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.::Stark & Will & Mako & Siegfried & Argonne::.

The active members of Team Blacksteppe arrived in the hall soon after the alarm stopped chiming. They had learned to respond as quickly as possible to the alert from... previous experience. Stark burst into the hall first, his stance ready, as though the threat was present in the hall already. When he relized it was not, he straightened, trying to distract from his... eagerness. Unfortunately, it didn't work, if the snort of laughter behind him was any indication.

"Where's the fire, Whitey?" cackled Will, before a flute whipped across his head with an odd whistling sound. Argonne stepped next to Stark, examining his flute.

"I'll be billing you later for the damage done to my flute, Will."

"What??"

"Alright, you two, that's enough. We're here to find out what's wrong."

Mako looked around timidly- there didn't seem to be anything too terribly amiss. "So..." he started, quietly, "what is wrong, Sensei?"

"Likely it is something to do with the visitor busily bleeding himself out next to the Guildmaster," observed Siegfried, his eyes focused on the oddly colored Espeon. Argonne looked over, his expression changing slightly. His eyes glowed red as he observed him.

"Hmm... he does seem rather... distraught. He seems conflicted about being here, however... like... he knows he's not meant to be here." He nodded as he finished this thought, and started to tune his flute. Stark humphed, unsatisfied.

"Regardless, we'll find out when everyone else arrives," he said, sitting down to wait.

Siegfried nodded behind him. "I agree. We must be patient." He then sat down, cross-legged, and began to meditate. Mako, for lack of anything better to do, shrugged and joined him. After that, all was silent but for Will's pacing footsteps and Argonne's flute. Stark closed his eyes in consideration.

I'm curious to see what that other Espeon is doing here... but I guess there's nothing I can do about it at the moment. He continued to sit and ponder about their strange visitor... unaware of the eyes that watched him from the far side of the room.

The watcher peeked around the side of a column, and nodded. That was him, alright. The so-called Hazard. She turned back behind the column and considered her next move. How did one go about talking to a legend, anyway?

"Dammit," she muttered to herself, and continued pondering her introduction.

Ver -- Saileithe -– Alice

Only a few came down the hall to respond to the alarm. Most of the team was either exhausted or uneasy and Sai only came for lack of things to do. She claimed she was feeling decent, but that hardly stopped Ver and Alice from cautiously eyeing her. Ver had already tried begging Freya to come instead, but she insisted on watching Alice’s egg instead as if half of the team still there didn’t exist. Oh well. The Flareon’s eyes drifted off in thought for only a few seconds until the casual chat from the hall became clear and his attention fell forward responsively. The trio stopped at the hall’s entrance as if debating the idea of making themselves existent to those around them. It’s like once you’ve entered the hall, you were more or less trapped. He felt it.
The Eeveelutions met Silvertail before much else. Not in a look of surprise, but merely wondering who the new face was.

Solaris was in a panic, the alarm was screaming, dying Espeon on the floor that was probably a messenger, the usual.

Sai was first to break the silence between the trio, though with nothing more than a quiet moan. She already knew this meant trouble. She hadn’t been around for such meetings in forever, but it wasn’t really something you forgot either. Ver glanced at her idly before looking back at Solaris, then proceeded to sit down with Sai in tow though the Glaceon merely laid there staring off. Alice stood still beside her friends and cuffed her hands in front of her, waiting. She came silent, her purple eyes only drifting about to find others she knew that’d attended.