Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Twisted Space

Interlude: Conversations Under the Moonlight

"Well it's about time Azure!" Auris rebuked him for being late.

The Lucario casually stepped into the office, shutting the door behind him. Laurel stood behind her desk and Auris sat in front of her, arms crossed, glaring at him.

"My apologies," he spoke softly and sincerely. "Our preparations took much longer than I expected."

Auris rolled her eyes, "There's always an excuse with you, isn't there?"

"What matters is that I am here now. I believe it is finally time to address what happened today."

"Yeah, we've waited long enough for you anyways."

Azure ignored Auris and shifted his focus to Laurel, "Recount how you met the two members of Team Inferno for me."

Laurel nodded, "Fallen barged into my office in a panic. When I noticed him, I did my best to calm him down. Apparently, he had gotten lost on his way to the request board with his friends. He told me he had lost his memory, and so I helped him find his friends, Vigil and that Jigglypuff, as well as had Auris try and fish out whatever he had forgotten."

"But, that backfired," Auris continued. "Something was keeping me from unearthing his dormant memories. It was unlike any barrier I had ever seen before."

"Describe it to me," Azure commanded.

"It was a giant blue fire, an inferno. It's almost ironic they chose such a name for their team. I managed to put a dent into it, but once I did, it created a giant shockwave and sent all of us towards the walls, aside from Fallen."

"So that was the disturbance I felt," Azure thought. "The blue fire...tell me, did it glow similarly to the guild marks?"

"In a way, I guess it did," Auris remembered, staring at the guild mark that churned over her paw. "But it was much stronger. And besides, an aura barricade is child's play, even if it's yours Azure."

"I see. Did you manage to find out how he came to Herbon?"

Auris shook his head, "His first memory is of him waking up and...falling from the sky."

"He fell from the sky?" Laurel gasped. "How in Arceus' name is he walking?"

"Their Jigglypuff friend is from a family of doctors. They patched him up and had him down a Snorlax's fill of Oran Berries. Anyways, I assumed a flying-type pokémon probably dropped him, but that didn't make any sense. He would've remembered, at least for a short time, being carried by a Pokémon. Where could he have come from?"

"Well, maybe the incident at Lookout Peak might shed some light into that," Laurel added.

"Maybe," Auris hoped. "Did you manage to squeeze out any more information from Vigil?"

Azure shook his head, "I decided against pressing the child. Although he seems excited and adventurous on the exterior, his aura is the exact opposite. I did not want to force up those terrible memories. He has had enough to deal with over the past day."

"Well then, how are we going to know what happened, Azure? It was your job to get Vigil to tell you what he saw!" Auris asked angrily.

"Yes, yes, I know what I was supposed to do, and I failed. But I would rather not harm the child in the process of selfishly attaining information."

Auris shook her head, "It's not selfish if it means keeping the rest of the world safe! Sacrifices have to be made for the greater good! You should know that better than anyone here!"

"There is no further reason to argue this. We cannot change the decision I made. You two will have to investigate Lookout Peak, or rather, what's left of it."