Craw looked at Anubis.
The Lucario looked onto the papers. "You two will come into my group."
Brighton grinned. "Nice!"
Craw wasn't so sure about this. Something about the Lucario still make him nervous. Something told him he kept something from them that they should know...
Damion smiled. "Sweet! We are in the same group!"
Craw sighed and gave Damion a grin. He kinda liked that guy. The Buziel was reliable that he was sure about. The whole afternoon till the evening Damion was guarding Craw's and Brighton's room door. As a little thank you the two invited the Buziel to their favorite café to eat with them a bit and to talk with him. Craw actually only did that to learn a bit more about the Buziel but soon he realized he actually had fun with him. He was like a big bundle of energy with a lot of joy and jokes. Craw dropped a jaw as the Buziel told them that he had lost his parents to a virus that killed many Pokémon some years ago and that he had a pretty rough time in the streets because of that before he joined the guild just a year ago. Still the Buziel was extremely happy and seemed to have forgotten the bad feelings and only remembered the good ones. Once he and Brighton would form a team he would make a really good and reliable addition to it.
A hand on his shoulder took him out of his thoughts. Brighton grinned. "They are done with the selection."
Craw nodded and the two followed their group out of the tower. He looked at the others that were selected to be in their group. Suddenly he dropped a heartbeat and his jaw dropped. Not far from him was A shiny Kirlia. He didn't know why or how but somehow he thought she was the most beautiful Pokémon he ever saw. He was confused and his heart started beating faster and he didn't understand anything anymore. As he realized what all this meant he was even more confused. He didn't know that he could or if he even should feel like this but he definitely fell in love with her. He just couldn't stop staring at her and only a yellow hand that waved in front of his eyes forced him to awake from his daydream.
"Earth to Craw you listening?" Brighton was grinning widely.
Craw blushed and looked to the Pikachu. "Uh... What?"
Brighton chuckled. "Saw something you like or what?" He gave him a knowing look before he looked to the Kirlia and back to him. "At least you have a good taste."
Craw blushed even more. "W-What are you talking about?"
Brighton chuckled. "Calm down. I know her to be honest. Or better said I met her before. It was about ten years ago. We still were kids. Her name is Ariela White and she is the daughter of a rich tradesman of Crystal City. She seemed to be nice as we last met but that was years ago. Dunno if she is still like that. I on the other side was a huge jerk back then especially to girls... I wouldn't wonder if she would avoid me."
Craw nodded and sighed watching the Kirlia again. He didn't understand why he felt that way. It kinda felt wrong to him to feel for a Pokémon like this. He was a human after all. She laughed about a joke someone made. He sighed. Her laugh was so wonderful and she was even more beautiful when she laughed. He wished to be the one to make her laugh every day.
Brighton chuckled. "Should I introduce you two?"
Craw squeaked. He didn't even know he could create such a sound. "N-No! Uhm... You don't need to..."
Damion who had watched the scene for a while chuckled. "If you like her you should speak to her."
Craw sighed and looked to him not able to suppress a sad face. "It's complicated." He looked to the Kirlia again before he tried to concentrate on where they were going. "Let's just say it's not a good idea. Please don't ask why."
Brighton looked to him and the way he was looking at Craw he surely knew what was going on in Craw's head. He sighed. "OK. But it's not a sin to be happy."
Craw gave him a glance.
Brighton grinned. "Just sayin'."
It didn't need much longer till they reached the training grounds. It was at the edge of the city. It was more like a big field and didn't really look like a training ground.
Anubis stopped some meters in front of them and waited till everyone was there. "OK. As we told you we guild leaders will train you from today on. For this group I will be responsible and most of the time I or one of my team members will train you but sometimes the other leaders will take you here for training too. This way you have a consistent training but also can learn some tricks that I alone or my team can't teach you." He looked around and spread his arms. "As you can see this is just a normal field. Since we didn't have much time for it the training grounds aren't prepared yet so it will be your first training. Time to clean up and build a good training grounds. I will only give orders and watch you at your work. And hurry up we wanna start training in the afternoon."
Nobody really seemed to be very amused of the thought.
"That is an order not an option! It is part of daily guild work to work hard so do your job!" Now Anubis seemed to be angry and everyone quickly began moving. Anubis started yelling orders at Pokémon and they quickly did what they were told. Craw and Brighton were put into cleanup duty like the most others. So they began with the rocks. First Craw wanted to carry the rocks away already wondering what they should do with the big ones but as he saw what the others were doing it dawned him. They were simply using their moves to destroy the rocks. Craw shrugged and started to channel into his energy. He quickly felt the energy run into his leg so he kicked the rock. This time Craw could definitely see the blue flame that appeared before he hit the rock but it didn't seem as if it had much effect. Some pieces broke off but the rock kept solid.
