So, tomorrow it'll have been one year since I put up the first chapter of this. Time sure flies, doesn't it? Thanks to all my readers who have enjoyed the story so far, and to those who have helped me improve my writing skills!
Anyways, here's chapter 15! I hope you all enjoy it, and feel free to let me know what you thought of it, what I could improve on, what I
have improved on, and so on.
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Chapter 15: You want us to do five missions in just one day?
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It was another beautiful morning in Fenix Town, and Sera had just woken up and was ready for another day of missions. Last night, her family had been pretty surprised to hear that Sera and her teammates had once again had a part in bringing back one of the missing crystals, even if it was a smaller one due to the presence of two higher ranked rescue teams and the fact that it was Rhythm and the Pokémon of Clarion Desert that had ultimately found the crystal hidden under the desert sands.
Sera wasn’t too concerned about that, however, as there was currently something else on her mind. Blitz had yesterday pointed out to her how few missions they had actually done since reaching Bronze rank, and so Sera had decided to try to do something about that.
“Sis, are you going to eat that?” Volt asked, looking at the berries on Sera’s plate.
“Oh, right,” Sera said, realizing she had momentarily forgotten about her breakfast. “I’m going to need my energy.”
“And what do you need it for?” Volt asked, while trying to see if he could get any more food from his older siblings.
“Rescue team work, silly,” Sera responded, smirking.
“What kind of rescue team work?” Volt asked, trying to steal some berries off of Sirena’s plate.
“Well, I don’t know
exactly what we’ll be doing today yet, but I certainly intend to get a lot of work done today,” Sera replied.
“Sounds to me like you’re probably going to get yourself or your teammates into trouble again,” Volt responded, while sticking his tongue out at Sirena for pulling her plate out of his reach.
“Hey, I know what I’m doing!” Sera replied, glaring at Volt.
“Are you sure about that?” Volt asked, smirking. “Didn’t you mention that those other two rescue teams had to save you and your teammates out of a Monster House yesterday?”
“That wasn’t my fault!” Sera responded.
“Oh? Whose fault was it, then?” Volt asked.
“Um…” Sera wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that, but before she could think of anything, Amethyst walked into the room, having just been outside and fetched the mail.
“Hmm, today’s newspaper looks interesting…” Amethyst commented, levitating the newspaper and a few letters with her telekinesis.
“Were there any letters for me?” Sera asked.
“Oh, yes,” Amethyst responded, levitating a few letters over to Sera. “There seem to be some missions here for you.”
“Ooh, let’s see what I’ve got here…” Sera said, looking through the missions. “… Oh! Two of these are in the same dungeon! Perfect!”
Sera added the missions to the job list for her rescue team, and finished eating her breakfast before heading out. She had some preparations to do, and wanted to get started as soon as possible.
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At the town plaza, several rescue teams were looking at today’s newspaper and talking amongst themselves. Blitz and Chiaki looked around at the various rescue teams while they waited for Sera to show up.
“So, what is going on?” Chiaki asked. “Are they talking about the crystal we retrieved from the desert?”
“Well, the newspaper
does mention it, but it seems they’re more concerned about something else,” Blitz responded, listening carefully while glancing at the newspapers. “It seems they’ve identified the Pokémon that stole the crystals?”
“Huh, they did?” Sera asked, as she walked up to her teammates.
“Apparently, the thief is a Sigilyph,” Blitz responded. “According to one of the Axis Tower guards, it seemed to possess some sort of strange, dark power… I guess that explains that giant plant and the sandstorms that were hiding the crystals, sort of…”
“Weird,” Sera replied. “What kind of dark powers allows anyone to create such things?”
“I don’t know…” Blitz responded, rubbing his forelegs together.
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A short distance away, Stella and Bow were observing the rescue teams, having come to town to do some shopping.
“… I don’t think things are what they seem to be,” Stella muttered under her breath.
“What do you mean?” Bow asked, carrying some apples in her arms.
