Tea for Three

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Rally

Rally rushed back to the inn, wanting to make sure that her thanks to her friends was not going to cause an issue. She rushed along towards the inn through the market, the hustle and bustle of the area causing a slight problem; though only mid-day, the marketplace was rather crowded, and in her rush to get to the inn and book her room not for herself anymore, but for two more, Rally did not give enough focus to suppressing her aura-based abilities.

A crate split open, its wooden frame smashed to pieces.

Rally had lost control due to the sensory overload of aura stimulus. Unable to take the pain of it, she ended up stumbling, crashing head-first into a nearby crate with enough force to break it open. "Hey, are you okay?" Several pokémon responded to the crash, rushing over to check on the little Riolu.
"I'm okay," Rally responded, clearly not. "I was just admiring this great crate and got a bit carried away, that's all." Coming to her senses, Rally placed a hand on her head, clearly in pain.

"Little girl, are you sure you're gonna be okay?" The voice came from behind the stall, a deep, scratchy voice. Looking up, Rally saw a Slowking bending over her, immediately causing her to blush and back away in terror. once a couple meters back, she knelt on the ground and bowed several times.
"Hoe~! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

The Slowking let out a hearty laugh. "You can relax, little girl. That crate was mostly empty. I'm just glad you're okay." The Slowking walked around his stall before helping her to her feet. "You should be a bit more careful; not everyone will be okay with you accidentally crashing through their property." The Slowking let out a hearty laugh before pushing Rally off on her way.

Going at a more cautious pace and focusing on controlling her sixth sense, Rally made sure to make a mental note to go back to that stall and try to pay for the damages. Arriving at the inn, Rally walked up to the front desk, where a Furret was managing a large number of Sentret as they shuffled about, making sure all of their customers were pleased. "Oh, hello again, Ms. Rally. Did you need something? Is there anything broken or torn in your room?" The Furret asked in a happy yet rather rushed tone.
"No, ma'am, everything seems alright. I actually wanted to ask if it would be alright for me to add two more people to the room."

"Two more people..." The Furret looked over a large book in front of her, at least as tall as she herself was from head to toe. "You are in room 3§, yes?"
"Yes, ma'am."

"Room 3§...Room 3§...There shouldn't be anything wrong with that" she replied, a joyful smile on her furry face.
"Really?" Rally asked with glee.
"Of course. Just tell me their names and I'll add them to the books."
"They are Oerba Yun Fang, a Charmander, and Sierra, a Shinx."

"A Charmander and a Shinx...Wonderful. I've added them in and will send them up when they arrive."
"Thank you very much, ma'am."

"No trouble at all, dearie." With that, Rally happily went down the hall to the ladder. She ascended the latter carefully; she knew it was same, but she thought it better to be careful. Hopping off at the third level, she walked along the hall to her room, a large room with a mossy floor and large straw-pile beds. She made sure to check her head. No bumps. She was lucky that she hadn't been hurt. She made sure all of her belongings were over to one side before heading back out to get a drink of water...

Rally

"W-Wrestling?" Rally blushed with a scared look on her face. She clearly was not experienced with the like. A sigh of relief passed between her lips when Sierra said it was a joke.

"Well...I think the 'Wild' element is important, so that part should probably remain...what about 'Wild Charge'? The first word, 'Wild', is for the same reasons as before. However, Charge can have multiple meanings that can relate to all of us. For example, you and I often fight up close. At the same time, I've noticed that with each attack, Fang seems to grow progressively stronger. So, she 'charges' up a little extra energy after those attacks, slowly making her even stronger." Rally, a small frown of uncertainty on her muzzled face, looked at her two new teammates. "...what do you think?"

Sierra

"Team Wild Charge..." Team Wild Charge... it had a ring to it. It made a lot of sense, and charging in is always fun to do~ It worked. With a nod, she looked to confirmation to Fang, who she figured wouldn't care. With that, she stoop up,got to the center of the room, and looked to them.

