On the bright side it didn't take Riley much time to find a pokemon on his stroll through the cave, though it wasn't a fire type pokemon. He wasn't that interested in the Skuntank even if it could know a few fire moves, unlike Castform he probably couldn't get too far with trying to smuggle it into an all fire type team for his gym. Which is what he was out here for, this wasn't a personal trip of any sort but strictly one to bolster up his gyms team.

He had already added a few pokemon that he personally liked to his collection, like Totodile and Emolga, but those probably wouldn't see much battle. Or if they did the amount would pale in comparison to the actual gym team. The gym had to come first at the moment.

Deciding to just move on past the Skuntank and not battle it Riley dug into his pocket, pulling out some pokemon food that he brought with him before gently tossing it in front of the Skuntank. Sneaking past the large skunk while the smelly thing devoured the food.

Looking over his shoulder as he walked through the firey path Riley made sure that the skunk pokemon he left behind was actually still distracted by the food and not trying to get the drop on him or anything like that. The skunk wasn't following him, that was good! While he didn't doubt that his pokemon could take down the random wild pokemon without much problem he just didn't really like battling pokemon in here. Lavaridge was his town so he just felt, in a weird way dirty, for beating up the pokemon in the volcano near his town.

After a few more moments of walking Riley heard a new pokemon off to the side, the little mewing sounds caught his attention before he actually saw the pokemon. Looking over to see what it was the man's eyes widened a bit at the sight of a wild litten of all things! Out of all things that he could happen to find here it was something he was actually super interested in. Though he did wonder where it came from, they weren't exactly native to the region or the area.

"Hey there little dude.." Riley whispered out as he cautiously approached the wild pokemon, only to crouch down and dig into his pocket once he was near it. Pulling out a few bits of food from his pocket he held it out to the Litten. After a few moments of quietly laying there the cat pokemon eventually got up and moved over to him, sniffing the food in his hand before taking a bite out of one of the pellets.

With another mewing noise the Litten moved closer to his hand, continuing to eat food out of his hand until it was all gone. Obviously interested in the litten Riley moved a hand out to pet the little cat pokemon on the head, eventually pulling an empty pokeball out and tapping it against the cat's side trying to catch it.