TOWER OF WIND

When Gaia, Seth and Alice stepped into the Tower of the Wind, the first thing they noticed that it wasn't your average mystery dungeon. In fact, it wasn't a mystery dungeon. "Whoa," Seth cried, "Check it out!" They were standing in some sort of main hall. Two statues of Altarias stood on opposite ends of the rooms. There was a large locked door on the far end of the room with two small unlocked doors on the left and right sides of the room. Because there was a hole in the roof, light shone down, illuminating the room. "I think," Gaia started, analysing every aspect of the room, "that this is a normal dungeon."

"A normal dungeon?"

"Yeah." Gaia then began explaining parts of Pokémon history, "You know how there are mystery dungeons everywhere, but hardly any of those large dungeons you hear in myths? That's because when the original mystery dungeon spell was created, there suddenly was a way to create dungeons without much effort."

"So basically the creators of the dungeons got lazy and only created mystery dungeons because it was so easy," Alice deadpanned. "That's pretty much it. But it seems like whoever made this dungeon did go through all that effort. I'm guessing that there are some puzzles in here."

"Does that mean we actually have to use our brains?" Seth said, horrified."Yes."
"Aw, man!"

"Let's check out that door." Alice pointed to the locked door on the far end of the room. They ran over and looked at it. The door had some wings painted on the front and had two locks. "Two locks huh," Gaia muttered, "And there are two doors on the sides of this room. I guessing the two keys are hidden in those rooms."

"Split up?" Seth suggested. "No, it's too dangerous. If we split up it means someone will be solo and a group of two. Without backup, it's likely that whoever goes solo will be taken out by a strong enemy, if there is one."
"Oh…"
"Let's start with the door on the right." The three of them left the locked door and entered the small door on the right. They found themselves in a stone room with separated in two by a large basin. On the opposite end was a key. "There's the key!" Gaia said, "But how do we get to it?" He started to think. Seth took a look around and saw a blue lever on the wall. He went over and pulled it downwards.

CRACKA-BOOM!

It started raining heavily. Actually, 'heavily' isn't the right word. It was pouring as hard as fast running waterfall. In no time at all, the basin was completely filled with water. Seth and Alice gaped at the basin full of water. "How the hell did that happen?" Seth asked stupidly. It wasn't everyday that you saw it rain like a waterfall, not to mention that it actually rained indoors. Gaia didn't respond. He had jumped into the water and was now swimming to the other side. When he got to the other side, he climbed out. Instantly, steel bars rose up behind him, trapping him on the other side. "Oh, crap." Gaia got into a fighting stance. Something or someone had rigged these bars to rise up when he got there. His suspicions were confirmed when a Swellow flew from its hiding place and started attacking the Grovyle. Gaia jumped back and lunged forward with a Thunderpunch. The Swellow dodged swiftly, then smashed an Aerial Ace into Gaia's chest. He was knocked back. "Don't you dare lose to him Gaia!" Alice screamed from the other side of the room. "Yeah! Remember what Master Dusk told us!" Seth yelled. Gaia thought for a while, then remembered what Master Dusk had taught during his time at the academy. "When fighting quick Flying-type Pokemon, go for a feint, then strike it hard!"

"Thank you master." Gaia murmured. He got up and into a fighting stance. The Swellow swooped down with another Aerial Ace. Gaia used Detect to dodge, then slammed a Thunderpunch into the bird's right wing. The Swellow howled in pain and tumbled to ground. Gaia ran up to it and slammed another Thunderpunch into it's left wing. The Swellow let out another cry of pain, then exploded into a bunch of feathers. "What…the…hell." Gaia said. The bars sunk back into the ground. Gaia stared at the feathers for a moment, then grabbed the key. He swam back to the other side and reunited with his teammates. "GAIA YOU IDIOT! YOU ABSOLUTE BLOODY IDIOT" Alice slapped Gaia's face. Hard. "YOU COULD'VE GOTTEN YOURSELF KILLED!" she shrieked into his ear. Then she hugged him. "Please don't do that again." She breathed. "Okay, okay," Gaia declared, "I was an idiot back then, you right. I won't do that again."
"Thank you." Alice whispered. "I hate to break the romantic moment up," Seth said loudly, "But don't we have something to do?"
"You're right Seth." Gaia and Alice released themselves from the embrace and followed Seth out of the door.

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They were standing in small room on the left side of the large room. A lot of mirrors were propped on pillars. Some were even on the ceiling! There also was a painting of the sun on the opposite end of the room. "Okay Seth, you're the smartest, go and figure out the puzzle."

"Do I have to?" whined Seth. "Yes, you are the smartest." Gaia said "I am not!"

"Yes you are." Gaia remarked, "You got the highest on the I.Q. test last year."

"That does not mean I'm the smartest."

"Yes it does."

"Does not!"

"Seth, go and figure what the hell is up with these mirrors or I'll rip all of your teeth out," Alice growled. She had enough of this pointless bickering. They were on a mission for Arceus's sake! Yet Gaia and Seth were arguing. She would never understand boys. "Okay, okay!" Seth made his way to the pillars. After observing them for a while, he figured out that they could rotate on the spot. "Hmm…I wonder." He walked over to a section of the wall. "This part is cracked. Okay then." He charged up a Shadow Claw attack and slashed the wall, tearing a hole through it. Sunlight shone through. "Ow! My hand!" Seth's hand did not go unscathed by the wall. He quickly used Recover to heal himself. "Now then, let's do this." He grabbed the pillar closest to the wall and turned it around to face the hole. Sunlight bounced off the mirror, travel up to a mirror on the ceiling, went to another mirror on the ceiling and reflected down to another mirror on a pillar, which reflected the sunlight onto a wall. Seth heaved the mirror to face another mirror, which reflected the light back and forth to both mirrors. He then made the other mirror to face the painting of the sun so that the sunlight was shining on the painting. The painting of the sun quickly faded away. A key was left behind. "This place is just crazy," Gaia muttered, watching Seth pick up the key and put it into his bag.

