Scottie is thrilled, amazed, and excited all at once. His mind raced as he thought the following 'I can't believe it… Me a leader of a Chevalier Squad… I don't what it is yet… but … I have something I could call my own and maybe who knows… maybe I'll be able to learn more about myself!'
Officer Grahm chuckles happily at the grin on the Vulpix's face and gave Scottie a hearty pat on the back and says… "You should see yourself right now kid! You look like an Eevee in a candy store!"
"I don't know what an 'Eevee' is, or a candy store for that matter, I sure feel as one!" He says getting a laugh out of Grahm and a small Chuckle out of Louie 'What makes it even better… is that brat, Will was an unhappy camper.' Scottie thought to himself.
Louie spoke up. "I'm off to go get you and your partner something to commemorate it, Officer if you could join me?"
"Would be honored sir." Grahm Replies as both walked off to an unknown place
As soon as both Officer Grahm and Sergeant Louie where gone, Scottie looked over with a shit-eating grin and a smart-alecky tone at Will, who glared daggers at him. He says to the Oshawott.
"Oh Gee, ain't we going to have fun together~"
The rather Snobbish Oshawott growled at him "Shut up you rabble." Will then continues on to say "You shouldn't be the leader I should… You know what you are right? A Vulpix, a Fire type and I'm a water type!"
Scottie waved his paw around as if to notion for an explanation. "…And…?"
"Water puts out fire. There you go I win." Will says smiling and crossing his arms "I am far more intelligent, and I am stronger, by default I am dominant, and I'm leader. I'll accept your apology, and if you want you can have the honor of being my badge shiner…" Will gloats
"… but aren't I the leader because I got the recommendation, not you?" Scottie asks rhetorically, which Will dismisses with a hand wave then says.
"Eh, I think it was a fluke on his part…"
"Sergeant Louie seems to think otherwise-" Scottie began only for will to interrupt him "Sergeant Louie is wrong! Wrong wrong wrong wrong!" he yells taking off his hat and stomping into the ground, causing Scottie to actually… recoil.
After his Tantrum, Louie and Grahm return with a pair of boxes, with different colored ribbons crossed over in a cross form, the, they seem to be there for identification, or to allow even Pokémon without thumbs such as Louie to hold. Which they place in front of the two
"Open what is presented to you." Grahm says to the two new knights "Think of it as your birthday."
With that being said; Scottie opened his package, being careful and gentle with the ribbon, as if he were trying to save it. While Will promptly, elegantly and full of pomp and posture showing true class and etiquette; almost ripped it open like a savage, not even taking a moment to try and undo the ribbon around it, rather destroying it in the process of opening his package
Within the packages both where badges that where shaped like that of a heater-shield, being full white in color, adorned with bird like wings on each side, in the center was a perfectly smoothed out round gemstone, the wings seemed to be made of a similar material as the center gemstone.
"What are these…?" Scottie asks with his usual amnesiac fueled curiosity
Will turns his head to face him "Cucumbers, what do you think they are gein-" he says being interrupted by receiving of a bonk from Grahm's flashlight "OW!" he exclaims, as Grahm explains as follows
"These badges allow you both to act as a chevalier squadron, as well as keep you mentally sound within dungeons, rescue people in dungeons, or if you encounter an outlaw, you can use it to send him directly to us… It also has a few other abilities that you will have to learn on the way…" he says
"… so do we have to carry these or… because I can see the obvious problem" Scottie comments, sitting on his back legs and looking at his obvious thumb lacking hands.
Scottie picks his up easily, holding it in the air "CHUMP!" he yells at Scottie, who rolls his eyes…
Will grins with his eyes closed, and crossing his arms "Oh you're just jealous you aren't as skilled as me."
Scottie looks back over at will. "Well it's nice to know your most prominent skills over me preside in holding badges" Scottie replies shrewdly.
