[Video]

[20faces]

That was a really mean prank...

[The admonishment comes from a very pale boy, blanket wrapped around his shoulders and over his head like a cocoon. He looks sick, and most longer term residents will recognise the cause as the Halloween goodie bag of berries still sitting in his lap.]

What if one of my Pokemon got poisoned? I know playing tricks on people is a tradition at Halloween, but that's just going too far.

[He shivers, drawing the blanket around himself a little tighter.]

I think I even started hallucinating. Everyone suddenly had magical powers...

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[Video]

[meikyuubutterfly]

[...Oops, going to jump straight into the last thing this person said.] Everyone suddenly had magical powers?

[Video]

[20faces]

People were flying and shooting bullets out of their fingers! And almost everyone started glowing - I thought for a second I might go blind.

[Video]

[meikyuubutterfly]

[What?
...
What?]

That doesn't make any sense, considering no one has their - or any other - powers here.

[You'd probably go blind in her magical canon, considering how much people can glow there.]

[Video]

[20faces]

[As if that makes less sense than anything else that happens in this world.]

I know. I think being sick must have made me a bit delirious.

[Video]

[meikyuubutterfly]

[Well, true. But it makes no sense to a girl, who has tried to use her magical powers here without any results.]

Either that, or it was just a dream.

[video]

[soggypastry]

[A heavy sigh. Oh, she recognizes those things. This kid must be new. What a way to find out.]

Those berries aren't poisoned. They only make humans sick, not Pokémon. Your team would have been fine.

[video]

[20faces]

Wh- Are you serious?! No wonder they seemed so interested in them...

[He cringes miserably.]

Pokemon must have very strong stomachs.

[video]

[soggypastry]

Something like that. [She looks away from the camera, grabbing something off screen. There's a slightly annoyed "cle!" before her hands come into view again, and nestled in her palms is a tiny Cleffa nibbling on a berry with a happy look on its face. No misery or pain to be had at all.]

See? The berries are meant for them. They wouldn't eat them if they were toxic.

[video]

[20faces]

She looks like she's really enjoying it.

[Gosh it's adorable. That tiny Pokemon's happy look is infectious!]

So it wasn't a prank at all - it was actually a very thoughtful gift! I should definitely retract my statements and apologize.

[video]

[soggypastry]

[Infectious to some, at least. Lightning just shrugs and gently returns the Cleffa to where she'd been before, so she can finish her snack in peace.]

A few statements like that don't matter. Not if they were from the same cause that put us through all that. [she sighs quietly, then:] You may not have been hallucinating. Where did you see those people with magical powers?

[Video]

[crackpotcrocker]

That wasn't a trick that actually happened.

[Video]

[20faces]

[It did? He hadn't been sure himself, but if someone else remembers being there too...]

Did you see it, too?!

[Video]

[crackpotcrocker]

[Crocker emphasizes his 'yes' before exclaiming like a mad man.]

Yes - I DID! ALL OF IT!

Haunted rooms, sigils, having amazing powers I only wish I could actually have!

ALL OF IT!

[Of course how much you believe Denzel is another thing. Considering, how he's twitching in the face.]

[Video]

[20faces]

[Completely and utterly, of course.]

And your Pokemon went missing? And you had to save them?

I remember all of those things, too!

[Video] sorry for the late, long week ;;

[crackpotcrocker]

[Denzel leans in and ominously states]

Yes, child. I did.

[That is before switching over to a victory, I knew it tone.]

Ah ha! I knew it! I was right! Crazy but I was right! Ha, ha, ha -

[Before Crocker cuts himself self during his crazy laughing and is rather surpised.]

Wait, you're agreeing with me?!

[This is a first Crocker is use to the child disagreeing all the time.]

[video]

[apego]

Magical powers? --you mean like a magical girl? With a transformation, where you get a special outfit and then an item to fight off bad guys? [Natsuki that's not even related to this at all.]

[video]

[20faces]

Yes, exactly!!

[He bounces enthusiastically... and then stops, putting a hand up to his head. He's still a bit light headed.]

I know I saw at least one! With pink pigtails and a magical bow and everything.

[video]

[apego]

How cute! I guess anything can happen in this world, can't it? To think we even have magical girls here! I've only read about them in books and seen them on television shows, but those were always animated shows for children. They were never real. Until now!

[video]

[20faces]

Oh, well...

I think that part might just have been a dream. Sorry to disappoint you.

[video]

[apego]

Ah... are you very sure it was a dream? There are lots of things here that seem like a dream but we already know they're real.

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[timidnature]

[Having met the boy face to face earlier, Latvia doesn't feel so worried about showing his face and gives a sympathetic expression]

That wasn't a hallucination, I saw it too...

But you really look in bad shape, you should get some rest.

( video )

[20faces]

[Akira starts a little when he sees the video. For a moment, he'd wondered if meeting Latvia had been a hallucination as well.]

Don't worry. If you saw it too, then I must be in much better shape than I thought I was.

...You remember seeing me too, right?

( video )

[timidnature]

I remember...

[It was hard to forget much about a situation like that]

But you still don't look well. Whereabouts are you? Is there a hospital nearby?

( video )

[20faces]

D-Do I really look that bad? I thought I would just rest in my room for a while...

[He's a little reluctant to reveal his location. In fact he even has the radio on, to drown out the music playing in the background.]

( video )

[timidnature]

I really think you should see a doctor if you can, if someone has been so cruel as to poison your food it could be bad...

[He doesn't care too much about Akira's actual location, Latvia just wanted to see if he was nearby enough to help]