A/N: I'm going to bring back the Friend Area thing from the first game, don't know why they got rid of it in the first place, it made the game more interactive in my opinion. Plus, it's sort of boring to only see the two main pokemon go through the towns. However, I don't like how there was limited room in the areas. I personally wanted a trio of Typhlosions along with his other preevolutions.

P.S. All the Friend Areas are connected somehow, however some are secluded in the story.

Ch. 2: How The Guildmasters Came To Be

"Pyras what was that?"

They were both at the entrance of Sharpedo Cove. The large natural rock formation facing out to see, a Wingull taking a rest on one of the jagged teeth. Scamper was giving Pyras an icy stare, trying to figure out what had happened, they hadn't even finished what they were trying to do and he made them leave without warning. Pyras was interested however at his feet at the moment, staring intently at his claws.

"Tyler,"

"Uh-Oh," he thought. "My human name, not a good sign."

Scamper only used his human name when he really meant business. And ever since the two evolved and became leaders of their own guild, he'd become a very straight-to-the-point type of pokemon. Pyras looked up at the empoleon, smiling sheepishly though still trying to avoid eye contact.

"What did you do?"

The charizard shrugged, swinging his tail nervously back and forth. He cleared his throat before finally answering,

"What are you talking about Scamp? I didn't do anything. You're working way too hard, starting to get paranoid, y'know. I think it's time for the guild meeting, see ya!"

He turned around, heading for the entrance of the tunnels.

"Hold it Tyler."

The words causing the charizard to stop in his tracks. Scamper waddled up to him and looked him in the eye with a steely glance for a moment before he nodded.

"You're right, it is time for the guild meeting."

Pyras gave a heavy sigh as he started for the stairs, but before he could even take one step, Scamper added,

"And I think we should call all of the recruits."

For the third time that day, the mighty dragon froze in place, horror in his eyes. With a gulp, just to verify, he asked,

"A-All of them Scamper? Do you really think that's necessary?"

"Naturally Pyras, we were going to have a meeting anyway, why not call everyone?"

"B-B-But-"

Before he could get another word out, the penguin started down the stairs and with a heavy sigh, Pyras followed suit.

After the team had graduated, they had performed many feats until the Wigglytuff Guild had recognized them talented enough to leave the guild and start their own. They now stood in their old Guild waiting for the speech Wigglytuff had planned to give them. With a sigh the charmeleon wiped his brow as he stood in front of Chatot and Wigglytuff next to his prinplup partner, and as always, Wigglytuff was as ecstatic as always.

"Yay! Friendly friends! Congratulations on your new guild! Welp, there seems to be no more room for us around here, time to move to another location! Right Chatot?"

"Well, I guess your right Wigglytuff, these two have done quite a lot since they graduated and deserve to be rewarded. Furthermore-"

Chatot suddenly stopped talking and stared at the Guildmaster, sweat rolling down the back of his neck, embarrassed for him. Wigglytuff was known far and wide for his extremely short attention span but this took the cake. Wigglytuff had stopped listening almost as soon as Chatot started talking and had proceeded with bouncing and balancing a Perfect Apple between his ears. Singing quietly to himself.

"Yoom-tah, yoom-tah, yoom-tah-tah!

Perfect Apples are my favorite treat,

the very best apples and so good to eat!

I eat five, six, seven, eight, nine!

My favorite treat and it's all mine!

Then when my apples run out for sure,

My Friendly Friends go out and fetch some more!"

Chatot felt a cold awkward sweat running down his back while Pyras and Scamper just stared. Looking for an excuse, Chatot cleared his throat and applauded loudly.

"Brilliant Guildmaster, Brilliant! An excellent demonstration on what not to do when you're a guildmaster! Now I believe you had something to give to these two?"

But of course, Wigglytuff was in his own little world, humming his little song and bouncing the apple. Chatot nudged him with a wing which caused the round pink pokemon to lose balance and drop the apple he was playing with. It promptly bounced off and rolled out of the room. Wigglytuff gave a shriek of surprise before running after it.

