Pokemon, Legends of Champions

Chp. 5) Mt. Moon Mayhem!

Lenny and I entered Mt. Moon, the cave is barely lit up by lanterns hanging all over the roof of the cave. We kept for a while, seeing random hikers who decided to battle me. Both of my Nidorans were trained up a little bit now. Lenny and I eventually got to a dead end, but there was a hole with a ladder going down it. I go down it, and Lenny follows me down. We reach the bottom after a few seconds, the cave being a lot darker here, barely being lit by ceiling lanterns.

"Uuuuuugh," I hear someone grunt. I look around, turning around and turning on my phone flashlight to see better. I keep turning and looking in different directions until I see someone laying on the ground, I run over to them while Lenny is now getting off of the ladder. I flipped the person over, and I recognized who it was. It was Cassandra, her forehead was covered in dirt and slightly bruised.

"Cassie," I said. "What happened to you?" Lenny runs over to me, dropping his duffle bag and hands me a bottle of water. I help Cassandra up and have her lean her back against the wall, I hand her that water Lenny handed me. She slowly raised the bottle up to her lips, her body was trembling. Cassandra gulps down the water, she tries to catch her breath.

"Hey DJ," Cassandra says in a quiet tone of voice, she looks over at Lenny. "Who are you?"

"I'm Lenny," Lenny responded. "Try not to move." He pulls something that's wrapped up out of his duffle bag. Lenny unwraps the item, revealing that it's a log. He grabs two stones from his pocket and starts creating sparks with them, he keeps doing this until he creates a fire which lights up more of the cave. Once the fire gets big enough, Lenny pulls out a kettle and another bottle of water, except this one is a bit bigger. He pours the water into the kettle and hangs the kettle on a tray, which he pulls out along with two metal rods to hold the tray over the fire. He also grabs a small towel and puts water on it, then he wrings it out and comes over to Cassandra to put the wet towel on her head. Lenny goes back to his bag and pulls out, what seems like, a cup-o-noodle and a plastic fork. The kettle started steaming, Lenny took it off the tray and opened up the cup-o-noodle, and poured the hot water into the cup. He puts the paper lid back on it and puts the plastic fork on top, he comes back over and flips the towel on Cassandra's head. He goes back to the cup-o-noodle and picks it up, then comes back over and sets it down next to Cassandra's hand. "Eat this slowly and carefully so you can regain some strength." Lenny informs Cassandra. Cassandra picks up the noodles cautiously, and eats up the food. That entire time Lenny was doing all of this, I felt helpless. I didn't know what to do or say to help her. Cassandra finishes up the noodles, and she begins to cry hard.

"What happened to you?" I asked.

"The-they," Cassandra begins to stutter and sob. "T-t-took my p-pokemon!" She curls up and starts to cry harder than before.

"Who did?" Lenny and I ask simultaneously.

She looks up at us; "TEAM ROCKET DID!"

"Who?" I asked, looking confused.

"You don't know who they are," Lenny says looking at. "They're a huge criminal organization here in Kanto, they steal pokemon and sell them to the black market."

"Really?" I replied. I look over at Cassandra, who is now curled up again sobbing. I raise my fist and punch the cave wall. "How could anyone do anything like that?"

"DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH!!" We all raised our heads, responding to the sound we just heard. "DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH!" Cassandra slowly gets up, and starts limping towards where the sound was coming from. Lenny and I follow her to make sure she doesn't fall over, while also being curious about what was making that sound. We eventually get to casim in the cave, where people in black outfits, with a red R on the back/chest area of their outfits, were all mining what seemed like a dark semi-clear mineral that is scattered all over the place. Over on the side, we saw a huge amount of the mineral which was all clumped up into one enormous boulder. A bunch of these people with the black outfits are using jackhammers on this giant dark mineral. On the other side was a tent that was all black and had black flags with a red R on all of them.