Disclaimer: how's about I tell you when I own pokémon instead of this!

Authors note: I would really like some reviews to see what I need to do better, I took the critic from last story and am trying to improve grammar. P.s. this is going to be an extra long chapter.

Chapter eight: Cobalion and an old friend.

I woke up to find Evona as usual grooming herself by the basin and Lyro to some surprise was up and getting packed. I was the last to get up.

"Pack food, we might end up having to walk back here, and maybe some miniature tent for shelter." I said as I got up.

"Why? Are you planning some vacation?" Lyro asked confused.

"No, but I would rather not get stuck out in the open for a day because we missed our ride." I replied.

"Just pack the stuff." Evona told Lyro before she went back to grooming herself "Better take precautions, we are going to face up with a legendary pokémon after all. Most pokémon would think that suicidal especially in the circumstance that the legendary pokémon is cautious of threats." Lyro did as he was told, he saw the reason now.

"So, are we going to choose any back up?" I asked as I got up and smooth down some of my ruffled fur and walked over to the basin to wash myself.

"I say we can do it alone, we are as prepared as any other team." Lyro said putting his paw out "Come on, everyone put in a paw."

"Ohh this!" Evona said eagerly as she jumped over and raised her paw on top of Lyro's "C'mon, you too." She said turning around her ears perked up.

"Fine." I said splashing one last paw full of water at my face then getting up and walking over.

"On three, say Trio." Lyro began "One…. Two….. Three! Trio!" he shouted out throwing his paw in the air, Evona and I did the same. It felt good for some reason, it seemed to boost up our spirits sky high.

"Come on." I said a grin on my face "Lets go find cobalion." I finished as I picked up my bag and put it on with booth straps, I wouldn't want it swinging around or falling off. Then I helped Evona get her pouch around her neck and we all picked up our badges, it was the first time we had actually used them so far for some reason. The badges resembled a semi flattened ball of metal with a round stone in the middle and wing like extensions on each side, the stones had started out clear but they had changed colour when we picked them out from the pocket in my bag.

"Wow! Did you see that?" Evona exclaimed as her stone turned deep amber colour with a few small spots that looked like they were faded.

"Yeah look at mine!" Lyro shouted in turn as his went a blue with blended in streaks of white. I held mine up in turn to see it turn a clear green, plain as could be.

"Mines, green." I said not as surprised as the others for some reason.

"Can I have a look?" Evona asked after securing hers on a string around her neck and holding out a paw.

"Sure." I said plainly as I handing it over. The second my paw left contact with the badge the white metallic part went dark grey and the stone too went dark, it was barely obvious that it had been green as only the faintest bit of colour remained.

"Wow! Must be some sort of proof, like if someone tried to steal it, it wouldn't work." Evona said exclaiming, I took back the badge and its colour returned instantly.

"Must be." I replied.

"Lets see if it's the same with the rest of ours." Lyro said handing his badge to me and the same thing happened "Wow it does! But why are they different colours? We are all the same team aren't we?" he said his expression going puzzled.

"We can ask Hask that when we get back, for now lets focus on the mission." I said sticking the badge on my pack.

"Don't put it there, put it around your neck." Evona said as she walked behind me and poked her head in my back "That's what this is for." She said with a string in her mouth.

"Ohh, ok." I said seeing the little metallic loop on the back of the badge made for putting a string through, while I fitted mine Lyro did the same with his. When we were done with this we headed off.

"This is great! How many junior teams get to go after legendary pokémon?" Lyro exclaimed as we headed for the transport hut. I sighed this might be a long day.

"Well we aren't quit junior are we if we are going after legendary pokémon." I noted.

"Well how many new teams then?" he said correcting himself, his eagerness was so strong I could almost see it radiating from him. Wait, see it? I thought to myself and the sensation vanished. I decided not to tell them about this, I thought it was some random moment.

"Come on, don't tell me you're going to be like yesterday." Lyro shouted over to me, I hadn't noticed them get ahead of me with that strange moment I had.

