Brief Revenant Recap: "Oooh!" the rightmost of three simisear standing around a cauldron of boiling water over a fire began to laugh as he noticed the Moonbrand members walk in. "I hear a marching order! I hear it!"

"LOOK! LOOK!" The middle simisear shouted in a voice that was only barely understandable as he pointed. "IT'S THE MOONBRAND! GUYS! BOSS!"

The leftmost of the simisear didn't open his mouth to say anything, but clapped and jumped around in a strangely giddy fashion.

The ground began to shake, and all of a sudden each of the Moonbrand members and Alex found themselves split into three groups of three as walls of boiling water shot up, separating each of them with their own simisear to deal with.

Bravero, James, and Alex found themselves dealing the the rightmost simisear.

Conlan, Charlie, and Xialyn found themselves dealing with the silent, leftmost simisear.

Magdalene, Semora, and Ken found themselves in the center, dealing with the loud, middle simisear.

"Ahaahahahahahahahahhh!" A chorus of laughter erupted from the center cauldron. "Now we have you!"

Two shiny kabutops women jumped out to join the rightmost and leftmost simisears in their fights against the split Moonbrand members.

"After all this time…" A voice grinned as a regular kabutops jumped out into the middle area and pointed his scythes at Semora.

"I've finally run into you again to get my revenge! Bow before the indomitable might of my sisters!"

"Kayla!" The kabutops near the blind simisear on the right announced as she struck a pose.

"Kylie!" The kabutops near the mute simisear on the left did the same.

"And me!" The kabutops in the middle posed as well. "The bladesinging revenant of The Known World! Kyle! The Killer Kabutops is back, Baby!"

Ignia: Ember Wilds(B5F Mystery Dungeon(because they're going the other way this time)): Age of Entei, Year 1: 5th of First Month: Revenant, Part 4

Moonbrand Present: Conlan, Charlie, Xialyn, /Semora, Magdalene, Ken, /Bravero, James

Others: /Alex

B5F

James, stuck on the far right with Alex and Bravero, fighting Kayla and Blind, was the first to act. Taking stock of his allies and his enemies, he focused his attention on Kayla, the shiny kabutops, and gave a hearty laugh as he let loose a Thunderbolt from his ghostly palm. The electricity shot forth with the speed of Raikou and landed smack dab in the middle of Kayla's stomach, causing the kabutops to wail out in absolute agony, though it appeared no one could hear her past the giant walls of boiling water.

Xialyn meanwhile, on the far left, quickly set up a Reflect for herself, Charlie, and Conlan as they dealt with Kylie and Mute. "

On the rightmost arena, Blind began his own plan of attack, first setting himself up with an Amnesia.

In the middle arena, where Semora, Magdalene, and Ken found themselves face to face with Deaf and Kyle, Ken quickly stood at Semora's back and rose his hand towards Deaf. With a quick glance at the boiling water walls, Ken attempted to lift Deaf towards the nearest one with a Telekinesis. Although the simisear fought violently against the psychic force, Ken still managed to start the ember pokemon's ascent towards the wall, though he wasn't quite there yet.

Left with no other alternative, Deaf shot out a Flame Burst towards Ken, the source of his current problems, which Magdalene managed to react to in time to take the blow herself, powering up her own fire capabilities.

Semora concerned herself not with the simisear and instead focused on Kyle. She rushed up to him with a Leaf Blade, managing to get a good hit in on his chest as he grunted in pain, staggering back a bit.

Back on the far right, Bravero leapt towards Kayla with a Sky Uppercut, which to her credit, the kabutops tried to dodge, but as she did so, her legs seemed to lock in place, and she realized that the Thunderbolt that James had fired off earlier had managed to paralyze her. She used all her energy to try to avoid Bravero's attack, but still ended up taking quite the scrape across her jawbone.

Meanwhile, Kyle's focus wasn't on anyone except Semora. He rushed up to her and readied an X-Scissor, which he completely overshot before running into one of the water walls, the kinetic force of which sent him flying off into oblivion yet again.

"Well…" Semora couldn't help but laugh a bit. "That's one problem down."

