(The Next Day)
(Down in the Hotel Lobby)
"I still fell some of the effects from yesterday" said Brady still tired.
"I know what you mean. I slept right past the alarm" said Emma sitting in a couch about to fall asleep.
"Katie why do you have some much energy?" asked Brady looking at Katie.
"Well I am leading this going into the last event. I woke up with this felling determined more than ever to win and get that Dusk Stone" said Katie walking around.
"How far is Lake Michigan from here?" asked Emma towards Brady.
"It is a 10 minute walk from here" said Brady.
They walk outside the hotel and to there surprise they see Andrew and his Glaceon walking towards them.
"Hey you three" said Andrew towards them.
"Yeah" said Brady.
"You two" said Emma.
"Hey Andrew" said Katie kneeling down and patting his Glaceon on his head.
"What up with those two?' asked Andrew towards Katie.
"Well they are tried" said Katie back to Andrew.
"Let me guess it is from yesterday and how much the maze took out of them" said Andrew.
"Yeah" said Katie.
"And why are you not tired?" asked Andrew to Katie.
"Well I am leading this thing going into the last event. With that in my mind it really has me up in spirits" said Katie.
"Thats always good. I wish good luck in this last event" said Andrew.
"Why are you out?" asked Katie.
"Well I decided I would walk over to the lake from my hotel" said Andrew.
"Ok I will see you at the lake then" said Katie.
"You too" said Andrew leaving.
The three continued towards the lake. It took them longer then normal but they made it there. They joined the others all standing on the lake front.
(At the Lake Front)
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It looks like everyone is here. So lets get right to it. Today's event is called Pearl Diving. This is a single event so you only have yourself and your Water Pokemon. You have a choice to collect three small Pearls, two medium Pearls, or one large Pearl. Once you have collected one of those you will then take one of the bikes provided and ride all the way to Oak Park were Andrew and I will be waiting for you in front of the Reshiram Statue" said Bailey.
Just then Andrew came to the surface of the lake next to him his Kingdra popped its head out of the water. He takes off the oxygen mask and gets handed a mic.
"Well here is what you all are looking for" said Andrew holding up a medium pearl.
"Thanks for showing us that Andrew. I would like to introduce to you Fisherman Johnny" said Bailey.
"I have prepared about 10 water pokemon for you if you need them so once you start you can come to me and collect a water pokemon" said Johnny.
"Ok all of you may summon your water pokemon if you have it right now if not just wait and see Johnny" said Andrew reaching land stepping on to the ground and returning Kingdra.
"Ok is everyone ready?" asked Andrew.
The response was less then expected because everyone is tried. Each trainer went over to their receptive bathroom and got into their swimming gear which consist of protective swim gear, goggles, an oxygen tank, a bag witch can hold the pearls.
"I am going tell you that these pearls are not to be kept. Each oxygen tank has 4 hours worth of oxygen. That should be plenty for you to get the pearls and return your gear. If you need more we have extra tanks with Johnny here. If you get into any trouble under water use the underwater flare I or one of the supervisors will come and bring you to the surface. That goes into what I am going to say next I will be under the water the whole time with all of you so no cheating. One more thing some of the water pokemon under there are mean so be careful. For any reason it looks like you are seriously going to be hurt I will intervene and prevent that." said Andrew grabbing his oxygen tank.
Andrew dives under the water with his Kingdra right by him. After he does that Bailey readies the trainers and sends them on their way either to the water or to Fisherman Johnny who had all 10 of his water pokemon on the surface.
(Under the Water) (I am going to only focus on the top 10 right now)
(Katie)
"Okay Poliwag lets find those pearls."
"Poli" said Poliwag.
She dives deeper under the water and begins looking.
"These should not be to hard to find. I am just looking for big objects the sparkle. It does not help that this water is so murky it makes it hard to see them."
Her Poliwag swam deeper down to find anything. Little did they know they pumped into a Carvanha. It set that Carvanha into a rage and swam after them. He chased them around under water.
"Poliwag use tackle." The Poliwag tried to tackle the Carvanha. All the Carvanha did is send the Poliwag away from with a tackle of his own.
