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Note: I do not own Pokemon.

The three of us sat around our small dining room table. I carefully opened the slightly charred letter. I read it aloud.

"Help me! I went exploring in Lava Crater hoping to meet my hero, Entei, but the heat grew too be too much for me. I'm quite deep in the dungeon. Please save me!" I folded the letter up and set it on the table. "Well team, what do you think?"

"I say we should go. A Pokemon in trouble is a Pokemon in trouble, They need our help. Plus they specifically requested us. They need a hero," Eli spoke calmly and wisely. He empathized the word hero because it usually persuaded me to go. I may have a a dark exterior, but I like to help others.

Clarice shifted uneasily in her seat. She stared at her newly acquired pendant with a worried expression.

"You okay Clarice?" I asked. I could tell Eli was smirking because he knew. Man, could he read my feelings like a book.

"Yeah, just if it was too hot for the Pokemon who sent us this rescue request, how will I survive down there? Maybe we should hand this off to an all fire type team, like Team R-K9s." She was right, the R-K9s, a team led by by Ariel the Arcanine, with Keeran the Houndoom, would be able to use there fire type abilities to the best. Clarice had disappointment across her face. She knew how much I oved to rescue others and hated letting us down.

"That's it!" Eli burst with an ah-ha moment type of tone.

"What are you talking about?" I asked perplexed.

"Clarice, you necklace is made of NeverMeltIce, correct?" Eli asked getting more excited by the word.

"Well yes. It powers up my Ice-Type moves," she replied simply.

"NeverMeltIce lowers the body temperature of ice type Pokemon so that they can freeze more water into larger, stronger ice beam or other such attacks, an ice beam is like Water Gun, but frozen. Won't the NeverMeltIce keep you cool in the dungeon?" Wow Eli was smart.

"Yeah. Well, I guess we can head to that dungeon tomorrow. Night guys," Clarice yawned as she headed off to her room.

As soon ad her door was shut, Eli smirked at me. "You are so in love with her."

"So?" I said a little darkly as I avoided his piercing gaze.

"Tell her, she won't wait forever."

I let Eli's words sink in a second. "Wait what do you mean 'she won't wait forever'?" I asked. Did he mean she liked me more than a teammate and a friend? Too bad he was already in his room before I asked my question. Eli was good at leaving at the precise moment to make you think.

I headed to my bedroom, I lied down and headed in to dreamland. I dreamed I had rescued Clarice from a raging fire and confessed my love for her.

"I love you," I mumbled, half asleep.

"I love you too, man."

"What? I woke up suddenly. "Eli! What are you doing here?"

"Clarice said she heard mumbling coming from here. She wanted me to make sure you weren't having another nightmare. Let me guess, you dreamed about confessing to her?" Eli said calmly.

I shuddered, partly because he knew me too well, and partly because he mentioned the word 'nightmare'. The nightmare he referred to was a recurring one that began when Blaze started his rescue team. It showed my team held captive and I could do nothing about it.

I nodded to Eli acknowledging his correctness about me dream of confessing.

"Well, lets get packed and head out. Clarice is almost done with breakfast. Big day today, you know," Eli said. I knew it would be big and Eli knew a change of subject would help me get out of dreamland and into the real world.

"Right," I mumbled in response before crawling out of bed.