Just for clarity the italics in Rose's POV without 's around it are Saph. In anyone elses POV italics are thought. Unless I say so.
Maisy: 5 days left...
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-Worry-
"This is an OUTRAGE!"
Claire gave our prisoner a small shock to shut her up. Not that it worked. After we left the guild and went to Thorn Forest we easily found Mai the Buneary caught in some thorn bushes. Sadly I got thorns in my tail again, trying to get her out.
Once we got back to the guild we called officer Lunatone and the Solrock. But he said they couldn't hold anymore outlaws in their jail. So guess who has to take care of Mai?
"I'm a HERO! Those pokemon I gave the food to CAN'T AFFORD FOOD!" She screamed.
"Can't they go to the Pecha Grove or the Gummi Cave?" Roku grunted. He didn't like having to share a room with another girl. Mai said something about a magical map under her breath and huffed. The small girl was practically steaming. Claire gave her another shock. Me? I was glad that Claire was on Mai's head instead of mine.
Your sense of humor is demented, to say the least.
"I never said it was humor." I said aloud before I noticed I wasn't in my dreams. Claire and Roku both gave me strange looks. And Mai thought I was plain nuts.
Well you ARE talking to a voice in your head. I recognized Saph's accented voice.
"Shut up!" I only got more odd looks. 'Keep this up they'll lock you in the looney bin.' I reminded myself.
I guess I'll talk to you tonight dearest Rose... and with that she had left.
"And you're keeping ME tied up? She's screaming at NOTHING!" Mai cried, Claire shocked her again but the Buneary's fur was so spikey and charred already you couldn't really tell. She did start to stutter a little though...
I've noticed that in my dreams, I'm never really alone. either a movement or a voice greets me. And the eerie red mist is always there. I'm positive that the voice is Saph but I know that the thing moving around isn't her. It feels... Threatening, almost.
You're correct dear Rose the thing watching you is not me.
"Who is it?"
They will not let me tell you this. But they aren't friendly. Beware.
"Riiight... Could you tell me what's going on now?" I was on the border of growling.
Yes. But remember patience dearie. You know how your new friend, Kristin, told you of the 'Possessed'?
I imagined myself nodding.
They aren't just after the innocent pokemon. They are, but their main target is-
She cut off suddenly. I felt the dream fading from me the same instant. "After WHO!" I cried into the mist. The only answer I got was when the mist covered me. "Saph!" I screamed. She didn't answer.
My name is Ann. Most pokemon know me as the goofy, girly, retarded, Skitty girl. No one suspects me to have a secret or to know anything. I'm the brain of my entire team. But I keep my act up so that other pokemon let their guard down around me. Such fools.
Like that pink Eevee girl... Rose, I believe her name was, I can tell she's hiding something too. On her first night here she snuck out of her room and into the main room. Played with the bell for a bit and then nearly committed suicide. Luckily for her that the Shinx followed her. Well... if he hadn't saved her I would have.
I looked down around my feet. To my left was my adopted big sister, Janie. She looks like a normal Sneasel except for the jewels on her head and chest. They should be yellow, not red. Rilla has brown fur with blue points, and even Violet is different. One of her rose's is blue and the other is purple.
I'm different too. Everybody is. I look normal but I'm smarter than Skitty's are and I'm an Insomniac.
How else would I know everything? Shuppet and Absol's sparing sessions- That Shuppet ALWAYS wins-, Vain's midnight- mind the pun- chocolate beinge, or even when Violet sneaks out of our room an comes back with at least thirty extra Poke' tucked away in her petals. Naughty Roselia. I can only imagine what she does at night...
My thoughts were cut short when I heard a shuffling noise. My ears are larger than my entire body so I could hear anything. The noise was faint but sure enough, it was there. I opened my eyes and made sure my team was completely asleep. I leapt over the snoring Zorua and out into the hallway. I followed my ears to Team Star's room at the very end of the hall.