“… Let’s go home,” Stella responded. “I need to write another letter.”
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Elina was currently relaxing in a tree, quietly wondering to herself who could teach her how to communicate through telepathy. She glanced down to see Stella and Bow as they headed home. They were both psychic types, but Elina didn’t know if either of them could use telepathy or not.
Elina was starting to see a number of reasons why finding someone who could teach her how to use telepathy would be difficult. For one thing, she didn’t know how many psychic types there were in town, or how many of them could communicate via telepathy. And how did she know if she could trust them not to read her mind? The last thing she wanted was for someone to invade her mind in order to find the secret she was hiding…
But even if it wouldn’t be an easy task, she still had to find someone who could teach her. Someone who wouldn’t be interested in searching her mind for information… As she thought about it, a certain psychic Pokémon who did seem unlikely to be interested in such things came to mind. She wasn’t sure if that Pokémon would be willing to help her, but she figured it couldn’t hurt to try asking the Pokémon in question.
However, it was probably best to wait until after all the rescue teams were done for the day...
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At the rescue team HQ, Sera eagerly ran up to the mission board, looking over the various missions on it. Once she noticed one which location matched two of the missions already on her job list, she eagerly jumped up and claimed the mission. She soon spotted another right next to it in the same dungeon and grabbed that one as well.
“All right, this is looking good,” Sera said, wagging her tail happily. “Now let’s see if there’s anything on the outlaw board.”
Sera walked up to the other bulletin board, and looked over the wanted posters, to see if there were any matching the location on the other missions she had picked out. Her ears perked up as she noticed that there was indeed one mission there in the same dungeon as the other missions she had picked out, and eagerly picked it off the bulletin board and added it to the job list.
“Now I’ve got five missions all in the same dungeon!” Sera said, wagging her tail. “That should be enough for one day, don’t you think?”
“Hold on, five missions?” Blitz responded, tilting his head slightly. “You want us to do five missions in just one day?”
“Blitz, don’t you remember what you told me yesterday?” Sera asked, pointing to their rescue team badge. “We’ve only done four missions since we achieved bronze rank, and we’ve only done one mission a day, while other rescue teams tend to do more than one mission a day.”
“Oh, right…” Blitz responded, rubbing the yellow rings on his forelegs together. “We
did talk about that…”
“So, I decided that today, we were going to do a lot of missions in one dungeon,” Sera said, happily wagging her tail. “And that way, we’ll get a lot of points in one go, and a lot of rewards that we can probably use to prepare for our next missions! We’ll become a better rescue team much faster this way!”
“Yeah, I guess…” Blitz replied, nodding his head slightly. “Are you sure we can do five missions in a row like this, though?”
“Why shouldn’t we be able to do it?” Sera responded, smiling at Blitz. “Relax, the mystery dungeon isn’t too difficult, and like I promised, we’ll be better prepared for anything this time!”
“Oh, okay then,” Blitz replied, managing a small smile. “Just don’t push yourself too hard.”
“Let’s do this!” Chiaki said, seeming excited as usual.
“All right, guys!” Sera replied, rolling out their map. “We’ll be heading to this dungeon here, the Green Ravine.”
“What are our missions?” Blitz asked, and Sera showed her teammates the five missions on their job list.
“Two Pokémon want us to find a particular item within the dungeon, one wants a Rainy orb delivered to him, and one Pokémon wants us to look for a friend who got lost in the dungeon,” Sera explained, pointing to the first four missions, before turning her attention to the outlaw mission. “And for this one, someone wants us to retrieve a stolen Pecha Scarf from a Mankey.”
“That doesn’t seem too difficult,” Chiaki commented, smiling. “We’re sure going to help a lot of Pokémon today!”
“Yes, I do think we can probably get all of these missions done,” Blitz said, examining the missions.
“All right, let’s look over our supplies,” Sera responded, opening the bag to reveal the items inside. “Does it look like we have everything we need?”
