Craw sighed and stretched himself as he woke up before looking around a bit confused. As he realized where he was and remembered what happened the day before he sighed nervously. He was a bit uncomfortable how natural this new body felt to him. He sighed and stood up going to the window. "Why me?" He shook his head slowly rubbing the same a bit. He still had a headache. Maybe he should visit a doctor in the morning about it...
Something behind him was moving. He didn't need to look back to know it was Brighton. Something about the Pikachu made him feel... nervous. He felt like if the Pikachu was hiding something from him.
Brighton stretched himself and looked to the Riolu. "Is something wrong?"
Craw just shook his head.
Brighton looked to him. "Then why are you awake?"
Craw looked to him. "Well... It is... I just can't sleep... I mean could you sleep if you would be transformed into an entire different being for who knows what reason?"
Brighton sighed and went next to him looking out of the window too. "Probably not. I would think about it the whole time..."
Craw looked out of the window. The stars were shining bright like little diamonds in the night sky.
Brighton grinned. "But I know I would try to sleep since I know that I don't get anything from staying awake except for being overtired the next day."
Craw rolled his eyes. "Yeah... You are right..." He stretched himself. "Let's sleep a bit more..."
They went back to bed to sleep.

Craw yawned as he woke up next morning. He felt like if he hadn't slept at all. He rubbed his head still feeling that numb pressuring pain he felt since he became a Pokémon.
Brighton sighed and looked at the Riolu. "You still have an headache?"
Craw nodded. "Yeah, maybe I should visit a doctor... Who knows how hard I hit my head as I fell on it..."
The Pikachu nodded in agreement as he went into the bathroom."But we really should visit the guild before and have a talk with the guild leaders there. It's not so good to walk around telling everyone about your secret."
Craw was puzzled for a moment before he realized what the Pikachu meant. "Do you mean because I am a human?"
Brighton nodded. "Yeah. I will explain it later but for the moment you just need to know that not everyone is fond of humans." Then he left for the bathroom leaving Craw alone in the room. They had rent a room in an inn since the guild was already closed as they arrived in the middle of the night. In the meantime Craw looked a bit closer through the room. He wondered if it was normal that Pokémon lived this luxury with all the fancy looking stuff in the room like paintings, vases and even a phonograph with an interesting collection of discs. As the Pikachu came out again with freshly washed fur and a satisfied smile he started to go through the things he still had in his bag.
Craw shrugged and went into the bathroom himself. He was a bit surprised by the size of it. It even had a bathtub that would have been big enough for a whole bunch of Riolus but considering that not every Pokémon had the same size it made kind of sense to him. He let some hot water into the tub while he looked around a bit more. There were many little flasks with different oils and lotions as well as shampoo and even some perfumes. Craw thought about that and the pretty luxury looking room they had. They even had gotten some dinner even though it was in the middle of the night as they arrived so he wondered how much it would cost them... He sighed as his headache came back again and shrugged away the thought. Maybe a relaxing bath could make his headache go away. He turned off the water as the tub was full enough for him and slowly entered the water. He sighed relaxed as he felt how the hot water ran through his fur over his skin beneath. Again he was a bit concerned about how natural this body felt to him but he pushed the thought aside trying to relax a bit. He closed his eyes trying to think onto nothing and it didn't need long till he was fully relaxed. Then he saw something and adrenaline pumped through his body. He felt shocked and alarmed nearly in panic and as he opened his eyes again he was standing in the tub. He couldn't explain what just happened. He felt like if he had just escaped an extremely dangerous situation but he was sure he hadn't. He was totally safe and except for himself nobody was in the room. "Was it just a dream?" He wondered talking to himself. He felt his headache again and sighed. He started washing himself even using some of the shampoo before he left the water and started scrubbing his fur dry with a towel. As he looked into the mirror that was next to a wash basin he noticed that his fur was ruffled and made him look more fluffy. He tried to suppress a laugh what didn't work and started to brush his fur down using his paws. He quickly noticed that it felt also natural to him to do so just like if he did so hundreds of times. He shrugged the thought away again as he left the bathroom and sighed.
Brighton was already waiting for him and ready to go sitting on his bed with his bag next to him. "Ready?"
Craw sighed and nodded. "Yeah."
The Pikachu stood up and stretched himself. "You are sighing a lot."
Craw looked to him. "Really? Didn't notice."
