PMD Travelers- Pacem City part 1

Apparently I have fun messing with friends.

"Silver," Shinx said in a suddenly calm tone "I will shove your ears down your throat so you can HEAR THAT ANNOYING QUESTION OVER AND OVER AGAIN!"

"That's nice," I said with a cocky smile "I like the sound of my voice."

With those words, I swear I saw his face turn from blue to red. I was having a hard time trying to contain laughter, so I settled for just doing a Me Gusta instead. I was incredibly bored after we packed up the campsite, and I needed something to do. Now I was entertained, and Shinx had smoke coming out of his ears.

Mission. Accomplished.

Off in the distance, and by distance I mean between the legs of everyone taller than one foot which was almost everyone, a city was materializing on the landscape. From what I saw, there were a variety of structures, and the city itself was fairly large. On top of that, I smelled food. Good food! Spices, sugars, and a warm breeze to carry it all was a meal for the nose.

"You're drooling." Shinx snickered

Realizing he was right, I wiped my chin with my paw and shook off the saliva.

"This place is known to be in a climate where it's warm almost all year round. This time of the year, they hold a cooking contest at around this time. I heard that the spectators are the judges, so we get to taste everything!" he started bouncing.

"I was in one of their contests before." I turned away from Shinx and saw a snivy.

"You were?" Shinx asked "What's your name?"

"Herva. I participated in last year's contest."

She had an accent. It sounded kind of funny.

"Were you the one who won third place for your Leppa Granola pie?"

"That was me." she said proudly. "I lost by twelve votes. The reason I decided to become a traveler is because I wanted to find out what I would do for each year. Finding different ingredients should bring inspiration no?"

"Did you become a traveler last year?" I asked.

"No darling, I became one two years ago." She called me "Darling". I was laughing on the inside.

"Why are you traveling with a guild then?" Shinx asked.

"Is there not safety in numbers? Plus, I'm not powerful enough yet to become a Wanderer."

"Is that the next rank?" I asked

"Just for solo explorers." Shinx replied "For teams there's Members, that's what we are now, then there's Runners, Backpackers, and Wayfarers. For solo travelers, there's Student, Wanderer, and Explorer."

"Oui." Herva said "The way you advance in ranks is by traveling to different parts of the world. When you visit a town, city, village, park, etc., you visit a place called Traveler's Rock. It's a small building or tent that that records where you've been. Since you're a new team, Conkeldurr will go to the Traveler's Rock in Pacem City and put you two down as a team. When he's done, visit Traveler's Rock and show that you've been here. When you visit five different places, you advance one rank."

"Quite the system they-." I replied.

"One more thing," she interrupted "on your first visit, you receive a passport that you can put stamps in of wherever you've been." she pulled out a small and green book "I've visited four places so far."

"What places?" Shinx asked.

"Let us take a look shall we?" she opened up the passport "Pacem City, Mirabitur Canyon, I__is Pl___s, and ___t__ium __re_t."

When she said Mirabitur Canyon, my vision and hearing started to not corporate with me again. The world swirled and turn yet again. I couldn't hear anything other than what sounded like a massive windstorm. When the nauseating world stopped spinning, I saw a cave with almost nothing in it besides rocks. My ears decided to cooperate when I heard something move. A small indent in the wall was getting larger slowly. When it was large enough for someone to squeeze through, I suddenly felt incredibly cold. My fur crawled all over and I got goose-bumps from the eeriness in the temperature. The world began to shift and swirl once again, but before I could still tell I was in a cave, a voice sounding like claws on a chalkboard screamed,

"Silver? Silver?"

I was still walking subconsciously.

"Yeah?" I replied.

"Are you OK?" Shinx asked "You conked out. Plus, your hair is on end."

I looked like a grey porcupine. I shook myself until my fur was back to normal again.

"I'm fine." I lied "Just some nostalgia."

"OK." he replied. "We were trying to say that we're at the Pacem City gates."

I looked up. A large iron gate was supported by stone columns with a large pendant at the top of each column. The gates creaked open slowly, then accelerated and stopped when the gates were parallel.

Food heaven here I come!