About a week later the king was still in the city. He seemed to spend a lot of time with negotiating with traders and the guild. Sometimes Craw and Brighton were present and even though he didn't seem to like Craw he kept on a professional level. It was mostly about the contract with the guild so Craw didn't have to say much but sometimes it also was about Craw. The king tried his best to get control over the human but Craw kept to get loops around his demands to fit them in ways that were against the king's favors and so he always stepped back from his demands.
Brighton had some good ideas too and he was always able to sell them to his father in ways that he thought they were his owns.
Craw really liked the way Brighton was handling that and so he decided that Brighton would become the main negotiator of their team in future. He really seemed to have a silver tongue like Kathrin always said and he had a very good eye for details.
Anubis stood up. "OK I think that is enough for today. We can continue tomorrow."
Craw stood up as well and stretched. "I won't be there."
Brighton chuckled and looked to him. "On a date with Ariela again?"
Craw grinned and glanced to him. "You remember what happened last time you disturbed us right?"
Brighton paled. "I will look what Damion wanna do. Maybe we can do some training or something..."
Craw chuckled. "Good."
Markus stood up. "Ariela was that Kirlia right? She comes from a good house. A good choice."
Craw glanced to him. "You better let her alone."
Markus looked to him with a blank face. Then he turned to go. "I won't interfere."
Craw looked at him wary but for the moment he would let the Ampharos get away with it.
As Markus had left Anubis looked to Craw. "I think he slowly gets it. He seemed to think that he could control you but now he realized that you are too stubborn to let him get his hands onto you."
Craw nodded. "Still. I will have to watch out for him."
Anubis nodded.

Ariela smiled. "Do it Craw!"
Craw smiled and tossed the ring. It landed right around the pole for 100 points.
Ariela cheered happily and the Hitmontop grinned. "Congratulations! He went to a shelf and took a cute Teddiursa plush from it and gave it to Craw.
Craw smiled and gave the plush to Ariela who took it happily and hugged it before kissing Craw onto his cheek.
Craw blushed a bit and smiled.
He looked around. "What should we do next?"
Ariela looked around happily. "Hmm... How about we get some candyfloss?"
Craw smiled and nodded. "Sounds great!" He took her hand and they went to a candy booth.
Ariela smiled as Craw bought them both a candyfloss. She smiled and bit into it.
Craw giggled and picked some candyfloss from her cheek.
Ariela giggled and kissed his cheek.
They had fun on this festival.
Craw didn't even care that he saw Brighton, Kathrin and Damion running around somewhere near them all the time.
Ariela smiled and pointed to a chairoplane. "I wanna do that!"
Craw smiled. "OK." They quickly finished the candyfloss and went to the chairoplane.
After some rounds both of them needed a small break feeling a bit lightheaded. Craw smiled and nuzzled her happily. "This makes much more fun than I thought."
Ariela giggled. "Yeah it is great."
Craw looked around with curiosity. "What should we do next?"
Ariela smiled. "Hmm... I don't know."
They were sitting on a bench and drank some limo.
"Hey! You two have fun?" Brighton grinned. "Don't worry. We're not here to spy on you. Just having some fun ourselves."
Ariela grinned and slowly spun her finger. "Yeah you know what happens when you do that again right?"
Brighton paled and grinned awkwardly "Yeah yeah... You don't need to remind me..."
Kathrin grinned. Even she seemed to have some fun. "These booths are great. I win one prize after the other."
Damion grinned dumb and was a bit blushed.
Craw looked to him and then to Brighton."What's up with him?"
Brighton chuckled. "He was at the booth where you have to plunge the Primarina by hitting the target sign with a ball. As he finally hit it and the Primarina was sent into the water she gave him a kiss on the cheek."
Damion widely blushed. "Brighton!"
Craw and Ariela chuckled.
Damion was a bit embarrassed. "However... I'm gonna go get myself some snack. See you later!" He then ran away.
Brighton chuckled and looked to Kathrin. "We should go too. Not that Ariela decides that we are spying on them."
