START OF CHAPTER 9 As the Guild was preparing to walk to the third portal piece, they got worried. The first piece was guarded by Sharpedo, the second by Muk, so the third would probably be even worse. Everyone was still amped up and ready to fight something scare for the third piece, but first, Rowlet asked Goomy a question.
"Hey, Goomy? Aren't you retired from exploring? Why are you coming with us?"
"For the other people we've had to rescue, they might have been in danger, but for Paras, he was effectively dead in the human world. You can't just not bring him back. Sure, this might be tiring, but it's for a valiant effort."
"Agreed."
They were trying to get to the third portal, but look at that someone's in danger and needs to be saved.
"Help! My older brother Sunflora got his leg broken by a Giratina-supporting Weavile! He's in huge danger! That Weavile needs to be taught a lesson!"
"Uhhhhhhh...yeah. I'll save him, Sunkern." Torchic said.
They did end up buying a cast and potion, but that was the easy part. The hard part was finding Weavile. They trekked all over the place, but they had to climb a snowy mountain to find that Weavile. It was very hard, but they found him. "HEY! Weavile!"
"What, Impidimp?
"Do you recognize this Sunflora?"
"Yeah! I beat him up!"
"Why?"
"Because Sunflora looked at me funny!"
"Invalid reason. Team, go!"
Everyone simultaneously started beating the shit out of that Weavile. Sure, might be a bit hypocritical, but guy deserved it. He's a jerk. They knew that they were close to the portal because they started to smell some weird smells. And sure enough, the portal was guarded by a trio of Garbodor. Some Pokemon that were near the portal were fainting, and it was rough for everyone. Golett was going to beat the Garbodor, but even though they had clothespins, they all fainted from the stench.
"Haha! Smelly guild!" the Weavile that they beat the shit out of said.
Impidimp proceeded to use his projectile spitting skills to get his spit into Weavile's eyes, making him nearly faint.
"OW! MY EYES! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
"Impidimp, that was kinda overkill. First you beat him up, now that?"
"To be fair, Rowlet, we all beat him up together."
"Good point."
They decided that they needed something to keep the Garbodor trio from stinking them up, but they couldn't think of anything. They tried everything, from perfume to nose plugs, but nothing was working. They were getting clobbered by the Garbodor each and every time.
So they almost had to give up. But then, they found something.
"Hey! A Phanpy!" Happiny noticed.
"OH MY GOD! It's the Guild! I really want to help you, but I feel like I might be too weak!"
"Well...can you defeat some Garbodor for us?"
"Yeah! I'm your biggest fan!"
They got Phanpy to try and defeat the Garbodor trio, and she did very good. She singlehandedly defeated the first 2 Garbodor, but got very tired around the third one. Just as they looked like they were about to give up, Phanpy had an idea. "Hey, Garbodor?"
"Huh?"
"Can you give me the portal piece?"
"Yeah. I'm not even sure why Giratina made me do this. I just like the thrill of fighting people, but knowing that you two are doing it for a good cause, I will."
"Aw, sweet! It was that easy?"
"Yup, It was. I assume Giratina thought that I'd be brainwashed by him, because he probably thinks I'm stupid. I am, but not that stupid."
"Thanks. Bye, I guess."
And would you look at that, they only have one more piece of the portal to save! But that means that since the guards of the pieces were harder and harder to defeat each time, they had to prepare real hard to fight the final guard. And the terrain was the roughest yet, which definitely didn't help one bit. Also, Phanpy had now joined the Guild. Good for her.
But either way, they were scared of what was to come. Even though they were scared, they tried to power through. However, their quest to get the final piece was not a piece of cake. It was a piece of the portal. And it was also hard.
Their first major roadblock was a volcano. Why is a volcano there? Who knows! Well, either way, they ran into a couple Houndour. Those Houndour were chumps that instantly got defeated, though.
The volcano was still very hard to get through, though. It's a volcano. Do you think a volcano would be easy to trek? They almost got burnt, and Paras had to be carried in Impidimp's backpack, since Paras is VERY weak to fire. He was really scared the whole way through, but thankfully they made it out alive, but they all needed some cleaning after, because they were covered in soot and must.
After that, they went to another PokeHotel, but something very bad happened there.
The very old hotel security guard Watchog had heard about the Guild before, and knew who they were, but somehow misheard what the news said about the Guild and thought is was a gang. And he hates gangs, so he started beating the Guild up. Somehow, all the other people at the front didn't know who they were either, so they didn't help them. After Watchog beat them up, they went to another hotel, where the same thing happened.
But they realized that Watchog didn't mishear anything. They were just near Giratina's home base. If you're wondering what that is, it's an area where Giratina supporters congregate and do their thing. Everybody recognized the Guild and knew they needed a place to stay, so they just kept kicking them out. They had to go to a hotel that was really far away, but they were caring and let them stay the night. Unfortunately, today was the 2 week anniversary of Paras's whole being turned into a Pokemon thing, so they just ended up having to console him for the night as he cried. When he stopped, and they all healed up, everyone was ready to take on their final opponent, whoever that may be. They bought TMs, got stronger, and they were ready to DESTROY THAT FINAL OPPONENT.
END OF CHAPTER 9