Hey! I'm finally back with a sequel!
I meant to put this up sooner while people still cared about Disastrous Chance or Fate, but I lost motivation.
But it's here now!
Disclaimer: Just like last month and the own before that I still don't own Pokémon.
Chapter One: Meeting Again
A flame blast hit a nimble pink creature in the side. The pink creature jumped back and fired a psybeam towards its attacker, a houndoom.
The houndoom took the attack full force and started wobbling on his legs. The pink creature didn't even attempt to finish it off, but just dodged the numerous flame blasts being sent her way.
The houndoom eventually cornered the pink creature against the mossy walls of the mystery dungeon.
The houndoom glared into the pesky pink creature's lavender eyes expecting to see fear or at least anger, but only saw satisfaction. It was then the houndoom sensed something was very wrong. As he was about to attempt to flee, a faint attack hit the pitiable Pokémon from behind.
"Another victory for Team Chance!" The mystery Pokémon yelled as the pink creature picked up a sun stone that the pair had been hired to retrieve from what their client had called "a conniving houndoom who attacks innocent Pokémon" that morning.
"Great job Autumn! Through I did amazingly too," the strange grass-type said sticking his oddly long nose into the air proudly.
The espeon rolled her eyes at her companion's nonsense. Earlier he had been hiding in a corner because he was too scared to go up against a fire-type. Now he was bragging.
"Shut up Acorn, and let's go collect our reward." Autumn laughed turning to grab their exploration badge that marked Team Chance as an official exploration team.
"Can you stop calling me that. It's been a year since I evolved from a seedot into a nuzleaf," Charlie whined.
Autumn smiled at her companion's antics. One year since Charlie had evolved. Three years since she formed Team Chance with him. Three years since she had last seen Gray, an absol that had turned himself in to the Pokémon police.
The normally energetic espeon was hit by a wave of nostalgia. All these years later and she still caught herself thinking about him.
Autumn shook her head clearing her head. After all these years the chances of finding him was slim. She had checked the records of every prison in the area but couldn't find even one absol.
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Charlie watched as his partner happily accepted the reward from their client, a charizard, but he couldn't help noticing that Autumn seemed a bit . . . sad.
She didn't look it. She was chatting happily with their client about ways not to get mugged in dungeons and the charizard seemed fascinated by Autumn's every word, but Charlie knew better.
They had trained together in the same guild for one year 4 months and two hours before they had graduated. Ever since they had been making a name for Team Chance. This had caused Charlie to know his partner's moods very well especially when she was thinking about Gray.
Just thinking about that thieving absol caused Charlie to tremble in rage. Not fear. Rage.
Charlie had decided long ago that that he would attack Gray the next time the grass-type saw him. Well, technically he would be rooting for Autumn as she attacked him from a safe distance, but that was pretty much like attacking the absol himself. Right?
"Charlie, you're trembling. Did something scare you?" Autumn asked concerned.
Charlie looked up to realize that while he had been thinking about Gray that their client had left.
"No, this is rage. Not fear," Charlie insisted.
Autumn just shrugged and made her way out of the guild, where they always met their clients, towards her home.
Charlie jumped after her trying to catch up.
Eventually Charlie ended up following Autumn to her home trying to keep her company. After they had moved closer to the guild for convince Autumn had bought a house using money she had gotten from the stashes in Gray's old home, the Ice Fortress. Charlie had just started roughing it in the woods refusing to let Autumn buy him a house using stolen money.
As they got closer and closer to her home Charlie couldn't help being amazed. Her home was a beautiful white ash house that closely resembled how Charlie had heard humans built their houses across the ocean.
As Autumn pushed through the lavender curtains that acted as a door Autumn turned to Charlie smiling. "I'm fine. Go home," Autumn said.
Charlie nodded sadly and ran to the tree that he used as his house wishing that Autumn would trust him a bit more.
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Autumn ran down the dirt pack the impact of her feet on the ground causing rocks to fly up behind her. Charlie struggled to keep up with the Sun Pokémon, but their dash to the guild just proved that a Pokémon with four legs ran a lot faster than a Pokémon with two legs.
As Autumn scrambled up the brown steps to the entrance of the guild she fell down panting. "Ha! I told you I was faster," Autumn exclaimed before she was overcome by a desperate need for air.
"You. . . cheated!" Charlie yelled in between gasps for air.
"Did . . . not!" Autumn yelled back.
"Ahem. Now that you two are done with your trivial arguments, will you start making the guild money again?" the taskmaster of the guild asked. Autumn turned to glare at the swellow. Autumn had viscously argued with the fact that they had to give 78% of all profits they made from jobs for at least four years to pay for the guild's training.
Autumn had never gotten over the fact that she had lost the argument just like the Swallow Pokémon had never forgiven her for starting the fight in the first place.
The taskmaster just glared back at Autumn until Charlie was forced to interrupte their glaring match.
"We will! You know, get to work right now in fact! Well, not right now, because we need to pick a job, but soon!" Charlie declared.
The swellow turned to Autumn and Charlie. "I have a job for each of you, since you were both so late." the Swallow Pokémon started sending a glare Autumn's way when the espeon looked like she was about to start protesting.
