Twins of kalos (5th place in Adventure) PWA 2018

Chapter 18: Daycare*

Shauna gasped loudly while leaning on the tall gates of the daycare center she, Trevor, Tierno, Calem and I, walked to together. She was amazed to see that one of Serena's Pokémon were staying here

"It's Gloomy!" She cried. Calem sneezed, already feeling better after Shauna gave him the medicine. His cold vanished, only barely, but at least all he does is sneeze a bit and had a runny nose "look guys! It's Gloomy!" Shauna cried to the boys

"I know, that's why we walked you guys here with us" Trevor said "We noticed Serena's Gloomy behind this fence, so Tierno and I went to ask the daycare couple about it. They said someone dropped off her Pokémon here after she was announced missing" I walked over to him

"What did you say?" I grabbed his shoulder tightly, making him blue and stiff "did you say after?" He nodded quickly "how does that make sense?"

"Easy there" Tierno raised his hands to calm me. I snapped my head to him, glaring hard to intimidate him "u-uh... you shouldn't take your anger out on him. Don't shoot the messenger! That's what we were told!" I let go of the boy's shoulder to listen "maybe who ever kidnapped Serena didn't want her Pokémon getting involved, so they took them here?"

"Don't be stupid" I hissed. Calem stood next to me

"The Pokémon don't seem in any stress. If someone else brought them here, they wouldn't look as relaxed as they do now"

"They?" Shauna asked. Calem pointed at a Venusaur and Empoleon. I gasped at the Empoleon, remembering that was the same Pokémon, in its final form at least, Serena left with to Kalos when she first left "those are her Pokémon too!"

"Why are most of her Pokémon here..?" Trevor asked "we didn't even see them"

"And can't you only drop off two Pokémon at a time?" I held my chin at Tiernos question

"There's a chance they were still in their capsules when brought here... but what doesn't make sense was that they were dropped here after her disappearance? Either someone she knew dropped them off when knowing they couldn't take care of them, or she kept her Pokémon away so she could meet you guys without having too much Pokémon to carry, or the records might had used a wrong date when dropping them before, not after, or..." I kept thinking "if I can look into their security cameras to when her Pokémon were dropped off, we might get some clues on who brought them here" I snapped my fingers at Z "get some data, now" it obeyed and went off to speak to Serena's Pokémon.

The group talked about the things I said as I spaced off, walking to the fence to stare at Serena's Pokémon. My eyes stopped at Empoleon looking at me after Z was done talking to it, and it slowly walked over. I jumped on the fence to sit on, watching it make a good distance from me. This Pokémon was a Piplup when I last saw it back in Sinnoh, and knew before anyone else that I was scared of it

"It's been awhile..." I said. It nodded "you've grown so much. You're strong"

"Em" I nodded

"Do you have any useful information to where we can find Serena? Did you tell Z?" It nodded "thank you..." I raised my arm towards it "I'm... glad you're doing well" it stared at my hand surprised. When taking a step forward, I shook and moved away "guess I haven't changed..." it frowned as I jumped back on the grass, where I can see Calem frowning at me. I ignored him and walked into the daycare place with everyone going inside first to investigate

The place was rather small with a few tables and a tv with a desk against the wall leading to another room and possibly the exit to the outside of the daycare yard. My eyes caught a glimpse of a missing poster for a odd looking Pokémon with wild white hair