Celes nodded before quickly using her ribbons to grab all the sticks, starting to pile them together, before blowing on them to get the fire going. Soon, the wood was burning up nicely as she adds more and more sticks onto it. She let a sighed of relief as the fire was going on now.
"Much.... much better..." she says, relaxing now as the snow was melting around them slowly. She then started to take in more sticks and after removing the snow on them, fed the fire to make sure it would keep on burning.
"We need to keep it alive, at least until Spruce and the group can find us." she then says softly, hoping for the best here. If they were not to find them, then this might end up bad. The wind seemed to calm down around them right now at least, less snow blowing onto their face.
"I just hope... whoever we are suppose to go save, we don't end up too late for all this." she says in a worried voice. This felt like a bad idea to fallow the group here, but if no one else would have, then that pokemon might never be saved.

---

Eralion looked at Tini, and was actually really surprised to what he saw. Tini... acting sane? Oh god... this was the thing that NO ONE could expect. He seemed calm instead of his normal self. Confusion actually doing that to him was really surprising. He though he would have ended up more crazy then before, even if his crazy was not so bad... But this... this was something completely different. Eralion moved close to Bonnie.
"Remember me to get Tini confused more often." he says in a joke tone right there, before quickly rushing to the skuntank, which was confused by Bonnie's dizzy punch. He then used bullet punch once again, knowing it might be his best bet here to attack with that move instead of karate chop, cause of their poison typing. This was annoying for him cause he could not really go and use all his moves against those guys, cause they were all poison types. This was one time he wish he had some kind of psychic or ground move.

Kamina

It was clear, to the large Pokemon, just what he had to do now. This poor Fire Type was suffering from some strange kind of insanity, one that warped his perception of reality. It would be beyond cruel to allow him to remain like this. His mind made up, Kamina advanced on the crazed Arcanine "leave this to me; I know what to do." While the Arcanine was charging at him, Kamina tanked the hit, and used the opportunity to wrap himself around the other Pokemon. "Alright then bub, let's see you grit those teeth!" And with that, Kamina headbutted him...hard.

---
Tini

Tini could see.

He saw the great truths of the world, he saw all the possible outcomes of this fight, he saw into the hearts of everyone here, he saw beyond the veil of dreams and reality (which looked like the inside of a blue limo for some reason), but most importantly; he saw the legendary chocolate cookie recipe that he had been searching all of his life (except when he forgot) for. While that last one was indeed very important, it wasn't too relevant. What was relevant, was that he could see the entirety of his lat foe's body, and with it, it's weak points. Rushing at the Poison Type, he jabbed a seeming random part of it's neck with the tip of his tail hard. "I have just struck a hidden pressure point on your body; Your sense of smell will grow stronger and stronger, until your own stench drives you insane. You've already lost" his voice maintained a serene tone.

After the blistering cold of the snowstorm, the warmth of the fire was a very welcome change. Josh was glad they got the fire up when they did. He probably would have succumbed to hypothermia by now if that hadn't been the case.
"The fire might make it easier for them to find us." Josh said. "I'm not sure if they'll see the smoke or not, but if they're nearby they'll definitely see the light."
Josh began thinking about Kiera. They spent an entire day just getting this far north, and now they were lost in the woods. Maybe they were too late to save her, but he couldn't give up now.

[Spruce]

Kamina managed to wrap himself around the arcanine once more, and he even headbutted him, too. "Stop pranking me, John!" the arcanine shouted at Kamina, though... he did do as instructed, and showed his teeth... I would have interfered, but... well, it seemed like Kamina had it covered, so, instead, I made my way to M, who was absolutely destroyed by the arcanine's previous attack. "Do you think we should rest for a bit?" I asked M, later sitting down and trying to rest up, myself. Without oran berries, this was kinda the only real way to heal without using moves, or anything of the like. The arcanine then shouted "Let me go, John! I need to get back at those stupid bankers who I stole from!" given his state of mind, I wasn't exactly prone to believe the arcanine about anything involving his life, his friends, or his current situation. The snow was extremely cold, as frozen water typically was, and, this was probably one of the worst places for me to rest, given my aversion to the cold, but, I knew that M liked it here, he preferred the cold for whatever reason. The arcanine continued to struggle to free himself from Kamina's grip, and Anthony just seemed to be resting, as well, though, he would probably prefer a spot on Kamina's head... he probably figured that he'd get that soon, and there was no point in being impatient, or something. The trees just sort of swayed to whatever little wind there was at this point, and thankfully, that meant that there wouldn't be another snowstorm for a while... or, at least until the wind picks up again. Daniel seemed to perch himself on one of the nearby tree's branches, and seemed to be staring at the arcanine... he was probably planning his next attack against him, should he escape.

