Skaia

It had seemed that it was inconclusive as to whether or not these "duel spirits" could actually eat someone or not. Following that, though, the girl was confused and somewhat unnerved by the amount of things that it seemed that particularly evil spirits were capable of, and more so that she had been completely unaware that things like this could happen. As she thought more on it, the girl's attention was arrested away from her as Mr. E had appeared and suddenly spirited away Damien via ear pull. As the two males left, Kiyoko simply said, "what a strange man he is." Looking back to Hotaru she said, "well, as it is, I know not what spirit you think would eat me, but I as I cannot see or speak to them myself, I shall be in your care for those matters. Now then," letting out a deep breath, Kiyoko pushed herself away from the table. Standing up she said, "I believe we have spent enough time doing nothing. And now I feel the urge to do...something." Looking towards Hotaru the girl said, "I would appreciate if you would come along, and I feel like it would be a good way to enrich yourself as your method has for me." Despite having said that, though, Kiyoko seemed fine to go along regardless of Hotaru's decision.

Walking into her testing room, it didn't seem to be all that noteworthy, In the room was her and a giant wall made of some kind of glass with a hole in the center. Through the wall, she could see two test dummies that were close to each other, though there didn't seem to be anything else of note beyond it. Walking over to the hole in the wall, Yuuka traced her fingers over the whole in the wall and inspected it in more detail. It was clear to her that this wall was incredibly thick, and as such the hole was actually quite large. Putting a finger to her chin the girl said, "how interesting." "Isn't it? You lucked out with your exam, missy." Yuuka heard the voice of her teacher coming from seemingly nowhere, echoing in the small room. "Oh? Is that so?" Pulling her hand out and looking to the ceiling, she'll smile saying, "then I thank you for taking it easy on me." Yuuka was well aware of the person that her teacher was, though. And the idea that she would ever 'take it easy' on one of her students was not one that Yuuka believed existed. More curiously, the girl asked, "though, just to confirm, what exactly is my exam?" "It's just a theory of mine...but I believe you're hampering your own quirk by just throwing balls around. I think you have more control over it than that." With a pause, Yuuka could hear some tapping on the microphone. "On the other side of that hole is a room with two dummies in it. You'll have to incapacitate one on the right without making the other pass out. Simple, right?" Yuuka furrowed her brow, tapping her finger against her chin more pensively. "In theory yes, and I appreciate your confidence in me, though I'm not quite sure about it." Looking at the test, the girl was almost certain she knew where this simple exam was going. And she wasn't entirely sure what it was that her teacher had expected from her, or what she had been holding herself back with. All the same, Yuuka was still a student and this was still a test. "But well, I will do my best, Sensei." "Bingo! That's what I'm expecting from you all! Good luck, Yuuka!" Walking back from the hole, the girl figured it was best to try the most simple solution first before thinking outside the box. And thus, the girl coalsced an orb of poison in her hand, and, taking a pitcher's stance the girl wound her arm back and tossed it towards the hole. Yuuka, despite not being most athletic person, had considerable aim when it came to pitching. After all, she had always wanted to make sure that haphazard aim wouldn't be the thing that ended up causing her to harm others. And so, with a pitch, the girl tossed the globe of poison into the hole. Flying true, it landed right outside the hole, exploding at once and causing the poison cloud to form around both dummies. Seeing that she had indeed, managed to poison both of them at once, the girl girl scratched the back of her head. "Of course it wouldn't be that easy." So, with her finger to her chin, Yuuka started to ponder on just what the answer to this puzzle was.

Jacklyn's sour mood seemed to give way a bit, sighing as the Haunter made a gesture towards her that she could only assume was apologetic. "It's fine. It didn't really bother me anyway. So, apology accepted." Turning away from the ghost type, the girl then looked to see Ivan was stirring awake. While the boy seemed ill tempered, for reasons she could understand, the girl was glad that he seemed to manage to calm himself down. As he mentioned leaving soon, the girl said, "probably. It's not like there's much else to explore in this lighthouse, and I'm sure there's plenty more to explore in this city." Thinking on it for a moment, the girl seemed to go from being sour to suddenly re-energizing herself at the prospect of exploring their new found location. Clapping her hands together she said, "alright! However," pointing her finger at Ivan she said, "don't think you're getting out of this just because you were asleep. Everyone else has , so it's only fair that you do too." Realizing that he probably had no idea what she was talking about she said ,"apologizing. That is. After all, even if he was rude to us, you still shouldn't resort to physical violence! We are pokemon trainers after all, and as such we leave all of that and all of our problem solving to our pokemon! Not our fists!" Shrugging she simply added, "more or less." Turning to the Haunter, she then said, "you should apologize to him too. After all, you also attacked him. So," she looked between the pokemon and Ivan saying, "apologize to each other and shake it on it like men!" Looking to Dennis, a hand postured around her mouth as if to keep the others from hearing without actually lowering her voice, she said, "is Haunter a man?"