"Charlie I need you to be gatekeeper. Stand behind the gate and see if the Pokémon requesting to enter is a friend or foe. Autumn since you are simply horrid at being gatekeeper there was a request for perfect apples. Go to the center of Apple Woods and get some perfect apples." the taskmaster declared.
"What are you waiting for? Get to work!" the Swallow Pokémon yelled fluttering her dark brown wings. her outburst cause Charlie to quickly run to his post behind the wooden gate and Autumn to lazily stroll in the direction of Apple Woods earning herself another glare from the swellow.
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As Autumn stormed down the path to Apple Woods all other passing Pokémon gave the mumbling espeon a very wide berth.
"Stupid swellow. Stupid perfect apples. Stupid Apple Woods." Autumn mumbled stomping down the path.
When it seemed like the mumbling had all but stopped, "STUPID SWELLOW!" Autumn screamed causing all nearby Pokémon to jump at least a foot in the air.
This lasted all the way up to Apple Woods. Autumn stormed inside not quite sure why she was so angry. As Autumn peacefully walked through the first floor of Apple Woods her mumbling and screaming scaring away any potentially violent Pokémon she thought over why she was really so upset.
The answer was very expected. Gray.
The absol had once said he loved perfect apples, but never had time to go to Apple Woods himself. And when thoughts of gray came to her she found herself reminiscing on all the memories she had of him.
She thought of how he mugged Charlie and stole the nuzleaf's old coin. She thought of how he saved her from a monster house. She remembered giving him her blue scarf. The thing that caused her heart to cry out was the memories of finding the note he left her. He should have said goodbye in person!
Autumn managed to make it without a single battle all the way up to the fourth floor. As Autumn delicately stepped around beautiful pink flowers growing along the rich dirt of the dungeon floor a poison powder hit her.
Autumn flinched as she felt the poison make its way into her system and started send signals of pain through her body.
Autumn used tackle on the butterfree knocking it out instantly, but her victory was short lived as a wave of pain from the poison hit her.
Stumbling around the dungeons using tackle and psybeam on all the budew, oddish and caterpies that crossed her path.
Other than that Autumn had no difficulties getting to the center of the dungeon. Which was part of the reasons while Autumn was furious with the guild's taskmaster. Mari had always enjoyed a challenge and there that Swallow Pokémon was sending Autumn to a dungeon Charlie would have no trouble getting through.
Autumn even saw Pokémon just enjoys a nice stroll through the forest while foraging for apples.
Autumn eventually gave up on her anger and just started enjoying a day with extremely limited fighting. It had been months since she had any like this. Autumn ate apples and felt their juices cause her fur to become sticky, she talked with passing Pokémon, and she did her best to just relax.
When she finally reached the center of Apple Woods and see saw the massive perfect apple tree in the middle of the grassy clearing she skipped happily to it until she noticed there was already a Pokémon there.
Autumn started to approach to ask if it needed help getting the perfect apples down when the Pokémon jumped up and night slashed four perfect apples down. They fell to the ground with a slight thud as they landed on the soft green grass at the base of the perfect apple tree.
The Pokémon was covered in the whitest fur Autumn had ever seen. The only areas that weren't white were a dark gray. His razor ship claws on his four paws, a large horn that came from the right side of his face, his tail and most of his face were all a steel gray.
But his eyes were the most beautiful red that reminded Mari of the perfect apples at the Pokémon's feet.
Another detail that captured Autumn's attention was a sky blue scarf tied around its neck.
"Gray!" Autumn shouted. She ran forward about to hug the absol, before she remembered he was supposed to be in jail. Not in the Apple Woods.
Autumn skidded to a halt. "How could you! You never even said goodbye! Now you're not even in jail!" Mari shouted causing the starlys resting in the trees to fly away.
Autumn began to power up a psybeam when Gray attempted to explain himself. "I did turn myself in! Because of that I was sent to help rebuild villages that were destroyed in natural disasters for two and a half years. Now I'm kind of on probation. I have to use my abilities as an absol to warn villages where natural disasters are about to happen," Gray explained desperately.
"Why didn't you tell me. I though you cared about me," Autumn whispered.
"I thought it would be best if I didn't see you until I could stay. Right now I have to travel around a lot." Gray explained weakly sounding regretful.
Autumn felt tears burning in the back of her eyes. Autumn knew Gray was lieing. There was another reason he didn't trust her enough to tell her about. As her vision started to blur Autumn jumped forward and used psybeam.
Gray jumped back and used perish song on an instinct. As the haunting music fell around Autumn Gray's eyes widened in guilt. "I'm sorr-" Gray began to say before Autumn tackled him.
Autumn tried psybeam two more times until Gray's perish song finally took effect and blackness rushed into her vision her burst of anger fading.
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Autumn woke up with tears falling down her face as the memories of seeing Gray came back to her.
As she lifted herself up she turned to look at the sky where the sun was falling lower and lower paining pinks, purples and oranges across the horizon.
As Autumn began to walk back to the guild to tell the arrogant swellow she couldn't get the perfect apples. As she walked she found herself nearly stepping on an apple. She looked down and saw four perfect apples in a pile next to her.
Autumn smiled. She knew where they had came from. As she gathered them up and started to walk to the guild she looked around half expecting to see Gray in the distance, but she never did.
AN: That's the first chapter of the sequel.
Review if you still care about Autumn and Gray's story!