Damion on his side nearly jumped at him. "WOAH! That was Blaze Kick! That's soo cool!"
Craw rubbed his head. "Yeah... Just that it didn't have much effect..."
Damion smiled. "Well there is a reason why rock types are resistant to fire. It's hard to burn a rock."
Craw sighed and nodded trying to channel his energy again. This time he felt it rushing into his fist and as he hit the rock it shattered into tiny frozen bits.
Damion was fazed again by the sight. "ICE PUNCH! HOW COOL!"
Craw chuckled. "Yeah literally cool."
Damion laughed.
But then Anubis came to them. "Damion back to work. Craw I would like to speak with you."
Craw looked around but the most were busy and worked hard on getting the rocks away while Damion ran over to Brighton. "What's up?"
"Could it be that you can't control your moves? I saw your aura and it seemed like if you let a lot of energy just go waste." He looked to him with a serious face.
Craw nodded nervously. "I only fought once and that was also more luck than actual skill that I won that fight..."
Anubis sighed. "OK. I will give you a small lesson that should help you. You will need to train that a lot tho. I will take care that you train with Brighton for today but I would say you should train yourself too to learn how to control your moves. With the next move you will try to channel your energy. But you will try to suppress it and only let a little bit of it out. And try to concentrate on the part of your body where you want to use it and try to imagine how the attack you want to use looks like. That should work for today. When you manage to get that under control today I will teach you some more things tomorrow. Now back to work."
Craw was confused and nodded. He couldn't imagine how he should do all these things together. So he went to the next Rock and tried out what Anubis told him. As he hit the rock he felt a massive pain and already feared he broke his paw.
Anubis just looked to him and nodded.
So Craw tried it again and hurt his paw again. He sighed and concentrated taking his time this time. He collected his energy again and only released a small it of it. He felt it wanted to run into his leg again but he tried to concentrate onto his fist. This time it seemed to word since he felt how it collected in his paw. But he waited. He somehow felt that it wasn't enough energy so he collected more of it and as he felt like if his hand would burst with energy he just released it punching the rock. This time nothing hurt and as he looked at the rock everything that was left from it was dust.
Everyone stared at Craw and had stopped working.
Anubis was the only one unfazed. "Never saw a Power Punch before? Back to work!"

It was nearly noon as they were finally finished with clearing the field from the stones and everyone was exhausted.
Anubis smiled. "Good. You can go back to the guild now and grab something for lunch. Don't eat too much we will start the training in three hours."
Everyone frowned.
Damion threw his arms into the air. "But we already need two hours only to get back to the guild and then back here!"
Anubis laughed. "Well then you have one more hour to eat and clean yourselves up a bit."
Everyone frowned again and they went back to the guild to eat something.
As they were back on the field Anubis waited for them already with a mountain of dummies. "OK we will start with sparring. Everyone take a partner and you will start sparring. I don't want to see serious hits only light ones. I don't want anyone to get hurt. I will watch you to see what everyone of you is capable of and when we are finished we gonna take the dummies and train your moves to improve your techniques."
Quickly pairs started to form and Brighton was nearly instantly surrounded by Pokémon that wanted to spar with him.
Anubis grinned. "OK everyone stop this. Craw you will spar with Brighton. Everyone else scatter and find a partner. Keep enough space for the other teams to move freely. The field is big enough and I have good eyes so you can go a bit farther away."
The others were a bit annoyed that Craw was the one to spar with the prince but they listened to the guild leader and did what they were told to do.
So Craw and Brighton started sparring and soon Craw understood why Anubis said not to use serious hits. Brighton was extremely fast and if he wouldn't have good reflexes Craw would have been shocked much more. He was hit by so many lightnings that he couldn't think straight anymore as Anubis finally released them from the sparring.
"OK everyone come back here!" Anubis was sitting on a rock. It was the only rock that was left since he said that it should stay. As everyone was back to him he looked at them. "Good. We know three categories of moves. What are these?"
Damion instantly yelled making Craw wince from his headache. "Physical, special and status moves!"
Anubis sighed. "Yes, that is right but please don't yell. Also please lift your arm please and wait for me to pick you."
Damion blushed and looked down embarrassed nodding.
Anubis nodded. "What are the four different ways to channel energy?"
Brighton lifted his hand.
"Yes Brighton?" Anubis looked to him.
"Through a normal move, through a move item, through a z-crystal or through a mega stone." He looked very serious and seemed to listen closely.
Craw was a bit surprised by this serious side of him.
Anubis nodded. "Correct. What ways you can use a move?"
An Eevee lifted her paw.
Anubis nodded. "Yes Kathrin?"
The Eevee stared at the Lucario. "To influence the environment, to attack the foe and to heal a companion."
