Hi I decided to write again so here goes and stuff

I dont own pokemon an all that kinda stuff

Chapter 18

Rook's POV

"SOON?!" I screamed, shocked. "...how long ago was that?" I asked, slowing down my voice in a attempt to calm down. I turned to Xatu "Thanks a bunch."

"Yeah..." Kiara groaned grumpily.

"Of course." Xatu chimed, bowing his head respectfully. I nodded and tugged Kiara to the guild, who was glaring at Xatu suspiciously.

"And dont worry about Kiara, your'e still super helpful!" I whispered, directed a Xatu. Kiara growled lightly at me. I sighed and prepared myself for Wigglytuff. "KIARA!" I screamed. "I TOLD YOU TO BE NICER!" I yelled after her as she broke into a run, Bubble in hot pursuit. I dont think i've ever seen that pink slug go that fast.

"Wait- Is he your dad?" Bubble asked.

"Sorta-" I said.

"NO!" Kiara screamed in protest, running faster. Bubble latched onto her tail and climbed aboard.

"I'm sorry I pushed you away, Kiara." I heard Xatu whisper. I paused just inside earshot for a second, and decided to keep going. Hanging around won't get me anywhere anymore. Catching up to Kiara and Bubble, I decided to join in.

"I think Rook is exactly right." Bubble was saying. "You should be nicer to him."

"Oh, bloody hell." Kiara muttered, just loud enough for us to hear.

"Why not?" Bubble asked, patting Kiara in a way a slug would.

"He started ignoring me first!" Kiara bared her teeth in anger.

"So you are just going to KEEP ignoring him?" I tried to reason.

"Hello." Chatot suddenly appeared in front of us. Kiara screamed.

"Ohai." I said as calmly as I could.

"...Right." Chatot gave us a stern+confused glance. "Soooo. I was just going to..." Kiara LITERALLY faceplanted into the gravel leading up to the guild, fuming. "..Will she be alright?" Chatot asked.

"Yeah." I monotoned.

"Anyway." Chatot said, casting us a You-Guys-Are-Insane look. "I was looking for you, Bubble. Stella and Cabbage came back with the Space Gear. They are waiting at the Cafè." I glanced over at the hole in the ground with a sign. suddenly...

LIGHTBULBORWHATEVERTHATIS! I thought. "Chatot... you know everything, riight?" I asked.

"Yes?" Chatot refused to make eye contact with me. Kiara finally pulled her head up from the gravel.

"Wana join us for drinks?" I asked. "We were going to ask Wigglytuff, but I figured you'd probs know!" Bubble and Kiara looked at me, wide-eyed and confused. "Do me a favor and play along." I whispered. Kiara and Bubble nodded slowly.

Timeskip

Team Sky finally got together around a large table. Cabbage clasped her hand-like things together. Chatot started to speak, "So. Now that we are together.."

"NOPE!" Cabbage shouted. "Sabishii's not here."

"We already know." Bubble said. "She was gone after you gals were gone with the wind. Clearly, she-"

I interrupted him. "Was dragged through and saved our lives at the cost of hers." that shut Bubble up from falsely accusing Sabishii.

"Oh." Cabbage murmured. Even Chatot looked sad. It seemed as if the lively cafe fell silent.

"I hate to interrupt." Chatot finally said, breaking the silence.

"Did I hear drinks?" Splinda said, coming out of nowhere, stepping on Kiara's tail.

"Gah-" Kiara coughed, clattering to the floor.

"I am so sorry!" Splinda said with a gasp.

"Don't mention it... bloody th..." Kiara murmured, her voice going under her breath.

"I could give you a free dr-" Splinda said.

"No, really." Kiara straightened up. "I'm fine."

"Here ya go!" Splinda gave her a flame gummi smoothie. Kiara nodded her thanks and reached for the smoothie, dropping a small stone on the table. Soon, everyone had gotten a smoothie for their respective type.

"Kiara.." I said, hinting at her to start talking.

So... chatot." Kiara said. "We spoke to Xatu..."

"(Actually, we were talking about..)" I whispered.

"Mmmmhmmm?" Chatot said.

"Xatu said he knew Wigglytuff had info on the hidden land." Kiara explained. "Like some kinda proof... or pattern..."

"Or inscription." Bubble butted in.

"He mentioned a 'her', too." I said. Chatot looked VEEERY surprised.

"I thought he couldn't see past..." Chatot murmured.

"He can't." Kiara said.

"Maybe... maybe he can?" Stella asked.

"He. Can't." Kiara said sternly.

"Maybe he... 'can't'..." Cabbage said, making air quotes.

"I SAID HE CAN'T!" Kiara shouted, planting her paws on the table, startling everyone. Kiara sighed and calmed down. "sorry guys..." She tried to curl up. "Sorry... Stella." Stella hissed suddenly and began attacking Kiara with rapid Wing Attacks.

"STOP!' I gasped, reaching for stella and pulling her away. Stella calmed down.

"S-sorry." Stella said. "I.. I'll be going now." She retreated up the steps of the cafe and back to the guild, leaving her sky gummi smoothie unattended. Chatot dumped it into his now empty cup.

The whole group was silent.

"I'll go, too." I vounteered, leaving before anyone could protest.

Kiara's POV

I watched Rook get up without a word. She's just going to talk to Stella. I thought, watching her go. I turned back to the group.

"I... think I should leave." Chatot said. I was going to shout something in response, but thought better of it. "Everyone's wound up." He continued in with a depressing, monotone voice. "Wigglytuff and I took a oath. We can only tell the bearer of the proof more. Sorry." He paused for a good 15 seconds. "...we could ask Her if She'll waive her terms though... Given the situation."

