Hello everyone before we start. I would like to thank all of you for liking and favoriting this story. If I'm being totally honest I had doubts about how this story would be good, but now I see that you all like this story. So I decided to make a new Pokemon x tales story. I call it A Trainer Journeys In Grace it will be a Pokemon crossover with Tales of Grace F. This story will follow a new Pokemon trainer from the Hoenn region and you'll learn more about him later when I post the story.
And the order of what I write will be, Trainer of Vesperia first, A Trainer Journeys In Grace second, and The Legend Of Korra And The Forgotten Trainers last. Then after The Legend Of Korra And The Forgotten Trainers I restart the cycle and do it all over again. Now onto chapter 18.
Chapter 18
A Day At In Oasis
Oliver P.O.V.
We made it to the town after walking for the foothills for an hour while Rita was complaining every step of the way. The town was full of knights and it was quiet, almost too quiet. I didn't like it. "Seems like a pretty sleepy town." Yuri said to everyone. "Well in this heat." Rita said to Yuri. "I don't think that's the reason Rita. I mean look around, something not right here." I said to everyone. "Maybe it's just the knights. I mean they are all over the place." Karol said to me. "But I don't recall seeing such intimidating people here the last time I came here." Juith said to me.
"Well now my suspicions meter started to go into the red." I said to everyone. "All right. I'm off to search for clues about the treasure. Bye-bye for now." Patty said to us. "You're leaving?" Karol asked Patty. "Oh ho. So you want me to stay a little longer. Eh?" Patty asked Karol. "Well yeah friends should travel together." Hugo said to Patty. "Well. it's been fun 'n' all, but I'm sure Patty's got things she needs to take care of." Raven said to Hugo. "Then I guess it's time for me to be off." Patty said to us. "You don't have to go Patty, you can stay with us." Hugo said to Patty.
"But I have to go." Patty said to us. "Then be careful out there." Judith said to Patty. "And take care of Cramerant and Slowpoke." Ava said to Patty. "Ok bye." Patty said to us before running away. "All right shall we each go our own way for now?" Yuri said to everyone. "I'm for that. Before I do anything. I want to give these feet a rest." Rita said to Yuri. "Okay then let's meet up in front of the inn after sunset." Yuri said to everyone.
"Okay. See you then." Judith said to us. "Oliver, can I have that box?" Rita asked me. "Sure." I said, pulling the box out of my bag. I then gave Rita the box and everyone started to leave. The only ones left who were me, Yuri, Ava, Raven, Repede, Bisharp, Shuppet, Drilbur, and Stableye "No easy things lookin' out for everybody else." Raven said to me and Yuri. "Well. I think we all could use a little time to think things over." Yuri said to Raven. "The last few days have been crazy. We all need time to think." I said to Raven. "Hah hah hah. The kids are alright." Raven said as he, Drilbur and Stableye started to walk away.
"You don't mind if I go with you five?" Ava asked me, Yuri, Bisharp, Shuppet and Repede. "I don't mind." Yuri said to us. "Then let's go get some rooms for tonight before we do anything." I said to everyone. "Ok then let's go." Yuri said as we headed to the inn. When we got there we saw Rita, Duosion, and Metang playing around with the box. We decided to talk to her. "Are you trying to open that box?" Ava asked Rita. "You can't open that without a key." Yuri said to Rita. "I know." Rita said to Yuri while she kept staring at the box.
"Ok Rita what's on your mind?" I asked Rita. "Are you really going to return it?" Yuri asked Rita. "Yes, I am. You got a problem with that?" Rita said to us, finally looking at us. "Nope." Yuri said to Rita. "But you want to know what's the deal with this box." Ava said as we all took a set next to Rita. "You saw what happened in Nordopolica. This thing made it so I couldn't control my magic. The clear ciel crystal inside this box interferes with aer somehow." Rita said to us. "Interferes with aer? How could a tiny box like this do something like that?" Yuri said to Rita.
"I don't think it's the box, remember I head to things in there so maybe one of them is messing with the aer." I said to everyone. "I don't know. That's why I wish I could open this box somehow." Rita said to us. "We could smash it open." Ava said to Rita. "Ava, that's a bad idea we could smash the items. Even Rita's not that reckless." I said to Ava. "No I am. I tried to cast a spell on it and have Metang break it open, but nothings working." Rita said to us. "Rita." I said as I lowered my head.
"There's a good chance that we'd be able to find a key for the box in Yormgen." Yuri said to Rita. "That's if Yormgen is still standing and the key hasn't rusted into dust. Remember Yormgen was having problems when they ship left to find the clear ciel crystal and that ship has been out at sea for over 1000 years." I said to Yrui. "Far point." Yuri said to me. "For me, this doesn't have anything to do with Estelle wanting to return it anymore." Rita said to us.
