Isle Connections

Ch3 Trials Ahead

(In case anyone was wondering about where this story breaks off, this side story breaks off around chapters 30-31 of Love Doesn't Do Encores/A Champion Time For The Heart. Also thanks to everyone who sent in pokemon suggestions for this story. The most I've gotten was a ponytail so that's what I went with.)

Well you knew now why Gloria brought along Victor's old camera and plenty of film rolls. The next morning you were woken up to a banging on your door. Groggily, you pulled yourself out of bed with Silver grumbling from the floor next to the bed. You answered it to Gloria beaming brightly up to you widely wearing a black and yellow uniform of some sort.

"Mornin', Y/n!," she greeted brightly, "Ya ready ta go?"

You yawned reaching out to rub your face. "Go where? And where'd you get the uniform?"

"Ms. Honey gave it to me! Said I needed ta wear the dojos uniform while here. An' to go explorin' duh! We're not doing anything til this Friday so we got some free time to settle in."

Oh right. Mr. Mustard wanted to give Gloria a week to settle in and learn the routines around here before they started any training exercises. That whole week you both spent talking to the many others training at the dojo and most of them were actually really friendly and nice people. You sometimes caught sight of Klara but one glare from you seemed to have her only speaking a few lines of passive aggressive words disguised as a sweet smile usually having you both exchanging looks before she walked off. Weird woman. You didn't see much of Avery either. Often hearing that he preferred to go out finding different pokemon to battle to 'give his psychic perfection a real challenge.' You weren't sure about those two.

"Doesn't those two seem familiar to ye?", Gloria piped up one day while doing her share of chores. "Avery n' Klara."

Also during the week Gloria was getting settled in, she had been doing her share of chores posted on the board by Ms. Honey. That particular day Gloria was assigned to help a few other people clean and mop the dojo's main training room. You always helped despite never being assigned chores, after all you weren't a student at the dojo so you didn't have to do chores but you felt awkward just being there for free without doing something in return so you always helped Gloria with whatever she was assigned to do that day. So currently you were helping to wipe off some of the training equipment as Gloria swept the floor near you. A few other people were also sweeping, mopping, or cleaning the training equipment too. Avery being one of them. The blonde man was currently standing there watching as a levitating moo ring itself out above a bucket of water before starting to mop the floor in front of him again.

.... Seriously. HOW was he able to do that?

"Hm...Now that you mention it, I do think we've seen them somewhere before but I can't put my finger in it."

"Neither can I. It's like a really weird case of deja vu."

It was weird. You could've sworn you saw them somewhere before but ..where? We're they previously NPCs back in the game when you were still in your own world? Were they unlockable characters back in your world? Maybe you saw them somewhere else during the league challenge? You would've thought you would've remembered them though. Especially Avery. A guy with a giant top hat and psychic powers was hard to forget. Oh well. You shouldn't worry about it now. You should just focus on helping Glory and keep an eye on them. Later that week Friday morning came and everyone was summoned into the dojos training room after breakfast. You and Gloria joined all the others with little Silver following behind you looking bored as always. Klara and Avery were there too and you made sure to keep a close eye on them. Mr. Mustard laughed with a bright smile.