Hello, one and all! o/ So, ummmm... *looks at the date of when the prologue was originally uploaded in comparison to now* Yeah... That's terrible of me... orz Over a year... What took this so long, you might be wondering? Well, to keep a long story short, shortly after I uploaded the prologue, I ended up getting a new job which left me distracted. Then I ended up getting wrapped up in either writer's block or just straight procrastination, and then you have what ended up happening here. Not to mention, this chapter ended up going through about 3 different overhauls and rewrites, because I'd write something, take a break, come back, look at it and go 'No, this wouldn't work...' then delete all that I had written up and started over again. At any rate, you guys aren't here to read my excuses, you're here for a chapter that's LONG over due, by about 16.5 miles. So then, let's get this show on the road! I don't own anything involving the Mystery Dungeon series, enjoy guys!
~Emily~
My head felt heavy as I started coming to. In fact, so did my whole body. "Urrgh…" I groaned. I didn't seem to be tumbling around in the sea anymore. "So where… …Where am I?" Nothing could stop me from wondering, especially since there seemed to be something really bright right before my eyes. I just couldn't seem to make my eyes work, to be able to see what it was. I wanted to see what it was, but, "…I can't… Drifting off… Again…" Then everything faded to black once more.
Late into the afternoon, just as the sun was beginning to set, a lone pokemon stood atop a small cliff at the edge of a small town looking at a strange tent-like building that was shaped like a Wigglytuff's head. At the building's side, were two cauldrons of burning flames, and long wooden tiki poles with different pokemon's faces carved into it of varying colors. In front of the building before the cowering pokemon, was a hole in the ground, that had a slotted grate placed over it.
The small, orange pokemon stood nervous before the grated hole, pacing in his nerves. He held his flaming tail in his claws as he paced back and forth muttering to himself. "Hmm…" The small pokemon paced some more, before coming to a halt before the grated hole and proclaimed, "No. I refuse to be paralyzed by this any longer! This is it. I have to steel my courage today."
The orange pokemon dropped his tail, and with a small fist to himself, began walking towards the gated entryway. The small orange pokemon was stopped in shock when he suddenly heard someone yell from somewhere, "Pokemon detected! Pokemon detected!"
"Whose footprint? Whose footprint?" Another voice called back.
The first voice answered back, "The footprint is Charmander's! The footprint is Charmander's!"
The young charmander jumped back in shock yelling, "Waah!" He looked around in a panic. "That was too shocking!" The young fire-type managed to catch his breath after a minute. "Whew…" he breathed, his face suddenly turning sad. "…I can't… I can't work up the courage to go in, after all... I told myself that this is the day, but…" The charmander took hold of the necklace that he had tied around his neck, and looked upon the stone with longing. "I thought that holding on to my personal treasure would inspire me…" He slowly lowered to stone to lay back down against his chest as he shook his head. "Sigh…I just can't do it. I'm such a coward… This is so discouraging…"
The discouraged charmander then turned around and walked away from the strange building, and down the stairs that would reach to the crossroads below without looking back. What he did not know, was that there had been two pokemon, watching him from behind one of the wooden tiki-poles. The one looked to the other. "Hey, Zubat," he said. "Did you get a load of that?!"
Zubat replied, "You bet I did, Koffing."
The perpetual grin that was on Koffing's face grew wider as he spoke, "That little wimp that was pacing around…had something good, right?"
Zubat nodded in agreement as he replied, "That wimp had something, that's for sure. It looked like some kind of treasure."
Koffing turned to look at his friend. "Do we go after it?" he asked.
Zubat turned to look at Koffing in return as he affirmed, "We do." The two nodded to each other, before following the unknowing charmander to where he had gone.
In his stupor, the young reptile ended up wondering down to the beach. The waves were calmly washing up against the shore, and there were many bubbles floating around-thanks to the nearby Krabby-that reflected the sunset's rays off of them in a most beauteous way. The sight of such beauty made the young pokemon's heart soar. "Oh, wow!" he exclaimed with a sparkle in his eyes. "What a pretty sight!" He gazed out to the sea where the sun could be seen setting before thinking aloud, "When the weather's good, the Krabby come out at sundown to blow bubbles… All those bubbles, catching the setting sun's rays off the waves… It's always beautiful." The charmander looked out at the sea in silence for a minute before continuing. "This is where I always come when I'm feeling sorry for myself. But it makes me feel good to be here, like always. Coming here is uplifting. It cheers me up."
