Spring Fiesta | Floral Scultping

Noir sighed as he walked around the house collecting supplies for the day like water, snacks, and his pokemon. Isaiah was visiting and he knew the man was excited about the festivities due to his recently improved health allowing him to join and Noir was always happy to indulge the vileplume man. He pocketed Noi into his jacket pocket, the tiny fused yamask popping his head out and tittering happily as Bjonk and Tink ran around like maniacs, shrieking in excitement as Cumulus let Noir fit him in his little vest and clip his leash to his belt. He groaned and slumped against a wall for a moment as he thought about going out and enjoying it all. Key word, 'enjoying'. The man struggled, honestly, to just relax and enjoy shit but in his 'retirement' everyone encouraged him to do so. He sighed heavily again and  patted himself down. "Noi, Cumulus, Tink, Bjonk... Reaper, you wanna come buddy?" He asked the aging noivern laying in a sunbeam on the floor who simply blinked at him groggily before turning his face over and falling back asleep. He stroked the graying hairs of the old noivern before turning to leave with his entourage following. He paused to consider Opus, the goomy fusion was grumpy and wanted nothing to do with other pokemon and was napping on a kitchen counter currently so he simply stroked him and earned a growl in turn and so he left them be.

 

He was walking down the street when he shot a text to Isaiah simply asking "Where are you?" as he knows the man had already probably wandered off.  Cumulus had a serious look on his little face as he paced at a perfect heel along his trainer and Bjonk had already clambered into Noir's free arm and Tink had a hand firmly curled into his pant leg. Noi had dozed off in his pocket and he made a face at a stranger who bumped into him, causing them to frantically apologize and scuttle off at the man's bitch face and glanced back at his phone waiting for the little 'read' tick. He knew the man probably wasn't looking at his phone and he sighed heavily again. It was hot out. He loved the heat but not the humidity, and he just would've preferred, yknow, being at work at the bar instead of this. John's 'vacation' with Noir was him taking this time to establish more contracts in the city and check on the ones he had due to the bustling activity and so sometimes, like now, the man was left alone with no job here to do and nothing to do except 'relax' and he hated it, he hoped Isaiah'd make it more bearable.

 

Isaiah rarely ever got out of brookfell. To say that it was simply rare would be an understatement of the greatest kind. it wasn't just rare, it was completely and utterly unheard of. He could recall only one trip he's ever taken out of Brookfell, one that also had been with Noir where they'd briefly gone to Rivertide. It had been a bit of a disaster if he was to be blunt. He had hoped they'd be able to enjoy it but instead it had only stressed out the Noivern man- but this time it would be different! Hopefully. Three pokemon were trailing behind Isaiah as he wandered through Groveheart.  Plants, tree's, flowers- a luscious green world that had only ever been something in his imagination was blooming to life around him and it was all rather exciting. Something the pokemon agreed with. 

 

Rio was keeping a close eye on Isaiah, ensuring that the man was steady and helping him anytime he needed it. Whether that might be with a step or simply pulling the man gently to a bench so he could rest. Specter was following behind with the full intention to snarl at anyone who got too close and Twiggy? Twiggy was twirling through the air with excited chatters as they would go to grab some leaves and bring them back to Isaiah excitedly. It was... well. Adorable. Completely adorable to him and he smiled softly at the little pokemon. "Yeah? You like them?" 

 

Twiggy trilled happily while Specter merely scoffed and Isaiah reached to take the leaf from their grasp. Groveheart was in the middle of a festival and as he turned the leaf in his hand he gave a small hum. "I heard that there are competitions just a block from here." He said lightly. "where people make sculptures out of nature- do you want to go?" Twiggy again, trilled happily and so Isaiah- who had just been pulled down to sit- stood up to wander in that direction. Something which greatly distressed Rio who tried to pull him down only to get shushed. 

 

Isaiah had just finished signing up for the contest and moving towards the work area when he heard a familiar ting of a message and a screen soon appeared infront of him. Where was he.... that was a good question wasn't it? Isaiah simply thought about it for a moment before he sat down at his booth. This was a contest with specific plants that were able to be used in a sculpture- one meant for children. So Isaiah gently pushed the basket of plants towards Twiggy to watch the phantump fusion dig in excitedly. 

 

Pulling up a camera he took a quick picture of the cheerful ghost and sent it off to Noir. "use your GPS." Isaiah could find out the location on his own and tell Noir where he was- but honestly he didn't want to think on that. He wanted to watch his pokemon make a mess as they attempted to sculpt.

