Sandy's POV:

Whistling to myself I pulled out weeds from the small garden Wave let me have at his den. Through the open backdoor, I heard somemon knock on the front door.

"I will get it!" I said.

"Fine by me!" Comrade Wave answered from his room.

Cleaning dirt off my claws, I walked inside the house and closed the back door. Reaching the front door, I opened it to see the lovely face of Flower.

"H-hi Sandy." She said, looking at her feet(?).

"Hello Flower. How are you doing this day?"

"I'm....doing pretty okay actually."

"That is good to hear. You read for shopping now?"

"Y-yes. I'm really excited. I haven't had anymon to....to shop for gardening supplies with before. I'm sure this'll be really fun."

"I am glad you think so. Let me grab a bag and we can leave."

"Oh. Uh....I-I have a bag....if you need it."

I turned to look at the grass type and noticed the quaint brown bag around her neck.

"Ah yes. That will do fine." I told her, stepping outside and closing the door behind me.

Flower smiled and we started walking towards Sunspire. We talked the whole time we walked, mostly about plants and gardening, but we also talked about other things like our families, favorite foods, and stuff like that. Once we actually reached town, we made out way toward the Business Area. It was essentially the Market Square, but with buildings instead of small stands. Walking down the streets, I waved to a few mon I knew, but mostly just kept to myself and Flower. Once we actually reached the gardening store, we both stepped in a smiled at the smell that hit our noses. The wonderful smell of plants. We separated as we both took to browsing the store. After about a half hour or so, we met up at the counter and paid for the various seeds, fertilizers, and gardening tools we had picked out. The Leavanny at the counter smiled at us as we finished presenting our things. 

"Will that be all?" She asked. 

"I believe so, yes." I answered, pulling out my wallet. 

"Your total is 645 pokedollars." 

Handing the money over, I thanked the grass/bug type and we left the store, with Flower carrying everything in her bag or otherwise. As we exited the store, I looked across the street at the pub and grill and saw a couple of drunk fire and dark types stumble out of the building. One of them, a Weavile, looked in our direction and made his way towards us. Flower noticed the approaching pokemon and looked at me with a worried expression.

"No need to worry." I whispered to the grass type "I will handle things as best as I can."

She nodded, her nervousness growing. The Weavile finally reached us and stopped us by putting a claw on Flower's shoulder. He had to stand on his tiptoes to do so due to being so much smaller than both me and Flower. The sight was actually quite amusing. 

He gave her a drunk smirk before saying "What are youdoing miss? What's a beautiful mon like you doingwith a brute like him? Why not come with meand have a wild time?!"

While saying the word "wild" the dark type let out a belch and laughed at Flower's obvious discomfort. I stepped in between the two mon and glared at the Weavile.

"Ay! Buddy....whatdo you thinkyou're doin'? I'm tryin' to get the prettylady here! Outta myway."

He tried to push me out of the way, to no avail. I stood like a snowcapped mountain blocking his way to a meadow of lovely flowers. He growled and tried to push me out of the way again, but again, he could not. 

"You will not lay a claw on her as long as I am standing. Now move along." I threatened the dark/ice type. 

"No....you move buster!" He shouted before unleashing metal claw on me. 

I growled and used metal claw as well, making sure to drive the attacking mon away from Flower and into the streets. After a few exchanges of metal claw, the Weavile glared at me and used dark pulse, firing a large black and purple ball of energy at me, hitting me in the chest. 

"You're going to regret ever touching me or Flower." I snarled at him. 

He just gave me a somewhat drunk smile in return. Angry now, I used swords dance followed by icicle crash. After the large chunk of ice slammed into the drunk mon, I saw fear in his eyes as he realized he couldn't take me on, not alone at least. 

"Ay! Bone! Drake! Draco! Get over hereandhelp me!" The Weavile shouted to his two drunken buddies, struggling to escape the chunk of ice that was on top of him. 

I looked over and saw a Mightyena and a Zweilous stumble/run over to help the Weavile. They pushed the ice off of their friend and all three turned to face me. 

"You donedid it now buddy!" The Weavile said, sluring his words still.

"We will see about that." I muttered to myself. 

By now, several mon had gathered to watch the fight, Flower near the front of the small crowd. She looked very worried and scared, her eyes watching me and the dark types intently. The Weavile snarled at me before lunging at me with fury swipes. I managed to doge most of them, with the help of the fact that he was drunk and couldn't really land anything on me. After he finished his attack the Mightyena was next. He jumped at me mouth open and crackling with electricity. His thunder fang hit me square in the arm and actually did a considerable amount of damage to me. I could hear Flower call out my name in fear but I had to ignore her and focus on the battle. Angrily, I used fling and sent the Mightyena careening into the side of the pub and grill. 

As I had my back turned, the Zweilous slammed into me with dragon rush, hitting me hard. I stood back up and gritted my teeth before my right claw froze over in ice and I smashed it into the side of one of the Zweilous' heads. I turned my attention back to the Weavile with just enough time to parry his metal claw with my own. Again, we clashed back and forth, our claws sending sparks everywhere. Mid-cross, the Mightyena fired a dark pulse aimed directly at me. However, I was able to maneuver myself to where the Weavile got hit by the attack instead. The dark/ice type let out a yelp of pain, clutching his rear. He turned to face his companion and glared at them. 

