Chapter 19: Why don't you guys pick on someone your own type?
Two jellyfish-like Pokémon with crown-like tufts on their heads were locked up inside a dark and quiet underwater cave. One was female with a pink body, and was cheerfully swimming around despite the situation she and her twin brother were in. Her twin brother had a blue body, and was just staring at one of the walls with a frown on his face.
"Maybe I can squeeze through these bars?" the female Frillish said, glancing over at her brother.
"Don't bother," the male one responded, staring at the wall. "We're going to be trapped in here forever."
"Aw, don't say that!" the female one replied, cheerfully wrapping her tentacles around her brother and hugging him tightly. "I'm sure mommy and daddy have sent out somebody to rescue us! We'll get out of here soon!"
"No one is going to find us here," the male one responded, not even reacting to how his sister was squeezing his body.
"Oh, don't be so silly!" the female said, giggling a little. "Someone will come and release us soon, I just know it!"
"And then those guys that kidnapped us will show up and beat them up," the male one replied, managing to slip out of his sister's grip.
"Come on, cheer up!" the female one said, cheerfully twirling around. "I know this place is kind of boring, but at least we still have each other!"
"Yeah, that way you can eat me if these guys forget to feed us," the male one responded, going back to staring at the wall. "Then again, I don't think our species is edible, nor do I think I'd taste good…"
"You're so silly!" the female one replied, giggling and tightly hugging her brother again.
The male Frillish just sighed, as his sister continued cheerfully swimming around inside the cell they were locked in.
"Shame Frillish are not among the ghost types that can turn intangible and phase through walls," the male Frillish muttered to himself. "But even if we could, it probably wouldn't have been enough to save us anyways…"
It was looking to be another busy day in Fenix Town. At the rescue team HQ, several rescue teams were looking over the missions on the billboards and trying to decide on which ones to tackle. Behind a certain green curtain, Couture had just handed Sera, Blitz and Chiaki a Deep Sea Charm each.
"Wow, they're so pretty!" Sera said, wagging her tail as she held the necklace in her paws.
"I'm glad you like them!" Couture responded, smiling at the three.
"So, the magic in these will really let us breathe underwater?" Blitz asked.
"That's right!" Couture replied. "On contact with water, the Deep Sea Charm will surround you with a magical aura that allows one to breathe underwater."
"Cool!" Chiaki said, looking rather excited. "I can't wait to try them out! Thank you so much!"
"Oh, it's the least I can do after the three of you helped me deal with those wild Pokémon yesterday," Couture responded, before stopping to think for a moment. "Come to think of it, maybe I should make something for Jet too, since he did help me before the three of you showed up. What would a Floatzel want, though…?"
After thanking Couture for the Deep Sea Charms and saying good-bye, the bronze rank team left the room.
"So, what should we do now?" Sera asked. "I guess we need to try to find a mission."
"Shouldn't we try out these Deep Sea Charms, though?" Chiaki said, looking rather excited.
"Hmm… How do we go about that, though?" Sera asked, thinking about it for a moment.
"Maybe we could… no, maybe not…" Blitz said, rubbing his forelegs together.
"What was that, Blitz?" Sera asked, tilting her head slightly. "Come on; let us hear what you were going to say!"
"Oh, I was just thinking, that… maybe we can head down underwater, and check if the underwater rescue teams have received Stella's message about the crystal, and if they've started looking into it?" Blitz suggested uncertainly.
"Hey, I like the sound of that!" Sera responded, wagging her tail happily.
"Y-You do?" Blitz asked.
"I like it too!" Chiaki said, smiling. "We should totally go check that out!"
And so, the rescue team headed through the purple curtain and went to wake up a certain Abra again.
"Hey, Kala?" Sera said, lightly nudging the psychic type with her paw.
"I'm not dead, I'm just sleeping…" Kala muttered, opening her eyes slightly. "Oh, it's you again."
"Could you teleport us to Tidal Shores?" Sera asked.
"Again…?" Kala responded, rubbing her eyes. "Didn't you three go there yesterday…?"
"We did, but we'd like to go there again," Sera replied.
"Okay, fine…" Kala responded, yawning. "I'm not going to question it…"
In a flash of light, Sera, Blitz and Chiaki appeared in Tidal Shores once more. This time, they were greeted by a certain Floatzel upon arriving.
"Hey guys!" Jet said, walking over. "Thanks for helping out yesterday!"
