[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

(Neat! Time to sell the gem and call Ventus!)

Awesome! Heart was quite delight with the results of the gem state and the details about that gem. "Thank you very much sir! That gem its a wonderfull piece of art you did. And the tooth marks make a awesome detail. Thank you very much!" After thanking the good sir, Heart leave the shop of the man and send a quick message to Ventus:

Message to Ventus

Heya Ventus! How are friend? Listen, the guy I send the garnet finally finish the job of increment the garnet I have told to you. The results was quite satisfied and incredible. His valor will be very much good when I sell that beauty. His valor its around 4500. As soon I sell this thing I will buy soon that Metal Coat you have request (remember, Heart dont know about you just want the 3000 pokedollars). Also some other good news buddy: Past night I have capture a Hypno! It was...a pretty dificult. But I manage to capture him and make party of my team. I name him Sundance Alphonse. Or just Alphonse if you guys like it. I gonna show you guys soon. Welp, I have to go now! See you soon man!

When Heart finish to call Ventus Heart decided to sell the gem somewere them head to the ceremony! Heart want to have a good battle there with one of the Kimono girls if possible.

Some time After Visiting the Card Shop

During his third Training Session of the day with his mercenary's Pokémon that went much smoother after he worked out the kinks in his training plans and earned a monicrum of their respect (or at least wore them down enough for them to act like they had), Ventus phone started to vibrating, which naturally put him on alert as to who/why someone was calling him. Still, he waited until after he winded up Froakie, Haunter, and Mamo's last round of their planned combat regimen with and recalled them before digging his phone out and checking his messages, while Melphena floated up to get a peek at the screen, as even though she couldn't read that didn't prevent her from still being a curious little devil!

Immediately a wide smile appeared on the researcher's face as he discovered that it was in fact Heart informing him not only that he has/will soon have the funds to complete their trade, but their aquistion of a semi-rare Hypno! He almost called them up right away to scheduale the trade ASAP, as Valder was due to arrive anytime now to retrieve his partners and hand over Haziel, his fingers hovering over the call button with Heart's number already selected.....until he noticed his Little Miss hover over his shoulder with a faintly intrigued expression. That caused him to pause for though as he had an eureka moment and realized circumstances had changed somewhat drastically.

When he proposed his trade with the rare collector, he only had Ao Guang to seriously worry about in regards to discipline, while only Hanael, Lucifer, and Lilith needed more training to further entice their latent potential out of them, so acquiring a Scyther to take care of was , while not a easy task in the slightest, was still somewhat manageable. Since then, however, his cute little fallen angel Azrael just hatched out of her Egg and he took Melphena in the fold, both of them requiring a great deal of care, familiarization, training, and bonding in addition to doing all that for his afformention Pokemon, making the prospect of training another Disobedient Pokémon a far more daunting task now. Adding that, he was also deficient on the funds and time necessary to take a Scyther to the Camp program hosted by the Disobedience Shelter to bond with them, and now had/has other obligations (Namely toward contributing to the Mr. Finder Fee and his deal with Nathan) that would prevent him from speedily remedying his relative poverty.

In short, the empath really was unable to properly handle or provide the rigorous care/discipline a Scizor needed, at least not until he finished/caught up bonding/training/nurturing with the member of his family that most needed it.

Of course, he couldn't just back out of his deal with Heart now, as he still very much wanted a Scizors to add to his family at some point, and he knew the man would be crushed to have Delta Onix snatched away from him at the last possible second. That would not only jeapordize his plans for them to help research the flying rock snake together, but it would also be needlessly cruel to the man. So he stood their in the Pokémon Center's Gym, his face twisted into an expression of consternation as he tried to ponder an easy solution to this situation, with his banshee giving him a faintly mystified look at his sudden downward turn in behavior (Oh deary me, her master has gotten weird again....).......

.....Until in a flash of Insight the solution came to him, causing him to grin excitedly once more as he hit the call button and rang up Heart, Malphena now shaking her head in slight wonder as how quickly his mood swung right back up again (My my...what a twist!) as he said over the line:

"That's fantastic news my friend, and I'm thrilled you managed to adding Alphonse to your team! Be careful and practice a bit of caution around it, though, as the Hypno species is notorious for lulling people into a mindless state with its psychic talents and force them to do all manner of things if it has a mind to do such things. Hopefully that won't be an issue, but better forewarned and armed than being caught off guard! Now, as for our trade arrangement, I'd like to amend it by simply requesting the $3000 Poke to spend at my own leisure, and simply trade you for Scyther instead. I've had an bit of an ephiney regarding just how much my current family member need by support more than a new addition, so I've decided to simply store the Bug away until I'm ready to fully commit to taking care of him. I hope that's acceptable to you Heart, but if not we can always re-discuss the terms of our deal."

(Waiting for your response, Spiritmon!)