Vengeance of the Soultakers

[rubybeam]

"I'm a bikaoth mutated plant thing" Deppy tilted her head at the drool coming down from ivikas mouth "I didn't know talking mutated plant things could drool" deppy dropped the berries in front of the leafeon "You don't know how to hunt therefore you are weak" deppy closed her eyes giving a plased smile "Don't worry deppy will help you become stronger then!"

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Yuki immdealy covered hiself with his tails again he started shaking in fear of being hurt "Don't eat me"

[Lupis]

Summer blinked. "Don't worry, I don't plan to! Rather, I was going to invite you over to the fire. It's cold outside for someone that's not an ice type." She flicked her tail at the warm, cozy fireplace.

[rubybeam]

Yuki revealed one of his four small eyes just to be sure, he revealed the rest of his face to look at the fireplace his forzen ears reminding him of how cold they were he immdeatly ran up to it

[Lupis]

((Last post for the night.))
Summer smiled, moving to sit near Yuki. She was sure to stay far enough away that she didn't scare him. "What's your name?" she asked, then added, "I'm Summer."

[Azunara]

Ivika looked at Deppy warily. "To be fair, if that Tangela was a real bush, those berries would've mine..." She remarked, sounding slightly embarrassed. She watched Deppy, but she did carefully take a berry. She tried not to give a satisfied squeak of joy, but it ended up coming out anyways. It was amazing how good food tasted when you were half starving.

[rubybeam]

"I'm yuki" yuki closed his eyes enjoying the warmth of the fireplace
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"Tangela? no such things exist! you need to learn" deppy gave ivka a dumb smile

[Kira]

"I dunno..." Arkon felt his tail lashing behind him and he tensed up a bit. Something felt very odd.

Aeris let out a whimper as she fluttered her wings, her tail slamming into the ground. What the heck had just happened? Her wings gave another large flutter before they curled around her. She should get out of here...but where the heck would she go? She whined loudly, then sat down. She'd have to think for a while.

[Saturo]

Darkrai returned to Solara. "How's it going?", he asked, both to Sol and the Unown Leader. The Unown was quiet, and then spoke rapidly into his mind. "We've lost seven Unown, and we've got a few possible leads, we've found Obsidian objects deep in the ocean, on mountains, in old ruins and one inside a television store in Rustboro."
"Any mirrors!?", Ley yelled into Darkrai's mind, causing him to shudder.
"Any mirrors?", he relayed, looking annoyed.
"No."
He sighed, placing the bag on the ground, looking over at to the mountains. The kidnapping had been easy, not very exciting at all. Shadowform over to the victim, reform, chloroformed rag, bag, fly away. Dodging the Hyper Beams from upset trained pokemon had been a tad harder, but still easy enough to be boring. There was just no challenge in anything.

[Azunara]

((Poor Darkrai. No victims. *offers Ivy?*))

Ivika blinked. "What the fel are you going on about?"

[Lupis]

Lark flicked her ears, lashing her tail as well. She glanced behind quickly to make sure he wasn't trying to warn them of some massive monster. Nothing. Hmm...

[Azunara]

Solara added, "From what I've heard from the Dusk, it's the same so far. Nothing. Plenty of obsidian things or mirrors. but never both." Despite their bad luck thus far, the psyceon was relatively pleased. Every few minutes a new voice would filter into the Link, a new Dusk on the hunt. A few flying and ghost types that were keeping an eye on the Dawn territory reported they weren't active at all. If all went well, they'd find what they needed and crush the Dawn.

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Ivika tilted her head at the Bikoth. "Maybe you're from Unova. I've never seen anything like you, and I heard from a few little birds that you don't see anything like here there. I mean, I, a denizen of Sinnoh, know what a -tangela- is." She tried to keep the mockery out of her voice, but really? It was true. Even she knew what one was.

[rubybeam]

Deppy once again tilted her head in confusion "Sinnoh? unova? sinnoh sounds like its the insides of an animal turned into strings, so gut string? as for unova It sounds like a speical star of some sort mind clearing things up talking mutated plant thingie?"
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"My names yuki" yuki said rather just enjoying the warmth of the fire, he no longer shook with fear and was focused on the sweet sweet heat

[Azunara]

Ivika yelped in protest. "Sinnoh is not a pokemon's guts! It's my homeland, where the great Legendaries Dialga and Palkia stand, and where Arceus was once summoned. Great battles were fought in that region," The leafeon added with a hint of pride. She added, "And stop calling me "mutanted plant thingy"! I'm a Leafeon, thank you."