"Oh, it was no problem," Sera replied, smiling at the Floatzel.
"So, what brings you here again today?" Jet asked.
"Well, we wanted to try out our Deep Sea Charms," Chiaki said, smiling. "We figured this was the best place to start."
"Ah, I see," Jet replied, nodding. "Any particular areas underwater you had in mind?"
"We were thinking of checking out the HQ of the deep sea rescue team branch," Blitz explained. "We wanted to see if a certain message for them had arrived…"
"I think I can help you guys get there," Jet responded, smirking. "If you want, I give you a ride."
"Hmm… That would be nice," Sera replied.
"All right, then!" Jet responded, getting down on all fours and stepping into the water. He then inflated the yellow floatation device on his body slightly to make more room for his passengers. "Okay, hop on!"
The trio quickly climbed onto the Floatzel's back, and held on tightly as his tails began spinning and propelled him forward. He moved quickly through the water, and it didn't take long before he started slowing down before stopping in a certain spot out at sea.
"Okay, I think this is a good spot," Jet said. "You should be able to reach your desired location from here."
"Thanks, Jet," Blitz responded, as he, Sera and Chiaki put on their Deep Sea Charms.
"How does it look on me?" Sera asked, giggling a little.
"Huh? Oh, it looks good on you," Blitz replied, rubbing his forelegs together for a moment.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Chiaki said, smiling at his teammates. "Let's jump in!"
Sera and Chiaki then jumped into the water, Blitz carefully lowering himself into the water shortly after. As the necklaces touched the water, they began to glow with a soft light.
"Ooh, I think they're working!" Sera said, giggling a little.
The three Pokémon then dove down, and found that the Deep Sea Charms were indeed working, allowing them to breathe underwater.
"Wow, they're really working!" Chiaki said, excitedly looking around. "This is so cool!"
"So, which way do we go?" Blitz asked, trying to figure out how to move in the water.
"I see your magic necklace things are working right," Jet said, sticking his head into the water and pointing a paw in a direction. "Just swim that way, and you should reach the HQ of the underwater rescue teams."
"Thanks again, Jet," Sera responded, smiling at the Floatzel. "Let's go, guys!"
"Okay!" Chiaki said, flailing about somewhat.
"Chiaki, you'll use up your energy that way," Sera commented, swimming over to him. "My big sister Sirena said that when it comes to swimming, you need to make every move count."
"Not sure how to do that, but I'll try!" Chiaki responded, smiling at Sera.
Once they had somewhat figured out how to move through the water, the three of them began swimming in the direction Jet had specified.
River was working at the café as usual, taking a few orders and telling the kitchen staff what their customers wanted. A certain Gothorita suddenly entered the café, walking up to the counter.
"Hi River!" Bow said, looking around. "Is Azure here?"
"Oh, she's training at the dojo," River responded. "Is there a message you'd like me to give her?"
"That's fine!" Bow replied, smiling. "I can just go over to the dojo and tell her myself!"
Bow headed back outside, and began heading towards the dojo. She tried to hurry, as she was worried she might otherwise forget what she wanted to say before reaching Azure. As she ran, a strange shadow suddenly appeared above her. Bow froze in fear as she heard a strange laughter, and after a moment of hesitating, looked up. However, once she looked up, there was nothing there, and the shadow she saw had disappeared as well.
"Was it only my imagination…?" Bow wondered out loud, looking around. "… Oh! I have to get to the dojo!"
Bow quickly continued her run to the dojo, and once she was just outside the dojo, stopped for a moment to make sure she remembered what she had come for.
"… Good, I still remember it," Bow said to herself, sighing in relief.
Bow then stepped inside, and looked around. A certain Heracross noticed the Gothorita and walked over to greet her.
"Hello there, Bow!" Hercules said, giving the Gothorita a friendly smile. "What brings you here?"
"I wanted to talk to Azure," Bow responded. "River said she was here?"
"That's right," Hercules replied, patting Bow on the head. "I'll go find her for you, just wait here."
"Okay!" Bow responded, while Hercules went to go find Azure.
The Gothorita glanced around at the various Pokémon doing different exercises, while trying to make sure she still remembered what she wanted to tell Azure.
As the rescue team swam deeper under water, their view got darker the further away from the surface they got, forcing Blitz to make his fur glow to provide some extra light. Chiaki stared in awe at the colorful aquatic plants and such that they swam past on their way. They soon spotted a blue light in the distance, and began swimming towards it. They eventually came across what appeared to be a small underwater cave, which the Pokémon had remodeled into the HQ for the deep sea branch of rescue teams.
