Dawn had packed some items in her bag. After she and Leona were released from the store they were in, the news broke out about the jewel thief she cursed herself not being able to stop him as her alter ego. This whole not being ready for it got on her nerves and Umbreon started to notice how frustrated she's getting.

"Off to Lila for more training? You should hold that thought."

Someone was knocking on her window to draw her attention. Tossing on a bathrobe to hide her Umbreon look she went to it and opened her curtains.

"May!? Why are you climbing my roof!?" She thought it was Ash at first since he was the only one able to climb her roof wondering if he needed her help with something. Having slid the window open May stepped through it inside. Sitting on Dawn's windowsill she started talking.

"Just entering the way Ash told me he did sometimes." Speaking of him.

"Weren't you two having dinner at your place?" Dawn asked.

"Ash had something coming up and had to go." Dawn thinking Ash must be somewhere going after the jewel thief. It didn't explain why May just didn't call her about this.

"You could've knocked like any normal person."

"Sorry." Apologizing for her weird entrance May started on what she's really here for.

"My dad might not have been on duty the night Glaceon fought in the harbor but he heard a rumor about the docks. I just have to tell you what it is!" Filled with excitement May tried gathering Dawn's full interest. The blue haired girl wondered how May knew the icy heroines name. Maybe she came across her when fleeing from the killer who tried beheading her.

"What rumor?"

"That there's another like the ice person but only dressed in black with yellow rings!"

Hearing the way she's dressed Dawn began become a little nervous. It didn't help she has the exact same clothes on under her robe. She was almost sure that when they raced each other on the roof and onto the pillar Glaceon and her weren't spotted by anyone and she kept hidden while the icy heroine fought the thieves who'd taken hostages and fought the rolling robot.

"Really?! Another like her!? That's amazing!"

"But I heard she doesn't have enough experience yet. She nearly fell of the crane if it wasn't for Glaceon."

"How does she know…?"

"Think fast!"

May quickly jumped up from her spot and jumped on Dawn's shoulders. With her legs wrapped around Dawn May leveraged her weight downwards and send Dawn tumbling onto her bed. Rolling off it Dawn landed on the other side with a thud. Getting up annoyed and furious about May assaulting her Dawn's face was red with anger.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Not one to curse willingly Dawn was pushed over the edge. In two minds about testing her combat skills on May first instead of Ash cause she surely deserved a beating for the stunt she pulled.

"You're not exactly normal yourself sis."

Already having touched her earring May joked and grinned while her hair shifted color with her eyes and Dawn was amazed to see the transformation happen in front of her. She never checked in the mirror how her look shifted to resemble her ancestor more thinking she'd freak out about seeing herself change.

"You're Glaceon!?" Dawn couldn't believe her eyes. To emphasize her identity the transformed girl kicked up a chair of ice and sat cross-legged against her enjoying the face Dawn made which shifted from anger to being stunned. Not wearing the outfit and mask her eyes and hair were unmistakable.

And the same way May playfully called her sis despite not being related as far as she knew confirmed it even more. Now it made sense why Glaceon's motivation is looking out for the police since the heroine is the daughter of one. That must be a fun time that the younger one has more ability to deal with crime compared to the one who did it as his job.

"You were amazing in that fight!" Dawn having forgotten that she got tossed just now over the revelation that more people she grew up with had powers.

"Your host revealing her identity goes against policy icy." Umbreon not happy with May who carried her sister around before her own host reached a certain level of competence.

"Chill out blacky and listen to what we have to say. Us and the aura guardians have been talking about this. We need all the help we can get so for the next few days we are going to speed up your progress by helping your host train so you can come on patrol with us and the aura guardians."

Glaceon explained the talk the aura guardians had with her today. Any pair of hands would be welcome right now in finding out why all of a sudden so many public crimes are happening.

"Ash told you?" Dawn's friend being the only one able to hear the spirits was surprised. Ash never said there was a second aura user like him.

"We didn't have that dinner. We went to a friend of his called Riley that uses aura too and talked about what's going on recently."

"Riley is also an aura guardian!? I thought he was a detective!"

May planning to tell Dawn everything the four discussed earlier in the day. It's clear that Dawn needed to be brought up to speed if she was going to be helpful to them in anyway.

"Let me tell you what we talked about on the way to your training spot. Try to keep up."

*Earlier in Riley's home*

"Why do you two dress like a ninja?" Glaceon questioned the two aura guardians. They might have the power and ability of one but them going around with no names showed her they didn't know much after that. Mostly self taught the aura guardians were lacking some of the basics the old guardians have.

"We're not ninja's." Riley telling her it's only the way to hide their faces and nothing else. They never thought about having an identity besides being vigilantes. The lack of names would make it harder for someone to find them.

"You should really take up a name. We make people believe we're more than human. It adds to the mystique and doubt we put into our opponents. A name goes a long way instead of you two just dressing up."

"I talked to Umbreon about this earlier. She gave me a name to use. Greninja because it has something to do with my aura constructs." Ash calling her sister by name he needed a real quick talk with May about Umbreon and Glaceon. Particular on why Glaceon didn't say who Umbreon is.

"Did Umbreon tell you what it means?"

"You met Umbreon too?" May thinking that Ash had done his homework ever since telling him about the earrings.

"Do you know who she is?" Ash nodded yes with the brunette wondering how his experience with Umbreon went as it was clear she wasn't entirely comfortable with her powers yet.

