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Chapter 34: another island
After breakfast, we headed towards Six island. "Why don't we go to Five island first?" Aqua asked
"Because Team Rocket is at Six island, and they usually aren't up to any good" Leaf said
"I'm still confused as to who these people are" Sarah said
"Don't worry about it" Aqua replied.
When we got to the town, we healed our Pokémon and headed out. We immediately got to a cross road.
"Ok, you four can go that way" Sarah said, pointing towards the South path "and I and Zain will go this way" she pointed to the West path
"Sounds like a plan" I said. We headed our separate ways, planning to meet back at town by sundown.
We went through a valley with lots of ruins. Aqua, with her usual playful behavior, went climbing on almost everything.
"Aqua! You're going to hurt yourself up there!" I said
"Relax Alex! I'll be fine!" Aqua said
"You know there are a lot of Pokémon here" Leaf said "you could easily disturb a nest of them."
"Yea, and you remember your usual unexpected encounters, right?" I said
"Relax, I'll be fine" Aqua said
"SENTRET!"
A group of sentrets attacked her before she knew what had happened. We each ended up catching one of them, then we headed back out.
After a while, we got to a closed cave "is this it?" Red asked
"It can't be" Leaf said, looking at her map "Dotted cave is supposed to be here"
"Hang on, there's something on here" Aqua said, rubbing her hand across the surface.
"Hmm…looks like Braille" I said
"What is Braille?" Red asked
"Don't worry about it" I said "point is, we have to figure out what it says"
"Or we could try using our Pokémon" Leaf suggested.
"That's it!" I said "we have to use cut!"
"Oh, well that's easy" Leaf said, sending out a Pokémon "Victorybell, use cut!"
The cave wall collapsed as the move hit "perfect!" Red exclaimed.
"Let's go in" I said as Leaf returned her Pokémon.
When we stepped in, we saw a hole, which we each fell through.
There were four paths leading around us, and in front of us there was a post with more dots on it "ugh! More of these?" Leaf asked
"Probably for the best" I said "there are four paths after all"
"Well, what does it say?" Aqua asked
I rubbed my hand against it "I…don't know" I said
"Well, let's try this one" Leaf said, going to the right.
We followed her, and found another hole "should we test it?" I asked
"Best bet" Red said. We fell down and ended up at the start
"What the heck?" Aqua asked
"I guess that was the wrong direction" I said
"Come on, let's try again" Leaf said, jumping down the hole.
This time, we tried up, and we got to a different post when we jumped down.
This went on a couple more times, and we followed the directions the best we could. Sometimes we would take the wrong turn and end up back at the start, but usually we took the right path. Eventually, we got to a chamber with only one path in it. When we went through it, there was only a ladder, no hole.
"Huh, seems like a dead end" Leaf said.
"Hang on, what's this?" Aqua asked, picking up a blue stone.
"That's the Sapphire!" Red said
"Great, now let's get it back to Bill" I said
"I don't think so" someone said from behind.
We turned and saw a group of scientists behind us "well be taking the Sapphire now" one of them said
"Well, do you think you can wait?" Leaf asked "we kind of need it"
"Do you think I care if you need it?" the scientist said "now hand it over or we'll take it from you"
"Why do you need it?" Red asked "you can find another one"
"Again, I don't care. Every Sapphire is valuable" he replied
"Fine, but you'll have to fight for it" I said, taking out a poke ball
"Oh please" the scientist said. He threw a smoke ball, causing us to not be able to see.
Somehow I ended up on the ground, and when the smoke cleared, I could see the same happened with Leaf and Red. The scientists were gone though…and so was Aqua.
"They took Aqua!" Leaf yelled "I'm going after them!" she took off up the ladder
"Leaf! Wait!" Red yelled, following. I had no other choice but to follow them.
We found Leaf on the ground near the dock, with Sarah and Zain trying to help her up. "Leaf? What happened?" Red asked, running over to help her up.
Once Leaf was on her feet, she looked at me "I'm sorry Alex, they over powered me" Leaf said, almost in tears.
"…they took Aqua?" I asked. Leaf nodded "what do they want from her?"
"I don't know, but she's stuck wherever they took her" Leaf replied.
"Well, we found a man in a Rocket uniform on an island near a cave" Sarah said "the cave was confusing, but the guy said something about the base being on Five island, and some scientists looking for a Sapphire"
"Then that must be where they went!" Red said
"Well, it's as good a place as any to start" Zain said "lets go get the Sapphire, and more importantly, Aqua"
"Hold on" Sarah said "this is their base we're talking about, don't you think they'll have protection?"
"Yea, they probably will" Red said "what's your point?"
"My point is, we shouldn't just barge into there expecting to get her, we should rest before we go" Sarah said
"Ok, let's rest then" Leaf said shakily.
We went back to the Pokémon center to rest. I went straight to bed and fell asleep. It's not like this hadn't happened before, and it was WAY worse then, but it still hurt being away from her. I had a very restless night that night…
Yay! Another chapter done! Sorry I haven't been updating as frequently as normal, I've been really busy. This week, I might end up uploading two a day most of the time, but I might not, I don't know. Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!