“Ack!” Emerald immediately began giggling as he felt the balloon
wobble all around him. This felt wonderful! This was amazing! He
couldn’t think of a better time with his friend!
“It’s so great!” Emerald giggled as he pulled him back on with him
while it was still wobbling like crazy. He looked at him with
sparkling eyes. “Can you imagine if we had a bed this size back at
home!?” Even with both of them on the same bed...they didn’t take
up half the balloon
"It would take up half of my room," Fortem joked truthfully. He
slowed down his pokes before eventually coming to a halt. "That's
pretty hard to do for a long time!" Fortem exclaimed, hopping onto
the non balloon bed., his bag making a thud as it hit the sheets.
"Oh! That reminds me..." He pulled out the itinerary he had picked
up earlier, and gave it a look.
"I found this in the lobby, and thought it might be useful. Lets
have a look here..." He flipped through. "Heres the map, that
should be important... where are the day's activities?" He mumbled,
searching the pages.
“It’s Friday tomorrow...oh god, it’s one giant party tomorrow.”
Emerald grinned. “Today...it’s an obstacle course. And there’s a
water balloob fight later in the day.
"That looks quite fun!" The island music and vibes were making
Fortem more enthusiastic. "Lets see if we can try them all! If
thats fine with you, that is."
"Sounds like a plan!" Fortem unloaded the contents of his bag onto
the desk in the room: few berries, some loose bits and pieces, and
a notebook. "There isn't much to unpack, but I think giving this
bed a go would be a good idea..." He eyed the bed, before hopping
on to it and letting loose.
"This is nice," Fortem said as the balloon moved under his weight.
Fortem would never stop admiring the strength of these sort of
balloons, his rock spikes just sank harmlessly into the stretchy
material instead of popping it. After a while of just relaxing with
Emerald, Fortem got up and stretched. He looked at the clock. "The
obstacle course starts soon, I think."
"You wanted to see me?" Audax asked as he padded up to Remus. He'd
just finished organising some of the balloons and decorations by
colour.
"Oh! Thats an interesting twist," Fortem said, surprised. "Should
be fine, but I'll leave my bag here so nothing important gets wet."
He trotted over to Emerald and looked over at the map. "Lets
see..." He looked at the map to find out where to go for the
obstacle course.
"Fun things? Like what?" Audax waved his tail in curiosity. He
could never guess the sort of things that the energetic zoroark had
planned.
“It’s near the beach. It shouldn’t be hard to find...” Emerald
murmured as they exited the room, taking only his card key with
him. They walked down the fancy hallway to the lifts. Emerald
smiled as he playfully nudged Fortem as he walked with him
“I need help with some aesthetics of a party.” Remus smiled. “And
I’ve never asked you this before but, I have some bloons that need
some bounce testing.”
Fortem smiled as they walked along. They walked out through one of
the many doorways, out along a path, and to the beach. "It should
be around here somewhere, right?" Fortem asked.
"Aesthetics and balloon tasting... sure, I can do that." Audax's
tail swished slowly, a sure sign that he was happy. "What exactly
do you need, sir?"
“I can already see the course.” He pointed at four big red orbs
which were held up by a pole. “Looks like the start of it is over
there.” He pointed where a Floatzel was.
“There’s a couple who want some kind of jungle-esque party. I need
to find the correct types of decorations for them.” Remus said with
a smile. “Just the colours and the theme has to fit.”
"Whoa, that looks cool!" Fortem exclaimed. It must have taken a
long time for them to make it. "Maybe we should sign up or
something?" Fortem looked towards the floatzel.
"A jungle party?" Audax wondered for a moment why some pokemon
would want a party with that theme. Jungle enthusiasts, maybe?
"I'll take a look!" He whipped around, back to the shelves, and
picked out some green leaf decorations, as well as streamers that
would look like vines.
“Let’s!” Emerald ran over to the Floatzel. “Can we do the course?”
The Floatzel thought for a moment. “Normally we’d say you have to
sign up beforehand at the reception...but I’ll let it slide. Of
course you can both attempt it.” The Floatzel grinned
Remus nodded approvingly. “Those would definitely work...now we
just...have to find something for chairs...maybe also something for
the ground...
"Oh, thanks! We'll remember to sign up there next time," Fortem
thanked. He made a mental note to sign up for activities at the
reception, before looking around the area. There seemed to be a
couple more pokemon who looked excited to try out the course.
"Chairs..." Audax thought for a moment before pulling out some
foldable bamboo looking chairs, and grabbed a few moss green
pillows to put on top of them. He raced to the other side of the
store to nab a large brown carpet, before hauling it back to Remus.
"This might work," He suggested.