Cabbage glanced down at a all-too-familiar speck on that table. "Exqueeze me!" She piped up. "Whose pebble... pattern... thing is that?"

"Oh!" I explaimed. I must have dropped it when I reached for my drink. "That's my Relic Fragment- well... I don't actually know what the heck it is. I just call it that. I didn't notice I dropped it - GAH?!" I flinched as Chatot stomped onto the table. He picked up my Relic Fragment with his talons.

"This yours?" He asked.

"Yeah... May I have it back?" I asked sheepishly.

"Mmm." Chatot hummed. "This is the proof. How... shall we say, fortuitous."

"Really?" Cabbage chirped.

"Thus, Chekhov's Gun goes off." Bubble sighed.

Chatot pulled out a parchment of paper from underneath his blue-green with yellow tipped left wing. "The time gear's collection will finish in a matter of days.." He read. "I hope the Guildmaster and I can show you to the distant place known to you as the 'Hidden Land' or... as I should write, 'Hidden Lands.'" He looked up. "Looks like we're in for a maelstrom."

Unknown Timeskip

We walked solemnly long a fragile, slick cliffside from last night's rainstorm. One wrong step could send you off the cliff and flying into the drink of the dark seaside below, hitting the sharp rocks on the floor. To make it short, certain death. I chose to step carefully. Rook was with me on that. eventually, we crawled our way to a deep black, shadowy cave. Rook walked in. Naturally, I followed.

"This is it... I think." Rook said.

"I don't think so.." I whispered, peering into the unsettling dark. I could see nothing. No glowing red rabid eyes, no source of light.

"Did you see any other cave?" Rook asked, walking still forward.

"No." I said firmly to hide how scared I was. I hate the dark, I hate it, I hate it... "But... do you see Chatot? Or ANYONE for that matter?" I said. "...I don't care if it's a rabid."

Rook shook her head 'no', and we walked onwards. After a while in the gloom, I came across a stray plank of wood. I lit it on fire and it served as a torch. Then... a hope appeared. A light from above and the sound of fluttering wings! "Chatot?" I asked, squinting.

Stella flew forward from above and nearly into my face. "Sorry.." she apologized.

"Stella!" Rook chirped. "That means we are in the right cave... I think."

"Y-yeah." Stella murmured. "We were just waiting for you.. for not... too... long..." Stella's voice became inaudible. "It's not too far.." She said, letting her voice go into earshot again, turning around into the blinding light.

"(Stella seems a bit too excited for my taste...)" I whispered to Rook.

"(I think it's great.)" Rook said back. "(Must be something amazing.)" I stopped to think.

"(I suppose so...)" I said finally. We stopped talking as we continued upwards. The blinding light dulled as I got used to it. "... Well... I'm nervous." I said. "The whole world is counting on us..."

"Oh. Right." Rook said, spacing out a little.

"...but everyone is rooting for us, too.." Stella said. "...well, excluding future Dialga, and dusknoir, and those evil guys."

"But what's the pla-" I was cut off by Rook.

"So who's up ahead?" She asked.

"Lots of pokemon." Stella said vaguely and oddly.. calm. "Almost everyone... at least I believe so. There's the team, some members of the guild.. one or two extended members... and rabids."

"Uh.. plans?" I asked.

"Who don't we-" Rook began. I cut her off with a angry,

"WE'RE NOT DOING THIS AGAIN!" I sighed. Stella and Rook fell silent and looked at my blankly.

"Sorry..." Stella was back to her shy self again. Crap. I thought. "No one... no one discussed plans yet..." Stella continued.

"I should be apologizing." I said, speaking up. "I didn't mean to snap. I just... would like to know what to do.. i'm just not the leader type..." Rook scoffed and earned herself a glare.

"Well, we all would like to know too." Rook said.

"Well, you can ask now.." Stella said, gesturing ahead. "We're here."

"Woah." I said. It was a secret beach, hidden in the face of a rock. Everyone in the guild was there, including a couple stray members of the extended guild. A Lapras was talking to Wigglytuff, making sure to stay in the tide pool that had been created.

"I found them." Stella said, almost proudly. "...Guys?" Cabbage was the first one to notice.

"She found them!" Cabbage yelled. "You ALL owe me 500 Pokè!" She finished with a manic's laugh.

"Nah, we don't." Wigglytuff replied.

"Ah! The Truth Bearer Kiara appears." The Lapras spoke. I just stared into her crystal-like blue eyes in wonder. I thought there were no more Lapras? "Your Guildmates told me so much about you."

"Just... me?" I asked.

"Yes." The Lapras replied. She looked proud, and so did Rook.

"Alright..." I said, slowly approaching her. Voices from the guild cheered.

"Wow I can't believe she was chosen!"

"Me neither!"

"Go get em'!"

"Wow, you're going to be famous!"

"Thanks, everyone!" I said shyly. I felt like Stella.

"But first..." The Lapras said. "You must show me your power." She nodded at a large white symbol on the cliff face.

"So..." I said, taking out my Relic Fragment. "What do I do- WAAH?" My Relic Fragment grew white-hot and looked as if it were going to evolve it. I dropped it, hissing from the pain. The symbol on the wall glowed the same as my fragment. "Is that supposed to happen?" I asked.

"Yes." Lapras said. "It shows that you carry the proof."

Chapter End

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Oh by the way, my other favorite song is Deep Shadow. I don't know why. Just felt like putting that info out there.