Magdalene noticed how close Ken was holding Deaf to the boiling water as well, and her eyes began to glow as she let loose an Extrasensory towards the simisear, though it seemed as though the move had no effect on the monkey's already broken mind.

Back on the right, Alex once again entered her mega-evolved state as she took note of the cauldron that the water walls seemed to be coming from. She quickly let out a Focus Blast in order to destroy the contraption.

The move hit the cauldron with ferocious force, and the contrapion began to clearly crack as boiling water began to leak out of it. It wouldn't take much more damage to destroy the horrid tool completely.

Back on the left most side, Charlie quickly Dug under the dirt of the arena. Conlan meanwhile set his sights on the simisear. He rushed towards Mute, brandishing a Fury Swipes, seething with fury, each of Conlan's five swipes slashed through the fur and flesh of the detestable simisear before him. Mute jolted demonically with each hit, the fact that he didn't screech out in pain was unsettling, but it didn't deter Conlan from backing up his foe towards the water wall.

Mute, for his part, used Acrobatics to leap over Conlan, before grazing the monfero's backside, nearly causing Conlan to fall towards the very water wall he'd been positioning Mute towards.

"We don't need to worry about the fire types!" Kylie announced even as she shot a Mud Shot towards Conlan, coating the monferno with layers of dug up sediment. "That weavile is easy prey for you isn't she?"

Mute gave Kylie a strange look. He, of course, couldn't talk, but could both listen and understand her. He seemed to think his own personal options through before giving a small, unconvincing nod.

Back on the right most side, Kayla completed her Rain Dance, and the skies above the Ember Wilds became cloaked with dark clouds as rain began to pour down.

Kylie smirked, from the leftmost arena as she noticed the rain. "Oh good, sis has gotten that going. Now I can get serious!"

She prepared a Surf attack, but before she could cast it, she found herself smacked by Conlan's Mach Punch.

"Ow!" She complained as she turned her attention towards Conlan. "For that, I'm not holding back!" She followed through with the rest of her Surf attack, which saw Conlan completely drenched by rushing water, and while Xialyn took the same attack, she didn't seem to react, even as she struggled to keep balance.

The surprise, however, came from Mute, who had taken so much water of the blast that he himself had drowned to death.

In the rightmost arena, James noticed Kayla's movements and once again shot a Thunderbolt towards her, which once again struck her directly. The kabutops woman was barely holding on, that much as clear.

Blind, the simisear nearby, as he couldn't see, chose a direction and lunged with a powerful Crunch. The dumb simisear found himself chomping down on the cauldron in the center of the arena, and all of a sudden, a gigantic explosion of water permeated throughout the arenas, and as it did, all the pokemon present, save for the underground Charlie and the telekinetically levitated Deaf, found themselves hit with the full force of critical hit Liquidation.

As the water walls dispersed and ceased to be, James looked around his area to notice that both Bravero and Alex had been taken down by the blow, as well as Kayla, while Blind still seemed to be holding on. He then noticed Semora, standing alone in her area with Deaf the simisear, while Kylie and Xialyn remained in their own area, though he also took note of Charlie's Dig hole. Xialyn looked back at him and nodded.

"My my, one of the other areas has certainly made a mess." She then rushed up to Kylie and slammed her with a Punishment, knocking the Kabutops backwards.

Deaf, noticing the situation, screeched at Blind. "TO YOUR LEFT! SHE'S ON THE LEFT!", before quickly turning his attention on Kylie, whom he attacked with a Low Sweep, knocking the remaining kabutops lady down before grabbing her and beginning to drag her away as Blind fumbled and did the same.

"Gah!" Charlie appeared from the ground to attack Kylie only to notice she was being dragged away along with her sister by the two remaining simisear.

"Dammit!" She stomped on the ground. "None of you guys are in any shape to go after them!"

She then noticed James. "Think you can Hypnosis him?"
James attempted as Charlie suggested, and managed to just barely score a Hypnosis hit on Deaf, as Blind was, well, blind. The simisear dropped to the ground.

"The blind one is still getting away though!" James replied, urgently.

"Not for long…" Charlie dug back under the ground once more.

