"Finding out about other regions' legends is seriously like pulling teeth..." Ryner commented with a hint of exasperation. Hunting for new pieces of information for months and only coming up with the same blurbs over and over again was a frustrating business indeed, even if the more distant ones sounded really fascinating. Like the twin dragons of Unova, much as he didn't like to think about how he'd learned about those two... but today's topic was Lugia.

"Ahh, anyway. I don't know if you were around two years ago, when Lugia ended up flying all over Johto and flying off somewhere," he started. "Nobody knows where it flew off to, but everything pointed to it having come from the Whirl Islands. So Sion and I took a trip out there for a few weeks to look around, and..."