There's a scene in this chapter that's probably pg-13 ish?
Also I did not realize until today I was misspelling Gracidea...

Chapter 5: A Second Attempt

Jeana got what she hoped for. The triplet Legendaries did not bother her that night, and she managed to have a full night’s worth of dreamless sleep. That is, until dawn broke. At that time her ears and mind were bombarded with the sounded of clanging bells.

Jeana woke up, slightly annoyed from the intensity of the wake-up call which left her with a dull headache. She was pleased, however, to find that her body overall felt much better compared to yesterday. She stepped out of the bed, placing all four paws on the ground, and began stretching to work out the kinks in her spine from staying in bed all day.

It was then that the grotle medic, Grub, walked in on her stretching like a cat. Jeana did not actually see or hear him per se, but she still detected his entrance, somehow. It crossed her mind that it could be her new Psychic powers waking up a bit more, after unlocking her telekinesis to some extent.

She quickly stood up on her hind paws and turned to face Grub. She felt slightly dizzy after standing up that rapidly, but it faded after a few seconds.

Grub looked Jeana up and down. The espurr certainly looked much better than she had yesterday. She was standing without visibly shaking, and before she had woken up Grub had changed her bandages and reapplied the tanga-oran salve, and saw the injuries she had sustained from the Bug Bites were scabbed over.

“If you’re really that eager,” Grub decided, “Then you can go. Just don’t go charging head-first into a monster house full of Bugs anytime soon.”

Jeana nodded. “Thank you,” she said, before padding swiftly out of the room. Before she headed to breakfast with all the other Guild Pokemon, she stripped the bandages off of her fur. Her injuries were mostly healed, bandages probably wouldn’t help much now. Jeana was unsure if showers existed or not in Leginda, but if they did she would eagerly take one to wash the salve out of her fur as well.

After she had disposed of the bandages, Jeana made her way down to the Meadow Guild’s Mess Hall, taking a tray of breakfast, and moving to an unnocupied corner of the hall. She didn’t particularly enjoy talking with others while eating, and so tried eating as quickly as possible and exiting the room before it got too loud.

She did manage to eat her meal without getting interrupted, but before she could leave the Mess Hall, she caught the attention of someone.

A familiar voice cried out “Jeana!” before chimes were heard behind the espurr. Jeana turned around, and saw Lina bouncing towards her.

“Jeana,” Lina repeated when she was in front of the feline. “I had an idea! You know how you were having trouble with using moves, well I thought of a way to help you with that! Meet me down at Chesnaught’s Dojo as soon as you can!”

Before Jeana even had a chance to reply, Lina hopped excitedly away, her chimes pleasantly sounding every time she hit the ground.

Jeana muttered something, before finally leaving the Mess Hall and striding down the mossy hallways of the Meadow Guild, before finally arriving the the entrance to the Guildmaster’s chamber.

It was not very long before a voice spoke “Come in.” Jeana entered.

“Guildmaster Solaris,” she spoke. “I would like to take the test to enter the Meadow Guild once more, please.”

Solaris looked thoughtful. “You are allowed to take it up to three times, before you have to take a three month break,” he said. “So of course you can take it again. Meet me at the same place and time, Lina and I will then escort you to Gracidea Fields again.”

Jeana nodded, before exiting the room.

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Meadowville’s main plaza was about as crowded as it had been yesterday. Jeana could detect many of the same scents and sounds as before. She recalled the roundish, spiky green building Eona had previously pointed out as being Chesnaught’s Dojo, and made her way towards it.

Inside the building was a surprisingly spacious area. There was what appeared to be a track looping around the perimeter complete with hurdles, multiple targets lined up along the far wall, a jungle gym, a square of space set up like an arena with some training dummies, and even a small pool nearby. The pool looked slightly green with algae and small lily pads, however, so Jeana did not think that going for a swim in it would be a particularly pleasant experience. Sitting in various areas of the doho were a small steel grey color Pokemon with sharp green barbs, a bipedal blue duck with a gem set in its forehead, a white and brown muscular mammalian Pokemon with a durable and spiky looking light brown and green shell, and what appeared to be a twin tailed purple monkey. The two spiky Pokemon were simply conversing, while the monkey climbed on the jungle gym, and the duck swam laps in the small pool. Jeana was fairly certain that the monkey was called either aipom or ambipom. She could never remember which was the one with two tails. The duck, she knew, was called golduck. And she guessed that the spiky mammal was Chesnaught.

Also in the dojo was a Pokemon that Jeana did recognize. Lina bounded over to her, carrying a small satchel of some kind.

“Jeana!” Lina exclaimed. “Alright, so you were getting the hang of telekinesis last night, but you having trouble with moves, right? But you were doing really well with aiming an already moving object! So I thought maybe, until you master more moves, you can fight with these instead!”