"You two!" Semora shouted to James and Xialyn. "Let's go take care of the sleeping one while Charlie deals with the blind one!"

James and Xialyn both nodded as they rushed to the side of the sleeping Deaf.

"Please, allow me… the honor…" Xialyn brandished her claws with a creepy smile as she didn't wait for permission and finished off both the simisear and the kabutops with Poison Jabs.

Meanwhile, Charlie had already taken care of the barely clinging to life Blind, and had returned back to the rest of the team.

As Charlie was the first one back, she noticed both Magdalene and Conlan on the brink of death. She immediately went to the young vulpix in order to stabilize her.

As Semora, James, and Xialyn came back, they each went to Ken, Alex, and Conlan, as Bravero seemed to have stabilized on his own, in order to keep their conditions from deteriorating.

Semora managed to get Ken's pulse under control, and James was able to keep Alex's life in check.

Xialyn looked up from Conlan's body, curiously.

"A question...for the lot of you. Do corpses breathe for moments after death?"

"Absolutely not." James shook his head. "Well, unless the corpse is a ghost-type!"

"Then this is...quite the anomaly…" Xialyn looked back at Conlan.

"For here our leader is, breathing fine as day, but body as cold to the touch as Kyurem himself."

Nowhere

"I have to say, love, that this is getting a little old…" Libitina floated around Conlan, though her mood was less than pleasant. "This is what, your fourth time dying? You do realize that once you hit that eighth counter, you're done, right? And to top it all off your answering the summons of that fop from Lliirasune, no doubt to cause harm to my beautiful nation. You better make this ritual a real ride for me or I may not forgive you, hun. Hm?"

Libitina noticed the aroma flower in Conlan's possession.

"Did you really think to bring me flowers?!" She gasped in a teasing manner. "What a gentleman for remembering! Too bad you didn't remember to have your body ripped up though...mmm...building you new ones is just so…"

"Look, I don't mean to rush you, but-" Conlan sighed as he motioned to himself. "I do need to get to Lliirasune, so if you could-"

"Right, right" Libitina rolled her eyes. "I'll fix you up nice and proper so you can look your best for those fairy harlots in their great big castles. But perhaps you'd like a little taste of Wamekufa hospitality before then?" She flirted to only get no response.

"How mean you're getting as I keep bringing you back. Don't worry, I know not to actually take your flower there. Oh! That reminds me...I'm sorry for your team's recent loss."

Libitina snickered as she saw Conlan's surprised face.

"What?! Who?!"

"Oh no, I'm not telling." The lampent slowly began to work on restoring Conlan to life. "A girl gets bored when she does the duties of a god, after all. She needs her entertainment every now and then. Now, if you could stiffen your muscles up a bit~, this requires precision~!"

Ember Wilds, B5F

Everyone was once again awake.

Charlie and Magdalene slowly led the group towards the final flight of stairs out of the floor. Though, Charlie herself couldn't help but think that something was off.

This was the final floor of the dungeon, there should be a clear exit, not a staircase.

Trap.

The stairs are rigged.

Get away.

Those three thoughts flashed through Charlie's head along with her options.

Simply saying "wait" took too long as Magdalene had already began to climb down the staircase.

Quickly, Charlie grabbed the vulpix, dragging her back and turning her own body to shield her from whatever she might have triggered.

What she'd triggered was a terrible spike trap, and Charlie found one iron spike lodged in her foot, the other in her backside.

"No…" Magdalene muttered as Charlie wearily fought whatever strange poison the traps had been coated with, pulling them out of her body, hissing angrily.

Magdalene should have been more careful, she cursed herself in her mind. She was just tired from the constant stress of being near death. Her regret immediately hit her, she made a fatal mistake, and Charlie was the one who suffered.

Charlie dragged her weary mind back to reality and held onto Magdalene's shoulder to steady herself until the room stopped moving. Her first emotion was fear for the Vulpix in case any of the spikes had got through. Thankfully, they had not and that was the most important part. While worriedly checking on Magdalene she recognised the spark of guilt contained within her eyes, and that hurt worse than the wounds.

