Before we start I would like to say that school started so it may take some time before I post the chapters so be patient with me and I will post the news chapters as fast as I can. And with Pokemon Sword and Shield coming out soon so I may add some Pokemon from Sword and Shield to this story. Also I have a writing disability so don't be so hard on the grammar
Chapter 4
The Day In The Ruins
Oliver P.O.V.
After a few hours of walking away from Halure, we found a spot to make camp. I made us some dinner and had Pyroar stand guard with Repede. I was the first to get up. "Time to wake up everyone." I said clapping my hands only to get awws as a response. "Come on Oliver it's too early for this." Yuri said as he and Pawniard started to get up. "Pawniard." Pawniard said agreeing with Yuri. "Morning everyone." Estelle said holding Togepi who was yawning. Karol and Skiddo just went back to sleep. "Pyroar can you help me with this." I said to Pyroar who got up from her rock she stood guard on. "PYROAR." Pyroar yelled a Karol and Skiddo. "AWWWW." Karol screamed and jumping up. "SKIDDO." Skiddo also screamed and jumping up. "Oh good you're awake." I said to Karol. "You didn't have to do that." Karol said. "Skiddo." Skiddo agreeing with Karol.
"It's your fault for going back to sleep." I said pulling out the pots and bowls for breakfast. "Pyroar." Pyroar said going back to her rock. "How about while I cook breakfast you two practice with your Pokemon." I said as I started to cook. "Practice what?" Yuri said. "Practice fighting with your Pokemon at the moment the only move we seen Pawniard use is Metal Claw, so maybe some practice wouldn't hurt." I said. "Ok, but what moves do they know?" Estelle said. "The Pokedex has a feature that can show us what moves a Pokemon can use." I said as Estelle pulled out the Pokedex.
She pointed it at Pawniard first. "The Pokedex saids Pawniard can use Metal Claw, Headbutt, Aerial Ace, and Thief?" Estelle said. "Are Headbutt and Thief real moves?" Yuri said looking at Pawniard. "They are it just the move Headbutt and Thief and just more violence versions of those actions." I said putting in some fruit into the pot. "That can't be right." Karol said. "Ok then Pawniard use Thief on Karol." Yuri said pointing at Karol. Pawniard then disappeared and reappeared behind Karol pushing him down. "Hey what was that for?" Karol said to Yuri. "I just wanted to see if Thief worked and it looked like it did." Yuri said pointing at Karol's bandania with wasn't there. "Hey what?" he said turning to Pawniard holding Karols bandania. "Pokemon are amazing." Estelle said pointing the Pokedex to Skiddo.
"The moves Skiddo can use are Vine Whip, Leech Seed, Rollout, and Synthesis." Estelle said. "Oh interesting move set." I said looking up from the pot. "Why is that move set Interesting?" Estelle asked me. "That move set means Skiddo heals the damage done to it so he wins fights by outlasting his opponent." I said. "So you don't like to get hurt." Karol said. "Skiddo." Skiddo said nodding his head.
"Your turn Togepi." Estelle said Pointing the Pokedex to Togepi. "Togepi." said excited to learn her moves. "Her moves are Growl, Morning Sun, Peck, and Charm." Estelle said. "Togepi." Togepi said happy to learn her moves. "That an odd move set granted she was just born yesterday." I said turning to the pot. "What does that have to do with it." Karol said. "When Pokemon are born their moves can be random based on the moves of their parents so when they hatch they don't have a say in it, but over time they forget some moves and learn new moves develop their own move set." I said stirring the pot.
"Ok then Karol should we get started." Yuri said to Karol. "Ok Skiddo let's go." Karol said to Skiddo. "Skiddo." Skiddo said following Karol. "Pawniard let's show them we got." Yuri said to Pawniard. "Pawniard." Pawniard said nodding his head. They both got ready to fight.
"Ok Karol You can make the first move." Yuri said to Karol. "Thanks Yuri." Karol said. "So who do you think will win Oliver." Estelle asked me. I looked up and said. "Giving Pawniard and Skiddo moves I have to say Pawniard might win." I said turning my head to the pot. "Might?" Estelle said. "The move Leech Seed drains the strength of the opponents and heals you for the same amount and unless the opponent is a Grass type the move does the same amount of damage no matter what type the opponent is." I said.
"Ok Skiddo use Rollout." Karol said as Skiddo jumped into the air and started to roll into a wheele charging at Pawniard. "Pawniard use Headbutt." Yuri said as Pawniard charged at Skiddo. Both attacks clashed in the middle and send both of them back to Yuri and Estelle. "Ok Skiddo use Vine Whip." Karol said as two vines came out of Skiddo's sides and started to smack Pawniard. Pawniard just stood there and took it. "Ok Pawniard us Aerial Ace." Yuri said to Pawniard. "Pawniard." Pawniard said as he suddenly release a burst of energy charging at Skiddo but before he could strike he disappeared. "Where'd he go?" Karol said looking for Pawniard. "Skiddo." Skiddo said as he was toast up with Pawniard standing where Skiddo was. "Skiddo." Karol said running to Skiddo. "Karol have Skiddo use Synthesis." I said looking up. "Ok Skiddo us Synthesis." Karol said to Skiddo. "Skiddo." Skiddo said getting up.
Skiddo rase his horns to the sky as sunlight started to gather into his horns. "Skiddo." Skiddo said letting Karol know he's ok. "What was that." Estelle said. "That was Synthesis a move that heaths you based on the amount of sunlight." I said. "What do you mean by sunlight." Estelle said. "You see some Pokemon have moves can be affected by the weather so on a clear sunny day like today Synthesis will help out a lot, but on a rainy day Synthesis won't do much." I said. "Ok Pawniard use Thief." Yuri said as Pawniard started to charge at Skiddo. "Skiddo use Leech Seed." Karol said. "Skiddo." Skiddo said spitting a seed at Pawniard. When the seed hit Pawniard it grow around Pawniard. "Pawniard." Pawniard said as the seed started to drain his energy. "Pawniard use Metal Claw and cut that seed." Yuri said. "Pawniard." Pawniard said as he started to cut through the seed.
"Ok everyone that's enough breakfast is ready." I said clapping my hands. "Ok ready to eat Togepi?" Estelle said to Togepi whose eyes were focused on the battle. "I think Togepi wants to have a battle." I said as I started to put the soul into everyone's bowls. "Sorry, but I won't let her fight." Estelle said holding Togepi close to her. "Togepi." Togepi cries upset that Estelle wont let her fight. "Togepi what's wrong?" Estelle said bouncing Togepi up and down trying to calm her down. "Estelle I think Togepi wants to fight." Yuri said. "But I don't want Togepi to get hurt and she was born yesterday it's too soon for her to start fighting." Estelle said worried about Togepi. "How about this after breakfast I will let Chesnaught out and he can help Togepi practice fighting we won't let her face a monster but we start practicing fighting. Does that work for you Togepi." I said to Estelle and Togepi filling Togepi bottle. "I think that's ok, what you think Togepi?" Estelle said to Togepi. "Togepi" Togepi said as she stopped crying. "Then let's eat." I said passing the bowls and Togepi bottle.
After some time we finished lunch. "Man Oliver that was great." Karol said. "Yeah Oliver you gotta teach me how you do it." Estelle said. "Thanks now Chesnaught come on out." I said as I got up to release Chesnaught. "Chesnaught I want you to help Togepi practice fighting." I said to Chesnaught. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said raising his arms in agreement. "Ok Estelle I just want you to practice the moves and fighting with Togepi and Chesnaught just take the hits please Togepi was born yesterday after all." I said with a with everyone giving me a nod. "Yuri, Pawniard, Karol, Skiddo you guys start cleaning up breakfast." I said to the guys as me and Estelle started to get ready to fight. "Why us." Karol said. "It's either clean or site there for a couple hours." I said to them. "Whatever gets us to Aspio faster come on Karol." Yuri said to Karol "What Yuri come on I don't want to clean." Karol said. "The sooner we get this done the sooner we can get to Aspio or would you like to hang out here with the monsters." Yuri said to Karol. "Ok let's do some cleaning." Karol said not wanting to be out here with monsters.
