Chapter One: Battle in Oreburgh Mine
Roark always love to hang out at the Oreburgh Mine, ever since he was a little boy he hang out at the last end of the Mine training his Pokemon with his dad, who is the Canalave City, gym leader.
Other people of the town were here also, and of course the workers who are very much happy working and leave the Oreburgh Gym Leader to himself.
Roark walked pass one of the workers, who gave him a smile and a wave.
“Thanks for helping us, Roark.” the worker said with a smile.
“Its no problem at all.” Roark respond back, friendly.
He headed to his normal spot where he always mined at for months. Maybe today he would find something rare, he hopes.
Only a lantern for light, that were alright lit for his arrival.
Roark smiled.
People in this town always so nice.
He swung his bag over his shoulders in front of him, he opens the pouch and take out his digging tools. When he finished he put his bag by the one lantern and examine his last hole he dug yesterday.
It's not very deep at all.
He adjusted his Mining Helmet on his head, that he always wore and take a closer look.
He put his Mining Pick at the center and start to do his job, dig.
He dig a few more inches down when he hit something, with a cling.
'whats this?'
He digs around the said object, a very sparks of interest appeared on his face.
He had indeed find something.
The object looked like a piece of stone stab.
The writing were ancient on it, Roark couldn't read it when he dug it up.
Finding that he couldn't read it at all, he decided to bring it home with him tonight and travel to Canalave City, in a few days to the library and do some reach on the item.
Placing it in his bag, he took a tighter hold on his Mining Pick and still dig farther down ward, hoping that he would find anything else.
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'I'm lost! I don't know where I am now! Help!' Dawn mentally screamed in her head panicking, Piplup look at Dawn with a worry impression on his face.
“Piplup Pip” Piplup said, waving his fin in front of Dawn.
Translation of what he just said is-
Should we ask for directions from the old couple that we passed up?
Dawn shook her head.
“We're fine. Where are we now?”
They both stood in front of a Mine. A few workers enters and came out, with loads of rocks in their hands along with their Pokemon. A few rock pokemon mainly Geodude send a few glares at Piplup.
Who also in turn glared back in disgust.
"Hey it's nice for the gym leader to come down and help us each day." One worker said to his partner, at the entrance of the Mine. His partner nodded his head in agreement.
"People is starting to take their work seriously again, when he arrived."
"Now we can be finish faster and have time to spend with our families." The worker respond.
"Geodude."
They all entered the Mine.
'The Gym leader is here?'
Piplup can't stand this place at all.
All he could see is rocks and dirt and a lot of rock pokemon and keep sending him and his trainer dirty looks. He hold himself back from attacking them with Water Gun, knowing that Dawn will be very disappointed with him if he does.
He huffed loudly.
Dawn took a few steps forward towards the mine, alerting Piplup of his trainer movements.
"PIPLUP!" Piplup screeched.
His fins waved widely in the air for his trainer to come back and leave.
"Come down Piplup, if the Gym leader is here then Ash and Brock is not far." Dawn told Piplup who still stood his ground. Dawn sighed to herself, fishing Piplup poke ball from her pouch.
"What about you stay in your poke ball until I come out." Dawn suggested.
Piplup nodded his head, anything better than hanging out with a bunch of nasty plotting rock Pokemon.
"Piplup return." Dawn said, and Piplup returned to his poke ball in one peace.
Dawn walked to the entrance of the mine.
A huge sign were nailed by the entrance, in big large words it said-
beware, wild rock pokemon inside
She walked into the mine.
She saw stairs went down to each level of the ground.
Geodudes and Onixs running around carrying huge boarders to one side of the mine to the other. Dawn gather up her courage and walk, down one set of stairs.
She saw a little girl, dressed in a pink sun dress with a bright pink ribbon in her brown hair, she looked curiously at Dawn.
She stood beside a holder man, who is her father.
"Daddy, non worker is here." She said shy.
The father who is a worker turned his head and saw Dawn.
A stern look appeared on his face.
"Miss. Its dangerous here, wild pokemon is running around and this is no place for little girls to explore." He said.
Dawn huffed to herself.
Little girl! Who is he calling little girl!
She is a Pokemon Trainer and she's not little, she's 14 years old.
"I just come down here to look around. I'm a Pokemon Trainer and since the Gym Leader is not at the Gym for the moment, I want to take some time off and look around. Mine's are so interesting." Dawn lied, well kinda.
"Oh a trainer. The Gym Leader is here at the last level of Mine. Be very carefully going downward." The worker said, his tone cut down softly, hearing that Dawn is a trainer. Thats different. She could defend herself easy now.
"Thank you sir, don't worry I'll be careful." She said, half skipping down a few stairs.
She passed up more workers.
She entered the second level of the cave through another entrance.
A few more workers were only there, not a lot like the first level had.
Dawn started feel a little fear rushed in her nervous system, but she keep on walking.
She have Piplup to protect her and last time she check Rock pokemon is weak against water.
All she saw is wall, rocks and dirt along the path.
She started to have a bad feeling also, feeling the ground begin to shake and hearing a loud noise beside of her. She stopped in her tracks and face the wall beside her, eyes widen seeing a huge crack that someone is digging through from the other side, except that this someone is not a person at all. Its too big.
The side wall begins to fall down, and at once Dawn took a huge leap forward, just missing two huge boulders coming at her former spot.
