Xis was slowly advancing through the thin corridor that was completely covered in green. There were some patterns etched onto it; most of them were wavy grass lines and the rest were Pokémon frolicking in enjoyment; whether it was running, talking or eating. It certainly sparked his curiosity, but he really couldn't comprehend them outside of that they were just drawings. Perhaps he should ask Kate about them sometime later.
Xis was an cheerful Quilladin who has an optimistic outlook towards everything. As loyal as a Growlithe, he will do anything in his will to protect his friends with his bulky wooden armor should any threat would try to confront them. However, his mental quills aren't exactly the sharpest, but we'll see as the series progresses.
The corridor lead Xis to a flight of stairs leading down deeper into the tomb. This sort of staircase was of the standard, no nonense variety; there were no slides of shafts or anything. Granted, this is a burial tomb after all.
Taking one step at a time, Xis steadily made his way downstairs with his pattering steps echoing throughout the corridor.
While he's doing that, let me ask you this random question. You know when you're walking down stairs and you miss a step, and you get that feeling of shock when you do? That's what exactly happening to Xis, right now.
Tumbling down the stairs like clothes in a dryer, Xis was being battered, but not bruised, against the surface of the sandstone steps. His tumble turned into a roll, and he did so like a roll of lavatory paper would when it rolls just like Xis does. They do both have one thing in common; and that is they are both heading for... I won't say it.
At the bottom of the staircase, Xis was lying face down on the ground, his foot twitching a bit. He immediately got back up on his feet by pushing against the ground and began checking for any sign of injury. If damaged morale was a sign of injury, then it'd be the only one, because he sustained no physical injuries. Not even his quills were bent out of shape after all that tumbling.
"Phew, I'm alive!" Xis exclaimed with a sigh of relief. He carefully looked at his surroundings before saying "I hope no one saw that."
After a few more seconds of looking for hidden cameras and the like, Xis continued making his way through the corridor and stopped at a trapezoidal door that looked like the burial tomb from outside. The door slowly opened by itself, as indicated by the sound of grinding stone.
Doors were made for going through, and Xis did just that. But what he didn't know was that this was a one-way door, as the door was now barred with some vertical metallic bars. Yikes.
The new room was a small circular room with a giant hole in the ceiling. On the opposite side of the barred door was another door that was shut exactly like it; that was definitely the way out. Unless there was some kind of gravity reverser, the hole was not a plausible way out. There was a sandpit in the middle of the room which was just as large as the hole above it. Faint lines were drawn on the sand so that it resembled a Pokéball.
Xis was curious about the giant hole on the ceiling, so he walked towards the center of the sandpit and looked up.
The hole was a vertical tunnel that had little illumination, but it was just bright enough that he could see was a tiny ball heading towards him, the size of a ping-pong ball.
If that fell on him, he thought, it wouldn't even make a scratch. Not even a thousand ping-balls. Not even a million ping-pong balls shot out from a machine gun.
However, the ping-pong ball grew larger, into a size of a tennis ball. Still not a problem, he thought.
Now it grew to the size of a bowling ball. Well, getting hit by one of those might kind of hurt...
Then it grew to a giant shadowy dumbbell... and that wasn't a ball at all! Xis had to get away from there!
Xis tried to escape from the warped shadow that was over him, but the sand partially trapped his legs, so he moved very slowly. He was only an inch away when it landed with a deafening thud.
The landing was so strong that the surrounding sand jumped upward for a brief moment before settling down. That happened to Xis as well, and he ended up buried in sand up to his middle. He also spat out a little bit of sand too.
As Xis looked up at the giant being that landed, he could clearly see it as clear as Sunny Day.
It was a Golurk; a 9' 2'' (2.8m) hulking mechanical robot that wielded a giant two-handed metal hammer. Oh, and it wears a skirt too.
It came to no surprise to Xis that it was hostile, so he tried to escape the sand pit before the mighty Golurk would bring down his hammer upon him. Digging out the sand with his claws, he freed himself from the sand and ran towards the edge of the sandpit. That is, until he hit a wall.
Yes, there was now a wall that enclosed the entire sandpit, so that the whole thing looked like an arena. The walls were made out of the same material as most of the tomb was made of (that is, sandstone), so it should be easy to climb out and escape. But when you've got a Golurk with a weapon that could double as a pancake maker, now that isn't so easy.
Xis tried to clamber up the walls as the Golurk held the hammer over his shoulder to prepare for an overhead swing. In reaction, Xis jumped off to the side to dodge the attack. The hammer blow left a crater in the sand next to the section of the wall Xis was climbing. Unfortunately, it didn't damage the wall, which would've allowed Xis to escape.
