After the initial few days of panic and action, few new events arose over the next couple of weeks within Destiny Village and Cibus as a whole. Diyem continued searching for sources of distortion and other potential dangers; Arceus called upon as many Legends as he could find to come back to Destiny Village for protection. A few, however, needed to remain at their posts to guard their landmarks. Dialga had to remain behind on Temporal Tower to keep the landmass afloat; a destabilizing presence there could cause it to crash down to the Sea of Wonders below. Giratina remained behind in the Reverse World to keep distortions from leaking out into the material plane; after all, the Reverse World was where Dungeon distortions were displaced to shrink down.
Rayquaza, Groudon, and Kyogre were still missing; the same was true for both Ho-Oh and the three legendary beasts that worked below them. It seemed fairly clear that they would be of some risk later, if not discovered. Meanwhile, Xerneas had to remain in the Tree of Life to continue guarding it; while its original purpose of keeping the planet in place had apparently been retired, it was still a large repository of power, and that in the wrong hands could also spell disaster.
Thankfully, everybody else was more or less accounted for.
Darkwhite was not seen anywhere for long. There were hearsay instances of a strange looking Mew around the world, but she never stayed in one place long enough to get anything useful. Shades, too, were rounded up in scattered locations seemingly at random, with no rhyme nor reason to their appearances.
And so, aside from volunteer scouting around the world and returning to the Destiny Village dorms by evening, a strange little routine had formed once again among the team. Tense equilibrium as Palkia's whereabouts remained unknown. Dialga and Giratina, who shared a strong bond with him, could sense that he was still alive, but little more. Even Arceus was unable to locate him.
That tense peace shattered in an instant when the skies above the Sea of Wonders turned into a crimson vortex. A world-tearing rumble shook the horizon, its sound faintly reaching all the way to Destiny Village like a distant thunderclap.
[Maple > Team Spectrum]: Guild lobby, now. Gather everyone. Darkwhite made her move.