"Magdalene, everyone makes mistakes. Even you. It was my choice to do that, so don't blame yourself." Charlie stated intently.

"Um... yeah... yeah..." She weakly got out, her voice quivering slightly. With a deep breath to compose herself, she spoke up. "Well... thank you... I'll try to be more careful... Let's head down now, shall we? I'm sure we can handle whatever's next." She told Charlie, feigning confidence, though whether it was to convince Charlie, or herself, not even she was sure.

"We're buying some berries when we get to Flamewater." Charlie decided.

Ignia: Ignus Scrublands(7F Mystery Dungeon): Age of Entei, Year 1: 6th of First Month: A Different Kind of Guild, Part 4

Moonbrand Present: Mandy, Ornia, Ultima, Verden

5F

"Um, wouldn't…" Mandy walked up to Ornia. "Wouldn't it be the bronze door?" She whispered. "These guys are the Bronze Mothims after all, and the solution to the last puzzle was the post with those mothim wings…"

"We shall head through the bronze and be on our way!" Ornia announced to the bandits in the room as Ultima subtly Dragon Danced his way to the door and opened it, to see the stairs leading upwards.

"Good, almost done with this hell hole." Verden shrugged as Ultima and Mandy both went through while Ornia beckoned him to follow.

6F

MONSTER HOUSE!(Litwick, Chandelure, Tepig, Pignite, Torracat, Pyroar, Conkeldurr, Scrafty, Riolu, Throh, Gallade, Scyther, Natu, Steelix, Dratini, Chesnaught, Spiritomb)
"You've gotta be fucking kidding me..." Verden gave an exasperated sigh. Mandy looked over the combination of savage pokemon, clearly starved for food, and set up a Swords Dance. Ornia, meanwhile, put up a Light Screen to prepare for the coming attacks. Ultima roared to the sky as his Rain Dance brought clouds and a downpour of water, just in time for the savage pokemon to make their move. As the litwick minimized, the chandelure fired a Flame Burst towards Ultima, singing his mega-gyarados skin lightly. The tepig ran up to Mandy who parried its Assurance without effort, though the pignite's Heat Crash from above was a bit of a surprise, as the pokemon pummeled her into the ground before joining its pre-evolution. The torracat let out a soft Growl that no one could hear over the heavy rain. As she got back to her feet, the pyroar let out an Echoed Voice aimed at the mawile, though once again Mandy could thank both the rain and the screen of light surrounding her and the other Moonbrand members for her protection. The conkeldurr rushed for Verden with a Hammer Arm, slamming the breloom straight back into the dungeon wall. Verden's body was battered and bruised, and he'd only barely managed to keep the egg safe from the onslaught.

The scrafty Leered at the Moonbrand members, though none of them seemed to be paying it any attention. The riolu rushed Mandy with a Feint, managing to get in a solid hit. Meanwhile, the throh charged at Ornia with a Superpower, which the carbink almost cockily levitated over as the throh missed his attack by a wide margin. The gallade began to clone himself with Double Team, though he only managed to create a solitary second clone. The scyther began a Swords Dance of its own, while the natu charged Ornia with its Peck attack, managing to actually take the carbink by surprise and knock her a fully three feet backwards. The steelix rushed in with a Rage, though once again Mandy was able to finesse her way past the attack. The dratini rammed into Ornia with a Slam, knocking the carbink even further back. The chesnaught rushed towards Verden and leapt at him with a Body Slam, which Verden had to turn his back to to take head on for fear of dropping the egg he was holding otherwise. The breloom's vision was starting to blur as his thoughts began to drift towards a warm bed.

The spiritomb took one look at Ultima, uttered words that were incomprehensible, and simply fell to the ground dead, the Memento seeping its way into Ultima's head, causing the gyarados to rethink fighting these starving savage pokemon.

Verden managed to quickly plant a Leech Seed on the conkeldurr, and began to slowly heal his wounds as he drained the savage's life force. Mandy looked at who was left, and rushed at the throh with a Play Rough, her claws and head-fangs ripping the savage apart completely.

