105. Treasure Hunting

Ever since Ash saved Andrea's house with the help of his Blastoise, Ash began to like this feeling.

So on the way from Yellow Stone Isle to Red Rock Isle, Ash summoned his Lapras and Blastoise.

He let Lapras carry Misty and the three of them while he rode on top of his Blastoise.

Speaking of which, the ratio of Kanto's Three Royal Starter Families is very interesting. After completing their final evolution, they have all land, sea and air. Although riding on top of Venusaur around is a little awkward, it is possible to do so.

"Big Brother, I wants to ride on him too!" Molly seems to like such sports very much from a young age.

"Hey! Hello!" Ash was enjoying surfing with Molly. An old boat sailed towards them, and the person who greeted them was another good-looking girl.

"Are you going to Red Rock Isle?" The young lady came to Ash and Molly, and Lapras quickly came over with Misty and Brock on top of him.

Misty smiled and said, "Yes, we are going to participate in the Whirl Cup being held there!"

After the group of people introduced themselves, the young lady named Luka was also about to go to Red Rock Isle. Since they met by chance on the sea, she wanted to give them a ride.

"Thank you so much, Miss Luka!" Brock jumped onto the boat.

Now that this was the case, Ash and his party had no choice but to board the ship.

However, the boat was not very fast, so Ash simply summoned a few Pokémon and asked Blastoise to take care of them, and followed the boat to enjoy the sea water breeze at the deck.

Kingler couldn't swim fast enough, so he had to stay on Lapras' back, but Croconaw swam very happily with Blastoise and Lapras.

"Miss Luka's diving equipment can be used to talk in the water. It's a good thing if you go underwater!" After getting on the boat, Ash and his team immediately spotted the good things piled on the deck.

"The equipment here is great!" Misty is also very professional at diving.

Ash came to Luka who was sailing the boat, but saw a nautical chart on a photo frame in her hand, with a clear point marked on it.

"Miss Luka, what is this a nautical chart?" Because it was only a partial chart, Ash couldn't tell which sea area it was.

Misty dared to think, "I know, it's definitely a treasure map!"

"Treasure map!" Molly rushed over after hearing the treasure map, "I want to go and hunt for treasure! Hunt for treasure underwater!"

She really loved doing such dangerous things.

"Absolutely. Although it's not gold or silver or anything like that, to me, it's a even more important thing than all those combined!" The young lady admitted openly without any hesitation.

It turns out that Luka's family has been studying Pokémon in this sea area for generations. She discovered her great-grandfather's diary and map while cleaning the attic some time ago.

It read, "After years of investigation, the real Silver Wing has finally been found!"

"Silver Wing?" Misty and Brock exclaimed together, then looked at Ash together.

Luka was also a little frightened by their reaction, "What's wrong, have you seen the Silver Wing before or something?"

They nodded blankly, their eyes never leaving Ash.

"Ash?"

Seeing her confused, questioning, and longing eyes, Ash had no choice but to say honestly, "Well, I did get a Silver Wing before, and if you want to ask what it is, it is actually the feather of the Legendary Pokémon, Lugia!"

The Silver Wing that Ash got should be different from the one that Luka's great-grandfather got. The Silver Wing that he had contained Lugia's power and could activate the mysterious GS Ball.

And what Luka's great-grandfather got was probably just one of Lugia's fallen feathers!

When it came to legends, almost everyone had the same reaction. Luka was also stunned, "Could it be that the mysterious Pokémon swimming around the Whirl Islands is this Lugia?"

"So Miss Luka, what happened to that Silver Wing?" Misty asked with a bit of concern.

Before answering this question, Luka was curious about Ash's Silver Wing, "Ash, where is your Silver Wing? Can you lend it to me?"

However, Ash can only regret to tell her, "Sorry, I sent it home to my mother!"

"Oh… okay!" She sounded a little disappointed but still nodded and said, "That Silver Wing was swept up in the whirlpool along with great-grandfather's I.S.S Raspberry and sank to the depths of the ocean floor!"