"Coming." I shouted as I bounded over and past them "Now you two hurry up." I said look back with a grin, they returned it and started to run after me. At this rate we got to the transport hut in no time. Pigon saw us coming and was a bit surprised at how we were running and laughing.

"What up with you lot? If only everyone could be so happy about work." The pidgeot said tilting his head in curiosity.

"We're going to find cobalion! We are pretty sure we know where he is!" I exclaimed jumping into the hut. The pidgeot sweat dropped.

"Most pokémon would be scared out of their skin and those three are acting like its their birthday." He murmured to himself.

"Anyway we need transports to magno pillar valley and keep a group of your best transporters ready on demand." I said getting serious.

"How many?" the pidgeot asked.

"Enough to lift a bastiodon at least." I said, the pidgeot's beak dropped.

"Seriously, how many?" he asked again thinking I was joking.

"I'm serious. If we get in a scrap with that guy we may need to take him back here or if we find him hurt and that we are too late." I said, in this time Lyro had gone and called our usual transports.

"Ok, I'll have them on standby." The pidgeot said as he walked over to another rescue squad needing transport, he thought I was nuts by the look on his face.

"Think you have it this time? We're getting tired from the backwards and forwards to those mountains and here." The pidgeotto complained.

"As sure as I am that tepig fly." I replied with a smile. The pidgeotto let out and sigh and rose into the air and grabbed me by the shoulders as usual then flew off through the tower, the other two followed suit.

"So, how many more trips to the mountains will we have to take?" the pidgeotto asked again.

"I don't know, but trust me when I say I want them to stop more than anyone." I said clenching at my gut as usual.

"Well that cheers me up." The pidgeotto teased evilly at my expense, his beak forming into something similar to a grin "Anyway, were almost there." he said as the mountains came into view.

"Finally." I said with some relief.

When we reached the edge of the valley the pidgeotto dropped us, I landed without any other bi products of the effectiveness of the transport this time and raised a paw in the air, Lyro and Evona knew what I was doing but the flying types were clueless.

"Umm… what's he doing?" he pidgeotto said pointing to me with one wing and bringing his other one up to his beak putting it between me and the beak.

"Checking which was to go." Evona replied.

"Is he waiting for some wind to blow? Or is he waiting for zekrom to strike him with a lighting bolt and see which was he falls over?" the pidgeotto questioned.

"Neither, he is checking the magnetic center of this place." Lyro replied, he was getting annoyed at the pidgeotto's cheek filled comments.

"Done, lets head that way." I said raising a paw pointing a path diagonally to my right as I was facing the misty border of the valley "We might need to leave in a hurry so you three stay alert." I told the pidgeotto who just sighed, he obviously didn't know what we were doing. I entered to mist in the direction I had pointed with Evona and Lyro close behind. Pokémon were appearing more often that last time, and they seemed confused and enraged. Something was wrong. Within the first step a scizor jumped out using fury cutter, I barely dodged the sudden attack with detect kicking in just in time.

"Some is wrong here, all the pokémon are going nuts." I said as I checked direction after we had run into a discharging magneton, charging lairon and a snapping mawile all within the first minute "We better hurry." I finished as I confirmed direction and started on a jog.

"Your right, no pokémon are usually this aggressive. Last time it was territorial but now its something else." Evona said, she too had noticed these unusual activities.

"Yeah, lets pick up the pace." Said Lyro speeding up even more, we matched it. We all felt the urgency. Soon we heard a cry.

"ARGHHH!" Came a shout followed by a loud thud.

"C'mon that has to be the guard!" I shouted darting toward the cry at full speed. I arrived first with Lyro second and Evona last, I saw a knocked out bastiodon lying in front on an alter with a stone. The alter was crudely crafted and resembled a giant throne with the stone where the seat should be. The stone had a small slit in it from where the sword should be.

"Evona, set to work treating that bastiodon, Lyro stay with her and be on guard, use light screen and reflect upon any sign of danger. I'll stand guard." I said urgently, we weren't alone I was sure of it but I didn't tell them, I didn't want to make panic.

"Got it." Said Evona as she jumped over to the bastiodon feeding it berries of different varieties and properties. Some time passed, Evona was wrapping a bandage around its front left leg when I heard the sound of hoofs on stone.

