With all the love in the world from your friends on the internet, have a good one, Nori! <3
Sigh…
Spark counted ceiling tiles as he lay out on his bed, his hands stuffed behind his head. Laying there in his underwear, one would think he’d feel relaxed, but it was actually quite the contrary. He was anxious, his mind struggling to start like a sputtering engine, and it was frustrating. He needed something to do, but every conclusion was blockaded or denied. He could play video games, but he didn’t really want to. He could have doodled in his sketch book, but the motivation wasn’t there. He could have gone outside and kicked the soccer ball around, but he was just too lazy. There were a million things to do, yet no desire to do them.
His sister was in no less of a funk. While Spark lay out across his bed, Glint lay properly along its length. With her head on his stomach, she stared at the ceiling right along with him, hands planted on the sheets as she sprawled out stiffly. It was as if her boredom was dulling her brain – she could feel her brain cells committing Seppuku one at a time. She sighed again, a little louder that time, her chest heaving and falling as she lay only in her underwear. Her breasts were totally unconstrained, and yet she and her brother couldn’t even enjoy that together.
“Urrrgh…” The plusle ranked her fingers through her hair in frustration, “I’m bored!”
“Yeah, I know,” Spark answered flatly, “Me too.”
Glint rolled her head back and forth on Spark’s toned stomach, “But I don’t want to be bored!”
With only a passing glance downwards towards her, Spark resumed just staring at the ceiling. “Me neither,” He said.
“Wanna… have sex?” The girl asked.
“Again?” Spark just raised a brow, “Eh…”
Glint sighed, “Yeah, me neither. God, you know something’s wrong when I don’t wanna ride you like a Rapidash.”
“Yeeeeeup~” Spark popped his ‘P’ as he sighed.
“What about Whitney and Salem?”
“Salem’s not really my type.”
“No I mean… you know what I mean!”
“I don’t wanna go all the way to the city…”
“Yeah… me neither.”
“Wanna go into town?”
“Nah.”
“Swimming? No… wait, no, I don’t want to do that. Too cold.”
“This sucks.”
“This totally sucks.”
They shared a sigh.
After a while though, Glint lifted her arm, aiming a single finger towards the heavens. “To the internet!” She announced.
She rose quickly from her spot and swiftly found her seat in front of the single computer in their room. They shared it amongst themselves, and never really had a problem doing so. They were often outside too much to really bother with it, and when they were on it, they did things together. So even while Glint sat topless, surfing her social media outlets Spark was right there with her. He stood behind her, resting his hands on her shoulders and his chin on her head, following whatever she was doing on the screen with his eyes.
Someone had to be doing something, or some sort of inspiration had to be found on the net; all it would take was a bit of looking. They cycled through various updates on things that didn’t really matter to them in the end, like Whitney celebrating her highest test scores yet, or Sammy discussing some sort of political topic. One thing did catch their eye, however – it had to do with their father.
Nori the raccoon was a secretive man. While he did have accounts on sites such as Glint and Spark’s “Poké Pal Pad” he was never a very active participant. Status updates came rarely from him, and when they did they were always large tangents on topics that had riddled his brain for some time. The twins hardly ever read them; they were often just too long for the teens to hold interest. But what they saw wasn’t an update from their father… just a notification in their message inbox.
“Hey GlintnSpark! Nori Kusemurai has a birthday coming up!”
The twins paused upon seeing the message, their expressions turning to ones of deep contemplation.
“Dad’s birthday’s coming up already? How old is he, like forty?” The web-surfing girl pondered aloud.
“I dunno,” Her brother shrugged, “He sure doesn’t look forty.”
“Hm…”
Glint was just about to delete the message when a thought struck her. “Oh!” She squeaked, “Oh I know! We’ll throw him a party!”
“And invite who?” Spark asked.
Glint was stuck for just a moment on that minute detail, “Uh… Oh, you know that little black book he has with all his numbers in it, right? He must have all his friends written in there! We can call them and invite them!”
Spark barely remembered seeing his father with such a book. It seemed every time Nori was on the phone, he had it in his hands. The twins never really paid much attention to what Nori would say when he was on the phone. Most of the time it sounded like it had a lot to do with work. The only other name he recognized was Chay’s, who was one of their father’s close friends. It seemed like a solid idea though. They were just outgoing enough that it could work.
Spark simply nodded. He was on board.
“Okay, first let’s call Sammy,” Glint proposed.
