[Spruce]
Celes and M took a few attacks, and, more importantly, returned the favor to Vine, who seemed to be on his last legs by now. "I should have known... that a coward like you wouldn't fight me one-on-one..." Vine says to me, though, just from the pauses he had to take during his speech, I could tell that he couldn't take much more. I couldn't bring myself to say anything to him, and he continued with "With you out of the picture, Desia and I will be free to rule as king and queen... heh, to rule this horrible, unforgiving world that has taken so much from me... I guess it's the least that this planet can do for me," he then, after taking a look at all of my teammates, including me, ran up to Celes, charging himself with that familiar shadowy energy. I ran, or, rather, tried to run to get in the way of my attack, with me knowing that shadow-type moves don't effect me at all, however, while I couldn't make it to him in time, he simply stopped dead in his tracks, and said something under his breath about paralysis. Wait... he's NOT immune to electric-type moves? I thought as I recalled a few adventures, or, more accurately, the handful of adventures that Vine and I went on as a team... every time except for now, he was completely immune to electric-type attacks, heck, that's what got us out of that fight against the group of luxio and their leader, the luxray. It must have something to do with this shadow energy... could it have changed him this much? I then think as I limp over to where the fight was. Sure, Celes told me to stay back, but it there was a chance that I could block another attack for her, then I'd take it. Heck, this wasn't even just from the love, but Celes was easily doing the most damage out of all of us... with me not even being able to so much as even attack him... hold it... 'love'? When did that happen?
[Anthony]
Terra and I simply followed the others into the dark, mysterious shortcut, and Terra is almost instantly asked to light the place up with Blaze. After that, she pulls out a stick, and says "On it. Blaze, use your searing shot on this stick," Blaze, after exiting from her backpack for a brief moment, uses some sort of fire-type attack on the stick that Terra pulled out of her bag, lighting the place up to reveal a murkrow, a noibat, a goomy, and two dratini. The murkrow, apparently surprised by the light, flew away from the team before I could do anything, and the noibat shouted at the bird for being a coward, apparently angry at him for leaving the battle before it even began. The other pokemon spread out their attacks, with the noibat trying to use leech life on Matt, possibly just because it would be super-effective, with the goomy slowly making its way over to me to eventually use tackle on me, which I easily countered with counter, throwing its attack back at it with double the power... though... the attack didn't do all that much to me, unfortunately. The dratini then tried to attack Josh with twister, though, since Josh was in a bucket... somehow, I didn't think the attack would actually do much. Terra just sorta stayed there for a bit until the dragons noticed her, and started to try to leave, with someone from somewhere using pursuit on the noibat before he could successfully fly away, knocking the noibat out, and 'encouraging' the other pokemon to stay in the fight. Terra didn't seem to do anything, she didn't attack for some reason, and that prompted me to ask "Hey, Terra, why aren't you helping?" She then shrugged, and answered "Well, I've pretty much beaten up this whole mountain... I'd rather let you guys catch up to me, and... well... I kinda don't want to be completely relied on," weird, though, who was helping us? I didn't know ANY pokemon that might know pursuit, and whoever they were, they were just out of the view of our torchlight.
[Bonnie]
I start to head off to bed, and notice Samuel digging through some bidoof's stuff. My first thought was What a jerk... he just can't leave anyone's things alone, can he? but, then I heard him actually read it, and apparently, that guy couldn't get too far in his search for my father, which was a good thing. Whew... well, I guess something good DID come from Samuel burning down my first actual home... maybe he's not so bad after all. I then think after hearing the whole thing. A smile came to my face before I headed off, again, towards my room. Today's mission was quick, but it was rough. It took a ton out of me, even if I didn't really show it until now. I check my backpack, just to make sure that the mission statement was still in there, and, thankfully, it was, and I stupidly put the backpack under my pillow, and started to sleep. I was thinking of pretty nice things, such as beating down that jerk who seemed to have us beat, and the fact that the bidoof wasn't able to get to my father's house, as in, at all, thanks to the fire, and then I finally started to dream... this time, sure, my father was included, but, this time, I actually fought back, and my attacks were actually hurting him. It was as if I had a shot at beating him, which was comforting, and, better yet, his attacks couldn't seem to make contact with me. This battle in my dream was going much better than it usually did, that is, with me being completely unable to fight back, and with him... no, I probably shouldn't even think about thinking of that, else it may just change my dream, and so far, this was one of my best.