Will glares after figuring out what Scottie meant by that "Go jump in a lake." he comments in rejoinder
"If you two are done, I'd like to explain how the holding impaired can easily carry these around, as well as present them." Louie says to the two bickering Pokémon, who, due to Louie's very attention grabbing voice silence immediately, he then explains…
"Thank you. Now, if you look in the box a bit deeper, there'll be a scarf in there, that should help with the 'no hands' problem, as for you Scottie-boy, Grahm will help you with yours…"
Scottie and Will looked beneath where the badges where in the boxes and saw… scarves, folded up all nice and neat like. Grahm went and helped Scottie with putting it on, he then pinned the badge to it "There you go sport…" Grahm then takes a look at the Knight to be, with a hand under his chin and an unsure expression and comments as follows.
"You know. You look a little too shabby to be a Knight. We should get ya cleaned up…. And I know just the woman to do it, C'mon, Let's go!" Grahm says leading both Will and Scottie out of the police station, Will grabbing a cloth bag off of a peg on the wall on his way out. Once in private Louie looks around… Then Sighs saying to really nobody but himself
"This is going to end in nothing but sorrow for a lot of people if this goes wrong…"
They are outside of the police office, and Scottie turns to Will, and decides
"So who are you anyway…?" Scottie asks "I know you're a self centered, twat, but who are you besides that?"
"First off, If anyone here was a twat, it would be you, you common rabble." Will replies snobbishly "I will have you know, I am the heir to the greatest shipping company in all of Yoran… The Formidable Shipping Company, we have the best shipping routes and captains, the best of the best being my older brother…"
'Oh my god, even his family sounds like a bunch of jackasses…' Scottie thought, He then started looking around, only to be met with the slight glares of various other Pokémon of the city which brought quite a bit of unease to him…
"Feel uneasy, Vulpix?" Will asks semi-rhetorically, with in response Scottie replies with
"You could say that, yeah, just a little bit."
Will looks away from him "Then you'd better hope whatever Officer Grahm has planned for you will leave a pretty corpse, Vulpix."
'Will's constant hope of my downfall was really starting to go from slightly annoying to getting really annoying, not only that but he is starting to have point… These people just do not like me…' Scottie says with his ears drooping and his Sapphire eyes
They arrived in front of a very official looking stand with two roman inspired pillars going up a small ways with a roof-like block on it that says 'Goldwing Bank.' Working the outdoors stand was a magnificent Pokémon, Standing almost a foot over Scottie, and it had a long swan-like neck, with white cheeks and a beak, with golden feathers with ribbon like feathers sprouting from the back of its head. Its majesty joined by its cloud-like wings, though promptly and properly folded.
"Well, top of the morning to you, Thara." Grahm says to the magnificent bird as a greeting, walking up to the desk with Scottie silently and shyly walking behind Grahm.
"Same too you officer…" The Altaria known as Thara responds to Grahm with an extended neck to look behind him, as Scottie scuttles around to avoid her gaze, looking up at her with his deep blue eyes.
"Officer Grahm, is that a Vulpix…? I don't mean to sound rude 'tat all, but all the ones I've met are-" Thara says to be interrupted by Will finishing her sentence with "Dirty rotten thieves?"
"I realize that Thara, but he is with me… His name's Scottie, or at least that's what I call him; he doesn't have any memory of who he is, or why he's here. But I can guarantee that he is different from the rest of his kind because of it. C'mon Kid, quit being shy." Grahm says as Scottie awkwardly out looking up at her, with his big blue eyes
"Oh..." she says lightly looking at him "Well aren't you precious…" she says using her wing to lean over and pat him, getting some dirt off of the side of his face, she takes it back and looks at the spot of dirt on her pure white wing, which she easily shakes off
"My, my, isn't he a dirty little lost child..." She comments to herself, Grahm nods and adds
"This is why I brought him to you, Ma'am, if anyone can clean this kid to look at all presentable despite the rest of his kind… It's you." Grahm explains "He saved my life, so I'm giving him one. I'll watch the shop with his partner, William, while you do this for me."