The Carvanha continued after her and her Poliwag was not near her. She could not really do anything so she kept swimming. The Carvanha stayed after her. The Carvanha was about use bite on her then this flash of blue took down the Carvanha and she heard. Kingdra take down. she looked to her left to see Andrew swimming there. The take down stopped the Carvanha in his tracks and sent him away. Katie's Poliwag returned to her side after the Carvanha left.
"Thanks for your help" said Katie to Andrew.
"Your welcome. Those Carvanha do not give give up they can be mean creatures so be careful" said Andrew back to her as he swam away.
"I need to be more careful."
She continued her hunt for anything. It was about an hour before she seen anything under the water.
"Whats that?" Katie asked.
She swam closer to the object an closer and to her surprise it was a pearl.
"I think that is a medium pearl."
She examined it very carefully. After examining it for a few minutes she was correct about her guess it was a medium pearl. She has to find one more then she can get out of here. She began swimming to her left to see anything. As she did she saw another person. She decided not to go over to that person and swam further away from that person.
(Jenna)
"Go Lanturn. Lets win us this event and get that Dusk stone."
She began her search for anything. She looked and looked but found nothing.
"Ok there has to be some here I just got to keep looking. I am glad I do have my Lanturn to be able to see through the murky water."
The Lanturn light helped a little but not enough to see any of the pearls yet. So she decides to dive even deeper down.
"Ok it looks like no one is this deep down. I wonder why?"
She begins searching but still nothing. She then moves from her current spot a little to the west.
"Lanturn go shine some of your light over there" said Jenna pointing towards a rocky area.
The Lanturn swam over to the rocky area. She began shining her light threw that area. Jenna swam over to her Lanturn. She begun moving some of the rocks and found one pearl. After closer examination of it. She discovered it was a small pearl.
"Lanturn we found one lets hurry up and find another one."
While beginning her search for a second one she ran into a Qwilfish. The Qwilfish just swam right past her. Then another one passes.
"I wonder were they are going. Lets go and find out. Come on Lanturn."
Her Lanturn and her followed the two Qwilfish to an area. There she saw a pearl. She swam closer. The two Qwilfish stop her in her tracks. They shot poison sting at her. Her Lanturn used water gun to blast the stings away. After that a Gyarados comes over and shots a twister at her and Lanturn. The pearl in the center was a large pearl.
"We have to go!"
This twister caused a whirlpool in the water. This sent most of the trainers to the surface. Still underwater was Andrew, Daniel Cat, Jenna, Brady, Emma, and Katie.
(After the Whirlpool)
The trainers grip onto their pokemon as the whirlpool rips thought the water.
"Kingdra use Hyper Beam on the Gyarados" said Andrew.
All this attack did was enrage the Gyarados even more and it continued with the whirlpool.
"Listen if you can get to the surface I advice you do" said Andrew.
They all tried but could not. The whirlpool ripped past the trainers and it sent them all to the surface. Most of the trainers were knocked out. Andrew and his Kingdra manged to not be knocked. He makes it to the to land. Him and Kingdra help get all the others out of the water. With help from Johnny they got all the trainers out of the water.
(Outside the Water)
"What happened down there?" asked Johnny to Andrew.
"Well I do not know exactly know. I think it was one or more Gyarados caused a whirlpool. I tried to stop them by trying to attack it but it was enraged even more" said Andrew.
"Lets get these trainers inside the house and wait for them to wake up" said Johnny.
The two help get the trainers into Johnny's House. They were laid into the extra beds. Andrew and Johnny went into the front room and talked about what exactly happened.
"The Gyarados in this lake have never been a problem before" said Johnny.
"What do you mean?" asked Andrew about what Johnny just said.
"Well the Gyarados are usually upstream and avoid the trainers that swim and fish in this lake" said Johnny.
"My guess is something or someone is causing trouble to the Gyarados" said Andrew.
"Your right I have noticed pokemon that are usually upstream. Like Qwilfish, Krabby, and Corsola" said Johnny.
