Craw sighed looking at his food. He wasn't really hungry. He was sitting with Brighton, Damion, Ariela, Kathrin and of course Fletcher in their room and ate calmly. They decided to eat there to talk in peace and to make sure Fletcher doesn't get stressed out.
Brighton looked to him. "Your mind must have made something up. I mean I know I am a Pokémon and not a human. It's impossible."
Ariela nodded. "Yeah, Brighton is right. I mean probably your mind just fills the holes in your memory with other things."
Craw sighed. "I know... But why do I have this strange feeling? It's so strange... I never thought about it yet but I instantly felt connected with you two... I kinda knew I could trust you two..."
Kathrin shrugged. "Probably it is because you lost your memory. You just needed someone you could trust and Brighton was just the first one that you met. Also you fell in love with Ariela as soon as you saw her. You just wanted to trust them."
Craw sighed. "I know that you are probably right but I still have this feeling... Something is strange about all this..."
Brighton sighed and finished eating. "You worry too much again..."
Craw nodded. "Yeah... Probably you are right..."
Brighton grinned. "I know I am right."
Craw looked to his friends. "Thanks for understanding..."
All four of them nodded and Ariela kissed his cheek.
He wagged his tail. He was happy that he didn't scared her off with all the strange stuff he made her go through.
Damion was feeding some gummies to Fletcher. "If you two need some time alone just tell us. I am sure we can take Fletcher with us."
Fletcher looked at him. "Want stay."
Craw chuckled. "If we need some time alone we could go and find a quiet place." It was strange to him how fast the Fletchling was learning. This morning he was still a feral and now he already started speaking and could understand most of what they said.
Fletcher fluffed his feathers up. "Why leave Fletcher?"
Craw smiled. "Ariela is my... mate..." He used that word since he didn't know a better word that the bird would understand. "We won't leave you but we want to be alone sometimes."
Fletcher looked at the Kirlia. "Understand."
Ariela blushed widely. "Craw! Now he will think the wrong thing..."
He grinned and looked to her. "Do you want to try to explain him our relationship? I wish you good luck with that. Mate is the only word he understands the meaning of that is similar to our relationship."
She was still blushed. "OK OK... But please don't say it that way again..."
The others chuckled.

Craw sighed as he stood up. He stretched and looked to the others. Brighton was still sleeping while Damion was reading through his notes. He looked up as he heard Craw and nodded.
Fletcher was also awake just sitting in his nest looking at Craw.
Craw made his way to the bathroom. "Come Fletcher. I will show you the bathroom."
The bird nodded and hopped out of his nest following him inside. As they entered the Fletchling looked around with curiosity.
Craw smiled and looked to him. "I don't know how you clean yourself... If I remember right you birds take baths in still water right?"
Fletcher tilted his head. "Still water?"
He thought about it a bit. "Like in a lake. water that doesn't move. Not like in a river water that flows."
The Fletchling nodded looking to him. "Understand. Yes, still water."
Craw nodded and took a bigger bowl. "You prefer warm or cold water?"
The Fletchling looked to him. "Warm water?"
Craw filled the bowl with some warm water. "Yeah we heat water. It is more comfortable. Look."
Fletcher looked at the water and put his beak into it with curiosity. He chirped. "It's warm!"
Craw smiled. "You didn't believe me?"
Fletcher chirped. "Never saw warm water!"
Craw grinned. "You want to bath in warm water?"
Fletcher nodded. "Yes."
Craw smiled and filled the bowl completely with warm water putting it down for Fletcher.
The bird hopped into the water and happily started cleaning his feathers.
Craw giggled. He then went under the shower and turned on the warm water.
The Fletchling chirped surprised and looked to the Riolu with wide eyes. "You make it rain!"
Craw chuckled. He should have guessed that the feral never saw a shower before. "That is a shower. It is a bit complicated to explain... Hmm..." He started scrubbing his fur. "It is like with the warm water I gave you. It is like a warm river that flows through a pipe... Like a small cave where the water flows through and then it comes out here. We put something with many little holes on the exit and when the water flows through it it splits into many many little rivers so it looks like if it rains."
Fletcher looked to him with big eyes and hopped to him under the shower. "Warm rain!"
Craw giggled amused by how amazed the Fletchling was from the shower. He continued cleaning himself. "You prefer that over the bowl?"
Fletcher nodded. "It is good."
Craw nodded and finished cleaning himself. "We do that every morning and if we are very dirty before going to bed. this way the bed stays clean."
Fletcher nodded and looked around with curiosity.
