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“Yawn” my eyes slowly opened, and sure enough. I was still in the resort room. I guess no matter how much I try to make it be a dream it won't be. Oh well. Complaining won't help, I think to myself as I sit up in bed, I stretch my arms and rub my eyes before getting up. Looking over at the chair I see Chatot, who is still asleep. He's laying on his back with his wings sprawled, I thought birds slept upright? But I guess he's not really a normal bird.. he's not even really a normal Pokémon either come to think of it.
Last night he said he would explain his situation to me, but when we got back we were both too tired to really talk about it so we put it off till later. It's okay though, I'm not in a big hurry, I do want to know. I'm especially curious about if he's from another world like I am. But more importantly I just remembered, I'm an employee here now! I don't even know my duties, or when I start! Oh no.. what time even is it? I reach for my phone which is about to die since I don't have its charger.. great.. but the time shows it is 8:20 am, still zero cell service and still cracked.. not that I expected either of those issues to resolve but a girl can dream! Right?.. I sigh dejectedly and put it down as I hear a knock on my door.
“Minori? Are you awake?” Oh its Phineas!
“Yeah, come in!” I called, as I do the door opens and he entered with a smile and a briefcase
“Good morning. Did you sleep well?”
“Mhm, yeah I did. Thank you again for the job, and for letting me stay”
He laughs softly “no problem, here. I have some things for you, and I'll give you a brief rundown of your job.” He hands me the briefcase.
I open it and there's a few things in here, something that looks like a phone and a charger, a nametag, a bag, and some..balls? Interesting. I take the phone looking thing out first and Phineas speaks up.
“That is your work phone, everyone here has one, now don't get too excited, it's only programmed with basic features, so you have phone calls, texting, a camera app and a weather app. But it's loaded with all the names and numbers of the other employees' work phones and they have this number as well” he explains.
Wow! A phone! That's so cool! I was in desperate need of one of those. “Wow! This is cool! You give everyone a cell phone?”
He laughs softly “Well I believe everyone should separate work from daily life, even like I said it doesn't have a ton of features, but it should be enough.”
Basic features only or not, this is cool! Now I don't have to worry over my own phone, so I can just turn it off to hopefully save it's battery from dying completely.
“Now, onto the other things. The name tag, that's pretty much your whole uniform. Everyone is required to wear one but that aside you may wear whatever you want while on the job. You also have a bag so that you can carry anything you might need help with, or just anything in general it's yours as you see fit. And finally, the thing you're likely most confused about: the Pokeballs.”
Ah, so that's what these balls are. They're so.. tiny, I take one out and instinctively press the button on the middle and suddenly it expands! “Whoa!” I exclaim.
“Hehe, I see you figured out how they work. Press it again to make it smaller. But as you know we live among Pokémon, however even on the island there are wild Pokémon that don't have a home. I provided you three pokeballs should you wish to try and capture them. Chatot can explain how that works if you're interested.”
“Yeah, that won't be an issue” Chatot chimes as if he's been a part of the conversation the whole time!
“Chatot! You're awake?” I ask.
“I've been awake for a bit, I just finally decided to get up” he says with a yawn “Oh and don't try to use one of those on me!”
I let out a giggle “Okay okay!”
“Now then, since both of you are awake I should be on my way. Now onto your duties.”
I begin listening more attentively, I don't want to mess this up!
“You'll be assigned at various posts throughout the resort. Chatot knows the resort grounds well enough. I assume he can be your guide” Chatot nods and he continues “but primarily your job will be to help our guests with any issues they might have, so you'll be walking the grounds. You'll work 5 days a week till 5pm when we stop getting new guests in for the day.”
“Okay I think I understand! Am I the only one that's gonna be doing this?”
“You're the only one whose job it is to do this, but no. Liam during the day does it as well and so do I. As I said we are short handed, so you may be asked to help in other areas. But don't stress, the work here is usually pretty laid back.”
“Got it! I'll do my best!” I say with a determined look on my face.