“Hmm… I don’t believe we had any Vile or X-Eye seeds anyways, so I think we’re as prepared as we can be,” Blitz replied, smiling at Sera.
“Good,” Sera responded, putting the lid back on. “What happened yesterday won’t be happening again!”
“What happened yesterday…?” Chiaki said, tilting his head slightly. “… Oh! You mean when we walked right into that Monster House?”
“Yes, that,” Sera responded. “So, since it seems we’re all ready, let’s get going.”
And so they walked into Kala’s room, and asked her to teleport them over to the Green Ravine. After complaining about how they had disturbed her nap, Kala sent them off to the entrance of the dungeon, before going back to sleep.
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Arriving at the entrance of the Green Ravine, Sera quickly entered the dungeon along with her teammates. Looking over the missions again, she took note of what floors the missions were on, and asked Blitz to help her remember them. The first thing they had to do was get to the fifth floor of the dungeon, where they would have to find a pink gummi for a Roselia.
Sera confidently led the team through the first floor, fighting off wild Pokémon and occasionally collecting a few items as usual.
“Let’s pick up the pace, guys!” Sera said, as they walked up the stairs to the second floor.
“Aren’t we already moving at a pretty good pace?” Blitz asked. “I mean, we’re not in a hurry.”
“But it wouldn’t be nice to keep our clients waiting, would it?” Sera responded, looking around for the next set of stairs.
“I guess not,” Blitz replied, seeing that Sera did have a point there.
Blitz was starting to feel a little concerned about Sera, though. Was she really this energetic today, or was she still having doubts about herself over the Monster House incident the day before and was trying to cover it up? He couldn’t really tell which it was, and figured it was best not to bring it up to her. He also thought it wouldn’t really be any point in bringing it up to Chiaki, since the idea of Sera still feeling bad about what happened at that point probably hadn’t even crossed the Mienfoo’s mind.
So, Blitz just continued to quietly follow along, while helping Sera remember what five floors the five missions were on.
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Stella had gone off to find Santos and ask him to deliver a letter for her, while Bow stayed behind to watch the house. She wasn’t sure why this was necessary, since her mother said she wouldn’t be away for long, and with all the rescue teams around, it was unlikely that anyone would be able to sneak into their home. Bow just wandered around in circles, before stopping next to a chest covered with a white tablecloth.
Looking around as if to make sure no one was watching, even though she knew there was no one else around at the moment, she decided to walk up and pull the tablecloth off the chest, before using her psychic powers to open it and take a peek inside. Inside the chest were the two crystals that had been retrieved so far, being kept safe until they could all be safely returned to Axis Tower.
“They’re so pretty,” Bow said, watching the green and yellow crystal, and reaching out to touch one of them.
Before the tip of the Gothorita’s arm reached the crystals, Bow suddenly felt a bit light headed and her vision was becoming blurry. She closed her eyes for a moment, images of a dark blue crystal and a whirlpool briefly flashing through her mind.
“Did I just have a vision…?” Bow said, rubbing her head and opening her eyes. “Strange, usually they happen at night, when the stars are out…”
Bow closed the chest, and covered it back up with the tablecloth. She then tried to think about what she had just seen in that brief vision she had.
“Something blue and shiny…” Bow said, closing her eyes and trying to think. “Hmm… Oh! Could it have been another one of those crystals?”
Bow tried to recall what the dark blue crystal looked like, and the shape did look the same as the green and yellow crystals. So, it probably was one of the remaining crystals, but where was it? Bow tried to remember what else was in her vision.
“Hmm… Wasn’t there a whirlpool?” Bow thought out loud. “Does that mean the crystal is underwater? I should probably tell someone about this…”
While Bow had been told to wait at home, she figured that it wouldn’t be a problem if she left for just a moment as it was important to let the rescue teams know about the crystals. She would probably also be back by the time her mother returned home anyways. So, she stepped outside, and began heading into town, only for a certain bouncing Azurill to crash into her.
