Chapter Two; already typed out both of them, so I might as well upload both of them as well. Why not. OC Submission form is at the bottom.
"So, first we should get ourselves some training in. There's a sorta popular exploration guild not too far from here, and they say it's really good, so maybe we can prepare a bit before signing up?"
Kyosuke raised an eyebrow. "Why'd we need to prepare? Somethin' ya have to do?"
Sayaka flinched. He hit the nail right on the head. "… Yeah."
Luckily for her, the Torchic simply tilted his head slightly, but didn't prompt her to delve further and continued walking on, changing the topic after some time. "Then, I'll-"
"Do you have a place to stay?" Sayaka asked abruptly, surprising Kyosuke by a great amount.
He narrowed his eyes, before shaking his head without any shame whatsoever. "Nope. Homeless, jobless, and proud of it." Sayaka swore his neckfeathers puffed out after he said that.
The Totodile wasted no time. "Then, stay at my place. It's big enough."
Kyosuke stopped walking, and stared at her incredulously. "Really? You're just inviting some random stranger who just happened to be there at the right place and wrong time into your house and leech off your food?" he ranted.
Sayaka shrugged. "Says the Pokemon who just so coincidentally had his prized possession stolen by the same two crooks that got my treasure, helped me out, and asked me to form an exploration team with him." She paused for a minute, sweatdropping when Kyosuke cocked his head to the side again. It seemed to be his rather amusing quirk. "… Honestly, I see nothing wrong with it. It's a bit cheap, but you're already used to it, I think."
The Torchic righted his head. "Oh. … Okay then."
Well, he agreed rather quickly to that one. Sayaka pondered about his hesitation for a bit, though.
Sayaka took over the lead this time, although she didn't move from Kyosuke's side, instead pointing out all the twists and turns they had to make while she led him to her home. She figured her parents wouldn't care – her mom was out on a business trip, and her dad was… she didn't finish her thought process. After a while, they reached the exact middle of the forest, where Sayaka's abode was; an apartment complex.
"Really? You live in an apartment complex?" Kyosuke asked, not even trying to hide his amusement. Sayaka flushed red and turned to the side, crossing her arms. "I don't have to pay often, and it perfectly suits my tastes. This place is fine with me."
Kyosuke snickered. "I know you said it was cheap, but I didn't think it would be this cheap."
Sayaka fumed, and was about to retort with something smart, before something white caught her eye. Immediately, the gears in her brain started spinning once more and she jolted, surprising Kyosuke when she just jumped all of a sudden. "Whoa, you alright there? Heart attack or something?" he asked, with just a tint of concern in his voice.
"I-I-I-I have to go! Here are my keys; it's on the fourth floor, second room from the right!" With that, Sayaka zoomed off, leaving the Torchic behind with the jingling keys in his right hand.
Kyosuke tilted his head.
Meanwhile, the Totodile was running for her life… well, not really, more like running for someone else's life. Something like that.
She stumbled on a tree root, tripped on a rock, cut herself on a branch, fell face first on some grass, but she arrived at the edge of the forest eventually. Just a few hundred meters from the woods was a large and bustling town, filled with Pokemon of all shapes and species. She looked around, as if making sure nobody could see her, and continued running into the town.
Sayaka hadn't bothered to check out what the town looked like, much less the other shops or Pokemon that mingled about, but [I] did. Stands built to look like the previous, more animalistic creatures from the past generation to be specific, Pokemon were everywhere, their respective stand owner cheerily greeting the potential customers that walked around everywhere. In the middle of the town – namely, Treasure Town – was a golden-yellow bridge built over the lake surrounding the entire town, and the workers had been able to build more bridges similar to that one over the other areas where the lake would be annoying to try and cross. Obviously, this didn't mean anything for Sayaka, since she was a water-type, but having to keep jumping from place to place and arrive where she needed to be dripping wet if she didn't use her abilities would be quite annoying.
The Totodile stopped running after some time, managing to reach her destination, which was a multi-storied pure white hospital with the words Hospital of Saint Joyce printed in big, blocky, and black letters, contrasting strongly with the white paint that just happened to be all over the entire building. At some other time, Sayaka would have laughed at that, but she paid no mind to the irony and practically slammed into the revolving doors, something no normal or abnormal Pokemon would have been able to do. Every Pokemon in the near vicinity immediately turned to look at the hurrying Totodile dashing up the stairs without even bothering to wait for the elevator.
Again, Sayaka ignored the feat she had accomplished without her knowing it and stopped at the ninth floor of the hospital, panting tiredly as she staggered towards the fifth room from the left, the name 'Kyousuke Kamijou' written on the gold plaque next to the door. She hesitated for a moment, and then looked down at the crescent-shaped gem she had been clenching in her hand the entire time nervously. "… Hmph… why 'm I thinking of him…" she muttered, and pushed open the door.
Back with Kyosuke, the Torchic had managed to pick the lock into Sayaka's door since he didn't know which key it needed, and he really didn't want to try the possibly twenty other keys hanging on the small ring. Since he was used to lock-picking, it really didn't take very long at all, and he observed Sayaka's home with some amusement mixed with annoyance.
'I guess she did say it was cheap… but seriously! I expected something… something… more Sayaka-ish!' he mentally argued with himself in his mind, but shook his head, thinking he just had problems ever since he thought about making an exploration team with Sayaka.
The apartment room, where Sayaka lived in, was quite… simple. Okay, not quite simple, more like cheap, but only cheap since the Totodile seriously didn't think she would live here for more than two months anyway. The entire living room consisted of a table and three chairs around it, with the light source a flickering light bulb just barely hanging off of the circuits and wires. Not too far from the 'living room' was a futon (surprisingly still intact) with a green flower pattern. Off to the side of the hallway stretching out in front of Kyosuke was a bedroom and two guest rooms, but he couldn't see what was inside right now; what was more important was food. So, he went off to the kitchen, which wasn't too far away from the living room either.
