Long drawn out breaths trying to calm the fast paced beating in his chest. Standing still against the cold stone wall of the cavern he hides in, listening for even the slightest of movement that would warn him to continue running. He waits, and waits, until concluding he's finally alone. Losing all sense of how long he had been running from his pursuer as the sun begins to set past the canopy of the woods. Finally calming his heart he sits down onto the hard surface of the cavern floor, sprawling his collected goods down in front of him from out of a small brown pouch. Ten coins, a shiny golden bracelet, and an empty circular silver locket.
"I knew eventually you would find a place of rest, thief." A startling voice coming from above, the thief looks up as a flash of green envelops his view. In only a split second he had found himself face down on the cavern floor with both his hands behind his back, "You're a slippery one i'll give you that, but I was always going to catch you in the end, Sableye."
Looking up as much as his neck would allow him he sees a Grovyle, the same one that had been chasing him through these woods all day. "It's no use struggling, it's over," being lifted off the ground he only now notices the cuffs that were placed on his wrists, most likely done the moment he was jumped. Now leaning against the cavern wall the sableye had to watch as his stolen goods were scooped up into the grovyle's own small brown pouch, one that had been pulled from a large carrying bag strapped to his back. "Damnit, it's already gotten dark," the grovyle turning his attention to the cuffed thief, "As much as I want to bring you and your stolen goods back to the guild it's too dangerous to go at night, so I guess we're stuck with each other through the night. So do me a favor and sit tight, im to tired to deal with more struggling."
The grovyle sat on the other side of the cavern leaning against it's wall constantly watching his caught bounty. Eventually pulling out a fresh apple from his bag which was now set next to him, as the grovyle gave the sableye a curious gaze. The sableye was now shifting in his spot, not struggling but looked more concerned, what the grovyle found strange was the sableye didn't seem concerned about him or the goods he had just lost.
"Sit still your driving me crazy over here," the sableye ignores his command, "Look I don't want to be here anymore then you do, but it's your fault I had to chase you all the way to the edge of the woods." The sableye stops his constant movement and now has his focus deeper into the cavern where the darkness takes over. Sableye knew he should be able to see past that darkness since his species could see exceptionally well in the dark, he knew that if he could not see past that darkness it only meant one thing about this place.
"Not much of a talker are you?" The sableye turns his gaze to his captor. "I mean I get that I captured you and all but usually thieves I take down can't stop talking." The two continue to sit in awkward silence as the sableye no longer rips his gaze from the deeper part of the cavern.
"I know you're not talking but this is a question I always like to ask. Why exactly did you steal this stuff anyways?" No response is once again given, "Come on, at least make this night go fast-" The grovyle is immediately cut off and startled to his feet as a low rumble emanates from deeper within the darkness of the cavern. The sableye follows in standing preparing himself for what's headed directly at them. "Oh no, I was so busy watching you I failed to properly check this cavern." A large three foot all around boulder rolls out of the darkness, sprouting two legs and four arms both made of the same stone material, "A hidden dungeon."
"Graveler!" The stone pokemon readies itself for combat against both its surprised adversaries. The grovyle now stands quickly thinking about how to deal with this situation. If he fights the graveler his bounty has a chance to run, if he keeps the bounty from running he will be a sitting ducklett. "Graveler!" Before he can even finish thinking the graveler rolls back into a ball and charges him faster than one would expect a rock to move. Grabbing his bag and moving out of the way with blinding speed the graveler connects to the cavern wall with strong impact, shaking and sending a crack in the stone up the cavern walls causing the roof to crumble and break as rocks now fall and block off the entrance. The grovyle dodges the falling rocks with ease, but the sableye barely manages to move out of the way as his binding makes it all the more difficult.
"Well at least that solves one of my problems." Grovyle quickly rushes the briefly dazed graveler as he moves just in range to tag him with a vine producing from the palm of his hand as it attaches to the rock pokemon. Immediately after the graveler collects it's focus the vine glows red as grovyle feels its energy being drained from his opponent only to give himself more. He swiftly dashes backwards soon after to dodge the gravelers stone fist coming down on top of him. "Thank Arceus for type advantages."