"Right and still wrong." Anubis just stated. "Someone else?"
Brighton lifted his arm again.
"Yes Brighton?"
"The possibilities are nearly endless but the typical ways is to influence the environment, to attack the foe, to heal a companion, to support a companion, to attack a companion, to heal the foe, toe restore the environment and to start a team move."
Anubis widely grins. "Oh someone did his homework. The answer is absolutely correct."
The Eevee gritted her teeth and glared at Brighton angrily.
Anubis nodded. "OK now everyone take a dummy. You will train your moves on them and try to get better control over them. Also try to think of how you could use your moves. I will walk around and give some tips. If you need help with something ask me. Like before please keep some space to the others to not get into each other's attacks. And don't hold back. The dummies ate pretty sturdy and can withstand much more than the rocks and even if one is destroyed you just can take another one we have enough."
Everyone nodded and did like he told. It didn't need long till everyone was training with a dummy.

As the sun started sinking Anubis stood up from the rock. "OK, everyone! We are done for today! You did pretty well. Now you go back to the guild and grab something to eat and then rest."
The group, all of them very tired, started chatting with each other, some of them were even yawning, and made their way to the city.
Craw yawned. "Damn I am through..."
Brighton stretched himself. "Yeah... I could fall into bed right now..."
Craw nodded. "Yeah but we should eat something first..."
Suddenly someone stopped Craw by holding him by the shoulder.
"Craw, please wait a moment." It was the voice of Anubis. "I have to talk to you."
Craw sighed and looked to the Lucario. Something about his face told Craw that he didn't want to scold him or something.
Brighton wanted to stay too but Anubis glared at him. "Only Craw."
Brighton looked to Craw nervous but Craw just nodded and so Brighton turned around and went with the others. He looked back at the two before he reached the city and Craw could see how worried he was.
Anubis sighed. "Come. I want to show you something."
Craw was confused. The Lucario just confused him more and more. But he had the feeling he wouldn't get any answers if he wouldn't do what Anubis wanted so he followed him.
Anubis just stared into the distance while they were walking. "You OK?"
Craw nodded. "Yeah... still some headache but it's not that serious."
Anubis nodded. As they reached a foot of a cliff he stopped. "From here on I will carry you."
"What?" Craw was surprised. Why did he want that now he wondered.
"I will have to lift you up there. Just do as I say. You will see soon enough why." Anubis crouched down so the Riolu could climb on his back. "And grab onto my fur or you might fall off. I can't afford you to die by such a stupid thing."
Craw sighed and did as he was told. Then suddenly Anubis jumped. Craw felt his heart beat faster. Anubis jumped incredibly fast and high and Craw had to hold tight onto him to not fall down. Each of the Lucario's jumps was from small edges in the cliff just big enough to fit one of his feet on but Anubis didn't even look where he was setting his foot on. It was like if he knew exactly where to step on. Craw felt strange. He was extremely excited and felt a huge rush of adrenaline but at the same time he felt extremely save and cuddled into the Lucario's back fur. As suddenly as Anubis started his rise he stopped and Craw had to climb down from the Lucario's back. His heart was still racing and he kinda hated to admit that he really enjoyed this.
Anubis smiled. They were in a ledge near the top of the cliff. Anubis went to the edge and Craw nearly thought he wanted to jump down again to leave the Riolu there but he just sat down letting his legs dangle. "Come. Sit down."
Craw looked to the Lucario and as he saw his face he was extremely confused. Anubis was smiling and it was a happy and relaxed smile. Craw slowly went to the edge and sat down next to the Lucario.
Anubis was just sitting there looking to the sky.
After a while Craw wondered what the Lucario wanted from him. "Uhm... Why are we here?"
Anubis looked to him for a moment it looked like if he was daydreaming. "You know? This is my favorite place. Here I feel really free. All my problems feel small here like the city to our feet."
Craw looked down. He had to giggle. It really looked like if the city was lying to their feet.
Anubis was looking at him.
It seemed like if he thought onto something nostalgic so Craw didn't disturbed him and tried to think onto something else looking to the city. His mind instantly went to Ariela and he blushed.
Anubis sighed. "You know? You remember me a lot to him. I mean MY Craw."
This surprised Craw. He looked to Anubis confused but didn't dare to speak a word.
Anubis turned to look back to the sky. "You two have much in common. Not only that you both are Riolus but also the way you act. You both seem to be very calm and tend to overthink every situation several times. Others would say you think too much and sometimes they are right but you only try to find the best answer for the situation. You are very quiet and rarely speak up but when you speak up everyone listens to you. But there are also some differences. My Craw was a bit more carefree. He didn't worry as much as you do and he enjoyed the life much more." He smiled. "We had much fun... I didn't joke as I said he was like my brother you know? As I met him I was in the forest west of the city. Back then the city was just a village and I was just a kid. I was lost and was crying. Yeah I was crying... Somehow he must have heard me and found me. He helped me out of the forest and in return my parents took him in letting him live with us. He knew everything from his life as human and he was already a good fighter. He was also able to control his aura. That reminds me... Do you already know how to use your aura?"