Out of the corner of his eye, the young pokemon noticed something further down the beach, laying on the sand. He turned to look at it, to see what it was. "Hey… what's that?" he wondered. "What's going on over there?" He walked down the beach to get a better look at it, before screeching to a halt. "Waah! Someone has collapsed on the sand!" he panicked. The charmander quickly raced his way down the rest of the beach to the small brown pokemon he had found and quickly checked on them. "What happened?! Are you okay?" he asked them.
I began coming to once more, and faintly heard someone calling out to me. "…Ugh… Leif?" I murmured. With a wince, I managed to squint my eyes open again the bright light that was protruding against them. I saw something standing over me, and I moved to try and stand up, only managing to flomph back down onto the sand below me. I tried once more, and managed somehow to sit up. I looked around me, to try and get a handle on where exactly I was.
I jumped slightly as I heard someone say cheerfully, "You're awake! That's a relief!" I looked at the one who was standing before me, to see that a charmander was speaking to me. A pokemon! But… I didn't seem to be at the Hidden Land, so how could that be possible? The magical properties of the island that's connected to Temporal Tower is what allowed me to understand pokemon speech, so is this pokemon special or something? What's going on? The charmander, not seeming to realize my confusion, continued on. "You weren't moving at all. I was seriously worried! Do you remember how you ended up unconscious out here?" I tilted my head at the charmander, he seriously didn't think that it was odd. Talking to a human, that is. Apparently he took that as a cue to continue talking as he said with a grin, "Well, I'm Blaze. Glad to meet you! And who are you? I've never seen you around before."
My mind froze. Blaze? That was the same name that Leader had… Could this little charmander possibly be him in the past? My eyes snapped to the left for a brief moment to see moving water, and what I could only assume was the sun bright in the sky. If this wasn't all some deluded dream, then I really had done it. I made it to the past. And here I was, speaking to Leader before he had even evolved! Is that why I was able to understand him? Because he was Leader? He had always been a rather exceptional pokemon, but could it be that he could speak human tongue as well? I couldn't stay silent any longer, I had to ask something. "How is it that you're talking? I'm a human, so I shouldn't be able to understand you…"
This seemed to surprise Blaze as he jumped slightly and said in surprise, "What? You say you're a human? You look like a totally normal Eevee to me!"
It was my turn to be shocked. I quickly looked over myself, to see that I didn't have hands and feet, but paws instead. I also had a big, bushy tail, and a quick bounce over to look at myself in the reflection of the water, I wasn't greeted back by my face, but by the face of a fluffy-if somewhat damp-eevee. "It's… it's true! I've turned into an Eevee!" I mumbled in quiet shock to myself. How did this happen? Did this happen because of that Incident in the Passage of Time? Leif would never be able to recognize me like this!
I had my mental freak out for a little bit longer, until I heard Blaze mutter, "You're… a little odd…" I turned to look at him as he asked me, "Are you pulling some kind of trick on me?"
I was stunned for a moment, not really sure what to do about my current situation. But, this sort of turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I'm an eevee now, a pokemon. A pokemon's going to draw less attention that a human running around would. If this truly is Leader, then I don't want to get him involved in all of this. It's better if he simply goes on with his life as he was supposed to had the planet not gotten paralyzed. "Y-yeah," I lied. "I'm totally pulling your leg, haha! You totally believed that! Funny…. Right?" Oh, if only Leif and I hadn't gotten separated….
Blaze crossed his arms as if in thought as he replied, "More strange than funny, but sure. So then, your name? What's your name?"
"My name?" Should I give him my actual name? I mean, it's not like I'm born at this point in history, so no one would know my name. But… Knowing Primal Dialga, he won't just stand by and let people try to change the past at their pleasure… He's bound to send someone to the past to try and stop Leif and I. And this new form will give me the advantage, as now whoever he sends won't recognize me either. I should just go with my real name. Besides, if I gave a fake one and ran into him again later, it would only give me problems later if I hesitated on responding to it. So, I nodded as I answered, "My name is Emily."