Lina pushed the satchel into Jeana’s hands. The espurr lifted the flap on it and peered inside. In the satchel sat multiple small rocks, each capable of easily fitting in Jeana’s paw.


“They’re called graveler rocks,” Lina explained. “Pokemon on escort teams use them to damage far-off foes, or foes with typings that are hard for them to usually damage. I was thinking that if you threw these, then you could use your telekinesis to aim them and make them go faster!”

“Really,” Jeana said, picking up a graveler rock and turning it over in her paw. It was craggy, and had a good weight to it. She hesitantly made as if to throw it, but did not release the rock.

“Yeah! Teams use graveler rocks and blast seeds and the like on missions to places where there are lots of Pokemon with a type advantage against them,” Lina said. “Do you think you could try throwing the rock at one of the targets?”

“...From here?” Jeana asked, incredulously.

“Yeah. Just try! With the lasso thing again!” Lina encouraged.

Jeana squinted her eyes, staring at one of the paper targets on the other end of the room. It was at least thirty to forty feet away, possibly more. And as a human she had never been particularly good at sports. It was true that she had had an excellent grade in her gym class, but that was by virtue of always showing up on time, changing into her gym clothes, and attempting whatever sport they were doing that day.

However… as a human she did not have powers of telekinesis.

Jeana threw the graveler rock into the air. It was not a particularly impressive throw, and soon the stone was arcing back down to earth. However, Jeana splayed the stubby fingers on her paw open, and the graveler rock seemed to gain an extra burst in speed and height. It thudded into the paper target, and fell to the ground. Jeana frowned. Ever from this distance, she could see that the stone had only just barely hit the target, on one of the outer rings.

“Well. You hit the target,” Lina said, optimistically.

“So I did,” Jeana said, flatly.

The two Psychic types spent some time working on Jeana’s telekinetic aim. Eventually they got it so Jeana consistently hit the target, usually where the rocks hit being clustered in the lower right area of the target. Even if it wasn’t a bullseye, the fact that it hit the target meant Jeana could probably hit an enemy Pokemon.

Once midday arrived, Jeana and Lina went off to meet Guildmaster Solaris again, at which point Lina teleported all of them to Gracidea Fields once more. Guildmaster Solaris reminded Jeana of the objective of the mock job request, and the two Psychic types re-entered the dungeon.

Gracidea Field Floor One

Jeana wasted no time in immediately making her way towards the nearest corridor at a brisk pace. Lina bounced along behind her to keep up, making her signature chiming noise each time she did so.

From several yards away, Jeana spotted a sentret patrolling the corridor up ahead. The young feline paused, extracted a graveler rock from her satchel, and threw it forwards. Her telekinesis immediately picked up the stone, sending it hurtling towards the raccoonlike Pokemon. It smacked into the sentret’s shoulder. Disturbed by this, the sentret dashed away from Jeana’s direction in a blind panic.

Jeana hurled another graveler rock at the sentret. This one hit the rodent’s back as it fled. A third graveler rock finally managed to dispatch the sentret.

Jeana dashed to where her projectiles had fallen, placing them in her bag again. Although the sentret was really rather weak, she still felt a slight swell of pride for having managed to use the graveler rocks to fell a dungeon’s puppet.

Jeana and Lina went through multiple corridors and rooms on the first floor, managing to defeat a caterpie and find an oran before they finally located the stairs. Neither of them hesitated as they made their way up the steps.

Gracidea Fields Floor Two

The moment that Jeana and Lina reached the second floor of the dungeon, Jeana realized they were not alone. It took a few moments to find it, but she eventually located the enemy Pokemon. It was in a shaded corner of the room, in a clump of grass and flowers, rather well hidden. It looked kind of like a cocoon of some kind, spikes attached to the nearby flower stalks, off white silk, and a single red eye glaring balefully out from a gap in the silk.

“That’s a cascoon,” Lina identified the cocoon. “Don’t worry. It can’t move.”

Jeana padded closer to the cascoon, until she was a few feet away from it. Sure enough, it did not run away from her at her approach, nor did it belligerently charge towards her to strike first. It simply continued glowering at her.

The cascoon was, in effect, a sitting duck.

Jeana could not ask for a better live target.

She decided to, instead of using the graveler rocks again, try something different. She dredged up her negative emotions, the humiliation of failing the first test, the frustration of being unable to adequately use her psychic abilities, and a newfound spite reserved just for Bug typed Pokemon.

Sure enough, she felt it, gnawing in her lungs. First a small cough, quickly escalating into a full-on coughing fit. She felt it crawling up through her throat, until finally she managed to hack it out.

The little glob of spite and irritance splatted near the cascoon. The majority of it missed, but several droplets managed to land on the Bug. It hissed in obvious displeasure.

Let’s try that again…, Jeana did not stop coughing and hacking and wheezing this time. She channeled her frustration and anger at being unable to properly aim her Frustration attack. A slightly larger glob was spat out from her mouth, hitting one of the cascoon’s spike.

