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He’s done it.
He bought it.
A Lego set of flowers.
He was now sitting on the floor of his dorm room, spinning the box around. Not because he was admiring it, but because his brain, for the life of him, could not decide to just- open it and do the damn thing.
It has been sitting on his desk for weeks, today was December 9th and it was his last day to do it, and yet he couldn’t !
‘IS IT TAKING YOU THIS LONG TO OPEN IT ?’
“It does, it does.” He put it back on the floor, holding his head in his hands.
Dialga was nice enough to provide some support through this (they’ve been pestering him about it for the past week), but he just- he just couldn’t.
He got up, walked in a circle, then sat back down.
He needs to open it.
He wants to open it.
So why can’t he ?!
‘JUST OPEN IT.’
“My brain doesn’t want to, it’d rather flip backwards from a bridge.”
It didn’t take long for him to feel some kind of pressure, as if his lungs were being compressed. It didn’t hurt, didn’t hinder his ability to breath, it was just weird.
‘YOU HAVE TWO FUNCTIONING ARMS, PEOPLE PLEASING TENDENCIES, AND WORK BETTER UNDER PRESSURE. I AM PUTTING YOU UNDER PRESSURE. SO GET TO IT.’
“Ugghh! Can’t I just like- give them a rock or something ?”
‘THEY PREFER HUMAN MADE TRINKETS.’
“Fuck.”
‘THEY WOULD BE SAD IF YOU DON’T GIVE THEM ANYTHING.’
He sighed, because guilt tripping worked. He glanced at his resting sylveon, grabbed a plastic bag and grabbed it, the sound immediately waking up the fairy type thinking it was a treat.
“You’ll get a treat if you help me.”
The pink Pokémon yawned, stretched, and hopped down from the bed, sitting next to his trainer. He grabbed his paw, unsheathed a claw and cut the tape.
“Thank you, here’s your treat.” The pink creature made a weird jump as Niko handed him his treat before krabbing away.
Sylveons will be sylveons, maybe.
He opened the box up, almost tearing it completely. No he did not notice that he could have opened it from the bottom, shush, and he pulled out six bags.
.
..
…
Why were there two ones and two twos ? There was one, two, and three, three bags labeled with these numbers. Should be easy right ? Then why are there multiple ones and twos ?
He put his head in his hand.
‘ISN’T THIS SUPPOSED TO BE EASY ?’
“Not sure, it is written 18+ on it.”
‘INTERESTING. I WAS SURE THAT HUMAN CHILDREN PLAYED WITH THESE.’
“Your honor I did not grow up playing legos, I grew up playing video games.”
‘THAT EXPLAINS YOUR… DIFFICULTIES SOCIALIZING.’
“Touch grass.” He replied with an eye-roll, which he got a chuckle in return. That made him smile.
He picked up the booklet, started reading the instructions. Thank goodness for instructions, his brain would have cried, screamed, and melted if there wasn’t a notice.
He opened the booklet, each page showing a different flowers before finally showing the process to building each flower.
‘YOU SHOULD START BY OPENING THE BAG WITH THE STEMS.’
“That’s not a dumb idea actually.”
And so, as he didn’t have scissors on hand, he tore the bag open with his teeth.
The stems were long, thin, and it looked like there wasn’t anything for the flowers to hold on it. How was it supposed to work ? He was genuinely confused, picking one up to inspect it closer.
There was also a bigger object in the bag, and after a few seconds of pure confusion, and looking back and forth between it and the booklet, he realized with a soft “Holy fuck” and a chuckle from Dialga that this was a leaf.
‘WELL THAT WAS AMUSING.’ He couldn’t tell if the very representation of time was mocking him or not. They probably were..
“Do not judge me I am doing my best.”
‘I AM AWARE.’
“I’m just a man.”
‘YOU ARE NOT JUST A MAN, YOU ARE MY CHAMPION, DO NOT INSULT ME.’
Wait, did he ? Did he accidentally insult Didi ? That was not what he intended, he just wanted to joke !
“Wait did I insult you ? I’m so sorry I did not-“
‘PLEASE DO NOT FRET, I WAS SIMPLY MESSING WITH YOU.’
“Oh.”
He opened up the first little bag, ignoring his face burning from embarrassment (well excuse him for not wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings, shaking his head), opening it up, emptying it’s contents, and started looking for the pieces he needed for the first step.
‘WHAT ARE YOU STARTING WITH ?’
“Daisies.” He grabbed a small black piece, followed by three others, and he got a eureka moment.