Marie's frustration only seemed to grow at Allie's staunch refusal on the topic of her siblings. To be perfectly honest, as Nani and Randy continued to rant about the world and legends, most of the topics seemed to go over her head. Marie wasn't concerned about the world at large. Marie wasn't concerned about what the legends had done to make it nor was she really concerned with how anyone was going to go about fixing it. That they were people that Aliie was trying to kill, people that she didn't think had done anything wrong, was about all that mattered in that regard to her. Yet even still. There was something that simply made Marie furious. Angry. Absolutely livid. "You're wrong! It isn't about what you say here. It's about how you show them how to act! That's what being a big sister is all about!" The Brionne shouted towards Allie. As the stones came at her, the girl deflected a few with a blast of water yet again, though she was still far from strong enough to match this attack. Being pelted by the attack, the girl still grit her teeth as she looked towards the Tyranitar. It hadn't mattered what Allie wanted in the end. If she was fighting for her siblings, so that they wouldn't have to fight, then it was obvious that she was doing something wrong. All the same, the girl simply blasted yet another stream of water towards Allie as the Tyranitar seemed intent on fighting. As Nine had picked up Shaymin and got ready to leave, after of course eating some of the delicious berries that the legend had provided for them, he looked over to Gwen. At her comment he said, "I am the model of a gentleman, and wouldn't dare dream of doing something to one such as her." Giving a playful smile towards the ghost girl, he then proceeded to follow her back to town. Once there, with legend now in tow, things had seemed to take a turn for the worse since their departure. No one had come out to greet them, nor had anyone really been out on the streets at all to begin with. The only thing Nine could really say about this complete lack of energy n comparison to their first visit, was that Alpha truly was just a ghost town now. Walking alongside everyone, they eventually met up with Gwen's father and the Enforcer, with the two informing of them of an attack that had happened since they had left. Nine narrowed his eyes a bit at the Enforcer's first comment about the legend. His attention, however, returned to Gwen's father as he explained the situation further to him. Aha. There it was. Nine had figured that there was more to this job then simply making sure a legend was safe. If anything, he was more glad and surprised that they were at least saying so to his face. All the same, Nine was both curious and suspicious about the whole notion of what was coming, and thus said, "oh? Them?" Nine looked between Gwen, the Enforcer and her father saying, "is there something you'd like to fill the rest of us in on for this. As far as fighting goes, Shaymin here is a bit of a pacifist, so if breaking this seal, or whatever it is, is going to put them in danger I can't really blindly condone this."

Ryia looked dumbfounded as the "chosen" before her declared just what it what he was the Chosen of. The girl hadn't the faintest idea of how to respond to something that sounded quite as ludicrous as this. This wasn't helped by the simple fact that she didn't even know what a buffalo was, though, she could very well guess it was the beast Geoff was aboard. As she grew more and more skeptical of his claim to power, it had seemed that the others had been as well. Seeming to not want anything more to do with this man, they started to simply go about trying to find Damien and leave Geoff to his devices. Ryia could understand why, and she was certainly of a mind to just let this sleeping dog lie. Of course, there was something about the man that made him seem quite earnest. And not just that, quite serious about the requests he had taken. And in that, Ryia could only assume he actually meant to take this on. And was very likely to get himself killed. She looked to the others as they started walking away and said, "um, uh, I'll uh, I'll catch back up with you guys..." Turning back to Geoff, the girl seemed a bit unsure of how to proceed. Starting with, "I um, apologize for their bluntness, they're a bit...antsy, I guess? Um..." Looking to the beast he was aboard, then back to him she asked, "is that uh...is that your spirit?" "Ha! Ha! Ha!" He said, pause between each laugh. "It is indeed. A mighty steed and mighty beast." Ryia glanced over, her spirit not actually being out but still being more comfortable with looking away from Geoff as she mentally asked her spirit a question. "Ackrin is...is that actually a spirit." "It is not." The goat's reply was blunt. "Right..." Pausing, she then said, "um...of the 200 requests that you took...what, um, what kind are they usually?" "Many things! Lost items, man-eating monsters, mapping out a potential trade route, finding a pretty flower, getting a magical horn," it seemed Geoff was going to list off every single request As she had thought, he certainly seemed to have a zeal to him. Trying to stop him from going on much longer she asked, "uhh...don't you think all of that's a little...too varied...for one person? Even a chosen?" "Maybe for others, it would be, but I plan on handling this within the week!" "I see..." Thinking on it for a moment, the girl took a deep breath before saying, "I would um, humbly request that you cut down on the requests you have taken...and try not to do anything too dangerous." "I understand your concern, and you seem like a kind young lady, but alas I cannot. It's my duty to help the people and help I shall. Starting with the request you so humbly brought to me." "I...I see. But well, I'm sure my friends and I can handle it...but you truly mean to tackle this request alone then?" "Well I can't just let others risk themselves when I can handle it can I?" Her assumption of Geoff was feeling more and more correct by the moment. "Then perhaps..." Ryia looked to Keres, trying to find some affirmation in her companion before she asked fully. Keres shrugged. "We're going that way...anyway, right?" Ryia nodded, before turning back to Geoff saying, "then perhaps you'd, um, like to work alongside us then?" "Haha! I see now. You want to see me in action, I understand...hm. Perhaps I can go along with that. I shall wait here for you to get your companions but not for long before I set out." Ryia involuntarily let out a nervous chuckle but just said, "ah...um, right...Well, we'll see you..." Turning away, moving to catch up with the others, the girl looked to Keres saying, "they'll uh, they'll understand right?"

As Morgan seemed to be confused by Ross's relief at some familiar people, the demon hunter merely reclined back in her chair. "Well, I guess meeting different kind of people is all well and good. But being surrounded by nothing but strangers means you're the strange one too. And, to be perfectly honest, I've had quite enough of that. Though," stretching her arms behind her the girl said, "I suppose us being far from the majority is why we're here to begin with. Nonetheless." As the topic had then shifted to one of Ross's thoughts on the time and Morgan's question of her being afraid of the dark, the girl's stoic expression didn't seem to change. "Not particularly. A blood drinker like myself must've spent a night or two in a coffin right? And those things are nothing but dark. And it's been a long day, so I could really use one of those." Resting her hands on the table, the girl leaned forward saying, "besides, isn't it scandalous for a princess like you to be out so late?"

Kiyoko was quite confused as the conversation had taken a turn for the unexpected. An off hand comment that Kiyoko hadn't paid attention to seemed to catch Hotaru's interest. And in so, the two began to talk about how they were able to see "him." Kiyoko hadn't the faintest idea of what they were talking about, and Damien's mock acting scared and talking to thin air did not seem to alleviate this confusion. As Hotaru said that the girl could go at any time, the girl looked at her, her confusion momentarily passing to just go back to her standard neutral expression. "Hm? But this was what I wanted to do. Though," becoming more pensive as she put a hand to her chin she said, "if there's no set time limit or criteria, I suppose it is quite difficult to know if I'm accurately doing nothing or not. Hmm..." As she thought more on this delimma she was now presented with, her attention shifted back to the topic that had confused her not two seconds ago. Right. They were talking about someone. Or rather, talking to someone. That apparently a good majority of the staff could see and speak to at that. "Um..." Looking between the two, feeling greatly out of the loop but not sure if this was a loop she was supposed to be in to begin with she simply asked, "what are the two of you talking about?"