"Graveler!" Another rolling charge easily dodged by the grovyle, as it now heads for the sableye who now notices the chains on his cuffs have been trapped under a large rock immobilizing him from moving. Just as the sableyes life is about to flash before his eyes the attack is knocked off course as grovyle slams his weight into the graveler from the side sending it into another wall. The sableye looks at his captor confused he was the one who saved his life.
"What? Just because I want you behind bars doesn't mean I don't have an obligation to protect others. Even if those others are thieves like you." Grovyle not realizing he got distracted in a fight turns to see the graveler already barreling towards him with little to no time for a reaction. Before the graveler impacts however both are blinded by a bright flash of white light engulfing their eyes for what seemed like forever, but was really only a few seconds. "What is this?!"
Grovyle quickly looks around as he slowly regains his vision noticing the graveler laying in a pile of rocks unconscious. Confused he looked towards the sableye who looks more tired than before. Was that the thief? Questions began racing through his mind as he blankly stares at his bounty, only snapping out of it as he realizes he is trying to struggle his cuffs free from under the rock. "Oh right, here let me give you a hand." Grovyle takes a few seconds to find a good grip on the rock as he prepares himself to lift it. "I lift you pull, one, two, three." Grovyle lifts with all of his remaining strength as the sableye pulls with him, eventually freeing him from under the rock. "There we go, but now we have another problem." His gaze turns to the now blocked off wall. "Digging out will take forever, not to mention it could cause more harm than good now that the roof is unstable."
The sableye taps the grovyle on the leg with his clawed foot to grab his attention, then points at the now discovered entrance to a dungeon. "You must be joking, I'm too exhausted to keep an eye on you and deal with wild pokemon." Sableye looks back at the blocked entrance, "Then again what choice do I have at this point." With a heavy sigh grovyle reaches into his back pulling out a blue berry the size of an orange and immediately shoves it in the sableyes mouth much to his surprise. "Here, I don't want you slowing me down while we are going through the dungeon." The sableye turns around to present his cuffs as the grovyle starts eating a bery of the same kind, "Oh no, I'm not falling for any of your little tricks."
(Hidden Caverns: Floor 1)
After entering the dark area within the beginning of the cavern they are met with a clearing in the earth they walk in, mainly empty aside from the 2 pathways on opposite ends of the clearing. Grovyle held to the chains that kept the sableyes hands cuffed behind his back as grovyle picked a direction and started walking with the reluctant sableye in tow. This dungeon was dark, so dark you could not see more than five feet in front of you, that is if you couldn't see in the darkness like sableye. As sableye watched grovyle wonder around the one area before finally finding a pathway he wondered just how lost they were going to end up here.
"So far we haven't run into any wild pokemon, good progress i'd say." Grovyle was constantly scanning the little surroundings he could see waiting for that moment something jumped at them. "You know I haven't heard a single word or really any noise from you in the last few hours, in fact the entire chase as well. You must be really committed to this silence thing."
The sableye didn't respond as expected, at least not in the way that grovyle was expecting. Grovyle looked at his captive as he stopped them in the middle of a clearing confused. As he looked down he could see sableye opening his mouth like he was going to talk and then nothing. Grovyle pondered what he was looking at for a minute, at first he thought perhaps he was choking on something, but then, "Wait a minute, you can't talk can you?" The sableye responded with a nod, "That's why you weren't talking to me or warning me about the dungeon ahead of time. Well this just got more interesting, that aside we need to keep moving." They continue along so far no encounters which made sableye confused, he knows there are usually wild pokemon in cave systems like this, especially when that system is a dungeon. Looking around to see if he could even spot any better then grovyle could he had a thought comes to mind, there is one pokemon that live in dungeons like this that aren't usually on the ground, in fact they are… Up!
"Skreee!" Just as sableye had the realization to look up a small blue eyeless bat with purple wings flying near the roof of the clearing had swooped down and back up at grovyle hitting him with a wing, receiving a grunt of pain from his captor in response.
"Zubat, just when things were going smoothly, curse Arceus for type advantage." Grovyle looked up but was severely disadvantaged by the darkness no matter where he looked. Sableye however could see clearly that the zubat was coming in for another attack and instinctively pulled at his cuffs, yanking grovyle out of the way. "Hey your not getting- wait, did you help me?" Sableye didn't have time to respond as he was tracking the zubats movements waiting for the next strike. "Oh I see what your doing!"
