As the morning sun rose over the guild the light creped through the window of Anter and Zip's room the light hit Anter's face and caused him to stir in his bed made of hay. As his tired eyes slowly opened he could see Zip laying on his back snoring up a storm and the sun rising over the town out the window. He yawned a little as he rubbed his eyes with his paws. He stood up and began his daily stretching to wake his muscles and getting a little static built up in his body by moving, causing his muscles to produce friction inside his body which he was able turn into electricity for his attacks. He looked around his new room once again like he had the night before. There was a chest for him to store any goods he got while on missions and money he earned for completing missions. There was a small wooden table with some blank papers for Zip to write his weekly reports on the team's progress. Other than that there wasn't anything else aside from the window and two beds made of hay. Anter glanced over at Zip and walked over to him, thinking he should have been up too since the sun was out.

"Zip~~! Its morning~! Wake up!" He said as he jumped on Zip's stomach with his front paws and began to shake him. Zip replied with a light grumbled before rolling on his side, causing Anter to roll with him and fall over him, landing face first on the floor. After picking himself up off the ground Anter glared at his leader and smirked, figuring the perfect way to wake him.

He placed his paw on Zip's forehead and then charged the electricity he gained from his morning stretching and unleashed it into Zip's body, earning a yelp of pain from Zip as he jumped out of his bed and to his feet looking around for the source of his pain only to find Anter laughing at him.

"Good you're up." Anter said a bit too cheerfully as he looked up at his team leader.

"What the hell was that for?" Zip yelled at him as he rubbed his head where Anter had shocked him.

"Well the sun is up, so that makes it morning." Anter replied.

"The sun's just starting to rise; even Chimecho isn't even up at this time."

"Chimecho?" Anter asked puzzled.

"A fellow guild member, she's in charge of waking up at a certain time."

"Oh. Well then let's go wake her up so she can wake everyone else up too!" Anter said with too much enthusiasm then any normal Pokemon should have in the morning.

"Here's an idea," Zip started. "Why don't you go run up and down the guild steps fifty times to burn off that extra energy you seem to have." He joked, but to his surprise Anter made his way out of the room and was now speeding down the hall and soon enough was running up the giant spiral stair case that lead to every part of the guild, such as the main hall, the Guildmaster's office, and the main gate. Zip sighed as he plopped back down on his bed and resumed his sleeping.

After about a half hour later Zip was awoken by a bell chiming so loudly that he felt like his ear drums were going to blow. He clenched his ears in agony as he awoke from his sleep and saw Chimecho at the door.

"Good morning Zip." She said smiling as she ceased here ringing and let Zip's ears rest in peace.

"Good morning Chime." Zip groaned as he let go of his ears and got up and glanced over at Anter's bed to find him still missing. 'I wonder if he's still doing laps.' Zip thought to himself as he made his way out of the bedroom and down the hall to the grand spiral stair case where a small group of people were gathered. "What's up?" Zip called out to the group as he tried to find what was going on.

"A new kid challenged Blayze and Keith to a race up and down the stairs fifty times" Someone answered, Zip froze for a few seconds.

'Oh for the love of Arceus please don't let it be him.' Zip thought as he slowly looked to the stairs. Sure enough he found Anter running up and down the stairs with Keith and Blayze just right behind him. As Anter reached the bottom of the stairs he shouted forty-nine and darted back up the stairs, Keith and Blayze did the same right after Anter did, their breathing was heavy but Anter seemed like he hadn't broken a sweat.

Zip rubbed his eyes as he sighed heavily. 'This kid will be the death of me I know it.' He thought to himself as he sat and waited for the race to end, he already knew the outcome since he knew of Anter's speed but the others were in complete disbelief as Anter was first to reach the bottom of the stairs, Blayze was next but he finished a good ten seconds after Anter did. Anter glanced over and saw Zip among the crowed and immediately rushed over to him.

"Hey Zip you're finally up!" He said cheerfully as he made his way to his leader.

"Yeah. But just what do you think you were trying to do here?" Zip Asked in a rather annoyed voice.

"Well, those two came to get breakfast and started making fun of me for doing what you told me to. So I told them not to make fun at me for doing something they couldn't do and it sort of came to this." Anter said as he glanced at Keith and Blayze who were struggling to catch their breath.

Zip sighed a bit as he looked back to Anter. "Well just don't go getting into any more trouble with those two. Guild teams are supposed to be working together, not challenging one another." He groaned as he began walking up the stairs. "Come on. We fall in to the main hall every morning for morning announcements from the Guildmaster's assistant." He said as Anter followed up behind Zip.

