Here you guys go, chapter 4! Like always, I appreciate your feedback. Also I don't own Pokemon, but Team Elemental is my own creation.
Chapter 4 - Meeting The Guild
Wigglytuff Guild - Alex's POV
"Alright! I'll give you the grand tour! Shouts Sunflora as she leads us out of the Guildmaster's room.
She leads us down a hallway and opens up a door. "This be your room. You will find bedding in the corner, and you can set it up however you want." She closes the door and leads us back out.
She then takes us to a long room with a large table. "This is the dining room, I shouldn't need to explain."
We follow her to some sort of stand with a large cauldron filled with a mysterious purple liquid. Standing behind the cauldron is a toxicroak. "This is Toxicroak. No one really knows what he does, but he is almost always standing behind his cauldron."
"Meh-heh-heh… You three should come by sometime…" he tells us in slightly menacing voice.
"Let's just continue the tour," Sunflora says. She walks over to the ladder and climbs up. The three of us follow close behind.
On the next floor she points towards the two bulletin boards. "These are where you can get your missions. You will learn more about them tomorrow. You can wait here and introduce yourself as everyone returns from their missions."
We all wait, and before long, a light blue pokemon covered in spines climbs down the ladder. Identifying it as a nidorina, I lead the three of us over to her. "Hello, we…"
I am interrupted by her shouting, "Oh my gosh, you are sooo cute! I wish I had arms so I could just hug you! I'm Nidorina, but you can call me big sis if you want. So, what are your names?"
"Well, my name is Alex. Nice to meet you." Wow, she is really energetic.
"Nice to meet you too!"
"Hey Nidorina." Drew says.
"Oh, hi Drew!" She looks toward Christy and takes a step closer. "And what's your name?"
The shy shinx is trying to avoid looking Nidorina in her eyes. "M-my n-name is Christy…" she says quieter than usual, taking a step back.
"Aww, you must be shy. Don't worry, big sister Nidorina will help you get over your shyness!" She says, jumping closer to Christy.
As this happens, Christy's eyes start to tear up and she unleashes a powerful thunderbolt attack on Nidorina and runs away, climbing down the ladder, shouting, "Stay away from me!"
I look at Nidorina and ask, "are you OK?"
"Yeah… I'll be fine… I've dealt with much worse."
I turn my attention towards Drew. "We should probably go get her."
We head down the ladder after her.
After searching around the bottom floor, we find her in our room, hiding in the corner.
Drew whispers to me, "Can you let me talk to her? She has known me longer than you."
I nod in agreement and follow closely behind.
Drew walks up to her and gently lays one of his vines on her shoulder.
She turns around slowly to look at his face, the fur around her eyes moist, making it obvious what she had been doing in the corner.
Drew walks up to her and uses aromatherapy to help calm her down. "You kind of freaked out back there. Would you like to talk about it?"
"I'd *sniff* rather not…"
"Christy, please? We are a team, and if there is a problem, we should know."
"Fine, I'll tell you. Just, not right now."
"Great. Maybe we can talk tonight. Anyway, we should probably go back, get introduced to the others, and you should apologize to Nidorina."
She nods in agreement, and we all head back.
When we get there, we find Nidorina waiting for us along with a houndour and a kirlia. The houndour glares at us and growls. "Are you the ones that hurt Nidorina?"
Christy steps forward. "It was me… I'm very sorry…"
"You better be, newbie! I'm Houndour, and if you try to mess with us again, you're gonna have to deal with me!" As he shouts the last part, he unleashes a powerful roar that launches the three of us back into a wall.
The kirlia looks at Houndour, and smacks him. All she says is, "You need to calm down."
He turns toward her and starts shouting.
The kirlia ignores him and looks at us. "I'm Kirlia." She turns and heads down the ladder, leaving Houndour looking pissed off. He growls and leaves.
Nidorina approaches us. "Thank you for apologizing, Christy. Anyways, I see you met Kirlia and Houndour. Just to let you know, Kirlia is kind of quiet and mysterious, but she is also very kind and helpful. Houndour, on the other hand, is loud, bossy, and kind of a jerk, but once he warms up to you, he's not so bad. There are a couple of others, so they should come by any minute."
She waits with us, and soon a skiddo, a zorua, and a buneary come down the ladder together, chatting.
We walk over to them, and Nidorina introduces us. "Hello, Buneary, Skiddo, Zoey. These three are Alex, Drew, and Christy. They are the newest members of the guild."
I step forward. "Hello, I'm Alex."
Drew is right behind me. "I'm Drew, but you guys know that already."
Christy is last, and with some hesitation she steps forward. "I'm Christy…"
"I'm Zoey." The zorua tells us before changing to look like me and speaking with a surprisingly accurate imitation of my voice. "I'm Alex!"
"Wow, if it weren't for the tail, you could fool me." Drew says.
Zoey smiles and turns back to normal.
Buneary suddenly bursts out, shouting "HelloImBunearynicetomeetyouIwanttobefriends!" followed by heavy breathing. "Sorry, I can get a little wound up."
"Woo! New friends!" Shouts Skiddo.
Nidorina looks at us and smiles. "That's almost everyone. You can meet the few others later at dinner." Just then, a bell rings. "And that's the dinner bell! Let's go!"
We all run down to the dining room, and are stopped by Sunflora near the entrance while everyone else takes a seat. Before everyone starts eating, Sunflora steps up and says, "Everyone, may I have your attention! I have an announcement for all of you! These three, Alex, Drew, and Christy are the newest members of the guild! If you haven't already, I would like you all to introduce yourselves after you eat! Dismissed!"
As soon as they are dismissed, everyone at the table start devouring their food as if they haven't eaten in days.
We run over to find three empty seats at the end of the table with a large plate full of food in front of them. We jump onto the seats and join in the feast.
Our plates are covered in various sliced berries and apples with all sorts of flavors, ranging from sweet to spicy. I grimace as I take a bite of a particularly bitter berry.
As pokemon finish eating they leave, but a few wait by the exit. We are the last ones to finish, and the pokemon stop us as we try to leave. There is a diglett, a dugtrio, an exploud, and a scyther.
"Let me guess. Your names are your species names. Am I right?" I ask them.
"Yes, actually," Says Diglett. " I'm the sentry."
"I update the job boards." Dugtrio tells us.
"I'm the chef." Scyther says.
"AND I HELP DIGLETT AND AM ALSO THE WAKE UP CALL!" shouts Exploud so loud that I can't hear. Everyone glares at Exploud, and he mouths, "sorry".
We head back to our room and start to set up our beds. Finally I start to regain my hearing, because I hear Drew and Christy lightly snoring, and I feel myself drifting off into sleep.
There you guys go! I hope you enjoyed meeting all of the current guild members. Next chapter will include the teams first mission! I hope you all have a great day!