"ONIX!"
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In her wake, was a huge 28'10" ft onix in front of her.
She kept frozen.
Couldn't move at all, he body were still frozen from shock.
'
I have to do something'
The Onix glared at Dawn hard, knowing it was using his/her move Mean Look from keeping her from running away.
Dawn took out a poke ball from her pouch and in one swing, shaking she called out Piplup.
"P-Piplup, I c-choose you."
Piplup came out of the poke ball fast and the poke ball flew back into Dawn's hands.
"Piplup!"
Piplup looked at the Onix before him and sweat dropped big.
Dawn stood up, shaking.
She couldn't stop herself from doing so.
Onix use Iron Tail at Piplup, who just stood there and stand its ground waiting for Dawn's orders.
"PIPLUP DODGE!"
Piplup jumped onto Onix's tail avoiding the attack successfully.
"Now use Brine!"
Water came out of Piplup's mouth and shoot Onix across the face, who is not struggling and made a huge bang on impact onto the ground. Onix tail begin to drove downward and Dawn knew at once what Onix is up too.
"Piplup! Stop Onix with Brine once more." She called, but it was too late.
When Piplup send out its attack, Onix was already underground.
Dawn senses went on all alert.
Clearing her head from everything but sound.
A low rumble appeared below Piplup, and then Dawn screamed.
"PIPLUP WATCH OUT!"
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Roark head jerk up fast at the loud noise outside his level of the Mine.
Piplup watch out!
He heard a girl screamed in absolute fear. He dropped what he's doing and rushed to his bag to grabbed his best pokemon from his bag, in a poke ball of course.
"come on out Cranidos" He said, in a flash his pokemon appeared out of his poke ball.
"Cranidos!"
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The Onix dug back up under the surprise Piplup and hit Piplup in his top from its head. Dawn warning came a little too late at the time.
"Pip-"
Piplup flew against the ground in a few seconds landing beside of Dawn in pain. He laid lifeless. Onix still didn't run away.
"Piplup! Are you okay?!"
Dawn threw herself over Piplup body, covering him from the future of Onix's attacks.
Piplup looked up in his master eyes, and saw that she closed them tight.
Tears slipping out from the cracks.
"Pip"
Onix raise up his tail, his tail glow silver once more.
In one swift movement-
"ONIX!"
Onix flew backward with aloud bang.
Dawn felt a soft hand on her should shaking her gently.
"Miss. are you alright?"
Dawn opens her eyes and looked up at the stranger who came to save her.
Dawn barely nods her head, feeling like she could faint any second now.
'I want Ash and Brock now'
"Let get you out of here to safety." Roark said, and he turned to his pokemon and instinctively he grown a second personalty.
"Cranidos, finish Onix off with head butt." He said, and before Cranidos could do his attack, the said Onix drill a new hole on the side and hurry and escape.
Cranidos walked back to his master shook his head.
"Cranidos can you help me carry her? I need to get my stuff ." Roark told his Pokemon.
Cranidos nodded his head.
Roark turned to Dawn.
A small smile was on his face.
"I'll be right back, Cranidos will help you up." He said and he run off afterwards.
Dawn blink.
Who was that guy?
"Cranidos"
Cranidos said reminding her that he is still here to help her.
Dawn barely sit up and took the injured Piplup in her arms.
"Piplup...I'm sorry." She said sadly and with guilt.
"Pip...lup."
Dawn let her body fall to the dirt ground once more weakly and Cranidos appeared over her head with cercern on its face.
"Cran"
Dawn hook one of her free arms around Cranidos neck and he pulled up, helping Dawn to her feet. She lean on Cranido's back, when she saw Roark came back in view. His bag over his back.
"Good job Cranidos. Let get them to a place they could rest." He said.
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Dawn never felt so guilty before.
She put Piplup back into his pokeball and gave him to Nurse Joy to heal up over the Poke Center desk. Nurse Joy looked up at Dawn sadly. "Don't worry dear, we have Piplup good as normal." She said, rushing off towards the back.
Roark guide Dawn to the few chairs to the wall from the desk and have her to sit down. He sit beside her, his pokemon resting in his pokeball soundly asleep.
"Thank you for saving us back there, I'm Dawn." Dawn said.
"Its not a problem, I'm Roark. May I ask why you were at the Mine anyway?"
Dawn sighed loudly.
She put her two hands over her eyes and lean downward.
"I got lost from my friends on the way to this city. They came here to challenge the City's Gym Leader. I heard that the Gym Leader at the Mine so I thought that if I could meet the Gym Leader I could find Ash and Brock again." Dawn told Roark the truth, unware that he was the City's Gym Leader.
"I'm sorry to hear that..if it makes any matter better I'm the City's Gym leader. You can stay with me until your friends come to challenge me." Roark smiled at her, knowing that she don't have any place to stay.
Dawn couldn't argue at him for letting her stay at his place, seeing that he is the only person she could trust so far in this city.
'Gym Leader?! He looks so young'
Dawn looked up at Roark surpise the third time this day.
"Your the Gym Leader?"
"Sure am, why are you so shock?" He said and asked the last part in a sarcasic way.
"W-Well don't get me wrong, you looked very young to be a gym leader." Dawn stumbled out.
I hope that Piplup is alright..
TBC
1. Sorry, if I got it wrong. I don't know what a Onix sounds like when it comes out and in battle.