---

[Bonnie]

Tini continued to maintain his sanity, and poked the skuntank in a very specific, yet somehow random-looking spot on his neck... this seemed to snap him out of confusion, and caused him to immediately attack me with a sucker-punch, though, somehow, it didn't seem to actually do that much to me... I then retaliated with a dizzy punch, though, I wasn't as lucky this time, he did seem to have some sort of reaction to something. "Eugh... what in the world is that horrible smell!?" the skuntank shouted to... probably himself. He continued looking for the smell until he finally realized it was coming from him... he seemed to collapse a few moments after finally realizing that, however, the zubat somehow managed to pull itself from the koffing's hole, it, too fainted a few minutes later without so much as us needing to do anything. The koffing seemed to be the only one left, now... but he didn't look too confident. "Uh... b...boss...? Oh no... uh... I SURRENDER! Please, just leave me alone!" the koffing then tried to fly away, however, I stopped it, and teleported all of us back to the guild. Oddly as soon as the officers entered, I started to see a white light envelop me... and I felt myself change, for some reason. When this was all finished, I seemed to grow much taller, especially in comparison to Eralion, who looked short, now for some reason. The officers took the kidnappers away, and Terra somehow got here. "Thank you so much for finding my child... here, I want you to have this as a reward," Terra then handed me a TM that had the words 'Brick Break' written on the label. Before I could even say thank you, she left the area, probably heading back to Scale City, and her hotel. I handed the TM to Eralion, who could probably use that move more than I could.

Somehow, we managed to subdue the Arcanine end the fight. I'd rather have him dead if anything. We had an adventure to stick to, not catering for damned enemies. The thing looked even more dazed and confused after being hit right in the forehead by Kamina, who had coiled him up just to ensure he wouldn't try to finish me off. I was both angry and somewhat fearful at the damned thing, still feeling like crap and trash after his attack. At least the frosty blizzard relaxed me and let me sit still under the gaze of a large tree. It was there when I had Robert asking me what to do for, seemingly unaware of my intentions. "Of course we gotta rest up. I just nearly died or something. Someone's gonna have to look for the others though, and Kamina... well, I'm surprised he's able to last in this weather with the rest of you pri-" I cleared my voice, knowing what I was about to say and instead choosing to be less rude. I spat out a few shavings of metal, and oddly enough a black feather or two. I shrugged it off as I looked back at Robert, who himself was still pretty bruised. "Sorry. I'm just saying how we've been badly bruised, but we shouldn't remain here any longer.""

Kamina

Odd, headbutting didn't seem to knock the crazy out of him 'well, I'm out of ideas' Kamina thought to himself. "Quit struggling! Also, I have no idea who this John person is, but he's not me." He tried to explain to the crazy Fire Type in his grasp. After that, he heard M mention his surprise that he was dealing with the weather so well "huh? What are you talking about M? It's just a blizzard. I'd be pretty pathetic if I could deal with a little cold like this."

---
Tini

During the warp, Tini snapped out of his confusion, which returned him to normal "wheeeeee! My head feels all spiny" although it left him a little dizzy. When he regained his senses fully, the first thing he notice was Bonny, who had evolved "yay! Bonnie got bigger! This calls for a celebratory cuddle!" Tini climbed up her body to reach her neck, where he proceeded to wrap himself around her like a scarf. "Ahhhhhhh...You're so fluffy now Bonnie, it feels so nice. Fluffy is...good for...cuddles." he murmured as he drifted off to a state of half-sleep.

Celes nooded, staying close to the fire, looking at it, seemed lost in though as she looked at it. She started to remember some... strange dreams of the past... a dream where she could not do anything but watch as fire filling a village. She saw shadowy figures that ran around, scared, with one creature being slashed at it's side, blood dripping as it kept running. The screams, the hurt.... the pain that she felt was happening in that dream. It was so much...

She then snapped out of it, and shook her head.
"Ya... the light should help them find us... I just hope they will find us before it's too late. I don't want to end up as a iced sylveon." she says calmly, before looking at the fire. That creature that was slashed, she did not recognize it before, with slight ribbon moving around. Was it a dream of the past, of what happen before? She was unsure about it.

