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ShrubSparrow — E4 Part 5: I'm still really grateful

Published: 2012-01-06 23:25:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 2806; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 12
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Description “Phew, finally, all the gifts are delivered!” Myra sighed.

The Spinda Café was full of Pokemon from all the different guilds. After they had come down, Chloe and Myra had searched down all the teams that they had wanted to give gifts to. Mike had also gotten his present. Everyone else had been easy find, but they hadn’t been able to locate Team Trample for a long while. Finally they spotted Hearth, who had come down to the Café without Anther. They had just given the present to Hearth, who had promised to share it with Anther. They had just found a free spot on the table where Team Duplex were about to open their present.

“Actually… I have a present for you too, Myra”, Chloe said. Myra looked so surprised that Chloe had to smile. She had probably forgotten that they could give gifts to each other, too. It was understandable; she had had a lot on her mind.

Chloe pulled out a bag that was hidden under the table and took an orange scarf out of it. “Your old one was torn in the battle against Shiv, so I thought you mind want to get a new one”, Chloe explained, “I didn’t want to change it too much though, since I know you liked the color. But I did let them add a little extra color to the sides.”

Myra seemed to be at loss of words. “Chloe, I… Wow, you shouldn’t have… Thank you!” she managed to say. “Oh, man… And my gift to you is nothing that special.”

Chloe looked in surprise when Myra took out a present from her wool. Myra had remembered! “Thank you so much!” Chloe said happily as she started to open her present.

Myra looked embarrassed when Chloe got the package open. “It’s just a bunch of berries. I, uh… had to buy it pretty hastily and I couldn’t…”

Chloe cut Myra off by shaking her head. “Don’t say that. You know that I love berries! And these are just my favorites! I couldn’t ask for a better gift” she grinned. And what was even more wonderful was that Myra had seemed to cheer up a little, Chloe thought to herself.

Like knowing Chloe’s thoughts, Myra suddenly changed the subject. “Chloe, I… I know I’ve been pretty down lately. I’m sorry. I probably made you worry”, she apologized. Chloe tried to say that it was fine, but Myra continued speaking. “Even if our mission ended up really painfully, I… I’m still really grateful that you let us take that mission. After all, I did get to meet Chill and see for myself how he was just like I had imagined him. Today, I realized that even though Chill isn’t the leader of the rescuers anymore, he will still always have a special place in my heart.”

“I’m sure that he would be glad to hear that”, Chloe said. Chloe was really proud of her partner. Myra had matured a lot.

They spent the evening getting to know other Rescue teams and surprisingly, receiving a few gifts of their own. Chloe couldn’t remember when she had last had so much fun. She hoped this would be only the first of the many gatherings that they would get to enjoy in the future.


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Last part!

Continue to Mission 5: [link]
Previous: [link]
Team App: [link]

Featured teams:
The Night Baskers [link] by
Team Metamorphosis [link] (and the Jirachi tree topper) by
The Masked [link] by
Team Duplex [link] by
Team NewEnergix [link] by

And it's doooooone! \o/ I know the story ended a bit lamely, but I'm bad at writing endings and I really need to get to sleep soon. (Why do I end up staying up late in all my events/missions?)

In the beginning, I pictured the last picture to contain all my favorite teams... But I also wanted to draw all the guild leaders... and then I ran out of space. And time. ("space and time", heh he-/shot) So this picture features only some of my favorite teams! There's a lot more, believe me. I'm still really happy that I managed to make such a big group picture in a couple of days~ And look, I even learned how to draw realistic spruces!

(Now that I've read the first part of M5 prologue, I can't get out of my mind that in this picture PK is saying: "Shroomy, tonight, I'm going to kill them. Kill them all." And Shroomsworth is like "Yes, I'm sure you will. Hehe..." xD
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Comments: 25

AvraTheLittleArtist [2012-01-14 23:07:25 +0000 UTC]

what cind (?) of material do u use here?

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ShrubSparrow In reply to AvraTheLittleArtist [2012-01-29 18:51:29 +0000 UTC]

Do you mean like, the the tools used to make this? I colored the base colors with watercolors and shaded with colored pencils!

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MiaMaha [2012-01-08 23:41:46 +0000 UTC]

Oh my goooooosh~!!!! This looks absolutely wonderful!!! I love how everyone is doing their own thing, and how you even included the guild leaders! That thing you said about PK in the description made me laugh. I can picture it to!

Gosh, your style is so adorable~! I love how you drew everything! The colors are SO nice. ^^ As for my team, I love how you drew them. >83 They look so great! And it makes me so happy, knowing that they're one of your favorite teams.
Thanks soooo much for the cameo...!! It means so much!

