Chapter 4
*Warning* It is supposed to be in past tense but I am more editing so people would understand what is going on as I've heard a lot of confusion. I decided I'd focus more on editing the storyline itself than grammar right now.
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TheLucario
When I wake up, my hand instantly goes to my chest. The gash was still there. That meant, even though now we were safely in the guild, Wylie could still be dead, along with the kid. Worried, I sat up, flinching when the pain in my left arm caught up to me. The cast confirmed my fears: my left arm was broken.
I remembered that Wylie and I shared a room. Duh. I look to my left.
The straw bed beside my own was empty.
I stand up, flinch, and race out of the room. I use my aura. I found the oshawott was okay. He was with Heather, Dark, and Carry.
Wylie, on the other paw, was in Chimecho's room. The nice pokemon not only ran the place where you could pick your team members, but was also the nurse here.
I got up as fast as I could and ran like hell until I was in the doorway of the hospital. OPERATING, a sign above the door stated in glowing letters. I sent my senses inside the room. Wylie was in surgery.
"No," I whispered. My mind jumped to a conclusion, forced me to start thinking about life without my best friend... I didn't notice someone sneak up beside me.
"Austin?" I jumped. It was Heather.
"Hi," I greeted her.
"Are you okay?" she asked. I looked at the letters on the door again.
"I will be," I said quietly.
"Jared wants to talk to you," Heather said.
"Who?" I wondered. I hadn't heard the name.
"The oshawott," Heather told me. "You remember, right?
"Yes. Thank you," I tell her. Sothat'shisname. She leads me into the main room.
"Uh... how about Team CIA?" Carry suggests. WhatthehellistheCIA?
"Team what?" Jared asks.
"Never mind." She mutters in response. Jared perks when I come in.
"Thanks!" He said. "For saving me, I mean."
"It's my job." I answer with a smile. "Glad to do it."
TheOshawott
A while later, we're still arguing about the team name. Still.
"Guys!" Heather shouts above our yelling. "How about Team Sound?"
We all turn it over in our heads for a moment. "I like it." I offer.
"Me, too." Carry said. We look at Dark, who nods.
"Wigglytuff!" We all yell for her.
"What?" Chatot appears, looking pissed. Whyisitsomuchfuntopisshimoff? Carry could almost not hide her smile of amusement, so it obviously wasn't just me..
"Wigglytuff said to call when we figured out our name." Carry explains innocently. Chatot eyes us for a moment, then said to go in.
"Hello, Guild Master." Heather said.
"Hi! Have you four all agreed on your team name?" The big pink pokemon asks.
"Team Sound." Dark said.
"I like it!" Wigglytuff agrees. He walks into a corner of his room, then comes back with an adventure bag! "Open it!"
He hands it to Dark. Dark pulls out a Wonder Map, a cleanse tag (for Heather, I think), a dodge scarf (for Carry, Wiggly said), a pair of X-ray specs (for me), and a key on a chain (for Dark).
"Where does it go to?" Dark asks. I glance at Carry. The black scarf suits her.
"That's for you to find out." Wigglytuff said with a smirk. Dark simply nods. "Now! Go on a mission!" Wiggly instructs, and we leave after saying our thanks.
TheEspeon
"This cave is freaking creepy. And. Wet." I mutter. Of all the places, Drenched Bluff. Dark seemed not too happy about all the wet, but Jared and Heather didn't really care. As far as I know, they likewet. I do not.
We were forced here, though. This mission, to find a dropped water plate, was the only one on the board. I was pretty mad about it. Why the hell couldn't the kid come back and get it himself? I mean, he made it here once, why couldn't he do it again? Sure, he broke an arm. Brake the other one and he'd have a matching set.
"I'm not such a fan myself." Dark grumbles in response, slowing his pace to walk near me.
Meanwhile, Jared and Heather continue a bit ahead of us, stepping in the very puddles Dark and I are trying to avoid.
"I've heard stories that there's a treasure at the end of the cave." Jared said to Heather. "But if you touch it, the whole place is flooded."
"Once we get the tablet thingy, we could go and find it." Heather suggests.
"Let's just finish the mission and get out." I say, annoyed.
"The two items are both supposed to be on the same floor." Heather explains.
We abruptly hear thunder. I vaguely remembered that the sky had been cloudy earlier. I stupidly looked above me, forgetting that we were still on the dungeon's first floor. There was a crack in the ceiling above us. Water suddenly started pouringdown on me.