---

When the group got their rewards and that Bonnie evolved, Eralion was very happy for her. She had grown really strong now, and this will probably help her be even less afraid of her father now. Although with all this, it made him though about himself, how he trained and how his whole group seemed to have evolved before him. He felt... small to say the least. But not weak. No. He felt a new confidence inside of him after they defeated that group of crook, but he also felt tired, the day having gotten a bit too... long we could say. He looked at Tini and smiled, before looking at the TM.
"Thanks Bonnie, I will make good use of it." he says, before using the TM. Slowly, he was forgetting how to use karate chop, and learned to use Brick break instead. He smiled as he looks at Bonnie.
"This will be really useful, thanks Bonnie." he says. She really looked... pretty now that she was evolved. He could not stop but give a blush as he look at her, and then look away. This was awkward for him.

[Josh]
Celes just stared into the fire for a while. She did look away from the fire for a moment when she responded to Josh, but she went back to looking at the fire immediately afterward. It seemed like something was bothering her.
"Are you alright, Celes?" Josh asked. "It looks like you're lost in thought, or something."

---

[Dexter]
Dexter looked out over the plains. Apparently, this is where the team Archie assigned him to went, but he'd been searching all day and hadn't seen any sign of them.
He took out his badge. "Archie, it's Dexter. I think you sent me to the wrong place, or something. I've been out here all day, and I haven't seen-"
He was suddenly interrupted when a nearby Weedle decided to use Poison Sting on him. "Hold up for a sec."

He put his badge down for a moment to blow an Ember at the Weedle. Upon picking his badge back up, he heard Archie's voice coming out of it. "I'm busy at the moment. Very important guild stuff, you see."
"I guess I'll have to join that other guild, then." Dexter said. "Maybe they'll actually care about their members."
"No! No. That won't be necessary, Dexter." Archie said. "I'll try to contact Nina, and I'll get back to you. It will only take a moment."
Dexter smiled. Archie was easy to manipulate. All he had to do was threaten to join the other guild.

“Idunno,” Rebecca said once she’d calmed down again. “I think we’re in some sort of crystal cave, unless every cave has a lot of crystals in it. I think there’s only a couple of big questions on my mind at the moment, though: First one off is how we’re going to get out of here, second one is-” She was interrupted by Nina getting a rock thrown at her, and then another one nearly hitting Rebecca herself in the head. Thankfully, she managed to catch the rock with her psychic powers and throw it back at the Geodude, albeit somewhat weakly due to having recently performed what was probably the longest-distance teleport in her life.

“Second one is what the hell that guy was thinking when he decided that we should be the ones to do this. I mean, I wouldn’t send anybody out to do this, but come on. I was expecting to fight, like, some band of rogues or something, not Discount Brand Cthulhu™ or whatever that thing was supposed to be! Like, I mean… we probably almost died horribly, and here you are, sitting here all by yourself, throwing rocks at us. What in the world is your problem?” She sighed exasperatedly, trying to overcome that hurdle and just accept the strange roller coaster of events she's found herself in.

[Spruce]

The arcanine decided to fall asleep again, thankfully, and I just decided to leave the area, saying "Let's just get out of here, we can deal with missing pokemon when we have the time," Anthony seemed like he was going to say something, but he just followed along until Kamina passed by, after which, he attached himself to Kamina's head, again. Daniel flew by, and said something about seeing a fire up ahead, so I followed him... whether or not my teammates were actually following me. I'm pretty sure they're following me, I mean, this is probably the best time and the best way to get away from that arcanine. I think as I continue following Daniel to the fire. It didn't take too much longer to find a small campsite with Celes and Josh warming up by the fire... that would have been everyone, except... "Hey... where's Matt? I kinda don't want to lose any allies here, 'cause... well..." I got closer to the group before continuing with "Pokemon who get lost here kinda go crazy after a while. I had a run-in with a crazy arcanine who called a rock 'Jerry' and then bit the thing," I then looked around the area just to see if I might be able to find anything at all that might lead me to Matt, or might even BE Matt, but upon not finding a single thing, I decide to just warm up next to the small fire made by Celes, Josh, or both of them... with all the fighting I've been through already, I almost forgot how cold I was... which was strange, given that I was frozen today. The fire felt nice, which was something that I never thought I'd ever feel, given my typing, and, funnily enough, I found myself sitting down somewhat close to Celes while I tried to warm up.

