[Anthony]

Before I could do anything more, the mystery pokemon uses Hypnosis again, this time on Terra, and unlike me, she didn't dodge, and fell asleep almost instantly. One look at her told me that her rest wasn't very restful, as she seemed to be in pain, somehow, and appeared to be fighting something in her sleep. Sure, that MIGHT be normal for someone like Terra, but she'd probably be winning that fight if it was a normal dream, but here, she appeared to be losing. The mystery pokemon didn't celebrate, instead, coughed a few times. It was a very dry cough that sounded like it hurt the throat coming out... but... why was this thing so unhealthy? Shaking off that question, I simply await an attack from the pokemon, standing in front of Terra, and preparing to use Counter... but... no attack seemed to come my way. No, instead the thing opted to attack Matt, with an admittedly feeble-looking Feint Attack, completely bypassing the light screen that he just put up. Another look at Terra revealed that she was going through yet more terrors in her sleep, but, the creature didn't use nightmare, did it? "Please... let me... free..." the thing pleaded. For something that just wanted to be set free, it sure was putting up a fight... same for something so apparently feeble and broken. Things weren't looking so great, at first it seemed as though Terra had this handled with her fairy typing and wind, which, this being a dark-type according to Matt, should make her once again simply make a path of destruction for us to follow... but, unfortunately, she ended up falling asleep... AND possibly taking damage from that, as well, even without nightmare. What worried me was the fact that hypnosis didn't take too much energy to use, and we might all end up asleep and tortured from said sleep... I almost remember something horrible, something vile that was capable of doing such a powerful and evil thing... but what?

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[Bonnie]

I eventually wake up to see myself back in the guild, and the mission apparently not completed yet. William looked down at me, so, I had to assume that he was the one that brought me here, and I end up saying "So, you just completely ditched that mission, huh? I mean, you could have just waited for me to wake up in the forest so we could continue to do the mission, but instead you dragged me back here, well... thanks, I guess, but next time, could you please finish the mission first?" I was annoyed that I didn't get to finish the mission, so I get up and start heading back to Birchwood Forest to try to finish it with whomever might follow me. "Okay, William, I'm off to finish the mission we were supposed to finish. You can join me if you want," I say as I walk instead of hop to make sure that everyone can catch up to and follow me to the mission... I just hope I don't find any more cats along the way, else we'd have another one of these scenarios. [i]So... I've got a pyromaniac, and some guy who has to abandon the mission whenever someone on the team gets a status ailment... I'll just have to make sure we're away from fire, and I'll have to tell pokemon to not do that... as if they'd listen.[/i] I think as I continue onwards, still somewhat annoyed that the mission was just completely aborted for something so minor, I mean, sure, I get it, he was trying to keep me safe, but he could have done that without running all the way back to the guild and making us start back from square one on this mission... I mean, it's not like the pokemon in Birchwood are all that strong, right?