Hey guys. Here's a new chapter for y'all who actually read this. Hope you like it.

The caves were never ending. They were like a labyrinth, lots of twists and turns as well as many dead ends. The group would find themselves going down a way that they thought was right, only to be stopped in their tracks by a stone wall. The only reason they were able to see in the first place was because Drake had made an ember in his mouth that gave off faint light. The fire made the travelers' shadows dance around on the walls. It was entertaining to Sam, watching the shadows. That was, until he bumped into Drake, which made the flame go out. He was given a proper scolding, and then the group continued on. Sam couldn't help but notice that Lily wasn't being herself. She was usually cheery and optimistic, but not now.

"Hey Lily," Sam said to get her attention. "Why are you so down?"

"It's just… I hope Cassius is alright," she responded with worry in her voice.

"He will be; you'll see."

"I hope you're right," she said softly.

I hope I am, too, Sam thought. "You know," Sam started to get his mind off of the 'what if's', "it would probably be very hard for a linoone to travel around here."

"A linoone?" Lily said. "Why?"

"Well, linoone are fittingly known as the rushing pokémon since they can run up to 60 miles per hour. However, they are also very notorious for not being able to turn very easily. So this place must be a nightmare because they wouldn't be able to run fast and they can't turn well."

"Interesting," Lily said.

"How do you know that?" Kate asked.

"Sam's really smart." Lily replied. "See, he's actually literate and so he's read a ton of books back at the house he lives. Sam know almost everything there is to know about pokémon."

Almost… Sam thought, remembering how he didn't know how espeon's fur worked. It's not like him to just forget pokémon facts, even if it's for a pokémon he hasn't caught. He remembered facts about mightyena. In fact, mightyena usually travel in packs and work together. Wonder why this one isn't Sam thought.

"You're literate?" Kate asked, snapping Sam out of his thoughts.

"Oh… yeah… I am," he replied hesitantly.

"Hm…" Kate once again gave Sam a weary look, a look of untrusting.

What's up with her? Sam thought.

As they continued to go deeper into the cave, Sam kept thinking that he was seeing things in the dark. Things like glowing eyes looking at him. He, however, passed these things off as just his imagination. Eventually, they made it to a large open cavern in the cave. Surprisingly, there was enough light coming in from a hole in the ceiling that everyone was able to see. This allowed Drake to extinguish the flame in his mouth.

"I think this is where he fell," Drake said, "so look around." The group started to search for their psychic friend. It didn't take long for them to find Cassius, seeing how he was the only pink thing in this entire cave as well as being right under the hole in the ceiling. He was laying on the floor, silently.

"Cassius!" Sam yelled out when he saw him and ran to where he was. Once he got there, he saw that Cassius was struggling to get up. "You're okay!" Sam exclaimed with joy.

"Not exactly," Cassius said as he fell back down.

"What do you mean?" Sam said as the rest of the crew caught up with him. Sam then looked at Cassius's legs and saw that two of them were twisted the wrong way.

"Oh my god…" Lily whispered when she saw his legs.

"Here, Sam, help me carry him," Drake said. "We can help him once we're above ground."

"Right," Sam said. Both he and Drake put Cassius on their backs and started to walk the direction they came.

"Where do you think you're going?" a voice from behind them said. Sam looked back to see a pokémon that he would have hoped he'd never see again.

"Sableye," Sam said, partly to notify the others in case they had never seen or heard of this pokémon before, and partly just out of disgust.

"Hm… someone actually knows who we are; that's a first," the sableye said.

"We?" Sam asked. Just then two other sableye stepped out of the darkness behind the first.

"We don't take too kindly to people who just wander into our territory," the first one continued.

"We didn't wander!" Lily shouted back. "Our friend here just happened to fall in and we are getting him out."

"Is that so?" the first sableye said. "Well, I'm sorry, but we have to punish you in some way. It's not like we can just let you guys leave." He then looked over to Sam and Drake. "Maybe I'll just break that espeon's other two legs. What do you think about that boys?" he looked back towards his comrades. The other two sableye nodded their heads and put on their creepy smile that sableye were known for.

