[Spruce] I was about to finish off the last sneasel, even having a one-liner ready just for that, however... that murkrow dive-bombed into him, instead, finishing him off for me, and taking the final KO himself. "Say... who exactly are you, mystery murkrow?" I ask the murkrow, having not heard anything about him, and having not even seen him until recently. "...Daniel..." he said to me with some hesitation. He then continued with "Also... I'm a shadow pokemon," I took a few steps back with that, not wanting to shake his wing, even though he did offer at that point. Instead, I shouted "ANTHONYYYYYYYYYY! I need to talk to you!" I then ran right over towards him, in his usual spot for this adventure, on top of Kamina's head. "Ah, there you are. Uh, Kamina, mind lowering Anthony for a bit? I need to speak with him about one of his, and temporarily our party members," after Kamina lowered Anthony, or if he didn't just after a bit of hesitation, I started whispering to Anthony "You... do realize that murkrow of yours is a shadow pokemon, right?" he looks at me with a look of disgust, and then says something I didn't expect him to "Of COURSE I knew. Why the heck would that matter, anyways, huh!?" Anthony also shouted rather than try to keep it secret, and I tried to say something, but he wasn't listening anyways "But... shadow pokemon are evil, aren't they? M, you have to agree with me on this, right?" of course, it might not have been smart to include M in this as he was being quiet again, probably reflecting on the battle at hand, so, I ended up also asking "Celes, you agree with me, right? That shadow pokemon, like Desia, are evil?" it started to get late, so, Anthony, ignoring me, said "Let's just get some shut-eye, and no, Spruce, nobody's leaving the team," [hr] [Bonnie] For some reason, everything just seemed better to me, and I mean everything from the food to the floor just seemed amazing as I had my dinner, and left, that is, after a brief interruption by the guildmaster which I wasn't paying any attention to, honestly, and headed right to my bed. Sure, there was some complaining and random noise going on around me, but it just didn't seem to matter at this point, not with what I just overcame. Oddly, I was almost silent through this entire trip, which seemed somehow longer than it usually was, and, once I got to my bed, I had the most amazing dreams. None of them included my father, and a few of them included Spruce leaving that eevee he was with to go with me, instead... heh, as if that would ever happen, but it still made for a pleasant dream. I was already certain that I would wake up in the best of moods tomorrow morning, and I was almost certain that my team would take notice. Oddly, I also felt some sort of energy as I slept, no, it didn't wake me up or anything, but... maybe I'm almost ready to evolve... or maybe I'm just excited to wake up tomorrow, knowing that my own nightmare can be overcome, that he can be defeated... that he has. The thought that I, along with the rest of Team Green can thwart his evil plots, and even possibly arrest him just seemed to bring me nothing but joy and happiness. Of course, there wasn't much else to do now that I was asleep, aside from sleeping. [hr] [Nina] Rebbecca was a little slow to get to dinner, well, comparatively, anyways, but she had a pretty funny conversation with 'Team Awesome' about their poses, and she was completely right. In fact, one could argue that they weren't poses, but just a muscle twitch that each of them shared. Once I left the table, I overheard a scream from one of them, possibly that snivy, the stuck-up, arrogant jerk, and looking back inside revealed that Chip kicked him in a splinted that lodged itself in the back of the snivy's leg. I chuckled a little bit, and made sure that I wasn't the last one to bed, and once I was there, I thought to myself [i]Wow, my first mission and it was a huge success! Not only did we get paid a lot of money, but we even defeated a rival team... ON OUR FIRST DAY! I think 'perfect to the last beat' is a fitting motto for us, at least, it is for now.[/i] I then start dreaming various, random dreams that made absolutely no sense outside of their logic. I can't even begin to describe them, as I don't remember any of them, all I remember was that they were weird, and that they followed no logic... as most dreams do, of course. During a brief time when I was awake in the night, I wondered whether or not there were pokemon who actually remember their dreams, or if there were any whose dreams had any sort of logic... I then laughed myself to sleep on that ridiculous notion, and continue dreaming up those random dreams.