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Following their conversation, Lykas had figured HQ wasn't the most ideal place to call for Varuna. Open water was the best place to call him and, where better than the place they had first met? "I remember first calling Varuna to me from a reef not far from the ruins where I found the Azure Bell... It's out in the middle of the ocean in Hoenn where those assassins would have a harder time reaching us while we call him." He informed Ryan.

"If you're ok with meeting him there, Mykel can get us to Pacifidlog town. It's the closest human settlement to it." Unless Ryan knew of another location they might be able to meet Varuna safely, he was ready to go immediately.

Lykas nodded and called out his Gardevoir. "Mykel, I need you to Teleport us to the place I'm thinking of right now, ok?" He told his Gardevoir.

"Sure thing, boss!" Mykel replied, focusing on Lykas' mind for a moment to get the location he was taking them to. "The middle of the ocean?"

"Yes." Lykas replied confidently. "There's a reef just below the water. " he assured the Embrace Pokemon. Mykel nodded, silently agreeing to to trust Lykas. Eyes beginning to glow, Mykel reached out mentally and whisked the group away. In an instant, they would reappear in Hoenn, dropping into the water an inch or so into a sandbar just beneath the surface of waves.

"Well, we're here..." Lykas announced. "We're not far from Pacifidlog town, at least. Thanks, Mykel." Recalling the Gardevoir, he would then pull out Nuregami's ball and toss it out, revealing his uniquely colored Milotic. "Do you want to call him, or should i?" He asked. "Or... should we both?"

Lykas nodded to Ryan's statement, silently agreeing. If Varuna was hurt S badly as it sounded, it might take him believing both of his students needed him to come calling. "Nuregami, use Rain Dance." He told his Pokemon.

Nuregami nodded and looked to the sky. Letting out a soft cry as clouds gathered above them. Gentle rain began to fall as Lykas took his Azure Bell in hand and, watching Ryan, he began to ring it in time with the Channeler. The sound of the bells' ringing echoing out over the sea and mingling with the sounds of rains and crashing waves. The hybrid had to admit it was always a beautiful sound.

As the rain poured and the Azure Bells chimed an unsettling feeling would wash over both Hybrid and Channeler as they waited for their master. The air seemed to grow heavy and all sound seemed to become muffled. The rain, it grew heavier and heavier by the second and both students were certain this wasn't the work of the Rain Dance.

Their anticipation would be broken by an approaching whistling sound as something began to fall from the sky towards them. They would have a moment to make out the falling object and would note it to look like a Starmie. The Mysterious Pokemon would violently spin as it plummeted towards the ocean in front of them, eventually making a fierce impact as it sent up a massive spray of water in display over exactly how fast it was falling.

Before they had a chance to check up on the Starmie a flash of light could be seen under the churning water followed up by a Kabutops leaping out of the ocean and taking a long deadly swipe at both Ryan and Lykas in one swift Slash. The Kabutops' shell was heavily scarred, dented, and battle warn to prove just exactly how ancient and experienced it was. This was no doubt Varuna's Pokemon but why it was attacking them was another question.

It was not the time to ponder that question for long as the Shellfish Pokemon further displayed its prowess as it utilized its impressive speed, especially in the rain, to literally run across the churning water and further pursue Ryan and/or Lykas if they evaded it. It was angry, very angry.

Lykas barely managed to avoid the Kabutops' Slash. Having never actually seen any of Varuna's Pokemon before, he didn't recognize the fossil Pokemon as belonging to the ancient hybrid. "Nuregami, use Ice Beam!" Jumping back as the uniquely-colored Milotic fired a chilling blast at the bladed ancient, he'd add a Giga Drain of his own to the barrage. His hands took on a green light as he attempted to draw orbs of energy from the Shellfish Pokemon.

"We need to stop it and find out where Varuna is if they're the one's answering the call." He told Ryan, figuring it wasn't really something that needed saying but saying it anyway.

"What the ~/~ does that mean?" Lykas demanded of the Kabutops, completely unable to understand what the thing said. He somewhat recognized the language, however vaguely, from what he had seen in the ancient ruins beneath Undella Bay. He hadn't a clue what it meant but at least he was aware enough to recognize it as being a language.

Before he had much other chance to do anything to stop the Pokemon, he found it racing around him at a speed he wasn't sure he could stop but he had an idea. Thinking, now, about what it as doing, he stood his ground, arms crossed in front of himself to take the Aqua Jet empowered ram. He'd catch the Shellfish Pokemon as it slammed into him, grabbing it's arms with his tentacles as it began to try and bite him and tried to consciously activate his ability while he blew an Icy Wind directly into the Water-type's face. He'd be cut off by the Harden-empowered Headbutt and while the impact was certainly there, he'd simply stare at the crustacean after it was done, hoping that Cursed Body would have taken it's effect by now. "Was that supposed to hurt?" He asked, glowering at the Pokemon, unfazed by the Normal-type move thanks to his partial Ghost typing.

The Kabutops had shown one thing to Lykas and Ryan after mistakingly Headbutting the partial Ghost; it was acting on its own, no one was commanding it. Pokemon weren't very good at deducing type match ups on their own, even the best trained ones some times slipped up so this told them both that perhaps Varuna was not ordering his Pokemon to attack them, there was something else going on here.

Either way the Kabutops took a face full of Icy Wind causing it to recoil a bit causing to recoil a bit but was caught in Lykas' tentacles. It went to Aqua Jet out of his grip and away but found its self unable to, the hybrid's curse preventing him from using the move. Lykas would let Kabutops go at just the right time as Aysu hit it with a Freeze Dry, causing it immense pain as the moister in its body was 'dried up' into ice. The staggering Pokemon would be unable to retaliate or defend its self as the massive blast of water made by both Channeler and Pokemon slammed into it, knocking the Kabutops off its feet and sending it splashing into the water a good ways away where it would remain, floating there knocked out and defeated.

The Kabutops wasn't the only Pokemon just motionlessly floating as the Starmie could be seen just floating in the water as well, its gem blinking. Now that things had calmed down the two could actually become aware of it again. Also it seemed as if the rain had weakened, back to what one expects from a typical Rain Dance. Whatever was going on defeating Kabutops stopped it. Now what?

Lykas nodded to Ryan's direction. He'd been planning to check up on Kabutops as soon as they got it to calm down anyway. Something told him there was more to this ancient beast's actions than Varuna giving it orders. If that had been so, it would have known better than to use a Normal-type move against him. It might have worked on Ryan, probably fairly well given that he was entirely human, but on himself? A trainer like Varuna would have called for something more effective if he was actually trying to fight.

Walking the short distance across the reef, Lykas dove into the open sea and swam over to Kabutops, carefully grabbing hold of it and pulling it with him back to the reef, where he'd lay it on it's back and gently attempt to awaken it, pulling a Revive from his bag and crumbling it across the Pokemon's body to absorb the medicine. Once it was awake, he'd speak carefully. "I don't know if you can understand me but we're Varuna's old students. We're looking for him so we can help him." He tried explaining to the Water-type. "My friend is checking on Starmie, over there." He added, pointing to where Ryan had gone to check up on the other Pokemon that had come crashing down from the heavens. Something that certainly seemed out of sorts for a Pokemon that normally dwelt near the seafloor.