Before entering the Fossil Lab, I went back to Route 8 and battled the one trainer there that I didn't battle before. Then I headed to the Lab. There, they told us a little about fossils and that one researcher had gone off to the Glittering Cave. Serena thought we should go there, and I agreed. But before going there, I went to the Aquarium in the town. Here, I got an Old Rod from a man, which is cool as it might be useful. I could also enter the lower part of Route 8 but I'll wait with it for now. Instead, I headed out to Route 9. I found out that you had to ride on a Rhyhorn in order to get anywhere here. Fortunately, there was one I could use, so I went on it and rode away. Along the way, I picked up some items and captured Hippopotas, Helioptile and Sandile. At the end of the Route, I met a dude who wanted to have a Sky Battle against me, but I couldn't do it as I didn't have any Flying-types with me.
I found the entrance to the Cave and entered it. It seemed to be a type of Labyrinth, so I used a classic trick to not get lost. I met and captured Machop, Lunatone, Rhyhorn and Cubone here. I reached some kind of larger room of the Cave and there, I captured a Dwebble and met a bunch of strange people saying they were from Team Flare. They apparently wanted only themselves to be happy, which I kinda disagree with. I battled them and won, and Serena teamed up with me against the last two. At the end of the cave, we met the researcher who gave us both a Fossil. We got to choose, and I picked the Sail Fossil since it sounded cool. We exited the cave and went back to the town where we met up with the researcher again, he resurrected an Amaura from my Sail Fossil. It is going to be the next member of my team. Next up, I guess I'll go to Cyllage City since Serena told me that there is a Gym there, feels like forever since I visited the first one in the game. But before I'll take the lower part of Route 8, I'm going to train my Amaura a bit on the upper part of the Route. Started already, also captured Absol, Inkay and Zangoose. Absol was the hardest Pokemon to catch in the game for me so far.
Team:
- level 26
- level 25
- level 25
- level 22