"We could go to Celeste, but that would be pretty dangerous with two children with us. OW!" Dawn smacked K.O. on the back of the head. Mandy covered a giggle while Grovyle just smirked. "What was that for?"
Dawn glared at him with pain in her eyes. "For crying out loud, I know I'm not the strongest member here, but Mandara is your own apprentice for crying out loud! She is probably more capable than you in certain areas for all you know! You both will get yourselves killed without her leadership skills! I mean look at you! Grovyle nearly got killed cause he didn't trust me enough when I said we should've gotten out of there and he told me to go back to sleep! Well if I had, we'd have both been captured. You were only able to cut his ropes when me and Mandara were defending you both. You at least need her, if not both of us!"
"You say 'For crying out loud' a lot, did you know that?" K.O. mumbled as he rubbed the bump that was starting to form on his head.
"She does draw out a good point though, K.O. Why have an apprentice if you can't trust them to keep themselves safe?" Grovyle mused over this as he packed up some extra berries and herbs into Dawn's bag.
"They're just kids, they'll get themselves killed. Dawn has barely had enough training to keep herself alive in this world!" K.O., ever the pessimist, always seemed to assume Dawn wasn't ready for anything dangerous.
Grovyle just sighed, "Would it help you to know that I remember that the last recorded age that I had was ten?"
"What does that mean? You sound like a robot or something." K.O. muttered.
Dawn looked at Grovyle with shock, "You're only ten? But that's so young!"
"Look who's talking, you can't be more than an eight year old in your home world."
K.O. grimaced as he realized what was going on. Grovyle was trying to make a point since Mandy was actually twelve in her time and world. After a few minutes of Grovyle and Dawn arguing about how young she might actually be, K.O. finally gave in. "Fine, the girls can come, just quit your arguing, we're supposedly going to save the world! Not try and die on the way from you two's arguments."
Mandy smirked. Dawn had stuck up for her, just like another little girl she used to know. 'I hope she's okay…'
"We won't die from a little spat, K.O." Grovyle muttered.
"Nope, just from sleep." Dawn chuckled quietly. Then she got serious again, "So… who's Celeste?"
"K.O.'s girlfriend, but she's a hard one to find. She has the ability of time on her side and uses it to hide from her enemies. The trick is showing her we're friends though." Grovyle just shrugged. "Not impossible, but definitely difficult. You see, most people don't know this, but there is a gate that can only be opened by music. Get that open and you can find Celeste." Dawn's eyes were wide with wonder as she heard about this. "The hard part is singing though, because you have to sing in a cave of silence and you have to find the music stone hidden in there so you can overpower the silence."
"I wonder if I can sing…" Dawn asked quietly. She knew what singing was and yet at the same time she couldn't seem to understand it.
Grovyle and K.O. looked at each other and then to her. Mandy was the first to speak. "A friend of mine once said that anyone can sing as long as they try. It's getting it to sound nice that's the trick." She smirked as Dawn looked up at her with wonder in her eyes once more.
"Sounds like fun."