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“...And the Toronto Legion will be heading home, they have been upset by the New York Americans 4-1 in the series, and I guess the only saving grace is that they did not get swept- and oh! Looks like Inker Belle broke her stick in the locker room while she was leaning on it, I don’t know if that was an accident or on purpose but she is obviously very upset, updates and stats across the league will be coming up next, so let’s go on to-” Inker belle puts her head back on the pillow as she turns off the radio broadcast she had Davy record. This is the second time she had been beaten in the playoffs in a disappointing way, and she had let her emotions get the better of her and broke her stick in front of her teammates. She was not ever sure if it was an accident or not, she just knew that she was extremely upset during the moment. Her teammates had not said anything at that time, but she was scared of what the media will say when it is all said and done. How could she be so stupid? The media will be like sharks in the water, they will take this and drag her reputation in the mud! They will- “You have to get up at some point sis” Davy sighs as he opens the door to her bedroom in their nice Toronto home, interrupting her train of thought “If nothing else, you need to feed Buddy” Buddy was their large German Shepherd who happened to also be a guard dog, and Inker Belle sighs as she lifts her head up and started to raise from her bed “Why can’t you do it?” she mumbles as she looks around for some slippers “Because you have to get up” Davy says as he leans on the door “And I am not leaving until you do. Deal with it.” She rolls her eyes at this, but does get up and leaves the room with him, going to grab some dog food and pouring it into a bowl for Buddy, sighing as she gives him a soft pet before he eats. She also pours herself some coffee- Davy must have made a cup, she did not know he even knew how to- and sits on the couch. “Give me the remote Davy” “before I do, we are going to talk about what happened in that locker room” Davy says as he puts the remote away from her grasp “look sis I know that you are ashamed about what happened, but you’re just realize that you had a lapse in judgment, and that the longer you go without making some kind of statement the worse this is going to get. You have to apologize, not just to the media but to your teammate and your GM.” “Y-yeah I guess I really do…” She says somewhat sadly “heh, since when did you become so… I don’t know, what’s the word, detailed I guess with you’re words when it comes to this?” “Ever since I started on the path to get a psychology degree” He smirks “Now do the right thing and call your Gm first. I’ll be right there with you” “fine, I will” she says as she grabs her phone to call the Toronto Gm.

Inker Belle yawns as she sits up in bed, a really tired look on her face "I hate thunderstorms I swear" she mumbles as she stretches. If she had any bones, they would have popped at that moment. Davy was already up, playing a game in the living room "hey bro, are you winning?" "Not really" Davy sighs, as the TV shows that he is down 0-3 in the VHL video game "I tried out playing goalie on hard mode on the career mode, and I swear, my teammates feel like they lost a lot of braincells" "Well, it's the hard mode, what did you expect?" Inker shrugs as she sits down next to him "am I in the game yet?" "No, at least not you in your VHL uniform" Davy says as he pauses the game and turns it off "I think I need a break" "Oh come on, don't rage quit on me" Inker smirks "Oh screw off sis, it wasn't even an online match, I think I'll be fine" he sits back down and sips from the coffee on the table "anyways, what's your plan for today?" "I really don't know" Inker shrugs "I think I have a free day, so there's not much that I have to do. I don't know, I might go outside and just draw something" "It has been a while since you've done that" "Yeah I just haven't had the time" Inker says, before stretching again and putting on some shoes "you want to come with me?" "Yeah, I don't have much to do myself" Davy smiles before they both headed out of thier condo "how long before our new house is ready?" "Should be ready pretty soon" Inker says"I think the only issue is just making sure that the ones I am looking at are close enough to the city" "I thought we were gonna get the one inside the city. You know, the one with the big backyard" "It's the neighborhood close by it that I'm worried about. There's been a few robberies reported there. Plus, I think that real estate guy was trying to screw with us on that cost compared to how big the actual house was" "Ehh that's fair" Davy sighs, and the two of them sit down on a bench at the local park with Inker grabbing her notebook and drawing pencils. "At least it's a nice day now. I swear, those thunderstorms felt like they wouldn't end. I'm not sure if I even fell asleep" Inker says as she starts sketching out a rough draft drawing of the park "I was scared that a tornado was gonna come down on us! At least they dry these benches pretty quickly" "You sure about that bro?" Inker says before Davy checks his shorts to find out that they are a bit wet "Ahh dang it!" He pouts "How did you not notice that the benches are wet?" Inker asks as she takes a picture of the park for future reference "What didn't you say anything before?!" "These shorts are water resistant" Inker shrugs, before getting a call from her manager Paul "today? I'm not sure about doing an interview today...yeah tomorrow would be fine!" She says to him before ending the call "if you would Davy, could you please put an interview tomorrow in my reminder?" "Yeah yeah, keep your water proof shorts on" Davy rolls his eyes and smiles a bit before he goes to grab Inker's planner. I kinda lost my idea for this when I was over halfway through, but just decided to finish it off. Hope you enjoyed regardless.

