
"Uh, I guess…" Kamaitachi said, moving aside to let Ryuu enter his room. The room seemed perfect for a bird, with a lot of things to climb on, and even a little room to fly. There were some bird-snacks in one corner, and in another corner was a large, black box that Ryuu guessed was a television. Kamaitachi pecked a button, and the screen flickered to life.
"How do they get those little pokemon in there?" Ryuu said, looking at the TV from different angles.
"It's actually not live. You see, you might say that it's a moving picture. Many, many frames of pictures are all put together so it looks like it's moving when our eyes are actually being tricked." Kamaitachi explained.
"Why is it so flickery?" Ryuu asked, wondering what the black bars running down the TV were.
"Well, to a human's eyes, it wouldn't be like that. However, our eyes are superior because they can track motion faster than a human's. Therefore, it messes up the effect that the fast-moving frames create."
This guy's pretty smart, Ryuu thought.
They watched the TV show a little and then Ryuu decided it was time to go.
"Well, I should go meet the other Irochigais. Bye." Ryuu said, looking at the TV for a couple more seconds before he stood up to leave.
"Oh? Well, okay, then. Bye." Said Kamaitachi.
Ryuu walked out the door and closed it. He walked over to the next door, which said "X". He was a little nervous as to what might happen as he knocked on the door.
"I'm sorry, X--" Came X's voice.
"X? I--" Started Ryuu.
"…isn't here right now, please leave a message after the beep." X then made a beep noise.
"What! X, what's going on?" Ryuu said, not knowing what answering machines were, either.
The door opened. "What's the matter; it's just a little joke!" X said, laughing as he did so.
"Huh?" Ryuu said, still confused.
"Are you like the only guy who DOESN'T know what answering machines are?" Actually, yes. Ryuu thought.
"Well, I'm just meeting people and…you know. Stuff like that."
"Cool." X swung his rainbow-feathered wings by his sides in the absence of words in the air. "So what do you like doing, or whatever?"
"Well, I really don't know. I haven't tried a lot of things…at least, I don't remember…" He was back to that remembering subject. "Kamaitachi showed me what the Television was, that was okay."
"Yeah, TV is AWESOME, huh, vamos?" X said, now exited. "What's your favorite show?"
"You mean, there are different kinds of Television?" Ryuu said, still new to the TV.
"Well, I GUESS that's a way of saying it…" X said. He was starting to get a little weirded out by how much Ryuu didn't know.
"That's great; I really like the TV, too."
"Yeah. Well….HEY!" This time, X was really exited. "Do you like pulling pranks?"
"Huh?" Ryuu said.
"Don't tell me you don't know what pranks are, either!" X said, a little disappointed.
"Well…actually…." Ryuu said, pausing for a few seconds, "no."
"Jeez, you are, like, prehistoric, man!" X said, laughing as he did so. "Well, since you're so pathetic, I'll SHOW YOU, VAMOS!"
He grabbed from his room a pink pad, a silver button with a smaller button on it, and a green piece of paper attached to a string that was attached to another button with a button on it.
"C'mon, let's see if we can catch a few of those Rocket Grunts. Hold these for me, will ya?"
Ryuu took the three items and with X snuck in the hallways until they found yet another human dressed in black.
"Okay, the first prank is the Whoopee Cushion." X said, snickering.
X walked ahead of Ryuu and talked to the man for a few minutes. He eventually persuaded him to come with him. When the Rocket sat down on the chair, it had the pink pad on it, too, but it looked inflated like a balloon. A loud farting sound resonated from the chair, leaving the Grunt embarrassed either from falling for the prank or from the farting sound. Both Ryuu and X cracked up and started rolling on the floor, clutching their stomachs from laughter. The man at first didn't say anything for a minute.
"…Man, you guys got me good! The boss never lets me have fun! And I thought the Irochis were boring." The man said, smiling and laughing himself. The boys just laughed harder, kicking and rolling. He started laughing as hard, too, and soon the three were a laughing mess sprawled all over the floor. After a couple minutes everyone got up.
"Well, gotta get back to work." Said the Rocket, wiping a tear from his eye and still laughing a little. "By the way, my name's Carlos. Anyway, see you." He walked out of the room like nothing happened. The two pokemon got up, too.
"Now THAT…Is a prank."
"Cool!" Ryuu excitedly said. He apparently now loved pranks. "Pranks are awesome!"
"Yeah, you know?" X answered. "I'm going to play some more pranks. But I gotta do them on my own, okay? I might show you tomorrow."
"Nice, okay! Bye!"
X waved and then snuck off to do another prank. Ryuu checked the next door, which said "Golem". He knocked, waited, and knocked again, but no response. Either Golem was deaf, a heavy sleeper, or just wasn't there. So Ryuu checked the next door, which said "Myodeku". He already knew enough about her, that she was a happy, bubbly, giggling little pink cat. The one after that was Eon. He knocked on her door. A purple, dragon-like thing flung the door open.
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to do it!" She pleaded. "I don't know what I did, but I'm trying my best to fit in and listen to everyone!"
"What? What did you do?" Ryuu said, highly shocked with her response.
"I…I didn't do anything? I'm alright?" Eon said. "G-Good. I don't want to get in trouble here, everyone is so scary and I don't know what to do and suddenly I'm here and--"
"EON!" Ryuu was grabbing her shoulders. "Calm down. You're okay, alright?"
"Well…uh…" Eon was more relaxed now, but still shy and scared a little. "umm…alright…"
"Okay?"
"Okay."
"Just relax."
They stood there for a few seconds, Eon becoming less tense with each one.
"Okay, goodbye." She closed the door, and like that the discussion ended.
"Eon's kind of weird," Ryuu mumbled. He went to the next door, Trinity. He knocked, and the door opened a few moments later. He recognized some of his appearance traits in Trinity, such as the black eyes with a gold iris and the four stabilizing protrusions.
"Yes?" She asked nicely. She didn't seem weird at all. As a matter of fact, she seemed like an adult.
"Hi, my name's Ryuu." He said, outstretching his claw, recognizing the maturity in her.
"Hello, Ryuu." She took his claw and shook it with medium speed. Ryuu noticed the similarity between his and hers. "Do you need anything?"
"Not really, just saying hi, sort of." Ryuu said, feeling like a child in her presence. He actually almost tried to act older.
"Okay. Well, it was nice to meet you," She said, holding the door and waving, "Goodbye!"
Ryuu waved and left, she then closed the door. Even though the discussion was short, it didn't seem unfinished like Eon's. As he walked back to his door, he passed Infinity's. Even though he had met everyone(technically excluding Myodeku), he still hadn't met her. You don't have to force yourself if you don't want to, The kid-like part of him said. Now that he thought about it, the two kid-like parts of him reminded him of Eon, with their shyness and niceness. So he passed the door without a third thought, and opened his. He jumped into his nice, cozy bed. He pulled up the covers and curled up against the nice, soft sheets. It all felt so nice, so wonderful…being in such a nice place, so have such a nice bed. He wondered why Eon was so afraid, and what Myodeku, Infinity, and Golem might think about the place. However, he didn't have a lot of time to think about it, because he was soon asleep.
