Pokemon: Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald
By: Daronta
Chapter 21: Numel & Flygon VS Solrock
"Brendan! Brendan where are you!?" Norman called for him.
The only thing young Brendan could see was a blinding light, as he laid on the white gravel floors of a cave.
"Brendan, wake up!"
"Brendan wake up, you're glowing again!" Brendan woke to Flannery's voice and found the back of his hand glowing just like the time at the hot springs.
"I'm sorry, I don't know how to..."
"They look like the markings of Groudon." Flannery interrupted him examining his arm with concern.
"Groudon?" Brendan asked ignoring the fact that she had seen him glow before but figured she was referring to the hot springs at the pokemon center.
"Yes," Flannery replied. "The legendary pokemon of the Hoenn region."
"You mean like Lugia?" Brendan asked.
"What's that?"
"Nevermind," Brendan said hope she'd ignore his last statement. The glowing stopped and Flannery let go of his arm.
"Where are we?" Brendan asked remembering he was on Mount Chimney before fainting in May's whirlpool assault. He found himself laying down in a gym-like building will holes all over the place.
"Well, after we failed to stop Team Aqua from putting the Volcano to sleep under some kind of eternal ice, we retreated back to Lavaridge town." Flannery informed Brendan before getting up, walking over to a pokeball tray and grabbing a pokeball. Flannery then walked back to where Brendan was resting.
"Here, as a Magma grunt you'll need to train with this pokemon," Flannery handed the ball to Brendan. Brendan sat up and took the ball. He noticed his belt and jacket were lying next to him with his other pokeballs. He grabbed two of them, "Can you hold on to these?"
Flannery took the two pokeballs, "Who are they?"
"Vemon and Stereo," Brendan admitted. "I won't need them if I want to get serious as a Magma grunt."
"Seroius?" Flannery thought, "I don't know why Roxanne chose you as a badge holder but I feel like I can trust you."
Brendan's face turned slightly red, he never seen Flannery acting so sincere and trusting.
"You might have a long way to go but," Flannery put a badge into Brendan's hands. "I feel you are the only one that can help us beat Team Aqua and the others."
The others? Brendan thought before he realized what Flannery said. "Wait! Are you only saying this because my arms have the legendary signs of Groudon?!"
Flannery smirked and turned her face away from Brendan, "Maybe."
"You almost had me fooled," Brendan pouted.
Flannery laughed, "I'm sorry, but I do trust you, that's why I gave you the Heat Badge."
"We may have gotten away this time," Brendan said as he wore a serious expression, "but I'll make sure you don't get hurt again."
Flannery looked at Brendan, "If you really want to keep that promise then you need to get stronger."
"Right" Brendan agreed.
"And if you plan to get stronger as a Magma trainer than you should go to the desert on route 111." Flannery advised staring Brendan straight into his eyes.
Brendan nodded getting up and putting on his jacket over his black shirt and belt. He walked to the nearest hole looked back at Flannery who was still looking at him then stepped into the hole and appeared out of the hole near the entrance door.
How'd he know which door would lead him to the front door? Flannery thought in astonishment. Brendan walked out of the gym and Flannery held on to the two pokeballs he gave her.
Brendan climbed down the mountain trail between Lavaridge town and route 111 into the desert. As he reached the desert a younger trainer in a blue cap stopped him.
"Hey you can't go in there without these," the boy hand Brendan a pair of goggles. "The sand blows very hard in there."
"Thanks," Brendan said putting on the goggles and running into the desert with his running shoes, he couldn't go at full speed because of the sand blowing at him and he could barely make out anything in a 3 feet radius.
Flannery probably wants me to catch more ground types to fight with on my Magma missions. As Brendan thought he heard shrieking sound at the south end of the desert and headed straight for the sound.
"This stupid thing won't be put down!" A boy wearing a somewhat cultured blue outfit with a white bow in his hair yelled while pulling down a lizard like creature under a net.
"Don't worry we could drug it!" A girl wearing the exact same outfit suggested while pulling down on the other side of the net.
The creature continues to shriek as the two forces it to the desert sands.
"Umm, what are you two doing?" Brendan stood watching them at a close distance.
"None of your business now go away punk!" Both of then yelled in unison.
"Go," Brendan called out his new pokemon.
"Nuu- mel," the little yellow camel yawned.
"Use ember," The little camel shot puny flames at of its back but burned just enough holes in the net to the large green lizard free. It flapped its diamond shaped wings and flew up revealing it dragon like body.
"Fly-gun!" The green dragon roared taking off into the sky above and circled around Brendan and the twins.
"Aww, you'll pay for that one!" the boy whined.
"In the name of Rayquaza! Go Lunatone!" The girl called.