That call went easily enough. Catching her on the Xtransciever, the twins were quick to ask her if she’d come. She naturally asked where it would be held, and the twins were caught on that. They planned on inviting a lot of people, as many as they could, and getting food and cake and everything. Sammy, knowing the twins couldn’t do something so daunting on their own, offered to help. Quite simply, the party would be held at her ranch. She had nothing but room and the old barn where Glint and Spark would normally take their breaks in would make a fine place to host it.
Their Pikachu boss was more than happy to help, which made the twins’ job so much easier. Ending the call, Glint bounded from her chair to hurry to Nori’s room with Spark in tow. The bouncy, jiggly Plusle entered her father’s room with no hint of concern since he was at work, leaving the twins with total freedom to rummage through his things. They did so, of course, with ease. They’d gotten very proficient at leaving everything exactly the way it was upon entering the room when they’d leave. There was an objective in mind this time however: Nori’s black book!
It was the size of a notebook, and Glint easily found it lying amongst various objects on top of his dresser. Still, she couldn’t help but root through other things. Their dad had some pretty interesting stuff! Like some old handheld computer by the looks of it that didn’t work. There were letters on it but they were mostly faded: “P ~ T.” The twins couldn’t make sense of it, but it almost looked like an Xtransciever to them. He had books too, weird books, like “Advanced Mad Cackling.” It was a treasure trove of strange.
“Wanna put on more of Dad’s underwear?” Glint grinned.
“Shut up,” Spark squeaked from across the room, “Did you find it?”
Glint turned to her brother and held up the book, “A couple minutes ago, yeah,” She said with a smirk.
Spark gasped and grabbed Glint by her shoulders, giving her a small shake. “Then let’s go already!” He said, ushering her quickly out of the room and back to their room. He was always such a worry-wart, that brother of hers.
When they got back, Glint bound for her bed, bouncing front-wise onto the red-covered mattress with the book in hand. She eagerly flipped it open just to see who was in there, but it was snatched away quickly by Spark. She turned to protest, but found her brother sat on the bed quickly – or more accurately, her back. This made her grunt and pinned her as he flipped through the pages himself. There were scores of names inside… Nori must have been one popular raccoon!
“Well we should start with Chay. He’ll come for sure,” Spark suggested.
Glint reached for her night stand which had her Xtransciever on it. “On it…!” She grunted, snatching the hand-held communications device, “What’s the number, cutie-butt?”
Spark showed her the book by holding it in front of her face, his index finger resting on the pages to point out the particular number. Glint eagerly typed it in and waited. The ringing started, and only reached about two and a half rings before Chay picked up. Naturally not everyone had an Xtransciever, so unlike Sammy there was no video connection between Glint and the fox known as Chay. Instead, she was simply staring at a static image of a vaguely person-like silhouette.
“Hello?”
“Hello? Mr. Chay?” Glint spoke while her brother continued thumbing through the pages.
Missing nary a beat, Chay responded, “Ohhh! One of Nori’s kids, right! I forgot to ask you how dinner was after I caught you sneaking out during my… dinner with Nori.”
Glint and Spark shared a brief look before the Plusle answered, “Oh, uh, it was fine. Anyway! I wanted to ask you something.”
“Oh, my, a question? For me? How… shocking,” Glint could nearly feel him grinning on the other end of the call, “Fire away.”
Glint explained to Chay their plan, and for his part Chay listened intently. Of course it sounded like a wonderful idea, a birthday party thrown for Nori by his kids. It was just so cute he couldn’t bring himself to say no! With Chay on board, that made two guests, and two good friends of Nori’s. Even if it all tanked from there, a small get-together was still on the table. Glint thanked Chay as politely as she was able, and ended the call. She stored Chay’s number in her Xtransciever for later, and turned her attention to Spark.
Spark wasn’t sure what number to call next. He didn’t recognize any of the other names on the list. “Milkie and Milkette?” He spoke aloud.
“What?” Glint seemed confused.
“Those’re names, I think,” Spark shook his head, turning the book to show his sister, “Right here, see? I… I don’t even know what to think of it. They sound like strippers or something.”
“Ooh, Dad would love strippers!” Glint giggled and punched the number in.
Glint was only able to discern so much from the following conversation, namely that Milkette was a girl, and Milkie was a boy, and they were brother and sister. They lived together in an apartment, and it seemed like Milkette spared no effort in slipping in that she owned and operated a games store. As interested as Glint was, she was a girl on a mission, and she carried on setting up Nori’s birthday date with the pair. They seemed more than eager to attend if for no other reason than to see Nori again. It had apparently been a while since the three of them got together.
