Welcome to Gaia! ::

Kevin and Monsoon wandered through the dark cave for longer than they cared to keep track of. Frustrated with his lack of being able to see anything, Kevin reluctantly decided to give up. "Maybe its best if we wait till we can use the Flash technique so we can shed some light on this matter" Kevin said, turning back to the exit. Almost immediately after turning around, Kevin tripped over something. "Whoa-Augh!" Kevin rolled over and looked towards his feet to see a pair of diamond-like eyes glowing in the darkness. "Uh, I think we found what we're looking for Monsoon." The toothy grin emerged from the darkness beneath the eyes.



Catching the trainer and its Pokemon off guard, the Sableye took its opportunity to attack. It Leered through the darkness at the Squirtle, causing the confused turtle to lower its guard

Kevin regained his bearings and told Monsoon what to do next. "Ok Monsoon, aim an Ice Beam right at those glowing eyes!"

Monsoon opened his mouth and took a deep breath. A small orb of ice began forming in front of him and he sent it flying at the Sableye's face. The beam hit the Ghost right between the eyes, knocking it backwards.

The Sableye jumped to its feet after recovering from the Ice attack. Using the darkness to its advantage, the Sableye jumped forward with its claws flailing. The Scratch attack connected, hitting Monsoon on the chest, knocking him on his back as the Sableye receded into the darkness.

Kevin lifted Monsoon to his feet. "You OK little buddy?" Monsoon reassured his trainer with a confident nod. "Alright, then hit it with another Ice Beam!"

Monsoon once again created an ice orb and fired it at his opponent, this time hitting the Sableye on the side of the face, sending it spinning to the ground. It quickly recovered and got back to its feet.

The Sableye, now a bit angry for being knocked to the ground, leaped forward again, Scratching the offending Squirtle in the face.

Monsoon rubbed his face, and without hesitation or orders from his trainer, let loose another Ice Beam at the Sableye, this time hitting it in its chest. Seeing the Sableye become frozen in place caused a satisfied smirk to cross Monsoon's face as he stepped back, giving his trainer the opertunity to do what they came to Granite Cave to do.

Seeing that Monsoon was OK, Kevin took a PokeBall from his bag and threw it at the Sableye. The ball hit the frozen Pokemon on the head, pulling it inside with a flash of red light. Due to the darkness, Kevin couldnt see if the the PokeBall was shaking. a few tense moments passed before Kevin heard a slight click and saw the flash of the button, letting the trainer know he had successfully captured the Pokemon! Kevin walked over to the PokeBall and picked it up. "I think I'll name you Twinkles, because of your diamond eyes" he said, clipping the ball to his belt. "Come on Monsoon, lets get out of here."

"Well this looks like a fun game. What do you have to do?" She asked the woman behind the counter. Noticing the small amount of papers in a bowl she imagined that it must have something to do with the luck of the draw.

"You have a knack for great names," Kasiya told Keegan. She generally liked that name, and it seemed to suit the baby Psyduck he held up. And it was obvious the little Psyduck already liked him. She wrapped her arms around the egg, trying to give it as much of her body heat as she possibly could.

She jumped up suddenly when she heard and felt a rather loud cracking sound right against her chest. Still holding the egg, and fearing she'd broken it by holding it too tightly, she watched in amazement as it started to hatch...

Seeing everyone else's eggs hatching, Mike found it was time to send in the big guns. "Nitro!" He called out to his Pokemon, who lumbered over to his side.

"I want you to carefully warm this egg up, CAREFULLY!" He watched as Nitro breathed some hot air on the egg, just enough to ripple the air.

((6))

Kevin and Monsoon quickly made there way out of the cave and headed back to the Dewford Pokemon Center. Once inside, Kevin returned Monsoon to his PokeBall and turned both his Pokemon over to the Nurse for treatment.

Within a few moments, Monsoon and Twinkles were as good as new and Kevin released them both from their PokeBalls. "Hey there Twinkles. Just to show you theres no hard feelings about that battle, I've got something for you." Kevin reached into his bag and pulled out a small black tag with strange lines drawn on it. It was the Spell Tag he recieved from Morty as a going away gift when Kevin left Ecruteak City to study at the Academy in Violet City. "Here you go," Kevin said while putting the tag on Twinkles' head. "That should make your Ghost attacks more powerful." Twinkles smiled at Kevin and climbed up onto his shoulder, then jumped into his hood. "Heh OK, you can ride in there for a while. Now lets go back to Mr. Briney."

"It's rare?" Kasiya asked, looking down at the Larvitar in her arms. It gazed up at her sleepily, then nuzzled into her chest, falling back asleep again. "Rare or not," she said, smiling sweetly. "It's as cute as a button!" She smiled up at Keegan, the kiss was definitely not forgotten. "We're lucky, aren't we?"