"YOU DARE STRIKE THE GUARD OF MY SWORD DOWN AND STEAL IT?" came a thundering voice, male.

"No!" I shouted turning around "We came to warn him of a threat that reached him before we did, someone is plotting against you!" I shouted again, it had no effect. He was enraged as with the others. This would come down to a fight.

"Cobalion stop!" Lyro said as the legendary pokémon stomped his roof on the alter, the stones that chipped off then began to glow and shot over at Lyro who was knocked back against a pillar.

"Lyro!" I shouted in worry but was reassured as the mouse pokémon opened his eyes "Use reflect and light screen now, go and stand by Evona." I looking over to see the legendary had leaped off the alter and was diving head first and Evona, his horns and top of his head giving of a white light. I acted instantly standing in front of her and kicking off to meet the iron head with a sky upper cut boosted by a last minute helping hand from Evona. The collision caused a small explosion and I was sent flying back and into the bastiodon, the legendary landed smoothly back on the alter showing no signs of damage. As I opened my eyes I had closed during the explosion I saw Evona was covered in a layer of yellow hexagons and a layer of orange ones, I looked over at my other side to see Lyro with a grin giving me a thumbs up before firing thunder shock at cobalion who just lifted a hoof and it started to glow white then slammed it into the rock and pointed his horns at the electric attack headed for him. The attack simply went down him and into the ground leaving him with little if any damage. I got up now a bit quaky.

"Its do or die." I said to my team mates "Evona use dig and wait for my signal." I finished as I charged at the legendary with sky upper cut striking him just under his tuft of hair. The legendary was to slow to dodge this and fell over behind the alter, and I landed in his place now I was hoping Evona knew where he was as I shouted "now!" to her. Nothing happened for a while and cobalion got back up, a look of absolute fury on his face. He began charging metal burst and was about to fire as Evona popped out from under him redirecting his attack slightly to my left as I stood helpless on the top most point of the alter. I let out a sigh of relief.

"You have the best of timing." I told the little fox pokémon who stood there with a smile on her face thought this distracted the booth of us as the legendary had charged straight at her with his horns dragging along the ground which he slid under her and used to launch her into the air at which she let out a yelp, he followed this up by jumping up after her and hitting her repeatedly with his horns and front hoofs before letting loose double kick as they reach the peak of their air climb and sent her flying. I saw her eyes closed, she was clearly knocked out, as she flew by me spiralling through the air. I jumped up to catch her, the result of which was me falling back along with her and nearly hitting Lyro who jumped out of the way.

"What happened?" he said worriedly as he saw Evona lying unconscious on top of me.

"Look out!" I said trying to warn him of the flash cannon that cobalion was charging, the beam fired and Lyro had just managed to use protect, but it was obvious he wasn't strong enough as his dome like shield broke and the beam hit him pressing him hard against the bastiodon. That left me conscious and I was stuck under Evona this wasn't going as plan. I struggled to get her off me seeing that cobalion's horns were turned giving of a grey aura which covered them then moved to the edge forming a gleaming blade. If he let loose that sacred sword we were dead.

"Rahhh!" same a battle cry as a white figure jumped out of nowhere at cobalion a dark bluish grey horn matching its face, its gem like oval on its furry forehead which resembled the white half of yin and yang and the three claws it sported on each foot along with the one that stood higher up on what could be called an ankle but was rarely used for stepping. Its horn began to glow with a black aura as it used it to slash at cobalion with night slash and knocked it out of balance thus making it fall off the alter. I used this time to get out from under Evona and get around the alter to where cobalion was to follow up with a sky upper cut before he could get up and I arrived just in time. It hit him under his chin and he collapsed, not quite out though.

"Cobalion." I began "We didn't want to fight you, we came here to warn the guard of someone who was planning to steal all three swords and take you and your team down before going after the legendary dragon type duo. We arrived moments too late I am sorry to say and we were trying to treat the guard of his injuries." I said in a tone that said I spoke truth and a look on my face that destroyed any doubts the tone hadn't.

