Gelatino95
Not a tool
Sorry for the wait, but I've been having so much fun with PMD Explorers of Time. Here's the next chapter.
Chapter XXVII: Hungry Carvanha
Kenny, Eli, and Duosion were being led across the wide ocean by Clair. At this point, there was no land in sight at all. Nothing but water was visible on the horizon. Occasionally, the group would see a small group of Wingull or Pelipper fly by or float in the water, but otherwise, the landscape was nothing but featureless ocean.
“Are you sure you know where you’re going?” called out Kenny.
“Yeah, totally!” Clair shouted back. “Just trust me on this!”
Without another word, the group continued forward on their water pokemon, with Duosion flying through the air behind them.
After a while of swimming through the nondescript ocean, a very faint feature was visible on the horizon. At first, it just looked like the smallest dark speck. However, as the group continued forward, it became more visible and revealed itself to be an island. The land was dark and a small amount of foliage was visible, as well as a couple buildings.
“Hey, that’s it!” Clair shouted excitedly. “I told you!”
Kenny and the group continued to follow Clair through the roaring ocean. As he rocketed through the blue water, Kenny saw a strange patch of rippling water beside him. It flew through the water and caught up straight to Kenny’s side. Gradually, something emerged from the water’s surface. It appeared to be a small blue and red fish with tall, yellow fins on top of its head. It glided through the water at impressive speeds and looked straight at Kenny with its blood-red eyes. Kenny’s pokedex started rumbling, so he took it out in response.
Before the pokedex could say anything, the fish sprang into action. In one swift movement, it dove underwater and immediately flew out of the ocean, flying straight toward Kenny. It grabbed the pokedex right out of Kenny’s hands with its enormous teeth and fell back in the water on the other side.
“Hey!” Kenny exclaimed in rage, “That thing just stole my pokedex!”
Kenny looked over toward Eli, who was also having trouble with these strange red fish. They were surrounding his Gastrodon and harassing it, keeping it from moving forward. Clair had also come to a stop, surrounded by fish. Soon enough, the fish started to surround Kenny and his Floatzel as well, forcing them to a standstill.
“Oh, poop,” Eli gasped. “These must be Carvanha. We had a ton of them back in Hoenn, but not this many at the same time… I heard they’re vicious and blood-thirsty. I think we’re doomed.”
“Don’t give up yet, guys!” Duosion happily encouraged.
“That’s easy for you to say,” Kenny grumbled. “You can just fly out of the way.”
“Now, hold on,” Duosion continued. “I can use my Telekinesis attack to lift them out of the water! Watch this!” Immediately, Duosion closed its eyes and a pink aura began to surround it. The pink aura also moved to all the Carvanha, which all became confused at this. They all looked up at Duosion, who was still concentrating. However, nothing was happening. Duosion lost his concentration and opened his eyes to see the pack of Carvanha staring at him.
“You dimwit,” Clair hissed, “Carvanha are dark-types. Psychic-type moves don’t work on them!”
Duosion lost all hope. “Oops, I forgot about that. You're doomed.”
The Carvanha all started licking their lips and closing in on the group, ready to bite off their skin. Kenny started praying to Arceus. Clair took out a small piece of paper from her backpack and started writing her will. Duosion warily flew upward, hoping to avoid the jaws of the Carvanha. Just as everyone was about to lose all hope…
“Salamence! Use Hyper Beam!”
A harsh white beam struck a small pack of Carvanha on the water, sending them flying in all directions. There was a great big splash as the entire group was thrown upwards by the wave. The beam then erupted into the water again, causing many Carvanha to swim away in fear. Within a few moments, all the Carvanha had evacuated the area, leaving the ocean completely desolate once more. Above the group’s heads, a massive blue dragon floated down towards them, flapping its blade-shaped red wings, causing the water below it to ripple. On the dragon’s back, a man was visible. He wore a fisherman’s outfit, complete with a long coat, pants with tall boots, and a captain’s hat. He wore no shirt underneath, allowing his chest to be visible.
“Are you all right?” he shouted from the back of his Salamence. “We have a big Carvanha problem at Coraline town, as you can see. Nobody has been able to set foot in the water.”
“I can see,” Kenny replied. “Who are you, anyway?”
“I’m Drake, of course!” the man said.
“Hold on a sec, did you say Drake?” gasped Eli incredulously. “I thought you worked in Hoenn? In the Elite Four?”
