weird stones

"You finally came," Iotama spoke up in his throne, the walls made of a crystal barrier keeping many water pokemon on the otherside as they swam in their transperant cages. 

Jeffery stood infront of him his figure small compared to his stature on his throne, his condescending gaze on the boy.

"You called for me?" Jeffery asked, his hand towards his chest as if doing a pledge a sign of respect infront of this man.

Iotama nodded, propping his head on his fist as he looked down to Jeffery.

"I need you to take two fresh recruits on your next mission," He ordered, two new faces walking out from behind the throne as he spoke. "Meet Ares and Aijiro."

One of them was a girl with pink hair and yellow eyes, she smiled widely her actions a bit ecstatic and excited. The other was a boy his face was more calm a stark contrast to Ares, his straight blue hair draped down to his ears, slanted grey eyes tired from sleep.

"They'll be in your care Jeffery, see too it that this mission is complete." 

Jeffery looked at the two newbies then back at Lord Iotama, his eyes filled with concern and worry.

"Please sir, may I ask, what mission am I being tasked with?" he asked, his hand grabbing at the fabric of his chest in anticipation waiting for a response. 

"You are to steal a certain pokemon, that have been taken from us a while back," he muttered, his eyes narrowing as he remembered what happened back then, the pure fatigue aching at him.

"The pinnacle of our morphing project, Zorua."

"Morphing," Jeffery muttered at the word, confused to what he possibly meant. 

Iotoma nodded, and the two newbies walked by Jeffery's side, standing at attention until given further instructions.

"You might find them very useful on this mission, so please, dont be afraid to use them how you see fit," 

Jeffery nodded at Iotoma's words, looking back at the two recruits before signaling them to follow, their steps one for one behind his slowly leaving the room.

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"What are we even doing here?" I asked as we trekked through the cave, Zorua on my shoulder as we hugged the walls careful not to fall down in the deep hole that seemed to lie right there.

"I told you before, I need those stones and that charizard is gone for now so we should hurry," Khalid muttered as we moved ahead, finally letting go of the wall once we crawled passed our first obstacle.

"Stones?" I raised an eyebrow at his statement, "What do you need stones for."

Khalid visibly started to get a bit pissed at my constant questions,

"Look, they're not ordinary stones, they're a key tool to the morphing process and," Khalid stopped, the sound of approaching pokemon coming from down the cave.

"Hold on," He muttered looking down the path, tons of Zubats flying their direction, "Get down!" He shouted, covering his head as he buried his head to the floor soon I copied his movements doing the same.

The Zubats flew over head their actions felt rushed as they desperately struggle to get out of there.

"So, what was that about," I muttered to myself as we slowly got up, the cave soon becoming alot quieter than usual, before the ground started to shake once more.

"I think I know what," Khalid muttered as he stared down again, his eyes landing on a ramaging rhydon!!

"What the heck!!" I shouted quickly reaching for my belt, tossing charmeleon's pokeball as soon as possible. "Go Charmeleon!"

"Quickly! Lairon! Go!" Khalid desperately reaches for his pokeball, tossing it out at the first opportuinity, our pokeballs bouncing against eachother mid throw and breaking, landing behind the rampaging beast.

"Oh," We both muttered, accepting our fate, the wild pokemon crashing into us and sending us flying down the pit we desperately tried to avoid. As we fell Khalid quickly reaches into his back pocket, tossing it up in the air, A metang appearing from it's confines and digging into the wall with it's metal claws.

Khalid grabs onto him, and reaches out to catch me and Zorua, my heart pounding in my chest from the near death experience.

"You ok?" Khalid asked, a bit out of breath too,

"I think," I muttered looking down, the fall not too bad from here.

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We slowly decent into an empty ravine, filled with orange stones that glowed around us the, a narrow path leading straight below.

"So, shall we?" khalid asked as I walked ahead leading the way. "H-hey wait up!"