"I apologize for my rashness, the swords taking disturbed me." He said exhausted and now in a much gentler tone than before "Please wa-" he began before we booth saw a red and white orb fly over at him, it hit him then bounced up and opened. Cobalion became covered in a red light soon his colouring and image began to fade into the light with his shape soon lost and the light being sucked up by the ball which now fell on the ground. A poke-ball! I thought in shock, I remember they are used to trap and capture pokémon, I had kept my knowledge when I woke up before so I still knew what it was. The ball shook once, twice then stopped as the button on the black ring going around it went black. Some glittery sparkles flew a bit up and floated gentle down. Cobalion was captured! I reached forward to pick it up but a blast of dark energy exploded between me and the ball creating a dust cover. When it cleared the ball was gone, I looked up to the alter to see the creature who had saved us, an absol.

"Did you see the creature that just took the ball?" I asked seeing it obviously hadn't since it wasn't holding it and I knew absol couldn't learn any pulse like attacks.

"No." he said regretfully.

"Too bad, but thanks for saving us." I said feeling a bit bad having let cobalion be captured as the hill top pokémon jumped down from the alter to land beside me.

"I wish I had seen him, legendary pokémon would only be sought after for capture like that for some evil purpose, and don't mention the saving part. My friend would have done it, I did it for him in a way." He said with a look that implied his friend was missing "I came here searching for him." He said in a saddened tone, he hadn't looked me in the face yet, he kept his head pointed at the ground.

"Come with me, once my friends wake up we'll give you something for thanks, we could even accommodate you." In said in a tone implying I would offer anything I could.

"Ok." he said still looking down "Tell me, why are you here?"

"Well a couple of days ago I joined a guild with my friends here." I began as I raised a paw over at Lyro who had recovered and was feeding Evona a berry, the absol looked up at them then back down "Our initiation was to help a pokémon in trouble, the pokémon we helped was one of many being traumatized by a group of Rogues called Dark Day, the pokémon mentioned they had been asking pokémon about the sacred swords and pummelling those who didn't know anything which was everyone." I continued with my tone going sad "We then presumed they were working under some sort of mastermind considering they didn't seem strong enough or smart enough to do it on their own, the one who took cobalion in that ball is their master my guess. Anyway since we found out about their plans we set to work trying to locate the guards of the swords to warn them. Their master had got here before us and beaten the guard and taken the sword. Then cobalion came and we began to fight, first he knock out Evona, she is the eevee and I jumped off the alter to catch her which I how I ended up stuck, then he took down Lyro with a flash cannon," I said signalling to Lyro "Then you came along and saved me." I concluded as Evona and Lyro walked up to us, Evona more limping along with a lot of help from Lyro who was having pains with his shoulder, it hadn't been an easy battle.

"Who is he?" Evona asked with a tilt of her head.

"He saved me from the sacred sword I was about to get hit by while I was stuck under you from jumping to catch you after you got beaten about by cobalion's close combat." I answered.

"Speaking of the blue guy where is he?" Lyro asked.

"Some mystery creature captured him in a red and white ball." The absol replied glumly.

"Don't worry, whoever is causing the trouble will be brought to justice." I said confidently.

"You sound li-" he began as he looked up for the first time at me and looked at my face "Laxar!" he yelled out my name to everyone's surprise.

"How do you know my name?" I asked.

"That scar above your eye, the one below your chin too." He said his tone no longer glum "I came to this world looking for you! You may be a riolu now but I know its you!" he said without a shadow of a doubt.

"I'm from another world? Is that where I'm from?" I asked confused followed by a nod from the absol "When I woke up about a week ago thinking I was a human I never expected I was from another world." I said in complete shock.