Though Stella had only had two conversations about Vivian's home planet with the girl, Stella was starting to think it was a less and less pleasant place to live. If not for the conscription and lack of meet, then what Stella could only seem to describe as a knack that her roommate had to try and push that there were indeed positives to her homeworld. It wasn't as though Stella had actually thought it was some kind of backwater planet, that Vivian seemed to be a happy and healthy person did enough to disprove that notion. But the more persistent she was to prove it, the less Stella actually felt assured. All the same, as the girl made her comment about vacation and visiting one another's planets, Stella thought on it for a moment. "Well, Kellz and I haven't really traveled ourselves but..." As Stella thought more about it, she pictured the world that Vivian came from. And no matter what she could only imagine it as a forest with a bunch of huts or tree houses around. That probably wasn't what it was like. But the image didn't seem to get out of her head and Stella wasn't exactly all that much of a forest girl. All the same, she knew it would be rude to just decline the girl. As such, deflecting it to the other statement instead she said, "well, I'm sure the two of us could show you around our home. I don't know if it'll be the most interesting for you, but at least there's a bunch of food places we could go check out."

Alois simply stood around at the entrance of town awaiting the others to come back from whatever mess they probably had themselves wrapped up in. As it was just him and his unlikely companion of Sienna, the boy simply stood there quietly as he did so, not really feeling like he had any kind of thing to talk about with the fox girl with. Of course, being in silence only made him have his attention turn more to the fact of where he was, and naturally this only seemed to make him grow more impatient. Thankfully, he didn't seem to have to wait long, as the quartet of females had finally made their way into town. Much to his surprise, they all seemed to also be in one piece and without any kind of panic in their step, which Alois could only assume that meant they had actually left and come back without incident. Which was more than he could say for this group. Giving a wave to Licorice as she addressed him he said, "yeah, they're just resting elsewhere in town right now." Then, as the princess turned to address him, he gave a smirk and chuckled saying, "well funny thing about that. And I know you're not going to believe this when I say it but." Giving a small pause for mock dramatic effect, he said, "there's something fucked with this town. I know, shocker." After waiting a moment for it to sink in, the boy continued, "normally the town guards wouldn't even let you think of stepping foot in this town, but, well...come on." Gesturing for the group to follow, upon seeing any animals scurrying about, Alois said, "so when we got here, the place had basically turned into a zoo filled with animals that I had never seen before. Conversely, no one I knew was here. In fact, no one was here at all. So, well, unbelievable as it may be, are only going theory is that somehow the people of this village became animals." Upon hearing this comment, Tsetseg went wide eyed thinking about everything that it could mean. "Does this mean you also come from a village of proteans? Or, or, or are we all actually proteans?" Looking to Penelope the archer asked, "do you think we could all grow fluffy tails?" Pausing in disbelief at the comment, Alois muttered, "what in the- no. No we're not." Shaking his head, he then said, "anyway, it's obviously not something specific to the villagers here because well, I'm not an animal. And Cora -" stopping himself he elaborated, "also a resident here - she was apparently gone when this all happened and she's also not an animal." Looking at his companions he said, "so, got any ideas?"

Pouting as the girl mentioned the Entertainment Club, Jun said, “well, if you wanted to join a dueling club you could’ve joined my team instead of Souji’s dumb club.” Crossing her arms, the girl looked away, mumbling a bit before saying, “well, I guess Sai and Rose are alright. And if it’s what you want to do.” Pausing a moment, the girl began to ponder the situation. Thinking more on it, she eventually nodded to herself. Looking brightly back at Kyouko, clenching her sleeve covered fist, the girl said, “normally I wouldn’t help someone like this, especially if it helped my arch nemesis. But, well, as your friend and roommate Koko, I’ll help you figure this out!” Looking at the trash can she said, “so, what have you got so far?” “Not much. There’s a bunch of scrap paper in there for a reason, after all. I’m trying a different angle this time though.” Kyouko held up the synchro monster, continuing “Rather than looking at the monsters in my main deck, I should try something more like this, I figured. Still not sure what kind of overall look to go for though.” Putting a hand to her chin, the girl looked at the monster she was holding up, pondering on it. “Not much to go on. But…” The girl briefly chortled at the thought of Kyouko in a dragon costume with a cutout for her face in it. Refocusing on it, the girl looked back to her roommate saying, “well, what does everyone else have so far?” “There’s a wizard, a masked hero running the club, that popular idol duelist who you went to go see at the start of the school year, and a couple other new members. I thought about a knight the more I looked at my deck, but I don’t think I could stand up there on a stage acting all noble and honorable.” The inability to imagine that certainly wasn’t for lack of trying though. While she could certainly picture herself stopping a villain, it was absolutely not something she’d do in the name of justice or honor. “So I’m done doodling up stupid white knight ideas. I want to try something a bit less noble this time.” Scratching her chin, the girl snapped her fingers. Going to fiddle around with Kyouko’s deck, the girl pulled out her Phoenix Gearfried card. Grabbing her synchro monster, she then overlapped the two saying, “well, why not just try the opposite?” “...” Kyouko looked at the two cards together. Phoenix Gearfried… Black Brutdrago… do the opposite of the first one. “Sorry, I don’t really get where you’re going here.” Sighing and shaking her head, she said, “instead of going for a white knight, why not a black knight? Rose and Souji definitely have the hero quota filled for your group, so why not try playing at a villain?” Play a villain, huh? That was something that hadn’t really crossed her mind. As much as she didn’t like the idea of being the bad guy, it was certainly easier than being some chivalrous type. Yeah. That could work. And it was all just for show anyway, right? Some sort of dark knight character inspired by those two cards. Kyouko - as with her previous designs - started at the most important part. The helmet. She wanted something that could cover her face, of course, but making “a villain’s helmet” felt a lot easier than when she was trying everything else. And it showed in how she actually managed to finish the helmet in relatively little time. “You might be onto something here, Jun. Thanks for the assist.” Smiling with great satisfaction she said, "of course I am. Nothing can stop me when I think about it!" Smiling more as she made this boast, it then turned into a more crafty one as she said, "buuuut, if you really wanted to thank me." Tugging on and adjusting her bowtie, the girl smiled saying, "why don't you and your club come with me to Kickoff!"