Ariela grinned.
Kathrin rolled her eyes. "Sure."
Brighton smiled. "Maybe you should try out the pair attractions like the tunnel of love or something like that. Till later!" He then went after Damion followed by Kathrin.
Ariela giggled. "Actually doesn't sound like a bad idea."
Craw blushed a bit and looked to her. "You wanna go there?"
Ariela smiled and nodded.
So they went to the tunnel of love. They had to wait a bit since there were many pars that wanted to go into the tunnel. As it was finally their turn Craw and Ariela had to sit in a small boat in a heart shape. They then slowly drove into the tunnel. The light inside was all read and pink and the tunnel was filled with all sorts of kitschy stuff like hearts and figures of mostly fairy type Pokémon that were cuddling. Craw looked around a bit disappointed. He would have thought of more since this was the world of the Pokémon after all. He wold have thought that they would have used some kind of Pokémon moves or powers to make it more lovely.
Ariela on her side seemed to enjoy it very much so he just enjoyed being together alone with her.
He cuddled onto her and nuzzled her softly.
Ariela smiled and nuzzled him back kissing him softly.
He still blushed when she kissed him. He smiled like an idiot and kissed her back. He was happy that he was together with her. He loved her.
It didn't need long till they were out again and Craw was a bit sad that it didn't last longer.
Ariela smiled and held his paw. "This is a wonderful date."
Craw blushed and nuzzled her softly. "Yeah. It works wonders after the last few weeks. I never felt that relaxed and happy..." He sighed happily.
Ariela smiled and kissed his cheek softly. "I know what you mean."
He smiled. "What should we do next?"
She grinned. "How about you decide this time?"
He grinned. "You sure you want me to?"
Ariela giggled and cuddled onto his side. "Yep."
Craw smiled. "OK, but don't complain afterwards."
She looked to him confused.
He went ahead pulling her with him.
As they finally reached what he was heading to she paled. "Wait... Y-You want to go in there?"
Craw grinned a bit evil. "Yeah. Wanna bail out?"
Ariela blushed and glared at him. "No way."
Craw grinned and they went to the roller coaster. He was a bit amused that Ariela was afraid of it. He heard about it from Kathrin three days ago as they heard about the fun fair.
As they sat into the cart Ariela started trembling. "I hope you are OK if I puke onto you..."
Craw chuckled. "We will be so fast you will probably hit the Pokémon behind us with it so I don't have any problems with that."
If Ariela's skin wouldn't be nearly white already it would now be.
Craw was surprised that he could actually see her getting more pale. He grinned and took her hand. "If it help you can-" He winced as she nearly ripped his arm out clinging onto it.
She really seemed to be afraid of it.
Craw smiled and put his arm around her.
She widely blushed and looked to him.
He just grinned back at her.
That was when she understood. "You sly- Oh my... It starts!"
The cart started moving and she pressed herself onto him. As they were on the peak of the first top of the track Ariela's eyes widened. "By Arceus..."
Then it went down and everyone started screaming.
As they were out Ariela still seemed to be all dizzy. "I should spin you around some rounds for that..."
He giggled and took her hand. "Then why you aren't?"
Ariela looked at him with a mixture of happiness and anger. "I am so dizzy right now I could accidentally throw you into one of the booths..."
Craw chuckled. "Admit it. You enjoyed it."
She blushed. "Why should I enjoy it?"
He grinned. "You liked to press onto me."
She pouted. "Yeah yeah... Still I didn't like it."
He smiled and nodded.
After they spend nearly the whole day at the fun fair and in the end they sat down on a bench at the edge of the park each eating an ice cream.
Craw smiled and looked to her. "That was a great day."
Ariela nodded happily. "Yeah." She pressed the plush onto herself.
He smiled and looked to the plushy. He giggled. "You really like the plush don't you?"
She smiled and kissed his cheek. "Of course. You won it for me after all."
He blushed and tried to eat some of his ice cream but accidentally dipped his snout into it.