"..Inker gets the puck, moves it around trying to find an opening, save by the goalie...rebound and SCORE! Inker Belle gets her second goal and Toronto goes up 1-0!" The game announcer says as Inker Belle pumps her fist up and cheers before fist bumping her fellow players and heading back to the bench. It has been one amazing first season in the VHL for Inker, and she was having all kinds of fun playing for the first place Toronto Legion. After the game, Inker goes back on the team bus, massaging a slight bruise on her cheek but still feeling great about the 2-1 victory over the Malmo Nighthawks. She was showing off her teeth to a fellow player who was curious about them when her cell phone rang. "Hello Inker, it's your manager Paul" the voice on the other end said "sorry for calling from a weird number, but I kinda dropped my phone in a bathtub. Last time I check my phone while I'm giving my dog a bath!" "Shouldn't you just use the shower head when giving a dog a bath?" Inker said curiously, raising an eyebrow "Nah Buddy is a big golden retriever, we kinda need to give him a big bath. Anyways, I'm calling you from my brother's phone to say that the performance from you in the latest game is why I love representing you!" "Oh well I have to give a lot of credit to my teammates as well, it's not just me!" She smiles "You're pretty humble as well, that's good too! Well the other reason that I am calling you is because we have a few merch sponsorship deals to look through" "Oh? I wasn't sure if I would get sponsorship offers this early" "Well they are all local, but still" Paul shrugs "once you get back in Toronto, we'll look over things and see which ones look good to you, sound good?" "Yeah sure! I'll see you when I get back in Toronto. Oh, and sorry about your phone, do you think you'll be able to get a replacement?" "Oh I'll probably have a replacement by the time you get back, don't worry too much about it" Inker got off the phone after that, and some time later she heads to Paul's office, where she looks over a few offers "you're not feeling the steakhouse sponsorship? Why's that?" "I'm not that big on steaks, and besides i haven't really eaten there before." Inker shrugs "When I get sponsored by something, I want everyone to know that I have tried it before and it is good, you know?" "Yeah I get that" Paul nods, before pointing to a hockey gear sponsorship "don't you use their pads?" "Oh yeah! I use their gear a lot" Inker smiles "that does sound pretty good. We should probably call them about it, much more relevant then a bobblehead sponsorship. I stopped collecting bobbleheads a while ago" "Why did you stop?" "Well my brother had an intervention when he discovered that I almost filled two boxes full of bobbleheads. Kinda glad that he did, it was getting expensive. This was back in the VHLM by the way." "I see! We'll I'll go call the people at Evergame Gear, and we'll go from there, ok?" Paul says as he grabs his new phone "Sounds good!"

"Sis why are we out here?" Davy asks his sister Inker Belle as they drive through the streets of Toronto "it's so cold! Couldn't we have waited until it got a little warmer to do whatever you have to do?" "We can deal with the cold Davy, and it's bothering you so much just turn the heat up!" Davy nods gratefully at his sis as she says that and goes to do just that "besides, I don't get much of an opportunity to go explore places during the season, and I really want to explore this museum. I already got our admission for today and everything!" "Fine fine sis" Davy sighs "hopefully this museum will be worth it" he looks up at the sky to see a few clouds in it "ugh, I really hope that it doesn't snow" "The weather guy said it shouldn't, but I think we both know that blindly trusting the news is a bad idea" Inker shrugs slightly "it's why I told you that it might be a good idea for you to bring your extra big coat" "I should have listened sis, I really should have" Davy sighs as they park near the museum entrance. They get out of their Sudan and join a small crowd that are at the entrance, trying but failing to look unassuming. It's hard when you are an Inkling to look unassuming in a group of humans, but luckily the people seemed to recognize that Inker and Davy wanted to relax so not too many asked for an autograph. A few asked her questions about the latest trades the Toronto Legion made, and she answered them the best way she could. "It's good that the Legion are making so many moves, and I like that we are staying competitive. And yeah, I really do still feel safe on my position, nothing is really worrying me in terms of being traded or anything like that" The tour guide walked up to them soon after Inker said that, and they were led around the museum. Inker started getting in the zone, as learning about human history and biology is one of her favorite past times. "Wow so this is a human skeleton?" She says as she looks at the big model of a skeleton "interesting, we Inklings don't even have any bones" "Wow really?" The tour guide says as he raises an eyebrow "Yeah, we are invertebrates!" Inker smiles, before they were led to a section about the history of warfare, with Inker being particularly interested in a section about the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage. "It makes you wonder how much of the military strategies showed here would inspire formations in sports like hockey. Heck, now I'm wondering if Hannabal or Scipio would have enjoyed VHL hockey!" "Do you always have hockey on the brain sis?" Davy chuckles "I mean, it's good to always be thinking about what makes you money but we're trying to relax here" "Oh sorry bro" Inker giggles sheepishly as she scratched the back of her head and looked at the display showing the history of the Punic Wars "still, learning about this stuff is way better than working for Grizzco like my dad did"