"So then you're going to look for the town of Yormgen that was mentioned in that diary?" Yuri asked Rita. "Yes. If I can." Rita said to us. "If you can?" Yuri asked Rita. "What do you mean Rita?" Ava asked Rita. "I can't leave Estelle behind." Rita said to us. "Sure you can, if you want to." Yuri said to Rita. "I'd like to leave her behind. But… I can't." Rita said to us. Yuri didn't say anything but me and Ava looked at each other and knew what was going on.
"I've never had a problem like this before? Why?" Rita asked us. "Because you care about Estelle. She is your friend. Rita when I first met you only cared about blastia and nothing else. Now you have a real friend and you care about her." I said placing my hand on Rita's shoulder. "She couldn't be serious about going alone into the desert. Could she?" Rita asked us. "Maybe. She cares about all of us and she doesn't want us to get hurt by her choices." I said to Rita. "Then how can I stop her?" Rita asked me. "That is something only you can answer Rita." I said to Rita before we left her.
Ava was the one to book the rooms for tonight and we walked outside to see Karol and Mawile laying on Skiddo in the shade. "Hey Karol how's it going?" I asked Karol. "I feel like my world is crashing down around me. I can't believe Ruins' Gate was secretly selling weapons. And that they were smuggling them illegally out of ruins." Karol said to us. "Sometimes you have to shadow where there's light. I guess." Yuri said to Karol. "That's so sad though." Karol said to us.
"That's that's how the world works. There will alway be people who do bad things for lots of easy money." I said to Karol. "But why are their people like that?" Karol asked me. "That's just how it is Karol sometimes it's too hard for people to ignore the darkness." Ava said to Karol. "But what would happen if I fell into darkness?" Karol asked us. "Well, you don't need to worry about those guys, just keep your life the way you know is right. And lead Brave Vesperia to victory with pride." Yuri said to Karol. "And use the eyes of others to see clearly." I said to Karol.
"Eyes of others?" Karol asked me. "It means to look at it through many eyes. Like if two guys are fighting, try and see why they're fighting from both of their eyes, only then can you find out who's really the bad guy." Yeah, you three are right!" Karol said to us. "No problem Karol." Ava said to Karol. "Anyway. We need to worry about Phaeroh for now." Karol said to us. "Yeah, we've finally made it into the desert. It feels like we're almost there." Yuri said to Karol.
"Hey, once we're done with this commission you think we could go back to Dahngrest for a bit." Karol asked us. "Hmm… let's wait until we've wrapped up our current job to talk about that." Yuri said to Karol. "Yeah one step at a time Karol." Ava said to Karol. "Oh, y-yeah sure." Karol said to us. "Bye Karol see you later." I said to Karol before we all started to walk, leaving Karol, Mawile, and Skiddo.
Later we found Raven, Drilbur, and Stableye seating in front of a store. "Hey old man, sorry to have dragged you all the way out here." Yuri said to Raven. Raven just turned to him with a worry look on his face. "Whoa what's with that face?" Yuri asked Raven. "Maybe he's finally lost it?" I said to yuri. "No hearing Yuri apologize like that puts me a little bit on edge, is all." Raven said to us. "I mean, you still have to deliver that letter to Belius right?" Yuri asked Raven. "Yeah, but if I can't see her until the new moon. Then that's that. Aint it? Till then. I'm at the mercy of the princess's whims." Raven said to us.
"But that's only six days aways." Ava said to Raven. "I'll make it there on time." Raven said to Ava. "Well well. Aren't you easygoing. You sure about that? If we spend too long out here and you miss the new moon. The Don'll yell at you for sure." Yuri said to Raven. "I can just imagine it. "Raven, you have failed me again so you must run around the city 100 times." and then you die during the run." Ava said to Raven, impersonating The Don making us all laugh.
"You know I'm used to being yelled at, but now I'm scared. But I'm sure The Don will understand if I can only see her on a new moon. So I'm sure I can wait for the next new moon if I miss it. It ain't like we're gonna run out of new moons anytime soon." Raven said to us. "You certainly sound patient. You sure about this?" Yuri asked Raven. "Yeah sometime you do need to be somewhere asp." I said to Raven.
"Of course. Patience is something you'll learn with age." Raven said to try to act wise. "Ugh I swear." Yuri said to Raven. "Well making the right decisions is part of being an adult too. I'll leave as soon as I feel like I have to. Anyway let me travel with you kids for a while longer." Raven said to us. "I vote we leave him." I said to Yuri and Ava. "I second it." Ava said to me. "Third it." Yuri said to me. "We there you have it Raven you have been kicked out." I said to Raven. "Oh come on let me come with you." Raven asked us.
"I don't know, we have panity of friends and dragging an old man around might be too much trouble." Ava said to Raven. "Come on how can you say no to these eyes." Raven said to us while giving us a tearable looking puppy dog eye. "You know we were just joking but now I think we should kick you out." Ava said to Revan. "Please don't." Raven said to us. "Fine you can stay, but never make that face again." I said to Raven as we started to walk away. "Deal." Raven said before we were out of ear shot.