It’s meant to go on the stem.
So he did that, right away. “Oooohhhh..” He cooed.
He will quickly figure out that putting this little thing on the stem before the flowers will prove to be more annoying and difficult than if he had waited until the three little daisies were done. It kept tilting and moving and he couldn’t get a proper hold of everything to put the daisies correctly in the little slots attached to the main piece, which was really annoying, but he managed.
At least the daisies were easy to make. However, he eyed the roses and felt fear in him (not real fear, he just wants to be dramatic).
“It looks ugly.” He said, deadpan, twirling the work in progress of a rose in his hand.
‘TRUST THE PROCESS.’
“I am.” He wasn’t. “It just looks… Weird.”
‘IT IS NOT AN ORGANIC FLOWER, OF COURSE IT IS GOING TO LOOK RATHER ODD.’
And after much frustration and screaming once into a pillow, making the Sylveon and Sneasel on his bed jolt, he finally got it together. With much frustration. He’s pretty sure something cracked.
He moved on to the second bag, making small talk with the deity of time when two people walked inside his dorm room.
“Hi chat.” He greeted without looking up.
“Hey, how’re ya doing ?” Greeted one of his friends back, her espurr floating around, simply vibing.
“Screaming crying and throwing up.”
“Swag.”
“Oh is that legos ?!” Solace asked, walking over and sitting down in front of him. They picked the daisy stem and held it up, a fond look on their face. “I used to do some with my dad when I was a kid !”
“Why are you even making legos ?” Zoe asked, tone monotonous (was it just her ? Was it because she was tired ? Who knows). “I’ve never heard you mention you liking them.”
“Didi asked me to make it for Palkia, I see them in a couple of hours actually.” He admitted bashfully, though Solace chuckled at that.
“Waiting the last minute to do something because you were so stuck thinking of doing it that you couldn’t do it until there was a pressure forcing you to do it ?” They asked, fully knowing the answer.
“Precisely.” He wanted to dig up a hole and lay there, he hated his brain.
“Yeah I get it, turn the book around, I’ll help.” They said in return, shifting to sit more comfortably on the floor.
“Eh, guess I’ll help out too then.” Zoe shrugged before also sitting down on the floor.
Niko immediately tried to play it off, he could do it, he didn’t want to bother them.
“You don’t have to, I’ll be fine.”
“Yeah, but we wanna help.”
“Plus legos are really fun ! I actually did one similar with my dad last time I was home.” It is true that Solace was from Alola, the red haired moving to Paldea just for a better education, which was more than reasonable.
Begrudgingly, Niko turned the booklet for them to see the steps, each making their flowers, and it was certainly going faster than with just him alone.
“By the way.” Started Solace. “Why do you have to meet up with Palkia later ?”
“Yeah, didn’t you two have beef or something ?” Zoe asked. Ah, looks like she missed the tearful apology episode..
“Oh no these two made up back in Hoenn.” Replied Solace for Niko, picking up a piece to add to their snapdragon.
“Wait really ?” She asked, baffled.
“Yeah, I told you about it ?” Niko looked at Solace, which they confirmed with a nod. It was the brunette’s turn to look a bit awkward.
“Ah.” She uttered. “Must have forgotten. My bad.”
“Nah it’s cool no worries.”
“You’re good man. Anyway, uh, there is a light show back in Aquacorde and I asked if they wanted to go and they agreed and yeah, we’re going.”
“And Dialga told you to bring a bouquet.” Confirmed Solace, which Niko nodded, sticking up pieces together to make a stem for the rose he made earlier.
“Yeah, asked me to buy this one specifically ‘cause Palkia likes human made stuff.”
“Oh swag. Does that mean that you’re their sugar daddy now ?” The brunette with glasses pointed out, and the room fell into silence.
He did buy a 9,500 pokedollars Lego for a god. He even paid for the cafe last time.
“Holy fuck I am the sugar daddy of a god.”
‘ERASE THAT THOUGHT FROM YOUR HEAD THIS INSTANT.’
“No.” He replied, which earned him two very confused looks. “Didi spoke.” He clarified, and his friends didn’t look confused anymore.
“Solgaleo doesn’t really do telepathy, I got the hang of how he communicates, but it was harder in the beginning.” Solace explained, putting aside their first snapdragon and picking up pieces to make the second one.
“Huh, Arceus sent me two messages and then went to buy milk.” Zoe uttered in her usual monotone voice. Solace looked at her in slight worry, while Niko lost his goddamn mind.
