I think my chapter naming patter is obvious now.

Maisy: Emotions!

Right! Anyway we still don't own anything except for Phantasia, Rose, Roku, and Claire.

Maisy: And the plot... So read, review, and enjoy!

-Trust-

Trust is something earned, not given. Not many Pokemon have earned my trust. Claire has had my trust for awhile now. She's been living with me as a little sister. That Cubone, can die in a hole. Wait... Isn't he already dead? Never mind.

"Roku? You spaced out." I looked to my left. Claire was sitting up in her bed munching on an apple.

"Morning Claire." I grumbled. She threw the core of her apple at me.

"Come on let's go explore!" She cried and started pulling on my tail.

I shook my head and tried to walk away. The Cubone accident was still on my mind. And Rose. She seemed... Odd.

"Come ON!" With a final tug she successfully pulled me out of our cot. Without a choice I stood up and followed her. On our way to nowhere Claire stopped and talked to many Pokemon. I only commented when I saw I needed to.

"You're slow!" Claire cried from fifteen feet ahead. She started jumping up a down on one foot to get me to hurry. (Not that it worked.) But I noticed something she didn't... Yet.

"Claire be careful!" She looked up at me but lost her focus and rolled down a hill. Where I knew rose bushes would be.

"I'm okay! I landed on something warm and soft!" She yelled back. I ran over to the hill and saw she hadn't landed in the bushes. But what she was sitting on startled me. She saw my look and inspected her cushion.

"IT'S ROSE!" She cried. She ran up the hill and got behind me.

"How can we get her out of there?" I asked. Claire shrugged.

"Perhaps I can help?" Claire and I turned in the direction of the voice and saw a lady Shuppet. Her horn was dangerously sharp. "My name is Phantasia but my friends call me Phantom." she tilted her head in a bow like fashion.

"You seem familiar..." Claire said from behind me. Phantom smiled a warm smile. Which was rare for a ghost type. She bowed her head once more but this time her horn started to glow a faint blue. As did Rose.

Rose's form suddenly lift from bushes and lay down right in front of my feet. I checked for a pulse when her body was settled on the ground. She was okay just hurt. Her back and tail were coated in thorns and some thorns were near her wound or on her bandages. I found it ironic she had put a pink rose in her ear while she was lying down there.

"Could I help you farther?" Phantom asked. Claire piped up before I could.

"Could you float her to our house so we can bandage her up?"

Phantom nodded and used psychic to lift Rose up. She motioned for us to lead the way with her eyes. Claire went up front and led her and I stayed in the back due to habit. Half an hour later we reached our nice warm hut. Claire led Phantom in and told her where to sit Rose. I went to work pulling out the thorns from her back.

"So why does she have pink fur? Aren't Eevee suppose to be Brown and Cream? Same to you little Pichu. You're blue and yellow." Phantom asked. I chuckled.

"My name's Claire! and I'm blue because I'm special sparklyness! Not shiny though. Rose and I are sparkly!" Claire exclaimed, she skipped around the room a few times before sitting back down.

I looked back down at Rose. I had removed most of the thorns from her back now for her tail... I reached for the first thorn closest to her wound, I got a grip on it and pulled as hard and fast as I could. She felt it though. That was apparent when she started screaming.

Claire bent down her ears an Phantom floated a little closer to the ground. I myself plugged my ears. When she quit screaming she held her tail close to her as she sat up. Claire was the first to recover, with her arms on her hips.

"You said you had somewhere to go! Where do we find you? A THORN BUSH!" She yelled. Rose's ears folded back and she looked down in shame. "I was scared..." She whispered. I doubt anyone else heard it. Claire did though.

"Of what?" she asked. Rose kept her gaze trained to the grassy floor.

"I'm scared of... Well... Almost everything... I need to be able to overcome it... But I'm scared of everyone so I can't ask anyone..." She whispered. Her voice became softer with every word she might have said something else that no one heard.

"You sound like Roku! He's scared of bunches of stuff!" Claire laughed. Unfortunately even Rose and Phantom giggled at me. Stupid house of girls...

"I do believe I can help you Rose. You two as well. You see I am the Guild master of the Midnight Meadow guild. If you'd be willing to join and go to the Midnight Meadow I could sign you up as an official exploration team. It could help you two with your fears and Claire, you can adventure. What do you say?"

Claire started screaming "ADVENTURE!" and running around the room. Rose looked to me for an answer. I smiled. "We'll join the guild tomorrow, Phantom." She smiled too.

"Great! But you should call me Guild master Shuppet or Shuppet from now on. Nothing personal but the other apprentices do so..." We nodded in understanding. "Great! I'll be going now. I look forward to seeing you three!" With that she flew out the door.
Claire started dancing around happily. I couldn't help but smack my forehead. I looked over to Rose to find her chasing her tail. Claire noticed too. We burst out laughing, which startled Rose.

"Uh... Can someone get these thorns out of my tail?" She asked. When neither of us answered she sighed and started chasing her tail again.

"Hey Rose?" Claire asked. Rose looked up from the fire she had been tending to. She really like fire. "Where do you live? Won't your family be worried?" She glanced at the ground then back up.

"I don't have a family... At least not one I can remember... To be honest I don't remember anything other than yesterday and today. And my name." She spoke. We were happy when Rose quit being so extremely shy.

Claire gasped in shock. She ran over and hugged Rose's leg which still startled her. "Poor Rose! We're so sorry! Right Roku?" I nodded in response.

"Listen guys, Midnight Meadow is a weird place. Time isn't frozen there but... It's always midnight. Thus the name. You guys ready to go to somewhere the sun doesn't rise?" Claire and Rose smiled and nodded. Though Rose didn't really have a choice did she?
"Can we trust each other fully?" Rose asked. Claire and I nodded.

"Me and Roku are like brother and sister! And you only remember two days of life. What secrets could you hide? We have no reasons not to trust each other!" Claire explained her theory. But what if Rose hid something in the future. She doesn't think ahead much...
But these two are my teammates now. I have to trust them. What's a team without trust? Nothing. And what's not to trust about a shy, amnesiac Eevee with pink instead of cream, a hyperactive little Pichu with blue instead of black, and a cowardly Shinx? Call me crazy but... I have a feeling this is the start of something... Great.