From this observation, we see that the hammer's range extends to the wall, which meant there were no safe spots. Xis had to keep running and dodging the Golurk's attacks and attempting (and failing) escape. This went on for several minutes.
15 minutes have elasped, and the Golurk showed no intention of stopping, as if it had infinite PP. There were so many attacks that there were overlapping craters everywhere, and the sand was crushed into finer grains. Xis had no intention of stopping either; but because he isn't a Golurk with infinite PP, he began to get rather exhausted."
"I can't dodge him forever..." Xis panted to himself while he dodged another blow. "What am I going to do?"
As contrived as it was, he saw a hammer lying half buried in the sand, the kind that plumbers with blue overalls would use. He ran over to it and picked it up with both claws.
It was like the Golurk's hammer, only smaller; it had a few cracks here and there, but it was a perfectly serviceable weapon. It was a surprise that it hadn't crumbled or shattered from the Golurk's attacks.
Speaking of attacks, the Golurk began to cease its usual overhead and sideways swings and decided to prepare for a spin attack, the kind that swordsmen in green tunics would do. But this one is unavoidable.
Xis only had a few seconds to decide what to do before he would be slammed by the hammer, breaking through the wall and falling unconscious underneath the rubble. As he gripped the hammer tightly in his claws, he knew that he had only one option, and that was to fight back.
It wasn't just for his survival that he wanted to fight back. It was for his friends, Kate and Cordon. Under their guarantee, he was assured that they would be all right when they all meet up again, and he wanted to hold up on his end.
Although Xis didn't have the intellect of a sage nor the agility of a ninja, what he had was the fighting spirit to rival the most determined of heroes. The friendship he had with Kate and Cordon was the source of his willpower; he was willing to pour every once of effort into helping his friends. And should anything get in the way of that well, you'll see.
As the Golurk rumbled violently from the buildup of its attack, Xis knew that now was the time to strike. He looked up at the towering behemoth with a confident smile and a determined look, and with the hammer held tightly in his claws, he ran towards the Golurk with a loud, battle initiating cry.
WHAM! Xis took a mighty swing at the legs of the Golurk, causing to lose its balance and began to fall backwards. In retaliation, it initiated its spin attack by spinning its entire body from the thigh up, but its swing arc was tilted like a ring of Saturn. This caused the attack to miss Xis entirely.
However, the spinning helped the Golurk to try to stabilize itself onto its two feet again, which meant that Xis had to attack again or risk being pummeled to Saturn.
"All right, one more swing!" Xis said while ducking, clutching his hammer tightly to his chest. "Let's do this!"
Mustering all the will that he had into his swing, he slammed against the legs of the Golurk with a heavy KERLUNK, which was enough to cause it to immediately fall backward, grinding its hammer against the ground like a circular saw. From the many repeated blows from before, the ground began to give way undernearth the Golurk's colossal mass, creating a hole that would cause it to fall into the darkness below. Xis looked over into the hole to listen for the eventual splash or thump, but after several seconds, he couldn't hear it. So he threw the hammer into the hole, and the impact came like a resounding KLONK! To Xis, that was the sound of a solid surrender, and he celebrated his victory with a little happy dance and showing the 'victory' sign with a large grin. He made sure to do this well away from the hole that swallowed the Golurk.
With the Golurk defeated, the vertical metal bars at the exit began to disappear, but not for the ones at the entrance. So Xis was forced to take the exit, as much as he wanted to go back to the other passageways to check on Kate and Cordon.
The exiting corridor had the same design as the one before the stairs where he tumbled, with its green grass extending throughout the entire length of the corridor. Well, almost.
Near the end of the corridor was a big splash of red and orange, representing an inferno of fire. There were some figures in the fire as black as charcoal, and they were thought to be Fire-Type Pokémon. They looked to be approaching with hostility towards the Grass-Type Pokémon, who were standing their ground to the very end. Fittingly, it marked the end of the Green Passageway.
At the end of the corridor was a door that had a glowing green jewel in the middle of it. This piqued Xis' curiousity, and he began to place his claw on it. Immediately, the door opened like shutters to reveal a bright light on the other side. He expected Kate and Cordon to be somewhere in that bright light, so he walked through the doorway with utmost confidence and optimism.
And that's all he really needed.
AN: You have two options here; you can proceed to the Final Chamber or choose another passageway to see the other character's POV. It's your choice.