Drake chuckled. “Yeah, but I recently moved to Fushi. Now, I’m working here as a Gym Leader. I’m hoping to become a member of the Elite Four here eventually.”
“That is so freaking cool,” Eli said in amazement. He whispered over to Kenny, “Drake was my childhood idol when we lived in Hoenn. I can’t believe we’re finally meeting him!”
“That’s great, Eli,” Kenny flatly said. “So, Drake, what brings you to Coraline town? Are you the gym leader here?”
“Oh, no,” Drake affirmed. “I was just called over to help out with the Carvanha problem.”
“In that case, maybe we can help!” Kenny offered. “Let’s go to Coraline!”
“All right, then, see you there!” Drake’s Salamence flapped its wings and turned around, then flew at incredible speed toward Coraline town.
“Well, let’s hurry up and go!” Kenny’s Floatzel started swimming ahead. Clair and Eli continued forward on their pokemon, with Duosion floating behind.
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The ground was very hard and rocky. There was relatively no soil, just volcanic rock. However, many buildings were built on the small rocky island that protruded from the sea. There were a few houses and a pokemon center visible on the land, but not much else. Schools of Carvanha circled around the water surrounding the island.
When Kenny, Eli, Clair, and Duosion finally got to shore, Drake was standing there waiting for them. With him was a girl who had long, light-blue hair and wore a white and blue outfit.
Once everyone was on land, they returned their surfing pokemon. However, before Kenny could return Floatzel, it dove into the ocean and swam away.
“What the flesh?” Kenny said in surprise. “Did my Floatzel just run away?”
“I don’t know, that’s kind of weird,” Eli pondered.
“Well,” Drake started, “I’m glad to see that you made it here safely.” He motioned toward the girl standing next to him. “Have you met Pola yet? She’s the gym leader in this town, and I’ve been helping her out with her Carvanha problem.”
“It’s horrible,” Pola explained. “None of the people can go in the water, so nobody can leave or enter the town. You guys are lucky you made it here alive.”
“Well, we have to face near-death experiences all the time…” said Kenny in a slightly lower voice than usual. “It was clearly no problem for us.”
“I see,” Pola smiled sarcastically. “Well, since you’re already here, you may as well enjoy your time. You’re probably going to be staying here until we find a way to take care of our Carvanha problem.”
“And hey, I know the perfect way to enjoy our time here!” Kenny added. “We can win that gym badge that we were looking forward to!”
“What, you really think you can win against me?” scoffed Pola. “Please. We’ve clearly got bigger problems on our hands anyway.”
“Oh, come on!” whined Kenny. “Just one short gym battle won’t hurt, will it?”
Pola sighed deeply. “Fine,” she finally replied. “But don’t expect to beat me easily.” She started walking off and everybody followed. Past the rocky shores of the island, the terrain became much less harsh. There was grass growing all over the ground on the island, much like the rest of the region. Paved walkways were all over the place, connecting houses and other miscellaneous buildings.
Everyone followed Pola to a yellow-roofed building similar to many of the other pokemon gyms in the region. This building sat near the shore where a stunning view of the ocean could be seen, broken only by the unnatural swarms of Carvanha hungrily patrolling the water.
“Well, here’s my gym,” Pola announced to the group. “Let’s go inside and get this over with.”
“I guess I better leave you guys to it,” said Drake, patting Kenny and Eli on their backs. “Good luck.”
Pola and Drake were both about to walk away when Kenny looked over at the beautiful view of the glistening ocean sparkling off in the distance. A small swarm of Carvanha caught his eye as they started diving into the water and gnashing their teeth wildly. Kenny saw a small red lump sitting on the surface, staining the ocean around it with a dark red hue. Carvanha were chomping madly at this mysterious object.
“Whoa, check it out!” Kenny called out, pointing at the strange red lump floating on the surface of the sea. Drake turned around and shielded his eyes from the sun, gazing out at the mysterious object. Pola simply sighed in exasperation.
“What the…” Drake said incredulously. “Is that chum? It is! Somebody’s been chumming the water! That’s why there are so many Carvanha! Those things can smell meat from a mile away!”
“Oh, God,” Pola sighed, “So that’s the solution to our problem? Let’s go check it out.” Pola walked swiftly around the corner of her gym building and everybody followed. Once they all turned the corner, two men wearing black trench coats were visible standing at the shore behind the gym. Each one held a white bucket in one hand, and with the other hand they pulled out large lumps of bloodstained meat with a gloved hand and tossed them out into the water with a swarm of Carvanha in hot pursuit.
