Chapter XI: A Chapter in Granite Cave

A/N: Doing some thinking, I decided for Brendan not to fight Brawly this Chapter. I decided that he should deliver his letter and train some more first before he goes to fight him. And him and May need to get a full team of Pokemon soon, so they might in here, I donno. But a Pokemon is still going to evolve. Just to let you readers know.

May and Brendan looked out into the sunrise over Dewford Town; it was absolutely beautiful. The sun was rising over the few skyscrapers, and what looked to be a gigantic knuckle. After another couple of minutes, Mr. Briney stopped at a boat deck down by the beach. He anchored the boat to the ocean bottom, and looked out to the city.

"Ah, Dewford Town, I haven't been here in years," Mr. Briney said while smiling. "You kids go do what you gotta do here; I'll wait in the boat."

"Are you sure Mr. Briney," May asked with uncertainty.

"Sure I'm sure," he said while smiling. "Just hurry up and do what you need. If you need me, I'm in the boat," he said while jumping back into the driver's seat, picked up his sailor hat, and put it over his face while going to sleep.

"Well," Brendan said while looking at her. "Lets head on out to Dewford," he said while grabbing her hand. As soon as the two jumped out of the boat, a woman with short blonde hair came and looked at Brendan in despair.

"Who are you," she asked.

"Why I'm…wait a minute. Who the hell are you," Brendan asked confusedly.

"Well here, have this Silk Scarf," she said while handing Brendan a peach colored scarf that was silky, then she went inside her house.

"I heard of these things," Brendan said. "They raise the attack of Normal type moves. So Monkeyman might need this later on in the future." Brenda said while putting the scarf up in his bag. While doing some more looking in this town, some fisherman bumped into May and he fell down.

"Watch where you're going you creep," May said while glaring at the fisherman.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so clumsy," he said while pulling out some fishing rod.

"Damn straight," May said.

"Here, to make up for my clumsiness, I want to give you this Old Rod," he said while smiling.

"An Old Rod, is this all you have," May asked while grabbing his collar. "Give me your money," she said.

"But, all I have is 900P, and I have to buy food for my family…" he said.

"Give me your money anyway," May said while pulling out a Pokeball. "And if you don't, I have a crazy Entei in this Pokeball, and I'll send him to kill everyone here in town, including your family…" May said.

"No, not my family," he said. "Here, I'll just give you the 900 Poke you wanted," he said while pulling them out and giving them to May. "And you can still have that Old Rod." He said while running away afterwards.

"You know May, if you wanted to pull of a robbery, I have…" Brendan started. But something inside his gut told him not to tell May of the guns that he took from the Team Aqua and Magma members in the Rusturf Tunnel a few days ago.

"What do you have," May said.

"Huh, nothing," Brendan said. May looked at him suspiciously, and then just shook it off and they looked for the gym. After 2 minutes, they reached the building that looked like a big knuckle, and Brendan grinned as he prepared for his next gym badge.

"Alright," he said while making a fist. "Let's go get another badge." Brendan said while heading in. When they walked into the gym, they saw a bunch of holes in the ground and the ceiling, so what in the hell was this.

"Hello trainer," a man who was beside the door said with a cheery tone.

"Um…who are you," May asked.

"I am the gym greeter. I'm just here to say hi to you bastards and tell you not to use Normal types, the leader, Brawly, he'd kick your ass big time with them." he said while changing his happy tone into a pissed one.

"Monkeyman it is," Brendan said while grinning.

"Brendan, are you stupid. Well never mind you are." May said. "But the man just said not to use a Normal Pokemon, so why use Slakoth who is a normal type?" She asked.

"For a challenge," Brendan replied. "I need to test my abilities, and I Monkeyman could use a few extra training," Brendan said.

"You're hopeless," May said while putting her hand on her face and shaking her head slightly.

"I should also tell you that the Gym Leader isn't here at the moment as well," the man said.

"Then where is he," Brendan asked.

"He went to go surf, he'll be back at about…sunset," the man said while looking at his watch.

"Another wait," Brendan asked.

"Oh hell no," May said. Then she grabbed Brendan's hand. He started to have funny thoughts in his head. "We're going to the beach right now, and telling this man to get his ass off of his board, and to his gym." May said while dragging him out of the building. Then May began to turn right from the gym.

"You know," the man yelled to him while pointing left. "The beach and Granite Cave is over there; you can go train your Pokemon some more before you challenge Brawly," he yelled.

"Oh yeah," Brendan said. "Yeah May, lets go do that," Brendan said while smiling with his eyes closed. May just rolled her eyes, and dragged Brendan to wherever the beach was. When they got there, they walked on the beach, and went inside Granite Cave.