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ShrubSparrow In reply to MiaMaha [2012-01-11 22:45:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank yooou! :3 It was super fun drawing everyone in the picture, since they were all characters I liked! I know Solace ended up being pretty big and dark-colored, but I still liked drawing him too~

I'm really glad people like the colors. For me, dim candlelight is a major thing in creating the mood for Christmas, so I wanted to include it in this picture too. ^^

You're welcome, of course I had to include the Night Baskers, I love them! <3

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MiaMaha In reply to ShrubSparrow [2012-01-15 16:58:33 +0000 UTC]

He's dark? I seriously didn't even notice~! XD He still looks really good!

Oh, true true. You were very successful in making it look that way. ;3

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Sanngot [2012-01-08 18:13:04 +0000 UTC]

The pictures turned out really great! And the story was sweet too! It looks like we had the same idea for the Jirachi on top of the tree.

Ah, the same thing happend for me, I ended up working on it right to the deadline, which was 3 AM for me.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing watcha got for mission 5!

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ShrubSparrow In reply to Sanngot [2012-01-11 21:33:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked the story too! I've only read parts of your story, I still have to read it through~ The Jirachi topper is actually originally ~brackenhawk s idea, I just liked the idea so much that I borrowed it and gave credit. ^^"

Right back at you, I'm sure you'll have a lot of big things coming in your mission! Can't wait!

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Sanngot In reply to ShrubSparrow [2012-01-11 22:26:47 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah? I got the Jirachi ornament idea on my own. Then again, Jirachi is based off of a wishing star, so its understandable. ;D

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ShrubSparrow In reply to Sanngot [2012-01-14 14:21:41 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, Jirachi is pretty much ideal for Christmas tree since it's kind of a mixture of an angel and a star. ;D

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lonemaximal [2012-01-07 18:55:29 +0000 UTC]

This is so gorgeous! The lighting effects are marvelous, especially on the candles and the ice sculpture is really effective.

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ShrubSparrow In reply to lonemaximal [2012-01-11 18:50:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you noticed those things, because I put some extra effort to the candle-lighting and the ice sculpture. ^^ Thankfully Googling some pictures of ice sculptures helped a lot to make the ice look believable~

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Yakalentos [2012-01-07 09:38:31 +0000 UTC]

This is... It's amazing! More than amazing! Look at all the pokemon!
I'm too amazed for words... Thanks so much for putting NewEnergix in there!

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ShrubSparrow In reply to Yakalentos [2012-01-11 18:47:50 +0000 UTC]

I'm so glad you like it, thank you! <3 And you're welcome, it was really fun to get to draw your team. :3

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Yakalentos In reply to ShrubSparrow [2012-01-11 18:53:36 +0000 UTC]

No problem! And thanks again. ;u;

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PazuArts [2012-01-07 05:46:42 +0000 UTC]

it's so cute

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ShrubSparrow In reply to PazuArts [2012-01-11 18:43:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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brackenhawk [2012-01-07 00:26:57 +0000 UTC]

AHH this is stupidly adorable, thanks so much for adding Huey and Rose in there! Your tree looks so much better than mine, haha.

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ShrubSparrow In reply to brackenhawk [2012-01-11 18:37:53 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, thank you very much! <3 Of course I had to get to draw and Rose, they're such an awesomely cute duo!
And your tree had so many creative decorations compared to mine, you know (I even had to steal your topper because I liked the idea so much). But I did put extra effort into the actual tree, the christmas tree in our house was a good model for that.

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mightycucumber [2012-01-06 23:39:43 +0000 UTC]

Awwww, this is so cute 83

It's impressive how you can do such a marvelous piece traditionally, it's just wonderful! I love the colours! ^^

Oh, and thank you so much for including my Team, they are all so cute! <3

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ShrubSparrow In reply to mightycucumber [2012-01-11 18:43:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, and you're welcome! And hey, I finally got to draw Elle too. ^^
Btw, sorry that I managed to completely screw up Zibb's colors here. First I started to color him, and immediately thought "argh, this shade of green isn't right at all", and then I realized that I had accidentally painted his legs green, too. xD Buut at least colored pencils fixed some of that, thank god.

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mightycucumber In reply to ShrubSparrow [2012-01-11 22:08:15 +0000 UTC]

Are you kidding, I didn't even notice you had done such thing! xD Seriously, you really can't tell, don't worry! I'm just so glad you included them, thank you! ^^

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ShrubSparrow In reply to mightycucumber [2012-01-14 14:25:18 +0000 UTC]

Haha, okay. I'm glad it doesn't show. ^^ You're welcome again! xD Now I can also finally say that Chloe is their friend too, since they probably got to talk a lot during the party!

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mightycucumber In reply to ShrubSparrow [2012-01-15 02:25:39 +0000 UTC]

Eheh, nice! ^^

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SVP-Cule [2012-01-06 23:27:23 +0000 UTC]

Viimeinkin Mike saa syödä jäätelönsä rauhassa...ainakin toistaiseksi.

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ShrubSparrow In reply to SVP-Cule [2012-01-08 11:08:07 +0000 UTC]

Kunhan muistaa varoa ahnasta jätskinhimoista Maplea...

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