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"HOW did we miss this?!" I yell.
"Heck if I know…" Answers Sakura. "The entrance is facing a MOUNTAIN MAYBE?!"
I'm surprised you people didn't know about this place. Diglett cave is very useful. States Abby. Sakura gives her a look, and just dashes inside.
We woke up a few hours ago and headed to the rest house that marks the end of viridian forest, but we didn't notice a large rock formation that was to it's immediate right, facing away from the house. I remember that when we last went by here, there was a large tree here, but now it is totally gone. It looks as if the life was sucked out of it or something, being the size of a sapling. We calmly went by it, and Abby, my new ninetails, led us to the other side of an odd rock formation.
This leads us too Vermilion City in one or two days, at walking speed. States Abby. I recommend you all keep your pokémon out at the ready, diglett and dugtrio are sometimes very rude and unwelcoming of guests. She explains. We all nod, and follow her into the dark cavern that is Diglett Cave.
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It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. There are few stalagmites or stalactites anywhere, ground is generally smooth, albeit being loose dirt. The path is illuminated by lights on the ceiling, which were probably put up when they discovered this cavern, to help visitors travel through.
Along the way, we do actually get attacked by a few diglett, but it is no big deal. My eevee quickly dispatches them, and even eats one. Abby simply requests being returned to the ball again, and I oblige. We have been walking through this cave for an hour when a dugtrio comes out.
"Hey, I think Serena should take this one." I say. I turn to her. "I have hardly seen your eevee, except when playing or eating."
She nods and releases her eevee from her pokéball. "Okay then…"
The dugtrio stays still, but eventually charges forward, turning its side to Serena's eevee. Her eevee dodges it and Serena yells, "Nice! Now do an Iron Tail!"
Sure enough, the eevee's tails starts to shine, and brings the hard-as-iron tail straight down on the dugtrio. It falls back a little but, but doesn't appear too hurt. It goes underground and leaves a small hole where it was.
"It's using dig eevee, now you do too!" She calls out, and her eevee makes a little hop, going beneath the surface in an instant.
I turn to Sakura and ask a question. "Is dig REALLY digging? They do it so fast…"
She laughs a bit. "Not really, except for a pokémon in the diglett or onix family. They are strong enough. But other pokémon actually emit a kind of weird energy that parts the ground where they move their paws. So if they actually dug with a dig attack, they could go far enough, fast enough, that we wouldn't need oil drills anymore. But there are security hazards, so we use drills anyway."
I nod, and look at the eevee that went through hole, and notice something odd. It is emitting an odd light… and flashes. I point to it and yell, "Serena, something is happening to your eevee!"
She looks and freezes. She screams, "Eevee, are you okay? Hello?!" But there is no answer. She runs up to the hole and looks in. I get my eevee ready and run up to her, but then Serena gets tackled by some kind of dog pokémon.
It is soil colored, a dark brown. It's tail is long and fluffy with a light tan stripe running down the middle, and has a locke of hair that cover its eyes. It has odd little blade-like protrusions on the back of its front legs. I look at it and it is licking Serena's face.
She laughs and looks at it. "Hey…are you my eevee?"
It chants out it's name, and we are all taken aback. "Terreon!" It nods its head and gets off of her.
I get out my pokédex and look at it. "There is NOTHING here about that pokémon at all!"
Sakura smiles. "Well Serena, congratulations! You found yet ANOTHER evolution for eevee. Add that to the 7 we already have. I suppose it is ground type then?"
This time, terreon actually nods and melts like soil into the ground, and appears on my left side. I pet it and it wags its tail a bit. "This is awesome!" I say. "I may be friends with someone who discovered an entire NEW pokémon!"
Serena beams and hugs her new Terreon, a ground type evolution for eevee. She thinks for a bit. "Say… what happened to the dugtrio?"
"Nothing you should concern yourself with." Says a voice from farther in the cave, but I don't see anything. Then an odd kind of dog pokémon flies into my stomach. I'm sent almost twenty feet back and into the wall. I crumble to the ground, but lift my head to see Serena and Sakura coming at me, Sakura releasing her Roserade, that I have not yet even seen. Serena looks at me, and presses my chest. I cringe, but don't feel anything incredibly painful.
"I think he's fine." Says Serena. "But you took quite a hit."
"I haven't seen a pokémon like this before…" Says Sakura, looking dumbfounded and completely ignoring me.
I look past her at the pokémon that tackled me, and almost cringe. It is a dog like pokémon, and looks like the embodiment of evil itself. Its outline looks wavy almost, as if not part of this world entirely. It has long, blood red colored lightening bolt shaped fur patterns over its black fur going down it's legs and down it's back out to its tail, which is puffy. It has blood red eyes, and is as big as terreon. It gives a menacing look at me, and I see a boy approach from behind.
That is the thief from Johto I heard about on the news a couple months ago. I think. He has long, flowing red hair. Pale skin and somewhat tall, and wearing a black vest with black jeans. He walks up behind his pokémon and pets it. It looks at him affectionately, and turns back to me. Sakura and Serena get in its way and their pokémon in front of them, and I lose sight of anything, but hear just fine.
"Heh, so much for being on guard. And my little friend here says hi." Says the boy with a pokémon.
"What is that thing?" Asks Sakura firmly.
"It is my friend, that I happened to steal from Oak. Little spriteon is a new eevee evolution, just like yours right there!" I assume he points at terreon.
"What business do you have with us?" Asks Serena, trying to sound serious. "And why did you attack our friend?!"
"Simple really. I was ordered by Viridian city to come and kill him."
I freeze, and feel a cramp in my chest, but my thoughts turn to it NOT being a cramp and something worse…
"His curse hasn't been confirmed to have even done anything, and viridian wants him dead."
"WHY!?" Asks Sakura, yelling now.
"Heck if I know, I might as well be a hired gun… But I will have his head." The two girls gasp as this mans spriteon flies through them and tackles me into the wall again. The wind is knocked out of me, and I stay limb, up against the wall.
Serena yells and commands terreon to use a bite attack. It lands right on spriteon's thigh, and it reels back. "Now use a stone edge!" commands Serena, and sure enough, the blades on terreon's front legs glow and they smack the spriteon on the side of the head. It goes reeling back, and am let down. Serena catches me on her back, and I feel pain shooting off through my legs again, worse.
The assassin curses and returns the spriteon to its pokéball and sends out an arcanine. Before he can even command it to do anything, Sakura yells out "Roserade, use a toxic on that arcanine!"
Roserade nods and jumps up, and spins itself. It stops spinning in midair and fires a huge amount of a purple liquid on to arcanine. He winces, and falls over one of its own paws.
The assassin returns it and runs down the way of the cave he came from. "One day Raizu. I'll get you. Just you remember my name, Deren." He yells running. I hardly hear it, as I fall to the ground again and scream in pain. I don't hear much after that, and I lose all vision in the dim lit cavern, and I slip into unconsciousness.