[4] The Daughter of Nurse Joy: Hoenn Adventure

Glacia of the Hoenn Elite Four

The gang was having a think today. Cora, Alain, Brock and Mairin told Ash, Max and May that Misty's birthday was the day after tomorrow, and the gangs agreed to send Misty a birthday present. Cora made the suggestion to find some Water Pokémon from the Hoenn region. Max had an idea that they could give Misty a Huntail, Gorebyss and some Clamperls as presents.

"That is a good idea Max, but Misty has already got those," Brock pointed out, "I had a talk with her on the phone the other day and she told me a few days after she got back to Kanto from Mirage Kingdom, she captured fourteen Clamperls."

"What a catch," Max awed, impressed, "and I take it she evolved some of them?"

"She said that she evolved two of them into Huntail and two of them into Gorebyss, and the ten Clamperls are staying Clamperls because her sisters like them so much." Brock explained.

"So then that means that Misty and her sisters have all the water Pokémon there are in the Hoenn region then?" Ash asked.

"Not really," Cora replied, "Misty told me that she and her sisters don't have Spheal, Sealeo and Walrein. And they don't have Surskit either, which is part bug and water."

"Well Misty wouldn't want Surskit," Brock teased, "She told me that she saw a Surskit before, and of course it left her screaming. So Surskit is out of the question. But she would like Spheal, Sealeo and Walrein definitely."

"Okay then those three Pokémon will be her presents." Cora decided.

"Question is where shall we go and look for them?" Mairin questioned.

"I know where," Max answered, "there is a cave across the ocean from Mossdeep City called Shoal Cave and Spheal live there."

"Okay then that is where we shall go," Alain decided, "We shall go to Shoal Cave and get some Spheals for Misty."

So the gang took a boat to get to Shoal Cave.

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But when they got Shoal Cave, they saw the police standing outside the cave.

"There must be trouble brewing about." Mairin said.

"Let's see what's going on." Alain decided.

The gang walked up to a police officer.

"Excuse me, officer, could you tell us what's going on?" Cora requested.

"Well there have been reports of people causing trouble had been located in the Shoal Cave." The officer explained, "So no one is allowed to enter the cave until the situation had been solved."

The gangs were disappointed especially since they wouldn't be able to get any Spheals for Misty's birthday.

Just then a pretty middle-aged woman, wearing a purple dress, came out of the cave.

"I don't believe it!" Max gasped, "that woman is Glacia. She's an elite four member of Hoenn and the master of ice type Pokémon."

"I wonder what she's doing here?" Ash asked.

"My guess is she's probably here to help with the problem that's happening here at Shoal Cave." Alain guessed.

"Remember when Phoebe helped out at that mine because it was home to ghost type Pokémon? Well Spheal are part water and ice type, which is a reason that Glacia would want to help them out being an ice type master." Cora added.

The others agreed to that.

Just then Glacia noticed the gang. "Excuse me," she said, "are you kids by any chance Cora, Alain, Mairin, Brock, Ash, Max and May?"