Dark Arts and Dark Minds

Chapter 2: An Urgent Notice

*Photon's POV*

It's been a whole hour- how long are those two going to stay in there?! I thought to myself, Beta looking at me curiously.

"Do you think they're alright?!" she asked, growing a little impatient. Alpha put his arm around her,

"Just give them time, Sis. Remember, this is Risk and Riku we're talking about- nothing can kill them!" The Mawile stifled a nervous laugh, until Beta clocked him, square in the chest.

"Hey, what was that for..." Alpha started, but was quickly silenced.

"Don't talk about them like that- if they were in trouble, and we weren't there to help them..." she cut off, shedding a small tear.

"I don't know what I would do if something happened to either of them..."

"Well," I told Beta, determined to keep the peace between the twins,

"I'll go check on them- be back in a second!" I said, casually walking towards our team's quarters. However, when I poked my head into the bedroom area, I could not find either Risk or Riku.

Panicked, I called both of their names, my voice strained with stress,

"Risk?... Riku?! Are you still here? Can you hear me?!" I began to overturn each and every item in the room, but the Riolu and Shaymin were nowhere to be found.

Alpha and Beta heard the noise and came running,

"What's happened?!" Alpha barked. He looked around the room and was subsequently as perplexed as I was,

"They're... Gone?! But, how- we were outside the entrance to this corridor the whole time!" I could tell Beta was on the verge of tears, so I tried to calm her down with a solution,

"Well, we can try asking around the Guild- maybe someone saw..." I was interrupted by a loud squawking from outside, and I remembered,

That's right... We had a summons with the Guildmaster, didn't we? Well, no use wasting time here- perhaps we will find something useful from Wigglytuff...

"That bird... He makes too much noise... But maybe our summons will prove to be useful..." Alpha mused.

"My thoughts exactly," I echoed him, and we left for the Guildmaster's Room.

Once inside, Chatot was not happy with us,

"You're late! Squawk! How hard is it to be punctual to a summons from the Guildmaster himself?! Why, if you're late again..."

"Chatot!" Wigglytuff seemed to be taken aback,

"Don't be so rude! These are our guests, and they came here of their own free will!" he scolded the bird, before instantly cheering up again,

"Besides, I bet whatever they were doing was very important- right, Chatot?"

"!.. Y... Yes, I am sure it was!" the bird replied in alarm.

"Ahem, anyway... Crusaders, I called you here to discuss a few matters concerning the Necromancer..."

I stared at Wigglytuff intently, knowing that we need this information desperately.

I am beginning to fear that this "Necromancer" has taken those two... Even if we have to circle the world, we will find you- Risk, Riku!

"So, about the Necromancer- we think we have a lead on where this dastardly Pokemon may be. Recently, I received a message from a rescue team that operates in another region. Here, let me read it to you,