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Sammy heard a distant splashing sound and looked at Donner. "Can you lead with your Aura-sensing?" she questioned. He nodded, letting her hop on his back while he dashed to the sources of aura. When they arrived (Donner swimming so Sammy wouldn't get wet) Sammy greeted them with a big, "HI!"

Adie landed a little behind the rest of the group, the fog giving her no indication of where she was in relation to the rest of the group. The fact that she could at least hear Ginji gave her the indication that she was at least semi-close. They were looking for a lake, and while they were doing so, they could try to capture a pokemon - sounded like this mission was right up her alley. Pulling Pidgeotto's pokeball from her belt, she released the flying pokemon, his Keen Eye ability able to at least give her some sense of direction as she walked.

"Pidgeotto, see if you can at least keep me from walking into any trees...oh, and keep your eye out for a lake," she called up the the pokemon as he flew just inside her line of sight in the fog. He dipped and weaved in the air to show her which way she should walk, to avoid the various obstacles she would be too late in seeing as she maneuvered through the dense fog. Her mind was wandering about how she was going to try and catch a pokemon in this kind of soup. In the forest there were probably going to be bug, grass and possibly some water pokemon, depending on how close they were to the lake.

Almost as if on cue, Adie's foot hit an upturned tree root she didn't see in her thinking mood. As soon as she hit the ground, she growled lowly, pushing herself up and moving over to a large rock to fix her shoe. As soon as she put her hand on it, she felt it move, a yelp escaping her as she jumped back, the top of the rock blinking at her before it moved around, the pink head of a Slowpoke emerging from behind the rock. Her eyes widened, the shock of the encounter soon melting away into a smile as she thought about the possibility of a catch. Pulling Mareep's pokeball from her belt, she released the electric pokemon to battle the psychic water pokemon.

"Mareep, use Thundershock," she called out, her pokemon discharging a significant amount of energy towards the water pokemon, the attack connecting and doing quite a bit of damage. Slowpoke, however, responded with a tackle attack that knocked her smaller pokemon back across the clearing. Knowing that there was no way her unevolved pokemon would be able to handle many more physical attacks like that, Mareep used Discharge, not only doing a significant amount of damage with her type advantage, but at the same time paralyzing the wild pokemon. Whipping a Great Ball from her bag, she threw it at the wild pokemon, watching the fog around them light up with a white light.

One...

Two...

Three, and the ball stopped wiggling, falling still on the forest ground. Jumping for joy, she retrieved her new pokeball, returned Mareep, and looked up at Pidgeotto, who had flown ahead to find the rest of the team while Adie was battling. As soon as she turned her sights to the sky once more, Pidgeotto reappeared, crying down to her as he took off into the fog once more. Adelle took off in a run after him, not sure where the rest of the group was, but hoping that her pokemon would take her to someone. For whatever reason, this fog was starting to make her a little uncomfortable.

Before she had a chance to feel too alone, however, she heard a splash to her right, Pidgeotto instantly breaking off in that direction. Adie emerged a few moments later to see BL, Ginji and Tommy already in the water, the blue-haired aquan standing on the shore, looking out at them.

"Are you guys alright?"

*I shout out to Adie*
Me: Yeah, we're fine.
*I get on the island and catch my breath leaning against a rock*
Me: This rock is surprisingly smooth.
*I look up and even with the fog, I can make it out to be a statue of Kyogre*
Me: That's interesting...

Sammy also got onto the island, watching as Donner shook out the water from his fur like a dog. Now Sammy was wet anyway. "Greeeat..." she sighed, looking at Mr. Brian. "Huh?" she asked, wondering what he was talking about.

Adam landed on the island. "trippy place. 'where's the locket dumbledore?'" He joked, crossing his arms as he watched the others get there.

Moving from where she was standing on the far side of the lake from the rest of the group, she made sure to keep an eye on them. For whatever reason, she was usually pretty protective of her friends, and she would be damned before she let something bad happen to her friends on her first day back with Aqua. Releasing Wartortle into the water, she did a perfect dive into the lake, swimming with him to the island everyone was gathering on. As she pulled herself out of the water, she dropped her wet hair out of it's ponytail, quickly pulling it back in a low braid before returning Wartortle and turning to look at the large statue everyone else was looking at.

"Seriously, that's weird," she muttered, running one hand over the smooth rock of the statue as she heard Tommy asking for help in getting a kings rock from a wild slowbro. At the same time, there was a new member she hadn't met yet, the girl giving him a small smile and little wave. Her attention turned back to Ginji, who was also examining the statue.

"Why is it here and how the heck did it get here," she muttered, too preoccupied with possibilities to be annoyed with the fog and come up with another kind of solution. If anyone were to ask her, she would probably suggest that it had something to do with the statue, but she tended to be over superstitious when it came to these situations.

"I'd rather have fog than a concussion," she snickered a bit. "But if it'll help to see the statue, I'm sure I can fish out an umbrella," she muttered. She then looked through her bag, pulling out various things of little importance in search of an umbrella. Pizza crust... Hairbows... game controllers... So many oddities it wasn't even funny. It was then that Mr. Ginji hit the button. She sweatdropped, watching.

Tommy decided to just engage.

Order: Treecko, Krabby, Slowbro, Slowpoke

Treecko started charging up a Solarbeam, a small ball of energy in his mouth, growing. Krabby used Covet on the Slowbro, stealing the Kings Rock. Enraged, Slowbro used Phychic, KOing Krabby with a critical hit. Slowpoke used a Withdraw, raising it's defense.
Treecko let off his Solarbeam, KOing the Slowbro, as Tommy sent out his Marshtomp. Marshtomp used a Mud Shot, luckily hitting slowpoke, and slowing it down even more, doing a good deal of damage. Slowpoke used a Disable, but the move failed. Treecko let off a Mega Drain, draining Slowpoke's HP even further, as Marshtomp put up a Protect. Marshtomp was protected from the devastating Blizzard, the area turning a tad cold.
Tommy threw an Ultra Ball. One... Two... Three............ Click. Tommy had caught the Slowpoke.

As the ball teleported out, Tommy wondered who else had caught a Slowpoke.

"or how about Sunny Day?" Tommy suggested as beams of light traveled from the statue.