Candela
One time, we said that we'd hatch eggs together to spend some quality time with one another and to hatch those little guys. So we decide to hatch some over the weekend and I planned the route that we were going to take. Hatching eggs was really a fun way of spending a nice sunny morning with friends!
Even before my alarm clock rang, I woke up and took a shower to prepare myself for the morning ahead of us! We were going to cover about five to ten kilometres, and there was no time at all to slack off! Naturally, when I finished, I was the first one downstairs and the first one at the dining table, which is usually why I cook breakfast for the three of us.
There's no better breakfast in the world than a stack of pancakes with syrup and a drink of your choice! Blanche prefers tea, Spark likes orange juice with no pulp, and I usually drink coffee. So I got out the pancake mix, chocolate chips, and strawberries and proceeded to make the pancakes.
A few minutes passed by and I finished about four stacks of pancakes each for the three of us and just from the smell of those babies make me want to chow down! Ahh, sometimes even I impress myself with my cooking skills.
I went upstairs to try and wake up the others. In our house, if you go up the stairs, my room's to the left, Spark's was to the right, and Blanche was in front of the stairs. I proceeded to wake Spark up since he's usually the last to get out of bed. I knocked a couple of times and I heard his voice saying, "I'm up! I'm up!" Normally, I'd be done with that and move on to Blanche, but this is Spark we're talking about. "IF YOU'RE UP THEN OPEN UP!" I yelled.
See, the last time this happened he just recorded himself saying those words on his phone and played it on repeat. When Blanche and I were finally ready, we found out that Spark was never really awake and we missed our appointment. Funny thing is, it was his dentist appointment. We just woke up early so that we'd make sure he'd wake up.
After a few loud knocks on the door, a groggy-looking Spark with his yellow PJs and nightcap opened the door and said, "happy now?" Behind him, I could hear a familiar "I'm up!" voice and it seemed to be coming from his bed.
"Still up to your old tricks again?" I asked.
"Can you blame me?" Spark said with a yawn.
"Well get showered and dressed, 'cause breakfast is ready!" I said as I patted him on the back.
I then proceeded towards Blanche's room and knocked on her door. "Blanche, come on! Wake up already!" I said.
"No," was the only response I heard. To be honest, both Blanche and Spark are pretty hard to wake up, but Blanche is the grumpiest.
"Come on Blanche, we agreed to this!" I responded back as I kept knocking on her door.
"I'm not leaving until I've had my fair share of sleep," she replied.
"What time did you sleep last night?" I asked.
"... That is none of your concern, now leave me be," Blanche said.
Yep, she was as stubborn as a Snorlax trying to wake up. Unfortunately for her, I've got the persistence of a Bagon trying to fly. "Breakfast's already ready Blanche! It's your favorite! Pancakes!"
"That's not my favorite and you know it," she replied, "now come back in like, two hours."
"Two hours? Why?" I complained.
"Because it's seven-thirty in the morning Candela! The Pidgeys haven't even left the nest yet!"
"Yeah, but do you have any idea how long it takes to wake you and Spark up? You're so cranky in the morning!"
"Good night Candela," Blanche said and started to ignore my voice.
I sighed, I didn't really want to do this, but it's times like these that I'm glad that we have keys to each other's rooms. "To be used for emergencies, and boy is this an emergency!" I said as I brought out a Pokeball. "Come on out, my mighty Key Master!"
I released Key Master the Klefki out of the Pokeball and said, "please open Blanche's door for me."
"Klefki!" the little keychain fairy proceeded to unlock the door and I went in.
Unbeknownst to many, Blanche's room is divided into two, one half is pure science geeky stuff, which is her work area, and the other half, including her bed, is filled with her collections of Pokedolls. I made my way to Blanche's bed making sure that I didn't step on any of her favorite plushies. As I crept towards her bed, I leaned in to wake her up, but that was when I was greeted with Blanche's Vaporeon. Her Vaporeon used Water Gun directly at my face and made me fall on my butt, which prevented me from waking her up.
"Predictable as always, Candela," Blanche said. To my surprise, she was actually fully dressed in a blue jogging outfit and ready to go. Heck, she didn't even look tired!
"We're you," I said as I got back up, "were you waiting for me to come in?"
"Yep," she said as she fixed her hair, "like a moth to a flame."
"But why?" I asked as I dried my face.
"Remember last week when you accidentally ate all the ice cream I was saving? This is payback," Blanche laughed, "so, pancakes?"
Blanche and I got down, and to our surprise, Spark was there, dressed in jogging attire, and munching on the pancakes I made.