Ariela giggled and looked to him. Then she made something that made his body tingle all over and his tail wagged uncontrolled. She licked the ice cream from his snout.
He widely blushed and looked to her embarrassed and surprised letting his ice cream fall to the ground.
She blushed and looked to him a bit shy. "Sorry... Did I go a bit too far?"
He was still blushed. "N-No... It just... felt strange..."
She blushed. "I-I know... I felt it too..."
Craw looked to her. Sometimes he forgot that she was a Kirlia that could sense his emotions.
Ariela looked to him with curiosity. "Didn't you know? That is one of these things that canines do. That is their type of kissing."
He tilted his head. "Does that mean Riolu would normally kiss this way?"
Ariela blushed. "Well... Yes and no. You canines have more sensitive noses. Sometimes they kiss by licking their snouts... But that is a more private thing since it is so intense for them... I forgot that sorry..."
He blushed again. "You mean that is something like a soul kiss?"
She looked to him confused. "What is a soul kiss?"
He looked around nervously. "Well... Would you let me show you?"
She blushed a bit and nodded.
He closed his eyes nervously. He slowly came closer to her and started kissing her. Then he deepened the kiss and slowly went over into a soul kiss.
Ariela widely blushed and trembled. She let her ice cream fall to the ground and took both his paws squeezing them softly.
He stopped and looked to her embarrassed but with curiosity. Again he felt tingly all over.
Ariela had closed her eyes while they kissed and sat there now in front of her with closed eyes. It kinda seemed like if she was a bit paralyzed. Then she slowly opened her eyes. She looked to him in a way she never did before and Craw already thought she didn't like it but then she smiled widely. "T-That felt... wow... I didn't know..."
Craw blushed widely again.
She stroked his cheek softly. "Is that a thing you humans often do?"
He shook his head slowly. "No... Not in public at least..."
She nodded slowly. "M-Maybe we should that private too..."
He nodded.
Then they sat there in awkward silence. For a moment they just looked at the other Pokémon that were at the fun fair Craw holding her hand and Ariela holding his paw.
After about 15 minutes Craw couldn't stand the silence anymore. "We don't need to talk about it... But let's at least not sit here in this awkward silence..."
She blushed again and nodded. "Yeah it is strange."
He sighed nervously. "It is just I am somehow shy about all this... This body feels so normal to me... I mean I live in it for quiet a while in it... But at the same time everything is new to me... Because I don't remember anything about my past..."
She nodded and softly nudged him. "I can feel it too. I never felt like this before and now I feel everything of you... And I enjoy it. For the first time since a long long time I enjoy feeling the emotions of others again..." She nuzzled him softly. "And it all feels so different to me..."
He smiled and nuzzled her back. "Let's head back to the guild OK?"
She nodded.

Craw slowly opened his eyes. He looked to his side. Nobody was there. He kinda felt empty without her around... He wanted her to be there all the time... Maybe when they get through the final exam test and become real explorers he could... He blushed at the thought. That was maybe too much wasn't it? At least for now... Should he wait longer or did she think the same as he did? Did he always struggle with thinking about these kind of things or is it only in this life? Maybe he should ask Anubis about it... No... That was something he get out of his mind himself. He slowly stood up and stretched. Brighton and Damion were still sleeping. They were longer away than him. That was good. This way he and Ariela had some time alone together. He smiled and went to the window. It was still before sunrise but only a bit. He sighed and went outside to take a shower.
As he came back into the room Brighton and Damion were up already.
Brighton greeted him. He was not much of a morning Pokémon. "I hope you left us some hot water..."
Craw smiled. "Well, the early bird catches the worm but yeah I left you enough hot water."
Brighton nodded and went to take a shower.
Damion on his side didn't seem to care if the water was hot or cold. Probably a water type thing.
Craw stretched himself and started brushing his fur. He wondered if he had to cut it sometime... Maybe it would grow longer if he didn't... He maybe should ask Anubis about that. He shrugged it off for now and finished getting ready for the day.