---

[Anthony]

The arcanine fell asleep again, or was finally knocked out from another one of Kamina's bindings... weird how that always seems to put the thing to sleep... I didn't have much time to think, though, as Daniel and Spruce ran off to go find the other teammates. I tried to tell him to slow down, but then I just remembered that Kamina can probably match their speed, and I'd be able to catch up to them easily. Once I saw Kamina pass by, I asked if I could ride on his head again, and considering his response so far, I gathered that he'd let me, once again, so I just waited for him to lower his head, and then just braced myself for Kamina's 'running', if it could be called that. As annoying as it was that Spruce seemed to have no consideration for his other teammates right now, it was nice to see him actually getting along, even if only just barely, with Daniel. The two eventually made it to a fire, where Celes and Josh were... Matt seemed to be completely absent, unfortunately, and Spruce seemed to be searching for someone, probably him. He spoke with Celes and Josh, and almost seemed to cuddle with Celes. Well, okay, he probably didn't, but he was close enough to her that if I were a meaner pokemon, I would have made fun of them for it. Instead, I simply shouted "Hey, Josh! You haven't seen Matt around, have you?" and, while the fire looked enticing, I preferred my perch on Kamina's head, just so we'd be ready to leave at a moment's notice, such as, if, I dunno... some lunatic pokemon decided to just drop in from almost nowhere, and we had to run away from the thing, as we'd have no way to defeat them... or something.

---

[Bonnie]

The moment I evolved, Tini decided to give me a hug, and... well, this time, I didn't really feel like struggling, and I didn't feel like he was trying to attack me. I just sort of let it happen. I even said something I never thought I'd say to a hug, let alone Tini's, "Thanks," I then wondered Wait... 'thanks'!? To a HUG!? WHO AM I!? as I noticed Tini starting to feel a little drowsy. Eralion used the TM as soon as I gave it to him, just as well, I didn't have much use for it, myself. I then ended up saying "No problem, Eralion... I just figured you'd get better use out of it than me," I... guess these pokemon weren't just teammates... no... they truly were friends. Pokemon who would always have my back, no matter what... pokemon who would literally follow me right to my dad, and even help me fight against him. I supposed that these thoughts were the same ones that led to my evolution, and, such thoughts... might just improve how well I work with my own team, even if Samuel or William ever come back. Last I heard about those two, Samuel was off on his own exploration team, and William was in some sort of weird, delusional state the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. I honestly hoped that I'd be able to see them again, sometime, if nothing else then at least to show them that I've evolved, that I've grown since they first took me into the team, giving me a home away from the likes of my father, however, it seemed as if there was no known cure for William's condition, and whatever explorations or adventures Samuel's getting into, they seem to never want to take him back to Allure, which... seems a little weird... suspicious, almost.

---

[Nina]

"Hm... crystal... cave... crystal... cavern..." I sort of throw the words around in my head before it gets hit with another rock, causing me to attack and knock out the offending geodude. I then figured something about "Rebecca... I think we're in Crystal Chasm... that's actually a pretty decent distance away from -" I then get a call on my badge from an unknown pokemon... no, wait, that was just Archie again, who asked "Nina! Rebecca! Where ARE you two at the moment!?" I simply answered with "Uh... I think we're in Crystal Chasm... there certainly are a bunch of glowing crystals around, and this is absolutely a cave... so..." Archie then shouted "WHAT!? You don't have any JOB, and you said you were leaving for SUNSWEPT PLAINS!" I responded with a flat "We had a teleportation issue, Archie..." Archie then asked, probably worried "Oh no... you didn't switch bodies with each other or a wild pokemon did you?" my only response to that was a laugh, as well as "No, sorry, Archie, but you've got to lay off the comics... that kind of stuff doesn't happen with teleportation... you'd need some other type of power to do THAT to someone," relieved, Archie hung up, after saying that he'd report all of that to his 'field agent' who was supposed to 'rescue us'... sure, we didn't know how deep we were in Crystal Chasm, and we were probably late for dinner, but I've seen pokemon leave for days on end without reporting a single thing to Archie... then again, they were probably veterans, while we only just finished one mission so far, and have only been a team for a day or two.

