~Maxie~
Sorry for the lack of posting yesterday -- I'll explain that later.
Mars took us up to the Valley Windworks yesterday afternoon. It was interesting seeing how they used wind power to create electricity. While I've studied geothermal power, I'd never really gotten into other sources of power, so it was cool to see it in action. Mars knows the people there really well; apparently, it was the sight of one of her thieving operations a while back. But, according to Mars, she and the workers are "all cool now," so whatever works, I guess.
Now, Mars explained to us that it was always windy along the route from Eterna to Floaroma, but it was really, really windy yesterday. When we came outside the windworks, I -- I kid you not -- almost got blown away, that's how powerful the gusts were. Thank Mew Archie was there to keep me from flying across the field...I hate my Mewdamn weight disorder... But when we got out there, we saw a Drifloon colony getting blown around even more than I was. They didn't seem to be struggling all that much...They seemed to be quite used to traveling by wind. So we watched them all float on alright, already, we'll all float on~! until they disappeared. Finally, the wind died down a bit and Archie could finally let go of my arm... and we began to walk back to Floaroma Town when we heard cries from up in a nearby tree.
It seemed that a poor Drifloon had gotten stuck in the branches as the wind took his colony away! This wasn't an ordinary Drifloon, however -- his colors were completely reversed! I haven't seen many shiny Pokemon; Archie's Vaporeon is the only one I've actually seen up close. But anyway, shiny or not, the Drifloon was struggling to get out of the tree and couldn't do anything! So we couldn't just leave him there, of course! The Drifloon was far too high for any of us to reach, so it took us a little while to figure out what to do. Finally we decided that the branches that started around the middle of the tree could support either mine or Mars's weight, but Mars is a little afraid of heights so I was given the lovely task. I had to get up on Archie's shoulders and everything to actually make it onto the branches, and even afterwards I had a ways to climb. I almost fell twice I think Archie had a heart attack, but eventually I made it up to the Drifloon. It took a little finagling and three more almost-falls but I managed to free the little Pokemon. The Drifloon was overjoyed, and he began to snuggle against me, which caused me to lose my balance.
Yeah, that time, I really did fall.
By some sort of miracle, Archie caught me. What was more miraculous was that he didn't drop me. But it was embarrassing all the same... The poor Drifloon got so upset, thinking I was mad at him for knocking me out. But how could I be mad at something so cute?! After regaining my composure, we all sat around for a little bit making sure the Drifloon was alright. While he was really friendly to everyone, I could tell he liked me best. We were about to make off for Floaroma Town once more when he began to follow me. Well, thinking about it, the poor little guy had lost his whole colony and had nowhere really to go and no way to find them...So I asked him if he wanted to come along and he got all excited and it was really cute, so I just kinda tossed a Pokeball at him and that was that.
So yeah, I caught a shiny Drifloon. No biggie.
We're still trying to figure out what to name him. Archie insists on helping me pick out the name. We've gone through a good few, but we haven't found anything that all four of us like. Though honestly, it's only mine and the Drifloon's opinions that really matter...
But anyway, onto why I didn't post. With all that excitement, we didn't really eat lunch. And when we got back to Floaroma Town, we spent so much time focusing on the Drifloon and introducing him to all our Pokemon and so on that we didn't even think about dinner...and I got really lightheaded...incredibly lightheaded...and I, er...(ahem)fainted. Yeah, I didn't actually wake up until this morning...The first thing I saw was Mars yelling at me for not eating and Archie yelling at me for never telling him about my disorder. I guess Mars told him last night... I didn't think it was such a big deal not to tell him... Honestly, I was afraid of looking any weaker in front of him than I already am... But anyway, I've been forced to stay in bed all day, even though I feel PERFECTLY FINE, and was also given FAR too much to eat, so now instead of fainting I'm going to vomit. Lovely.
Oh well, I got to spend the whole day snuggling my Drifloon and having Archie worry about me. I actually find it kind of adorable amusing when Archie worries about me ^^;
Maybe we'll be on the move again tomorrow. Possibly.
