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Harriet woke up, her head spinning. Where was she? What had happened? Where are the others? She looked around and quickly recognised where she was. She has been washed a looooong way. So far, in fact, she was in Dewford. She had been here before, when she was six. She had photos somewhere. As soon as she realised where she was, she grinned. Dewford was the home of the second pokèmon gym leader, Brawly. Meaning, she could get her first badge before the boys. She'd have to train first, though. She checked her bag to see if everything was there. It was. She let out her two Pokèmon, Jigglypuff and Feebas, which sqeaked happily.

"Jiggjiggly?" it asked. (where are we?)

"In Dewford, and that's home to a Gym leader, Brawly!" said Harriet, "We're not strong enough yet, though. We'll have to look in the cave and the water to train."

"You'll need to train quite a bit to beat me!" said a young man, walking over. "I'm Brawly, in case you didn't guess. All my Pokèmon are over level twenty. You look like you're just starting!"

"Jiggly? Jig Jig!" (What? How did he know?)

"From experience, young Jigglypuff! I can understand Pokèmon, too." said Brawly.

"Oh, wow, you can understand Pokèmon," Harriet said sarcastically, "Everyone in Mossdeep can!"

"Mossdeep, eh? You came a loooooong way. How did you get here, anyway? You look pretty wet!" said Brawly.

"We were shipwrecked," replied Harriet, "and now I don't know where my friends are!"

"How could you be shipwrecked here? The waters are as docile as a sleeping Kanghaskan with no young! You must have a pretty bad captain!"

"Um, no, we were shipwrecked in the ocean currents near Slateport, and I was washed all the way here..."

"Oh... Well, I better get back to training... bye!" Brawly got up and left back to the gym. Harriet sighed, and got up also and started to head towards the cave to train.

As Harriet entered the cave, the first thing she saw was a Zubat streaking towards her and her Pokèmon, firing supersonic sound waves as it flew.

"YAAAHHH! A Zubat! I HATE Zubats! Hate them, Hate them HATE THEM!" she screamed.

"Jiggly?" (Who do I hit?) said Jigglypuff, before promptly hitting itself on the head. Obviously, it had been confused.

"Jigglypuff! Don't hit yourself!" said Harriet scornfully. It's very dark in here, she thought . I wonder what Pokèmon live here. As if to answer her thoughts a large, fat Pokèmon crept out of the darkness.

"Makuhithitha!" it said. (Hey! This is my territory!) "Makuhita!" and it lept forward, fists-a-flailing.

"Jigglypuff! Sing it to sleep, then pound it! If sing fails, I'll swap you back for Feebas!" said Harriet.

"Jigglypuff!" said Jigglypuff, and began singing. However, Makuhita was enraged, and managed to ignore it, hitting Jigglypuff with double punch.

"Ji..ggly?" she said, badly injured.

"Jigglypuff! Swap with Feebas! Feebas, tackle, and tackle again!" she told her Pokèmon, which stumbled back as Feebas came forward, tackling as it came.

"Makuhiiita...." (Owwww....) it said, falling to the floor.

"Yes! You did it, Feebas! You tried hard though, Jigglypuff. It's not your fault!" she congratulated her Pokèmon.

Out of the ground, a small, shiny, mole-like thing came digging.

"Aronon? Aroooran? Arooon aron?" (Hmm? What's that racket? Can't an Aron get some sleep?) it said, looking annoyed. Before it could react, Feebas let out a great cry, and leapt forward tackling the Aron, nearly knocking it out. Harriet, seeing her chance, took out a Pokèball, and threw it at the Aron.

"Arrrrrooonnn!" it cried, disappearing into the Pokèball.

“Yes!” cried Harriet, leaping into the air. “I think that Feebas is… on a pretty high level…”

As if in response, the little fish looked up, squeaked, and started to glow bright white.

“Feeeelotic?” it squealed, no longer a fish.

To be precise, it had turned into a long snake Pokemon, a beautiful deep red colour, with big, sweet looking eyes. (deceptively sweet, might I add…) The Pokèdex flipped open, and began talking.

“Milotic. A water snake Pokemon. {insert pokedex data}” it informed her.

“Cool! I’ve heard about these… they’re supposed to be really strong, aren’t they? Hehe… Won’t the others be jealous? BWAHAHAHA!” she laughed evilly.

“Jiggly… puff…-_-0” (She’s gone mad… I knew it.) muttered the Jigglypuff, still nearly knocked out.

“Oh! Jigglypuff!” yelped Harriet, scooping her Jigglypuff up with one hand and returning her ex-feebas to its pokeball.

Meanwhile…

“Owwwwwww….” muttered James, his face down in the sand.

“You’re not dead then…” observed Matthew. They had hit land together a while ago, and had landed just outside Mauville, slightly to the east of it.

“Have you worked out where we are yet?” grumbled James, after pulling his head out of the sand.

“Ostrich.” Replied Matthew.

“Where’s Ostrich?” said James, confused.

“No, you, you numbskull. YOU’RE an Ostrich. We’re just East of Mauville.” He answered irritably. (I’d be irritable…) “Let out your Pokemon. Chikorita and Tenta are having fun in the water. I’m sure MAGIKARP would be happy..”

“SHUT UP!” yelled James, still annoyed at the Magikarp for biting the rod. “Stupid fish… [grumble grumble}” He stood up. “If we’re in Mauville.. We’re right near a gym, the thunder Gym, home of the Gym leader Wattson and the Dynamo Badge… we can take ‘em!”

“No chance,” said Matthew. “Go fight him now, get your butt whipped. Fight him later we might have a small chance.”

That settled, they started to head towards Mauville, to stock up on supplies, go to the Pokemon centre, and to head south to Slateport.