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(A/N: What's your guys favourite gym/gym leader from any region? Mine is Skyla from Unova because in the games there were canons you shot out of)
[•—•{James Morgan}•—•]
"We're almost done Growlie, you've pushed past all the other training sessions. Just finish this one!" I croak out a little tired myself, as I ofcourse worked along side my Pokemon.
Crouching down, I grab Growlie's paws and show him the order he's meant to move to properly do the agility ladder.
"Graw... lithe!" The panting Growlie exclaims as it seemed to be close to having its legs give out.
Growlie and I were doing our training I specially customised for the both of us. This took me over three weeks to make as I had to research specific information about the diet and the recommended methods commonly used for Growlithe's.
There are different levels of Pokemon food but using the best money could buy, we had top tier fire type food. Which is nearly the best possible diet besides food made by professors/family inherited recipes and food made specific for the Growlithe line.
For obvious reasons we couldnt obtain the former but the latter was a unfortunately being gatep kept by the Jenny clan. Funnily enough the Jenny clan's breeding center was where little Growlie came from.
Of course without connections father had to pay a pretty penny for him.
Ignoring that the exercises we had were endurance/speed , coordination/reaction time and agility based.
The first included sprints across a field which transitioned into a jog sideways, then long strides on the way back which was the equivalent of leaping in Growlie's case. This was sort of inspired by training I've seen athletes in soccer replicate which probably isn't the most effective but for Growlie it will work just fine.
Lots of running for the doggo!
Unfortunately weight training for strength wasn't available as I ordered a macho brace a little bit ago.
But we still went with my current set up as it should be arriving soon.
Coordination/Reaction time was just playing fetch but with two balls but different colours. I'd shout one colour as I threw them and Growlie would go for that coloured ball.
Then straight after go for the second one.
I know how simple... But hey what ever keeps Growlie motivated to train I suppose.
And lastly an agility ladder and a small course using cones.
Which was what we were doing right now.
"Young James what is this... Training?" I hear Hopkins ask with a smug smirk from behind. The butler arriving at the worst possible timing sees Growlie side step on his own foot.
*Thud*
"You really couldn't have come at a better time." I croak out with a twitching smile.
"Don't lie to me Master James, are you torturing your poor Growlie after seeing his talent. The James I knew coddled his Pokemon." Hopkins says in "devastation" wiping a single tear with a handkerchief.
Some veins bulging out of my forehead, I decide to ignore the butler and respond with a question.
"Has what I've asked for arrived?"
"It has arrived, the machine currently being brought up to your room as we speak to be set up. While the macho brace is in your room" He says easing my worries.
'Finally I can track Growlie's progress much easier and train harder.' The machine I got was a Level Scanner which is LS for short. While the other item was a macho brace. The latter is just full body weights while the former will tell me Growlie's level and stats.
This includes his strength, speed and other stuff.
Of course it's not fully accurate but this at least shows me if I'm training Growlie right.
It's just a bit frustrating I have no where to train his moves yet though.
With the training finally over for the day, I waited till after dinner to check Growlie's current level.
"Don't forget the highest quality grooming kit money can buy." I hear him laugh out to which I stare unamused.
[}•———•{]
"This isn't too bad." I mutter walking through the mansion. My soreness isn't affecting me too much as I've properly warmed and recovered. I'm still sure I'll feel it tomorrow and the day after but it will be toned down a bit to when I went to the gym for the first time.
The mansion is huge with four stories in total. My room was on the third story being a single room the size of three combined.
"Okay it's time Growlie, get on the scanner." I excitedly said as I wanted to see if the machine worked or not.
"Woof!"
Growlie walking into the scanner, sits still as he's already done this before.
I'm not expecting there to be any results just yet though as it's only been three days since we've been following the training regime I made.
'But also how is a scanner this small meant to function with bigger Pokemon.' I wonder and the intrusive thoughts won in my mind. 'He may be small but he has a great personality.'
The scanner looked like a fossil machine from Pixelmon but without all the grey tubes with it only having a plug to power itself.
It had a screen in front to where it showed the statistics and level of my Pokemon. After a minute went by, I saw the screen start to change and show a number and a detailed graph.
~{]Level Scanner[}~
Pokemon: Growlithe
Level: 8
Nature: Jolly
Health Rating: 7/10
Attack: 17
Defence: 13
Special Attack: 17
Special Defence: 13
Speed: 16
~{]End[}~
"I'm not sure if this is good but it looks fine " I murmured looking at the screen. Don't get me wrong the nature is amazing and Growlie getting a level is also quite the achievement for a week worth of training.
But I'm not sure if the numbers for Attack and Speed are good, I'll need to ask Sebastion about this as his specialty revolves around Pokemon.
After this a couple months went by of non-stop training and grinding.
The only move Growlie trained was [Morning Sun] by using it to recover after the workouts.
Growlie also started to increase the weights even more so than before and started more intense training.
He ended up reaching level 12 but I'm pretty sure he could get a couple more levels relatively fast if he trained his move pool.
The progress is slow but it's rewarding because if you think about it from my perspective. If Growlie gets all the physical training out of the way, he can soak up all the battle experience at once without needing to multitask between different types of training.
With his new found strength Growlie was able to instinctively learn [Howl] and [Flame Wheel] which were helpful moves. But when I get the TMs I've wanted they'll be kind of useless.
'God damn fires.' I thought to myself remembering the small commotion [Flame Wheel] caused when he first used it.
ON AN OPEN GRASS FIELD.
