Thrilled that her guess was right about the Vulpix, who now identified herself as Blaise, the Houndour's ears perked up joyfully as her paws beneath her began to shuffle. She however desisted once Blaise asked her what she thought had happened to them. Her mouth set in a fine line and she lowered her head, she glared in the direction of the Alakazam, a snarl beginning to play on her lips.
"Him." Zaraph then pointed with her nose up to the humming stones floating above their heads, "Or maybe those."
Just then, before the Houndour could say anymore, something gripped her mind. She literally felt as if a hand was being placed down on the inside of her skull- her full attention was caught as she began hearing a voice. As it spoke she soon made the connection that it was the only psychic Pokemon near them that was explaining the situation that they were in. Eyes wide she looked back at Blaise and knew immediately that it was just not her that Kulero, as he now identified himself as, was speaking to the Vulpix too. Possibly even the rest of the Pokemon around them. She immediately tensed upon the word Champions. Did this pokemon believe that she and the others were really that powerful? Dazed, confused, and notably weak she highly doubted that anyone of them were what Kulero believed. Yet he summoned us here, she thought, but perhaps not intentionally. She was much more confused now than before and this caused her ears to flatten against her head. He gently apologized however and she assumed he meant no harm to them, for throughout this whole ordeal the alakazam did not move even once. As he finished by asking them to socialize Zaraph felt the pressure in her skull beginning to subdue, she shuddered with how invasive the act was upon her. Suspicion of the pokemon still gripped her and she knew it would take much for her to trust the psychic.
Almost immediately after Kulero finished the eevee which she had seen early appeared from its hiding place and bowed to the pokemon. Zaraph's nose crinkled, she would never bow to another like that, she felt an immediate repulsion at the sight and had to look away, feeling embarrassed for the eevee. Quickly at her heels a Shinx followed, but before long Zaraphs attention was drawn by screaming to her left. Looking now she beheld a hondege slinking its way toward the alakazam, death threats ringing out from it. Soon it was reproached by the other crying pokemon from before, a cubone, and both pokemon soon joined hands. Zaraph hoped the cubone would not drop the boneclub it had been carrying; as a weapon like that must be priceless to it. The crowd around Kulero was growing and a Noibat approached him, saying something she was too far out of earshot to hear. Finally a tiny ball had made its way across the clearing while her attention was diverted and she saw what she believed to be a Cyndaquil sitting there, beneath the ominous floating stones.
Zaraph glanced at Blaise, then back at the Cyndaquil, "Look. That Cyndaquil is all alone." She paused to consider why exactly she was following Kulero's orders but she jotted it down to just feeling bad for the lonely ball all by itself near such mysterious and most likely dangerous stones. They were all connected in some way now, she found herself thinking, and this gave her a strange feeling that she could not quite give words to. She looked at Blaise,
"I'm going to see if they are okay, come on." She trotted past the Vulpix toward the monoliths and soon reached the Cyndaquil. Lowering her body into a crouch along with her voice she came to eye level with it, many paces away,
"I think you and I- and possibly everyone else here- have something in common, yeah?" Her rusty red eyes took in just how tiny the pokemon was, "I'm Zaraph."