“Ah!” Bow yelled as she fell down.
“Oh, sorry about that, Bow,” Azure said, trying to use the ball on the tip of her tail to help the Gothorita back onto her feet. “You okay?”
“Yeah, I think so,” Bow responded, getting back onto her feet. “Where are you going in such a hurry?”
“I’m going to get more gummis!” Azure said, excitedly bouncing around. “I can feel that I’m getting
really close to evolving now, I just need to eat a few more gummis, and then I should be ready!”
“Oh, that’s great!” Bow responded, smiling at the Azurill. “You’ve been looking forward to evolving for a while, haven’t you?”
“You bet I have!” Azure replied, smiling back. “Hey, what was evolving like for you? Do you remember?”
“Hmm…” Bow thought about it for a moment, trying to remember. “I suppose I do, even if it has been a while since I went through the ceremony at… um… what was the name of that cave again…?”
“It’s the Cave of Renewal, right?” Azure responded helpfully.
“Oh, right!” Bow said, smiling cheerfully. “It was so amazing, the cave walls were all sparkly and there were these blue lights…”
“Sounds pretty,” Azure commented. “But, I’m more interested in hearing about the ceremony, actually.”
“Oh, okay!” Bow responded, taking a moment to try to remember. “Let’s see… There was this voice, and it asked me to stand in the center of the circle carved into the cave floor, and then the pattern on the floor started to glow!”
“Interesting,” Azure replied. “That’s when the process of evolution itself started, isn’t it? How was it?”
“Ooh, it felt really good,” Bow said, smiling. “I felt my body changing, getting a little bit taller, and more powerful… I don’t even know how to really describe it actually…”
“Cool,” Azure replied. “I can’t wait! Well, I should get going. See you later, Bow!”
“Bye-bye!” Bow said, while waving good-bye as the Azurill bounced away.
Once Azure had left, Bow stood there on the path, suddenly looking around in confusion.
“… Why did I come out here…?” Bow wondered out loud, not remembering her original reason for going outside. “Wasn’t I supposed to do something…?”
Bow thought about it, but couldn’t seem to figure out what her errand was.
“Hmm… I’ll figure it out later,” Bow said, turning around and heading back home.
Unbeknownst to Bow, a certain Sigilyph was watching her from the shadows, snickering a little to himself.
“Cassandra’s great, great, great granddaughter…” the Sigilyph muttered to himself. “She doesn’t look too bright… Probably wouldn’t put up much of a fight either…”
He just watched the Gothorita walk back to her home, before flying off.
“For now, I should leave, but I certainly plan on seeing
her again…” the Sigilyph said, with a sinister laugh as he flew off into the distance.
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Sera, Blitz and Chiaki were now on the seventh floor of the Green Ravine, having found the pink gummi on the fifth floor and brought it with them, and they were now looking for the Pokémon that had requested the Rainy Orb. Chiaki still did wonder why it wanted to meet them in a place like this just to receive an item, and then leave. Why not just meet in town?
“How hard can it be to find one Pokémon one wouldn’t expect to see in a place like this?” Sera said, looking around. “Are you sure we’re on the right floor?”
“The mission did say the seventh floor,” Blitz responded, nodding his head slightly.
As the three young Pokémon got around a corner, they suddenly spotted a big bipedal Pokémon resembling a rhinoceros with a gray body that made it look like it was partially made of stone. Blitz was a bit intimidated by the Rhydon, but still followed his two teammates as they walked up to it to deliver the Rainy Orb.
“You wanted this, right?” Sera said, pointing to Chiaki who held up the orb.
“Ah, yes,” the Rhydon responded, picking up the orb. “These make watering my plants so much easier. Thank you so much for bringing me one!”
“You’re welcome,” Sera replied.
“Well, I’ll head back to town now,” the Rhydon said. “I’ll come by the rescue team headquarters to give you your reward later!”
