Graceful Garbage Grabbing.

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A group of Trubbish has been littering on Pricklemist Hill! Could you please clean up after them? But don't hurt the envirionment with Poison type moves!   » Client: Leafeon » Objective: Retrieve 3 pieces of trash (Uncommon item) » Place: Pricklemist Hill » Restrictions: Don't use Poison type moves. » Difficulty: F » Reward: 250 Poké » Exploration Points: 10

Tsukishiro wandered through the grassy areas taking note of the surroundings and looking for the base of Pricklemist Hill.
"Leafeon said the base of the hill was somewhere around here... so I guess we should just start heading upwards?" mused Shiro, half to herself and half to the Gastly that accompanied her.

Tsukishiro nodded, "Yea that's probably a good idea. We'll probably only end up lost if we have to continue searching in the dark, especially without Nate's electricity."
The Trubbish nodded too, "Alright... i'll just follow you two. Don't worry about me though I can take care of myself in a fight," he smiled.
Shiro nodded, leading the way forwards as she continued to search through the longer grass. It was a short while before she found something, parting the grass around the item to see what it was.

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"Okay, but by the way, it would be nice if you wouldn't use any Poison type moves. Our client has explicitely made that request. I personally don't care that much about the environment, but a request is a request..."
As William saw Shiro finding an item, he groaned, immediately having identified it as a Pretty Box, due to being quite familiar with them. Why did they have to torment him even beyond the Blackmist Mountain? What had he done to deserve this? The Gastly averted his eyes, trying to find something, that wouldn't cause an aneurysm. If he would find another of those things, he swore, it would certainly meet someone's head.

"Oh okay... I'll keep that in mind," smiled the Trubbish, waddling alongside the duo. He halted as Shiro identified the box. It was rather pretty, having various little patterns inscribed into it, however it was also rather small, being small enough for Shiro to pick up with her teeth and place in her treasure bag.
"Well... that wasn't trash either so I guess we should keep looking..."

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Having gotten bored enough, since their graceful garbage grabbing was beginning to get rather gruesome, William didn't even pay attention to his partner's findings anymore, lookin through the thousands and thousands of long, thin feathers of green in an annoyed monotony.
Finally he managed to light up, if only for a little, as he had found something between the blades of grass again.

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Shiro had found another TM Solar Beam whilst her partner had been occupied searching his own patch of grass fronds. Trubbish had aided her search as she placed the TM in her treasure bag, looking around the grass and almost disappearing into it at points because of his smaller stature. After another short period of searching, he made a noise that suggested he'd found something. Shiro's interest was piqued and she moved over to investigate his discovery.

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William kept minding his own part of the search. Even when he had found trash, it wasn't the right trash! Why did things like that always have to happen? The Joy Ribbons, the Sticks and now this... Somewhere up there, the cruel god of probability was probably rolling on the floor, laughing, as he or she watched the Gastly suffer. And so it happened, that another item appeared in front of the Gastly's searching eyes.
Would it finally be, what they had been searching for? Or was it only aother cruel joke?

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"I'm sorry you two... it's just an orb. I thought it was trash," blinked the Trubbish as Shiro wandered over. The Trubbish had the orb balanced on his head.
"It's alright. We can probably use it somehow even if it isn't trash," smiled Shiro, taking the orb and placing it into her treasure bag.
"It looks like this will be a longer mission than we anticipated however..."
"I'll go and look some more!" smiled Trubbish, hopping back off into the long grass. The Absol watched him go with a small smile, glancing over to William to check on his search. It didn't look like he'd found anything trash-worthy. As she returned to the search, Shiro couldn't help but wonder why more Pokemon weren't helpful like Trubbish. It would make for a much nicer world.