"Skree! Skree!" The zubat was swinging down for another wing attack but grovyle watched sableyes head tracking its movements and readied himself. As the zubat came within grovyle's five feet of sight it was met with a pound from his fist sending the zubat flying, but it was still looking for more. "Skree!"
"It doesn't sound like it's backing down." Once more following sableyes tracking he was able to counter zubats attack. In the brief moment sableye had he tried pulling on his cuffs as if asking to be let go. "I appreciate the help but I don't think we are there quite yet." Once more counter attacking the zubat they heard a faint thud on the cavern floor, grovyle looking at sableye expression to confirm it had fainted.
"Alright new plan, you're gonna be my eyes in this place since you can see what I cannot." Grovyle still holding onto the chain took a step back making sableye the lead of the two. Grovyle began to wonder many things as he was being led by his bounty into another hallway. Why has he been helping me ever since iv'e caught him? Is it to save his own skin, or perhaps there is more than just a thief in front of me? That light, I've never seen anything like it from a sableye before, maybe I should try to learn more before I take him back.
Grovyle came out of his thoughts as they eventually stopped at what looked like a stone archway standing in the middle of a clearing they had just entered. Inside the archway of stone looks to be a glowing purple energy suspended to only the stone surrounding it. "After you." Grovyle instructed as he awaited sableye to walk forward. With hesitation sableye walked forward into the energy with grovyle not to far behind.
(Hidden Caverns: Floor 2)
Once again finding themselves in a clearing similar to the one they had just entered sableye looked around confused at what had just happened. Grovyle noticing this looks confused at the sableyes confusion. "Have you never been inside of a dungeon before?" Sableye responded with a shake of his head, "However you knew what the entrance of a hidden dungeon looked like, how odd. But seeing as we are stuck here together I suppose I should explain dungeons while we walk." Sableye took a breath as he began leading them and paying close attention to his surroundings while he listened. "Dungeons have multiple floors, some more than others, some less, that archway we entered is how to get to the next floor and you can never go backwards. Each dungeon is different, so far no one has found any dungeon the same in recorded history, because dungeons are in constant change." Sableye led them down a hallway growing more and more curious the more explanation he heard. "No one can seem to explain these unnatural occurrences, even the places they form are entirely random. Some speculate however that Palkia the legendary pokemon who controls space had some connection to their creation." Sableye made a sudden halt as a noise was heard, and immediately jumped out of the way of something.
"Geodude!" A round rock made creature with two arms and no legs had seemed to lunge itself at sableye.
"Ah a geodude, a much better fight for me." Using their previous teamwork against the zubat a vine produced from grovyle's hand much like before as it glowed red sapping the geodudes energy. The geodude went down in a single attack much to grovyle's disliking, "that's odd wild pokemon are irrational in attacking but usually they can recognize a stronger enemy, unless." Almost on cue another geodude cam flying at him this time connecting the tackle.
"Geodude, geodude." Grovyle took two more flying tackles from all around as two more geodude came out of the darkness. Sableye seemed to be having a harder time helping grovyle keep track when there were multiple enemies to track. "Geodude." Another hit, grovyle was having a harder time counter attacking only landing one hit every two hits he was dealt.
"One at a time sableye! We need to take one out before the other!" Sableye who previously looked concerned gained more confidence with a nod for understanding. Tracking only one at a time made things much easier for grovyle to counter with his absorb attack. Still taking damage bit with the extra effectivess from the type differences grovyle managed to sustain himself from draining the energy and take then out in one blow. Tired huffing from grovyle could be heard when the fight was over as he only briefly glanced at sableyes chains but shook his head and kept his grip firm on them. "We have covered a lot of ground the next floor should be close by. Lets go."
(Hidden Caverns: Floor 3)
Sableye began to notice he was getting tired and feeling faint despite not even battling, looking behind him at the grovyle he looked almost worse. They continued as he began to feel dizzy and started swaying, catching the grovyle's attention. "That's right I forgot about another odd effect of a dungeon. For some reason when you find yourself in a dungeon you get hungry much faster, almost as if your body digests any food you eat at ridiculous speed. That's the part where people think Dialga the legendary pokemon who controls time had a hand in these dungeons as well." Grovyle begins digging through his bag to pull out two apples, he proceeds to start eating one as he hands the other near sableyes face. Sableye however turns his head away. "What's the matter? It's fresh I promise." After thinking grovyle realizes his mistake and begins putting the apple away. "Ah, that's right, sableyes diet consist of minerals doesn't it? Well I don't really have rocks on me or anything like that, hmm." Grovyle grabs the chains as he starts wandering around the clearing swearing he saw something earlier that might help now. "Here they are, I thought I saw some Geo Pebbles near the hallway."