“Do we need to bring anything?” The female, Milkette, asked.
That was an interesting question, and Glint turned her attention to Spark, who spoke up. “Well I guess… Well we need help getting everything together. Um, food… cake too, and music and stuff,” He said.
“Cake?” The woman responded with a keen interest, “Oh!”
The voice got quieter as the speaker obviously yelled to someone else – likely Milkie. “Ice cream cake?!”
A quieter, masculine voice sounded back, “Ice cream cake!”
Returning to the conversation, the woman sounded almost elated, “Leave the cake to us. How many people are going?”
“We don’t know yet, but we have me and my brother, Dad, and with you two, four of his friends… We plan on inviting everyone Dad knows!” Glint answered.
“… We’re going to need more cakes,” The woman said.
“More ice cream cakes!” The other, more distant voice cheered.
The woman chuckled, “Alright, thank you. I’ll be sure to schedule my staff accordingly and be there.”
“Okay! Bye!” Glint beamed, ending the call and storing the number. Then she turned onto her side and raised her hand, sharing a high-five with her brother. “Okay! Who’s next?”
“Why don’t we call Salem and Whitney? I don’t wanna just hang out with a bunch of old people,” Spark suggested.
“Good idea,” Glint said, resting back on her front to arrange things.
With a push of a button, Whitney was called, and her face appeared on the screen.
“Hello Glint,” She smiled, but paused a moment as she could see Spark In the background as well. The fact he was in little more than his underwear was… curious. Thank goodness she couldn’t tell that Glint was in a similar situation! Regardless, she blushed all the same. “What can I do for you?”
Again, a quick run-down of the idea was relayed. Whitney was all for it. She seemed the most excited at the fact it gave her a perfectly good excuse to make a bunch of cookies – enough for at least eight people, and likely many more. She also volunteered to get Salem on board, and clear it with the Sableye’s mother too so that Glint and Spark wouldn’t have to. The twins were grateful to have friends willing to take the burden off them so readily… It seemed like their Dad’s friends were good people too!
Once Glint ended the call, she looked over her shoulder at her brother as he kind of paced the room. “Okay, Dad’ll be over soon, so we oughta--”
“Spark uses double slap!”
Out of nowhere, Spark open-palm smacked Glint’s upturned rear with both of his hands, clapping down on her panty-clad cheeks hard and making her squeal with such a shock! Her cheeks let out small zaps of electricity, and she spun around on the bed to rest on her back and glare at her brother. Spark simply grinned, already back to the bedroom door with the book, where he opened the door and ducked out in a flash.
“It’s super effectiiiiive!” He called out as he ran down the hall.
Glint stumbled out after him, “I am gonna pinch your butt so hard! Get back here!”
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Fast forward!
Glint and Spark continually called up more potential guests whenever they had the time to. They invited all of Nori’s friends – from A for Alexandra to Z for Zedd. But through it all they never had any idea as to just how their Dad knew each one of them. Some were just listed as friends. Others were listed as lackeys. Then there were a handful under “Guild,” and a small number under “Nemesis.” The twins had absolutely no idea what any of it meant, but it seemed like most guests had no problem attending a party for Nori. Others were a bit uncertain… but Glint and Spark were persuasive. Oddly, very few of them even knew that Nori had kids!
Strange as it was, Glint and Spark continued to set everything up while Nori was left completely unaware. Between going to school and working, the twins had their hands full dealing with food, music, cake arrangements and so on; but no effort was too great. They got swept away in the idea of really surprising their father. All that remained after some weeks of planning was a present. Glint and Spark just had to get their Dad something. It almost felt like it’d be for nothing if they didn’t.
But that brought them to a shameful realization: they had no idea what their father would like. Yes, he liked video games, and yes, he liked to read, but to just get him a game or a book seemed so impersonal. It didn’t seem like enough. The two puzzled for some time over what they could do to make their gift special, from them to him. His birthday was nearing quickly, so they didn’t have much time to decide. It set them into a slight panic. They frantically went from store to store to try and find something, anything that just cried out to them as the perfect gift.
But it just seemed impossible. Nothing was good enough.
“Well I dunno what to tell you.”
Milkette crossed her arms with her elbows resting on the counter. The twins had met her by chance when they stepped into Mouse Pad, the game store they only then recognized after having talked with the mouse over the phone. Of course, they didn’t know she was a mouse until they saw her, a short little thing with fur bearing two different brown tones – one of chocolate, the other of creamed coffee. Even if she was a little shorter than the twins, who were steadily growing taller as their adolescence drew closer and closer to a close, the mouse was stacked like no one’s business. They almost couldn’t believe how her body filled out her rather plain-looking black uniform.