Blaze's arms were still crossed, and he had a thoughtful look on his face as he replied, "Oh, Emily is your name?" He uncrossed his arms as he nodded and continued with a smile, "Okay. Well, you don't seem to be a bad Pokemon, at least. Sorry that I doubted you." A quiet sigh of relief came from my mouth. "More and more bad Pokemon have been turning up lately, you see! Many Pokemon have gotten aggressive lately. Things have grown somewhat lawless…" As if summoning trouble right to him upon saying that, two pokemon quickly came up behind Blaze, and slammed into him. It tossed him towards me, and I quickly jumped back to that I wouldn't be knocked over as well. He landed on the ground hard, and yelled, "Ouch!"
A big grin on the koffing that rammed into Blaze said to him in a voice full of sarcasm, "Well, I do beg your pardon." He obviously did that on purpose.
And Blaze was able to tell as well, as he quickly bounced back up and shouted in anger, "Hey! Why'd you do that?!"
The other pokemon who rammed into him-a zubat-laughed as he said, "Heh-heh-heh! Can't figure it out?" Wait… That laugh seems… familiar… "We wanted to mess with you! Can't face up to us, can you?!"
Blaze jumped slightly in shock as he responded, "Wh-what?!"
The zubat then turned slightly to the side and looked down at the ground and asked, "That's yours, isn't it?"
The zubat then began moving to pick up the object in question as Blaze replied in a panic, "No! That's…!"
"Sorry, kiddo. We'll take that!" the zubat exclaimed before finally flipping the object in question up into the air, and grabbing it with his mouth.
"Aaah!" Blaze screamed.
The koffing then laughed at Blaze as he said, "Whoa-ho-ho! Not gonna make a move to get that back? What's the matter? Too scared?" Wait, that laugh too….. "I didn't expect that you'd be such a big coward!" The koffing then turned to his zubat friend and said, "Come on. Let's get out of here."
The zubat then said around the object that was in his mouth, "See you around, chicken. Heh-heh-heh." The two jerks then flew off into the cave that was at our side, disappearing into it's depths.
I stared at Blaze in confusion for a good long while. That… was rather strange. He just got mugged, and hasn't even gone after them. Is he not the Leader that I knew in the future then? The leader that I knew was brave, and courageous., he never once flinched in the face of danger! So then why…
"…Ohhh…" I heard him sniff. "Wh-what should I do?" I turned back to him as he started to shake and tear up. "That's my personal treasure. It means everything to me. If I lose that…" Blaze trailed off, before he shook his head and looked determined towards the cave entrance, in a look that reminded me of the Leader I knew in the future. "No!" he exclaimed. "There's no time to waste! I've got to get it back!" He turned to me once more and asked me, "Hey, can I get you to help me?"
Startled at the sudden question, I jumped slightly and looked at him shocked. He… he wants my help? But, I JUST became a pokemon! I don't even know if I would be able to help him… I mean, I never asked any of my friends how they knew their moves, or how they even used them! I wouldn't have the first idea of what to do if it came down to a battle against those two… Wh-what should I do?
Before my train of thought could go any farther down, Blaze declared, "We don't have time to waste. Come on!"
Shaking my head in order to give the quickest response that I could, I answered, "G-got it!"
Blaze then visably perked up at me with sparkles in his eyes as he replied, "R-really? You'll really help?!" Not like you gave me much of a choice… "Th-thank you! Let's go quickly!" We then both raced into the mouth of the cave, after those two villainous crooks.
Upon entering the cave, I immediately saw that the walls were very jagged and rocky, and that there were many water puddles loitering around. Okay, so there'll probably be a lot of rock and/or water types around here. Not a problem, since Leif is a Grovyle, and therefore a grass type, he should be-
My train of thought was interrupted as Blaze said, "There's probably a bunch of water and maybe a few types in here since it's next to the shore, so we'd better be careful, what with me being a fire type and all."
"Ha, ha! Yeah, don't worry, I'll keep an eye out for you!" Crap! I forgot that I'm not with Leif right now. I never really had to worry about those types with him around. This is going to take some getting used to, having a new partner to work with… Upon finishing that thought, we began working our way through the dungeon, searching for the stairs.
Upon entering the next room, I saw something shiny lying on the ground. "Huh," I said. "What's that?" I then proceeded to bound over to it, so I could see what it was. It was round, and it was goldish in color. "Hey Blaze, what's this?"
Blaze quickly came over and looked over my shoulder. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "That's some Poke you found there, nice!"
"Poke?" I couldn't help but wonder what that was, since we didn't actually have any of it in the future. Or if we did, we never used it.
Blaze gave me a strange look as he explained, "Uh, yeah. Poke. You know, money? Use it to buy things?"