Craw smiled and pointed to the toilet. "And if you need to poop you sit on that and poop in there. Then you pull on the string on the side and another river washes it away into another cave. So everything stays clean and it doesn't stink so much."
Fletcher looked to the toilet surprised. "Amazing."
Craw smiled. "Yeah that's pretty amazing." He stepped out of the shower and took a towel starting to dry himself.
Fletcher finished cleaning himself and shook himself to dry himself.
Craw giggled. "You want a towel?"
Fletcher looked to him confused.
Craw smiled. "Like wool. You rub it on yourself to dry faster."
Fletcher looked to him tilting his head. "How works?"
Craw smiled and took another dry towel. "The towel takes the water from you to itself. Let me show you." He softly wrapped the Fletchling into the towel starting to rub him dry softly.
Fletcher chirped happily. "Feels nice."
Craw nodded and finished.
Fletcher chirped and his feathers were all ruffled. He shook himself and chirped happily. "That amazing."
Craw chuckled. "Yeah in civilization we perfected washing and cleaning."
The Fletchling chirped amused and hopped around.
Craw smiled and put the wet towels away so they can be washed later. "OK. Let's get out. Brighton surely wants to take a shower too."
Fletcher nodded and followed him. He had accepted Brighton and Damion somehow. Craw would have said he saw them as members of his swarm while he seemed to see Craw as the leader.
As they left Brighton went into the bathroom still tired.
Craw smiled looking to Damion. "Fletcher seems to enjoy the shower."
Fletcher chirped. "Warm rain feels good."
Damion chuckled and nodded. "Yeah, I know what you mean."
Craw chuckled and sat onto his bed. "Fletcher I know you are able to understand many things now but I also know that you still follow many of your instincts. Today we go to training again. I will let you decide if you want to come with us or if you want to stay here alone. There will be many Pokémon and if you think you can stay calm without attacking them you can come with us. But you have to know that there will maybe some Pokémon that you would normally see as predator."
Fletcher looked at him seemingly thinking about it for a while.
Craw smiled calmly. "You have to know that nobody will attack you. We will maybe fight but that is for training. To get stronger and learn more tricks how to fight."
The Fletchling tilted his head looking to him.
Craw knew already that it meant that he didn't understand something of what he said. "Is there something you need to know?"
Fletcher looked to him. "Why predator don't eat me?"
Craw smiled. "Hmm... That is a good question. We differ between feral and conscious Pokémon. Between Pokémon that only follow their instincts and Pokémon that think and follow rules of civilization. And we only hunt feral to eat. But if a feral becomes conscious and start to understand us... If they start to think more than just following their instincts and trying to survive like you are right now then we see them not as food or foe anymore. We then help them to get more than feral. Like we do with you. We try to help you to become more."
He looked to Craw confused.
Damion smiled. "You just need to know for now that no predator that lives in the city will attack you. It is like with Craw. A feral Riolu would try to eat you right? But Craw is good. The same is with the other predators. They won't harm you."
Fletcher nodded. "Understand."
Craw nodded. "Maybe you will understand why later. There is so much to learn for you that you will need some time to understand everything."
Fletcher looked to him. "Learn a lot."
Craw smiled. "I know. I mean you learned how to speak within a day... well mostly."
Fletcher proudly ruffled his feathers.
Craw giggled. "OK. How about you come with us to breakfast? There you can see that no predator will hurt you. You can stay by my side all the time."
Fletcher nodded. "I will come."
Craw nodded. "Good. We will wait for Brighton and Damion to finish cleaning and then we will go to breakfast."
Fletcher nodded and went to his nest starting to clean it. It nearly looked to Craw like if he tried to fit into the society by cleaning up.
Craw chuckled and took the garbage bin. "Are you OK if I come to your nest?"
Fletcher looked to him wary but nodded.
Craw smiled calmly. "Here you can put in the garbage." He put the garbage can near to his nest taking care to not come too close to it."
Fletcher watched him while he did so and waited till he went back to his bed. Then he started to pick up things like dirty wool and fallen out feathers and put them into the garbage can. After some time he hopped back into his nest and sat down into it. "Finish."
Craw nodded and took the can moving slowly putting it back next to the door. "When you need to throw something away like garbage or feathers that fell out you can put them into this can."
Fletcher nodded and looked to the bathroom door.
Craw grinned. It was funny to see how the Fletchling was looking at everything that was new to him with curiosity and amazement of a child.
After some time Brighton and Damion finished taking a shower and they made their way to the canteen.
Fletcher was nervous especially since many Pokémon had heard of him and staring and talking about him as they passed. Fletcher hopped next to Craw while looking around agitated.