Grovyle leans over to pick up what looks to be five small pebbles in his arms motioning sableye to walk over to him. "These are geo pebbles, usually they are carried around to attack enemies that are too far for a move to hit, usually I never bother collecting them but I guess today is full of odd things happening." Sableye walked over opening his mouth as grovyle dumped all five pebbles into his mouth. Loud crunching could be heard as sableyes razor sharp teeth chewed them up like they weren't even made of rock. "I didn't realise how hungry you must have been seeing as im the only one who ate before we entered the dungeon." Sableye finishing the pebbles and looking much happier then he previously was turned around and continued leading them.
Encountering a few more geodudes and zubat along the way sableye started to wonder how long grovyle could keep this up by himself. They even found a few more geo pebbles for the sableye to snack on later, they thought they must be getting close until sableye stopped to look at the odd seed on the ground, tilting his head in confusion.
"Oh you found a seed." Picking it up grovyle starts examining it. "You must be confused finding a seed in a cave system like this. Allow me to explain." They continue walking as grovyle explains more about the odd workings and aberrations of dungeons. "Many items can be found in dungeons, once again no one knows how they get their but it's almost like they appear in them out of thin air. This seed happens to be something called a blast seed, a seed when thrown can cause a small explosion, alternatively you can eat the seed and you will breath the small explosion." The sableye stops and turns to grovyle even more confused who only chuckled. "You have the same expression I did when I first heard the exploding seed thing. Most of the items found in dungeons are normal, such as oran berries and apples, however a lot of seeds and other items gain weird and different properties most likely from the odd effects of the dungeons they are found in. Why only certain items get affected I couldn't tell you." How strange, this is usually basic stuff a lot of pokemon learn, and he looks to old not to have heard these kind of things. If only I knew how to communicate with him better, then I could be asking more questions.
(Hidden Caverns: Floor 4)
Grovyle was starting to visibly sweat from all the battles he had to fight alone. Even his absorbing move couldn't restore his energy fast enough. As they were getting deeper into the cave system wild pokemon started showing up more frequently and the floors were only getting bigger, this made them start burning through more food as they had more ground to cover. Sableye eventually stopped and once again tries to get grovyle to release his hands.
"I already told you, you're a thief, and i'm your captor. You're also the only one that can see, why should I risk you potentially ditching me in this dungeon?" Sableye looked around wondering what to do, until he thought of something. Sableye to the best of his capabilities put his hands as far up as they could go and started moving his body side to side. Grovyle looking confused could only make guesses at this point. "Uh, waddling? No struggling! Hmm, do you need to pee?" Sableye looked as though if he could facepalm right now he would, eventually curling into a ball on the floor and trying the same thing again. "Oh oh geodude! Geodude?" Sableye nodded in excitement that they somewhat communicated to each other in that moment. "I think I see what your saying. You want me to trust you because you've been helping me fight the whole time?" Sableye nodded with even more excitement gimmering in his gemstone eyes and toothed smile. Grovyle put a hand to his chin in thought. Hmm if he hadn't been helping me I would be totally overwhelmed by the wild pokemon giving him the perfect chance to escape. But why, Isn't he a thief? A criminal? Why is he helping the one who is going to lock him up? Perhaps I should give him a chance, perhaps this is my in.
"Alright sableye i'll cut you a deal. I'll let you out of your cuffs in trust that you will aid me through however longer this dungeon is." Sableye looked content at that news. "But." And there it was, he figured he should have seen this coming. "I have some questions I want to ask that you will answer in return, I will make them yes or no questions to make things easier in terms of communication. So first question, do we have a deal?"
Sableye hesitated, he thought for what felt like minutes but was only a few seconds. He knew if they were both going to make it out of this dungeon they both needed to be at full capability, after thinking it over he nodded with a yes in response. "Alright then." Sableye turned around waiting for his cuffs to be removed as grovyle pulled out a small iron key, before unlocking the cuffs he hesitated, "Don't make me regret this sableye." With a click of metal sableye felt relief when he had full movement of his arms and hands once more, stretching them and turning to see grovyle put them away in his bag. "Alright let's get moving, I'll ask my questions as we search for the doorways."