Thara nods hopping over to the door and opens the door with her foot, inviting Scottie in as he hops over the counter and he walks in after her.
Thara's house was small and quaint though it had as much room as it needed; it had three extra rooms and one floor, with shut doors. The floorboards where made of oak and the walls a white brick, though tastefully faded to a palliated yellow.
"All right go into the washroom, it's the one dead ahead, and I'll meet you there. Oh and before you enter the tub, take off your scarf" Thara says going through the door to the left, and to follow directions, he heads into the 'wash room' whatever that meant.
Where inside was a giant bucket-like structure made out of wood and a ring of metal. It stood Two feet high, he took off his scarf setting it on a counter, and with his natural Vulpix curiosity Scottie hops on in it trying to see what's inside. There was nothing in it, sadly, but he heard Thara coming in. With a bucket in her beak she flutters over by the tub...
"What's in that thingy in your mouth?" Scottie asks
"You'll see sweetheart." Thara says dumping in a whole bucketful of soapy sudsy… water…. Then Scottie feels the water along his skin, and the slight steam coming off of it, and then he begins to flip out.
"WATER! HELP! HELP!" He yells upon the sight of steam trying to escape from the tub, but it was no use, he was pushed back in by Thara's large fluffy wing as she begins to hum gently as he's trying to get out and yelling in what he thinks is agony…
After about an hour Thara picks Scottie, and puts him down outside of the tub, where steam is coming off of his fur as he pants, water was all over the floor, and Thara was a little soaked as she chuckled
"Oh you fire types… always freaking out the first time you figure out a bath doesn't actually hurt you…" Thara states, and then goes on to explain "You see, it is true the water type stays predominant over fire types. I've always noticed that a fire type can enjoy a drink, or take a bath just fine… now I'll just cut that rattata's nest you call hair…" she says with a pair of scissors in one 'foot' and a comb in her mouth, then begins to delicately cut his hair cutting it so it didn't feather and layer. It was straight and uniform.
He looked over himself in the mirror, most of his tattoos where gone, and he looked clean with almost… Well, almost all of his tattoos where gone, he turned to his side and looked at the Odd Tattoo along his neck… "… What is up with that one…?"
"That one wouldn't just come off no matter how hard I scrubbed Scottie." Thara says sadly "I'm sorry… but here…" Thara says gently utilizing her wings and long neck, to tie on his scarf, before he really gets a chance to take a good look at it.
"There, perfectly hidden!" Thara exclaims cheerfully "Now get out there and show yourself off!"
'Thara is a nice Pokémon…' Scottie thought to himself 'I wonder why she was so nice to me…' He thought in his paranoia as he walked out and saw Grahm and will, as Thara fluttered out beside him.
"Attention Officer Grahm, Sir Scottie is reporting for Duty~!" Thara says with a slight giggle as she stands next to the small canine, Grahm looks back at Scottie, clean cut, and his fur a couple shades lighter, due to the cleaning. Clean cut, and over all, just looking much more heroic and professional
Grahm whistles "Well, well look at you kid!"
"You look a little less ugly." Will says
"You ain't much too look at either." Scottie comments, getting a, surprisingly well placed slap, on the back of the head from Thara's wing
"Be nice Scottie, first rule of knighthood is dignity with grace." Thara says to the young knight
"All right you two, we have to go to the Bluemoon Café to get you two your first mission!" Grahm says leading the 'dynamic duo' over to a large blue building with a large sign on it portraying a pink bovine like Pokémon hanging out on a blue crescent moon with the words under it "Bluemoon Cafe" The group enters through the door, and into an almost completely different world… Inside the lighting was low, and there was a slow melody of a saxophone, accompanied with the tasteful sounds of a well played piano, and all held together by a double bass guitar, The tables where filled with a number of Pokémon drinking various different colors of drinks, some laughing, some silently sobbing, and whoever wasn't laughing or sobbing was glaring straight at Scottie, who in response ducked down close to the floor, trying to hide his existence from the eyes of his peers, as Will proudly moved through, Scottie scuttled along the floor
"HEY! You! Yourightherere! Get the Distortion out of here!" A voice from the crowd slurs down at Scottie. And out the offender comes out, twirling a large bone in his hand, he stood like a dinosaur, had a tail like one too. As well as a large skull like helmet.