And with that, the Rhydon teleported out of the dungeon with a little help from the magic of the rescue team badge.
“All right, two down, three to go!” Sera said, wagging her tail. “The next one is on the next floor, right?”
“Correct,” Blitz responded. “According to the mission from the Kabuto, his friend Omanyte is lost somewhere on the eighth floor.”
“How does he know which floor she got lost on?” Chiaki asked, tilting his head slightly.
“Who cares, let’s just go save her,” Sera responded, turning back as she remembered passing the stairs while looking for the Rhydon.
The three of them quickly made it back to where the stairs were, and moved onto the next floor, and started looking for the lost Omanyte. Chiaki liked how in most missions, they knew exactly where to look for the things they needed to find. It felt a lot easier to just focus on missions, rather than try to figure out his true identity. While he didn’t show it much, Chiaki
was bothered by his amnesia, and the fact that he hadn’t been able to regain any of his memory.
However, since he didn’t know where to search for his lost memories, he figured there wasn’t really any point in trying to find them for now. The only lead he really had was Elina, and perhaps once she worked out a more effective way to communicate with him other than body language, she’d be able to tell him what she knew about him.
Despite all that, he didn’t mind waiting, even if it could possibly take a while. After all, there was plenty for him to do until then.
“I think I see her!” Blitz said, pointing to a blue Pokémon covered mostly by a very light brown shell.
“Good job, Blitz!” Sera responded, moving towards the lost Omanyte. “Let’s save her, and move onto the next one!”
The Omanyte was grateful that the rescue team had found her, and the magic of the rescue team badge sent her back to town so she could meet up again with her friend. With three missions done, there were only two more to go. First, they had to find a particular item on the tenth floor, and the outlaw that had the stolen Pecha Scarf they had to retrieve was on the eleventh floor.
“So, how much closer do you think we’ll be to Silver rank after this?” Sera asked.
“Hmm… Well, it’ll certainly bring us closer to it, but we’ll still have some way to go, I think,” Blitz responded.
“Good enough for me,” Sera replied, stopping for a moment to catch her breath. “Whew, I’m starting to feel a little tired from walking so fast…”
“Should we take a break, or slow down a little?” Blitz asked, sounding a bit concerned for his teammate.
“Sure, let’s slow down a little,” Sera responded, smiling at Blitz. “But not too much, though! We can’t keep our clients waiting!”
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After quickly getting through the ninth floor, and searching the tenth floor until they found the item they were asked to find, the rescue team walked over to the stairs that would take them to the eleventh floor and their last mission for the day. Sera briefly stopped and set down their bag, and opened the lid to take another look at the items.
“All right, we’ll need to fight in order to get the stolen item back, so does it look like we’ve got what we need for this?” Sera asked.
“Hmm, I think so,” Blitz responded, looking over the items. “It would be easier if we had any Vile or X-Eye seeds, and while we
do have a couple of Sleep seeds, I don’t know if they’ll be useful in this situation since the Mankey may have an ability that makes them immune… There is a Totter seed in here we might be able to use, though.”
“Think that’s enough?” Sera asked.
“We have a few orbs that can be used too,” Blitz responded. “We should probably avoid using the ones that affect multiple Pokémon in one room, though.”
“Okay,” Sera replied. “Let’s go.”
The rescue team headed up the stairs to the eleventh floor, where they came across a Pokémon with light brown fur, two short pointy ears, long arms and legs and a long tail, and a nose resembling a pig’s snout. The Mankey was holding the stolen Pecha Scarf, trying to figure out how he wanted to wear the pink scarf, seeing as he didn’t really have a neck.
“Hmm… Maybe tied around my tail?” the Mankey said, thinking out loud. “No, that’ll make me look like a girl…”
“Hey!” Sera shouted, startling the Mankey for a moment. “I believe you have something that isn’t yours, and we’re here to make you return it!”