"That's because you were a human, back then you were my best friend. Long ears you have don't surprise me." He said noting my extra length I had on my ears "There are two worlds I know of, this world and a world with humans and pokémon, there is probably one with just humans too. Back then we were best friend and we would spend the days together over in the forest on the mountain. That was until about a week ago when you didn't show up and I went searching for you, I even went to your house and saw your mother crying. They were talking about your disappearance. I then went around the forest asking other pokémon about information they had, didn't take long before one mentioned a cry come from a clearing near our usual meeting place, when I asked a metapod who had been there all week about any unusual things going on he mentioned a portal opening and a black figure come out of it, then a human he described fitting you came and went to take a look. You were blasted into the portal with an attack he described that seemed just like the one there was just now that stopped you getting the ball. What did you call them, I think it was "poke-balls"." He said and I jumped in.

"Yeah, when I saw it that name popped into my head, they are used to carry pokémon." I exclaimed, this confirmed the absol's story.

"Yes, and then the same black figure shot into the portal, I saw a streak of black enter the explosion. That could be it. Took me until now before I saw another portal like the one described, it led me her. The mystery pokémon must have used it to travel here from the other world. He seems to go there to get things he needs like poke-balls." The absol concluded.

"Wow." Lyro said amazed.

"Yeah, wow is right. When I found you out in the field a week ago I never knew you had such a complex story." Evona said clearly she was amazed too.

"Ok, ok we agree its strange." I said holding up my paws and pushing them slowly back and forth in an "enough" gesture "Sorry absol, but I hate to say I don't remember anything. I barely remembered my name when I woke up. Mind telling me your name? I don't want to call an old friend by their species all the time." I said with a smile.

"My name is Asen." He replied returning the smile, he was obviously glad to see me again. After all he had left his own world to try and find me.

"Nice work you four." Came a deep voice from behind Lyro and Evona, it was the bastiodon "I saw you fight. You fought bravely." He said his voice showing he felt weak.

"Don't Waste your breath, I'll go and get the pidgeotto here. Evona and Lyro you stay here and feed him some more berries and fight off any pokémon still in a rage." I said as I headed off into the boundary of pillars at a run.

"I'm coming too." Said Asen as he jumped after me, didn't take us long to start running into more pokémon at out pace. We knocked them away quickly in out urgency me with feint and Asen with an attack similar to what he used on cobalion except with the aura, it was a normal slash. At one point I stopped and checked direction and told him about how I helped us find the alter, then I made a slight adjustment in direction and we head of again running past most pokémon before they got to attack and we were at the edge of the plains in a few minutes, the pidgeotto were about five meters to our left when we exited.

"Hey two of you give us a ride in that direction while one of you head over to the guild and brings the group I asked Pigon to put on stand by, better yet bring Pigon along too." I said pointing behind me to my left after checking direction, they responded instantly with one, the one normally to carry Evona, heading off in the direction of the guild while the ones who normally carry me and Lyro flew towards up picking us up before performing a sharp turn over in the direction I told them.

"What are we looking for?" the one carrying me asked.

"A clearing with a stone alter and a bastiodon along with Lyro and Evona." I replied as it came into view. Their mach speeds were noticeably quicker than us travelling by foot.

"Hiya." I called down from above "More help is coming soon." I finished as I jumped down with Asen landing beside me. The pidgeotto landed after making a brief circle of the clearing to make sure nobody was around.

"So, reckon a gang of pidgeotto can carry you?" I asked to bastiodon with a doubtful look on my face.

"Not really, but we can try can't we?" he replied though a groan of pain as Lyro tightened to bandage on his leg, I noticed he was only using one paw, the other was obviously still in a pain.

"Yes, yes we can." I said simply. Once Lyro was done with the bandage he set to work on his own injury and putting it into a sling, a stone from stone edge had hit him hard on the shoulder and flash cannon hadn't done a world of good to help it. I walked over to Evona who was lying with her back on the alter stone licking her scratches, the close combat had left her barely able to move and she was sore all over, I bandaged her left forepaw in a sling which had been caught and twisted awkwardly when she landed on me.

"How are you?" I said as I finished tightening it a bit.

"Not the best, but it's not the worst either thanks to you." She said with a smile giving me one of her playful licks on my nose, I scrunched up my face as she did so and we booth shared a smile.

"There they are." Shouted one of the pidgeotto who normally transported our team, I looked up to see he had Pigon and a group of ten other pidgeotto with him.

