POKÉMON X NIMJA: Play the Game

Chapter Three: I Want It All

AMSTERDAM 23:00 PM, OCTOBER 11th

RECORDING: START

The four of us came out of the portal and landed face-first on the floor of the Rijksmuseum. I was first to stir; then OGiNiM, then HyDrO. Slang, who was still terrified from his experience, was the last to wake. As soon as he turned around and saw the absolutely giant painting that was Rembrandt's Night Watch, he instantly shivered.

"GAH-!"

We heard the scream, and turned to see him back away from the painting, shivering as usual. He instantly ran to me and cowered.

"Ssssssssssssir... vhat isssssss zat sssssssing?" Slang asked, terrified. "It'ssssssss sssssssso huge! I don't know if it'sssssss going to eat me up or not! Und are zosssssssse people? V-visssssss sssssssfordsssssss? Ohhhh... vhy are zey carrying ssssssssfordssssss...?"

A giggle. "It won't eat you, Slang; it's inanimate. That's a painting."

Slang breathed a sigh of relief. "Phew."

"Although, it did speak to us in a weird robotic voice earlier," OGiNiM pointed out.

Slang snapped out of his relief.

"I-it ssssssspoke?!" he gasped. "Zat sssssssssing isssssssssss alife?!"

HyDrO frowned. "Great. Now look what you've done, OGiNiM."

"Oops." OGiNiM chuckled nervously. "Sorry, Slang!"

"Zat'sssssssss alright..." muttered Slang. "I know you veren't actually trying to ssssssssscare me..."

I smiled.

"By the way," asked OGiNiM, looking around the room, "has any time passed since we left? I wouldn't want us to stay too long and have people notice us."

I momentarily thought about it. Now that he mentioned it... OGiNiM did have a good point. If anyone noticed us, we would become pariahs.

I stared at the clock on the wall.

It was 1:20 A.M.

Absolutely no time had passed since we left.

I shook my head.

"No," I said. "No time passed at all while we were gone."

"Ooh, cool!" OGiNiM exclaimed. "Time freezes while we're gone! That's pretty exciting!"

I smiled. "It is."

Then- a yawn.

I suddenly realized I had gotten absolutely no sleep.

"But it's very late," I said, extremely tired. "I need to get some sleep."

"Okay, then," HyDrO said.

"Goede nacht, Mijnheer!" OGiNiM cried happily, mispronouncing the "g."

Per the usual.

"V-vait, ssssssssir..." Slang muttered, slithering up to follow me. "Vat are ve sssssssupposssssed to do? Ve can't jusssssssssssssst go out zere in ze darkessssssssssssssst night, und I'm far from home... und in a ssssssscary placcccccccce... vissssss lotssssssss und lotsssssss of people..."

He was right. Where were they to go?

I thought. Thankfully, though, I didn't have to think hard, as an idea soon came to me.

"To my house, of course," I said, with a knowing smirk. 

OGiNiM squealed with delight.

"We... get to see... your house?! Oh, Mijnheer!" He practically jumped with delight and extended out his vines to grab my tail. "This is the best thing that I could ever have happen to me! It was one thing to meet you in public, but now I actually get to see your house?! Eeeeeeee!" He turned to HyDrO. "Isn't this exciting?!"