"I'm on your side, idiot!" He snarled. 

"Well I'm sorry thatyour fat butt was in myway! Maybe move nexttime!" The Mightyena yelled back. 

"Oi! Stop arguing! The little bugger's gonna win if we don't stop 'im!" One of the Zweilous heads said. He sounded the most sobber out of the group. 

"Oh shut up Draco! Nobodyeven cares that you're sooooo sobber andnnot drunk like us!" The other Zweilous head retorted. 

"That just goes to show I'm the only one who 'as any bloody brains left in 'is 'ead!" 

"Shut up man!" 

"You shut it!" 

I watched the three (four?) Pokémon argue amongst themselves, a smile spreading across my face. As they continued to argue, both my claws froze over and I walked up to them and one by one hit them over the head with ice fist, knocking them unconscious. Picking up the limp bodies, I set them all against the pub and grill. 

They're going to have a might big headache when they wake up. I thought. And it won't be just because of me.

I walked over to where Flower stood and looked her over. 

"Are you okay?" I asked. "Did the Weavile hurt you? I hope it is no." 

"Y-yeah I'm f-fine. I th-think. I'm more concerned with y-your well-being than mine." Flower replied, looking me in the eyes. 

"I am fine. My arms tingles a little, but I am sure it is nothing major. Now, why don't we got get lunch? I am feeling quite famished." 

"I-I-I guess I could go for a b-bite." 

I smiled at the grass type before we began walking away from the pub and grill and the unconscious Pokémon. 

*************************************************

Moon's POV: 

I yawned as I stepped out of my room. I rubbed my eyes and looked around. Branch was laying on the couch, drooling all over everything, Crystal was sitting next to him (but not close enough to get drooled on) and reading a book. I could hear Cupcake in the kitchen moving around and grabbing things, and I could smell what she was making. Pancakes. I went and laid down on the floor and began looking at my paws. Once I finished looking at them (I'm not sure why I started doing it in the first place), I grabbed one of my books from the library and began reading. Halfway through a chapter there was a knock on the door. 

"I'll get it." I said standing up and walking to the door. 

When I opened it I saw Wave standing there, smiling. 

"Hey Moon! How are you?" He asked. 

"Oh uh....h-hi Wave. I'm doing uh....pretty good. Um....*ahem* how are you?" I said, not entirely sure why I was so uncomfortable. 

"I'm doing great! Do you want to go to the beach with me? Well, me and Burn, but details, details, details." 

"Oh....um sure. If Burn's coming then why don't we invite my sister?" 

I noticed Wave's face go ever so sour at the mention of my sister, but it quickly went back to being happy again. 

"Oh yeah sure. She can come. Why not invite your brother and his girlfriend as well." 

"Yeah. Sounds good. I'll go tell them."

I gently closed the door and walked back into the living room. Crystal looked up and smiled at me.

"Who was it?" She asked.

"It was uh....Wave." I answered, rubbing the back of my neck.

"Oh? And what did he want?"

"He wants to know if we want to go to the beach with him and Burn."

"Burn? What about him? Is he hurt? Is he hungry? Does he need my help?" Cupcake asked frantically, sticking her head out of the kitchen.

"Burn is fine. He's not hurt, he definitely does not need any more of your food, he does NOT need your help! Stop being so overprotective! You've barely been dating him! It's been what, only a week or so? Just calm down. Seriously." Crystal said, looking my Sylveon sister dead in the eyes.

Cupcake just gave her a scowl and dipped back into the kitchen. I laughed at that and Crystal smiled.

"Huh! What? Where am I? What's going on?" Branch asked, suddenly sitting up. He looked around and his eyes landed on Crystal. He smiled at her. "Hi babe." He said, a goofy look on his face.

The Alolan Ninetails smiled and gave the Leafeon a kiss on his forehead. They looked at each other lovingly and touched their heads together.

Looking away, I asked "So uh....are we going or not?"

"Oh! Yes of course! Let's go get ready." Crystal said, jumping down from the couch.

"What about the pancakes I made?" Cupcake questioned.

"We'll have them there. Now go get ready."

*************************************************

A few minutes later, we were on our way to the beach. Branch and Crystal were essentially acting as the adults for this trip. Burn and Cupcake were being all lovey dovey the whole time we were traveling to the beach, and Wave and I just talked. I enjoyed being with him. Sure it made me kind of uncomfortable, but I still felt peaceful in his presence. As the sound of Wingull and crashing waves grew louder, so did my anticipation.

"Thar she blows." Wave said in a mock pirate accent, which made me smile. "The beach."

Before us was a beautiful stretch of sand and palm trees touching a gorgeous blue ocean. Wingull and Pelipper flew over the waves, catching fish pokemon and talking with each other. I watched them with a smile as we all stepped onto the sand. It felt nice under my paws, the grainy but somewhat soft texture of it. A cool breeze blew through the tree and it felt wonderful. Closing my eyes I let the beauty of nature wash over me.

