"Wait, what? You still haven't picked a name? We've given you two long breaks! JUST DECIDE!" Jordan cried. The stranger and Pikachu were still thinking about the name of their team.
"You know what, you're just going to be Team Opposites, are you okay with that?" I yelled, "One of you is silent, the other is so outgoing that any sane person no longer would be around her!" The two looked at eachother, scratched their heads, and nodded.
"We're fine with that, yeah! We're Team Opposites! What now?" Pikachu yelled, smiling.
"Now? Uh… Huh, we need to build a small bunk area…" I muttered, shaking my head.
"And what about us? We've got that promise we made about a month ago." Sylveon's voice told of a large smile.
"You aren't actually living here are you? We did all that work to move you in, and now you're moving out?" Jordan asked, frowning.
"Sorry, we could remain associated, but stay in the shop… Although it would be better for us to stay here…" Sylveon said, frowning.
"If you want to stay here, you're going to have to help us build buildings for now. We need to build two buildings today, and you're gonna help. Hey, Jordan, you should be able to tell them how to repeat the house right? Maybe we'll be able to do this…" I said, muttering.
"No prob, let's do this… I hope…" Jordan muttered, Brain had a strange look about him, like he was trying to scratch his head with his left… Lightning bolt.
"What is it? You got an idea Brian?"
"Yessir! I think if I sketch the design plan it'll make it easier for Jordan to reproduce the building when you're busy…" The journal was floating beside Brian, seemingly holding it in the right bolt.
"Hey, how are you holding that… You used to have to ask me to hold it for you…" Eliza muttered, frowning, "Did you learn how to hold it?"
"Huh what?" Brian questioned, immediately dropping the journal, "DARN IT, I still haven't gotten the hang of this 'ghost-type' thing. There's this weird 'there is no spoon' thingy working on." Reaching down he picked up the book again, "When I get distracted I loose focus, and drop the thing I attempt to hold… I learned about it during the first break, when I reached out and focused on holding the book, it just hovered, Eliza wasn't near enough to hold it up. It worked out a lot better than I thought, and I've been practicing for the past two hours."
"Determination, nice, have you gone through a wall yet?" I asked, thinking about the stereotype of ghosts floating through walls.
"Nope, not gonna either, it'll feel wrong…" Brian shivered, "Although I have managed to write down about a paragraph."
"Cool, so don't point out that you're holding something, got it." Jordan said, smiling. The push to build went quickly, the houses were done in record time, although I have yet to look at the second one, I trust Jordan.
"What do you mean, it doesn't look good! It's perfect!" Pikachu cried, "It doesn't matter that it doesn't look good!"
I walked up, it looked fine… I couldn't see what they were complaining about. "What's wrong? I see nothing…" I started, then looked inside, "Oh my… I can fix this." I said, cringing at how bad it looked, "I can fix this…"I muttered, shaking my head, attempting to reconcile the mental and spiritual damage.
"...What's wrong? Did something happen?" Jordan walked up, looking to the house, "It's just how I left it… I wonder what's wrong." He then looked to the inside of the house, he cringed, and turned and gave me a look of sympathy. I shook my head, and started fixing the building, it would be a while before I was done.
The girl and Pikachu were sitting in their new house, the house that was massively messed up was the one for Team Mirror's. "So… are you going to come with me on our first journey? It seems we can go anywhere… Hey, how about Resonant Bluff? We can do a request there…" The girl nodded, still having not said her name, "Alright, let's try and get to the top… Just you and me against all those psychic types. Us against the world, just like normal for me."
"Yeah, against the world… I know that feeling." The girl muttered, shaking her head.
"Hey, do you mind telling me your name?" Pikachu asked, shaking her head.
"No, just so long as I don't have to tell you any secrets, my name's Gina."
"Mine's just Pikachu. Although it's custom to name your partner should they not have a name that isn't their species, but only when they trust you." Pikachu smiled at Gina, although it was only her mouth that showed joy, "Let's go."
The duo of Team Opposites entered the dungeon, it was pitch black, they took turns creating light, one of them igniting a torch that they brought in with them while the other held it. It was extremely dark, and Gina was internally thanking Pikachu for bringing the torch. They were having some small chats, in between the two's ideas there wasn't much difference, but there was one thing they kept talking about, how come it was pitch black in the middle of the day? It was entirely dark for no good reason, and what wasn't dark was only just barely lit. They didn't understand, from the description of the place it should be a brightish purple, just an ambient color to the stone walls. "Hey, look at the ground, it's pitch black…" Pikachu said, only adding to the confusion, "Wait, we're on floor three, right? Why haven't we fought anyone yet?"
"I don't know anything about this world, so I wouldn't know…" Gina muttered, shaking her head.
"Wait, you're from another world? What's it like? What's the difference between there and here? Are there Pokémon? What's it like?" Pikachu basically circled around Gina, although you could hardly see her when she wasn't asking a question.
"Yeah, I'm from another world, it's… different. I'd rather not talk about it. I don't have good memories." Gina shook her head, and kept walking, Pikachu dropped the subject.
"So, how aware are you of this world's constructs? How'd it feel hopping over worlds?" Pikachu asked a different question entirely, kinda ashamed that she hit a sensitive topic so quickly.
"Not really, but I do think I can learn, and it felt unique, there's no description of it in comparison…" Gina muttered, shaking her head, "Although, there is one thing I can say straight out, it felt like I was just floating, just a leaf on the breeze."
"Sounds neat," Pikachu started, shaking her head, and moving through the dungeon, "But how did you transfer between the worlds?"
"I don't know, I'd rather not talk about what was happening before that." Gina replied, "I'm gonna spend my time here happier, not just frowning at the ground."
