The rest of the walk to the Jungle Relic was uneventful, if extremely hot. I nearly sighed with relief when we reached the shade inside of the temple. The Jungle Relic itself was nothing impressive; just a plain statue with swirl patterns on it. Remembering what we had learned when we were researching about the place, I told Tiffany to look behind the statue for the switch that would open the passage to the lower levels.

After a few seconds of rustling behind the statue, Tiffany let out a little 'ha!' and we heard a clicking sound. The statue split in two, sliding away and revealing a staircase leading down. Clyde let out a low whistle.

"Pretty epic…"

"Way to ruin the moment, Clyde," Garret said.

"C'mon guys." I smiled. "Let's go spelunking." I led the way down the stairs with my siblings following in behind. At the bottom of the stairs was a large underground cave, with smaller caves in the walls, each presumably leading to another room. There were small puddles on the ground, and it was very dark and moist. I looked around; there were too many little caves and passages to hope to search one at a time before a ranger discovered us down here.

"Alright guys, split up. Tiff, you explore that half of this room. Clyde, you explore the farther half. Garret and I will continue on and see what else is in here. We'll meet back here in twenty minutes, okay?" The other three nodded in affirmative, and went off on their way. Tiffany darted into the nearest cave, and Clyde, Garret and I went farther into the cave. Clyde ducked off into a cave about halfway down, and Garret and I went through a naturally formed hallway a little after. The next room held more interest than the last one.

In the middle of the room, on an elevated platform, lay a life-sized statue of Entei. Garret and I both started walking over to it, paying no heed to the other little caverns or the wild pokemon milling about. The path that led up to it had four unlit torches on each side. I paused and looked at them.

"Four torches for the four dragon challenges?" I mused out loud.

"Seems logical." Garret nodded, looking back at the torches. He hadn't paid much attention to them before, but he paused now and observed them with me. They didn't seem to hold any secrets, so I walked over to him and we approached the statue of Entei.

We walked all around it, but didn't find much. The inscription at the bottom was intriguing- something about a disaster happening if Entei is disturbed. I assumed that meant the forth challenge. After we were done looking at that, Garret began searching the side of the cave that was closest to the hallway, and I looked on the farther side.

Most of the caves held nothing particularly interesting, but there was one that definitely caught my attention. Unlike all the other caves, which just had regular stone floors, this one had worn out tiles. At the far end of the room there was a small statue in the shape of a fang with a short inscription on it. It said that the challenge of fire lay ahead, and the challenge was to 'cool the rage that lays in the dragon's heart'. Hm, I remembered reading that rangers liked to test their abilities here. I guess they tested them by 'cooling the rage' aka capturing. It also mentioned at the end that saving was not allowed, 'for that in itself is a challenge'. That bit went right over my head. I couldn't fathom its meaning.

Regardless, I walked through the hallway (also tiled) and came to another stone room at the end (not tiled). Standing in the threshold to this new room, I could see scattered though it multiple little geyser-like openings. Though they didn't spit steam; instead, they would sporadically hurl out towers of fire. At the end of the room, on a platform, lay one massive charizard. The beast had been curled up when I walked in, and once it noticed me it raised its massive head and let out an ear-shattering roar. I was somewhat alarmed, but I held my ground. It observed me closely through triangular eyes, but seemed unwilling to get up and chase me off. I wondered vaguely if it was protecting something.

I didn't want to risk my luck and explore the room the fire dragon was presiding in, so after observing for a few more seconds, I decided there was nothing more to see and turned around to head back up the way I came. Though it wasn't definitive, I felt a vague plan start to form in my mind for when we needed Entei to appear.

The rest of the little caverns weren't nearly as interesting. They just served as homes to various wild pokemon. After half hour, the only interesting thing I had seen was the challenge of fire, and I went back to meet my siblings, having an idea as to what they had seen.

As expected, the three of them counted off the other three challenges; namely, the challenges of water, wind, and destruction.

"Just like I thought. I wonder…" I thought back to the plan I had started before.

