"Ravisu!!" Rudia shook her friend. But she sagged her head like a limp doll, and remained quiet.
"I think we killed her," Raichu suggested.
Bell folded her arms, "If we did, then Raichu would've been the murderer!"
"Hey, don't look at me!" Raichu said nervously, "I'm innocent!"
"Yeah," Rudia said. "An innocent person that waged war on the other two teams! And enslaved and jailed hundreds of people!"
"Uhh.. it was Zapdos!" Raichu weakly defended himself.
"Speaking of which, have you had any visions or something?" Shell asked excitedly, before becoming sorrowful again, "I haven't heard anything from Articuno since she was captured. Can you still hear Zapdos?"
"Uh.. well.. Yes, but there's been nothing for a while." Raichu said, "He must be blocking me somehow."
"Lugia's practically dead," Pichu said bitterly. Everyone looked at her in shock. She continued, "With him gone and just helping Ash fight and do all these horrible things... that's not him at all. He's gone for good."
"We might still find him!" Quinci said cheerfully. Pichu rolled her eyes. Raichu bit his lip in worry. Adding with what happened last night, it seemed that Pichu's condition was only worsening.
"Hey! We're getting off topic!" Rudia piped up, "What about Ravisu? She's practically dead too!"
"Then wake her up genius." Shell said.
Rudia retorted sarcastically, "That's what I've been doing, genius!"
"OOOOHH!" everyone else cried.
Ravisu sat up like a wind-up toy. She said, "Did I hear someone get rekt?"
"Yay! You're awake!" Rudia hugged her friend excitedly, "Now let's get going!"
"Why? It's so early..." Ravisu said, and squinted at the sun.
Bell said, "No! It's already 7:45! We're supposed to get up at 2:00 so we could travel at night!"
"Still early," Ravisu yawned and stretched her arms.
Shell noted, "But you said that we only traveled 1/6th of the way in one day. So it'll take 6 days to get to the blooberries!"
"Eh. Still too early," Ravisu shrugged, and she hid back inside her tent.
***
The friends were back on their pokemon, and were soaring above the sloping dunes. Their shadows wavered and contorted with the hills, like taffy. From far above, the sand looked like waves of water. I wish we had some water now... Ravisu thought, as she steered her swanna, But I guess if it was ocean waves it'd be too salty to drink.
Ravisu tied her long hair up in a ponytail. It was much too hot to wear it down. Hot dry wind whipped at her face, and she squinted as dust roughly brushed her cheeks.
"Too much wind," Rudia said, as she dusted off charizard, "What's making all this anyways--?"
"OMG LOOK!" Quinci pointed to something in the distance, "It's.. it's...!"
"A GIANT MUSHROOM!" Ravisu cried out happily. Shelly slapped her forehead.
Quinci continued, "MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY!"
"FRIENDLY MUSHROOM!" Quinci and Ravisu waved their arms like they were tentacles, "MUSHY GIANT FRIEND!"
"How do you guys know this so well?!" Bell asked, "Did you watch that Avatar episode 1*10100 times?!"
"YES!" the two replied happily. But indeed, there was a giant mushroom in the distance, except made of swirling sand and wind.
"Wait a second..." Shell activated her techy glasses, and zoomed up on the mushroom, "That's not a mushroom! It's a sandstorm!"
"It might still be friendly?.." Ravisu shrugged. Shelly slapped her forehead again.