The cavern was really an underground building of sorts that was made of rock, water, and wood. There were pillars of water that actually seemed to support the place. There were beds made of hay nearby. Mandara then collapsed into a heap that looked like fire.

K.O. put Grovyle down and ran over to his apprentice. He checked her pulse and sighed in relief. "She's just tired. Of all the silly things to be, tired is just the worst. She doesn't even have a scratch on her. She just used up some dangerous magic that could kill a normal Chimchar." He was muttering to himself, cursing her for being only tired after all this, and yet he was proud and happy with that as well.

Dawn placed her bag on the floor near Grovyle and started to dig in there for medical supplies. She grabbed her first aid kit and started to get out bandages and gauze as well as a small pair of scissors and some pins for the gauze. She carefully bandaged up Grovyle with only a little nervousness. She then carefully bandaged his head where there was a hook scar. The scar was near his left eye. Right next to it and going about an inch under his eye. Dawn took the longest time on it. After she was done she then went over to K.O. and asked, "Can you check that I did it right? I also want to know if I have anything in my bag that can help them. Do you have any scars or bruises?" Her voice was slow and deliberate. She sounded calm, yet her eyes showed worry. She was starting to shake from her own loss of blood.

'She does not even care for herself, and she's still bleeding!' He shook his head and said, "You should take care of yourself, before you bleed to death. Normally a human would feint by now after that, in fact before now." He said as he attempted to get her to sit down.

"I'll fix myself up, but please make sure they'll be okay." She then walked over to a corner in the room they were in, and she started to bandage herself. K.O. could only nod and do as she asked.

'Stubborn human, but she's a good kid.' K.O. looked over the bandaging and was impressed with the work. It was as good as some of the human doctors from "A Light Hope". He tightened them a little just to make sure.

Dawn sat and looked over at her new friends and thought, 'if that's what happens with a group of people, I'm glad I'm with good company. I wonder if they'll put up with my stupidity. Man, my side hurts. I hope the others are okay.' She then passed out with these worries on her mind.

K.O. smirked as he saw Dawn, sleeping like a little girl. She seemed to be normal, rather than the fighter who he had just seen with that wooden sword. 'Ha, a wooden sword that nearly took off some of the Sableyes' heads, heheh.' Next to her was the wooden sword and slingshot. They seemed to be in good condition. K.O. carefully dragged Grovyle into a bed of hay that was in another room in the underground base. He then moved Mandara into yet another room and made sure that there was a bright fire in the both rooms. Then he moved on to moving Dawn. Dawn was moved into a room that had a teddy bear with a picture of a younger version of Dawn on it, it seemed, waiting on a bed of hay. "So you were waiting for her this long as well, huh? Teddy, wasn't it? I'm sorry, but I doubt she will recognize you, let alone act like she used to…Great, now I'm talking to a teddy bear. I really am losing my mind, and getting soft too, this is just what we needed." The teddy bear was a six-inch bear that was brown with a black nose and eyes. He was durable, yet soft. K.O. made sure Dawn was lying down flat so that her wounds would heal better. "Sleep well, Dawn." He whispered softly as he placed the little teddy bear in her right hand where she had held her sword.

Grovyle was still unconscious when K.O. finally fell asleep, exhausted from carrying him and taking care of the girls. After a little bit, Grovyle arose with a start.

"Gah! Huff, huff." Grovyle sat up with a start, panting. He found himself wince in pain. 'Wow, that actually hurts, I've never had this happen before. I must be getting soft! Wait . . . pain means that I'm alive so someone must have rescued me. . .' He looked and found himself covered with bandages and scars. 'What the?' Then he noticed that K.O. was slumped up against the wall. 'K.O.?! When did he show up? What happened to him? Where are we? So many questions are flooding my mind, uggh.'

He tried to get up, but found he was too weak to stand. "Ugh"

"Lie back down or else I'll knock you down and make you stay flat, you stupid, fat, overgrown lizard. Making me worried like that is not funny." Came a sharp tongue from his left.

He looked and nearly passed out again from the shock. A young girl in black sweats, a black t-shirt, and some black tennis shoes stood there. She had a small brown teddy bear on her right shoulder and her black cap in her left hand. Her blonde hair was a mess, but still in a little ponytail. Her eyes were a fierce forest green, and while they showed kindness, they showed ferocity, anger, and fear. Dawn was alive, and she was ticked off.

