Frozen Resolve

Chapter 6 : Catnip

"Fortunately, I was the only one around there...but I do plan on giving you a little help, considering that you're by far one of my favorite students I've had" he replied with a smile. "Th-thanks for th-the c-compliment, Chatot...b-but p-please...m-make it short" I blurted out. "Alright, so now I'm going to give you these magazines...be sure to check them out when you need to" he squawked and beaked me a few magazines in a small black bag. "Wh-what d-do you mean by that? A-and wh-why are these stored in the safe?" I asked as I slowly got a bad feeling about it. "Don't worry about it, you can check them out back in your room or a restroom, be sure not to let Matt and Bakey see them"

"Guildmaster, I need a little help here. Could you please do me a favor by holding these for a moment while I squeeze my way out?" I asked. "No problem, friendly friend" Guildmaster replied and took over the bag...then opened the bag and took a look at what was inside. "Oh~" he muttered. "Guildmaster, what's in it?" I asked. "You'll have to figure it out back in your room...and probably in the middle of the night when your roommates are sleeping"

"Hey, uncle!" Matt called out when I picked up the two of them at the entrance of the guild. "Hey guys, how was your day?" I asked. "Not bad, but nothing special...by the way, what's that black bag in your paws?" Bakey asked. "Oh...I don't know, haven't checked on it yet, but Guildmaster told me to check on it in the night?" I replied. "Can we take a look at it?" Matt asked. "Sure, Chatot told me not to...but I guess letting you guys have a little peek would hurt"

"And...you better give me a proper explanation about what you did to me this morning" I growled at the two. "What did we do?" Matt asked while Bakey was busily peeping at what was in the bag. "The whole pokecenter thing, you two made me waste a fortune there! Plus I have to work extra on the weekend!" I yelled at them. "Oh~"

"What do you mean Oh~? You better make up for the poke' I spent there, that's my salary for the entire month!" I yelled at them. "I'm sure it's no big deal, uncle. You're pretty rich, and if you punish us, we might tell Icy about it" Matt said with a grin. "WHAT!? NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!"

"Wow...Spark, your magazines seem...pretty interesting..." Bakey muttered while he was busy with the bag of magazines. "I thought you only liked comics" I wondered out loud. "Where did you buy these?" he asked. "Chatot gave them to me, I haven't looked yet, but feel free to read them if you're interested in them" I replied. "Can I show these to mom and dad?" he asked. "Sure, go ahead"

"Um hello...? I know that the business hours are over but is Mr.Frost here?" I asked as I pushed open the door and padded into the building. Bakey didn't return to the guild after telling me that he'd take a trip to Freezing Electric Express, so I had to come here to take him back.

"Welcome Spark, I see that you've lent Bakey some interesting books...it's quite generous of you to do this" Frost said as he padded towards me with a smile. "I always thought that he only read comic books, so it would be my pleasure to lend him some of them," I said with a small blush. "Those magazines you got there limited edition, did you know that?" Frost asked. "Wait, really? Wow, I have to thank Chatot, I'm glad that he was kind enough to give me these"

"Also...it's pretty late, may I ask you if I can take Bakey back to the guild? Chatot is going to be extremely mad if I don't take him back right away" I said to him. "Of course, but you might have to wait for a few minutes since my wife is having a word with him," Frost said with a smile. "Oh, another thing I almost forgot about. I just received a letter from Icy and your sister, would you like to read it with me? It's on my desk right now" he offered. "Yes! Of course, I'd like to!"

"Mom! Please, I'm not lying! I wasn't peeping on anything I'm not supposed to be looking at!" a familiar voice came from the room next to us. "You're not supposed to be reading this until you're as old as your sister!" another voice yelled, a few drops of anxiousness dropped down from my forehead after hearing the mother-son conversation. "Is anything bad going on in there?" I asked quietly. "I'm sure everything is fine, it's just that those books you got have an age limit, and Bakey was caught when he was reading that underage" Frost whispered. "Books with an age limit...? What kind of books would those be?" I wondered.

"Nope...nope...nope...this one," Frost said as he fumbled through the letters. "What does it say?" I asked excitedly as Frost breathed out a small shard of ice and carefully cut the letter open. "Hey dad, please show this to Spark! We've already settled down here and got a house for ourselves! A big mushroom house, we even made some new friends around here...I'm so proud of you sweetheart..." Frost read the note and rubbed off a few tears from his teary eyes.

"We've even formed a team for ourselves, we call it The Glistening Hope! Blossom is now the chief of the team while 4 other new friends joined us to build our Paradise...Spark...please help me continue from here...I'm gonna burst into tears..." Frost said and pawed me the note while he rubbed more tears out of his eyes.

"Hey Spark, how are you doing back in Treasure Town? I hope you're doing great...especially with my annoying brother bothering you all the time...thanks Icy!" I said with a smile and kept reading. "Are you going to visit us anytime soon? I'm excited about it...wait, really?" I exclaimed as my heartbeat accelerated.

"Other than that, Blossom got a boyfriend!...wait what? Sis got a boyfriend...with such a weird personality?" I wondered out loud as I went on. "Probably not a boyfriend...yet, but she's pretty fond of him! I'm not sure whether Randy likes her yet...his name is Randy...? But I'll try to get the two of them together since both of them are weirdos in their ways...hey! How dare you say that about my sister? Weird in their own good ways...oh~just check on the photo I took when they were asleep!...photo?" I finished reading the letter, then a photo came sliding out from the back of it.

"They look so sweet!" Frost spoke from behind while the two of us looked at the photo, where my sister was sleeping with her head buried in the neck fluff of a Rockruff. "Yeah, they sure do," I said with a smile while my eyes started watering just like Frost's. "But a Rockruff in that kind of place? I've never heard of Rockruffs living on the Mist continent...but forget about that, I'm glad that my sister made a new friend"

"Okay, Spark. I think it might be time for you to go, remember to take these magazines back with you! I see that you've got some requirements just like me when I was your age, feel free to ask me for more if you need them!" Frost said with a smile while I sat there confused. "I'll go fetch Bakey, you can take a break while I do that"

"Alright...I can finally take my stupid medicine and take a look at what Chatot gave me in that bag" I said with a sigh after making sure that my two roommates were sound asleep on their beds. "Ugh...you have to be strong, Spark...here goes nothing..." I said to myself and swallowed my medicine with some water.

"Let me check if this medicine has any side effects," I thought to myself and took out the prescription receipt. "What?! Side effects...more wet dreams to reduce stress from work?!" I almost screamed when I saw what was written on it...I could already feel myself using slowly learning Harden through the TM and feeling lightheaded after reading it.

"...I'm checking on what Chatot gave me, hopefully, the magazines are going to be really interesting and make me feel a lot better...yeah, Frost seemed to know about what they were, they were even limited edition! They must be really good!" I thought to myself and took out one of the magazines...

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"CHATOT! WHAT IN THE FRICKING FRICK DID YOU GIVE ME?!"

(end of chapter 6)

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That's the end of the chapter, hope you guys enjoyed it! Sorry for my bad grammar and the last part being extremely lewd, don't take any of those things seriously, it's all a story. I've been really busy recently and I'm also going to be busy for a while. Other than that, I also have to thank Prith Kyriedark, a friend I've met online for helping me come up with weird ideas in the story. That's all I have to say I guess, cya next time!

(Also, honestly, I still like Explorers Of Sky more than the other mystery dungeon games, with Gates To Infinity coming in second place)