Oh, right. In the past, they used stuff called money to trade for things like food and items. I remember Team Hope telling me about that stuff at one point. "Oh! Right, right. Sorry, I knew that." Blaze gave me this incogitable look that said that he didn't believe me for a minute. "It's true! My partner that I was traveling with before was the one who mainly handled this stuff before, so I kind of forgot about it!" That wasn't true at all. I was the one responsible for trading for things between me and Leif inside of the Resistance, and any bartering done outside of us was done by other members. But Blaze didn't need to know that. Sorry for throwing you under the rock there, Leif…
Blaze shrugged as we said, "Alright, if you say so. Let's move on then." We then continued to move throughout the floor, and ran into a Kabuto and a Shellos. They were a bit problematic at first when I was only trying to use my regular attack, but once I figured out how to use Tackle, things went a bit faster. After those battles, we were finally able to find the stairs, and moved onto the next floor.
The second floor wasn't that different from the first. We ran into a Shellder and a Corsola-the latter of which managed to land a water move on Blaze which spooked me for a bit-but they ended up falling easily in the end. In the same room that we found the stairs in, we also managed to find an Oran Berry, that Blaze used to heal up his damaged that he had taken from the Corsola previously.
The third floor was a bit trickier to deal with. Upon decending the stairs, we ran smack dab into a not too happy Corsola, with a Shellder not too far behind them once we took them out. The next room over, we managed to find a Blast seed, which I happily bit into and used on the Shellder that we bumped into the room following that. I could see why Leif liked using them. Made me feel like a fire-type using that. One final Kabuto was standing in our way in the final room, and then it was down the stairs for the two of us.
The room that we descended right into had a Sleep Seed sitting in it, so I went ahead and picked it up. Blaze said that I should use it into the next Shellder that we ran into, but I convinced him that if we saved it for when we ran into the two crooks, we could use it on one of them, so we could safely ignore them until we took out the other one, to make for a 2-on-1 fight. Not exactly the most noble of tactics, but an effective one none the less, to which he ended up agreeing on. We ran across another Shellos, which once it was defeated, ended up with me suddenly feeling a bit stronger. Blaze then explained it was because we had both leveled up, and I eventually moved on from that. We fought another Shellos and Shellder, and then finally we found the stairs once more.
Upon descending the stairs, we saw that up ahead were the zubat and koffing, so with a nod to each other, we charged forward towards the room where they were now waiting. Once we were fully in the room, with a furious look on his face yelled, "Uh… Hey!"
The zubat and koffing then quickly turned around, surprise etched onto their faces. "Well, well…" Koffing started. "If it isn't our old friend, the big chicken."
Blaze jumped at the bad nickname and a slightly embarrassed looking face as he made a sound, "Urk!" He then took a step forward towards the crooks before us and yelled at them, "Give me… Give me back what you stole from me! That's my personal treasure! It means everything to me!"
The zubat who still had Blaze's treasure in his mouth, then spit it out so that he could get a better look at it. "Treasure, you say? So this thing really is valuable, huh?"
The koffing then looked to his friend snickering as he chortled, "It could be worth more than we'd hoped for, I'd say. We ought to try selling it. Who knows?" He then looked back to Blaze with a smug grin on his face. "It might get a good price. Whoa-ho-ho! All the more reason not to give it back!" Uh oh, not good, not good! If this really IS Leader as he was in the past, then that's probably the thing that I'm looking for. Leader did say once that it gave him courage whenever he was feeling down… If that gets sold off somewhere, I'll never find it again!
In his shock, Blaze took a step back as he screamed, "Whaaaat?!"
Both the zubat and the koffing took combat stances as the zubat laughed, "If you want it back that badly… Come and get it! Heh-heh-heh!"
As the battle began-as per out earlier discussed strategy-I threw the Sleep Seed that I was holding into the zubat's mouth which was hanging wide open. Before he even realized what happened, he swallowed it, and proceeded to fall asleep, clutching Blaze's treasure between his wings as he slept. I then turned my attention to the koffing with whom Blaze had just thrown a Scratch attack at. The moment I turned towards him, the koffing immediately then turned to attack me. He had good aim, but terrible attack power, as that barely hurt at all. I used Tackle on him to get him back, effectively knocking him out. Blaze then threw another Scratch attack out at the zubat, which caused him to wake up. He went to go attack Blaze, but he managed to dodge out of the way. As a final move, I used Tackle once more, and then the zubat was knocked out of the sky, meaning that we had won.