Craw looked to him. "Don't worry. I am here."
Fletcher nodded and together the four went to the canteen.
Craw took his own food plate and the one of Fletcher. The cook made some light roasted berries, some seeds and even some meat that Craw didn't want to know what it really was. It didn't look like the meat he would eat and Craw guessed it was maybe from a bug type or something like that.
As they sat down on their common table Fletcher quickly started eating always looking around nervous like if he feared someone would try to steal his food. The fact that many Pokémon were staring at the feral seemed to make him even more nervous.
Craw sighed and looked at the others. "Please stop staring at Fletcher. He is not used to it and feels very uncomfortable. If he feels more comfortable with speaking to foreigners you can then ask him things. But till then I ask you to stop staring at him."
The others looked away and started talking about them.
Craw sighed and looked to Fletcher. "You don't need to worry. Everyone gets their own food and if you are more hungry you can get more. Nobody needs to fight about food. Nobody will try to take away your food."
Fletcher looked to him for a moment and nodded but continued eating fast.
Craw smiled and continued eating calmly.
Then Ariela and Kathrin sat down next to them. Fletcher looked to the Kirlia and hopped aside a bit trying to pull the plate away like if he wanted to make some space for her.
Ariela smiled and sat down in front of Craw. "You are nice Fletcher but you don't need to go away from Craw for me. I can understand how you feel right now and how nervous you are. I know you need him to feel safe right now."
He looked to her with curiosity. "You his mate. Is your place."
Ariela blushed a bit and giggled. "It is OK. Till you feel more comfortable with all the Pokémon around you I will sit next to him again. Till then you need that more than I do."
The Fletchling looked to her tilting his head. He then nodded and hopped back next to Craw.
Craw smiled and bend over the table kissing Ariela softly.
Fletcher watched them for a moment before continuing eating.
The rest of the breakfast was pretty quiet and as they finished they went with Fletcher back to Craw's room.
Craw looked to him. "Are you OK Fletcher? You were pretty quiet."
Fletcher looked to him. "Nothing said. No need."
Craw smiled. "Yeah... you don't need to speak with us but maybe it helps. The more you talk with us the more you can learn."
Fletcher tilted his head. "Learned much... Have think about."
Craw nodded. "Do you remember the Pidgeot yesterday?"
Fletcher ruffled his feathers. "Yes."
Craw chuckled. "She said she would help you with learning if you need to. She maybe can explain you some things better than I can."
Fletcher chirped excited.
Craw grinned. "If she says something you have to listen to it like if I say it do you understand?"
He looked to Craw surprised and unsure. "She swarm leader?"
Craw smiled. "If you are with her then yes. Then she is the swarm leader."
He nodded. "Understand."
Craw nodded. "Good. I will ask her if she could take care of you for today. There will be other flying types too. She can help you understand us but also can teach you better flying."
He chirped. "But I good fly."
Craw nodded. "Yes I know but she can surely show you more tricks. She can teach you to master it."
He nodded looking at him. "I not good?"
Craw smiled and shook his head. "You are good. I know that. I saw that. But you can still become better. Like I am a good fighter but I still can become better."
Fletcher looked to him with curiosity. "You not best?"
Craw chuckled. "Oh no. I am not the best. I am sorry if I disappoint you."
Fletcher shook his head. "No. You strong. You good swarm leader."
Craw smiled. "Thank you."
Fletcher nodded. "I go become better."
Craw nodded. "I will go speak with Peggy then." He left the room.
Fletcher tilted his head. "Craw different. Not like Pokémon I know."
Damion and Brighton looked at each other nervously.
Brighton sighed. "You are right. Craw is different. Special would be a more fitting word."
Fletcher looked at him confused. "Special?"
Brighton sighed and scratched his chin thinking about it a moment. "There are many ways to discribe something. Different can be used as a positive so good thing but also in a negative so bad thing but it is mostly neutral so neither good nor bad. Like water. Water is not good or bad since water is necessary for living but too much water can kill you. So water is neutral do you understand?"
Fletcher nodded. "Water good, water bad, water neutral."
Brighton nodded. "And some words are more negative while others are more positive. Special is a positive word. It means something is different but in a good way. Like shiny Pokémon... you know Pokémon that are different colored than others of their kind."
Fletcher nodded. "You and Ariela."
Brighton nodded. "Yes like me and Ariela. These different colors make us special and feral Pokémon of the same species find them more attracting and are more willing to mate with them."
Fletcher nodded. "Understand. Shiny good. Shiny special. Special good word."