“Oh, man, we don’t get paid enough for this job,” one man sighed, cringing.
The other one whined, “I know, this stuff stinks! But we got to follow the boss’s orders if we want our paycheck, right?”
Kenny, completely fed up with Team Nova, pushed his way through the group and marched right over to these men. “Hey, guys, play time’s over,” he said with authority. “Time for you to leave RIGHT NOW!”
“What the heck is your problem, kid?” said one of the grunts gruffly. “We’re not going anywhere. This is what we’re paid to do.”
At this point, Kenny was annoyed that the grunt wasn’t listening to his commands. He thrust out his hand and swiped the chum bucket from the grunt. “I’ll take that,” he said.
“What’s your problem? Give me that!” The grunt fought back by stealing the bucket again. He then put his hand on Kenny’s back and pushed with all his might, casting Kenny’s body into the water below. He fell with a splash, and being the good swimmer that he is, immediately started heading back to shore. However, the Carvanha in the water saw him fall and were not about to miss out on a fresh meal. The fish all started swarming Kenny, blocking his path to shore.
“Oh my God…” Clair cried and looked away. Kenny’s body in the water was completely surrounded by Carvanha now.
Thinking fast, Drake pulled one of his poke balls out of his coat pocket. “Salamence, Dragon Claw, now!” he shouted as he threw the ball. The poke ball opened up in mid-air, revealing the massive blue dragon known as Salamence. Its claws became cloaked in a red and blue glow. Salamence then swung its glowing claw down at the Carvanha, striking some of them away and causing the rest to immediately disperse. Salamence then struck the Nova grunts with the attack, forcing them to scramble to their feet and run away from the scene. Kenny’s body was left facing down, floating on the water.
“Salamence, go pick him up!” Without hesitation, Salamence heeded its trainer’s orders and fell into the water below with a great big splash, hoisting Kenny onto its back. It then climbed back onto shore, holding Kenny. Drake looked terrified, yet still managed to keep his cool. “We’re getting him to the hospital, pronto. Come on, everybody, let’s move!” Drake started running forward across the island, followed closely by Salamence. The rest of the group ran behind.
“I guess we’re not having that gym battle today after all,” Pola commented between breaths.
Chapter XXVII: Hungry Carvanha
Kenny, Eli, and Duosion were being led across the wide ocean by Clair. At this point, there was no land in sight at all. Nothing but water was visible on the horizon. Occasionally, the group would see a small group of Wingull or Pelipper fly by or float in the water, but otherwise, the landscape was nothing but featureless ocean.
“Are you sure you know where you’re going?” called out Kenny.
“Yeah, totally!” Clair shouted back. “Just trust me on this!”
Without another word, the group continued forward on their water pokemon, with Duosion flying through the air behind them.
After a while of swimming through the nondescript ocean, a very faint feature was visible on the horizon. At first, it just looked like the smallest dark speck. However, as the group continued forward, it became more visible and revealed itself to be an island. The land was dark and a small amount of foliage was visible, as well as a couple buildings.
“Hey, that’s it!” Clair shouted excitedly. “I told you!”
Kenny and the group continued to follow Clair through the roaring ocean. As he rocketed through the blue water, Kenny saw a strange patch of rippling water beside him. It flew through the water and caught up straight to Kenny’s side. Gradually, something emerged from the water’s surface. It appeared to be a small blue and red fish with tall, yellow fins on top of its head. It glided through the water at impressive speeds and looked straight at Kenny with its blood-red eyes. Kenny’s pokedex started rumbling, so he took it out in response.
Before the pokedex could say anything, the fish sprang into action. In one swift movement, it dove underwater and immediately flew out of the ocean, flying straight toward Kenny. It grabbed the pokedex right out of Kenny’s hands with its enormous teeth and fell back in the water on the other side.
“Hey!” Kenny exclaimed in rage, “That thing just stole my pokedex!”
Kenny looked over toward Eli, who was also having trouble with these strange red fish. They were surrounding his Gastrodon and harassing it, keeping it from moving forward. Clair had also come to a stop, surrounded by fish. Soon enough, the fish started to surround Kenny and his Floatzel as well, forcing them to a standstill.
“Oh, poop,” Eli gasped. “These must be Carvanha. We had a ton of them back in Hoenn, but not this many at the same time… I heard they’re vicious and blood-thirsty. I think we’re doomed.”
