INM 7: Turning over a new Fur Coat.
The bright morning skies of the Kalos Region shined brilliantly as over Anistar High two best friends were chatting; with their senior year almost over it was time to decide what would've become of their uncertain futures and more importantly how would they be able to afford it.
"Can you believe the entire school year is almost over Flora? it's so libirating to finally be on our own and be able to study what we want to pursue!" Mismagius smiled as she levitated across the school hallway.
"Indeed, I'm very glad it's almost over, I've been meaning to open up my own beauty boutique for quite a while now." Furfrou perambulated elegantly; her fur coat stylishly cut.
"I been meaning to finally put 130% effort on researching about prehistoric pokemon! How they lived and thinked in the past! Ooo just thinking about it gives me chills!" Mismagius giggled.
"Now Maggie not to be too uncouth but we both have high dreams and expectations on what we want to do, however do we have a plan to reach them as swiftly as possible?" Floriana asked.
"What do you mean?" Maggie looked at her friend curiously.
"Opening a boutique or a prehistoric research station is all quite a high task with an even more lofty price... how will we obtain such funds for our own projects?" Floriana asked, she looked a bit sad.
"Oh don't worry about that, I'm sure things will turn out okay! Plus you make some awesome homemade dresses and clothing designs already, remember last school fair was a huge success with your oh for woof sake brand non slip hat so bark; you were a smash hit!" Maggie nudged her friend.
The canine couldn't help but get a prideful smile on her face. "I must admit that was one of my better creations... thanks for cheering me up Maggie." Furfrou smiled.
"No problem Flori! I'll be here to cheer you on no matter what okay?" Mismagius hugged her.
"Heh thanks." Floriana hugged back but accidentally phased through; both were a bit surprised at first but then laughed.
The day resumed as normal with both going to classes and doing the usual school work; during lunch they were talking about their passions again.
"You know I've always been interested in what Flutter Manes were like in the past." Maggie began saying.
"For real?" Floriana asked.
"Yeah! Sometimes i wondered what were their life styles like and how it would be to be one... i really wish i maybe perhaps could become one just for a bit." The Mismagius looked a bit melancholic.
Floriana frowned and looked to be thinking of something when suddenly a nerd like voice spoke.
"Hey there ladies~" Duskull snorted.
"Oh it's him..." Maggie frowned.
"What was his name again?" Floriana looked annoyed.
"I think it was like Dave or something... he's in our class right? i can't remember..." Maggie felt awkward.
"I'm standing right here you know." Duskull looked peeved and had a very nasely nerdy voice.
"What do you want." Floriana barked.
"Jeez so rude! I just wanted to ask Maggie if she wanted to join a show called Paldean Shining Stars?" Duskull asked.
"Paldean Shining what now?" Furfrou looked uninterested.
"It's like those Total Pokemon reality TV shows absolutely everyone is doing these days! Who knows maybe we can even get some money!" Duskull giggled oddly.
"This is perfect Flori! If we join one of these dumb shows after school ends we could get all the cash we'd need to be set for our dreams!" Maggie smiled.
"I don't know... do you know how difficult it is to actually win one of those shows?" Floriana pondered.
"Come on girl, how hard can it be?" Maggie shrugged.
Furfrou raised at eyebrow at her and glanced at her unimpressed.
"Welp! Time to play Dungeons and Dragons with ma boys!" Duskull strangely levitated away.
"Jeez what a weirdo..." Furfrou frowns.
"I can't wait to join the show It's gonna be awesome!!!!" Maggie cheered.
"It says here it's for Paldean Pokemon only..." Floriana read what she was seeing on her phone.
Maggie suddenly looked crushed as all her hopes and dreams were destroyed.
"Oh... okay... yeah i guess that makes sense..." Maggie looked down.
"Yes yes, quite a shame but we should've seen this coming with a name like tha-" Floriana looked uncaring at first but glanced at her sad looking friend and she felt pity.
The dog sighed.
"Do not worry one bit Maggie, i promise you that you will be able to compete in that silly show no matter what!" Furfrou smiled.
"For real, how?" Asked Maggie.
"Doggys secret~ For now let's just enjoy our last few days together, i bet you'll be stuck competing for quite a while." Furfrou shrugged.
After school day ended, each night Floriana worked very hard sowing, cutting and crafting a brand new design work, one which would be her masterpiece in art.
She poured hundreds of hours just studying and analyzing facts about this certain pokemon to get each detail of this suit just to the tip of perfection
She of course asked her friend Maggie details about the creature as well in order to make the costume even more realistic until eventually; it was done...
Mismagius was about to enter the audition site for the new hit show Paldean Shining Stars; but she looked nervous... she knew she'd never be accepted looking like this... so she didn't know why Floriana told her to wait there for her.
"Hey there Maggie, it's done..." Floriana came rushing towards her.
"Flori! Your fur.. it's so... spiky!?" Maggie looked shocked.
"Yeah apologies, i uh didn't have time to groom myself lately however i been working on something very special just for you!" Floriana took an item out of a big bag.
Maggie's eyes instantly looked in awe like stars.
"A Flutter Mane cosplay! Sowed from the sturdiest yet silkiest materials; added scales to the actual mane for peak realism and since you're a ghost type, you can literally just possess it and control it as if it were your real body~" Floriana looked very proud of her ultimate design.
"OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! IT'S AMAZING!!!! HOW! JUST IT FITS PERFECTLY! HOW DID YOU EVEN CREATE THIS! YOU HAVE PAWS!" Maggie instantly possed it and was pretty much a Flutter Mane now.
"Trust me, you have no idea how long it took to make." The tired Furfrou with the natural coat glanced at the fourth wall.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Flori! You're the best!!!! This is so fricking cool! I can control everything on it and it feel so real! It feels amazing!" Flutter Mane giggled.