The door was opened enough that I could barely creep in. Roku was at my feet the moment I entered the room, he seemed peaceful. Next was Claire, she had a pink stuffed pokemon in her arms. It fit the description of an ancient and legendary pokemon, I believe its name was Mew. Then I looked toward Rose. She was struggling in her bed. Tossing and turning.
Every once in awhile she would say something. I was surprised that I couldn't hear what she was saying. Except for the last part.
"Saph!" She cried. Not loud enough to wake the two electric types but she wasn't exactly quiet either. I did notice something move from the corner of my eye. I looked at the stone that was connected to the ground and saw that a Buneary was tied to it. She looked as if she'd been electrocuted a lot. Which wouldn't surprise me. She calmed down a moment later, I looked back at Rose.
To my surprise I was met with sea foam green eyes staring right at me. I nearly yelped in shock but managed to keep my mouth shut. Rose looked like she was about to say something but instead pointed to the door, I leapt over the two electric's while Rose just tip toed by. We kept silent until we got to the main room.
"Why were you in our room?" She asked.
"I heard something." I kept it blunt.
"What?"
"Shuffling sounds. Like someone was having a nightmare, so I checked on you."
Rose didn't say anything after that. She looked down at the ground and blushed like mad. Come to think of it this is the first time I've heard her talk this much... Wonder why she's so shy?
"Who are you?" She said all of a sudden.
"Huh? Oh... My name is Ann." She looked up at me and then looked back down. She had a habit of scratching at the ground when she was nervous. It was kind of annoying.
"Night." I said, and walked back into the hall. Before I went to bed though I heard Rose rush by me into her room. And in one silent breath she had said "Thank you."
Mornings in Midnight Meadow were as bad as mornings anywhere else. After getting comfy sitting in your bed all night and thinking, you have to get up and DO stuff. The mornings in Team Charm were all the same. Janie would curse another day, I would start cheering like the idiot I pretended to be, Violet would attack anyone who spoke to her before she got her morning quick seed juice, and Rilla would just kind of wake up and sit in bed.
We all went out to the main room where Absol was waiting to take attendance. Like school children I mused. I didn't like school. The worst three years of my life. But instead of a scowl I smiled brightly as the room filled up, and at one point began chasing my tail. I wasn't sure how old everyone at the guild thought I was. Some of them have said six and some have said four.
I told someone, I believe it was Vain, how old I actually was. His exact words were, "You think your 14! That's like, double your age!" and then he laughed a bit. I saw that Kristin was with him, she didn't react if she heard me but I saw her give me an apologetic glance with her bright blue eyes before following her partner.
Even the aura readers up front mock me. When I first joined Team Charm they thought I was too young to be here. Chrissy said she could fit me into her mouth, as if that was proof. Haunter's are ALL mouth, and James just sat back and chuckled. Lucario and Riolu alike I suppose.
"Hello everyone!" It was unusual for the Guildmaster to leave her room during morning announcements. Yet here she was. "Team Star if you'd please." She floated a little out of the way for Team Star to walk up. They had a Buneary with them. Still bound in ropes. Rose was holding the ropes in the back with her teeth so the Buneary couldn't run away.
She still looked fried, possibly even more so, and even a little scared to talk. "This is Mai the Buneary. She was captured by Team Star as of yesterday. But the jail has run out of holding cells. So as a community service she will be taking work here at the guild." Interesting punishment... If this place is a punishment then why are we here willingly? "I hope ypu can all treat her with the upmost courtesy-" She glared at Claire "- While she stays here with us."
Everybody- with the exception of Claire- cheered and clapped. Guildmaster Shuppet and Absol went upstairs to their room while everyone else dispersed. Vioet and Rilla went back to the room to play games while Janie picked out or missions for today. I was left alone in the main room. I started thinking as I walked back into the room. Then I remembered last night...
Who's Saph anyway?