“What are you getting him?” Glint asked the mouse. The twins simply stood across the store’s counter as they talked to the owner. No one was really bothering them, as only a few other customers were browsing the shelves of video games and miniature models.
“Aside from splitting with my brother for a hundred-some bucks worth of ice cream cake?” The mouse grinned, “Well, I’ll think of something… special, just for him. He might not get it right away, but you know.”
“Yeah…” Spark nodded and shrugged to his sister.
Thinking further on it, the mouse-woman tilted her head. “Why not make him something?” She’d ask, “You guys can like… make things, can’t you?”
“Make something?” Glint wilted her ears as she thought long and hard on the possibility.
“I don’t know if we can--”
“Wait!” Glint practically squeaked before turning to Spark, “Have you been practicing your guitar?”
Spark was no fool, and he knew exactly what his sister had in mind. The idea made him blush rather furiously. “I… yeah, but… you wanna…” He cleared his throat, as if still somehow keeping the obvious idea secret.
“Why not?” Glint smiled, “I bet he’d like it.”
Spark rubbed his arm, “I guess I’d have to rent a couple amps…”
“Let’s do it,” Glint smacked her brother’s arm playfully, “Dad’ll love it.”
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It was a fair bit more work to get everything set up, but soon time clock ran out. The day was upon them.
Sammy’s ranch was a little spruced up. The old barn that saw no real use was cleared out and cleaned out rather thoroughly by the Pikachu and the twins. Within they set a small stage for the music, places to sit, and tables – so many tables! Naturally the rest of the grounds were free game, more or less. People could hang around wherever they pleased, barring Sammy’s house and anywhere her animals were. There wasn’t a big concern about it, though Sammy knew she had to keep an eye out just in case.
Everything had finally come together. No surprises, no problems. Whitney and Salem showed up before everyone else as instructed to help set everything up, setting out punch to drink and making sure there was plenty of room for more snacks to be brought in. By that time, the other guests began to trickle in and fill up the barn. Oh, did they ever fill up that barn!
Standing at the doors to greet people as they came in, Glint and Spark stared in awe at the utter giant of a feline who came strolling in. The black cat with the white cheeks may have been dressed casually, but it did nothing to hide the mountainous curves of her body. In contrast, the little girl she was with was cute as a button; a darling skunk with blue fur instead of black, and big, blue eyes. Even so, Glint couldn’t help but notice the cute little thing had quite a backside filling out her cute, pink over-alls. Spark was too taken back by the large feline to even look down and notice the girl.
“Well you must be Nori’s little children,” The big cat smiled, giving Spark a look-over, “Or, perhaps not that little. To be honest, I expected something a little different.”
“D-Different?” Spark shed a smile that was as politely intimidated as physically possible.
“You’re way too old for a hebo like Nori,” The little skunk girl said, shockingly articulate with every word she spoke.
Glint tilted her head as she stared at the girl with such a perplexed look, “Hebo? What the heck is that?”
The older woman cast her yellow cat-eyes down at the little skunk, “Now let’s not put their father in a sour light, sweetie.”
She then cast her eyes back down to Spark. “I’m Alexandra Salome, we spoke over the phone,” She said, her voice holding a regal accent. She reached down and took the skunk girl’s hand and gave it an affectionate squeeze, “And my plus one is my sweet daughter, Dr. Gwen Mason.”
“Doctor?!” The twins couldn’t have muted their shocked gasps no matter how hard they tried.
The little, sweet Gwen beamed with pride. She tugged a lollipop out of the back pocket of her over-alls and handed it to Glint. “I left my doctorate at home,” She said as Glint took the offered treat, “That’s for you. It’s a little warm, but there’s even more in my office at home!”
Glint forced a smile to hide her confusion as she ushered the pair in. She then locked eyes with her brother, and the two of them just shrugged. It had to be the strangest thing they had ever encountered – and they were friends with Salem. More guests came in, one by one, sometimes in pairs. Milkie and Milkette arrived soon after, and the twins found that the lady-mouse’s brother looked almost exactly like her, save for gender differences and hair length. And they brought with them a few freezer boxes no doubt having the ice cream cakes inside that they were so excited to bring.