"Oh yeah?," Sam growled, "Well, you'll have to get through me first! Lily, take Cassius." Lily followed orders and took Sam's place of carrying the espeon. Sam jumped in front of the others and got into his best battle stance. "Go, get out of here," Sam told the others. "I'll hold them off."

"I like your determination, but do you really think you can beat all three of us?" The first sableye said with a little smirk.

"No," Sam replied confidently, "but I guess we're about to find out."

"No we're not," Kate said and got next to Sam, "because you won't be fighting alone."

"Drake, Lily, get Cassius out of here." Sam told the others

"Right," Drake said. "Let's get moving."

"Sam…" Lily said. Sam turned back to her. "Be careful…"

"I'll try," he said back with a smile. "Now go." The other two started to leave the cave.

"Well, I guess you two will work," the main sableye said. "Let's make sure that they don't chicken out." The second sableye nodded and charged towards the entrance where they came in from. He hit the wall so hard that it cause some of the rocks from the ceiling to collapse and block the exit. The sableye then went back and stood beside his superior once more. "Now that that's out of the way, get them," the main sableye commanded the other two. They stepped forward and got into battle stances.
"I got the mightyena," the third one said.

"This should be over quick," the second one said.

"We'll see about that!" Sam shouted and charged towards his opponent.

"Hey Cassius, are you doing alright?" Drake asked as they trudged through the cave.

"I've felt better," Cassius said, gritting his teeth in pain.

"Once we get to the surface, we can find some berries for you to munch on while I do my best to put the bones back in place."

"That won't be necessary."

"Why not?"

"Just… get me to where I can see the sun."

"Why?"

"You'll see."

"Hey Lily, why are you looking downcast?" Drake asked when he saw his sister looking very depressed.

"We just left Sam and Kate back there. They won't be able to get out they way they came because of that cave in. I don't know what will happen to them."

"I don't know either." Drake replied. He had only come on this journey because Lily wanted to. If he would have known before what would happen, then Drake would have tried to talk Lily out of it. The thing was that, up until now, Drake hadn't cared about Sam. He still really didn't. He dwelt with humans, and that was enough reason to hate him. Before, in the fights with the houndoom, Drake had actually hoped that Sam would have gotten too hurt to go on, or just scared and run off so they wouldn't have to help him any farther. However, with what Sam had just done, that wasn't going to happen. Drake thought that because of this, he would have been mad that they would have to keep going. However, since they had traveled so far, that if Sam did die or get too scared, then all of it would be for not. I guess we'll just have to see.

None of my attacks are working, Sam thought. He had tried all the ones that he knew: head-butt, takle, swift; none of them were working. They would all go right through the sableye. Kate wasn't doing the best either.

"Did you forget that normal attacks don't work on ghost types?" the sableye that was fighting said mockingly.

"Kate, none of my attacks are working," Sam called out to the mightyena, hoping that she could be able to do something.

"Hang on!" Kate yelled as she dodged another shadow claw from the third sableye. "Here we go," she said and then proceeded to close her eyes and start to sniff.

What is she doing? Sam thought. Even the sableye were confused as they had stopped fighting momentary. Suddenly, she opened her eyes and yelled, "Aim for the ruby!"

"What?" Sam asked, very puzzled on what that meant. Kate wasn't able to answer because the third sableye was on her just after she had said that. The ruby huh? Sam thought. He looked over to the sableye that he was fighting, and didn't see any kind of ruby. Don't they have gems on their backs? Sam hadn't seen a sableye in a long time, since the one he caught for the pokédex he had caught about 4 years ago. The sableye used a night slash and Sam just barely dodged it. And by dodged it, he really just fell over onto his back. However, for a split second, Sam was able to see the sableye's back. And on his back were three gems. A sapphire, an emerald, and a ruby. Guess so. Not sure why I have to aim there, but I might as well try. Sam was wondering on how he would get around the sableye. He then got an idea. Sam charged into the sableye with a tackle which, unsurprisingly, didn't work as Sam passed right through him.

