"A portal, me thinks," Scot replied.

Hunter rolled his eyes. *rhitorical question.*

Pyro chuckled, but stopped when a bear growled. *guys, lets go.* and he took off, Pyrus and Mark right behind.

Hummer chuckled. "Come on," She said, gliding after the group. Scot and Flash followed behind Hunter.

Pyro squinted, and saw something. *um, Carno, does your home have a gaint wood gate?* Carno nodded, panting. *why?* Pyro shrugged. *oh, no reason. Except its CLOSING!!*

The gate was actually closing, and pretty quickly. At the same time, on top of the gaint walls, archer monkeys and gorillas were coming up. Loin had already ran inside, followed by Hawk. At the same time, a group of fast, black animals began running alongside the group, and closing in.

Carno paled, and ran faster and harder. *RUN, GUYS!* Pyro just beat his wings, and Pyrus grabbed Mark and flew. Hunter hissed, and became a cheetah, but it suddenly switched into a Torracat. Confused, he quickly switched into a Greninja and ran.

Flash scampered in as well, but Hummer and Scot simply flew over, in no real hurry.

Carno paled even more, and as he rushed through he shouted, *NO!*

The archers had seen Hummer, Scot, and Pyro fly over, and were now firing arrows at rapid speeds at them. Hawk flew up to an archer, disarmed him with his talons, and told the situation.

Hunter; Mark, and Pyrus has taken the entrance, just as the gate boomed behind them.

Scot instantly paniced and ran back and forth haphazardly. Hummer rolled her eyes and flew up to the nearest turret, Dragon Claw slashing at arrows. "Hey! What gives?! We didn't do anything wrong!"

Carno replied from the ground, *this is natural defense! Theyre just following orders! Shoot anything that flys in! They did that to Hawk once and almost were sent to the Carnivore Cave!*

Hawk shuddered, then continued talking to the very confused archer.

Hunter watched his friends get shot at, and a new, primal anger took control of him. He jumped up, howled, and became a Midnight Lycanroc. Watching the arrows carefully, he howled again, and used Rock Throw, snapping all the arrows and disarming the archers. All of them.

Pyro turned in shock, and looked at Hunter, who was staring at his paws in confusion. *did you just...?* Hunter just nodded dumbly, becoming human again.

Hummer gritted her fangs and landed on the ground, sheilding herself with a cloud of dust as she did. "Can't hit what ya can't see,"

Hunter walked over to Hummer and said, *Hummer... i need a lot of help. I kinda disarmed all the archers by becoming a 2-legged wolf and threw magic rocks at them*

Pyro translated, *he means he became a Midnight Lycanroc and used Rock Throw to disarm the guards. And he broke all the arrows, too. ALL of them.*

Hawk eyed and arrow, which had been split down the middle. He said to his father, *thats a lot of power.*

Loin just nodded, and watched the Pokmon and Hunter communicate.