[Nina] I decided against saying much until I could catch my breath, again, and the dragonite seems to have followed me back, as well. Thankfully, Rebecca was there to not only block a dragon claw for me, but to also counter with fairy wind, which seemed to remind a few of them why they were staying away... the hydreigon in particular seemed nervous and scared after that. The salamence seemed to be trying to pry Dexter off of the dragonite's tail, and said hydreigon decided against even attacking, preferring to use the move 'Calm Mind', instead. I figured that it probably needed to calm itself down after seeing Rebecca deal that much damage to its friends. Once I felt confident enough to attack again, I said "Th-thanks Rebecca, I really needed that," and I decided to try to poison the dragonite with a poison sting, and thankfully, I didn't even have to try the move twice to do it. The dragonite started to look pale after my poisoning, and they still had to deal with Dexter biting their tail, as well... they tried to use Dragon Rush on me, again, however, this time, I managed to get out of the way, and even counter with a bite of my own, joining Dexter in biting the thing on its tail. The dragonite tasted... unlike anything I've ever tasted before, but, then again, I kind of lived a sheltered life, so maybe it tasted a bit more normal to someone like Dexter, who's probably bitten more pokemon than I have. The dragonite seemed to flinch from my bite, as well, as if it was going to skip its next turn, or something while the other two dragons were busy trying to either buff their stats, or pull off the two pokemon who were latched onto their friend. [hr] [Anthony] It seemed like we were finally gaining ground against Kyurem, who didn't seem to take to the volley of attacks, too well. Kamina seemed to charge at Kyurem on my alt's command, and, of course, Kyurem tried to use a shadow tackle on him, only for Daniel to block the attack, again, and hit back with four wing attacks, dealing enough damage to actually make Kyurem stumble backwards. Miles then tried to shock the thing a few times, and somehow, that ended up paralyzing Kyurem... this fight was starting to remind me of our fight against Reshiram at this point, and Reshiram himself seemed to forgo protecting us to use his flamethrower against Kyurem five times in a row. Somehow, Kyurem was still standing, and through the shadow-type craziness, he somehow managed to say "No... I won't let you... you can't take my crystal... it needs to stay where it is... you can't... don't... please don't..." why was he pleading with us about a crystal? I knew that MY team wasn't looking for any crystals, at least, but, then again, the OTHER team might be. Either way, I used dragon breath a total of three times against Kyurem, dealing significant damage, yet, even after taking ALL of those attacks, Kyurem was still somehow standing. HOW!? I was starting to get annoyed by this, but I tried my best not to show that annoyance, lest my team think I'm being unreasonable, somehow. [hr] [Bonnie] I felt a strange power fill my body when Tini shouted out something about cookies, and the gallade seemed to be a bit quicker on his feet than I had hoped, as he dodged at least one of Eralion's attacks, and he seemed to be focusing on something. Seems like the confusion was over, at least, since he managed to say "This is getting to be too much... I have to get out of here before they arrest me," and while he said that under his breath, I still heard it loud and clear, and I even managed to break his focus before he could teleport away with a well-aimed, somehow more powerful frustration attack, which also made him stumble backwards. He seemed to be desperate now, and he tried to attack me with Close Combat again, though, this time, I was too quick, and I simply jumped over his head before he could pull off the move, only to use dizzy punch against him to try to confuse him, yet again... it didn't work this time, and he somehow used counter against me, dealing some decent damage back. He then turned his focus on Tini, and mumbled something about this 'stupid fairy' supposedly 'getting in his way' somehow more than the rest of us, and he tried to use Psycho Cut on Tini, almost as if he knew that his fighting type moves wouldn't work too well, here... I tried to get in the way of the attack, but I wasn't fast enough, unfortunately. I hoped he would be able to somehow evade the attack, or better, just take the attack and blast the gallade with Fairy Wind, again. [hr] [Spruce] There were a few weird messages that seemed to pop up on the board for no reason, not to mention an oddly familiar voice telling him how 'Barry' is also the Arcanine's name and how he's somehow searching for himself... the voice also asked if I believed in ghosts, but before I could answer, the voice clarified that while he couldn't hear me, I could certainly hear him, and I immediately knew what was off about the messages... Bubble Pond didn't have a fifth floor! Oh, and the capital letters spelled something out, as well. "Hm... let's see... BREEN WAS HERE... Breen... that odd marshtomp with the glasses and broken orbs?" I asked myself as I looked at those messages... and then I just had to think [i]Who let Breen near the place where you can change what's on the boards?[/i] of course, after that, I sort of absent-mindedly took the mission involving 'Barry', and headed out of the guild to go where I assumed the north was, though, of course, I could just be completely and utterly wrong, like usual. It was a pretty nice day outside... warm, bright, and many pokemon were just wandering around in town, probably wishing they could go outside of the town's boundaries without inexplicably becoming a wild pokemon, or something. [i]How DOES that work, anyways? How do towns, of all things, protect pokemon from becoming wild? Why am I allowed to venture around, but most pokemon are stuck in town? Does it have something to do with my badge?[/i] I thought as I kept just... wandering around generally going where I thought north was, at this point, though, I assumed Celes would correct my path soon enough, anyways, so I didn't worry, too much about it. [hr] [Blaze] I had heard that guildmasters were weird, but this was certainly... new. The swampert introduced himself as 'Breen', and he somehow already knew all of our names... as well as the embarrassing fact that I was actually pink, and not ash grey like most of my kind. Of course, I tried my best to deny it with "N-no, I'm not pink, y-you are!" but it was obvious that I was lying to even a casual observer. This strange guildmaster guy also seemed to say something about me having a 'Blaze in my heart', and I took a step back. He didn't already somehow know my REAL name, did he? I sure hoped not. "Uh... e-either way, m-mister guildmaster, what do you want us to do as our first guild mission?" I asked the strange swampert before remembering that we split up the gold coins, and that I somehow had some, despite not really doing anything, so, I decided to give my share of the money to Gavin, who would probably at least know what to do with it, right? After that, I tried to look as formal as I could, and for some reason, I could hear some weird, off-key singing in the distance... some sort of song about spinning? What?