"That won't work!" the sableye taunted while he just stood there not turning around, clearly not threatened by Sam at all.

"Yeah? Well this will!" Sam shouted as he rammed his head with all his might into the ruby on his back. The sableye cried out in pain as he was pushed across the room, and fell onto the floor, fainted. All bark, no bite Sam thought. Just then, he saw the other sableye jump towards Kate and use shadow claw. Kate just waited until the last second, and then she jutted one of her paws into his stomach. The sableye was knocked back by the punch and fell onto the ground, also not able to battle.

"Very impressive," the first sableye said who had been watching the whole battle. "the way you used your smell to help pick out their weak points. Sadly, however, I can't have you actually winning, so I'll just have to intervene." Suddenly a sharp pain erupted inside Sam's head. It kept growing until it felt like his mind was going to be fried. He screamed and fell onto the ground. Sam was able to hear his name being called out just before he fell unconscious.

Lily and Drake were just able to carry Cassius up to the surface before both of them collapsed out of exhaustion. Since there were trees above them, the sun was just barely shining through the leaves.

"Is this enough sunlight for you?" Drake asked Cassius.

"No, I need… a direct ray… of sun." Cassius said in between heavy breaths.

"Alright, Lily, can you carry him just a bit farther into some better sunlight? I'll go and find some berries to help stop the pain."

"Yeah, I guess I can." Lily replied. She picked up Cassius on her back again and started to slowly take him towards a place out of the trees. It took a lot longer for her to carry him since Drake was no longer taking a majority of the height. Lily found a clearing that had a lot of sunlight. It helped that the sun was about overhead
"Is this good enough?" Lily asked.

"Yes, this is."

Lily laid Cassius down on the ground and started to find some sticks that would work as splints. She had only taken a few steps before she saw something out of the corner of her eye that was shining very brightly. When she looked back at it, she saw that Cassius was glowing as the sun's ray's intensified.

"Cassius?" Lily said with wonder in her voice. Before she could get any closer, the light that Cassius was emitting grew very rapidly. So much so that Lily wasn't even able to look at him anymore. She turned her head to shield her eyes from the bright light. After a little bit, the bright light disappeared. When Lily looked back, Cassius was still laying down and it looked like nothing had changed.

"Are you okay Cass?" Lily asked once she got closer to him.

"Never felt better," he replied, and then got up onto his feet.

"No, don't stand on-" Lily started to say, but stopped when she saw that Cassius was perfectly fine. Lily was stunned ."What… happened?" She said once she was able to talk.

"Did you not do your research on espeons?" Cassius said with a smile.

"Well, I know that espeons get power from the sun, but I didn't know that they got that much power."

"It's a move that humans call morning sun. It draws on the powers of the sun to heal the user."

"Wow. That's why you wanted to be in the sunlight."

"Indeed."

Just then, Drake bursted into the clearing.

"I saw a bright light and came running to see what it was." Drake said. "Are you guys okay?" He then saw Cassius standing up right and perfectly fine, with no sign that he was ever injured. Upon seeing this, Drake let out a sigh. "You never fail to surprise, Cassius."

"We can't just stick around," Cassius said once everyone was over the fact that he had just done the equivalent of a miracle. "We need to get to another cave entrance and find Sam and Kate."
"Are you sure you don't need to rest even a little bit more?" Drake asked. "I mean, not five minutes ago two of your legs were broken."

"I guess I'm a bit tired, but now is not the time to rest. We have to find the others." Cassius replied.

"How do we even know that there is another cave entrance?"

"We don't. We just have to hope there is one."

"We could try and go down the hole from earlier." Lily chimed in.

"I don't see how that will help us, since we can't climb down into it." Drake responded.

"Well, we'll never get anywhere if we don't start looking, so let's split up." Cassius took command. "Let's meet back here in fifteen minutes."

"Alright. Stay safe Lily," Drake said.

"I will," she replied. "And don't fall into any more holes," she said to Cassius.

"I'll try," he said with his signature smile.

As they started to look for the cave, Lily couldn't stop worrying.

"Please, Sam," Lily whispered to herself, "please be okay."

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