[Spruce]

	Kamina almost flew up into the sky, landing right next to us, but, before that, M asked me a serious question... one I couldn't really ignore. He asked me what my life was like up until I got to where I was. "Well... to be honest... I was actually an explorer for years and years, but before that, I was just an ordinary wild snivy living in some tree house in Birchwood forest, you know, before that as a mystery dungeon... I ended up in that now-famous team, The Wildvines, heck, I was their first member besides the leader, my brother, Vine. Seems great, right? Fame, money... yeah, I never had that. Heck, my brother, with his... let's call them... differences, always got in the way of attacks, and always stopped me from attacking so he could attack, instead. To be blunt, he never let me do a single thing, so I never got any stronger... soon enough, he forgot that I even existed. He took the stronger members of that team, often forgetting that yes, I still exist. I'm still a member. An entire year passed, and I continually tried to start my own exploration team, where everyone who's a member will get to go on all the missions, no matter how strong they were. Where nobody would try to steal the spotlight, so we wouldn't have any forgotten members... we would all get stronger together, you know? It... never happened. The guild leaders always just assumed I was joking, as, in their eyes, I had it all, and wanted to get rid of it for no reason. Then came that fateful day... the day where Vine disappeared. Somehow, for some reason, they listened to me, then... they let me make my own exploration team on that day... but, then came the constant questions 'Where's Vine?' 'have you seen Vine anywhere, Vine's brother?' 'You haven't seen Vine around, have you?'... these questions kinda got to me, and I'd always answer them pretty much in the same way, honestly. I haven't seen Vine for a few years at that point, let alone lately... funny... in a way, I guess I wanted to find my big brother... of course... all of that led me to take on my first mission, to save a magikarp in birchwood forest, my old home," I then took a few steps into the boiling hot tower, but not before helping M back into the air using vine whips, and on that first step, I could feel a burn. This wasn't going to be easy.
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[Anthony]

	Kamina listened to me, and used Splash until it turned into the move 'Bounce', which he quickly used to get right over the bridge. [i]Is THIS what it's like to fly!? If so, then I'm GLAD I'll never grow wings![/i] I thought as myself, as well as Kamina, and a few others were jumping up into the sky, and then landing with a speed that I thought would kill at least someone. Spruce seemed to be talking M's non-existent ear off before helping him back into the air with his vines, and taking his first... obviously painful step into the tower. "Okay... how the heck did you get SPRUCE to not only wait for something, but also talk your ear off without yelling at you? He's NEVER this patient," I commented as I made my way into the tower. The heat... actually felt really nice considering what I've been through lately, of course, that could also just be my dragon typing coming in, as well. A vulpix stood in my path, and I used dragonbreath to hit the thing before it could hit me. Oddly, even though there wasn't much ACTUAL sunlight, the place was bright enough, and warm enough to have pretty much the same effect as, say, sunny day, or drought. I just had to wonder if this applied to only this floor, or if it actually applied to the entire tower. The reason for that thought was the fact that, on rare occasions, vulpix, as well as ninetales might actually have the ability drought... the ability to bring this heat, and light into places such as a dark cave, or the ocean floor... of course, I could only assume that the ability was easier to use while they were outdoors, but apparently it was still usable indoors, as well.
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[Bonnie]

	Eralion asked me if I didn't want to talk to them, and I answered with "It's not really that... it's just... I didn't want to hurt that poor ralts. You heard what those psychic types back at the board said, they couldn't bear to be near me due to some sort of corruption, or evil. She was innocent, she didn't deserve to be hurt, so I had to stay away," I then hopped along, towards Scale City, passing by several pokemon that just didn't want to bother me, at all... as well as... something disturbing. A dead buneary... what made it worse was the fact that there was some weird, unidentifiable substance that seemed to be made out of small squares kept changing colors between black, pink, red, grey, and white leaking out of it, and as if it were gas, it was leaking into the air rather than all over the ground. Sure, there was the usual blood mixed in there, as well but... what the heck could have caused that? "I think we should just keep moving on before I freak out," I announced, trying to not stay near that weird corpse for too long. [i]Why do I get the odd feeling that if I stayed here for much longer... that could have been me?[/i] I thought as I kept moving. Whether or not my teammates were at this point wasn't much of a concern to me. I was just going to wait at Scale City, however, I didn't go too quickly, as to lose them, just enough so we'd make it there in some decent amount of time. Whatever happened to that buneary, I wanted to stay as far away from it as I could... the last thing I wanted to do was die, let alone in... whatever fashion THAT was...
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[Nina]

	"Well... fine, then... I guess. Right, maybe Ms. Bunny just isn't that talkative, today," I then heard my other two teammates talking about whether or not we were just ashamed of what really happened here, and I had to interject "I think that's enough for now... if you don't believe us, that's fine enough, you will eventually... it's kind of... a part of our guild work, in a way. You'll be right next to evidence of that event before you know it," I then continued onward, running into the lopunny again, though, she seemed to be running away from something that wasn't us, this time. I walked over to it... and remembered who that was... "She took a sky attack for us... but... that doesn't look like it was any ordinary move... I mean... what's this weird stuff?" I said to nobody in particular as I approached the buneary corpse that seemed to have parts from that horrible pokemon that attacked us leaking out of her body where the Sky Attack hit her. There really wasn't much blood leaking out, and whatever did during the short time it was alive during the attack already dried, but this stuff... not only did it rise up from the leaking point, as if it were gas, or some other thing less dense than air, but it didn't really look like anything from this world... well, okay, it looked like exactly ONE thing from this world... THAT thing. I decided to take another step towards the formerly alive bunery... and the thing sprung to life, its eyes weren't really visible behind what I could only describe as static, and worse, the thing decided to attack me with a weird variant of the move 'Pound', knocking me backwards a couple feet. I had no words. This was literally a pokemon come back from the dead just to attack us. I could only hope that Dexter saw all of this, and knew what was going on, 'cause if he saw this, and STILL didn't believe us, I don't know what would get him to believe.