The source of light appeared to be several blue light crystals, which decorated much of both the inside and outside of the cave, and allowed the Pokémon to read the words carved into stone signs and stone plates attached to a wall inside the cave serving as the mission board for the underwater rescue teams.
"This must be the right place," Sera commented, looking around.
At that moment, a blue oval fish-like Pokémon with an antenna on its head with two glowing yellow bulbs on it exited the cave; along with a big blue seahorse-like Pokémon and a light blue and black fish-like Pokémon with large fins shaped like butterfly wings.
"So, what area should we check next?" the Lanturn asked, the bulbs on its head flickering for a moment as he looked over at his teammates.
"What's the point?" the Kingdra responded, looking rather bored. "Can't we just let one of the other rescue teams do this?"
"Oh, sure!" the Lumineon replied in a sarcastic tone, smirking at the Kingdra. "And then you can tell the king that we couldn't find his kids because you didn't want to."
"Um, excuse me?" Sera said, swimming up to the three water type Pokémon.
"Oh, hey, a Pokémon from the surface," the Lanturn commented. "What brings the three of you all the way here?"
"We just wanted to make sure a certain message from the surface regarding one of the Axis Tower crystals had made it here," Sera responded.
"Ah, yes, we did hear about a crystal supposedly being near the Radiant Reef," the Lanturn replied. "We plan on investigating that once we've dealt with another mission currently requiring our attention."
"What mission is that?" Chiaki asked.
"The royal Frillish twins, prince Somber and princess Blithe have been kidnapped," the Lanturn explained.
"Oh?" Chiaki inquired, tilting his head slightly.
"Somber and Blithe are the children of king Snorkel and queen Hypotenuse, and the heirs to the Kingdom of the Sapphire Sea," the Lanturn explained. "Some Pokémon kidnapped them, and is holding them for ransom. The highest ranking rescue teams of the sea, including ourselves, are searching the ocean for wherever the kidnappers are keeping the twins."
"I see," Blitz replied. "Good luck with that."
"Thanks," the Lanturn responded, before turning to his teammates. "Come on, guys. Let's go!"
The three water types swam off to continue their search, while Sera, Blitz and Chiaki were left to wonder what to do next.
"So… What should we do now?" Sera asked, looking around.
"I suppose we could explore some more," Chiaki responded, smiling. "I bet there's even more cool stuff to see around here!"
"Yeah, I guess so!" Sera said, looking over at Blitz. "What do you think, Blitz?"
"I guess it is fine with me," Blitz replied, nodding his head slightly.
"All right, let's explore, then!" Sera said.
The three decided to first go inside the HQ for the deep sea branch, where a map with underwater mystery dungeons marked on it was carved onto a wall. They checked the map to see if there were any particularly interesting places they could explore.
"Hey, there's the Radiant Reef!" Chiaki said, pointing to one of the marked up mystery dungeons on the map.
"Hmm… Maybe we should go check it out?" Sera asked. "Even if we don't find the crystal, that place does sound pretty."
"Well… I guess it couldn't hurt to take a look…" Blitz responded.
And so the three headed out, and began swimming towards the Radiant Reef.
In a different, much bigger underwater cave in the darker parts of Sapphire Sea, a blue-belled jellyfish with red orbs on its bell and many long gray tentacles was swimming back and forth, seeming to be in deep thought. There was also a shark Pokémon shaped like a missile swimming around in a circle, and a purple sea star Pokémon with ten points and a ruby in the center of its body standing in a corner.
They turned to see a pink sunfish Pokémon with a heart-shaped body and hand-like fins enter.
"Ah, there you are, Soapy," the Tentacruel said, swimming over to the Alomomola. "How did it go?"
"First of all, my name is Sophie," the Alomomola responded, looking somewhat annoyed. "As for the situation outside, there are quite a few rescue teams searching for those twins."
"Hmm… I see," the Tentacruel replied, sighing. "Those rescue teams might ruin everything…"
"This is why you should've let me be the one in charge of our plan," the Starmie said smugly, the ruby in his core flashing briefly. "My plan would've been flawless, unlike yours."
"Well, then why didn't you actually do anything during the planning stage?" the Tentacruel asked, glaring at the Starmie.
