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Koorie, after having spent some time re-treating the wound on her shoulder and thoroughly checking over Miu, joined the group. After staying in the background and just listening to the group, she finally stepped up and joined the conversation.

"What can my vulpix and I do to help." This was a serious matter, and though she had joy from the fact that her own companion was still with her, it was an incredibly concerning matter that so many pokemon were missing.

"There might be scents that are out of place, too," Dora said, breaking her silence to offer a suggestion she had been mulling over for a few minutes now. "Strange pokémon, people that weren't in the group... there would be some form of trace..."

Cael looked back at the other boy and tried to look stronger than he felt. "They say the missing pokemon might have been stolen, or taken away. Cloud's gone, what am I gonna do? What will happen if another wild pokemon attacks?" he said, trying to count the Pokemon that were still here. Would they be enough to defend them?

"Should-? I should join one of the search parties. They were talking about..." He stated a little distantly, clutching the safariball from the supply pack to his chest and looking out at the groups. He didn't even notice the pirate lady approach.

Shaun listened to all the ruckus about missing pokemon, frankly at a loss for what to do. Though seeing that they were down several pokemon, he used a potion on Salvo to make sure his was at full strength. If they got attacked again, they'd need every pokemon to fight. Though he had noticed that Salvo hadn't exactly been the MVP of the battle with the Houndour. He blamed that on himself for never training his pokemon for any sort of combat. Come to think of it, Salvo has lost ever battle he'd been in since coming to Zatao, and Shaun could count those battles on one hand.

When the subject of search parties, came up, he added his voice to the mix. "Salvo and I can fly up to try searching," he offered. "He can carry another person with him, maybe two if they're relatively light."

These poor landlubbers. They had no idea what to do when things didn't go as planned, and she smiled at Cael reassuringly.

"We've got more than enough people and pokemon that we'll be alright if another attacks." Might not be the most league appropriate of fights, but they'd survive. That was the pirate way.

As for a search party, he had a Growlithe, and there were enough of them right here to make a decent sized group. "Why don't we form our own?" she suggested, motioning towards the people directly around them. "Too big o' a search party and thin's tend t' be missed."

Lizzie's face paled as some people began to discuss the possibility of Pokemon stolen. If there were thieves among them, that would only mean one thing.

Team Rocket.

Come to think of it, wasn't this whole situation like the one a couple years ago? When Team Rocket enticed a crowd of adventurers with a promise of an Eevee swarm? And they ended up capturing an entire town and the lot of them? They were lucky that they were able to escape and reunite with their Pokemon. Lizzie did not want to test her good fortune even further. Especially when she didn't know anyone in this group intimately. For all she knew, everyone could be Rocket grunts undercover, trying to take her legendary Pokemon from under her nose. Yes, even that kid Remy might be one of the bad guys.

She couldn't stay here, not when she couldn't trust anyone. "I'm going to search for any clues from the air." Lizzie said to anyone that might listen. She packed up her sleeping bag and other supplies before mounting Psywater and taking off into the sky without another word.

"Our own thearch party would be good I thuppothe," Dave admitted. "But we should think about thith. Where would the pokemon have gone? Think logically," he added. "And maybe we should make a note of who'th in which group, jutht in cathe any of uth go mithhing too." Miles huffed. "I don't think this is a good plan at all," he said to himself.