“Kasssssssssk!” The cascoon let out a shriek as the viscous Frustration dripped down the spike, and onto the main body of the metamorphosing insect. Some drops even dripped into its eye. The attack fizzled and spat venemously.

Jeana finally stopped her coughing and hacking. She figured that twice in a row was enough practice with Frustration, and her throat and lungs had both become rather sore. She walked over to the pained cascoon, and with a swipe of her paw put it out of its misery. She quickly brush the purple-ish dust off her paw and out of her fur.

Lina was staring at Jeana after that. “When did you learn Frustration…?”

“...Just now,” Jeana lied. “I had an idea in a dream two nights ago, I’ve been meaning to try it out…” Well. Close enough to the truth.

Like the chingling would believe that three bickering siblings claiming to be gods of the Pokemon world had come to her in a dream and taught her to encapsulate her negativity in an attack.

Lina nodded. From the expression on her face she didn’t really believe Jeana but also didn’t want to argue.

“...Let’s just go,” Jeana sighed.

They managed to get through the second floor of the dungeon with little trouble, as well. Jeana got more practice with her graveler rocks from a hoppip that would not quit bouncing about the grassy corridors and rooms with its Splash attacks, and from a ratatta that, like the sentret on the previous floor, turned tail and ran in a blind panic after being hit twice.

They found the stairs soon enough.

Gracidea Fields Floor Three

It was on this floor that Jeana and Lina once more encountered a scyther.

They were walking through one of the corridors of the dungeon. Jeana had managed to find a pecha, and an apple, and was once again looking for a target to practice either her Frustration of graveler rocks on. She found it in the form of an aggressive green mantis about four feet taller than herself.

Not the most ideal target.

Needless to say, not wanting a repeat of her last encounter with the massive insect, Jeana immediately took out and threw a graveler rock, using her telekinesis to make the thrown projectile fly faster. She managed to score a hit on the scyther’s abdomen.

Unimpressed by this, the scyther raised an arm, and a gleam of light traveled up the blade as it used Swords Dance.

Jeana threw another graveler rock at the scyther, this one glancing off its shoulder. Still, the Bug was unfazed.

The scyther stretched its wings and legs before using Agility, and then launching itself at Jeana, the vibrations of its wings making the air throb. Jeana winced at the sound, firing one more graveler rock at the scyther. She thought at first that it had missed, as it sailed over the scyther’s thorny head. However, there was a crack as the stone connected with one of the scyther’s wings. It was thrown off balance, hitting the ground and skidding for a few inches.

Dazed, the scyther took a few precious moments to stand up. Jeana took advantage of that time to summon her anger, hatred, and fear once more, and direct it at the scyther. The burning sensation in her lungs, the black glob flying out of her mouth. The scyther stood up, and the Frustration hit it in the neck. It hissed in pain, and Jeana let fly another graveler rock. It connected again.

The scyther leaped out Jeana again. It was at such a close range Jeana had no time to react, and it scored a Slash across her body. The intense pain and the close proximity to the Bug brought her mind back to the monster house, and made something well up in her chest. Her ears were ringing again.

No. No matter how powerful the Psychic attack was, no matter how it would probably get her out of this situation, she hated it. She didn’t want to rely on it. She couldn’t. She needed to use other moves, and she despised the feelings that brought it about. What if a Dark type attacked her someday? She couldn’t rely on her Psychic to bail her out then, Dark types were immune to those kinds of moves.

Instead she turned the fear and panic into something more volatile.

Rage. Anger. Wrath.

And she spat her largest Frustration yet directly into the scyther’s eyes.

She was surprised by this. There was no hacking or coughing, no burning sensation and no sore throat. It was suddenly just there.

Screaming in pain, the scyther threw itself away from her. She thought she could see dust coming off of it.

Jeana grabbed Lina by the braid, and ran as fast as her unfamiliar legs could take her.

By the time they were out of the corridor and into the next room, Jeana could no longer hear the screams of the scyther. She did not stop to think about what this meant.

She had seen the dust. It was just a puppet of the dungeon. Never truly alive. She shouldn’t let it bother her.

Jeana and Lina found the stairs to the next floor soon after that.

Gracidea Fields Floor Four

After heading through a corridor, Jeana finally found the treasure chest. It was dark green, with a black lock on it keeping it shut tight. She held it. It was smaller and lighter than she had expected when she had heard the words ‘treasure chest’. Although she knew it was ridiculous, the words had brought to her mind the cartoonish image of a brown chest heaping with gold doubloons.

Lina touched her shoulder with a braid, and finally Teleported them both outside the dungeon.

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Guildmaster Solaris was slightly surprised, but also greatly pleased, to see that Jeana had succeeded this time around. Lina Teleported the three back to the Meadow Guild once more, before eating dinner at the Mess Hall and retiring to her room for the rest of the day.

