"Chiara… when are we going to get out of this stupid forest?" Jessica whined. The forest grew darker as the sun began to set and I was finding it harder to see where the heck we were going.

Chiara gave her friend an apologetic look, "I'm sorry Jess… I have no idea…" The pink kitten pokemon huffed in distaste. We had been walking for hours and with no sign of civilization anywhere. My feet were sore and all I wanted to do at the moment was lie down and rest for the night.

We trekked on, I tried to ignore any other complaints ushered by Jessica. Well, of course I couldn't handle it much longer and snapped. "Shut your trap!" Which, surprisingly, she obliged to with minor grumblings.

A little while later, the forest had become so dark that it was almost impossible to see your own paw.

"Um, I think we should rest for the night, its too dark to see anything now so it'll be useless to continue on."

We all gladly agreed to Matt's request. I collapsed onto the ground, sighing in relief as I rested my sore paws.

"Ah~ finally!" Jessica purred happily, "Now if there was only something to eat…"

Well, this is just great, that stupid pink cat better not start mewling about starving to death, or else I'll… I began to think bitterly, it seemed that every little thing was getting to me lately, eh, I figured I was just tired from all the walking we did today.

"Wait, what's that sound?" Chiara perked her ears up, suddenly alert as if the weariness had been suddenly drawn from her. She strained her ears, focusing on the noise, but all that she could make out was a faint scratching sound along with a deathly quiet whisper.

"Huh? What are you talking about? I don't hear anyth-"

"Shhh!" Chiara silenced me and returned her attention back to the noise.

Scritch. Scritch. Scritch. Whisper. Whisper. I could here it now, whatever was making it was slowly getting closer and closer.

The red fox-like pokemon lifted her snout and cautiously sniffed the air. She shivered slightly, as if whatever she was smelling was giving her the chills and her eyes went wide with terror.

"G-guys…" Chiara whimpered to us, slowly backing away from her previous spot.

"Chiara? What's wrong? What-?" Jessica's question was cut off by a loud yelp that escaped her throat. An ice shard had flown out of nowhere and grazed her shoulder. Brayden instantly jumped in front of her, claws unsheathed.

"Chiara! Watch out!" Matt yelled out just as another ice shard aimed at the small red fox appeared from the treetops.

Chiara, hearing her friends warning, jumped out of the way in the nick of time and landed next to her companions.

"Come on! We have to get away form here!" She then nudged Jessica to her paws and we all began to run off in the opposite direction of the ice shards.

Just as we were approaching the trees, a chilling wind swept in from the depths of the forest. The breeze bit and stung but it disappeared just as suddenly as it appeared.

"Huh? My feet are stuck! I can't move!" Matt cried out helplessly as he struggled to move his paws.

"Mine too!" yelled Brayden as he tried to lift his feet.

"Our feet have been fozen to the ground!" Chiara gasped as she too struggled to free herself. I looked down at my own feet; they too had been frozen solid to the forest floor.

"Hehehe. Looks like I caught you, trespassers!" A voice sneered. Then, a black imp-like creature appeared before them. It had a red leaf were one of its ears should have been and very sharp teeth and claws. It glowered dangerously at the group.

"It's a Sn-sneasel!" Chiara gasped.

"Bless you?"

Chiara glared at me. Geez if looks could kill… "Seth, this isn't the time to start joking around!"

"Now you will pay!" The sneasel then placed its claws close together and a sphere formed with dark energy was forming between them.

Chiara opened her mouth as if she was going to say something, but instead of words, small pellets of fire were fired at the unaware sneasel. Caught off guard, it took a little while to recover, the ferocity in its eyes actually made me freeze in fear. Haha get it? Freeze? You know because my feet are… oh never mind then!

"How dare you attack me in my own territory! I will eliminate you all at once!" The imp-like pokemon then charged at Chiara, it's fist covered in ice, but before it had a chance to attack, there was a sudden flash of bright light, knocking it right out.

"Hey are you ok?" A huge pink creature with bunny ears and wide round turquoise eyes bounded towards the group. He stood up on his hind legs, showing off his white stomach. Ugh, the pokemon was so pink and girly that it made me want to puke.

He handed each of them us a yellowish berry with light blue spots. "Here, this should unfreeze your feet." He told us.

I fiddled with the small yellow berry between my paws, feeling very skeptical. Could a berry really be all that was needed to unfreeze my feet? I looked around at the others and they all seemed to be eating the berry without any hesitation, and the ice covering their feet quickly melted away. Well, since nobody was currently laying on his or her deathbed from poisoning, I decided it was safe enough to eat and soon enough, I too was freed.

"Thank you very much er…"

"Wigglytuff, you can just call me guild master wigglytuff." He answered the fox's question.

"Ah er, thanks wigglytuff."

"No problem! Anything for a friend!" He then started to dance around while chanting "friend" over and over again. Ok, now I really wanted to puke.

"So, what are you all doing out here in tree shroud forest at night friends?" He, finally, ceased his dancing to look at us all.

"Um… well… you see, we were um, wandering around, and , er, well, before we knew it, we kinda, sorta, ended up lost in this forest." Chiara stuttered. Ha! So we were lost afterall! "Also, we kinda don't have anywhere to go…"

"Oh! That's no problem! You could always just come back to my guild with me!" He said as he began to jump up and down this time. Greeeaaat…

"Oh, but we couldn't possibly impose on you…" Chiara began but was immediately interrupted.

"It would be no problem! It's no problem helping my friends! In fact, how about you train to become explorers as well!" He clapped his hands and nodded his head as if it were the best and most logical idea. Man, if he thought we were going with him so easily-

"Sounds like a great idea!" Chiara cried out excitedly.

"WHAT!" I yelled out. What is she thinking? What was everyone else thinking, going along with it? Am I the only one who thinks there's something seriously wrong with that wigglywhatever?

"That's great! Then just follow me and I'll lead you all to my guild!"

Phew, I finally finished! Sorry for the lateness of this chapter but I a huge English assignment, then when I finally decided to finish this chapter, fanfiction starts glitching and wouldn't let me post anything! Anyway, you may or may not have noticed, but I changed the POV from third person to first person because, well, I was finding it waaaaay too hard to write in third person. Also, if you were wondering who's POV it was, it was Seth's the Riolu's POV. I will also change the POV every chapter but only between Chiara, Matt, and Seth. Another thing, I don't know how to get proper breaks in between the actual story and the author's note but I tried putting one in so hopefully it will show up.

Thanks for reading and review please!