"It's time to wake up!" A voice which I know to be Loe's yells. I open my eyes, looking at the room around me. I like sleeping here at the guild, it's nice to be with friends and all that. Waking up, on the other hand...
I feel myself floating. What's happening? I try to move around, but Why am I...I look down and see Cyria. She smiles at me.
"What's this for?" I ask.
"Sorry, I just wanted to make sure that you were awake. I figured that the best way was to have a little fun," she says. She winks at me. She knows that her logic makes no sense. It's okay though, I don't really mind being levitated too much. She slowly levitates me back to the ground. I smile at her.
"You know that makes no sense. Shaking me would be so much simpler," I say.
"Yes, but this way was more fun," she says, winking at me. I laugh lightly.
"Wait, what happened?" Avia asks as she gets up.
"That's not important. We've got to go to the morning meetingy thing," Cyria says. She runs out of our room, to the lobby of the floor, Avia and I follow closely behind. She's fast... She's definitely superior to Avia and me physically.
After the morning cheers, Chatot says the announcements. At first it's the usual stuff. He pauses, and just as we're all about to go, he continues to talk.
"Furthermore, a guild expedition will be taking place soon. The guildmaster and I will be choosing the pokemon who will participate over the coming week or so. So try your best to impress us!" A guild expedition? What are those like? I would try to figure it out, but I just woke up... I'm not good at this sort of thing when I'm still partially asleep. "Since we have some new guild members, I will explain how guild expeditions work. The Guildmaster and I will choose the guild members who will go on the expedition. I won't reveal where we're going yet, but it's a land hidden in mystery. Then we'll split up into groups. Usually you'll have another team going with you. Safety in numbers and all that. Your team will have to work together and chose your own path to the location where we will all meet up a few days later. Once everyone has reached the designated location, we will explore, and try to solve the mysteries of it. The whole guild - - well, the members that are chosen - - will act as a team, and solve the mysteries of the hidden land. That's all, you may now attend to your duties." Most of the apprentices disperse, but I stand still, thinking.
So that's what an expedition is. It sounds like fun. Do we really have a shot at being chosen, though? I mean, maybe Cyria does, but what about Avia and me? I don't think we're as strong as the other apprentices, I know we're certainly not as strong as Sythe. I guess all I can do is try my best and hope that it all works out! If not, though, it would be interesting to be in the guild without many of the apprentices here. Do the guildmaster and Chatot join us as well? So many unanswered questions... I guess I'll find out all of this stuff eventually. I guess right now I should just focus on doing well in today's missions.
"A guild expedition already. We've got to do our best to impress the guildmaster!" Avia says. I was right, she is the team spirit. I feel more motivated just by hearing the energy behind her words.
"Yeah! We'll blow their minds!" I respond.
"And explore that hidden land!" Cyria adds.
"So what are we doing today, anyways?" I ask.
"The same thing as always. We're going to find something on the boards to do. We've got to go quickly, or all of the missions will be taken!" Avia exclaims. Cyria, Avia and I move and quickly as we can to the boards. When we get there, though, it's as we feared. The only missions left are D or E ranks. Too easy if we want to make a good impression on the guildmaster.
"This missions won't do. What do we do now?" Avia asks. What can we do? These missions aren't much alone. But what if we put them together? Let's see... there's three missions for the Beach Sea Cave. Perfect!
"One mission may not be enough, but what if we try doing three of them? There's three missions for the Beach Sea Cave, or whatever it's called. If we do all three, then it'll seem less pathetic, at least," I say.
"Great idea as always!" Cyria says.
"Yeah, if we do three missions, then we'll seem to be much better than if we do just one. And we'll be able to help more pokemon! But then there's the problem of time. Missions take time. Doing two missions alone would be enough of a time crunch," Avia says.
"We could split up and do one mission each. They seem easy enough, and we're all pretty strong. Plus, this way we could complete the three missions with no time crunch at all," I say.
"Okay then, let's chose our missions!" Avia says. She grabs the Beach Sea Cave missions from the board. "Okay then, there's two criminals, and one rescue. Does anyone have any preferences?"
"I'll take the toughest criminal; the D rank one," Cyria says.
"Okay then. So what about you, Jiro. Do you have any preference?" Avia asks.
"Not really. I'm fine with either," I say.
"Then I'll take the rescue mission, and you can have the other criminal," Avia says.
"Sounds good to me. Let's get going then, shall we?" I say.
"We shall," Avia says.
The three of us walk out of the guild and to the beach where I first met Avia.
"Remember when we first met each other, Jiro? It was right here, on this very beach. You seemed really weird at first. I remember I thought that you were trying to rob me at first. I didn't trust you... I'm sorry for that. After all we've been through, I realize how wrong I was..." Avia says, "sorry, this isn't the time for this. We should be focusing on the mission. I don't know why I'm being so sentimental all of a sudden. Anyways, let's get going. We'll all meet out here when we're done with our missions. If one of us doesn't come out, then we'll know that something's wrong," Avia says. And without another word, Cyria races into the dungeon.
"Well someone's eager today," I say. Avia giggles.
And with that, Avia and I walk, side by side, into the dungeon.