Kessie: -nestled comfortable; is patted- <Heehee!>

-Salamence starts carefully preening Kessie's "hat"-

Xatu: -Teleports everyone to Navel Rock-

Umbra:...so, this is Navel Rock.

Jadis: Looks scary...

Styx: Eh, seems fine. - Notices something shiny and blue - What IS that? - Digs up a Dawn Stone -

-We land on the island. There are noSmeargle in sight as of yet, but there is a trail, leading to the depths of the island's caves, made of a suspicious red liquid.-

Is that-?

Kratos:-Tastes it with his toungue.-< No. It tastes like.......alcohol? They're leading them to us with wine?>

Well. That's an change from their normal act.

edited 3rd Jan '12 6:27:12 PM by gamerex27

Kessie: -closes her eyes and enjoys the preening. Her mommy is the best person ever (except maybe her daddy) but she's not very good at preening. Maybe because she's not really a bird, she just looks like one sometimes.-

Umbra: Wasting fine wine! They truly are nefarious!

Styx: ...Eh, not hungry. - tosses Dawn Stone; Jadis catches it. -

Jadis: Oh my... - Starts evolving -

Lilycove

Effie wanders the streets with Crewe and Bounty, having left Argo, Discovery, and Bluebird at the hotel to rest. Discovery, at least, is showing signs of recovery, but none of them are fit for battle yet.

The Aqua Trainer is still irritated at being called for duty while three of her Pokemon are injured, but her assignment at least should provide her with support and, at the very least, entertainment.

She's startled out of her thoughts by Crewe running into a trashcan, distracted by her own thoughts. Scooping her up despite the Sneasel's loud protests, Effie checks her for injury, then rights the trashcan with one hand while still holding her with the other.

"Be more careful, Vestas, " she warns, petting the still-irritated Sneasel. "In Fortree there will be a lot of people around. I need you and Bounty to stay focused."

Effie sets her back down, and Crewe takes an I'll-tempered swing at a laughing Bounty, who scuttles away, waving his claws.

"Corphish! D:<."

"Behave, you two, " Effie says, putting herself between them. "If we're going to Fortree to support our teammates in the tournament, I need you both to get along. Don't make me regret leaving Argo in the room.

Bounty immediately looks apologetic and blows a few conciliatory bubbles in Crewe's direction. Crewe waves them away, still looking irritated, and drops back behind the two, sulking.

Effie sighs and keeps walking, heading back to the hotel.

Kratos: <Wait. Legend says that Lugia and Ho-Oh are here all the time. It's practically their house, apart from the Orange Islands and the Hall of Orgin. Why haven't the Smeargles been noticed yet?>

Something tells me we'll find out.

-Starts walking into the tunnel, with a torch flashlight in hand.

"So, how are we gonna go about kicking these guys a- Hey, your Snorunt's evolving!

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- Congratulations! Your Jadis has evolved into Froslass! -

Jadis: Ohmygoodness...

Umbra: Ah! Wonderful!

Lumos: Congratulations!

Styx: -Grumbles- Wish I could evolve...

Mata Nui: Yay! Wait, do we have to follow the others?

Umbra: ...By Giratina you're right!

- they all follow others -

-Steven and Katie are...somewhere in Fortree, while Dana plays with Basil and Robin-

-As we traverse further into the caves, Gamer spots something leaning against the cave wall. Gamer shines his light on it.....

-And immediately gags in disgust. It is a human skeleton, long dead and devoid of flesh and muscle. Beside it is a journal, ragged and dusty.

-Gamer skims through it, and remains silent throughout. He eventually passes it to the others. It tells of a man who caught a strange Smeargle, who wished to become the Pokemon Champeon of the League of Sinnoh several decades ago. After a few months, the pages degrage into indecipherable gibberish, raving about a madmon.

They did have other victims. This poor guy........

edited 3rd Jan '12 6:40:45 PM by gamerex27

Looks like this family's handiwork. They will pay for their crimes.

edited 3rd Jan '12 6:42:03 PM by Sixthhokage1

Jadis: Eek.

have to go to bed.

.......We have to move on.

-Continues through the cave, seeing more skeletons and a few other journals, letters to home that were never sent, and even a few old Pokedex prototypes.

......There's nothing to say about all of this. We HAVE to stop them.

Kratos: <I can sense some life energy up ahead. We're close.>

-Salamence finishes preening once she has determined that Kessie's hat is in proper condition-

Kessie: -nuzzles- <Thanks Miss Salamence.> -caws sweetly-

Spathi: *gives Every a look that says "I will roast you if you go awwww."* <The Pokeringer?> *has no idea what that is, but doesn't want to look dumb* <Er...that's great!>

back for a bit.

Styx: ...You sure we can do this?

Mata Nui: ...I don't know...

Jadis: I'm scared.

Lumos: Come on, guys... Umbramatic will help us through. He always has.

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-Gets noticeably angrier as he goes on-

Salamence: <Good li'l bird.>

(to Spathi) <You should ask Rex if you can enter! ^_^>

-has spent the day playing J-Team vs. Capcom-

Felis: <You're terrible at this.>

Well, I've only owned it for a day. Give me a break.

Under the snow cloud

Shadow: <So now what? Your "Team Glacier" seems to have no supporters.>

Icicle: <Then it's time to start recruiting! We should round up all the mons in the city. They must be tired of all the warmth here...>

Leaflet: <I liked it, dad...>

Kessie: -yawns, and blinks sleepily-

-We eventually meet a dead end.-

Let me guess. There's a secret passageway through to their hideout that can only be opened through some hidden switch.

Everyone, start looking.