pokemon adventure

chapter seventy three

Chapter 73

Solrock and Lunatone,

The injured Swablu and

The Cottonton Contest

It was a hot day today, and the gang was feeling thirsty and drinking out from their water canteens. "We'll need to find some more water soon," said Brock "my canteen is nearly empty and I still feel very thirsty". The others were still so thirsty too. Brock looked through his map guide to see if there was any place around where they could get some more water. "Ah it says that there is a spring and a village not far from here," he said "so we can get a nice drink and some rest for a while". "Thank goodness, I've had enough of travelling with this hot heat" said May. When the gang reached the spring, they found out that the spring had no water. They went to the village to see if there was any water there, but the village stream had no water and neither did the village well. "Now what are we going to do?" complained May "there's no water anywhere and I'm still very thirsty".

Just then a young woman came up to the gang. "Excuse me," she said "are you all travellers?" "Yes we are," answered Ash "we were hoping to get some water here, but we noticed that there's no water here". "I am sorry about that; the truth is we have been suffering from a terrible drought lately which caused our stream to somehow dry up," said the woman "and if it doesn't rain soon, everyone one in this village may have to leave". The gang felt sorry for the village. "Please excuse me, but do you have any drop of water left?" asked May. "I still have some water at my place" said the woman.

The woman, who was called Mary, took the gang into her house and introduced them to her grandmother. Mary's grandmother was wearing a lily pad shaped hat on her head. Mary explained that the people in the village worshipped the pokemon Lombre. "That's right," said Mary's grandma "in fact the water spring outside our village has a shrine that's dedicated to Lombre". "We saw that spring earlier, but it was dried up too" said May. "When did this drought start?" asked Ash. Mary explained that a few nights ago a meteorite fell out of the sky and landed somewhere near the shrine. Then Mary's grandma explained that two pokemon, a Solrock and a Lunatone, were roaming about the forest. "It makes me wonder if they might have something to do with the drought". Brock looked thoughtful. "It is true that both Solrock and Lunatone are rock type pokemon, as well as psychic type," he said "but I doubt there's no way they would cause a water shortage like that". "May I suggest we go talk to them Brock?" asked Ash "since they've been roaming around the forest, they might know what's causing the water shortage". Brock thought that was a good idea and so did Mary. "Okay Ash, Brock, you and I will go to find Solrock and Lunatone," said Mary "Grandma, you say here with the others". "Okay, but be careful Mary" said her grandma.

So Ash, Brock and Mary went off into the forest to find the Solrock and Lunatone. "Do you think that the Solrock and Lunatone will listen to what we have to say?" Mary asked Brock. Mary had never seen a Solrock or Lunatone before so she didn't really know what they were like. "Well as I said those two pokemon are psychic types as well as rock types," said Brock "so what they'll do is look into our minds to see if we are telling the truth". "Don't worry Mary, Brock and I have met up with lots of psychic type pokemon before" said Ash.

Just then two pokemon turned up. One of them was orange, with yellow spikes and black eyes, and it was shaped like a sun; this was Solrock. The other was cream coloured, with pink eyes, and it was shaped like a crescent moon; this was Lunatone.

Ash looked at Solrock and Lunatone on his pokedex: Solrock, the meteorite pokemon. When it rotates itself, it gives off light similar to the sun, thus blinding its foes. Lunatone, the meteorite pokemon. Because it turns active on nights of the full moon, it is said to have some link to the lunar phases.