The sudden snapping of twigs and the sound of heavy steps would reach Skids, causing the older man to slowly get up; his slimy dragon friend clinging to his hand that was petting them so he had to quickly adjust his arms to hold the pokemon. Good thing too as a young man burst through the brush and swiftly followed by a large ape like pokemon.

"What the...." Skids started but he quickly had to take his own pokemon into account. "Gentleman, in the air now!"

The aron would be too heavy to lift so he quickly managed to return the steel pokemon to it's pokeball. The dartix gave a startled hoot before taking off into the sky. Eyes wide at the rampaging pokemon and Skids took off with the green haired man.

"SO mind telling me what mess you've gotten in and now I'm in?!!" Skids questioned as he looked to the stranger. "That's a pokemon I haven't see before, is it normally chasing after people like this?!"

The man cradled the sliggro in his arms, he was going to have to devote both of them to carrying the slimy pokemon. He'd return them to their pokeball but at the moment, Skids was having enough to try and do while running. A dense forest wasn't a good place to be running around in with a pokemon chasing you.

elijah gardner

Sending my Silvally memory that the trade partner requests to be ROCK
memory is from the Lucky Letters and has been processed through the shop as a blank silvally memory
pkmn-hoenn.boards.net/thread/204/processed-shop?page=317&scrollTo=138186

I agree to this trade

Dartrix, Aron, and Sliggoo please

ifP1XaDg···········

So...the whole war thing was really something that went down..all that chaos and misery. All while he just sat in another region unaware. Welp...shows him for not being someone to read or watch the news much. Course...he was just trying to ensure that Henry was happy...help them smile. BUt one question rattled his brain and made it feel like his heart had stopped.

What even is my best?

How terrible is my best? How wrong was my best? His chest hurt more now and Skids was up on his feet as a shaking hand pressed against his chest. He did his best to help Henry smile and to encourage the lad to be himself, not obey some foolish dream of their father. He did his best to care for what mons he had and yet in the past, he let two of the ones that stole his heart down in the worst way possible. Best....what even was that? Did he even have it in him to do it anymore?

"My apologizes for dampering your time to relax.....have a good day..." Skids apologized quickly before fast walking his way back to the changing room.

In which he would quickly get dressed and leave without a word to the kind staff, he had already paid at least. But now everything just felt heavy all over again and it felt like his heart was going to be torn out as it tried to beat.

Notes: ending post

Skids was silent, listening to the younger man. He didn't say anything until he was certain the youthful soul was done talking. Their words felt heavy on his tired shoulders, despite having been soaking he felt drained rather quickly thanks to his own negativity. It was now swirling around in his head, feelings of old taunting him for the mistakes he made.

"I learned there's two types of mons I can't protect and raise properly...." Skids answered, despite his efforts, his eyes were already betraying the large amount of guilt and pain he felt by watering. "You're young, you hold insight into how things are...Hoenn's barely the same as I left it...I didn't expect it to stay the same....but what has changed is somethng I didn't ever see coming, even for the parts I thought I would see coming."

Cities and towns expanding yet throwing parts of themself away. Farmland grows while the wild side of the region fades, hidey holes and fun places he ran amuck in were either gone or part of some private property.

"My mistake is the kind you don't want to make once, let alone twice in any circumstance. Hopefully...you never have to feel it...or make it..." Skids added, as he sat on the ledge.

Only his feet dangled in the water but Skids soon pulled them out as well. Damn heat was only messing with his head more...and now it felt like something was squeezing the life out of his heart..

Josh Dragomir

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"If it was a simple mistake, fearing of messing it up wouldn't have it the way it is!" Skids replied as he looked to the other man, thrusting a hand out of the water as he spoke. "More than ten years, I've wanted to take it back. I should've listened to myself then and not gone through with what I had. What I choose to do, cost me something far too dear to me to risk just throwing something younger at it and thinking it's going to go better this go than the last!"

His hand hit the water with a plunk, the silver haired man gave a sigh. Looking like he regretted even saying this words. this was just some stranger...a man who needed to unwind so he could better provide for his family. Skids was just here out of nostalgia....what was he even really going to do here? Just wander around a region he once knew? See it's newer or worse flaws? WHY did he really think coming back was remotely a good idea?!!!

A econd sigh left him as he put a hand to his face, his turqoise eyes catching his reflection. A stupid silver haired fool...that's all there was in the water looking back.

"Sorry...I..I shouldn't be bothering you with this foolishness.." Skids apologized as he looked to Josh, though he pulled himself out of the water.

Maybe he already done goofed and scrambled his brains being in the water too long?
Josh Dragomir

Skids wanted to sink farther in the water but any deeper and he'd end up fully submerged, so he didn't. Instead the older man pulled himself up slightly,adjusting his position.

"Not if it's the same mistake...." Skids muttered, brows furrowed slightly as he stared at the water.

There was a chance Josh head his words or maybe he didn't. Skids was having to face a lot of demons from the past now that he was here. Some things held comfort while others were just pure reminders. Was it never too late to make things right? It felt like it...he couldn't bring Jokester or Blitz back...he couldn't make it up to them. Heck, he couldn't even bare the idea to take on another torchic or poochyena to raise, considering how grave his mistakes were.

Old age did bring the issues of not letting things go and while Skids claimed to not hold grudges, he did with some people. Most of all....he held them on himself the most.

Josh Dragomir

"Regrets are a part of life...the happen due to mistakes you make and things you can't make right by anyone.." Skids replied.

Or make right with yourself. He had regrets, he had things he hadn't gotten over. And yet that was all due to him trying to ignore it, not focus on it. But his mind would still bring it up now and then or something would make it jump to the forefront of his mind. After all, you lose a pokemon in a elite four fight..any elitefour match on the tv would give you a horrible sensation. Even if you weren't the one in the match.

"I was born here in Hoenn, I left to explore and still ended up stuck in a different region for years due to someone else geting out of their share in a mess...it wasn't all bad time but... it could've been better.." Skids added.

One thing people said, you don't want to sit in a hotspring for too long. Make yourself dizzy was it?

Josh Dragomir

"I see..." Skids muttered.

Demanding jobs...did he get to have any time with his family? Was it that Skids was now thinking about his own father..absent for his whole life due to being so busy with work? Did they ever want to spend time with his family? Or were they forgotten to him for good? At this point, Skids didn't know and he did his darnedest to not care.

"Some family..but nothing close by anymore....on my own sort to speak." Skids answered.

It was true, Henry was a adult and he left them back in Kalos was it? Eh whatever the region was that he was stuck in for so long. As was his sister with a very....poor choice of husband in his eyes.

"Figured I'd return back to my roots, see how Hoenn's faired and...I.....I've missed a lot..." Skids added.

Josh Dragomir