"Stand down, you drunk Marowak, he's with me, and William here is too." Grahm says to the drunkard, as mentioned drunkard growls and slurs, and swerves back to his table
Scottie comments "This is really starting to become emotionally draining… Maybe we should start on a different day, tomorrow maybe?" he asks, sounding like the world is beating the spirit out of him
Grahm frowns a little "Don't let people like him get you down… you just need to show them what I saw… where's that bravery huh?" Grahm asks
"It's like the honor of his species, absent." Will says
"Do you ever stop?" Scottie asks will with honesty,
Will in reply shoots Scottie an apathetic look, and then says. "No, no I don't."
All three Pokémon took seats at the bar, and Grahm waved his hand, calling over the barkeep, a pink bovine like Pokémon with an apron over her stomach, with stubby white horns and a cowl like pattern in her fur, as usual shooting a glare towards Scottie.
"And what do you want you want your little punk?" The Bovine asks.
"Before you try to kick him out, Nancy… perhaps you should look at his badge." Grahm suggests
The Bovine Barkeep looks at the badge on the scarf… "Hmm.. Don't look like the badges of Team Storm and Team Lance… So it must be a…" she says in thought, upon realizing something, Nancy recoils recoils a little, with an expression of shock and worry "By the legends I am so sorry sir! I didn't realize who you where, a captain of a Chevalier Team!"
"It's all right ma'am." Scottie says with a smile "Everyone makes mistakes."
"Like the mistake of making you leader…"Will grumbles under his breath
"Anyway, we're here for our first mission?" Scottie asks Nancy almost excited.
"Oh yes, just came in from Sergeant Louie's Courier… A mission for Team Siege Here let me get you a drink, on the house; a Sweet Cream, a very popular drink… Here, have the letter for now..." she says handing him an envelope and turning around to fix his drink…
Without Grahm explaining for once, Scottie felt like he knew what he was doing, he opened the letter using his doggy claws, and pulls out a blank piece of paper, which causes his badge to glow, and then pushing up on it with his paw, the badge sends out a beam of blue light, scanning over the letter, then projecting it up as a holographic message
| Client: Tracy – Reuniclus |
|"My child is in danger! Please help them!" |
| Location: Summer Path Room: 4 |
| Reward: 200 Poke + Berry Pack |
"Well ain't you getting smart…" Grahm comments getting down, he says "You two seem to be getting things handled. I'm going to hang outside though, to watch for that drunkard." Grahm says floating out
"Wait before you go, how did it do that?"
"Special invisible ink, I'll explain in depth later!" Grahm says as he exits
A slim glass with a handle on it is then served to Scottie, inside was a pink, creamy looking drink, and Nancy shoots him a smile, as if saying it where ok for him to drink out of it. As such he does, grabbing the glass with his tail, he downs it. It had the texture and taste of cream, but also had a slight sweet fruit-like tang to it, it overall was a pleasurable drink, and he felt good for drinking it, as he puts down the glass, empty, with a satisfied 'Ah' entailing
"You like it Sug'?" Nancy asks him sweetly, which Scottie nods vigorously, receiving a pat on the head and a chuckle, Will of course rolling his eyes.
"Ya'll come back. Got a mission, Willy-boy, lead'm to the train station." Nancy says eyeing Will.