"Howdy," Spark said with his mouth full. He then drank some juice to wash it down and said, "did it work Blanche?"
"Yes it did Spark," Blanche said as she high-fived Spark, and as much as it annoys me a bit, it was nice to see that those two are getting along. I initially thought that Blanche considered Spark as a goofball and avoided him during our early days, but now, she completely tolerates him.
"I said I was sorry about the ice cream Blanche! I got you a whole new one remember?" I apologised.
Blanche wagged her finger and said, "it's not enough that you said you were sorry. You should have been taught a lesson."
"Was pulling a prank on me the lesson?" I questioned.
"Yes," Blanche said as she ate her pancakes.
"Anyway, we'll leave the house with the egg incubators and jog from our house, to the lab, to the park, then to the lake and finish at RNB for brunch," I said as I took a sip of my coffee. "Spark, are the eggs prepared?"
"Yep!" Spark smiled as he pointed to the couch. Three egg incubators had a pink and yellow colored eggs in each of them. "I got them fresh from the daycare!"
"Good!" I said with a smile, "now finish eating and let's GO!"
Once we finished our pancakes, we put on our shoes, strapped our egg incubators behind our backs and then started our morning jog.
Now, I don't want to brag, but I had to slow my pace down for Blanche and Spark. Well, mostly for Blanche. She wasn't exactly the fittest person in Magalam.
We've only been jogging for an hour and she was already panting and breathing through her mouth. "Blanche, try to breath through your nose! It'll make you less tired!" I said.
"My body says to ignore you, Candela," Blanche said as she continued to jog.
"How about me Candela, am I jogging right?" Spark asked.
"Well, you're a lot better than Blanche, no offence," I said to Blanche.
"None. Taken," Blanche said as she gasped for air.
"You're jogging by landing on the rear side of your foot, which is natural for beginners," I told him, "if you want to improve, you have to land at around the center or even at the front of your foot."
"So you mean, like a ninja?" Spark asked.
"Well, not really, but I... guess so?" I wanted to say that it was much more than that, but by saying that it's similar to how ninjas run in TV was a whole lot easier.
"Yes! I knew that TV wasn't lying to me!" Spark grinned and proceeded to run full sprint like a ninja.
"There goes one goofball making a fool of himself," I joked.
"He's. Our. Goofball," Blanche agreed.
Blanche and I agreed and laughed together. We both knew that we'd both do anything to protect Spark.
We managed to catch up to Spark by the lake and Blanche immediately sat down because she was exhausted. Spark came to us and said, "I left you guys behind my ninja dust," he then did one of the ninja hand-signs to prove his point.
"Yes, yes, Spark," a tired Blanche said, "you are a true shinobi."
"Believe it!" he replied.
The view of the lake was so relaxing in the morning. You can see the bird pokemon fly across the sky, the water Pokemon looked so happy for their morning swim. Even just feeling the nice breeze feels great. We took off our egg incubators and checked how they were doing. We started hearing noises from inside, so it was pretty darn close to hatching.
"What do you think is going to hatch from this egg?" I asked.
"Candela, can't you tell?" Blanche asked as-a-matter-of-fact.
"There aren't a lot of pink and yellow Pokemon here," Spark said.
"Yeah, like, Smoochum. They're pink and yellow right?" I defended.
"True, but I have another hypothesis, Spark, care to confirm it for me?" Blanche asked Spark to get closer so that she could whisper in his ear.
"You're right Blanche! You're so smart that you probably know everything!" Spark said.
"Nah, I don't know everything," Blanche said as she blushed a bit, "I just know what I know."
"Awww, aren't you two so sweet together," I joked.
Spark and Blanche immediately turned to me with death stares, and I think my joke went a little too far.
"A-anyway guys, let's get a move on! These eggs won't hatch by themselves!" I said as I got up and placed the incubator on my back.
"But we just got here!" Blanche complained.
"Wohooo! Last one to RNB is a rotten Exeggcute!" Spark yelled. Spark offered a hand to help Blanche up to her feet and she said, "fine, I shall accept your challenge."
"Alright, RNB is about five hundred metres straight away," I said, "are we ready?"
"Yep! Give us the countdown coach!" Spark said as he readied himself for this race.
"Honestly, I can't believe we're doing something so childish," Blanche said, "but I do know that this will be fun."
"That's the spirit! Now, on your marks!"
All three of us went to a starting position.
"Get set!"
We each visualised the goal. RNB was straight ahead and fortunately nobody was around to disturb our race.
With one deep breath, I yelled, "GO!"
