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Pluto watched as the Mercenaries were taken care of and his guild headed for the fortress. Seeing as how the Lugia hasn't said anything, he could assume that nobody had attempted to use the pendant. Of course, he couldn't know what was going on, and like hell if he was going to walk to the fortress out in the open.

"Thanatos, would you mind finding out what is happening and keep me updated?" He quietly asked of the Gengar. He couldn't exactly lead properly if he didn't know what was going on, so he'd like to be informed of the events. It seemed very unlikely any of the fighting was going to get near him at this point, especially with the big scary Lugia. Nova, Dew and Adme were all ready to teleport him away on a moment's notice anyways.

He glanced down to the Glaceon that had just joined him. Her voice was...Ivy? When did she get here? When did she evolve? Oh hell, he'll figure it out when they get home. As long as she stayed near and doesn't get herself killed.



"Alex!? Jake? Answer me!" The Luxray growled into his mouthpiece. They're down, we have lost the force sent to the unknown targets! Our outer perimeter has been breached! Hostiles everywhere!

Goddamnit. This Honchkrow may pay well, but the Luxray had known taking the job was a bad idea. Too many people after the guy. The police, the Guilds, many underworld organizations, and now several freaking legendaries. After this mess he's cutting the contract, grabbing whatever remains of his mercenary band, and running for it. This wasn't worth it.

"What does that mean?" The terrified Honchkrow squawked.

"It means shut the ^&$# up so I can think." The Luxray snapped, sending a small spark to the controls next to a reinforced steel door. It registered his signature and opened, and Albertson scrambled in, a mess of ruffled feathers. The Luxray skidded in behind him and was attempting to close the door when one of the walls got blown apart and an Arcanine stuck his head in.

Of course. Reinforce the door but never pay attention to the walls around it. Sheer freaking brilliance. The Honchkrow had about as much brains as a walnut. Anyways, Albertson was, predictably, terrified, and actually did something useful for once. Electricity cracked around the outer edges of his wing and the Thunder Wave shot forward into the Arcanine. Luxray knew TM-training his employer had been a good idea.

That gave the Luxray enough time to leap between his employer and the Arcanine defensively. His ears pricked at the explanation offered by a Dratini, and cursed Albertson's panic. If he hadn't ordered the attack on the Guild...

Albertson though, didn't hear any of it. In fact, he seemed to explode at the mention of Pluto's name.

"Aha! I knew it!" he spluttered. "Pluto set you up for this! Well tell him that it's mine, I got it all fair and square! Mine!" And with that he turned and around and ran towards the opposite wall. On a pedestal where several spotlights were focused on, behind a glass barrier, was something lying on a cushion of velvet.

The crazed Honchkrow knocked aside the case, which instantly triggered several loud alarms throughout the complex and he snatched the Pendant off of it triumphantly.

"You're after this huh!? Well I'll show you! You can't even begin the imagine the power!" He held up the pendant up and extended both wings as if expecting something to happen. The only thing that happened after several seconds of silence was a ghostly purple hand reached out from under the Honchkrow and snatching the Pendant right out of the dark type's grasp.

Thanatos floated up in front of the bird, holding the pendant, looking rather menacing and not amused.

"B-but...the power...why wouldn't it work...?"

"Ground types only. Tough luck."

It was at that point that Amaterasu skidded into the room from the open door. She saw some of the Guild members still there. She saw the pendant in the Gengar's hands and flattened her ears against her head in displeasure. They had beaten her here.

Issun was finding the Leafeon's fur quite a comfortable location.

((One more round to wrap stuff up. Ending the chapter and rewards next post.))

Era looked towards the fortress with concern, her Team was in there, doing who knew what, and she knew that she should be in there with them, but it was too late for that now. A lone Pichu wouldn't be able to stand a chance fending for herself in something like that, especially if there were more mercenaries like the ones they'd encountered out here in there. It was better for her to wait, as much as she loathed to do it, but she knew when it was time to back down, and this time she decided to listen to that. Sai and Alice both looked to be waiting, so she decided to stay with them, seeing no harm in avoiding a large fight just once. Instead she watched the hole in the castle closely, looking for any sign of her Teammates emerging from within.

Ethfael meanwhile, found himself in the thick of the action. His speech had seemed to have merely sped up events that were inevitable. The Honchkrow grew even more tense at the name of Pluto, much to Ethfael's chagrin, but there was no retracting the words from his mouth, no choice but to keep going forward. When the Honchkrow grabbed the pendant and held it up Ethfael flinched, expecting something to occur, but unexpectedly nothing happened expect for the loud clamor of alarms from all over the fortress that clanged furiously after the case was knocked aside.

Ethfael would have acted then, but a Gengar by the name of Thanatos appeared and promptly took the pendant, eliciting an inaudible sigh of relief from him. That was one less thing to be concerned about. Even if there were alarms everywhere and a strange looking Absol had just come into the room, at least they wouldn't have to fight the Honchkrow himself. There was only so much that one Dratini could do against a group of fully evolved Pokemon. When the members of Team Cupric came in, Ethfael merely slipped out of the way to avoid Celsus's large body, cringing as once again the other Guild members seemed to be making scarcely veiled threats. The Honchkrow and Luxray were far from helpless at this point, it wouldn't be good to aggrevate them and cause more problems. He looked at the unconscious mercenaries dropped before the Luxray with a sigh, and then when Chuck suggested tying them up he had to interject. "Is that really necessary?" he said stepping between Team Cupric and the other two. True that wouldn't do anything if they forcefully did anything, but he felt it important to show that he was trying to stop things from coming to blows, especially with Celsus. The Gyrados could be very quick tempered and dangerous at times. "The pendant is out of harm's way and we prevented something like what happened with the Pidgeot from happening again. It's the Guild's job to maintain peace, not break it. There's enough hostility as it is without us making unnecessary enemies." Looking back at the Honchkrow and Luxray he added, "I'm sorry about all this." He truly was too, in his mind this was taking things too far.

Erinn and Sereni had been searching about the castle to try and find anything of importance, and had come up with nothing. When the alarms went off however, they both headed towards the source of the sound, encountering the large and still increasing group of Guild members there. They arrived just at the end of Ethfael's speech, surpised to find him defending the people who they'd come to get the pendant from, but they weren't about to question it, having faith in their co-leader's decisions.

William and Puer teleported back to the safety and contentment of the guild. And then they took their rewards, because there really wasn't much else to do or say. Though on a more positive note, they were quite pleased that they had actually managed to capture someone instead of murdering their way through a small civilization for once.



Desmond lapsed from his silence briefly before returning to it. "Legends tend to be exaggerated. You would do well to remember that." And with that, his silence resumed until the guild had begun to leave. Even if someone tried to, he couldn't be teleported against his will. So, he just sat there in silence. It was a good time after the "criminals" had been "apprehended" and the Mother Goddess had fled that he finally took action.

The trivial action of disappearing and reappearing elsewhere. Specifically, in the path of the Mother Goddess. "A good friend of mine wishes to speak with you Amaterasu, Mother to us All." He knew, of course, who she was quite precisely. Many semi-legendaries had at least an inkling of who she was. They were old creatures, after all. Beings so old that they had forgotten their own birth.