“Don’t give up yet, guys!” Duosion happily encouraged.
“That’s easy for you to say,” Kenny grumbled. “You can just fly out of the way.”
“Now, hold on,” Duosion continued. “I can use my Telekinesis attack to lift them out of the water! Watch this!” Immediately, Duosion closed its eyes and a pink aura began to surround it. The pink aura also moved to all the Carvanha, which all became confused at this. They all looked up at Duosion, who was still concentrating. However, nothing was happening. Duosion lost his concentration and opened his eyes to see the pack of Carvanha staring at him.
“You dimwit,” Clair hissed, “Carvanha are dark-types. Psychic-type moves don’t work on them!”
Duosion lost all hope. “Oops, I forgot about that. You're doomed.”
The Carvanha all started licking their lips and closing in on the group, ready to bite off their skin. Kenny started praying to Arceus. Clair took out a small piece of paper from her backpack and started writing her will. Duosion warily flew upward, hoping to avoid the jaws of the Carvanha. Just as everyone was about to lose all hope…
“Salamence! Use Hyper Beam!”
A harsh white beam struck a small pack of Carvanha on the water, sending them flying in all directions. There was a great big splash as the entire group was thrown upwards by the wave. The beam then erupted into the water again, causing many Carvanha to swim away in fear. Within a few moments, all the Carvanha had evacuated the area, leaving the ocean completely desolate once more. Above the group’s heads, a massive blue dragon floated down towards them, flapping its blade-shaped red wings, causing the water below it to ripple. On the dragon’s back, a man was visible. He wore a fisherman’s outfit, complete with a long coat, pants with tall boots, and a captain’s hat. He wore no shirt underneath, allowing his chest to be visible.
“Are you all right?” he shouted from the back of his Salamence. “We have a big Carvanha problem at Coraline town, as you can see. Nobody has been able to set foot in the water.”
“I can see,” Kenny replied. “Who are you, anyway?”
“I’m Drake, of course!” the man said.
“Hold on a sec, did you say Drake?” gasped Eli incredulously. “I thought you worked in Hoenn? In the Elite Four?”
Drake chuckled. “Yeah, but I recently moved to Fushi. Now, I’m working here as a Gym Leader. I’m hoping to become a member of the Elite Four here eventually.”
“That is so freaking cool,” Eli said in amazement. He whispered over to Kenny, “Drake was my childhood idol when we lived in Hoenn. I can’t believe we’re finally meeting him!”
“That’s great, Eli,” Kenny flatly said. “So, Drake, what brings you to Coraline town? Are you the gym leader here?”
“Oh, no,” Drake affirmed. “I was just called over to help out with the Carvanha problem.”
“In that case, maybe we can help!” Kenny offered. “Let’s go to Coraline!”
“All right, then, see you there!” Drake’s Salamence flapped its wings and turned around, then flew at incredible speed toward Coraline town.
“Well, let’s hurry up and go!” Kenny’s Floatzel started swimming ahead. Clair and Eli continued forward on their pokemon, with Duosion floating behind.
~~~~
The ground was very hard and rocky. There was relatively no soil, just volcanic rock. However, many buildings were built on the small rocky island that protruded from the sea. There were a few houses and a pokemon center visible on the land, but not much else. Schools of Carvanha circled around the water surrounding the island.
When Kenny, Eli, Clair, and Duosion finally got to shore, Drake was standing there waiting for them. With him was a girl who had long, light-blue hair and wore a white and blue outfit.
Once everyone was on land, they returned their surfing pokemon. However, before Kenny could return Floatzel, it dove into the ocean and swam away.
“What the flesh?” Kenny said in surprise. “Did my Floatzel just run away?”
“I don’t know, that’s kind of weird,” Eli pondered.
“Well,” Drake started, “I’m glad to see that you made it here safely.” He motioned toward the girl standing next to him. “Have you met Pola yet? She’s the gym leader in this town, and I’ve been helping her out with her Carvanha problem.”
“It’s horrible,” Pola explained. “None of the people can go in the water, so nobody can leave or enter the town. You guys are lucky you made it here alive.”
“Well, we have to face near-death experiences all the time…” said Kenny in a slightly lower voice than usual. “It was clearly no problem for us.”
“I see,” Pola smiled sarcastically. “Well, since you’re already here, you may as well enjoy your time. You’re probably going to be staying here until we find a way to take care of our Carvanha problem.”