I nodded at Spruce, still barely conscious but able to hover. I took a pretty bad hit considering my typing, and I swear to Arceus it was a critical. "Back to our mission... hopefully we get a good night's sleep after this." I rasped, clearing my throat and following through with Spruce's (general) direction. Man, I didn't expect myself to be roughened up so badly from one attack. Just the perks of being a Steel - you may be a tank, but any enemy may have a wrench up their sleeve. As I floated through the relentless blizzard, I had vivid visions of Pokemon being... too graphic to describe, really. I couldn't tell whether they were hallucinations or real things going on in this place. Seems to me that if the entire world became a Mystery Dungeon, it wouldn't end well. One doesn't understand how or why they came to being. I blame Arceus, jokingly.

After spending a while brushing past bushes as the path seemed to get more rough and wild, we eventually came across to some fires. I say fires because I got double-vision from that earlier attack. Apparently Daniel told Spruce about finding signs of the others, and sure enough we managed to find Celes and Josh braving the elements to the best of their ability. "Heeey..." I smiled for the first time since entering the damned forest, ready to finally fall flat on my face and get some rest. These guys wouldn't know of what we had just encountered, since they seemed rather content with the current setting.

Celes was close to the fire, warming up right now as the cold started to leave her body. Soon though, Spruce found her with the others. She smiled softly to him.
"Hey..." she says, staying near the fire, regaining her energy slowly. After all that, she needed to stay warm. Just then, Spruce sat down close to her. She then started to move closer to him, aiming on trying to start warm together here.
"I don't know what Matt went.... Josh found me in the forest. Lucky cause I might have froze if I was alone back there." she says, shivering a bit at this.
"I tell you, if I would have known that I were to pass a place just like this, I would have changed into a flareon or something to keep warm." she then says, before remembering her brother.
"Or not... considering how my brother is, it would have been a bad idea maybe." she says chuckling, but then shivered.
"I hope we can get out of this dang ice hell soon and find whoever we need to find." she says says.

---

Eralion smiled at Bonnie, happy that she was evolved now. He then yawned, feeling tired after all that.
"I don't know about you guys, but I am really sleepy now. I think that whole searching back there took a lot out of me." he says softly to her, before stretching... then his belly grumbled. He looks down embarrased.
"And hungry. I think I might need to go eat before we go to bed. Lets head to the dinning area first. It is about to be time." he says before starting to head there, slowly, thinking. He didn't really get to meet the other guys of the team... but he was actually fine with Bonnie and Tini here. He did wonder though what happen to the other guys. Well, maybe they will come back one day. Maybe not.. but it was no use to go and cry about it.

[Josh]
The rest of the group showed up at the fire, or most of them did, at least. Spruce and Anthony seemed to be wondering where Matt was, and he was the only one that didn't show up.
"Wait...is Matt not with you?" Josh asked. The gel that surrounds Matt would protect him from the cold for a while, but the other group seemed to have had an encounter with some crazy Pokemon a while ago. Josh was starting to think that Matt might have had a similar encounter.

"Josh, a...........e? I found an .....to the forest. I'm g.....to wait here.......... rest of you........."
Matt's voice came out of Josh's badge, but it was cutting in and out, just like what was happening with Spruce earlier.
"Matt, I can't really hear you."
"I can't unde....nd what......e..........osh. If you.......ar me, though, hea.......he exit. ............ wit..... there."
Josh put his badge away. If what he heard was correct, Matt was at the end of this dungeon.
"I think he's waiting for us at the exit. At least, that's what I'm assuming based on the few things that I could understand." Josh said. "We should keep moving as soon as everyone's gotten a chance to warm up a little.

---

[Dexter]
It didn't take too long for Archie to call Dexter back.
"Hello, Dexter. I called Nina for you, and her team's in Crystal Chasm. They apparently had an incident with teleportation."
"So I've been out here all friggin' day for nothing."
"Crystal Chasm isn't far, Dexter. I guarantee you'll be back before sunset."
"Alright, I'm going."
Dexter began heading out to Crystal Chasm. He was already sick of this mission. He just wanted to get it over with at this point.

Kamina

And suddenly, the entire party was back together again. Kamina wasn't sure when it had happened, but he was just glad it did. 'It's good to see that Celes is well...something that I'm sure Spruce is happy about as well' he thought to himself with a huge grin. Deciding that Anthony would do better by the fire, he laid his head down close to it...but not before stoking it with a few Embers to keep it going longer and hotter. 'Now that I think about it; why are we even here in the first place?' Ah, now I remember; Anthony spoke with someone in his mind...or something like that?' Satisfied that he had remembered enough he asked "so how close are we now?"