The three of us kicked off and made our way to the restaurant with our egg incubators on our backs. Despite the few kilograms strapped to our backs, we were doing pretty well. Spark immediately left Blanche and I as he sprinted to the finish. Blanche honestly tried her best to keep up with our blonde friend, but her body couldn't do it, and I knew this so I stayed with her.
"Don't push yourself, it's just a small race, so take it easy," I said as I ran next to her.
She looked at me back with determined eyes saying, "oh, I'm not tired, I'm just conserving my strength."
I already knew what she was thinking about. Normally, runners would only run at full power at the last few metres of a race, and I assumed that Blanche was doing this same tactic.
"So, when are you going to give it your all?" I asked.
"When we're about halfway there," Blanche replied, "that should be around when that slacker's out of breath."
Blanche and I continued at our pace and although Spark was way ahead of us, we observed that he was slowing down.
We were approaching the halfway point and Blanche took off as fast as her legs could carry her. Spark looked back just in time to see the blue runner catch up to him and in a desperate attempt, he pushed himself even further to run faster.
I on the other hand chose not to go all-out just yet. "A few more seconds and we'll reach the last one hundred metres." I thought to myself.
I saw my friends ahead of me, and as we got closer and closer to RNB, I sprinted with all my might! The gap between me and the other two got closer and closer and in a few seconds we were all neck and neck!
Fifty metres left and none of us were willing to back down!
Forty metres! Spark's legs were slowly giving out, but he still kept going!
Thirty metres! Blanche was already grunting and wheezing as if her lungs were going to explode!
Twenty metres! I looked at my friends' expressions and saw how determined they were at winning and it just made me so happy to see that we're all having so much fun!
Last ten metres. I slowed down my pace.
The winner of this race was Blanche. She managed to reach the restaurant first because Spark's legs were giving up due to all of the force they were exerting. Spark was so tired that he collapsed on the floor, and the two of them were exhausted and drenched in sweat. I wasn't that tired since I kinda do these kinds of things on a daily basis.
"Good job you two! Here, dry yourselves," I handed out some towels to my friends for them to wipe their sweat of their faces.
"HA!" Blanche shouted at Spark, "I'm. The. WINNER!"
"Weren't you. The one who. Said that. This race. Was childish?" Spark was speaking in small phrases as he was trying to regain his strength.
The two of them laughed and they looked at me and I asked, "what?"
"You. Lost. On purpose," Blanche wheezed, "Didn't you?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about," I winked. "But it looks like I'm the rotten Exeggcute."
"Hey guys, the eggs!" Spark said as he took off his egg incubator from his back.
True enough, the eggs were already shaking in their containers and we had to get them out to make room for the Pokemon to stretch. We each got out pink and yellow coloured eggs out and at the same time, a bright light glowed from each egg. Bit by bit, the shell of the egg formed cracks and in one bright, blinding flash of light, the eggs hatched into Skittys!
"Awww, look at these little cuties!" I said as I gave my Skitty a warm hug.
"Ah Skitty, welcome to your new family," Blanche said as she patted the Pokemon on the head.
"Hey, no, stop! That tickles!" Spark said loudly. It appeared that his Skitty was tickling him and causing him to laugh non-stop.
Soon, our Skittys hopped from our arms and used their tails to tickle Spark and the young blonde was laughing so loud that Alissa came out from the store asking, "what's going on?"
I explained to Alissa about our jog, the race, and the eggs, and she said that what we did was so sweet and adorable. "Come on in for your brunch! The Skittys can eat for free!" she said as she welcomed us in.
Suddenly, Blanche tapped me on the shoulder and I looked at her and she had this stern look on her face.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Those Skittys weren't just tickling Spark," Blanche deduced, "they were actually using the move Tickle. And upon appraising them, they also know the move
I didn't really know what she was getting at so I said, "so?"
"Candela," Blanche said firmly, "given that Magalam has no resident Move Tutor and assuming that the mother is a purebred, Skittys can only learn Tickle and Zen Headbutt from one specific Pokemon. Just. One."
And that was when it hit me. I almost wanted to scream, but Blanche put her hand to cover my mouth and pressed her finger to her lips saying, "shhhh. Just act normally."
"Awww, would you look at those two," we heard Spark say to Alissa from afar as he carried three Skittys in his arms, "aren't they just the cutest couple?"
Almost instantly, we left our emotions aside and went straight to Spark and we each grabbed one side of his ear and pinched it real hard. RNB had one screaming customer, two very tired joggers, and three newly-born Skittys who may or may not be related to a Wailord.