"Because my ideas would've been wasted on the likes of you," the Starmie responded.
"Yeah, right," the Tentacruel replied, rolling his eyes. "You're all talk."
"So, what are we going to do about the rescue team situation?" Sophie asked. "If they find our hideout and discover that we're the ones who kidnapped those Frillish, we're going to be in a lot of trouble."
"Ooh, I have an idea!" the Sharpedo said, still swimming in circles. "We'll put up a sign outside the cave saying that this is not a secret hideout, and there are no kidnapped Frillish in here! That'll keep those rescue teams away!"
"No one asked you, Missile," the Tentacruel responded, giving the Sharpedo an annoyed look.
"You don't like my idea?" Missile asked, looking somewhat confused for a moment.
"Oh no, we loved that brilliant idea of yours," the Starmie replied sarcastically. "There's no way that would've been suspicious at all!"
"Aw, thanks!" Missile responded, smiling.
"And you are so great at detecting sarcasm," the Starmie said, in the same sarcastic tone.
"Can you guys be quiet?" the Tentacruel asked, looking rather annoyed. "I need time to think."
"Sure!" Missile replied, continuing to swim around.
"And when you fail to come up with a plan, let me know," the Starmie said, swimming away.
"Ugh, remind me again why I work with these guys…" the Tentacruel muttered, before looking over at Sophie. "Hey, Soapy? Could you go check on the royal brats?"
"It's Sophie!" Sophie responded, sighing. "But fine, I'll go check on them."
"Thank you, Soapy," the Tentacruel replied.
The Alomomola just rolled her eyes, and swam off to another part of the cave to check on the Frillish, while the Tentacruel tried to figure out what to do if rescue teams were to find them.
The beautiful pink and orange corals of Radiant Reef were truly a magnificent sight, and Sera and her teammates couldn't help but stare in awe. They had reached the entrance to the mystery dungeon, and were wondering whether or not to go inside and explore it.
"This place sure is pretty…" Chiaki said, looking around at the corals.
"So, do we check out the mystery dungeon or not?" Sera asked.
"Well, I suppose we did bring a good selection of items," Blitz said, rubbing his forelegs together. "But how will we fight underwater?"
"You have a point there," Sera responded, thinking for a moment. "We're not really used to this type of environment, and we move around differently here than we do on land…"
"So?" Chiaki said, looking at his teammates. "It's still a mystery dungeon, and we're a rescue team. It can't be that hard to figure out how we'll use our moves here!"
"Hmm… I guess you have a point there," Sera responded, thinking about it for a moment.
"I don't know…" Blitz replied, glancing around.
"It is a mystery dungeon, and we're a rescue team," Sera said. "Exploring mystery dungeons is something rescue teams do."
"Well, that's true, but…" Blitz muttered.
"Come on, let's give it a try!" Chiaki said, smiling at Blitz.
"And if things get too tough, we'll just use an Escape Orb to get out!" Sera added.
"Oh, okay," Blitz said. "We'll explore it."
The rescue team entered the mystery dungeon, which had its maze walls made of pink and orange coral. As they began to explore the dungeon, they encountered a few wild Pokémon, such as a pink and white coral-like Pokémon and a blue clam-like Pokémon that's head was a sentient pink pearl kept safe inside the shell.
Blitz was a bit uncertain whether it was safe to use his electric attacks underwater, but reached the conclusion that if the part electric typed Chinchou and Lanturn could use their electric attacks underwater without hurting anyone other than the intended targets, so could he. His Spark attack gave his team an advantage against the water type wild Pokémon of the dungeon.
Well, with the exception of the Chinchou, anyways, as the ones with the Volt Absorb ability could just absorb his electricity to give themselves more energy. The ones with the Illuminate ability were also a bit of a bother, as the yellow bulbs at the end of their two long antenna would flash whenever they got hit, summoning more wild Pokémon into the dungeon.
Staryu with the Illuminate ability were annoying for the same reason, with the red core in the center of the five pointed orange sea stars would light up and summon more Pokémon when hit by an attack.
However, through teamwork and with the help of a few healing items, the rescue team were managing to get pretty far into the mystery dungeon.
"Okay, we seem to have reached the eleventh floor," Blitz said, looking around. "I believe the map said this dungeon has fifteen floors, so only a few more floors to go."
"Good," Sera responded, panting.
"Need to take another break?" Blitz asked.