"Er, what do you wonder?" Clyde asked.

"The calamity that happens if you complete the four challenges. Something tells me that calamity is an Entei that has worked himself into quite the tizz." There was a few seconds of silence as the three of them reflected on this. "Anything else interesting to report?"

"Nope."

"Not really."

"I captured a camerupt! But apart from that, no."

"Hm, a camerupt. Nice job, Tiff. I want to see the other three challenges for myself. You three head off to the boat." They nodded and walked off. I assumed the recently captured camerupt had already been sent off to the boat, since nothing followed Tiffany out.

Apart from the colour scheme, the only thing different about the other three challenges was that when you reached the end of the hall, the presiding dragon could not be seen. Instead, there were various obstacle courses that had to be completed. I assumed the dragons were at the end of these courses. I could have completed these tests, but I didn't particularly see the point in it. I didn't check out the other three challenges to complete them, I just wanted to see how different they were. Now that I knew, it was time to leave.

After sealing the entrance behind me and heading out of the relic, I heard the voice of an approaching grunt. And said grunt was apparently moving at a very high speed and cussing under his breath.

Curious, I stepped off the path and hid just out of view as a grunt and a politoad raced up the steps and into the relic. After a few seconds the ranger from before, Solana, went up the steps after him. She was limping slightly, but still moving at a fairly decent pace despite being chucked into a tree by a tyranitar. I was impressed.

Once they were both in the relic, I went halfway up the stairs to watch the show. It was somewhat dark in there, but from what I could see, Solana was attempting to capture the politoad. After a few minutes of the ranger drawing circles, and the politoad jumping out of said circles, the capture was finally completed.

Not bad for a rookie, I guess, I thought. The politoad promptly hopped out of the relic, presumably to go back to where it came from. Hm, interesting. It ran from the grunt, but it didn't stay with the ranger either. I wonder why that was.

The grunt ran down the stairs soon after the politoad, paling as he saw me standing there.

"S-sir! I'm so sorry! I failed…"

"Your mission wasn't to steal a politoad, it was to keep rangers away from us. Get back to the boat." Not looking entirely reassured, the grunt stumbled down the stairs to head back while I waited for Solana to come out. Might as well have a bit more fun before I go. I summoned Tyranitar to my side with a couple strums to wait with me.

She came out of the relic a few seconds later, and froze in her tracks when she saw me. She looked angry, and her plusle began sparking electricity in an attempt to look threatening, but they both held their ground. I smirked.

"Yeah. Not quite good enough to take down this bad boy yet, are you?" I taunted. Shame my siblings weren't there, they would have enjoyed the show. Oh well. I'd just tell them later.

"What are you doing here?" She tried to sound firm and threatening, I think, but her voice was too high pitched to give off either of those elements.

"Just brushing up on some history. The statue in there is lovely, isn't it? Gives off a real sense of time." She seemed confused, which, when mixed with anger, took on a suspicious facial expression. I assumed this meant she had no idea of the significance of the relic statue. Best not to give her an idea. Change of subject. "Although I am curious…I saw that when you captured my grunt's politoad, it ran off. I wonder why that is…"

"The justice in a ranger's heart resonates with a pokemon's soul during a capture and allows it to break free," she said stiffly. I laughed and took a step closer to her. She backed up, which made me laugh more.

"That has got to be the most preposterous thing I have ever heard! Justice in your heart? A pokemon's soul? Grow up. It's a technological malfunction, obviously." I took another few steps up the stairs as I was talking, and she continued to back away from me. I assumed it had something to do with the fact that tyranitar was still following. "But it is awfully cute that you think that's what it is."

"C-cute?" she seemed nervous now; we had reached the top of the stairs, and I was backing her into the relic now.