The Pikachu chuckled as he walked over to the door. "You shouldn't take everything so serious. Relax a bit and enjoy the life." He smiled and left the room.
Craw rolled his eyes as he followed. "Yeah maybe... But maybe you also should take the life more serious."
The Pikachu smiled. "I take it as serious as I need to. The life is already so serious and depressing. So why making it more lame than it is?" He stretched himself. "Now let's drop this topic. Did you remember anything yet?"
The Riolu slightly shook his head. "No... I only noticed that I feel uncomfortably comfortable in this body... It feels nearly like if I had this body for a long time now..."
Brighton put his arms behind his head walking out of the inn commonly like if he didn't need to pay. "Well... Maybe with some time your memory will come back."
Craw nods a bit nervous. Something about all this was strange to him. His transformation into a Pokémon, the way he met Brighton and now all the luxury that the both seemingly don't need to pay for...
Brighton smiled. "Let's find a doctor and then grab some food before we go to the guild. Maybe there they know something about you... But we should only tell the Leaders at the beginning what you really are... I don't know how the others might react... the last human that came here not only started a war that lasted for 10 years but also nearly destroyed the world... Many think that he was also the reason for the catastrophe now..."
The Riolu looked to the Pikachu concerned. "Wow that is... Why do you even trust me if humans are so bad?"
Brighton shrugged. "Without that human I wouldn't exist... Or to be more precise my mother would have died long ago before I was born..."
Craw looked to him for some seconds before he came to the conclusion that Brighton didn't want to talk further about it. "I won't ask what's going on in your mind but if you want to talk about it I am a good listener..."
Brighton nodded and then they went to find a doctor.
They didn't need long to find a doctor and the doctor just told them what they already guessed. The headaches would surely be from a mild concussion from the fall (They told the doctor that he fell from a really high tree) and that the amnesia would surely be a result of that.
So the doc just gave him some bitter medicine and told him to come over again if the pain gets stronger or won't be gone within a week.
Craw just thanked him and followed Brighton after the Pikachu had paid the doc for the service. He felt very uncomfortable that Brighton paid everything for him. "Let's just eat something small and then go to the guild... I don't wanna burden your wallet more than I already had..."
Brighton chuckles. "Nah that's no problem. I have to go to the bank before we go eat something tho. Yesterday it was too late for that."
Craw was a bit curious about that because he wanted to know if Brighton was rich or something but he kept it to himself since Brighton seemed to be a rather nice Pokémon and he actually wanted to thank him for all the help. So he just nodded and followed the Pikachu that was leading the way.
Soon they saw the bank. It was a pretty eye-catching building since it was built to look like a huge treasure chest. As they reached the bank that was managed by a Kommo-o Brighton quickly went ahead to speak alone with the bank manager.
Craw was curious but he didn't want to seem like being snoopy so he just waited some meters away.
Brighton came back after about a minute and smiles. "OK. Let's get some breakfast and then go to the guild." He smiled and went ahead.
Craw looked to him a bit nervous. "I hope I don't burden your wallet too much..."
Brighton chuckles. "Oh don't worry. It's all right. I have enough money don't worry."
Craw shrugged and looked to him. "You still don't need to throw your money out of the window for me."
Brighton chuckled. "Food is a necessity and I guess you are as hungry as I am if not more hungry."
Craw looked to the Pikachu for a moment. "Yeah."
Brighton smiled. "Then come." He headed for a restaurant.
Craw looked at the building. It didn't look like it was gonna be cheap. "Uh Brighton? You sure you wanna eat there?"
Brighton shrugged. "Yeah why not?"
He sighed. "Well it looks rather fancy and expensive..."
The Pikachu grinned. "Don't worry. It's on me."
The Riolu looked to him nervously. "I really feel uncomfortable with you being so generous to me without getting something from me in return..."
Brighton chuckled. "But I already get something in return. Without you I wouldn't be able to form a team in the guild."
Craw nodded nervously and followed the Pikachu inside. Like he guessed the restaurant seemed pretty fancy and expensive and he already saw themselves get kicked out as he saw a rather unkind Prinplup approach them. "What are you doing here? Only high society has access to this restaurant!"
Brighton looked to him and pulled the water type aside to talk with him quietly. Then the Prinplup changed his behavior very drastically. He suddenly looked to Brighton like if he was a welcomed guest and even went as far as to bow down before him. "I-I am sorry your highness!"