"Maybe it is worth checking out" said Andrew.
"But who would disrupt Lake Michigan's fragile ecosystem" said Johnny.
"Since you know this lake better than I do. What do you think it might be?" asked Andrew.
"Well I have multiple theories. One Pokemon like Omanyte and Omastar. Yes they are extinct but Lake Michigan is known to have a few left. They could have reproduced and over populated the deeper waters causing the others to move down" said Johnny.
"All the years I have been around pokemon I have never seen either of those two pokemon. But why would they move other pokemon around like they are doing" said Andrew.
"Well I may not know much about them" said Johnny.
"What happened to us?" asked Brady walking out.
"Well Gyarados one or more caused a whirlpool and knocked all of you out and sent you all to the surface. Johnny and myself helped get you out of the water and into this house" said Andrew.
"Why would they do that?" asked Brady as Emma, Jenna, and Daniel walk out.
"I will explain more once the rest wake up" said Andrew.
A few minutes later Cat and Katie wake up and join them.
"Well since everyone is here I would like to explain what happened in the water. Either one or more Gyarados made a whirlpool which knocked all of you out. Johnny and myself saved you all from drowning. We do not know the reason why they did so but we will try to explain this to you all as much as we know. So I will let Johnny here do so" said Andrew finding a seat.
"Pokemon like Gyarados live in deeper parts of the lake. The part you all were in was a shallow part. Not many pokemon are in this part. Why a Gyarados would be in the shallow part I do not know" said Johnny.
"Could it have been what I did?" asked Jenna.
"What was that?" asked Andrew standing back up.
"I saw a large pearl and I went after it but when I got close to it two Qwilfish attacked me." said Jenna.
"No. Johnny and myself preplaced all the pearls found in the shallow part" said Andrew.
"Then what could have it been?" asked Katie standing up.
"Well we do not know like Johnny said" said Andrew.
"Why not go and check it out?" asked Brady.
"All I want you all to do is go to Oak Park and hand Bailey this" said Andrew handing Katie a letter.
"No we want to help" said Katie handing Andrew the letter back.
"I will take it " said Daniel standing up.
"Ok hand it to her right away" said Andrew handing Daniel the letter.
Daniel, Cat and Jenna head towards Oak Park on the bikes provided.
"Now with that out of the way. What do you do know?" asked Emma.
"Well the only thing we can do we have to go upstream" said Andrew.
"We will load up my car with all the equipment we need and go swimming" said Johnny.
They load up his car and all get in and drive upward following the lake. They made it to a spot were Johnny said that Gyarados usually stay at.
"Lets get ready" said Johnny.
Johnny then tosses three pokeballs into the water. All three pokemon are Seaking.
"I want you three to be careful down there we do not want anymore problems" said Andrew tossing out his Kingdra's pokeball.
(Deeper Part Under the Water)
The five all dive under the water. They begin by looking for any of the pokemon that normally live there to see if they are still there. They find a couple Qwilfish and two Corsola.
"It looks like the Gyarados have moved" said Andrew to Johnny.
"Thats right but lets find out why" said Johnny.
They searched even harder but found nothing. Till Katie sees a interesting machine under the water.
"Andrew come over here" said Katie.
"What is it Katie. I am on my way" said Andrew swimming over to her.
"What do you thing that is?" asked Katie to Andrew.
"Well lets get it up to the surface and find out" said Andrew.
They move the machine to the surface then to land. The take off the oxygen tanks and look at the machine.
"This looks like a scanner" said Andrew.
"What is it scanning then?" asked Katie.
"Lets take it apart and find out" said Andrew removing the top of the machine.
"What is it?" asked Katie.
"Get back everyone" said Andrew.
"Why?" asked Brady getting closer.
"Is that what I think it is" said Katie.
"Yeah it is. That is a Voltorb" said Andrew taking a step back.
"What is it going to do?" asked Brady.
"Gallade I am in need of your assistance" said Andrew tossing out his pokeball.
They all get back even further as they did the Voltorb just got even more mad and begun to glow as if is about to explode.
"Gallade protect" said Andrew.