"Ok Togepi let's do this." Estelle said getting ready to fight. "Togepi." Togepi said jumping up. "Chesnaught go easy on them." I said putting my hands behind my back. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said placing his arms into an X shape. "Ok Togepi use Charm." Estelle said. With that Togepi ran to Chesnaught and charming him with cute crys. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said lowering his arms. "Now use Peck." Estelle said. Then Togepi jumped up and started to peck Chesnaught head. Chesnaught just stayed there and was unfazed by it. "Chesnaught get Togepi off of you." I said as unfazed as Chesnaught. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said grabbing Togepi and hand Togepi to Estelle. "Togepi are you ok." Estelle said worried about Togepi. "Estelle Togepi knows Morning Sun which means she can heal herself." I said to Estelle. "Ok Togepi use Morning Sun." Estelle said. "Togepi." Togepi said raising her hands to the sky. Soon light shine down and started to heal her. "Ok last move Estelle use it." I said to Estelle. "Ok use Growl." Estelle said. Then Togepi started to Growl at Chesnaught. "Chesnaught use Hammer Arm." I said. Chesnaught started to raise his arm and then started to swing it down. "Chesnaught Stop." I said before the Hammer Arm could strike Togepi. Just the force of the attack was enough to knock Togepi off her feet. "Ok that's enough for now you did well Togepi." I said as Estelle and me started to walk over to Togepi. "I still don't like having you fight, but you seem to like it. Will just have to practice a little more, just don't scare me so much." Estelle said picking up Togepi. "Togepi." Togepi said happy she got to battle.
"Hey Estelle Oliver we finished cleaning." We turned our heads to Yuri and Karol. "Good work guys Pyroar, Chesnaught return." I said returning Pyroar and Chesnaught to their pokeballs. "So were off to Aspio?" Estelle said. "That is where Mordio is so yes." Yuri said. "Pawniard." Pawniard said pointing east. "Pawniard right let's move everyone." I said butting my bag on. We then walked for a couple hours we found the gate of Aspio. I looked at the gates to see two knight standing guard.
"Ok Pawniard, Skiddo, and Togepi you and Manectric stay out here." I said to the Pokemon. "Why do they have to stay outside?" Etelle said holding Togepi close to her like a worried mother. "If the knights attack the Pokemon in Halure what make you think the wont here?" I said to Estelle. "He's right if wasn't for Flynn the Pokemon in Halure would have been killed by the knights." Yuri said. "Ok, but why Manectric and not Pyroar?" Estelle said. "Remember I told you about Mega Evolution yesterday." I said to them. "Yeah." Karol said. "Well what I didn't tell you was that when a trainer and his Pokemon with a mega stone have an unbreakable bond. They can sense each other, so even if Manectric is on the other side of a foggy forest we can always find each other." I said to them. "So if Manectric out here even if they move you can find them." Yuri said. "Bingo." I said. "Ok now Togepi I want you want to stay here and I will be back as soon as possible." Estelle said placing Togepi on Skiddo's back. "Togepi." Togepi said upset that Estelle is leaving. "Ok Manectric come on out." I said letting Manectric out. "So that's Manectric cool." Karol said about to touch Manectric. "Karol wait." I said, but not before Karol touch Manectric fur giving him a shock. "Oww." Karol said pulling his hands back. "What was that?" Karol said. "Manectric is an Electric type and can generate electricity in Manectric case he generate his electricity in his fur so it's hard to pet him." I said to Karol. "Manectric." Manectric said apologizing for shocking Karol.
"Ok Manectric I want you to stay out here with Pawniard, Skiddo, and Togepi keep out of site and keep everyone safe ok." I said to Manectric. "Manectric." Manectric said bowing his head. "Ok let's go everyone." I said as we started to walk in. "Don't worry Togepi I will be back for you as soon as I can." Estelle said as she walked away. "Togepi." Togepi said trying to reach for Estelle with tiers in her eyes. "Tric manec manectric." Manctric said licking Togepi's tiers trying to calm her down.
"It looks like this is Aspio." Estelle said. "It's so gloomy and damp here it's giving me the chills too." Karol said. "It's because the city in a cavern." Estelle said. "Yeah, but even if this place wasn't in a cavern the buildings will still give off a gloomy and damp feel." I said looking at the city. "I wonder if the lack of sun drives the people here to do shady things like stealing blastia cores." Yuri said. "Let's not judge the whole city for the actions of one person." I said to Yuri as we started to walk to the gate with two knights standing guard.
"May I see your passport please?" the knight on the left said. "Our passport?" Estelle said. "This is an Imperial facility. We can't let anyone inside. Can we?" The knight on the right said. "Passport? You don't have one of those do you?" Karol said. "What do you think." I said to Karol. "An associate of ours is inside. Could you please let us through?" Yuri said. If you filled out the official visitation paperwork then you ought to have gotten your passport from this "Associate" of yours." The knight on the right said. "This is the first we've heard though. If you won't let us in perhaps you could call him to the gate for us?" Yuri said. "What's Your associate's name?" The knight on the left said. "Mordio." Yuri said.
Both knights just jump at the sound of Mordio's name. "M-Mordio?" The knight on the right said. We just gave each other confused looks. "W-we can't help you. You'll need to mail in a request and have a passport officially issued to you." The knight on the right said. "Damn don't budge an inch do you?" Karol said. "Excuse me, but did a knight by the name of Flynn happen to stop by here?" Estelle asked the knights. "All information about the establishment is classified we cannot share even small details with outsiders." The knight on the left said. "So you can't even tell me why Flynn was here?" Estelle said. "No of course not." The knight on the left said. "So what you're saying is that Flynn really did come here!" Estelle said. "I-I don't know who you're talking about! A knight named Flynn? N-never heard of him!" The knight on the left said trying to cover up what he just spilled. "Smoth." I said not buying the knight's words.
"Could we at least leave him a message?" Estelle said. "Give it up Estelle. We'd have more luck asking a brick wall for help." Yuri said to Estelle. "Agree let's go." I said as we started to walk away from the front gate. "But Flynn's inside." Estelle said before we got too far away from the gate. "What we're just going to give up?" Karol said. "I'm not going to give up! I'm going to see Flynn!" Estelle said. "Estelle unless you're the mayor of Aspio I doubt they let you in so we need to find another way in." I said to Estelle. "Yeah I'm not going back until I get that thief Mordio and give him a beating he won't forget." Yuri said. "So Yuri, Oliver you got a plan to get in." Karol said. "Either we look for a back boor or we climb the wall I rather not charge in." I said to Katol. "Yeah let's take a stroll and see if we can find a way in." Yuri said as we started to walk.
After a minute we found a door. "I said back door, but I suppose a side door will work." I said. Yuri tries to open the door only for it to be locked. "Doors like this never open when you want them to!" Yuri said. "Hey Oliver can Chesnaught break the door down." Yuri said. "What part of I don't want to charge in didn't you get." I said. "Then let's wait for Flynn to come out then." Estelle said. "We don't know if Flynn inside or if he is in there when he is leaving, we could be here for days." I said to Estelle. "Olivers right and even if Flynn comes out. It's not like he's going to bring Mordio out with him." Yuri said. "Well if Flynn comes outside. We can ask him to let us in. can't we?" Estelle said. "Unless Flynns has a bucket of Passports on him I don't think so?" I said. "Olvers right he's far too much of a goody-goody to not make us go through all the paperwork.