Ornia noticed the chesnaught and with a soft, melodic prayer, she dug deep within herself and let loose a Hidden Power. The chesnaught turned and its eyes grew wide as it became as white as snow, before dissipating in the wind.

Ultima rushed in towards the steelix with an Aqua Tail, though the land serpent managed to avoid being struck. He then found himself staring at the litwick, who jumped up with an Astonish, though Ultima wasn't frightened by the tiny candle pokemon. The chandelure projected another Flame Burst, this time towards Verden, which the breloom was thankfully able to dodge.

The tepig switched gears to target Ultima with Assurance, but instead rammed its way into the litwick, snuffing out the candle for good.

The pignite also shifted its target, this time to Verden, as it launched itself in another Heat Crash, crushing the breloom beneath all its weight. Verden only barely was able to save the egg from the immediate dangers before it, but he was clearly on his last legs of both energy and willpower.

The torracat shot Verden a Scary Face, but given that the breloom could see his life flashing before his eyes as he clutched the egg of his recently deceased fiancee, he couldn't find the face of a cat all too terrifying.

The pyroar turned to Ultima as it continued with its Echoed Voice, though once again the rain drowned it out.

The conkeldurr turned his attention to Ornia, and lunged at her with his Hammer Arm, though she was able to avoid the blow with ease, before cringing in pain as Verden was able to drain more of his health thanks to the Leech Seed.

The scrafty bought his attention towards Verden and began to approach him, hungrily, muttering to the breloom a Swagger attack, confusing the Moonbrand member.

The riolu rushed Ornea with another Feint, and the carbink once again found herself being shoved around by these not very effective moves. The gallade once again set up a Double Team, with each of his already existing copies creating three more clones for a total of eight of him.

The scyther continued its Swords Dance, sharpening its scythes on nearby rocks.

The natu, seeing its chance, rushed at Verden with a Peck, but rushed to fast, too hard, and ended up missing its mark.

The steelix Raged toward Ultima, though now it was the sea serpent's time to dodge the attack, as Ultima slithered around his foe.

The dratini attempted to do what the natu could not and rushed toward Verden with a Slam, though it also overshot its mark.

A confused Verden let out a Spore, managing to put the pignite to sleep while he used the rest of his energy to focus on keeping the egg out of harm's reach.

Mandy rushed to the scrafty with another Play Rough, managing to fell the hooded pokemon in one blow.

Ornia launched an Ancient Power towards the scyther, burying the bug in a tomb of rocks.

Ultima once more brought up an Aqua Tail to deal with his steelix adversary, this time managing to get in a solid strike, though not one with enough damage to fell the savage, merely enough to keep its attention.

The chandelure's Flame Burst headed towards Ornia this time, though the Light Screen seemed to block the attack completely.

The tepig once again charged Ultima with an Assurance attack, though it once again missed its mark and had to turn around to remain facing its opponent.

The pignite remained asleep near Verden, it's snores keeping the confused breloom conscious.

The torracat, upset from being ignored, lunged at Verden with a Flare Blitz.

Even while confused, Verden knew he wasn't about to dodge that, and knew the egg couldn't handle all that heat. He quickly rolled the egg towards the closest moonbrand member he could see as he lost consciousness.

Meanwhile, Ornia's eyes grew large with surprise as she noticed the egg below her hovering body.

The pyroar once more attempted its Echoed Voice, this time focusing on Mandy, though still, its efforts seemed for naught.

The conkeldurr lunged for Mandy as well, with its Hammer Arm, though she easily side-stepped out of the way as the last of the pokemon's health was sapped away by the Leech Seed.

The riolu set its sights on Ornia and rushed forward with a Feint that the carbink managed to dodge while leading the riolu away from the egg below her.

The gallade clones all began to Swords Dance around each other.

The natu rushed Mandy with a Peck attack, managing to get a solid hit in on the mawile's forehead, while the steelix once again attacked Ultima with a Rage attack, ramming into the gyarados as it only became even angrier.

The dratini attempted to Slam its way into Ornia, but once again the Carbink dodged as she led the pokemon away from the egg.

Verden's unconscious body managed to keep breathing, if it was a bit slowed.