After that was said Gallade created a shield in front of them. Then the Voltorb exploded and destroyed the remains of the scanner and knocked itself out. The trainers manged to come out without any damage. The Gallade's protect worked.
"Thanks Gallade return" said Andrew.
They walked back to Johnny's car. As they did questions came up.
"Who made that?" asked Katie.
"Well if I had that answer I would tell you but I do not so my guess is the Dark Destroyers searching the lake for something" said Andrew.
"What could the be searching for?" asked Emma.
"My guess is the underwater cave Azelf calls home here in Lake Michigan" said Andrew.
"Or it could be they are searching for something else" said Johnny.
"You do not mean the Blue Orb" said Andrew.
"Yes I do. The blue orb is suppose to control the Legendary Pokemon Kyogre" said Johnny.
"Correct me if I am wrong but I thought the Red Orb controls Kyogre and the Blue Orb controls Groudon" said Andrew.
The walk back to the car was rather quite after that and not a word was spoken about the Orb's or anything.
"Where can I drop all of you off at?" asked Johnny.
"If you are going back into town you can take us to Oak Park" said Andrew.
"OK" said Johnny.
After 10 minutes of driving they made it safely back to Oak Park. The four walk to the Reshiram statue where all the participants are waiting. Andrew walks over to Daniel.
(At the Park)
"Thanks for delivering it for me" said Andrew.
"No Problem" said Daniel.
He then returns to the stage and grabs the mic.
"Well at this time I would be announcing the winner but for unseen circumstances there is only one way I can determine a winner. I do not want to waste any more of your time I thought I would just use the scores from the last round as the final scores. As much as this might disappoint you all I think this is for the best. So I am proud to name the winner of this 10th annual triathlon Katie Hopkins. Please give a round of applause. I now would like to present her with this the Dusk Stone" said Andrew handing it to her.
"I do not want it" said Katie not expecting it.
"Why?" asked Andrew.
"I did not win the way I want to" said Katie.
"I accept that" said Andrew as he handed the Dusk Stone back to Bailey.
Katie then steps off the stage and sits back down.
"That was a modest move made by her. I respect that and so this year will have no winner. With that said I would like to thank you all for participating and for all of a small gift. This is a gift card for a poffin shop in Nashville. This will help all of your pokemon so use it wisely. There is not much else I can say but good luck and good night" said Andrew as trainers collect there gift card and leave the park
"You did the modest thing Katie" said Andrew packing up the area at the park.
"Well I want a match Champion" said a guy walking into the park.
"Who are you?" asked Andrew.
"That is my older brother Cole" said Brady.
"I accept your challenge Cole but it will wait till tomorrow" said Andrew leaving the park.
"Why are you here Cole?" asked Brady.
"I am on my way to Nashville to see our mom" said Cole.
"What is she doing there?" asked Brady.
"She is the guest judge at the next contest" said Cole.
"How many badges do you have?" asked Brady.
"I have 5 you" said Cole.
"I am about to get my 2nd" said Brady.
"You better catch up" said Cole joking around.
"You do know Andrew is going to beat you tomorrow" said Katie.
"I figure that but I want to see how I stack up against him" said Cole leaving.
"Well we better leave to we have a big day tomorrow in challenging the 2nd gym in all" said Brady leaving.
"Where is the match going to be?" asked Katie.
"My guess this park" said Brady.
*Spoiler Alert*
I want you to remember Johnny because he is not as he appears he knows more then he is letting on. The next time we see him he maybe a far worse threat.
*End of Alert*
Ok I would like you to correct me if I am wrong about the Orbs. How about Cole he has this overconfident attitude. Also If you have any questions you want answered about the Champion at the end of the next Chapter he will be sitting down with Robin Malcolm and answering the hard questions. So just wait and see.
Trainer Update:
Katie won the event but decided to give up the prize.
Poke Update:
Water pokemon in Lake Michigan acting the way they did raises a red flag at the other lakes so expect more from the other lakes.
DD Update:
Could the underwater scanner be their creation. Also the machine inside was dry witch kept the Voltorb dry.