"Just make sure you take care of it, I'd hate for it to get ripped or broken or something along those..." Floriana told her.
"You bet I'll take care of it! I can finally archive my dream of living like a Flutter Mane, experiencing life as they would! Hopefully i can win some money for us!" Flutter Mane told her.
"No matter how long your show takes, I'll always be your friend Maggie, I'll be waiting." Floriana smiled.
"Next up is Maggie Dreadvus, come up to audition stands please.." Said a voice on a speaker.
"Welp that's me, I'll see you soon bestie!" Maggie smiled as the Flutter Mane levitated away towards the building.
"Welp, there goes my life savings..." Floriana smiled seeing her best friend go away; getting materials to make such a realistic and accurate Flutter Mane cosplay was no easy or cheap task.
Furfrou had spend absolutely all the money she had saved up just to make her friend be able to have some happiness.
"Worth it, i created yet another masterpiece of art~" Furfrou grins confidently as she begins to walk back gone.
(1 month later)
We see Furfrou look annoyed as she's mopping the floors of a ladies bathroom; she had a McDonalds uniform.
"Ugh you've got to be kidding me, why can't people be clean..." Floriana growled as she mopped.
She came out the bathroom and began stuffing the cleaning items in the closet.
Gengar and Gardevoir were both in the front attending costumers.
"Floriana, um... we need someone to take the trash out... can you go do that while we cook here?" Said a Simisear.
Furfrou growled as she is shown now to be moving trash can towards the dumpster at the back of the store.
"*Whistles* Hey there puppy! Want a treat? Hahaha!" Laughed a Scrafty who high fived a Toxicroak, they were both in a car.
"Do you have any idea who i am you uncultured fools! I am Floriana Quartztón! Famous professional fashion designer!" Furfrou yells.
"Yes and I'm president of Kalos, hahaha!" Toxicroak laughed as the Scrafty drove the car away.
"Ugh! How has my life come to this... no money, no fashion store... ugh i haven't been able to have a nice change of fur coat in a while..." Furfrou looked at her dirty unkept fur.
Suddenly a flier smacked into her face.
"ACK! WHAT IS THIS TRASH! HOW CAN MY NIGHT GET EVEN WORSE!" Floriana yells.
[Do you want to battle for Kalos and win a prize? Join Kalos Khaos today and win rewards! Requirements... be a Kalos Pokemon...]
"This seems rather convenient..." Floriana looked semi interested.
"Furfrou! The mens toilets are clogged again!" said a voice from the inside of the store.
"I QUIT! It's time for my chance to shine! I'll show everyone what i can truelly do!" Furfrou grins.
As soon as she went home she went to record an audtion tape to join the show.
Furfrou (Audition Tape): My family says I am a natural born leader, and of course I am... you see this dog is smart, strong and cunning! I'll easy take control of an alliance that will take ME to the top, haha so make me join and I'll show you that they'll all be under my paw!
Floriana did indeed join Kalos Khaos, she did indeed have an alliance and then she lost the tie breaker to a fat pumpkin during the merge and was swiftly eliminated, and just like that the show was over...
"What a dreadful experience... hopefully Maggie is having a better time than i had..." Floriana looked worried.
She hadn't heard much of Maggie in a while, sure she did watch Paldean Shining Stars but pretty much as soon as that was over it seems she competed in something else and now was busy yet again...
Furfrou decided she needed to come up with something of her own; it was either start her own small business or back to mopping dirty bathrooms in Anistar City.
Floriana decided to try her luck at creating her own beauty channel on a relatively new online site where you could broadcast videos.
She became pretty popular with her beauty tricks plus being a minor celebrity of having competed in a reality TV show before.
Floriana gave many make up and fashion tips, top 10s and also promoted her latest merch of homemade clothing.
"Remember that this Halloween all my spooky Oh for woof sake brand clothing will be marked down at a discounted price! All funds will go straight to hopefully opening a boutique for me in Lumiose City!" Floriana smiled.
She had become more elegant, more calm and kind and her fur coat couldn't look prettier and cleaner than ever.
She eventually was able to open up a small boutique in Kalos and sell her clothing, much of it which was cosplay designs made specially for ghost types.
Ghost types adored her cosplay suits, so that was her best selling item ever since her earlier days of streaming, she had over millions of subscribers and many orders to do.
Floriana was so busy she even had to hire workers in order to get sales out there, her store Talk to the Paw was a huge sucess in Kalos mostly due to the unique clothing for ghost types she sold.
The ghosts would possess the clothes and they'd live like the pokemon they'd wanted, Floriana was always busy as she got a lot of requests and commissions from other ghosts who wanted to experience something truelly unique.
"Oh Em Gee! I am getting a haircut from THE Floriana Quartztón! This is like... so fetch!" Giggled a female Gogoat.
"Pleasure is all mine~" Floriana looked confident as she expertly trimmed the hair.
"Is it like true you competed in Kalos Khaos?! That's so cool! I heard they are doing a new season called Galar Games, i bet it's awesome! Would you ever join a new season?" Asked the Gogoat.
"I have no time for such games, but i must admit.. it was quite fun ruling my alliance like that." Floriana sighed nostalgically as in the TV above the cutting chair we see an episode of Alolan Olympics playing.
"Yeah! You slayed girl for real! Hashtag Queeeen!" Gogoat took a selfie and giggled.
Floriana smiled as she cutted the leafy hair of her client, she was happy with her life but she hadn't talked to Maggie in so long, she was starting to get worried when she would end with her show and when she'd come back... ehh she just hoped she was fine.
"Get ready to be amazed at this style my dear fan, i like to call it Le Bruché~" Furfrou smiled as she revealed the new hair style to Gogoat who seemed very happy to see such beauty on herself.
