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Anime Shrink Interactive
chapter 10
by
copier
· original author:
dean12321
It was a cloudy day in Hearthome City, and Dawn was making preparations for an upcoming contest. Weirdly though, the place was surprisingly empty, something that Hearthome wasn't exactly known for, being the region's second city after Eterna.
But the blue-haired teen looked around, and she could swear there wasn't another person on the streets. Paper bags were even blowing past her for the sake of gratifying an old cliché.
"...where is everyone?" she muttered, arms piled high with contest supplies, "This place is normally packed with-"
"Hello there!"
Dawn flinched at the sudden, loud voice piercing her eardrums, and spun around to see another person!
Where this person came from, she couldn't be sure, and the fact that this mask-wearing stranger appeared only after Dawn noted just how empty the place was made her feel more nervous still; however, she hid that behind a brave façade and managed a nervous smile, "Uhh, hi there!"
Dawn rubbed the back of her neck anxiously.
"Preparing for a contest, are we?" The masked person asked of her, finally revealing to have a young woman's voice, "Have everything you need?"
"I... think so?" Dawn squinted in confusion at this weirdly enthusiastic stranger. Shaking her shopping bag as some makeshift means of reassuring herself, she mentally assessed everything, and said, "...yup! Got everything I need! So I'll just be going now, and-"
"Are you sure, kid?" The stranger asked, concealing a grin behind her mask, "I don't see any PokePerfume there?"
"Poke... Perfume?" Dawk asked, never having heard of this before, "W-what's that?"
"Ohh, only the finest in contest supplements! Any self-respecting contest connoisseur knows, lives and breathes PokePerfume!"
"Well umm... I can't say so much," Dawn hesitated, not having the confidence to call herself a 'contest connoisseur', but still yielding to the mystery woman's plan, "B-but I'm interested! Where can I find this?"
"Oh, I have some right here!" She responded almost too readily, pulling out your typical perfume bottle with a squeezy spray thing on it, "Here, would you care for a free sample?"
And Dawn was forced to hack and cough as a violently pink cloud of perfume engulfed her, smelling of some horrifying combination of sea-salt and... cheese?
"H-hang on a sec!" She spluttered, trying to wave the fumes away, "Shouldn't you be using it on my pokemon?"
Dawn fished in her purse for her Buneary's poke ball, but was forestalled by the mystery woman, "Ohh, that won't be necessary! Everything's already been set up!"
"Oh, so this stuff was for humans?" Dawn raised an eyebrow, "...ehh, whatever. You've gotta work on the smell, okay lady?"
"Thank you for the feedback!" She 'smiled' behind her mask, "We'll be sure to take that into account!"
Her confidence heightened, Dawn made a mental note of everything she needed to prepare for the upcoming contest in less than an hour. However...
But the blue-haired teen looked around, and she could swear there wasn't another person on the streets. Paper bags were even blowing past her for the sake of gratifying an old cliché.
"...where is everyone?" she muttered, arms piled high with contest supplies, "This place is normally packed with-"
"Hello there!"
Dawn flinched at the sudden, loud voice piercing her eardrums, and spun around to see another person!
Where this person came from, she couldn't be sure, and the fact that this mask-wearing stranger appeared only after Dawn noted just how empty the place was made her feel more nervous still; however, she hid that behind a brave façade and managed a nervous smile, "Uhh, hi there!"
Dawn rubbed the back of her neck anxiously.
"Preparing for a contest, are we?" The masked person asked of her, finally revealing to have a young woman's voice, "Have everything you need?"
"I... think so?" Dawn squinted in confusion at this weirdly enthusiastic stranger. Shaking her shopping bag as some makeshift means of reassuring herself, she mentally assessed everything, and said, "...yup! Got everything I need! So I'll just be going now, and-"
"Are you sure, kid?" The stranger asked, concealing a grin behind her mask, "I don't see any PokePerfume there?"
"Poke... Perfume?" Dawk asked, never having heard of this before, "W-what's that?"
"Ohh, only the finest in contest supplements! Any self-respecting contest connoisseur knows, lives and breathes PokePerfume!"
"Well umm... I can't say so much," Dawn hesitated, not having the confidence to call herself a 'contest connoisseur', but still yielding to the mystery woman's plan, "B-but I'm interested! Where can I find this?"
"Oh, I have some right here!" She responded almost too readily, pulling out your typical perfume bottle with a squeezy spray thing on it, "Here, would you care for a free sample?"
And Dawn was forced to hack and cough as a violently pink cloud of perfume engulfed her, smelling of some horrifying combination of sea-salt and... cheese?
"H-hang on a sec!" She spluttered, trying to wave the fumes away, "Shouldn't you be using it on my pokemon?"
Dawn fished in her purse for her Buneary's poke ball, but was forestalled by the mystery woman, "Ohh, that won't be necessary! Everything's already been set up!"
"Oh, so this stuff was for humans?" Dawn raised an eyebrow, "...ehh, whatever. You've gotta work on the smell, okay lady?"
"Thank you for the feedback!" She 'smiled' behind her mask, "We'll be sure to take that into account!"
Her confidence heightened, Dawn made a mental note of everything she needed to prepare for the upcoming contest in less than an hour. However...
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