Mandy lunged at the gallade with another Play Rough, managing to single out the real gallade, and bloodied the psychic and fighting type's face fairly seriously.

Ornia turned her attention towards the chandelure as she fired off another Ancient Power, the rocks seemed to zip from the heavens straight through the fire and ghost type pokemon, smothering its flames and burying it under sediment. Ornia then basked in the glory of the attack as she felt her core abilities strengthen.

Ultima continued his duel with the steelix as his Aqua Tail did not let up. With a roar that rivaled the call of Kyogre himself, Ultima severed the head of his steelix opponent.

The tepig once again missed its Assurance mark as Ornia couldn't even be reached unless the fire pig jumped, which it seemed too tired to be able to do.

The pignite's snores persisted as it did not seem close to waking.

The torracat rushed towards Ultima with a Flare Blitz, and while it did manage to take the gyarados by surprised, the amount of recoil that the torracat suffered was enough to incapacitate it.

Once again, the pyroar's Echoed Voice did nothing as Ornia's Light Screen blocked out what little sound could make it through Ultima's Rain Dance.

The riolu managed to get a sizeable Feint in on Mandy, but although bruised, Mandy could still fight perfectly well as the damage from the hit wasn't comparable to the accuracy.

The gallade clones finally began to make their move as they rushed towards Ultima with a Fury Cutter, though thankfully the mega-gyarados serpent was able to slither his way around his attackers in the rain.

The natu flew in towards Many with another Peck, this one with such force that Mandy found herself knocked prone on the ground.

The dratini rushed at Ultima with a slam, but found itself missing its mark yet again.

Verden's breathing began to return to a normal pace, though it was still clear he was walking a very thin line between life and death.

Mandy brought herself to her feet and quickly attacked the gallade with one more Play Rough, though he managed to dodge her advance.

Ornia's attention turned towards the sleeping pignite as she let loose a Rock Throw in the shape of a javelin. The rock weapon managed to pierce straight through the pignite's heart, and the sleeping pig would not wake up.

Ultima no focused on the gallade as well, with a hefty slamming of his tail on the ground, he propelled himself into the air for a Bounce attack, causing the tepig, gallade, and natu to all miss their attacks they had planned for him.

The pyroar shouted another Echoed Voice towards Mandy, though still, its attacks went nowhere. The riolu and dratini both lunged at Ornia with a Feint and Slam respectively, each one hitting the carbink, though she made sure as she could feel her own health dropping to low levels to not let the pokemon take notice of the egg.

Verden's breathing once again slowed down as it also became irregular. His condition slightly worse than before.

Realizing that Ultima would take care of the gallade, Mandy turned her attention towards the riolu, and rammed herself into it with a Play Rough, sending the pokemon careening into the ground, leaving behind a trail of blood leading up to its corpse.

Ornia focused her own attentions on the natu as she tossed another Rock Throw javelin, this one also managing to pierce through its mark, though not as impressively, as the bird was weak enough to begin with, so not much force was needed to slay it.

Ultima descended with his Bounce attack, and thankfully managed to single out the correct gallade clone, as the remaining clones disappeared when Ultima revealed the dead gallade crushed underneath him.

The tepig once again missed Ornia with Assurance. The carbink almost laughed at how comical the brain of a savage pokemon could be sometimes. Meanwhile the pyroar's Echoed Voice once again was blocked by the Light Screen.

Ultima suddenly found himself Slammed in the back by the dratini, dealing more damage than he would have thought possible as he was knocked prone.

Verden's body began to convulse in the same way Gina's had earlier, when she was gasping for air. It seemed clear that he either needed to luck out, or to get medical support quickly. Unfortunately, each of the other moonbrand members were busy dealing with a pokemon of their own.

Mandy rushed the dratini with Play Rough, wringing out the small dragon serpent and throwing its body across the dungeon.

Ornia summoned another Rock Throw javelin and lobbed it at the tepig, once again managing to skewer the swine.

Ultima set his sights on the pyroar. The last of the savage pokemon left. He brought up an Aqua Tail, determined to finish this fight, and slammed it down. The pyroar's neck snapped with more noise than any of its attempted Echoed Voice attacks, and it slumped to the ground, the last enemy in the monster house, defeated.

