Remove message "there was no effect on x" in battle?

I have a skill that doesn't need to do anything except call a common event, but it looks really bad if there's a delay, and the battle log displays "There was no effect on x!" before actually calling the event. Is there a line in the default script I can remove to not display that, or some way I can make it skip that line if there's no effect, or some way I can make the common event call occur before it says "there was no effect"?

Basically, I want the order to go like this:

"x uses skill! (displayed in battle log)

display skill animation

(pause)

Common event called"

And instead, it's doing this:

"x uses skill!

display skill animation

(pause)

There was no effect on x! <-- This extra section breaks the flow in a really bad way.

(pause) <--

Common event called"

EDIT: I figured out that if I change the target scope to none, it will prevent that, but then it won't display an animation like I want it to. Is there some way to still display an animation over the character using the skill and not have it do the part of "no effect on x!"?