But the strange just kept coming. Sunni Smiles showed up – a yellow ring-tail with a southern accent and wibbly-wobbling curves that shamed poor Glint. In her arms she lugged the largest watermelon the twins had ever seen – one that couldn’t be set on any table in fear of bending the wood. But she was from what the list called “the Guild.” Glint and Spark had no idea what that guild was, but Sunni came with other women much like her. Leslie Turnbaum was an older feline with creamy-tan fur and two adorable kids… and quite possibly the biggest butt at the whole party to stretch out a pair of sweat pants. Glint had to Smack her brother just to keep him from staring – while also staring herself.
Noriko was an anomaly to end them all. The twins thought her name seemed oddly familiar, but seeing her waltz on in left no question. Noriko looked just like their Dad! She might’ve been a bit taller, but she had the same ass-backwards fur pattern Nori had; with a majority being a darker gray and things like her hands and her raccoon mask being a lighter gray. But her last name was Takahashi, implying that she was either married and had her last name changed… or possibly wasn’t related to Nori at all.
“Oh my God, did you see her--?”
“They were… wow…”
“And those melons!”
“That one looks just like Dad!”
Were all of Nori’s friends like that?
More or less, they were.
A boy came, a gray cat named Sonny. Nothing was that unusual about him, he even dressed normally. But he came with an utter harem of little girls who were so terribly endowed that it made Glint pale in the face. His guests, Catherine Goodlove, Presa Honeycur, and Andria Colbett, looked like they couldn’t have been older than… twelve? But their boobs could have easily filled an F-cup at their smallest. Their largest, proudly presented by Catherine in her not-conservative-at-all dress, were much, much larger.
Sed was an interesting one. He looked like he was ripped straight out of an old black and white cartoon. His eyes should have been coloured, like Alexandria’s, but instead they were just gray. He was entirely monochrome. But that was one of the strange elements that Glint and Spark could handle. They were, after all, friends with Salem, as they often reminded themselves. They had easily seen stranger things than that.
The others were normal in comparison. A rotund platypus, a big, pointy-eared golden dragon, a couple of girlish skunk-boys, a very short feline, a spunky ringtail lemur who said something about having baby-sat Nori not long before… and a light-toned fox guy, and Chaytel, of course, and an armadillo who insisted on calling Nori ‘boss.’ When all was said and done, Glint and Spark stood side by side at the entrance to the old barn staring out at perhaps the most colourful cast of characters they had ever seen in their lives. It was all rather overwhelming.
They all seemed to get along so well though. They broke off into groups and mingled like old friends. Soon Whitney and Salem joined the twins in just… watching. The guests practically set the buffet up by themselves and helped themselves to some food. Sammy got some music playing, a pair of rather small, but loud speakers booming to set a sort of casual, head—bobbing tone to the whole function. The young ones danced, the older guests talked and drank… As odd as they all were, it was a warm atmosphere.
“Your father has some… interesting company,” Whitney said, her cheeks as red as roses, “They’re all so… so…”
“Colourful!” Salem cackled, “It’s a room of rainbows!”
“Ah… yeah,” Spark nodded, “Colourful.”
“If by colourful you mean jiggly as heck, then yes. They’re like rainbows. Double rainbows,” Glint muttered, “All the way across the sky.”
Sammy soon joined them, the last Pokémon of the bunch. “The man of the hour is on his way,” She said.
“And he doesn’t know what’s up?” Glint asked.
“Nope,” Sammy shook her head, “Told him I needed you guys to help out today, so there’s that. Told him Shmucky has the truck too, so he needed to come pick you up. He’s clever, but I don’t think we have anything to worry about.”
“Okay! Well, I’ll go set up the mic and stuff,” Glint said, looking to Spark, “You make sure everyone knows Dad’s coming.”
“Ten-four, Sergeant,” Spark saluted.
“Salem will help!” Salem shouted, before running off into the crowd, “The Nori is coming! THE NORI IS COMING!”
Whitney sighed and smiled to the twins before taking off after Salem to try and reel him in a little bit. This left the twins to handle the rest on their own. They felt almost exhausted, but it was the final step in giving their Dad a real good birthday surprise! So they took off to set the stage for themselves while everyone else got ready for Nori’s arrival.
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You didn’t have to be a genius to know that something was up. As soon as Nori arrived at Sammy’s ranch in his car and saw her truck exactly where it was normally parked, things got fishy. His first inclination was to question the Pikachu about it. Perhaps, he thought, her Espeon partner just returned home when Nori was en route. But getting out of his car, he took notice that there were lights on in the old barn and… someone he recognized lingering out front. Now that was fishy.