Brighton nodded. "And Craw is special in another way. He isn't shiny but he is something else... We can't explain you yet. But maybe when you understand everything a bit better."
Fletcher nodded. "Not smart. Need learn more."
Brighton smiled. "Oh I think you are pretty smart. You are learning very fast. You just need to learn some more things before you can understand why Craw is special. But that you already noticed that he is special shows that you are very smart."
Fletcher tilted his head. "Not know enough but smart?"
Brighton chuckled. "Yeah. It is like with different. There are many words that mean similar things like smart or intelligent or wise or clever. They all mean something similar but all in a different way. You are smart and clever. they mean nearly the same. Smart means you are quick to learn new things. Clever is that you know how to use what you learned. What you lack is a bit more of intelligence or better knowledge and wisdom so you aren't very wise yet. Knowledge is about how much and what you know. There you still have to learn a lot. And wisdom is something that comes with the life. The longer you live the more wise you get because of what you experienced in your life. The more you experience the wiser you get."
Fletcher tilted his head. "You wise?"
Brighton laughed. "No, not really. That is what I lack most. Also I am not very smart. I need much time to learn something new. Ariela is wise I think and of course Anubis."
Fletcher ruffled his feathers. "Don't like Anubis."
Brighton looked to him. "Why not?"
He sat into his nest. "Looks down Craw."
Brighton smiled. "Actually he really likes Craw. He is probably the one who has most respect for him. That is why he acts that way. Craw wants him to be strict and hard to him. He wants to become the best and he asked Anubis to train him harder than anyone else so Craw would learn more than anyone else."
Fletcher looked to Brighton with curiosity. "Anubis good? Only bad because Craw wants?"
Brighton smiled. "If you want to say so yes."
Fletcher chirped. To Brighton it sounded like a try to sigh. "Confusing..."
Brighton chuckled. "Yeah it is. But it has a reason. Craw wants Anubis to be so strict because Craw thinks he can get better that way."
Fletcher nodded. "Hard training faster better."
Brighton nodded. "That's his goal."
Fletcher nodded. "Then my goal."

Craw knocked on the door.
"You may enter."
Craw opened the door and wasn't surprised to see the Pidgeot sitting in a nest instead of a chair.
She looked down on some papers and wrote on them by using different stamps. She put down the stamp she was using and looked to him with curiosity.
The way she looked at him gave him the creeps. It kinda made him feel like if she was looking at him with the eyes of a predator that was watching it's prey. "Um... Hey... I would like to ask you a favor."
She lifted her wings and for a moment it looked like if she was about to jump at him but then she put them down again. "I won't hurt you don't worry."
Craw noticed he had held his breath and started breathing again. "Sorry."
She chirped in a way that nearly sounded like a giggle. "Don't worry. Actually I think it is funny. Somehow I still seem to give others these vibes of a feral and they feel fear of me sometimes. I like that." She looked to him. "But back to the topic. You surely are here because of that Fletchling right?"
Craw looked to her a bit baffled. He shook his head and nodded. "Yeah. His name is Fletcher. He can talk now by the way. But I am at my limits with him now... He seems to understand very fast... Maybe too fast."
She tilted her head. It was like Fletcher did when he didn't understand something. "What exactly do you mean with that?"
Craw sighed. "Alright. I try my best to explain him everything and I think he understands the most of it... But there are things that I just can't explain to him in a way that it really makes sense... It is like if I don't know the right words for it... Do you know what I mean?"
She chirped and looked to him. "Yeah. I think I know what you mean. It was hard for my team back then to explain everything to me too. You will never be able to get the feral out of a Pokémon that once was a feral. We just think different. We see everything from a different point of view."
Craw nodded. "That is what I meant. You are very good at understanding us and I hoped you could teach Fletcher a bit. Also none of us is a flying type and he could need someone who could train him. I mean he is probably already pretty good at flying... I can't really judge that but I am sure you can teach him there one or another trick."
She nods. "What do I get from it?"
He looked to her surprised flattening his ears. "W-What?"
She chirped again like if she wanted to giggle. "Well I have much to do. My team depends on me as their leader. Every team gets paid for their job and we are no exception. If we would do everything for free we wouldn't have money for equipment and items for our work. Then we couldn't help anyone. It is sad but it is necessary."
Craw sighed and looked to her nervously. "That makes sense of course... But... I don't know how to pay you..."
She tilted her head. "Then how about you think of something else?"
He rubbed his head. "I don't know... I don't have an idea..."