"Absolutely precious. That's what I love about rangers; they've got such…pure beliefs. Very noble. Very easily deceived, too. Oh, and very mistaken beliefs as well. But everything has its downfall, right?" I had backed her right up against the statue now, and walked closer to her as I spoke until I was right in front of her. I don't know why she looked so nervous; I was just complimenting rangers, that was all. Just honest, well meaning compliments. "You all have such honest faces." I reached a hand out to stroke said face (to help calm her down, of course) but plusle's tail began to glow, and this time it actually did follow through in attacking me. I pulled my hand away from the Iron Tail in time, but the partner pokemon looked ready to attack again. I smirked. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but my siblings are waiting for me. Good luck in your new career, Solana." I waived and turned to leave, with Tyranitar following behind me.

I looked back as I was walking down the stairs and in the little cave, I was pretty sure I was saw the ranger slump to the ground. Ha, that was quite a bit of fun. I certainly hope I see that little one more often.

The boat ride back was somewhat uneventfull, and certainly more crowded. Tyranitar and Camerupt took up a fair amount of space. I told the other three about my second meeting with Solana, and they found it pretty funny. Particularly Clyde- he got quite a kick out of bullying, I think.

Once we got back we told Father about what we found in the Jungle Relic. He seemed pleased with the information on Entei, and informed us that there were rumours of a Suicune living in Krokka Tunnel. Apparently, we would be heading over there tomorrow.

"This isn't going to be one of those things where you completely overload us with work until we start bleeding out of our eyes, is it?" Garret asked, a little fearfully. I knew he was thinking about the time, a couple years back, when Father had decided it would be best for the band if he took over and decided our rehearsal schedule. Rehearsals, with him, were three times a day, everyday, for two and half to three hours each time- which was a bit too much, even for me. These only ended when he and I started bashing heads over it; he put up a pretty good fight, but eventually, I won and was Leader of the Band again.

Father gave Garret a look. The Look. It was the look he usually reserved for me, when I went up against him. It was a look that said 'boy, you just crossed the line, but I'm going to pretend you didn't say/do that with the understanding that you will not do it again'. Garret was quelled, and seemed to shrink a little within himself. I assumed that meant, yes; it would be one of those things where he completely overloads us with work until we start bleeding out of or eyes.

I sighed, a little exasperated. I knew that eventually we would have to bash heads again when he started getting too demanding, and that was just a pain in the ass. It would have to happen soon; but for now it was easier to just go along with it, since it wasn't too big of a deal. We would save the fight until I had more fuel to fight with.

So it was Suicune hunting for us tomorrow.

"To Krokka Tunnel we shall go," Garret said, a little apathetic.

"Clyde, for the last time, get up!" Garret, who had been walking back and forth between the bathroom and his room getting ready, had been shouting through Clyde's bedroom for the past hour as he walked by it. His shouts became more frequent and more annoyed until finally- with fifteen minutes left before we were due to head over to Krokka Tunnel- he was standing outside Clyde's door and shouting through it. Clyde's sleeping habits never ceased to bother Garret, who was a major morning person.

"For Mew's sake, Clyde if you don't get yourself up and start your strenuous- and impossible- routine of trying to make yourself look presentable we will be late. And you know how upset that will make Father. And I don't mean upset as in sad, by the way." In reality, Clyde was probably almost ready now, if not already so. I'd have bet my guitar that he was just refusing to answer Garret to annoy him.

Sure enough, with five minutes left to go before we left, Clyde finally opened his door- fully dressed and wearing a cocky grin to boot- to an infuriated Garret.

"Hey now, big bro. You shouldn't shout like that too much; you'll lose that pretty little voice of yours."

"C'mon, let's get going," I said before Garret could offer a comeback and start another fight, which would make us later than anything. I started walking away and Tiffany- who, like me, had been leaning against the opposite wall watching the morning show- started following after. I heard Clyde fall in line beside me and, after an angry huff, Garret too began following.

The journey to Krokka Tunnel wasn't nearly as long as the one to the Jungle Relic, and as such we were there by late morning, having taken a taxi to the edge of town and walked the rest of the way. The weather, too, was much more pleasant than that of the Olive Jungle; the sun was out, but there was a slightly cool autumn breeze that made me thankful for my jacket.

