"Still not back?" Song Rongxue stood on the shore, glancing out to sea from time to time.
"Should be soon." Cheng Tian sat on the beach, with Su Han nestled beside him. Two tents stood behind them, and smoke from the campfire slowly dispersed into the night.
Cheng Tian's collar hung slightly open, and the sea breeze had tousled his bangs.
Just then, a figure suddenly leaped out of the sea. It was Frogadier.
"Frogadier, you're back." Cheng Tian stood to greet him. At the same time, Carvanha surfaced too, dragging a Magikarp in his mouth. Magikarp struggled desperately, but Carvanha refused to let go no matter what.
"You stupid fish." Song Rongxue snapped, "Why did you have to go bother that Magikarp? Let go already!"
It took quite some effort before they finally got Carvanha to let Magikarp swim away, and Cheng Tian had gotten a rough picture of the situation too.
"Only one leader?" Hearing that, Cheng Tian nodded in relief. "That makes things easy."
Because of their species limitations, Pokémon like Clamperl could not learn any moves unless they evolved (apart from their basic moves). Only at level 50 could they learn Shell Smash, which was pretty damn useless to them.
Both of their evolved forms required Trade Evolution, so their colonies had always been among the weakest in the sea.
"Come on, Senior Sister Song. Let's have a little meeting first and discuss what to do tomorrow."
The three started toward camp, hearing Chen Tao and Chen Yiyi's voices from a distance.
"Yiyi, stop fooling around!" Chen Tao looked thoroughly exasperated. "You can't just catch Pokémon at random! Put that ball down!"
"No!" Chen Yiyi pouted aggrievedly. "Through the Evil King's Eye, I have glimpsed the Pink Monster's destiny! It is fated to serve the Evil