Leon couldn't help but sigh at the spectacle that Alexis had put on, nearly immolating her instrument by accident. Though it was the first time he had seen her do something like this, it still brought about a familiar feeling to him. One that he couldn't help but give a small chuckle to. All the same, the boy had looked over to see Ada leaving after the two had a small exchange, the feeling of friction that seemed to be present between the two being all too apparent. It wasn't as though Leon didn't think the two would have an issue. Even he took some getting used to with Ada's magic when they had first met, and Alexis was far and away more stubborn about these beliefs than he was. All the same, he wasn't entirely in a position to refuse her help, and that she came along with them instead of telling anyone else about their group was only a net positive. Leon, however, had no idea how to ease the situation between the two, knowing that trying to convince one or the other to compromise likely wouldn't end well. So, he simply left Ada to go speak with Raynor, who he himself also seemed to be studying the same dark tome he had been earlier. Raising an eyebrow at it again, Leon turned back to Alexis and said, "well, since you seem to be up to all of your usual tricks and stumbles, I take it everything's same old same old back home?" Though there were no bears in immediate eyesight to draw the attention, it had seemed as if the woods themselves were conspiring against Yue. As the Jouran had gone to inspect the bow, there was little to district the Yonan from the situation, as even the usual sounds of the insects in the woods seemed to have vanished. This created a silence only broken by either of the two Iron Falcons, and the occasional sounds of branches and bushes being stepped on in the distance, as if animals were still moving through it.

With Jacklyn in a huff, the girl seemed more annoyed then anything else, and looked confused while Dennis made his own confused statement. As the boy started talking about leaving, the girl folded her arms and just said, "why would you leave? This lighthouse isn't broken or haunted or anything so it's not like there's anything to explore. And this is your place anyway, right?" If anything, Jacklyn was the one that wanted to leave this place quickly. Unfortunately, Ivan was still asleep and they had a ladder and stairs to go down. And Jacklyn had no desire to carry her traveling companion, nor did she think she physically could anyway. So instead, she just stood there, annoyed and impatient, waiting to get going. As the boy had apologized to Belle, the girl let out a sigh saying, "jeez was that so hard?" It was then that Belle had asked him to apologize to Jacklyn for his Haunter's attack. The girl looked to the boy, though, she didn't really seem to be expecting anything from it. She didn't quite care about the attack, being perfectly honest, and that he had apologized to Belle was good enough for her. The girl's eyes then looked over to Belle, who seemed to be looking at her. The blunette, however, did seem to be expecting something. From Jacklyn. Looking to her with a "seriously" face, the girl let out a sigh and said. "Fine, fine. I'm sorry for like, throwing you. And stuff."

Stella had been to her fair share of fast food restaurants and knew how crowds and the like usually worked in there. However, quite like her room had been, there had been something disturbingly robotic about the way that the line had moved along. Not to mention something unsettling about the uniformity of the two as they took her and Vivian's order. All the same, the girl got herself a plain cheeseburger, with a small fry and soda. Sitting down with the girl, Stella almost went to go eat her burger though stopped herself as she realized that Vivian was quite hyped up for this moment. Figuring it would be rude to just casually bite into it, the girl kept herself waiting to see Vivian's reaction to the food. Smiling a bit as she seemed to be enjoying herself, Stella then went to go eat her own, raising an eyebrow as the girl made her comment about missing them. "Well, that's not the only reason you shouldn't eat these all the time." Continuing to eat the burger, Stella realized something odd. Thinking back about her own home, she couldn't imagine any diners or restaurants without meat in them. Curiously looking at Vivian she said, "so, back on your planet. Do you guys only have like, vegetarian restaurants or something?"

With the plan being to stop by both places, as Cora mentioned the proximity of her house to the mayor's Alois nodded saying, "basically that. Oh and," looking back to Cora he said, "no need to apologize. We're basically a rowdy band of misfits anyway. But, we're in luck.'" Looking back to Cat he then said, "now's prime time to explore if you don't want to catch any trouble. After all, those three are the most likely to get into trouble by themselves anyway." Alois paused for a moment, seeming to be vaguely unsettled by what he just said. "Wait..." he muttered, though shook it off soon after. "But well, I guess we should go wait for them at the front." Looking to Edrick he said, "small as this zoo of a town may be, I don't think you want Penelope to think we all turned into animals, right?" Offhandedly he said, "amusing as that may be." Looking over to the new girl and Adelheide he said, "since you two are busy here, if the boy and his frog come back, be sure to tell them where we went." Seeing though that Adleheide was mostly engrossed in her medical procedures and that the girl, Citron, still seemed out of it, he looked to Peaches. "Well, Pinky, I'm sure you can handle it, right?" With that, Alois began to walk back to the front gate. Tsetseg was a bit confused about the conversation that was going on between Penelope and Licorice, but didn't really bother to think too much on it. Sure, things changed and the people you were around changed from time to time, but Penelope still thought that didn't they wouldn't be having loads of fun time in the future. All the same, as the black fluffy tailed fox protean had finally seemed to calm down, the group was now able to joyously meet back up with the others. Seeing that the path back, though, was clearly carved out for them, as Penelope went to reassure Licorice about her actions, the girl smiled widely as well saying, "yeah! Thanks for the help Licorice!" It was then that Ciela spoke up again, and while the girl was still annoyed at her refusal to hand over her clearly evil dark magic experiments, she was also interested in her question. "Yeah, yeah. Dariela some kind of like, super hunter or something? She seemed to be like really, really good at seeing things."

