[Spruce]

Thankfully, Celes' chains, M's sonicboom, and Kamina's ember were enough to take down the buizel... the only problem now was the fact that this landmass didn't seem to connect to any of the others in any way, shape, or form. [i]Now what? How the heck do we get to these other platforms?[/i] I think as I start walking around the place, trying to find some sort of way around or some sort of switch that might somehow do something. I accidentally walk off the edge, but, instead of falling into the endless abyss dotted with strange, things, and odd crates that seemed to surround this place, I fall onto a different landmass, this time, one that was connected to another one, apparently closer to our goal. I look behind me, hoping that the rest of my team followed, and am surprised to see a grey colored eevee, staring at me with some sort of blank stare. "Giratina will make you pay for your crimes, traitor," he said to me with a creepy voice. He then attacked me with take down, trying to knock me off of this somewhat skinny landmass, but thankfully failing... and even then, only just. I attacked back with a vine whip, already knowing that void whip wouldn't do much. My attack didn't do as much as I hoped it would, and gave the eevee another chance to try to knock me into that strange void, however, just as he was running to pick up speed for his next take down, a crate flies in between us. The eevee hits the crate, and a bunch of strange metal cylinders fly out of it and distract the eevee long enough for me to use vine whip, and get farther away from the edge of this landmass.
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[Anthony]

I start wandering around, leaving a trail behind me, though, what I didn't notice was that apparently, I was revealing some more stone plates underneath the dirt as I walked. One of them, represented by the color orange, and a fire symbol lit up once I stepped on it. The orange light surrounded a square with sides roughly three feet in length, but, once I stepped off that vague area, the light stopped, and I looked back. "What was that?" I ask my team as I look at the trail, some of which was mud, and some of which was stone now. There appeared to be a thick layer of dirt over what looked like those pressure plate traps from earlier, save for the part that I already walked over. I go back to the plate, and it glows again, prompting me to reveal the rest of it. While I stood on it, there was a brightly glowing orange fire symbol in the middle that seemed to be etched into the stonework, and was difficult to see when the plate wasn't glowing. "So... do you think the other pressure plates are hidden under dirt, too?" I ask Matt, Josh, and Daniel. Daniel shrugs, and says "Buried by time, I guess... wow, how old is this place?" it must have been my turn to shrug, because I had no clue, but the place really did seem old... and if this place is that old, then... what of Darkrai and his friend? Obviously, being a legendary, Darkrai could survive, even in the toughest of conditions, but, it might be safe to assume that Darkrai's friend wasn't a legendary. He might not still be alive, due to either this very dungeon, or old age, and honestly, I hoped it was the latter, if that were the case.
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[Bonnie]

Tini seems to have taken my advice, and used some sort of newly-concocted move he called 'Minty Mist', and he used said move on me. For some reason, I felt much stronger afterwards, and there appeared to be two barriers of some sort surrounding me, as well as a nice smell rather than the vomit-inducing stench of the swamp. William seemed to be doing a number on two of the muk, leaving me with one, particularly the one that I made cower earlier. I didn't let up, and used frustration on the thing once more, and it started running right for the hills. "Ha! And here I was, thinking that we'd get slaughtered by these guys," I say as the muk escapes the fight. The ground then starts to shake and the other two muk melt into the ground in some attempt to escape us. "Who dares to take the orb of light!?" I hear a voice shout from somewhere. I hear something approach. I try to tell the newcomer "We're not trying to steal anything...", I assumed it was going to be another slimy, stinky creature, but instead, a nidoqueen appeared in front of our group, and one that seemed a little different than most. "Um... who are-" I start to say before I'm cut off with her shouting "I am the protector of the light orb, one of the four orbs of balance! Now, intruders, tell me why you're trying to steal it, and I MAY let you go," I then answer, somewhat mad, "I'M NOT TRYING TO STEAL THAT THING! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS!" I then add "...sorry..." in a tiny voice. "Oh... well... in that case, I suppose you can leave, sorry about that," she then answers, sounding much more calm than before. What in the world is an orb of balance, though?