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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Ventures of Beyond

CH: 6

Shiro and Marishi woke up early the next day and treated themselves to an early breakfast.

The entrance door opened and Lucario walked in "Have you prepared yourself Marishi?"

Shiro turned to his partner who was standing in an instant "Y-yes Lucario" then she blinked "Who's there?" she said looking past Lucario into the darkness of the hall.

A figure walked in and stopped beside Lucario. "Good morning, I'm Glaceon; your partner will be with me until you and Lucario return." She said in a somewhat sleepy voice. "I'm sorry if I seem a little off, I am not a big fan of early mornings." She shot Lucario an annoyed look.

She approached Shiro and examined him with great interest. "Eevee's are quite rare. I'll bet it's been a long time since you met your own kind young..."

"Shiro, my name is Shiro." He said showing only mild curiosity. "What will I be doing with you?"

"You will only be assisting me with the younger pokemon, for now. We have been preparing them for a trip into a dungeon called Shrouded Cavern and that gives you about 3 days to prepare you for the trip yourself." She smiled "Keeping the students in line and making sure that they are paying attention to me."

"I see." That doesn't sound too hard." Shiro replied. He turned to Marishi who was just leaving with Lucario. "Marishi, don't overdo it." He said.

"I won't as long as you don't over think things." She replied and waved goodbye to her partner.

*~*~*~*

Shiro and Glaceon went to the courtyard where the students were just starting to arrive.

In order of arrival it was Charmander and Houndour who appeared first. They were followed by Aron, Joltik, and Litleo. Litleo went to join her fire type friends. Noibat and Hoothoot flew overhead before deciding on places to land. Zorua seemed to appear out of nowhere but he was keeping his distance from the others not that it helped. None of them paid any attention to Shiro who settled himself behind them all where he could see them all. He had asked to be anonymous on the first day to watch how they interacted with each other and that way he could figure out a way to help.

Everyone paid attention to Glaceon when she was teaching the students about proper teamwork in taking down criminals who ran from the law. And even battle training kept them focused on their task.

Shiro joined the students during the battle training as if he were a new student in the class. Shiro made sure to hold back a lot refusing to use his newest attacks.

So when Glaceon left to take a break Shiro sat on the sidelines and watched.

Charmander and his friends surrounded the Zorua and started teasing him. When Charmander convinced the others to attack Zorua that's when Shiro had had enough.

Charmander spat an ember at Zorua but the attack hit an unintended target.

"That's enough Charmander" Shiro said calmly Zorua stood shocked into silence behind him.

"Heh, Look at this the new guys calling me out." Charmander said. "Don't you know who I am Eevee? I'm the guild masters son. That means get out of my way or be crushed."

"I don't care whose son you are Charmander I can't just watch and do nothing while you attack someone who won't fight back." Shiro said.

Charmander blinked "You have guts Eevee." He said stepping back and making a fake turn before he struck with scratch but he only hit air because Shiro dodged the attack by rolling to the side and he struck with tackle this time he didn't hold back and he sent Charmander rolling. Charmander stood up and used ember but he missed again and he was hit with a second tackle that was strong enough to force surrender.

Shiro walked back to Zorua and sat with him until Glaceon returned.

"Glaceon may I have a word with you for a moment." Shiro suggested and the two walked out of ears reach from the students. "I would like to personally train Zorua. I noticed he stands off on his own and the others treat him like he doesn't belong. If he keeps going the way he is he won't make it anywhere.

Yes I did notice that the others are advancing fairly well but he seems stuck where he is. Why don't you take him now and hopefully he will be ready by the time we go on our trip." Glaceon suggested. Shiro nodded and the two returned to the class.

"Zorua" Glaceon called. "I want you to go with Shiro from the Treasure Hunting Team Fortitude for the time being." She said.

"But Glaceon, I'm going to miss class, and I don't even know who Shiro is anyway" Zorua replied.

"Shiro is my name and don't worry about class I'll be handling that, come we are wasting time" Shiro turned and walked away catching surprised looks from the students and bounty hunter teams who had seen the fight with Charmander. 'Looks like Charmander gets away with a lot because of who his mother is. I'll probably end up seeing her later about that.'

"Where are we going?" Zorua asked.

