1. ABDUCTION

Many people were making their way through the crisscrossing streets of Cerulean City as they lived their lives. Home to many attractions that both trainers and tourists alike can enjoy, it is one of the most beautiful cities of the Kanto Region.

One of which is being home to the famous Cerulean Gym, where aspiring pokémon trainers can battle for their chance at receiving the Cascade Badge from the tough gym leader Misty Waterflower. They could also battle against her sisters Daisy, Violet and Lily if she happened to not be there.

The gym also doubles as the stage for their Sensational Sisters' water plays for those who aren't into battling. With both of these features, the gym attracts visitors from all over the world.

But it's not just the gym that attracts many to the city. A little to the northeast of the city is the Cerulean Cape, a famous dating spot where many females wish to go, especially for their first date. A little further up and you'll find the lighthouse that the infamous poke maniac Bill calls home who even the legendary pokemon researcher, Professor Samuel Oak, asks for assistance in his research from time to time. These are but just a few of the many sights to see, people to meet and things to do in and around near the city.

But one of the most famous things about Cerulean City is also its darkest; Cerulean Cave. It houses an enormous and confusing multi leveled underground cavern labyrinth that many powerful wild Pokémon inhabit within it and call it home.

Located to the northwest of the city, across from a river and opposite the cape, it's a bit difficult to reach yet many of the locals know about it. However they do not talk about it and almost all of them stay clear from it at all costs.

Because of the many life threatening dangers that reside in the cave, only the absolute best trainers are allowed to go in there. And only after receiving permission from a Pokémon League official, such as Professor Oak or the Kanto & Johto Champion Lance.

However, many others still enter it without official permission. Whether from dares, trying to look cool in front of potential lovers, plain curiosity or just sheer stupidity, they go into the unknown. And more often than not, without proper preparation or proper respect for the cave and all that it contains.

Yet, even from the few trainers who were able to get permission and enter the cave, most of them couldn't even travel farther than partway through the first level and had to get assistance to get out.

The cave is a very difficult area not only because of the many wild and powerful Pokémon who inhabit it, but also because of its winding and twisting passages, under mountain streams that are powerful enough to sweep away unprepared trainers and Pokémon alike, the little to no visibility and many other dangers. No single person has ever fully explored the entire cave and many left without their sanity intact.

It is a very grueling and dangerous area indeed. Many suffered from both accidental wounds by injuring themselves or from being attacked by the pokémon who inhabited the cave. Besides Mount Silver and a handful of other locations in the world, Cerulean Cave is one of the most difficult and dangerous places to explore or train at.

As a result of all that, the Pokemon League came up with an idea to better handle the situation with trespassing trainers. They had contacted the nearby local gym leader and requested her to make routine inspections to make sure no unqualified trainer or person would head in and to contact them if anything came up.

They asked her to do this extra task because not only is she the closest league representative nearby, but also because she had become one of the strongest gym leaders in the region and knew that she could handle herself. After accepting to do this extra task, the league and the red headed gym leader had come up with a schedule together for her to go and check out the cave entrance and area a couple times a week.

And today was one of those days as the red headed water pokemon trainer was heading towards it. Sitting on her large blue and yellow serpent like pokémon as it swam up the river towards the cave, she kept her gaze on her destination.

When she was first requested to take this responsibility, the red head was surprised they had asked her but didn't mind it since it allowed her to get out of the gym every once in a while and it was for a good purpose. She wasn't like her three older sisters, who even after maturing some, still found ways to avoid taking on responsibilities if they could and would rather go out shopping or dancing at clubs just to waste time. It also gave her an opportunity to battle some travelers during her routine checks.

But the number one reason she liked doing it was because it gave her an opportunity to relax, to think and to remember some of her favorite memories. And many of those memories involved a certain raven haired young man.

Still making her way towards the cave, the girl smiled a bit as an image appeared in her mind of the male. Her heart began beating a bit faster, seeing his smile in her head. She sighed, looking down and her pokémon glanced back at her with a concerned expression. Realizing that her pokémon was worried, she gave him a reassuring look. "I'm fine Gyarados. I just miss him," she admitted. The atrocious pokémon nodded and faced forward. He knew how his trainer felt about that particular person.

As she was about to think about the raven haired trainer some more, she noticed someone in the far distance. Moving her backpack in front of her, she pulled out her binoculars from within it and looked through it. It was a young female trainer with blonde hair.

Hmm…looks like a newbie from the way she's walking without paying attention to her surroundings. And she's heading for the cave! "Speed up!" she said and her powerful pokémon increased his pace. He plowed through the water with ease while she stayed sitting on him without trouble, not bothered by his rapid movements.