A/N: I may or may not finish this same day as chapter 1 (I did). Also, i've been misspelling Ilimas name for a long time! Also, i never said this, but Rockruff doesn't have a pokeball, i think i'll go into the backstory later, but not now. I don't have much else so...
I moved ahead to Verdent Cavern, Lillie was following me. As i approached the cave, i felt nervous. The closer i got, the more nervous i was. This is sounding too serious, let's fix that with this face .u. isn't that just the happiest face! Once i got in, i was met with Ilima. "Welcome" Ilima said "ready to start the trial?" Rockruff was getting really excited, when i answered "yes", he got even more excited. "Hey, Platinum!" Lillie said "I have a gift for Rockruff!" She gave him a bow. "Why would you give him a bow?" I asked. "Rockruff's a girl." She said "Look for yourself." I paused for a bit "I'd rather not..." I responded.
"The goal is to defeat all the Rattata in the cave!" Ilima explained "Then you battle the totem Pokemon." He said some other stuff, then i was ready. He also let Lillie come with me to watch. I noticed a little hole in the wall, and i peeked inside. "There's nothing here!" i said. I walked away and something came out of the hole and attacked Lillie. "AHHHH!" She screamed. "Gah! Rockruff, use Rock Throw!" I shouted. Rockruff attacked the Rattata quickly, then Rattata attacked back. It bit Rockruff, then scratched her. Rockruff countered with a Bite, defeating Rattata.
We kept walking through, Lillie had a few scratches on her, and Rockruff was still pumped up. I was distracted (thinking about memes), and another Rattata attacked Rockruff. "Rockruff, use bite!" I shouted. She acted quickly, jumping at the Rattata. The Rattata bite Rockruff before she could back away. Rockruff independently decided to bite it again. I was going to tell her to use Rock Throw so she didn't risk getting bit again. The Rattata bit Rockruff before she reached it, just like i thought would happen. Lillie was engaged by what was happening, and, honestly, i was too.
"Rockruff, use Rock Throw!" I shouted. Rockruff tried to attack, she was taking a little longer than normal. The Rattata almost scratched her, but she attacked it in time. I used some potions to heal her, then we continued. Lillie held Rockruff for a bit while we looked around for the final Rattata. Lillie was very cautious about being attacked by another Rattata, especially since she was holding a Pokemon, thinking Rockruff would be targeted by the Rattata. The final Rattata appeared after awhile. Rockruff leaped out Lillies arms and jumped in front of me. "Use Bite!" I shouted. Rockruff (and i know you're tired of hearing this) acted fast, biting the Rattata. The Rattata ran away, but i needed to defeat every Rattata, so me and Rockruff had to chase it down.
Lillie decided to sit down as she was tired of running. First we looked in some of those holes, and nothing was there. Then we looked around the main area, and nothing. Then i talked to Ilima. "Hey, Ilima." I said "I found every Rattata, but the last one ran away... so, can i continue?" He looked at me and laughed for a bit. "Haha!" He said "... wait you're serious?" I took that as a no. Then some of those thugs from before came in. "Team Skull!" Ilima exclaimed "I thought you would give up after your first attempt!" That taught me something, those guys are called Team Skull! "Yo, we realized it would be better to take the totem Pokemon!" one of them said. "That's what we're here for!" the other added.
"Well," I said "i challenge you to a Pokemon battle!" They were shocked at first. "Yo, you actually want to challenge Team Skull?" one said "You must have a thick skull!" He sent out a Pokemon that looked like a lizard, it kinda looked like it had a mask on it. The other guy sent out a Garbodor, i was use to seeing THOSE since i was in Unova for a year. "Rockruff, use Sand Attack, then Rock Throw!" I shouted. She blinded them with tiny dust she made from the ground, then attacked them with a Rock Throw. They still had some dust in there eyes, Rockruff attacked Garbodor with a bite, defeating it. The lizard thing coated the arena with a poisonous gas. "Rockruff, bite it, QUICK!" I shouted. Rockruff bit it with great power, defeating it.
"Aww man!" They said in sync. Then they ran. "Thank you!" Ilima said "Here, let me heal your Pokemon for you!" I sat down to take a break before heading to the totem Pokemon, but then i heard Lillie scream "AHHHH!" Me and Rockruff ran up, apparently the last Rattata attacked her. It didn't take long to wipe it out. "Come on Lillie!" i said "It's time for me to battle the totem Pokemon!" We headed to the area where the Z-Crystal was. "Wait, is there even a totem?" Lillie asked. "Guess not!" i responded. I went to grab it, then the totem Pokemon jumped at me. Lillie stepped back, being scared of the sudden appearance of the Pokemon. "Alright Rockruff, Lets do this!" I said.
The totem was intimidating, and Rockruff got scared. It wasn't its ability, though, because i've researched Raticate before, and it can't have Intimidate. I wasn't worried about Thick Fat, because Rockruff didn't have fire or ice type moves. I wasn't worried about Gluttony, but it might have Hustle, witch can be pretty bad. But abilitys aside, this battle could be tough. "Use Rock Throw!" i shouted. It didn't do much to totem Raticate, but i did fall over. It shouted, hurting my hears, and a Rattata appeared. "Rockruff, use sand attack, then bite Raticate!" i shouted.
The bite didn't do much to Raticate, and i should stop using bite on Dark Types. Raticate used Hyper Fang, but Rockruff dodged it. Rattata scratched him, and Lillie looked like she was ready to run away any second now. Rockruff used Rock throw on both of them, since they were still blinded from the sand attack. Raticate bit Rockruff, and she got bit HARD. She attacked back with a Rock Throw... 4 of them! Raticate was down, but he called more allies, 14 RATTATAS! Rockruff took out 5 of em' with 2 Rock Throws, but almost got taken down. Thinking fast, i healed him with a potion, though the X Attack wouldn't be useful since Rock Throw is a special attack. She wiped out the rest with a couple of Rock Throws.
I took the Normalium-Z of the pedestal, and celebrated my victory.
-The End-
A/N: I was proud of this, it's my longest, and one of my favorites so far. I was kinda proud of how nerdy i was being during the Raticate battle talking about abilitys and stuff. And i was kinda proud of that joke with bite against dark types. I'm working on chapter 3.