Chapter 2

The waves crashed angrily against the shore, a storm brewing above it. The pokemon scattered, as a murderous roar crashed throughout the area.

The island seemed to be coming apart, slowly being claimed by the water, as two pokemon fought, one in the raging ocean, and the other on the breaking land.

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The bird pokemon was switched for an electric pokemon, a Minum named Spark, with an angry eevee and a mudkip who was on the verge of being deemed insane by the eevee.

Spark, sadly, had no clue what to do or what was going on with the mudkip, and only knew why the eevee was angry.

"Lupe? If you want to help so bad why don't you just-" Spark began but Lupe quickly cut her off.

"Who would join with me? Everyone says I'm too reckless, that's why no one wants to form an Island Exploration Team with me," Lupe growled.

"What's an Island Exploration Team?" Muddy asked.

Lupe slowly turned towards Muddy, a plan forming in his head.

(-)

A pigeotto carefully set down a ralts, unlike what the bird had done to a certain eevee, and quickly checked for any wounds.

"Oh, no, I'm fine. It's just, I noticed something weird earlier and went on the edge of the cliff to see what it was. I guess I'm still as klutzy as ever," the ralts said sheepishly.

"It's fine, what did you see?"

Glancing out towards the sea, the ralts said seriously, "Nothing good."

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"And that's what an Island Exploration Team is," Lupe concluded.

"That sounds so cool! I'd love to discover new islands, but I need to figure out what happened first," Muddy exclaimed as she glanced down at her feet to see if they were still blue.

Hiding a smirk, the eevee added, "They also find islands with lost secrets on them. Maybe one of them tells about yours."

Spark sighed, glancing at the poor mudkip who was about to be caught in Lupe's snare.

"Whatever you need to figure out, it's not worth it if you have to pair up with him," she told Muddy.

"Really? What about how all the pokemon are scared about you because you're an electric type? If you joined up with me, you could help stop all that," Lupe countered.

As much as she hated to admit it, Spark was considering it in her mind. Most pokemon in town were flying or water, with the other types occasionally mixed in, so everyone kept away from her. If she was an island locater she would be respected a bit more and less of the pokemon would feel afraid when they're around her.

On the other side, Muddy was also thinking about it. It was true, she probably had a better chance to find out what happened to her if she could go and explore. Plus, she was so confused at the moment that maybe teaming up with this odd eevee could help her.

"I'm in. It couldn't hurt at the moment," Muddy told Lupe.

Spark felt like slapping the mudkip, and herself. Obviously Muddy didn't know about the dangers of being with the eevee, while she did and had still been considering it.

Sighing, Spark knew that she couldn't allow her to handle Lupe all by herself, so she found herself saying, "I'm in, too. I'm tired of everyone being scared of me."

The look Lupe had on his face was all Spark needed to know, and all she needed to regret her decision, but she wasn't just about to back out, mainly because she was too stuborn not to.

"Yes! Let's go to the guild to sign up! That'll show them…," Lupe added the last part in a whisper although Spark managed to hear it.

"Great, I'm with the best trouble magnet of the centaury," Spark grumbled to herself about to follow Lupe when the Chansey spoke up.

"It's a bit late, so the guild would probably be closed for new recruits now, plus I'd think it'd be best for Muddy to stay here for the night," she sang before going back to work.

"What!" came three astonished voices.

The three glanced at each other, Lupe depressed, Spark hiding a relieved grin, and Muddy only frowning. For her, another day meant the longer she had to wait for her answers and personally, she'd like them as soon as possible.

Sighing, Lupe grumbled, "I'll go find Cloudbearer and tell him."

He turned around and headed out the opening towards the beach where Cloudbearer had took off to.

Spark turned around to face Muddy as Lupe's tail disappeared around the bend.

"So…what's you're story? I mean, who's crazy enough to team up with Lupe unless you don't know the guy?" Spark asked.

Muddy smiled sheepishly at the Minum. "It's a very unbelievable story…"

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Lupe stormed down the streets, the depression gone now setting into anger. The poor eevee was suffering from a minor case of bipolar-ness.

He had gone from depressed, to happy, to mad, back to depressed, right back to mad. Yep, just a minor case.

"I can't believe this, first Cloudbearer says I can't go with him, then Nurse Chansey says I have to wait another da-"

"Came back here you thief!" yelled a very angry poliwhirl after a stressed looking Shuppet.

"A thing, I did not do!" the Shuppet yelled switching it's words around from her nerves.

"A thing, you did!" the poliwhirl mocked still glowering at her.

Lupe knew that Shuppet, or, at least somewhat knew her. He'd seen her around the town and had heard that she was the first people suspected when something bad happened.

In a flash of brown fur and random bravery from understanding her postion, Lupe jumped between the two pokemon.

"Back off Mr. I-can-give-you-a-headache-if-you-look-at-my-stomach," he growled at the shop owner.

"So the cursed fur ball of trouble has decided to defend a thief, eh? You really are trouble," the poliwhirl sneered.

"Do you have proof," Lupe sneered right back.

"…"

"Didn't think so."

Lupe turned to glance at the Shuppet and noticed it's badge. It was a rich silver color, though with the sun hitting it, was a blinding light.

"And if you want a reason why it might not be her is that she's an Island Locater," Lupe added staring in admiration at the silver badge.

The badge had a hole in the middle, which meant that she hadn't fully completed her training, but was nearly there which was what the silver color meant. All she needed was to be given a gold badge and she'd be able to graduate.

"Th-that's-" the poliwhirl started but cut himself off.

"Fine, she's off the hook…for now," the poliwhirl growled before turning around and stalking off.

"Thank you Lupe! I tried to explain, but he wouldn't listen to me. Maybe it's because I'm a Shuppet. Anyways, my name is Shall," the Shuppet said gratefully.

"H-how did you know my name…? You heard the rumors didn't you?" Lupe mumbled dully allowing his head to fall gloomily.

"Yeah, I have. But it's fine. We're both considered trouble makers, right?" Shall comforted.

"I guess…"

"Shall!"

"Lupe!"

The two pokemon turned towards the voices. One was Cloudbearer and the other was a small ralts with a scar on it's left leg with a bag slung around its left shoulder.

"What did I tell you about running off you dang fur ball!" Cloudbearer scolded pecking at Lupe's head in punishment.

"Ow! Sorry!" Lupe protested jumping out of the pigeottos reach.

"But I wanted to tell you that I've managed to get Muddy and Spark to join up with me to be Island Locators!" Lupe explained.

That's not an excu- Wait, what?" Cloudbearer stared at the eevee with a blank face while inside he nearly went into shock.

"Yeah, I mean, if she was right about being human and all, maybe we could find the reason and turn her back," Lupe explained.

The other two pokemon beside them turned around to look at them, startled.

"Did you say human?" Shall asked.

"No way! That's not possible, I haven't seen one around," the ralts told his partner.

The other two pokemon froze, Cloudbearer starting to go into something so bad it couldn't be defined as shock anymore, as he realized what Lupe had just freely said.

"Lupe…"

"Yes?"

"Your one of the most idiotic, crazy, suicidal, fur balls I've ever meant, but saying that out loud has just confirmed how much of an idiot you truly are," Cloudbearer hissed to the eevee.

"…I know."

A/N: Sorry about the late update, it's nearly winter V.K so school is assigning as much work as possible before we go off, so I haven't been on the computer for anything but work. Also, thanks for the reviews and telling me what sounds akwards and needs work. I really appreciate it .