Me: And stay out you freaks! If I ever catch you in here again, I will kill you where you stand!
Door opens and several Persians run out
Amy: Wow, I didn't know you could get angry like that.
Caster: Yeah. I'm starting to think you're turning into Bryce.
Joey: Not likely. He just doesn't like it when someone messes with his stuff. It's one of those American boundary issue things.
Me: Oh man. They already started remodeling. Come on you guys. We have to refurbish the place before the show starts.
Nerio: This might take a while.
Several hours and a lot of tearing and sledge hammering later…
Me: I'm back!
Crowd: Hooray.
Me: Oh come on. Two and half weeks of being in another country and this is all I get?
Joey: Just goes to show how people take hot new talent seriously these days.
Crowd: Where are we anyway?
Giant hypno-screen comes down
Me: You are on the set of my story A Change in Destiny. You are all my slaves and will applaud for anything.
Crowd: Yes…
Me: Well, now that we're done here, let me introduce some friends of mine. First, these three have sided with me after that Handbag fiasco and will be helping me out for a while. Please welcome Caster, Amy, and Nerio.
Crowd: YAY!
Trio: All hail NITRO!
Crowd: YAY!
Me: Next, this guy is from my friend Swissigar's story Jacob's Adventure-
Crowd: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Caster: Shut up or I will eat your souls!
Crowd quiets
Nerio: Please welcome Typhlosion.
A Typhlosion walks out clutching its stomach
Typhlosion: Oh man. I knew I shouldn't have had those burritos for breakfast.
Joey: You ok dude?
Typhlosion: No.
Caster: What happened?
Typhlosion: Some of Swissigar's earlier O/Cs bet that I couldn't eat a bunch of breakfast burritos yesterday. I had been in the bathroom ever since.
Amy: That sucks dude. No wonder you had diarrhea.
Me: Well let's just get on with the story.
Joey was starting to get a little annoyed with Luca's bad attitude. In the last few days, Celebi had asked him to help Luca with various small errands at the Guild and around Treasure Town. However, Luca's unwillingness to cooperate led to him doing it alone on more than one occasion. Joey didn't mind that part because he was helping his friends. It was just that Luca's uncaring demeanor was starting to get old.
Today had proven to be the same. Noctowl had asked the two of them to pick up a few items for him that he was expecting from his family while he was taking care of a job that wasn't far from the Guild. Once again, Luca went and stood at his usual corner when Noctowl's back was turned, forcing Joey to get the package from a Pelipper later that day. When he left Delibird, Noctowl, and Gible's room after dropping off the package, Luca brushed past him on his way to their room. Fed up with the way Luca was acting, Joey marched after him and whirled him around before he had any idea what was going on.
"Ok, what is your problem kid" Joey demanded. "I've had enough of your little attitude about everything. Not only are you not even trying to do anything, but the way you act around everyone is making everyone distrustful toward you. Seriously, what's your problem?"
Luca, slightly taken aback from the sudden turn of events, simply turned and walked toward the far end of the room.
"You know what, why am I even wasting my time talking to you" Joey asked rather sarcastically. "I don't even know why I had even tried to be friendly with you in the first place. I may not have any clue about my life, but the one thing I do know is that nobody's going to tell me or decide for me how I go through my business. If this is the attitude you want to have, then I'm not having anything to do with you".
With that, Joey turned around and marched out of the room. After everything that had transpired to him recently, he was not going to let someone who wouldn't do anything for himself hold him back.
The next day…
"Joey… Joey wake up" Roselia's voice said through Johnny's mind.
Joey slowly opened his eyes and saw Roselia and Chingling standing above him with worried expressions on their faces. He had asked both of them if he could bunk with them for a while, to which they said yes. However, he doubted that even they got up this early.
"What's going on" Joey moaned, rubbing his eyes of the remaining sleep.
"It's a Guild emergency" Chingling said. Come on".
Chingling grabbed Joey's paw and led him to the meeting chamber. He was surprised to see everyone else, including Dusknoir and the Sableye, were already there. Luca, unsurprisingly, was the only one not there, yet it seemed odd, considering that Luca at least had the decency to show up.
"Ok, can someone please tell me why I had been unceremoniously woken up so early" Joey yawned.
"Luca ran away" Dusknoir said.
An awkward silence was felt throughout the Guild when Dusknoir told everyone the news. Reactions seemed to run on both sides of the gamut. Celebi, Roselia, Chingling, Sentret, and Furret were shocked by the news, while Grovyle, Joey, Gible, Noctowl, Murkrow, and Delibird had looks of bittersweet relief.
"Well no one can say that Luca wasn't going to do that" Grovyle sighed.
"What do you mean" Celebi asked.
"From Luca's attitude the past couple of days, it didn't seem like he was really interested in being here" Grovyle explained.
"Well that's stupid" Celebi said. "Why would he leave when he and Joey were doing so well in their work?"
"I agree with Grovyle, Celebi" a somewhat put off Joey said. "I was the one who was really doing the work. All Luca did was just mope around the Guild all day".
"What" Celebi gasped.
"You know, it looked that way to me to Celebi" Furret said. "I never did see Joey with Luca that much".
The conversation was interrupted by two Sableye making their way down the ladder.
"Lord Dusknoir" the leader of the two said.
"What is it, Sableye" Dusknoir asked.
"We have the reports from the scout team" the leader said. "According to them, it appears that Luca is heading in the direction of Mystic Ravine".
"Mystic Ravine… oh no" Joey moaned.
"What is it" Dusknoir asked.
"I've been hearing rumors that a bunch of Houndoom from that Rouge Fire group were harassing the Pokemon there" Joey explained. "I wouldn't put it past Luca to think they're the ones who had killed his family".
"We have to stop him before he gets into trouble or does something he will regret" Celebi said quickly.
"Agreed" Grovyle nodded. "Joey, I need you to take Gible, Noctowl, and Roselia to catch up with Luca and stop the Houndoom".
Gible and Roselia nodded and made their way to the ladder. However, once they got there they realized that Noctowl and Joey weren't following them. When they turned around, they saw that both of them hadn't moved at all.
"What's going on, you guys" Grovyle asked.
"Well… we kind of agreed not to get involved with Luca" Joey said.
"Why" Grovyle asked.
"Because he was kind of a jerk" Noctowl said. "He had refused to retrieve a package from my family after he had promised. And quite honestly, I find that insulting".
"Guys, I know you have issues with Luca right now but you can't be critical of Luca" Celebi said. "He's been alone for most of his life. He has no one".
Joey and Noctowl looked at each other. They knew Celebi was right about Luca being alone. But they also knew that that was no excuse for him to act like a jerk.
"Fine" Joey said, turning back to Celebi. "We'll help him this time. Let's go you guys".
With that, Roselia, Gible, Noctowl, and Joey went up the ladder and left the Guild to handle their mission.
Me: Well, things are definitely going to heat up in the story.
Caster: I know. Ah, Typhosion's better.
Typhlosion: Hey guys. I think I got the entire 'diarrhea' out of my system.
Amy: Yeah… were glad for you.
Me: Well, that's all the time we have right now, so until next time…
Everyone: Catch ya later, dudes!
Crowd: YAY!