"Brought you the group you requested, you weren't joking about the bastiodon were you." Pigon said giving a look over to the bastiodon.

"Do I look like the type to mess around?" I asked, the answer on first sight would be yes, considering I looked like some brat who had been playing around in the garden with my fur all ruffled, and given the way we ran up to the transport hut in the morning the answer would be another yes.

"Yes." He replied with the humour I expected.

"I do don't I?" I asked raising my paws to see them, to no surprise they were covered in dust and looked exactly like I had been digging in a basement or playing in a yard "Anyway my team needs a rest, that bastiodon needs treatment and I need to talk with Hask so if you don't mind I would like to get going as soon as possible." I finished as I clapped my paws together.

"Ok, I'll get the pidgeotto ready with the bastiodon, it may take a while. I didn't think you were serious." He said as he headed off to organise his crew. I walked over to Asen who was talking with Lyro near the edge of the clearing.

"Hey guys, mind if I borrow you Asen?" I asked quickly.

"Sure, what for?" he asked as he followed me a few steps into the clearing.

"Want to join our team? Now way for us to get back yet and I can't just leave now even if a portal opened up right in front of us." I said "Those two have become good friends of mine and we accepted the mission of warning to guards and swords master trio together, or take down their attacker if they fail." I ended with my tone turning a bit graver.

"Sure, I'll join. I don't mind helping out on the quest either." He said a smile appearing as he began again after a slight pause "That what friends are for right? Charging off on suicidal missions together." I grinned back at him, I could see why we were friends before.

"Ok, ready." Pigon shouted to me.

"Ready, and add another pidgeotto to our transport team." I called back and me and Asen were picked up along with the others, my out usual transporters carrying me, Lyro and Evona along with another pidgeotto flying beside us carrying Asen, beside us flew Pigon and behind us a quad of pidgeotto carrying bastiodon and the other six flew either on our side or Pigon's side making our overall formation into a bit of a V.

After we reached the guild bastiodon was dropped off by blissey's lodge for treatment while the rest of us went over to the transport hut.

"So, what's the plan now?" asked Lyro, it was about half an hour to dusk.

"You two take Asen to our tent and make some room for him, he can stay with us can't he?" I said beginning with a normal tone and pace but slowing down toward the end and uncertainty entering my voice.

"Of course!" Evona said and Lyro nodded in agreement.

"Ok, so you guys take him to the tent and help him set up, I'll go and report to Hask and then go back to the tent." I said as we exited the hut and split up. Didn't take long before I reached Echo Hall, I was running all the way as not to waste time. When I got to the gates I was stopped by a growlithe.

"Halt, state yo-" he began but he was cut off by the other growlithe standing on the other side of the doors.

"Open the doors!" he shouted to a pair of machoke on the other side then turned back to face his comrade "Don't worry, he's got good reason to be here. He and his team went in search of cobalion today and were told to report." He said turning to me when he was done and giving me a wink, I gave him a smile of thanks and ran into the hall. As I ready the steps I heard the dragonite call out in his calm voice.

"What's the hurry?" he asked "Why are you so dirty are you and your team ok?"

"We found cobalion is the good news, bad news is the sword is gone and cobalion has been captured. Our team suffered some damage too, we failed." I said looking down and my ears drooping.

"Contrary, you found him which is an achievement. Tell me, who captured him and how?" the dragonite said wondering.

"As we approached the swords alter we heard the guard cry out, we ran over to see what had gone on but the attacker was gone with the sword. We set to work treating they guard and cobalion appeared thinking we had done the crimes and began to fight us, we defeated him and who we presume is the one who stole the sword threw a red and white orb in which cobalion is now trapped. I was about to retrieve the orb when a blast of some dark force hit the ground between me and the orb, when the explosion cleared the orb was gone." I said disdainfully but then raised my head to look at the dragonite "During the battle while Lyro and Evona were knocked out and I was trapped under Evona another pokémon came to our rescue, we wish to add him to our team and change its name. May we?" I asked hopefully.

