Lance rode his Gyarados, continuing to lead the way with his dragon out in front.
Xia You and Sabrina still shared a mount, while the old man named Kabu climbed onto Clair's Gyarados.
The three Gyarados swam across the lake, passed the sharp reefs beneath its surface, and weathered the swirling eddies before entering the Dragon's Den.
But looking at the pitch-black water cave, Xia You felt it looked less like a dragon's mouth and more like a snake's!
Kabu was very good at reading people. Holding tightly to Gyarados's scales, he noticed Xia You seemed curious about the place and volunteered an explanation. "The Dragon's Den is a complex cave system formed a very, very long time ago when a Dragon-type Pokémon went on a rampage. Within the Dragon Tamer family, its formal name is actually the Dragon's Cavern, but that's long and awkward to say, so as people kept using the name, they gradually shortened it to the Dragon's Den."
A Dragon-type Pokémon?
Aside from Legendary and Mythical Pokémon, Xia You couldn't think of any Dragon-type Pokémon powerful enough to reshape the terrain and create such a huge water cave, causing a disturbance on that scale!
"What Pokémon was it, exactly? Was it Latias or Latios? Or some other Dragon-type Pokémon?"
"I'm not too sure about that. It happened several hundred years ago, after all. But according to legend, when the first head of our Dragon Tamer family went to stop that Dragon-type Pokémon, he obtained a Dragon Fang from it. Ever since then, every three years, our clan has washed the Dragon Fang with water from the lake, praying for the health and prosperity of all Dragon-type Pokémon in the Johto Region!"
At this, Kabu turned to Clair and reminded her, "Oh, young lady, Dragon Washing Day