"Swimming and fighting underwater sure can make one tired…" Sera said, sighing. "I wonder how water types do it without getting tired…"
Sera took a moment to relax, only for a trap under her to suddenly squirt a green sticky substance onto the treasure bag Sera was carrying.
"Oh, gross!" Sera exclaimed, looking rather annoyed. "How did I even trigger that trap? My feet weren't even touching the ground!"
"M-Maybe the tip of your tail brushed up against it?" Blitz responded, also wondering how this had happened.
"Ugh, let's just keep going," Sera said, managing to get some of the sticky stuff off the bag.
"Wait, Sera!" Blitz responded, as Sera began swimming towards the next room. "Shouldn't we check which of our items that Glue Trap may have affected?"
However, Sera didn't seem to listen, and so Blitz and Chiaki couldn't do much else but continue to follow her. Things went rather well on the next floor, and things seemed to be going well when they got to the thirteenth floor as well.
"Hmm… Where are those stairs?" Sera asked, looking around.
"Maybe we missed them?" Chiaki suggested. "Or we were going in the wrong direction?"
"I don't know…" Sera responded. "But, let's try to go a little further this way. There are still a few places we haven't checked in this section."
They continued looking around, checking the rooms for items and the stairs.
"Oh! I think I see the stairs!" Chiaki exclaimed, while pointing to one of the rooms they hadn't entered.
"Hold on, guys…" Blitz said, swimming up a little to get a better view of the room. "Take a look at the items in there."
"What about them?" Sera asked, as she and Chiaki swam up to Blitz in order to see what he was talking about.
"There seems to be a lot of items in that room, particularly gummis," Blitz explained. "Odds are we'll walk right into a Monster House if we go in there."
"But the stairs are in that room!" Chiaki said.
"Oh, don't worry about it!" Sera responded, wagging her tail. "I came prepared for this."
"Okay…" Blitz said, taking a deep breath. "Watch your step, guys. There might be a few traps in there as well."
The three Pokémon entered the room, and thus several wild Pokémon appeared. There were two Chinchou, three Staryu, two small pink heart-shaped fish Pokémon; two rather annoyed looking blue puffer fish Pokémon with spikes on its body and a small blue seahorse Pokémon.
"Yep, it's a Monster House," Blitz said, looking around and trying to mentally count how many wilds there were. "There seems to be ten wild Pokémon here in total."
"Well, I'll just use the Petrify Orb I brought to freeze these guys, and then we can move onto the next floor!" Sera responded, reaching into her bag. "… Huh? Oh, you've got to be kidding me!"
The Petrify Orb was covered in the green glue that had sprayed out from the Glue Trap from earlier, preventing Sera from using it.
"… That's not good," Blitz said, staring at the orb.
"O-Okay, let's not panic," Sera responded nervously. "W-We can still beat these guys…"
"All we have to do is reach the stairs," Chiaki pointed out.
"Well, let's give it a try…" Sera said, using her Helping Hand to power up her teammates.
"Those Luvdisc may not look tough, but their Agility attack will cause a lot of trouble for us if we don't take them out fast," Blitz muttered, as he used Spark on one of the two pink heart-shaped fish Pokémon.
"Take this!" Chiaki said, using Fake Out to make the second Luvdisc flinch.
After making their moves, the rescue team found themselves having to dodge the attacks of eight out of the nine remaining wilds. Dodging water attacks were more difficult here since they were mostly just various streams of pressure when used underwater. The different attacks hitting them from different angles took off quite a bit of the rescue team's energy.
"I have a feeling those Reviver Seeds I brought may need to be used…" Sera muttered, pulling out an Oran berry from the bag. "For now, use this to heal up, Blitz."
"Thanks, Sera," Blitz responded, eating the Oran berry to restore some of his energy. "I'll finish off the second Luvdisc now."
"Hmm… Which one of these guys is the biggest threat right now…?" Chiaki said, looking around at the opponents, unsure which one to attack first.
"I'd say the Chinchou or the Qwilfish might be our biggest problem," Blitz responded. "The Qwilfish might have the Poison Point ability, so be careful."
"Okay, got it," Chiaki said, and proceeded to quickly slap one of the Chinchou five times in succession, knocking it out. "All right, it worked!"
The remaining seven water type wilds attacked again, and while the three rescue team members managed to dodge some of the attacks this time, they were still weakened even more.
"Ugh… Somehow we're all still conscious…" Sera said, looking through her bag. "Sadly, it seems we are out of Oran berries."
