Xenoblade Chronicles - The Collectopedia

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 Title: The Collectopedia

Fandom: Xenoblade Chronicles

Author: tehexile 

Rating: G/gen

Characters: Riki, Reyn, Dunban, Sharla, Shulk

Words: 400

Tags: humour, slice of life, banter

Summary: the party argue over what to call a new collectable artifact

Picture: 160

They all crowded around the unknown object in Reyn's hand, Riki even climbing on the big man's head to get a better vantage point. Reyn had been chosen as the person with the largest hands as the item was quite bulky and heavy compared to most such relics. Before they could put it in the collectopedia, they had to name it. This could prove difficult when they had no idea what it was for. 

 

They couldn't even decide whether to file it under 'nature' or 'mysterious'. It looked and behaved like stone, a thick slab with rounded edges to be used as a tray or slate, maybe, or possibly a large pebble that had been eroded by water into a flatter, smoother shape. It had been positioned on purpose for water to drip onto it from the Makna Falls, but sheltered and fixed in place so that it wouldn't be completely destroyed or swept away by the current. The drips onto the near perfect smooth surface made a delightful array of musical notes like a xylophone. Reyn had been trying to replicate the noise until Sharla clipped him around the ear for being too rough with the rare artifact.

 

"It's called a Water Stone," insisted Reyn.

 

"I'm still convinced we've used that one before somewhere," replied Dunban, "Or it might be what they called that bookshop back in Colony 9. How about 'Waterfall Concerto'?"

 

"That won't fit on the label. Why do all your suggestions have to be so flowery?" demanded Reyn.

 

"Yeah, Dundun dummy," piped up Riki, jumping up and down on Reyn's shoulders, "I know! I know! It called a 'splish splosh splash'!"

 

"Stop doing that!" yelled Reyn, trying to pry the Nopon off his back.

 

"We're definitely sure its a stone?" mused Shulk.

 

"We don't have time to do a million tests on it," Reyn told him, wincing. Riki had shoved the handle of his Biter down Reyn's shirt for purchase.

 

"You haven't named one for a while, Sharla. What do you think it should be called?" Dunban shouted over to the medic.

 

"Huh? Oh... I... er, fell asleep. Sorry."

 

"Please take the Collectopedia seriously! Our exploration is for the sake of future generations!" yelled Shulk.

 

"Riki bored too," declared the Nopon, leaping from Reyn's shoulder onto the object, then slapping onto it a label he'd already taken from somewhere and written, in spidery Nopon handwriting, 'SplishSploshSplash!'