He smiles warmly “that's all we ask, as long as you are trying you won't be let go. You also have plenty of liberties with your work, and I am a very lenient man. If you ever need to take a day to yourself just let me know, chances are I'll approve it. Within reason of course, if you're asking everyday then, well even I'm that lenient.” He laughs.
“Haha, yeah I guess not. That makes sense! Thank you so so much!” I exclaim, man this was actually quite a stroke of good luck! I landed near a resort and got a job under a very kind hearted man.
“Oh yes, one final thing. Your payment. Even if you're only working to, as you put it, avoid taking advantage of us, you are still required to receive monetary payments. At the end of your working week go see the receptionist. She's the one that handles that. Your phone has a calendar so you can keep up with that.”
I wasn't expecting to get paid! I'm already getting enough!! But I guess it makes sense, I don't want him or anyone else getting in trouble for not paying me so I'll gladly accept it. “Gotcha! Thank you!”
He stands up to leave “no problem, now then. Get dressed, and head on down to the lobby. Your first assignment will actually be there. You'll meet our lovely receptionist and learn how to run the lobby. Good luck on your first day!” He says with a bow before leaving the room.
“Quite a lot to take in, your brain hasn't exploded from all that has it?” Chatot asks.
“No.. no I think I got it! Okay. So first day! Well be in the lobby! I'm actually sort of excited, is that weird?”
“Not as weird as falling from the sky” Chatot says with a snicker.
“Ah yeah.. but anyway” I stood up suddenly. “I'm going to go change, and then we'll head out!”
After I get changed Chatot hops onto my shoulder and we make our way to the lobby and over to the desk.
“Hello, Minori is it? I am Asami. It's a pleasure to meet you”
“Oh hello Asami! You as well, I was told I'd be working with you today.” I reply
“Hehe, only for a couple hours. By the way, your Pokémon.. is that..”
Before she could finish Chatot chimes in: “Yep, it's me. Surprised?”
Asami laughs softly “a little, how's he been treating you Minori?”
“Oh, so far he's been fine. He's got quite a notoriety huh?”
“Yep, come behind the desk. Today just watch me work and I'll explain what I'm doing, it's pretty easy work.” Asami says with a smile.
I walk behind the desk and nod “Okay, I'm ready!”
Asami talks me through what she does, showing me how she greets guests and how her Pokémon, helps her
“That Pokémon is a Kadabra” Chatot explains “it's known for its Psychic abilities, just watch”
“Okay Kadabra, please take Mr Brown's bags up to his room.”
“Kadabra!” It then lifts the bags into the air with its telekinesis and heads up the stairs as the guest follows.
“Whoa.. neat!” I exclaim.
Asami chuckles “Yeah he's a big help. Anyway that about does it. I am usually always able to work this position but think you know enough you could do it in my absence?”
I nod “Yeah totally, though I don't have any Pokémon other than Chatot that can help with carrying bags.. heh”
“I'm absolutely not going to be carrying bags” Chatot says as he crosses his wings.
“Hehe, that's fine. If you ever need help press this button, it'll summon one of the Pokémon bellhops” Asami explains.
“Oh handy! Okay then I think I'm set.”
“Good. Okay so your main job here is gonna be out on the island, so why don't you go out and see if anyone needs your help?”
“Got it! It was a pleasure meeting you Asami”
“You as well Minori” she bows and I exit from behind the desk as I bow back.
“Alright Chatot! Let's go!” I say exiting the lobby and walking down the path.
“I wonder what sort of things we'll be dragged into. You never know what kind of things happen around here.” Chatot chimes in.
I giggle “I can imagine, it's a popular resort it seems. Oh by the way, why's it called Undella resort?” I ask.
“Oh, right you're not from here. Long story short it's off the coast of a town by the same name. Undella. So the resort just uses that name, Undella town itself is sort of a beach resort but people like coming here as a getaway. It has more to do and is more relaxing.” Chatot explains.
“Ah, that makes sense. At least I understood everything you said that time” I say laughing softly.
Suddenly a child's voice calls me “miss! Miss!” He runs up to me.
I turn my attention towards him. “Yes? How may I help you?”
“Me and my friends need some beach balls! Where can we find em?”
Oh.. uh.. I don't.. know..