So it is obvious that the location marked on the navigation chart is the place where the Radsberry sank!

Indeed, it was something of extraordinary significance to both Luka and her great-grandfather, and it went far beyond the Silver Wing itself.

"Treasure hunt! Treasure hunt! I wants to go treasure hunting for this!"

Ash and Brock also got excited. When they thought about the vast sea, they thought of all the treasures hiding there, and when they thought about actually going treasure hunting, they felt something different about this!

Like this is what they are supposed to do.

So the goal changed, and Ash and his team decided to follow Luka to hunt for treasure at the site of that shipwreck!

This is the joy of traveling!

No one can imagine what kind of encounters there will be. What is important is not the result of the treasure hunt, but the whole process! Well, for most times but not this time because it also holds a deep meaning to someone.

Obviously Luka has been to that shipwreck site many times, so she wears such advanced diving equipment, but why has she never able to gain anything from all her searching?

Perhaps because they were familiar with each other, Luka also started to trust them and asked them a very important question, "Does anyone want to come with me?"

"Me!" Molly was the first to jump out and raise her hand!

Of course Ash is going, as usual, he could just tie her to his back!

"Blastoise, Croconaw, you two come down with me!" Ash told his two Pokemon's after putting on his equipment.

Although Ash has quite a lot of Water-type Pokémon with him now, Kingler is not good at speed and Lapras is still too weak to go deep diving, so these two are the only ones suitable for this.

Luka released her three Magikarps, which is considered the weakest Water-type Pokémon but has a strong ability to survive in any kind of water.

The scenery under the sea is completely different from that above the sea. It's like entering a completely different world.

The Shellders stuck out their tongues on the rocks, the Tentacool drifted with the current, and Ash also saw a Horsea just chilling by itself.

This little guy is able to use Dragon Scale to eventually evolve into Kingdra with the Dragon typing. It can be said to be the easiest Dragon-type Pokémon for a regular trainer to obtain, they just have to be very lucky to find or buy a Dragon Scale. Ash felt the compatibility of this one is too low to be with him.

"It's so beautiful under here!" Molly is still young after all, and there are only so many ways to express her admiration for beauty.

Ash patted her on the head and could see the ship sinking with both hands right away!

However, after seeing the sunken ship, Luka took Ash and Molly and hid first, "Magikarp, please!" Obviously she wanted to show Ash the problems that would be encountered here, hoping that Ash would be able to solve this issue of hers.

Her three Magikarps approached the ship, but were quickly driven out by a Mantine.

"Blastoise, it's up to you to blast them away!" Ash sent out the his first Water-type Pokémon, Blastoise, to deal with this wild Mantine.

"Miss Luka, take Croconaw to follow you to the sunken ship. If there are any Pokémon inside there, it will be easy to deal with them using him!"

This is the best arrangement he could think right now!

"Blastoise, use Skull Bash!"

The power of the Skull Bash in the water became even more powerful than normal, but this powerful and heavy attack was easily dodged by the even faster Mantine.

"Big Brother, Mantine is a dual Water-type and Flying-type Pokémon. Being in water is like flying to it! It would be great if Pikachu was here!" Molly began to understands more and more about battling while being with him.

"It's okay, I'm is the best. Trust me!" Ash smiled softly, "Blastoise, use Rapid Spin to block its movement!"

The Rapid Spin in the water set off a Whirlpool, and Mantine circled into it!

"Now, Water Pulse!"

Because of using Water Pulse in the water, there was a strong impact of the water flow, which suddenly broke the Whirlpool and hit the Mantine head-on!

"Ash, I got it, let's go up now!"

They defeated Mantine here, and Luka also succeeded in her original goal. Ash knew what might happen inside of the ship because of his Croconaw, there was a large family of Remoraid living in the sunken ship. They and Mantine used this place as their lair.

If Croconaw hadn't followed her, it would have been really hard to get hold of what she wanted.

After recovering the Silver Wing from the sunken ship, Ash and his party, escorted by Luka, finally arrived at Res Rock Isle!

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Thank you for your Power Stones!