Craw shook his head. "No."
Anubis nodded still looking to the sky. "We will have to work on that... It is one of these hidden abilities that Pokémon have and one of the most useful too... But back to the topic. Craw stayed with us and he taught me many things. He was always there for me. To me he was my big brother... I could tell him everything and he could tell me everything. You have no idea how conflicted he was as he fell in love for... or wait... maybe you know how that feels." He grinned and looked to the Riolu. "You were very distracted at the training always looking to the Kirlia. Ariela... Yeah..." He chuckled. Only Arceus could tell what the Lucario was thinking.
Craw on his side was extremely embarrassed. He was red like a tomato berry.
Anubis face softened and he looked to the sky again. He rubbed Craw's head softly. "You don't need to worry. Your secret is save with me." He stretched his arm out as if he tried to grab the beacon. "Well however. Craw and I went through a lot and he was happy. I know that he was happy... And he also loved someone. He was very concerned about these feelings and that distracted him. In the end he came to the conclusion that he would follow his heart not his mind. You have to decide that for yourself but I bet you will find your answer." He sighed and his arm sank back down. "What I want to tell you with all this is that if you ever need to talk... If you need help or just want someone to listen without judging you you can always come to me. Beside Brighton I am probably the only one who can really understand you and I am the one who knows the most about humans. I can't help you with everything and I can't promise to always have time for you since I have a lot of work. But I will try my best."
Craw looked to him. This was a strange moment to him. The normally hard and judging Lucario was now so understanding. Nearly like a father. "Why?" It was the only word he could bring out.
Anubis smiled. "My Craw had me but I think he would have been happier if he would have had someone else to speak with. I know I am acting confusing but this here is my true self. I normally only show this side to Zaviro and the others but you are different. Call me nostalgic but I feel like if I can speak open with you. I always have to be so strict with the guild members but I just want to keep them alive... You too. I only am so strict to you because I have to." He sighed. "Please don't take it personally."
Now Craw fully understood. Anubis didn't just saw the other Craw in him but actually cared for him. He was feeling like if he had to protect the human. No, he thought that he had to protect everyone and that was taking it's toll. Craw felt sorry for the Lucario. "Anubis. I thank you very much for being so open to me. I just have two things right now. For the first I would like to ask you that if I chose someone that I feel I can trust that I can tell them about everything. Not only about me being a human but also about your Craw."
Anubis looked at him blankly.
Craw couldn't tell if he accepted it or not. "And second that you come to me too if you need to talk. I won't promise to not judge you but I will be honest with you and that I will keep everything to myself. I won't even tell Brighton if you don't want to."
There was a glance in Anubis' eyes. He suddenly was close to tears. "I thank you very much for that offer... I will think about it a bit." He looked to the sky again. "It is like back then. You humans have something strange about you. Already in the legends is told about the power of the humans that are able to bring the Pokémon together and make them team up even when they hated each other. I wonder if this is something that all humans have in common or if that is only the chosen ones... those who are sent to us to save us... But one thing I know. All Pokémon around you will feel attracted to you. They will feel like if you are a great beacon. Please, for the sake of my and your salvation, don't let them burn in your bright flame. Promise me that."
Craw didn't understand but he guessed that it had to do with the old Craw. "OK I promise."
Anubis nodded and stood up again stretching himself. "Let's get back down again. I bet Brighton is worried sick about you. If you want you can tell him everything. I just wanted to talk with you alone because I felt a bit nostalgic. I know it is a unfair but you give me the feeling that everything is fine again and Brighton would have disturbed that for me..."
Craw nodded and stood up. "It's OK. I can understand that."

Author's note: I am in the flow! I can't stop writing XD Well have fun with this one. Here we have some more explanation about how moves work in my world and so on. Also yeah I am taking mega evos and z-moves in. I am unsure about dynamaxing tho since I don't like the concept very much... It is like if they mixed up mega evos and z-moves and just restricted it to 3 rounds. I don't like that. So I'm not gonna use them. I am unsure about actually using z-moves too but they are existing in my world. And please welcome Ariela the Kirlia and Kathrin the Eevee to the stage. I can promise you these two will appear more often in future :P Also we learned some things about Anubis that big ol' softy.
Now we have the dry chapters behind us and we will begin with some action! Let's see where this is going :P

Still searching for a beta reader that helps me out with my bad grammar.