We turned are heads to see Karol messing with the door. "Karol what are you doing?" Estelle said to Karol. "There it's open." Karol said walking away from the door. "What no way?" I said opening the door. "Huh? Y-you can't do that!" Estelle said. "Your guild specializes in hunting monsters right? Or are you guys into thieves guild type stuff too?" Yuri said to Karol. "Heh umm yeah well. I'm pretty much the only one who can do anything like this." Karol said. "Good work Karol ok everyone let's go." I said to everyone. "No that's bad! We should just wait here for Flynn." Estelle said. "Then you say here and we'll come find you after we finish looking around and remember I can find Togepi after we leave." I said to Estelle. "He's right, we don't have time for the off chance Flynn to just happens to walk out of this town." Yuri said. "It was unquestioning obedience to laws and authority in times like this that made me quit the Imperial knights in the first place." Yuri said. "But but." Estelle said. "No buts are you coming or not." I said to Estelle. "Fine I'm going with you!" Estelle said not liking this. "That's the spirit Estelle." I said to Estelle as we entered the door.
When we got in we found out we had just entered a library. "Man there are a lot of Mordio look-alikes here aren't there?" Yuri said. "Well the knights at the gate said this place was an Imperial facility so they must be in uniform." I said to Yuri. "Excuse me. do you have a minute?" Estelle said to one of the mages who was reading a book. "Wh-what do you want?" The mage said. "Would you happen to know if a knight named Fylnn Scifo has come through here?" Yuri said to the mage. "Flynn? Ohh that guy. He was saying something about going to catch someone who'd been vandalizing ruins." The mage said. "Where is he now?!" Estelle said. "I couldn't say. My research keeps me too busy to pay attention to things like that." The mage said. "Then your no help." I said to the mage. "I'll be taking my leave then." The mage said. "Hey wait up tell me one more thing. Is there a famed mage named Mordio around here?" Yuri said to the mage.
The mage jumped at the name. "Ack! There are people who want to see that weirdo?!" The mage said. "So I was right you know Mordio?" Yuri said. "No uh. I don't know anything at all I don't associate with people like that." The mage said as he tried to leave. But before he got far I grab his hood and said. "Hold it we just want to know where Mordio is so tell us where is Mordio?"
"Morido Lives alone in a shack back that way. Go and see for yourself if you want! Now can you let me go." The mage said to me. "See that wasn't so hard was it." I said to the mage as I let him go. With that the Mage left.
"Are you sure about this?" Karol said. "Hmm?" Yuri said. "Everyone seems to get all out of sorts just from hearing that guy's name it's weird." Karol said. "Yeah doesn't it bother you?" Estelle said. "It is odd I wonder why?" I said. "Well he's a blastia thief it's no wonder people don't like him." Yuri said. "I don't think that's it he was a blastia thief I think they hate him, but instead there scared of him." I said to Yuri. "Then he must be a mean blastia thief let's go find him and find out." Yuri said to us.
After a few minutes we found a shack on the edge of the city. "Keep Out Seriously - Mordio" Estelle said reading the sign on the front door. "I guess this is the place." Yuri said trying to open the door before knocking on the door. "I think people usually try knocking first." Estelle said. "It's Yuri, Estelle." I said to Estelle. "Looks like no one's home. What should we do?" Karol said. "No point in hesitating when you're heading into a den of thieves." Yuri said. "So should I let Pyroar or Chesnaught out to destroy the door and we charge in?" I said to Yuri. "No I don't want us to commit any more crimes." Estelle said to us. "Oh come on Estelle we have to do something." I said to Estelle. "I guess that means it's my turn then." Karol said. "Good idea Karol this way we can get the jump on them." I said to Karol as he stated to pick the lock. "Don't encourage him Oliver." Estelle said to me. "Nothing to it." Karol said as he finished. "Nice work Yuri you first." I said to Karol and Yuri. "Are you guys even listening to me?" Estelle said as we entered the shack.
"This is crazy who could live in a place like this?" Karol said looking at all the books piled all over the place. "You can pretty much live anywhere you can eat and sleep. If you set your mind to it." Yuri said to Karol. " Yeah, but this is still crazy. Either Mordio is a book thief too or he loves to read." I said picking a book up. "Don't you guys have something to say first?" Estelle said to us still mad at us. "Uh Hello we're coming in" Yuri said. "Hello anyone home." I said putting the book down. "And the door?" Estelle said. "Karol here opened your door. Sorry about that." Yuri said. "Honestly Yuri excuse us is anyone home?" Estelle said. "Looks like no ones home." I said. "It's a good thing no one's here that means we get to look for evidence." Yuri said to us. "Then let's do it." I said to Yuri.
But before we could do anything Repede started to growl at a pile of books. We turned to see a person rise from the pile of books surprising us all. "Gyaah Wh-wh-what is that?!" Karol said falling to the floor. "Shut up." The person said as Karol got up and ran behind Yuri. Then the person started to charge a spell and Yuri ran leaving Karol defenceless. "Huh? Hey Hold on!" Karol said looking around at all of us. "Thieves." Yhe person said aiming a spell at Karol. "No what you. Wait!" Karol said frozen with fear. "Be gone." The person said. "Heeelp!" Karol scream as the spell was cast. "Karol." I said as I jumped pushing Karol and me out of the way. "Thanks Oliver." Karol said to me as the smoked cleared. "A g-girl?!" Estelle said as I turned to see the person was a girl with short red hair. "If you can pull tricks like that. Why'd you bother skipping town back in Zaphias?" Yuri said pulling out his sword from behind the girl. "Huh? Skipping town? Why would I need to skip town?" The Girl said as I got off the floor. "For stealing the core of a blastia from the lower quarter in the capital what else?" Yuri said to the girl. "Yuri I don't think this is the thief we're looking for." I said helping Karol up. "What? You're calling me a thief. Have you ever heard of "common sense"?" The girl said. "Sure." Yuri said.
"So you break into a home. Call the owner a thief and wave a sword in their face. What the hell kind of sense is that?!" The girl said. Repede started to move. "Hey dog you stay back you you dog!" The girl said to Repede. "And you kid give him back!" The girl said to Karol. "What do you mean?" Karol said to the girl. "The blastia the blastia give him back to me!" The girl said as Estelle walked to her and bowed at her. "What with you?" The girl said. "My name is Estellise." Estelle said to the girl. "We're terribly sorry for barging in on you like this Oliver, Yuri, Karol, you too." Estelle said to us. "I'm not sorry. Karol and I were almost fried, I say we're even." I said pointing at the burn mark on the wall. "Yeah Oliver is right." Karol said and Yuri said nothing. "So what do you want?" The girl said. "Well you see. Yuri and Oliver are following a blastia thief here all the way from the imperial capital." Estelle said. "And?" The girl said. "And that blastia thief. Wore a cape! Was short! And their name was Mordio. So?" Yuri said pointing at the girl.
"Hmm well Mordio is certainly my name Rita Mordio to be exact." Rita said. "And the height matches up too." Karol said. "What do you have to say for yourself?" Yuri said to Rita. "I told you I have no idea what you're. Oh I hadn't thought of that." Rita said. "What are you talking about." I said to Rita who was ignoring me. "Follow me." Rita said to us. "What maybe you didn't hear us. We're not finished here." Yuri said as Rita walked away. "Just follow me would you?" Rita said to Yuri. "There's talk that some thieves have turned up in the Shaikos Ruins." Rita said. "Thieves are you sure about that?" Yuri said. "It came from an Imperial Knight who asked me for help. It should be trustworthy." Rita said as she moved out of site.
"Do you think that knight might have been Flynn?" Estelle whispered to us. "It's gotta be. Looks like she shot him down though." Yuri whispered. "But why." I whispered. "Hey remember what that guy outside said about someone vandalizing the ruins?" Karol whispered. "Which means the thief who stole the blastia core could be there." Estelle whispered. "Hmm maybe?" Yuri said.
