Chapter 4: Discoveries

Everything was peace and quietness in the Underpath Guild. No sound could be heard from it, and it looked really calming.

Until the breaking dawn. One pokémon, out of all of the habitants of the guild woke up, and started his usual routine. Although sleepy, he went to a special room in the very middle of the guild, the room that only he and the Guildmaster Kingdra had access to.

He went into it, and steped in the middle of the room. Everywhere around him, there were tubes that lead to every single room in the guild.

He prepared himself, inhaled a deep breath, and proceeded to scream.

—

"¡ATENTION, EXPLORERS. IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP. BREAKFAST IS IN FIFTEEN MINUTES!"

A piercing message was just screamed into the rooms of every team in the morning. Even though its purpose was waking up the members of the guild, this affected only one.

"¡Agh! ¡¿What in the name of Arceus was that?!" screamed back Emma.

She was fairly surprised to see her teamates were quietly sleeping, like nothing could wake them up. And after the scream, she was sure that that was what happened.

"Hey, Kate" she approached her. "Kate… Kate. ¡Kate!"

With the last scream, a stream of gust of snow came out of her mouth, freezing her throat. She coughed immediatly, and flinched back.

"¡Sweet Arceus, why would you do that!" Kate said. She woke up out of the coldness of the attack, and flinched too.

However, Emma was still coughing snow. The attack took her by surprise too.

"Emma… Emma, calm down. You might throw up." Kate said.

Emma did stop, but the chilling sensation remained with her, but bothering much less than it did.

"Powder Snow."

"¿Eh?"

"Powder Snow… I've got the feeling that that's the name of what I just… did."

"So, ¿You're telling me that you have never done that before?"

"How do you… know that."

"Every time a pokémon learns a new move the name of it just comes to their mind. Unless it's Tackle, every pokémon knows that move from the moment they're born."

"And, ¿You tell me that every time I do something weird that is new a name will come up to my mind as long as it has battling purposes?"

"Pretty much."

"Dear Arceus, pokémon are weird."

"We all are, I guess..." Kate answered. Then she saw the snow remaining from the attack.

It was melting, and making its way towards Blitz.

Kate panicked, and immediatly took straw from the pile and put it in the way between the Litwick and the water.

"¡Quick! ¡Use that attack again!"

"¿What? ¿How am I supposed to do that?"

"¡Ain't my problem, but it is Blitz's! ¡Just think of snow, or something!"

Emma, starting to show concern, concentrated on snow and coldness as hard as she could. Then focused on attacking, and in a matter of seconds, she felt a pull in her gut, her throat freezing, and another gust of chilly, powdery snow was coming from her mouth. As she could, she directed it to the puddle in the floor, increasing in size until the attack stoped. She coughed, but much more less that the first time, and looked to the floor. The puddle was frozen.

Kate the came storming in the room, now with a bucket and a sleepy psychic-type, a Natu.

"Put that snow in the bucket! Now!"

The Natu looked frustrated, however, did as told to. The Natu's eyes started glowing, and the snow and frost did so too. It then levitated, and was carefully put in the bucket. Both the Natu's eyes and the snow stoped glowing, and the Natu stormed out of the room.

"That was close…"

"What?"

"Blitz is not only a fire-type, but he also has a huge fear of the water. We could call it a phobia, even," Kate explained. "Had that water just touched him, we probably would be in fire right now."

"I… I just wanted you to wake up." Emma whispered.

"Guess this is what happens when you make mountains out of molehills."

"I'm sorry, I didn't intended this to happen."

"Don't worry, the past is in the past. ¿Why did you want to wake me up, anyway?"

"Something screamed a message out of nowhere, and-"

"Daily wake up message. Explain no more."

"Daily wake up message?"

"Daily wake up message. In the top left corner there's a tube. There are tubes throughout the whole guild, in every single room. Its purpose is waking us up. But, ¿Where does the sound come from? No one knows."

