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Runoura

Blinking rapidly in confusion, the Froslass only held her ground and shivered on occasion. As the Gengar continued talking however, something changed. Crystal eyes gained an almost icy look and she whispered. "Of course it's... true! I love this Sableye and I'd leap before a blade yet again if I have to prove it!" Her tiny chest was heaving with the strength of indignation she felt and she stared Messina straight in the eye, daring her to second-guess her love.

-day after regional ball-



Zosee pushed the door open, ignoring the complaints of the nurses that the patient inside the private ward needs rest. She walked into the small room, big enough for the bed and a bedside table inside. A large window was curtained on the wall opposite the door.

Zosee padded quietly over to the small bed. Zero followed along behind her, silent and respectful, and closed the door behind him in the face of one of the complaining nurses.

The electrike stopped at the edge of the bed, looking down at the occupant. It was a houndour, only her face not covered by white blankets, the skull-bone on her head a faint shade of pink. She was in a deep, probably drug-induced sleep. Zosee had heard about the houndour's condition...a lot of blood loss, medical shock, a crack in her rib cage...

"Anna..." Zosee whispered, using one paw to flick some hair away from the houndour's closed eyes.

The last time Zosee had seen Morana, the little houndour was only six months old. In the year and a half she had been gone, her little sister had grown, if not into an adult, at least into someone much older and stronger than before.

"That makes the whole family huh?" Zero commented, sitting next to Zosee. "Firestorm, Absolute Indignation, and now Polaris. This family is just drawn to exploration isn't it?"

Zosee only nodded, and Zero looked down at Morana as well.

"The kid's grown. I wonder what she's like now." Zero sighed as he realized Zosee wasn't listening. he leaned down and nuzzled Zosee affectionately, a purr in his throat.

"Calm down and relax. She's going to be fine. Injuries are just part of what being an explorer means."

Zosee sighed, closing her eyes and simply enjoying Zero's company. She even scooched in a bit closer, so that her side pressed into his. The both of them jumped when the door behind them slammed open though.

"Wait, no, please, not you too-!"

"Sir, you need to rest, please get back to your bed-"

Both Zosee and Zero spun around, to see a small pokemon wrapped in bandages slam the door behind him. It took the two of them to recognize it as a Larvitar, because he was covered with bandages almost head to feet.

"Who are you two? What are you doing to Anna?" He growled, ignoring the pleadings of the nurses just outside the door.

"Whoa there little guy, calm down. We're just visitin' Morana here." Zero told the Larvitar, a gentle smile on his face.

The Larvitar stared at the two of them suspiciously.

"Who are you two?" He demanded again. Zosee looked back at Morana as she answered.

"We're Team Absolute Indignation. My partner here is Zero. I am Zosee, Morana's sister."

The larvitar's eyes widened in shock.

Incultyr had heard of Absolute indignation before. They were one of the rare teams not affiliated with any of the guilds, and the team rarely took requests. Instead, their specialization had always been exploration. Any requests they did take were usually scouting or escorting.

Incultyr had heard of Zosee before too. She was Morana's older sister, who had been missing for nearly eighteen months. Anna's older sister was a part of Team Absolute Indignation?

"Well, let's get out of here and leave Anna some peace. You've got a lot of explaining to do." Incultyr growled. He opened the door, and gestured for the electrike and glaceon to exit. They obliged, walking out, and Incultyr followed them, closing the door behind them.

The nurses let out a communal sigh of relief as the three of them returned to the ward where Incultyr is staying.

Zero and Zosee strode down the hall towards the exit of the hospital. They had spent nearly an hour talking to Incultyr, who was Morana's partner in her exploration team.

A lot seemed to have happened while the two of them were away.

"Their team really got hit hard, didn't they?" Zosee sighed, remembering the scene back in the Hospital ward, where Incultyr had been hospitalized next to another member of Team Polaris. Apparently, a third casualty from their team had left the hospital just last night after recovering for nearly three weeks and a fourth was being held in a special ward for baby pokemon.

"Hmmm...poor kids. They're all so young-" Zero commented, and then stopped mid sentence as a weavile barely managed to push her way into the hospital and collapsed.

"Ah...this is...problematic..." Zero said as he glanced over to the desk. There was no one there, probably because they're all still trying to recover from the panic of three people barging into Morana's room.

"That's all you can say? Stay here, I'll go find somebody." Zosee sighed, and then dashed back down the hall they came from. Zero approached the weavile, and sat down protectively next to her. He was perfectly calm, and nothing in his posture gave away the fact there was an unconscious woman next to him.

barely a minute later, Zosee was running back with a Chansey right behind her.

"Oh dear...let me take care of this..." She told the electrike and glaceon. The two of them obliged, stepping aside to let the Chansey do its work.

"Let's get out of here, this place is rather...depressing."

~Jack

"I'm fine..." Jack groaned his first words after awaking to find himself in a hospital bed. A few bandages wrapped around both his head and chest where he received the most damage, but fortunately nothing appeared broken.

~Jack

"It was nothing...From the sounds of it he was working with Selena and things just got a little outa' hand from there." Jack explained; unable to get any more elaborate on the situation really since he barely remember half of it. Most of the battle just having gone by like a blur to him.