Rei's POV
"REI, come on we gotta go, don't wanna be late," came the cry of my elder sister, Jupiter.
"Hold up, let me fit the feather in," I called out, still facing the mirror. I then finish the final touches and look at myself in the mirror. Looking back at me with sky blue eyes and 3 horizontal lines across both eyes was a girl with hair covered by a red crown-like headdress with a yellow oval hair clip in the middle, a collar of red fake feathers around the neck, a pale blue body suit with long sleeves with three plastic claws at the end of said sleeves and feet,two short feathers and finished with two tail feather clipped on the back of the suit at the bottom of the spine. My masterpiece that I have been working on for six,count them right here, SIX months has finally been perfected...Oh, I should introduce myself. Name's Rei Grey. I'm a Pokemon enthusiast along with my sister. I'm 5'1 and have shoulder-length light brown hair with a lilac purple fringe covering my left eye currently clipped. As for what me and my sister are doing, we were getting ready for Comic-Con and we were dressing up for the event. As for me, I was going as my favorite non-starter Pokemon, Weavile.
I walk out of my room and into the hallway of my sister's apartment(we both live together but Jupiter pays), practically bouncing, until I bumped into my sister Jupiter and we both fell on our rumps. After we got ourselves off the floor, Jupiter proceeded to ruffle my hair along with my headdress.
"Sis, Nooooo," my pleas fell on deaf ears as my sister laughed and continued ruffling.
"Oh lighten up Rei, at least you're ready now," I looked up at and pouted at her. A jokster to some and an introverted tinkering engineer to others(Hell hshe made a miniature Egg Dragoon from Sonic, another series we love), I can never replace my nerdy sister.
"We both spent six months on this, and I'm not gonna let you ruin it," I exclaimed. My only response was two fingers poking my forehead.
"Chin up already, at least you're ready right? I know I am," I looked up to my sister to see her costume. You know that Pokemon Fusion fan game and that feature to splice certain 'Mons'? Well Jupiter took a page from that book and made her own fusion between her 2 of her favorite Pokemon. Starting from her head, Jupiter had a sort of plastic cobalt blue gladiator helmet with a grey crest that's strangely pointedly curved upwards,white face paint making short spike along the sides of her face, matching blue mechanical arm blades that were able to spread outward from the elbow that weirdly look like tonfas, 2 orange fin-like horns sticking out of her chest and back,long white gown with blue cotton on the inside, and baggy stark white pants. My sister, Jupiter, was dress as a Gardevoir and Gallade fusion but she prefers to call it Garllade. So to make a long explanation short, it honestly made her look beautiful and badass in my opinion. But lately after she finished the costume, she said it was missing something . I gave her a great idea; Do a Mewtwo and have 2 Mega Stones with both the Gardevoirite and Galladite. Unfortunately, I gave her the idea two weeks too late, a fact she is still a bit miffed about.
"Ya know if you're done staring, we can leave," I'm then jolted out of my thoughts by Jupiter, causing me to blush what she was implying.
"W-w-wait I wasn't stari-"
"Jeez kiddo I was just jokin', we're sisters," Jupiter looked at her watch and walks towards the front door as she looked back smiling said "Come on, we're gonna be late for the con'"
One hour and one song on my sister's phone later we finally arrive at the convention site and look in awe at all the sights, ignoring the sea of humans and costumes as we cruised along the aisles and stalls. We both had $800 between for this convention and we were trying to see what we can and if have enough. We signed up for a cosplay competition at the site and separated for a while look at new games,demos,etc. We both met up 2 hours later, thirty minutes before the competition and we haven't found a single souvenir that was worth our time because we have high standards, DAMMIT.... or maybe its because I'm getting tired of walking and not finding anything of interest idk. Anyway we were both resting on a bench against a wall while my sister decided to take a smoke.(DAMNNIT I TOLD YOU TO STOP)
"So you find anything to buy?" I ask while leaning on a nearby wall.
"No nothing yet," Jupiter said this with quite indifferent look on her face even though her voice betrayed her thoughts at that moment as she took her cigarette from her lips and left it on one of those nearby ashtrays.
I straighten myself upright and try to stretch. "Well it wouldn't hurt to look around one more time before the contest. Who knows? We could have missed some really cool gear," I start grinning from ear to ear as the words left my mouth
Jupiter chuckled as she propped herself off the wall while rubbing the back of her 'helmet' and said "Well there's no time like the present, let's go."
We both ran by the stalls one more time to see if can find anything worthwhile for our visit until Jupiter asks "Hey Rei, do you see what I see?" I turn to look at her and notice her face a looking towards a specific stall that was selling costume pieces but that wasn't what we saw. We saw THOSE pieces. There were some pretty interesting pieces among the cluster-fuck but what we saw were the best replicas of Pokemon items we saw:
Gardevoirite,
Galladite,
Life Orb,
and Razor Claw in a necklace .
We both realized how both perfect it would be for both of our costumes and made a beeline to the stall. We noticed the keeper of the stall was cosplaying as a dead on representation of the Resident Evil 4 merchant. He noticed us coming over and smiled.
"Greetings Pocket Monsters, how may I- Wait who are you," the merchant paused and pointed at my sister.
"I'm a Gardevoir and Gallade fusion or Garllade for short," My sister answered.
The merchant nodded in understanding and replied "Ah I see. Well anyway do you have interest in my wares?"
"Maybe. How much are those necklaces?", Jupiter asked pointing to the Gardevoirte and Galladite.
"And how much are the life orb and claw" I join in pointing at said items
"800 dollars" the merchant responded nonchalantly.
"700," countered Jupiter.
"750"
"500"
"650 plus anything else you want free."
"Deal," Damn, Jupiter's a hell of a negotiator. We both pilled our money for the necklaces and put them on.
The merchant's smile widened creepily as we heard the last words said by a human being; "Have a nice day...and fall."
A certain sound echoed in the stall as a a sink hole appeared below us.
We didn't even have time to react to his words as we fell.
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Then everything went black.