Adventure Thread - Group A

Clay pats Raido's shoulder reassuringly, ruffling his leafy mane. "I'm fine, but thanks."

He wanders over to the others, partly to help reassure Tiki and partly to rescue Fan, who is starting to look like she's having second thoughts about actually getting cried on. "Yeah, let's get home. We'll figure something out. I mean, somebody like that leaves an impression - I'll bet somebody's heard of that lady. And then we can help her."

Once Fan is freed she scampers over to Clay and up to ride on his uninjured shoulder. "We've got a long walk to go so let's not spend it moping, right? You're gonna worry Fan." That ears him another tweaked ear.

Tiki is now dragging herself into the guild due to exhaustion. She is slouching, and her eyes are heavy. She turns back to the others. "No one's awake...guess we we can get to sleep too...I'll see you all at breakfast. Goodnight..."

She let's out a big yawn, but stops and looks at Rei. "Oh wait...you aren't a member yet...Hmmm..." She ponders for moment, but after almost drifting off to sleep while standing, she shakes her head, and takes Rei by the sleeves. "*YYAAWWNnnnn*....You can come sleep with me in the normal branch...we gotta go meet Miss Genevieve in the morning anyways to turn in missions, and stuff...Oh yeah..." She takes a moment to sniff herself. "Ohhh...I smell like swamp..." She shuffles her way to the washroom to clean up. After showring, and getting into pajamas, she shuffles back with Rei in tow to Tiki's personal bedroom. She flops down leaving just enough space on the bed for Rei, and sweet little Tiki, begins to snore like a giant Tauros was in the room.

Although Rei isn't anywhere as tired as the others, it 'is' still late. She contemplates about where she's going to sleep before Tiki just decides for her. She gives a small wave to the others.

"I guess I'm going to the normal branch, then. Tiki's orders."

Rei likewise washes up and changes to a silky sleep robe. She comes back to see Tiki already dead asleep, and has left room in the bed for her. Not really one to care what others think, she slips in, making sure not to disturb Tiki. She drifts off, hoping to block out the unfortunate events at the end of their day, and instead think about the good.

The bickering of an ornery Dodrio in the adjacent Flying Guild awakens Sano from the horrible vision. He never felt any kinship with the Queen, but the violence and urgency of the vision is certainly alarming. He wanders to the showers, washing off the Grimer stench. Mitis greets him with a hungry mewl, pawing her empty food bowl to dispel any ambiguity. Sano heads to the mess hall, which has become the de facto meeting place for his party. He held the note he was given by the woman in his hands, still unsure about what to do with it. Perhaps the others slept better than he last night, and have a plan of action.

His "punctual" arrival to the hall is met with only partially served breakfast, so he wanders over to the message board to see there is any mention of the woman or any "horde".

Clay is generally a morning person. Terrible nightmares kind of put a crimp in that. This one seems like it was shorter than the last one, but at least this time he manages to wake up early and without screaming. He does hug Fan rather tightly in the process of rousing all his Pokémon as well... not that they have a choice considering a bed with an active Clay in it is not the most stable place to sleep. Even if he's up on time, though, that doesn't mean he's going to enjoy it - after the beating he took yesterday he's sore and stiff all over and generally in kind of a grouchy mood even without mysterious nightmares.

Washing up happens now, especially since some of the other branch members are looking at him funny for smelling like a Grimer. His stomach is growling loudly, but he's still got something to do first, so he sets off in search of Lady Ashandra. For all the unpleasantness that occurred yesterday, he did at least complete his mission... or, well, the mission other people were given while he was asleep that he's been assuming was also his mission.

Flower is back in her ball for the moment, primarily to avoid embarrassment if somebody asks him what kind of Pokémon she is, because then he'd have to admit that he has absolutely no clue. Now, if he was a scary boss lady, where would he be...? Preferably somewhere hungry recruits could find her quickly before breakfast.

