Lucas sighed in frustration as he knelt down before the large white rock. It sat proudly on the end of Route 224, an enigmatic piece of Sinnoh’s history that Lucas had yet to understand. What did it mean? What did this rock have to do with the legends of Sinnoh? Did Professor Oak really think that he and Dawn could solve this centuries-long conundrum?
Regardless of whether he could or not, Lucas sure as hell was going to try. Kanto’s professor was counting on him to figure it out! But really, he had no idea how to figure out what this rock did. It was just a rock, wasn’t it? Lucas wondered what secrets such an innocuous object could hold. Clearly, Oak believed that it held some great significance. Though he’d never tell the professor this, he was starting to have his doubts about it being special.
Maybe he just wasn’t looking hard enough. He’d looked at it from every single possible angle to no avail, but surely, he was missing something obvious. Dawn was examining the rock as well with a similar lack of understanding. He was grateful for her help, even if they were making no progress. Another set of eyes was always useful for a situation like this one. They could figure this out together, he could just feel it.
Lucas frowned as Dawn pointed out his obsessive observation of the rock. Maybe she was right, but… no, this was the only way. “You don’t know that,” Lucas replied. “And besides, it’s not like we’ve figured anything out about it, huh? This is all we’ve got to go off of. Like… we’re clearly missing something here! We just have to keep looking until we find it.”
He felt Dawn come up behind him and peer over his shoulder. All Lucas had to show for the time they’d spent were sparse notes with few useful observations. It was a large rock. It was a white rock. It had slits for notes, stuffed full of various papers. Those notes were similarly mysterious, but he knew they couldn’t move them. It was bad luck. And if not bad luck, then it was insanely rude.
“I still say we should just carve something into it.”
Lucas gasped in shock. “No! Absolutely not! That– That’d be absolute sacrilege! Do you even know how special this rock is?! Even if we don’t understand it, it obviously meant a lot to people in the past! We can’t just desecrate a part of Sinnoh’s history like that!” He took a deep breath and then sighed. “Maybe we should just wait for Professor Oak to get here…”
Dawn rolled her eyes as she sat back down behind Lucas, watching as he went and looked over the White Rock.
“If Professor Oak already knew how to solve this mystery, surely he would’ve done it already? What’s the point in waiting for him to come back?”
She had met up with the Professor only once. He had been discussing something with Professor Rowan when she arrived. Besides some polite greetings and comments about her progress on her Pokedex, there wasn’t anything really special in the meeting.
So why had he asked her to come here?
Lucas was an obvious choice...he was the assistant to one of his colleagues.
Surely there wasn’t anything special she could contribute...it’s not like she’s done much anyways.
Dawn stood next to Lucas in front of the rock and ran her fingers down it’s smooth surface.
“....We sure did go through a lot.”