"You know," Brendan asked. "We're almost at the middle of our journey, and I think I should catch two more Pokemon, just to be sure I have a full team for what's ahead," Brendan said while looking at May.

"And you're telling me this why," May asked while looking at Brendan like he was dumb.

"Shut the hell up, no one asked you," Brendan said in a friendly annoyed tone. The cave was dark, but the two trainers were barely able to see inside.

"So what are we going to have for light," May asked.

"Maybe if one of us had a fire Pokemon," Brendan started. "We could tell it to use Ember or Flamethrower on these wooden sticks," Brendan said while picking up some thick sticks he saw on the ground. May looked at Brendan dully, then decided that he was just being intelligently stupid (A/N: oxymoron baby).

"Come on out Torchic," May said while pulling out her chick Pokemon.

"Torchic, chic, chic (What do you want, I was napping.)," Torchic said while using her feet to wipe her eyes.

"Use Ember on the sticks Brendan's holding," May said.

"Tor, tor Torchic (What did the sticks do to you?)," Torchic asked.

"We're going in a cave and we need light," May said. Torchic shot a bunch of little fireballs at the sticks, until both of them lit up with fire.

"Thank you Torchic, return," May said while Torchic went back into its Pokeball.

"Oh right, Torchic. I forgot about him," Brendan said while handing May one of the torches. They both headed on into the cave, and the intellectual portion of what May said about Brendan (intelligently stupid) overcame the stupid, because that cave was pitch dark in there. Not counting the flames of the two trainers though. May and Brendan kept walking for a bit, then they found an area where the cave was dim lighted. So they put out their flames, threw their sticks, and looked around. While looking around, a big herd of steel and rock looking things with blue eyes came out. They all flashed a few sharp teeth, and they looked MAD.

"Um Brendan," May said in fear. "I don't think we should have come here," May said now sounding like she was going to die. "Oh goodness, I repent all my sins for cursing, yelling, disrespecting, kicking guys in their nuts, thinking nasty…" May whispered quickly and continued. Brendan looked at these things and pulled out his Pokedex.

"Y'all two gonna die," the Pokedex said.

"If we're going to die, tell us what in the hell are those things," Brendan yelled in slight fear. Hey, he's a guy, he's gotta hide his fear.

"Aron, the Iron Armor Pokemon. With one all-out charge, Aron can demolish even a heavy dump truck. The demolished truck then becomes a handy meal for this Pokemon," the Pokedex said.

"A dump truck huh," Brendan said. "So you freaky things have to eat trash? I'd hate to see your parents," Brendan said while grinning. Then from the hole where the Aron came out, something about two times bigger came out. They looked like the Aron, only they had dull spikes on their back, its legs were more visible, and their teeth were duller, but there were more of them.

"Brendan," May said while raising her voice in fear. "I wanna get out of here!" May yelled slightly.

"Don't worry May," Brendan said while sounding pretty scared himself, I'll get us out of this," he said while pointing his Pokedex to the bigger Pokemon.

"Larion, the Iron Armor Pokemon," it said. "The evolved form of Aron, Larion feeds on iron contained in rocks and water. It makes nests in mountains were iron ore is buried. As a result, this Pokemon often clashes with people mining the iron ore. Man, you guys are so screwed, that things gonna kill you guys," The Pokedex said. "Well, not May, but Brendan..."

"Shut the hell up," Brendan said while putting his Pokedex up in his pocket. "Aron and Larion of this cave," Brendan said. "We wish you Pokemon no harm, but I issue a challenge," he said. "If you win, you can take May," he said while pointing to her.

"BRENDAN!" she yelled.

"I'm joking," Brendan said. "Look, all I want to do is catch you, Larion," Brendan said while pointing to it. "If I win, well, you'll be in this Pokeball and my new Pokemon," Brendan said. "And if you win, then you can leave, and we won't mess with you ever again." Brendan said. Larion got a look of consideration, then charged at May.

"Move!" Brendan said while pushing her out of the way dramatically while the leader Iron Armor Pokemon dashed past their feet. Brendan helped May up, then he glared at the Pokemon.

"Look you little bitches, I just wanna catch a Pokemon…" Brendan started.

"RRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR (shut the hell up)!" Larion roared. "Larry, Lari, LAAAAAARRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOON (ignorant fools, I won't accept)," Larion yelled while stomping its foot.

"Let's go," Brendan said while throwing his Pokeball out. "Go Muddy, use Water Gun at that Larion," Brendan yelled.

"RRROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR (idiot, I won't fight you)," Larion yelled.

"Mudkip, mud, mud (let's battle)," Muddy said while looking determined.

"GRRR (let's go then)," Larion said. It ran to go tackle the little mud fish, but Brendan yelled for Muddy to dodge.

"Alright Muddy," Brendan said. "Let's hit it with take down," Brendan said. Both Pokemon got hurt as Muddy ran and did a strong tackle on Larion. Larion stood up and the claws on it's arms started to light up.

"I think that's Metal Claw!" Brendan yelled. "Muddy, Water…" But a few of the Larion ganged up on Brendan and Muddy. They slammed both of them down and flashed the little sharp teeth at them.

"Hey, no fair," May yelled while pulling out Torchic's Pokeball.

"LLLLLAAAAARRRRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (back off, this is my battle, bitches!)!" Larion yelled. The Aron backed off, and May still held the Pokeball in her hand, just in case.

"While he tries to be noble, I'll get him from behind," Brendan said while grinning as the Pokemon were getting off of him and his Pokemon.

"Okay Muddy," Brendan yelled. "I know you have the ability to smash boulders bigger than you, so I think it's about time you use that skill," Brendan said. Muddy jumped up into the air, then came down, and attempted to smash Larion, only to fail because it took one step to the right. Its claws once again began to light up, and then he scratched Muddy hard with them. Then Muddy came crashing over to Brendan, bleeding hard on its face.

"NO, Muddy," Brendan said with very wide eyes. The Aron began to laugh as the Larion licked the blood off of his claws. Brendan then did the anime shadow with his eyes. He hugged his Mudkip tightly in his arms, then handed him to May.

"Take Muddy to the Pokemon Center, quickly!" he said silently. May didn't say anything, but just took the Pokemon and leave the cave. Brendan still with the anime shadow then took out his Pokeball and angrily sent out Seedot. The Iron Armor Pokemon just laughed when they saw Seedot just come out.

"Warrior," Brendan said. "Our friend Muddy has been severely injured." Brendan said softly, but loud enough so his Pokemon could here.

"Seed, Seedot (OMG what happened?)," Seedot asked.

"That Pokemon over there with the blood on its claws, he was the one who did it," Brendan said.

"Seedot seed (those bastards)," Seedot said.

"So I want you to be angry that that low life Pokemon eligibly attempted to kill my Pokemon, our friend, and an innocent Pokemon," Brendan said silently. Seedot must have gotten really angry, because while it was still just saying it's name, and looking at the Pokemon he's never seen just being all happy and cheery with blood on it's claws, it began to glow white. Brendan noticed this while tears came out of his eyes. Seedot then grew slightly taller, something grew out of the top of his head, and he grew arms and legs. The new Pokemon had a silent anger look in it's eyes, just like Brendan did.

"Mega Drain," Brendan said softly. The new Pokemon widened it's eyes to the Pokemon, and started sucking all this energy from the Iron Armor Pokemon. "Do the best head butt that you've ever done," Brendan said softly again. The Pokemon ducked his head, and then rammed Larion with much force, knocking it to a wall, and knocking him out. Brendan pulled out an empty Pokeball, and threw it with much force at the Larion, but a tiny Aron jumped in front of the ball. Now usually, a fresh Pokemon would have come out of the ball, but since Brendan threw it so hard, the Pokeball knocked him out. And it hit his face, so it wasn't waking up soon. The ball turned the Pokemon into pure energy and sucked him in. The ball wiggled once or twice, but then it just stopped completely. Brendan saw this and went over there to take the Aron out of the ball. When he did, there was a huge circle mark on it's face.

"Why did you jump Aron?" Brendan asked pretty annoyed.

"Air, Aron. Aron Aron Aron. Ron ron Aron (This was our leader. He must lead the other Aron. I will take his place)!" the Aron said. Brendan assumed that he wanted to protect his protector. Brendan just returned Aron to its Pokeball, and then he pulled out his Pokedex to see his new Pokemon.

Nuzleaf, the Wily Pokemon." The Pokedex said. "The evolved form of Seedot, Nuzleaf live in densely overgrown forests. They occasionally venture out of forests to startle people. This Pokemon dislikes having it's nose pinched." Brendan smiled and looked at the Larion.

"Keep your leader," Brendan said. "If you need them so much, you can have him, or her," Brendan said while retuning Nuzleaf and heading out of the cave to see Muddy…

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Another Chapter folks. I was thinking that Muddy should evolve, but then I had a better idea for him to. Please review because Ilove reviews. But I hate flames, grr flames. Next chapter is coming out soon. Thank you.