The next few days where spend in training and battles, there wasnt much to do since most of the city was just houses and unlike the games you cant just enter and talk with strangers.
Unless you are Blue oak then of course you can, in his last visit to the pokemon tower he came out with a girl and he presented her to me
"Paul, this is Laura she is an assistant in a little pokemon reserve"
"Nice to meet you"
"you too"
the conversation was mostly carried by blue since im not that good in the whole talking with other humans thing but it was a good time overall and i learned that the pokemon reserve she was talking about was the one fuju has in the games so i asked her if we could see it and she showed us the pokemon reserve where we could see a few pokemon like nidoran, rattatas ,bellsprout, poliwag and a loneley cubone hugging his bone in the corner and that called my atencion
"what happened to that cubone over there?"
" Before you came here Team rocket came here and kidnapped mr fuji and locked him up in the top of the tower, during the whole thing a marowak and his cub where caught in the crossfire and ended up being killed when they tried to catch them, fourtunatly a boy wearing a red hat took them down and fuji found the cubone crying over the body of his death mother and decided take it here but he doesnt seem to like it here"
before i could say or do something blue was already on the move and he laid down next to the cubone
"hi little guy" the cubone looked up finding blues stareing at him
"i heared that you where hurt by team rocket" that made cubone nod with little entusiasm and if you looked real close you could see how tears where starting to form
"i know how you feel because i was hurt by them too and i plan to make them pay for what they did, do you feel like joining in my quest?" after a few seconds cubones eyes seemed to react with a combination of rage and resolve before standing up and makeing a sound that seemed to indicate that he was on board
"then welcome to the team"
and with that blue pressed a pokeball against cubones head. and when he looked back at us realized we were looking at him
"What?"
"nothing"
and with that we left saying our good bye to laura and we went back to our rooms
The next day we gave our keys to nurse joy and started moveing again to safron city, when i felt the wind hitting my face and looked to my right finding Noctowl flying beside us i smiled and looked down i found slowpoke sleeping, he somehow maneged to use his psychic powers while sleeping to stick himself with tauros so he wouldnt fall off and that maneged to make the gears in my head start to turn at high speed.
when we got to safron and got our keys to our rooms i was at 28500$ 'i need to start makeing money again before i spend it all'
since we where back on safron i decided to sell my tm of psychic since this was the place where you could find the most amount of psychics and therefore the most amount of psychic pokemon and ended up selling the tm to a girl with a drowzee for 25000$ since she didnt have the 30000$ and i didnt really mind selling it a little more cheap. blue decided to face sabrina in one week since he thought he 'over trained' against koga so i decided to take my quota of trainers to keep tauros pleased and then we went to the river where slowpoke decided to start fishing and i took a nap useing tauros as a pillow.
when i woke up and saw that the one looking at me sleep was slowpoke and not noctowl was weird, when i realized that slowpoke was looked down at me made me wake up.
Slowpoke wasnt slowpoke anymore, now he was standing as a proud slowbro,
when i looked at his tail the shellder that had transformed seemed pretty pissed and when i looked closely i could see that he was covered in dirt so i looked at the river and found a bunch of holes in the floor 'probably slowpoke tried to shake it off for a while till he just gave up'
"well, congrats on the evolution slowbro" then i looked at his tail
"and its nice knowing you too shellder i hope you enjoy the flavour of slowpokes tail" if you look at slowbro from afar you wont know the difference but when you live with a slowpoke for as long as i you will notice how the big mouth that usually covered all his face now its a little smaller and how the back foot splits in 2 so he has a better balance, and the most noticable change is the fact that his eyes are more focused than before.
I spended the next hour training slowbro in the whole walking in two legs thing and tried to make shellder feel included in the family and not just feel like he is just a part of slowpoke and i knew he would take work but i thought i could make him more friendly and less angry against the fact that slowpoke decided to slam him against the ground multiple times.
When blue saw slowbro he asked for a 1v1 and even when we won against his wartortle the fact that slowbro decided to use iron tail didnt help in the new partnership of slowpoke and shellder so there where a few things that we would need to deal with.
First was the fact that i needed a bigger room and a bigger bed because i refuse to live in a world where i couldnt cuddle with my starter, its like haveing a dog that cant sleep in your bed, YOU DONT DO THAT! What kind of monster doesnt allow his dog to sleep in bed with him? it doesnt matter how many hair he leaves behind ,sleeping with your pet is a big part of being an owner and i would not allow less, so now i paid 150$ a night so i could get a bigger room and a kings size bed so slowbro could sleep next to me.
The following week was spend with a little training slowbro with walking, and makeing shellder confortable to the point where he once decided to stop biting slowbro so he could eat by himself while tauros and noctowl decided to battle and race and now that noctowl had roost in his arsenal he could keep up with tauros useing hypnosis to gain time. Besides training i now spend 1050$ and now that we had shellder and he absorbs his food from slowpokes tail the food started costing 1300$ and then there is the 200$ that i spend on my food so i burn 2550$ a week and now im at 50950$.
After blue gained his badge the travel started once again, and we went to celadon and this time it was a fairly relaxed travel. Once we got to celadon blue decided to go to the casino and he invited me
"as much as i would like to throw my money down the drain i need to get money not lose it"
"im not going to play, i will just buy chips and exchange them for some prizes, i dont need to play for that"
"ah silly me of course you have the money to just do that" and with a smile he left
'well, he left i could... no that would be stupid but he has one more than me so just how difficult could it be'
When i entered the receptionist looked up but i started feeling bad with the smell so i got out of there...
