"Good! Now let us play, coin toss".
Kota pulled out a silver coin from his pocket and showed it to Gengar.
"You must remember, a promise when made must not be broken!, " Kota said seriously to Gengar who still nodded his head while grinning.
While Kota warned Gengar, his hands were secretly pulling off the sticker from the silver coin.
This special coin had both sides tails instead of one side being heads.
"Tails my, heads yours, " Kota then tossed the coin in the air before catching it as it came on his palm.
"What do you think? Did you win?, " Asked Kota while smiling at Gengar.
"Gengar!"
Gengar nodded his head and puffed his chest out to show his victory pose.
But alas, Gengar couldn't outsmart Kota in using cheats in simple games such as coin toss.
When Kota opened his palm, what showed was the silver coin on the tail side.
This instantly made Gengar flick, Haunter and Ghastly started laughing.
"Well, looks like I won, " Kota didn't let the silver coin out for long as he put it back in his pocket.
"As I remember, like you promised. Here's the pokeball, would you like to go in by yourself or would you like for me to smash it on you?".
Kota waved a new pokeball in the air towards Gengar but his smile vanished.
Because, Gengar was nowhere to be seen. He ran off!
"Gengar!, " Kota shouted on top of his lungs that made the whole mansion tremble.
* * *
When Kota stepped out of the mansion, he had a completely pissed off expression.
It took a total of five hours for him to finally catch Gengar in the pokeball.
He was extremely tired so he took some rest in the Lavender Town before leaving.
He then continued his journey towards the next gym.
After two weeks, Kota reached a hot plain with many big boulders in the path.
This path leads to Celadon City which is also the place where Kota will get his next badge.
As he was walking, Kota saw some movement far away from the path.
Only after he reduced the distance, could he see who was creating the movement.
It was a huge snake like pokemon but consisting of big round boulders as its body.
Onix, Kota had meet this pokemon when fighting for the Boulder Badge.
But what he didn't expect was that there were more than ten giant Onixs.
They were eating boulders and some were having battle against each other.
This place should be a 'Onix Paradise'.
Kota's eyes feel on one special Onix, it was yellowish green in color.
A shiny Onix!
The size was also bigger than average, and it also looked pretty strong.
A golden Steelix in future was not a bad thing right?
"Charizard, let's get that guy in our team, " Kota threw a pokeball in the air which caught the attention of all those Onixs.
"Chaaa!"
Charizard stared at the group of Onixs and let out a roar full of flames.
"Oaaaa!"
The Shiny Onix also let out a roar, it then came crawling towards Charizard.
"Fly!, " Ordered Kota, Charizard nodded and flapped his wings to fly high in the sky.
"Oaaa!"
The only move which the Shiny Onix could use to attack Charizard in the sky was Flash Canon.
A white energy ball formed on his mouth, Onix shot it towards the direction of Charizard.
Charizard just dodged it by flying sideways, he was observing the other Onixs.
They seem to not interfere with battle, all of them took a side to watch the match.
"Charizard! Flamethrower!, " Commanded Kota standing up on the top of a huge boulder.
"Chaa!"
A beam of red flames were fired on the Shiny Onix, which was avoided by Dig move.
"Charizard! Come down and immediately use Earthquake!, " Seeing an opportunity, Kota shouted towards Charizard.
With a brust of air, Charizard landed on the ground and controlled his body.
Charizard's body shook violently, which cased a small scale earthquake around a small area.
But enough to destroy the ground with multiple huge cracks.
"Oaaa!"
The Shiny Onix came out of the ground with his body injured because of the Earthquake move.
It crawled towards Charizard in a high speed and swung it's tail.
Iron Tail!
Charizard meet with the Iron Tail, his body was sent shattering multiple rocks.
"Chaa!"
Charizard slowly got up and glared at the Shiny Onix, he used his wings to provide a push.
"Wing Attack!, " Shouted Kota from the side, he was watching the battle with great focus.
"Chaaa!"
Charizard flew two meters above the ground and rushed towards Shiny Onix.
Not staying idle, Shiny Onix slapped the ground with his Tail and multiple rocks spin around it.
Stone Edge!
With the clash of Wing Attack and Stone Edge, a loud explosion was caused.
When the dust cleared, Charizard was panting and looking down the fallen Shiny Onix.
Shiny Onix was knocked out, meaning the winner was Charizard and his Wing Attack.
Kota smiled and walked towards the Shiny Onix, with the touch of the pokeball, it was captured.
The surrounding Onixs didn't do anything about it, they just waited untill Kota left.
* * *
As the journey was going on, Kota did not forget to train his six pokemons.
Gyarados, Charizard, Scizor, Gengar, Sneasel and Nidorino.
Shiny Onix was automatically transported to Professor Oak' lab.
Kota was planning to change the places of Sneasel and Shiny Onix.
He wanted to make Onix stronger for later until he gets his hands on a Metal Coat.
With the Pokemon Center in between the path for trainers, which is not shown in the anime.
Kota talked with Professor Oak and changed Sneasel with Shiny Onix.
About the giant Tentacruel, it was enjoying the weather in Pallet Town.
Nidorino can now already evolve into a Nidoking as Kota already has some Moon Stones.
But Kota didn't do that yet, he will first train Nidorino and will only let him evolve when the time is right.
Traveling, Kota could now see the Celadon City from the top of the mountain.
He fastened his pace and reached the city before dark and booked a room in one of the hotels.