Rita came around the corner and was wearing a field set with different leggings on. "Finished chatting? Let's go." Rita said to us. "All right, but don't even think of making a break for it." Yuri said to Rita. "You don't have to come. If you want. I'll just call the guards." Rita said to Yuri. "Why don't we give it a try? It sounds like Flynn might even be there." Estelle whispered to Yuri. "It's up to you: Go to jail. Make a run for it. Or follow me. Pick one." Rita said to us. "I vote for following her." I said to Yuri. "Okay okay we'll go with you." Yuri said. "The Shaikos Ruins are even further to the east once you leave the city." Rita said telling us which way to go. "But before we go to far we have friends to meet outside the city." I said to everyone. "Oh yes we need to find them first." Estelle said really wanting to see Togepi. "Friends? What are you planning to jump me." Rita said. "No, they are safer outside so we just left them out there." I said to Rita. "Whatever." Rita said as we started to walk out of the city.
We got out with no trouble I guess the guards don't care if people come out. "So where are your friends?" Rita said looking around. I just closed my eyes and place my right hand on my Key Stone. "There this way." I said leading the way. "How do you know that?" Rita asked me. "I will tell you later." I said looking for them.
After a few minutes we found Skiddo jumping around trying to calm a sad Togepi. "Monsters everyone get down." Rita said as she stated to charge up a spell. "Manectric!" Manectric said jump out of some tall grass nearby. "What?" Rita said as Manectric tackle her to the ground growling at her. "Manectric calm down and get off her." I said to Manectric as he just gowled one more time before getting off her. "Sorry Rita he was just very protective." I said to Rita helping her up. "What are those things?" Rita said watch as Skiddo, Togepi and Pawniard started to walk to their partner. "Togepi oh how I missed you." Estelle said picking Togepi up and into a hug. "Togepi." Togepi said happy to see Estelle and returning the hug with her small arms. "Hey Skiddo where you trying to keep Togepi calm?" Karol said touching Skiddo horns. "Skiddo." Skiddo said shaking his head yes. "Your such a good boy, aren't you." Karol said petting Skiddo's head. "And where were you?" Yuri said to Pawniard. "Pawniard Pawn." Pawniard said pointing to some cut grass. "I think he was practising?" I said to Yuri. "That's good, but practice is over we're going." Yuri said to Pawniard. "Pawniard." Pawniard said ok with what Yuri said.
"I'm sorry, but what's the deal with these monsters?" Rita said to us. "These aren't monsters they are called Pokemon and that's Togepi, Skiddo, Pawniard and you already meet Manectric." I said pointing to them in that order. "Pokemon?" Rita said. "They are kind and amazing creatures." Estelle said walking to her with Togepi in her arms. "These Pokemon are amazing creatures?" Rita said poking Togepi checks who giggle at the check poke. "She like you." Estelle said. "She?" Rita said. "Yeah Togepi is my little girl, aren't you." Estelle said tickling Togepi. "Come on, let's move to the ruins." Yuri said as we started to move east. "Wait tell me what's going on." Rita said to me.
We walked for about an hour and during that time I explained my world, my Pokemon, the Pokemon in the group, and my stuff. "So your a man from another world that doesn't have monsters, but "Pokemon" and in that world it's a land where everyone can live their life to the fullest and do whatever they want?" Rita said summarizing my explanation in her own words. "That sounds about right?" I said to Rita. "What kind of made up story is that." Rita said not believing a word I said. "What I'm telling the truth." I said to Rita. "A world without blastia where people and monsters live in peace yeah like that's real." Rita said to me. "What about all my stuff." I said to her. "Obviously you're part of some new Imperial Knight force studying monsters and that new knight stuff." Rita said to me. "I'm not with the knights." I said to Rita. "Why don't you believe him?" Karol said to Rita. "Because there's no proof of other worlds." Rita said. "Why can't you have a little faith." I said to Rita. "I'm a researcher I don't believe anything that isn't fact." Rita said to me. "Can we continue this talk later I think we're here?" Yuri said as we say some ruins. "That's it the Shaikos Ruins." Rita said. "We will finish this talk later." I said as we walked to the ruins.
"It looks like there aren't any Imperial Knights around." Estelle said as we looked around the ruins. Manectric and Repede found some footprints. "These footprints are still fresh there's a lot of them too." Karol said to us. "Which means it's either the Knights, the thieves, or both." Yuri said. "Nice fine Manectric and Repede." I said petting their heads. "Some of these footprints must be Flynn's" Estelle said. "Could be." Yuri said to Estelle.
"Hey over here. Hurry up." Rita said walking away from the footprints. "I see so first you get us alone in the dark then you zap us huh?" Yuri said. "Hmm "ZAP" I like the way that sounds." Rita said to Yuri. "Sorry, but with Manectric you can't zap us." I said to Rita who was just walking off. "What do you mean?" Karol asked me. "Hurry up." Rita said. "Let's try to get along now okay?" Estelle said. We walk around for a few minutes only to find out no one is here.
"Looks like no one's here no Imperial Knights, thieves, or anyone else!" Yuri said. "We can't have just miss them?" I said to the group. "Maybe they're further in?" Estelle said. "How far are we talking here?" Yuri said to Estelle. "It doesn't look like anyone's been here does it?" Karol said. "The information about the underground couldn't have gotten out could it?" Rita said. "The underground." Estelle said to Rita. "Recently an entrance to an underground area was uncovered here. A handful of mages are supposed to be the only people who know about it." Rita said to Estelle. "But it's okay for us to know?" Yuri said to Rita. "I don't have much choice if I'm to clear my name do I?" Rita said to Yuri. "Clear your name huh." Yuri said as Rita walk behind a statue me and Karol followed her. "The ground is scratched here." Karol said. "Yeah, but these scratches look like something was moved?" I said to Karol. "It's not like I would've minded letting the thieves have the ruins above ground after we finished the excavation. But it's a good thing we came here when we did." Rita said. "Glad to see your respect for the ruins." I said to Rita seeing how she was ok with people raiding their ruins.
"Well then we'd better hurry up and follow them. All we have to do is move this?" Karol said. "Ok Chesnaught come on out." I said letting Chesnaught out. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said happy to see me. "So this is Chesnaught?" Rita said looking at Chesnaught. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said raising his hand for a handshake. Rita just looked at him. "I don't see why you let him out." Rita said ignoring Chesnaught. "Here I will show you Chesnaught can you move that statute." I said to Chesnaught. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said sitting down upset at Rita. "Hey don't let Rita get to you she just doesn't know how cool you are." I said to Chesnaught. "How do you know that's why Chesnaught is mad." Rita asked me. "After some time any trainer can understand what their Pokemon say." I said to Rita. "Yeah right you understand the monsters" Rita said to me. "Pokemon and Chesnaught can you please move the statue." I said to Rita before asking Chesnaught again. "Chesnaught." said swinging his arm moving the statute out of the way of some underground stairs.
"Man Chesnaught is strong." Karol said surprised at Chesnaught strength. "Nice work Chesnaught return." I said to Chesnaught as I returned him to his Pokeball. "What powers those things?" Rita asked me. "It powered by electricity." I said to Rita. "Electricity don't you mean that blastia around your scaff?" Rita said to me pointing at my Key stone. "Didn't you pay attention when I was talking about my Key Stone?" I said to Rita. "I research blastia so I didn't need you to tell me about how a blastia worked so yeah I didn't pay attention." Rita said walking down the staircase. I just slapped my hand into my face. "You know whether or not you're the thief Yuri and I are chasing I don't like you." I said following her. "Come on Oliver play nice." Estelle said to me. "Togepi." Togepi said agreeing with Estelle as the followed us. "Oh don't you start Togepi having one Estelle is enough." Yuri said as he, Pawniard, Repede, Karol, and Skiddo started to walk down the stairs.