"All right! From now on... we'll be known as... TEAM WILD CHARGE!"

She added a few sparks that arced across her fur for good fun, before beaming wildly. Oh, the chase was on... and within a few days, they'd be perfectly ready to brave their first dungeon together.

In the back of her mind... Sierra wanted to cry. She... she found it. What she was looking for. She... probably would excuse herself later that night to do it, and... wait, was that a tear?

Quickly, she rubbed it away discreetly, before anyone began to notice, and smiled. "All right then... I think it's best to start planning, then. We're gunna need a few things before we start."

Fang just nodded at this feeling the name to be good, she did charge up as she was using her move so the name made sense to them all so she didn't care. She did mind when Sierra started shooting sparks out but decided not to say anything might of just been a good idea to let her have her fun.

Fang remained sitting there learning on the wall watching them letting them decide what to do with their team well it was also fangs but she didn't mind the small details.

Rally

Despite her attempts to hide it, Rally had spotted Sierra's tear. A smile as large as was possible for the Riolu's face was brought into existence on Rally's muzzled face. She had found friends. She had found a team. And while she would have preferred they be an official, guild recognized exploration team, Rally was just so happy that she'd found a group where she (sort of) belonged, that she was willing to put that aside for now. She sat down, ready to plan with the team.

Sierra

The shinx began to sit down as well, looking around. There was gunna be a pretty long list to deal with.

"Well... let's start off with the basics. Since we don't have the luxary of a guild to give us a room, we may have to consider building our own team base. I'm not quite sure how much Poké it will cost, but I'm sure it'll be a few." She frowned, seeing that it was gunna be tricky with the amount of money that had. "But, I think we should start off by seeing if we can rent something first. Just something to put our names on and sleep in when we're done. Any suggestions?" She let it linger for the moment, before continuing on.

"Second, we need a reliable source of income. Since missions aren't possible, we may have to resort to gathering the money and items we need from dungeons. Like I said before, I... know a pokémon, but I kinda owe him five grand..." She winced, needing to explain this one.

"Long story short, Zigs is a friend of mine I crashed with until I accidentally burned down his store. He swore me off, not to return till I got the money. But, I think with the money, and maybe a little patching up, I'm pretty sure I can bring him to town with us to set up shop. From there, we can use him to sell our items, for all of our profits. Think of it like our own store where we are on the selling end. Plus, we just find all the items ourselves! No need to buy it from others." It was a long route, but, if done well, they could have a steady supply of income.

She let the topic pause for a bit, letting them have their comments before moving on to the more trivial things.

Fang thinks for a second and decided on something. "This inn is pretty good, we could stay here while we do those things" fang said still on the wall as she hears about Sierra and her friend "well it sounds like a good idea ... IF we get the poke first" fang says still on the wall arm's crossed looking like a bad ass as normal

Rally

"A room like this one only costs about 5 poké a night, with the larger and more extravagant rooms being higher priced. Still, they do have a service for long-term room rental, which lowers the price a bit. I think the inn is probably our best bet..." Rally looked over to Fang. "...that is assuming, of course, that we all enjoy sleeping here tonight."

"F-Five thousand poké?" Rally stuttered. "That is more than Auntie makes in a month making glass."

Sierra

Sierra nods at that... it was a lot. She also completely burned down his store, so the amount is justified. Still, the 'mon smiled, and chuckled. "True, but there's treasure in these dungeons. Lots of good treasure we could sell. Didn't your mother explore dungeons, Rally?" She was curious, hoping the Riolu might remember. "I think we can get that much in about a week each... correction, I can get that much in a week." She stated firmly. "Just because I have a problem doesn't mean I'm going to make you pay for it. We'll end up with the money we need for that, and you two can spend whatever Poké you have for the things you need. Fair is fair in our team, for sure." She nodded in earnest.

"This room would work, if you think you can work something long-term with the innkeep. I do think we'll need a stash for all of our rewards though... perhaps a locked chest or two we can keep in here?" It was an idea, for sure.