Krokka Tunnel itself was rather dark and gloomy; something told me that we would not be finding any trace of Suicune here. We came upon the rock falls that the grunts had caused after about ten minutes of walking.

"Oh right. Those," Garret said, pretty much speaking the thoughts of my other two siblings and I. "How are we to get around this? Perhaps we should just wait for the rangers to clear it up for us."

"Nonsense. It's just going to take a little creativity to get over, that's all." I observed the looming rocks; too dangerous to climb over, and too tightly packed to squeeze between. "If we're going to replace the rangers we'll have to learn to deal with problems like rangers. But I think these could act as a useful deterrent to anyone who wants to come poking around, so let's find a pokemon to get us over the rocks, but not through them."

"…Seriously?" The look on my siblings' faces were less then enthused, and it was always Clyde who voiced reluctance first in the face of work. I laughed.

"Yes, Clyde. Seriously. Come on, it'll be useful. And besides, neither you nor Garret have a pokemon under your control yet." An idea popped into my head. "I wonder which one of you will get one first," I said, pulling on an overdone 'thinking face'. It was tacky, but it worked; both Clyde and Garret adapted competitive stances, and we began walking out of the cave and back to the forest to look for a pokemon to get us over the rock falls. Tiffany- who was walking with me behind Garret and Clyde- whispered in my ear as we walked.

"My money's on Garret." I smiled, thinking of how annoyed he was with Clyde that morning.

"Yeah, mine too."

The light from outside hit hard as we exited the dark cave, and it took us a minute for our eyes to adjust to the light. Once they did the four of us spanned out into the forest to search for pokemon.

Every once in a while I could hear Clyde or Garret start playing their instruments, but they would stop before they finished their song. My guess was they had started to capture a pokemon, but then decided that it wasn't good enough for the job at hand. There were loads of pokemon around- caterpie and all its evolutions, mudkip in the water, tailow, bellsprout, oddish; all the common pokemon that could be found almost anywhere, and were all not good for anything. I was starting to get frustrated, thinking that maybe it would be better to just wait for the rangers, when finally, finally, I heard Garret finish a song, meaning he had captured a pokemon.

The three of us went over to see what it was, and we saw Garret standing in front of a full grown, completely still scizor.

"It can only carry one at a time, but I think he'll do, hm?" He asked with fake humbleness in his voice.

"Perfect. Well done, little bro." He smirked a bit, having won the little competition between him and Clyde. "Alright. Back to the tunnel then."

We walked back to where the rock falls were with Garret's scizor in tow, and had it lift us one by one to the other side of the rocks. We continued on through the tunnel, a bored silence between us as the walk became monotonous. We passed an amusing ten minutes watching Clyde trying to bury a bellsprout's bottom half in the ground, despite it squirming around in his hand. After a few minutes of watching the bellsprout squirm around in the dirt trying to get free, however, that too got boring and we continued walking.

After a while the air started to get moist, and the ground was growing muddier. Soon we came upon a little river inside the cave, with pokemon frolicking at its banks and occasionally hopping inside the water at the sight of us. Well, at least we knew there was water, so I guess there was a chance that a suicune could have made its home here.

"This is probably the closest thing we'll find to suicune territory; let's follow the river downstream and see where it leads." The other three nodded and we started following the river. I had just bent over to check whether the water was salt water flowing in from the ocean or fresh water rising up from the ground (did suicune have a preference?) when we heard someone start to come in from one of the openings at the other side of the cave. I smiled when I saw who it was.

"Hey, Solana!" I greeted her like an old friend,as I stood up and let a smirk creep onto my face. She froze at the sight of us. "Just in time for another mini-concert."

A/N Want to know something funny? I honestly and truly thought I had this chapter up a week ago. I was wondering why I wasn't getting any more reviews…and then I realized that, oh, it says here that there are only three chapters up…:s. So this has been sitting on my computer for a week completely done, and unposted. Sorry…

But, oh well. It's here now. And isn't this story just so much more fun now that we've gotten the set up out of the way? I like it more, anyway.

Review? I think so.