[i]"Guess it's you and me now, partner,"[/i]

Velis returned the grin with one of her own. "Sounds good Justine. I hope we get to bust some Cipher heads on our way." The mental image of Cipher Peons running away from her and her Pokemon caused her to laugh a little bit for a moment and smile a rather odd smile. Quilava looked up at her along with her Croconaw. They knew what she was thinking and how she could get when she was like this. The two Pokemon had seen it before and they knew that they had to get her attention back to the task at hand. Quilava accomplished that by letting out a sharp yelp that snapped Velis out of the odd state she was in.

"Hm?" She said aloud as she looked down at the two Pokemon. "Oh! Sorry," She muttered. She looked sheepishly at Justine. "Sorry, I get a little weird when I think about that." She headed towards the door. "Well, shall we get going? The sooner we find out what happened to Eagun, the sooner we can get to where the relic stone was."

[i]"C'mon Ross, we've got work to do. Eagun's house is the big tree in the center of town. And I am sure Cipher won't like us walking through the front door."[/i]

Ross grinned as he followed Tinder outside as Machoke and Ryhorn followed. "They may not like it but I doubt they can stop two of us." He said as he looked back at his Machoke and noticed that the Pokemon suddenly looked innocent. Too innocent.

"What were you doing?" he asked the Shadow Pokemon suspiciously. The Pokemon waited until Tinder wasn't looking and made a face that could only be described as a "kissy face" and pointed at Ross and then at Tinder. Ross narrowed his eyes and grabbed the Pokeball off his belt and held it in his hand in a mock threatening manner as he lowered his voice. "Will you knock it off?!" He whispered. "You are not a matchmaker! And I don't want to freak her out!" He whispered again as he put the Pokeball back on his belt and gave the Machoke a warning look who responded by grinning slyly. Ross shook his head and turned back to look at Tinder who hopefully hadn't seen any of that.

"So." He said casually "Cool Pokemon you have there." He said trying to start a conversation.