Soon we ran into Judith and Vibrava. "Oh where are you five off two?" Judith asked us. "Nowhere in particular. Just going on a walk. What about you? Where were you going?" Yuri said to Judith. "I just wanted to get a look at the desert terrain we were going to be headied into next." Judith said to us. "It's good to be prepared. So, how was it?" Yuri asked Judith. "Wait let me guess. It's hot, there's no wind, there's no clouds, and a whole lot of sand." Ava said to Judith. "She's right." Judith said to us. "Well I assumed as much." Yuri said to us.
"But it wasn't as hot as I thought it'd be." Judith said to us. "So it's not blazing hot it's just hot." I said to Judith. "Yeap." Judith said to me. "Hmmm.. well okay. But what I wanted to know was if Phaeroh is out there." Yuri asked Judith. "Right… that'd be nice." Judith said to us. "But it's never that easy." I said to everyone. "Your right I guess we couldn't expect him to be that easy to find." Yuri said to us. Then we all looked at Yuri.
"What?" Yuri asked us. "You want to go out and check for yourself?" Judith said to Yuri. "No that's okay. If we head out to look for him we should do it together." Yuri said to us. "Good, we already have one person who's thinking about going awal. We don't need another." I said to Yuri. "He's right." Judith said to us before she and Vibrava walked away.
Then we walked to the lake where we found Estelle who was watching Togetic and Audino playing in the water. "Yuri, Oliver, Lily," Estelle said with a sad look on her face as she noticed us. "Hey why the long face?" Yuri asked Estelle. "Yeah what's wrong?" I asked Estelle. "Is the desert really as dangerous as they say?" Estelle asked us. "I don't think Rita'd joke around with such a serious look on her face." Yuri said to Estelle. "Yeah. I guess not." Estelle said to us as she had a sad look on her face. "Plus I don't think Rita even knows how to joke." Ava said to us.
"True, but from the deserts we cross it could go one of two ways. One it is a never ending sandstorm and will never be able to tell what is right or left. Or two, a place where there's nothing but sand and heat for miles around." I said to Estelle while closing my eyes remembering all the time we cross the deserts back home. "Not helping Oliver." Ava whispered to me. Then I open my eyes to see Estelle with an even worse look on her face.
"I've dragged all of you all the way out here." Estelle said to us. "You didn't dragge us here Estelle." I said to Estelle. "He's right you should stop worrying about all of us." Yuri said to Estelle. "Huh?" Estelle said to us. "I mean. We've just done what we feel like doing." Yuri said to Estelle. "Yeah Estelle we want to be here." I said to Estelle. "But what about you? What do YOU want to do?" Yuri asked Estelle. "Me...? I...?" Estelle tried to say something but she couldn't say anything.
"You were saying that you need to figure out who you are. Weren't you?" Yuri said to Estelle. "Yes that's true but." Estelle said to us. "But what Estelle?" I asked Estelle. "Estelle, you're Brave Vesperia's client. If you tell us to go somewhere we'll go there. And if you tell us to go for you, we'll find Phaeroh and drag him back here." Yuri said to Estelle. "Yuri." Estelle said to Yuri. "But you're also our friend Estelle which means, we have your back and will be there with you when you need us." I said to Estelle.
"Oliver. Then I..." Estelle said to us but again she could finish her thought. "There's no need to rush to give us an answer. Take your time." Yuri said to Estelle. "Yeah we have time just think it over." Ava said to Estelle before we started to walk away. We then walked through the city until we found Patty, Slowpoke, Cramerant standing in an ally behind some buildings.
"Huh? You're still here?" Yuri asked Patty. "And why are you here?" I asked Patty. "What? Were you feelin' lonely and came to find me?" Patty said to me. "No no no I was just walking around town with Yuri, Ava, Repede, Shuppet, and Bisharp." I said to Patty trying to stop her before she made Ava mad at me and she buried me alive. "You didn't answer his question. why are you here?" Ava asked Patty not sounding the least bit mad. "I'm waiting for someone." Patty said to us. "Who?" Yuri asked Patty.
"Ah there you are." Patty said as we turned to see a man walking towards us. "Who are you three?" The man asked me, Ava, and Yuri. "Uh. just an acquaintance of hers." Yuri said to the man. "Well whatever." The man said not looking at us. "Rude." Ava whispered to me. "I got the info about the Maris Stella that you wanted." the man said, giving Patty some papers. "I appreciate that." Patty said, taking the papers.
But before she could get them the man pulled them back. "But first, is it true that you're Aifread's granddaughter?" The man asked Patty. "Huh?" Patty asked the man. "It's a rumor I heard. Is it true?" the man said to Patty. Patty didn't say anything. "So it is true." The man said to Patty. Patty still didn't say anything. "If that's the case. Then I can't give this to you. If it gets out that I did business with the granddaughter of a guy who broke the guild's rules, no one'll trust me." The man said to Patty.