"I know from her that I shouldn't be saying this but with everything that's going on we need to be open to each other." Riley said. Ash having gotten the reasoning respected the spirits process of teaching their hosts but with all the crimes and situations going they needed to be more open and skip the conventional ways.

"Can they tell? Please?" May begging her companion to reveal Umbreon's host.

"As long as you promise not to change your behavior to her fine. Tell her."

"I won't! So who is it!?"

"It's Dawn." May's jaw opened in shock not believing what she just heard.

"DeeDee is Umbreon!?"

"And that's why you never heard me at school." May always found her spirit companion awfully quiet at school. But with Dawn mostly around her in class and cheerleader practice it made sense now not to let the blue haired girl know of each other before they'd be somewhat capable.

"You and Dawn were both of the few woman who didn't get kidnapped. Let's go back to the night of the mass kidnapping. How did it go for you?" Riley asked.

With the two girls having more in common than just not being abducted maybe May's experience mixed with Dawn's story can help them get closer to the one who caused all this.

"I was just doing my thing preparing to go out as Glaceon and about to head out when suddenly the bell ran and my little brother screamed that they're not buying from a door to door salesmen. I quickly pulled on some pants and shirt to cover my outfit and went downstairs. They kept banging on the door when suddenly it was breached. I saw a man in a suit and someone who dresses like you guys but in black. I fought off the masked one while Max called dad. The sirens going off the guy I was fighting ran. I then went straight after the one in the suit and subdued him until another officer who was closer to my house came while dad handled another case."

"Which was mine." Ash completing her tale about that night May further added that the clue Ash found on the guy who tried to abduct his mom was then passed on to her until their eventual meeting.

"You fought a guy dressed in black? Did you take his mask off?" Riley continued.

"No."

"Good thing you didn't. You would've been freaked out. They're mummies." Ash being more blunt didn't know exactly how to bring subtle.

"Mummies? You guys are messing with me right?" The deadpan expression of both told her they weren't joking.

"I punched a mummy!?" May feeling her skin crawl she needed to wash her hands with disinfectant.

"What were their faces like?"

"Rotten. Loose skin, bad teeth. Only growls coming from one of them and no matter how hard we punched they got back up the whole time." Riley telling their properties Glaceon immediately knew what kind of sorcery they were dealing with.

"Necromancy. That's bad."

"As in raising the dead?" Ash thought that only was a thing in books and movies. But at least they weren't ghosts who are intangible cause then they'd be having more difficulty with them.

"That's right."

"How do we stop it?" Now that they had an idea what to expect from the one behind all this Glaceon told them her experiences with necromancers and their ability to raise the deceased and move them like puppets on a string.

"You find the source of the spell and take out the caster. You get more results punching thin air if you don't."

"Have you ever fought a necromancer?" May asked her companion.

"We handled a few. Each one worst than the last. No respect for the deceased. It's about as low as you can get."

"You were talking about sisters. Don't your powers get handed down to men?" Ash wondered if there are actually males in this. With the earrings passed down through generations there's bound to be a first child who's a son.

"There have been men that took our powers. It's just our abilities work better on someone with a female body seeing we were all woman when we were alive. And the fighting styles we teach our hosts work better for a female body compared to men."

To Riley this is no longer a coincidence. It all matches up with every single major event and fight that happens in Veilstone City and the one behind this connected his crimes.

"I believe that what they are looking for is what you're carrying around May. If what Glaceon says is true about mostly woman inheriting the jewel I think that whoever is responsible for the kidnapping is looking for gem carriers since it was only woman that were kidnapped."

"You also think that whoever is responsible is looking for me and Dawn? Does that also explain why that assassin went for me instead of anyone else?" May immediately thinking about her hired killer.

"Would he have gone after Dawn afterwards!?" Ash angry of what would've happened to her if she got picked instead of May. He would certainly plant his fist in the face of the necromancer if he send out a death sentence on his friends.

"How many of you are there in Veilstone City?" Riley asked. The more of the gem carriers they can get the better. So far any girl that wasn't kidnapped has the ability to repel of their attackers.

"Just me and Umbreon. The others are scattered over the world. Unless one moved here recently it's just us two. I'm more worried that these acts are so public."

"What do you mean?"

"We always managed to keep our exposure and conflicts to a minimum but recently its all big events that everyone can see or tell about."

"We have to finish this soon." Riley took point. With or without any leads they'll finish it as soon as possible.

"This weekend all three of us, sorry four, will be on patrol together. In the meantime I want you two to stay as close to Dawn as long as possible as protection if the one responsible for this necromancer is out for the earrings." Riley asked the two teens with them agreeing before he continued.

"May? Can you get a list from your father of everyone who's been kidnapped including their photo's? If we can identify the families who weren't torn apart we might be able to find one. Perhaps they'd go for a second chance."

They just had to find one of the mummies. From there Riley could enact a plan to trace it back to his master. In the meantime that Ash and May would stay around Dawn to properly train her.

"On it. It's a lot of work for dad but I'm sure he'll understand."

"From then my dad called me and said what happened at the mall. And now they're looking for Sableye as we speak."

May said while holding back a bit jumping over the roofs on the way to Dawn's personal gym. The rookie still worried about the two guardians would've felt more comfortable if May also had joined them.

"Will they be ok?"

"Don't worry. Ash is capable enough and Riley trained him. They'll be fine if they work together."

Glaceon said leaving it at that while telling May to pick up the pace a bit so their muscles were properly warmed up by the time they were going to start combat training.

Finally got a Switch. Time for Galar since the anime hasn't shown much of it yet.

See you around.