Hai guys once again, I am back! Sorry if I seemed rude, actually I would like and appreciate some flames. K? Good. Send me one and i'll take the 'threat' down. I actually didn't mean for it to be a threat but I guess you want it to be one..? I'm sorry, I just don't know how to take your comment...

*Stern Face* I think it's apparent that I don't own pokemon.

Chapter 7

Rook's POV

"If everyone will PLEASE quiet down.." I let Chatot's voice turn into white noise as I sat, scowling. I'm not going on this expedition, am I? Chatot may look bright and festive with his rainbow wings and music note for a head, but somewhere in my mind I can't help feel but like he has a stone heart.

"Oh gosh, this is so exciting!" Sunflora said next to me. She was the only other girl in the guild aside me and Kiara. Her head was basically a huge sunflower with a face and a long green neck with a stout body and leaves for arms. No hands at all. Creeped me out the first time I saw her. Sunflora turned to me with a pitying look.

"Oh, gosh!" She said. "I didn't mean to.. offend you because... well... Gosh! I'm so sorry."

"Don't worry, it's all fine." I said. "It's fine." I turned my head away from Sunflora and continued to eye the ground as I had done for the past five minutes. I looked up just as Wigglytuff handed a scroll to Chatot. It looked worn, despite it being brand new.

"And the names are," Chatot started. He fell silent for dramatic effect before he began listing. I had no hope for myself, but I listened anyway. "Chorpish... Sunflora... Bidoof... Loudred... Chimecho..." His voice got slower as his face revealed that he was struggling to read the parchment. "Wait- Sir?" Chatot squawked, "You wrote down ALL the members of the guild on the margin? You put everyone on the list?" I looked up in confusion and happiness. Kiara, behind Dugtrio grinned.

"Yeah!" Guildmaster Wigglytuff chirped, smiling. "I just thought about how fun, fun, fun it'd be with everyone going!"

I wouldn't try to argue.. I thought. Chatot scowled before saying in a annoyed voice,

"Well, it seems everyone is going. You have until Midday tommrow to prepare. Remember to pack, it'll be a long journey tommrow, as it'll take 2 days minimum to get there. Remember, only team leaders may come, so those with recruits may not include the others." That surprised me a little, but knowing Bubble and medusa weren't technically part of the Guild, I shrugged it off. Me and Kiara smiled at each other after Wigglytuff and Chatot went back to Wigglytuff's room, the door slamming hard.

I was shocked for a moment before rushing over to Kiara and cheering, "We're going!"

"Yeah," Kiara said, eyeballing the ground. "We will have to tell everyone that they can't come though."

"Okay, boring but important stuff happens here so... montage time." The author said, appearing suddenly and holding a dark grey remote.

Montage Summary

Rook's POV

The day before the expedition we trained a lot in the hardest dungeons we could handle. Bubble, the now certified Recruit Trainer, did his job and said, quote, 'I want you gals to be safe.' Cabbage came along and even learnt a new move, Psybeam. I also got my attacks linked by Electabuzz. It wasn't painful, it was just... tingly. And of course, Mama Kangascan gave us our supplies that the older Keckleon Brother gave us for free. Lastly, Chatot gave us the plan. We were all going to Fogbound Lake, the designated rendezvous point. This place was also where we were setting up camp. Once we got to Fogbound Lake, our instructions were to immediately explore Fogbound Lake and search for it's treasure. We were to split into 5 groups to get there the fastest. My group was me, Kiara, and Bidoof.

Two days later, the journey began. Bidoof bragged that we'd have trouble keeping up, however we were his level x2 at this point in time. Everything went perfectly fine in Craggy Coast. We didn't run into a lot of Rabid Pokemon, and I found a treasure box. Oddly, Kiara said we should leave it. I decided to take it with us anyway, probably because Xatu has to open it. After that, we moved on to Mount Horn. We camped out in front of Mount Horn for the night and first thing we did the next morning was challenge it.

Except for a few scares, Mount Horn was rather uneventful, more or less a slightly challenging Craggy Coast. Foggy Forest wasn't that bad either. It was just very hard to see. but sure enough, we escaped the fog and arrived at basecamp.

"And thus, the montage ended." The author said, appearing and disappearing as suddenly as before.

Regular Time

Rook's POV

"Your'e Late." Chatot said, scowling at us. I turned, staring Wide-eyed. Chatot sighed and continued. "Not that that matters much. Just head out as soon as you set up your tent among the huts of the locals and get going." We were in a slightly foggy plain, green knee length grass everywhere and small huts and tents scattered.