"We are going to the Team Hall I'm staying in. It should be big enough to train in for us." Shiro said "I am going to make you stronger in 3 days."

"How are you going to do that?" Zorua asked

"The same way I trained myself when my situation was the same as yours, but with one difference and that's me."

They continued to walk for a few more minutes until they reached the Team Hall Shiro spoke. "So Zorua are you ready?"

"Call....call me Bran...and I hope I am." Bran said nervously

"OK" Shiro said as he entered the Team Hall "Bran I also want to know what you were hiding from the rest of the class when you were doing battle training. In fact I want you to hit me with it as hard as you can."

Bran opened his mouth to object but the sharp look in Shiro's eyes made him change his mind.

Shiro sealed the entrance and moved to the center of the room. "Go"

Bran focused on thoughts of the things that have been happening to him lately and pulled energy from the thoughts.

Shiro watched as the area around Bran quickly grew darker and darker before that darkness seemed to explode rushing in all directions and once it hit Shiro he was carried off his paws in surprise and he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head making him black out.

"....Shiro...."

"....Hey wake up...."

".....Arceus please...."

Shiro opened his eyes and got to his paws Bran was hidden in a corner sniffling. Shiro shook himself. "How long was I out?" Shiro asked startling Bran.

"S-Shiro!" He cried and he had his face buried in Shiro's side. "I'm Sorry, I'm sorry!!"

"Don't be sorry for doing what you're told. I wanted you to hit me and if I didn't hit my head I would have got right back up. Now I want you to practice with your other attacks by using them on me but don't think I will just stop and let you hit me."

*~*~*~*

Bran was able to get much stronger after the first day and Shiro started fighting back at full strength by the middle of day two allowing both pokemon to grow in strength and ability. Because they only stopped to eat and rest they talked as they fought and Shiro learned a lot about his new friend. Bran was the name he was given from his mother who was a known criminal and the only reason he is staying at the guild is because when his mother had to run from the bounty hunters she was forced to leave him behind, or at least that's what he was told.

Bran was surprised to find out that Team Fortitude wasn't one of the teams that are simply unheard of but a team that was only a few days old.

"Well go get some real rest Bran; you are going to need all the energy you can get tomorrow." Shiro said "This time in your own room. I have delayed my meeting with Charizard long enough."

During the first night of training Charizard asked to meet with him and he politely told her that he was personally training one of Glaceon's students and if he left during the training then the time would be wasted. In reality he simply just wanted to avoid talking with her about how he humiliated her son in front of some of the guild.

"Oh, well maybe I will see you tomorrow?" Bran asked.

"Yes I'll be there I promise." Shiro said as the two walked to the door went separate ways. It wasn't too long before he was in Charizard's quarters and she simply stared down at him with Charmander peaking from behind his mother.

"So your training game is finally over little Eevee? You finally have time to come and talk with me about what you did?" Charizard growled.

"Charizard I didn't mean do show you disrespect but your son should know that attacking a pokemon unprovoked who won't fight back is a worse image for your guild than if I hit him twice and made him give up. I can assure you that I won't need to interfere with anything he does from this point so long as he doesn't do anything to my team."

Charizard glared at Shiro in pure rage. "That Dammed Empoleon taught you how to talk like that..."

The room started to heat up very quickly Shiro looked around confused but he started feeling lightheaded, the air became harder to breath and Shiro felt like he was going to catch on fire. "What are you doing?" Shiro asked in an uncertain voice as he backed to the door.

"If you were part of my guild you wouldn't leave this room in one piece but I can still punish you for stepping out of line. You are here as a guest and nothing more and that don't give you the right to attack someone who's in training. You could get away with it if it was a member of a team but my son is a student." Charizard growled

Shiro backed to the door as the heat continued to skyrocket but it was too hot to open from the inside.

"So as punishment I'll let you feel the full power of my Heat Wave." Charizard roared as a wave of heat seemed to engulf him in flames. The pain was to such an extent that Shiro screamed wreathing on the ground at Charizard's feet. Where she watched him mercilessly until she gave him a powerful kick through the double doors and into the hall way where he laid gasping for air.

"From now on you better care who his mother is little Eevee." Charizard growled before closing the doors again.