Chapter 5.2
It’s time to start our Christmas shopping! Hmm. Is it me or is it weird to say something like that in a Pokemon game? But then again, it’s kind of awesome. Before we head to where we’re supposed to go, we spot a TM. I wonder what this one is?... For anyone who has a Beedrill, you can now give it X-SCISSOR! Damn. This is another powerful tm so early in the game. I’m not opposed to it but it makes you wonder why the creator of the game decided to put some powerful TM’s so early. Anyways, onwards to Snowleaf Temple!
Not a huge place. Just imagine a huge temple in the middle of the area and we can walk around it and in it. That’s about it. But this is indeed where we get our Christmas present for Chan. Before that though, people selling stuff! So what are you se- A lot more powerful TM’s!
After that, we battle some trainers and come across this little old lady. She seems to have fallen on tough times and doesn’t have any money. She pleads with us to give her $500 and in return she’d give us something. What a sweet woman! She’s down on her luck and she’s still willing to give us something. It’s ok ma’am. I’ll give you the money. Keep th-
After that, we leave and cutscene! We see Kain going exactly where we did and buy Never-Melt Ice. And then we cut over to Chan who somehow… Made it to his house from the beginning of the game. I mean I know he has Dragonite but damn. That’s fast to get there. He’s searching for Luna’s Christmas present. While searching, a person that closely resembles Chan comes walking in. It’s his little brother Nello! Nello explains that he couldn’t finish his internship (to be a doctor I believe) because something was going on so he returned. He asks Chan what he’s been up to and luckily, we are spared with actually having to see Chan explain everything. And then asks Nello to come with him back to Snowleaf City. Nello doesn’t want to leave but Chan just wants to spend time with his little brother. After some more pleads, Nello finally accepts and leaves the room as Chan searches for the present which apparently is a Ruby Necklace that his mom used to have.
As we’re about to return to the chatel, Chan and Nello come running up to us with Chan introducing Nello to us. Wow. That Dragonite is really damn fast. We all return to the chatel where we see Kain but… Where’s Orchedy? Where’s sweet, little Orchedy?!
Well this is troubling. Orchedy’s missing! Obviously, everyone except for Nello is going to go search for her… Or Nello wants to go look for her. Ok. Yea. Sure. Go look for her Nello. Go look for the person THAT YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!! You’d be lost too.
After that, Nello kinda becomes, what I like to call, an emotional dick. He becomes mean to Luna but I somewhat understand why. But I use the word somewhat loosely. Chan tells him that we’ve been through a lot which causes Nello to ask if we’ve lost our parents. When we say no, he starts going off on his brother about their parents and everything. And after all of that, decides to challenge us to a battle and the winner goes to find her. Ok… Bulletin Point Time!
1. Why does Nello care so much for a person he’s never met before? Just a couple of minutes ago, he was stern about staying at the house. Now he’s just all gung-ho about trying to find this girl.
2. Why challenge us to a battle to see who should go looking for her? Why don’t we all just go out and search for her? Nello can go with Chan because he knows what she looks like. Kain and us can go our separate ways to search for her.
3. You’re wasting time! We could be out there looking for her now but you want to battle so a SINGLE person can go look for her!
4. CHAN! SLAP SOME SENSE INTO YOUR BROTHER! TELL HIM TO SHUT UP, STOP THIS NONSENSE, AND EVERYONE GO SEARCH TOGETHER!
5. Chan doesn’t even consider at least going with us to find Orchedy. Yea. You’re SUCH a nice boyfriend Chan.
6. Kain. Nothing wrong with him here. I just find it funny how he’s just become silent to all of this.
After we beat him, he starts to cry and runs upstairs. Well it’s time to go search for Orchedy… All alone… Chan? No. Fine. But before we do that, I wanna talk about Nello’s team for a little bit. His team as of now consists of Duosion, Golbat, Girafarig and a Ditto. I think it’s an interesting team for him to have. That one that’s kind of like “Why have that Pokemon on your team” is the Golbat. Idk. It just doesn’t seems like it belongs there. Ditto surprisingly screams out “I’m the mascot of this team!” Idk why but it just does. But that’s all I got to say about that. Before we leave though, let’s check on Nello real quick.
We then travel to Crossdeck River and slide across the ice and enter a cave. The Corsol Cave. Just an ordinary looking ice cave but it has a puzzle!
We get through the puzzle and… see… poor frozen Orchedy! Jesus! She’s all blue and frozen! Get her the heck out of there now! She’s too precious for us to lose!
So it’s obvious that Nello is crushing on Orchedy and vice versa. THIS makes sense for a budding love scenario. Not “I was your bully. I’m sorry. I love you.” “I hated that you were a bully to me. I love you too.” I approve Nello/Orchedy relationship.
Chan decides to offer us to go to sleep with him but we decline because we need to train our team up a bit. After some training, we come back and go to sleep… Although, with Chan’s snoring, it might not be that much.
As Chan and us sleep, Orchedy and Nello seem to be preparing to go on a little adventure. Kain comes in to get food but instead, gets invited to come along with them and he accepts. They travel to Snowleaf Temple and Orchedy tells a story about how 3 brothers overpowered the 3 Legendary Bird Pokemon, Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres, and caught them. When they died, the birds were released and is said that every midnight before Christmas, Articunio appears. So it seems that that’s what they’re doing there. Soon, the temple shakes and there, in front of them is Articuno! How will they get out of this mess?!
Morning time and it’s CHRISTMAAAAAAASSSSS!!!! CHAN! WAKE THE FUCK UP AND GO DOWNSTAIRS! CHRISTMAS IS TODAY! We make it downstairs and before gifts can be passed around, Kain, Nello and Orchedy decide to tell us what happened last night. And… Kain has caught an Articuno… What?! He’s not a main character! Why would he be able to catch a Legendary?! But put the brakes on. I actually like this. Yes. Legendary Pokemon are obtainable all throughout the game but I like the fact that I’m not the only one that can capture them. If I can obtain one, why can’t everyone else? It’s only fair.
So after that shocking announcement, it’s time to give and receive Christmas gifts! Yay! Kain goes first and has given Orchedy and orchid made out of Never-Melt Ice to which Orchedy loves. Orchedy then hands Kain a PokeBall. She tells us that the reason she went into Corsol Cave in the first place was to catch a Pokemon for him. Aww! That’s so adorable! Next, it’s Chans turn and he gives us the Ruby Necklace that his mom used to own. Ok. That’s pretty romantic. We go last and give Chan the Dragon Orb and explain to him what it does. I gotta say, I like the gifts that were exchanged here. It really feels like Christmas here. Buuuut… Nello gets nothing. Squat. Which is awkward and kind of rude. When I say rude, I mean Chan should have gotten him something since he begged him to come her in the first place to spend Christmas with everyone. But then again, he and Orchedy seem to be starting something so I guess that’s good enough.
This is so nice. You know what would be nicer? A battle. I do like the Christmas feels but I want to battle. Hey! I get my wish as Chan decides to challenge us to a battle. Let’s do this!
After the battle, we hear a loud crash outside and everyone (besides us) decides to go and investigate… But that will be saved for next time!
Here is the team as of now!
This part of the chapter was alright. We finally got to meet Nello and see how he is… He’s ok for me right now. And he better treat Orchedy right. The part with Nello arguing with everyone (except Kain) to look for Orchedy was just… I think it could be nixed or something. Or at least have Chan get some sense into him and have everyone help search for her. But we finally got to Christmas Day and EEEEEEE!!! CHRISTMAS DAY! I felt like I was there with them. It was so fun for me. Next time, we shall go see what that crashing sound was!