Riolu held his paw out in front of Thomas making him halt to a stop. Just around the corner was a skull grunt, and the Gradient kid, and another harmless aura he nodded his head to Yuri who placed Vul down and flicked her wrist in an delicate movement. the small Ice type took a deep breath and used a strong blizzard attack towards the door blinding all in the area so they could only see a few feet in front of their faces as the group raced out side

Rhys covered his face, blinded by the blizzard attack. "Yuri, is that you and your vulpix?!" He called out. He gingerly climbed out of the hiding spot, being careful where he stepped, as to not fall down the ravine in Verdant Cavern.

Riolu keep their view clear using Blaze kick as they exited ignoring Rhys call, Yuri couldn't heart someone getting hurt because of her foolishness. When they exited the cavern the two trainers exchanged looks and Thomas placed his pack inside of Yuri's.

"Litten!" Rhys grabbed around, trying to let the right pokemon out. Rhys was shivering, he wasn't prepared for the freezing cold of a blizzard. "L-litten, ember, help me find the way out" He asked the litten, litten nodded and quickly burned a pathway through the Cave. "Thank you Litten" Rhys said, returning the Litten to it's ball. Rhys hugged his arms together. "G-g-guys, what the heck was that!" Rhys shouted at them.

Yuri smiled " Just a test!" she said optimistically covering up their true reasons for being in the caverns again. Thomas had his sunglasses on scribbling in a notebook.

Gradient stared ahead through the blizzard, most likely caused by Yuri's Alolan Vulpix. This thing is strong. Gradient pondered. Yuri and Thomas are hiding something... I know it. Thankfully, I have skills that will let me find out. Gradient smirked to himself.

Gradient walked calmly through the blizzard, recalling all three of his Pokemon with ease. His hands were in his pockets, and his shoulders were relaxed. Perfection. This showed that Gradient was calm, and that he wasn't easily to rifle, to scare. At least to Rhys, anyways. Gradient felt cold, and was shivering on the inside. But he knew how to maintain facades and appearances. A vital skill for an actor.

"That is one powerful Alolan Vulpix." Gradient voiced his thoughts, no longer wearing a smirk. "Cool." He added, to make it seem less 'I'm going to study this topic without rest for a week' and more like 'That is awesome' to the others.

It seemed Gradient had regained his renowned actor mojo.

Huh.

"Ugh! Did Sylver plan this? it seems like something she would do, I'm g-going back to the pokemon center to warm up now" Rhys said, still shivering. He ran off, dropping something from his bag as he hurried on his way.
...

Rhys stomped into the pokemon center, soaking wet from the rain and freezing from the blizzard he was caught in, the tips of his hair had frozen in the blizzard. He sat next to Sylver, glaring at her. "Well, you look like you just went through a blizzard" She commented nonchalantly. "Yeah, I kinda sorta did, jerk. I get you aren't bothered by cold, but I am, and that was just mean to set Yuri up to do that" Rhys accused her. Sylver took a blanket out of her bag, throwing it over him as he shivered. "One Roserade tea and one Komala coffee" Sylver requested. "It wasn't me, Yuri probably just didn't know you were there" Sylver told him. "I don't need your help anyway" Rhys mumbled. "Yeah, but you might want it anyway, by the way, I don't see your Buizel, where is he?" Sylver asked him. Panic filled his eyes and he rapidly searched for his beloved partner's pokeball. "I-I don't know, oh, no, what if I lost him in the blizzard!" Rhys said, terrified of losing his partner. "I'll help you find him, I'd say something about you needing to be more responsible, but I'm not as horrible as a person as you are" Sylver said, standing up. "You wait here, you need to warm up or you might die, I'll go find him." She reassured him.

Yuri chuckled "no it was just us playing around " she said with a smile before hearing gradients comment that caused Thomas to give him his pretentious jerk glare over his sunglasses as he looked up from his note taking. Yuri's smile faded into a more serious smirk " Thanks..." she said before tightening the blue bow in her hair.

"Yuri, Thomas, I'm by sure what you think you're doing, but Rhys's Buizel is gone, he can't find it anywhere, it probably got lost in the blizzard that you guys caused and I was blamed for, now help me look for it!" Sylver demanded as she approached Thomas and Yuri.

Yuri looked at Thomas who sighed and let Ren out of her pokeball, " Hey Girl want to go find that pretty boy from earlier, Vul may have sowed him in.." he said stroking her ear." Vul-Pix!" she piped happily trotting to the snow filled cavern. Thomas whistled the way one would whistle to a girl walking down the street, to which the The prissy female used flame thrower to clear the snow with ease, once inside she sniffed about catching Buizels scent. she followed the scent eagerly before finding the shivering Pokemon in the corner of the cavern. "VulPix!" she piped happily racing up to him and used ember near the rocks by his feet to warm him up before nuzzling the frills on his neck playfully.