As Marie continued to keep her face in the ground, more so because she could barely keep herself conscious then anything else, she heard a familiar voice speak out to her. Weakly looking up, the girl saw a can of something in front of her, and suddenly feeling quite parched, had opted to grab at it. Slowly pulling the tab open on the can, the girl began drink down what she could only assume was lemonade, starting slowly but drinking faster the more she did. Feeling revitalized from the drink, the girl's eyes opened up more as she was more able to see the scenery around her. Looking at the ground, the girl felt a small sickness go through her stomach, which was made only more unpleasant having just drank something, seeing a small red stain on the ground. Looking up more, the girl got even more startled as she saw...something...that wasn't there before, and was not at all sure what to make of them. Hearing them shout back to Allie, Marie recognized the voice as being Nani's but they certainly didn't look like the Mimikyu that she had known. As Allie had seemed to be shouting at them that they should be joining them in their quest to kill the legends, Nani had then ranted towards them which also lit a fire in Marie as well. With her expression still be greatly annoyed at the Tyranitar. "More...more than anything, though," the girl huffed as she was still trying to catch her breath from all the injury she had just sustained. "More than anything," pointing an accusatory finger at the Tyranitar she shouted, "what kind of a big sister are you!?" Glaring at the god slayer she continued shouting, "a big sister is supposed to be cool, responsible, and a good role model for their siblings! And you're none of those things!" Gritting her teeth she continued, "you left your siblings on their own! And the only example they had to follow and to keep you around almost got them killed! So why should I ever join a big bully's gang to do whatever world things you want when I don't even trust you as a big sister!" As it turned out, both Nine and Lok had done a good enough job of convincing Skymin to come with them. Letting out a sigh of relief as the legend had gave their greetings he then had a brief flash of worry as he had changed back into the female Shaymin, who promptly passed out. Assuming that it must have been some sort of fatigue related thing, Nine still said, "ma'am, are you feeling alright?" Regardless of how she answered, the Houndoom would either help her to her feet or, if she remained passed out, hoist her onto his back to carry her. With that done, he looked to Gwen saying, "well, that about solves that. Shall we return?"

With Ryia and Keres being brought up to speed on the current situation that the group was in, she certainly felt for the woman in need of help. Yet, naturally, the issue of there being another chosen had to take priority over the woman's troubles, if for no other reason than the woman hadn't even asked them necessarily. Ryia was curious as well about the possibility of their being another chosen. While she was naturally skeptical of the idea of their being another chosen, having met every other chosen so far in the council's tower, the girl was still quite curious about them. The timing of someone else going around saying they were the chosen was certainly convenient to their own, and it would similarly be convenient if there actually was another chosen that could aid them on their quest to stop the demons. With Keres's words as well helping reassure that it was possible they were real, Ryia set out with the rest of the gang to go meet this supposed chosen. As the group approached where they were supposed to go, there was clearly a man who stood out amongst the rest of the crowd. Looking at his imposing, if not for his own appearance then because of the animal next to him, figure, Ryia figured that this was probably the man they were looking for. Looking at him, the girl awkwardly stood there, not entirely sure how to start a conversation with the man without feeling horribly awkward about it. Of course, the longer she stood and said nothing, the more awkward she'd probably feel. And with no one else breaking the ice here, Ryia stepped forward trying to free herself from this awkwardness. Approaching the man slowly, the girl asked, "um, excuse me uh...um, are you the Chosen?" He turned around dramatically. "Aha, another adoring fan! Yes, tis I, Geoff, the Chosen you have undoubtedly heard so much about!" Taken aback by the sudden contrast between the figure she had just seen and loudness of the one she was talking to, Ryia said, "um, not uh, not exactly- but well, um." The girl paused, trying to figure out how best to ask him about his chosen status without just bluntly stating so. As that would be rude. As she couldn't, though, she simply fell back on what it was they were actually asked to do. "Geoff um - chosen uh - we uh, we have a request from someone - someone in town." He tipped his hat down and chuckled. "Ah, yes, of course, many people have come to me with requests. For I am greatness incarnate. What is your request?" "Well, um, there is a woman in town and her uh, her husband went missing - outside of the city in um...near a farm, I think." "Ahh, I see, a woman in town, I understand." He nodded, looking sympathetic in Ryia's direction. "Never fear, I can easily take care of this task and the other 279 I have gotten from the others in town!" Clearly stunned by this the girl blurted out, "t-two hundred?" "And 79, yes." He said, nonchalantly. "Uhhh...wow...." Ryia looked at the amount, dumbfounded and impressed at the same time by the sheer amount of work this man was willing to take on. "That uh, sounds like an awful lot for one person." "Perhaps were I a normal man it would be but I am the Chosen! A great hero of lore! It will be just like another Tuesday for me!" "I uh...I suppose so..." The initial shock that Ryia had had when the man introduced himself was wearing off, now bearing way to skepticism as she was certain that the whole group of chosen couldn't possibly handle that many requests. Trying to wonder where it was that the man was getting such power or sheer ability to multitask from, the girl asked, "if you don't mind me asking...what uh...what chosen are you?" He threw his head back and laughed. "Is it not obvious?" He stepped to the side of the beast by him and gestured to it with one hand. "I am the Chosen of Buffalo!"