---
Tini

She thanked him for the hug...this could only mean that the healing was working! "Yay! Bonnie isn't cringing in terror! She's getting better" the Dragon Type cheered in delight "This calls for a celebration! Party! Par-" and he was suddenly out like a light...while still coiled around Bonnie no less

Tini found himself atop a large stone castle surrounded by Pokemon of all kinds wearing strange uniforms. Tini quickly discovered that he was wearing the same uniform as them, and that there was a strange device in front of him. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that it was already opened up, and that the inside had a lot of colored wires. Before he could notice anything else, one of the Pokemon spoke "There's only 3 minutes left until the bomb goes kabloom! Tini, you're the only one who can save the world!"

Snapping to attention, Tini responded with "roger!" as he pulled out a rubber banana our of nowhere and got to work.

“Issue?” Rebecca repeated back, feeling somewhat offended. “I’ll have you know that there were no issues. My goal was to teleport the heck away from there, and I’m pretty sure that’s exactly where we ended up, give or take a "darn" or two. No room for argument there.” She sighed as she stared at the glowing crystals on the walls. She realized that this place was actually pretty beautiful without anyone around to throw rocks at you and distract you from it. She had to wonder what made those crystals glow like that for so long, though, and in all of those different colors.

“So I guess help’s on the way,” Rebecca said to Nina after a while. “Do you think we should explore at all? Because I’m up for sitting around and looking at the scenery if you don’t have any other ideas. Or talking about stuff, that’d work, too.” She realized that she didn’t really know too much about her friend, and decided that it would be nice to rectify that problem before they suddenly found themselves caught up in another life-or-death situation. And just because she felt like it was nice to slow down and talk to people every once and a while, if the chance is there.

[Spruce]

Celes actually moves a little closer to me in some sort of effort to keep me warmer, and, well, it actually worked. Celes starts talking about how she should have become a flareon to stay warm in these kinds of climates, and how Josh saved her life just now... and I somehow end up hugging her after that, saying "Oh... well, I'm sorry, I guess I should have been on the lookout for any fire stones, huh?" I had an oddly humorous tone in my voice as I said that. I continued to sit there as Josh explained that he found some sort of exit, and that Matt should be nearby. That seemed really nice, just, some sort of exit to this place before we ALL go insane from it. I then get up, and ask Daniel "Hey, Daniel, do you think you can fly up and find an exit, real quick? Of course, I'd like it if you can find the one with Matt near it, too," Daniel then flies straight up for a short time... and then flies back down to say "Follow me, I know where the exit is, now," Daniel then starts flying in some direction, and I say "Well, you heard the bird, let's go," after that, I start following Daniel through the frozen forest, and all the way to some sort of frozen city... Matt was there, and he was floating back and forth, worriedly, for some odd reason. He seemed to be in a better mood once he saw Daniel and I meet up with him. "Huh... looks like Anthony wasn't lying, after all... this place really IS in trouble... problem is, it looks like we're a little late, huh, Matt?" I then say in an oddly cheery tone for what I just saw. Of course, if someone contacted us, or, rather, contacted someone, there was probably SOME way of fixing the town, some way of reversing this... frozen thing.

---

[Anthony]

Kamina seemed to be happy for Spruce and Celes, and, I suppose I couldn't really argue, and heck, M even seemed happy... odd, though, I actually assumed that he couldn't smile due to being a machine, but, I guess he found a way. I mean, at least it gave him some sort of distraction from criticizing my lack of speed, or anything else that I did that made him mad at the time. Kamina asked how close we were to the end just after Josh explained that Matt was at the exit to the forest. In fact, that seemed to be on Spruce's mind, too, as he had Daniel fly up and find a way out of this place... as if... they were openly co-operating, rather than at eachother's necks all the time. That was enough to bring a smile to my face on its own, however, the fact that Daniel not only found the exit, but Matt as well sure didn't do anything to stop my smile. Spruce darted off, following Daniel's directions to the exit, and, I can only assume that Kamina did, as well, after all, he happily told his teammates to follow him, or, rather, to follow Daniel. I finally made it to the exit, and I saw Matt speaking with Spruce about the frozen city. As soon as I noticed the city was frozen, my smile went away. "Dang... uh... looks like we're a little late, huh? Now I guess I know WHY you told me to hurry up, earlier, Spruce. I'm sorry for being so slow," Spruce, however, didn't seem to listen, at all, and I simply hid in my helmet, and stayed on top of Kamina's head, not wanting to cause even more issues just from holding us back, just from us getting here too late to save Josh's girlfriend.