Speaking of months passing by, it's now my birthday with my age now being eight. With my parents acting like helicopters, they haven't wanted me to leave the house until a certain age.
It's not like there's anything to complain about. A freaking butler is tending to my needs, luxury to my hearts content and training a POKEMON!
Because of my birthday this is an opportunity I can't miss to go on a trip. I've told my parents two places I've wanted to visit and we are in the way to one of them right now which is located in Saffron City.
[•—•{3rd Person's POV}•—•]
"My little James, we've arrived!" James' mother, Akane coos as she snuggles the poor kid. James after months of spending time at home has realised she wasn't such a bad person.
'There's no point acting like a dick to people who aren't hostile to me. I've already been transported to this world and I may as well make the most of it.' James thought to himself as he snuggled closely to his mother. Even though he does feel a little weirded out having a new family.
"Let's head out." Sean speaks out all of them leave the limo wearing clean and fancy clothes. Looking in front James had a wide smile seeing the building in front of him.
"Silph Co." James murmurs seeing the huge building for the first time.
It definitely isn't the biggest building he's seen but knowing that this place is the pioneer of technology is enough to make him interested.
But while the family of three and their butler made their way into the building, they spotted a battle happening just a few metres away from them.
"Can we go watch the battle first." James says with stars in his eyes.
"I don't see why not, you'll get to see the normal battles your getting yourself into when you become a trainer." Sean responds while walking towards the forming crowd.
With James and the others getting into a free space to watch the battle, a robotic voice could be heard closing in.
"Battle confirmed… Begin!" The voice of a robot announces as more people from the surroundings start to make a circle to watch.
The two trainers looking at each other with smirks each threw a Pokeball into the air.
*Pshzhzzhht*
"Braviary!"
"Glaceon."
Both trainers now with their Pokemon out started their battle. The fight between the two Pokemon were quite close, but Glaceon was able to catch Braviary off guard when it got off two [Calm Mind]s and attacked with [Stored Power] right after.
This eventually snowballed and won the match for Glaceon's trainer.
"What an intense battle, I'm not sure that Glaceon could of won that battle if it didn't set up for a [Stored Power] there." Hopkins comments as the crowd started to disperse.
[•—•{James Morgan}•—•]
A few minutes later we arrived at the front desk, my dad quickly introduces himself to the staff and gets one of their members to give us a tour of the place.
"It's a pleasure to meet the Morgan family, my name is Isaac and I'll be your guide for today." The man named Isaac introduces himself with a small bow. Dad giving an approving look as his ego as big as a Wailord was being stroked, gave him the run down of what we wanted.
"You guys will be able to purchase some TMs from the VIP areas after the guide as I'll show you guys through.
Following the man towards the elevator, we shortly after exited to the sight of a couple dozen Smeargles and a few workers in coats handling machines.
With this we spent a few hours walking through the lower floors which were very unique to say the least.
Silph Co used some kind of machine they custom made to extract memories from Smeargles who learnt many different moves, after this they put it into a disc to where any Pokemon with the capability could extract the information and do it themselves.
This in turn not only gives them access to the move, but also powers them up a bit as a TM gives them better control over their moves instead of learning to perfect it by scratch.
A Pokémon's body will also adapt to learning the TM move making it really valuable to younger Pokemon. So if a Charmander for example got the TM for [Fire Blast], the Charmander's body will adapt and naturally get strong enough after a certain amount of time to accomodate this move without much or any training.
If you really think about it, it's kind of a pay to win scheme. So that's why I'm here to spend money like a young lord.
"Alright that's the end of the tour, we are currently in the VIP store where you can custom order and see what we have in our stock." The Guy proclaims as he leaves us to it. Looking around the shop, it looked like a really clean and well spaced out pharmacy but it instead sold TM's
"Mum I want to get TMs for Growlie!" I say like a spoilt brat. My father seeing through my act just walks towards one of the TM stands and starts to pick out some.
"Okay James, let's head over to the fire type section." My mother says excitedly as she dragged me over with her super human strength. Even with my physical training, my mum still dragged me around like a rag doll.
Following along, I pick out the TM [Flame Charge] from the stand.
Going through the aisles and picking different TMs took a little bit. With no budget in sight I just took what I wanted. Spending quite the bit of time, in the end Hopkins was holding 27 cases.
"What in Arceus?" My father questions as he sees all the picked out TMs.
Soon after this dad paid for the TM's with an open mind I think…
He kind of looked annoyed but nothing more. It's not like he has anything else to spend his money on anyways.
Yoinking the receipt from Hopkins. I checked my total purchase.
•——•
Teleport - 15,000
Reflect - 5,000
Light Screen - 5,000
Aerial Ace - 2,500 (2x)
Facade - 12,500 (2x)
Protect - 10,000 (6x)
Swift - 2,000
Psychic Fangs - 15,000
Outrage - 25,000
Thunder Fang - 7,500
Flame Charge - 5,000
Flare Blitz - 20,000
Brick Break - 5,000
Earthquake - 20,000
Stone Edge - 20,000
Shadow Claw - 10,000
Ice Punch - 7,500
Thunder Punch - 7,500
Gravity - 20,000
Flamethrower - 17,500
Iron Defense - 5,000
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Total: 302,000
•—End—•
"Oh how good it feels to be a young master" I murmur with my mind blown at the spending.
Of course half of the TM's weren't meant for Growlithe. Smirking at the thought of a predicted future Pokemon I couldn't wait.
I kind of didn't check the prices hehe…
Oopsie?