“And hey, I know the perfect way to enjoy our time here!” Kenny added. “We can win that gym badge that we were looking forward to!”
“What, you really think you can win against me?” scoffed Pola. “Please. We’ve clearly got bigger problems on our hands anyway.”
“Oh, come on!” whined Kenny. “Just one short gym battle won’t hurt, will it?”
Pola sighed deeply. “Fine,” she finally replied. “But don’t expect to beat me easily.” She started walking off and everybody followed. Past the rocky shores of the island, the terrain became much less harsh. There was grass growing all over the ground on the island, much like the rest of the region. Paved walkways were all over the place, connecting houses and other miscellaneous buildings.
Everyone followed Pola to a yellow-roofed building similar to many of the other pokemon gyms in the region. This building sat near the shore where a stunning view of the ocean could be seen, broken only by the unnatural swarms of Carvanha hungrily patrolling the water.
“Well, here’s my gym,” Pola announced to the group. “Let’s go inside and get this over with.”
“I guess I better leave you guys to it,” said Drake, patting Kenny and Eli on their backs. “Good luck.”
Pola and Drake were both about to walk away when Kenny looked over at the beautiful view of the glistening ocean sparkling off in the distance. A small swarm of Carvanha caught his eye as they started diving into the water and gnashing their teeth wildly. Kenny saw a small red lump sitting on the surface, staining the ocean around it with a dark red hue. Carvanha were chomping madly at this mysterious object.
“Whoa, check it out!” Kenny called out, pointing at the strange red lump floating on the surface of the sea. Drake turned around and shielded his eyes from the sun, gazing out at the mysterious object. Pola simply sighed in exasperation.
“What the…” Drake said incredulously. “Is that chum? It is! Somebody’s been chumming the water! That’s why there are so many Carvanha! Those things can smell meat from a mile away!”
“Oh, God,” Pola sighed, “So that’s the solution to our problem? Let’s go check it out.” Pola walked swiftly around the corner of her gym building and everybody followed. Once they all turned the corner, two men wearing black trench coats were visible standing at the shore behind the gym. Each one held a white bucket in one hand, and with the other hand they pulled out large lumps of bloodstained meat with a gloved hand and tossed them out into the water with a swarm of Carvanha in hot pursuit.
“Oh, man, we don’t get paid enough for this job,” one man sighed, cringing.
The other one whined, “I know, this stuff stinks! But we got to follow the boss’s orders if we want our paycheck, right?”
Kenny, completely fed up with Team Nova, pushed his way through the group and marched right over to these men. “Hey, guys, play time’s over,” he said with authority. “Time for you to leave RIGHT NOW!”
“What the heck is your problem, kid?” said one of the grunts gruffly. “We’re not going anywhere. This is what we’re paid to do.”
At this point, Kenny was annoyed that the grunt wasn’t listening to his commands. He thrust out his hand and swiped the chum bucket from the grunt. “I’ll take that,” he said.
“What’s your problem? Give me that!” The grunt fought back by stealing the bucket again. He then put his hand on Kenny’s back and pushed with all his might, casting Kenny’s body into the water below. He fell with a splash, and being the good swimmer that he is, immediately started heading back to shore. However, the Carvanha in the water saw him fall and were not about to miss out on a fresh meal. The fish all started swarming Kenny, blocking his path to shore.
“Oh my God…” Clair cried and looked away. Kenny’s body in the water was completely surrounded by Carvanha now.
Thinking fast, Drake pulled one of his poke balls out of his coat pocket. “Salamence, Dragon Claw, now!” he shouted as he threw the ball. The poke ball opened up in mid-air, revealing the massive blue dragon known as Salamence. Its claws became cloaked in a red and blue glow. Salamence then swung its glowing claw down at the Carvanha, striking some of them away and causing the rest to immediately disperse. Salamence then struck the Nova grunts with the attack, forcing them to scramble to their feet and run away from the scene. Kenny’s body was left facing down, floating on the water.
“Salamence, go pick him up!” Without hesitation, Salamence heeded its trainer’s orders and fell into the water below with a great big splash, hoisting Kenny onto its back. It then climbed back onto shore, holding Kenny. Drake looked terrified, yet still managed to keep his cool. “We’re getting him to the hospital, pronto. Come on, everybody, let’s move!” Drake started running forward across the island, followed closely by Salamence. The rest of the group ran behind.
“I guess we’re not having that gym battle today after all,” Pola commented between breaths.