Ok, we'll do it-

The Mercenaries – Mission 4 part 2


As they entered the hut, Ash had to quickly step aside as a bouncy little pichu came rushing past, carrying a crate of Aspear berries to the outside stand, where a charmander and treecko waited. While they were running the stand and selling items, Ash could see that none of them were the pokemon she was looking for. She wanted one of the merchant leaders, which she knew were a kecleon and breloom.

Turning around, Ash quickly spotted the purple kecleon, PK, sitting at a table drumming her fingers in a bored manner. As they approached, PK looked up at them and grimaced slightly at the sight of the feral looking poochyena in front of her. Ash knew that look all too well, and hoped that her leader wouldn’t start making assumptions about her.

“If you want to buy something, you can get it out at the front stall. Team Spirit will take care of you so you don’t have to bug me in here while I wait.” Pk said in an annoyed tone, drumming her fingers on the wodden tabletop once more as she waited for the two of them to leave.

“Oh, we aren’t here to buy anything. We just wanted to introduce ourselves, that’s all.” Gin said politely, but PK only looked at him with a bored look and said nothing.

“We’re the Mercenaries. A new team. We signed up a few days ago?” Ash added slowly, hoping to prick PK’s memory. It didn’t work, and only seemed to annoy her to be talked to in such a manner.

“Listen, I don’t care how long ago Devonshire let you newbs join, but if you aren’t buying anything then I don’t want you guys hanging around. Rogues are never good to have around unless they’ve got some Poke to spend.” Pk said loudly, sitting up and shooing them away.

Ash and Gin were shocked for a moment, but then Gin started to giggle to himself slightly. “But we’re n-!”

“Madam please!” A voice interrupted, coming from a bandaged breloom who was slowly making his way down the stairs with the aid of his cane. “If you’re going to approve new merchant teams, you should at least learn to recognize them.”

“Augh, fine. Whatever! You take care of them then.” PK said throwing her hands up in a ruff, trying to hide reddening face as she moved to sit elsewhere. Shroomsworth gave her a critical stare as she did so, then let out a sigh as he turned to the two pokemon in front of him.

”I’m terribly sorry about her, calling you rogues like that.” He apologized as he walked them over to a table covered in forms. “I suppose you two are here for your first mission. As Merchants?” He added a bit loudly, receiving a ‘hmph’ from PK.

“Yeah. We’d like to take any mission you’ll give us please!~<3” Gin said happily while Ash just nodded, still annoyed with the previous mix up.

“Yes, I know you two will do splendidly after you proved yourselves by helping gather ingredients, eh wot?” He smiled as he reached over to grab some paperwork and a scroll, handing them to the two. “And here’s your promised reward for that task, which I’m sure you’ll find very useful.”

“And this,” he said, tapping the paper. “Is your mission, which is to go to the library back in Sprout Village to see if you can convince Arianna to lend you a very important book about our Dragon friend outside.”

“Hyuu! You mean Mr Sorbert?~<3” Gin asked, floating merrily in the air. Apparently, he still liked the dragon even though it left him sick for the past few days.”

“Yes yes, him.” The breloom nodded. “But I’m afraid that even though this should be a relatively simple task, the missus has asked that only experienced teams or those with evolved members to go. But if one of you takes that scroll down to Master Foo’s Dojo and trains for a bit, I’m sure you’ll evolve and be qualified for the mission.”

Ash thought it was a bother to have to do that, but she didn’t mind the thought of evolving herself. Gin however, was surprisingly silent. Ash put her paw on the scroll and smiled confidently at Shroomsworth.

“Ok, we’ll do it-“

“I DON’T THINK SO!!!” In a flash, the scroll disappeared from Ash’s paws and flew to the mouth of an angry looking Kecleon, who held it coiled in her touge of all places.

“M-MADAM!?” Shroomsworth exclaimed as he hobbled towards the purple lizard. “Give that back this instant! That’s incredibly rude of you!”

“No! There’s no way I’m letting some newb team who joined a few days ago mess up such an important mission!” She said defiantly, jumping away from him to stand on a box. As he tried to follow her and grab the scroll, she just held it higher with her tongue.

“Want it?” Pk asked suddenly, nearly shoving the drool cover scroll into Shroomsworth’s face, who quickly grimaced and backed away. As he did so, PK quickly jumped down and sped up the stairs, stopping only to shout. “And NO they can’t do the mission, so don’t even try to send them anyway!”

As the three stood there in silence, a snarl curled on Ash’s lips. She wondered if attacking a guild leader would reflect badly on them. Probably so…

“Well, I’m sorry. There’s just no reasoning with her when she gets like this.” Shroomsworth apologized to them again. “It looks like you’ll have to do another mission instead…”
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So yeah, had this drawn a while ago but didn't want to sbmit it until I had more pages drawn up for the rest of my story. And I gotta say, this page is ugly compared to the others I drew up recently, butI don't feel like doing it over again.

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