XXXXXXXX

Gaia and Alice were standing in front of the large door back at the main hall. After failing to open the large door by turning the keys one by one, Seth came up with the idea that they should turn the keys all at once. So they did that. After keys were turned, Gaia noticed that the locks were glowing red. "Everybody run!" he shouted. The three of them dived out of the way. They were just in time too. The locks exploded.

KABOOOMM!

The door was blown to pieces. "What is this I don't even…" Gaia moaned before getting up and limping through the newly created hole.

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Now they were in another large room. The walls were coloured sky-blue with carvings of various Flying-Type Pokémon on it. A large door lay at the opposite end of the room. One small door lay on the left side of the room. "That large door is locked," Gaia observed, "And there's no keyhole."

"Where should we go?" asked Alice. "We only have one option and that's the other small door over there. Let's start with that." They entered the small door. The room was small with a treasure chest at the other end. "Ooh, treasure!" Seth exclaimed. "Hehehe…you want my treasure?"

"Who's there?" A Skarmory appeared in a whirl of feathers and smiled maniacally at the three of them. This treasure is mine," he giggled, "But you can try and take it from me, if you dare…"
Iron bars covered the door behind them, preventing escape. The treasure chest sunk into the ground and disappeared. Gaia, Seth and Alice got into fighting stances. "Hehehe…let us begin." The Skarmory flapped his wings and sent a wave of a sharp objects at the ground. "Spikes..." Gaia whispered. This was going to get ugly. "HEHEHE! TAKE THIS!" Skarmory flapped his wings again and called up a massive whirlwind attack, sending Team Enforcers lying away. Gaia and Seth crashed into a wall. Alice was thrown to the ground. The spikes prodded her hide, but it was too thick to do much damage. It still hurt though. Alice felt like that needles were poking through her skin. "Grrr…" She got and lunged at the Skarmory, but another Whirlwind sent her flying into a wall. Seth got up and thought. The Whirlwind was strong enough to send the three of them flying, so the only option, he thought, was to make them heavier. Glancing around, he noticed three large rocks on the floor. He walked over and picked up one. "Gaia! Alice! Pick up these rocks!" Seth called. "Why?" Alice called back.

"Just do it!" Gaia and Alice made their over to the rock pile and picked up a rock each. The Skarmory tried to blow them away with his Whirlwind but because the three of them were holding heavy rocks, they were too heavy to be blown away. "HAHAHAH! You guys are pretty good! But can you take this?" The Skarmory swooped down with a wing glowing white. It was a Air Slash attack. In retaliation, Alice lobbed her rock at him. "Haha! You missed!" His words were cut off as the rock, thrown by Gaia, smashed into his body. Gaia, Seth and Alice run up to the fallen Skarmory and attacked him with Thunder punches, Slashes and Power Gems respectively.

"Ow, Ow, Ow!"

After enduring a minute of this brutal treatment, the Skarmory couldn't take it any longer and burst into silver feathers. The iron bars sunk back into the ground and no longer blocked the door. The treasure chest rose into sight. Gaia went over and opened the chest. Inside were three stone braces. "This is the treasure?" Seth asked sceptically. "There's something written on the inside of the chest," Alice said, "It says: Up is down and down is up." She took a look at her brace. There was part of it that could slide up and down. "Let's give it a try," She slid that part of the brace up. Instantly, she felt something press down on herself. "What the hell?" she cried, "Why do I feel so heavy?"

"You feel heavy?" Gaia asked, surprised. "Yeah! All I did was move part of the brace up!"
"Okay, this place is just crazy. Oh well, let me try." This time Gaia moved the brace down. He felt himself rise from the ground. "Whoa! I'm flying!" Then he landed on the ground. "I guess not…" he said disappointedly, "But maybe." Gaia jumped up. He felt himself rise into the air and slowly descend to the ground. "So this thing increases and decreases gravity." He stated. He switched the brace back to its normal position. "That's nice," Alice growled, "But the thing is, I think I'm going to fall through the floor because I'm so damn heavy!"
"Sorry." Gaia walked over to Alice and switched her get her brace back to normal.

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"Hey, the lock is gone!" Gaia, Seth and Alice were standing in front of the large door. Seth had just noticed that the lock was missing, despite the fact that Gaia and Alice had pointed this out ten seconds earlier. "Thank you Captain Obvious." Gaia said calmly. "No problem fearless leader!" Seth smiled while giving him a thumbs-up. "Shall we go in?"
"Yeah!" Gaia shoved the double doors open and stepped into the next room. Seth and Alice followed. They were now in a room with a weak air current flowing up through the room. "What do we do now?" Seth shouted. "Make yourselves go light! We're going up!" Gaia switches his brace to 'light' mode and floated up. Seth and Alice did the same. It was a strange feeling, being as light as air. The three of them rose through the floors of the tower, seeing many carvings and statues of Flying-Type Pokémon. When they reached the top of the tower, they found themselves face to face with the Altaria that had attacked them at Blue Mountains. "Hello there," the Altaria said, "At the risk of sounding clichéd, I've been expecting you guys."