“Sunni?” Nori called to the familiar face. This caught the yellow ringtail’s attention immediately, and her attention snapped onto Nori in a flash. The look plastered upon her freckled face was priceless; she looked so utterly shocked to see him there.
“Nori! Darlin’!” She returned his greeting with a little, nervous laugh, “Ha! Uh… What’chya doin’ here? Why look’it you, all grown up!”
Nori looked at himself for a moment. While it was true that he hadn’t seen Sunni in a while, he wasn’t sure he had matured much in the interim. Granted, he dressed a lot differently than he used to. He would have rarely been caught dead in shorts as loose as the ones he wore that night – but that was another time. Eying Sunni suspiciously, he gave her a look-over. She still wore over-alls and a sun-hat… and those over-alls still looked absolutely painted on. If she took a deep breath, her heaving sunshine-yellow tits might very well have ruptured the clasps.
He approached her, and she quickly hurried to keep him stalled at least for a moment, meeting him part-way. “Well my kids work here,” He explained, “I was told to come pick them up.”
“Really?! Well ain’t that somethin’!” Sunni gasped. She was being oddly… enthusiastic.
“Are there people in there?” Nori asked, trying to peek around Sunni towards the barn, “And why are you--?”
“I’m just so happy to see ya!” Sunni hollered, suddenly grabbing the raccoon and yanking him in against her body. He found a comfortable impact against her breasts as she made certain his face was smothered against the marshmallow mounds, and even went so far as to take one of his hands and place it on her globular backside. Nori didn’t know what hit him.
“IT’S JUST BEEN SO LONG SINCE I’VE SEEN YA… NORI!” Sunni shouted, for the benefit of those inside, “WHY IT’S JUST MIGHTY SURPRISIN’!”
Inside, a certain mouse’s ear twitched. Milkie was standing rather close to the entrance, and managed to over-hear Sunni’s blatant attempt to warn them. With a peek out one of the bare windows, Milkie gasped, “Oh, fuck!” He turned towards his fellow party-guests and hushed his voice, “Nori’s here! Guys, Nori’s here!”
The whisper of Nori’s arrival spread through the barn in a flash. It only took moments for the news to reach every corner. Glint’s head shot up from where she worked up on the stage, fumbling with just a few wires connected to an electronic keyboard. “Everyone shut up!” She called out past the lollipop that was stuck in between her lips. And, as if she were a mighty general and they her loyal soldiers, they fell dead silent immediately.
“Mrph! Snnh!” Nori pushed on Sunni’s shoulders to pry himself free of his titillating imprisonment. It was a good wrestle to do so, and when he finally did, even Sunni’s white hair was a little mussed, “I would rather not greet my kids with a raging hard-on!”
“Kinda surprised ya haven’t already,” She muttered, before clearing her throat and fixing her hair, “Alright ‘sug, I s’pose ya got a point. Here, come along, I saw ‘em slackin’ off in here.”
Nori took a breath and fixed his own hair… then adjusted his shorts and followed along.
“Sunni, you still haven’t told me why--”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Nori froze as he entered the barn, and the crowd cheered out to him in greeting. He swallowed, looking absolutely stunned. “Oh God…” He muttered.
“Happy birthday, Dad!” Glint beamed from the small stage that had been set up. She stood behind a familiar blue keyboard, her keyboard, and a microphone.
“Yeah, happy birthday!” Spark also had a mic, and was holding his guitar – a red guitar that he had been learning how to play.
“You sure have some interesting friends,” Glint continued.
Nori took a moment to eye the room. Lots of the people who knew were there. Though Sonny, the young gray cat, and Gwen, the intelligent blue skunk, shot him a sort of glare. They made clear, but quiet gestures towards their eyes, and then pointing at him. They were watching him.
“Yes,” Nori laughed, “All my friends.”
Others waved, some blew him kisses. But there was no question, everyone seemed awful happy to be there. Nori did wonder however how it was all possible. Not all of these people lived close by – in fact, most of them would really go out of their way just to visit the island he now lived on with his kids. He’d get his answer as he was approached by the female mouse of the Milkie and Milkette pair. She hugged him around his arm, and pulled him close. Her chest smothered his bicep, and she grinned.
“Your kids are really something, you know that?” She asked, “They called everyone here and got everything set up and organized. Lots of us pitched in of course, but if you wanna thank anyone for it…”
Nori’s gaze rose towards the stage once again, to his two smiling children, so proud of themselves.
