This choice: They make it to the new town. • Go Back... Blast and Char borrowed a minivan that the circus occassionally use to get to town. After they reached their destination, Blast got the facepaint while Char got the table to set out for the face paint cirucs ad. Char grunted pulling the table out of the minivan and lifted it over his head.
"How come I got stuck with the heavy lifting?" huffed Char.
"Come on, bro," said Blast. "It's not that bad. Think of it as a warm up for the main event!"
Blast and Char set the table on a random sidewalk of the city and set a poster advertising for the circus. They were already getting stares from people walking by because of their giant sizes. After they were done, Blast and Char took a seat next to their table ready to spread the word of the circus.
A few shouts and poses from Blast and Char caught some people's attention but not enough to stop and get tickets for the circus. Char sighed. "I don't know if this is working bro. Most of the guys here think we're a couple of weirdos!"
Blast patted Char's shoulder. "Relax bro. We've only been at this for about an hour. Just be a bit more patient. We'll get more people for the show. I promise! Let's just keep doing on what we do best!"
The two continued their posing, mainly just flexing their muscles than shouting. Char didn't even seem much into it as his friend here, just flexing certain parts without much interest. "Hm?" The enlarged dragon barely notices a small pokemon standing before him. A buneary at that. "Well, hi there little guy!"
The lone buneary just stares brightly at Char. He wasn't excited, but he wasn't scared either. "There you are..." The two muscled pokemon look up behind the little one, noticing a tall lopunny walk up behind her youngan. She puts her hands on her hips, "I can't walk ten feet without you walking off on your own, can I." She looks up at the muscular duo, "Oh, hello. Guess he walked up to you guys, huh."
Char struts himself up a bit, "Yup. Sure did."
The lopunny picks up her yougan, "What exactly is going on here?"
"We're actually from out of town, here to entice new customers to come check out our circus.", Blast explains happily.
"Oh.", the lopunny replies. "So, are you guys like, performers from there?"
"Yup! We sure are!", Char replies excitedly. He elbows his pal, and they both flex a fine side chest pose, "Me and my friend are known as the 'strongmen' of the group." They even gave her a wink.
The lopunny chuckles softly. "Wow. Sounds interesting. I think I might be interested."
Blast holds up a thin paintbrush, "Here, would you like to let your kid draw on us?"
"I-hi'm sorry?", she chuckled.
"Yay! Drawing!", her child yelps.
"We're also doing this thing where we let kids draw on us for fun.", Char adds. "How 'bout it?"
The buneary starts air clenching for the brush in the lopunny's arms, "Well...if you want to."
She sets her youngan down, "Yay!"
"You know, it's funny." Char and Blast turn their gaze to her. "Normally my young would be afraid of burly pokemon like you. And you two are the biggest I've seen yet. Guess you two must have a lot of experience with kids."
"Well sure!", Blast replies, handing the buneary his brush.
Char and Blast flex one bulging arm beside the other, "We're a child-friendly circus!"
"Well that's good.", the lopunny replies happily. "'Cause this town is full of them."
"Are there a lot of adults like you too?", Char winks, only to get wacked by Blast in return, "Ow!" Char rubbed his arm where blast had struck him and shot him a small frown.
"what was that for?" Blast only crosses his arms in response.
"You know why. don't flirt with every woman you see." Char blew out a puff of smoke from his nostrils as he nodded his head before the smile came back.
"Hey I can't help it, I see a pretty woman and I can't help complimenting her" This earned him a smile from the Lopunny. Blast rolled his eyes, but a smile played at his lips as he simply shook his head.
"Alright you big ham then you get to be painted on first." Char smiled as he nodded his head.
"Okay okay. It's only fair i guess." Blast slowly lowered down onto one knee as he handed the buneary the small plastic containers of paint.
"You can draw whatever you want." The buneary was practically hopping with excitement as Char squatted down and smiled, flexing his bicep, letting the pokemon's eyes go wide with excitement. As he dipped the brush into some blue paint Char did he best to hold still. The paint felt cool against his skin and a small laugh bubbled up. "Man that is some cold paint."
It only took a couple minutes for the small kid to finish before he handed the brush back to blast. As Char stood up he twisted his arm around to admire his new 'tattoo.' In a cool deep blue paint was a small smiley face that looked like a pikachu's face. "Nice! you're a great artist."
The buneary cheers a little for himself, his mother laughing a bit in return. She picks up her little one, "You did a great job."
Char holds out a small flier to her. "Glad your kid had fun." He flexes a bulging arm of his own, "There'll be more of this if you and him both would like to come to our circus." Blast nudges Char on his side a bit.
The lopunny takes the flier. "I'll have to think about it now. See you soon." The lopunny walks off on her way, Char and Blast watching as their first customer walks away with her child.
Blast hears a sniffle come from his pal. "You okay?"
Char wipes his eye. "Brings tears to my eyes."
"What? That her kid had fun?"
"No. I just wish I could be that kid, being picked up by such a fine lady." Blast sticks his large, tensing arm out, ready to pulverize his friend. Char shields himself, "I'm kidding!!"
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