"...And despite having the most high powdered offense we have seen in a while, the Halifax 21st have unfortunately fallen in the finals-" Inker Belle shuts off the TV and sighs in frustration as she continues to pack. "Hey I was watching that!" Her brother Davy says as he gets up to grab the remote, before Inker grabs it, glaring at him. "You know that I am in a bit of a bad mood Davy, listening to SimESPN just makes it worse" she says, sighing "now please help me pack, we have to head to start heading to the airport tomorrow and I want to be sure that I got everything" "I thought you said earlier that you did have everything sis" Davy says, rolling his eyes a bit. "Yeah, and that was before I realized that I forgot to pack my tentacle clips, now please come on!" At that, Davy sighs and gets up to look around the place for anything loose. "Oh hey I forgot to pack my running shoes aheh" Davy chuckles a bit sheepishly. "See? This is why we make sure that we have everything" Inker smiles "Yeah yeah, I get it sis" Davy smiles. Soon enough, after double and triple checking everything, they have it all in the moving van and were on their way to the airport "so sis, do you know what we are expecting to see when we get there?" "A former Toronto player named Armani Calamari will be meeting us at the Toronto airport and will show us to our temporary condo, and then we will be shown around the arena afterwards. I thought I told you this, did I forget to?" "You may have sis" Davy shrugs before they reach the airport. The flight to Toronto was most uneventful besides from a crying baby that took over 15 minutes to calm down and Davy somehow sleeping through it all. Inker had to shake Davy awake when they touched down, and they made it through customs ok despite an overzealous airport security guard wondering if the hockey sticks were dangerous. "Hey welcome to Toronto!" Armani says as he waves at them once they get out of the lobby "hope the plane trip wasn't too bad" "Ehh it wasn't too bad, Davy slept through it all" Inker giggles before Davy gives her an annoyed light punch on the shoulder. "Well, I hope you both can get some rest before the arena tour, but I bet you two want to grab something to eat before that. I know a great place for some sushi" "Oh man that sounds great!" Davy says as his stomach rumbles "Yeah and we can see around the city as we do that" Inker smiles before they both get in Armani's car. She looks around the big city or Toronto as they headed to the sushi place, just taking it all in. It may have been a bit delayed, but she was finally going to the big leagues. It was finally all coming together, and now hopefully she can show everyone what she is made of. But first, she thinks as her own stomach rumbles, time to eat off this jet lag!

Halifax stronk

Thank you for the award

Yee again

Yee

Dear Mom and Dad: Hope you two are doing well! Me and Fact have been doing alright, even if he was a bit disappointed that we had to leave Las Vegas for Halifax. And yeah, after I was sent down by the Toronto Legion, I was told that I was to become a free agent in the VHLM due to a weird rule, and I got quite a few offers from various teams including Las Vegas. However, I really wanted to play for a team that I haven't played for before, so I went with Halifax because they had one of the better talks with me. Davy will get over it, plus he loves poutine so I'm sure he'll be happy there! I had to exchange my US money for Canadian money, and yeah different human countries use different kinds of money, I thought it was weird too when I first figured it out. We have flown there a few days ago, and I am enjoying some Tim Hortons coffee while I am typing this to you both. Davy is trying to find a little part time job of his own, but has not had any luck. I think he might have a good lead with potentially being a server for this one fancy restaurant, but we'll see what happens. I expect that I will be playing for Toronto next season, so we'll be staying in Canada and I better get used to the country. The cold isn't bothering me too much luckily, though Davy is having a bit of a hard time with the occasional snow. He slips and slides all over, and I think I will have to take over when it comes to driving us everywhere. And yeah Davy actually got his driver's license, can you believe it? I thought that he bribed the teacher at first! Now I am really sorry that we did not actually visit you this time, but with the free agency stuff and moving again we did not really have any time to go back to Inkopolis. We'll visit you as soon as we find time, we promise! Also we now have a pet: a creature humans call a dog! His name is Buddy, and he is super nice and friendly and loves to pick my face when he is happy. I'll send you both pictures of him with me and Davy. We have gotten settled in our condo well enough, and am hoping that the next move will go even more smoothly than this one, especially since we had such short notice. I will say, I really miss the taste of Inkopolis sea food and wouldn't say no to you all send us some of the frozen fish sticks so we can have them for dinner. The Humans do have some good seafood, but honestly it just doesn't taste quite as good as the ones back home. Maybe it's because I'm so used to the taste back home that nothing else will work for us? Anyways, now me and Davy will be going to a comedy show the GM of the Halifax 21st has invited us too, so I should probably start to wrap this up. We both really love you, and we really hope that we will be able to see you both again. I miss you, and Davy says he misses you too! Your loving daughter, Inker Belle

Congratulations on a great career

Congratulations

Happy to get an MVP nomination