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And again the item wasn't trash. The team was finding things left and right, but nothing came even close to anything trashlike. How difficult could it be for three Pokémon to find rubbish?
"Sadly I think you are correct...", William sighed.
"Why coudn't it be a tree we are looking for? Or anything noticeable for that matter."
Constantly staring at the grass was tiring tge Gastly's eyes and he almost missed the boring monotony of the white snow and the white sky from the Icicle Forest. It was more lively than this ordeal for sure.
Why hadn't Shiro refused to take the mission? Wasn't her species supposed to be capable of sensing disasters?
But since those questions wouldn't get them any further, William abandoned his train of thought, continuing to stare at the green sea of grass.
But wasn't the grass shorter over there in that area? As if some Pokémon had steped on it?
Deciding, that it warranted an investigation, the Ghost type floated over. And he was right. In the middle of the almost circular area, there was a:

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Shiro had just found another box, nearly identical to the first they had found. Not even bothering to mention it since it did not aid in their mission, she just put it in her treasure bag. Perhaps she could sell them to her sister when they returned to Grassveil.
With a sigh, Shiro continued to search, "Okay. Next mission is definitely an outlaw mission," she commented out loud. Her luck was always rotten when it came to these item collecting jobs.
Her thoughts occupied, Shiro almost missed something in the grass, however just as she was about to turn away, she spotted it, moving over to discover it was...

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"And I wholeheartedly agree with you on that topic. That trash will probably be oil by the time we have found it.", William responded.
"Did they actually hide that stuff?"
Interrupted in his thinking by a TM Solar Beam, the Gastly was quite surprised, as they were supposed to be extremely rare, yet the duo had already found three of them. But no trash.
"Maybe they burried it underground?", William thought out loud.
"Just one moment..."
With that being said, the Gastly disappeared into the earth, trying to find something...anything at this point in time. After a bit of floating around, he reached an underground river, seemingly inaccessible as there was no entrance to be found anywhere.
Despite the river's strong currents, something floating in it had been stopped by a branch, that had grown over the river.
Since there didn't seem to be anything else in the area, William emerged again, carrying:

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A Quick Seed. Shiro frowned at the dull brown seed, turning to see what William had brought up from underground. She stifled a chuckle when it was another Quick Seed.
"Ah. I guess they didn't hide the trash underground then," frowned the Absol, staring at her own Quick Seed. After a short moment of watching the unmoving seed, Shiro blinked.
"Hold on I have an idea. If we eat the Quick Seeds we can cover a larger area in a shorter amount of time!" she grinned, picking up the seed she had found and popping it into her mouth.

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"Well...maybe they did, but not here.", William suggested.
He couldn't say much more, as the Absol was already darting across the plains.
Since Shiro would certainly be covering a large area with her search, the Gastly decided, that it would be best for him to head in a slightly different direction.
The Gastly floated towards one of the only trees in the area, an old willow, that had its grey leaves hanging to the ground already, only connected to thin twigs, that were swaying in the wind.
Under its gnarly roots, a tiny grotto could be found, only big enough to hide a single item in it. And apparently someone had done so. The item in question was:

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Shiro was using the aid of the Quick Seed to it's fullest potential, using the added speed to quickly and efficiently comb the area. So far all she'd found was another TM Solar Beam and a Reviver Seed. However she wasn't about to give up.
A short distance away, Trubbish was still searching in his chosen area, slowly combing through the grass bit by bit. He was doing his best to help the two explorers with their job but no matter what happened they just couldn't seem to find anything.

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With the help of the Quick Seed William had found, he was speeding over the grassy plains, unable to even realize, that Shiro had found something.
The blades of grass were bending in the wind as the Gastly floated over them, yet he couldn't use the full potential of the seed as he didn't want to risk being blown away by the wind.
As its effect had ended, William came to a halt next to Shiro, carrying two items he himself didn't remember to have even found, let alone where.
But that didn't matter. They might have come closer to ending this tiresome mission.

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Grinning at finally finding something they could tidy up, Tsukishiro called out to the Trubbish, beckoning him over to where they had finally found the trash.
"Yay!" grinned the Trubbish, hopping over to the small pile of trash. The Trash Bag Pokemon parted his jaws and began gobbling the trash up. Soon there was no evidence that it had even been there in the first place.
Shiro grinned and looked to William, "One down, two to go. Nice find by the way," she chuckled, motioning to the TM he had picked up. They were certainly finding a fair few of these.

"Perhaps we should keep searching in this general vicinity," blinked Trubbish, "I don't see why anyone who dumped the trash here would spread it out over the entire hill..."
Shiro nodded, "Alright then. I guess we should split up again though, we;ll probably find the remaining rubbish quicker."

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