At the bottom we found a cavern full of water and more ruins. "This is my first time going inside ruins." Estelle said. "That doesn't surprise me." I said to Estelle. "Be careful over there it's slippery." Rita said to Estelle as she started to move. We all just looked at Rita. "What are you looking at?" Rita said to us. "We were just surprised you're actually a nice person." Yuri said to Rita. "I knew it would be a pain to bring you along." Rita said sighing. "I should've just come by myself." Rita said. "Do you always come to research these ruins alone?" Estelle said to Rita. "Togepi?" Togepi said asking the same thing as Estelle. "Yeah." Rita said. "Aren't you afraid you'll get hurt by monsters or traps?" Estelle said to Rita. "There are always risks if you're trying to actually do something. If someone gets hurt it's an acceptable loss." Rita said to Estelle. "Even if you're the one who gets hurt?" Estelle said. "Yeah." Rita said to Estelle. "Don't you ever worry or hesitate?" Estelle said to Rita. "Worrying about getting what you want without anyone getting hurt? You've had a pretty easy life." Rita said to Estelle. "An easy life." Estelle said. "Togepi?" Togepi said worried about Estelle. "And blastia will never betray me. So they're easy to deal with." Rita said.
"Wow you must have a sad life?" I said to Rita. "What did you just say." Rita said mad at me. "You spend your life with rocks and no friends that in my world is a sad life." I said to Rita. "I'm a genius with blasita I'm an amazing mage and I'm only 15 so how's that for a sad life?" Rita said to me. "Even sadder." I said to Rita. "What." Rita said. "Rita no matter how many trophies, titles, and awards you have without people who love and support you those awards are cold." I said to Rita. "Oh how you you know that?" Rita said turning away from me. "Because I won a few trophies in my life and the one trophy I won without the people I care about made me feel sad and alone?" I said to Rita remembering that day and feeling sad. Rita just started to walk away. "Oliver I sorry I didn't know." Yuri said to me. "If you need to talk about it we are here for you." Estelle said. "Thanks guys and I tell you the story later, but let's go before Rita gets to far." I said to them.
"Are you guys coming or not." Rita said at the bottom of the stairs. "Rita's amazing! She just comes right out and says what she has to say." Estelle said as we started to move. "She knows exactly what's important to her." Yuri said. "I wish I knew what was important to me." Estelle said to Yuri. "Just travel around for a while you'll figure it out." Yuri said. "Yeah you can't just expect to know all about yourself just by walking out the door it takes time to find yourself." I said to Estelle as we caught up to Rita.
We wandered around for a few minutes until we found a broken machine. Rita kneeled down and said. "Looks like this little one is no good."
"Wow so this is what blastia looks like before they're excavated." Karol said looking at the machine. "I wonder why ancient people buried blastia in ruins like this in the first place?" Estelle said. "I wish I could tell you. That's something else being researched." Rita said. "I think I can guess what happened." I said looking around. "Then what happened?" Rita said to me. "Just look at this place. I don't know the story of the people who made the blastia didn't have a happy ending." I said pointing around the ruins. "That's just your guess by looking around you don't know if it's
true." Rita said as Yuri got down to the machine.
"With all these blastia here. I don't suppose there are any aqua blastia lying around too?" Yuri said to Rita. "None of them have cores in them." Estelle said as Rita getting up. "Really? Then they don't work do they?" Karol said. "Blastia aren't excavated with the cores and bodies together." Rita said. "Cores produce magic through formulas. Bodies control that magic. The two combined are referred to as blastia. Each blastia possesses different attributes and is marked by crest that indicates those attributes. With current technology blastia bodies can manufactured but the production of blastia cores is impossible." Estelle said rereading a paragraph from a book.
"So basically cores are very valuable. Since they have to be excavated it's only natural that thieves would want to steal them." Yuri said. "That's not quite true it seems Estellise's information is a little outdated." Rita said. "What's outdated about it?" Karol asked Rita. "There's some degradation of quality but there's been some success in the Synthesis of simple blastia cores." Rita said. "Really?!" Estelle said surprised at Rita's words. "That can't be good?" I said. "Why do you hate Blastia so much?" Rita said to me. "Because we meet a man named Mason the other day and he told us that if anyone could do that then it would only cause more problems for the world." I said to Rita. "You know the same can be said about your monsters." RIta said to me. "True, but blastia is just a rock. POKEMON are alive and can make a choice to leave if they want to. Your ROCK can be used by anyone for any reason so Pokemon are better." I said to Rita. "BLASTIA is not a ROCK it is a power sores of world and only the people using them are bad." Rita said as we started to butt heads. "But that unlike your ROCK Pokemon can chose not to hurt a person, but your ROCK will always hurt a person." I said before Yuri got in between us and separate us.
"Ok enough Oliver! Rita we have things to do and how does clear you of being a thief?" Yuri said after Rita and I back away from each other. "It's why I wouldn't do anything stupid like go stealing people's cores! "If I had time to waste doing things like that. I'd rather be spending it researching better ways to completely restore incomplete or degraded cores. That's what being a mage is all about!" Rita said still mad at me. "A noble creed but that doesn't clear your name." Yuri said to Rita. "Yes talk is cheap, I suppose." Rita said calming down "P-perhaps there are still some blastia left that can be used!" Estelle said trying to get us moving. "Fine let's go." I said still mad at Rita, as we started to walk.
We dealt with a few monsters until we found a working machine. "This one's still got a core in it." Karol said. "Here try shooting this at the core." Rita said to Yuri give him a ring. "This ring's set with something that looks just like a blastia core." Yuri said looking at the ring. "Glyph Crystallization of a formula allows this blastia to emit aer as needed." Estelle said remembering words of a book. "That's not quite the best way to put it. It's actually used to charge other blastia with aer. But wait how did you know that?" Rita said to Estelle. "In the castle I read that the ring acts as a kind of key in ancient ruins." Estelle said answering her question. "Castle?" Rita said. "So all I do is point?" Yuri asked Rita trying to change the subject. "Just aim the Sorcerer's Ring at the core of that blastia. Face your target and shoot. There's a limit to its range though co on try it." Rita said explaining how the ring worked.
Yuri then pointed the ring and fire a small blast that hit the blastia. "That all it takes." Rita said to Yuri. then the machine light up. "That's a strihm crest it's a mark that indicates movement." Estelle said. "Huh interesting." Yuri said as a bridge started to form not to far away from us. At the same time a monster popped out of the walls. "Hey wh-what's that?" Karol said looking at the monster. "A sentinel for taking care of unwanted guests." Rita said. "Okay then keep your eyes open and let's keep moving." Yuri said. "Are you sure? What if I'm just luring you deeper into the ruins so I can "zap" you?" Rita said to Yuri. "As long as Manectric is out you won't "zap" us." I said. "Oh really?" Rita said still not believing me.
"Yuri want to give Rita her ring back." I said to Yuri who started to walk to Rita to return the ring. "Here you take it." Rita said stopping Yuri from returning the ring. "Isn't this thing important or something?" Yuri asked Rita. "We'll need to use it a few more times." Rita said to Yuri. "Okay I guess I'd better hold it since I'm leading the way." Yuri said. "But what about the sentinel?" Karol asked us. "I have an idea Manectric use Thunderbolt on the sentinel." I said to Manectric. "Manectric." Manectric said before he jumped and let loss a thunderbolt on the sentinel. It took a few seconds before the sentinel shut down form from power overload. "How did you do that?" Rita asked me. "Manectric makes electricity and that sentinel was a machine. So I figure if Manectric hit the sentinel with one of his electric moves the sentinel would have an overload and shot down." I said petting Manectric. "Lucky shot." Rita said as we started to walk.
We walked for a minute before a monster charged at Rita from behind. "Rita Look out." I said to Rita, but not before the monster was about to strike. "What?" Rita said as she turned around to the monster. But before the monster could strike suddenly the monster was strike with a few odd color orbs. The monster was dead from the impacts. "What was that?" Rita said as we looked up to see a green orb in the sky. "A Pokemon?" I said as Estelle pulled out a the pokedex.
Solosis
The Cell Pokemon
Psychic
Because their bodies are enveloped in a special liquid, they are fine in any environment, no matter how severe.
