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Chapter 33: a cave of ice
After breakfast, we went clothes shopping. I never really liked clothes shopping, even if it was for my comfort. I could tell Red felt the same way, and Zain seemed like he didn't really care. On the other hand, the girls loved it…and it was like I was their doll to dress up.
"Oh! I think he'd look good in these!" Leaf would say, pulling out a long-sleeved shirt and blue Jeans.
"I think he'd like these more" Aqua said, pulling out a different set of similar clothing.
"That's not nearly warm enough! These are better!" Sarah said. I swear, all of them looked the same.
"Can you guys just hurry up, someone might get to the Sapphire first!" Red said
"Well, it won't help if Alex freezes" Leaf said, looking through more clothing. In all honesty, I was regretting ever suggesting this.
"Just get him something that fits, we really should get out of here" Zain said
"Oh! These are perfect!" I couldn't tell who said it, but I had a pair of blue jeans with a hoodie thrown at me.
I sighed and tried them on. They were actually really comfortable, but I doubted it would warm me up enough. "Are these really warm enough?" I asked, stepping out of the changing room.
"You'll be fine in that" Sarah said "let's go"
We headed off, and went to the cave. They were right, the jacket and jeans were enough to keep the cold out, even though there was ice everywhere.
"Ok, first things first, let's figure out where to start" Sarah said.
"Maybe we should-" Red was cut off as we heard a crack.
"What was that?" Leaf asked
I saw Aqua had walked across a piece of ice, and it was ready to break. "Don't move Aqua" I said
"Why not?" she asked, stepping on it again.
SNAP!
The ice crumbled, sending Aqua falling "Aqua!"
She landed with a soft thud "are you ok?" I asked looking through the hole. She got up.
"I'm fine, you guys should come down!" she called.
We each jumped down, landing better than she had, and then we continued.
After a bit of walking, we got to a river. In the distance, I could hear a waterfall crashing down "well, where to now?" Aqua asked
"We need to get up that waterfall" Sarah said "there's something over there, I can feel it."
"How though?" Aqua asked
"Maybe there's another way around, come on" Red said. We walked off.
Eventually, we got to a small cavern…a dead end "find anything Red?" Leaf asked. Red was looking at his Item Finder.
"Nothing, there's no hidden items anywhere" he said
"Ugh, I guess there's nothing here" Aqua said
I sighed "well, maybe there will be something on Five island" I suggested
"Bill suggested this island for a reason…" Leaf said
"Wait, what's this?" Zain asked, picking up a case.
"Open it! Can't be any worse than the ice!" Aqua said excitedly
He opened it "oh, there's a couple of disks here" he said, giving me and Zain a disk. I put mine in my bag
"Oh, this is Waterfall!" Sarah said "this is what we needed!"
We taught it to one of each of our Pokémon, then we headed back to the waterfall. We surfed up to it.
"So, we just climb up it?" I asked. Sarah shrugged "Blastoise, use Waterfall!"
Before I knew what was going on, I was launched up the waterfall, with the others behind. We got to land and started walking after that.
After a bit, we started hearing voices.
"How would I know?" a girl said
"Because you know this island better than anyone" another girl said
"What does that prove?" the first girl asked
"It proves you know about this cave, and where to find it" a boy said
We followed the voices as the argued back and forth. There was a girl and two people in uniforms…Team Rocket uniforms.
"Please, just leave me alone!" the girl said
"Tell us where it is!" the man in the team rocket uniform said.
"She doesn't have to tell you anything!" Sarah said, stepping up.
The two Team rocket people turned to face us "you guys again?" the girl asked
"Didn't think you'd still be here" Leaf said
The two grabbed poke balls "you can leave, or lose your Pokémon, your choice" the man said
I looked at Sarah, who was in front, but she was silent "you'll have to beat me first" Red said, stepping next to Sarah
"A tag battle it is" the man said, smiling
Sarah stepped back, and Leaf took her place "yea, good luck" she said.
They started battling, and I stopped paying attention. I went over to the other girl "are you ok?" I asked
She nodded "thank you for saving me" she said
"What did they want?" I asked
She shook her head "I don't know" she said
I sighed "that's fine" I said.
After a bit, the two people were defeated "game over" Leaf said
"You may have defeated us, but you'll never find our base!" the girl said
"Yea, and you'll never figure out its on Six Island!" the man said
"You Idiot!" the girl shouted "you just told them!"
"Oops" the man said "at least I didn't tell them we're poaching Pokémon there"
"You just did!" the girl shouted
"Uh oh" the man said
"Come on, before Giovanni finds out" the girl said. Then they ran off.
"They know Giovanni is defeated, right?" Leaf asked
"I don't think so" I said "and I think we should go to Six island to tell them, and stop this Pokémon poaching"
"yea, but let's do that tomorrow" Red said "right now, this girl should get home"
"speaking of which, what's your name?" I asked her
"Lorelei" she said
"nice to meet you" I said
She smiled in response. We headed back up, and immediately went to the Pokémon center. After dinner, I went to sleep very quickly.
yay! another chapter done! not much to say this time...oh well. Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!