Well, parent of the universe do be parenting, all three of their kids have issues.
“Nooo that’s so sad actually !” Wheezed out the brown haired boy, putting down their finished flower before something unfortunate happens to it.
“It do be like that sometimes.” Shrugged the girl, snapping pieces of their weeds together.
“It is what it is.” Joined the red haired, also shrugging. “How do you plan on seeing the light show ? Aren’t they like…” They made a height mention, and yeah, he can see why they’d worry.
Palkia is..Definitely a big dragon on paper (He doesn’t remember much of them from Hisui, so he’s kind of re-learning about them) but they do have a human form (he’s seen two, technically, they probably have more), so it’s fine.
“I mean- they are, but like, they have a human form-“
“Like Rayquaza ?”
“I don’t know I didn’t meet them-“
“Oh yeah that’s true.” Sheepishly replied the red haired person.
“What do they look like ?” Asked Zoe, leaning in, trying to see if she could see anything on Niko’s phone. Well, he did sneak in a picture of them, but that’s besides the point, though he did unlock his phone.
“Well I mean if they look anything like Ray-Ray then they’d- HELLO SAYLOR !” Shouted Solace, making the other two jolt. “HOLY FUCK, DUDE- smash ? Mommy ?”
“Sol no please-“ Faintly begged Niko, before getting interrupted by the brunette beside him.
“I mean, you know, if you date them we won’t hold it against you.”
“Guys, guys, no, they’re a Pokémon-“
“BUFF CHONKY WOMAN-“ Interrupted Solace loudly, which made Niko cry out in distress.
“I KNOW THEY’RE JUST MY TYPE-“ He clutched his head in his hands, phone king forgotten in the center of the group.
“You are so much stronger than I am, I would have spent the day kissing the ground they walk on.” The red haired reached out to put a hand on the brown haired’s shoulder.
“To be honest they started talking to me and my brain ran out.”
“Completely fair.”
Zoe had stayed quiet through this, just looking at the picture, zooming in and out and in again.
“They look like they give fantastic hugs.”
“I guess they would, though I didn’t register it.”
They once again fell into silence as they all worked on their flowers, and soon enough, they were all finished. And it only took a bit more than an hour.
Zoe stretched before falling backwards on the hardwood floor, groaning in pain.
“Why did we stay on the floor ?”
“Floor time.” Shrugged Niko. Zoe sighed with a ‘yeah fair enough.’
“Guys, thank you so fucking much I would have cried myself to sleep without you !”
“No probs besti !” The red haired gently punch his shoulder, while the brunette merely lifted her arm to do a thumb up.
Niko got up, gathering all the flowers and running off to somewhere in the dorm room.
“I’m gonna get a band, to hold these together, and get ready too-“
“Fair enough.” Shrugged the red haired.
“Good luck on your date !”
“It’s not a date !!”
A few hours later, Niko felt himself falling through something until he nearly crashed onto the ground (a warning would have been nice, but at least the gift was unharmed). He immediately got up with a thumbs up, quickly locating Palkia’s spot.
“I’m okay-“
“Oh my me I’m so sorry I should’ve warned you beforehand !! Are you hurt ?”
“Nah, I’m fine I swear !”
The spacial deity looked really nice wearing a pink scarf and an equally pink jacket (they seemed to really like pink..Oh well can’t fault them for this), it made the human a little nervous, pulling at the spikes of his collar, his mind felt like a void for a minute before remembering that he was holding something. “Oh, um, got something for you !” He quickly stammered out, holding out the bouquet.
“Ah, thank you, but I’m not really fond of flowers so you really shouldn’t-“ They stopped mid-sentence, examining the bouquet and realizing that these were not ordinary flowers. They let out a little gasp before squealing and thrilling loudly, spinning around with the little bouquet (well it was of decent size..In Niko’s hands ! In Palkia’s ? It looked small-) before opening a small portal and gently deposing the Lego built into it (He didn’t get the chance to see what was in it.) “I’ll put it in a more appropriate place when I have the time- Thank you ! It’s really cute !”
At a loss for words, the human just made two thumbs up, voice cracking as he tried making a sentence.
“Um- yeah sure, no problem-“
The legendary merely shrugged his nervousness aside, taking his hand and dragging him towards the music.
“Shall we go ?”
“Yeah yeah sure-“
He didn’t have the chance to explain that he was not the only one who did the bouquet, but oh well.
He’ll pay the gang McDo as an apology, and as a thanks for their help.