"It seems that Solosis is a girl and she seems to know Psyshock, Signal beam, Recover, and Astonish." Estelle said reading the moves. "Togepi" Togepi reaching her arms out wanting to play with Solosis. "Solosis" Solosis said floating around Rita head. "I think she likes you." I said watching Solosis play around. "I don't care if this monster like me get lost." Rita said charging up a spell. "Rita wait!" I said trying to stop her, but I failed and she cast her spell. "Rita why would you do that?" Estelle said pulling Togepi in close. "It was just a monster let it go." Rita said not regretting what she just did. I looked up at the smoke only to see Solosis giggling like she was being tickled. "Rita look up." I said pointing up. "What how did that monster survive my attack?" Rita said to me. "I think I know Estelle can I have the Pokedex for a second." I asked Estelle. "Sure here." Estelle said handing me the Pokedex.
I pointed the Pokedex at Solosis and conforme what I thought. "Just as I thought she has the ability Magic Guard." I said. "Magic Guard what that?" Estelle asked me. "It's Solosis special ability." I said to Estelle. "Special ability?" Karol asked me. "Special abilities are powers that infused with the Pokemon." I said. "So it's like Pokemon moves?" Yuri asked. "No moves can change special abilities are permanent they stay with the Pokemon as the get older." I said. "Is there any way to change them?" Estelle asked me. "No Pokemon have 2 or 3 abilities and they get their ability the day their born. But some Pokemon change their abilities when they evolve. But we don't have any example here." I said as I saw Rita try another spell on Solosis.
"Rita knock it off your spells won't work on her." I said to Rita. "And why won't it work?" Rita said firing the spell only for it do nothing. "Magic Guard is an ability that negates any ranged attack, so magic won't work on her." I said to Rita as she kept casting that spell. "So no matter how many times she cast that spell it won't work on Solosis." Karol said. "Yep that the thing about abilities they are tricky things that can be the difference between winning and losing." I said to Karol. "So what's the abilities of are Pokemon." Yuri asked me. "Lets see." I said pointing the Pokedex at everyones Pokemon. "Pawniard ability are Inner Focus meaning he can't flinch. Skiddo ability is sap sipper meaning that every time he's hit with a grass type move instead of getting hurt he just get stronger. And Togepi ability is Hustle meaning her physical attacks are stronger but her rushing it so she may have missed the target." I said giving Estelle the Pokedex. "What about Manectric what's he's ability?" Estelle asked as she took the Pokedex back. "Manectric's ability is Lightning Road with that ability any electric attack will do to him and power him up." I said. "So that's why you said we won't be "zap" right." Yuri asked me. "Yes, but the only down side of that unlike Sap Slipper where he just needs to get hit. All electric attack where friend or foe it all goes to him so he's the only Pokemon on my team with electric attacks." I said as Rita tired herself out from rapid fired spells on Solosis.
Solosis just kept giggling as Rita keeps firing her spell. "Rita just let her come she did save you." Estelle said to Rita. "Fine just because we have more to do and I spent to much mana on that monster." Rita said as she started to walk with Solosis floating around Rita's head. Estelle and Togepi followed Rita. "I think that Solosis is just what Rita needs." I said to the guys. "I don't know about that?" Karol said. "Come on, let's go." Yuri said as we started to go after the girls.
We walked for half an hour and during that time Solosis and Togepi started to play together. Estelle loved it happy that her little Togepi had a friend. Rita was still annoyed by Solosis, but I think she warming up to her. But all the fun stopped when we found a giant robot. Rita left Solosis and ran to the robor.
"H-hey!" Yuri said unsure if Rita should mess around with the robot. "Jeez what is this thing?! So this a blastia too?" Karol said looking at the robot. "But What I want is the aqua blastia not this... this puppet." Yuri sid getting a closer look at the robot. "Be patient Yuri we'll find it sooner or later." I said to Yuri patting his back. "What are you doing? Don't just go poking at him like that!" Rita said to us. "If I can just analyze him I'll finally be able to complete my anima formu-huh? No his blastia core is missing!" Rita said looking closely at the robot. Then Repede and Manectric started to growl. "Manectric, Repede what's wrong?" I asked them only for us to see a guy in a white robe. "Rita looks like one of your friends is here." Yuri said to Rita as the man tried to hide.
"Hey Who're You?" Rita yelled at the man. "M-me I'm just a blastia researcher from Aspio!" The man said coming out of hiding. "That sounded convincing." Yuri said. "Yeah convincing." I said not believing a word he said. "And just who are all of you? This place is off-limits you know!" The man said trying to get us to leave. "I think you just gave yourself away. I don't know who you are, but you're definitely not from Aspio if you don't recognize me." Rita said to the man. "Guess she's got no problems with modesty." Karol said. "You think." I whispered to Karol. The man started to run towards the robot. As he did we drew are weapons. "Ga this job is just full of problems. If it's not the Knights it's a bunch of kids with monsters!" the man said as he restated the robot. "Aaah it's moving!" Karol screamed as the robot stated move. "Rita" Estelle screamed as the robot started to swing at her. "Solosis" Solosis said before knocking Rita out of the way. But before Solosis could move the robot strike her. "Solosis." Estelle said as she, Rita, and Togepi, started to run to Solosis. "Togepi?" Togepi said worried about Solosis. "Togepi stay in the bag please." Estelle said to Togepi as she placed her in the bag. "Why did you save me?" Rita asked Solosis who was to her to hurt to answer.
Estelle started to cast a healing spell on Solosis. "Let me see!" Estelle said as she finished her spell. "Solosis." Solosis said getting up feeling great. "Togepi." Togepi said happy to see Solosis is ok. Rita just grabbed Estelles arm. "Wait a minute?" Rita said to Estelle. "W-what?!" Estelle said surprised at Rita's actions. "How did you?" Rita said. "I was just trying to heal Solosis wounds." Estelle said forgetting what was happening. "Hey girl help us." I said as I jumped out of the way from the robots attacks. "Yeah stop playing around and help us!" Karol yelled at the girl. "Grr all right all right!" Rita said as she got up. I turned my head to see the man started to run away from us. "I'm going after that idiot! You all take care of this!" Rita said as I pushed us out of the way of another attack. "Rita I hate to say it, but this robot is the problem now we'll get that guy later." I said as I pulled us up off the ground. "Grr that idiot!" Rita said about that guy. "I guess we've got no choice, but to play with this wind-up toy for now." Yuri said. "Let's get this over with and go after that jerk!" Rita said. "Let's deal with the robot first." I said as we started to fight.
"Ok Pawniard uses Metal Claw on the left arm when I strike the right arm." Yuri said to Pawniard. "Pawniard." Pawniard said as Yuri and Pawniard started to attack the arms. "Go easy on him he doesn't know what he's doing." Rita said. "Rita he's trying to kill us!" I said dogging Yuri and Pawniard as the robot tostes them. "Blastia have hearts to." Rita said blasting the robot with a spell. "No they don't blastia are rocks they can't make a choice." I said as I stated to run away form the Robot. "Manectric use Flamethrower on it's back." I screamed running. "Manectric." Manectric said letting loss a burst of flames. "How can you say that." Rita said as she and Estelle cast spells at the robot. "Can we talk about this later." Karol said swinging his axe at the robot. "Are weapons aren't working on this thing." I said as I notest are weapons cracking. "Then what do we do?" Karol asked me. "We need to disable it not trash it." Rita said. "Rita that's it." I said as Yuri jumped out of the way of the robots attacks. "What your plan?" Yuri said. "Yuri, you Karol, Repede, Pawniard, Skiddo, and Manectric keep the robot bessy I need to talk to Rita." I said to them "Ok how do we do that?" Karol said as I walked to the girls. "Figure it out and watch your back." I said pointing at the robot. "AHHHH" Karol screamed turning to see the robot right next to him.
