I see that you've returned. That is wonderful. Let's get going.

I awoke as the older of the Audino walked into my room. "Well that's convenient."

"What?"

"I mean how I awoke the moment you walked in."

"Yeah, I guess so." She walked beside my bed. "Now let's see your injuries." I sat up and she examined my injuries. "They better, but you may still be here for a few more nights."

"Okay." She put a few oran berries on the plate before leaving. I hadn't noticed that it was still there in the middle of the night. Maybe they forgot. Or perhaps they left it because they didn't want to wake me. Whatever the reason, it didn't matter right now.

I walked over and grabbed the plate, then returned to my bed. I finished the oran berries and went outside my room.

I came out to see that Hawlucha was awake. I'm guessing Goldeen and Vibrava are still asleep. "Hey."

He turned to me. "Hello, how are you?"

"I'm fine."

"Your arms say another story. What happened?"

"It just had to be a Sandslash that I rescue."

"That's pretty interesting. So that means you're part of an exploration team?"

"Yes, why would you ask?"

"Just curious." It didn't bother me. I was curious about some things when I came here. Curious about my human life and a few things like exploration teams.

Goldeen came out a bit afterwards. She just floated around in her aqua ring. I hadn't thought about using aqua ring like that. "Morning guys." She's cheery, you can tell.

The younger Audino sister was the first to respond. "Good morning Goldeen. I see you had a nice sleep."

"It was wonderful. Never better."

I was curious as to why Goldeen and Hawlucha were here. And the others know why I'm here, so it's not like it really matters too much if I tell them as well. "I'm curious, why are you here?"

"Me? Well I was a fish out of water for a bit. Audino helped me by taking me here, giving me a water pool, and telling me about this technique. She knew about it because a Swanna told her that aqua ring can be used like this to help us fish pokemon."

"That's actually pretty smart."

"I know. I could use this and make some friends on land as well."

Makes enough sense. "How about you Hawlucha?"

"Just a small fight with a friend of mine. He didn't mean for me to end up here, but hey, things happen."

"Okay."

Amber was stirring when there was a knock on her door. She let out a big yawn and walked towards the door. Before she got there, the door opened, revealing Xavier. "What is it?"

"Haxorus got here about an hour ago. I let you sleep while we set up a bit. But we'll be going soon. So may want to be ready."

"Sure Xavier. I'll be there soon."

"Good." Xavier left Amber's house, closing the door behind him.

Amber looked through her food supply, and took two oran berries for breakfast. She left the house after eating them both. Once she reached the team base, Haxorus turned and welcomed her. "Hey Haxorus. So how we going on the escort?"

"Xavier's meeting the escort at the north end of the wall, because that's where he lives. We'll wait at Spooky Marsh for them. I'll have the badge to access the bag."

"I'm one of the leaders alongside Xavier and Drake. I want to have the badge if we're not taking the bag."

"Reasonable."

Xavier finished putting a items in the bag. "It's ready."

"Let's go Haxorus."

As something to do during the day, we ended up playing a few games. Hawlucha left early, but Goldeen's still here. The older of the Audino sisters was out for an errand.

"Your turn Drake." We were currently playing a game where we thinking of a pokemon, and the others have a few hints they can use to help guess. I called the game 'Guess That Pokemon'.

How about Arcanine. "I'm thinking of a fire type."

Goldeen guessed first. "Is it Charizard?"

"Nope."

Vibrava guess with Charmeleon and then Charmander.

"None of them."

Audino guessed next. "How about Heatmor?"

"No."

There were a some more guesses of Fennekin, Braixen, Delphox, Flareon, Pyroar, Litleo, Houndour, and Houndoom. I said no to them all. Audino was the one who asked "Could we have a hint?"

"I don't think the species is native to this island."

That there stumped Goldeen and Audino. Vibrava would be the only one who could guess it seems. "Nintails or Vulpix? Maybe Growlithe or Arcanine?"

"Arcanine is correct."

Goldeen was the one to complain. "That's cheap. Me and Audino have never been off this island or outside it's ocean territory."

"That's the point. It's supposed to be hard to guess."

Audino started thinking. "I wonder what an Arcanine would be like up close. I'm pretty sure they're the legendary pokemon."

