Glimmer, glitter, shine...

[thecanopycrew]

| characters | Everyone!

| date/time | March 15, all day

| location | First Floor

| rating | Currently G

| summary | A flash of light, and a new adventure.


LIGHT

Warmth, love and kindness.
The Life Stream glimmers and glitters with joy, swirls of shimmering dust dancing around the ray of life.
It was time for new ones to test their wings.


One by one, new adventurers now arrive in the Tree. As one gain wings and rises to the second floor, another light brings in the next person. Soon, a steady stream of people from all kinds of worlds, times and realities come to join the others. Whether confused, angry, excited or scared, your arrival is welcomed with nothing but joy as the fireflies and glow worms descend to greet their new friends.

The Tree offers no explanation and no reason, but the truth is undeniable.

As you will soon realize, it isn't easy to be tiny.

Comments

[anelegantmyth]

[She follows his eyes curiously. Sure she felt like she was going crazy when she arrived. But once the initial shock dies down, she didn't...oh, he meant Garchomp. Looks like hiding her dragon in a corner was a good idea. Go figure.

Cynthia motions for her dragon to stay where she was while her trainer approached the man.]

She isn't going to hurt you. Her name is Garchomp, Chompy for short, and I'm Cynthia. I'm her trainer.

[sirpisspot]

[Sorry Cynthia, too many concepts at once. He had no clue what you were saying.]

"Chompy", right.

[Still though, he looked at it curiously. It was grotesque to someone like Arno, who the very worst had seen ugly rats littering the streets of Paris in terms of animals. Humans, though, was a different story.]

Let's just get introductions right away over and done, then.

Well, Cynthia, I'm Arno and rather curious.


So, our friend Garchomp here is a...what exactly?

[anelegantmyth]

Pleasure to meet you. So, Chompy here is a Garchomp, she's also my partner. Garchomps are a type of dragon that you could find back in my home region of Sinnoh. I'm just going to assume you don't want me to go into full detail about typing and evolution so I'm going to keep this one simple. She has powers, and I train her.

[Cue innocent smile]

Anything else you need to know? Also, I'm not freaking you out, am I?

[sirpisspot]

Good on you then, because that was the shortest and sweetest enough as an explanation as I could need.

[Okay, so maybe this one wasn't a kidnapper either? Didn't seem like it. He pursed his lips in some thought and looked on over again.]

I believe I just spoke with a giant pigeon earlier. While your little friend here was startling, it might be one of the many new things I will see during my...inconvenient stay.

I'll get used to it.

[A DRAGON THOUGH.]

[anelegantmyth]

Well, at least you're not alone during this "inconvenient stay" of yours. I was busy doing work for my next competition, suddenly I'm inside a tree with these things stuck to my back.

[She flaps her wings and sighs. As if she didn't have enough to worry about with the league and her home region. Now she's stuck in some weird tree place. Though Cynthia's still hoping this is one sick hallucination and her Spiritomb is messing with her...still hoping.]

Also, and don't take this the wrong way, what's a pigeon?

[sirpisspot]

Unfortunately, abduction isn't something that could be convenient. I finally had a moment's peace when I suddenly arrived here. So much for that, I guess.
Mon dieu...

[A sigh, and a look of some shock appeared on his face that would soon fade in a few moments. She had a dragon and there were no pigeons? Just...where did these people nab these poor souls from???]

Ahhh, a type of bird. They're usually about-

[He made a sizing motion with this hands of what looked to be showing a few inches. In their case, there was no point in doing that anymore. Especially since THEY were now so tiny. Even Arno knew that, but it was the only way to put this into contrast.

Everything basically sucked, the movie, the video game.]

-this big. But, I suppose that doesn't matter much anymore, seeing as we're small now as it is.

[anelegantmyth]

So, like a Pidgey? Or maybe a Pidgeotto? Wait no Pidgeottos might be a little too big. But the names do sound similar, and they're both a kind of bird and...oh

[She was too busy trying to analize that what this pidgeon creature could be, that it took a while for the rest of his word to sink in. But when they did.]

"Moment's peace"? Are you alright? I mean, if you don't mind me asking.

[sirpisspot]

You're going back to things I've never heard of again, I can only hope you take my word for it.

[Pff, no oh no. Did this woman seriously find his current state more urgent than anything else? Kind, he'll give it that. But no, he didn't want this woman he just met worry about him. It was his bad though, saying that he had some peace at home like that. D'oh.]

Mademoiselle, I assure you I am mostly fine. Just confused, really. Even that won't last forever.

[He had to smile, just a little. See? Fine.]

[anelegantmyth]

[She didn't believe him. But if he didn't want to talk about it, who was she to push? After all, she JUST met the man, and he put all that effort into smiling for her. Which she responds to with a quick whistle to signal her dragon to come to her. Which it did.

But before it made its way to her, it had noticed a small bed of white crocus flowers growing beside it. The dragon quickly sliced off a few of the flowers from their stems and carried it over to her trainer.]

Aww thank you Chompy.

[Cynthia then turns to the man next to her with that innocent smile again.]

Well then, I'm sure I've bothered you long enough.

[Then offers him one of the flowers from her small bouquet.]

You have a nice smile, Arno.

[sirpisspot]

[In due time, Cynthia. In due time.

Arno was surprised such a creature was practically at her whim, yet they seemed to get along very well. It was quite a sight, really. Especially since a critter brought over a bouquet of flowers for her because it felt like it.

He looked at the flower and was only so hesitant to pick it up as someone who just randomly gave him flowers. Oh wait; and when was the last time someone gave him flowers? Huh.

Arno slowly reached out, accepting the flower. Okay.]

Merci, Cynthia.

[That happened. Uh, well.]

...If it helps, it was a pleasant little distraction to our predicament.