I was never one for putting myself in unnecessary danger, so how did I end up out in the ocean, about to dive into one of the most dangerous caves of the region?
"You all set to go?", said the answer. My old trainer friend, one of those types to get in way over their head, and drag everyone down with them.. including me, this time. I would never go on a wild goose chase to catch some "legendary", but of course I'm the only photography expert he knew, and he somehow got me out into the water before I could even object.
"Do we really have to do this NOW?", I responded, desperate to get out of this and go back to my comftorable, safe home and never think about it again. Of course, I knew the answer before he even opened his mouth, there was no talking him out of something. "C'mon, we already traveled allll the way here! You don't want to go back empty handed, riiight?" Against my better judgement, that convinced me, and suddenly we dived down into the murky depths, and I prayed we would come back out the other side in one piece.
The Seafloor Cavern was a thing of legends, of course. Legendary in all the worst ways. Hundreds of trainers traveled there, hopeful to catch a glimpse of one of the two Hoenn legendaries (reports never seemed to agree WHICH one was down there, but they all agreed there was one), and whited out far before the last chamber. Even if you made it through the gauntlet, of course, you'd THEN have to fight a LEGENDARY, which if they WERE real would destroy you without even blinking. It was an obvious death trap if ever there was one.
Gasping for air, we managed to get to the entrance of the cave mostly intact, save for a chunk of damage sustained from some wild mons around the area. We DID have a Abra with Teleport, but if they went down, we'd be stuck down here for a long long time. I tried to shove that out of my mind, and shakily followed my friend, who was bouncing with excitement at finding the elusive mon.
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It felt like hours since we saw any light. Flash thankfully let us see well enough to navigate, but that could only do so much against the encroaching darkness of the cave. Our potion supply was starting to wear thin, too, and I was starting to hold my Abra pokeball close to my chest, afraid to even risk losing our only safety net out of this mess. HE, however, took it all in stride, constantly running ahead and tripping, and getting us into far more battles than I would've liked. He's not one to use repels, claims it "takes the danger out of it, and wheres the fun in that?" I'd prefer if the "danger" were very, VERY far away from anything I ever did, but here we were. Alone.
Finally, FINALLY, the chambers started to widen out a little. A sliver of natural light drew me into the last chamber and..
nothing. There WAS no legendary here. I felt like I could finally exhale, I was right, while all of this might have been for nothing, at least I didn't have to fight a hulking beast on top of how miserable my experience already was. My friend, however, seemed to be taken aback, before shrugging, and crossing that entry off his little bucket list. With a sigh of relief, I threw down my Abra, and teleported us the hell out of there.
// i didnt want to do 3 STORIES about finding legendaries in a ROW so..