Pokémon Quest Installment 10 is out!

I'm soooo sorry it took so long. Installment 11 will probably take a bit of time and I have a mission's trip.

"Dang!" Zane muttered as he strained his eyes to see. "I can't see ANYTHING in this light!"

"Why don't you get Torchic to light up the room?" Katarina asked Zane. "She could use Ember to make a flashlight effect, or wecould grab some sticks and have her light those to make torches."

"Making torches isn't that simple, Kat," Zane sighed, pulling his old, torn shirt out of his bag. "The stick doesn't just burn. You need cloth."

"Well then rip that shredded shirt," Katarina said, growing tired of everything. "We don't have all day."

"I actually thought I'd put this old, scraggy, crappy little rag on, actually," Zane replied shoving his tongue out at his best friend. "I thought that might be fun."

*Smack!*

Zane stumbled backwards, falling to his knee. He lost his balance after that and fell to his side. After laying there for a minute, he jumped up and faced Katarina.

"Ow," was his only reply.

Zane tore the shirt into two ragged cloths and picked up two long, thin stones on the ground. He began to tie the shirts together with the stones. Soon he had two unlit stone torches.

"Let's go, Amber!" Zane called, throwing a Pokéball into the air. It opened, briefly lighting up the area with a red light.

"Torchic!" Amber chirped, looking at her master.

"Can you light these stone torches?" Zane asked her with a smile. "Please?"

Torchic opened her beak and shot out a small jet of flame. It looked like a microscopic Flamethrower, as opposed to as Ember attack. Zane would have to hone this skill.

But the fire type got the job done, and they walked in the cave with their torches lighting the way in fronting them.

Finally they reached a dead end. Except it wasn't a dead end; there was a small hole that a small Pokémon could get through. Zane knew that was where the pair of Bagon must have gone. After checking the depth of the wall and finding it to be about an inch, Zane came up with an idea.

"Sol, let's go," Zane said, tossing a Pokéball to the wall. Sol popped out of the ball, growling and expecting a battle. She was very confused when she stood up in a cave.

"Sol?" She asked.

"Can you use Slash on this wall, Sol?" Zane asked her. "I'll give you a nice treat in Fallabor Town."

Sol looked at him funny for a minute before violently twisting her neck. The scythe on her head had smacked against the wall hard, but to no avail. There was a small scratch in the rocky wall.

"Sol, what other moves do you know?"

Sol turned away and used a Razor Wind attack. She then did it flip and smashed her tail into the ground, breaking up some smaller rocks. It was like an Iron Tail of sorts-

"Sol, you can use Iron Tail!" Zane yelled, shocked completely. "Use it on the wall!"

"Sol!" Sol cried as she rammed her tail into the wall. It shattered, and the group went through.

There was a nice clearing, full of Dragon Types. (Axew, Dratini, Bagon, and Larvitar.) They were gathered around a pool with an island staring at the group. And they looked pissed off.

A Bagon in the center looked over at Zane, obviously the leader of the group. He seemed to be issuing a challenge to the intruders. He got up and ran at Sol with a look of sadistic violence.

"Sol, use Razor Wind to push him back!" Zane cried, noting the aggressive charge the Bagon just performed.

"Ab... Sol!" Sol grunted, slashing her scythe through the air. The wind blew her competitor far back, barely staying out of the water.

"What other moves do you know?" Zane asked his companion. "We need range in this battle. His Headbutt will be super strong."

Sol opened her mouth, forming a ball of blue energy in front of it. It shot off little jolts of some kind of element. It soared through the air and hit the Bagon, encasing it in a ball of ice.

Ice Beam.

"Alright! Lets catch him!" Zane shouted, lobbing a Pokéball at the leader of the dragon pack. It hit the icy mass and bounced back a few feet before bursting open and absorbing the Bagon.

It began to vibrate. (A common misconception is that the ball wiggles three times. It begins to vibrate and as time passes and the Pokémon grows weary, it slows until it stops moving.)

Finally the shaking of the ball stopped and it lay at rest. Zane had caught a Bagon.

"Draco, clear out the room!" Zane said, tossing the Pokéball up. His new Pokémon then used Skull Bash on every dragon type in the cove.

Then the water began to froth.

-Count Blaziken III