[rubybeam]

Deppy sat down "This sinnoh interrests me,I don't know what palkia, dialaga and arceus are but if there was a great battle taking place there you wouldn't mind telling me about it would you talking mutated plant thing?"

[Moonlost]

Baaz caught up to the two finally, panting to catch his breath back. "Are you two okay?" He asked. "Seen anything strange while you were out here?"

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"I can see that house where your sister lives up ahead" Venin said as she ran just past the forest bondaries. "Now, let's hope we won't be ignored as troublemakers eh?"

[Kira]

Arkon shook his head, his tail giving another little lash. "Nothing at all. Is something wrong Uncle Baaz? You seem..agitated."

[Azunara]

((Moon, mind if I try to nudge Ghost towards Psychosis? He's got the most info on the mirror, and I wouldn't trying to get poor Ghost more involved. xD))

Ivika looked at Deppy, relaxing a bit. "Well. Okay, I wasn't there, but I did travel with this haunter for a few days. Her name was Speck. Anyways, she was a fighter in the war. She told me that a few mortal pokemon like us got all the legendaries together and they summoned Arceus. Arceus is like...the biggest. The bestest. He's huge and scary and all legendary. You know, cause he made all of the legendaries and all that. Anyways, they were fighting this space virus thingy, right? That wanted everyone dead."

"So they got all the legendaries together and summoned the God, and there was this huge fight and everything. And a lot of people died, though one of them, a legendary named Darkrai she said, did come back as a ghost."

Ivika cackled, grinned darkly. "Between you and me, I think Speck liked Darkrai, judging by the way she talked about him." The leafeon continued, "Not the point. So yeah. Big battle, and the space virus was defeated. He did come back though, thanks to the efforts of all the pokemon there. She said it was really neat."

((*looks at what she wrote, grins innocently.* ))

[rubybeam]

Deppy was rather interrested in the story "Where is this speck now anyway? sounds like an interresting spirit none the less I also don't know what you mean by 'virus' but i'm preatty sure its something bad"

[Moonlost]

((Sure, go ahead!))

Psychosis looked about, trying to puzzle out where to go now. His intuition had told him to go east, and he had. Now he was standing on a coastline, staring out at the ocean. He stretched his mind out, trying to find any sort of connection, something to tell him that he was going in the right direction. The roaring of the surf was all that answered him. So much for that.
<Can you sense anything I cannot, master?> Psychosis asked the presence within him.
<It's... Hard to tell... But I don't think I hear it anywhere around here.> The Insins voice responded. <If we were close, I would have heard it singing by now. Although there is the chance it's on another landmass somewhere.>
Psychosis depaired at that thought. Searching one land would be hard enough. Seaching several more? He disliked the thought.
<Don't worry Psychosis. Our friends in the Dusk are helping. So many of us were killed, we all want the same thing.>
The Dusk! Psychosis was at once elated and shocked. He could certainly use the help, but the Dusk had caused his master to die in the first place, had allowed him to continue with his foolish wishes to see the universe as Arceus did.
<Death changes one's perspective on such things.> The voice of Insins responded with a bitter chuckle. <What good is the knowledge of creation if you don't have a body to experience it with. I promise, if they seek to rise up to power again, I shall not aid them. And besides, all my notes were destroyed. Even if I had the desire, it would take months to even start working on another virus.>
<You don't know how relieved I am to hear you say that, master.> Psychosis responded. <So, we see what lies across the ocean then? I'll have to steal my way on a ship. Most humans are unconfortable about pokemon clearly dusk evolved.>
<You won't have any worries, you can always send them to sleep.>
The Remku nodded, turning to look for the nearest human settlement.

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"There is, and you will probably not believe me when I tell you what it is that has me so worried." Baaz responded, looking about to see if there were others nearby. "Do you remember those stories I used to read to you, the ones about the Soultakers? It turns out they're more than stories. I had one of the rebels talk to me, the Soultakers are returning."

[Azunara]

Ivika shrugged, "Don't know. Never heard from her since. I've asked around occasionally, but no one's heard of her. Those who have won't answer me. Touchy subject, apparently."

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Kerym carefully plucked at Ghost's mind again, adopting "Solara's" voice. "There is another out there that can help you find the Mirror. A Dusk-Involved. If you can find him, he may help you." Kerym tried to scrounge up a memory of what they had briefly saw of the Remku, piecing it together as well as she could and sending it. "Hurry...The mirror saps my strength.."

((*pokes thread.* *watches it wilt.* Okay, then. I'm going to head off to sleep so I can function tomorrow without saying random stuff that will freak out teachers/people I have to deal with/friends.))