Chatot leans in my ear and whispers “say follow me, I'll guide you”
I nod “sure thing! Follow me” I say with a smile, as I face Chatot. Who nods and flies off my shoulder and flies off, me and the child follow him.
After a bit we arrive at a storage room and he lands back on my shoulder. He nods and gestures towards the storage room. And I walk over opening it.
“Is this the place miss?” The child asks.
Inside there's a lot of pool toys and floaties. I get out a couple of beach balls. “Sure is! How many did you need?”
“Yay!! Awesome!! Uh, about three would be good!”
I nod, and hand him the balls.
“Thank you miss!” The child giggles and runs off.
“Whew. Thanks Chatot! You sure helped me out.”
“But of course” he says with a light boast.
I simply giggle and we head towards the beach. Chatot pointing out some different Pokémon and telling me what they are. There's so many different unique species! It's fascinating. If not strange still, but I suppose I am slowly adjusting to the world.
Throughout the day we get asked to help more and more guests, all arranging from asking for directions, to help getting frisbees out of trees, one guy had us help put sunscreen on to which Chatot refused to help me with..
After a bit I start to feel exhausted and sit on a bench to catch my breath. “Whew.. what a day so far”
Chatot lets out a breath too “Yeah, and there's still plenty of daylight life” he says with a groan.
“At least you don't have to walk! My poor little legs..” I say with a whine.
“No one forced you to work ms ‘Oh no you're all being too nice’ besides, I've done plenty today to be exhausted! Who's been giving you directions all day?” Chatot said, no small amount of sass in his voice.
“Okay okay! Hehe point taken. I'm sorry..”
“No worries, now look alive. The owner is coming, and he has a child with him. Breaks over I suppose..” he says with an exaggerated sigh.
“Oh!” I jolted up suddenly. “Hello Sir!”
He laughs softly “hello Minori, hope your days been going well. We have a predicament. My young friend here has misplaced a Pokémon, I need your help looking for it.”
The young child sniffles “yeah.. my Bellossom.. she's missing. I..” The boy is on the verge of tears.
“There there. We'll find her.. don't you worry” Phineas says in a soothing voice as he pats the kids shoulder.
“Yeah, we'll find her in no time” I say, attempting to reassure him as well.
The boy smiles “thank you..”
“Minori, you start by checking the hiking trail. I'm gonna go find his parents and look around by the beach”
“Got it! Let's go Chatot” I say nodding, and head off towards the hiking trail.
“I thought entering the forest was forbidden?” I ask curiously.
“Not this one. This is more of a wooded area with a trail running through it. The forest you fell in is further south of the actual resort.” Chaot explains.
“Oh, that makes sense.” We arrive at the beginning of the trail. “By the way.. what does Bellossom look like?” I say stepping on the path.
“I'll point it out if I see one as usual, but it's a tiny green Pokémon with flowers on its head”
“Green? Great… it'll be like finding a needle in a haystack..” I whine..
“Yep. Lucky us..” Chatot says with a groan.
As we walk we eventually lap around the trail with no luck. We make our way back to the start. “Okay, I think we may have to go off trail to have some luck. There's plenty of space in there for Pokémon to hide in” Chatot suggests.
“Isn't that against the rules?” I ask.
“Well yeah, but someone's Pokémon is missing! And we're employees.. you wanna find it right?” Chatot explains, making a good point.
“Yeah that's.. hey! Isn't that a Bellossom?” As I point it out it disappears off the trail and I follow.
“That was! After it, it could be the one we're looking for!”
I follow the Pokémon deeper in the woods and eventually.. “ahh!!” Chatot and I exclaim as I trip and I land in some mud.
“Owww..”
“Oh my poor feathers..”
I sit back up as Chatot flies in front of my face.
“YOU KLUTZ!!!”
“Eek!! I'm sorry!” Chatot is also covered in mud as he lands back on my shoulder.
“We lost it.. just keep going.. maybe we can find it.” He says with a sigh.
“Right.. right.. I'm so sorry Chatot…” I say walking in the direction I last saw it.
