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Puer shook his head. "No thank you. I have been taught to regard scars as a sign of pride." He turned slightly to face the Larvitar, bearing an amicable smile. "It was a good fight. I apologize if I injured your comrade. I... hope you do not think ill of me for... earlier events."

Puer was, independently, a rather polite individual. He had been taught to value strength, and respect those in battle. He had also been taught to carefully discern the difference between fighting someone and simply speaking with them. Battle is by nature a bloody, violent affair; one should not judge simply by one's fighting.

"Thank you for teaching my partner a sorely needed lesson." Tolin reached into his bag (which seemed to simply appear; even Puer was not sure where he had gotten it from) and pulled out a sheet with some writing on it. "Should you ever need my help, I would be glad to give it. Please contact me if you need assistance, if only on a whim." The paper had an address within the guild dormitories, presumably their address within the west wing.

"Now, I'm afraid we must be going. We have a mission to attend to." Tolin bowed slightly before turning off and exiting the arena. Puer followed suit.

Zosee and Zero sat in the middle of the training field, watching the fights around them with mild interest. They came here for no better reason than to kill boredom. They've been visiting Morana every day since they've found her team pretty much all struggling to recover at the Hospital, but it wasn't like they could spend all day there.

Unfortunately, this wasn't all that terribly exciting either. A lot of the pokemon training here were amateurs, and the two of them couldn't help but spend time critiquing the fighting styles of all the kids.

"Maybe we should just go home. We haven't told mom and dad that we're still alive have we?" Zosee told her partner past a yawn, and the glaceon nodded absently.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that...I suppose it would be a good thing to tell them..." Zero replied casually.

Their conversation was interrupted however, as Zero suddenly whirled around to his left, much faster than his laid-back attitude seemed to hint at. There, an ekans had shot at a blue growlithe, missed, and was heading straight at him.

Instinctively, he froze all the moisture around him onto his fur, creating a protective coating of hard ice. That wasn't necessary though, for he also brought up a shimmering barrier front of him, against which the red Ekans smacked against.

Zosee walked up to the poison type's side.

"Hey, you ok there kid?" She asked.

"Hmmm...sorry about that, maybe I should have just dodged..." He apologized, letting the shimmering barrier dissipate. He loosened his hold on the temperature around his body, allowing the ice he had created to melt. He didn't seem to mind that this made his fur damp and wet.

Zero raised a paw, waving it in a 'don't worry about it' gesture.

"Hmm, no harm was done, so it's all fine. We shouldn't have sitting so near a sparring pair anyways." He told the two, smiling warmly.

Zosee waited for the growlithe to finish his sentence, but it didn't take her long to realize that he had probably forgotten what he was about to say. After a few silent seconds, Zosee realized what must have caused this.

Hmm, wasn't she and Zero quite well known before they headed off for the mountains? Since Morana had made it quite clear she and the rest of their family had thought the two of them dead, word probably travelled around.

Ah well, whatever.

"So, how long have you two been working together? Any successful missions recently?" Zosee asked, shifting slightly into a more comfortable sitting position, since the silver bangles on her hind leg was pinching her fur.

Zero only then seemed to have noticed the state he had left his fur in with the freezing all the water against himself and whatnot. He didn't care too much- except that wet fur has this annoying tendency to make everything stick to it. With a sigh, he brought a paw up and started to lick it dry.

Ah sweet, newbies! It's always great to see the beginnings of what might one day become a great team. By the sounds of it though, these two might need to work on getting along a bit better- either establish an undisputed leader or be able to work together really well. Ah well, they'll figure these things out soon enough if they don't get themselves killed.

Team Epsilon eh? Epsilon would be...one of the ancient alphabets if Zosee remembered correctly. Not bad, much easier to say than their own Team's name. Of course, they hadn't come up with their name for the sake of leaving an imprint on grateful clients- theirs was for leaving an imprint on the world.

"Well, we're Team-" "-Absolute-" "-Indignation. I'm Zosee, and this is-" "-Zero. Nice to meet you."

It's been many many long months since they've done that, but they still knew each other well enough to time it perfectly. Zosee turned to look at Zero with a grin, and the glaceon returned it with a small nod.

Zosee grinned, giving a little bow.

"The one and only. Though I don't think we're dead." She told them. Ah, so the little guy did know them!

"We were exploring the mountains past Thunder Ridge, and ah...complications arose. We were trapped up there for quite a while, and we've only just managed to make our way back." Zero explained in a casual manner, and then went right back to his paw-licking.

Zosee shrugged, fighting past a yawn.

"The wild Pokemon up there are all pretty cranky." She didn't care to explain further. Their stay up the mountains was not a pleasant experience.

"It wasn't too bad. It would be a challenge for city Pokemon I can imagine, but the two of us grew up in a wild clan." Zosee replied casually, amused at Saesia's awe. She opened her mouth to answer the ekan's next question, but was cut off as some nearby pokemon screamed "DUCK!".

Now, in the training fields, "duck" can only mean one thing, and it definitely wasn't water fowl.

Turning to the side, Zosee saw a thunderbolt more or less coming their way, zigzagging through the air. In the blink of an eye a glowing blue barrier dome appeared in a large circle around Zero, encompassing all four of them.

The thunderbolt attack smashed into the barrier, and continued going, though weaker than before. A portion of the original attack glanced off and shot right back at the Pikachu who had fired it.

Zosee ran around Zero, the speed inherent of her species making her a blur, into the line of the weakened thunderbolt, and harmlessly absorbed it.

This all took probably less than a second (lightning tends to go pretty fast). Zosee discharged the excess electricity into the ground, less she kills the next person she touches, and casually strode right back to where she was.

"Yes. Know your partner-" "- and trust your partner. You are a team after all."

Kain stood in front of one of the straw dummies then slowly got on all fours ready to attack. ''This should be good.'' Kyo said standing against the wall far enough from Kain in case he went berserk. Kain ran at the dummy then jumped into the air and kicked the dummy on the side of its head then grabbed its shoulders and jumped so he was on the roof. Kyo watched him surprised at how fast he was now compared to their last training session, kain drop kicked the dummy afterward he did a back flip and used flame wheel on it burning the dummy to the ground. ''Lets go to the next one.'' he said breathing heavily.

Kain looked at the wooden dummy then quickly started his attack kicking the dummy from all sides then scratched it, he fell to the ground then roundhouse kicked the dummy making a small dent in its head. ''this is nothing.'' he growled then reversed heel kicked it in the chest.