As the two came into the main hall they found a bunch of the female members were already there waiting for their male teammates to show up, Noa, Lilly, and Lithe were among the girls. Noa was sitting with Lithe exchanging small chat when they noticed the two to come in. Anter smiled and waved while Zip blew a kiss to Lithe who smiled and winked back to him. Noa groaned at this as she made her way to greet her team halfway.

"Good morning guys." She said as she got close enough for them to hear.

"Good morning Noa. What are the girls dorms like? All we had was chest and two beds." Anter asked wondering if girls had it better then guys.

"Well we pretty much have the same but we have a window with a view of the ocean to the south of us." She said as Zip went right past her and Anter and went over to Lithe who greeted him with a kiss on the cheek.

"Something tells me we're going to be constantly pulling those two apart eventually." Anter sighed as he watched the two love birds kiss again after exchanging some small talk and watched Zip come back over to them.

"Real assuring to know our leader is a ladies' man." Noa teased making Anter laugh a little and made Zip blush a bit.

"And what's wrong with that?" Zip snorted. "There is absolutely nothing wrong with showing a potential mate kindness and pure feelings." He said as he turned away to hide his blush.

"What's a mate?" Anter asked innocently making both Noa and Zip sigh at his innocence.

"Let me put it as kindly as I can. It's the person you want to be mommy when you want to be daddy." Noa said, Anter only got a partial idea.

"That reminds me," Anter started as he turned to Zip. "You never answered where babies came fro-!" Before Anter could finish Zip covered his mouth with his paw.

"Finish that sentence and I'll send you to an early grave." Zip snarled a bit at the smaller Pokemon.

Noa broke the two apart and looked at Anter. "Why don't you go talk to Lithe about how she meet Zip or something, I need to talk to Zip alone for a minute." She said softly.

Anter tilted his head in confusion. "Uh, okay, I guess I can." He said before going off to Lithe and they began to exchange small chat.

"What's up?" Zip asked Noa who was now looking up at Zip as soon as she was sure Anter was too engaged with Lithe to over hear what they would say.

"You remember yesterday, when Anter told us about how his parents and his town was slaughtered?" She asked.

"Yeah, what about it?" Zip asked, trying to keep an act like nothing was wrong with it.

"When he mentioned the Scyther with a scar under his eye you seemed a bit surprised, like you knew something about it." She said as she stared him down with narrowed eyes. Zip's blood ran ice cold, his forehead began to bead sweat. "You DO know something don't you?" Noa said as she advanced forward a little, making Zip back up. "Tell me." She said plainly.

Zip remained silent for a good solid minute or two before he gave up on trying to convince her he didn't know anything. "Okay, Okay, but you have to keep it between us and not tell Anter." He said quietly as he leaned in close so he could whisper in her ear.

"Okay it's true, I do know who the Scyther from Anter's story is, but I just couldn't bring my heart to tell the poor kid the truth." Zip started.

"What truth?" Noa asked.

"The Scyther matches the description of one I know in another guild, He goes by Grim, mainly because he only takes assassination contracts which earned him the nickname 'Grim reaper'."

"assassination contracts?"

"Their job request for guilds that involve killing highly dangerous and wanted criminals."

"But isn't that the same as murder?" Noa raised her voice from a whispered and quickly silenced herself, thankfully no one heard.

"Did you miss the part about them being CRIMINALS?" Zip said wondering if Noa would catch on to what he meant.

"So what's your point?" Noa asked before she went wide eyed as her mind processed everything he said and what happened in Anter's story. "Don't tell me, they were all-?" Zip cut her off.

"I'm afraid so." He said softly as he looked at the ground. "I don't want to believe it either, but all the evidence we have leads to the being the only answer for what happened." Zip sighed softly as he stepped back. "And that's all I know I swear." He finished, Noa was staring at the ground in disbelief. She couldn't believe that such a kind and happy kid came from a town full of criminals. She glanced over at Anter who was laughing with lithe and gritted her teeth and looked away and back to Zip.

"How do we tell him?" She asked sadly as she looked at him with a sad expression.

"Simple, we don't." Zip said to Noa's surprise.

"but don't you think he has a right to know?" Noa said with a bit of annoyance.

"Okay suppose we do tell him, what do you think he'll do after that huh? Say "okay thanks for telling me." And then go back to his happy usual self?" Zip snarled at her. "No, he'd demanded to know where Grim was and then he'd march to his death to get revenge, he even said so last night remember?" Zip said as Noa realized Zip had a point since Anter did say he wanted revenge and to ask him why, which would only cause twice the problems.

"Fine. But he'll find out one way or another, you can't protect him forever." Noa said as she turned and made her way over to Anter and Lithe, leaving Zip by himself.

Okay not alot happening here either, but i felt like i needed to get the truth of Anter's past out of the way so i threw this together. the next chapter WILL have more action in it in terms of fighting and battles, Thanks for reading^^

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