The next morning, the sun decided to give me a particularly early awakening, shining through the ONE crack in the rock I hadn't blocked, directly onto my face. Grumbling unintelligibly, I got up from my warm nest of ferns and wandered off in search of breakfast.
After a satisfying meal, I went to go find the Houndour who had hired me the day before. Of course, I got some food that looked like it would be perfect to eat right then. And I was full. Sighing after I was well away, I wondered what today would bring.
I was feeling depressed. The Stachion, The Weird Luxray, The Annoyance-for-Hire was downcast and focusing on the sound on his footsteps. The dry crunch of grass wasn't very satisfying either.
Crunch.
Crunch.
Crunch.
Squish.
Wait... Squish? I looked down, and saw a Dratini under my blue-grey paw. It didn't seem to notice at all. I checked to see if she was dead.
"Fooooooooood..."
30 berry crunching, meat nomming seconds later, the food the Houndour had given me was long gone, and the Dratini sighed contentedly.
"Thanks! You saved me!" The Dratini was grinning widely, as though we were old friends. "Say, who are you? My name is K.K."
This 'K.K.' person had eaten my future lunch, so I figured I may as well give her the full introduction. I puffed out my chest, whipped my whipped my neon blue tipped tail, and swiveled my purple ears. "My name is Theophrastus Bombastus, the only Stachion in the world, the only Annoyance-for-Hire, and the person who saved your life at the cost of my probably delicious lunch."
"So YOU'RE the one! You know, you will eventually have a bunch of annoyed Pokemon after you one day. Buuuuuuuuuuut..."
"Buuuuuuuuuuut...?" Who would I annoy, and why?
"Will you annoy my… brother? He's a Dragonite, and a complete and utter jerk, JUST BECAUSE he evolved before I did." She pouted, and I sighed.
"Payment?"
"Huh? Payment? You aren't free?"
I rolled my eyes, which were the same blinding color as my tail tip. "It's Annoyance-for-HIRE, not Annoyance-for-free. However, job without payment results in a large amount of annoyance for you."
"Um... I have, like, food, and, uh, stuff..." She shifted he weight from one side to the other. "I'm certain that once you're done I'll have scraped something together."
I sighed. "Fine. You win. Where's your brother?"
She perked up instantly. "He has a nest in the shadow of the really really REALLY big standing rock; you know, the one with trees surrounding it."
The fact that Dragonite could fly and the fact that where he nested was coveted by many Pokemon made me feel like I was in way, way over my head.
Sometimes, I really hate being annoying.