"Dawn? What? How?" His voice sounded cracked and weak, as though he was going to fall over any minute. His eyes seemed to flicker, but he tried to keep his strength up and look like nothing was bothering him. He started to see spots.

Dawn came over with her bag and brought out the fruit. "Eat something, it'll help." She had brought out her apples and Oran berries, unaware of what good the fruit would really do. She just wanted him to eat something for his strength. Her mind was clear and blank. Her only thoughts were about the strange creatures that were injured helping her. 'Why didn't Grovyle just run away when he heard that noise? He could have left me behind, and then the others came to my aid to save him. I guess they did it for him, but Mandara could have just kept guarding K.O. and Grovyle. So why did she actually worry about me? Why does anyone worry about me, I'm useless. It doesn't make any sense.' Dawn had unknowingly started to cry.

Grovyle was confused and worried. 'The kid is alive, I'm alive, and she's crying. Why is K.O. unconscious over there against the wall, and where in the name of all things good are we? What happened?' His emotions actually showed fear. His eyes were a little wider, but only for a second. That second was long enough for Dawn to notice.

'Oh no, I'm scaring him again. Why can't I do anything right?' She wiped the tears from her face and glared at the wounded Grovyle. "Eat something already, before I hit you where your brain should be with this teddy bear, stupid." She turned her gaze slightly to her right, trying to hide her fear.

Grovyle smirked and grabbed an Oran berry. "This should help me to keep a little kid like you off my back, and what's with all the insults? You trying to sound tough, or are you trying to kill with your words?" He gave off a look of worry. 'This isn't what she was like earlier, was it?'

Dawn just shook her head and sat down next to K.O. She checked him over and made sure that he had no injuries on him. She smiled softly upon noticing he was just tired. 'Phew, he just needs a rest. I was a little worried.' K.O. was sound asleep.

"Aren't you going to answer me, kid? And while you're at it, think you can answer how your alive, or was that some trick of yours?" he asked as he chewed the berry. He moved slowly so that he would not strain his wounds so much. He fixed his expression so that it was stone like again. 'What happened?'

Dawn looked up and also had her expression fixed. Her face was a mask of calmness that made her seem so much older than she just looked. "Neither, Grovyle, but you should let me learn how to fight better, than I would not have to resort to using traps and tricks like that. I did not expect you to end up hurt or captured like that though. I thought you would have been farther away than that and would have escaped, or at least waited for proof of my demise." She seemed to be annoyed and worried at the same time, as if something was breaking her heart.

The Oran berry helped Grovyle to recover fast. He already felt like he was good enough to fight again. He decided to stay still for a little longer though, just so the kid wouldn't worry. "Where did you come up with that plan anyway? I was … I mean….you were gone and….I thought you had been time frozen." He finally said after much stumbling, a new concept for him.

'Could he have been worried about her?' wondered K.O. as he woke up. He stayed in his position and kept his eyes closed so that they wouldn't pay any attention to him. 'Time frozen, no wonder he was so worried. That could scare anyone.'

"What's Time Frozen, Grovyle?" She was calmer now, and once again, curious. Her voice was that of a small child.

"Time Frozen is when you sleep for too long, or are knocked unconscious for a long period of time and end up frozen within time. You wouldn't feel anything supposedly, since you'd be asleep. You would start to shimmer out of focus first, and then you would pixelate, and then fade out slowly. All that would be left of you would be your clothes and items that you had on you. You had made a very good model of that at the camp." He shook his head slowly. 'From fury to curious in just a second, how strange. Are all humans like this?

Dawn blushed as she finally grasped what had scared everyone away. "I just wanted to look like I was spirited away, that's all. You know, like when a ghost fades in the light."

"Never heard of that one before."

"Sorry, sir."

"Don't call me sir, kid."

"Get some sleep, big guy, or I'll knock you out with my bear. The one on my shoulder by the way, not the big one on the wall." She indicated towards K.O. with a smirk. "I'll wake you up before you freeze, Grov." Her eyes seemed sleepy now and her gaze seemed far off and starry. She smirked and walked off towards her little room with her teddy bear still on her shoulder. The teddy bear seemed to smirk with a wink as she walked off.

