[Spruce]

[i]Stray... what?[/i] I think as I look over at M, who seemed to be looking around for other potential threats. I then notice what Celes said to me, and respond with "I'm fine... and I kinda wanted to take that attack. I didn't want to see you get hurt." I wasn't even thinking, yet, the words just sorta happened. After a bit of thinking, I end up regretting the fact that I said that. [i]Ugh, what was I saying? 'I wanted to take that attack!?' That just sounds dumb and scripted, or something...[/i] I then think as I try to locate the purrloin. Unfortunately, I was too late to land the final blow on the cat, as Gregory had, during my whole thought process, jumped over me, and landed a dragonbreath on the thing, knocking it out before I could. "Alright, folks, we're not getting anywhere like this and I want to see some treasure! I'm sure that magikarp of yours is in agreement, let's move it along." Gregory then says to us, evidently feeling more confident after finishing off that purrloin. He then headed to the right of where we were facing, and I, of course, followed, later getting in front of him, just in case. "Hey!" Gregory shouted at me once I got in front. I simply responded with "You asked us for help, remember? You said you weren't strong enough for this place." my voice was strictly emotionless at this point, as I was simply trying to get my point across as to why I had to be in front of him. Gregory seemed to stop arguing, but then started mumbling to himself for some reason.

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[Anthony]

"Carrol Shannon... hey, seems like we finally have another girl on the team. Welcome to Team Scarab. Oh, and, I'm not the other girl, I'm Anthony. The other girl is Hex, our leader." I said to the odd dinosaur-like pokemon who randomly started talking to me. The pokemon then mentioned something about someone called 'Archibald', and my only response to that was "Well, I have no clue who this Archibald guy is, but maybe Archie knows. We'll have to ask him once we get back." Not too long after that, the rest of the team joins us and I start to feel much better about exploring this place. [i]Going alone was a huge mistake... maybe I should try to be more patient next time.[/i] I think as I prepare for a harsh scolding about how I'm too weak to be on my own and how I should wait for the team to finish what they were doing at the guild before heading off into some mystery dungeon, yet, that scolding never came, and everyone else on my team seems to somehow be referring to Carrol as a 'he'... Carrol doesn't look much like a 'he' and the name seems feminine. I even had a great-grandmother named Carrol, so, I was sure that was a girl's name. Heck, even the voice wasn't doing much to convince me that Carrol was male, though, Carrol's voice sounded very soothing, though, somewhat on the higher-pitched side of things. Of course, this could just be because he or she is very young like most of us, and hasn't developed a deep voice yet. Hex seemed mad at herself for some reason, as she introduced us as 'Team Scarab', and Josh even seemed shocked, only managing to say "Hey there." and "I'm Josh, and this is Matt." weird...