Tanner
After talking with Lunette for a while in the kitchen and I got something quick to eat, of course ramen, we headed to the pool, where everybody was either heading up to bed already or just relaxing. Nyarth was heading up to bed already, since he was young, I couldn't blame him, but Shola stayed around and swam to her hearts content. Lunette just enjoyed it all together, even if she did just put her feet in the water.
I wasn't exactly one for getting completely wet around other people. I don't know why though... People just thought, with my long hair and all, they thought it would shed and make the whole pool become like my hair. Couldn't blame them, but even though my hair never did that, I never really did like to get in the water, except rain... I'm so weird about water...
"Hey, Tanner?" I looked up and saw Lunette was talking. "Are you going to get in the water?" Lunette asked and I gave a small smile from where I was sitting, which was just in a lawn chair.
"Nope, not right now. I'm not one for pools, but I'm one for rain. I don't get it," I laughed which made Lunette laugh and we remained quiet afterwards, Lupe not coming around at all, thank God. That bunny was annoying enough.
Soon Shola headed up and that left me with Lunette, who still didn't have a room, and I promised her that I would get her a room, didn't I? Or was I just imagining that?
Lunette stood from where she was and walked over to me, I still in the same position I was from coming in here.
"Um... Tanner? Can you possibly show me where I can get a room? It seems Lupe isn't around for me to ask her..." Lunette asked and I stood up and stretched a little.
"Sure, Lunette," I said with a smile and she followed me up to the second floor and over to the girl's side of the huge hallway and we walked down some filled rooms until we got to an empty one and it had Lumineon's tails on it.
"I guess this one's yours then, Lunette," I told her with a smile and she opened up the door and just smiled the whole time she walked in. I watched for a bit, and then she turned back around and smiled.
"Thank you so much, Tanner. I'm truly delighted to have it! Tell Lupe her thanks for me, please," Lunette said with a smile and I nodded.
"Of course. I'll see you later then," I told her and she nodded and I closed the door behind her. Nighttime was a long way away though... Up for two days straight without sleep, and I knew with me and however tired I got, he would come out if I got too tired. That was never a pretty sight.
Walking back downstairs to see if I needed to do anything else, I picked up a few more hammers and nails and walked around, seeing if I could find Lupe. I couldn't go to sleep yet... Not yet... If I fell asleep, most likely with how long I slept, he would take over. It was just really annoying...
That's when I came upon an Absol. He was stacking some wood up against the wall and I found a small hole beside that and started to fix it. It was already getting into the afternoon, since it wasn't early in the morning at all. Seems like the guy got stuck under the work of the bunny...
“So Lupe got you, too, huh…?” I asked and the Absol looked up, looked at my hair for a moment or two, and then back at me.
“Yeah…” he answered, “she got to me before I could find what I was looking for…”
“What was that?” I asked.
“My shirt.” I could understand that...
“Huh…” I went back to hammering a nail in the wall and decided to introduce myself. “Well, my name’s Tanner, by the way. Seems we’re captive together for a while.” I held out my hand for him to shake.
“Aberius’ my name. We’ve certainly wandered into the demon’s lair…” I chuckled a bit in agreement and worked into the afternoon with Lupe muttering to herself about a few Gijinkas and then once it started to hit night again, she spoke up.
“Alright ladies!” I rolled my eyes. “We’re all done for the night. We got almost everything repaired that needs to be, so if we get back to it tomorrow, everything should be in order. Get some sleep and I’d BETTER not see any more damage to this mansion!”
Aberius and I then said our goodbyes and good nights, I figuring it should be about a good time to go to sleep, so I headed upstairs and walked down the hallway a bit until I saw Lupe passing by me again, muttering to herself about an Altaria Gijinka and how annoying she was so I figured I should introduce myself. Why not?
"THANK YOU SO MUCH~!" Loud much? Guess I can't blame her because she's an Altaria Gijinka. "Life is won-on-on-onderfulllll~!" I got to her door and gave a slight knock on her door, which made her jump somewhat.
"Why, hello there, Stranger," I said with a soft smile as she turned around and saw me. She smiled softly at me and jumped off of her fluffed-up bed.
"Oh...um! Hi there...um uh..." She just seemed nervous and excited about this place. Couldn't blame her for that either.
"It's Tanner," I grinned, "Tanner the Tangrowth."
"Hello, Tanner, Nice to meet you~!" I held out my hand and she shook it excitedly.
"You know we haven't officially met yet." Make a joke here and there. Why not?
She dropped my hand.
"What? Why?" She tilted her head in confusion.
"I don't know your name, you haven't told me," I stated and she laughed a little to shake off the awkwardness.
"I'm Ava, Ava the Altaria! I'm new here... Very, very new...!" Ava said and I looked at her hair ribbons and cheeks. It was somewhat obvious as to why Lupe was a little right in the least.
"I kind of figured out the Altaria part," I laughed a little as I pointed out the ribbons and her cheeks. "I heard Lupe mention you and figured I'd stop by and offer a hello. It's nice to get newcomers around here, the more Gijinkas, the merrier, I think," I said and she became a little excited.
"How many Gijinkas are around here?" Ava questioned.
"Quite a few to say the least. If you'd like I could give you the "Tanner Tour" of this old place." Why did I have to rhyme? I led her outside her room and started to show her around. Well, with this tour, hopefully, I would do better.
"This is the main hallway and it contains a small kitchen and sitting area to eat," I told her as I showed her the small sitting area that connected the two hallways together. I then led her to the stairs.
"Upstairs is the third floor. Most people don't live up there, since most of us are down here." I think I got that right anyways...
I then led her downstairs and showed her the kitchen, ballroom, dining hall with the new window, the meeting room, the pool, Zaishi's room if she ever got hurt, and I think an exercise room. She loved that I was giving her a tour, which was plain in sight, but me, I needed to get some sleep. There were probably places that nobody knew about yet but I didn't really want to bother. At least I wasn't getting lost anymore...
I yawned and Ava looked at me curiously.
"I'm just really tired and I'm thinking I should retire for the night. You too, I suppose?" I asked Ava and she smiled.
"Yeppers!" She said somewhat happy and tiredly so I led her back upstairs and said good night to her once I got her back to her room and she said good night also and thanked me for the tour. I just nodded, not really listening.
I headed back to my room once I got the chance, but I passed by an empty room that seemed to be just filled with dark energy and electricity. Huh... Wonder if that room was for that Xio dude... Huh... I forgot what I thought of him earlier...
I headed into my room and quickly closed the door, wondering if I should lock it or not. Well, maybe just unlocked for tonight...
Leaving it unlocked, I headed immediately to my bed and plopped down on it, face first on the pillow. Hopefully, it wouldn't be a death wish for somebody to enter to say hi when I woke up later... because I think that... with this much sleep and tiredness... Tomorrow might be a...
Party!
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Finally got done with Tanner's post! Woot! :D Anyone may wake up Tanner, but be warned... He might be a little crazy~! *shot multiple times*
Featured in this post: Tanner, Lupe, Ava, Nyarth, Lunette, Shola, Aberius, and mention of Xio
Time: Around the time everything started to wrap up for working on the house...?
~Anime-chan