Chapter 7

"Fogtown."

9/29/16 - 10/1/16 - 10/3/16 - 10/9/16 - 10/11/16 - 10/13/16 - 10/14/16 - 10/15/16


Ampharos made three different types of soup over a fire pit, all made with gummies.

Gray for Ryota, yellow for Kimba and white for Kana. Speaking of which, the three kids were placed in warm nests where they slept. Stoutland was making sure that they weren't suffering from frostbite and numbness on their paw pads.

Ampharos places the different bowls of soup, hot and ready, near the respective pokemon when Kimba opens his eyes.

"Good morning, sunshine!" Ampharos exclaimed cheerfully.

Kimba wipes his eyes with his paw and stretched.

"Here's some tasty soup with Sitrus Berry pieces," Ampharos told him.

"You might wanna wake up your teammates so they can get it while it's hot."

Kimba's heart jumped from his throat and looks at the unconscious Ryota and Kana.

"Guys?"

Kana's ear twitches. She slowly opened her eyes and focused on Kimba. Ryota wiggles his paws and ears, he yawned.

"No, no, Amaya-sama. Five more minutes." Ryota whispered. Ampharos pulled out a Tamato berry and crushed it, squeezing out the juices. She opens Ryota's mouth and allows a single drop touch his tongue.

Ryota yowled and jumped out of his nest, he jumped on his hind legs like he was dancing. Kana stares at him strangely while Ampharos laughs.

"Tamato berries always have a good kick."

"That felt like a sock in the face rather than a kick!" Ryota barked.

Kimba pads to Kana and places his paw on her nest. "Are you okay, Kana?"

"Yeah."

Kimba felt his fur warm up when Kana laid eyes on him, he quickly turned away and looked at Ampharos.

"Who are you?"

Ampharos pats her chest proudly. "I am Beacon, and this is my trusty companion, Bernie." She said pointing to the Stoutland.

"You kids are lucky. Full grown adults have a hard time getting through this mountain without dying from frostbite, you three have guts."

"Woof!" Bernie barked at Beacon. The female Ampharos coughed. "Or completely stupid."

Ryota immediately became defensive. "We were told to come to Breathless Peak to get to Fogtown!"

"Then why didn't you just use the Drifblim?"

Kimba blinked at Beacon. "Drifblim? Around here…?"

"The Drifblim don't mind carrying pokemon long distances, it's like a Lapras for flight. Everyone uses Drifblim to avoid Breathless Peak."

Ryota looked shocked and outraged. He flattened his ears and said, "That's nice to know… We'll remember that when we leave!"

Kana tried to move her paws, but she feels nothing in her toes. She looks at them and sees that they were barely uncurling from her paw, even though she's putting effort into moving it.

"Uh, that might be a problem…" She whispered. Kimba looks at her paws and realizes that she can't move them.

"Looks like we'd have to wait until Kana's paws thaw off." Said Kimba.

For once Ryota didn't argue. He just pads to the bowl of soup near Kimba's nest and took a drink, and spat it out.

"This soup tastes awful!"

"That's because you ate the Electric broth." Beacon said in a matter of fact voice.


Kenta the Growlithe completed his rescue mission in Darkened Grotto and was preparing to leave when he saw a dark shadow move in the mirror-like wall. Kenta raised an eyebrow and padded forward with caution. The walls became black, and two beady red eyes appeared.

"What in the name of Arceus…?" Kenta whispered.

"Kenta, look out!"

The male Growlithe turned around and dodged a dark grey, salamander like pokemon with a black mask on its head. Sachi ran beside Kenta as he glared at the salamander.

Sachi's claws became dark for a prepared Shadow Claw attack.

"Stay back you..! You! What are you?!"

"I'm Sly, a Salandit!" The unknown pokemon said, female. "I wouldn't expect you to know such a fabulous looking girl like me."

Sly pulled out a black mirror from her bag, making Sachi and Kenta tense up.

Sly gave a sickly smile to the two pokemon.

"Smile!"


Fogtown entrance

The sun was bright in the middle of the sky, but it was barely seen through the thick, dense fog. Team Sonic DX stood in front of what they made out to be the town's gate.

They see a small, yellow beam of light become brighter and brighter as a small, fluffy sheep approaches them.

"State your team name and business." She said.

Ryota nudged Kana awake, who was still shaken by the numbness.

"Sonic DX, and we have a letter to give to Archie."

The Mareep blinked in surprise. "Archie of the Typhlosion Guild? Sure, just let me open the gate."

Mareep vanished in the fog after two steps. The three kids heard a loud, groaning and the gates pushed the fog away and revealed a ten foot tall gate and a small, cobblestone path located inside.

Mareep called through the fog. "Have a great time!"


Team Sonic DX found themselves in a small city with many pokemon that they were familiar with such as the eevee, swablu, and many, many pokemon with their own lights like mareep and ampharos.