"Aifread is..." Patty said but was interrupted by the man. "I don't know about you, but those of us who live in the world of the guilds. Aifread is the most unforgivable. I can't afford to be involved with someone going around claiming to be one of his relatives. So don't show your face in front of any of us ever again." The man said to Patt. I then turned to Ava and I could see it in her eyes. We both had enough.
Me and Ava then grabbed the man by the back of his shirt and picked him up and threw him over our heads making him drop his papers and threw him on to the ground in front of us. "How do you think you are?" The man asked us. "I'm Ava Ruby. I work for The Don." Ava said to the man while picking up the papers. "LADY AVA WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!" The man yelled, freaking out. "I was here with my friends, and I just saw you pick on a little girl." Ava said looking at the papers. "But lady Ava is the granddaughter of Aifread, she is a monster just like her grandfather." The man said to Ava.
"The only monster I see here is you, Patty hasn't done anything wrong and she's not Aifread. Now as for you after what I just saw. Me and The Don are going to have a nice long chat with World's Cellar about guild members' manners." Ava said to the man. "No please don't." The man asked Ava. "Ok then we won't, but if I hear that you or any of your guild members are mean to Patty again. Then I will personally destroy the World's Cellar guild." Ava said to the man.
"You can't do that?" The man said to Ava. "Yes I can." Ava said, handing me the papers before picking the man up. "Now I want you to leave and tell everyone that Patty the granddaughter of Aifread is under my protection and if any guild members try to hurt her or band her from their stores I will destroy their guilds and everything they have is that clear." Ava said to the man. The man just shook his head. "Good now get lost." Ava said, throwing the man a good few feet away from them. Then the man got up and ran away as fast as he could. "You know it's times like these that make me remember why I need to stay on your good side." Yuri said to Ava.
"Here's your papers Patty." I said handing the papers to Patty. Patty didn't say anything when she took the papers from me. "So you just take it all in silence huh?" Yuri asked Patty. "I just don't know. Whether he's actually my grandfather and what actually happened in that massacre. I don't know what's true and what's a lie. Whether he was a villain or a saint. All I know is that my grandfather was very important to me. That is why I can neither admit nor deny what people say." Patty said to us.
"So you don't even know who you are yourself, huh?" Yuri asked Patty. "I'm me. I know that much at least." Patty said to Yuri. "Then wasn't there something you could have said?" Yuri asked Patty. "It's okay. I'm used to people saying all sorts of things about my grandfather. I don't care about any of that nonsense. I'll just keep searching for treasure in my own way." Patty said to us.
"You're putting on a pretty tough act. You better not start crying once you're all on your own." Yuri said to patty. "But you need a shoulder to cry on you can ask me." Ava said to Patty. "I'm good after all. What good would crying get me? You see, my motto is no matter how tough the situation is. Cryin' gets you nowhere." Patty said to us. "But no matter how tough you are Patty. It's not healthy to bottle it up. You need to let it out before it becomes too much to bear." I said to Patty.
"Just let her go Oliver. She doesn't want to talk about it." Yuri said to me. "Correct thanks for the clues bye." Patty said as she left us. "You know the more I learn about her the more worry." Ava said to me. "Me two." I said to Ava. "Come on let's go." Yuri said to us. Then we walked and we heard Hugo talking to someone. "Things are going well, but I worry we're rushing it." Hugo said to someone.
We then found Hugo talking to a tree. "Are you talking to a tree?" Yuri said to Hugo making Hugo notice us. "Sorry I was just thinking out loud." Hugo said to us. "So what are you rushing Hugo?" Yuri asked Hugo. "Oh ah I was worried we were rushing things. I mean we only have a few days until we can meet Belius and now Estelle wants to start searching the desert which could take us a long time." Hugo said to us. "You shouldn't worry about that Hugo." Yuri said to Hugo.
"Your right well bye see you later." Hugo said walking away as fast as he could. "That was weird." Ava said to me. "Yeah I wonder what's going on. Hugo never acted like this before?" I said to Ava. "Maybe work for Belius changed him. I mean you saw him fight earlier, he was good." Ava said to me. "Yeah, but I know Hugo. And he's hiding something. I just don't know what." I said to Ava. "I'm sure he's not hiding anything Oliver." Ava said to me as everyone but started to walk. "I hope you're right." I said as before I started to follow them.
Later that day everyone, but Estelle, Togetic, and Audino, was outside the inn. A few minutes later Estelle, Togetic, and Audino showed up and walked to us. "Karol this is for you." Estelle said to Karol while holding a back of money. "Huh? What's going on. Estelle? What's this?" Karol asked Estelle. "This is payment for your services. I'm sure you'll be able to sell it for quite a sum. I want to thank you all for everything you've done." Estelle said to us.
"Huh? What do you mean? You haven't found what you're looking for yet." Karol asked Estelle. "I'm afraid I must take my leave from you here." Estelle said to us. Then we all looked at each other. "Take your leave? What are you gonna do?" Rita asked Estelle as we all turned to Estelle. "You're not thinking of going with just Togetic and Audino are you?" Yuri asked Estelle. "No, I want Oliver to look after Togeitc and Audino for a while." Estelle said to us. "WHAT? WHY?" I yelled at Estelle.