"Rita I have an idea but I need you to trust me." I said to Rita. "Why should trust you." Rita said as we ignore Yuri, Karol, Repede, Pawniard, Skiddo, and Manectric running away from the robot. "I know we haven't had the best time together, but I need to know how to deal with it." I said to Rita. "So what so you can smash the bastia." Rita said to me. "Look I promise you can have the blastia I just want to keep us safe from that." I said pointing at robot chasing Yuri Karol, Repede, Pawniard, Skiddo, and Manectric. "Fine, but I want the blastia." Rita said. "Ok deal now how can I stop it?" I asked her. "If we remove the power core it should stop working." Rita said to me. "Thank you." I said as I turned to the guys.
"Ok guys, I have a plan Karol distract the Robot and have Skiddo use leech seed on the robot to hold him down." I said to Karol. "Ok Skiddo use Leech Seed." Karol said as he started to distract the Robot. "Skiddo." Skiddo said as he shot a seed at the robot. The seed burst open and tangle the robot. "Rita you and me will have Solosis and Manectric attack the head with Signal beam and Thunderbolt." I said to Rita. " Why should would Solosis answer to me." Rita said. "She likes you trust me. Manectric use Thunderbolt." I said to Manectric. "Fine Solosis use Signal Beam." Rita said to Solosis. "Manectric." Manectric said letting loss electricity. "Solosis." Solosis said releasing a light purple beam with circle and square shapes in it. Both attacks hit the robot's head stopping it from seeing what's coming. "Yuri attack the back exhausts port and have Pawniard use Thief on its core when it's exposed." I said as Manectric and Solosis kept pouring their attacks on the robots head. "Ok let's do this." Yuri said as he and Pawnirad started to run to the robots back. "Let's go Pawniard." Yuri said as he started to break the exhaust ports. "Pawniard use Thief on the robot." Yuri said to Pawniard. "Pawniard." Pawniard said taking out the core shutting down the robot and running to me. "Thanks Pawniard." I said as I took the core out of Pawniards hands. "Here Rita one core." I said to Rita. "Thanks." Rita said. "Nice work Oliver." Yuri said as we started meet up. But we didn't pay attention to the robot my plan didn't work the robot had no need for it's core to work.
"Look out." Estelle said blocking the robot with her shield, but the robot knocked her back knocking Togepi out. "How is it still working without it's core?" I asked Rita. "I think he has enough energy that he doesn't need the core." Rita said. "Togepi." Estelle said getting up. Togepi started to wave her arms as they started to glow. "Togepi run." Estelle said as we started to move towards her. The robot was about to attack her. "Togepi." Togepi said as she raises her arms to the sky before the robot could strike. A giant black and purple beam burst out above her head destroying the robots head defeating the robot. "What was that?" Rita asked me. "Wow Togepi your so strong." Karol said as Estelle picking Togepi up. "Togepi." Togepi said tired. "Togepi what's wrong." Estelle said worried about her. "That move was Hyper Beam when a Pokemon use it drains their energy making it hard to move or do anything for a short time." I said to Estelle. "How long does it take?" Estelle asked. "Togepi." Togepi said happy and full of energy again.
"Not long." Yuri said. "How did Togepi do that." Karol asked me. "I don't think she learned Hyper Beam that's one of the strongest attacks and it's rare for a newborn to know it, but given what Togepi was doing I think she learned Metronome." I said. "Let's find out." Estelle said pulling out the Pokedex. "Yep you're right Togepi learn Metronome, but where Growl?" Estelle said. "Pokemon only know four moves so when they learn new moves they forgot one and that's up to the Pokemon." I said. "So when they learn new moves the forget old ones?" Karol asked. "It the same as getting new weapon. You see when they learn a new move it's like getting a new weapon so do you need an old weapon when you have a new stronger weapon." I asked them. "Yeah and speaking weapons we made need to get new ones." Yuri said as we looked at are cracked weapons. "Sorry, but Aspio doesn't have any weapons so you have to go somewhere else for weapons.' Rita said. "Ok, but first their someone we have to meet." I said as I stared to go after the guy in white. I said as I started to walk after the guy in white. "Right let's go." Yuri said. "Come on! Let's go!" Rita said to Estelle. "But Flynn?" Estelle said. "There can't be many knights here if our shady friend in the cloak is just wandering around." Yuri said. "So you think Flynn is?" Estelle asked Yuri. "I don't think he's here anymore. Come on!" Yuri said. "Then let's go ask are new friend." I said as we started to move after the man. "If I'd just had a little more time I could've figured out the anima formula!" Rita said. "Is that why we were fighting that thing?" Karol said. "Of course." Rita said. "You suck!" Karol said "You were already here looking for the thief I just had you guys help out a little." Rita said. "Karol's right you do suck." I said to Rita. "Let's go let's go." Yuri yelled at us as we went after him.
"Look there he is!" Karol said as he pointed to the man. "And he's surrounded by monsters." I said looking at the water monsters. "Manectric if you please." I asked Manectric. Manectric didn't say anything, but let lose a Discharge on the monsters. Yuri and Rita ran to the man making sure he couldn't run. "How can he just steal the core and walk off like that?" Rita asked the man. "And don't try anything Manctric would love a new chow toy." I said as Manectric started to grow at the man. "Aaah stop m-make him stop! I've only been hired to do a job. I was told I'd get a good price for any blastia cores I could find." The man said. "You stole cores from the Imperial capital too. Didn't you?" Yuri said. "The capital no way not me!" The man said. "Then maybe it was one of your friends." Yuri said. "Yeah it's that creep Dedecchi." The man said. "Where'd he run off to?" Yuri said. "He's probably picking up his money from the client right now." The man said. "Client huh and who exactly might that be?" Yuri asked. "All I know is he's somewhere in Torim Harbor. I don't know any more than that!" The man said. "Manectric try and see if you can help him remember the client." I asked Manectric. "Manectric." Manectric said as he started to charge up.
"Ahh ok ok. He was a huge bruiser of a guy with a scar on his right cheek and one eye missing." The man said scared of Manectric. "So is this the guy collecting all the cores?" Yuri said. "Sounds like it." I said. "And where did you steal that Sorcerer's Ring?" Rita asked. "Wh-who says I stole it? The client gave it to me. Said it would be useful for this job!" the man said. "Lair that's not something the boss of some pickpockets could get his hands on." Rita said. "H-honest! You gotta believe me!" The man said. "This thing sounds pretty big you think somebody important is behind it all?" Karol asked. "Looks like it." I think you're on the right track. Captain Karol and Oliver this doesn't sound like some ordinary band of thieves." Yuri said. "Man first the knights then the monsters now this." The man said. "Knight? Then Flynn was here after all." Estelle said. "Yeah that's him that damn knight!" The man said. "Shut up!" Rita said knocking out the man. "Was that necessary?" I asked Rita. "Yeah Rita you knocked him out now what?" Karol asked. "I'll have the city guards come pick him up later." Rita said. "We can't just leave him here for the monsters." I said. "Yes we can." Rita said. "Chesnaught Please help me." I said letting Chesnaught out. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said. "Chesnaught can you carry this guy." I said pointing at the man. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said picking the man up. "All right then let's get back to Aspio." Yuri said as we left the ruins.
We walked back to Aspio and during that time I practise some new maces moves. The man was still out cold by the time we got back. How hard did she hit him? "So Flynn wasn't in there either." Estelle said. "We are always just one step behind him." I said to Estelle. "Togepi?" Togepi said worried about Estelle. "So who is this knight exactly?" Rita asked. "He's Yuri friend." Estelle said. "Hmmm "your" friend that must be a pain." Rita said to Yuri. "Huh?" Yuri said. "Never mind so what brings him to this town?" Rita asked. "He was looking for a mage to repair Halure barrier blastia." Estelle said. "Ohh that rookie he came to see me too." Rita said. "Flynn did was he all right?" Estelle asked Rita. "Yeah I guess." Rita said. "You guess?" Me and Karol said together. "Since he's a Knight. I'm sure he got some mage or another to help. Maybe he's already back in Halure?" Rita said. "Oh no." Estelle said. "So we're off to Halure again." I said lowering my head. "Well do you trust me yet." Rita asked us. "I don't think Rita's the sort of person to steal." Estelle said. "Vouch for her character all you like, but that doesn't prove her Innocence." Yuri said. "But!" Estelle said. "Don't bother trying to make him believe me. But I really didn't do it y'know." Rita said. "Hmph well I guess research seems to fit you better than robbery." Yuri said. "Innocence or not I still don't trust you." I said to Rita. "Same." Rita said to me. "Yuri isn't very good at expressing his feelings and Oliver just cares about Pokemon a lot." Estelle said. "What Weirdo's." Rita said. "I'm going to go let the city guards know about what happened. Go and wait for me in my lab." Rita said.
