So, here we are, chapter 10, and we are hovering right around 900 views as of the day I began writing this chapter, That's incredible! Honestly, I had no idea that so many people would enjoy this little hobby of mine! I plan on continuing this story till the end of the adventure and hope to write other stories along with this one. I will have one more announcement at the end of this chapter, so please read that, it is pretty exciting stuff.
But, this being the 10th chapter I would like to do something special here, so this chapter is going to be spent introducing the last member of our heroic trio, Snivy. So buckle up for a nice chapter all about this little character who has avoided our team, up until now.
"No way," Serperior yelped at her son's request, "I will not allow my son to go galavanting off through the forest filled with miscreants and delinquents!"
"But mom," was all Snivy could interject before his mother again explained, quite loudly, that he would not be allowed to join Charmander and Totodile in their day's work.
After his ears stopped ringing, Snivy turned and stomped off down the hallway leading to the living quarters, fuming over his argument.
'Not strong enough, she says, too young she, says. Well, I'll show her! Watch me mom, I'll help people if I want to!'
He rolled this thought over in his head as he entered his room. Snivy's room was full of little vines that crept up the walls and furniture as a result of him practicing his attacks over and over each day.
In the center of the room was a small metal stand with a little grass hammock suspended in the air. Snivy crawled up into his hammock and curled up in a little green ball, grumbling to himself over his utter defeat at the hands of his protective mother.
'I know she just wants me to be safe, but I want to make sure everyone else is safe too!'
Snivy's anger began to turn into a soft understanding of his mother's words as he layed in his bed, and soon his understanding turned into formulating. He was obviously going out on a job today, with whom he had no idea, but he was.
After all he knew where to get all of the resources he would need for dungeon crawling, he had his own bag, sewn up by Zoey herself and shaped like a big green leaf, and all the oran berries he would need from the garden or kitchen. But there was one item he would need more than anything, an Orb of Returning.
That was the hardest part. He knew where they were, just not how to get a hold of one. The orbs were always kept directly behind his mother's throne.
He would need to be stealthy to get a hold of one, but that wouldn't be too hard, snakes are sneaky enough right? He could slip behind his mom and grab one, he just had to stay quiet and keep a low profile. But, a little green snake like him would be spotted a mile away against the golden brown color of the throne room floor, and he had a perfect idea on how to fix that.
Snivy admired his handiwork in the mirror suspended in his bed room. Snivy had fashioned a nice golden brown cloak out of a larger leaf and a vine from his room's wall. His new outfit was tied shut just around his neck and pulled the top together like a hood over his head. The rest of the leaf hid the majority of his body and tail. The only thing that was visible of his actual bod was his snout and the large leaf at the end of his tail.
'Lookin' good,' he thought to himself as he admired his new style. 'This will work perfectly for what I need it, and I will look really cool to boot!'
'But I don't have time for that now, if I want to finish an expedition before tonight I need to get going!' And with that he bolted out of his room and down the hallway.
Snivy was breathing carefully from his position, he was sitting silently behind one of the pillars situated to the left of his mother's throne. He was waiting for a good time to run for the spot behind his mother's throne while she was distracted, and his moment soon came when his mother yawned rather loudly.
Seeing his moment he bolted forward as quietly as possible directly behind his mother's throne, took one of the spare orbs and continued running. He was hidden behind a pillar on the opposite side of the room before his mother had finished yawning.
He thanked Arceus for his natural speed and sprinted off down the hall to his room.
Upon arriving in his room Snivy let out the breath he had been saving since he began his first sprint and admired his handiwork. 'And the prize for the best thief goes to, me.'
He smiled and walked over to the window in his room. He grabbed his bag, stuffed the Orb of Returning inside, and, as he had done many times before, began to descend the huge tree that stood just outside the window that was down the hall from his bedroom.
'Oh my Arceus I actually did it! Here I go!' He ran of down the hill of the castle quickly and didn't stop until he arrived at the bulletin board that Charmander and Totodile took their jobs off of.
'Now,' he thought, 'Which one should I take on today?'
As he scanned the board for a suitable job, none stuck out to him as interesting or important, except one. This one in particular seemed to be hidden slightly behind some of the other papers on the board.
Snivy picked the paper out from under the others and read it to himself. 'A rescue? From Drop Rock Valley, huh? Well, I have the type advantage there so I guess this is the one me,'
Snivy looked at the picture of the vulpix attached to the paper before tucking it into his bag and walking off down the road towards the gate that would lead to his destination.
Snivy looked up at the sheer cliffs around him as he crept through Drop Rock Valley. He hadn't seen and sorf of wild Pokemon as of yet, but he was ready for a fight at any moment.
Almost on cue Snivy dove to the side to avoid an oncoming rockslide sent his way by a wild Geodude.
Snivy grinned to himself as he landed on his feet across from the enemy and immediately broke into a serpentine sprint in its direction. Before the poor Geodude know what was happening Snivy was on top of him with a brutal vine whip aimed at its face. It was fainted before it even hit the ground.
"And that's why training pays off!" He yelled to no one in particular. He was celebrating to himself as he continued walking.
He pulled the paper out of his bag and uncrumpled it to read it. 'Shouldn't be long now,' he thought, 'This says that they didn't make it very far into the dungeon before getting caught up.'