"My desire to meet Phaeroh is a personal one." Estelle said to us. "Are you crazy? That's way too dangerous!" Karol said to Estelle. "Which is why I must go alone." Estelle said to Karol. "But why?" I asked Estelle. "I won't have the rest of you caught up any further in my own selfish quest." Estelle said to us. "Do justice and punish the unjust." Yuri said to us. Then we all turned to Yuri.
"Huh? Oh. right. That's one of the laws of our guild." Karol said to Yuri. "There's no justice in letting Estelle march into the heart of the desert all by herself." Judith said to us. "Yeah what kind of guild would you be if you don't finish what you started." Ava said to us. "I don't think I have it in me to break our laws. How 'bout you two. Karol? Oliver?" Yuri asked me and Karol. "Right!" Karol said to Yuri, making Estelle surprised. "There our laws and we have to live with them, so we can't break them." I said to Yuri.
"It seems those are the rules." Yuri said to Estelle. "I'm terribly flattered, really, but I'm afraid I can't let you." Estelle said to us before she turned her head away from us. "Estelle, wait! Have you all lost your marbles? We're talking about a force of nature here!" Rita said to all of us. "Which is why we're all going together." Yuri said to Rita. "Yeah when humans and Pokemon work together nothing can stop them." I said to Rita. "I'll admit I'm a little scared, but I can't just let Estelle go off like that." Karol said to Rita.
"You! You talk some sense into them." Rita said to Raven and Hugo. "If I start whining now. I'll have go all the way back ta Nordopolica by myself, Right? That's no fun." Raven said Rita. "And their minds are made up. So you can't stop them." Hugo said to Rita. "Ooh! There's no reasoning with any of you." Rita said to us. "Rita we're doing this whether you like it or not." I said to Rita. "Are you sure you're dead set on this?" Rita asked Estelle.
"Yes. I've thought a lot about this. You all have something that's important to you. A goal you give everything to achieve. I realized that I didn't have anything like that for myself. And I knew I had to find a purpose of my own, something I can dedicate myself to. I made the decision to begin this journey, and I have to finish what I've started. This… this is something I have to do for myself." Estelle said to us. "Okay okay, you win. So we'll be aiming for the desert's center." Rita said in defeat. "That's the spirit Rita." I said to RIta. "Hey, I tried talking sense into you idiots." Rita said to us. "Whatever you say Rita." I said to Rita.
"Rita." Estelle said to Rita. "There's actually no need for you to come, Rita. you've got your aer krene research to worry about, don't you?" Yuri said to Rita. "Yeah if you don't want to come then you don't have to. This is Brave Vesperia business." Ava said to Rita. "There's no telling what you idiots will get into if I don't keep an eye on you. The aer krene isn't going anywhere. I'll go check up on it later. But! We're not leaving until we've taken care of all our preparations." Rita said to us. "I'm sorry to be such an inconvenience to you all." Estelle said to us.
"Don't apologize Estelle we're all here for you." I said to Estelle. "I think we had a pretty good idea things would turn out like this from the start." Yuri said to us. "Yeah." Karol said to us. "To be honest I suspected this would happen." I said to Yuri. "Thank you!" Estelle said to us while bowing. "Huh? Where's Judith and Vibrava?" Karol asked us. Then we notice Judith and Vibrava are missing. Then Judth and Vibrava walked out of the Inn. "Everything is settled." Judith said to us.
"Yeah." Rita said to Judith. "Well, what did you decide?" Judith asked us. "We're going to the center of the desert." Estelle said Judith. "I had a feeling, so I've made some arrangements. The innkeeper has agreed to help us." Judith said to us. "We'll wanna be good and rested before we leave this town behind that's for sure." Raven said to us. "You're always thinking about your next nap, aren't you?" Rita said to Raven. "Yeah, but I sleep so much better if I have a little company." Raven said to Rita who then stepped on his foot.
"Well good news I booked us a room earlier so we're good, but after that comment Raven you can stay outside." Ava said everyone. "Why, are you all so mean to me?" Raven asked us. "Because you're you." I said to Raven before we started to walk to the Inn. On the way to the Inn I heard Judith say. "I wonder what Phaeroh will do." and I was wondering, the same thing Phaeroh didn't leave Dahngrest with a Good mode.
Soon we walked into the Inn. "Hello. Welcome to the desert oasis Mantic." The innkeeper said to us, as we walked to the front desk. "Hey I booked a room here earlier." Ava said to the innkeeper. "Aw yes your room is ready." The innkeeper said to us. "What's with this knight?" Rita asked the innkeeper. "Well ummm." The innkeeper tried to say to us, but stopped when he looked at the knight. "So, so what brings you to our town?" The innkeeper asked us. "Yeah. We're going into the desert. So we came into town to gather provisions and get some rest first." Yuri said to the innkeeper.