Now that i bought a gas mask i could actually enter so i went to the reception
and when the receptionist looked back asked
"dont you think you are exagerating a little bit" so i looked at her with a sad face
"oh you poor soul, you already lost your sense of smell rest in peace"
that maneged to make her chuckle
"i guess you want a try at our gym right?"
i nodded
"well we are already mid season and most people already called quits being pokemon trainer so you shouldnt have to wait long, the next turn is in 2 hours so if its confortable for you i can arrange it"
"i can, thanks" so i gave her my trainer id and left and went to celadons market and bought what i thought would give me the ultimate advantage and also left me at 20950$ 'they sure are expensive but also worth a week or 2 of training and then spended the next hour with a little practice followed by 40 minutes of rest before we all walked back to the gym this time without the gas mask doing the best to not throw up and i saw the receptionist once again
"i told you you were over reac-" as soon as she looked my face she stopped talking seeing how i was in genuine suffering and instead went to a room and when she came back brought a plastic mask
"take this, it will help filtering smells"
i put the mask on and although i didnt felt amaizing now i could at least breath without dying
"thanks"
"dont mention it"
when i looked back at the time it was already time for my battle so i said good bye to the receptionist and started walking the tunnel that would take me to the arena
"This is a last minute addition but im sure no one would say no to another pokemon battle, going for his fourth badge we have Paul Brightburn!"
i pulled my first pokeball out of my bag and prepared ' this gym is irrelevant in game so lets just hope its irrelevant here too'
"Nice to meet you trainer lets have a good battle" and with that she pulled a pokeball of her own
"this will be a 4 v 6 is this acceptable"
i nodded while erika didnt
"actually since this was a last moment change i only have 3 pokemons left for a 5 badge battle if thats is alright?"
'i had to open my mouth didnt i?' i nodded regardless
"Well in that case, Go leavanny"
"ITS SHOWTIME Go Slowbro"
when both pokemon looked at each other the battle started.
the leavanny started running at slowbro and when he teleported behind leavanny and launched his new ice beam she just bended his body to dodge
"i fought with sabrina enough to deal with those anoying teleporters of hers so you better think of something else"
and with that leavanny started cutting slowbro while he teleported in the arena and each time he used a ice beam the leavanny would bend his body just enough to dodge the attack and keep runing at slowbro till i got we were left with 7 teleports and when leavanny was in slowbros face and launched an ice beam at point blank she dodged and kept moveing foreward and with a clean slash cutted slowbros tail and i was forced to call him back and it was considered fainted while i saw him slowly going back to his slowpoke form and i called shellder near me since once he left slowpoke he went back to his original form.
'i need to fix that quickly as soon as i leave the gym'
"WE NEED BACK UP AND YOU ARE THE ONE FOR THE TASK Go Noctowl!"
and as soon as Noctowl got of his pokeball the wind started changeing directions and the battle continued, once noctowl focused on leavanny he went face first and used a peck followed by 10 air slash at point blank of which leavanny dodged 5 'that cant be legal' and once there was eye contact noctowl tried to use hypnosis which got him a elctroweb to the face so he backed down and got far into the air and i already could see the psychics on the stadium working the barriers while i put my ear plugs and as soon as the uproar started noctowl recived a throat chop that stopped him dead in his tracks so he went to close combat once again useing a flurry of air slashes while leavanny tried to use grass whistle and that was his doom that maneged to take him down.
"its impressive that you maneged to keep up with leavanny but the battle is not over yet. Go Decidueye" while she was talking noctowl decided to use roost and by the time a new enemy appeared he seemed to be in decent shape.
As soon as decidueye appeared Noctowl started flying and used another air slash that only hitted once before being hitted by a smack down followed by a low sweep and he didnt seem so fresh any more so i said my last command
"ghost"
and with that his eyes shined once more and decidueye looked to the other side and didnt move so as soon as noctowl tried to move he recived a sucker punch in the gut makeing him K.O. and i could start to feel the wind go away and i whispered to the pokeball " you are all thats left"
"YOU THAT STAND AS MY LAST DEFENSE COME TO MY AID Go Tauros" a scream could be heared in all the stadium and tauros started running at decidueye with the last boost of the wind and used a double edge that maneged to hit leaving tauros slightly tired while he started flying and hitted tauros with a leaf blade the back and i could see the small line of blood driping and once decidueye went down he found himself with another double edge that took him down leaving her to his last pokemon and tauros was ANGRY, this time she didnt say a word and sended his breloom that as soon as it saw tauros launched a mach punch to his face and tauros tanked the hit and used his horns to send flying breloom with enough force to hit the ceiling and found that tauros was waiting, so while tauros was running to where he was gonna fall and meet him with a mach punch against his double edge...
When i looked back i found that both of them had been knocked out so we both returned our pokemon.
'i didnt study for a tie! they dont usually happen' i saw erika going to the middle of the arena so i decided to go there too
'if i lost i will never tell blue otherwise he wouldnt let me live this down'
"congrats on winning the battle if im compleatly honest i dont know why you are only on your fourth badge with a team like that you could win against the 4 pokemon required for a 5 badge challenge" i was confused but i didnt let it be known so we shaked hands and before i left with my new tm for solar beam and badge erika stopped me and gave me an egg saying that she didnt have time to raise one.
Today was a good day to be a pokemon trainer