“Oh, no way!” the Mankey responded, holding tightly onto the scarf. “This thing is going to help me get into Oddish territory so I can gather chestnuts there without needing to worry about the Poison Powder the Vileplume in that area spread to keep other Pokémon out!”
“Why’d you have to steal it?” Chiaki asked, tilting his head slightly. “I’m pretty sure Pecha Scarves like that can sometimes be found lying around in dungeons, so why not try to get one of your own?”
“Shut up!” the Mankey shouted, charging at Chiaki.
Chiaki quickly used Detect to avoid the Mankey’s attack, and then followed it up with a Fake Out to make the Mankey flinch. Blitz then took the opportunity to charge up electricity and tackle the Mankey whilst coated in the electricity, knocking the Mankey onto its face. The enraged fighting type got back up, and charged at Sera, who quickly used her tail to fling some sand into its eyes while jumping out of the way.
As the Mankey brushed the sand off his face, Sera considered throwing one of the seeds at him. However, she wasn’t entirely sure where the Mankey’s mouth was, and thus wasn’t sure where to aim. Blitz hit the Mankey with another Spark attack, and Chiaki attempted to strike the Mankey, only for the Mankey to knock him aside.
“Why won’t any of you just hold still!?” the Mankey shouted.
Chiaki looked up to see the Mankey charging at him, and quickly had to block a Karate Chop from the Mankey by grabbing his paw at the right moment. The angry pig-monkey Pokémon simply picked up Chiaki while the Mienfoo was still holding onto his paw, and began swinging him over his head.
“Go away!” the Mankey shouted, throwing Chiaki at Sera, knocking them both to the ground.
As Sera and Chiaki tried to get back onto their feet, the Mankey began charging at them again, only to be tackled aside by Blitz.
“You’re in my way!” the Mankey screamed, attempting to strike at Blitz with Fury Swipes.
Blitz managed to dodge the attacks, and then made his fur shine in order to momentarily blind the Mankey, so he could hit him with Spark yet again. The Mankey tried to get up, only for Blitz to press his paw against the Mankey’s back and zap him with electricity, making the Mankey drop the scarf.
“So, I’ll just take this back now,” Blitz said, taking the Pecha Scarf that had fallen out of the Mankey’s hand.
“You did it, Blitz!” Sera said, happily running up to her teammate along with Chiaki.
“Are you two okay?” Blitz asked, looking a bit concerned. “It looks like you two got hit pretty hard.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll just eat an Oran berry and I’ll be fine!” Sera responded, wagging her tail.
“Yeah, same here,” Chiaki replied, giving Blitz a reassuring smile.
“Well, that’s a relief,” Blitz responded, rubbing the rings on his forelegs together.
Suddenly, the Mankey jumped up and landed on the ground a short distance from the rescue team, glaring at them.
“FINE! You can take that stupid scarf back, as long as it means I don’t have to deal with more of you!” the Mankey shouted, jumping up and down in anger. “I’ll go search the mystery dungeons for my own Pecha Scarf, and if anyone else tries to get in my way,
I'll beat them up!”
And with that the Mankey ran off, angrily muttering something under his breath as he went off somewhere.
“Hey, he’s getting away!” Chiaki said, looking a bit worried. “Shouldn’t we go after him?”
“I think we should probably just return to Fenix Town and return this scarf to its rightful owner,” Blitz responded. “While I feel bad for whatever unfortunate wild Pokémon may end up in his path, I don’t think there’s much more we can really do about this.”
“And if he causes trouble for anyone again, maybe some other rescue team will be able to handle it,” Sera added.
“I guess…” Chiaki responded. “It doesn’t feel quite right to just leave him like that, though.”
“I know,” Blitz replied. “Let’s just hope another rescue team eventually deals with it once someone tracks him down.”
“Well, let’s go back to town,” Sera said, letting the power of the rescue team badge spread its golden light and teleport them back to the rescue team HQ.
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After picking up their rewards at the rescue team HQ, the rescue team decided to head over to the café. While waiting for River to give them their drinks, the three looked over the rescue team badge and the rewards from the mission.
