Chapter One: Sandshrew's Unlucky Day
A trio, which consisted of a Sandshrew, Charmander, and Squirtle, was lying 
under the shade of an oak tree.
They had been traveling together and stopped here to take a short nap. 
Sandshrew, who was loudly snoring, was the first to get up. Sandshrew loved 
practical jokes. So, naturally, he got up and walked to a nearby apple tree. He 
picked about ten or so apples and tiptoed back to the oak tree and climbed up 
it. He deliberately started munching on the apples. After he finished eating all 
the apples, he gathered the cores, and BOOM! He dropped them straight on top of 
the others. Sandshrew, with a smirk on his face, was surprised to see an Abra 
come teleport under the apples. Suddenly Abra caught the apples and teleported 
out of site. Sandshrew grew very angry. Then a brilliant idea struck him! He 
climbed down the tree. Then, he dug up some dirt. After that, he started to 
grind the soil into a fine powder. Carefully holding the dirt in his claws, he 
climbed up the tree. He hastily dropped it. Poof! The powder made a lot of dust 
and he couldn't see what happened. When he heard coughing below, he started to 
roar with laughter. Suddenly, a stream of fire came through the dust and hit 
Sandshrew in the head. This caused him to flip several times on the limb he was 
on. In the end causing him to fall off the tree falling down face first. Once 
the dust cleared, both Charmander and Squirtle were laughing so hard that they 
couldn't breath. Sandshrew hadn't only landed face first into the ground; his 
face had landed in a pile of dung. Charmander helped Sandshrew up. Then, out of 
nowhere, Squirtle used his water gun to wash Sandshrew's face off. "That should 
teach you!", he said confidently. Charmander said, "C'mon don't be so hard on 
him, after all isn't landing in poop hard enough? ". "Still." "Still what?!" 
"Fine…" After Sandshrew was "washed", they marched onward to a small town 
located in the middle of a forest. The town's name was Dark Ridge.Dark Ridge was 
named for its history of ghost Pokèmon spying in the area during the War of 
Power also referred to the "Bloody Days". As the three were walking along, 
Squirtle suddenly stopped. "Shh", he said quietly. "I think we're being 
followed." "Keep walking, maybe they won't notice us", said Charmander. "No use 
now!", Squirtle shouted. Quickly, he swirled around and blindly attacked with 
water gun. Nothing seemed to be there. "I could have sworn that someone was 
trailing us!", Squirtle said catching his breath. "You must be seeing things…", 
mumbled Sandshrew. "Wait!", Sandshrew exclaimed. "I've got it! It might have 
been an Abra!" "But why an Abra?" asked Charmander. "Well… err… umm…" "What?" 
"I, well, you see-" He was just interrupted by a loud booming noise coming from 
behind him. They all turned to see what had happened. Surprisingly, a volcano 
just exploded and ashes were scattering all over the place. In fact, it almost 
looked like snow. "Lucky Dark Ridge wasn't near there…", Squirtle spectated. 
"Sure is a sight…" "Sure is", Sandshrew and Charmander said in chorus. After a 
long pause Charmander said, "So, why did you think it was an Abra again?" He 
turned to face Sandshrew. Hesitantly, Sandshrew explained that while they where 
sleeping he tried to drop some cores on them. "Why you little Rattata!", said 
Squirtle. "Let him finish!" said Charmander. He continued to say that right as 
he dropped the apple cores that an Abra came right under the apple cores and 
snatched them. "Therefore", he concluded, "I believe that Abra may have been 
following us, and when he saw that we found him out he quickly teleported away."  
"But there are two things wrong with that", said Squirtle in the wisest voice he 
could make. "First, why would an Abra want apple cores when he could have 
perfectly good apples on the other tree nearby, and second, why would he follow 
us if we don't have anything of much value?" They all pondered his questions for 
a couple minutes or so. Charmander said, "It doesn't matter now, let's get a 
move on". They walked a little farther down the path. Just then something caught 
Charmander's eye.