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Excited, maybe? Aden could only guess. It was hard to understand the echoing voice and shrills. It was almost like he was listening to a small child, except he knew not to voice that. He kept following after Celebi decided to buzz around him, and finding the shrine, he was a little confused.

"Wait, isn't this the shrine normally kept around here? I know it's supposed to be here for the place's protector, but- ...oh." Up until now, that realization had been lost on him. Inspecting the shrine for a second, he didn't see anything wrong. Unless there was a different reason behind it, which led him to look over at the legendary in hopes of some sort of answer.

"Huh? Calm down." Now he was getting a little worried. In such a short time, Celebi had gone from overjoyed to almost depressed. "What's going on? Maybe there's some way I can help. Unless that old woman from last night put more of those seals somewhere else on the shrine..." He decided to give a closer look, walking around the shrine to see if anything was present that shouldn't be.

"Woah, woah, woah, wait. Oh no." Aden thought he was safe by stepping back. "Not this time. I'm not about to form some sort of paradox because of a-" Then he learned that he wasn't safe after all and, like it or not, he was enlisted to help by means of time hopping. "Portaaaaaaal!"

And seeing Celebi follow didn't set any better for him. At this rate, maybe it'd be worthwhile to make a list of events like these. Just in case he had to remember why his sanity was somehow lost a hundred years before he existed.

When Aden was flung out of the vortex, getting up and looking wasn't too high on his list. Whatever it was about that travel, it left him sick to his stomach. He was tempted to try eating the grass, reasoning that if it worked on dog Pokemon, it'd work for someone else. Not wanting to chance it, however, he waited to recover and eventually rose to his feet.

He looked around as he gave a hard flap of his wings, blowing whatever dirt might've been on him from the landing. Confusion set in posthaste, noticing the shrine. Did the travel end in failure? Everything looked the same to him, as if he might've gone back or forward all of five seconds. "Uh... okay?" He didn't dare move much, just in case he was sent much further back and would otherwise create a paradox.

No one familiar at all... definitely further in the past or future. Which one wasn't clear to him, but it was more than definite that Blizz nor Ryan were around by this point. The closest thing to any familiarity was the Celebi flying around like it was lost, until it decided to tug on Aden's hand. "You could've asked? Wait, you probably did."

He was quick to follow, having no other options at present. It was either that, or be stuck in whatever time period he was in. And he didn't like the idea of being stuck outside of his own time.

Aden was quick to follow of course, pretty much having to just to keep up. That is, until Celebi randomly stopped and flew off into hiding. "Celebi? What's wrong?" He asked, looking into the trees. His answer would come before any other speaking could be done, however, when he started picking up on whatever it was too. At the least, he could tell it was more of a foreign chi source than Celebi or the area was.

"I doubt it's anything bad enough where you need to hide..."

It took all of a couple of seconds for Aden to go into hiding himself, hearing the voices. He used the nearby brush for cover, eyeing what was going on. None of the three made sense to him, explained seemingly little about where he was. Or when, for that matter.

Right now, though, there was a slight issue. That is, the kid being drug along by whatever those other two were. It didn't look like something he could let stand, and the two black-garbed guys were giving him a bad vibe. No wonder Celebi took off so fast; it probably didn't want to get spotted. Aden could understand that, ans for the next few seconds, he was seemingly frozen.

He wanted to help. But if he was flung to a point where his actions could have unforeseen consequences, he could end up making things worse. Or what if something else happened to alter it anyway, and being here allowed for a chance to fix that? His thoughts were racing, and if he didn't decide soon, he wasn't going to be able to do anything about it either way.

"Well, I've made stupider choices before." Aden commented to himself, keeping his voice low. He found what looked like an apricorn on the ground, except for it being smaller and harder. Maybe it fell, or it was picked too early and discarded. Regardless, it was a suitable replacement for a rock. Chucking it at the group before him, he was quick to ready a Pokeball and gather chi otherwise.