We were on our way to Valkrie Island when I decided to train Fletchling and Zorua. They may be out of their Pokeballs, but they lacked skill nourishment, which is an important necessity of every Pokemon! I battled as much trainers I could find on board, as did Valery. It was a stroke of luck that none of us were able to find angry grandpa and his secretary.
There weren't any police on board either.
Eating our sundae, covered with a shed at the deck, Valery and I remembered something fascinating.
"What could this Pokemon be?" she asked.
"Hmm... Didn't you say you've got an idea about what it is?" I said as she passed to me the paper we found back in Carmen Desert.
"I never said I had any idea about it exactly, I said my memory is too lazy to tell me what it is!"
"Then search it up in the Pokedex."
Using her Rotom-Phone, she pictured the Pokemon that would automatically scan it for us and determine what type it is and its full description.
[Hoopa Confined is a light-purple Pokémon with a vaguely humanoid appearance. It has green eyes with yellow sclerae, a yellow ring marking on its forehead, a small, pink dot under each eye, and dark pink hair tied into a short ponytail. On either side of its head is a dark gray horn that curves slightly upward.
Its body has a dark pink, V-shaped marking on the chest and a small, golden spike on each shoulder. Its arms are not attached to its body and instead float next to it; each arm has a small golden spike similar to those on its shoulders. It has mitten-like hands and dark pink rings around each wrist. In place of legs, it has a wispy tail. Hoopa has seven gold rings: one large one around its lower body and one hanging freely on each of its horns.]
"Hoopa?" she mumbled. Her hand froze and now I believed she had recalled something else.
"And look, it has another form."
[Hoopa Unbound is a large, bipedal Pokémon with six arms. It is mostly light blue with purple fur and hair. The ponytail on its head is larger and bushier and held in place by two golden rings. Its hair now covers its chin, where it forms a pointed beard, and the back of its neck. The horns are less curved and have spiky purple hair around the bases. There are three gold rings on each horn: two around the base and one around the middle. It has yellow eyes white sclerae, a pointed, dark gray nose, a small hole inside of the ring-marking on its forehead, and prominent fangs in the back of its lower jaw. Similar to Hoopa Confined, its arms are disconnected and float next to its body. Instead of a small, gold spike the arms now have large, dark gray spikes and appear from holes along the sides of its body.
Each arm has three fingers with dark gray claws, a gold ring around the wrist, and a gold ring around the base. Several tufts of purple fur surround its torso and a gold ring encircles a hole in the center of its chest. Another large gold ring encircles its waist and there are small tufts of fur poking out from underneath it.
There is a purple stripe that widens at the knee down each leg and two gold rings around each ankle. The tips of its feet are gold and curl upward. Additionally, this form has a tail with a purple stripe along the top and an arrow-shaped tip. Hoopa Unbound is tied with Mega Gyarados as the tallest Dark-type.]
"Poppy..." Valery mumbled. "Poppy, I remember."
"Who's Poppy?"
"Don't laugh, but when I was a kid, my imagination was pretty stupid."
"No imagination is stupid. Is Poppy your--"
"Yes. My imaginary friend. I did say I was lonely and had only my parents, so since I didn't have any friends, I made my own. I called that little cutie, Poppy. It played with me and brought me to different places! Spectacular places with its hoops. One of my favorite places I've been to with Poppy was a corridor. It was dark, that time, and then the tiles were checkered. I think I was in an airplane or a corridor of a large ship. The corridor had thousand of sculptures that Poppy and I destroyed one by one!"
"Sculptures destroyed?"
"Yeah! We were a naughty duo who likes to smash stuff with bats."
"Oh. And coincidently--"
"I didn't know Poppy was a real Pokemon. I was dumbfounded to learn this Pokemon was not of my creation. Years back, I kinda got bored of Poppy and forgot about him eventually."