"Seven more Pokémon…" Blitz muttered, panting. "What do we do?"
"I brought three Reviver Seeds, one for each of us, just in case," Sera said, frowning somewhat. "But if we all get knocked out and we use them up, then what? Is there a way out of this without needing to use all of them?"
Blitz tried to think of something, when suddenly what appeared to be a blue ball seemed to come rolling fast through the water into the room, and slammed into one of the Staryu, knocking it out. It then stopped rolling, revealing itself to be a round blue mouse Pokémon with a thin black tail with a small blue ball on it.
"Why don't you guys pick on someone your own type?" the Marill said, smirking as she slammed her tail against one of the remaining two Staryu, knocking it into the other and simultaneously knocking both of them out. "Come on; show me what you've got!"
With the wild Pokémon turning their attention to the newly arrived Marill, the rescue team took the opportunity to make their moves. First, Sera and Chiaki teamed up using Quick Attack and Double Slap respectively to knock out the remaining Chinchou. Blitz meanwhile charged up some electricity, and knocked out one of the two Qwilfish with his Spark attack.
The Qwilfish and the Horsea both tried to attack the Marill, but the aqua mouse Pokémon just snickered as she dodged both of their attacks without much difficulty, and then slammed her tail against them, so Blitz could finish them by pressing his electrified paws against them.
"Whew, looks like I caught up to you guys just in time!" the Marill said, swimming up to the rescue team.
"You certainly did," Sera responded, sighing in relief. "Thanks."
"No problem!" the Marill replied, grinning.
"You… remind me of someone," Chiaki said, curiously looking at the Marill.
"Yeah, the way she fought…" Blitz replied, before realizing something. "Wait… Azure? Is that you?"
"Yep!" the Marill responded, giggling a little as she swam in a circle around her three friends. "As you can see, I've evolved!"
"Cool," Chiaki said, smiling at Azure. "I like your new look!"
"Thanks!" Azure replied, smiling. "So, how about we all keep moving onto the next floor?"
With Azure's help, they managed to get through the next floor without having to use up their Reviver Seeds, gradually regaining their energy as they moved along. As they reached the final floor, they walked amongst themselves as they looked for the stairs leading out of the dungeon.
"How did you know we were down here?" Blitz asked, glancing back at Azure.
"Bow told me," Azure responded. "While I was training at the dojo, she came over and told me you guys would be in trouble here, so I hurried up to the rescue team HQ and asked Kala to send me where she went you."
"I see," Blitz replied.
"And then, when I got there, this Floatzel dude offered to give me a ride, and so he took me out to where he dropped you guys off, and then I went down here to look for you," Azure explained. "I decided to go straight here, since I knew you'd be here from what Bow had told me."
"Cool," Chiaki responded, smiling at Azure. "So, what is your new body like?"
"Well, I like it a lot, although I'm still getting used to it," Azure responded, looking at her stubby hands. "For one thing, I have hands now, and my body is less bouncy."
"I guess you were training at the dojo in order to get used to fighting in your new body?" Blitz asked.
"Correct," Azure responded, smirking. "I've found that while the blue thing on my tail got smaller as the rest of my body got bigger, I can still hit pretty hard with it!"
"That's nice," Chiaki replied.
"Also, my ears allow me to hear much better now," Azure explained, glancing up at her round ears. "I can hear things from pretty far away, which was how I managed to figure out where you were once I got to the same floor you guys were on!"
"Wow, that's really cool!" Chiaki responded.
"I know, right?" Azure replied, grinning.
"Guys, I can see the stairs!" Sera said, wagging her tail happily. "Come on!"
The four Pokémon exited the mystery dungeon, and looked around. From what Stella and Bow had said, the crystal they had seen was somewhere around here.
"Anyone see a whirlpool?" Sera asked, looking around.
"Uh… Is it that vortex thing over there?" Chiaki said, pointing to a large whirlpool that seemed to be coming up from a chasm.
"Wow, the crystal is somewhere at the bottom of that thing?" Sera asked. "How is anyone supposed to even get to it?"
"I believe there's a certain water type attack that might allow one to do that…" Blitz responded, looking over at Azure. "You wouldn't happen to know that attack, would you?"
"Nope, sorry," Azure replied, shrugging slightly.
"Well, looks like there's not much we can do here, then," Sera said, glancing around.
"… So, what do we do now?" Azure asked.
End of Chapter 19.