Which he gets off the table saying; "Ugh fine, come on you." He then walks off, with Scottie following. Nancy shook her head chuckling and says
"A Vulpix on a Chevalier Squad… now I've seen everything…"
"So how do we get to this Summer Path?" Scottie asks will, who for once doesn't reply sarcastically
"Well Simple." He says "We need to take the train, which is right over…. There!" he says pointing at the large station, made of brick and slabs, it stood tall, and Scottie looked up at it absolutely amazed in its glory
"Like it eh?" Will asks him "You know, since we're a team I can get us registered for year-long train pass." He suggests, and then Scottie got a confused look and looked to will
"When did you stop being an asshole?" he asks, receiving a glare from will "Not that I don't appreciate the attitude change, but where'd it come from?"
Will thought for a moment "I'm not sure myself…" he says with a confused tone
"Maybe your excited for our first mission? I don't know, but I like the attitude, keep it up!" Scottie actively replies hopping up to the train station as will follows him, Scottie and Will arrive up to a booth, where will hops up and rings the bell
"Re-Uuuuuuuuuuuuu~!" a voice yells as a metal curtain raises up showing an almost doll-like Pokémon, within a green gelatinous field, with beady black eyes and a grin as wide as her face, she asks the two "Hello~ and what can I do for you this fine aaaafternooon~?"
Will went into his cloth bag and pulled out a small coin purse putting it on the counter "Two one-year train passes!" he says to the cashier whose face molded into a scowl
"William, I have told you." The Pokémon says "I can only give those too a TEAM." She continues with a slight annoyance in her voice
"He is part of one!" Scottie says sort of jumping up, but not really, he just sets his front paws on the counter, in order to do a standing like thing, to show the badge on his scarf. The Pokémon leans in and eyes the badge…
"… By Golly, someone actually let him join a team! All right! Lemme get you both some passes set up, would you like to start using them today?" The Pokémon asks, taking the money with a gelatinous hand…
"Yes, we need to go to Summer Path." Scottie says to her
"Well All right then!" she says printing out a pair of blank cards putting them out on the table, Will and Scottie scan them with their badges, they then displays holographic IDs, The two turn it off for a moment, as the Pokémon puts them away.
"There you are, all happy!" The Pokémon says heading out a back door Scottie looks over at will
"… Who was that anyway?" he asks him, Will responds
"That's Casey, but everyone calls her "Train Master Reuniclus"." He says walking, motioning for Scottie to follow, which he does, and will explains as they walk
"You see, only psychic types, like her species; Reuniclus, can become train masters, because running a train requires allot of brain power and focus, which Psychic types have. Since getting the title 'Train Master' is so hard, most people refer to their species name after it."
Scottie was very enthralled, and very impressed by will's knowledge on the subject. Gaining a little respect for the usually snotty Oshawott, however his train of thought was interrupted by aloud whistle from a mechanical marvel, with a large cylindrical base, a with a smoke stack that rose up high, large wheels, with a mechanical structure ready to make them move, a box near the back and behind it was a large cart hooked up to the back, it was medium sized, big enough to hold a certain amount of Pokémon, four maybe
"C'mon lets go in." Will says hopping into the back car, Scottie joins him, he looks out the window, curious, as he spies a small mouse-like Pokémon, with navy blue back fur, with red circles on its back hop into the conductor's cabin as suddenly a red light comes from there, as the train begins to slowly move onto a track that's on a large wheel on the floor, once in the center, it stops..
"Adjusting Wheel!" the Trainmaster says as the wheel begins to slowly rotate to the left, until it syncs up with another track she then yells "Adjusting greens tracks to go to Summer Path!" she yells sending out a blue psychic wave, which adjusts many different switches and tracks at once. And then the train begins chug as steam comes out of its smokestack, and the train begins to move as Casey yells out
"Chuga, chuga, chuga. RE-UUUU~" she yells as she blows the whistle by pulling a chain.
Scottie looked out the window, excited and pensive over his first mission…