Jeana and Guildmaster Solaris went into the Guildmaster’s chambers.

“Well, you have completed the mock job request,” the venusaur told her. “Congratulations. If you would like to join the Guild, you may now do so.”

“I would like that very much, please,” Jeana said. After a moment’s thought, she added “...Guildmaster.”

Solaris smiled at her. “Good, good. Now, if you would please open that treasure chest you recovered…”

Jeana’s paws fumbled slightly with the lock, but it did open without need for a key. Inside were a variety of objects. One was a small, round, metal object. It seemed to be a bronze-ish color. When Jeana picked it up she saw that it was designed to resemble a poke ball, attached to a necklace, and could open up like a locket. Upon opening it up she saw what looked like a keyboard and screen, similar to a primitive cell-phone. She could not read the most of symbols on the keyboard, the only things she could identify being what was probably the power button and the buttons to make the device louder and quieter.

Also inside the chest was a larger satchel, similar in design to the one Lina had given to Jeana. Peering inside this satchel revealed there to be a few glass orbs tinted blue, a few fruits, and a couple sticks of some kind.

Jeana looked up at Guildmaster Solaris.

“Welcome to the Meadow Guild,” he told her. “Since you did not come with a partner to our Guild, I have assigned you to another team. You are, from this day forwards, a member of Team Reverie. After a month, if you wish you may join another team, or form one of your own if you have a partner at that point. Good luck in doing good.”

The name ‘Team Reverie’ seemed familiar to Jeana, and then she remembered why. The snivy she had first met when she arrived in this strange new land had said she was a part of Team Reverie. Jeana believed that the snivy’s name had been… Shiver, she thought?

“Thank you,” Jeana repeated, trying to remember all she could about Shiver. Jeana had been a bit tired at the time, but the thing that seemed to stand out about Shiver was she seemed rather confused and annoyed from speaking with Jeana. Hopefully that had been due to a lack of sleep, or else being on a team together for a month would be unpleasant for both parties.

“Guildmaster Solaris?”

Jeana turned around. Speak of the renegade, Shiver the snivy was standing in the doorway to the Guildmaster’s chambers right then.

“You called me here? What did you need, Guildmaster?” Shiver asked. Contrary to her words, she seemed to have figured out exactly what her Guildmaster had planned.

“Yes, Shiver. Thank you for coming on short notice.” Guildmaster Solaris beamed at the young snake. “This is the latest addition to your team. Jeana the espurr. She just passed the guild’s examination today, and will assist your team on missions starting tomorrow.”

Shiver looked at Jeana, sizing the espurr up. Jeana saw recognition light in Shiver’s seafoam-green eyes.

“I’ll let Jazz know, then,” Shiver said, in a neutral tone. “What was your name again?”

“Jeana,” she responded.

Shiver nodded. “Then, if you have nothing more to tell me, I’ll take my leave now Guildmaster?” After a nod from Solaris, Shiver turned to go. “Come along, Jeana. I’ll show you your room, and introduce you to the other member of Team Reverie.”

Shiver led Jeana out of the Guildmaster’s chambers before turning around.

“Okay, can we just clear some things up?” Shiver asked. “First of all, I’m still a little annoyed by you leaving a gaping hole in my roof. I’m not sure what you did to end up falling from the sky and leaving a hole in my roof… But please don’t do it again. Patching up that hole was easier for me to do than other guild members, but it took a massive amount of energy out from me.”

Jeana nodded. She doubted she was going to have to change species and be sent to a foreign region again anytime soon, and so would probably be easily able to avoid doing that again.

“Last time we spoke, I found you kind of annoying… Then again I was pretty tired and you were probably disoriented from falling from the sky like that.” Shiver rubbed the back of her head. “So sorry if I sounded rude to you. You were just acting… pretty weird, and I wasn’t really in the mood for that.”

“Neither of those things will happen again,” Jeana assured Shiver.

“That’s good,” Shiver smiled. “Right. A few things you have to know… We of Team Reverie have a reputation for two things: being a bit odd, but also being rather good battlers due to that oddness. We don’t care how you get the job of battling done, but we expect you to pull your weight on this team.”

“In that case, would it bother you if we went to the dojo at some point soon?” Jeana asked.

“Hm? Oh, no. Also… my teammate, Jazz, can get a bit annoying. Just don’t upset him, and you should be fine,” Shiver assured Jeana. “He should be asleep by now, and he’s a pretty heavy sleeper, so you won’t really meet him until the morning. But don’t let anything he says or does bother you.”

Jeana nodded. “I won’t.”

“Good. Great. We should get along.” Shiver sighed. “Now come on. I think it’s been a long day for all of us. I’ll take you to the Mess Hall, then I’ll show you to your new room.”