"What? Share woman!" Belle looked over at Andy. She wanted to know what was so amusing. Honestly, a shiny Mouse wasn't that amusing. Just awesome.

"Oh god, he'd be blonde," Andy gasped between giggles, glancing at Thomas. "Would look like a Jasper. Shinies sparkle."

Belle got what she was getting at and dissolved into giggles herself. Okay, yeah, that was a great mental image. Oh that was so perfect.

"He'd look like he belongs in Twilight," she managed to gasp.

"It's so epic," Andy managed to squeak out. "Epic glitch. Best glitch ever."

"Must happen now." Belle had to lean back against Eclipse because she was laughing so hard. She slowly managed to calm herself, wiping tears from her eyes.

It took Andy a good couple minutes to calm down as well, and a giggle still escaped every so often when she noticed that Thomas was looking distinctly Not Amused.

"Blame it on Bob," she said, still grinning a bit. "He's the wrong color, that's what sparked this whole thing."

Thomas grumbled and huffed, crossing his arms over his chest. He was still Not Amused, but at least they weren't quite laughing at him anymore.

Belle snickered and finally managed to stop giggling and just relaxed, pondering other shinies.

Andy sighed a bit and leaned against Sesshoumaru for a while. She would ponder shinies again later on, when she wasn't half-hysterical from catching one.

Belle slanted a calculating look at Eclipse, trying to picture him as a shiny. That would be a very, very nice shiny to get. But she thought he might object to that, so she'd have to ponder it more.

Involuntarily, Andy ended up trying to picture Sesshoumaru as a shiny. It was harder than she'd thought; he would definitely be one of the very subtle ones, and if she was honest, she liked the original best, anyways.

Belle stayed there, just relaxing. She could go shiny hunting later. Because dammit all but now she wanted a shiny Mouse and possible a shiny Thomas.

Although she had enough incubi to keep anyone busy forever basically.

Harry ended up just watching the rest of Andy's group with a mix of wariness and curiosity. Aside from the apparent shock over Bob, the trainers seemed surprisingly normal, so he tried to get a feel for the group instead. It took a few moments for him to figure out who belonged to which girl, though. They seemed to have similar tastes.

Most of Belle's bishis were just lounging around, relaxed. Teaser started getting antsy, though, and Belle rolled her eyes before tugging him over to play with his hair.

Andy rolled her eyes when she saw that, but turned her attention back to her gear. They weren't near a town, so she was sifting through the e-book market to see if anything new was out. She blinked and grinned when she saw a few titles that had arrived since the last time she was in town.

"Sebastian, Teaser, why didn't you tell me Bridge of Dreams was out?" she called across the camp. "Do you have any idea how long I've waited for that?"

The two exchanged looks and shrugged. "It didn't occur to us?" Sebastian tried. Honestly he hadn't thought about it. Belle wasn't as eager to get her hands on those books, and Andy had her own from the same author, so he really hadn't thought about it.

"It didn't occur to you even after I yelled at Lucivar for the same thing?" Andy asked. Rolling her eyes, she waved a hand and turned her attention back to the book to start reading. Almost immediately, she was snickering. "Oh wow, ten pages and Lee is already having a moral crisis... This is going to be great..."

Belle snickered and turned her attention to one of her own books, taking a few moments to rifle through her cabinet before picking out something good. Her queen firelizard came to drape herself across Belle's shoulders, settling in there.

The next day, Andy volunteered to hold down the fort while Belle went out shiny-hunting. She was in the middle of a good book, after all, and had another two waiting to be read. She had plenty to occupy herself with while Belle was off prancing about.

Belle came back that night with a big grin, a Mouse walking next to her. A brown and gray-flecked Mouse.

"We were right!" She grinned at Aura, going to go work on dinner and give Mouse some time to adjust to everyone.

Andy looked up and blinked.

"You were barely gone a few hours," she said, looking at the Mouse. "How long did that actually take?" So much for the one-in-eight-thousand shiny rate. She barely paid attention as Xiang went over to investigate the 'new arrival.' Better than it being Kaelas, at least for the moment.

"About four hours of hiking around. And running around. And getting Dejaal to help." Belle looked tired but pleased. "See? We managed though. I dunno if we're just really really lucky or if the glitch is making the shinies more available."

"I've never seen shinies before this," Andy replied. "Four years and never even heard of one. And shinies are pretty common knowledge, at least amongst the pokemon crowd. So I really think it's a glitch creating shinies, instead of just boosting appearance rates." At least, it made sense to her. There was just no other way for shinies to suddenly appear like this.

"Well, whatever it's doing, these shinies are more common than the pokemon shinies are." Belle shrugged. Hey, she thought it was awesome. As long as they got to keep their shinies, especially.

"By a lot," Andy agreed. But she didn't mind, either. She liked that there were shinies. It made things interesting.

Belle grinned. "Okay, any other shinies we want from this area or shall we go figure out the next hearest territory we want to go raiding in?"

Thomas looked over. "Somewhere with women," he prompted. "You need more women in the group since we can't woo you two."