With small markets and buildings, and many light towers that illuminate the town from its fog.

Kana went ahead and bumped into a small, quadruped dinosaur pokemon. It's lower half of its body is black, while the upper half was light grey. It has a beak-like snout with a small, tooth-like spike on each corner of its lower jaw and big, red eyes. On the front of its head was a large, heart shaped yellow scale.

"Watch where you're going!" It snapped, female. Kana recoiled.

"Sorry, there's no need to snap."

The dinosaur narrowed her eyes.

"Snap? Oh, I get it, I'm a dinosaur so I must make a habit of biting other pokemon, is that it?!"

"Sylvia! Calm down!"

Suddenly, a small bird with black plumage flew down to the dinosaur. It had a grey beak with a pointed black tip, and a white mask-like marking with large blue eyes.

"Are you guys new to Fogtown?" The little woodpecker asks.

"Yes, we are." Kana replied, keeping her eye on the temperamental dinosaur.

Kimba stared at the two strange pokemon in awe while Ryota looked vaguely surprised to see them.

"I'm sorry but...what kind of species are you two?" Kimba asks them.

"They're Pikipek and Jangmo-o." Ryota replied breezily. "I've had neighbors that were the same species."

The woodpecker - Pikipek - blushes lightly.

"I'm a little honored to hear that. Not many pokemon here are familiar with Alolan pokemon like us."

Pikipek extends her wing to Kana. "I'm Piper, and this is my partner, Sylvia."

The female Jangmo-o huffed and looked away. Kana was very curious about Ryota's knowledge about the Alolan pokemon and decided to ask him later.

"I'm Kana Shizoku. And these are my teammates Kimba and Ryota, we're Team Sonic DX and we have a letter to give to Archie."

Sylvia suddenly gave Kana her full blown attention. "Are you guys from Treasure Town?"

The Sonic DX nodded. Sylvia smacks her big forehead.

"Son of an Arceus! Guildmaster Archie mentioned that Sachi-sama's apprentices were coming, but I didn't think it'd be you three."

Sylvia dips her head politely. "Sorry!"

Kana waves her paw. "It's fine."

"Although we saw eevees and shinxes when we came into town." Kimba put in.

Piper replied, "We're kind of Alolan immigrants - our region was lost a few years ago, so we've never seen your species before even after we settled here."

Ryota coughed loudly, interrupting the conversation. "You said Archie is your Guildmaster, could you take us to him?"

"Sure." Said Piper. "Just follow me and Sylvia."


Kana, Kimba and Ryota stood in front of a tent with the colors and shape of a Typhlosion. Kana went inside expecting a ladder, but came across a staircase.

"You guys have stairs?" Kimba asks Piper, who was sitting on Sylvia's head.

"Of course, what do you have in your Guild?"

"A ladder." Ryota replied. Sylvia snorted. "Poor fool… Guildmaster Archie wouldn't allow a ladder because of our fellow apprentices."

Sylvia and Piper walk down the steps with the three kids in toe. The first floor had pokemon coming in and out, nothing different from their own guild.

Kimba felt a ball hit the back of his heel, he turned his head and looked down to see a Voltorb glaring daggers at the male shinx.

"Would you mind? I'm trying to get by!"

Seeing the statics dance around Voltorb, Kimba sidestepped and allowed Voltorb to pass.

"Nice seeing you, Gyro!" Piper called to the Voltorb.

Kana sees a black kitten with a red mask like face and big, yellow eyes come downstairs behind them. Followed by a small owl with a bow tie and a light blue sea lion wearing a paler blue frill around its neck like a clown, and a pink nose.

The owl stopped when he saw Piper.

"Hey, Piper! You-!" The owl stopped when he saw Ryota, and the Rockruff narrowed his eyes when he attracted the attention of the black kitten and sea lion.

"Soren? Soren, are you okay?" Piper asks the owl. Soren fluffed his feathers.

"Y-Yes."

"Are you three from Alola, too?" Kimba asks the three newcomers.

The black kitten rolled her eyes. "Gee, what made you think that?"

Sylvia looks at the Zoroark apprentices nodded to the three newcomers.

"These are known as Rowlet, Litten and Popplio."

"Soren," the grass owl dipped his head.

"Marie," the Litten gave no expression, but she kept her eyes on Ryota, who was increasingly uncomfortable with her.

"And Hubie." The Popplio waves his flipper to the others.

Sylvia quickly explained Team Sonic DX's errand, and Hubie stood on his back flippers to stand up, and placed his flippers on his invisible hips.

"Say no more! I'm the team leader, so I was gonna report to him right now. Follow me!"

Hubie slides across the floor and went downstairs with the three Zoroark apprentices following him with Sylvia and Piper, but Ryota was stopped by Marie as she place her paw on his shoulder.

She and Soren were giving him a stern stare. "We need to talk, Ryota."