“Looks like we got a good amount of money from this one,” Blitz commented. “And I think we got some useful items out of it too.”
“Yeah, this was definitely a success,” Sera responded, looking somewhat worn out. “I don’t think we’ll be doing this many missions at once
every day, though.”
“Agreed,” Blitz replied, chuckling a little. “Although, I guess we wouldn’t be likely to
find five missions in the same location every day, anyways!”
“Wow, you really did five missions today?” Frederick asked, while cleaning the tables in the café.
“Yes, we did!” Chiaki responded, with his signature cheerful smile. “We got to help a lot of Pokémon today!”
“That’s nice,” Frederick replied, nodding his head slightly. “Hey, does this table look clean now? It
smells clean, but I can’t really tell for sure.”
“I’ll be with you in a second,” River said, setting down the glasses of berry juice the rescue team had ordered on the counter. “There you all go!”
“Thanks, River!” Sera replied, immediately drinking up about half of the Leppa berry juice she had ordered in one gulp. “Ooh, I needed that.”
“Don’t drink it all up too fast,” River said, while looking over the table that Frederick had just cleaned. “After all, don’t you have to go home and eat dinner soon?”
“Relax, I won’t spoil my appetite,” Sera responded.
“If you say so,” River replied, while letting Frederick know she was satisfied with the table before guiding him over to the next table he had to clean.
While the rescue team enjoyed their drinks and Frederick continued cleaning the tables, Azure suddenly bounced into the café.
“I’m back!” Azure said, happily bouncing on her tail.
“Azure, where have you been?” River asked, pointing to a window at the position of the sun outside. “You were supposed to be back half an hour ago!”
“Sorry, I forgot to pay attention to the sun,” Azure responded sheepishly. “But I did manage to get a few gummis, and now I’m going to be even closer to evolving!”
“Azure, I know you want to evolve and go on adventures,” River replied, sighing. “But you
do realize that if I’m going to allow you to go off on your own, you need to be back when I tell you?”
“I said I was sorry,” Azure responded. “And next time, I promise I’ll be back when I’m supposed to be!”
“Good,” River replied, patting Azure on the head.
River then went back to work, Azure went to help Frederick with the tables and the rescue team eventually finished their drinks and headed home for the day. After a day of a lot of missions, it was going to feel nice to get some sleep.
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At the rescue team HQ, a certain Abra was asleep in her room as usual. Even after the day was over, she and a few of the others at the rescue team HQ would stay behind even when there were no more rescue teams coming in for the day. Nurse Giselle and some of the Pokémon assisting her would stay behind in order to look after patients or in case an emergency came up.
However, Kala wasn’t entirely sure why she chose to remain in her room at the HQ even after the day was over. While there had been instances of Pokémon showing up at night to ask her to teleport them somewhere, she wasn’t exactly too thrilled about the idea of having someone disturb her in her sleep when her work day was supposed to be over.
Then again, she wasn’t exactly too thrilled about her sleep being interrupted any
other time either. While some might call her lazy, Kala
was an Abra, after all, and so did need eighteen hours of sleep every day in order to keep her psychic powers strong. And as long as she
did do her job, no one could really complain.
As Kala lay comfortably on her pillow, she suddenly felt something poking her head. She tried to ignore it, but whoever it was, they weren’t going away. Kala sleepily opened her eyes, and saw a certain Elgyem hovering next to her.
“Oh, it’s you again…?” Kala asked, yawning. “Do you have any idea what time it is…?”
Elina sheepishly looked down on the floor, as the Abra sat up, sleepily rubbing her eyes.
“Okay… So, where do you need to go at this hour…?” Kala asked, pointing at the map.
Elina just shook her head, much to Kala’s confusion.
“You
don’t need me to teleport you anywhere…?” Kala asked, seeming as if she was about to fall asleep again any second. “Well, what
do you want, then…?”
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End of chapter 15.
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