Rei had in fact been awake, but still lying in bed for the moment, wondering about both the last night and the upcoming day. They'd all have to figure out who this 'D'mara' is and inform the guild of last nights events, and she herself has to finally find a branch. With her mind a bit into overdrive, she can't seem to fall back asleep. She reaches into her pack and pulls out her blank notebook, and begins making illustrations of those from yesterday. She begins drawing the stump spirit, noting information on the site. How it moved, attacked, etc. She notes the blade and the girl on the same page, due to their connection. She then finally gets to D'mara, and is forced to leave the page mostly blank. In fact there's a lot of blank space on all four, with all the questions it raises. Rei sighs, supposes it's better to have something and an image rather than nothing, and goes to rip a back page out of the journal. She takes this, splitting it in half, and writes strange runes on them both. Old practice by now, but with a renewed vigor that could only come from having this action justified. When she's done, she's now in the possession of two more Cleanse Tags.

As she puts them away, Tiki shoots straight up, looking an adorable mess.

"Good morning Tiki, I hope you-"

Before she can finish, it seems Tiki temporarily forgot Rei was in the same bed, and the younger girl jumps up in a bit of fright. Rei nearly falls out of the bed before Tiki settles again, informing Rei that she needs to wake up, and leaves to wash up.

Poor thing is half awake, didn't even notice I was up. I'll give her privacy for a moment.

Rei goes to ready herself into a new outfit, still the same style of Kimono, but a striking red this time, and follows Tiki out to the breakfast hall. She herself gets a quick bite, and lets Shinpuru back out in order to get something as well (Raido might be a little big for the hall). When Tiki goes to give her a hug and good luck about choosing a branch, she looks concerned a moment, and follows her to the board list, Shinpuru in tow. When they get there, Sano is also about, and Rei flashes a smile at the boy before her expression turns a bit more serious.

"Hello Sano. Now I'm not sure how busy you both were, but aren't we all going to talk to one of the heads about what happened last night? Get that information off of our minds to move on, and while it's still fresh?"

Clay makes a face as he watches Ashandra scare the poor Ponyta. Yeah, it looks pretty skittish, but it'll probably grow out of that, it just got separated from its herd yesterday. Messing with it is really just mean. Clay gives the boy a friendly wave as the stupid slow line inches forward. Why do humans like these things so much? If he didn't know how upset people get when he does it he'd just skip to the front of the line right now.

Oh, and there's Ashley - did her mouse critter really evolve already? Obviously if he's going to keep up with her he needs to get busy. And there's a lizardy sort of thing, too, that looks pretty tough. Looks like he's got his work cut out for him... She gets a wave, too, and a mouthed Nice work.

And now it's his turn. "Right, so, I spent all of yesterday in Lavender Swamp. I don't think I like swamps much. But I did find this little one." He releases Flower. The little candle floats up to head height, apparently examining Lady Ashandra with curiosity. "Meet the ghost light of Lavender Swamp. Well, one of them, there's a whole tribe."

Clay is on the point of arguing - say, about the fact that he was kind of occupied with other things, or that the candle is stronger than she looks - but she brushes past him to address the group and he loses his chance. The giant fire-bear-thing - now that he thinks about it, the evolved form of Ashley's mouse critter looks a lot like it now - makes him think twice about interrupting.

Yeah, your mother was a Rattata and your father smelled like Durin Berries, he mutters, but he does it in candle-ese, hissing and popping like a wick burned down to the wax. Don't get too discouraged, Flower. We've got a lotta training to do but we'll show her who's pathetic around here...

He recalls the candle and glances around the crowd of fellow trainees, but unless somebody decides to catch him he'll head for the mess in hopes of not missing breakfast. These early-morning meetings are a pain for a guy who needs his food. If the others are still there by the time he gets in they'll see him walking in stiffly with a sour look on his face, but he still gives them a "be with you in a minute" sort of wave, because he's planning to get a big plate of food before he sits down.

A few minutes later he's finally got enough and settles down with the others. "Hope your mornings went better than mine. 'Nother nightmare last night and boss lady is a pain."

Sano examines his uneaten biscuit. "I had another nightmare as well, frighteningly similar to the last one. I can't seem to derive any meaning from it, though. I've never met the Queen, and my family has always told me the Knights of Kanto were a terrible, ruthless police force that cared only for money and glory. Perhaps my parents got yet another thing about the world wrong."
He turns to their new companion. "Rei, are you familiar with dreams? Does it hold any meaning if we have the same terrifying dream not once, but twice?" Mitis jumps up his shoulder, having finished her own breakfast.
"Ah, that reminds me, I should check in with my own guild about my new Grimer friend after breakfast."