Ember was having a strange dream. She was in some strange underground cave. It was dark and she couldn't see anything. All of a sudden, sixteen rectangular plates appeared in front of her and then they started to fly away together. Ember chased after them and instantly she ended up in some strange ruins. Suddenly the ruins and the sixteen plates began to glow, while Ember just looked on in surprise.


"AHHHH!"

Ember and the Pokémon jolted upright from their sleeping bags and turned to the source of the scream; Dawn who had an extreme case of bedhead.

"Dawn, what were you screaming for?" Ember asked as she rubbed her eyes.

"It's my hair! It's a disaster!" Dawn panicked, gesturing her hair.

"Calm down, Dawn." Ember assured her, "I think I know a way to fix it."

"You do?" Dawn asked, hopeful.

Ember nodded and turned to Piplup, "Yup. Piplup, I'll need your help."

Piplup tilted his head, "Piplup?"

"Gently use Bubble Beam on Dawn." Ember instructed.

Piplup looked confused but did it anyway. Then he stopped the attack. Once it ended, Ember took a hairbrush and started brushing Dawn's hair. Soon she was done.

"There, all done." Ember put the hairbrush down.

Dawn picked up her mirror and smiled brightly at her newly brushed hair.

"Thank you, Ember!" Dawn beamed.

"You're welcome, Dawn." Ember said, smiling.

Then the girls got dressed and left the tent. Brock was sorting out breakfast with Alain setting the table. Brock had a new Pokémon on his team called a Croagunk; he captured it yesterday. Croagunk was a dark blue frog like, poison and fighting type, Pokémon with black markings, white stripes across the tummy, orange cheeks and two orange fingers and it had yellow eyes.

Dawn looked at Croagunk on her Pokédex:

[Croagunk, the toxic mouth Pokémon. Its cheeks hold poison sacs. It tries to catch foes off guard to jab them with toxic fingers.]

Croagunk was a bit of a creepy looking Pokémon, but this Croagunk liked Brock and it wanted to go with him, and that was how Brock captured him.

"So what are we going to do today?" Dawn asked.

"Well the training and getting ready for the contest has been done," Alain replied.

"So all that's left to do now is get to Jubilife City." Ember added.

"And we aren't far now from there so we can get there by today." Brock informed.

Suddenly a Buneary came out of the bushes.

"Hey a Buneary!" Dawn beamed, happily, "Now's my chance to catch one at last!"

Buneary turned to position to fight, and Dawn sent out her Piplup to battle it.

"Piplup use Bubble Beam!" Piplup fired the bubbles towards Buneary, but Buneary dodged the bubbles. Piplup tried again, but Buneary just kept dodging the bubbles.

"Wow that Buneary is fast." Ember commented.

"Okay Piplup use Growl to slow it down!" Piplup growled and Buneary was put off. "Now use Peck!" Piplup pecked Buneary good. Buneary wasn't defeated yet and she fought back with Ice Beam.

"Quick dodge that, Piplup!" Luckily Piplup managed to get out of the way before the Ice Beam could hit him. Piplup then attacked with Bubble Beam and Buneary got hit this time by the bubbles. Then Piplup moved in with Pound and Buneary got hurt some more.

"Use the Pokéball now, Dawn!" Brock called out.

Dawn quickly threw the Pokéball at Buneary and she got sucked into the Pokéball. A few seconds later Buneary was caught.

"Alright, I caught my own Buneary!" Dawn cheered.

Piplup and Burmy cheered too.

"Great job, Dawn." Ember congratulated her.

Suddenly something caught Ember's eye; there was something nearly buried in the ground next to a bush. Ember went over to see and after brushing off some dirt, she found a small red colored rectangle plate, with a darker red outline.

"What is that?" Dawn asked.

"It looks like a plate, only rectangle shape." Alain said.

"Hey, I saw something like this in my dream last night." Ember realized. She explained to the others about her dream of the sixteen plates and the ruins. "And this is one of the same plates I saw."

"Do you think it means something?" Brock asked.

"I don't know," Ember replied, "What I can say is we have a new mystery on our hands."

"A real interesting one at that." Alain commented.

It felt funny to Ember; she had only barely started her Sinnoh journey, and she already had a mystery on her hands. She placed the plate into her backpack; she had a strange feeling that keeping the plate would help her solve the mystery later.


With Dawn finally gaining a Buneary and Ember discovering a strange plate, the gang could now continue on to Jubilife City.


Pokémon Caught:

Shiny Piplup (Triton)(M)

Budew (Hana)(F)

Shinx (Raji)(M)

Shiny Buneary (Usagi)(F)

Starly (Sora)(F)

Burmy (Plant Cloak)(Liko)(M)

Shiny Ariados (Arachne)(F)

Turtwig (Silas)(M)