“Its okay.. I need a bath later though…”
We keep walking, the sun starting to set. And we feel thoroughly lost, the wooded area is actually pretty immense and deep, and there's tons of Pokémon. And I have absolutely no idea where we came from.
“What time is it Minori?”
“Oh, one sec-” i pull out my phone and see it's battery died. “Oh no!!!”
“Ack!! What!!! It's dead!!??” Chatot says frantically, flapping his wings.
“Hey stop that!!” I bat at him “I didn't realize.. it must have not had a full charge when I left!” I groan. As I put it back in my pocket..
“Great.. that's just great.. lost, phones dead.. and no sign of..” he stops talking suddenly.
“What's the matter?” I ask curiously.
He points his wing, and I follow the direction and I see. Gasp! A Bellossom! “Oh! Perfect! Let's follow it” I start walking towards it and it continues on, and eventually leads us to a clearing where several other Bellossom are.
“Whoa. That's a lotta Bellossom.”
The one we were following joined the others and they all started.. dancing in sync
“Oh wooow..” I sit down and watch them in awe.
They continue for a while before noticing us, and stop suddenly. They all cower slightly..
“Oh no! We don't-” I start before Chatot stops me.
“Let me” he flies over.
“I'm sorry, we don't mean any harm. My friend and I have been searching for a lost Bellossom. Do any of you belong to a trainer? He misses you dearly.”
The Bellossom calms down immediately and talks amongst themselves, then addresses Chatot.
“Bellossom..” it shakes its head.
“I see, thank you” Chatot flies back over to me. “None of them belong to a trainer, and none of them have seen one that may be a trainer's either.” He says and sighs..
“Oh noo…. What do we do…?” I say sadly.. sighing deeply.
“Its late.. let's head back.. maybe we'll have better luck tomorrow..” Chatot says deflectedly..
I nod, I know he's right.. but still.. I get up and start walking the same direction we came from.
“Oh right, we're lost.. how will we..?”
“Just keep walking.. we'll eventually find the trail..” he says.
I nod, and do as he says.. eventually we do find the trail just as he says, and we follow it til we're back at the resort.
“I'm glad we found our way back. But.. that poor kid.. oh he must be so devastated..” I say.
“Yeah… poor kid.. better tell the chairman the bad news..”
The two of us eventually arrive at the main building and enter the resort. Where we see Phineas laughing and talking with Asami.
“Ah Minori! Welcome! Where have you been? I've tried to call several times.” He says as cheery as ever.
“Oh chairman.. I'm sorry!! My phone was dead and..” before I continued he stopped me.
“Ah that explains it, well I was calling to let you know that Ray actually found the Bellossom an hour or so after we parted ways.”
“What?” Chatot and I say in unison.
Phineas laughs “yeah, apparently it was in the kitchen the whole time!”
I feel my eyes twitching and I notice Chatots eye is as well.
“Thats.. great!” I say feigning a smile. Trying to sound unbothered by that.
“Isn't it! Haha, now why don't you go get changed and meet in the cafeteria, there's a dinner theratre tonight! My treat for all the staff.” With that, he heads off.
“Minori” Chatot chimes in, his voice sounding as dead as I feel.
“Yes Chatot?”
“How about. We pretend. That didn't happen?”
“Agreed…”
A few hours later, Chatot and I got changed/cleaned up. We enjoy the showtime theater then head back up. It unsurprisingly did little to lift our spirits after the nightmare we went through. But all that really matters is he was reunited with his Pokémon. Chatot and I enter our room again and he flies to his chair.
I head to the bathroom to take a shower and notice my old torn shirt still.. I just can't throw it away.. maybe I can see if someone can fix it, I'll try tomorrow.. all I want now is a nice shower and some sleep.
After I shower up I change into some pajamas and exit the bathroom.
“What a day..” I say with a heavy sigh and sit down on the bed.
“You're telling me, they ran us ragged! But its done now.. thankfully..”
“Yeah.. hey Chatot. I've been meaning to ask something..about you.”
Chatot looks at me and nods “Sure, what's on ya mind?”
