Aaron's Mantine had just finished being healed by the Islands' characteristic slowking,rather than a chancey. The Pokemon centre had a large pool at its centre and so Aaron immediately released his pokemon,but only under the instruction it was never to take of into the air. "I was thinking maybe we should look more at the other competitors and the trial itself," Aaron said before turning on the T.V to channel 7,the competitions this time of the year it was almost entirely The Monsoon Trial being broadcasted,apart from a small selections of tournaments, feature battles and small the T.V was trainer's feature and they were showing two trainers,who were then going to have a were significantly powerful,especially for this early in the compertition. One guy had a barbroach and a fully evolved blastiose,apparently it was the quickest ever pokemon to reach its third won comfortably anyway and left with annoyingly cocky remark. "Hey,er mind if I have a look at your pokeguide?"Aaron asked.

"Sure" I said as I past it over.

After about 10 minutes Aaron told me that we had another 3 weeks till the start of the first round,but there were many events before them including a pokemon rumble,as well as the contests that ran a long side the trials for coordinators in another nearby series of islands. " So that makes for three weeks of hard training."

"You're right,lets get started," I found a tall cliff by a beach that soon became our regular training spent the next few days on accuracy and speed,a good test was for Camalote to fire bubblebeam ,for Mantine to attempt to dodge and return them with wing attack with Camalote had to then both pokemon had definately improved in accuracy their speed was not improving at such a rate,and as their accuracy got better the pokemon started to dodge the bubbles was about the sixth day when both pokemon were always on target,but always dodged the we decided to move islands,having battled far too many krabbys for besting over ambitios crabs to be fun anymore.
We were going to hire a bout but Mantine seemed more eager and more than capable of carrying us for 3 km.

"The clouds are closing in,we're going to be cast away" I joked, Mantine was comfortable with us on this back and often would keep gurgling out to us,and Camalote would as mantine swam underwater,we we only above water for most of our body,not being a fan of salt water ,Camalote sat on my head.

Aaron,who had been silent replied after a long pause "No,we actually could," he said as he stared into the distance "whirlpools...god damn only my wailord was here"

"You have a wailord?" I asked,keen to learn more about Aaron's past.

"Not now Starky,this is bad" As the sky blackened Mantine began to thrash its fins. "Don't waste your energy and let the water take you to land,to drink the salt water and eat the back Camalote,he doesn't like salt water.

"But we're not going in the salt water?"

" We will in about 10 seconds" My heart raced ,I panicked and fumbled at my pokeball to recalled Camalote. "You return too,Mantine," Aaron said a second too late,just as the red arm reached out to retreive Mantine the pokemon was pulled away from underneath us,with a scream the pokemon was pulled underneath and the water filled my ears.

I kept my hand clutched to the pokeball as the darkness pulled me from side to side,it was kind though,and returned me to the surface for the air every 30 seconds of so.

Please review if you can,I have a few questions to ask:

What pokemon type should the contests feature?

Do you have any suggestions for a character you want to feature in the story,they will be very minor and you're welcome to reuse characters you submitted to to other stories.

Next chapter:Where have the currents taken Starky?