Siam awoke, though refused to open his eyes. He could feel a wet cloth being dabbed against his forehead, the cool water leaked out and across his face. As slowly as he could, Siam opened his eyes, to find himself looking up at the Dewford nurse. She pulled the cloth away and smiled at him "Good morning", he smiled back and gauged his surroundings; he was in the Dewford pokemon centre, "It's ok, you're safe. You had a slight fever, but it's coming down now". He began to sit up to be greeted by her hand gingerly resting on his chest, trying to lightly push him back down. "Please don't get up, You're not well" her eyes drifted to up past his eyes, Siam knew what she was looking at. He gently took her hand and pulled it away from his chest while he confidently sat up, not taking his eyes off hers. "Y-You have some people who want to speak to you" She said, blushing under his gaze and gently pulling her hand out of his.
She opened the door and gestured in two men, Siam recognised the old sailor immediately, but the other man was strange to him. "I'm glad to see you are doing well" the stranger said, approaching Siam "My name is Steven, I was in the cave when your fever started, do you remember me?" Siam shook his head slowly, a slight twinge of pain shot through him, but he ignored it. Realising the name, Siam looked around the rest of the room; Sitting beside his bed were the Nuzleaf and Linoone, and hanging above him was the happy little Zubat. When she caught his glance, Lucilla smiled open mouthed and chirped a little. Siam smiled only slightly, and with the pointer finger and thumb of each hand made a rectangular shape. Lucilla tilted her head and furrowed her brow for a moment, before hopping up and trotting over to Siam's bag. After rifling through his bag, the Nuzleaf trotted happily back over to the bed and offered Siam the Letter. Taking the letter, Siam took a moment to scratch Lucilla's head before turning back to Steven, handing him the envelope"Oh? A letter for me?". Steven took the envelope gratefully and tucked it away "Why thank you, It must have been some trouble to track me down. I suppose I must repay you in some way." Siam shook his head, but Steven did not see it"Here, take this TM" He placed a memory drive on the table beside the bed "Please accept it. It contains my favorite move, Steel Wing.". The man then back away a few steps, bowed low to each person in the room, and left.
The old man stood beside Siam's bed with an enormous grin "Oho! It looks like you delivered your chit good and proper. Though in a roundabout way" They both laughed, Siam's chuckles making no sound. "Ah, but that reminds me!" He pulled a hastily scrawled not from his pocket "You got a call from President Stone, says he has another favor to ask" Mr. Briney seemed to have difficulty reading his own handwriting "It's about them Devon Parts that you recovered for him before." A pokeball dropped on Siam's lap, he tossed it back up where it came from absentmindedly "Seems as though they should go to some fellow called Stern at Slateport's shipyard, the bird that was carrying them could only make it as far as here in Dewford." The old sailor shoved the note back into his pocket "This old seadog will see you there safely! Weigh anchors lad! We're for Slateport!" The old man was headed off before the door by the Nurse.
"He's not going anywhere. He needs to rest, and he can't do that on some random errand." The nurse had a serious expression, and would not move from the doorway. Siam grabbed the pokeball off the bed and tossed it upwards without thinking. "I'm sorry but you're in no condition to be out of bed." She looked pleadingly at Siam, who simply tossed the Pokeball in his hand back up into the air while he swung his legs out of the bed. The nurse looked shocked from the old man to Siam "By rights you shouldn't even be awake right now, let alone able to sit up" He wiped his eyes and smiled faintly, he placed his hands on either side of him as he sat on the edge of the bed. "You won't be able to stand though-"She began sweetly, but her face twisted in confusion when Siam did stand, though shakily. "B-but you can't!" The poor woman's face had a mixture of fear and bewilderment as she watched Siam start to walk around the bed to his bag. "N-No, you've had enough sedatives to take down a Primeape for at least three days. You can't be awake, let alone walking"Siam had noticed that his red cloak was gone. He grabbed his bag, and weakly walked to the door. "Please. Don't do this!"The shock on her face was plainly evident as he drew closer and closer. He nodded slowly, almost going as far as to bow, before continuing past her. The old man shrugged his shoulders and tried to assure the nurse that Siam was in good hands, he would be fine, but she just stared after him for a while. Lucilla, Antony and Vipsania, carrying the pokeball, followed Siam down the stairs and out of the centre. "Wait!" She yelled, racing down the stairs after him. Siam stopped only a few steps outside of the Pokemon Centre, the nurse running up behind him. "If you're not going to rest, please at least accept this?" She held up a large square of green fabric. "I got a bunch of them at one of those contest halls, a man was just handing them out" she folded it in half along the diagonal and held it up for him. Siam sighed and lent forward, which she took as encouragement. The nurse quickly tied the Green bandana onto Siam's head and tucked it in at the back. "Now people might not stare at the bandages at least. Be careful?" Siam smiled and nodded, before turning away and continuing on to the boat.
Siam was sitting at the bow of the yacht as it bounced along in the waves. It was mid afternoon when, after a short set of push-ups, Siam walked back to the helm. "Do you see something up ahead lad?" Siam shook his head and attempted to mimic the weird finger movements he'd seen the man make from time to time when talking. "Ahh, signing? Didn't know if you read lips or something, so this old seaman assumed you might be more comfortable with signing." Siam's head started to slowly roll to the left as one eyebrow raised "But when I saw your bandages I realised that this might be new and not a problem with your hearing, just your voice" Siam nodded slowly, quite impressed with the old man's perceptive capabilities "The course to Slateport will take another full day, when we anchor for the night I can try and teach you a little if you like" Siam nodded thanks and moved away, best to leave the sailor to full command of his vessel. At the side of the ship he held out his right hand; palm up and fingers slightly curled. He held this position for only a short time before the Zubat closed in and lowered the pokeball into his waiting fingers. He turned it over in his hand for a few minutes before tapping it twice with the pointer finger of the hand he held it in. A streak of red light erupted from it, and the great blue serpent materialized in the sea beside the boat. Vipsania the Zubat became ecstatic, flitting around the beasts head happily.
The great serpent, Duilius, kept pace easily with the boat, easily cruising along beside it. Siam simply stood on deck and stared at it for a while, he didn't move a muscle as he focused on the creature's eyes. After little less than an hour, the boat slowed to a stop. While Duilius watched, Siam moved to stand at the bow of the yacht, hands by his sides and feet apart. The Gyarados moved around to the front of the ship, towering over the small man. It roared, but Siam did not flinch. Instead he simply lowered his body, sliding his left leg forward and pivoting his torso to face ro his right. Siam's right arm hung up behind him and his left down by his left leg. Duilius lunged forward, spraying the ship with water in the process. The head of the Blue serpent went over Siam as he slid himself underneath, with his left hand he pushed up on Duilius' underside while turning. His right fist was brought up and crashed hard into the now lifted chin of the Gyarados. It pulled back from the ship and eyed Siam once again. After a moment it struck again at Siam, which again he avoided and struck back. For close to three hours the giant serpent lunged and snapped its mighty jaws at the man. But in time Siam tired, his heavy panting and sweating finally catching up to him. The moment Siam walked away however, Duilius stopped, he reached beneath the waterand returned to the surface with a collection of fish pokemon, which Mr. Briney eagerly prepared for dinner. "After an show like that, we likely won't get into Slateport until after nightfall tomorrow lad"