“Well. Why do you suppose you're from another world? I mean, you're a Pokémon after all. You fit in rather nicely I'd say, unlike me. Who's never even seen a Pokémon!”
“Ah you do make a good point, however. Its beyond a shadow of a doubt to me. I have some of my memories of my old trainer.. I remember where I learned to talk, and when we met.. and a few of our adventures. Then I just woke up here. I clearly wasn't born here..” Chatot explains.
“I see.. well about your old trainer.. is it possible he abandoned you here?”
Chatot flaps furiously in my face “Absolutely impossible!! Don't say that about him! ” He calms down and flies back over to his chair and huffs “he'd be absolutely lost without me so no, he'd never.”
“Sorry sorry!! I really wanna believe you on that.. it'd be awful if that was the case…
“I assure you, he was far too kind to do that and, he reminds me of you in some ways actually.”
“Oh, he does?” Its honestly so cute hearing Chatot defend him so vigorously, and I wonder what Chatot meant by that, maybe he meant.. he thinks I'm kind and honorable.. that'd be sweet.
“Yeah, he was an airhead klutz just like you!”
“What!!? Chatot!!!” I say flustered, how rude of him!
He laughs for a bit then composes himself “I couldn't help myself.. haha sorry. But yeah, I'm absolutely certain the two of us must have been separated.”
“I see, well.. outta curiosity what was his name?”
“His name? Oh that's easy it was… hmm.. well. It started with a D. Or.. did it start with an L?.. odd.. why can't I remember? Hmm.. well his name is not important! Whats important are the memories.. which I also barely have…”
This bird.. I swear, can't even remember his name!! “I see.. how long have you been here?”
“Around 3 years” he answers.
“3 years!? That's a long time!!”
“Indeed, but that doesn't matter. I'm positive we'll both find a way home.. and I believe the Pokémon that brought you here, is also why I'm here”
“You think so..? But when you were brought over you lost your memories.. I didn't, are you sure it was the same one?”
“Well. It's possible something happened to me in my world before I was sent to this one that caused me amnesia, that's just a theory of course but I think it's plausible.. I also vaguely remember a ring, but I don't remember the Pokémon, I didn't get a good look.. but you did.”
“Right.. it was short and pink.. with horns.. and has stubby little arms, with a tail underneath is body. Sound familiar?” I ask
“....not at all” Chatot says matter of factly.
“WHAT!? You're a ‘living encyclopedia’ how do you not know this?!”
“Oh I'm sorry, were you familiar with every species of animal in your world?!” Chatot snaps back, flapping frantically.
“That's… no..” hmph, I gotta stop losing these arguments to a bird!
“Exactly.. my knowledge is limited, and I've never seen or heard of a Pokémon like that.. but maybe we can find someone who can.. there's a Pokémon on the island, one known as Lucario.”
“Lu..cario?” I ask optimistically.
“That's right, allegedly this one is a brilliant gold color and is well attuned with aura, so much so he's revered as a God to the Pokémon that live here, he may know the answer.. if not, he can certainly point us to someone that does.”
“So, we should go meet this Lucario..?”
“That's right, worth a shot anyway. Only..”
“Only.. what..?”
“He lives in the forest you fell into. I'll work on thinking of a way to get in there.. but that may be hard…”
“Right.. it's forbidden.. and has guards guarding it..” I sigh dejectedly.
“Hey, for now just focus on your day to day. I'll work something out!” Chatot says with a boast.
I couldn't help but giggle “thanks Chatot. I'll try.”
Chatot nods. “Now I suppose we should get some rest.
I nod and lay down, getting some rest sounds good. Lucario huh..? I wonder what kind of Pokémon that is.. and if he can help.. Chatot says I should just focus on my day to day for now, and I guess that's fair.. won't do any good stressing over it, I wanna get home quickly but that may not happen.. I guess for now I should just try to focus on my job.. but.. I miss home, I guess Chatot probably does too. He's been here for 3 years.. I sure hope I'm not here that long. After all, I need to get back so I can work on being an idol! I want to spread hope and happiness to everyone! But heh, getting ahead of myself. I guess I should just get some sleep. Tomorrow will always be a better day.