Worry Wisp || { Karen & Morty }
Just as the woman had taken in the sight of the duplicated gengars, a stray sableye also suddenly crept up to the pair to make an appearance. Fatome sure was charismatic, wasn’t she? What creature could possibly pop up next? A haunter? A misdreavus? A blonde boy?
…Wait, where did that last thought come from?
Out of the corner of her eye, Karen saw just that, and one that’d she’d seen before, at that! Standing towards the other end of her table was a familiar blonde head with a familiar face to match: Morty, a good acquaintance of hers, and one she always liked to keep her eyes on.
"Well, well~" the woman started in a low, elongated tone, meeting the man’s eyes with a pleased expression. "Hiya, blondie."
Did we mention he’s blonde? Karen loves blondes, and thus started her soft spot for a certain gym leader.
"Me? I’m just watching over this clown as she swipes all of your ghosts." She nodded toward the duo of gengar with a chuckle. "You appearance certainly explained a lot. Sorry about Fatome’s capture; apparently, she just has that charming effect on others."
At her mention, the female gengar darted towards her trainer and away from her new found friend. She let out a sound of delight as she hovered in front of Karen arms bobbing up and down and she moved.
Karen smiled at her Pokémon’s joy, moving her eyes over to her and then swiftly back to rest on Morty. It was here that they stayed until she suddenly noticed Fatome slow to a lack of movement from the corner of her sight. Turning her full attention back to her partner, she found that the Ghost-type had indeed stopped bouncing and even seemed displeased. She was staring at the idle stone that remained void of any signs of life upon the table. Karen then knew what was on her mind.
"Yeah, I know…" she cooed Fatome’s worried expression, Karen’s gaze then turning softer. She grabbed the stone off of the table and held it her palms near her gengar, who followed its every movement.
"Our little idea failed…"
After the words left her mouth, Karen found her expression turning sour, brows furrowing in frustration. She let out a quick breath and then looked back to Morty.
"Actually, this had been my real focus,” she explained holding the stone up for him to see. “I’d assume you know what it is; or, at least I’d hope so.”
At just her greeting, Morty could feel his face warm up just slightly--he enjoyed Karen's company, but she was certainly an...affectionate woman. Was that the right word for it? He couldn’t say for sure--but in any case, he'd picked up on her taste for his blonde hair quite some time ago. He wasnt sure if she knew that it was fake, and certainly wasnt planning on telling her any time soon. The attention was too nice to risk losing over a technicality.
"Oh, I wouldnt worry about Gengar. He thrives on attention, I bet he'd tag along after her if there was even a slight chance she'd take interest." He chuckled, seeing Gengar frowning at him from out of the corner of his eye at the friendly slight. Sableye, seeing that there was nothing of interest going on between the two other ghosts to begin with, crawled up into the chair Morty was leaning onto, now curious about the object on the table. Morty turned his attention to it as well, hoping it wasn’t going to end up another snack for Sableye.
Karen and her gengar quickly grew despondent, addressing the object in question, and Morty watched the pair of them discuss it until Karen held the stone out to him. Both he and the darkness pokemon got a good look at it; Sableye quickly lost interest (it wasn’t nearly shiny enough for his tastes), but the closer view made the identity of the rock clear to his owner. "An Odd Keystone--which means a spiritomb. Not too common around here--and it’s certainly not very common for it to be hidden away like it is. What has you being so shy, hm...?" He gently reached out, brushing his fingers across the top of the stone. It wasn’t emptied out: he could feel the energy inside it, so there certainly was a spiritomb inside. “Where did you find it? Maybe I’d be able to help…” Morty couldn’t stand to see unhappy ghost pokemon, after all. It was easy for them to be disrupted or disturbed, causing trouble for people, which gave them a frightening reputation...if not simply a bad one. He took it upon himself to show people that there wasn’t anything so different about a gengar from a pikachu, and that all pokemon only acted in these ways if they were upset in the first place. He’d help Karen with her spiritomb even if she was a stranger offering nothing in return...or, rather, he’d help the spiritomb, anyways.
