While Yuuka had been thinking about twins and their quirks, she giggled a bit as she was praised by her teacher and her teacher, in turn, praised herself. she was brought back by Itsuki's comment about improvement. And as well as Hibiki's agreement with that. Frowning a bit, the girl nodded along as their teacher had told them that there was still more to learn about their own quirks. She was positive that Hibiki seemed to be just as blessed with her bundle of abilities that she had gotten from being a bat, and she could hardly believe that the energetic girl hadn't thought about what other bat things she could do. And she was already aware, based on their first meeting, that Itsuki still didn't have a full mastery of his own quirk. All the same, the girl was quite enthused about the prospect of thinking of how to develop other people's quirks. These thoughts as well, however, were broken up as it appeared that their method of payment wasn't valid at the ice cream shop. Having no money herself, Yuuka simply stood up with a smile on her face, saying, "I apologize for the inconvenience." With that, the girl ran out of the building alongside her teacher. With the door of her house being unlocked, and seeing the shoes at the front entrance, Yuuka took her own off and simply said, "Mom, I'm home." When there was no response, the girl frowned as she moved started to move further into her house, hearing an all too familiar noise as she made her way to the living room. The sound of light snoring was the sound that accompanied the sight of Yuuka's mother sleeping on the couch. The woman seemed to have her bag at the side of the couch, with some papers scattered around the table. Sighing, Yuuka said, "Mom. Moooom." As the woman seemed to be fast asleep, Yuuka tried to figure out how else to wake the woman up as she couldn't just jostle her awake. As she was thinking, though, she caught a glance of herself in the reflection of her window. Raising an eyebrow, the girl moved to the bathroom, looking at her reflection in a proper window. "Oh..." Pausing at the sight, Yuuka realized that her hair was entirely messed up, seeming to be far more unkempt and with a good bit of dirt in it. The rest of her seemed to be similarly dirty as well, her clothes as well having looking roughed up and like she had rolled around on the ground, and seeing all this the girl could only imagine what kind of awful state her back probably looked in. Figuring that it was probably better to not let her mother see her like this, the girl had opted to not wake her. Instead, walking into her mother's room, the girl fetched her mother's blanket off of her bed, laying over top of the woman. The girl had then moved herself to the kitchen, pulling out a cup of instant ramen, before retiring to her room for the night. Yuuka had enjoyed the more down to earth days of schooling that had followed the trip. While she was always thrilled to get to more hero things and physical activities, her back had had a different say in the matter. It was only now that she wasn't feeling terribly sore and the bruises on her back had been starting to fully heal from her fight against Renegade and Gypsy. However, now it was the time for quirk training, something that girl had been thoroughly looking forward to since her conversation with her fellow students and teacher at the ice cream shop. Marveling at the training facility, Yuuka giggled a bit at Valerie's comment saying, "well, it would be a problem if I could break these rooms." Looking back to the other students she said, "good luck everyone!" With that, the girl moved onto her own training room.

Nodding as the two girls had said that they wished to go hunting, Leon merely did his part around camp as the group got to setting things up. Aiding Raynor in collecting the fire wood, and then helping pitch whatever shelter was needed, when all was said and done, Leon merely let out a heavy sigh. Rather than sitting, Leon took it upon himself to lie on his back on the ground, looking at the stars that seemed to peer through the the canopy of leaves the treetops formed. Having felt quite tired for awhile now, Leon took this moment of camping to try and unwind as best he could. The marching itself was physically strenuous and while it had definitely been no small part to Leon's fatigue, this hadn't been the first job they took which required a good deal of travel. More it was his thoughts on the bandits, the job they were taking, and the people he was with. Once they had gotten to Enta and delivered Edda there, what would come next? As things were, returning home and continuing on with business as usual hardly seemed like it would work out for long. While the boy was lost in his thoughts, a tune started to ring out as he heard the tune of a pan flute play throughout the camp. He wasn't surprised as he looked to who was playing the music, and simply closed his eyes to the relaxing tune as she lied there. Calming himself a bit as she played her flute, the boy then heard his other companions speak up. Sitting up a bit, Leon looked to Ada and said, "yeah. She might not look it, but," looking over to Alexis he said, "you always seemed to be a better bard that you were soldier." Not to mention he felt her demeanor was far more suited to it as well. Edda, meanwhile, had merely sat a bit away from the rest of the group, facing the edge of the river. She didn't say anything, simply sitting there, curled up a bit as she had the hood of her cloak up, obscuring her face. Yue and Rona would find that as they left the camp grounds, that animals were scarce around the location they had set up. There were no large animals to speak of in their pursuit of game, instead only seeing small birds and land mammals across the forest floor. And even those were few and far between, seeming to be quite alert to the presence of their hunters were they to carelessly approach. Even still, as Yue had remarkable skill with a bow, she would find bringing down game with her arrows difficult but not impossible.

With Kickoff just about underway, Jun found herself in her room, looking at herself in the mirror. Adjusting her hat to make it sure it was on right, the girl gave a once over of her reflection. Her skirt was adjusted and on properly. Sneakers, on as well. One black jacket that seemed to have sleeves that stretched past her hands, multi purpose in both fashion and function in keeping her hands warm, also check. And of course, the hat that the girl was seldom seen without. Looking at each article of clothing, Jun nodded to herself as she figured that she was indeed in perfect dress form for the dance that was to occur tonight. However, were one to look at her, they would likely think that she was just wearing the same outfit she usually wore around campus. And they would be correct to assume so. Jun never was the type to bother with getting more formal and fashionable clothing, nor did she particularly like wearing it to begin with. Aside from that, she thought she was plenty fashionable as it was. Of course, because the rest of the world was not always of the same opinion, Jun had to make sure that she modified her wardrobe. It was only one addition, and a minor one at that, but with it she would be able to seamlessly blend into the world of formal wear. This addition was, of course, a single bow tie she put on. Murmuring a small, "perfect," Jun knew that she was ready for the rest of the day's events. As she had been preparing, her roommate seemed to wonder aloud about the event that was going on today, to which Jun turned around to face her. A sly smile on her face, as her roommate ruled out who wasn't in the show match duel for today, Jun said, "astute observation skills as always, Detective Koko." Giggling to herself at this, the girl then said, "well, it might not be me, but it is people from the duel team. More specifically," with pride the girl spoke saying, "my protege, Shiro." With less enthusiasm she then said, "and he's just against Hiku. A clash of this year's rookie versus a senior member of the duel team, and one where if Shiro wins then Hiku will have no choice but to admit how much better I am than him!" Laughing to herself at this, Jun thought about how sweet the victory would be. She didn't particularly care about being better than Hiraku from a competitive sense, but the idea of being able to torment him specifically about it was always something she found amusing. Moving on to the next question she said, "and well...I don't really know. I guess the student council just wants us to have fun and show what they can do with their budget or something. And what awesome duel isn't always fun to watch right?" Though she said that, and her previous comment, she was still skeptical about the whole thing. Being objective about it, from what little she had seen Yushiro would be at a clear skill disadvantage against Hiraku, so she had her doubts on how close the match would actually be. While she was trying to think on this, she looked over to see that Kyouko had once again tossed away something. Jun didn't think they had any tests on coming up so soon, nor intense homework that would frustrate her roommate this much. And she had been working on it for a few days at that. So, walking over, she looked at the paper on her roommate's desk, curiously asking, "but enough of that Kickoff stuff. Whatcha working on Koko?"