“Now, we’ve got ice cream cake I think,” Glint said, to many nods from Milkie and Milkette both, “But we wanted to start off with something we made special for Dad.”
“We wrote a song,” Spark added with a bit of a blush. He sighed a little after a deep breath, “I… dunno how good it is, but we wanna try it out.”
There was a pause, and Nori looked around as he tried to take it all in. His kids really, really went above and beyond. It was incredible… even if he didn’t like surprise parties much. He would’ve preferred a smaller gathering, but on the flip-side, seeing all those familiar faces was something special. If the twins wanted to keep layering on the specialness, he wasn’t about to stop them. He raised a hand to gesture to them, as if to hand over everyone’s attention.
“Go for it!” He said.
Sharing a momentary glance, Glint and Spark nodded to one another and then set off their performance. With a simulated percussion from Glint’s keyboard, the Plusle started a piano baseline, and Spark lead in with a gentle guitar riff. It reminded Nori of one of those “I’m a kid” songs, from some sort of alternative rock band.
At first I didn't like you
But then just what could I do?
No one out there loved me like you
And now I'm happy
I may not always follow rules
Clean my room or buy nice clothes
But I love you now and always
'Cause you're my Daddy
We go behind your back
Give you lip n’ beg for slack
But at the end of it all, we love you
Don't wanna live without you
At first it was hard to trust you
Just not sure just what you'd do
But you've been with us through and through
And now I'm happy
Sometimes I stay out too late
Refuse to dust or break a plate
But I love you now and always
'Cause you're my Daddy
We sneak out when you tell us noooo~
Don't listen, but even soooo~
It doesn't mean we hate you
In fact - we really are so grateful
You're our Daddy and we love you
More often we should tell you
That there's just nobody quite like you
That moldy sandwich under the bed? I lied, that was me
You're our Daddy and we love you
More often we should tell you
That there's just nobody quite like you
And I did try on your underwear once
You're our Daddy - and we love you
More often, we should tell you
That there's just nobody quite like you
Even if this song is crap
We wrote it special, just for Dad
Because Nori, you’re just special
And we will always love you.
The song ended with Glint playing them out. Once the music died down, there was a momentary silence before the party erupted in cheer. The song wasn’t terrible, far from it! It lacked the sound of a professional band by a long shot, but that hardly mattered. Nori had approached the stage while they played, and he was in awe of the two of them – simply in awe. No one had ever written him a song before. It may have been superficial to gauge by that alone, but it made him feel special. When they looked at him, he didn’t know what to say, he just smiled like an idiot.
“Happy birthday, Boss,” Nori’s armadillo friend gave the raccoon a smack in the arm since he seemed to have stalled his engine.
Nori grinned to the ‘dillo, “Colonel.”
Nori then climbed up onto the stage, wrapping one arm around Glint and the other around Spark, where he hugged them both against him and practically swung them around. “Gaaah! I love you guys!” He laughed, and the twins laughed right along with him.
“Alright, I’m going to get the cakes from the freezer,” Sammy announced.
“Oh, good,” Ms. Turnbaum sighed, her kids practically hanging of her arms, “The kids are getting restless.”
“Yay cake!” The feline’s son and daughter cried out in unison.
Gwen nearly zipped up to Sammy, her eyes big, and cute, “I’ll help you!”
“Bugger you will,” Alexandra chuckled, patting Gwen on the head, “You’ll stay right here where you can’t get your fingers on any icing. I’ll accompany our… ravishing host.”
The small skunk pouted and crossed her arms, “Oh! Pfft.”
Sammy blushed somewhat, “O… Oh…! Alright, sure!”
It took some time for those cakes to make it back to the barn, and when they did Nori took a break from catching up with everyone in the room to cut the first piece. The younger guests utterly devoured what they were allowed to eat, while some of the older ones weren’t even that fussy on ice cream. Milkie and Milkette had more than their fair share, justifying that if they bought it, they got precedence over everyone but Nori himself. Someone ended up giving Andria, one of the over-endowed kids, an extra piece just because she was cute. A bit of one was ruined even, due to Alexandra backing into the table while she danced with Siege, the golden dragon who stood taller than even her – Alex’s butt sort of smeared part of the cake, much to her chagrin.
The kids had energy to burn with all the sugar, but Salem made certain they burned it. He, Whitney, and Glint and Spark had their hands full entertaining the kids as best they could, generally encouraging them to dance or chasing them around outside the barn, playing games with them. Some were more active than others – little Miss Catherine Goodlove wasn’t all too fond of getting her clothes dirty.
