Three reviews? Well, it's nice to know that some people are enjoying this.

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3. X-Eye/Allure Seed

"Ah, hello, Team Tenacity!" Kecleon exclaimed as Kevin and Bolt walked up to his shop. "Would you like to see what I have today?"

"Yes, please," Kevin eagerly said. He'd long figured something out about the Kecleon brothers... they understood perfectly that all exploration teams visited to buy supplies. Therefore, they saw no need to call attention to their stock unless they had something unusual. "What do you have?"

"An incredibly special kind of seed!" Kecleon exclaimed as he lifted several up. "These X-Eye Seeds will render wild Pokémon completely helpless! Nothing will appear to be what they truly are! It will be as though your enemy's minds are in a completely different world! You will be able to quickly and easily defeat them while they don't have the slightest clue what is going on! Not only that, but they last much longer than, say, a Sleep Seed or a Totter-"

"Wait, hang on!" Bolt interrupted. "I think I've heard of these before. I thought they were called Allure Seeds or something dumb like that."

Kecleon sighed. "Well, I'm not supposed to tell customers this, but they really are the same thing. They're just prepared by different Pokémon companies."

"Ah, of course," Kevin laughed. "We'll take three."

Kecleon took the Poké from the Totodile and duly handed over the seeds. "Use them well," he advised. "Oh, and... just between us, would you not tell Officer Magnezone about these?"

"What, what?" Bolt gasped. "Are these illegal or something?"

"Oh, Mew forbid I should engage in illegal practices!" Kecleon said quickly. "I was just worried. Some time ago a few children found a large stock of X-Eye Seeds and ate them all at once. The effects were terrible; ever since, Magnezone has been wary of shopkeepers keeping too many of these on hand. Really!"

"Well, okay," Kevin nervously responded before turning to Bolt. "Come on, we should get some stuff out of Kangaskhan Storage. Since we've never been to this dungeon before, we should be prepared."


"Oh, yes, let's be prepared, Bolt!" Bolt shouted as the two walked along. "Let's make sure we have all sorts of stuff so we can make sure we can handle anything! Oh, that takes up a lot of room in our bag? Don't worry, Midnight Forest is, after all, a forest. We'll probably find lots of food there. No need to waste space with food!"

"I get it!" Kevin groaned. "I messed up. Would you leave it alone already?"

"Leave it alone, Bolt! Quit going on about it, Bolt! I know I got so mad after you ate the last Apple that I tried to attack you, and that you had to paralyze me to save yourself, but it's so much worse to bring attention to my mistakes!"

"Look," Kevin grunted. "I think we're on the last floor. Twenty-five, right? So we just gotta find the way out. Please, please just stop pointing out I was wrong and watch for the exit?"

"You're already weak from hunger," Bolt pointed out. "You are not going to make it that far. You're not even going to make the next three minutes."

"We've already looked over most of the floor." Just then, the two conveniently walked out of the corridor into the room with the exit. "Hah! See? We'll be fine!" Kevin exclaimed just before he collapsed. "Hungry..."

Bolt rolled his eyes. "What did I tell you?"

"Need food. Now."

"Just a second." Bolt shot a Shock Wave at a Beautifly coming from the other side of the room. "Okay, now I can look to see what we have."

Bolt wasn't surprised by what he found in the Treasure Bag. There were no more Apples, no Gummis, and not even any decent berries. They had brought plenty of Oran Berries, sure, but those had been used up pretty quickly after being attacked by a group of Ledian. Damn Silver Wind! Bolt thought bitterly. He had to have just stepped on a trap that kept him from using Discharge, too. Terrible luck. "Okay, um... no good food items."

"Look more," Kevin whispered. "Don't wanna lose to dungeon. Need food. Just a little."

Bolt dug through the Bag some more. He pulled out a bag of seeds and looked at it quizzically. Where had that come from?... Oh. Right. "We've got nothing but those seeds from Kecleon, dude. Looks like you're screwed."

"Give."

"What are you, crazy?"

"Just one. Won't hurt."

"Oh, hell." Bolt handed a seed to Kevin. "Don't whine to me about the effects." As Kevin put the seed in his mouth, Bolt noticed a tiny label on the bag. He held it up to his face to try and read it and squinted. After a moment, the words suddenly snapped into focus:

WARNING

This product contains LSD.

The producers and vendors of this product are not liable for its misuse.

Bolt gaped for a moment, then wailed, "Kevin, hang on a sec! This is acid!"

"Who-o-o-o-oa!" Kevin moaned. "Lots of colors!" He looked at Bolt. "DUDE! It's a substitute-decoy thingamajigger!"

"Crap, that was fast." Bolt shook his head.

"Bolt? Izzat you?" Kevin peered at Bolt in astonishment.

"Yes. Now come on, we gotta get out of here!"

"Bolt, you're turning into a Piplup. Stop it."

"Damn it!" Bolt screamed. He grabbed Kevin's tail and dragged him over to the exit.

Kevin grinned, unaware of anything strange. "Flowers! Lotsa flowers! Keep going to the pretty flowers!"


"Hey, Bolt?" Kevin asked. Bolt looked up. They had been back at the guild for several hours Bolt had immediately dragged Kevin to their room before anyone could ask questions. He'd been forcing Kevin to stay in his bed ever since.

"Are you done tripping yet?" Bolt asked warily.

"I guess."

"Good."

"Uh..." Kevin shifted uncomfortably. "I want another."

Bolt's jaw dropped as he stared at Kevin in disbelief. "No, no, no, and no. No way in hell you are having another X-Eye Seed."

"But I need it. I mean... after I ate it... I had some kind of epiphany. I figured out the meaning of the universe. I just don't remember what it was. Maybe if I have another I'll remember it. Come on, I know they're in our Bag..."

Bolt didn't bother replying. He stood up, picked up the Treasure Bag, and walked out of the room. Just outside was Chimecho.

"You two have been in there ever since you got back," Chimecho said worriedly. "You even missed dinner. Are you all right?"

Bolt hesitated, then sighed. "Kevin ate an X-Eye Seed."

Chimecho gasped. "An X-Eye Seed? But those have-"

"I know." Bolt gritted his teeth. "He's come out of it, but now he wants more."

"Do you have more? Because if you do, well... he'll get to them."

"Two more. Don't know what to do with them. I can't just throw them out or something. What if Azurill or someone found them and didn't know what they were?" Bolt shook his head. "This sucks."

"Hey, I have an idea." Chimecho grinned mischievously. "Give them to me. I know exactly what to do."

Bolt opened the Treasure Bag and hesitated. "You... aren't going to just eat them yourself, are you?"

"Of course not!"

"Just checking."


Wigglytuff walked into his chambers, giggling happily. What an amazing, wonderful day it had been! Wigglytuff absently wandered around the room. Would tomorrow be as good as today? Or would it be even better? Suddenly he noticed something by one of his boxes. What could that be? Wigglytuff walked over and looked down.

"Oof," Chatot grunted.

"Chatot? Friendly friend, what are you doing there?"

Chatot moved slightly. He was lying on the floor, face down. "I beg your pardon, madam, but... get off," he gasped, somewhat muffled.

"Uh, what?" Wigglytuff twitched his ears. "There's no one here except me, and I'm not a madam. And I'm not on top of you, either, friend."

"Simba? Nala?"

"Um, okay." Wigglytuff sweatdropped and exited the room.


I'm thinking of including the other apprentices more often. I might even have some stories dedicated just to them, without Team Tenacity getting involved. What do you think?

Also, am I the only one who always imagined Chatot with Zazu's voice?