Ecruteak city.
Noah walked along the street filled with people and their Pokemon.
Zubat was on his shoulder and the three baby pokemon were in his kangaskhan pouch.
Lampent was spinning alongside him while avoiding colliding with others.
He had already left violet city and reached ecruteak city a day ago.
'Here we have the gym, kimono girls, burned tower and the bell tower.' Noah eyes were already set on his goals as he bought a ticket and entered the dance theater.
The moment he entered he saw a bunch of locals and trainers alike waiting for the famous kimono girls.
Also known as ecruteak city's mascots.
He didn't idle around and found himself a seat and waited patiently.
He then looked around for a while and played with the Pokemon inside his kangaskhan pouch until the show started.
'They have some close relationship with the two legendary Pokemon and knows a lot about them. This can help me in my research about the three dog legendaries.' Noah wanted to know about the three unnamed Pokemon who were turned into the legendaries that roam the johto and Kanto region.
A few minutes later the theatre curtains seperated and four kimono girls revealed themselves.
They wore colourful kimonos and were extremely beautiful.
Without wasting anymore time they started dancing using all sorts move that perfectly complemented eachother.
Their movement was fluid like water and their expressions were serene and tranquil.
Noah stared wide eyes at them.
'This!'
'This dance seems to be very profound,
but unfortunately I have zero expertise in these areas.' The reason for Noah's shock was because he saw the other viewers praising, tearing up or having a profound gaze.
'I don't want to look like an idiot.'
Noah then took out his pokegear and started recording their dance.
'If they don't do the summoning dance for me I will just play this on repeat until ho-oh arrives.'
Noah already had a backup plan.
Half an hour later.
'When will this end!!' Noah screamed in his head but on the outside he was wearing a kind smile.
They were still going at it with no stop,
Noah was suspecting of them using illegal substances for their monstrous stamina.
'Endure, Noah endure. They are the only ones who can summon or call ho-oh.' Noah was getting more and more impatient as time passed.
He thought for a moment and took out his notes and started writing down.
'I should start eliminating and selecting possible theories that I have made up.' He decided to pass his time by doing some deductions.
'First of all I am pretty sure the dog legendaries are eeveelution considering that the kimono girls uses them.'
'If they retained their typing from their previous forms then they would be flareon, jolteon and vaporeon.'
'I remember something about lugia residing at the top of the tower before it burned down.'
'If so then why didn't he protect them?'
'The legends says that there was a lightning strike, a downpour and the tower went up in flames.'
'The lightning strike may have killed the vaporeon but how would a downpour kill a flareon?'
'And the flames killed the jolteon considering water and electricity isn't really effective.'
'But they are not normal animals they are Pokemon, I can accept the vaporeon but how did the other two pokemon die?'
'Unless lugia killed them himself but I don't see a reason for him to do it.'
A lot of unanswered questions rang in Noah's mind.
But he was forced to snap back to reality when he found that the theater was empty and he was the only one there.
'Fuck, I hope they don't think I am some sort of creep and report me to the cops.' Not wanting to end up in jail he left.
'I should go to the gym next, I will continue my research after that.' Noah started looking around for the gym.
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'I was completely wrong.' Noah thought with a bitter smile.
'I asked around for the legends and it seems Ho-oh was the who perched on top of there and there was only one tower in the past which is the burned tower right now.' Noah previous doubts about this being the game world or the anime one was cleared right now.
'Well I'll think about it later.' Noah prepared himself and entered the gym.
Inside it reveals to be dark and gloomy gym with children standing around and asking all sorts of questions to a blond man and it seemed like he was teaching them.
The man then looked towards Noah and asked in a pleasant tone:"A new challenger huh the last one was interesting I wonder if you are the same?"
"I don't know maybe?" Noah said with a bit of doubt.
"Oh come on man be a bit more confident, My name is Morty and I use ghost-type pokemon." He dispersed the kids and approached Noah.
"Nice to meet ya, I am Noah and I don't have a type preference." Noah replied.
"Oh the famous professor candidate is in my gym? Today seems to be my lucky day." He slapped Noah on the back with a smile as he led him towards the stage.
"Yeah, the same one." Noah replied awkwardly.
Being famous made him realise the pain that celebrities go through everyday.
Finally he stepped onto the stage and at the other Morty started explaining on how the battle will go.
They can only use one pokemon.
No switching.
Cheating is prohibited.
That's pretty much it.
The battle started as Morty sent out a haunter and Noah sent out zubat.
"Haunter mean look!"
Even a second hasn't passed since zubat entered the battle but his will was already shaken seeing haunter's terrifying face.
"Haunter shadow ball."
Haunter put his hands together and shot out a black orb towards zubat.
"Zubat you lived in a creepy cave for god's sake snap out of it and used toxic!" Noah cursed himself for letting his guard down.
But the fear was too much and the shadow ball hit him and exploded which sent him flying.
But he somehow managed to balance himself in the air and gained some distance.
"Zubat poison sting!"
A sharp needle shot out from zubat's mouth dripped in poison.
But the haunter dodged and appeared behind zubat.
"Haunter confuse ray!"
A light orb shot out and circled around zubat's head for a moment and his eyes went up in spirals as he started to fly around in circles.
Zubat has been confused.
"Zubat snap out of it!"
Noah knew if he ordered zubat to attack it would backfire and deal harm to zubat himself so he wisely decided against it.
"Haunter one more shadow ball!"
'Fuck!' Noah knew it was over for zubat.
The shadow hit and zubat fell to the ground twitching in pain.
He struggled with his wings to atleast stand up but he didn't even have the energy for that.
Noah sighed and was about to recall zubat back but when he looked again and saw zubat's whole body was enveloped in a shining light as he started to grow.
"An evolution during battle huh? That's how most of mine evolved!" Morty was still happy as ever and politely waited until zubat was finished.
Finally the light dispersed and revealed a huge blue bat with eyes and a huge mouth with sharp fangs.
Zubat evolved into golbat!
Noah was overjoyed.
Golbat soared into the sky and glared at haunter.
Golbat then sent out a blade of air towards the haunter to which the latter dodged.
"Golbat confuse ray."
The haunter could not dodge this one because he still hasn't recovered from the last one and it hit.
Haunter was confused.
"Now air slash!"
An air blade shot out towards haunter and he just stood there and took it.
"More!"
"Haunter come on man, you can do it!"
Adrenaline flowed through the blood of the two trainers as they shouted with a wide grin.
Noah felt excitement from something other than his usual hobbies.
The haunter snapped out of it and appeared behind golbat.
"Shadow ball!"
"Cover yourself in toxic and get close to him as much as you can!"
"No haunter stop!"
But it was too late haunter already released the shadow ball but golbat was just half a meter away from him.
An explosion occured and poison splattered all across the stage.
The both trainers looked at the stage with eagerness.
The smoke dispersed revealing a fainted haunter and the victorious golbat.
Noah won.
"Good that was spectacular!" Morty complimented Noah with a wide smile.
He then took out the fog badge and approached Noah.
But his expression changed and he stopped mid-way seeing Noah's in a daze with gloomy eyes.
"What's the matt-" He could even finish his sentence because Noah snatched the badge away from his hand and stormed out of the gym.
He tilted his head in confusion and thought:'maybe he forgot something important and remembered it right now?'
He was correct.
Almost.
Because there was only one thought in Noah's head right now as he full on sprinted towards the burned tower:'Legendary birds, lightning,fire,ice instead of water,lugia the leader,Ho-oh,lugia's guilt.'
He may have found the reason behind the tower's ending.