Well, I've tried to make this chapter two (make it three) times before this, and both times it was deleted by somebody else either turning off the computor or closing the window :P Also, I forgot to mention that Mudkip is a girl (at least I think I didn't :P). Anyways, enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 4: An Old Enemy
It has been five days since the three-some left for the other land. The food was almost gone, and so was the water. Mudkip, who stopped using Water Gun and began to swim and push the boat along that way, got her water from the sea around them, leaving Riolu and Turtwig with the little water that they had left. There was tension in the air, and it felt like an argumment could break out at any time.
That was the exact thought going through Riolu's head at the moment.
"Gee, Mudkip, would it kill you to go any faster?" Turtwig asked in a curt manner. Riolu winced. The fragile peace had been broken.
"Well, I don't see you pushing this raft," Mudkip replied in an equally curt manner.
"Well, I just asked a question about if you could go any faster!" Turtwig exclaimed.
"Gee, I'm almost killing myself out here, and you want to go faster. How nice," Mudkip replied. Riolu knew that that was not true, but he was not getting into this argumment.
He began to back away from the argumment and towards the front of the boat. When he got to the front, he sat down with his leg in the water. After a few minutes, Riolu looked down, and curiosity immediately swept through him.
Far below, a faint light had appeared. It didn't seem like much, but it seemed to be coming closer. Riolu got back on the boat so that he wouldn't fall off, and watched as it got closer, bigger, and faster. He was almost too late when he realized what it was.
He immediately through his head away from the water, and not a moment too soon, because, where his head just was, a Hyper Beam had split through the air. The argumment stopped once both of the Pokemon saw it, and Riolu was just wondering who did it.
A minute after the Hyper Beam disappeared, a large Gyarados appeared in front of the raft.
"Who dare comes to the purest sea in all the world?" It asked.
Riolu looked over the Gyarados, and immediately dropped into a battle stance, which confused Turtwig and Mudkip.
"Gyarados, we meet again," Riolu snarled, which confused Turtwig and Mudkip even further.
"Ah, you're the Riolu that, with his Vulpix friend, kept me from getting the Phione Dew. I said that I would not forget that, and I remained truthful about that. We have both gotten a lot stronger, so let us settle this once and for all!" Gyarados roared.
Mudkip and Turtwig began to run towards the front of the raft, but Riolu held them back. "No, this is my battle," he said. With that, Mudkip and Turtwig went back to the back of the boat, and watched as both Pokemon readied themselves, and got into fighting positions.
Riolu was the one who struck first. He leaped at the Gyarados, who dodged that easily, and landed on its back. Riolu ran up the back of the Gyarados, and, when he got to its head, used Force Palm on it to deal a lot of damage.
Riolu lept back to the raft, and looked to the Gyarados. Back at Miracle Sea, that Gyarados would have been obliterated by that attack, but not now. Now, that Gyarados waved it off like it was nothing more than a scartch. Riolu sighed. This was going to be a long fight.
"You call that an attack? I'll show you an attack," the Gyarados roared, and, with that, sent a Slam, using his tail, directly at Riolu and the fragile raft.
Riolu knew that, at the moment, he couldn't do anything about it. He closed his eyes and tried to calm down in this situation. As he was doing this, something just...clicked. He didn't know what, but he felt a new power going through him.
He opened his eyes, and, seeing the tail coming closer, drew his hands behind him, and let the power that he felt from before flow into those two hands. In an instant, a blue sphere had formed in the palms of his hands, and it kept getting bigger and bigger.
Turtwig and Mudkip were shocked when they saw this. Turtwig said to Mudkip, "I think that that is an Aura Sphere." All Mudkip could do was nod.
The two of them quickly got to make sure that it was, indeed, an Aura Sphere, because that's what Riolu shouted when he launched it at Gyarados' tail.
When it struck, the Aura Sphere not only hurt the Gyarados, it sent his tail back at his head. When that struck, more damage than Riolu could have done in a half-hour hit Gyarados.
Gyarados roared in pain, and then quickly plummeted to the bottom of the sea. The three-some looked over the edge of the raft at the quickly decending Gyarados. Turtwig asked, "What happened to him?"
"I think that he fainted," Riolu said. "I heard him say that this is the purest sea in the world, so I want to try something."
Riolu proceeded to cup his paws, dip them into the water, pulled them out, and, before either Mudkip or Turtwig could stop him, drank it.
Riolu swished the water in his mouth for a bit before saying, "It's freshwater."
This surprised the other two, but Turtwig began to drink the water, too. After a while, Turtwig pointed out a multi-layered structure jutting out of the sea floor and asked Riolu what it was.
"That is a mystery dungeon, and it needs a name. How about Pure Sea?" he said. The other two nodded at this, and they continued on.
After a few hours, something began to appear on the horizon. It grew bigger and bigger, and seemed to stretch across the horizon forever. One hour later, mountains began to appear on it. Then the forests and plains grew in ever more detail. Finally, five days and twelve hours after they left the old continent, Turtwig, Riolu, and Mudkip reached the other continent on the other side of the world.
"Now, all we need to do is to find the guild," Riolu said to himself.
Yes! I am finally done with this chapter! This chapter was fun to make, so I really liked it. I especially liked the rather short battle that dominates the beginning and middle of this chapter. Anyways, R&R and I will see you next time!