Damion still sat on his bed looking at something in his paws.
Craw went over to him to look at what he was holding. It was a little gem that seemed to be in it's natural form. "What's up?"
Damion nearly jumped at him surprised. "W-What?"
Craw chuckled. "Sorry. Didn't mean to startle you."
Damion sighed. "Nah... I was just lost in thoughts."
Craw smiled. "You wanna share them?"
Damion shrugged. "Well... It is a bit strange... There was this future teller tent on the fun fair and the Mismagius who was the future teller told me to go to the lake and dive to the deepest part. There I would find something that would lead me to my true love..." He blushed.
Craw smiled. He never thought much about these future telling since they were just scammers but here in the Pokémon world everything sounded possible to him. "And you found this?"
Damion nodded.
Craw grinned. "Well I don't know if future telling is real or not but you should keep it just in case. Still don't rely on it fully."
Damion nodded. "That is what I am struggling with right now... If she was right I would be really dumb to not listen to it but if not I would be dumb to listen to her."
Craw grinned. "Well not entirely. It looks like it could become a really beautiful gem. No matter what happens. A girl would be happy about it. You should let someone craft it into some jewelry tho."
Damion smiled a bit. "Yeah that sounds like a good idea."
Craw nodded. "Also don't think too much about it. If it really leads you to your true love it will lead you to your true love no matter if you search for her actively or not. You still can try your best without it."
Damion blushed and nodded.
Then Brighton came back out of the bathroom. He sighed relaxed and seemed much more awake now. "It's all yours Damion."
Damion nodded and put the gem away before he went into the bathroom calmly.
Brighton looked at the door confused. "What's up with him?"
Craw grinned and explained him everything.
Brighton chuckled. "So that's where he went to as he vanished."
Craw nodded. "I wish I would have seen that tent. I should have tried it out with Ariela..."
Brighton shrugged. "Yeah. Maybe it's good that way anyways. Who knows... If that Mismagius really was a future teller she maybe would have found out who you really are."
Craw didn't thought about it yet but Brighton was right. "Yeah..."

After breakfast they went to the training field like everyone else.
Anubis was already waiting there with a lot of other Pokémon. "OK everyone. You are probably thrilled to hear that I think you are ready for real dungeon training now. You will have to split up in pairs for that. Everyone who wanted to form a three Pokémon team have to choose who of you will split off. After everyone has a partner you will get a silver rank team that will come with you and you will go together with them into the training dungeon that is north of here. Some of you maybe know it as the dungeon tower but in truth it was the first attempt to build a guild tower. One night it suddenly became a mystery dungeon but thankfully it just became a low threat dungeon even tho it is pretty high and has many levels. This way we can ensure that you learn as much as you can about dungeons and don't need to worry much about you since the feral Pokémon in there are on low level. You will get a training bag together with a training map and two trainee badges. The goal is it to get to the fifteenth floor and find an item that I hid there. For some reason this dungeon is special and doesn't swallow up items that are left in there. The team that comes with you is only there to watch out for you and to observe and maybe give you one advice or two but they won't actively help you. If you get defeated you will get kicked out of the dungeon as usually. This is just a training so don't overdo it. To make it a bit more interesting for you you can keep the item from the tenth floor if you are the first who finds it."
Now everyone was all ears.
Anubis grinned. "Well then form pairs please."
Craw looked to Brighton and Damion nervously. Knowing them they would want him to decide about who splits off.
Brighton grinned at him. "C'mon we can do this easily. We gonna find that item first!"
Damion chuckled. "You mean I and Craw will find it first."
Brighton looked at him. "Wait what?"
Craw sighed. He knew where this would go if he wouldn't find a solution that would make everyone happy. Then he had the idea. "No. I will find it. But you two will go as a team. I will find someone else."
Brighton and Damion both looked at him confused.
