Chapter 60:
Mountain Madness
I had flown to Hearthome City yesterday so that I could start the Mt. Coronet immediately today. After all, it would take about three days to make it to the summit, which was hard to believe in an off itself. With Hearthome being so close to it, you can get a clear view of the rocky peak being covered up by the clouds.
It was 5am when I set out, but a crowd of people were waiting for me. Friends that I had encountered on my journey were shouting encouragements at me as I walked down the road.
"When I met you, you were a noob! But now, you are going to stop Sinnoh's biggest threat!"
"If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have started my battle studies!"
"Lucas, thank you for helping me get through Eterna Forest!"
It made me feel, special. It also gave me the courage I needed to continue onwards. This would be a long and difficult trip.
I walked onto Route 208 and, for the first time in a while, saw the waterfall crashing down onto the rocks. Which reminded me, Looker had given me a present before I left today; A Black Flute. This item lowers the encounter rate of Pokémon. I played it and sure enough, multiple Pokémon ran out the grass. Some of them included Ralts, who looked like Kirlia except it had one red horn and its green hair covered its eyes.
Ralts
157
Psychic Type
Feeling Pokémon
Region of origin: Hoenn
1'04" (0.4 m)
14.6 lbs (6.6 kg)
If the horns capture the warm feeling of people or Pokémon, its body warms up slightly.
With that, it was time to enter the caves of Mt. Coronet. The mountain loomed above me as I entered Sinnoh's sleeping giant.
The room where I needed to use Rock Climb to go upwards was also the room where I first met Cyrus. I don't like this room. It was here where I thought Cyrus was your average Joe. A weird average Joe, but an average Joe nonetheless. But that was in the past. It was time to focus on saving the future. "Mamoswine!" I sent out my Rock Climb specialist. "Use Rock Climb!" I hopped on the woolly brown Ice Type and it ran up the rocky wall. It began.
Floor 2f was another winding set of caves though this one had many wooden bridges. There were two exits; one led to an outside section and the other to another room, presumably the next floor. I decided I would get my next good look at the outside before I disappear into the clouds.
Making it over wasn't easy however. There was a big boulder in the way of the path so I had Toxicroak use Strength to move it. Here I also encountered a Pokémon; it was large, pink and had wings underneath its arms.
Clefable
101
Normal Type
Fairy Pokémon
Region of origin: Kanto
4'03" (1.3 m)
88.2 lbs (40 kg)
Its hearing is so acute it can hear a pin drop over half a mile away. It lives on quiet mountains.
Cleffa -Happiness- Clefairy -Moon Stone- Clefable
"Go Mamoswine!" I shouted. Mamoswine suddenly stomped down and made the entire ground shake, or should I say, an Earthquake?! Mamoswine had learned Earthquake! As strong as it was however, Clefable was still standing. Celebrations would have to come later. Clefable started waggling its finger, which meant that it was using Metronome. I told Mamoswine to stay on guard as I wasn't sure what it could be. Sure enough, it was Rock Throw, which didn't do that much to Mamoswine. "Use Rock Climb!" Mamoswine ran up the rocks and then into Clefable; it was down.
"Great job Mamoswine!" I told it. I got out my Black Flute and played it. Time to take an encounter break and go outside.
Upon entering outdoors, I was standing just near a cliff face to the view of Route 207. Not much had changed since I was last there. At the bottom off the cliff was Roark and Byron who were waving.
"We thought we would come check up on you before you ascend!" Roark yelled.
"Remember, keep your nerves of steel!" Byron yelled. "We'll be raiding the Eterna Galactic Building, there might be some important files in there!" Above me, I saw Staraptor flying.
"Oh yeah, thanks for letting us borrow Staraptor" Roark said. "If we find anything, we'll drop it to you!"
I shouted back a thank you and went on my way. Before that though, Staraptor came down with a package. Inside were multiple Full Restores and Max Revives. There was also a note.
Lucas
I just want to wish you luck on saving the universe.
You've grown up so much, the only thing I can do is wish you luck and assist you with these.
Mother
I smiled, put the items in my bag, gave Staraptor a Poffin for its help and then continued my descent.
The next room was nowhere near as big as the last one, but it had a stairway going up. This would bring us to floor 3F. Before I got there though, I ran into a Medicham.
Now unsurprisingly, I don't like Medicham after that incident at Snowpoint City, so I wanted to get this over with as quickly as possible. I sent out Drifblim, who started forming a shadowy blob in front of it. Drifblim fired the blob at Medicham; it was down for the count!
Oh yeah, Shadow Ball! A Ghost Type move much stronger than Ominous Wind!
Upon arrival at 3F, it was starting to get a bit chilly. I decided this would be a good place to rest; I was at the point where it was really starting to snow and I wasn't going to tackle it at night. What I was going to tackle though was the company I had; two Grunts, an M Grunt and F Grunt, were waiting for me. Looks like I couldn't rest quite yet.
"Finally made it up" the M Grunt said, flicking his wig. I got my Pokéball at the ready.
"Oh of course you want to stop Cyrus. Yeah, they're already up the top."
"I won't let you go through with this!" I yelled.
"Stunky!" yelled Grunt F.
"I choose Murkrow!" Grunt M commanded.
"Go Mamoswine and Blissey!" I yelled. Now I had taught Blissey a new move, but first I had Mamoswine use Ice Shard. It fired a chunk of ice at Murkrow for lots of damage.
"Murkrow, Faint Attack!" Murkrow came up to Blissey and hit it.
"Stunky, Night Slash!" Stunky's claw turned black and it swiped Mamoswine with it
"Blissey, ready? Use Focus Blast!" Blissey created a ball of whitish-blue energy. It then fired it at Stunky who was down in one. "Alright! One more Ice Shard and we are good!" Mamoswine used Ice Shard on Murkrow again, giving me the win.
"You're digging your own grave taking on Cyrus!" Grunt M shouted as they just stayed put. Clearly they didn't want anymore intruders. But they couldn't take on me anymore.
Time to get some sleep.