"Wow. You look....beautiful."

Turning towards the voice I opened my eyes and was surprised to see Wave staring at me.

"W-what?" I asked, embarrassed and confused.

"Uh, uh, uh, nothing!"

The Vaporeon quickly ran down the beach and jumped into the water without further explanation. I smiled at that and decided to join him. I walked down the beach and stepped into the water. It felt nice to feel the cool ocean water on a moderately hot day. Swimming around, I didn't see Wave anywhere. Dipping my head under the water, I thought I caught a glimpse of a familiar tail or fin, but it disappeared before I could tell if it was Wave or not. Pulling my head out of the water, I looked around again to see if I could find Wave.

"Rarrr!!!!"

With a splash Wave came lunging out of the water, almost hitting me.

"Ahhh!" I screamed, much to his joy.

Surfacing again, Wave grinned and said "Gotcha."

"Th-that wasn't very funny Wave." I said, a little annoyed at the Vaporeon.

"Sorry. I won't do it again."

"Th-thank you."

We looked at each other as the awkwardness of the moment began to set in. As I was about to say something to Wave, I was interrupted by a loud fairy type.

"Hasta la vista baby!!!" Cupcake yelled at she cannonballed into the water, drenching me and Wave.

When Cupcake surfaced, she was laughing so much she almost drowned.

"You should have seen your faces! Hilarious!" She said.

"Hilarious." I said with no enthusiasm.

"Hey Burn! Why don't you come join us!" Wave called to his best friend.

"I-I....uh....um....i-in a minute." The Flareon replied, looking at the water sceptically.

"Oh common man! It's not that bad! I know you don't like water, but you won't die!"

"B-but, I-I-I don't really know h-how to swim."

"Oh my poor Burn. It's fine babe! I'll help you learn!" Cupcake said happily, getting out of the water and walking over to her boyfriend.

I watched them interact with some jealousy. Looking over at Wave I saw that he was watching them as well. Or, more likely, he was remembering something. The look on his face broke my heart and I just wanted to comfort him. Before I could say anything to him (again) he shook his head and went back to smiling.

"What should we do now?" He asked me, moving so he could float on his back.

"I'm not sure. Should we play Marco Polo?"

"Sure!"

*************************************************

An hour or so later, we were all sitting on the beach eating the pancakes Cupcake had made.

"Wow. These are really good Cupcakes. I've never had pancakes so good." Wave said, shoving a third into his mouth.

"Well, uh....thanks. I'm glad you like them." Cupcake said, not looking at Wave.

I still don't get why they hate each other so much. I thought to myself. I took another bite out of my pancake and smiled. They were really good.

After we finished eating, I walked over to a nice patch of sand and began building a sandcastle. It was one of the things I really liked to do while at the beach. Once I had a sufficient base for the main castle, I began working on a moat. As I was, Wave came up to me and just observed for a second.

"Wow. You're good at this, aren't you?" He asked.

"Yeah I uh....kind of am I guess."

"So uh, I found this cool looking cave and I was wondering if you wanted to come explore it with me? Y-your don't have to, of course, but if you want to I'd really enjoy your company is all."

Wave rubbed the back of his neck and looked down.

"It wouldn't be for to long, would it? Like, we'd be back before Branch would start to worry?" I inquired.

"Oh yes of course. We'll be back before he even knows it."

The Vaporeon took a second to process what I just said.

"Wait. So that's a yes!?"

"Yeah. Sure. Let's just do it fast."

"Alrighty! Follow me miss!"

Wave bounded down the beach and I giggled a bit before following him. He lead me to a large hole in a rock that sat on the beach. It looked very old.

"Isn't this cool looking?" Wave asked, practically jumping up and down with excitement.

"Yeah, it's pretty cool looking." I admitted.

"Let's go in!"

"W-wait. How are we gonna see?"

"Can't you see in the dark? And can't your rings light up?"

I paused for a second, realizing I could in fact, do both of those things.

"Oh um..yeah. I can. Let's go."

We both stepped into the cave and I nervously made my rings start to glow. Before we were even five pawsteps into the cave, a loud explosion caused to look back just as the cave collapsed in front of us, sealing us inside.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!" I screamed, banging my paws against the rocks.

I began to cry a little, scared about being locked in this dark, cramped cave for so long. After a moment, I felt Wave's paw on my shoulder and I opened my eyes.

"It's okay." He said, his demeanor now much calmer "We'll get out of here. Maybe there's an exit further back. If you want to wait here though, I understand."

I stood there for a minute, thinking. Finally I turned to look at the Vaporeon and nodded. I made sure to stay as close to Wave as I could without actually touching him as he began leading the way into the darkness, my rings the only source of light.

Ooooo! Things are heating up! (I hope). Sorry this took so long! School is awful and it's killing me. This chapter is a longer one, and I hope you enjoy! Am also posting chapters a bit less cause I want to make sure you guys'll like them and that they sound good. So yeah. Hope y'all are having a a great day wherever you are and I'll see you in the next chapter!!!