"Solrock, rise and shine!" The boy called.
[Solrock]
Solrock, the Meteorite Pokémon. Solrock has the ability to read its opponent's minds. It attacks by rotating quickly while giving off and intense heat. Sunlight is the only source of Solrock's power. It can float silently through the air.
Pokedex:
LUNATONE was discovered at a location where a meteorite fell. As a result, some people theorize that this POKEMON came from space. However, no one has been able to prove this theory so far. LUNATONE becomes active around the time of the full moon. Instead of walking, it moves by floating in midair. The POKEMON's intimidating red eyes cause all those who see it to become transfixed with fear.
A moon and sun-like pokemon appeared in front of them levitating in the sandstorm. The moment the pokemon were completely released, the sandstorm cleared around the three trainers.
"Go, Fang, Blaze, come out!" Brendan called releasing the young fowl and the hyena pokemon.
"Let's go for team Magma!" The Mightyena snarled at the twin's pokemon making them feel hesitant to attack.
"Let's see if you can attack when we use Sandstorm!" The two rock psychic pokemon released the protection from the blowing sand amongst the three causing the sand storm to blind Brendan.
I can't see and they can't either, but that Solrock can predict the enemies' moves. What should I do now? How can I get strong if I can't beat someone that isn't even from Team Aqua?" Brendan started worrying because of the situation at hand.
"Fly-gun!" The green dragon swooped down blowing a green flame at the levitating rock pokemon.
"Thanks," Brendan said pulling out his pokedex holding on to it tightly.
[Flygon]
Flygon, the Mystic Pokémon. Flygon is the evolved form of Vibrava. It's known as the desert spirit because of the song-like voice that emanates from the sandstorms it kicks up. To prevent detection by enemies, it hides itself by flapping up a cloud of desert sand.
The dragon flapped away the sandstorm, though the sand still blew, Brendan could see again. He saw his Numel sitting in the same spot he summoned it but his Mightyena and Combusken were gone.
Where are they, I usually feel them digging underground if Fang used dig but now their presence is gone, as if the sand if messing with my awareness. Brendan thought to himself looking for his pokemon.
The green flames cleared and the two levitating pokemon were still floating.
"We're not done with you yet!" The girl twin screamed.
"Aww, I hate batting in the desert," The boy groaned. "I can't see."
"Darn it Tate, you bark bigger than you bite!" The girl grabbed Tate by the neck.
"And you bite worst than you bark, Liz," Tate stated with a bored expression as Liz caught him by the neck.
"The sand beneath them lit up and a roar was released as two pokemon burst out of the sand towards the levitating pokemon.
"BLAZ-E-KAN!" A new fire colored bird pokemon roared kicking the sun-like pokemon to the sky as the Hyena crunched down on the Moon-like pokemon breaking the exterior coating.
"Blaze!" Brendan exclaimed. "You evolved!"
"Lunatone!" Liz cried.
Tate returned to a state of awareness that contrasted the surrender attitude he gave off a moment ago.
"It's okay Liz!" Tate assured his twin sister. "We'll heal him with the moon stones at the gym.
Liz retrieved her moon pokemon back into its pokeball. Tate waited for Solrock to fall down into the sand before returning it to its pokeball.
"We're late to that Wally kid's training anyway," Liz admitted as the two glided away through the desert sand, heading out of the desert.
"Did they say Wally?"
-To Be Continued-
Brendan's Team:
Eevee Lvl 36 [Dig, Bite, Shadow Ball, Return]
Blaziken (Blaze) Lvl 36 [Sky Uppercut, Peck, Fire Spin, Double Kick]
Mightyena (Fang) Lvl 27 [Tackle, Roar, Bite, Dig]
Dustox Lvl (Vemon) Lvl 23 [Left with Flannery]
Loudred (Stereo) Lvl 21 [Left with Flannery]
Numel (Rupton) Lvl 21 [Ember, ?, ?, ?]
Flygon (Uncaptured) Lvl 50
May's Team:
Marshtomp (Kippy) Lvl: 35 Confidence
Swellow (Lola) Lvl: 26
Skitty (Kitty) Lvl: 30 Cute
Mawile (Wile-Wile) Lvl: 25 Pride
Feebas (MiMi) Lvl 18 Beauty & Grace
Wally's Team:
Grovyle (Forest) Lvl 35 [Pound, Leaf Blade, ?, ?]
Kirlia (Grace) Lvl 35 [Growl, Confusion, ?, ?]
Nincada (Sniper is now Ninja) Lvl 25 [Scratch, ?]
Shedinja () Lvl 25
Roselia () Lvl 40 [Poison Sting, Ingrain, Mega Drain, ?]
Tropius () Lvl 41 [Whirlwind, ?, ?, ?]