She tilted her head. "You know? Normally if a team asks another team for support we turn in favor for favor. We rarely do that for trainee teams. Actually we never do that because we never know when or if they become promoted to a real explorer team but I think with you I can make an exception. I don't know what Anubis sees in you but I know he has great plans with you and your team. So I will make a little deal with you. I will help you with Fletcher but for that you will owe me a big one. And I am not exaggerating. Something big."
Craw thought about it a bit. "OK. I thank you."
She chirped again. "You shouldn't thank me. You don't know yet what you will have to do for that. But one thing I can assure you. You will have to work hard for it."
He sighed and nodded.
She ruffled her feathers and stood up. "Well then. Bring me to him."
Craw nodded and went ahead.

Craw sighed and panted. He was fighting a Mienshao that looked like if it was moving very slow but Craw knew that wasn't true. Every move he made was perfected to move as little as possible while making sure to not get hit while countering Craw's attacks. "I really would like to get some tips from you to learn how to do this..."
The Mienshao laughed. "If you want? I see a lot of potential in you but you move too aggressive. You need to move more precise. Your Blaze Kick is predictable since you use it as jump kick and your Focus Punch is useless if you don't know how to keep your focus up while dodging. Your Ice Punch is pretty good but you use it too offensive. If you hit your enemy while dodging an attack you get a pretty good counter attack out of it. Also when using your Blaze Kick try kicks from the side and if you learn how to make a back flip you can use it too and take a lot of enemies by surprise."
Craw nodded. "Thanks for the tips." He continued attacking the Mienshao but even with the new tips he got he wasn't able to lad a serious hit.
The Mienshao seemed to be very amused by his tries while throwing him over again and again. He didn't even use serious attacks only Force Palm to knock him down sometimes.
After some more time Craw asked for a break.
Anubis grinned. "See? That is what I meant. He lasted nearly ten minutes longer than any of you."
Craw looked to him surprised and then looked around. Everyone else was sitting around or stretching or even trying some moves on dummies. He didn't even notice that he was the only one left fighting.
Anubis smiled. "Even tho Craw had the strongest of all trainers he kept up the longest time. You all could learn a lesson from him. You have to train harder and if you need tips you can ask your trainers for them."
Craw took a bottle of water and drank a bit.
Brighton smiled. "You were really good... We need to spar more. I have to learn dodging more... I mean I am fast with using Agility but if my foe is as fast as I am I get real problems."
Craw nodded. "OK but then you don't use Agility."
Brighton nodded. "OK."
Ariela smiled and went to Craw kissing his cheek. "That was awesome. Your last Blaze Kick nearly got him. I wasn't even able to land one hit..."
Kathrin stretched herself. "Well you are a healer after all."
Brighton looked to them. "Ariela? You are healer? I thought you were distance fighter?"
Ariela giggled. "I only know Psychic as attack move. My other moves are Teleport, Heal Pulse and Split Pain. Kathrin is the fighter of us."
Kathrin grinned widely. "Substitute, Flail, Skull Bash and Last Resort."
Damion looked to her amazed. "Wow... So strong moves! I only know Aqua Tail, Water Gun, Protect and Pursuit." He sighed.
Brighton grinned. "I think that is a really good move set. I mean you can still learn stronger moves but for now your moves are really good." He stretched himself. "I mean I use similar moves. Electro Ball, Agility, Discharge and Iron Tail. So one status move, two stab moves and one move of a different type that is pretty strong."
Damion nodded.
Craw sighed. "Well at least you all have four moves. I only know three..."
Anubis came to them. "That is not sure if I am right. If I am right you are able to use Aura Sphere."
Craw looked to him. "Are you sure?"
Anubis grinned. "Pretty sure yes. You have to train your aura ability more. Then you should be able to use it."
Craw nodded. "That would solve my problem with range fighters..."
Anubis grinned. "Still always thinking about every situation."
Brighton smiled. "Yeah he is very good at that."
Anubis nodded and stretched himself. "OK. You can do free practice now. The trainers will stay if you need their help till lunch break. After lunch we will do another dungeon training. I will go for now. I have some things to take care of."
The group nodded and most of them started training.
Craw on his side decided to train his aura ability a bit more. He wanted to know how to use it before they entered the dungeon. This time he will be the first one who finish the dungeon.

Author's note: CAMEO CALL! For the next chapter I could need some cameos. If you are interested that your team Pokémon team get a cameo in my story that is your first chance. Even if your team don't get a cameo in the next chapter you can get one in future chapters if you want. For cameo please tell me the species, names, move sets and a bit of their personality so I can decide a bit better.

Also I will open a discord group later to chat and for RPing and stuff. Also I would like to discuss scenes for the cameo via discord.