Hey everybody!!
I know its been a loooooooooooong time since I've actually posted ANYTHING :p
But yeah... Here's chapter 11!
Finally!
I'm sad to tell you my friend has little time now he's gone to college...
So yeah... There may come some stories just from me.
Don't be disappointed if we don't update often on this story.
Its not dead... Its just hard to make on my own,
so when my friend DOES have time, we get on it ;)
Enjoy!
Chapter 11 – The Diamond Cave
"Hey lets not fight here, we're on a SINKING SHIP for crying out loud!" Joyce shakes her head and sighs. Nahïm panicks: "You're right! I totally forgot that! Where's the phone?" Joyce gets mad. "PHONE?! You should worry about the holes you covered with ice! Is it gonna hold?" Nahïm looks goofy at her. "I don't know..." Then something cracks. And not just a crack, but a loud one. Joyce gets a sweat drop on her face. "Guess not..." Joyce glances at Nahïm.
Nahïm sighs: "Oi... Time to leave now then?" Joyce smirks and pushes Nahïm overboard. Then she shouts: "MAN OVER BOARD!!" She laughs out loud and then says: "Joyce to the rescue!!" As she jumps off of the boat, she creates a huge splash with her Marshstomp. Nahïm shrieks: "Aaack!!" He dives under and then comes up again. "Go Gyarados!" Gyarados appears roaring. Joyce swims underwater and tries to swim up. Marshstomp takes a deep breath and dives to her. Together they swim up. In the meanwhile, Nahïm has climbed up Gyarados' back. Joyce shrieks, as she has trouble breathing: "Can... Can I come?" Nahïm ignores her and speaks to his Gyarados: "I think you can start moving now..."
"Hey! Wait for meeee!" Joyce grabs Marshstomp and orders her to swim to them. Then finally, Joyce grabs Gyarados and climbs up. She puts Marshstomp back in its pokeball and turns to Nahïm. With a sincere look she stares at him. Nahïm glances: "Hey, it's not my fault that Marshstomp can't keep up!" He searches around him, looking for something. When he sees Joyce's questioning face he says: "Wait a minute... Where's Torchic?" Joyce smirks and throws Marshstomp's ball again. "Come on Marshstomp, we'll show him! We're gonna swim to the shore!" Joyce says as she jumps into the water again.
"Hey! Come back here right NOW!!" Nahïm shouts. Joyce pretends she's not hearing him as she shouts: "Can't hear yah!" Then she dives down with Marshstomp. When underwater she sees Lanturn and Luvdisc everywhere she looks. Nahïm shakes his head and sends his Gyarados back to the ship. There he hears heavy chirping. "Torchic?" In the meanwhile, Joyce has found a hole underwater. She commands Marshstomp to go there. She almost runs out of breathe when she sees light. They swim up and Joyce gasps for air. "Ooh look at this Marshstomp!" she shouts. Marshstomp nods. Joyce breathes deeply, then looks behind her. "Hmm... Where's my partner in crime?" They dive down together again.
At the ship, Nahïm finally spots Torchic. It immediately jumps to him. It chirps happily. Joyce dives up from the surface once more. "There! On the sinking ship! Marshstomp there, go!" she shouts. Joyce hears Nahïm shouting: "Oh Torchic, I was worried sick! You're all right?" Joyce grabs the metal of the boat and climbs up. She pulls his shirt while shouting: "Nahïm! You GOTTA see this! Come with us! NOW!!" Nahïm pulls his shirt loose of Joyce's grip and turns back to Torchic. "Give me a moment with my pokémon okay! I'll deal with you later..." Joyce jumps back into the water and grabs Marshstomps fin. "Fine, then you just sink along with this fucking ship! Come on Marshstomp, lets go back to the diamonds!!" Nahïm swiftly turns around. "Huh? Diamonds?"
"Eh, yeah... Bye!" Joyce shouts as she dives under with Marshstomp again. Nahïm turns his attention back to Torchic. "Yeah whatever... So Torchic, how was your secret training on the ship? Did you learn how to control the fire inside of you? Did you learn how to deal with water?" Torchic chirps happily when he sees the smirk on his trainers face. Back in the cave, Joyce breaks off one of the diamonds and puts it in her bag. She and Marshstomp swim back to the ship swiftly. Joyce hoists herself up on the ship, using the metal bars."Nahïm, LOOK!" Joyce shouts as she pulls his shirt again. Nahïm ignores her and keeps looking at his pokémon. "Look Joyce, didn't I tell you I would deal with you later?" Joyce pulls out the diamond and moves it in front of Nahïm.
Nahïm follows it, until he's looking at Joyce. Then the bright light reflected by the sun blinds him. He turns back to Torchic and says: "Not worth mentioning... Try again." Joyce doesn't get it. He's not in for treasure? But he's from Team Rocket... Just like herself... Joyce shakes her head. "Nahïm, you don't get it! There's loads more down there!" Joyce points at the water below them, slowly swallowing the ship. Nahïm looks at the water and then ignores it again. "Why don't you dive for them then... I'm thinking of a solution here... We're in kind of trouble you know..." Joyce jumps lets herself fall backwards, into the water. "Fine, but then I'm gonna keep them for myself as well!" And with that she dives back to the cave.
Nahïm sighs. "Okay, she's gone now!" He picks up Torchic, so the water won't reach him. He walks to the cabin on the ship and puts Torchic on top of it. There its dry. Nahïm starts talking to it. "Hey Torchic, you've definatly grown stronger in this short time... And I want you to know that... The battle with Marshstomp isn't important. Winning or losing doesn't say anything. You'll still my number one, whatever may happen." Then Torchic chirps loudly and becomes surrounded by a bright flashing light. Then... Torchic turns into a Combusken. Now, the boat starts sinking really fast. "Return, my friend." Nahïm speaks as he holds up Combuskens pokéball. Then he throws the one from Gyarados and hops on when it pops out. "Okay, Gyarados! You go find my partner in crime with me!" Then they dive down, Gyarados roaring.