"Come back! My friends aren't ready to get another one of you yet!"

As he ran off with his arms outstretched, he dropped something. The two soon-to-be-guildmasters just stared at him, while Chatot, who was used to his partner's antics, hopped over to the dropped item and picked it up. He hopped back over to the two pokemon and offered it to them with an outstretched wing. Pyras blinked for a second before realizing something was being held in front of this face. It was a faded pink ribbon but when Pyras grabbed it, it turned red. He tilted his head to the side, ignorant to what it was. Scamper let out a gasp.

"Is this Wigglytuff's-"

Chatot nodded,

"Yes, this is Wigglytuff's Aura Ribbon. It responds to the user's aura and will do most whatever your aura's capable of doing. You may remember the explosions that went off whenever the Guildmaster got angry or upset?"

Scamper shuddered, remembering Wigglytuff's many outbursts such as when the pair failed to get a Perfect Apple due to Skuntank and his gang, the time when they were very unenthusiastic about Skuntank's recruitment into the guild, and of course, who could forget the time Bidoof, now a bibarel, had knocked over his Chocolate MooMoo Milk. Pyras sniffed at the ribbon before asking,

"So? I still don't get what's so special about this old thing."

Chatot shook his head muttering to himself before grabbing the item for himself.

"Allow me to demonstrate."

The ribbon turned a light blue in response to Chatot's aura and he held it up, focusing on his energy and sending it into the ribbon. Aura shot out and enveloped the Charmeleon, levitating him into the air. This finally caught Pyras's attention as he struggled against his bonds while Scamper watched him with an amused smirk on his face.

"Hey! What is this?" He demanded. Chatot ignored him and continued his explanation.

"As I said before, the ribbon responds to the user's aura and does whatever your aura is capable of doing. I, for example, am capable of flight so my aura allows others to experience it as well. But the ribbon itself can not be used to do any intentional harm unless the ribbon is corrupted, and this can only happen if the user is pure evil."

In mid-explanation, the Charmeleon had stopped listening and had started slanting his body at different angles so as to allow flight.

"This is sort of cool!" he called out as he started flying towards the ceiling. Chatot shook his head and tutted to himself before letting his aura return to his body. The blue that once enveloped Pyras disappeared and left him in mid-air with no assistance. Pyras flapped his arms in vain before hitting the ground with a hard thud. He shook his head and stood up grumbling.

"Did you get any of that?" Chatot asked raising a brow. Scamper nodded while the Charmeleon just tapped his claw with irritation.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what does flying have to do with any of us?" he growled under his breath. "It's not like either of us can fly."

The bird sighed and tried to explain yet again.

"Yes, I realize neither of you can fly," he said. "But if you were listening, then you'd realize that by using this ribbon, you can start fires by simply thinking it."

"Well what would I need to do that for if I can just do this?" he asked while snorting an ember out of his snout, just barely missing Chatot's tail feathers who huffed in anger.

"Insubordination! You need to know this! Do you know how this guild even got started?" Chatot asked, motioning a wing towards all the caverns and caves. Pyras just picked something out of his snout and flicked it away, the Prinplup grimacing at the immature act.

"I don't know, you got Diglett and Dugtrio to dig it out?" He guessed with a shrug before he felt a wing strike him across the face.

"Hmmph! Of course not! It would take years to be able to dig all of this! Guildmaster simply gave it to Dugtrio, who sent his ground-type aura into the earth which hollowed out the tunnels and caverns in the design Wigglytuff wanted. Do you understand now?"

Pyras opened his mouth to say what was obviously going to be a rude remark but Scamper covered his mouth with a flipper and shouted.

"Yes sir! Ignore Pyras, he's just having one of his 'special' days."

Chatot raised a non-existent brow but decided to let it slide and cleared his throat.

"Alright, well. Just be sure not to use it for too long or you'll wear yourself out. Now I'll be off now. Good luck with the guild. You no longer owe any of your rewards to the guild, but it'd be nice to receive a gift now and again!" he said with a wink, and as he flew to the entrance, a well-aimed fireball came flying towards the back of his head.