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Kairi was just turning to face Al and answer him when Reno appeared and hugged her. She returned the hug, burying her face in his chest for a moment and taking a quick indulgent little smile at finding him. She looked up at him though at his question, and since both Al and Reno had pretty much asked the same thing (sort of), she figured she should explain, sighing before doing so. "I haven't slept in days because of that stupid Murkrow of mine... It's taken to building a nest around that Bagon egg I have, and it's been flying around my room at night," she said, as calmly as she could. Her eyes glanced away to the floor as she readied her next set of words, though she could only actually see from one eye, she managed to get both to look towards the floor. "And, well..." she turned her head to look at Al as she spoke now, "I'm... kind of terrified of bird Pokemon. To be perfectly honest I'm too scared of the damn thing to put it back in its Pokeball and it's taken over my room. I can't sleep with it in there." Kairi buried her face against Reno's chest again to try to avoid the feeling of embarrassment that was now washing over her.

Al frowned at this. "I'm good with bird Pokemon. If you wouldn't mind, let me talk to it and I'll see what we can work out." He told Kairi, offering a small wave of greeting to Reno. "Hello Mister Vantas." He greeted. Seems like he's gotten plenty comfortable around this place by now that he's lost his stutter around the Snagems. At the mention of Bagon, two of them, apparently, he grew a bit slack-jawed. "You two have Dragons?" He asked, surprised. They didn't seem like they were either old enough or had the will to train dragons of that caliber.

Kairi heard the noise coming from her room as well and she was a little panicked over it. Her Bagon egg was still sitting in its nest, and she hoped that it wasn't about to get destroyed. "If we don't go see now, then something is going to wind up destroyed. So, yes, we should go see," Kairi muttered, though she made no effort to move. She still didn't really want to try and face that Murkrow of hers. She turned to look at Al for a moment though, searching for the right words to say to him. "If you want to talk to the Murkrow, then you can go right ahead. That thing terrifies me. And, uh... yeah, we do. Though, technically mine is still hiding in its egg. Maybe. Who knows at this point, it could be wreaking havoc in my room with Reno's for all I know right now." The redheaded girl sighed then, still looking rather panicked.

In the other room, Drao was making an effort to re-make the nest that had been blown off of the bed. Luckily, the egg hadn't been damaged, but, the room was even more of a mess than before. Though, with the Bagon still in the room, it was making it difficult for the Darkness Pokemon to tend to the nest. "Krow!" it shrieked, spreading its wings and swooping down at the young dragon in an effort to scare it off. It glared at the other Pokemon for a moment before melding into the darkness of the room, coming up behind the Bagon and swiping at it with a Faint Attack. It was determined to protect the egg, which appeared to be making some motion now that there was so much commotion going on around it. Likely, the Bagon inside could sense all that was going on.

"I wonder...." Al pondered in regards to Reno's comments about knowing how to cure a rowdy attitude.

To Kairi, he simply smiled. "I understand. But remember, being afraid of something doesn't mean you shouldn't fight to not let it weaken you." He told her as kindly as he could manage. "Letting fear stop you from doing what you want is one thing but letting it get in the way of things that must be done means you're losing a battle against yourself. You're not going to let fear stop you from being a great trainer, are you?" Regardless, he'd follow them to the room in hopes of the chance to interact with this Pokemon. Problem Pokemon were one thing but maybe there was more to this. Incompatibility between trainer and Pokemon was not uncommon, though it was less common than people would think.

Kairi was silent as she thought about what Al said. He was right of course. Letting her fear of bird Pokemon get in the way of things really was just making her a coward, and an awful trainer. If she couldn't even handle a single Murkrow... She sighed, realizing that she really was going to have to face up to her fears. Besides, it's not like Drao was a bad Pokemon, he was just trying to help out by taking care of the egg, and he really did seem to want to be a good partner to his trainer. Maybe her fear had made her misunderstand the motives of the bird? The redhead continued to be quiet, still mulling over all the thoughts whizzing around in her head.

The Murkrow continued to dive at the Bagon, trying to knock it away from the egg. It was his trainer's egg, and he wasn't about to let it get damaged by some rowdy little dragon-type. It crowed loudly at the Bagon, and landed in front of it, puffing his chest out and spreading his wings as wide as possible, attempting to make himself look bigger and scarier. Though, the actions would likely just make the Murkrow look rather silly, what with him missing quite a few feathers from having pulled them out to tuck into the nest. The Bagon inside the egg was beginning to try and release itself from its confines. The young Pokemon was not only ready to come out, it really wanted to find out just what was going on around it. Now. If only it could break through this damned shell... The egg was shaking rather vigorously by now, and would most likely bump into whomever was closest to it at this point as it began to tumble forwards.

"Uuum."

Tails stood up, taking Torchic and Mudkip with him, and he had this sheepish look which Jude immediately recognized. "I kinda found a stone that looked like that under the fridge."

"I thought you were being oddly specific just then," said Jude. "It was few months back, yeah?"

The boy nodded. "It smelled a liiiiittle bit like sand but mostly like Furret."

"Well...~" Jude turned, beaming at Blizz. "Your kid's got a good sniffer on him, huh?"

Al nodded to most of what Reno said. "You seem to know what you're doing for the most part. Though I should warn you that Dragons may not take to the 'alpha' role very well." He warned. "Dragons are regal creatures and tend to live in a sort of 'pride' ruled over by a sort of monarch. Usually the first mated pair that spawned the rest of the pride are the ones in charge." He pointed out. "Though with a single dragon freshly hatched from an egg, it should consider it's trainer the 'monarch' over it's pride." He wasn't trying to tell him not to use his own methods, simply trying to give him a bit more insight into Dragons.

"I apologize if I sound like I'm preaching but my family has always had very close ties with Dragons so it's sort of a rite of passage for us to learn about them as we grow up." He explained, blushing a bit as he realized how he must sound to the boy. He kept to himself in regards to Kairi, however. If she didn't say anything further, he wouldn't pry into her thoughts. He simply wanted to be there to help her if the bird proved too much for her to handle.