(-)
"So next question, you know about dungeons but have never actually learned any knowledge of dungeons?" Sableye answers with a nod. "At a pokemon seemingly your age that seems fairly odd, even those who have never entered one knows what they are like."
"Do you work alone? Or perhaps do you have some thieving pals that I somehow missed?" Sableye answers with a shake of his head. "Not that such a question couldn't easily be lied about, I just like to hear the different answers." Grovyle gives a chuckle.
"Are you helping me to save yourself?" Sableye answers with a shake once more, "Is that so, are you meaning to tell me a thief cares about what happens to someone like me? Someone who captures pokemon like you?" The sableye turns to look him in the eyes for a brief moment and nods his head before continuing to lead. That was an answer I didn't entirely expect, this thief is so strange.
"That light back when I fought the graveler in the entrance way, that was you wasn't it." Sableye doesn't give a reply, "It wasn't hard to fit the pieces together. After that blinding light the graveler had fallen, he fainted from a final blow despite having so much more energy. You were tired, more tired after the rest we had just taken before that battle started." The Sableye still remained unresponsive. "I already know the truth, but I want to hear- I mean, see you admit it." Sableye stops once more to look him in the eyes, and grovyle stared back. An odd warmth washed over grovyle for but a brief moment, a warmth that wasn't on the outside but, rather on the inside. Soon after the sableye nodded with a yes before pressing on. This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
A low rumbling seemingly out of nowhere startles the two of them as the cave system itself seems to shake. Holding their balance started proving a challenge before just as fast as the rumbling started is stopped, leaving them confused and disoriented. "That tremor came out of nowhere. Perhaps a cave in on this dungeon floor? Maybe something worse, either way let's tread more carefully from here on out." continuing to walk grovyle was preparing to ask his next question before they entered another doorway room, with the stone arch way their as to be expected, however the archway had what looked to be an empty circle carving on the top.
"Finally, this must be the exit door. But I still don't trust the tremors from earlier or this dungeon that was seemingly hidden. We should proceed with caution." The sableye agreed as they proceeded through the archway.
(Hidden Caverns Pit)
As the two of them find themselves in a single empty room littered with random large stones on the floor grovyle is relieved to realise he can see again. As his eyesight re-adjusts to the light the sableye points out the lone dark corridor. "There's the exit, usually some dungeons have a final room at the end where treasure can sometimes a random." Looking around grovyle sees nothing but the stones that litter the floor, "But it doesn't look like we found much luck. Oh well, let's get out of here with haste we haven't slept all night and i'm sure you're just as exhausted as me."
They begin to walk forward as grovyle realises he has been letting his guard down ever since him and the sableye had made that agreement. He began realising how dangerous that could be around him especially with that strange power he exhibited earlier, and he was still a thief in the end. Then grovyle realised he still had some time before they left and he had one last question he needed to ask.
"Before we leave I should let you know that I am going to cuff you again when we exit this dungeon. You are still a thief after all. However because you've done nothing but help me since I caught you." Sableye turned to look at grovyle with interest. "I might be willing to let you walk the rest of the way without those cuffs, if you answer one more question for me that is." The sableye nodded with a curious look to his facial expression. "Why do you-" He is cut off as the tremors kick up once more this time stronger than the last knocking the two off their feet immediately. Oh no, in my exhaustion I forgot, the other reason they have rooms like this are for the chance of-
The stone floor beneath them shattered as they are knocked away, struggling to get on their feet as they look up to see what had just attacked them. A brown mole like creature with razor sharp claws and a metal point at the top of its head stood before them. "Excadrill, the tremors are starting to make sense now." They get to their feet as they stare down the excadrill.
"I should have expected one of you to find my little hiding spot. Always getting in our way, such an annoyance." The excadrill spoke as he stared directly at the sableye.
Grovyle noticed where this excadrills gaze sat, as the sableye seemed to look surprised, frightened, and ready to run away. Do these two know each other? Just who is this sableye? "Look we don't want any trouble, we just want to pass through and leave whatever territory we may have invaded."
"You can't fool me. I see it, the sableye has it." Pointing at the sableye the excadrill seems to be distressed and angry, acting like he's just been backed into a corner. "Which means you can only be here to do one thing."