'She's got spunk, that's for sure. I hope she doesn't have recklessness included with that. She seems to be ignorant of the serious things, but not completely. She does have some knowledge; it seems, on how to act though. She isn't very old though. She should be scared of this place, but it's as though she doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear'. She seems so brave, yet so small.' Grovyle shook his head slowly and sat himself up against the wall next to K.O. Even though he was injured, he was still quieter than a ninja in his footsteps. He craned his neck to check up on K.O. for injuries and was surprised to find none.

"Unlike you, I just wore myself out getting you." He muttered quietly. "The girls went on the defense to get us out. They wore themselves out and I believe that human of yours, has the most damage."

"So you're awake after all."

"Of course I am. Your human is good at being a nurse, but she doesn't look like any nurse Joy I've ever seen." Nurses were commonly from the Joy family, so if you went to a Pok'e-center, than you were likely treated by one of them. All nurse Joys had red hair and a bright smile, no matter what was wrong. They were always comforting.

"Tell you what, you go and put a stupid red wig on her, and then she might look more like one, I don't know."

"You okay, Grovyle?"

"I was knocked out, taken hostage, I thought that girl was dead but it turns out that she was just pulling a trick because she was worried. I wake up in this cave and have something covering my left eye, you're slumped up on the floor as though you were just beaten up, and the kid had a teddy-bear on her shoulder; do you think I'm okay, Khovu?"

Very few people knew that K.O. the Fierce had a real name, Khovu Oshawatt. In fact, Grovyle was the only other one in this world who would dare to call him that. K.O. winced. "Sorry."

Grovyle sighed, "It's my fault. I shouldn't be mad at you; I should be grateful, thanks for coming to the rescue, K.O."

"Yeah, well, I couldn't let that kid get all the glory, even though she's earned quite a bit. Since when did you train a little girl to fight?"

"Fight, I haven't trained her to do squat yet, much less fight. I only just got her."

"You sure, because she went and grabbed her sword and fought those Sableyes and Darius without so much as a thought for personal safety, or a care that she was fifty feet up high before making such a stupid jump."

"She did what?"

"She jumped off the chandelier, lands right in front of you, and makes the Sableye pause right before they finished you off. It was nuts. Then, Darius asked her who she was, and she replies, while raising her sword for a fight, "I am Dawn" as though it would do something. Well it did, she activated something on her sword that seemed to have blinded all dark and ghost type Pokémon in the room. She then starts slashing away like she's you with your arms, when you use them like swords. It was crazier than anything I had ever seen before. She didn't even freak out when Mandara surrounded us with a circle of fire."

Grovyle shook his head in disbelief. "Yeah, well get this, she was summoned by Darius and when I lit off a luminous orb, she went and ran right to me as though the threat was all behind her. She didn't even question why I was there, just why I helped her. It was as though she thought that I was no danger to her, like I was no threat."

"Maybe she didn't know how dangerous you were, only that you had set up a way for her to get out. Besides, she might have just been blinded by the sudden dark then light and chose to run towards it. We might never know."

"K.O., she was talking to the first creature she met when I set off the orb. Any normal child would have ducked down as soon as they saw that, and they would have chosen to live with whatever crap the first creature they were talking to was saying, if of course, they had amnesia. Dawn is not normal, is she?" Grovyle was still not at a hundred percent and huffed a little so he could catch his breath. His internal wounds were healing nicely, but his exterior wounds still seemed to be causing him trouble.

"No, I can honestly say she is not a normal human. I've met normal humans, and she is not one of them. In fact, if anything, Dawn seems to be a bit on the … wild side."

"If that's a bit on the wild side, I'd hate to see the real thing." He was tired and barely able to get up from his crouched position beside his friend.

"Sit down or I'll get the kid to beat you with that sword of hers instead of the bear. I'm as serious as she is. You need to recover, so either you sit still, or I'll go and get the kid and she will kick your sorry tails and make sure that you stay still and recover. Do you understand what I am saying, Grovyle? You need to recover." K.O. started to get up and actually pushed Grovyle down to make sure he stayed there. "Now I'm going to check on the girls, you're going to stay here and rest, and if I notice you have moved even an inch, then I will tie you to a rock. Got it?"

Grovyle simply smirked. "Got it."