And now it has sense. Emma thought

"So, ¿You guys aren't going for breakfast?"

"That's already solved. Every room also has another tube with a valve. If you open it, and requested them as 'daily' when given the room, then berries will come out of it every morning in case you don't want to go to the cafeteria. Most people do go to the cafeteria, though. We're probably the only ones that do stay here. You can go there if you want."

"What a practical use of a tube."

"I know. And now, let me sleep."

Kate then just crawled into her straw bed, and closed her eyes. After a few seconds, she started to snore, indicating that she had fallen asleep.

You guys are so weird. Emma thought, and left the room.

—

Emma had been looking for the library once she left. She tried to ask the pokémon running down the hall, but didn't listen to her. She went to the 9th floor, given the fact that she knew the other floors would be rooms, and searched for it. There was a kind Swellow there who told her it was in the 11th floor, and she headed up there. After a short hallway, there was a door with the following inscription:

"Underpath Guild's Library: One of the biggest library of the Junya region!"

Emma opened the door, and it was in fact, gigantic. Just by looking at it, she could say there were at least five thousand books. There was no one in there, and the library had no librarían, so she had to look alone.

Human section… human section… Emma thought. Fortunately for her, the categories were divided by letters, and she found it rather quickly.

True gems can be found in the least expected places. She thought, and apparently was true. There was one book that caught her attention.

"The human world and its inhabitants: A book by the famous Team Acetrick from the Quori region, featuring Novers and Skyler, a former human"

Emma immediatly took the book and headed up to a nearby table. She opened the book, although with difficulty, in the prologue and started to read it.

Prologue:

We couldn't really say this is that much about the human world itself and its inhabitants, contrary to the title. This book, is a result of our investigations on how to return Skyler to the human world. Yes, she is a human. And if you have this book in your hands, paws, or other kind of extension, you could call yourself a lucky, lucky pokémon.

There are only five copies in existence of this book.

Now, allow us to continue. This is the result of investigations, a close bond, revelations, discoveries, fate, and determination. Determination to go back there.

Many people wouldn't believe us, many would. We just want you to know that, whoever you are, everything that has been written in this book is true. And we hope that our investigations can help future human-turned pokémon that suffer the same problem that we have been through.

Sincerely, Skyler & Novers (aka. Team Acetrick)

Emma immediatly started reading the book. However, she couldn't get past three pages because suddenly, someone entered the library.

"Oh, hi! I didn't think anyone would be here. Everyone is in the cafeteria at these hours," said the pokémon. It was a green pokémon with short, white hair in form of petals. It looked like it was wearing a cape, and had roses for hands. In fact, it was a she. And, in fact, she was a Roserade. Roserade looked at Emma with a confused expression "I'm the second-in-command, Roserade. Excuse me, but I don't seem to recall you. In fact, I haven't seen any pokémon from Kalos in a long time. May I ask, ¿Who are you?"

Emma immediatly closed the book and held it close to her. "I'm Emma, and I joined the guild yesterday."

"Wonderful! We're glad to have you here, Emma. I'm also glad to have a pokémon that is interested in reading. Lately, Blitz from Team Blacklight is the only one to come to read. You know, if you take one of the books in the section A-Z, 11 you can take any book you want outside of the library."

"Really?" Emma's eyes shined for a momento. "Thank you for the information, ma'am."

"Oh, just call me Roserade, dear" Roserade smiled warmly. "Anyway, I have paperwork for you. We don't have a librarían, but I can register books and take care of the library. ¿Are you interested in taking any of the books in the aforementioned section?"

"Yes! I'll take… Wait a minute."

"Of course"

Emma went to the section labeled A-Z, 11. There were at least sixty books, and took one of the ones stored in the back of the shelf.

"Let's see… "Geography of the Junya Region". Not bad."

She went with Roserade, whom was waiting at a table doing paperwork.

"I chose this one."