Craw grinned. A wonderful idea he had there. He looked around to look if there was someone else who was free. It didn't need long for him to find someone who he found was fitting. It was a female Alolan Vulpix called Tira. Craw knew she had little crush onto Brighton and that she would do her best to impress Craw so she might become a team member. Also Craw knew she was smart and strong since she was fifth best of the last week's item training. Craw had to admit that she was cute but she would more fit to Damion rather than Brighton since she seemed to be a bit younger. Craw smiled and went up to her. "Hey you are Tira right?"
The Vulpix looked to him surprised. "Y-Yeah... can I help you somehow?"
Craw grinned. "How about we team up? Since I am part of a three Pokémon team we had to split up."
She looked to him and then to Brighton. She got all excited and grinned widely. "Sure! I will do my best!"
He grinned. "Nothing less I am expecting from you." He looked to Anubis and then back to her. "I would like to know one thing if it isn't too private for you. How old are you?"
She looked to him confused. "I am 16. Why do you ask?"
Craw thought about it a bit. "Just wanted to know. Let's see how good you really are. We decided to only let Pokémon into our team that are at least 14 years old. If you are good enough we maybe could have a spot open for you... But that is something we have to decide a different time. After all we will decide that as a team and everyone has to give their OK."
Now she was all giggly and overly excited. Maybe Craw went too far but she seemed to be very happy about it.
After a while everyone seemed to have a partner. Anubis took care that every pair of them would have a pair of experienced explorers. Brighton and Damion got a team called Black Roses. They were two females, a Grovyle named Lyra and a shiny Roselia named Michaela. Of course Damion was a bit distracted by that but Brighton seemed to keep him on his toes.
Craw and Tira got a team called Ignite a Spark. They were a female Plusle and a male Minun. The Minun was much taller than average while the Pluase was smaller than average. The Plusle hid behind the Minun and seemed to be very shy.
The Minun stepped to them followed by the Plusle. "My name is Samuel Spark and this is my sister Samantha. You can call us Sam and Sammy."
The Plusle waved to them. "H-Hi."
Craw smiled calmly and nodded. "I am Craw and this is Tira."
Sam smiled. "Oh like the human? Your parents must have great expectations for you."
Craw chuckled. "Yeah... maybe."
Sam looked to him with curiosity but didn't seem to want to ask.
Sammy on her side just seem to observe calmly.
Tira smiled. "So you are Sam's younger sister? Hello I am Tira."
She squeaked and hid behind Sam.
Sam chuckled. "You are wrong. She is my older twin."
Tira looked to her surprised. "Oh."
Sam grinned. "Well everyone thinks she is the younger sibling but she is exactly 22 minuts older than me."
Craw chuckled. "You know Sam already Tira?"
She blushed. "Well I saw him once or twice." She looked to Sam with something that looked like admiration.
Craw grinned. Then he looked to Sammy. "You don't need to fear me."
Sammy squeaked.
Sam smiled. "Please don't flirt with her. She has a boyfriend already."
Craw looked to him confused. "I wasn't flirting... I have a girlfriend... I was just nice."
Sam rubbed his head embarrassed. "Oh... Sorry... I am a bit protective over her. She is pretty shy and is not really used to speak to others if it isn't about science. So it is hard for her to defend herself from flirting."
Craw looked to him. "Aaalright. How about we just go to the dungeon?"
Sam smiled. "Uhm... sure."

Craw sighed after he smashed a Geodude with his Ice Punch defeating it with one hit. "Compared to the training this is ridiculous easy..."
Tira nodded. "Yeah... I nearly wish for a strong foe..."
Sam chuckled. "Be careful what you wish for. It might come true. Sometimes there are hiding dangers in dungeons that stay in the shadows but they can suddenly strike and be very cruel at that. You wouldn't be the first one who disappears in a dungeon because you underestimate it and surely not the strongest. Always be careful and watch out."
Craw nodded. He kinda wished now that he could control his aura abilities already. Even though they advanced pretty quick to the tenth floor they would have been faster with his ability since he would have been able to locate the stairs more easily.
Sam grinned. "You two are pretty good. But maybe I can still teach you the one or other trick." They entered another room. "For example: what mistake did you two just do?"