"What might that be then?" Grovyle got in a fighting stance. This is extremely bad, excadrills are not pokemon to take lightly and we are so exhausted from traveling the dungeon without any sleep. The grovyle whispers to the sableye beside him, "Hey, I know it looks grim but get ready to fight."
"You're here to take me back to that damn prison. But I won't let that happen!" The excadrill slams his foot on the ground causing another tremor to happen as the two find a stance to keep them on their feet.
"No choice sableye we have to fight our way out!" Its at this point the sableye begins to notice a dark shadow like essence emitting off the excadrill. "What the hell?" Before he his time to process he swiftly dodges the incoming attack from excadrills metal claw swiping at him.
"You can't hope to beat me, not in your weakened state."
Grovyle sends out his vine once again producing the red glow connecting with the excadrill. He feels a lingering warmth enter him, but not the usual warmth he gets from his absorb attack. No this warmth feels like the one he felt back when he asked sableye that question, but this time he felt it linger. "What is this feeling, where is it coming from?"
"You, I don't know how you hid it from me but no matter, you are still too weak!" Expecting his speed to fail him from his exhaustion the warmth seemed to do more than give him a strange feeling. In Fact it made him feel a little better than before. He manages to dodge the next coming attack as its claws instead collide with the rock behind him.
"Sableye, is this your doing?" Taking a moment to look at the sableye he notices a bright light just below the sableyes neck almost like bell in the shape of a heart. Alright things have just gone from weird to what the actual hell.
The sableye seems to gather his courage as he melts into his own shadow on the floor and swiftly charges the excadrill from behind . The show pops off of the ground as it slams him from behind, after landing back on the floor the sableye reappears.
"Pesky little gremlin!" The sableye has no time to react as he is batted into one of the stones on the ground, slamming into the stone he lands on his hands and knees.
"Hey drill boy, focus on me!" Grovyle comes from the side of his opponent with the leaves on one side of his arm glowing and sharpening into a glowing blade swiping at the excadrill. Caught off guard Grovyle goes for a second swipe as the leaves on his other arm do the same thing.
"You're really getting on my nerves." The excadrill prepares another claw attack but this time it gets surrounded in the shadow essence that he is emanating, catching grovyle by surprise with the strange attack he lands the hit sending him flying into a stone.
"What kind of attack was that?!" Despite his new found and strange power boost he starts to feel the exhaustion kick back in, looking over at the sableye he can safely assume the same is happening to him as well. Whatever this warmth is it's starting to wear off on the both of us. Even worse this guy doesn't even seem close to being tired. His thoughts were cut short as the excadrill began chuckling.
"Now I'm starting to understand. Not only are you exhausted, but you have no idea how to call upon it. Neither of you have been trained." The excadrill slowly makes his way over to the grovyle. "Well isn't this just my lucky day." His chuckle grows more sinister as he raises his metal claws to make a final blow to the grovyle, until a blinding light once again over take their sight. "What? Where did this burst of energy come from?!"
Grovyle instinctually closed his eyes before realising, this time it didn't hurt his eyes. In Fact he opened them and seemed just fine, looking over at the sableye as the blinding light seems to be emanating off of him while he stands. Then he turns his attention to the excadrill who seems to be feeling pain from the light, just before he panics and swiftly drills his way into the ground to escape. As the sableye notices this he stops producing the light as he stands there heavily breathing.
"I think he's gone. For now at least." Grovyle as fast as he can gets to his feet and walks over to the sableye. "Quickly we can make our escape before he comes back!" As he walks over however the sableye seems to collapse on the floor. "Oh no." Grovyle rushes over to the sableye picking him up before dashing towards the exit. I have only a few seconds before the dungeon kicks him back to the start, come on, I can make it!
With only a second to spare the grovyle makes it through the end of the tunnel by throwing himself with all his remaining strength out of the dungeon. Falling to the grassy floor as the unconscious sableye rolls a few feet away from him. Exhaustion and battle take hold of his body as he lay on the floor no longer able to move a single muscle, he looks over at the sableye saying weakly. "You better be alive over there sableye, you still owe me… one more… question…" Just as the darkness of unconsciousness begins to take him he hears shouting in the distance.
"Look over there! It's them we found them!"