The two crooks slowly came to and grumbled to themselves. "Owowow…" from the koffing and, "Ugh… We got roughed up…" from the zubat.
The two of them proceeded to pull themselves off of the floor as the koffing cursed, "B-blast… How'd we get wiped out by wimps like them?" Because the two of you are weak. I've been a pokemon for all of maybe an hour, and even I beat you. What does that say?
The zubat shook his head as he scoffed, "Bah! Fine, here you go. Take it, then!" He then flipped Blaze's treasure over towards us using his wing, with it landing right in between us.
"Whoa-ho! Don't think you're so awesome. Your victory was a fluke!" Sure it was, keep telling yourselves that.
"Yeah, you just remember that!" The zubat added in just before the two of them ran towards and behind us, fleeing from the room.
Once the villains were gone, Blaze walked up to his treasure with a sparkle in his eyes as he exclaimed, "Oh! It's my Relic Fragment!" With a giant grin on his face, he picked his treasure up off of the floor, and clutched it close to his chest. He then proceeded to tie it back up into the little rope strands he that had hanging from his neck-probably what had kept the little thing in place before-as he said joyfully, "Am I ever glad… I actually did manage to get it back." Blaze then turned back to me with tears in his eyes. "It's only because you agreed to help me, Emily." He jumped a few times in glee as he beamed at me, "Thank you, Emily!"
"O-okay… Let's say we go ahead and exit this cave. It's a little chilly in here," I said slightly embarrassed.
Blaze blinked back at me, "Oh! Good idea! Yeah, lets go! There should be a shortcut back up right about…" He looked around for a few seconds. "Here!" Blaze pointed to where there was a small crevasse in the wall, that seemed to lead back up to the top. "Yeah, here! Let's go, Emily!" I then nodded and followed along as we headed back up to the beach outside.
Once we were back up at the beach from before, we walked a little down the way before Blaze turned around and beamed at me once more, "Thank you! Seriously!"
…I only helped because I happened to be there at the mome-time. Time, right, I can say that now. Besides, Blaze was so panicky, that he really didn't give me much of a choice. Was that really the right thing to do? If this really is Leader, then I just stunted some of his personal growth…. Upon looking up at Blaze's jubilant face once more, I quickly changed my mind. Nah, it's okay. He's clearly very happy and grateful, besides. This probably isn't Leader in the past anyway, so I can probably use him to get some information for when I find Leif again.
Blaze then stepped closer to me, before taking his necklace off from around his neck and placing it on the ground in between us. "Here's what they stole. This here is a Relic Fragment. …Well, at least that's what I started calling it…"
I couldn't hear anything else that Blaze said as I stared down at the Relic Fragment. This… This is… The Relic Fragment… A moment from my past then began to play in my mind's eye.
I looked down at the book I was attempting to translate, and back to the paper where I was writing down my translations. Looking back and forth between the two, and then to the other books that I had near me as well that I was also in the middle of deciphering. I looked from all of them once more, before I threw down my quill in frustration.
"Whatever seems to be the matter Little One?" I turned my head, to see that Leader had entered the archives, and was the one who had addressed me.
"Oh," I stated bluntly. "It's you. Sorry, I didn't hear you come in."
Leader simply chuckled as he replied, "It's quite alright Little One." He then moved over to where I was and began looking over my shoulder. "What seems to be the problem that is causing you so much frustration?"
I sighed as I picked up the paper where I had been scribbling down my translations of the Unown language that was in pretty much all of the books I was reading. "It's about this supposed 'key' that's needed to travel to The Hidden Land. In every book that I've read, it talks about needing some sort of key to get there, but it gives one of the vaguest descriptions that I've ever seen! And I've found some pretty vague stuff!"
Leader brought a claw up to his chin before saying, "Allow me to see it." I passed him the paper, and then he began reading aloud from it. "The Hidden land is truly a place one legend. It lies beyond the sea in a hidden place, to protect it from would be invaders. The Hidden Land chooses who goes there, and requires proof of their good will. This proof, shall summon the guide, and allow it's bearer to activate the Rainbow Stoneship. This proof bears an inscription that is unlike any other of it's kind. It is peculiar, odd, and yet intricate at the same time."
