[Desia]

The fight dragged on for much longer than I assumed it would. I can thank that stupid meddling porygon for that, though. I eventually got the upper hand, with Quartzil helping me after a little while. Unfortunately for the remaining wimps, I still had some rage left over after Davis was down, and I started slashing away at anything that happened to be unlucky enough to move until whatever it was stopped moving... that is, everything that moved and wasn't Quartzil. "Good thing that's over." I say to Quartzil with a sigh. I then look over to my prize, the void crystal, only to notice that the altar was no longer holding the crystal. [i]What the? Who the heck stole that thing!? Agh... great, just what we needed right now.[/i] I think as I check every one of our enemies... oddly enough, nobody seemed to have the thing, and worse? The void was starting to creep in through the tiny portal that was created when the void crystal was stolen. I look over to see Quartzil looking through Spruce's bag for the third time, and shout "Quartzil, we don't have time for this, we have to leave... NOW!" He nods and follows me away from the scene of the crime, and away from the deadliest portal to ever exist. After about thirty minutes of running, I stop and look back. It didn't seem like it would spread to this area, and I was getting kind of tired. Those kids were annoying, but, I guess they won't be bothering me anymore.

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[???]

I watch the battle rage from my vantage point, which was on a cliff not too far from the void crystal, something that I absolutely needed. "Should we steal it now?" my associate, Vex, a vulpix who, like me, came from the dimension that the void crystals link to, asks. She knew that my light grey scales and lack of a tail fire would allow me to blend in and probably take the thing unnoticed, but that absol... she seemed dangerous. I had to make sure that she wasn't going to pay any attention to anything other than her fight. She ordered her draconic friend to attack a helpless magikarp and, afterwards, the oddly durable porygon. That was when I decided to go. "Vex... I'm sure you already know, but you should stay here. The shadows will hide you well." She protests with "Well, what am I supposed to do, then?" I shake my head, and say "Always the hyper one, weren't you? Fine, prepare a means of escape for that team.... um... the Odd Ones Out, or whoever they are." the black-furred vulpix replied with "Um... I'm not sure if I can..." which didn't exactly fill me with confidence of our success, however, we were certain to fail if I simply stayed here, and did nothing but talk with Vex. I then ran behind the absol, who was muttering swear words in between attacks towards the porygon, and quickly make it to the void crystal, taking it from its altar within seconds... and about seconds after, a small rift formed. I then ran back to the cliff, where Vex was hiding in the shadows of a nearby tree, and show my prize, our first Void Crystal. I place it in the bag and watch as the absol eventually knocks out the entire enemy team, and then checks their equipment to see if anyone has the exact thing I just stole. The absol quickly became fed up with searching and ran off, along with her teammate, to parts unknown. "Vex, we don't have long. Do you have a way to get those innocents out of here?" I ask her. During the fight between the snivy's team and that absol, I've already warned the locals, telling them to evacuate, and the only innocents left would be that other team. "I... yeah, I think I've got an idea." She then assures me. A dragon-shaped shadow appears and I look up to see a dragonite, only for her to point downwards for me to see some local timburr building some sort of wagon. They finished the job in no time flat, and they then picked up the innocents, only for the dragonite to fly the wagon away from this mess. It seemed a little weird, but, it WAS Vex's idea, after all. I was just stunned to see that it actually worked.

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[Anthony]

My team approaches the enemy, and I make sure to do so with caution, though, that doesn't seem to help anything as he noticed us instantly and... unfortunately... was a tyranitar. "INTRUDERS! Agh, how many MORE of you intruders do I need to KNOCK OUT JUST TO GET SOME PEACE AND QUIET!?" yeah... he was mad. "Um, sir...? would you mind, um..." I start to say, only to get cut off my him saying "Let me guess, you want me to stop 'rampaging' right?" I nod, and get flung into the wall within the next second. "ugh..." I say as I manage to not faint from the attack. My helmet somehow shattered, unfortunately, though... there was something off about the shards. They were stone grey, stone cold, and as hard as... oh, wait, I was wearing a rock on my head this whole time, whoops. [i]Wait... now I remember, I left my helmet with that bidoof back at the guild.[/i] I think as I get back up and use absorb on the beast, who didn't so much as take notice of my attack. This wasn't going to be easy, nope, not at all. The tyranitar laughs loudly enough for the cave to actually shake and a cave-in happens behind him, meaning that we were all stuck with this guy, now. A mawile and a sableye come out of a small cave, though, it didn't seem like either of them were going to fight. In fact, they both seemed somewhat timid at the moment, shying away from eye contact with me... weird. I then look back to try to find my team, hoping that they wouldn't take too long.