---

[Bonnie]

Thankfully, I was still in a good enough mood to handle dragging Tini over to his room, and I even asked for seconds at dinnertime just to make sure he wouldn't go hungry. I placed my seconds next to his bed so they'd be the first things he saw when he woke up. I then drifted into sleep. The dream I had was a good one, it had all of my friends, even Spruce, surrounding me and praising me for all my hard work at the guild... it was also in color for the first time in a while, and, for once, my father didn't even make an appearance, though, I had to wonder... I always got back before dinnertime, but were there some guild members who stayed out later than that? I guess there were nocturnal pokemon, like those weird dark types, and hoothoot. Oddly enough, I actually saw a few of these nocturnal pokemon at the dinner table, even if I didn't see them at all during the day. Maybe that was just breakfast for them? I then remember some random rumor I heard a while back about how guilds would occasionally hold expeditions that would take days just to get to the dungeon, let alone complete it... but, what would the members do for food during that time? Would they just have to bring their own food for dinners and breakfasts, or would the guild, itself actually provide food just for on the road meals? These questions bounced around in my head all throughout the night, though I still somehow managed to actually sleep, despite all those questions I had right now.

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[Nina]

Rebecca insisted that there wasn't an issue, and I ended up responding with "Right... but, it's not like I could have told Archie that we MEANT to leave that place, right? He'd have us do some cleaning duty, or be the sentries for the night, or something," I then walk over to Rebecca, glad that the geodude finally left us alone, and she asks if help's on the way, to which, I responded with "Yup. Some sort of 'field agent'... probably just another member who doesn't have a team, or something," I then sat down across from her, and she asked whether we should stay, or explore. "We can explore this place tomorrow, but... if we want any chance of getting rescued, we're going to have to stay put... even if it's a mystery dungeon, there's a better chance of getting found when we're not constantly moving around, right?... well, that and this is some nice scenery," I then started to just look at the giant, bright, yellow crystal that was right behind Rebecca, and wondered how, exactly it got so bright... and so big. That thing had to be seven, maybe eight feet tall... or I was just exaggerating. Thankfully, no more wild pokemon came around, but, I also noticed that our rufflet friend decided to fly off somewhere. I wondered if we'll ever find him again. He was a pretty big help back there in Sunswept plains, but, I guess he had something else he had to do. Heck, for all I knew, he left to go pick on the fighting types in this area, if there are any. There probably were, 'cause for whatever reason, fighting types like to surround themselves with rock types. I never understood that, but, then again, I'm not a fighting type.

[Josh]
The group had finally found an exit, and thankfully Matt was waiting for them there.
"Oh, thank Arceus you're alright." He said. "I was beginning to worry."
Spruce went up to him, and mentioned that they were a little late.
"I'm afraid so. All of the village's residents have been frozen at this point. I haven't found a single one that isn't."

Josh looked around at the frozen city.
"Kiera!?" He called out, receiving no response at all. "Kiera!?"
He began searching, while Matt followed closely behind him. It didn't take too long to find her. She was encased in ice, just like the rest of the villagers.
"There's got to be some way to get her out of here." Josh said. "Come on, Matt. Help me find a way to thaw her out."

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[Dexter]
Dexter entered Crystal Chasm, eager to finally get this mission over with. He expected to be down there for a while, since mystery dungeons tend to shift around a lot. Surprisingly, though, it didn't take long at all. He'd only been down there for a few minutes when he heard voices up ahead. Sure enough, they belonged to the team he was looking for.
"Hey." He said. "You're Team Crescendo, right? Archie sent me. I'm here to take you back to the guild."