"Interesting choice. Now, let me register it, and then you'll sign it. However, if you prefer to just ink your footprint in the paper, you can do so."

"I'll go by the inking."

"Wise choice. Now… Done. Sign the paper, please."

Emma put her foot in the ink that Roserade gave her and the marked the paper.

"Done! Now you're able to take one book out of the library from the shelf with no limit, as long as you read the entire book we just registered and then prove it."

"Some kind of… ¿quiz?"

"Yes, I'll write one down when you're ready. You have a limit of one month to complete it."

"Thanks, Roserade. I guess I'll see you later."

"Thanks for coming!"

Emma started to walk out of the library, but then turned back.

"Roserade?"

"Yes?"

"You don't have to answer this, but, how will you… write with, well… you know-"

"¿Roses for hands?"

"Yes."

"I got to learn how to forcefully after some time as a guild member. Now I can use some of my petals as fingers, at least in a way I can write."

"Thanks for answering."

"No problem. See you later, Emma."

"See you later, Roserade."

And with that, Emma did leave the library this time.

—

Team Blacklight was waiting for their last member in their respective floor.

"¿Why is Emma taking this much time to come?"

"Relax, Kate. She's probably just in the cafeteria, or something. She's new, ¿remember?"

"We have to be together if we want to get the mission for today. They won't give it to us if we're lacking a member."

"Excuse me, my friends, but I think I see her coming from the second floor."

Kate immediatly turned around, and saw Emma coming from the third floor with two books in her back.

"Emma! Here!"

Emma went there, however, struggling to keep the books in her back, causing her to move slowly.

"Sorry! I had to get these books and now…"

Kate sighed. "Blitz, help her."

Blitz moved one step forward, and a telekinetic force allowed the books to float freely in the air, moving into the direction Blitz wanted.

"I'm not sure at all if Amaura can learn Telekinesis, but you should give it a try. It's really useful in the daily life when you don't have hands."

"I guess I should."

"Anyway! Emma. Now you're oficially a member of Team Blacklight, so, first things first, you should get this."

Kate handed Emma a scarf, a bag, and an exploration badge. She put them all one, pining the badge to the scarf.

"That's a Pecha Scarf. Doesn't let you become poisoned. Reaaaally useful, and I say so out of personal experience."

"Y'know, maybe if you didn't eat that-"

"¡It's not exactly the right time for a story, Lucas!"

"Hehe… thanks."

"Um, friends, ¿What do I do with these books?"

"Gimme a second." Said Kate. Then she walked towards a Kirlia and grabbed her by the arm.

"Hey, we have these books. ¿Could you teleport them to our room, please?"

Kirlia simply looked at the books and after glowing briefly, they disappeared.

"Thanks!"

"You know, Kate, you're kind of bossy."

"¿What? I'm not bossy."

"You are"

"I am not"

"Yes you are"

"¡No!"

Emma looked at the scene, and laughed. Meanwhile, Blitz had taken one of the Jobs, and read it to Emma.

"This job says we have to catch a criminal, the hardest thing that has been here for a while in this floor. This mission could give us the most points out of a lot of more missions here, Emma, but the rules of the guild say that for the first mission for newbies, we should make something easier. Either a rescue or finding an item. So we can't take you with us."

"Wait, what?" Kate said. She stopped fighting with Lucas the moment she heard Blitz said that.

"We can't take her with us?"

"We only need thirty more points to pass to the next floor. This one gives us twenty five. All others are five."

"…We see. Emma-"

"Oh, it's fine. I need to do stuff anyway, maybe train at the dojo. Don't worry about me."

"You sure?"

"Yes. It's fine, really."

"Then, we'll see you later. We have to do this mission. See ya."

The rest of the team said their goodbyes to Emma, and she answered with a smile. However, once they left, she just let out a big, deep sigh.

