The three groups got together, each with their own stories to tell. Two were happy about their returns, the other was left without a happy ending. Brian was coming over at this time, wanting to know of their triumphs.
"Let's start with you four, let's start with some good news." Jordan said, nodding his head, a smile just touching his voice.
"Let's be honest, that's probably for the best… It's good news that we need now." San said, smiling.
"So our mission went well, we bought two Reviver seeds, and went out on a request, not really any good, but it was for a Thunder Stone, we might not have anything to do with it, but we've still got it. If not to use it." Pikachu said, nodding to herself, forgetting that she could evolve with one.
"That's nice, all that's left to do with that stone is to save it." Urist said, smiling, "Nice reward, wonder what you did to get that…" He muttered, noticing that she could evolve.
"Now what about you three?" Cherry asked, "Any tales to tell?"
"Yeah, we faced someone who tried to kill us." Jordan said, shaking his head.
"He had this new power, one that I'm pretty sure has never been seen before…" Urist said.
"He yelled something about Mewtwonite Y… Then changed, he was much faster than I've ever seen, we were hard pressed to beat him." Derrek said, shaking his head. Everyone looked to Jeremy, he was the last one to have any information to give.
"She's… Eliza…" He said, sighing while on the verge of crying. The entire group remained silent, then Brian put it together.
"Oh! Oh… I'm so sorry, if only one of us could have been there to help." He said, thinking about his choice to be a pacifist. Maybe he could have saved her…
The entire group lost color as they figured it out afterwards, they all stood there, Urist no-longer flying, and allowed a dreadful silence to creep. It was quiet for about an hour before anything broke the silence. It took someone from the outside to break it, "Hey, you never accepted your reward! Hold on! I'm truly sorry for what happened, I was planning on giving the request a reward like a Gold Scarf, but instead take this Water Stone. It's a family heirloom, so I don't think I should be giving it to you, but it's the least I could do for the…" The paras didn't finish the sentence, Paras was holding a Water Stone in it's claws.
"Thanks, I'll hold it for him." Brian said, taking it lightly.
"Is this a guild?" Paras asked, shaking his head, "Maybe I'll join after everything is done..."
"That'll be nice, every member is an important addition to the guild." Derrek said, nodding.
"Alright, let's go. San, Cherry, go with Jeremy. He'll need the help more than Pikachu and Gina." Jordan said, "We gotta give it all, we can't lose any Dream Cubes."
"Only two Dream Cubes left, there are three possible places to search. Let's hope that there's two of them in those three places." Derrek said, nodding, "The plan hasn't changed, we must keep going."
"So as a reminder, Jeremy, San, and Cherry will go to Sharpedo Coast…" Pikachu started, San interrupted.
"Might be best if Jeremy and us go to Clear Peak, if it's got ice-types we'd be better off, it it's got steel, we'd still be better off."
"Then We'll take Crusty Crevasse, we might just rock it." Jordan smiled, laughing at his own pun.
"So Me and Gina have Sharpedo Coast then?" Pikachu asked, everyone else nodded, it was time to head out after a nap. It was nearly midnight, and the entirety of the group was exhausted. The night was young-ish, it was almost winter, so the nights were almost three halves larger than the day. They were going to get about eight hours of sleep.
"Good morning, or would be." A familiar voice said to Derrek.
"I suppose, but things are heating up, so it won't be until after my quest." Derrek responded, he knew he was dreaming, but didn't bother looking around.
"Really? That's… Unusual, it shouldn't be going too fast from here. The supposed plotline that is suggested by every book, so if it's going so fast. Then someone's writing it wrong. I suppose that can't be helped though." Shawn said, smiling.
"What are you going on about?" Derrek asked, shaking his head.
"I can't wait for you to allow me back home." Shawn said, sighing.
"Maybe soon, we gotta collect these Dream Cubes. Then defeat who ever is protecting them… Hopefully that will remove the disease…"
"Nothing has really changed in this world, I can't even find anything wrong. There might be some sort of link required between the two, the Dream Cubes here are overflowing…"trailing off, Shawn shook his head.
"That'll be a problem… We might not be able to connect the two worlds." Derrek shook his head, it seemed that this was just a lot of head shaking.
"Maybe it'll open when we collect all of the Dream Cubes? I don't know what to talk about, there's nothing bad coming, on this world at least…" He said, shaking his head, it seemed that the knowledge of what might happen was nil. No one knew of anything that would happen.
Derrek immediately woke up, no warning, no finish to the chat. He sat up, and Jordan was still asleep, no one knew that he was awake, he sighed, shaking his head to wake himself up. The moon was setting, Derrek sat there watching, it glowed a blueish hue, he had always heard of a blue moon, but never saw one that was actually blue. He told himself a story, reading a story that he had already read. It was a classic tale, one of a princess who had no previous wealth, and no previous love, she went to a ball, and found true love. There was no sense of loss on her half, she was to have the perfect ending, not able to find any loss, and being loved by her love, and loving forever. Derrek sighed at this memory, he was promised so much back in his world. Now he had more, but he felt as if he had left so many people down. His heart belonged here, but his mind felt as if he didn't. He was scared, but didn't want to let anyone know about his fears, and desires.