Celes looked at Spruce when he said fire stones, and frowned a bit, before sighing and chuckling a bit.
"In a place like this, I woulden't mind being a flareon... even with how my brother is." she says before fallowing. Lucky for them they found Matt and the frozen city. She looked towards it.
"How... did this happen" she says before moving around. She then fallowed Josh to where Kiera was and frowned as she saw her frozen. She listened to what Josh said.
"I think we might want to get some heat... maybe a fire like we did back in the forest... a large fire might work to thaw her out, although... We don't know if the wind won't pick up or whatever did this might come back and attack us." she then said worried. Now this was really a time she wish she was a flareon or at least have someone that could use sunny day to help out. This was seriously frozen hell. Dear lord Arceus who could have done such a thing to this town. It was really scary to say the least.

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Eralion went to eat soon after, eating a bit rapidly after the mission they had today. He was hungry to say the least, and these dang poison types. He wished he could have done something like counter on them or something, but that did not seem to happen at all. Well, maybe one day he could actually us that move and take a large hit for his team and then strike back... but seeing how everyone in his team had evolved and that he was the smallest one here... he felt... off. Out of place we could say. He headed to sleep after eating, beforing slowly sleeping, tired, dreaming about the future, about possible things that could happen. Although his dream kinda felt... weird. He dreamt he was a strange oversize eevee with a scar on his eye, fighting a group of what seemed to be infernapes without the flames and metal sheet all around them. That was just weird... but he continued with it. Then the dreams went back to normal afterwards, with him dreaming about his past and how he got here.

Kamina

"So we need a fire do we?" Kamina asked "well then just leave everything to your old pal Kamina!" he declared. Sliding Anthony off his head as he said "you're not going to want to ride this, trust me." He wrapped his body around the frozen Pokemon in front of his "Flame Charge!" While Flame Charge was basically using Tackle while on fire, if one skipped the Tackle part, then they were left with the 'on fire' part. Now with his entire body burning like a bonfire...yet the ice didn't seem to melt "no! I refuse to lose like this! You will melt, ice!"

Everyone was happy at reunification, even me strangely. This was a small happy moment of joy in a place of horrors and calamity, but a good important one at that. As much as I preferred the cold over the warmth of the wavering fire, I felt as if I was actually getting some proper rest rather than relying on the cold. I almost fell asleep as everyone chattered, opening my eye when the chatter stopped and the flames went out. Everyone was leaving for whatever we were going to. Alright... I feel a bit better now. My head was a bit groggy but I could definitely hear my own head, even in all this snow.

Within minutes of leaving, we were actually already near the exit, sighting Anthony's other team-mate waving at us or something. (How strange the exit was within walking distance.) Yet, there was a considerable amount of juxtaposition and a few broken faces: by Arceus, this blizzard wasn't natural. As it settled down, there was a clear image of a huge town, frozen in bitter cold and ice. Seemed as if the whole thing came in either quickly or by malicious intent. I still couldn't see well, but an outline did the trick of saying "Dear Arceus..."

As we swooped in to ensure there were some signs of life, I was bothered by the fact stuff like this could happen and we wouldn't even know about it. "What is this place anyway?" I'll be honest, I have very little knowledge of the outside world. As I said, I used to live all my life in Davis' house in the world's worst community. I'm surprised I didn't hold any predispositions against Pokemon like Spruce, mainly because he proved himself as worthy to everyone around here.

So, anyway... this place was a land frozen in time, almost literally. There could've been some Void anomaly for all we knew. Entire houses were encased with a thick layer of ice, almost unnervingly comical as it also prevented us from breaking into them for our own gains. It was like the weather decided to take a seat and claim this entire area as its own, disregarding all life while the sun was blotted out from the sky. Seemingly lifeless statues stood in the snow, some unaware of this storm with their happy faces and berries in their hands, to those so pointed and others who held their faces in unflinching horror. I swore I saw moving figures as the blizzard continued buzzing in our ears, but that was likely the effects of the forest still lingering in my head. All this proved too much for some, with Josh calling out for someone who apparently lived around here. While I took a few deep breaths, Josh passed by many different statues, eyes locked on a particular block of ice as we followed. "You know her?" I asked, unaware this was actually his friend of sorts.

Suspicions that this blizzard wasn't natural were proven when not even Kamina could break through this ice. At first, I thought his charge was going to end badly by causing the statue of Josh's friend to break apart. More shockingly though was that nothing actually happened, with the ice cruelly defying our efforts to save anyone around here. "Well. Let's blame magic and call it a day." I let out, trying to distract from the situation while having no clues as to how to even help Josh, let alone this town. "Anyone got any ideas what's happened here? I blame an... Arceus of ice or something."