"Guildmaster!"

A Typhlosion looks down to Hubie sliding towards him.

"Hello, Hubie. Does your team have anything to report?"

Hubie salutes Archie.

"We completed the outlaw job, but Sylvia and Piper found Sachi-sama's apprentices in town today."

Archie looks to Kimba and Kana as Kana gives Archie the letter. The Typhlosion takes it and reads over it, he nods.

"I got it. Thank you for making this way," he told the two. "Sachi must trust you enough to make it here."

"We're actually new apprentices." Kimba admitted.

Archie blinked in surprise. "Well ain't that something? You two should probably stay here for the night before you go back home."

"Two?" Kimba echoed. "Actually there's three-."

Kimba looked back and finally notices Ryota's absence.


In a cafe known as The Lighthouse, Ryota stood rigidly as Marie and Soren took a sip of their juice. Marie places an empty glass on the counter as the Flaffy waitress took her cup.

"So you were found by the Guildmaster of Treasure Town." She said, reciting what Ryota told them. "After all this time, why didn't you come and find us? You're best friends?"

"I didn't know." Ryota defended himself. "I thought when Alola was swallowed up, you guys were gone too. You, Soren and Hubie."

Soren swivels his head. "Our parents put us on the Lapras on the other side of the region. Lapras dropped us off near the port of Grover City and we wandered to Fogtown."

Ryota looked at the glass of apple juice and pulled it toward him.

"What did you three do?"

"I stole." Marie said casually. Ryota saw some of the Flaffy waitresses glare in the female Litten's direction, although like all Litten, Marie didn't seem to care about the looks she received.

"Nobody liked that." Soren said. "Marie had 2,000 Poké bounty on her head after a week of stealing food for us. And that's when Archie apprehended her."

Ryota took a sip of juice and allowed the Flaffy to take the empty glass, as Marie continued the story.

"He gave me an ultimatum, either I stop stealing and pay everyone back through the work in his Guild, or I get all of us in jail for what I did. We all ended up working for him until the debt was paid off."

"Then Archie wanted us to become apprentices, and we said yes." Soren put in.

"What about Hubie?" Ryota asks them. "He didn't react when he saw me and my teammates."

Soren chuckled. "You know how he is, Hubie lets the past go like water washing over his back. He's actually our leader to Team Ohana."

Ryota was relieved to hear his Alolan friends settling into exploration team life so well.

But…

"Did you see Asuri on any Lapras?"

Soren crooned with sadness. "We don't know if Ms. Asuri made it… In fact, we haven't heard anything from our parents since we came."

"Ryota." Marie said gently. "The adults and elders put every hatchling and unevolved pokemon onto the Lapras. I have a bad feeling that they knew that they wouldn't make it off Alola alive."

Ryota feels his throat close up with grief. He sees Asuri's face as the Lapras swam away from the beach. He looks at the collar she gave him before telling Lapras to leave.

You knew you wouldn't make it, didn't you?

Ryota didn't want to break down. He feels a paw touch his, and sees Marie's tiny black paw. "It's okay. They sacrificed themselves to give us a future for a better life."

Ryota nodded, but was still consumed with grief.

"Ryota!"

Kimba and Kana enter the cafe and approached him, Marie quickly took her paw back before either of Ryota's teammates noticed.

"Guildmaster Archie has given us a place to stay for the night. Is that okay with you?" Kana asks.

Ryota glances at Marie and Soren. "Yes, it's fine by me."


In Treausre town during patrol, Chief the Arcanine was stopped by a Houdoom.

"Sir! We found the suspect!"

Chief blinked at the Houdoom. "You did? Where is he?"

Houdoom leads Chief to the main square where packs of Houndoom, Mightyena, and Manectric and the local pokemon were gathered.

Chief pushed himself through the crowd and saw Sachi holding a dark grey salamander fighting his grip, and Kenta stood next to him with Blissey giving him medicine for poison.

"Guildmaster," Chief addressed Sachi. "Is...this our suspect?"

Sachi pulled out a black mirror and kicks it toward Chief. "I wouldn't touch that. But yeah, she calls herself Sly."

Chief smells Sly's forehead, but Sly smacks his muzzle with her skinny tail.

"Back off you stupid dog!" She shrieked.

Houndoom inspects the corrupted mirror and looks to Chief.

"It matches the description from the Sinnoh region, sir. What should we do with…?"

"I'll destroy you all!"

Chief snorted. "Take her in for questioning. You have a lot of explaining to do, Sly."

The Salandit growled and shrieked as she continued to flail her arms to fight Sachi.

The male Zoroark sighed. "This one needs a straight jacket."


Just to say something.

*Kyubi falls to her knees and begs* I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

PMD stories are a bit harder to come with than I thought, but don't worry, I'll still be making chapters for this story.

It'll just take longer once I think of the next step to advance the plot.

I won't give up! ~ Kyubi