—

While the rest of her team was exploring and catching criminals, she went out for a walk. She found 20 poké, the pokémon coin, in her bag, so she decided to buy some berries in the Kecleon store.

She hadn't been that much time in the Blissful Village, but she liked it. It was peaceful, and felt that that was somehow what she needed.

"Hello! We're the Kecleons!" said the green Kecleon.

"We haven't seen you around. We haven't seen any kalosian around in five years, actually. You must be new, so welcome, we sell berries, TM's, apples, and many more!"

Emma smiled. They looked like cheerful people, and their attitude made her smile.

"I'll take a Pecha berry." said Emma.

"You're a lucky one! We have one last Pecha berry in stock. That's 10 poké."

Emma paid the money, thanked the Kecleons, and turned around. She had given about two steps, until someone tackled her.

—

Terrence's day so far wasn't going well. He still had vivid memories from the last day, and they weren't so good.

Considering his already grumpy personality, a kalosian that claims to be a human spoiled his day. Clever, he considered, but ruined it to him.

So today he had much lower expectations. He put up his usual grumpy face, and headed to Blissful Village. His only expectations for that day were to get at least a Pecha berry. He had been craving them lately, but couldn't quite understand why.

In the way to the village he thought of the Amaura who considered to be crazy. He somehow liked her. It wasn't usual to live such things, and as desesperating as she was, she also was a breath of fresh air. Maybe the Amaura wasn't that bad, after all.

However, with these positive thoughts, his face kept a grumpy expression. Scaring of any pokémon that crossed his path, he started to get impatient.

The weather was specially dry and hot that day, and at that point, he just wanted to get that Pecha berry so he could go back at his homes where he would eat it in peace.

¿What would he do the rest of the day? I don't know and I don't think I even care, he thought.

Right now he was focused on one thing and that thing only.

Which is exactly why he panicked when he heard the Kecleons saying that the Amaura, the same crazy Amaura from the day before, was about to get the last Pecha berry in stock.

Which is, also, exactly why he tackled her.

—

The two pokémon rolled on the floor, and then got up.

"That berry is mine!" claimed Terrence.

"You!" said Emma. "It's you!"

"Well, surprise, you have a brain with facial recognition. Yeah, it's me. ¿Do I applaud you, or what?"

"No! ¡And stop it with that sarcastic lameness!"

"Lame the fact that I have been waiting the whole day for that berry. Arceus, I even bothered to come to this village of blind happiness just to get that berry for some kind of crazy kalosian to take it away from me!"

"I paid for it, it is rightfully mine fair and square!"

"Excuse me…" said the green Kecleon.

"I'll pay for it, just give it now!"

"Excuse us-" said the purple Kecleon.

"No! I want it, its mine!"

"¡SILENCE!" screamed both Kecleons at the same time.

Emma and Terrence turned immediatly to them.

"¿Why don't you just share it?"

"You're fighting. Over. A. Berry."

"Well, she-"

"No 'well' or 'but' or 'she' or 'he'. No."

"Look, we have a deal that benefits all of us."

"¿In what way our problems benefit the Kecleons?"

"We don't like chaos, sudeness, or problems. So, to avoid them in the future, we suggest that you two spend the rest of the day together."

"So in the future, maybe you could at least ignore eachother."

"And that benefits us in the part when…"

"You both get Pecha berries free for the rest of the year. Including the one you are fighting over right now."

Emma and Terrence looked at eachother. Then at the Kecleons.

Their lives would be better without having to worry about fighting the other in the future. And they would get free berries for the rest of the year, and they knew it was certainly early in it.

So they looked at eachother one last time. They both nodded, looked at the Kecleons, and said at the same words at the same time.

"Deal."

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Hello! I am updating this story today because I don't know if I will be able to do it tomorrow. Kinda short, though.

Now, Terrence has made his second appearance.

There's still time to send an OC until next chapter, requirements are in the author notes at the end of chapter three.

Until next Sunday! (Even though today it's Saturday)