"Oh so it's you who wanted provisions for going into the desert. You know it's..." The innkeeper said to us, but was interrupted by Yuri. "We know it's dangerous." Yuri said to The innkeeper. "Oh I see. In that case I'll get your provisions together before you set out." The innkeeper said to us. "Thank you, let's go to our room guys." Ava said, leading us to a room. Soon we found ourselves in a big room with enough beds and space for everyone. "Wow this room is big." Karol said as he entered the room.
"Are we all sleeping here?" Rita asked Ava. "Yeah I thought we could all sleep together tonight." Ava said to everyone but that's raised a red flag to me. "Cool I call this bed." Raven said as he jumped onto one of those beds. Soon everyone started to get ready for bed. "Ava can I have a word with you outside." I said to Ava. "Sure." Ava said to me. Then we walked out and went to the oasis.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Ava asked me. "Why did you book only one room?" I asked Ava. "I just wanted all of us to share a room together. Is something wrong with that?" Ava asked me. "Yes. One you hate me. And two you always book two rooms one for the boys and boy Pokemons, and one for the girls and the girl Pokemons. So why did you book one room?" I asked Ava. "I just did, why is that a problem?" Ava said, turning away from me. "Ava if somethings wrong please tell me." I said grabbing Ava's hand. Then I felt Ava tighten her grip around my hand.
"Ok I book one room because I'm worried." Ava said to me, still not looking at me. "Worried? Worried about what?" I asked Ava. "I'm worried about you." Ava said, finally turning to me. "What?" I asked Ava. "I didn't come because of Estelle. After Yveltal destroyed Heracles I followed Alexei into Heracles and I overheard him. He said that he wanted you, but I don't know what for. After that I ran after you and now we're in a city where there's a knight every ten steps." Ava said to me. "Ava thank you." I said to Ava surprising her. "What?" Ava asked me. "Thank you for telling me about Alexei. And thank you for looking out for me." I said to Ava.
"Why are you thanking me I have fired arrows at you and through you off the ship?" Ava asked me. "Ava I'm not mad at you for doing those things to me, I kind of deserve that. But I am thankful for having my back again." I said to Ava. Ava didn't say anything she just stared at me. Then the light from the water reflected onto us and we both started to shine. We just stood there for a few minutes just looking at each other.
"We should go back to the others." Ava said to me breaking the silence. "Right let's go." I said to Ava. then we noticed that we were still holding hands. We then broke away and walked back to the inn.
Later that night we all were on beds talking. "All these knights stick out like sore thumbs." Karol said to us. "Yeah I wonder why there's so many knights here?" I said to everyone. Anyway, time ta get some sleep! Sleepy times!" Raven said to us. "But man. I just can't relax with a knight standing out at the entrance." Karol said to us. "It bothers you?" Estelle asked Karol. "Yeah, it does." Karol said to Estelle. "If they're here ta protect us, there ain't nothin' wrong with that, is there?" Raven said to us. "Somehow I doubt that's why they're here." I said to Raven. "All right everyone, let's get some sleep." Yuir said to us. "Good night everyone." I said before we all fell asleep.
The next morning we all went to the front desk together to get our supplies. "Yeah, thanks for the help." Yuri said the innkeeper. "Umm… I don't know your reasons for going out into the desert but, it would really be a good idea for you to stay in town." The innkeeper said to us. "Thanks, but we've already put a lot of thought into it." Yuri said to the innkeeper. "Yeah this one has been saying that this is a bad idea every step of the way to this town." I said to the innkeeper while pointing to Rita. "Hey." Rita said to me. "I see. Well, as I promised." The innkeeper said handing us a box of food and a box of Canteens.
"Our canteens are this small?!" Karol said, pulling out one of the canteens. "Looks like enough to me." Rita said, pulling out a canteen. "Yeah we should be able to get more water from certain types of cacti growing in the desert." Judith said to us. "Right, if we use them to fill up our canteens whenever we need more water, we should be fine. You sure know a lot." Rita said to Judith. "Thank you very much. You've been a great help." Estelle said to the innkeeper.
"It's the least I could do. I'm giving that to you, so don't hesitate to use it as much as you like. Go out and turn right where the road forks. You'll find a lake at the end of the road. You'll be able to fill up your canteens there." The innkeeper said to us. "Gotcha." Yuri said the innkeeper. "And again thank you." I said to the innkeeper. "By the way. What was with the knight who was here?" Rita asked the innkeeper. "He was guarding me all night. I was so nervous!" Raven said to the innkeeper.
"One lie after another." Karol said to Raven. "Sometimes I wonder if Raven can tell the truth." Ava said to Karol. "That was a supervisor. The knights are here to make sure that townspeople don't talk freely to visitors from outside of town." The innkeeper said to us. "Why would they do something like that?" Estelle asked the innkeeper. "I don't understand the reasons. But it's on the magistrate's orders. People other than merchants like myself aren't allowed out of their houses." The innkeeper said to us.