Craw looked to him confused. "What do you mean?"
Sam pointed upwards still standing in the corridor.
Craw looked up nervous. He had this feeling of doom that always overcame him when Anubis told him that he made a mistake before beating him up badly in training. Up there on the ceiling of the room that was higher than the corridor were shadows. He knew what it meant. He heard about this in the lessons. He paled as the shadows fell to the ground and went into a battle stance. He just entered a monster room. Around him were now several Pokémon that seemed to be stronger than the normal Pokémon in this dungeon. He grinned grimly. "Thanks for pointing that out. I will keep in mind to look before I enter a room if it might hold a surprise..."
Sam grinned widely. "Glad I could teach you something."
Craw nodded.
Tira made herself ready to fight.
Craw grinned. "Tira? Would you mind to let me handle this for now? This was my mistake after all."
Tira looked at him. "OK, but I will take care none of them will defeat you if you get into too much trouble."
Craw nodded. "Finally some challenge." He looked around. There were the stairs in that room. Around him were several small Pokémon that he would expect to live in a ruin like Rattatas and Geodudes. Like the actual guild tower this one had big holes in the wall so flying Pokémon could enter more easily and so it wasn't surprising that he saw several Pidgeys, Fletchlings and Taillows. But the most dangerous Pokémon seemed to be the evolved Pokémon. There were 3 Raticates and 2 Gravelers but the most dangerous was to him the Fletchinder.
Sam smiled. "Remember. We are no monsters. If they flee let them."
Craw nodded. He took another step into the room and readied himself. This would be a longer fight. Then it started. First were two Rattata that attacked him from the front. He swiftly dodged them by turning a bit so the two Rattata flew by him as they jumped. He just hit with his paws down hard without using a move making them crash to the ground and scurry away. While this a Geodude used the time to sneak up from his side and tried to attack him but Craw saw it coming and used his Ice Punch to defeat it right away. A swarm of Pidgeys tried to attack him at the same time with Gust. Craw grinned. He used both his paws with Ice Punch hitting the ground hard what not only created a small bolder of ice that protected him a bit from the Gust but also sent frozen rock shards and pebbles flying towards the bird Pokémon. He saw that trick once at the training as a Poliwhirl of his group fought a Pidgeotto using that exact same trick to get the Pidgeotto down. Some of the Pidgeys dodged the shards and pebbles but some were hit and dropped to the ground defeated. He quickly charged some energy knowing that the next attack would come soon and he was right. The Gravelers used the distraction to use Rollout onto him but it was too late. As they were close to him he used Focus Punch the ice boulder he created before crashing it into thousands of shards that flew into all directions. Craw himself was prepared for it and used Flare Kick to shield himself from the ice. As the ice was hit by the Flare Kick a fog cloud spread hiding him in it.
The Gravelers on their side were hit pretty hard by the ice shards abstracting them. They didn't hit the Riolu but instead they hit each other.
Craw grinned and hit them both with another Ice Punch.
The Gravelers froze solid and as the fog was blown away by the flying types he could see the Geodudes fleeing as well as some Rattatas. The flying types now decided to attack him again.
He used his Flare Kick again and hit two of them while the others backed up.
One of the Fletchlings tried his luck and attacked him from the side but Craw punched it hard with his Ice Punch. The Fletchling was thrown at a wall with frozen wings and glared at the Riolu.
Craw glared at the other Pokémon and most of them backed up. Only the Fletchinder seemed as if it still wanted to fight. Craw sighed and readied himself. He only knew three moves. His Blaze Kick was no option. A fire move against a fire type wasn't strong enough. His Power Punch was extremely strong but not very effective against the flying type. Also Pocus Punch needed some time to charge up and it was too dangerous since he could lose the focus if he got attacked and the Fletchinder seemed to be very fast. So the only move that was left was Ice Punch. Even though it was effective against flying types it wasn't very effective against fire types so it would be a little risky. He grinned grimly and looked to the fire bird.