"That is so cool! Although you might want to be more outgoing… Hey! I can teach you!" Pikachu smiled, "I'm going to teach you to be more outgoing! We're going to start with section 1, self confidence!" Gina dodged backwards, taken aback, she didn't expect that.
"N-n-no, y-you don't h-have to do that, I-i'll always be shy." Gina stuttered, and mumbled.
"Stop that! You don't have to say such self-deprecating comments! Step one is actually 'stop any and all self-deprecation.' So starting now, if I hear anything self-deprecating, you immediately have to apologize for being so lame, and that you know better to put yourself down. No take backs." Pikachu said, trying to look intimidating, but be she looking intimidating or no, it worked on Gina. Gina immediately shrank her posture, and attempted hiding in her own shadow. "Plus I'm going to force you to talk in public. The more you talk, the better you'll be, BUT you'll only grow more sociable if you join along, and work with me." Gina nodded, mostly in fear, and Pikachu smiled, "Good! When we get out of here, which will be when we find that guy…" Gina turned as she heard a loud scream, she started running away from Pikachu, who didn't hear the scream.
"COME WITH ME, NOW!" Gina yelled to Pikachu, "I heard a scream!" Gina was running straight to the source of the scream, it was a single pathway, with one split into three, one where they came from, one where they went, currently coming from, and one where the scream echoed through, Gina turned the only direction yet explored. The person screaming was right down the path, Gina could see the source of the scream, and the quest, they were nearly done.
"Oh thank goodness you're here, it suddenly changed, it darkened about a day ago! Lord H… Erp, Milord was ordering me to protect the area, but now there's nothing to protect! Help me out!" Yelled a Jolteon, rushing to go hide behind Gina.
"Wh-whoa! N-n-no need t-to b-b-be so e-excited. W-we're b-bringing you h-home." Gina stuttered, shivering slightly, Pikachu smiled at her, nodding.
"Thanks! I'll give you the reward at the board!" Jolteon smiled, as Gina and Pikachu got out their badges, Gina bobbled her badge while getting it out, then used the teleport function to get back home.
"Hey guys, welcome back!" Brian called, "I'm going to follow you to the request board, make sure to take the guild's cut off of the request." He yelled, floating out of the library with the same journal that he scorched the team name into earlier.
"Alright!" Pikachu yelled, "Our first request!"
"Yeah, it's time to turn in the request! Let's go finish helping that Jolteon!" Gina cried, although softly, basically only for her partner to hear. The three of them walked over, excluding Brian, he floated. They collected the reward, Jolteon had nothing to say, and they returned to the guild.
"He only had items… You take them all, enjoy them." Brian said, "We have no rules about items." Gina looked to Pikachu, who only nodded.
"Th-thanks. I'll, um, I'll keep that, in my, m-memory." Gina said, stuttering often, but Pikachu was sure it would get better.
"No problem, I'll note that you got a reward. But nothing more." Brian smiled, Pikachu thought that it was a good thing that Rotoms had that strange mouth.
"Good night?" Pikachu asked.
"Yeah, have a good one. I'll be busy thinking which books would be nice, and reading through the books on the shelf. Being a ghost means that I need no sleep anymore." Brian said floating off.
"Bye Team Mirror, your house should be done by tomorrow." Derrek called, waving his strange forepaw.
"Bye, we'll be seeing you!" Leafeon called, heading out the front path.
"Hey, Derrek, the Dungeon was strangely different, it wasn't at all like Jordan described it. You should check it out, see what's going on…" Pikachu yelled.
"H-hey! Thanks f-for th-the team…" Gina yelled, blushing, embarrassed that she was talking so readily.
"No problem, your voice is beautiful, I can't believe it took you this long to speak up!" Derrek called, smiling, "Have a good, restful night." Gina blushed, even more embarrassed that she had received an honest compliment. She rushed into the house for Team Opposites, and lay down for a long nights rest. Sleeping.
"She spoke, she'll slowly get better at speaking, but I get the feeling that her partner will push her on. It's nice that she's learning to be more open." I said, sitting in my bed.
"Yeah, I noticed that, she seems to be warming up, although it'll take a little bit of time. Maybe we'll be able to impact her more… Wait, do we even know her name yet?" Jordan asked, lying on his bed.
"Nope, She's a quiet one." Urist said, resting his wings.
"Where have you been all day?" Jordan asked, shaking his head.
"He was in town all day, helping out the poorer." I said, smiling, I knew exactly what he had done.
"Oh, that's all? Good for him." Jordan smiled, "I wonder what's going on in the region, and if..." I hear a loud thud outside the door.
"HEY, San said that you were friendly, I've come here with him to make sure." A semi-familiar voice said.
"Cherry, not so rude! You need to work on manners." San said, as he walked in.
"San? Welcome back, how long has it been?" Jordan said smiling, San just held his head.
"There's nothing, I haven't found anything. We're lost for words, we need somewhere to stay. May we stay near here?" San said, shaking his head.
"Yeah, we don't have any vacancy, you'll have to sleep outside." I said, shaking my head.
"That's fine, we're used to it. I'd love to see what's going on." San smiled, "Cherry, Derrek and Jordan. Derrek and Jordan, Cherry."
"Well met. I'll be seeing you tomorrow." Cherry waved, her wings tucked against her back, inside something told me Cherry was a charizard. They left the house, and Jordan and I looked to each other, shook our heads, and fell asleep to Urist's soft snoring.
Author's note
Bleh, I feel sluggish, December is always busy for me... Now this doesn't help. Its nice writing this story for those who actually do read it. Thanks for sticking with me those who have!