Nori had his hands full all night. A mouse draped over his lap here, a dance with an old friend there, and a lot of stories swapped between everyone on things like work, and the night made for one busy raccoon. He barely even got to see his kids, the masterminds of the whole operation, but had too much on his plate to actually go out of his way to find them. He was on and off his feet all night, and the party did last well into the evening until people started to file out to put their young ones to bed. Poor Ms. Turnbaum had her son and daughter nodding off as she carried them out, and eventually Sonny had to see that Presa got home.
People filed out a lot more slowly than when they came, but eventually they did leave. The barn emptied out over the course of another hour, until only Nori, Sammy, and Glint and Spark were left to clean up. Despite their insistence, Nori did help them a little, just so he could sooner usher his own kids into the car and see them home.
“I hope you had fun,” Sammy smiled to Nori as she stopped him before he could join Glint and Spark in the car.
“I did,” He nodded, “Thank you ever so much for hosting it.”
“Oh, it was nothing,” She smiled, “At least, nothing but several hours of work.”
Nori chuckled, “It was a great present.”
The Pikachu blushed softly, “Oh that isn’t your gift. Maybe I’ll… well, take you out to dinner sometime.”
Nori gasped in mock shock. “Why, Miss Quine, how the children will gossip!” He said, flicking his wrist and grinning.
Sammy simply smiled a sort of lop-sided grin. She leaned in towards him and kissed him on the cheek. “Well, it’s nothing for them to worry about,” She said, blushing.
Nori grinned and shook his head. “Not at all,” He chuckled, “You have a nice night.”
When Nori finally got back to his car, he dropped himself into the driver’s seat as he closed the door and let out a tired groan. His head fell back against his seat, and he simply laid there a moment with his eyes closed. But then he smiled. “I haven’t had a birthday that good in… a very long time,” He said, “Guys, you--”
Turning his head, he beheld his children, passed out against one another in the back seat of his car and sleeping soundly.
“Jeez,” Nori tsk’d, turning to instead start his car and put his seatbelt on. Eying the twins’ reflection in the rear-view mirror though, he smiled again.
“You guys have no idea how much I love you,” He said, “Though… then again, maybe you might.”
The twins threw a party for Nori. Because it's his birthday on November 11th. But I got impatient and showed it to him anyway. I am the best at surprises.
So... you wanted to show it to him? Sorry! I didn't know that's how you wanted to do stuff. And... unless we showed it to him during a stream, I'm not sure there'd be a way to have us both be there when it happened. :x
Uh, anyway, I assure you he loved it! I'm just going to assume he's already showered you in praise for getting it for him.
So... you wanted to show it to him? Sorry! I didn't know that's how you wanted to do stuff. And... u
No, but it was supposed to wait until his birthday. I'm just...I am NOT pleased at all with having plans that were months in tje making being disrupted because of the gun being jumped, but what's done is done.
No, but it was supposed to wait until his birthday. I'm just...I am NOT pleased at all with having
By rite of It's My Goddamn Birthday, I decree that nobody is allowed to be upset about anything pertaining to said birthday except me. You were incredibly sweet to commission this, and Milkie did an outstanding job writing it. I've been sick for three consecutive days and felt completely dead inside, but the moment I was shown this was absolutely perfect and turned something I usually regard with cynical affair into a memorable and positive day. Being that I'm a person who regards annual events with all the importance of reading a nutritional label on a SPAM can, something that genuinely moved me and brought me into an almost naively happy place was not just unexpected, but inconceivable. I was never happier to be proven wrong and had my inner Scrooge made into a rosy-cheeked comporter of joy.
So, you're a great friend, Milkie's also a great friend, and together you've made me really happy. I forbid you to be anything except happy about this, because ultimately that was the point of the thing.
By rite of It's My Goddamn Birthday, I decree that nobody is allowed to be upset about anything pert
I mean, where do I even start with this? It's like every cross-character "what if" I ever had clashed together into a simple, lovable yet heartfelt tale. Characters I fully had no intention of ever even being able to interact came together to wish me a happy birthday, all in their own special ways, and in the center of it all, a story about two kids who love their goofy, ineffectual adoptive father. Every ice crystal settled onto my heart by this bitter chill was melted all at once, making me feel the joy of such an honest and kid-like thing they did.
The song was so silly, but I actually teared up a little. It was just so sweet.
Fantastic. One of the best birthday presents I've ever received.
I mean, where do I even start with this? It's like every cross-character "what if" I ever had clashe
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