I'm sorry for the wait everybordy. I've been so busy. On with the chapter.
It had been a few days since Team Starlight helped the Emolga twins. Since the they have gotten stronger learning a few moves along the way and have learned about more items. It was then that they decided to catch an outlaw. They enlisted the help of Lucario, who is an expert at catching outlaws to help them pick one out.
They met up with Lucario at Sublevel 2 in front of the outlaw noticeboard. " Catching an outlaw is no easy task. They are very strong and can be quite hard to take down. We'll chose a D rank outlaw for you. E rank outlaws are very rare. Normally I'd advise new teams to pick a pokemon that they have an advantage on as their first outlaw, but your team is well rounded so type advantage is not a problem. Why don't you go into town and stock up on items and then we'll chose an outlaw."
They nodded in agreement and set of towards Ancient Village. After a friendly conversation with the Emolga twins they saw a commotion up ahead at Blissey Day Care and decided to check it out.
Upon arriving at the Blissey Day Care they could see two growlithe attempting to disperse the crowd. They could see a weeping Ninetails and Blissey talking to an Arcanine who they presimed was the officer. Before they could go forward the were stopped by one of the Growlithe deputies.
"I'm sorry but only officers and exploration teams are allowed beyond this point." He said. Their response was to whip out their exploration team badges. To which he let them through.
They walked over to the trio of pokemon. "We are Team starlight what seems to be the problem?"
Both Blissey and Ninetails were still weeping so Arcanine anwered for them. " Miss Ninetails here had to go to a village to which the only way leading throgh was very dangerous. Not wanting to put her egg in danger she left her egg in the care of Blissey. But about a half hour ago a Houndoom came and stole the egg just before Ninetails arrived.
"If only I had done something to the Houndoom then this might have been prevented." Blissey said in between sobs." All I did was chase him until he ran into Dark Forest"
One look at her teamates told Natalie that they would take on this mission. "We'll take on this mission"
"Are you sure? Dark Forest is a dangerous place." Arcanine asked.
"We're sure." They replied in unison.
"Very well then I will have on of the Growlithe deputies escort you to the entrance to Dark Forest and I will tell Noctowl of your wherabouts. "
They followed the Growlithe deputy to the entrance. "Be careful as it's name suggests this forest is filled to the brim with Dark type pokemon and there is not much light. The pokemon from here have the advantage as they have lived here for many years. I wish you luck" he said and proceeded to return to Ancient Village.
True to Growlithe's word the forest was very dark and was filled with Houndours, Poochyenas,Purrloins and Scraggy. They treaded carefully , watching where they went and hoped to not get lost. The deeper into the forest they went the darker it got. Eventually they made their way to a considerably well lit clearing. They could hear voices and stopped to listen.
"I can't believe how easy it was to steal this egg. From the looks of it I think it's going to be a fire type. One more to join the pack eh?" a voice said and cahooted with laughter.
Theu decided to reveal their prescence to the crooks, they stepped out and coughed to get their attention.
There was two houndour and a Houndoom it was fairly obvious who the leader was. The houndoom stepped forward and spoke "Well what have we here. A group of kids playing explorers? Get rid of them boys"
The fight was hard the two houndour here were obviously stronger than the houndour they had encountered before. After a while they defeated the houndour who ran away.
" Those two are nothing but cowards, a baby pokemon could beat them. Now you'll have to face me."
Houndour was tough to say the least. He had many attacks and was fairly fast. Though Sarah had the type advantage Sally had the opposite so to avoid fainting she mostly used growl from behind. Eventually Houndoom was defeated with a tackle from Louisa.
"You have proven to be tough adversaries, this isn't over. More will join us and your little Exploration Team Federation will fall. Goodbye...for now." He said and fled.
They checked the egg and to their relief it was unharmed. Just as they were about to leave the egg started glowing. They immediatly used the emergency feature on their exploration team badges to escape the dungeon and head back to the guild.
Upon getting back they made their way to Blissey Day Care and returned the egg to a very happy Ninetails.
"Oh thank you. Here's your reward" she said and handed the team an assortment of seeds and berries. "I think it's going to hatch!" she suddenly said.
Sure enough the egg glowed and before them now sat a baby Vulpix. Ninetails nuzzeled it and with a thank you to Blissey she walked home and team starlight returned to the guild. At dinner they were congradulated by Lucario on their first outlaw.
"It doesn't matter that they got away what matters is that you got the egg back before it hatched. If you hadn't got it back when you did you would have that Vulpix following you around."
Later that night they discussed about what Houndoom said "Your little Exploration Team Federation will fall" eventually they agreed to tell Xatu in the morning and they went to sleep.
I'm sorry for the lack of updates but I have been busy, that and I had a little trouble. I decided to move my story writing over to my laptop. Please R&R.