they were definitely not here for stufful. in fact, nina wanted to stay as far away from bears as possible. its smiling face sent a chill up her spine, and she veered off in another direction.

”come on guys! this way,” her voice cracked, steps a bit hurried as she waded through flowers. her duo on the ground turned to look at her, morelull’s caps swaying to the side inquisitively. they followed after, leaving the stufful alone.

passing

they successfully evaded the cub without drawing attention, morelull and togepi finding cover in the grass on their way to catch up.

a little further down the path was a pond. she gazed as it glittered under the sunlight, and from it she saw the beak of a lovedisc. had seen them from the shores of slateport beach before, but always too far to catch.

”morelull,” she whispered, crouching, pointing. ”astonish.”

the mushroom screeched loudly, and the luvdisc stilled, floating in the water. nina sprang up and rushed to the edge, throwing a ball to catch it.

catching luvdisc

the pokéball plopped into the water, floating—in the wrong direction. ”oh no...” she looked around, quickly deciding, ”guess we have to go around the other side.”

so they went, nina’s eyes on the floating pokéball the whole way. morelull stayed close at the water’s edge, while togepi was more curious, fixated on the top of the grass nearby. there was the shiny pink curl of a happiny that had caught its eye, and it soon toddled off the path, unnoticed.

once she’d retrieved her runaway pokeball, nina noticed her lucky egg missing. ”togepi?!” suddenly frantic, she hurried into the grass, doing circles until she found them: togepi sat with the happiny, trilling and carrying on in happy sounds and faces.

nina smiled. happiny eventually turned into blissey, a pokemon that had also been on her wishlist. this was going well so far.

”come on, togepi. bring your friend.”

catching happiny

they turned, the four of them heading in another direction, and soon enough, the bushy tail nina had been looking to spot poked out the grass and darted around a tree.

”eevee!” she accounced, bending at the hip to scoop her togepi up and carry it with her as she ran to cut the distance.

”okay, togepi. SWEET KISS!”

she then went low, rolling the egg across the ground like a bowling ball. it stopped just short of the little fox, planting a small smooch on the cheek. woozy, the eevee looked up with confusion at nina as she approached.

”good job,” she grinned, tossing a pokéball.

mission complete.

maybe she’d even be back.

catching eevee