Damion wandered around aimlessly. "Why does everyone always leave me behind!" He yelled frustrated.

"Why can't you, darling?" Platinia asked, concerned. The oddeyed champion continued staring at Allia, hoping her terrifying gaze could convince her to tell. Sylver placed a hand on Allia's shoulder. "Allia, please, just tell her." Sylver begged her.

...

"Hey, Gradient, what're you doing?" Rhys asked, coming up from behind him. "Are you stalking them or something...? Dud, not cool" Rhys said, a little weirded out by his behavior.

Yuri and Thomas made their way back speaking little till they were out of ear shot " Did that last one work?" she asked looking at her feet. " Yeah it did, and I'm glad, it will be important to keep Vul and Ren in sync even with their evolution timing..... it might just be the Key to opening the gate.." he said his hands in his pockets and his expression stoic " Right... what about-" "Don't.... nows not the time we will worry about that after we have completed the quest for the Trial masters.." he said closing his eyes, he knew Yuri's emotions could put their lives at risk or worse..

Gradient looked at Rhys, before shugging. "Eh. I'm tailing them, because one of those Pokemon are the Sinnoh Champions. Also, Yuri was unconsious like, ten minutes ago, so..." Gradient told Rhys. "They may also know where a PokeCenter is. The nearest one got blown up."

Gradient glanced backwards. "Although I have a pretty good idea of who did it..." He trailed off, getting lost in his thoughts.

"No, I mean I really can't. I haven't seen my father for the past four years." Ailla admitted "me misty and Lucy always had the place to our selves." Ailla shrugged. "Tho there was that one call last month from unova saying he was gonna head to xalos after he finished in kanto. I can't imagine what he's doing. But he did give us an emergency number that could patch us through to an agent." Ailla offered.

Ren's ears rotated " Vul-Pix?" she said halting and glancing around Vul asleep in Yuri's arms. Riolu was on edge as well..." Something is not right...." Yuri said closing her eyes and standing ever so still Thomas watching her movements closely. " A shift..? " he asked at an almost whisper. "mhm" Yuri confirmed with a nod opening her eyes " We must hurry Our time to reach the gates has been shortened ever so slightly.." she said her face serious and determined.

Damion continued to wonder around. Still griping to himself about how unfair this all was.

Yuri glanced at Damion a bit shocked when she saw him and his Zoura was not at his side. " Hey! Damion where is your Zoura?! where you at the Explosion?" she asked concerned. Thomas shook his head, I guess that's just how she deals with her feelings. a kind smile appeared on his face as he lowered his head. She had always been so kind, so caring, and he felt guilty bringing her into this... but more than anything he knew it was putting her in harms way... the ever watchful Yuri was in the most dangerous place because of him..

Damion at first smiled in his usual kind way. Until he heard your question."zoroa? What zoroa? I don't have any Pokmon." He said stubbornly. "Nothing but a stupid sneaky treacherous thriving slimy ungrateful lying fox!" He fumed getting worked up fast. "Oh, sorry kinda snapped at you didn't I? Zorua just pushed one joke too far after the Pokmon center was destroyed." Damion said shrugging his kind smile returning genuinely."so how have you guys been? What have you been doing?" He asked curiously.

Yuri looked rather surprised and disappointed " Oh.." she said quietly " its been a day fun until short stacks decided to push it to far and pass out" he said jokingly to get Yuri's mind off of the Zoroa