"Fu-"
TheOshawott
Two hours later, we still haven't found the plate. We had gone up and down all floors of the dungeon several times and were pretty sick of looking, so a few minutes ago we had decided to split up and start looking in groups of two, that way covering more ground and doing it faster. Carry and I somehow ended up on one team, Dark and Heather on the other.
"Is that it?" I ask, pointing to a flat-ish stone.
"No." Carry said.
"That?" I point to another one.
"No." She mutters.
"How do you even know what it looks like?" I ask, exasperated.
"I don't. I just know it doesn't look like that!" She hisses.
"You're just mad because you're a wet cat." I mutter to myself.
"You got that right." Is her annoyed response. I sigh and continue to search through the cave.
Something catches my eye.
"That one? That one right there. I'm sure that's it!" I insist. She's not even looking now! "CARRY! Look!" I yell. She does, and her eyes widen.
"I think that IS it!" She agrees happily, and we rush over and pick it up. The blue, flat stone had some letters engraved onto it.
"We found it!" I shouted excitedly. "We can go home!"
"And dry off and be warm!" Carry said happily. "Let's find Dark and Heather and get the hell out of here!"
Then there was a loud crash.
"Thunder?" I wondered.
"No," Carry said, her eyebrows furrowing. Carry angled her head to look behind me. She gasped, her eyes widening.
I turned around. "Crap," I whispered in fear.
TheVaporeon
"Dark, you think this is a wild goose chase?" I asked him.
"Yup." He responded. "Let's go home now."
"Oh, you just don't like being wet!" I protested. I raced ahead of him and pounced in all the puddles, splashing water all over him.
"Hey!" He protests. I laugh and run.
"Can't catch me!" I yell playfully.
"Heather! Stop!" I hear Dark shout.
I frowned. He sounded worried. I shrugged it off, deciding he was worried about nothing. No, Dark, Iwon'tbumpintoawall. Ipromise.
"Nice try, Dark!" I turn my head to face him as I yell. I hit something hard yet soft.
"Crap." Dark mumbled from behind me.
"Huh!" I gasped as I looked up. I had bumped into a huge floatzel.
"Hello, little lady," the floatzel grins down at me.
"Heather!" Dark yells suddenly. "Look at that!"
I whip around to face him.
"Hello, kids!" a skuntank shouts as pads slowly into the room. He walks up to Dark with a smirk on his face and before Dark or I could react the skuntank shoves his claws into Dark's shoulder and then chucks him against the cave wall. Dark yells in pain as his body crashes into it with a loud thump.
Whereinhelldidtheseguyscomefrom?
I turn back to the pokemon in front of me. The floatzel lunges, but I am too quick for it. I dodge left and use hydro pump. It's blown into the wall (next to the doorway we had been headed to) with a bang. I whip around and throw a water pulse at the skuntank as he walks back over to Dark. It hits him hard, but he doesn't flinch.
I hear footsteps and turn back to the entrance we'd been heading to. "Back up already?" I demand, but am relieved to see that Carry and Jared are standing in the entranceway next to the floatzel. Unfortunately, the floatzel gets up and attacks, but Jared fights back using razor shell and faints the floatzel. He falls right back into the very spot he had just gotten up from.
I hear a scream and turn to see the darn skuntank with its claws buried into Dark's other shoulder.
Carry said something I will not repeat, then uses a combination of quick attack and body slam, knocking the skuntank off of Dark. Hissing, she bites down on his neck until I see blood leaking out of him. She then takes his shoulder in her jaws and throws himacross the room. He lands near me. I take this moment and use an ice fang, biting into his leg. Jared comes over and uses hydro cannon, blowing the pokemon out of my unforgivingly cold jaws and into the wall opposite the floatzel. He crashes and does not wake up.
"We got the damn plate! Let's get the hell out of here!" Carry yells. I go over and carefully pick up Dark by the scruff in my jaws. His eyes were closed: I thought he was out. But he whimpered an "ow" as I lifted him off the ground. I put him back down and took a good look at him.
He was clearly bruised and probably had broken a bone or two. There were three long, jagged, and deep gashes across both his shoulders, a total six in all. Blood was oozing out of them, and I could see Dark's flesh beneath all of it. He was very tense from all the pain, and thanks to me he was still wet. Or were those tears?
I didn't let myself wonder. I took him by the scruff again. He didn't make a sound that time, but I knew it hurt him. What else could I do? I'msorry, I thought, wishing he could hear.
The three of us then realize something crucial.
"We can use the damn badges!" Carry exclaims. I put Dark down gently.
"My gosh, you're right!" I agree, and we all get them out of the bag Jared holds. I take out Dark's, too, and put it between his paws. We teleport magically out of there.
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