"I see. That's why we didn't see any townspeople outside." Yuri said to me. "And why the town is so quiet." I said to Yuri. "I wonder if there's a crooked magistrate here too." Karol asked the innkeeper. "There was no magistrate in this town until recently, and then finally he arrived." The innkeeper said to us. "Really." Estelle said to the innkeeper. "Wait? No it can't be?" I said out loud. "What is it Oliver. "Cumore." I said to everyone. "Wait? What?" Karol asked me. "Remember we heard that he was heading here. Then this town suddenly got a magistrate that's using brute force to lock people up in their home. Doesn't that sound like how Cumore was treating the people in Heliord." I said to everyone.
"That's not all the Imperial Knights have started to move into Nordopolica of late." The innkeeper said to us. "That's not good. Any idea why?" Hugo asked the innkeeper. "It seems they may've already gone in to arrest Belius. The appointment of a new imperial magistrate to our town seems to be related to that, as well." The innkeeper said to us. "WHAT?!" Hugo yelled. "The Imperial Knights are going to arrest Belius?" Karol asked the innkeeper.
"They say that Belius had something to do with engineering the Great War behind the scenes." The innkeeper said to us. "THAT'S A LIE! THAT WAR WAS ENTIRELY THE KNIGHTS FAULT!" Hugo Yelled. "What do you mean?" Estelle asked Hugo. "I can't tell you everything about that war, but I can tell you while Belius was there, she was just a soldier that fought to stop the Empire." Hugo said to Estelle. "What did they do?" Rita asked Hugo. "Sorry I can't tell you. Belius made me swear to never tell anyone without her approval." Hugo said to us.
"Then we have to go back and stop them." Estelle said to us. "Hold it Estelle. The Knights might be strong, but Palestralle's is full of strong warriors and unlike the Knights they know how to fight with their Pokemon. They would need a big distraction to help them win. " Hugo said to Estelle. "How do you know this?" I asked Hugo. "I may or may not have fought a girl knight that got mad when I told Flynn to leave. I think her name was Sody or Soda. I can't remember." Hugo said to me. "Sodia, why doesn't that surprise me." I said placing my hand on my face.
"You know her?" Hugo asked me. "Yeah she a pain. But she's Flynn's right hand and real loyal to him. But she wants to lock me and Yuri, just because the Empire labeled us as criminals. Plus she is not a big fan of Pokemon." I said to Hugo. "I kind of figured that last part out myself." Hugo said to me as the knight from before finally walked in. "Thank you very much for your business!" The innkeeper said to us. "Wait but... " Karol said but I interrupted him. "And thank you for the nice room." I said to the innkeeper. "Yeah, thanks for the help." Yuri said to the innkeeper.
"Until next time." Ava said to the innkeeper. "Let's go fill up at the lake." Yuri said as we made our way to the lake. It took us some time to fill up the canteens. "We've filled up our water. I think we're ready to go." Karol said as we finished filling up the last of the canteens. "Right." Estelle said to Karol. "And me, Hugo, and Oliver will carry the water for the Pokemon in our bags, so we don't fall behind." Ava said everyone. "Ok let's go." I said to everyone.
"Stop it! Let go!" A girl yelled. Then I turned my head to see two Knights picking on a little boy and girl. Next to the kids were two small little hippo creatures with three holes on them two on their noses and one on their backs, the only difference was that they had opposite color patterns on them. One was tan with brown spots, and the other was brown with tan spots. "Bad boys and girls that break curfew must be punished by the magistrate! The knights said to the kids. "Hippopotas." The tan hippo said to the Knights.
"No way we're going to look for Mommy and Daddy!" The boy said to the Knights. "Noivern protects those kids." Hugo said, throwing a Pokeball. Then a giant black bat, with shrap red claws, with yellow eyes, and some white fur around its neck landed right in front of the kids. "NOIVERN!" Noivern roared at them. "What the? What is this thing?" One of the knights said as they shook in fear. "Leave now or else you will be his breakfast." Hugo said holding his blades at the necks of the two Knights. "Noivern!" Noivern said looking at them with a mean look in his eyes. "AAAAAAH!" The two Knights creamed as they ran away in fear.
"Great job Noivern." Hugo said petting Noiverns head. "Noivern." Noivern said liking the pets. "You didn't have to do that Hugo." Estelle said to Hugo. "I'm sure Noivern would disagree with you on that." Hugo said to Estelle. "Noivern?" Estelle said looking him up.
Noivern
The Sound Wave Pokemon
Dragon / Flying
Flying through the darkness, it weakens enemies with ultrasonic waves that could crush stone. Its fang finishes the fight.
