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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:05 am
It was a lovely fall day. The sun was shining and leaves in every color covered the ground. It wasn't a day anyone wanted to be cooped up inside, if she could help it. Jubilee certainly could, so she was off on a self-proclaimed training regiment.
She saw something new on her way through the forest. It was in a junk yard. She would normally pass it by, but today, she heard something familiar that made her stop.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock... She knew from its sound that this was a clock. But it didn't look like the kinds of clocks she had seen before. It wasn't a round one that hung flat on a wall or a grandfather clock. This clock was small enough to be held and had a pair of bells on top of it. It was made mostly of metal, the glass covered its face was smashed and pieces of it had already fallen out, and the numbers were all faded. It reminded her of an alarm clock, but all of the ones she had the time displayed like "88:88", not with an hour and minute hand like this one.
She picked it up and took it with her into the forest. She figure she could ask someone about it later. There was something she wanted to do first.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:04 pm
There's a river that runs through the forest, and it was here that Jay had chosen to spend her day. Actually, there was a bigger reason for the Blitzle to be around this area and it had to do with an antique pocket watch she and her buddy Finn had discovered in that very same junk yard just a few days ago. The problem was that the watch was dirty, and there was no way she was going to walk around with a tarnished piece of junk around her neck.
Up until this point, Jay'd been wearing the watch's chain around her throat, like a necklace. It's taken some ingenuity, but she'd managed to get it up and over her head so she could wash it. Front feet in the river, she was dunking the watch into the cold running water. She didn't really care what damage the water may do to the mechanisms on the inside; the watch didn't work anyway, which was the only sad and disappointing part of the whole thing.
Which is why Jay was caught off-guard when she heard the distinct 'tick-tock-tick-tock' of a clock. Pausing, her ears twitched as she tried to pin-point the source. Certainly it couldn't be coming from her own watch...
Clutching the chain tightly in her mouth, Jay looked around the wooded area; she was on the edge of her hooves, just in case whatever it was that was heading her way wasn't of the friendly type.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:02 pm
Jubilee set the clock down on the ground and sat in front of it with her legs crossed. "I suppose even though you're broken, you still kind of work. Kind of. You're no good at telling time, but you can tell me when a minute's gone by." She pointed to the number the minute hand was at now and then to the number right after. "Five minutes sounds long enough to me."
After that, she laid down on her back and started doing crunches. She counted out loud each one she did. "One, two, three, four, five --"
She stopped abruptly when she got an odd feeling in the pit of her stomach. Am I being watched? She sat back up and looked around. "Hello? Is there anyone there?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:49 am
Her round black ears swiveled on top of her head - is someone counting? Jay thought to herself, brow furrowed curiously while she remained as still and as quiet as she was able. Yes, that was definitely someone counting, but why?
Then there was the called out question, and for a moment the Blitzle female panicked. Had they heard her? How, she'd been absolutely still! Wrinkling her nose at the idea of someone being better at sneaking around than she was, Jay began the tricky process of getting the pocket watch's chain back around her neck. A process which called for her tilting her head back and trying to roll the chain off the end of her nose and down her face...shaking her head to try and get it around her spike. All in all, it was a very ridiculous ritual, if anyone were to stumble across her while in the middle of it.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:35 pm
Jubilee initially brushed off the feeling as paranoia. It was probably just a Pidgey in a tree somewhere. Waiting. Watching. Pidgey did that, because it was hard to catch bugs if you kept scaring them off by being loud. It made perfect sense.
She even sat back down on the ground to continue with her warm-up exercises only to stand bolt upright when she heard a clinking noise. Maybe a Magnemite, or some other Steel type, crashed into a tree? She knew even if it was just that, they were such an odd sight in the forest that she'd want to stop and explore, anyway.
So, she dropped what she was doing, picked up her broken alarm clock thing, and walked around in a circle to investigate. Whoever this was seemed quiet and cunning to her. She couldn't tell where s/he was by sound alone. She'd stop, look behind a tree, see nothing out of the ordinary, and go, "Nope, not here."
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:26 pm
Once the watch was secure around her neck, Jay carefully backed herself away from the river's edge. Whatever was out there, the Blitzle was pretty sure she didn't want to run into it. Who knew if it was a trainer trying to capture her...that just wouldn't do. Of course, it could just be another Pokemon, but Jay wasn't particularly keen on running into anyone else, either.
Little sparks were already dancing around on her mane, showing off her anxiousness and nerves. She wouldn't run; running just made whatever was about to attack, do so recklessly and in a panic. Instead, as if she'd heard nothing, she began to calmly walk away.
Once she was back into the cover of the trees, there were a few moments where Jay actually felt relief. Nothing had jumped out at her, no one had attacked her; sighing softly, she relaxed. That was, of course, until she walked right into the area where...this thing was peeking around a tree. What in the world was that? It looked like a Pokemon, but a human and a Pokemon together? That's just crazy! That's...that's impossible!
Caught up in her own chaotic thoughts, Jay would simply stand, staring.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:06 pm
Jubilee's eyes locked with those of the Blitzle who had just walked towards her. She was incredibly relieved to see that it was just another Pokemon. Nothing more. Nothing less. "Oh!" Then, she averted her gaze, because she was worried she might scare her off. She thought she looked freaked out already what with the way her mane was bristling and sparking like that. "It's just you."
Still, she did wonder where the odd noise she heard before came from. Nothing about this Blitzle looked metallic to her. Maybe she ran into something on her way though the forest? She looked over at her again and her gaze settled on the metal pocket watch around her neck. "Ah, that's what it was."
Her curiosity sated, she backpedaled to where she was before.
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