We walked to the gate. "I don't think those stubborn guards will let us pass through the entrance." Yuri said. "So how do we get past the guards?" I asked. "True then take this with you." Rita said giving us passports. "Show this to guard and they should let you through." Rita said. "Thanks." Yuri said. "Yeah thanks." I said. "Got it? Don't leave town without my permission or you'll be sorry!" Rita said as we left only for the guards to point their weapons.
"Kids get away from those monsters." A guard said. "These Pokemon are with me I promise they are no threat." Rita said. "I'm sorry, but I can't let them in." The other guard said. "Do you know who I am?" Rita said the guards just looked at each other. "Yes." The first guard said. "Then let them in." Rita said scaring the guards. "Ok just don't make any problems." The guard said. "Thank you and one of you take this thief from Chesnaught." Rita said. "Chesnaught." Chesnaught said giving the man to one of the guards. "Ok." The guard said. "Solosis you go with them I see you guys later." Rita said as she left us. "I guess we're going to her house." I said to the team. "Come on, let's go." Yuri said. "Fine Chesnaught returned." I said as we went to her house.
In the house Solosis and Togepi where playing tag in the piles of books. Estelle was pacing back and forth. And the rest of us were just waiting on the floor waiting for Rita. "If you're that worried about Flynn would you rather leave now?" Yuri asked Estelle. "It's just I've got to say a proper goodbye to Rita." Estelle said. "Then take it easy." Yuri said. "Yeah relax just watch Togepi and Solosis playing it will make you feel better." I said watching them having fun. "So what are you guys gonna do after this Yuri and Oliver?" Karol said to us. "I guess I'll go pay a visit to the guy behind all this core stealing. It sounds like Dedecchi ended up to the same place." Yuri said. "And I don't know." I said. "In Yuri case we should make a beeline for Nor Harbor." Karol said. "Didn't he say Torim Harbor?" Yuri said. "Yeah the guy said Torim Harbor?" I said. Oh right you guys don't know." Karol said. "Don't know what?" Yuri asked Karol. "Nor and Torim are both ports of a city that extends across two different continents. On the Ilyccian side where we are now is the port Capua Nor people call it Nor Harbor. Capua Torim is port on the other side on the Tolbyccian continent it's usually just called Torim Harbor. So first we'll go to Nor harbor we'll have to pass by Ehmead Hill on the way but it's not that far west from here." Karol said giving us directions to Torim Harbor. "What about you Estelle?" I asked Estelle.
"I'll be going back to Halure I still need to follow Flynn" Estelle said. "Hmm I don't know maybe we'll head back to Halure too." Yuri said. "We will?" I said getting up. "Huh why how can you just say that? The thief's gonna get away!" Karol said. "There's no reason to panic. According to our friend the ruins. It sounds like his client's based there. Besides. If we're going west that will take us close to Halure" Yuri said. "Good point and we maybe able to get some new weapons in Halure?" I said. "Aww man, but I." Karol said. "You gotta be somewhere? A sick girlfriend with an incurable disease or something?" Yuri said interrupting Karol. "Man if only she really was a frail girl like that." Karol said. "Tell me more." I asked Karol. "Skiddo" Skiddo said asking the same thing. But before Karol could answer Rita walked in.
"I know I asked you to wait for me. But you sure made yourselves at home, didn't you?." Rita said. "Oh welcome back what ended up happening to the thief?" Estelle asked Rita. "He's probably crying quietly to himself in his cell by now." Rita said. "Sounds about right." I said getting up. "Sorry for suspecting you." Yuri said getting up. "What a heartfelt apology I'll take it though it worked out pretty well for me too." Rita said walking to Solosis and Togepi. "Rita?" Estelle said looking at Rita. "Well thanks for the hospitality." Yuri said. "Yeah thanks." I said. "What going so soon?" Rita said. "We don't want to overstay our welcome plus we're in a bit of a hurry." Yuri said. "I'm so happy to have met you Rita I'm afraid we have to go now. I'll thank you properly later. Come on Togepi." Estelle said to Rita as she pick up Togepi. "Togepi." Togepi said not wanting to say goodbye to Solosis. "And take care of Solosis Please." I asked her. "Okay." Rita said. As we left her house Rita came out for us.
"If you're seeing us off. We'll say goodbye here." Yuri said turning around to Rita and Solosis. "We're going with you." Rita said. "Solosis." Solosis agreeing with Rita. "You're doing what?" Karol said. "Skiddo." Skiddo said just as confused as Karol. "Oh is this why you told us not to leave without saying goodbye. Huh?" Yuri said. "Yeah." Rita said to Yuri. "Is that it just "yeah"?" Karol said. "Can you just leave like that? You're an important mage here right?" Yuri said. "Yeah what about your job?" I said. Rita was just thinking when she said. "I want to see Halure's barrier blastia for myself it's good to the people there if it's broken right?" Rita said. "Actually the four of us and our Pokemon fixed it together." Karol said. "Huh? What do you mean you "fixed" it? You're just amateurs." Rita said in surprise. "You know we revived it. It was great Estel-." Karol said. "Let's just say it was beginner's luck." Yuri said Interrupting Karol. "Yeah beginner's luck." I said. "Now I'm really worried. I'll have to go see if it's been done properly or not." Rita said no believing a word we said. "Suit Yourself." Yuri said. "Great more time with Rita." I said sarcastically as Estelle ran to Rita. "What?" Rita asked Estelle. "I've never had a real friend my own age before! And Togepi likes Solosis." Estelle said. "Togepi." Togepi said happy that their coming. "I-I'm not so sure we're." Rita said not sure how to answer Estelle. "This is going to be so much fun!" Estelle said. "Togepi." Togepi said really happy. "Solosis." Solosis said as she started to go around Estelle, Rita and Togepi and she was just as happy as Togepi. "Y-yeah." Rita said. "We spent half the day in ruins and now we have to go back to Halure." I said "Come on Oliver it's not that bad." Karol said. "I'm just tired I had half a night's worth of sleep. Rita and me we're about to fight in the ruins. And this day isn't even over yet.." I said to the guys. "Come on everyone let's go." Yuri said as he and Pawniard started to walk away. "Yuri wait." Karol said as he hopped on Skiddo's back. "Rita come on." Estelle said as she grab Rita's hand. "Wait don't drag me." Rita said not happy about being drag as Togepi and Solosis laugh a Rita reaction.
I just watch as everyone ran out seeing everyone having fun when a thought came over me. You know I didn't mention it back in the ruins or at the gate, but Rita called Solosis by her name and called them Pokemon not monsters so maybe she warming up to them. Maybe I can give Rita a chance after all Halures a few hours away let's see what happens on the way after all it's only been half a day.' I looked down to see Manectric pulling on my pants. "What's up Manectric?" I asked Manectric. He didn't answer me he just ran after the team. "Hey Manectric wait for me." I said as I went after them. As me and Manectric passed them and Yelled. "See you in Halure." They just smiled at me and started to run after me. "Not if I see you first." Yuri said as he and Pawniard we're right behind us. "Pawniard." Pawniard said agreeing with Yuri. "Sorry Yuri, but we'll be there first." Karol said as he was riding Skiddo. "Skiddo." Skiddo said as he passed Yuri and me. "Do we have to run." Rita said. "Come on Rita let's win." Estelle said to Rita as they started to run. With that we just started laughing and Running to Halure without a care in the world.