Mandy and Ultima regrouped with Ornia, who had moved Verden's egg to an indent atop her head.

"I'm...unsure if he made it." She admitted. "He rolled this over to me before he fell down."

"There's only one way to check." Ultima nodded to Ornia and the carbink floated over to Verden and closed her eyes as she put her forehead to his.

She slowly floated back up.

"Well?" Mandy wondered, worried.

"He's got a burn scar on his back from that Heat Crash he took earlier." Ornia began. "It's horrendous, honestly. I wouldn't want to go on if a similar tragedy befell me."

She sighed. "However, it seems that his soul doesn't feel the same way. He'll be with us in a few short moments. I'd like to caution, however, that we're about to enter the final floor of this dungeon, and we have no means of healing. We'll be dealing with the boss of this branch of The Bronze Mothims in a far less than ideal state. Think carefully about your actions."

A short while later, a groggy Verden came to, and the quartet continued on.

7F

"And here they are…" A sigilyph sighed as Mandy, Ultima, Ornia, and Verden all entered the final floor. All they had to do was get past these guys, and they were home-free to Wildeburn.

"The intruders that one grumpig guard warned us about."

Beside the sigilyph was a zebstrika on his right side and a magcargo on his left.

"Well we can't quite let them live now can we?" The magcargo questioned sweetly as she sized each of the pokemon up.

"Now, now, you two. I believe it's I that get to make the decisions around here." The zebstrika stepped forwards.

"My name is Zed. I am but one of many administrators of The Bronze Mothims. You've shown promise in getting here, and normally we'd offer you a space in camp, but those pesky mercenary scarves tell a different story. No, even if you say you'll let us be, I sincerely doubt it. So, I'm prepared to make a deal to grant us a bit of a middle-ground you see…"

Zed looked over at the sigilyph. "Sine, grab it."

"Nabbed!" Sine chuckled as he lifted the egg off of Ornia's head and brought it close to him with a Trick.

"Leave the egg with us and be on your way. If it's a male, we'll train him. Sure he'll be a grunt at first, and might have to survive some tough initial missions, but he could one day rise through the ranks until he becomes the next Bronzed Mothim. A life of crime is still a life after all. If it's a female, well, we can train her in a different way. Teach her special techniques, and then, when she's of age, sell off to Nike through the slave trade."

"Of course we aren't-"

"Hey, Fable, I wasn't talking to you." Zed narrowed his eyes. "I was talking to the breloom." He turned to face Verden.

"You sure got busy with that glaceon cunt didn't ya?" The zebstrika laughed. "They say being a parent pushes you to your limits, so allow us to spell things out for you simply. You hand over your kid here, and we let you go. Refuse to, and we kill you, and the kid. This choice is yours and yours alone to make. I'd also recommend your friends not move around too much, because the second one of my friends detects danger, well, Sine and Maru here might have to take drastic measures."

Maru, the magcargo blew a small ember as Sine held out the egg.

"I'm not a patient pokemon, Mr. Breloom." Zed scowled. "Give me an answer."

Ignia: Ignus Scrublands(7F Mystery Dungeon): Age of Entei, Year 1: 6th of First Month: Redclaw, Part 4

Moonbrand Present: Aaron, Hex, Rudo, Wesley

5F

Rudo was the first to act as she lunged towards the flaaffy with a Force Palm, and almost immediately the electric type was down on the ground.

The savage clefairy then targeted Wesley with a Double Slap, though the weavile easily slipped into the shadows during the struggle and avoided any damage. He then quickly emerged from said shadows, smacking the duskull with an Assurance, once again, easily knocking it out.

Aaron's attention went to the clefairy, and he rushed forwards with an Iron Head, which also managed to fell the pokemon quite easily.

Hex then began a Bulldoze which was more than enough to take out the remaining buizel and electrike.

"Well, that was easy enough." Rudo nodded as the four continued onwards.

6F

What they saw as they reached the main area of the floor were mountains and mountains of savage pokemon caracasses.

