The two fires Pokémon slept peacefully through the night; at least they hoped they would. Anyway, Cyndaquil dreamt about a green landscape, with trees and fresh grass everywhere, but she suddenly felt someone licking her face, someone she knew: "Ch-Charmander?" she slowly muttered, as she opened her eyes. To her surprise, it was in the middle of the night but the even greater unexpectance, was the Pokémon the tongue belonged to. Snivy had somehow tried catching up to the two fire types. Cyndaquil was startled. "What do you want now?" Cyndaquil asked.
"I´m really sorry for what I did to you two, I´m just not used to Pokémon caring so much for me, I kind of freaked out, because It was unusual, but I realize now that you licked me out of kindness. " Snivy said, her head was hanging pretty low, on a second look, however, Cyndaquil noticed many bruises and wounds on the grass type's body. "Okay, but please don´t be like that again okay? "The fire mouse demanded. "I promise." Snivy said. "What happened to you?" the hedgehog wondered, looking around.
"Down there, I ran into a bunch of rocky dudes, who attacked me, there were so many of them, I could hardly fight them so I tried running from them, but their rock throw attacks still got me, but I still made it. I felt bad for what I did to you, so I wanted to apologize. I know, you two would have gone through all that, to save me, even though I did all that." "It´s okay to have you back, I was worried about you." Cyndaquil said, looking at Charmander, who was sleeping through the whole conversation. The fire mouse Pokémon quickly ran over to the lizard, looking for the bag with the berries, and then she took an Oran berry and brought it to Snivy. "You´ll feel a lot better, if you eat this. " She said to Snivy, handing her the blue fruit. Snivy quickly chewed the healing berry then she swallowed. "To you mind, if I stay with you tonight ?" Snivy asked. " Not at all " Cyndaquil said, lying down next to Charmander. "You´re really a good friend to have. " The Snake Pokémon said, stroking Cyndaquil´s head, then she lay down next to the fire mouse Pokémon.
As night moved on, there were no more interruptions and the reunited Pokémon were ,once again, sleeping next to each other. The area around the volcano was rather strange, especially the valley, Charmander and Cyndaquil had come from had numerous craters and carvings that weren´t there before, they were now signs of warning to travelers. As the sun broke through the night and darkness vanished, the area got brighter and the light woke up the sleepy ones.
Charmander opened his blue eyes, to find Cyndaquil lying very close to him, but was stunned by the sight of Snivy being up here, but he was happy to see that she was well. Charmander started to stroke Cyndaquil's head. "Good morning." He whispered into her ears. She started to giggle, then she licked Charmanders face. Snivy was still snoozing. " It´s morning , you know?" Charmander said to the sleeping Snivy, with a big grin on his face. "Oh morning." She groaned , as she finally got up. "You see… " She wanted to explain. "Don´t worry it´s okay , I did hear what you had to tell yesterday …" Charmander said . " And besides , it´s a lot more fun to travel with more friends " he added.
Then he looked down the mountain, at their destination. "Wow, looks like we're there, aren´t we ?" Snivy said. "There is only one way to find out." Charmander said, before walking towards the other side of the mountain, then he started to climb down. Cyndaquil quickly followed. "Hey you two , wait for me." Snivy said , running after the two fire types . Then the trio started their climb downwards to a cave´s entrance, which was still a little distant, but the sight of it alone was relief enough to keep them going on.
"Ugh all this climbing…" Snivy muttered to herself, while looking downwards, meanwhile the sun rose into the sky, making the area bright and warm, but as time passed, some clouds moved into the area indicating rain. "Say how did you get so good at climbing." Snivy asked Cyndaquil as they climbed down. "Well , I guess with Charmander being around I´m a bit more confident and I have gotten a bit used to it now." She explained while looking at Charmander. "Sure, but she is also getting a lot stronger." The lizard explained. The three Pokémon talked about the events that had occurred while they were separated, and after half an hour they at last reached the end of the slope.
About a mile away was what looked a lot like a pitfall trap. "Looks kind of weird " Snivy said, analyzing the place at a distance. "And scary too." Cyndaquil added. "Don´t worry it´s gonna be fine." Charmander said with a lot of confidence. As the three wandering Pokémon at last reached the entrance, Charmander found a wooden board standing next to the hole " Canis lupus " . " We made it everyone." Charmander said. The two others had a big grin on their face , as all the hard work from the previous days had seemed to have payed off.
Suddenly a creature came crawling out of the hole, a little camel with a volcano on the back started to talk. "What do you want ?" He asked in a deep voice. "We want to get signed up as new members." Snivy explained " You ...What ?" the Numel said , before starting to giggle. "Seriously you probably can´t even pass the test." He said looking at Snivy. "We can pass anything when we need to." The grass type said in an angry voice. "Okay you asked for it, don´t say I didn´t warn you." He sneered, then he gave the trio a sign to follow him into the hole.
Actually, there was a spiral staircase leading downwards. After a while, they came to a room with two wooden doors. The mean Numel went into the room to the right. Apparently, he was discussing with someone, meanwhile some other Pokémon, two Growlithes came out from a staircase behind them. They giggled at the sight of Snivy, then they walked right past the three and towards the surface level. "Don´t worry, you´re easily as good as anyone in here." Cyndaquil said , trying to comfort Snivy who was clearly a bit enraged.
Then Numel came out of the room. "Okay here is the deal, you have to fight three random Pokémon in here, win two of these fights and you win."He explained." Okay in here." he said , while walking to the other door, it had a big Flame symbol which was carved in, so others would recognize it. Inside was a big hall, which was rather tall. The three Pokémon followed the volcano Pokémon to the other side. "Okay , I'll find challenger number one." he said, before leaving the room.
Minutes later a giant dog came through the door. He had red fur with black stripes and white fur around is head and his tail. "Okay who of you is going to start?" Numel asked, clearly a bit of arrogance in his voice . " I will." Snivy said, walking in front of the other two, without even letting the fire types time to decide. "I'm gonna pulverize this one." Arcanine said. And so the two Pokémon that couldn´t be any more different, went into a fighting stance, ready to fight.
-End of chapter 15-