"Sounds like bad Pokemon." Estelle said to Hugo. "Well he's not, he's a big softy, the only thing that makes him mad is if you pick on kids or little Pokemon." Hugo said to Estelle. "Thanks for saving us from those bad guys!" The boy said to Hugo and Noivern. "No problem." Hugo said to the boy. "What are your names?" Estelle asked the kids, as she sat down to meet them at eye level. "My name is Alha! My Sister's Layla. And these are our Pokemon Hippopotas." the boy said to us. "Hippopotas"
Hippopotas
The Hippo Pokemon
Ground
This Pokemon is active during the day and passes the cold desert nights burrowed snugly into the sand.
"But why do they look so different?" Karol asked me. "Because one's a boy and one's a girl." I said Karol. "How do you know that?" Rita asked me. "Some Pokemon like my Pyroar appearances depend on where it's a boy or girl. While some Pokemon have different color patterns or small differences depending if their a boy or a girl like Hippopotas. Others like Hugo's Gallade can only be one gender, or can only evolve if they're a certain gender. Again like Hugo's Gallade only a male Ralts with a certain stone can evolve into a Gallade." I said to everyone.
"So what happened to you mom and dad?" Judith asked Piha and Layla. "They got taken into the desert in the magistrate's big wagon! Someone told me they're going to look for Phaeroh!" Alph said to us, surprising all of us. "Phaeroh?" Estelle said to us. "Yeah." Yuri said to Estelle. "But what d'ya think they're plannin' on doin' once they find 'im?" Raven asked us. "They probably want to kill him." I said Raven. "And using the townspeople to do their dirty work? It's despicable!" Karol said to us.
"That does sound like something Cumore would do." I said to Karol. "Hey. big bro are we going to go looking for Mommy and Daddy?" Layla asked Alph. "Hippopotas." The brown Hippopotas said to Alph. "No, you're not. If you kids go into the desert you'll die for sure." Judith said to the kids. "Ack!" Alph said to Judith. "Yes you two are too young to travel into the desert." Ava said to the kids. "Judith! Ava!" Estelle said to them. "We'll look for your parents. You kids can't go out into the desert." Judith said to the kids. "Yeah we'll go and find them for you." Ava said to the kids.
"Really?" Alph said to them. "Yes we can't let two cute kids like you go out on their own isn't that right Judith." Ava said to Judith. "I don't lie. You don't mind, do you Karol?" Judith asked Karol. "Nope fine by me." Karol said to me. "You're surprisingly agreeable." Rita said to us. "His guild is guild by justice after all." Estelle said to Rita. "Thanks everyone!" Layla said to us. "Here, take this. 'Cause you're so nice!" Alph said, handing Judith a simple beaded bracelet. Then the kids and their Pokemon left.
"A beaded bracelet?" Karol said looking at it. "It's a precious treasure." Judith said to us before putting it on. "It's our reward for taking the job." Estelle said to us. "Now that we've gotten paid in advance, we've got our work cut out for us, don't we, Karol?" Yuri asid to Karol. "Yeah you're right." Karol said to Yuri. "Pyroar let's go." I said to everyone before I let Pyroar out of her Pokeball. "Why did you let her out?" Rita asked me.
"Pyraor can take the heat so she can last a bit longer than us. So she can help the search for Phaeroh and Alph and Layla's parents." I said to everyone. "Houndoom can help too." Ava said letting Houndoom out. "And Noivern you can use your sound wave to help us screech." Hugo said to Noivern. "What do you mean?" RIta asked Hugo "Noiverns can use sound waves to see things that are in the distance or things that are in the dark. So he'll be a big help in the desert." Hugo said to us. "Then let's start moving people." I said as we started to move to the desert.
After a few minutes we made it to the edge of the town where the town met the desert. "Yuri? What's the matter?" Estelle asked Yuri. "I was just thinking about what Cumore could be planning. It's so strange that he'd be looking for Phaeroh." Yuri said to us. "I'm wondering the same thing. Though I guess it'd make sense if the Empire wanted to eliminate a monster that was trying to kill the princess." Yuri said to me. "But they don't know that he's after Estelle yet do they?" Rita asked me and Yuri.
"Maybe, but I feel like it's something more than that?" I said rubbing my chin. "So why are they going after him, then?" Raven asked me. "I don't know." I said to Raven. "And we still don't know why there's a curfew in the town." Judith asked me. "Cumore probably did it so he can keep everyone inside and if they leave he can send them out into the desert to do his job." I said to Judith. "Anyway, first we should go to the Sands of Kogorh." Karol said to us.
"Right we can deal with Cumore later. Judith, how far is the Sands of Kogorh from here?" I asked Judith. "Is not far about a half an hour walk from here." Judith said to me. "We should go. If we don't rescue those kids' parents soon, they'll keel over in this heat!" Raven said to us. "That's true." Estelle said to Raven. "So then to get to the middle of the desert we should go that way right?" Raven said pointing forward. "Yes I think the parents of those children were probably taken this way too." Judith said to Raven. "All right. Let's go." Yuri said to us. Then we all started to walk to the Sands of Kogorh to find Phaeroh and Alph and Layla parents. "This is going to be a very long and very hot day.'' I said to myself as the heat started to rise.
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