Welcome back. Lame chapter intro, but who cares? Anyway, this is my mystery dungeon story, not Nintendo's. Pokemon is Nintendo's, not mine. Lets begin.

I woke and looked around. My house seems different. I went to the mirror, which was really cold ice. I mean it, the ice must've been made by Kyurem himself. Instead of myself I saw a Charmander. That's when the events of yesterday came back to me. Well it wasn't a dream. That sucks.

I headed outside to see Amber and meet this Cubone. "Hey! Good morning, isn't it?" Amber yelled to me from her window. Her house was beside mine and Cubone's was across. The other two houses were pretty much un-inhabited. That's because the pokemon who live there are somewhere else right now. Cubone came out of his house and walked over.

"So, you're Drake. I expected a dragon type." In my opinion, that's a bit insulting. I know my fully evolved form, Charizard, isn't dragon type. Also not the dragon pokemon like Kingdra or Salamence. But Charizard is a dragon. And has more dragon properties than some other dragons such as Altaria or Noivern.

"Well Charizard is still a dragon. Not necessarily type wise, but he is property wise."

"True. I'm Xavier."

"Nice to meet you." Amber walk out and over to us. "Are we doing anything today?"

"I dunno." Amber gave some thought. "Wait. We could check out the annual Exploration Team registration." That seems like a good idea. May as well do something exciting while I'm a pokemon.

When we reached the pokemon training dojo and I immediately took interest. The place was nice. It had a picture of a Machamp using bulk up beside the door. When we went inside, the first thing I noticed was there were a bunch of pictures on the wall. Upon further inspection each picture was of a strong fighting type. Throh, Machoke, even the Machamp was on there. Only bigger and stronger fighting types were on the wall. Not a single non-fighting type. No smaller, weaker pokemon. There was also three small fighting fields in the middle of the dojo. The area was filled with other pokemon. Suddenly a loud voice Boomed throughout the dojo.

"Welcome Pokemon from far and wide. It's the annual recruiting time of year. We are recruiting new pokemon into the dojo and any new exploration teams. We welcome you to the hyperactive training dojo. To be recruited is simple, reach the top ten ranks by the end of the day." The pokemon that said this was a big Hariama. Another bulky fighting type. "Oh, and two things. One is if you faint or lose a fight, then you have to wait till the person who beat you is beaten. That's if you want to fight again. Two is each pokemon has their own rank. So those of you who planned on getting in the dojo with a friend, sucks to be you. You may now begin"

I turned to Amber and Xavier. "Well, all we have to do is not get beaten." Amber was the first to say something.

I spoke up next. "That's not as easy as it sounds. There will be tougher and stronger pokemon trying. Also we would have to fight to keep our ranking higher."

Cubone also placed input. "I noticed that there's not anything about the dojo that's not big strong fighting types."

"It's weird." Suddenly an Oddish walked up to us."Would you like to battle."

"I've always been afraid of fire so I want to battle the Cubone" The Oddish had a childish voice.

"Fine by me, what do ya say Xavier."

"Lets do this."

We went over and claimed the last field. Xavier was on one side while Oddish was on the other. Oddish started the battle with sleep powder. I was surprised when Xavier spun the bone in his hand like a fan. This blew the powder away. back at Oddish. Oddish tried to dodge, but was still hit. Oddish fell asleep quickly basically losing the battle for her. Xavier used bone rush a few times and took out Oddish. "I'll bring the Oddish outside. One of you two look for a fight so we can keep this ring."

"Understood." Xavier took Oddish outside and he got a few looks. Probably because he's the first one to take care of his opponent. I looked around and found a Froakie. "Hey. Do you want to battle?"

The Froakie turned his head towards me. "Challenge accepted." We went onto our ring to start the battle. He started with using water gun. I easily side stepped to dodge and countered with a dragon rage. I'm surprised I could use that considering this is my first battle. Froakie was down before he could hit me.

After lots of battles for Amber, Xavier, and I, we finally made it within the top 30 ranks. Out of over 200. A few pokemon peaked our interest as tough opponents. A Machoke was really strong. A Hawlucha went without being hit. The Hariama appeared before us. "I've changed my mind." Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked over to him. "This year, we have had certainly amazing battles. Such as that Charmander one hitting a Froakie with dragon rage. Or perhaps the Machoke doing five battles in a row without the opponent getting to do anything." A lot of the battles were amazing. "We are going to send the top 30 to one of the mystery dungeons. They will battle their way through. The final ten will be the top ten."

We all left the dojo and followed Hariama.

We finally reached the dungeon. This one was Crystal Cave. All of the top 30 ranks lined up to go into the dungeon. It was getting dark now which will make it darker in the cave. We patiently wait for Hariama to call for us to go in.

Amber, Xavier, and I made a plan for this. Be wise about the battles. Try to avoid the stronger opponents. Stick together. And never give into weakness.

Hariama then called to go.

Cliff hanger. How do you like that? I love cliff hangers. It leaves with suspense and you don't know what happens next. That's why I love them because then you want to read the next chapter.

Anyways, I'm going to accept an OC. That means one. Not multiple because I have this story planned out mostly already. Please PM me you're OC. Required is the pokemon, their personality, their name, and their role in the story. Optional is any special things, such as features, items, charms. See yah eventually.