Pouting a bit as Penelope had made her point on the young archer handling the potions, Tsetseg figured there was some truth to it. She, after all, did not have any experience with magic whatsoever and if her white haired friend had thought that was necessary to make sure that nothing bad happened, then she was probably right. All the same, she didn't think it right to just not let Ciela not have her things taken from her, and despite the blue haired girl's insistence that she still deserved them saying, "well then hand them over to Penelope. She's really smart with magic, so she won't let anything bad happen with them!" Nodding to herself at this, she then looked to Penelope, holding her hand out towards Ciela again as if asking her to hand it over, only this time looking like she wanted Penelope to come mimic her instead. As Ciela made her comment again, the girl huffed as she pulled back her hand saying, "well this dark magic isn't a good hero kind." The girl turned away from Ciela as she made this comment, but then looked back as the girl was apologizing to Licorice. Smiling at the fox protean she said, "well, well, with all of us here and stuff, lots of fun times will happen in the future right?" While Alois wasn't sure what to make of the girl's initial reaction to his greeting, not able to tell if she was angry, annoyed or something else, his face became momentarily stunned as she tried to scratch the back of her neck with the blade of her sword. A bit dumbfounded at what could only be seen as a remarkable display of swordsmanship, the boy simply said, "yeah...hi." The girl then seemed to be just as confused as the rest of the group as to what was happening in this town, which he figured he would be more surprised if she wasn't. All the same, he responded to the girl by saying, "well, we were just about to go raid the mayor's place, and I'm sure with him out at the moment he wouldn't mind us snooping around. Or well, he can't mind at least." Chuckling at the thought of the Mayor's expression were he to know that they would be rummaging through his stuff, the boy then said, "but well, want to come with?"

"Huuuuh?!" Jacklyn let out as Dennis began to shout at towards her, something about what he was saying causing her to become deeply upset and only more frustrated at him. "I am not a bully! I'm not pushing you around! And I'm not bullying you!" Pointing to her two friends, the girl shouted out, "I'm standing up for my friends here!" Looking to Ivan specifically, as he was physically incapable of doing so himself at the moment, the girl was about to continue shouting about how she wasn't bullying the boy as she heard Belle speak up. Looking annoyed at the girl she said, "it's not like I'm fighting for the sake of it! I am defending your honor! At least look a little interested, jeez." Pouting as she turned away from her friend, she said, "fine, whatever. Rus go use - Rus?" Having not really paid attention to her opponent, she missed the first attack he had used and Rus in turn had been hit by the confuse ray. As such, the fire bunny was simply wobbling about, not really hearing anything clearly and just tackled into a wall, hurting itself in the process. Looking at her pokemon, her sleeping teammate, Belle who was reading comments, and the mess of a room they were doing battle in, the girl just sighed. "Fine, whatever, you win." Clearly not happy, the girl simply called Rus back into his pokeball and then looked back to Dennis.

As Stella made the suggestion to go exploring, Kelsey seemed to remember that she had a room of her own to go to. Though she was a bit disappointed, Stella was still glad enough to hear that Kelsey wanted to join the two later, and simply gave a wave to her as she went off saying, "see you in a bit." With her ship roommate gone, that just left Vivian and Stella by themselves now. Stella wasn't usually terribly awkward around new people, though, even by herself. Though, being in the environment that she was in here, having seen the room she just did and now being left alone with someone she frankly still felt some tension around did not help her in socializing with her new roommate. As such, she didn't really know how to proceed in looking for food other than beginning to simply walk away. Thankfully, this tension seemed to be one sided as Vivian started to rattle off about what she wanted to get to eat. Stella herself wasn't a fussy eater, in fact she was a very minimalist and generic brand eater at that. As it had turned out, Vivian seemed to be some kind of a carnivore as she had done nothing but suggest different kinds of meat. While Stella didn't think much on it, she stopped and looked at the girl quizzically as she made her last statement. That someone hadn't had a burger in their life was something that the girl couldn't quite fathom given how commonplace they were back home. Maybe she was just a vegetarian? There was definitely a vegetarian vibe she was getting from Vivian. All the same, Stella thought about the question for a moment and said, “well, I’ve never been sad eating a hamburger before, so yeah I’d say so.” Looking at the girl curiously she said, “do they uh, not have those where you’re from?” “They do, but meat can get so expensive on Colia that it just isn’t worth it unless you absolutely can’t live without it.” Putting her hands close together to emphasize what she was about to explain, Vivian continued “Colia is covered in dense jungles, so it’s hard to settle land there. We build our cities upward to make up for it, but we still don’t have much room for agriculture, so it’s better to focus entirely on plants since farm animals take up sooooo much space to raise. So all our meat is imported or hunted, making it kind of pricey. But on the bright side, all the other foods are super-cheap!” Not a vegetarian, just heavy import taxes. She could work with that. Putting her hand to her chin, Stella said, “huh. Well ,when it comes to meat, beef and chicken are probably the most common we have back home, and you can’t really go wrong with them. So, would you want one of those?” “I’d love one! Let’s keep our eyes peeled for someplace that sells hamburgers.” Between making all sorts of new friends - even if it was just the one - showing up to such an amazing school, and now the impending first meat dish of her life, this was shaping up to be a real eye-opening, life-changing day! "Alright," nodding, Stella took the lead on finding a place for the two of them to go. As they walked around the campus, Stella was on the lookout for different places to get food. While there was certainly a wide variety of different places to eat at, some with food that Stella was more than questionable about trying, she eventually found a place that seemed to fit the bill. A small little building with a large sign on a pole that read, "Burgz Palace." Nodding to herself at the sight of the otherwise generic looking fast food place, Stella looked to Vivian saying, "well, if you're going to have your first burger we should probably go with the basics. And that looks like the place." Taking out her phone, she took a picture of the place, and sent it to Kelsey with a short, "found a place," attached to the message. Pocketing her phone again, Stella said, "let's go."