"This was once a monster house from the looks of it…" Wesley stepped over a mangled gallade as Aaron admired the javelin-like rock sticking out of what appeared to be a tepig.

"L-leave!" A grumpig amidst the rubble looked up at them.

"You can't handle him...Save...yourselves…"

He looked like any other carcass on the floor. Though he seemed to be physically holding himself together, as though taking his hands off of his stomach would cause his insides to spill out.

"Wait, you mean Redclaw?" Rudo rushed up to him. "Redclaw did this to you?"

"Redclaw…" The grumpig's eyes widened with unadulterated terror.

"Redclaw!" He gasped again, though his next breath never came.

"We still don't even know what species of pokemon Redclaw is." Aaron lamented.

"Well…" Rudo clutched her scarf around her neck and looked onwards. "Nothing we can do now but move on and fight. Ornia and the others are probably waiting our arrival in Wildeburn."

7F

There, sleeping off of what was likely its afternoon meal, was the pokemon known as Redclaw.

A mega-evolved salamence of gargantuan proportions.

"That thing is huge!" Rudo's eyes widened. "It's way bigger than even the Longguo emperor! Like three times his size at least!"

"The good news is that we've got the jump on it while it's sleeping." Wesley realized. "We can do what we want with him. I believe Shamimah laid out a few options clearly earlier, kill him, capture him for her, or just sneak on by."

"That said, those aren't our only options." Aaron realized. "We could capture him and present him to someone else, for example."

"Well, we need to decide what we want to do about him before he wakes up and we don't have a choice anymore!" Rudo tired to hurry everyone along.

Redclaw flopped over on his side.

A small tremor surged through the ground.

AN1: Conlan/Lliirasune crew, you guys have officially arrived in Flamewater! Congrats! Due to this, we'll be having our first "Down Time" (A new way of doing the relaxing chapters rather than just support scenes over and over and over again). Each of the Moonbrand Members on this particular mission has 4,125 poke to spend as they see fit (though try not to spend too much too fast. Don't want to go broke before you even leave Ignia after all). At Flamewater, you can do just about whatever your character wants to do, and spend time with whoever your character wants to spend time with. Due to the number of OCs present however, I will limit that number to 3 for specific hangouts. The support ranks will increase during those scenes. So yeah, please send in what you want your OCs to do!

AN1.5: Alex, the same rules apply to you, with one major distinction. King Paulo has generously granted you an allowance of poke for your trip. After the 2,000 you used to get to Moonbrand, you still have 8,000 poke left over, though he does expect any unused money to be returned to him when you reach Lliirasune.

AN1.75: Oh yeah, by the way, anyone who wants the Aroma Flower, now would be the time to pitch your case to Conlan. (You don't get it yet, but if you don't pitch your case, you don't get it ever).

AN2: Verden, you have a pretty important choice to make. I do not envy you. That said, Ultima and Mandy, nothing is stopping either of you from making the choice for him (In a PM), if you catch my meaning.

AN3: Rudo/Drudezdag crew: REDCLAW! Who wants to do what with him? You can fight and kill him, that'd make Ignia really love you. You can capture him, and present him to someone other than Tashia to make them like you more, but Ignia will be pissed a bit, you can leave him be, and barbaric and savage pokemon will both become much more friendly towards you, but most civilized pokemon might start to shun you a bit if they find out you were behind that. In the event of a three-way tie, Rudo will break it.

AN4: OCs!

OC Name, Sex, Species:

OC Home Province (Where they are from):

OC Role(Teammate Hopeful, Other Team Member, Minor Villain, Commoner, Etc.):

OC Profession(Are they unemployed like Terune, are they a veteran like Concordia, an assassin like Semora, etc.?):

OC Moveset:

Move 1(From Natural Movepool):

Move 2(From Natural Movepool):

Move 3(From Natural Movepool):

Move 4(From Natural Movepool):

Alt Move 1(Can be TM or Egg Move):

Alt Move 2(Can be TM or Egg Move):

OC Personality:

OC Background:

Anything Else Doobop Should Know:

That's all for now! Thanks for reading ^.^!