The Fletchinder screamed loud before it started attacking him.
Craw grinned as he saw the bird tried out Peck. That would make the bird come close enough to him to attack him with Ice Punch. He barely dodged the Fletchinder's attack punching it hitting it's wing.
The Fletchinder screamed again trying to attack him again with Peck.
Craw tried to dodge but he was hit this time. He hissed and threw another Ice Punch at the Fletchinder throwing it back a bit. He used the time he won to bite down on an oran berry. The berry took effect as soon as he gulped down and he felt much better again. But he had no time to really recover since the Fletchinder used Ember at him covering him in a burst of the bullet like embers. He growled as the attack hit him but decided not to dodge. Instead he jumped through the attack and used Ice Punch once again. This time he put as much energy into it as possible. He wanted to end this fight with this one last hit. He felt how cold his paw was now. As he hit the Fletchinder right at the head he could hear a loud snapping sound and froze solid. He knew the Fletchinder was dead. Craw sighed nervously and looked around. The remaining Pokémon fled after seeing how he killed the Fletchinder. Only the fletchling with frozen wings was still there looking at Craw with huge eyes. Craw didn't know what the Fletchling thought and probably it just was fearing him. He went to it slowly and the Fletchling started to panic but couldn't flee. He took it up and carefully broke off the wings without hurting it.
The Fletchling picked onto his paw so he would let it go and quickly jumped away crouching into a corner staring at Craw with wide eyes.
Craw grinned and shook his head slowly and went back to the others.
Sam widely smiled. "What a wonderful way of using moves. I rarely see someone using moves different than to directly attacking a foe! That was marvelous."
Craw rubbed his head. "I only used what I saw once and improvised a bit..."
Tira grinned. "No. that was really cool. I mean I didn't even know you could use ice type moves this way!"
Craw smiled. "Well I need a little break now. That fight was a bit exhausting and it seems to be save here right now. How about we rest a bit before we go on to the next level."
Sam nodded. "That is a good idea." He took his own bag and took out two apples for him and his sister.
Craw nearly had forgotten that she was there. He took out two apples as well as a little bottle out of his bag. He gave one apple to Tira and together they sat down and started eating. He opened the bottle and gulped it's content down.
Tira looked to him. "Max Elixir?"
Craw nodded. The liquid remembered him to cola and he had to chuckle. If it wouldn't be such a useful item he would probably drink it to every meal. As he was nearly finished with his apple he noticed that the Fletchling was still in the room and watched them wary but Craw thought to see some interest in their eyes too.
It wasn't far away from him picking at the ground seemingly searching for some food.
Craw giggled and broke off a bit of his apple before throwing it towards the Fletchling.
It looked at Craw for a moment before carefully hopping to the piece of the apple pecking on it a bit before it took it into their spout and gulped it down completely. Then it stood there looking at Craw with curiosity.
Craw grinned and broke off another piece and threw it to the bird.
Sam who had watched that nearly fell over. "Craw... I am not sure but... This is so rare... that it happens right at your first dungeon training is such a small chance." He started searching something in his bag before he pulled out something that looked like azure colored candies. "Here try giving it these."
Craw looked at him confused. "I thought it isn't allowed to help us."
Sam smiled. "This is an exception. I swear to you that you won't be disqualified for it."
Craw nodded and took the candies holding it with open paw so the Fletchling could take them if it wanted.
The Fletchling looked at him wary but with curiosity and slowly hopped to the Riolu. It didn't stop watching the other three Pokémon while it slowly pecked on one before taking it, flapping their wings while hopping away from them and eagerly gulped it down. After some seconds it came back and repeated that till all five of the candies were eaten by it. It looked at the Pokémon for some more time and Sam seemed to enjoy the scene much.
Craw looked to him confused. "What does that mean?"
Sam seemed to be very excited. "The Fletchling sparked. It is still a wonder why this happens but it seemed that it sees something in you. It has the potential to become aware of itself and to become more than feral. It can become like us."