"See what I mean, Leader? It's like while the people who wrote these tomes wanted to help people find The Hidden Land, they wanted to play a game with it!" I screamed as I threw my hands up in frustration. "How the heck am I supposed to find something that I don't even know what it looks like?!" I slammed my head down onto the table and screamed into the book that my face landed in. When I realized that Leader still hadn't said anything, I lifted my head and looked at him. "Leader?"
His head jerked up, as if suddenly remembering that I was there. "Oh! Sorry, Little One. I was lost in thought."
I sat back up straight as I asked, "Did you think of something?"
He nodded his head as he placed the sheet back down on the table and reached for one of my spare quills and began drawing something. "I did in fact. Back before time stopped, I had this item that I considered to be my personal treasure. It gave me courage in times of strife, and helped me to become the Explorer that I ended up becoming. It had the strangest pattern on it, and I didn't even remember when or where I had picked it up. The only thing that I knew, was that it had to have led to somewhere special, and I wanted to find it."
"Did you ever find it?"
He shook his head sadly as he answered, "No. I didn't. And when time came to a halt, it turned into dust in my claw. At that moment, I didn't know what to think of it when it suddenly disintegrated out of nowhere. But now I think I do."
My eyes widened in realization. "You think that your treasure was the key? And that when the planet became Paralyzed, that it's duty could no longer be fulfilled, and therefore destroyed itself?"
As he finished his drawing, he passed the paper to me with a smile on his face. "Yes," he stated. "That's exactly what I think." Gesturing to the drawing he made he continued, "That is what the symbol on my Relic Fragment looked like."
I looked at the sheet in detail, and it truly was the most bizarre of patterns. "This explains why it's so vague in the books. It's kind of hard to describe looking at it."
Leader nodded as he replied, "Indeed."
"What about you, Emily?"
My head snapped up as I returned to the present. Past. Whatever. Time travel is confusing… "Huh?"
Blaze had his head tilted to the side as he continued his question. "What are you going to do now? I found you out here alone, and I've never seen you around here before. Do you have anywhere to go and stay after this?"
"Well, I…"
"If not, can I ask a big favor? Would you be willing to form an exploration team with me? I'm convinced that I can form an effective team with you, Emily. So, will you?" He did a small hop as he put his paws out in a pleading position. "Please?"
I stood there in stunned silence as too many thoughts ran through my head. Wah! What should I do? I'm getting recruited out of the blue, and I barely understand what it is that exploration teams DO. We didn't have them in the future, and Leader and Team Hope were the only ones that were actually still around from before time stopped that weren't legendaries. The stories that they would tell us didn't exactly paint the BEST picture about what it is they did. What… what should I do? I need to go and look for Leif and start collecting the Time Gears…. But I'm also going to need Blaze's Relic Fragment in order to get to The Hidden Land once we have all of the Time Gears… I could just take it from him now, but I've already messed with history by helping him get it back from those thugs in the first place. He probably wouldn't have the courage to become the great explorer that he'll end up becoming if I take it now…
I thought for a moment longer, before I finally made my decision. Leif will be fine on his own. If I happen to run into him along the way, then I'll join up with him and go from there. For now, I'll just stay with Blaze, so I can help him gain his courage, and then get the Relic Fragment from him later once I have his trust. Okay! That's settled! I gave Blaze a warm smile as I said, "Sure, Blaze. I'd be happy to form an exploration team with you."
Blaze's face immediately perked up as his eyes began to shine, "Yes? Really? You'll form an exploration team with me?" If possible, his smile got even wider as he began jumping up and down while throwing his hands up into the air. "Yes! Thank you!" He stopped jumping around as he looked me in the eyes. "We're going to be a great combination! Let's make this work!" He then paused, and looked off to the side while saying thoughtfully, "First, we should go to Wigglytuff's place and sign up as apprentices. That's where we need to train to become a first-rate exploration team." He looked back to me with a warm, but excited smile before continuing, "I'm sure the training will be very tough… But let's give it our best, Emily!" Blaze did a fist pump into the air, and I followed suit with my tiny, but adorable paw.
Yahoo! It's finally done! I promise, the next chapter won't take nearly as long to come out guys. So, what did you guys think? Make sure you guys remember to leave a review, so you can tell me what you liked, or what you think could be made better. You may not believe it, but your guy's review actually give me the encouragement to go writing more of this for you. Anywho, I hope you all have a wonderful day today, and I shall see you all, next time! o/
