[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Spiritmon]

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I'll flash forward a little, okay?


(Ventus however already thought ahead and was so kind to have left a voice message with instructions to reach the pace he set up for the night! Oh how relieving it was to hear his recorded voice... She typed a message back to him, reading the following:
"Dear Reshiram, thanks for the instructions, Ven... Route 4 got me busy (in a positive way, I'm doing fine), but I'll head to you people now and should be there in a few minutes. Tell the others if they're worrying, please keep some of any prepared dinner warm for me, I'll also need your help on a spectral Pokemon I picked up along the way."

"Okay. That's it. Enough to be mister nice guy. What your problem with me anyway mr. Anti-social? If you don't like me, it's okay, I respect your decision, but don't need to be hostile, Nathan Drake."

Heart was very stressed after the words of Nathan and approach him and put two fingers in his face.

"I go where I want, and I don't need your permission Nathan. If you have any problem with me, two words to you: Screw you. I don't need to be nice with someone who treat me like that. And if you need any help, don't expect any mine. Good night Nathan Drake."

Nathan REALLY doesn't appreciate that.  "It's WARREN.  Maybe you'd know that if you bothered to do more than just intrude on my personal business."

(...)

Kirlia is staring daggers at Heart.  Oh he did NOT just antagonize Nathan.  Nope, Kirlia doesn't want Heart to be anywhere near him now.  No way.  He'd have left with Nathan if he could have.

Calam just shakes his head in exasperation.  Well, this was certainly going sour...he tries to encourage Ventus and Heart to continue this conversation in a different part of the tent.

Heart really want to say a few things a little to Nathan but decided to keep to keep the words to himself. He will not bow to the same level as Nathan. Heart see Kirlia nasty look to him. "What you looking at?" It's sounds a little too much more rude he wanted. He sight and put one hand in his head. "Sorry what I say to your friend Ventus. It wasn't really my intention. I normally a peaceful person, but I don't like someone who treat me with hostility. No one is force to like it other after all. The same he have to act like that I have the same. Sorry to make you see that scene good friend Ventus." That was a honest apologize. Heart knew he was wrong to act that way towards Nathan, but he will not apologize to Nathan. He still have some pride after all. All he was just trying to be nice, and Nathan was act was a jerk now.

For the time being Heart will avoid Nathan. He have his reasons to act like that, but he don't need to act that way with everyone! With his friends like Shiva and Ventus, and with Heart who don't know him!

If Ven was already disappointed about Nathan's continued severe attitude towards Heart and his own beliefs, then the rare collector backlash against such treatment and the subsequent air of hostility stunned him greatly. He stood their with a look of sad disbelief, before the researcher let out a tortured groan and shove his face into both of his hands in a double face palm. 'Kyurem's frosty domain, I want these two friends of mine to cooperate and truly enjoy/treasure one another as dear friends, but that seems more and more improbable now. Such hostility, such bittereness and righteous anger, such distrust among them....if I were not used to this, I would be sick to my stomach. *Sigh* Heart is not unjustified in acting like he did, as I know well enough that Nate is not the easiest to get along with, but I wish that he held his tongue; now my job of bringing them together will be that much more torturous,' he thought himself, rubbing his forehead a few times to ease away the spikes of stress he was enduring now, before sliding his hands off his face and turned to regard the pun lover with tired, yet understanding eyes.

Before the empath spoke, however , he noticed Callam's own exasperated disbelief over the conflict and the urging motions/feelings for him and Heart to politely speak about this elsewhere in the tent, and complied. He ushered Heart towards his part of the tent, came back to give both Kirlia and the harbringer of doom an apple to (hopefully) calm them down, before returning to his new friend, using the all time and movement to help organize his thoughts and come up with a response. One that he earnestly wishes would assist in diffusing the tension/hostility between them and Nate later on, and increase the odds of them actually end up as friends. " I understand, Heart, and I forgive you. Nate treated me much the same way when we first encountered each other at the start of our journey, and it was not until after a supreme amount of effort and many foolish mistakes on my part that I managed to open him up. He's...not the most readily agreeable of people, and has the tendency to reject that which does not adhere to his own brand of thinking, but he's a kind, caring soul beneath his stern façade, more willing to be of assistance than he realizes. It is just that he's bad with interacting with people beyond the cursory level, and his anti-socialness is more a product of isolation rather than him being naturally abrasive. Give him enough time to become aquanted with you, and prove yourself competent and 'worthy' , and he'll eventually warm up enough to not shun you on sight, or at least civilly. Though, I would suggest avoiding him for the time being and not 'intruding' on his privacy,  as I've learned that when Nate is upset with someone, the absolute last thing you do is rile him up more."

With that conversation wrapped up, Ventus finally dug his phone (which had been vibrating ever since Nathan left in a huff) out of his pocket and read the text message he received. It was from his blessed friend Shiva, and was fairly surprised (in a neutral way) by the content of it. 'Oh my, she managed to capture a Ghost type for herself, now has she? Hmm...that's somewhat unnerving to hear, but I trust that she's attuned with the spirit enough that it would try not try to possess or inflict any wasting curse on her. Still, its imperitive to learn of what particular Ghost type she has, and offer whatever advice I can provide, as the more she's aware about the inherent threat the type, the better she can guard against them,' he thought, before he decided to exit the tent and go to the campfire (Not noticing Nathan/Shiva if they are around) to check up on the hearty stew he was making and put some into a container for his dear friend. She wanted a nice hot meal waiting for her, so he better hop to it then!

Heart quiet heard everything what Ventus said. And quiet say to him. "Well, I understand he might don't know how to interact with people, and have to him don't like people with same as he. But I don't go to this journey to gain any approve or something from everyone. If he don't like me, or hate me, it's his problem. Forgive if I been harsh but even you notice how he think about me. If he don't like, I don't care. I avoid him, and I will not talk with, but be friends with him? Difficult." Heart sigh. "Perhaps I was too much harsh to tell what I said to him, but I not apologize to him. Not now at least. But I will avoid him and respect his space."

Then Heart hear about Shiva caught a ghost Pokemon. "Heh, perhaps that Pokemon would be friends with Viktor. Mind if I help you to prepare the meal?"