Beach Cave

Koffing rushed forward at Waterking, blasting Smog at him. Waterking yelped as the smog covered him. I was about to go help him but I couldn’t because Zubat was about to use Supersonic. I hurriedly lunged at him and used Scratch before he could do anything. Waterking quickly backed out of the harmful Smog. I could tell that he wouldn’t be able to take Koffing on by himself.

“Can’t fight weakling?” Koffing taunted at him. “Maybe you-” I cut him off as I knocked him away with my foot. I landed on the ground and turned my head towards Waterking.

“Are you oka-” I winced and covered my ears with my small wings as a terrible sound hit my ears. I painfully peeked my eyes open to see that Zubat had used Supersonic after all. Once it stopped, the room was spinning around me. It was hard to concentrate on one thing.

I thought, There’s no way that Waterking can fight on his own. I tried to focus on where my vision told me Zubat was, and tried using Scratch. I, probably hilariously missed, getting a face full of sand. Koffing and Zubat’s laughter could be heard through the slight ringing in my ears.

Shaking my head forcefully, my vision went back to normal. Waterking had- Somehow- managed to knock out Koffing. “How did you do that?” I asked, keeping my eyes on Zubat.

“I guess my Pound is getting stronger.” He joked.

Zubat looked nervous as it was now a fight of two versus one. I jumped in front of him as he tried to make an escape to the exit. I could feel heat rising in my throat as I let out a ball of fire at my opponent, beating him.

“Woah!” Waterking exclaimed. “What was that?”

I searched my memory for what that was. “I think it was Ember.”

He thought for a moment. “Yeah… I guess you’re right!”

Padding through the sand, I stopped in front of Zubat, who was lying on the ground. “We won. Now according to the deal we made, you give us the stone back.”

He hesitated. “Oh- Fine!” He dropped Waterking’s strange stone on the ground in front of him. “We’re out of here!” He and Koffing swiftly left the room. I picked up the stone and handed it to the Piplup.

“Thank you!” He said, quickly taking the stone in his flippers. “I have to try harder to keep this. Who knows what other Pokemon might try and take it.” He put it away and looked up at me. “I-I’m sorry that I dragged you into this. Do you still want to be an Exploration Team?”

I took a moment to think about what I would say next and how it would affect both of us. Looking back up at him, I smiled. “Let’s go up to Wigglytuff’s Guild.”

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Inside of the cave was damp. Somehow, it wasn’t pitch black and we could see where we were going. “Watch out!” Waterking shouted as he pulled me out of the way of a Water Gun. I looked back to where the move came from, and an aggressive Shellos was standing there, getting another move ready. Before it could, I rushed at it and used Scratch. The aggressive Pokemon fainted, and I sighed in relief.

“Thanks.” I said to my Piplup friend.

“You're welcome! It’s a good thing I pushed you out of the way!”

We continued through the floors, trying to avoid more aggressive Pokemon, however we did run into some a few times. I stopped to pick up a fairly sized blue berry off of the ground.

“That’s an Oran Berry.” Waterking said, pointing to the berry with his flipper. “It can heal you when you’re in a tough spot.”

“How do you know this?” I asked.

“Er- Well, I’ve been trying to learn things to help me when I joined the guild.

He rubbed the back of his head embarrestly.

We went to the next floor. “The last floor is right after this one. They should be there.” He said, right before he bumped into a Corsola. The Pokemon made an angry sound as it jumped into me, scratching me with it's sharp branches.

Waterking used Pound and fainted the Corsola. “Are you ok?” He asked me, motioning towards my scratches.

“Yeah.” My gaze peered towards another blue berry on the ground a bit away from us. “Hey! How convenient! An Oran Berry.” I walked over to it and picked it up studying it. This one was slightly darker blue than the one I had picked up earlier.

“No! Wait! STOP!” Waterking yelled to me as I took a bite out of the berry. I immediately spit the piece out as pain shot through my body. I tossed the berry as I stumbled onto the ground.

“I thought you said that Oran Berries would heal! That one was the complete opposite!” I growled at my friend.

He backed up a step or two. “That’s because they do! But that one wasn’t an Oran Berry! It’s called an Oren Berry. It does the opposite of an Oran Berry. It damages instead of healing.” He picked up the bitten berry and decided to carry it. “We might be able to use this against someone fighting us. Oh… I wish we could carry more than one item each.”

“I’m sorry I yelled at you.” I apologized, picking myself up.

***

The last floor took us longer than we thought. Waterking had to use our Oran Berry after fighting a Kabuto. We finally made it out to a little space with rocks and water and sand. At the end of the room was Zubat and Koffing whispering to themselves.

“Hey!” I shouted, walking forward. The two thieves turned around to look at us.

“Well look who it is.” Zubat said, whether it was to us or to Koffing I don’t know.

“It’s the weakling.” Koffing said back to him. “Come to play hero and get his stone back.”

Waterking looked hurt. “I- I’m not a weakling! Sure, I’m not good at fighting but… Give my stone back.”

“As if!” I glared at him as the words came out of Zubat’s mouth.

“We’ll fight for it! We win, you give the stone back. You win, you get to keep it.” I snapped, challenging them. Waterking was about to voice a protest, but I stopped him.

“Fine.” Koffing said, looking amused while they- And Zubat- Got into a fighting stance. “Bring it.”

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We had arrived at the top of a rocky hill with stairs. There was a tent in the shape of a Wigglytuff. In front of the tent was a grate in a circle on the floor.

“Oh- Um… You don’t think I’m going to fall through, do you?” The Piplup asked me

I stared at the grate for a few moments. “No.” I said. “The holes look too small for even your foot to fall through.

He let out a quiet sigh of relief. “Good.” He nervously walked up to the grate and stood on it. We both jumped at the loud voice that came from it

“Pokemon detected! Pokemon detected! Pokemon is: Piplup!

Waterking yelped and jumped off of the grate. He stood a few feet away from it as he spoke. “I- I can’t do it.” He placed a strange stone on the ground and looked up at me. “I found this stone one day while I was taking a walk by myself. I saw it and thought ‘Huh, that’s strange.’ I took it with me because I thought it would bring me good luck.” He looked back down at it. “It’s been helping me get through things in the past. I was sure it was going to help me get enough confidence to get into the guild!

I was about to say something to him but I didn’t have a chance because two Pokemon jumped out from behind the tent. Or- Floated? Flew? I don’t really know. It was a Koffing and a Zubat. Zubat flew over to Waterking. “We’ll be taking that.” He swiftly grabbed Waterking’s stone and started racing down the stairs with Koffing right behind him

“No!” Waterking shouted. He looked back at me. “They’re going down to the beach! Will you help me catch them? Please?” He said, pleading

I nodded. “Yes, I’ll help. But we need to go quickly!” I only got a nod in response as we raced down to the beach

*

Zubat and Koffing stopped at the far end of Krabby Beach. “Where now?” Zubat aske

“There!” Koffing said, turning towards a deep cave. “Let’s go!” The two thief Pokemon raced into the cave

*

By the time we arrived at the beach I was panting and huffing. “There!” Waterking pointed his flipper towards a cave. “That’s a dungeon! They hold many dangerous and wild Pokemon that will attack if they see you.” I squinted as I peered into the cav

“There’s a puff of smoke in the entrance. I think they went in here, I don’t see where else they would go.

“But- But- But that’s Beach Cave!

I looked over my shoulder at him. “Don’t you want your stone?” I asked

He looked conflicted. “Ok fine! Let’s go in and catch those thieves!

I have to rename the story because I found out it's based on Explorers Of Time not Explorers Of Sky

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