"But we'll figure it out... I guess the last question is... what colors? It seems blue may be a common theme here, but what other color, do you think we should use?"

Fang nods at this. "If we work together I'm sure it will be easy" fang says knowing that she could easily make a lot of poke if she tried hard enough, it seemed to be easy to get poke. But then the question came up about what colours to use it was a little obvious. "Well blue and gold seem to be the best colours we have right now" she said thinking that to be the obvious answer.

Rally

"My mother and my father both; they still do, in fact." I wonder where they are now... The thought saddened Rally, who'd not heard from them in a long time, but she did her best to hide it behind a smile.

"I'll talk to the Furret at the front desk in the morning about booking a long-stay room. After that, I am going to go to a place called 'Shadowhue Forest'. Auntie told me to go explore it when I had some time. She said something about a great treasure that I had to find for myself."

"...colors?" Rally asked with a puzzled expression.

Sierra

The shinx nods, and patted her own neck a bit. "Mhmm, team colors. And our logo. Things we can put on our bandanas, our flag, our store..." She knew a surprising amount of stuff on exploration teams, but probably because of the fact she got around a lot to recognize clan logos. "Things we can identify with. We could definitly use blue and gold, but that still leaves an emblem..." Halfway before she finished, though, there was a yawn... she was getting tired.

"All right, let's... let's sleep on it, shall we? I'm pretty exhausted." Sierra found her appropriate bed and hopped in without a second though, nestling up against the bedding. Wow, this really WAS comfortable... how long has it been since she's slept in a decent bed like this? She chuckled and nodded to the rest of the team. "We can always figure out the details in the morning. Maybe we'll even think of things while we sleep? Either way... I'm hitting the hay." She chuckled, and laid back... it was nice to have friends... a team... it left a warm, fuzzy feeling in her heart, one she hoped would never leave.

Fang nodded feeling like she was going a bit overboard with this, no matter what fang wouldn't get rid of her arm band with her clans symbol on it no matter what it was the only thing she had to remind her of home, she stayed on the wall and calmly said. "I'll stay up a bit I have some stuff on my mind" fang said she did have some stuff to think about and a lot to be worried about.

Rally

Rally yawned, covering her mouth with her hand as she did so. "I too am feeling rather sleepy...I guess all of this excitement has tired us out." Rally gathered up the tea saucers, as well as the rags and water used to clean Sierra earlier, and placed them right outside the door in the hallway, just as instructed earlier that day by a Sentret. After that, she climbed on to her own bedding and curled up into a sleeping position; she always slept like this, as it retained body heat as well as gave her a sense of safety. "Good night...my friends..." she said with tired words, before softly slipping to sleep.

Sierra

After wishing her final goodnight, she closed her eyes, letting whoever put out the lantern's flame. As she rested, her thoughts went back to that conversation with the Skarmory...

'There's no way it'll work! You're just a dumb... dumb metal bird!'

Now that's no way to treat a Skarmory. Now you, miss tail in a knot, better sharpen up. I bet you, if you went to Grassveil right now, and just 'talked', you'd make a friend... perhaps even more. Try it. I dare you.

'Well... yeah? I will! And I'll show you!'

Go... grow up, be the 'mon that you really are, and go be something great~

'Great'... that word echoed in her head. She giggled a bit out loud, murmuring loud enough to hear. "Hehehe... dumb bird~ Guess I'll have to thank him eventually..." With that, she relaxed for the first time in over a year... in the presence of her friends... finally happy to find her home.

Fang stays in the position she was in arm's crossed as she let's her mind wander a bit to her past.

"Fang Focus!!"

A large towering charizard is standing over a beat up golden charmander with a black arm band tied around her arm her head had a few cuts as did her arms and legs, she was breathing heavy and behind her was a assortment of training equipment with some blood on it

Fang instantly snapped back to the present as she looks at the new members sleeping and she eventually falls asleep on the wall tired from past memories.