Craw looked at it surprised. "Are you sure? I thought this is really rare."
Sammy looked at the Fletchling. "With a chance of about one to a million that only happens. That it happens in your first dungeon ever is nearly impossible and could be counted as a wonder."
Craw didn't know what surprised him more, that this wonder happened to him or that the Plusle was speaking to him so calm.
Sammy squeaked and hid behind Sam nervously as she got aware that Craw looked at her.
Sam chuckled. "You can easily find it out. Just go away from us a bit. The Fletchling is imprinted by you but still has their instincts and will fear us. If you go away a bit and if it really sparked it should follow you."
Craw nodded and stood up going away a bit.
The Fletchling flapped their wings and flew to Craw and sat down on his head.
Craw was surprised and didn't know what to do.
Sam widely smiled and stood up. "That is so great! Sammy? did you see everything?"
Sammy nodded.
Tira on her side was quiet all the time and just stared at the Riolu. "That is so great and I was able to see this!"
Craw looked to Sam a bit embarrassed by all the praise. "And what do I do now?"
Sam smiled. "Well since you gave him some sky gummies it should have got some more aware of you now and it should listen to orders you give it but make sure to keep it simple or it might not understand it."
Craw sighed. "Fletchling follow me."
The Fletchling didn't move but seemed to eye Craw for a moment.
Craw took it from his head and tried to put it onto the ground. "Don't fear the others."
Again the Fletchling stared at him for some seconds before eyeing the other Pokémon in the room.
Sam slowly went to Craw taking care to not make any quick movement that could startle the bird.
The Fletchling glared at him but didn't flee from him.
Sam grinned. "Seems like it worked!"
The Fletchling flapped their wings a bit startled as Sam said that but didn't seem to want to flee.
Craw smiled. "So... It will follow us now?"
Sam nodded. "Yeah we now should just continue."
Tira smiled happily. "This is so amazing!"
The others congratulated Craw and together they went up the stairs with the Fletchling.
The rest went pretty well without any more surprises. The Fletchling even helped with the fights and Craw had to watch out a bit to not accidentally hit it. At one point he was a bit disgusted as the Fletchling killed a Kakuna that was sitting motionless in a corner and started feeding on it but it was natural to it and he didn't want to scare it off again by stopping it.
As they finally reached the fifteenth floor they searched everything for the item that Anubis had placed there but didn't found anything interesting.
Craw sighed. "Seems like we are too late..."
Sam nodded. "The monster room took too much time I guess."
Tira looked down nervously. "I should have helped you with the flying types..."
Craw shook his head. "No it's fine. It was my decision and in the end it is better this way I think." He held a plain seed to the Fletchinder that was sitting on his head again and it happily ate it.
Craw smiled. "How about we turn back now..."
Tira nodded. "Yeah... But how?"
Craw looked to her and paled. "Right... How do we do that?"
Sam chuckled. "You have to use the badges of course. If you hold it in your paw and concentrate on leaving the dungeon it will teleport you out to the entrance."
Craw looked to him surprised. "Oh. They can do that?"
Sam nodded. "But you should hold tight onto the Fletchling or it might be left here. Also it will surely surprise it and it will be startled by the teleport and might try to fly away."
Craw nodded and carefully took the Fletchling from his head. He was surprised how calm the Fletchling was while he grabbed it. It nearly looked like if the Fletchling was trusting him. "Stay calm." He calmly ordered to the Fletchling and took the badge into his other paw.
Sam smiled. "Everyone ready to leave?"
Tira, Craw and Sammy nodded all taking their badges.
Craw and Tira closed their eyes concentrating while Sam and Sammy who were used to it just took their badges and teleported away.
Craw sighed and as he felt some strange feeling in his belly he knew it was the magic of the badge that was working it's wonder. He concentrated onto it and tapped into the energy that he found there. Then the world around him seemed to disappear and he felt like if he was falling.

Author's note: I am back and HEY! We have a new chapter. I hope you like it. Feel free to leave a review.

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