"I see, defeating cobalion is a notable victory. You and your team will be acknowledged, I wish for your team to continue the search for the other swords. While you are unable to do it yourselves I give you any team you wish at your disposal. As for the new member of your team I accept your request." He said, a smile crept over my face, Asen could join.

"Thank you guild master." I said as I turned around and started to walk away.

"No. Thank you." He said as I had taken a few steps, I turned around and saw him toss me a badge, one for Asen. I had to tell the others about how he thought of this as a victory and I began to run out, I gave a smile and a wink to the growlithe by the gate since I couldn't give a thumbs up seeing as I didn't have any.

"Hask thinks we did great." I said as I entered the tent, it was nearly dusk now "He says Asen can join the team." I finished with a grin.

"Great! Where is his badge, lets see what colour it goes." Evona exclaimed excitedly wondering what colour it could be.

"Huh?" Asen asked confused "What do you mean what colour my badge goes? Can I really join you guys?"

"Of course! You saved our tails back there. About the badge is they start out with a clear stone but once someone touches them the stone changes colour and only keeps its colour if its held by the one it was intended for." Lyro explained as he demonstrated with his badge letting Evona hold it.

"Ohh. So where is it?" he asked curiously.

"Here, see its clear now?" I said taking it out of my bag and putting it on top of his raised paw, he couldn't turn it over so I had to balance it on. As it touched his fur colour spread through the stone starting from the middle like dye through water. It was a dark crimson red with a lighter shade swirled into it.

"Neat." I said looking at his badge "Almost wish that was mine." I said.

"What colour is yours?" he asked looking up from his badge.

"Mine is a clear green, Evona has a yellowish orange and Lyro a bright blue with white streaks and Evona has a deep amber with faded spots. We too only saw our today." I said as I held mine out for him to see, Evona bit the string above the badge and pulled her head up allowing him to see hers, Lyro showed his again.

"Doesn't surprise me you got green." He said with a smirk.

"Didn't surprise we either for some reason, don't know why." I said curiously.

"You and I used to hang out in the forests a lot, you would practically talk to the trees. You treated them as equals, if you saw a broken branch, damaged sapling you would fix it up best you could. If you saw a sapling or bush starting to dry out you would share your water, if you saw one being taken over by some parasite you would free it of that burden." He recited.

"Sounds like you should have woken up as a treecko." Lyro joked.

"No, grass types in general and treecko included use special attacks or some sort of extension like vines or shifting shape like grovyles leaf blade, the leaves merge together with a green aura. Laxar likes to work with what he has, and retracting vines didn't appeal to him either, neither did shifting any shape. He liked to stay the way he was and let his body choose how he looked." Asen said simply and adding after a pause with a smile "His body, and a series of accidents. That's how he got the scar on his chin and above his eye. He should also have one on the outer finger (I dunno what to call them) of his right paw." He finished nudging the one he meant with his horn, it was the one which should have been my thumb, I cleared the blue fur best I could and sure enough there was a scar halfway down the side opposite to the palm of my paw and it went over and down a bit stopping halfway to where it was on the other side "He has hated using blades ever since."

"Ouch." Said Lyro recoiling a bit at the thought of part of a finger being half peeled off.

"Well it's a good thing I don't remember those accidents." I said with a smile glad I didn't know the details.

"I'll remind you." Asen added with a grin, we all shared a little giggle before settling in, Lyro had some trouble lying down comfortably with his bandaged arm but being himself he fell asleep first anyway. Asen had been made room for other side of Lyro from me, he lay on his side pulling his legs in slightly and he too fell asleep fast, he seemed pretty tired. I went and put my bag down by the basin as usual and helped Evona get her pouch off, she was having a bit of trouble with this task, she would normally hold it down with one paw before sliding her neck out. She began a clumsy hobble towards the bed, it wasn't far, in fact it was barely over a meter but considering her short legs and the fact she could use one of them I decided to do her a favour and picked her up in a cradle like hold and carried her over, she gave me a smile of thanks as I put her down on the bed leaving room for myself between her and Lyro. As I lay down she rolled over to me, I think she was doing it for more than just warmth now, I may have only known her and Lyro for a week but I felt like they were family. I think they did too, we felt safe around each other.