Tiger looked over to Mel and smiled slightly. "We'll head back to
New Bark. The farm will be there for another time, and if we go
there now it'll be late when we get back" he said kindly and walked
into the clearing where Cyndaquil and Mira were. Cyndaquil looked
at Mel wearily and jumped back into Tiger's backpack.
"I'm fine with any arrangement as long as we have lots of Fire."
Victor said, and videocalled Elm's lab. The phone was picked up by
a shiny Incineroar.
"Sirius, call all your fire type buds. We need to do a head count."
Victor said. Soon, Sirius, a Flareon, Magmar, Torchic, Infernape,
Chandelure, Pyroar and an Alolan Marowak struggled to take up
screen space with Sirius.
"So... including Blaze and Houndoom I have ten fire types... Oh and
Burst can do a fireworks show."
"knowing me I'm surprised I'm not dead" Tiger mused jokingly and
watched as Cyndaquil hid from Mel. He frowned and bit back a sigh,
I hope this gets worked out soon...but what about tomorrow? The
festival has the fake brass tower go aflame. he thought to
himself slightly troubled. I'll warn Mel about it on the way
back he decided with a sigh. "Yeah we're heading back to New
Bark Town" he said kindly and nodded.
Victor disconnected the video call after the fire types went back
to their assigned places in the lab. "Wait, does Tiger have a will
yet? I think he needs one if he goes joy-dying once per week."
Tiger flinched and glared at Victor "um...no I don't have a will,
and I don't enjoy almost dying on a daily basis" he said quietly
and looked at the ground in a mixture of embarrassment and
annoyance.
Mira snickered at Tiger's first remark. "Alright," She yawned.
"...While we're on the topic of talking about stuff that happened
over the year, I'll add in something back at New Bark."
Toka and Watt looked at each other but said nothing.
Tiger nodded and stretched. "The only thing that happened over the
year in New Bark Town, other than Raikou being my 'adopted son'" he
began and air quoted adopted son. "Is that Rinku has a daughter
now." He said thinking partially to himself.
"What? What do you mean?" Victor asked, and was immediately
reminded of Flare advice when Tiger and Mel had started 'dating':
Disturbing a couple is like disturbing two Charizard at the
daycare! Would you want to do that? and visibly flinched at the
memory.
The trio walked towards the group just in time to hear Mira say she
had something to add on to what she had done over the year. Robert
let a mischievous grin settle on his face before he walked over to
Mira and playfully yet gently wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"Oh my dear unofficial sister, you know if you happened to have
gained a significant other Jamie and I have full right to threaten
this said person right?" He teasingly mused to her.
"Don't drag me into this, please." Jamie muttered from his spot
before tilting his head slightly as he wondered who Rinku was.
Geez now that I think about it, I don't think Robert and myself
know a lot about our friends. He thought to himself.
Tiger tipped his head to the side "do you mean me having a
legendary Pokemon, as an adopted son, or my Decidueye being a
father?" He asked curiously, and crossed his arms. He glanced at
Mel for a second before looking back over to Victor. Cyndaquil was
still hiding in his backpack.
"Your Decidueye being a father. Is it some adopted daughter or did
you send him to the daycare?" Victor asked. "At this point I'm
pretty used to seeing legendary Pokemon acting like parents or
spoiled children."
Tiger blinked "err... Pokémon don't need to be in the daycare to
have eggs. After all there are eggs found in the wild all the time"
he said kindly and nodded to a Pidgey nest in a nearby tree. The
pidgeot mother was looking at the group curiously. Tiger then
sighed "Rinku had his daughter with one of the Alola trainer's
Decidueye, and she's in the lab now. Rinku is actually taking care
of her since her mother went back to Alola with her trainer a month
ago" he explained simply. "As for Raikou? He acts more like an over
grown puppy than a spoiled child..."
"Don’t Let Sirius know about Rinku, he'll get jealous." Victor
joked and was immediately tackled to the ground by a Shiny
Incineroar, followed by an avalanche of seven other Fire types.
"We're here for the festival. Victor's Fire types." A
Chandelure said.
Victor pushed Sirius off himself and looked at the fire types.
"You’re here a bit too soon.."
Tiger froze up and looked at Victor. "Why are the fire types going
to the festival" he asked quickly. He wasn't sure how exactly Mel
would react to the seven fire type Pokémon in the area at that
moment.
Robert looked at Mira with a large grin. "What can I say. It's
Jamie and I's job to protect your innocents." He mused while gently
patting her head a little.