"Actually, that may be a misconception. They're not legendary or mythical. But they're the legendary pokemmon, just like I'm the lizard pokemon, or how you're the hearing pokemon."

"Oh, okay. Would they be the only legendary pokemon in that case?"

"Yes Audino."

"That's interesting."

Then the older of the Audino sisters walked in. "How's it going?"

"Nice. Drake's talking about Arcanine."

"But he's not native to this island." She thought for a moment. "So you're not from here?"

"No, but came here wanting adventure." I lied about that because I didn't want Audino added on the list of pokemon who know my humanity.

"Well you certainly had some back in Icy Forest."

"Yes."

A pokemon was flapping its wings outside, then stopped. We all went out to see. It was a Swanna. "Hello Swanna."

"Hello Charmeleon."

"Actually, my name's Drake."

"Seemed very special to your parents, I'm guessing." She looked at Goldeen. "And I see you've taught your patient what I've taught you."

"Audino told me about how you taught her this technique, using aqua ring like this."

"Yes I did. But your father was worried sick when you were beached. I help sometimes with taking pokemon back to the ocean. Care to say goodbye?"

Goldeen swam in her aqua ring onto Swanna's back. "Bye everyone." We all waved goodbye to her as Swanna flew towards the coast.

The remaining pokemon, Both Audino sisters, Vibrava, and myself, went back inside the hospital. "How about dinner? You two fine if we all eat together?"

I looked at Vibrava. I could tell he was fine with it. For all I know, he's eaten with them before. "We'd be delighted."

The younger Audino left to get some food for dinner from the storage area.

Amber was thinking to herself a bit. This marsh certainly is a bit creepy. But Haxorus isn't the least bit afraid. I bet Drake would also be brave in this situation.

The escort, an Azumarill, was walking alongside Xavier and Haxorus. It was like those two were her shields. The team had come across some pokemon, but Haxorus made them fall quickly. Of course Amber and Xavier had battled a bit too, but Haxorus did most of the work.

Before they found Marill, they were ambushed by a few Ghastly. "Won't be able to beat all of us. That we're sure of."

"Take me on" Haxorus was challenging them all.

All the Ghastly used will-o-wisp. Haxorus jumped to the side, but one still grazed his armour. The rest had ended up hitting Azumarill. "Amber, I packed a rawst berry!" Xavier was helping by slashing at the Ghastly with his bone.

"But how do you access the bag?"

Haxorus asked for the team badge. Amber tossed it to him. "Bag access." The badge started glowing white. "Take rawst berry." Then the badge's glow turned to a light blue, as a rawst berry appeared from the center of the badge. The badge stopped glowing when the berry had appeared. "Give this to Azumarill." He tossed the berry to Xavier, and he brought it to Azumarill. She happily ate it.

Haxorus however was left burned. Amber had to do something because of how many Ghastly there were. Amber shot thundershock after thundershock, taking out Ghastly after Ghastly. By the time they were done, Amber was glowing blue. Xavier and Haxorus looked over at her. "I reconize that glow. It happened in crystal cave." A smile appeared underneath Xavier's bone mask. "My now both my friends will be evolved."

The glow faded, leaving a Flaffy standing in the marsh. Amber looked at her new form. "One thing's for sure. I'll have to get used to standing on two legs now."

Then a Marill ran out from behind a tree. Azumarill ran up and hugged her. "I'm so glad you're okay."

"I saw the glow and followed it Mommy."

"Soo," Amber looked at the team badge. "Bag access." Once again, the badge glowed white. "Take escape orb."

"How'd you know..."

"Wild guess." Everyone placed touched the orb. Then Amber said "Escape to Halliona Town." They were all transported out of the dungeon.

We were all done for today. I could see the Audino sisters were tired. Not so much for me and Vibrava, but we'll need sleep too. "Goodnight guys."

Both of us patients said goodnight, and they left the hospital to their house. Which was next door, I found out today. "Goodnight Vibrava."

"Hope you sleep better tonight."

"Same for you." Then we went into our own rooms right onto our beds.

That's all for chapter eleven. Hope you had fun reading. Please follow, favourite, and review. And I'll see you next time.