PKMA - Insight Chapter 2

                                                                              Insight: Chapter 2

Night fell on Duskull Island as everyone gathered around a huge bonfire on the shore. They all ate, drank, sang and had a merry time. Felix wasn't one for big parties, but having eaten and drank her fill for the night, she was enjoying spending time with her friend Ace. Both had huge grins on their faces, clearly enjoying watching all the other pirates singing, and sometimes dancing, even if they weren't participating themselves. However, even after being with the pirates for two weeks, she still had trouble figuring out and accepting how all of this was even possible. She nudged Ace on the arm. "I'm....gonna go walk down the beach. I need to think about.....something." She said as she got up.
Ace nodded in response, "I'll be here when you get back." Then turned his attention back to a group of pirates singing "Drunken Sailor".

Felix walked along the beach, ensuring that she could always see the light from the fire and going no further than that. It had been a weird two weeks for her. She never thought she'd witness an entire island sink, let alone join up with a band of pirates. And what about the friends she made? Yeah, she didn't need to worry about Ace, and she had heard from a Zoroark named Harlie that Desmond was fine, but that still left her wondering about Violet and Sydney. She didn't see either of them leave the island, so whether or not they joined the mermons or pirates was up in the air. She hoped that they were okay, but she began to doubt herself. Life never seems to work out the way we all want it to. Even she knew this.

She sighed, maybe this wasn't the best thing to wonder about right now. She opened up her coat and took out a bottle of rum she had swiped earlier today and inspected it. Maybe this could take her mind off her current thoughts? Her previous experience with drinking alcohol wasn't the best, as her older sisters more-or-less forced a martini down her throat last year, but.....maybe this will be different? Hell, even a tiny Litwick-Lanturn mermon enjoyed it enough to get drunk and cause a bit of chaos on the ship a couple of days ago. Furthermore, everyone here was a pirate. If anything, they'd be more concerned about the missing bottle of rum over her drinking some.

Felix uncorked the bottle, pressed it against her lips, and took a big swig of it before immediately spitting it back out, kneeling down and even washing her mouth out with sea water just to get rid of the taste. "Eugh...." she moaned as she put the cork back in the bottle, "That was strong......And they like this stuff?"  She thought to herself. "Or do they just fake it?" She smiled slightly. "Heh, maybe that's why the rum's always gone." She chuckled to herself. Of course she'd make the easy joke. Still, she'd have to get that back before someone noticed it was gone. She breathed in deeply and exhaled. "Hmm.....maybe I should double check my stuff before going back."

Felix put the bottle back in her coat pockets before taking everything else out one at a time and inspecting it. A magnifying glass with a red-tinted lens, a, probably cursed, statue of a Chatot made out of pyrite, a rubber Torchic with a pulley down the middle, and a note that mentions a tribe of vegetarian cannibals, and an empty flintlock pistol, which she will reload that later when she had the time. If there was one thing she accepted over the course of this, it's these items and how she got them. When she first got on the ship, she was shown a pile of clothes and told to "pick whatever looks good to ya'." She didn't realize that all this stuff came with the coat she just happened to pick. Someone on the crew was probably missing this stuff and wanted it back, but, oh well. Returning it wouldn't be very pirate-y, and she knew she'd probably have to give the coat back eventually. So it didn't bother her too much.

She patted down her coat, ensuring that everything was with her and breathed in the fresh sea air one last time as she headed back to the bonfire to meet up with Ace.