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"Over here!" She called, waving Allen over in her direction.
Maddy was walking along the displays, peering at their contents. She then came across a set of stairs that lead upstairs into darkness. She could hear footsteps up on the floor above her.
"Hey? You guys? Come over here!"
She took a Pokeball off her belt.
"Let's explore upstairs. If you have a Pokemon that can conjure fire or some source of light, use it to help expand our field of vision."
She let out her Fletchinder.
"Use Flame Charge, but minus the charging."
The little bird's body lit up with fire, helping to brighten the area as they traveled up the staircase.

[Use one Pokemon to help brighten the area. Said Pokemon will earn it's evo point for the RP if it hasn't already.]

Allen held up Cecil's Pokeball, and in a bright light, out came his Reuniclus. "C'mon" He nodded as Allen caught up. He looked up the dark stairway, "All my time in Kalos and I've never been inside this place." He shrugged and turned to Cecil, "Use Flash to help." He nodded, and lit up, his gel turning it into a warm glow that wasn't harsh on the eyes. They followed Maddy.

"All these interruptions is ruinning my cleaning sessions." Reaper said meeting up with everyone up the stairs. "Battle a Ghost Type. Should be easy enough." He said as he sent out his Staravia. A Pumpkaboo noticed what was going on and prepared to battle Staravia.

~Battle Start~

Staravia attacked with Brave Bird, striking Foe Pumpkaboo hard, dealing great damage, but suffering minor recoil damage. Foe Pumpkaboo attacked with Charge Beam, striking Staravia for moderate damage, and increasing it's Sp.Atk a bit. Staravia attacked with Brave Bird again, striking Pumpkaboo for high damage but suffering minor recoil damage. Pumpkaboo(Sp.Atk1) attacked with Charge Beam again, but missed. Staravia attacked with Aerial Ace, finishing Pumpkaboo off. Afterwards it ran out of the castle. "Good job Staravia. Rest up." He said, returning Staravia to the Pokeball and watched everyone else's battles.

Allen noticed the Ghosties up ahead, "Oh boy." One looked to be out for blood, though. A Honedge was hacking and slashing loudly through the air, only just missing the man. "Dolstro!" Allen called out his Frogadier, who's skin glistened brightly when he hit the ground, it also appeared to be holding Allen's Lucky Egg, "Water Pulse!" Dolstro swung his arms around in a wide motion, bringing together a large ball of water out of the air and condensing it into a tiny ball, he tossed it at the Honedge who tried to shield itself using it's sheath, but to no avail. It was knocked to the ground, clattering along the floor, it stood again, pushing itself up with it's cloth, it gave a metallic ringing noise, sounding very angry somehow. It shot from it's sheath, Slashing across Dolstro's chest, causing some massive damage. Allen whipped out a Luxury Ball, tossing it down the hallway, hitting the hilt of the blade-like Pokemon.
,,Wriggle''
,,Wriggle''
,,Wriggle''
.......Ding!
The Luxury ball turned into a thin beam of light before disappearing completely. Allen turned to find his teammates finished with their battles already.

"You already know what my choice is for this." Reaper said before he and his two Pokemon Crawdaunt and Combusken went back to cleaning the place. Crawdaunt shot small amounts of water like a spray bottle as Reaper mopped the areas. Combusken tagged along with Reaper in mopping the floors.

Maddy clapped her hands together and turned towards the man.
"Then, I speak for the rest of the team! What do you think, kind sir?"
The man eyed them strangely.
"Who are you guys, anyways?" Was his question.
Maddy's green eye glinted a little underneath her eye patch, shining through the fabric a bit.
"We're just a group of people who want to make a difference in the world, in a good way." She didn't want to tell him they were Team Aqua, in case news had reached from Hoenn.
"It's hard to house so many people. We're currently staying at a hotel in Lumiose City, but it's hard on our funds."
The man nodded. "Well, I won't charge you to stay here. I only ask that you do me favors when I need them and to clean this place up and make it presentable."
He reached out a hand for Maddy to shake.
She gladly grasped his hand.
"Sir, when we're done here, this place will be flocked with tourists just begging to spend their money."
"Perfect! I'll leave you guys to move your stuff in then. The rooms on this floor should be good enough for now. I'll take my leave and I'll have a whole bunch of cleaning supplies and tools waiting for you guys in the main hall tomorrow morning."
With that, the man left.
Maddy turned to her companions. "Gave us a lot more work, but I think I just took my first big step as Leader in securing our new base."

Yamato walked toward the Camphrier Town after receiving the message from Maddy that Team Aqua had chosen a new place for HQ.
"It should be around here, somewhere" he looked around the town and spotted an old-looking castle. He entered it and saw that most of the castle was covered in dust "When I heard that they found a castle for us to live in, I thought it would be nicer than this. It doesn't have to be like ones in fairy tales, though, but at least it should be less dusty"
He opened a door and decided to make it his room. He sent out all of his Pokémon
"Guys, let's clean this place until it is sparkling"

Reaper, Crawdaunt, and Combusken feel asleep on the stairs from all the work they did dusting the castle off and cleaning it. Of course they still weren't finished, but as they continued to clean, they had passed out. Staravia came out of his Pokeball from inside the room Reaper claimed to be his and walked around the place, observing the entire castle.