newberktown | Ninth Flight. [mid-day video/action for goldenrod city.]

[Anyone familiar with the gym in Goldenrod will know what's up. Because that sure is wailing going on in the background.

...Oddly enough, though, there are also the sounds of:
1 Charmander snoring,
1 Swablu chirping, and
1 tiny viking arguing with a giant dragon.]

What do you mean you can fly?

[Sorry, Whitney, but your blubbering is being ignored in favor of dealing with the most exasperated Salamence ever. This was so much more important than badges.]

Yeah, okay, I get that you can 'fly' fly, but you're telling me that you have the ability to use the move Fly. As in 'carry me through the skies' Fly. Why didn't you tell me?

[Adder huffs noisily before flapping her wings to shoot a hard gust of air at him. HICCUP, SHE'S BEEN TRYING TO DO THAT FOR TWO WEEKS. You've just been focusing on ~alternative flight methods~ with Carmen Sandiego. Really, though, she wouldn't be annoyed if you weren't making such a big deal out of it. Just be happy already.]

Yeah, yeah... [Hiccup sighs, apparently giving in for now, before wandering over to slide the gear out from under the drowsy Charmander's claws.] Just would have been nice to know... Wait. Stormfly, didn't you just turn this off?

[...So it wasn't the battle he wanted recorded that was broadcast. Great.]

[ooc: cr is welcome to have witnessed the battle! curious people studying up for whitney's gym are also welcome.]

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Hmn? Oh, yeah... She's right and I should just be happy that I can fly, now.

[He's...still more focused on Adder than the sobbing gym leader.]

....well I meant the crying over there.

But you're not happy?

Edited 2012-07-01 17:53 (UTC)

[Pause.]

Oh. Right, Whitney, yeah. She should be fine, soon, I think... She cries when she loses a match.

I guess it's not so much that I'm not happy, it's just that I would have preferred to know sooner. I've been wanted to fly since I got here.

[He nods at the first part.]

Did she learn to fly awhile ago then?

I guess... I'd have to check the gear for when exactly she learned it, but with her reaction, I'm going to guess that she's known it for while already.

Do you know why she didn't tell you then?

[HE...MIGHT HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING MUCH ATTENTION WHILE SHE WAS HINTING AT IT.]

...She only speaks Dragonese?

[...8D? Excuse please work?]

.....then how did you expect her to tell you?

[He's a dad. Excuses need to be VERY good before they can fool him. Ask Heather.]

[...Stoick probably would have fallen for it. >C]

More importantly, how did she expect me to understand?

[...Yeah, no, he knows that's not going to work.]

[He's a been a dad for a very long time.]

Has she been trying to tell you? Maybe you were just distracted.

[A dad with a difficult child.]

I'd seen her flying... But I assumed she was just testing out her new wings. [Pause.] I guess...I have been focused on other things, though.

[He nods.]

Just a communications issue then...

...wait, new wings? ....did she have old ones?

[Harry, pokemon master....no not really.]

[That's okay, this gets him out of feeling foolish. Dadtones could do that.]

She didn't have any wings, before! A friend of mine told me a legend about Salamence--which is what Adder is. They're a dragon that wanted to fly so much that they grew wings through evolution because of it.

That's an interesting legend.

She must be really happy to be able to fly then.