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Tolin listened to the alarm. If it had been Solaris he might have bothered to check, but considering it was Lucy it had to be related to Nico. Which, long and short of it, meant he had better things to do. The rumour mill was constantly turning and even if there was only a one in one thousand chance of any of them being fruitful, it was still worth checking. If he examined ten a day for the next two months, then something was bound to happen. Something already had.

Well, not to mention ice was not exactly something he mixed with. Very little of the team did. The only ones who could take ice attacks were ASAR and Albus. Although the rest weren't weak in the typing sense, Lia was hardly a fighter and Sam wasn't very strong either. Laura was... effectively made of water, so the significance of a powerful ice attack could easily be fatal. Sam would probably ice over quickly as well, but while he would definitely survive the process of reviving him would be slow and painful.

"Albus, answer the alarm." "No." "I wasn't asking. Go answer the alarm."

Albus nearly bared his fangs at the Scyther, but he didn't have much of a choice. Tolin was very obviously aware of the fact that he wanted to take over the Pluto household. The subtle tone of anger and the definite command of an order didn't sit well with the Flareon, but the worst thing he could do was retaliate. Attack and he would lose the seat for sure. Do nothing... and it still reflected badly on him. He had already lost enough of the Scyther's precious opinion.

Not that Tolin understood. Nobody understood. The quiver in his maw that tempted him to draw blood settled. "Fine." He shoved the door open and called back into the room. "Laura! C'mon, we're leaving to deal with the alarm."

Laura's head popped through a doorway, first looking ecstatic and then very quickly calming down. Or was it, perhaps, a passive obedience? Even, fear? She nodded regardless. "Of course."

Tolin closed the newspaper he had been reading. One scythe came off the chair to signal for the Vaporeon to stop. She glanced up at him, confused but patiently waiting for him to speak. "Be careful, Laura. I don't know what an Ice attack will do to a Vaporeon. If it gets bad, either run away or stay near Albus. He'll protect you."

Laura smiled. "Of course. Even if he's like this now... he's still my knight." Or maybe prince would be the better term? With that, she scampered off to catch up to the impatient Flareon.

That's not quite what I meant... With how hot he'll probably get, any ice attacks that get anywhere near him will melt.

Ethfael reported with Sereni beside him to answer the alarm. Granted, he was a Dragon-Type making a fight against Ice-Types not really his thing, but he had faith in the Mirage Cloak which he wore about him to keep him safe, seeing as the one who had given it to him was someone he trusted. That and the fact that everyone else couldn't really come. Era was still recovering from the last Guild mission, although it had been several days by now, and Erinn...well a Paras was certainly going to be no good against Ice-Types. Both Rivia and Phione were too young, which left Sereni. The Lanturn had offered to go by herself, but Ethfael had insisted on coming with her. He and Era both believed that it was important for at least one of them to be with their other Teammates whenever they went off on missions, it being their responsibility as leaders. So here they stood amidst a crowd of others.

Sereni looked about curiously to see if the one who had summoned them was somewhere about. She didn't know what it was exactly but it seemed like this gathering was different than the last. The Lanturn hadn't recognized the voice that had been on the announcements, which Ethfael had informed her was Lucy, which led her to think that the threat was different today. Still, a threat was a threat all the same, and while it was offsetting to be with just Ethfael, who was admittedly distracted, she felt that they would both be sufficiently able to handle it. Now they just had to wait for instuction about the situation and how Ice-Types came into play.

Crocs and Zeus heard the alarm ring while they were in thy're rooms at the guild.Crocs looked over at Zeus and they both smiled at each other. "This is it man,this is our time to shine." Crocs said while he patted himself on the chest. Zeus smirked as he folded his arms. "And what makes you so sure about that? If you havent forgotten already, we're still rookies." Zeus said as he turned his head away from Crocs while his arms were still crossed.Crocs walked over to Zeus and put his arm around Zeus's shoulder. "Come on bro, you need to have more faith in us than that." Crocs said. Zeus walked over to the door and opened it, He turned back and looked at Crocs. "Yeah, maybe. But our types arnt the best match up for ice." Zeus replied. Crocs practiclly skiped over to Zeus with a happy grin on his face. "But our types arnt the worst match for ice types either." Crocs said.Zeus smiled and held his hand up for a high five. "So true, so true." Zeus said as Crocs and him high fived. They left their rooms and ran down the hall to the direction of the Travel Chamber. Once they reached the travel chamber, they both walked over to where an abra was sitting. Crocs walked until he was in front of the Abra with Zeus right behind him. "Main Hall" Crocs said to the Abra. The Abra stood up and held his hands out to Crocs and Zeus. They both grabed one of the Abra's hands and he teleported them to the Main Hall. Once they were at the Main Hall,They started to search for the one named Lucy. They searched all over the Main Hall until they found Lucy.They both stood up straight and saluted to Lucy "Team Devastation reporting for duty Ma'am." They said in unison.

Lead on, oh fearless idiots. Well, if it was Ice Types the worst they could do to him was make him bored. Or tired. Maybe both. It wasn't like most Ice types could even handle physical proximity with a Flareon. When you could burn rocks with your touch, it didn't take much for you to knock out an ice-type. In all likelihood if he touched them the extreme heat would cause their blood to evaporate instantly, though it was hard to say if they would even do anything if they were already dead.

Or whatever the hell Nico was.

Laura was more than uneasy, but she shed it with her own thoughts and her proximity to Albus. It'll be fine, Lori. Albus is here. He'll protect you. He'll destroy the ice types, it won't be a problem. As long as you stay close to him, you'll be nice and warm and safe. She glanced over at him, and then made a slight amendment to her thoughts. Not too close. I don't want to boil.

The infected again, it appeared. Oliver was quite confident in the guild's success this time. After all, the last battle against hordes of zombes, as he recalled, had been a decisive victory for the guild, with every single member more or less intact. And Team Cupric was fairly well suited to dealing with ice types--they had two water types, a fire type, and an Abra with Fire Blast. As for the terrain, the team would be air. The only thing that worried Oliver was the fact that Chuck was still quiet.