In the meanwhile, Joyce has reached the cave again. She climbs out and hugs the huge diamonds tightly. "Wow... I sure earned this!" She scurries around with Marshstomp. Then she stops and realizes that gathering the diamonds would go way faster with the others as well. She throws her pokéballs. "Belossom, Absol, Dratini, Vulpix and Gengar! Go! Get me my diamonds!" They all nod, except Dratini. As always, she wraps herself around Joyce. Joyce sighs and puts her back into her pokéball. "Okay, perhaps not you... Dratini..." Joyce sighs as she keeps picking up both small and large diamonds. "To bad my partner in crime wouldn't come along with me..." Joyce sighs; "Oh well... Now its all ours for the taking!" She grins and goes back to putting the diamonds into her bag.
"Bellaaaaaa" Belossom comes stressing back to Joyce. "Belossom?" Joyce kneels and hugs her. "What is it, girl? What is it?" Belossom shakes from head to toe, but points into a clear direction. Joyce tries to look ahead, but the way is too dark to see from here. "Come on, Belossom... Show me!" Belossom shivers, but takes Joyce's hand and leads the way. As they get closer, Belossom shivers more and more. Then they see it. Joyce gasps. "Oh my GOD!! Its a skeleton!" Her shriek is heard throughout the whole cave. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!" Then the skeletons head starts wobbling. Belossom punches her pokéball and disappears into it. Joyce shrieks even harder now. When she gasps for air, she hears the water surface breaking, followed by a voice. Its Nahïm.
"Phew! That was a long dive!" he gasps. He climbs out and puts Gyarados back in his pokéball. Then he searches around for Joyce. He hears a loud shriek and runs to it. There he sees Joyce in fear. "That idiot... NOW what?!" Joyce points at the skeleton as Nahïm approaches. Gengar pops out of the wall, startling both the Team Rocket members. Joyce shrieks in Nahïms ear out of being startled. Nahïm laughs. "Thats a good one Gengar!" Joyce gets out of shock, but still keeps shouting. "Its a friggin SKELETON!!" Nahïm lowers his eyebrow, looking suspicious at Joyce. "So...?" Joyce yells even louder now. "So... SOMEONE DIED HERE!!" Nahïm raises and lowers his shoulders. "So... Be glad it can't hurt you anymore..." Nahïm starts to walk around.
"Faaaaaaaack!" Joyce yells. She sees Marshstomp strolling back to her with his arms loaded with diamonds. Nahïm hasen't seen her yet, but keeps talking in himself. "I can tell you this... The guy that died over there is actually a big fool you know... This cave... Its strong enough to hold the enormous water pressure..." Joyce cuddles Marshstomp. "Oh Marshstomp... You're the greatest!" Then Nahïm turns around. "What...? HEY!! Gimme those!!" Joyce shields Marshstomp. "You stay away from her! You didn't help us so they're NOT YOURS!!" Nahïm rapidly grabs the diamonds from Marshstomp anyway. "HEY!! I want those for Claire!" Nahïm smirks. "I'm a Rocket remember!?" Joyce shakes her head. "Have you no heart?" Her sadness turns into rage. "Our mom is deadly ill!"
Nahïm sighs and calmly replies: "The art of stealing runs through my veins." Joyce's eyes get covered with tears. "NOT stealing from me..." Her Gengar starts creating a Shadow Ball, to attack Nahïm with it. "Gengar... No... You don't have to..." Joyce sighs. Gengar stops immediately and disappears again. Nahïm goes to stand near the water and turns the diamonds around and around. When he sees the questioning look on Joyce's face he says: "I'm going to look how much money these will make..." Joyce turns around and replies: "Fine, but half of it goes to Claire to look after mom! The rest we might use for creating a base..." Then she starts walking deeper into the cave. Belossom pops out of her pokéball and grabs Joyce's hand. "Hey Belossom, come on! We'll search for more!" They start running.
"Hmm... Yup, they're worth something! Not much though..." Then he turns around and notices Joyce is gone. "Where'd she go now..." He starts walking the same way Joyce did. Joyce shrieks and Nahïm runs to her. "Look at THIS!!" she shouts while holding up an golden egg. "This looks like old Amber or something..." Nahïm snatches it and walks to the water again. "You got fooled again... See?" He holds it in the water with one hand. Then starts scratching on it with the other. The gold flows into the water, leaving behind a faint white egg. "See... It was an egg covered in paint... Not to mention... Not worth anything..." Joyce sighs. "Okay, well... Lets just go then..." She starts putting all of the diamond things into her bag. Nahïm shouts: "Wait!" Joyce ignores him: "You can have the egg if you want."
"Gengar... Could you use Shadow Ball on that wall over there please?" Gengar grins wide and starts creating the Shadow Ball. When it has the size of a huge balloon, he throws it at the wall. The wall crumbles a bit. Joyce turns to Nahïm and Gengar, looking serious. "Gengar, what are you doing? I didn't even order you!" Then she gazes at Nahïm. He calmly speaks to Gengar: "Thank you, Gengar." Then he turns to Joyce. "See those? Those wires I mean?" Joyce walks to them and touches them. As if she thinks she's hallucinating. "See... This whole cave is a big set-up! Everything is fake around here!" Nahïm realizes. Joyce looks concerned at Nahïm. And only gets out a mere: "Damn..."
We did a little on the next chapter already,
but we won't post it that fast, sorry.
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