The kitchen was simple. Extremely simple. A microwave in one side, two counters squeezed next to each other to just barely fit, and a kitchen table with a sink consisted of almost the entire area of the small kitchen. A fridge stood in the corner close to the door he had come in from, and a rusty toaster sat on top of the table, a few feet away from the microwave. Another table was placed in the center, presumably for preparing food that wouldn't fit on the table containing the sink. A few plates and eating utensils were stacked at the edge of the sink-table, coupled with two pink plastic cups, all washed with what may or may not be Sayaka's own aquatic abilities.
Kyosuke observed all of this with a tilt of his head, and then walked over to the fridge for some food. Needless to say, his eye twitched violently at the fridge's contents, or rather, lack of. He slammed the fridge door close, and stormed back into the living room, which also served as the main room. There, he was met with a tired Sayaka, looking like she just ran a marathon with all her sweat. Undeterred, Kyosuke crossed his arms and glared at the Totodile while she collapsed on one of the chairs. She looked at him quietly before raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"Wha-"
"WHY IS YOUR FRIDGE EMPTY!"
Sayaka didn't take that very well. "Gee, sorry I don't have the food to fulfill your weird ass appetite. Now could you please just tell me when is the set timing that we're going to set off to train in that guild I mentioned some time ago?" she asked irritably.
Kyosuke, not expecting this kind of reaction, was taken aback slightly. "… Why? You said you had to do something or whatever?"
The blue-haired Pokemon gritted her teeth. "Oh, I'm done with it, of course."
The Torchic was ecstatic, but he smirked in the outside. "Heh, I didn't know you were so agreeable. Fine, we're going today."
"… wait, WHAT?"
"Oh but first, give me good food."
Sayaka almost stomped her way through Treasure Town, in stark contrast to the casually strolling Kyosuke beside her. "Ugh, why do you have to be so… so… so Kyosuke?" she grumbled, the statement directed to the Torchic next to her.
Said Torchic simply gave her a tilt of his head and a smirk, a piece of fish-shaped taiyaki dangling off the edge of his mouth lazily, much like the feathers around his waist. "Becosh," He responded without any shame at all, his speech also slightly altered by the food in his mouth. "I'm aweshome!"
The Totodile facepalmed.
"… Anyway… we have to sign ourselves up in the guild for proper exploration training, right?" she asked for confirmation. Kyosuke nodded, the taiyaki bouncing up and down in rhythm. "Then, we're gonna have to think up a team name."
Kyosuke was silent for a while, until he opened the side of his mouth again. "… Team name?"
Sayaka groaned. "Seriously? You ask me to form an exploration team with you and you don't even have a team name yet?"
The Torchic thought about it for a while, before he smirked and shook his head. "Nope."
"Oh, we're screwed. We are absolutely screwed." Sayaka buried her face in her hands. "And to think, we've walked all this way to the guild already but we're not anywhere near alright."
Kyosuke scoffed – although that was hard, seeing as he had the taiyaki in his mouth – and waved his hand to the Pokemon guarding the guild's grand double doors. "Yo! We're here to apply for exploration team training!" he yelled.
The guard, a short Pichu, frowned, but opened the doors for them (with great difficulty, albeit it was amusing for Kyosuke to watch; Sayaka reprimanded him for not helping). The still-depressed Sayaka thanked the little blonde boy and patted his head, while Kyosuke eagerly burst inside the large guild, built to shape an animalistic Wigglytuff.
Pokemon were everywhere; there were several rooms, presumably the dorms for exploration teams with their team names printed on a golden plaque on the doors, and a long hallway in the middle that stretched out as far as the eye could see. At the end were huge double doors, similar to the ones at the entrance. The walls were made out of random minerals – gold, silver, crystal, platinum, pearl, diamond, ruby, sapphire, emerald, and many more – as if someone had just stuck them there randomly. Kyosuke fingered the red gem buried in his neckfeathers instinctively.
"Sheesh, you're impatient," Sayaka muttered, jogging up to stay beside the excited Torchic. She glanced at the walls, and noticed something Kyosuke didn't. "Come on, the poster says new recruits sign up in the mess hall in…" she trailed off, her eyes darting towards the clock, before her sea-blue orbs widened to at least three times their original size. "… In TWENTY MINUTES! K-Kyosuke, hurry up or we'd have to stick around for another week!" she yelled over her shoulder, already halfway across the hall leading to the mess hall.
Kyosuke tilted his head, read the poster himself, checked the clock, and bounded after Sayaka immediately in record speed.
OCs you can submit are either: exploration team members, outlaws, plot-relevant characters (lolwut?) and other miscellaneous OCs.
Name (self explanatory):
Species (what kind of pokemon is he/she?):
Gender (again, self explanatory):
Kind (exploration team member(s), outlaw, plot-relevant, or just another OC?):
Team Name (for exploration team members only):
Personality (how would he/she react to meeting the protags? something like that):
History (why/how he/she came to make an exploration team/be an outlaw/whatever, doesn't need to be stupendously long please):
Level(s) and Move(s) (self explanatory, level can be between 5-20 for now, maximum of four moves even though you already know that):
Strength(s) and Weakness(es) (like what is he/she afraid of or what is he/she good at? that kind of thing):
Hobby/ies (self explanatory, maximum of two):
Appearance (send in a link of what the pokemon looks like, type in the appearance of that pokemon, or leave it blank if you want to leave it to me):
Other (something else I forgot):
And I, uh... think that's it. SEE YA.
