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- Confusion -
"Hello?" Rose asked as she took a step into the misty world in front of her.
Hello dearest Rosalie. Or rather, Rose.
"Who are you? Where are you? Where are we?" Rose asked question after question. Each valid.
First, I am Sapphire, but you can call me Saph. Second, I am nowhere near you and yet close to you and everywhere...
"What the-"
Lastly we are in your mind my dearest Rose. This is a dream of an eerie quality, no?
"I'll say... Why are we here...? Or rather why am I here? Considering you are everywhere..." Rose asked, she whispered the last part.
Urgent matters are at hand dearie... Very urgent... I fear I must go now... I shall speak with you about the matter next time we meet.
"Come on Rose! We'll be late!" Roku nudged her awake. Her green eyes fluttered open to find a Shinx to her left and a Pichu to her front. Both very excited.
"Roku and I have wanted to join the guild for a long time! But he was too scared. Now we've been actually invited! COME ON!" Claire screamed in the poor Eevee's ear.
"I'm up please don't eat me mist..." Rose muttered sleepily as she stood up. She received odd looks from her partners. Roku sighed and ran out the hut after slinging his bag around his torso.
Claire hopped up on top of Rose's head and pulled on her ears. "Walk beast!" she commanded. Rose (unable to take the strain on her large ears.) walked forward as the little mouse yelled.
In no time they caught up with Roku, who had stopped in front a large tent shaped like Shuppet's head. The tent led off into a large ebony mountain where they could only guess the living part was.
"Ready for this Roku?" Claire asked after dismounting her 'Nobel steed.' (Who growled at her...) The timid lynx walked in between two stone pillars stationed in front of the door and tensed his body.
"POKEMON SENSED! SCANNING..." a startlingly loud voice rang from seemingly no where.
"S-AC?" a female voice called.
"SHINX-BLUE." the first one yelled.
The female made a Uh-huh sound and Roku stepped away from the pillars. Claire went next. They repeated the process and the female made another approving noise. Claire hopped towards Roku's side and stood there motioning for me to go next. I slowly walked in between them and held my breath.
"POKEMON SENSED! SCANNING..."
"S-AC?"
There was no immediate reply."HELLO?" the female voice screached.
"EEVEE? PINK?" the firm voice sounded unsure of itself.
"Pink! What IS Pink?!"
"Um... I'm an Eevee... and I came to join a team... Shuppet's request..." Rose explained. The voices stayed dormant for only a moment before the female finally made the go in sound.
Rose walked towards her friends and they continued in. "What WAS that!?" Rose asked incredulously.
"That's the security system. Wigglytuff has footprint identification, Shuppet has aura ID, Emboar has vocalization ID, and Raichu has badge scanning. This one makes the MOST sense." Claire explained. Not that Rose understood a word of it.
The inside of the tent had a staircase leading upwards. "Shall we?" Roku motioned. He went up first with Claire and Rose behind.
On the first floor they saw three boards with papers covering them and pokemon running around talking and gathering papers. Next to the staircase they had just come up was yet another that led to another level. They walked up those too. Roku, Rose, and Claire eventually reached the third floor which was only a wooden double door with an insignia in the shape of a crescent moon on it.
Claire took the chance to knock."Come in special trio!" Phantom's voice called. They smiled and heaved the heavy doors open. The room behind the door's was pure white except for Phantom. Even the pokemon next to her was completely white. Almost.
"Absol dearie, could you sign these three up for me?" Shuppet asked. The Absol sighed and stepped in front of us. "Please state your team name so I can register you. And what specialty of team you shall be. Your choices are Explorers, Rescuers, Hunters, or Cheives." He formally said. The trio hadn't the slightest clue of what he meant.
"Can we call our selves Team Star!?" Claire suggested. Roku and Rose nodded in agreement.
"Now for your specialty? Explorers specialize in finding new places and things and normally take missions from the left board, for new explorations. Rescuers take right board jobs. They specialize in saving pokemon in a synch and helping out when trouble is near," He took a deep breath and continued.
"Hunters specialize in chasing and capturing criminals and possessed. Cheives do a little bit of everything." Rose spoke for her whole team when she told him they wanted to be Cheives.
Soon enough Shuppet gave them each a badge, their wonder map, a bag, and a few items. Rose pulled out a paper from the box and read it aloud.
"'Dear team star, please put your paw print next to your name's below to make you three the official founders of your team.'" Rose inked her paw and padded the paper under the column labeled 'Rose'. Claire and Roku did the same, respectivly.
"Okay you're here early so GET TO WORK!" Shuppet screamed, blowing the trio out the door and down the stairs to the second floor.
They leapt down the next flight of stairs and went to a board. They chose a simple rescue mission.
"Please someone help! My mommy and I were walking in Dark Shore's but I got lost. I eventually found my way out but my mommy is still stuck! Could you help her? She is on floor four. Love, Gastly"
"Let's DO IT!" Claire pumped and cheered. Roku and Rose mimicked.
Who's the NEW team, Anna?" An angry Sneasel asked. When Anna, aSkitty, didn't answer she stood up and yelled. "WHO ARE THEY!?"
"I don't know but SHUT YOUR YAP! We're on phase 3 of Phase 10!" Anna complained for her buddy, Rilla, a shiny Zorua, usually a brave soul but NOT against her own Boss. The three of them might win if Violet was there.
"Fine be useless! I'll see for myself!" The Sneasel yelled and stomped away.
"Janie needs to relax..." the Skitty muttered, Rilla nodded. Janie huffed angrily and marched down the stairs. She saw the normal amount of pokemon either posting a job or taking one. But she also noticed a group of three pokemon talking near the rescue board.
"Hello?" Janie asked with as little hatred as she could restrain.
"Oh, Hi! Can we help you?" The oddly colored Pichu asked. Her Shinx and Eevee friends stood behind her timidly.
"I'm Janie, Leader of the Chief team of Team Charm. You're new around here right?" Janie gave them a bow.
"Yep! I'm Claire! This is my big brother Roku, and this is our new friend Rose. We're Team Star, Chief team." The Pichu answered again, her pure enthusiasm was tiring to Janie. How can a pokemon be so small yet so energetic? she had asked herself.
She also wondered about the Shinx and Eevee. Shinx are usually cocky and Eevee are usually friendly. Not by any means shy.
"Where's the rest of your team?" Rose asked. Though it wasn't more than a whisper.
"In our room. You get to pick a room, I could show you the rooms... If you want." Janie offered. 'Her smile's genuine... But her eyes are devious.' Thought Rose, she was the only one to notice, however.
"After we finish our mission for today! Come on guys!" Claire exclaimed and bound for the stairs, pulling the Eevee and Shinx's tails along with her.
Half way down the road the trio of Team Star realized an over looked detail of their job...
"Where's Dusk Shore?"