Noir paused so heavily at the snarky response and sighed, heavily. Cumulus looked at him in concern and he ignored it as the pokemon gently tapped at his leg with it's paw. A mild alert. He was stressed. He paused to pat his little companion before retaliating by doing exactly that and pinging Isaiah's location on his TD. He groaned at noticing him in the heart of the festivities, particularly in the area where many stalls and competitions where set up for parents and their kids. He knew Isaiah had Twiggy from it and was glad he brought Noi. The two seemed to get along super well, both being young yamask fusions, and so he set off in that direction. He could've easily hailed a cab but he knew they'd be over priced right now due to the festivities and so chose to walk in the thick humid city with his pokemon all trailing along and beside him happily.  He kept his head mostly down into his TD and made an effort to avoid eye contact from as many people as possible. Luckily as nera became normalized, less people stared at the long, dragging tail and wings the man sported. It wasn't possible to hide them under clothes like he did his rayze marks and other markings and fur which definitely got him more looks and he WOULD have used a supressor if a certain grey haired love of his entire life, his stars and his skies, his soul mate had 'lost' his so he could not use it. His husband loved his wings, tails, ears, the whole kit despite Noir's objections to how they just got in the way sometimes and so he had succumbed to the fate of simply being a bat man as he roamed outside. Tink was still happily holding onto his leg when she held up a single hand and Noir absent mindedly took out a treat and placed it in her hand, making Bjonk whine until he provided her one too and then Noi. He offered Cumulus one and the eevee was obviously tempted but instead chose to focus steadfast on his job. He approached the gates of the competition plaza and pushed inside past people until he spotted Isaiah's vileplume 'hat' in one of the stalls and then his companions, notably Twiggy and made his way over.

 

"Could've just told me where you were." He said softly to the man as he came to sit beside him and put Bjonk and Noi on the booth to also pariticpate as extra baskets where quickly dropped off by staff, including one to Tink who despite obviously trying to act more 'mature' then the others quicky devolved into digging into them. Cumulus, however, ignored this and tucked under Noir's legs with a solemn look on his face. "Make it a tad easier on both of us, yeah?" He mused as he fiddled with a few plants Bjonk handed him until he tied the stems into a knot and she took it back with a delighted squeal to show Twiggy, wagging it at him and jumping in delight. He pulled out his water bottle to drink from it before offering it to the man and he felt his own annoyance soften at the sight of the delight on his friend's face. He used his free hand to hold another few twigs as Tink kept shoving them at him since she didn't have enough hands, squawking upsetly when Bjonk reached down and took a few and causing a chittering 'argument' between the two. Both of their sculptures where already seeming to take 'shape'. A generous word for the mass of plants.

Twiggy's creation was... well. It was something alright.  Isaiah could hear how Specter guffawed at it's peculiar shape every minute or so while Rio stood dutifully at his side. He watched them for a minute more before he just closed his eyes to listen to the surroundings. There was the chattering of people and the faint buzz of combee's in the air. Soon though, it was joined in by an all too familiar voice and he felt oddly pleased to know they were there. "Is that fun?" Isaiah asked in return as he took a glance at the mass of pokemon who followed Noir. Specter puffed up at the sight of the others and let out a rather angry hoot but was quickly swiped at by Rio until he settled back down to merely judge their floral creations. Harshly. "You get bored easily. Finding me is enrichment." 

 

With the water bottle offered to him he politely shook his head in decline before taking a look at the sculptures of Bjonk and Tink. They squabbled and as they were to argue Twiggy had come down between them. He held a flower in his hands which he reached out to offer to the squabbling tinkatinks. Evidently he hoped to solve their argument and try to help with their sculptures at the same time.  Isaiah looked at the flower for a long moment and the way the tinkatinks also stared at it and he couldn't help but get the feeling that wasn't one that was actually in the original basket. Just where had he gotten them from?

 

"...I could send you on a scavenger hunt." his words sounded a bit as if he might have been making fun of Noir, their face even scrunched up as such but that wasn't the case. He knew that Noir got bored easily, that to not work or do anything was anxious and something like a scavenger hunt would at least be something to keep him occupied. He could send him out to try and gather some rare flora that only grew here- something that perhaps could be used in another flower building competition as the pokemon all clearly were liking it.