Snivy shrugged and put the paper away in his bag with all of his other items. 'Mom's gonna eat her words when I show up in front of her with a rescue under my belt.' He laughed and looked around some more as he walked. He noticed that as he went further into the canyon it seemed to get deeper down constantly.
His deep thoughts on the topic were however cut off by a searing warmth on his left leg that caused him to fall over suddenly and smash his snout off the rocky floor.
"Ow, who the heck…" he started to say as he got up, until he saw what had attacked him.
Cowering up against the wall of the canyon was a small little fox Pokemon with seven perfectly groomed tails shivering behind it. "S-stay back!" It threatened weakly.
Snivy stood up slowly and pulled the paper out of his bag, "Hey woah, calm down I'm here to help you," he said calmly presenting the paper to the Pokemon.
"Oh thank Arceus!" The little Pokemon said before running over and nuzzling Snivy's leg, "W-we need to go before the guy who I was hiding from comes back!
Before Snivy had time to question anything the ground began shaking violently.
"Oh no!" The little Vulpix breathed before she ran off to hide behind a rather large boulder sitting a few feet away from where they were standing.
Snivy took off after her and hid behind the rock with her, peeking out around the side of the large boulder. Into view came a Graveler who seemed to be carrying a smaller rock.
Snivy's heart skipped a beat when he saw what the Graveler was carrying, a fainted Geodude. 'Aw come on! Cut me some slack that was a good fight for me!' he thought to himself as he observed the scene before him.
The Graveler put the Geodude down in the corner carefully before yelling loudly, "Hey bro, get up and help me here!"
The rock that Vulpix and Snivy were hiding behind began to tremble and suddenly rolled away from them and stood up into the form of a second Graveler. "Yea bro?" It said to to the other Graveler.
"Looks like that little trespasser we saw earlier has been busy," The first one said.
"Yea, looks like we are gonna need to find her soon," he said turning back around.
At that moment, everyone in the immediate area froze in place.
Snivy instinctively rushed into his bag to pull out his Orb of Returning, but only just got his hand around it before a volley of rocks crashed into his side.
He yelped as he was thrown into the Vulpix and they both went tumbling head over heels into the side of the canyon.
Snivy opened his eyes and saw the two gravelers standing over them. They were both smirking and laughing as they looked over their targets.
"Looks like we got ourselves two new prisoners here, huh brother," the first one said. The other one just laughed and nodded. Both, however, stopped when Snivy mumbled something under his breath as he layed on top of the trembling Vulpix, barely grasping onto consciousness.
"What was that, runt?" The first one asked, and both bent closer to Snivy to hear.
"Home!" He yelled and pulled the Orb of Returning out of his bag to hoist it above his head.
There was a loud boom and a flash of blue light and the two youth were gone, leaving the Gravelers in the canyon coughing from the dust that was kicked up.
Snivy and Vulpix felt the weightlessness of instant teleportation and then the sudden thud of being thrown onto the floor of the throne room, much to it's inhabitants dismay.
At the moment Snivy and Vulpix arrived back, Charmander and Totodile were handing Serperior a stack of completed rescue missions for the day, which were dropped to the floor immediately at the sight of Snivy's bruised and cut body.
"OH ARCEUS ABOVE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY BOY!" Serperior screamed as she slithered over to her son who was laying on the floor, still on top of the Vulpix he had rescued.
Snivy laughed weakly and looked at his mom, smiling, "Hey mom, I, uh might of, sorta' went out today.
Serperior in that moment was ready to lock her son in his room forever, but was cut off before she could chew him out by the Vulpix that Snivy had saved.
She stood up under Snivy to help him up then embraced him in a tight hug, "Oh thank you! If it weren't for you those Graveler would of smashed me into a pancake! I basically owe you my life!"
Serperior slithered back and kept quiet while her son and his damsel in distress spoke.
Snivy smiled and laughed, "No problem, really. If i hadn't come those two would've anyway," he gestured to Charmander and Totodile.
The vulpix laughed and let him go, Well, all the same thank you! But, uh, can you tell he how to get home?" Snivy directed her to the door and explained to follow the path to the castle grounds gate. Vulpix gave Snivy another little hug before running off happily to the village below.
Snivy turned to his mother with a smug look to which she laughed angrily, "If you think that I'm just going to let you go with them, just because you completed one job, you are sadly mistaken."
Snivy's smirk grew ever larger and his mother's composure was slipping.
After a solid three minutes of awkward silence Serperior broke, "Fine! You may accompany them when they leave! But don't think your little excursion will go un punished young man!"
Snivy clapped and hugged his mother around the midsection and ran off to speak with Charmander and Totodile, who were both standing in silence at what they had just witnessed.
Alright Chapter 10 is complete and with the story hovering around 930 views the day I posted it I am sure that it will break 1000 with this chapter! So that's exciting!
The only other thing I wanted to say was sorry for the about a week I haven't posted, I was taking a short break for Thanksgiving and Black Friday, hope you all understand.
But please remember to follow the story if you are liking it, and leave a review telling me how I did. Also remember that you may submit a review or a private message to me if you would like to see any of YOUR characters appear in future chapters.
But, anyway with our little trio finally together we can get to the real exciting stuff, including an explanation to Charmander's, shall we say, abnormalities. But that is for next chapter, so, Char OUT.