Despite her best efforts, Marie was not at all able to avoid the attacks that were coming at her. Gritting her teeth as the stones pelted into her, Marie let out a yelp of pain as she was knocked down to the floor. Lying down there, tears began to form in her eyes as she felt a stinging sensation across her abdomen. This was different from other pain she had felt so far. It wasn't just the stinging that lingered and gradually faded, no. This seemed to continue to persist, throb, and came with it a burning sensation as it pressed against the ground. Marie couldn't really make sense of what was going on at the moment, however, she started to feel the familiar sensation of sand whipping around her, pelting into her. She didn't want to keep fighting Allie. She didn't want to keep getting hurt over and over again. She didn't want to be in this sandstorm. The sand was bothersome, annoying and she hated the feeling of sand constantly getting in her face. The pain was terrible, and her body was sending off every warning signal it could that told her she was in a bad state, and that keeping this up would only make things worse. And fighting Allie was nothing short of terrifying. The godslayer who seemed to be singlemindedly obsessed with fighting and killing others for reasons that Marie couldn't even begin to fathom. Deep down, she knew that she wanted to run away, get as far away as possible and never have to think of this monstrous person again. Yet, she couldn't as there was something even scarier to her. The thought that she would run, leaving her friends to keep fighting and die was unacceptable to her. The thought that she would just let Heatran or Moltres, or whatever legend this bully would find be killed by her was similarly unacceptable. And she certainly couldn't just let a bully get away with doing whatever they wanted to do. Coughing a bit, a warm and iron tasting sensation leaving her mouth as she did, the girl let out a small singsong tone from her mouth, replacing the sand with rain once more as she collapsed back onto the ground. Still conscious the girl tried to make sense of everything else that was going on, somewhat deaf to the rest of the battle at the moment, as she lied face down on the ground. . Nine figured that going back and bringing Skymin with them was the plan to go with. Though, he couldn't help but feel uneasy about the prospect, he wasn't sure that leaving them out in the grove was the best idea either. Looking at the legend, he said, "well, how about we just rest up in your grove for now and you can think about it? After all, I have no doubt that you, Skymin, would be able to beat any evil doer that would step foot on your grove. But, what if you end up switching back to the," Nine paused for a moment, trying to think of what adjective to use to describe their other form and "lamer" certainly wasn't the one he would go with. Settling on just a simple one, he said, "the other Shaymin. She doesn't really seem like she'd want to fight, or can really. So it doesn't really seem fair to her to leave that to her." Though Nine had said that, he hadn't the faintest idea how their switching worked. Though, he was certainly hopeful, for a number of reasons, that they would switch back.

Moving around the market, Ryia was excited to think of the group having fresh cooked meals on the road. It hadn't been that much time since she had left home and embarked on this quest presented by the councils and spirits, yet something about the home she had come from, and naturally the cooking that came along with it, had felt so distant from her. And so, while the thought was comforting and exciting to her, she was also presented with another problem. She hadn't really had the faintest idea of what to cook or to ask for, and likewise she hadn't really had any idea what to pick out. As such, Ryia had just gone on grabbing various vegetables and meats that she thought would work out from her untrained eye, as well as a pot and pan to cook the food in to begin with. Of course, the girl had also been sure to get some things that were more traditional for food necessary on the long road, but by the end of it all she started to feel a bit sorry for the mule, having picked up what might've been an excessive amount of food. With their trip done, Ryia looked to Keres, who seemed to present one of the meats on a stick that she had seen earlier. Looking at it, suddenly feeling a bit of hunger enter her system and with her eyes reflecting it, she looked back to Keres a bit embarassed as she realized how she must've looked. "Oh um, sure. Yes. Thank you." Grabbing it, the girl began nibble on it, not recognizing what kind of meat it actually was, but finding it delicious all the same. Smiling as she continued to eat at it, she looked to the water chosen asking, "um...did you also, uh, want one?" With that out of the way, the duo had eventually made their way with the mule through the city, looking for their fellow chosen. Eventually coming across the rest of them, they themselves having conveniently already found each other, she gave a small wave to them, a stick with only small remnants of meat being on it in her hand as well. Making her way over to them, she just said, "glad we were um, able to meet up with you all. Did you all um, get what you needed?"

Yuuka intently listened as Ms. Hitotsume explained to them the origin of her quirk, seeming eager to learn all she could about their teacher's power. Due to not having a third eye herself, she couldn't imagine how seeing through one or more eyes actually felt like. All the same, it had sounded like an unpleasant experience growing up and she couldn't imagine the heat death rays that spawned from them made it any better. All the same, the degree of control she had on her quirk presently was truly something to be commended. As the woman explained about the practice needed to achieve it, the girl was skeptical at best about it. Not so much that it was true - she had now doubt that her teacher had worked hard to achieve mastery and evolution of her power as it was now. However, Yuuka was more skeptical of if she should. As far as she was aware, there was nothing heroic about a quirk that only poisoned people, and she was more concerned about what could happen to others if it did get more potent. Though, she couldn't deny that it had been helpful in bringing down Renegade, and to able to do so quicker would in fact cause less long run harm. Quite a conundrum. While Yuuka was wrapped up in her own thoughts, it was then that Hibiki seemed to have a query of her own on quirks. Shifting her thoughts more on the subject, she looked to her classmate saying, "it's likely. Quirks are, after all, just something genetic correct? And there's no two people in the world more genetically similar then twins, so it would stand to reason that their quirks are similar if not the same."