*cough* Ahem. I don't think I'm going to participate in it because I'm busy.
So here's what happened:
Mr. M was murdered in the city by one of the opposing guilds [Mage&Thieves], but no one knows who, while Timeus, Rufus, and Critic were training somewhere else. When they came back and saw Mr. M dead in an alleyway, Timeus and Rufus ran away into the mountains, since their trainer is now dead. Critic, on the other hand, fell in love with a Zangoose somewhere in the area and stayed, looking for a new master.