[Spruce] The others seemed to look at the shopkeeper as if he just grew a tail, or something, but I had my back turned to him, so I didn't see anything strange happen to the guy. I do, however, notice M head out of the bank, with far fewer pokecoins floating around him. Celes then says something about the shopkeeper getting a 'spooky experience'... which was weird... I decide to ignore that, and eventually make it over to the beach, where a few wild, yet somehow not hostile krabby can be seen... they weren't doing anything, as apparently, they only use bubble during sunset or some stupid thing, but the view was still nice, and the beach itself was calming. I then recall that time I ran through Beach Cave five or six or however many times just to find someone who wasn't there, and wasn't in need of any help. [i]I wonder... is that maybe the reason why these pokemon aren't attacking us? 'Cause they're afraid of me now? Odd...[/i] I think as I look out towards the ocean... sure, we just came from there, but this time, we won't get attacked from every possible angle. There seemed to be a weird, blue rock in the waves, and coming closer to the shore for some reason... the only way I could see it was the giant red dot in the middle of the rock, which was accompanied by a 'halo' of yellow dots just above that... what a weird rock, but, wouldn't a rock sink? --- [Anthony] "Oh... right, sorry, I forgot to answer your question, um..." Static starts to say, with me finishing with "Josh... he's Josh, I'm Anthony, and she's Hex. The pokemon holding Josh's bucket is Matt... he's just kinda here for support," Static then says "Right, well, anyways, should anyone break one of the Orbs of Balance, all pokemon with that sub-type will weaken and eventually wither until they are nothing but lifeless husks... it's... not a pretty sight," something told me he wasn't telling us the whole story, but, nonetheless, by the end of that short description, we somehow found our way into the village... a village where every single pokemon was the same species... a victini, just like Blaze. "Welcome, travelers!" One of the two victini right next to the entrance shouts at our group, surprising me with just the volume at which he said that. Terra then, still sounding annoyed, says "Look, don't give us any shtick, we're here for one reason, and one reason ONLY. See this egg? Well, for some weird reason, he keeps hatching and unhatching, and I figured someone over at Victory Village would know what to do," the other victini then mumbles "We had a whole bit planned out, though..." the first one then says "Fine... we'll take you to the elder... you're no fun at all," they then lead us over to one of the many oddly lookalike houses in this area, and inside, was... well, he certainly looked the part of 'elder', given that his fur was mostly white, some of it covered his eyes, and somehow he grew what I think used to be referred to as a 'beard'... "GAH! Get that horrible thing OUT of here!" The elder shouts pretty much as soon as we enter his house... well, seems like someone doesn't have a lot of good manners for an elder. None of us move, of course, with none of us having any idea what he was talking about, until he added "That horrible, shadowy creature... IT has no place here!" This got on Terra's nerves, somehow, though, I doubt it was because of the prejudice against Daniel, but more so that he was stalling. She ended up shouting "'IT' has as much a right to be here as YOU do, you old fool! Besides, don't you want to help a poor victini, one from YOUR village, unless I'm mistaken, recover from his rare, and crippling condition!? I'm sure that, just because he happened to make friends with this, as you call him, 'horrible, shadowy creature', you'll let him DIE from, well, staying as an egg for too long, and becoming ROTTEN! Some leader YOU are, huh? Just letting the young of your village, who happened to have a horrible condition ROT AND DIE from it instead of helping them when they NEED HELP!? All because, what, some pokemon that happens to be a shadow pokemon helped him out when you just tossed him out of the village without so much as a PROPER EXPLANATION AS TO WHY!?" Wow... I've never seen her explode quite like that, but, oddly enough, in her anger, she seemed to bring up at least a few good points. The elder seemed absolutely shocked at Terra's famous among our team temper, and just stood there, with his mouth and eyes (that is, if you could tell) wide open... heck, he almost looked as though he was killed from her fit... that can't be true, though, right? --- [Bonnie] "By the way, Tini's a boy," I correct William, calming down somewhat, and adding "Well, we might as well be off on our next mission, right? I mean, whatever outlaw you ditched your team over has got to be worth it," sure, it might have been another jab at William, but you can't just go invisible to ditch your teammates, no matter how new they might be... I mean, if I didn't trust William, I'd think that he was trying to kill me... but, of course, he was still our leader, I guess, by default. William then asks how we got out of the mess, and I quickly explain "I dodged a couple of their attacks, and then Wally came in to stop them from hurting us... they shouldn't give us any trouble anymore," I then take my place somewhere near the back of the group, and wonder what kind of mission William almost killed us over. Sure, I guess the mightyena shouldn't have had ownership of one of the two boards, but it's not like we had to get into a fight to get them to stop, we could have just told Wally about that, but, no, William had to provoke them into attacking us... I then spot Spruce out in the distance, walking away from the shopkeeper, and towards the beach, for some reason. He was with that eevee girl that knocked me out a few days ago in some sort of blind fury, so maybe those two were a thing... which just meant that I was someone intruding on their relationship, or whatever... of course, that doesn't give her an excuse to lash out on me like she did.