"Traveling with you guys sure was fun!" Bidoof said cheerily as he head off to find his partner, Sunflora.

"You too! See you around!" Kiara said. Hm? I thought, turning to see a Todoile and a Mudkip sharing stories. Oh, those must be- I gasped, looking at a sight to behold.

"A SHINY EEVEE!" I gasped. I was just a regular Eevee, so that added even more shock. I grabbed Kiara's head. "THAT'S LIKE, SO RARE I DON'T EVEN KNOW, KIARA!"

"Air." Kiara said.

"BUT IT'S A EEVEE!" I yelled. The shiny Eevee turned to see me, hearts in it's eyes. I contunued to talk. "Like me! But i'm a human and all... But what are the odds?!" The shiny Eevee walked up to me.

"Hey, beautiful." He said. "Can I Raichu a love song?" His parter, a Bayleef looked at the shiny Eevee, annoyed.

"Moment over." I said, face-palming. I let go of Kiara, who collapsed on the ground, gasping 'Air!' I didn't notice Chimecho until he touched me on the spine and I spun around, shocked.

"hey guys!" Chimecho said. "You missed the lore of the area, didn't you?"

"Yeah, we were a little late." Kiara said, recovering.

"Yeah, there's a story about a Uxie you might live here that guards Fogbound Lake. it's said that she can wipe memories." Chimecho said.

"Uxie?" I asked, curious.

"Mmm." Chimecho hummed. "It's said to be the Widsom lake guardian. Supposedly it can wipe the memories of anyone who sees it."

Wipe memories.. I thought, shocked before being easily distracted by Kiara.

"Hey, Rook! Lookit!" Kiara said. She was holding a red slightly glowing gem in her mouth. "It's so hard to talk.."

"Woah! Cool!" Chimecho said, holding his stubby arms/hands to his cheeks.

"It's warm and shiny." Kiara said. She was waggling her 6 tails very quickly.

"Ha, when you do that, you look like your evolution." I said. I had learnt while I was hospitalized the names and evolutions of pokemon. But secretly, I was thinking, What if Uxie wiped mine..

"At this rate, you'll find Fogbound Lake in no time!" Chimecho said. Kiara took the gem out of her mouth and had to sit down. "Good luck!"

"Thanks." Kiara said. She handed the gem to me. "Can you put this in the bag?"

"Sure." I said. "Kiara, did you-" I was cut off.

"This is so thrilling! We already found something!" Kiara said, grinning.

"It's too red to be a Fire Stone." I thought as I stuffed it into the bag.

"Kiara."

"The weird part is, it's so warm!"

"Kiara!" I said, finally getting her attention. She fell silent and looked at me, nodding. "Chimecho said Uxie can erase memories. What if it erased mine?"

"Wht?!" Kiara said. "We have to find Uxie! We have to find out who you used to be.." She stood up frantically.

"Yeah... who I used to be." I muttered. We left base camp and went to the path ahead.

"Are you okay? You don't look so good." Kiara said. She was probably right, I felt terrible.

"I'm just wondering... what if I was evil... like a murderer?" I said.

"Why would you think that?" Kiara said. "You are good now, so you must have been good then!"

"It's just that... sometimes at night I have flashbacks." I said, staring at the ground. "There's always blood.. and a feeling of guilt. I didn't tell you because you'd be scared... I don't think it's nothing, it feels meaningful, in a way."

"Maybe someone close to you died." Kiara said. "That's bad too, but better than being a murderer, right?"

"I hope your'e right." I failed to notice the falling water in front of me until I fell in, Kiara following. At this moment I remembered that Kiara was a fire type.

"WHA-" Kiara excaimed. She quickly jumped out of the water and onto the other side.

Wait... I thought. Waterfall + Water = Lake Objective: Find fogbound lake Lake = Lake Therefore... "Wait! Kiara, don't you think this is Fogbound Lake?"

"Haha!" A voice in the gathering fog yelled. I growled, not able to see who that pokemon was. "Just ponds formed by waterfalls."

"Who's there?!" I called out.

"You are Kiara and Rook, right?" The voice said. "It's me, Corphish, hey hey! You gotta see this!"

"Come on!" I said to Kiara and we followed the sound of Corphish's voice through the fog. Finally, we found him and a huge statue with a hole in it's heart.

"Hey, hey!" Corphish said. "What do you make of this, huh?"

"Woah..." Kiara gasped.

"Holy shit..."

Chapter End

So yeah, I once again many apologies for the mean-sounding thing on the cover.. I'll remove it once I get a flame, k? Also, sorry bout the cliffhanger. But i'll update ASAP.