"Derrek? It's me, Urist. How are you?" He asked, hovering just by Derrek's head.
"Not well, I am unsure of what we're doing… It all seems rather… Serendipitous." He muttered, shaking his head.
"I agree, but we've got to keep pushing, we'll see a lot of the patches in those dungeons if we have to collect the Dream Cubes." He stated.
"It will make me feel a lot better if I do see the patches, but it'll also make me worried. I don't like the fears that will be coming along with touching the patches." Derrek sighed. His head hung low, he looked around. "These are going to be the moments I cherish. These quiet moments, these silent moments."
"Yeah, they're really nice. Hey, remember about a month ago, when I first met you?" Urist asked.
"You were panicking about not finding your mother. I remember." Derrek said.
"Yeah, it was… Crazy to put it lightly. I was scared of her, at the time. She was crazy from the patches, those patches make people not be themselves. There's no real escape from this unless we somehow destroy all of the purple. I gotta admit, I'm scared, there's nothing that can stop these patches. No matter how long it takes for them to grow, eventually there is no end to their coverage. Our last hope is to quite literally to collect random things, to hope that something happens. There's nothing that protects us from the purple that we know. There's nothing that prevents the alterations of the mind." He said, his entire body drooped.
"Hey, I understand that feeling, I've gone through that exact same line of logic more than once, back when I was a human, those were the only opportunities I ever got. I learned to push forward, and only fear the completely unknown. Even if you know little, use what you know to create courage." Derrek smiled, remembering the crazy stuff he did.
"Is there anything else you desire to pep-talk me?" Derrek shook his head, "I think that it's very, erm, Cliché? That you have decided to help and protect the world. Think about it, a stranger saves the world? Who ever wrote a story about that?" Urist stated sarcastically.
"There's not much that isn't some sort of cliché when talking about saving the world. It's kinda funny, there's no stories that haven't been told about saving the world. Anything that could be a cliché is one. It goes so fast, and it's so hard, to write a good story, let alone write a real life action into a story." Derrek shook his head.
"I don't know, I've never written a book. I've not read many either. If we do know what will happen, would that change anything you'd do?"
"I think that it wouldn't matter, if it brought about a great guardian, then I would ask questions, or fight, whichever it would allow me to do first." Derrek nodded and shrugged.
"The world needs more people like this. Those willing to alter it, at almost any cost. There's stuff that only happens when people have the guts to change things." Urist said.
"This world needs less, personally, it's all of the people who have the desire, and use it for evil that cause. No one can protect the people who want to harm the rest of the world, for one cannot be protected from themself." Derrek shook his head. Jordan was heard stirring, but no-one else.
"Good morning Jordan, We're just talking." Derrek smiled.
"Understandable, a good team is based off of their connection." Jordan stated.
"What's your opinion of the situation? That's what we spent the time talking about" Urist stated.
"This situation? It's certainly almost unheard of. I can't say I've heard of it, maybe someone else has."
"No, not that, but, maybe more of an opinion of the situation, rather than the actual occurrence." Urist kind of shied.
"Oh, well, I think that this situation is a hard, and trying situation. Other than that I have no opinion." Jordan stated, shaking his head.
"I'll ask the same thing I asked of Derrek, would you change anything if you knew what would happen?" Urist just put out, looking to Derrek.
"Yeah, I would plan accordingly, there would be back-ups to my back-ups. You have no clue how hard I would try and prevent any and all death. I wouldn't change anything that wouldn't need to be changed though. If it works, don't fix it." Jordan answered, "At the same time though, we can't really tell what's in store. The future is really ours to command with the right choices. I can't really tell what's going to happen just looking at it from here. I can tell that this is a fight for the world, and everything in it though." Jordan said, stating his trust of his friends, albeit in a rather roundabout way.
"Any tips as to how we should keep positive?" Urist asked.
"No, it's just the attitude you've got to take." Derrek said.
"Well, you could remember that we're part of your team. That's always a bonus right?" Jordan suggested, "People are starting to wake up, we should get moving."
"That's understandable, we know where we're going, so we better just go." Derrek stated, looking over to the other houses, "Team Mirror might show up later, but they're not really useful at this moment."
"Yeah, no humans on their team. They can't find a dream cube." Urist said, shaking his head.
"Good morning Gina! Let's get a move on! The sooner we move, the sooner we find that Dream Cube." Pikachu yelled, this marked Team Blanket moving outside of the guild, and going to find their Dream Cube.
Author's Note
So, not only am I sorry for all of those I made feel like dirt, but I also got the chapter out late. For some reason, I couldn't write the dialogue for this chapter. I am seriously conflicted about writing that chapter, I feel good about writing a chapter that got people the feelz, but I feel horrible that it was a horrible feeling. Although, there is something to feel good about, I apparently have been over 1000 views, that's notable. Bad news, I didn't check until recently, so it's over 1200 now. Oops.
Thanks to all of those who have been from chapter 1, thanks for reading if you haven't, every read is nice to see.