Brighton nearly lost it as the Prinplup said that now having the full attention of everyone in the room. "I actually came here because I thought I could enjoy some privacy. I don't want that any information about me leaves this restaurant."
The Prinplup bowed down again and looked around. "You all heard what he said! You all are ordered to give his highness privacy and don't talk about him! Anyone who does is banished from this restaurant for lifetime!"
Brighton sighed angrily and rubbed his forehead. "I actually meant that you shouldn't scream around about who I am..." He just went past the water type looking for a free table.
The Prinplup who was now visibly paled looked to Craw signing him nervously to follow.
As they reached their table and sat down on the chairs Craw eyed Brighton but the Pikachu used the menu to hide his face. Craw sighed noticing it himself now that he sighs a lot. "Sooo... Highness... Does that mean you are royal or something?"
Craw could see that the Pikachu's eyes twitched at the words highness and royal signing that he wasn't totally wrong but Brighton waved his hand. "Can we please not talk about it?"
Craw put down his menu. "For someone asking me the half night about who I am and where I am from and about my life even though I already said that I don't remember anything you are a pretty secretive guy."
Brighton suddenly put down the menu and Craw could see that the Pikachu was close to cry. "FINE! I am a prince. Happy now?"
Craw looked at him visibly confused. "Why you make such a secret out of it?"
Brighton just looked down seemingly frustrated. "Because I hate it. Do you have any idea how that is? How it is to grow up in a golden cage with a father planning your whole life? Without any real friends because everyone is either scared of you or just want to use you? With everyone hoping you to fail because they envy you just for being born as prince? It's fucking hell!"
Craw suddenly laughed making Brighton look up to him in confusion. Now it was Craw who was close to crying but more out of laughing too hard. "Is that why you made such a secret out of it? Because you feared I would be such a jerk just pretending to be your friend? God you really never had a friend that for sure."
Now it was Brighton who was confused. "What the..."
Craw chuckled. "Brighton I don't care if you would be a prince or if you were a totally broke homeless. You helped me when I needed help and you are friendly. I mean sure the money helps but I already lived through worse than being broke and homeless..." He suddenly stopped being a bit confused by the sentence he just said. It sounded to himself as if he meant it and as if he said it thousands of times... He shook his head slowly trying to push the thought aside to think about it later. Now he had a bit more concerning problem to solve. "Brighton... You are a good guy and I would be proud to call you my friend no matter if you are a prince or not."
Brighton looked down again now with a red face because he was ashamed of what he was thinking about Craw. "Do you really mean it?"
Craw chuckled. "I mean it."
Brighton looked up to him again now with a smile and with tears of joy in his eyes. "You have no idea how much it means to me!"
Craw chuckled again. "But really... If you fear about it so much you maybe shouldn't throw so much money out of the window for luxury stuff. It feels to me like if you try to buy my friendship."
Brighton blushed again. "Well... Maybe you are right... Then how about you pay for the food?"
Craw laughed again. "Now you are making jokes. You know I am broke."
Brighton chuckles. "Well then let me pay for the beginning at least. Also I love the luxurious. I mean I never really had what my mother would call 'the simple life'."
Craw chuckled. "Well then how about I decide that kind of stuff for the future?"
Brighton nodded seemingly a bit nervous about it. "Sure. Now let's eat I am hungry."
Craw just nodded and looked into the menu. Now he noticed another strange thing. He was able to read the letters even though it seemed to be written in some strange footprints. Again he pushed the thought aside for later and concentrated onto the food. He was surprised to see meat on the menu and wondered if it was really made of Pokémon meat or if it was some sort of pseudo meat. "I think I will take the steak with roasted Oran berries."
Brighton nodded. "I will take the vegetarian lasagna."
The Prinplup nodded and wrote everything down before leaving.
Brighton waited till he left. "As soon as we are in the guild I will ask to talk with the guild leaders. There are four leaders and as prince I should be able to receive an audience. This way we can tell them about you without the other guild members hearing about you and start talking about you too much."
Craw nodded. "Yeah I think that is a good idea."

Author's note: In this chapter we learned a bit about Brighton and a tad world background. I am looking forward for the next chapters since they will explain my system about the guilds and show some other characters I really love. I hope you are as excited as I am.